Depopulation is not a problem when it is uniform all over the world. Sadly, it is not the case. So we have South Korea on one side, where the women give birth to an average of 1.05 children in her lifetime, and Niger on the other side, where the same is 7.50.

International borders are getting more and more obsolete nowadays, and nothing can prevent the movement of people from overpopulated nations to the sparsely populated ones. In long term, that means the breakdown of cultural norms, and in the end it will result in the collapse of the nation as a whole.

In future, somewhere near 50% of the Japanese population will be elderly, and the economy won't be able to grow without significant immigration. 

Well.. I have a feeling that this measure was the stimulant behind the Bitcoin postulate.

If the Swiss banks ditch secrecy, their business will get (severely) affected. So probably in order to neutralize the possible repercussions in the Swiss financial sector, the parliamentarians are proposing to make Switzerland the world leader in Bitcoin marketing.

Well.. in that case there is a slight chance that a better cryptocurrency can actually replace Bitcoin. In my opinion, the chances are scarce, as no major technical flaws were discovered for Bitcoin during the past five years.

Nothing can be taken for granted. The Japanese military depends a lot on their American counterparts. Also, Japan is currently suffering from massive depopulation.

Recently I am hearing a lot of positive news about the Bitcoin payment processor Bitpay. So my question is, how long it'll take for Bitpay to overtake Paypal?

Actually I wanted to ahve an online poll, but I don't know how to incorporate poll to new thread.

Please select from the following options:

a) No. Paypal will remain the market leader for many many decades to come.

b) No. But another Bitcoin payment processor will overtake Paypal in the distant future.

c) No. But another Bitcoin payment processor will overtake Paypal in the near future.

d) Yes.

e) Yes. But only in the distant future.

My apologies. Just wanted to point out one of the risk factors. But still, how are they dealing with the volatility issue?

But the FBI also seized falsified identification documents from him (such as driver's license and SSN). Do you still believe that DPR is someone other than Ulbricht?

Oh god... this is not going to end well. The guy who stole all those BTCs from the Sheep Marketplace was originally from Prague, right?

It's not me who is assuming. It is already flagged as "DPR seized wallet", which means that the BTC community think it is indeed the DPR wallet.

If Japan bullies Russia, US should not interfere.

But right now, that is not the case.

Let's look back to history:

1961: China invades Aksai Chin (until then administered by India) without any provocation. It is still under Chinese occupation

1965: China invades Dong-Yin (part of Taiwan). Status quo.

1967: China invades Sikkim (part of India). Indians expel PLA soldiers.

1969: China invades Damansky Island (part of USSR). The Soviet Red Army beat the living daylights out of PLA.

1974: China invades Paracel Islands (until then administered by Vietnam) without any provocation. It is still under Chinese occupation

1987: China invades Sumdorong Chu Valley (part of India). Status quo.

1988: China invades Johnson South Reef (part of Vietnam).  It is still under Chinese occupation

Now they want to invade Shenkaku Islands (Japan) and Scarborough Shoal (Philippines).

Tell me who are the bullies here. 

Hmm... in  most of the cases bearish / spam threads are immediately taken care by the older members. Also, even the newbies will notice the post count and trust ratings.

There was another thread regarding the lost coins and it was calculated at some 5-6% of the current total. So the market cap can be slightly less, but not significantly so.

I am active in forum posting for the past 7-8 years and would like to work with you if the rates are good. Why don't you post your requirements (number of words per post, threads to replies ratio.etc) and the rate?

Hi... I think it'll me much safer to buy from Localbitcoins.com.

But the problem is that there is just one seller and he will not sell BTCs more than 30 Euros worth.

Why can't you try some other mode of payment?

https://localbitcoins.com/buy-bitcoins-online/paysafecard/

https://localbitcoins.com/buy-bitcoins-online/western-union/

Lol... we passed the 1 billion mark when Bitcoin was $100 I think. The peak market cap was slightly less than $15 billion, which was achieved when BTC broke the $1,200 mark in Gox.

Great news from Switzerland.

Weibel Thomas, the Grünliberale Partei representative from the canton of Zürich was the one who lead the initiative. My special thanks to him.

Hermel, where can I find the list of the 44 other parliamentarians who supported the measure?  

Edit: Got it. It is here.

Switzerland might be the best place in Europe for the legalization of Bitcoins. The Swiss respect individual privacy, and they don't have problems with anonymity of financial transactions. The world banking capital can become the world Bitcoin nerve center was well.

Which anti-virus you were using in your system? How come the hacker got in to your Hotmail, when the anti-virus was active?

Well it will be a "Read only" (or "See only") time travel. You can go back in time and watch whatever you want, just like a spirit. But you won't be able to do anything.

This forum is full of experienced people, so posting here will be of no use. Earlier the bears were posting in the BTC-E trollbox, but it seems that the exchange is banning quite a lot of them.