Unless bankers become miners, and get over 51% of all mining activity, there is absolutely zero chance that this will ever happen. Worse than that, if bankers effectively become miners, they will make money, which will make them think like the other miners...

It's only a proposal, but that's stupid. Men should be free to travel the world as they like, even if there are few legitimate reasons to go to war zones. I guess that if this is implemented, that will reduce the legitimate reasons to travel to Canada, as this country's turning into a police state. As long as you respect the law in one country, that country shall not have any right regarding what you do, or where you go outside of its borders.

I'm surprised by this. Wish I could find more details, because the Typhoon is an excellent aircraft, better than the Russian ones. The data on the article clearly confirms this. You just need to look at the speed. The Typhoon is 20% faster, so the British pilots were always braking not to leave the Indians guys biting the dust.

Do you have a link to back up your claim of 600,000 Americans living in China? That sounds a bit high. I would also like to know how many of them are Caucasian. I know from experience that when you're a white guy in China, you may speak some Chinese (I don't), but everybody will see you as a foreigner.

I guess they've done some marketing research and found out their company would not be as profitable, or as successful as they hope, so they've chosen to wait. With BTC on a downward trend these days, everybody waits for the halving to reverse that. That should be fine with me, but that's nearly a year away!

Thanks, but I'd rather use cash in that case. I'm using a credit card about once a month, because I don't want to leave traces. Cash remains the best anonymous option. I advise against using BTC or credit cards on the streets, or do you want someone to be able to follow all your financial moves?

I prefer to use BTC for business. There, a 90 minutes delay is very fast for world wide payments, when bank transfers are much longer. Since I have no need to be paid immediately, I say it's great.

I see as micro payments anything below one $, and I'd be happy to see them disappear. Come on, the blockchain will keep those transactions forever, and there's no need for this. I'd be a miner, I would simply ignore all smallish transactions, and I believe this is what they will all do, unless block size is raised.

Isn't that good news? NY is associated with Wall Street, that's the old world. Let BTC thrive everywhere else. This will push the idea that BTC is in a different league than all the big corporations and stock brokers which do business in NY. Besides, everybody I know thinks of NY as a great place to visit but an awful place to live. So long, NY.

My hope is that it would lower the fee. There's a $.50 processing fee on fiverr now, with no refund if the gig ordered isn't accomplished. I bet they make more money with cancelled gigs than accomplished ones. And they don't accept BTC so far. I wish they would, and their competitors as well.

He's entirely right to do so since an unconfirmed transaction is worthless.
If someone pays me with BTC, I usually wait about 90 minutes before considering I've been paid, but I still see this as pretty good, because usually I'm being paid with bank transfers which require at least one working day for clearance.

Millions are starving in Africa, an even larger number cannot afford to eat as much as they wish, or need, and some mad man is destroying tons of good food. This is the sad world we're living into. I guess Africans should protest in front a Russian embassy.

Thanks for info, but my Firefox is tuned for auto updates, so there's no risk. One nice Firefox's feature is to allow profiles. I have one profile dedicated to BTC, banking and online shopping, which I'm not using now. That helps make my computer a bit more secure. I keep on thinking Firefox is the best browser around. And I'm not sharing anything with Google.

I'd say at least one BTC. One's thing more important than the quantity though, it's the way people gets it. You're not a bitcoiner if all your BTC comes from faucets. Real bitcoiners are people who have mined (when it was easy) or bought BTC.

As long as there will be people looking for credit, to buy a house, or a car, they will be plenty of business for banks. And no company in the first world would be able to live without a substantial credit line. What if some customers pay late? This happens everyday...

This is new. I thought the IS guys were raping all the girls they could find without worrying about their consent. It's not better though, and I bet some girls were raped before someone killed them. I guess all women living in that IS has no hope but to escape as fast as she can.

I guess they're looking fro local customers only. As an European, I would never think of Dubai as of Dubai as a place to go skiing. The Alps are better, and they're just natural. I wouldn't be able to enjoy skiing indoor, and when going out facing the scorching heat they have in Dubai. Skiing is more than a sport, it's also an atmosphere.

I wish I could read the original ruling in Japanese. There's something wrong here. There are intellectual property laws in Japan. Companies pay big money to get their technical findings protected by patents. Brand names are protected too, so it seems strange that no law should be applicable to BTC, if that judge doesn't see it as a currency. Then we shall not see this as a big event. The Japanese government may choose to regulate BTC at some time, and that would change that ruling.

Someone should write a guide about the things not to do to be a successful illegal immigrant.
1/ Don't have a friend lock you up in a suitcase inside the trunk of a car.
2/ Don't try to cross a desert on foot.
3/ Don't get aboard a boat designed for 50 passengers when there's already 500 people there.
Etc, etc...

Actually, it's only common sense.

I hope the economy will keep on growing as long as the population does. There shall be 9 billions people on Earth at the end of the century, if the economy doesn't grow at the same rate, we will all get poorer. Well, a few smart guys will manage to get richer, but 99% will get poorer. No fun.

Oh, yeah Phuket, I'm very sorry! I got into this topic understanding it was about Thailand, and forgetting that actually it was in Phuket. Quite far from the Thailand I know. I've only been in Bangkok, Pattaya and around the gulf. Forget what I wrote earlier.
Still, 300 baht isn't big money.