Unlike fiat, bitcoin can be used in many ways. Typical msm BS.

I guess the lesson is to replace bitcoins if you spend them? 😀  At least that isn't as bad as the $20 million pizzas.

I would agree with that too.  She is the figurehead for the most part.  :-)

I'd disagree that Janet Yellen controls the politicians.

Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the same forces (whether people - subtle or overt- or misguided, immoral anti-liberty, authoritarian ideas) that control or guide the central banks and politicians want to keep people under their control.

The same ideas have animated that crowd for centuries (probably millennia) and the goals are to control the people to keep power and wealth to themselves.

Write some code to generate an address and private key and then if there is a balance there, create a transaction to send it to an address you control.  Repeat.  Unless you are exploiting flaws in an PRNG or poorly chosen brain wallets, it is pretty pointless though except for its educational value in learning how to do so.

They say this was "Posted on Dec 23, 2016" not January 1, 2017, so you may want to adjust the subject.

This comes up every so often, but who says how long is too long?  

Perhaps Hal Finney will be unfrozen one hundred years in the future (see https://www.wired.com/2014/08/hal-finney/ and http://www.alcor.org/blog/hal-finney-becomes-alcors-128th-patient/ ) and he'll want to unfreeze some coins that he has in a brain wallet to pay to help acclimate himself to a world he didn't know.  Or to pay for food.  Or his care.  Or his descendants.

What gives anyone the right to decided that X number of years is "too long to save"? Why would anyone think it is okay to steal from someone else who has saved their coins whether they are Hal or someone else?  Stealing is wrong and using the "central banks" do it argument is a good reason not to do it given the problems they have caused over the last 100 years.

Something like this just penalizes people who save and makes people move their coins, subjecting them to risk.

Doing this would create an alt-coin because there are many people who are opposed to things like this.

The Cyprus government and EU imposed this, you need to make sure that you are placing the blame where it belongs - politicians who want money and power and will do pretty much anything they can to get it.  Look at Venezuela, North Korea, Brazil and many, many others who don't like freedom of capital and impose controls.  And who want to use inflation to silently rob their people.

Ok, never mind then. I had assumed you meant Bitcoin Core since it was in this section on bitcointalk.  ;-)

Anyway, I am not sure if you can run Bitcore with pruned mode or not to save disk space.

Presuming you meant Bitcoin Core, and not bitcore which is something different, you can always enable pruning to cut the block chain storage size down.  (And btw, I've seen a vps similar to what you mentioned for less than $100/year.  But $50-140/month is way too much.)

Just look at her initials (per OP). A B J.

Had to stop after she said all the money was making a bet and none were being used. 

In most cases, the central banks are operating under instructions from the politicians who want power over the populations of their countries instead of freedom.

Just export the keys and import into a lightweight wallet. (But keep a backup of the wallet.dat since it is small)

You can look at various proposals on GitHub and follow the dev list, but to really answer your question would require more details as to what you are specifically asking about and what part of bitcoin transactions need more security.  Segwit helps with the malleability issues for example.

Bitcoin is "supported" anywhere there are computers.  Bitcoin may be illegal or banned in various countries based on the laws in those jurisdictions.

As to why, the most likely answer is that the countries are not free and do not like the freedom that Bitcoin brings.  The governments (and people running them) want to control people and keep them from being able to conduct commerce (and everything else) freely.  Is that fair?  Of course it isn't fair, but the people running the governments have the guns and are willing use them to suppress their people in order to keep power and enrich themselves.  The solution is to avoid authoritarians/socialists/communists/fascists and have people who value freedom in charge of the governments.  Look at China, devaluing the yuan daily which will impoverish (see, e.g. Venezuela) the people over time.  All to retain their power and remain rich themselves.

Criminal activity can take place in any currency, but people use that as an excuse to retain their control.

As far as what the GPU (or bitcoin mining in general), take a look here:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining
or
https://www.bitcoinmining.com

Take a look at
http://blockr.io/block/info/210000
http://blockr.io/block/info/210001

vs
http://blockr.io/block/info/420000
http://blockr.io/block/info/420001 - it appears this has not been spent yet (but not because it can not)

It seems like an odd claim that they are making, given the blocks above.

True, but in 2011 when that post was written the cost of bitcoin in fiat was much less that today!

No one knows. But people were saying essentially the same thing when it reached dollar parity.  At $10, $30 and $100.

With the recent prices, it is probably time to remember what Atlas said here 5.5 years ago. In another 5 years, how much higher will the USD/EUR price be. The binary proposition again.  I still do not believe anyone is late to the party. (Hope Atlas is well).

Not to mention it was started as a troll thread and had lots of incorrect information solely to misinform people.