big name players will enter only.. they don't have to worry too much. access to who they are and where they're from is already practically public. i doubt they're trying to get info on us regular folk.
Doh, now if you were a DEA agent would you be going after glue sniffing kids? I would if I was a careerist asshole with no empathy who was also stupid enough to think the glue sniffing kids could lead to crack sniffing kids, and then crack-selling adults. Wait, glue is code for marijuana, right? |
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If you're not pissed off, you're not paying attention.
...or maybe we're not pissed off because we chose not to go into massive amounts of debt? You mean you're not suffering today because the self from a decade ago didn't choose to go into massive debt chasing a broken American Dream? |
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if you think bitcoin promises you anything, you probably shouldn't be playing this game. no one knows what will happen because there has been nothing like bitcoin in the past. You forgot about Facebook and Twitter. Speaking strictly of growth rates, the S-curves for all 3 are nearly identical. |
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I do agree with you partially, but not the stealing part. Property is theft. If you don't agree with stealing, you don't agree with capitalism. Come out from under your bubble of privilege and see capitalism for what it really is: a horror show. Clearly not by you, you've taken what you can and no intent to pay it back. Well done. Thanks, I think so too. Sorry if you think my unwillingness to donate more to the profits of some rich asshole banksters makes me a bad person. Strike debt.To be clear, I had every intention to pay it back when I started. My views changed as I got older and became disillusioned of the lies and indoctrination of my youth. I see the whole charade for what it is - just another scam in the kleptocracy known as the USA. Like you and most Americans, I was a clueless slave for the first 20 or so years of my life. That's what mass education is for, after all. No more. I am awake with righteous fury. Sage Carlin tells it like it is. If you're not pissed off, you're not paying attention. |
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The industry could end up dying, and be much better off for it.
Artists can now produce recordings themselves, distribute recordings themselves, promote themselves, and now they can receive the payments themselves. Almost all the middlemen are gone when it's structured like that. I feel tempted to say that better artists will get more recognition if that became the prevalent model (some less commercially oriented artists these days are still seduced by the cachet of signing a record contract)
Well said. The blockchain is going to do this for a whole slew of different industries. BTW, you and are going to get along like peanut butter and sex. |
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This is silliness, nothing can save the music industry as we know it. The future of digital content (be it music, videos, whatever) is entirely donation / crowdsource based. All information wants to be free, and it will get its way sooner or later. Ergo, copyright will soon be obsolete.
Look at Star Citizen for a good example of what is possible with a donation model.
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No comments on the community college point that I made? When I was 18, I scored above 1300 / 1600 on my SATs, and was therefore led to believe that community college was beneath me - and attending anything less than a private school would be doing a disservice to my budding intellect. I do regret not starting at a community college, but please understand that as a "brilliant young man", I was under tremendous pressure from my parents and my school counselors to attend the best school to which I was admitted. The best school to which I was admitted entrance cost 37,000 USD $ per year. Hardly affordable for me or my family, but that didn't matter. Getting back on topic, here's a vid on Bitcoin in Argentina. |
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You should've gone to community college to start with, and chosen a major that justifies the cost of your education. Ahh, the new voice of modern fascism. "You should've studied something else, because everyone knows the point of higher education is to make money, rather than enrich oneself with knowledge." Fuck off, ignoramus. This mindset of reducing university education to a scheme to increase one's earning has corrupted the entire higher education system (and everything else for that matter) into a shallow profit-making scheme that lines up and bends over for corporate interests. I'll study whatever I damn well please. And guess what bitch, your taxes will pay for it whether you like it or not. What do you think happens to my unpaid debt? That's right motherfucker, TAXES end up paying for it. People like you are the reason ETHICS and CIVICS are no longer studied anywhere, and the reason America is in the sorry state it is. Now excuse me while I go study french literature and ancient greek history. No, I won't pay a dime for it. Why? Because education - like decent shelter, food, and healthcare - should be provided to all human beings as a birthright. I'm TAKING that right as my own, and there's nothing you can do to stop me. It's already done. You enjoy being a corporate slave in the nightmare future you're helping to create with your willful ignorance. For the rest of you with brains and consciences, let's STRIKE DEBT together. |
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In short, Argentina doesn't actually owe the US anything other than the cost of printing those dollars, and seeing as they were more than likely only computer credits anyway, then (going by bitcoin payment fees), they perhaps need to add $1 to cover their costs.  Argentina doesn't owe the US anything. They owe the private holders of Argentinian government bonds. The fact that the bondholders sued and won in the US courts doesn't mean Argentina owe anything to the US government. Private bondholders of foreign debt are also private owners of USA Incorporated. Remember, the political elite, the financial elite, the corporate elite - all these are the SAME people, members of the SAME caste in the USA. This is not a government-government conflict, it is private citizens suing a government. Your distinction between public and private entities is wholly erroneous, since nearly all modern governments are for-profit enterprises that are privately owned, just like the FED. It's a big scam, and you're the mark. Capiche? |
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They added the tracker just a few days ago. They are still uploading all the data. And also, we should remember that no Bitcoin exchange has existed for more than 2 years duration continuously (has BTC-E completed two years?).
amazing, isnt it?  .... how often exchanges run away with your moneyFTFY  Oh look, a new FUD-TARD to /ignore. There's never a shortage, is there? Sad bastards still clinging to Gox, because you got nothing else but your worthless fiat which is melting away in your bank account day by day. |
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In short, Argentina doesn't actually owe the US anything other than the cost of printing those dollars, and seeing as they were more than likely only computer credits anyway, then (going by bitcoin payment fees), they perhaps need to add $1 to cover their costs. Argentina doesn't owe the US anything. They owe the private holders of Argentinian government bonds. The fact that the bondholders sued and won in the US courts doesn't mean Argentina owe anything to the US government. Private bondholders of foreign debt are also private owners of USA Incorporated. Remember, the political elite, the financial elite, the corporate elite - all these are the SAME people, members of the SAME caste in the USA. Here and now it's a tiny fraction of the population who own everything, domestic property, foreign debt, profits from war, and the reigns of political power. They are the polyglot neo-oligarchy of neo-feudal America. If you don't believe me, watch this. |
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But most people want to be rich not freedom. Being rich IS having freedom. As poverty = (wage)slavery, so wealth = freedom from slavery in capitalism. I speak from experience, college dropout wage-slave here, now unemployed. |
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Here's the 1 year graph for you:  I drew a red line so you can see that just one year ago, Bitcoin was far closer to 0 than it was to even 100 USD. Take from that what you will. Here's the very informative logarithmic chart for your perusal:  |
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Owning 1 whole bitcoin will be something for the elite by then. That's why I think that we're currently still early adopters. In the future, no one will speak of owning 1 Bitcoin, they will speak of owning X thousand Satoshis. Just as no New York City resident would speak of owning an acre of land today, but travel back in time far enough and all land in America was measured by the acre. Instead we speak of owning tiny pieces of property such as houses or even smaller pieces called apartments or even smaller called rooms. Hell, I have heard of some cases of people renting out an attic to sleep in! By contrast, those of us who have a private apartment with no roommates consider ourselves the lucky ones - living in relative luxury! Owning 1 BTC today is like owning an acre of prime Manhattan real estate in 1600. The difference being that a year in Bitcoin time = 100 years in Manhattan real estate time. You won't need to wait long to get rich, folks. Just a few years at the most.  |
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While I agree that a creditor has a right to collect, why the f*&k are they doing it now? Are they trying to cause a collapse? We (the US) send billions to other countries all the time to help them out, why are we now hurting the economy of someone that I assume is an ally?
Billions send to other countries that are borrowed from other countries or that are printed from nothing by fed. The US gouvernment will never be able to pay back their debts. That's exactly right, and well said. Believe me when I say not only can the US government not afford to pay back their debts, they never had any intention of doing so. There's a reason we have a sprawling military empire. When you've got guns to the heads of everyone in the world, you don't HAVE to repay any debts - ever. Who's going to make you? Think about it. "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." -Mao Tse-Tung |
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Why do you have to do anything at all with the pound, when you are going to replace it? This think tank is basically saying that Bitcoin is so far and away superior to fiat money, that the pound has now become a liability for the British government - a grenade waiting to go off - and it's therefore best for the nation to sell it to the highest bidder before it implodes and takes their whole economy down with it. It's a wise analysis and a prescient call to action.   On the second graph above, draw lines in your mind where World War 1 and World War 2 are. Consider the implications, and then watch this talk to bring it all together. |
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Perhaps he'd like you to respect his privacy. Perhaps he'd like you to focus on his creation, his IDEA rather than having a horde of nerds and losers obsess over him in some twisted and exaggerated personality cult. Perhaps Satoshi is critical of modern civilization's repugnant worship of celebrities as gods, and doesn't want any part of that sickness. Perhaps he just wants you to fuck off, leave him be, choose to be involved in Bitcoin or don't. |
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Fuck yes we can. I have student loan debt. Am I going to pay it ? Nope. Not ever. Over my dead fucking body will they get a penny from me.
Why? Because I don't want to fund the evil banksters who prey on impressionable young 18 year olds who don't know jack shit about the world, 18-year olds who are pressured by society into college they can't afford.
Same reason I don't buy cigarettes.
Huh? You had a choice to go to uni and further your education. You want to blame *evil bankers* because you cant do high school math and make a real decision at 18? Was it really a choice, though? From childhood it's drilled into our heads that the ONLY way to a decent life is through higher education, which has become completely unaffordable for the vast majority of Americans. Suffer a life of wage-slavery and abuse, or go to college. Hmm yeah no pressure there, totally a legit decision the average 18 year old is mature and informed enough to make! That must be why the USA has a trillion dollar student loan debt bubble, you massively ignorant fuckwit. I beg you, read a book or shut the hell up and get out of the way. Your ignorance disgusts and enrages me. That's because your ignorance enables the oligarchs to continue their enslavement of the populace of this world, and that can no longer be tolerated by any decent, well-informed, ethical human being. Ignorance in the information age is totally shameful and unforgivable. It's so easy to learn, now.     How ironic that I'M the one who did his homework. Better luck next time, you clueless assclown. |
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