I would not put it past the POTUS to do that, they have already done a similar thing to Gadaffi in Libya when he stopped his nuclear development programme then destroyed the country, that helped to create ISIS/ISIL because taking one moderate dictator out of power their led to even more radical powers emerging.
I'm just hoping they do not try to do another Libya and destabalize Iran that will create a lot of collateral damange in the middle east that will spread over to the West.

No, but the world economy is forced to look at the American economy a lot more than other world economies because of the way news is dissemated and who controls the media.
That said the US is an influential economy that can seriously impact global policy and to an extent all countries are interdependant so it does have a signifcant role to play in it.
But the rest of the worlds economies are not entriely economically dependant on the US, but some countries are more than others depending on their own trade relationships.

It would depend on what their budget is and how much they spend of it.
But given their giant soverign wealth funds they would be happy to keep it at that price because it would cause some small companies to fold and it takes time for that capacity to go back online.
(Choking out the competitors, seeking low cost buying opportunities in the market (China) etc.)

The Aussie dollar is one I tend to rarely keep track of because it runs a similar correlation curve to the Canadian dollar due to the strength of its commodities sector so it acts more like an indicator to me.
Canada is wheat oil and gas while Aussies are Iron and coal primarily, with other natural resources like Uranium gold copper etc taking the spotlight now and then, that said since both exchange rates being low implies that demand for natural resources is low, even if prices for goods in the relative countries are increasing because of a weak exchange rate.
To be expected when the BRICS aren't in an intensive resource demanding period as developed countries don't tend to need as much as developing ones to build infrastructure roads etc.

It usually means that you just need to access a charging station which are becoming commonplace in malls nowadays to top up the phone, that said it will likely not be exclusive their is room for cards and mobiles to work together, small change in the mobile and cards for bigger purchases.

That's basically where I stand in regards to coinbase
It's a pain doing business in the USA and as of August 8 even worse in New York when the Bitlicense takes effect.

Well with collectables its only as valuable as the number of copies there are in the market
So if someone goes and loses/destroys a bunch their value increases as well.

It will likely be similar to the model seen in Japan declining birthrate but increased happiness
It also provides competition to a good women apparently but I may have been watching to many Vice videos lately
That said it will open up a few new legal cases considering artistic intergrity that will bring about interesting court cases in a sense think Australia and its banning of women with small breasts and UK's porn bill as another where there may be legal tests.

As a matter of interest Bitcoin would likely be in a good position to be adopted in the Virtual Reality at least in my opinion especially combined with Occulus rift.

It seems that the OP (yourself) has edited the thread title, I was a bit interested in how the Golden Ratio Attack was executed and from what I can surmise it is a mining ROI through higher transaction fees reading through the comments in the other thread, in a sense that would work as Satoshi did plan on transaction fees at some point in time transitioning and replacing the reward for discovering blocks accelrating that process involves an increase in mining fees but in addition to the stable block rewards pools would have an incentive to keep the fees high, the issue would not be a concern usually but in the case of space limitations it does present a possible problem and issue.

Not a bad idea in any sense as it could have happened when Ghash.io was near 50% but it looks like Gmaxwell came in and did some math but the concept looks like it has feet in my opinion.
Especially if a consortium of pools decided to group together to perform and execute this attack at cost to maintain a new quo in which case the honest miners would still make more but through block discovery on average the attackers would discover the transactions and reward themselves in the long run.

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Lets imagine your mine with half hashpower. Lets imagine that a block can contain 6000 transactions.  Attacker has 1/2 hashpower.  Offered load is 4000 tx/block.

Attacker crafts 2000/tx block at 1coin/tx fee level. Making the rest match him (plus episilon, which we'll disregard).

His average cost for spam is 1000 coin/block (2000 * 1-rate).
His average income is 2000 coin/block (4000 * rate).  (He doesn't get income from his spam, he saves its cost however; see prior line)
His net income is 1000 coins/block, on average.

Now consider the consolidation of other miners:
Their average cost for spam is 0.
Their average income is 3000 coin/block (6000 * (1-rate)).
Their net income is 3000 coin/block.

Both groups have 50% hashrate, so the non-attacking miner has a fee income of three times greater the attacking miner per unit hashrate!

Normalized for hashrate thats 2000 vs 6000.

Welcome back you were missed and hopefully the glitches will become a thing of the past.
At least for now
And let the lucky bits fall down

Sitting at $280 dollars was a pinch in April but with sentiment and momentum its may be in the opposite polarity
Where there is a stabilizaton and support being built at this range and trying to consolidate.
Profit taking is to be had but at the same time I can see the market moving upwards for now we will need to look at what will happen although in my opinion this is an ok buy range (Pinch range) with some downside return where 215 was the current low and some good upside potential to the 420 support levels.

It just goes to show that the Chinese when they feel like pumping can have a strong effect on the market
I guess they got bored of leveraging in the stock market and went to Litecoin before crashing it a bit.

It seems that for now Greece has made an agreement with the European union
Where it goes from there remains to be seen
http://www.itv.com/news/story/2015-07-13/eurozone-leaders-reach-agreement-on-greece-debt-deal/

French President Francois Hollande has said "Europe has won" as a debt deal was struck with Greece.

He said that to have lost Greece as a member would have been to lose "the heart of our civilisation" and called on the Greek parliament to convene within hours to adopt the new package of austerity measures.

Greek banks are expected to remain closed for a few more days while details of the package are finalised.

My apologies the title has been edited
Thanks for pointing it out

Quite, it will be fun to see how the difficulty changes in the next round.
Good round looking forward to the next thread

I still use cavirtex was considering moving to a new exchange but it is running smoothly again after its takeover unlike other services.

Why not: 12Ui3ssnJK71akxAgvVM3WtLa2EHidT3Xn
Thanks in advance and congrats on your winnings

That's strange can you provide a set of tx ids
My transactions tend to be in the standard 10-30 minute range of blocks even with fees usually I haven't sent recently seeing as its being tested but since you mentioned over a year I find that suprising.
That said I can understand your irritation seeing how time sensitive transactions are a pain like Bitpay with its timer...

The first 2-way bitcoin ATM in Greece will be inaugurated in downtown Athens on Saturday at The Cube.

The Cube coworking space, or the Athens Startup Ecosystem as it is entitled, is a building housing several startups, providing space, computers, internet, secretarial and all-around support. It is the brain child of Stavros Messinis and it is run by himself and his wife Maria Kalafatis.

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2015/07/10/the-first-2-way-bitcoin-atm-installed-in-greece/

Not yet is the right answer as Litecoinguy mentioned as it could happen at some point in the future.
Likely once they get all their legal cases settled out in the court regarding what their service is classified as.