But for this worst mistake, the overwhelming majority of us wouldn't be here in the first place. As to whether that's a good thing or not...

Weird. I would've expected a headline like that from one of the crappier straw-grasping coin 'news' sites. Is there the slightest evidence of this anywhere?

He could be a raging sweet loving machine for all you or I know. I don't think geekiness or not has anything to do with one's success with the feminoids. Pure and simply you either got it or don't regardless of your lifestyle choices.

Any pump or dump has very little to with them. It's the traders getting excited about it. The way Coinbase did it was pretty childish. I assume the Winkies will conduct themselves with a bit more class.

For me at least it's not that. I just don't get why you can't be cheerful, respectful and bearish at the same time. Not too many seem to be able to pull that off.

Bears start foaming at the mouth and posting their child porn with a $3 drop. After such a lengthy grind you can't blame people for a little excitement every now and then.

Humans seem to surrender a large chunk of their IQ when it comes to retail. It needs to be the dumbest and simplest crypto-related app of them all to really go places. Millions of eyes will glaze over at the first mention of escrows and standalone clients.

I'm sure it'll fill a great niche for those who are committed enough. Ebay or Amazon sure as shit won't be bricking themselves if it stays in its current form. I'm sure it'll inspire some interesting developments in the future.

Vivos Indiana is pretty goddamned tiny. 80 normalish people would probably end up battering each other to death pretty rapidly.

I'd be more inclined to take it on the chin and die horribly or hitch a lift in a passing nuclear sub.

Watching that brings one word to mind - phonetic.

I'm sure she's charming and articulate in her native language. In this case I'm convinced she literally does not have the slightest idea of what she's talking about.

When it comes to money you can't even trust your closest friends. I've been fucked over for the sake of a hundred dollars or less by people I've known for years. It does very strange things to people.

Once you throw in the internet, quasi anonymity and irreversible payments, I truly cannot see why anyone would ever issue a loan.

It's not storage that's the problem, it's bandwidth. You can always plug in more storage and it will always be cheap enough. Increasing bandwidth is out of the average person's hands and probably always will be. Around here you might get your local hardware updated every couple of decades.

Um, I'm supposed to be impressed that she's, like, a woman? I can walk out of the door right now and spot plenty of them.

And I've been using my beauty to attract attention to BTC since minute one. As soon as people gaze into my gorgeous, dewy eyes they open wallets, start mining and shout 'Bitcoin user not affected' whenever they can.

Hell no. Too risky and totally pointless unless there was something I could only buy with BTC and I HAD to have it.

I would be even less inclined if it was related to trading in any way.

It's yet to be seen whether it can be used in a more established way for loans. I kinda hope not.

You wouldn't necessarily have to hold a lot of coins, just a small amount in escrow on the localbitcoins site ready for sales and fast access to more through an exchange or another seller.

You could sell 10 coins a day and if it's spaced out you'd never need to buy more than 1 at a time.

If you look at the buying section you can also see the same traders offering to buy coins through there for a lot less than they sell for.

If you're in the US it is a little bit of a grey area. They might try to nail you as a money transmitter.

It wouldn't surprise me too much if certain bitcoin companies haven't actually told them the true nature of their business. Stranger things have happened.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/12/download-festival-heavy-punters-the-man-police?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Tweet

According to this the system is purely local for any outstanding warrants. I don't see why it wouldn't be linked elsewhere but that's what it claims.

When they run out of real Bushes it'll be people faintly linked to them through bum jobs. In 2032 the Bush family dog groomer will probably be running.

I find this all somewhat strange, especially since there's been barely a peep out of Visa other than its old guard making positive noises.

They don't have to be anti it or even bother talking about it at all. Most people don't care.

If the time comes there's money to be made by them by integrating it or offering services on top of it, or it fades away and they carry on coining it. Everyone wins. 

It has never nor is it ever likely to be 'useful' for Chinese people. I'm sure a fair few do use it to squeeze around capital controls where they can, but the government was awfully quick to squash any possibility of day to day utility.

One day, maybe tomorrow or in the far future, the Earth will shudder with the groans of dumps being shoved straight back up the arses they poured from.