At least the Unibomber's Manifesto was entertaining. The OPs rant was just silly and random. His statements didn't support any rational argument. Besides, there are already Bitcoin based financial instruments in the wild. Why doesn't the OP mention them?

And it's the same sock puppets that say the same nonsense year after year after year. The lamentations of the weak never get old. Your soulful cries whet the appetites of the Bitcoin Jungle predators. Meow.

Erik Voorhees is cool too and Dubai is his old stomping grounds.

"I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today!" - Wimpy J. Wellington

Every once in a while a good dip let's me buy more coins to spend later. God Bless Bitcoin's volatility and may the next 6 years be as good as the last.

It reveals IP addresses. That's still not entirely revealing. No doubt it will be counter-measured.

We're slipping into a Rule of Thirds cycle, but we may hold and go back up.

You must be new here. These questions gets asked about once per week. I'm probably not the best one to answer these, but I'll give it  shot.

The core team leads the development, but doesn't dictate adoption. If fact, they encourage people to not use new updates unless they are a bug fix, until they are confident it is useful to them. Miners themselves make the choice and some are still using older versions of the protocol. If an implementation is not popular, it will be dropped.

Basically you're saying that "math is hard" and I won't disagree. Computers are complex, but I use them. Cars too. There are many versions, I can choose the one I want based on my needs. Bitcoin is holding up against thousands of competitors because it's that good.

We don't really need the Bitcoin alert system at all, it's just a convenience. We need better watchdogs with more powerful analytic tools. They can develop their own alert systems.

Thanks to so many useless posts. Present company excepted, of course.

Maybe war on the ignorance of dishonest money in general. Call it the "War on Financialization." I'm fine with dollars if they are backed by something useful and not the whims of lawgivers, at least in the short term.

You win the lottery, bro?

Where is future development going? Will we see a Trezor watch? Will we see full protocol support in a chip?

Wait until he puts on his scary clown makeup.

We are dangerously close to a Rule of Thirds cycle. There's no superstitious numbers at work.

It seems to be a reasonable Op-ed.

That's not something you want to say to the cops.

Because private auctions don't work like that.

He bought less than two weeks worth. That's hardly all.

The last fork was reacted upon very quickly. Pools operate on greed. How do you blackmail thousands of miners? This type of unspecified FUD is the silliest of all. Please be specific about how exactly a person of any authority can do this.

Our children will blame us for having cheap bitcoins and squandering them instead of hodling.