Did CPUs ruin bitcoin?

Now take your answer and apply it to ASIC.

You cannot remove violence from society because the society itself create it.
add guns = add more violence

btw :
overprotect children = make them more attractive to pedo + raise them too feel like victim

so price will head to infinity squared

Are you kidding?

The 'collapse' is part of the system. Because it is built on a Martingale betting strategy. As long as you can keep doubling down it doesn't matter how many bad bets you make. Only, there is a limit to how big the bets can get. Once you reach that limit you burn down the casino and invite everyone over to this bigger and better casino you have ready and waiting. The game continues, and only those who can keep doubling down are guaranteed to win as long as that is the system. To work, it requires exponential growth—forever. As long as that is possible, that is the game.

Even in a regime of catabolic decline the game can continue after a manner. Except, instead of the whole pie getting bigger all the time it is the holdings of a few players that get bigger, at pari mutuel expense. There is a class war all right. But it is not the rich against the poor—it is the rich against the slightly less rich.

With $600 gold how do you get $4 silver?  ratio would be 150 eh?

There is no way I will ever understand why people still defend the right of carrying weapons.

It does not matter which exact weapons you ban or not, unless you ban all of them at once. And that may turn for better or for worse, who knows.

America has long history of violence, gun violence is in your blood. If you take away guns to prevent school shootings and gang violence, people will find other ways. There will be school bombings and school stabbings.
It's in your history, your way of life, your culture. Only solution is to raise your kids as better people, more happy, and set a good example of yourselves, to break this cycle. We must examine where exactly bullies, thugs, psychopaths and rednecks come from and fix that.

About school violence - when I attended school in my country it was a generally happy place. Teachers were not the greatest, many things were lacking, but it was fun to visit the school. There was no excessive bullying and constant HUMILIATION which is exerted at other schools worldwide. It was a surprise for me to see in news reports, how kids are treated around the globe. Of course we had fights, broken teeth, pranks, destroyed personal property, raging hormones and older students drunk while attending lessons . But no constant humiliation. No one tried to take away your lunch money and etc. If someone overdid with insults or force, always some other guy or gal would step up in defense of the bullied. Less fortunate (stupider or poorer if you like) people were made fun of, time to time, but not as a scapegoat.

I often see in news reports of a teen suicides in USA how they would change schools and move towns and etc. It would be better if they stayed and stood the ground, and other around wouldn't be so indifferent and helped.

A major aspect of Germany's stance on bitcoin is that there is no capital gains tax at all (0%) on bitcoin specifically - as long as mined coins they're held for one year prior to selling. This is in sharp contrast to almost anywhere else where capital gains tax would apply to any financial instrument by default, including bitcoin, metals, or anything else bought (or "mined") and resold later for profit.

While not too significant in the current mining environment, germany may become very attractive for early bitcoin adopters with large btc holdings.

A large part of what made the US so attractive for investors in the early days of the internet was the pro-innovation/pro-business business regulatory and tax environment at the time. Much has changed since then.

There's only one address implicated in all the recent thefts so I'm not sure how useful releasing a scanner would be ... other than increasing competition for snatching funds from weak addresses.

Although your first point brings up a larger legal question ... if someone makes their private key public (intentionally or non-intentionally) ... under what conditions (if any) and under what legal theory could a 3rd party be liable for signing with it?  Any lawyers out there?

Also, how long till we have an assault weapon that requires a 3D printer and a trip to a local Home Depot?

I really don't get this whole fixation on "what backs it up?".
What backs up the bread on your plate?
Imho, "backing" is a very subjective and vague term, that subtracts from talking about the properties things have.
People apparently need to hear "this money is backed by X", and then they can consider it to be safe.  Yah sorry, it's not that simple.

Well i just wanted to say my first transaction with BB was a breeze. I will be using them again in the future.

The customer service Daniel provides is top notch.

And JFYI, Dwolla does do Dwolla -> CampBX. But the first transfer is held 31 days!!!

Meaning if you haven't used it before you must wait 31 days before campBX gets the funds, I did as they suggested, transferred a small amount today ($20) and use another service in the meantime. Eventually the funds will go through and then from then on ur transfers are instant.

Thank you all for the great advice yet again.

Thank you BT

Ok, I think you just made my point. If your army wants a grenade launcher, you pick from among the RPG or the other 4 you listed. But what about handguns? There are many more choices to pick between, so while more soldiers (ignoring civilians right now, which are skewed even farther) are carrying a handgun than a grenade launcher, because there are more choices for handguns they do not show up on the list. The long tail of gun models holds many more handguns than grenade launchers.

They have the RPG on there as number 4, but that is not because it is the most common grenade launching device, it is because it is basically the only grenade launching device. So while there may be many RPGs lying around, there are many, many more handguns and rifles and shotguns, but since there are so many different models of those the RPG gets bumped up the list.

I was about to ($10k), but the price offered for banks I can work with was high enough to give me pause (mtgox prices).  So far, this is my preferred way.  Mostly because they're escrows.  Can anyone speak to the user's reputation on this forum?

It would indeed open a second market to people who want to get rid of their goxed USD.
So the gox price of BTC would go down a little, until the LTC price has risen to +10 (maybe 20) % above the BTCe LTC price...