From the top of the base to the tip? I think anything else is cheating.

http://youtu.be/LYnnm3L12fA



    "Such a waste of time, he chose money over power. In this town, a mistake nearly everyone makes.

    Money is the McMansion in Sarasota that starts falling apart after ten years.

    Power is the old stone building that stands for centuries.

    I can not respect someone that doesn’t see the difference."



 

  fairplay

(glad not to be in any list with them lot!)

 

I know, I do not seem to fit in with the company..

Ah well I must have offended or bored the guy sometime.

Can't win em all.

Wow... I think I am the only generally bullish person on that list, that actually contributes.

Ah well.

<shrugs>

Meh, I did not even look at the tweet, and I am not going to "discuss" anything with you, that is not what you are here for..

The point is the way you carry on, all you deserve is to be told to go and fuck yourself each and every time I see you bleating.

Go the whole kidney.

Morgan is looking for jackals.

Ah  

I tend to lean towards it being something all together new (hence it has a shiny new name) not exactly the same as either, but it does contain elements of both.

I do not believe I am making this assumption.

 

So you are saying you cannot imagine a world where some choose to use a third party, if that is their choice, and some choose not to, and instead choose to disintermediate?

The point is you now have the choice.

I have not bought a CD, or used blockbuster, or bought a DVD for nearly half a decade, I still can choose to do so, but now I download or stream all of my content. However if I wanted to I could pop down to the shop and pick it up and buy cash, or order online and get a hardcopy sent in the post and pay by credit card or by Bitcoin , but I choose not to, I choose to interact with the web (with the risks associated) and download or stream or p2p,  but the point is I have the choice. Whereas I remember very clearly getting all new release films from blockbuster or going to the cinema, because well I had no choice.

The advent of digital downloads and streaming and p2p, did disintermediate to a certain extent the businesses that used to be the largest providers of DVD/CD rentals, sales etc.

It provides the choice.

Plenty of people I know still buy DVDs and CD's and plenty of people p2p or stream, and industry is playing catchup all of the time with this.

Point is people have the choice, to use technology that disintermediates the middleman.

Also, solutions to problems are being found all the time, Bitcoin security being a problem that is getting a lot of focus, I expect to see better solutions relatively soon. Things change.

(ps "Middle men" is quite a good film anyone seen it?? it is actually quite relevant now that I think of it  i.e internet, payments, evolving tech, and dodgy dodgy fuckers ... but now years later turned into a "grown up" fully fledged global industry, which still has some dodgy fuckers no doubt)

Can you imagine a world, with improved Bitcoin security ,where some are , if they choose, able and willing to secure their own coins and devices, and then there are others, some individuals that use companies, third parties, and some companies are insured, so as to comply with standards that enable them to interact with the conventional financial system, in a way that satisfies peoples needs and the regulations that exist?

I can.

Ha ha ha, you looney.. you do realise you are mixing two different people right? ^^

Get some sleep, take your meds, put on your glasses, engage your brain, take a bath, if you have access to one.

You really are filthy, bitcoiner.

I have a friend here in the UK, that used a ATM machine that had a card reader inserted into it (and lost money) she was not covered either.

I know what you meant.

I disagree with the "can probably only be what circle and coinbase are offering"

Hence my post...

I do believe that insurance companies will continue to develop and interact with the ever evolving digital payments space, why would they not? insurance companies are having to constantly adapt. Also maybe they will not cover you if your computer gets hacked, maybe they will eventually, as it is going to become more of a problem in the future, but they almost certainly will provide insurance for accounts held with reputable companies with adequate infrastructure and security that has met their underwriting needs, and protect consumers funds.

I do not pretend to have a crystal ball.

However I do believe that things change, and can change quickly (including the fate of BTC) and the world is going to change immensely in the next 25 years, without a doubt.  Bitcoin may be part of that, and it may not.
Insurance companies will be a part of that, and will adapt to whatever technology throws them (at a service level that we are used to by insurance companies, i.e it works, but they always have the house advantage)

Insurance companies are currently preparing to provide cover to services that do not even exist in the mainstream just yet, or are in the process of being rolled out, apart from anything else, they need to stay relevant, in the light of incoming developments in technology. While insuring various upcoming technologies will earn insurance companies lots of money, some will take profits away from them (driverless cars) so it pays them to adapt and provide their services to the market as it adapts.

Insuring Bitcoin will be no different.


 

I am not here to convince you.

I am not a noob, and I am not talking about "world domination"

However if you cannot see the significance of the developments in the space since 11/12 (which continue as I type) then there is little point in me pointing them out to you, as the situation is self evident in my opinion.




 

No... like insurance veterans getting into the Bitcoin space and providing insurance.

If I had meant coinbase and circle, I would have posted that.