North and South do indeed use the same language, just as Americans and Cajuns both speak English -- kind of. They can understand each other (aside from Spanish / Mexican style) word differences across a 50+ year gap in sharing information, but the pronunciation is much different, similar to someone in the deep country of South Korea.

As for a word to pick for South Korea? 관심 (Kwanshim). That about sums up the two Koreas and everything they stand for in a nutshell.

Really? I feel exactly the opposite. (Reddit is no dream, but the forums are a cesspool).

Bottom line, whenever you get thrown a break, pay those debts down. Betting/Gambling is for suckers.

Well, unless it's something that's particularly well known (like Paypal or Amazon for example), it's highly doubtful that it would have many early adopters. From what I read, these cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin spinoffs are starting small and building up slowly. In practice as far as I can tell, they have only a few early adopters before the coins are already distributed in a way to make them wealthy. From then on, it's not really "early" if you come into it, especially if it's a total pump and dump like most are.

It doesn't? So the 1 million coins that the first few hardcore miners mined isn't an advantage to say, you or I? By buying and selling bitcoins, we're making the first miners very rich.

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Serious parties only (not the drinking kind).

I'd be interested to see the rate of crime for this "country", the rate of "incarceration" (scammer tags, outcasting, etc) and the health of investments, stocks, bonds, etc in the businesses of this "country".

Are there any other countries where ponzi schemes are so prevalent? 

Those librarians and their radical extremist late fees.

I got the same error before. I didn't question it initially because I deserved it.

FinCEN already made a ruling in legalese. If you want an additional clarification, typically you'd need to ask a lawyer, and even that could potentially be a *different* opinion, especially in a court of law. If I were working for FinCEN, I'd shy away from giving blanket statements of the legality of things to a wordpress blog operator too. I doubt asking Jon would help much in this particular case.

I understand what your message is believe it or not, but I have to disagree. Lending is necessary for the life of any economy. Think about what would happen if no one was allowed to borrow anything from anyone else. It gets out of hand if not managed responsibly (like most things), but borrowing isn't bad. Go read about the differences between"good debt" and "bad debt".

On a side note, lending BTC should only be done by people who are long BTC.

As open source software that anyone can alter, compile and distribute themselves, it's not the bitcoin software that is currently causing a price bubble of $62.00 USD, it's the blockchain this *particular* implementation of bitcoin is protecting. Basically, the market is saying that this blockchain's security is worth $62. It has nothing to do with being the *only* bitcoin available, just that it's the longest and most active chain. If litecoin were to be just as long and active, the price of bitcoins would go down as a direct result.

Bitcoin is not a precious metal. It is not complimentary to silver as gold is, to the point that Bitcoins would be at $10 and Litecoins at $1. That is all mental acrobatics by people who don't understand investment vehicles and stored digital values. Think of it like a company called "Bitcoin" and another called "Litecoin". Both of them make exactly the same product, but one of the companies is newer, has less history behind it, but their product claims to be immune to some of the problems the Bitcoin company's products are seeing (Apple vs Android anyone?).

If your reasoning for Bitcoin being better is the current spot price, or that "there is only one true bitcoin", you're not understanding what bitcoin actually is. It's just a vehicle for storing value. There can be dozens of vehicles, and each one can have it's own followers that give it a "worth", and it is most likely that the most useful and safest vehicle will be the most expensive.

There can be 100 different bitcoin implementations, and *all of them* can have exactly the same price. As a matter of fact, with the issues of premining, hoarding and limited release, I'd be surprised if a large portion of bitcoins didn't eventually move to a second blockchain once things become unprofitable and a bit too much like the current governmental distribution of wealth we have now. Just my two cents.

Don't you mean discount? A five fingered one?

Or legal complications involving their new US presence or other draconian threats that would lead to accounts being limited or frozen. I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist, but there is plenty of evidence on these forums of "special" cases where people have found their funds suddenly unavailable, especially at the Paypal of Bitcoin, MtGox. The excuse for which is irrelevant imo, but is usually under the blanket guise of "AML compliance". So you can't process a transfer to the bank? Fine, send the funds back to the owner then.

If you value your bitcoins, treat it like you would gold. Stop lending in USD, stop gambling it away, stop investing. Bitcoin *is* the investment vehicle so long as the price is so volatile (it will settle one day, and then investment again might make sense) and unless I'm mistaken, there are no insured exchanges nor exchanges that are willing to go to jail to keep their customers happy in any situation.

Normally I'd be against alarmist posts, but since there isn't much reason to have MtGox holding your private wallet contents in the first place, this post just rings of common sense and nothing else. Bitcoins should always be under your own control until you're ready to spend them.

Bitcoin is a zero-sum vehicle whose spot price is derived entirely from speculation. If it were centralized, transferring said value from one vehicle to the next would be easy. Since it is decentralized, every single bitcoin holder, miner and user would need to agree.

I noticed you used lots of loaded words like "life" meaning both daily life and living in itself, as well as "leads to" when you really meant "happens alongside but has no direct association whatsoever with". Still, I'll bite but only if you fix your sloppy English:

True, and it is always taken by force of some kind (although it's a stretch in English to call a microbe, germ, deterioration or even a disease a "murderer" anymore than you can call gravity and a rock "murderers" when in combination they happen to kill someone. Guns don't murder people...).

This is fundamentally backwards. Life leads to birth. In no point in history has birth ever not been preceded by life.

Life existed before conception in different forms. You'll really need to define this "life" thing further.

This is simply not true. Test-tube babies, fabricated DNA, rape anyone? You'll need to define "parents" a bit better too.

Parents are responsible for their children, it is true to a logical extent, but only in the event that they are aware of said responsibilities. If your parents birthed you on Mars, knowing you would not survive, that's pretty screwed up of them I'd say and that's basically the same thing as murdering you purposely. If they birthed you in the Garden of Eden and you happen to trip on a rock and break your neck, well that's the rock that murdered you then, ain't it? 


It's hard to prove something wrong that can also not be proven right in the language it was written in, ergo please keep your acid trips to non-internet connected rooms in the future.

Witnessed and approved.

signed

Retired Clown

Matthew N. Wright[/center]