It's not getting any better:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-26034078

I'm sure all pirate parties accept BTC!

Check how an army or a huge manufacturing company like Toyota is functioning.
Toyota may the best in organizing complex tasks. They have teams of engineers working on transmissions, teams of designers working on car interiors, and a project leader for each model.

Would you invest in that pipeline's building?

That's the kind of work which requires months of careful planing and a very precise long-lasting organization to make it real. I don't want to be rude, but I don't think Africans can do it. It could work if they let an European or a Chinese company dot the whole thing, but then the money won't fall into African hands. There's also the problem of some kind of a civil war going on in South Sudan.

This isn't about a new generation of investors, but a return to the past. Millions are wary of stocks because they have less and less control over the market, with trading bots and the sheer number of transactions happening each day.

So fewer and fewer people will buy and sell stocks themselves. If you want to invest, you get an agent who will manage your portfolio, with a team working 24/7 buying and selling on your behalf. Some people don't want to do that, so they go back to the old way of investing, with stuff you buy and sell yourself. That's gold or real estate, the same things people were investing in before there were stock markets.

You may also consider horses.

Gas is $10 a gallon in Germany, and there are still million of cars on the roads. This is perfectly sustainable.

I'm adding a simple idea.

A good government shall be close to a concierge in a large building. Making sure the alleys and the stairs are clean, and preventing some tenants to be loud at night, but most of the time staying silent and not interfering in any way in people's lives.

OK, they're both against today's financial institutions, but BTC is libertarian by nature, while some guys in the Occupy movements want more regulation, and more state intervention to protect the people. That makes a huge difference.

I'm happy to read there are many people here who support the ideas of old liberals like Swiss Benjamin Constant. Government should not have a goal, but a purpose. It's essentially to protect everyone's civil liberties, and to guarantee the freedom to express your talent. Nothing more.

Which mail order company will accept to ship anything to the Bearer of Federal Reserve Note N°_?

Your girlfriend can do it to send you jelly, but it won't work with Amazon.

Very positive news. I hope the experiment will prove successful.

This is another affair related to the Silk Road. If you've never used BTC to buy drugs, you've got nothing to fear.

Read history books.
In the US up to the 60's, the white majority was routinely exercising its will over black people or native Americans.
Adolf Hitler was democratically elected.

If you like to travel, you may also go to Arab countries. It's happening today without much people noticing, the Muslim majorities are hurting and sometimes killing members of the Christian minorities.

NY is a fascist place. They introduced a regulation to ban large sodas last year, so you can't be surprised if they want to regulate BTC as well.
Just forget it. Go to Delaware to register a company, and go to New Jersey to shop.

It is. Democracy is no guarantee against theft, murder or discrimination, but the dictatorship of a majority over a minority.

Regarding the world population, it's sure small, but if we compare to the number of people owning gold (coins or bars), or stocks, BTC isn't bad. And it's growing.

That might be true. Population growth may be the biggest challenge the world's facing. Not everybody can own a house, a car, a computer, a smartphone, a large TV and all the things people living in rich countries take for granted. I don't think we will go back to the law of the jungle, but only the fittest will survive, like it has always been. And tax doesn't help by going against nature. What's changing though, is the definition of "the fittest". Brute force is much less important in this time.

Sincerely, I think starting a new crypto-currency is a bad idea. If you look at the alt coins section, there are already way too many of them.

Same thing with fiat. I was a big fan of the euro when it launched, because it just make things easier. I'm sure you've seen that Estonia is better with the euro.

Qatar is a great place for the needy, if they're Qataris. And I doubt there's a single Qatari in need of anything, but the Gulf countries are very special because of their oil. Every Qatari benefits from the huge wealth oil brought, but nobody said the immigrants shall benefit too. They don't, and the Qataris look down on them.

I am some kind of a "libertarian idealist", and I'm the first to recognize that few people can afford to be like me (and live the way I do), but with the information economy, more and more people can afford to have such ideas.

Really?