This is a classic question, which deserves two answers...

First, you can find out details on how a member increases rank at this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178608.0. Which was found in the thread stickied at the top of this Beginner's board called "Newbies Read Before Posting".

Second, there's a lot of answers available in easy to find places. I'm a Newbie too and I've found out so much already without having to post simple questions. Before you post a question or make a new thread you should do a search to see if the information you seek is already easily available.

And not only is there a list of transaction fees by crypto-currency, what's the correlation?

I've read that it's market capitalization that drives fees size. Everyone generally agree with that? If I go to http://coinmarketcap.com and filter in descending order by market cap, can I assume that this is the same order of transaction fees from highest to lowest?

It share's the top spot.

What about two-party politics? Two-party politics ensure that the laws created aren't in the interests of most of the citizens. Two-party politics ensure there will never be "compromise". They hinder democracy.

What about the personal debt crisis? If credit wasn't so easily available the people who sit on the lower end of the income scale would be better off, they'd be able to build wealth off of less.

Bitcoin would become worthless. Bitcoin is nothing without demand...just like every other currency. There's nothing tangible about it. It only has value if a community of people agrees that it does, it's thoroughly based on trust.

The world would decide on some other currency to use to conduct business - likely one of the other 100+ alt coins in existence!

What's worse is during a time of calamity. Say there's a major world war, internet goes down, power outages, something significant...it would have a huge impact on access to the blockchain, miners, prices, demand.

Agreed. Although buying regularly, every week or month can be good to average your purchase price. I suppose the other option is just saving some fiat over that time period and waiting for the extreme drops like today to buy in bulk with whatever one has available.

The bear started at least two weeks ago. And to the OP, in the past it's taken a few days for the real driver behind big moves to become apparent. I believe this is due to the extremely global nature of this market. So, let's see what comes out over the next few days.

The risk isn't worth the reward. North Korea doesn't haven anything. It's better to flex muscles and prepare solid defense...the defense proves that this little guy can't really influence any pain toward the US.

And yeah, he must go. There should be a revolt internally. If everyone in that country started walking toward the border, any border, to leave the country for good he might kill them all but at least they'd defeat him. That's a cause worth dieing for.

What's required for a miners to exist? Transactions. Who would want to buy, hodl, and spend some coin for your local community outside of your local community? Would that small volume be enough to support the currency and therefore generate the rewards from mined blocks to fund the public services?

Most areas of the world already have welfare assistance...what does Universal Basic Income do that welfare programs are lacking? And please don't tell me that UBI would be more money for every person, because if that's what it is then it's just a fancy world for a tax hike. And that's fine, but let's call it what it is.

Great find!

I just solved the captcha twice...i suspect my payments are just working their way through the confirmations. I'll get back to you all after the status changes form "pending"....

Bitcoin has already been accepted by America.

Here's an article from Reuter's stating that the US declared Bitcoin as money: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-jpmorgan-cyber-bitcoin-idUSKCN11P2DE

"The Internal Revenue Service (I.R.S) describes Virtual Currencies (VC)s as “a digital representation of value that functions as a medium of exchange, a unit of account, and/or a store of value [and] does not have legal tender status in any jurisdiction.” -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_currency_law_in_the_United_States

A solution to the funding can come from taxing the income replacement the robots represent. If they are replacing real employees, they're replacing the income that would otherwise be taxed and used to pay for the services needed by the population. If robots will be used to replace people, the owner of those robots could be charged income tax on the income replaced which helps keep money in the budge to pay for welfare income.

My own opinion, universal income isn't the answer. It's not fair. What is most fair is that equal opportunity be made available for people to achieve education and have access to available jobs. Some people will perform better than others and get compensated more for that greater performance. Some people will have greater ambition and get compensated more for that greater ambition.

Finally, the people should be more wiling to NOT BUY products and services based on price increases or other activities that are not seen as benefits to those people.

Why do you think Universal Income is possible? realistic? feasible? just?

Comments like this one aren't fully thought through.

When you give your money a bank they combine it with all other deposits and then loan most of it out. If those loans aren't repaid your bank doesn't have the money to pay back the deposits.

If you don't have your fiat money in your physical possession. Or if you don't have the keys to the safe within which your money is sitting. You don't own fiat money.

Anyone who says "if you don't have the private keys you don't own bitcoin" AND doesn't see the same reality in the fiat banking system is either naive or intentionally ignoring reality.

When your money to your bank it is no longer your money. It becomes numbers on an account record as an amount owed to you by the bank. Same applies to all online bitcoin wallets.

The fact that the price of bitcoin has soared beyond $888 proves that people were willing to buy on the discount, more than were selling or remaining on the sidelines.

Sooo...your point has already been proved wrong.

Why did you buy four of them? Can't you create multiple addresses/wallets within one Trezor?

Thanks.