This is absolutely normal. Most magazines which sell in different countries tailor their content to each market. American magazine Car and Driver has a Spanish, a Chinese and a Middle East edition. All with localized contents and covers.

Well, if they're selling those antiquities, they're becoming a bit less stupid. Not long ago, there were just destroying them.

I really doubt there has been a single period where Africa was a peaceful place. There are hundreds of different ethnic groups and they all have been fighting each other for centuries. Pretty much like the British have been at war many times with the French. In today's Ethiopia, the kingdom of Aksum was at war with the kingdom of Kush several centuries BC.

Regarding that al-shabab group, does anyone know how they're funded? They've been active for a while, so they've got to have some money-making organization behind them.

Met a guy a few days ago, he told me he heard about BTC but he didn't quite understand how it worked. I guess I could have tried to explain (though, I'm hardly qualified for doing this) but I chose not too. Why explaining? Do people need to understand BTC to use it? I don't think so.

This very day, millions of people have been using a microwave oven, but I bet only a handful actually knows how this appliance works. I've read an article telling that millions of Americans are using Viagra. Everybody knows what it does, but who knows how it works? Same thing for computers or cars, most people don't know how they work, and they just don't care.

From now on, I propose we stop trying explaining how BTC works to people discovering it. The nerds already know about it, but to the general public, technology is not important. It's what you can do with technology which matters.

I shall just say that BTC is a new electronic currency, independent from all governments, which you can transfer safely anywhere and anytime fast and cheap.

It's becoming more and more common that police seizes all computer equipment. A quick check will reveal if there's some kind of BTC software in it (or frequent connections to blockchain.info), and if there's any, they will dig further.

Reverse the question, answer will be easier.
Most countries do not have any BTC exchange.

When you arrive at an airport in France, there's a warning that the maximum sum you can legally carry is €10,000. Also, if you go to a French bank, the people there will look at you with suspicious eyes if you want to withdraw more than €1,000 cash.

We've lost freedom, that's a fact, but we've also lost homogeneity. When I grow up, in a small town, every kid in my school was white and catholic. That was in a public school, in an average neighborhood. 100% of the children were white and catholic. That means we all had the same values, and we were all trusting each other. So did our parents, who gave me a lot of freedom because nothing could happen. And that was true, nothing happened.

You forgot to say that the Russian experiment didn't prove to be sustainable. In 1990, the USSR was bankrupt, and it felt apart. That's the best thing about capitalism: its engine is change. It always evolves. A communist country, or the stock market can crash, but capitalism keeps on going.

Another April fool. Considering Greece is bankrupt, they couldn't afford to buy the BTC with which to pay the civil servants.

The IRS is only a tool. The real issues are in the tax codes, and the tax themselves. There are countries without any kind of income tax. Property tax and sales tax should be sufficient if countries weren't spending so much on the war on drugs, mass surveillance of the people, etc...

Congratulations. I guess a huge part of FB accounts are fake. I know that because on several occasions I've been offered to buy "friends" on FB.

ID controls are getting more and more frequent in most countries, and you have to admire people who stand up for their rights. Personally, I always answer questions quickly to be able to move fast, but I don't like that. A man should be able to travel freely. Now, regarding those methods, I'm not sure they are very effective in catching illegal immigrants or whatever.

$250 for 2 hours with a girl in Las Vegas? Thought it would cost more than that. Anyway, if I were to spend my BTC with a prostitute, I wouldn't talk much about it.

When I quit smoking (at age 26), I kept a pack of cigarettes and a lighter in my pocket for 2 weeks, just to challenge my willpower, and I succeeded. Are you faithful to your wife/girlfriend? Temptations are everywhere, you just need to learn self-control.

Now, spending isn't an issue, the real problem is how to earn more BTC.

I hadn't used BTC at all for 2 weeks, so nothing would change much? Who's using BTC everyday?

By the way, I haven't used a credit card for more than a month. This despite having been in 3 different countries, and flying twice. I couldn't live a single day without cash, but it's easy to live without doing any electronic payments.

I had forgotten BTC was growing fast. Nearly 4,000 BTC are mined each passing day. Ten years from now, that'll be probably down to 1,000. That's a big change.

The solution is to spread your assets among several countries, without anyone knowing what you own on the other side of the border. This what I'm doing, as are all my friends and all my clients.

Maybe I'm an investor's worrying too much, but when I checked BTC's price this morning, I saw that we were so close to 14 million BTC, and that came as a shock. So soon! I guess, I hadn't been giving much attention to this question lately.

I overreacted, and I suggest to close this discussion, as there's another topic.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1005657.0

This story is absolutely frightening. I thought sealed search warrants were only for terrorists! I suggest to get in touch with the Bitcoin Foundation. This is the official voice of BTC, and explaining the world what's BTC is part of their mission. They should be able to help.