Can this coin be mined? Or just bought?

I wish it would work the way they describe it.

They forgot that they're supposed to keep their shadow government in the shadows.

"And here we see a cyber criminal selling bitcoins to a pedophile."

Bangladesh Central Bank: We're poopyheads and like to eat boogers.

How the hell do you define "early adoption" if not the past 4 years?

blockpay.net has some spelling errors. surprises me these apparently big and rich Chinese players are too stingy to even hire a real English speaker to proof read.

It sounds like Adept, their blockchain, will put checkpoints out there (to say, bitcoin's blockchain) and hope that that secures it enough.

At least to wherever they put a note out there as a checkpoint. That's an amusing thing to do, IBM could have an address out there on the blockchain and occasionally, say daily, sign a transaction that acts like a checkpoint for their own chain. The costs of that could be really low, say 0.0001 to 0.0005 bitcoin. Fund the original address with a bitcoin and you're rolling.

Then if Adept comes under heavy and obvious denial of service attack, then they could go back to a checkpoint. If Adept comes under slow and stealthy attack, there would be nowhere to checkpoint back to that would be reasonable and they'd have to start over.

Just use bitcoin and colored coins from the beginning and save yourselves the trouble guys
Depends on if there's more features here in Adept than it seems.

DPoS suffers from a crucial problem which invalidates the whole system. There is no proof of stake, therefore there is no way to conclusively ascertain which chain is the longest and thus which spending is not a double spend. Meaning that DPoS does not prevent double spending.

I would gladly take one bad year....(so you call it)... ..to rid the market of the ass hole that was mtgox...
BTC -e. You should be next to go...

This is pretty cool.. but.. WHO THE HELL THINKS TO CHECK IF THOSE ARE CORRELATED?!?!

Mike Hearn is also the guy that is proposing to build blacklisting into Tor, as well as reduce the fungibility of Bitcoin with built in taint tracking and rejection.

I think you would have better luck if this entire subreddit decided to buy $5 worth of bitcoin on the same day.

But bitcoin isn't money. How can he plead guilty to running a money exchange, when the IRS has ruled it isn't money. He was only buying and selling a virtual property. Do we need to start arresting people who buy and sell high ticket items like wine or cars?

Did people really need to know much about credit card processing to successfully use a credit card? In fact, I think it is the ignorance about the USD (FRN) and credit cards that has allowed them to be adopted quicker. I didn't understand how websites worked, or how email worked, but I could surf and send porn, and you didn't have to show me twice.
Why is it always a "future depends" nuclear option? Like if it doesn't go to the moon tomorrow, it's all over.

You know the best part about living right now? I live in the mutha-flippin' future.

Omg, this guy got so many things wrong. Bitcoin exchanges are NOT banks. They are not supposed to lend money. They are basically markets where the only comodity is bitcoin. You go there to buy or sell your bitcoins, that's it. It's no deposit account. Not to mention it will be highly illegal for them to operate as banks without the proper licenses. And creating bitcoin out of thin air is not nocessary to meet demand and create liquidy. If the demand is higher than the supply, the price will raise until enough people are ok to sell at that price and then you get the liquidy. It's called free market. I can't believe they let this stupid person to write for forbes...

Google "Meridian Global Insurance Limited" Xapo's insurance company, see what turns up... http://help.xapo.com/questions/89743-Is-Xapo-insured-by-a-third-party-insurance-company

This is a bit off-topic, but there ARE ASIC-resistant cryptocurrencies (e.g. Bytecoin which uses X11). They probably won't be ASIC-free for long (someone estimated 2 years until there could be an X11 ASIC), but...shrug

Do they have a book buyback program? Do they even have these anymore? If so, I wonder if they could get paid in Bitcoin?