I would guess you are right about the dollar's relationship to price. But i think it would be easy to overstate this effect. Bitcoin is traded around the world for various currencies and even currencies that are mostly cut off from the dollar.

It's really been falling for months, but none of us knows the future.

Oh he is in deep s#!+. It has nothing to do with bitcoin, the penalties for possession of a class 3 firearm are severe.  Most people could get a machine gun but you would have to pass a super background check, pay hundreds of dollars, and must have a completely clean record. You must also submit to all sorts of strict rules. For example, you must allow the police to inspect your weapons at any time day or night. There is a fiction that in America street thugs have machine guns. It is not true, very few people have a full auto firearm.


 

Apparently Japan does not do bail. He's in a cage.

It's a nice sentiment, however I'm not sure economic systems work when based on altruism. The problem I see is making the money work. Crypto-coins (blockchain based) require an input of expensive electricity and the capitol expense of hardware. Someone would either need to pay those miners for their expense or get them to donate hashes. The next problem is distribution. Who will get the coins? People you chose? How will they get them?
Finally, valuation. I could give these coins to the poor, but then what are they going to do with them? Without a certain level of adoption they have no value.

Perhaps there is a way forward in a closed economy? For example, if you could get some businesses to honor them as a type of donation then they could use the blockchain to get their tax break. A little like a more secure food stamp. Still, all this costs money and the first thing that would be needed is a lot of money.

+1
PDF files can store whole directory structures and all sorts of code. I would not open a PDF in a windows computer at all.

I feel like there is less support for that measure, but I like it. If we had to pay for posting we would not have someone making a dozen zombie accounts per day to cut/past some foolish assertion. It makes sense to me since speculation is all about putting your money where your mouth is.
I say +1 for paying to post in some sections. One could still launch a FUD campaign, but they would have to pay for it.

Nope. The U.S. Gov. has nothing to do with this. It is an NYC law. At the federal level the only rule is that you must pay capitol gains. Which is really the best rule we could have hoped for. Capitol gains is normally about 15% vs. income tax at about 30%.

I do not believe that banks CAN kill bitcoin. I still have never seen a viable plan to destroy the bitcoin protocol. A 51% attack to forge counterfeit coins is not viable, for example. It would cost many millions to buy all the hash power. At that point you would have to throw away all the profits you are making from mining and throw away all your hardware. All you get in return is bitcoin 2.0.

Divesting China stock. Who knows where that train is going?

Alt-coins almost always tank. That is the lesson.

I'm sure your right about having good people. But it is fair if they want to lobby the bitcoin using public to go with a fork. That gives them no more control than you have, and you have convinced me not to increase the total. So you won and they have already lost. Good job!
 

I miss nubie jail. It's stupid to let one or two guys completely ruin a board by creating dozens of accounts then post utter nonsense again and again and again. Why do we allow this? Someone with an activity of 0 or 2 posting "Ponzi Crash confirmed!!!" is not here to inform. It's not productive to let new users post outside of the new users board.   

I think if you have an account less than 14 you should only be able to post in the new user section. 14-30 you should be on probation. If you start shit posting then, you lose your account.

This would not apply to posts that are critical of bitcoin. We need people who are critical. It's the cut/paste bold statements with zero supporting evidence that need to go.

I totally agree. However that seems to be what qualcomm wants anyway. The theory is that they could sell you a router cheep, however the router will work for them, hashing away for the rest of it's life. I guess they think it will be very profitable over it's lifetime?
I would rather see hardware wallets in all sorts of electronics. Maybe that is in the plans also, but they are not saying. 

So all they have to do is convince all of us to change the protocol? Sounds fair to me. There is more chance of the Sun exploding tomorrow than convincing me.

Rumor has it that Qualcomm's 21Inc. is working on this.

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/03/10/bitcoin-company-raises-166m-including-qualcomm-investment-report.html

And what will be the basis of it's value? Bitcoin are purchased with other currencies and that establishes a valuation. But if you give them away why would someone accept them in trade for something of value?

Not sure where you are Elwar, but surely someone would love to cut your grass for bitcoins.?
Is someone here willing to do that?

I think the Chinese stock market is not getting enough attention. The government is now trying to control the market with capitol injections. How wrong is this going to go? A totalitarian communist regime is going to make decisions about quantitative easing?

I have divested about 20% of Chinese holdings and I fear it will bring down a lot of other Asian countries as it sinks. Ugly times ahead.

You must be living a charmed life then. I have never known you to be right.