I agree, you should follow the advice above. AFAIK it doesn't matter how old is the dat file, it should be recognized by a new core client.
You don't have to download blockchain and wait for the wallet to update, which can take many days. Just follow these steps to transfer your private keys to a light wallet like Electrum and you should be ready to send coins in less than an hour.

There are two important points for each side of this debate and all 4 are valid, thus we can't really say death penalty is right or wrong.
Points against:
People make mistakes and there were many people imprisoned by mistake. What if these people were executed by mistake? The Green Mile comes to mind.
By allowing death penalty we are also opening ourselves to being abused and oppressed. What if somebody decides that the scope of crimes punishable by death should be broadened? One day we may find ourselves sentenced to death for defending our property, or not paying our taxes.

Points for:
What about the most dangerous mass murderers. People who raped and murdered children. People who are diagnosed psychopaths who have to be kept in isolation for the next 50 years? Should the taxes be spent on feeding and guarding them when there are other, more pressing needs?
Poor people are dying from cold and starvation every day. If we keep treating prisoners well, giving them free healthcare, warm cells, 3 meals a day, what does that say about the justice system? Kill and we shall take care of you for the rest of your life? If your life is hard, you can always murder someone and if you get away with it you'll profit and if not you will still profit in another way.

There are many problems with the government's size. Mainly, there's too many people behind each MP, people who are getting paid for helping him decide what to do and sometimes even do his job for him. Do we vote for our representatives or for their teams of secretaries and assistants. If there's 20 people working for every MP, maybe the number of MPs could be cut in half? The result would still be the same.

They aren't motivated because it's usually not their only job. In most countries MPs work part time. In the old days these jobs were given to aristocrats and it had some interesting benefits. For instance, aristocrats had a lot of money and weren't motivated by greed and much harder to bribe. You had to put really big money on the table to make them change their minds. Nowadays, when poor people suddenly come to power they can be pretty easy to "persuade". Also, aristocrats were taking politics pretty seriously, as it was their only job apart from hunting, partying and various sports and arts and were pretty well educated. These days every moron can become an MP because we have equality, which means that there has to be a member of every minority, sex, religion and even sexual preference in every group.

Does a coin really need institutional investors to succeed? IMO bitcoin had succeeded long before the institutions became interested. A fairly unknown Internet currency called the money of geeks and nerds went from a few cents to 1000 dollars in 2013, without institutions! Isn't it a huge success? I'd rather be interested in mainstream adoption or bitcoin being widely used as a store of value and a way to transfer big capital around the world. I'm talking money that's being used every day to purchase sky scrapers, large pieces of land, whole companies. This is more important than futures or backed exchanges. Not saying that they are unimportant, but adoption and value can be achieved through many different means. With or without investors.

What point? Your transaction confirmed in 40 minutes. Keep in mind that it can happen at night on a weekend. Try sending someone money during the weekend or during bank holiday. Also, have you ever sent money to someone in another country, who doesn't have a foreign currency account set up? The fees are much bigger and the transfer can take 3 days!
To completely destroy your point, I dare you to show me a bank that will allow you to transfer 1 million USD to another country with a fee of 1 USD and do it in less than an hour.

It seems we didn't understand each other. You said that I'm considering fiat currencies at the point of collapse, my response was that they all have a point of collapse as they all had it in the past. If we compare it to bitcoin we'll see that many of them went through hyperinflation and died in less than 10 years from being released, which makes them much more volatile in general terms.

Even if a commodity becomes a currency it still won't be fiat currency. In your own words, a commodity backed stablecoin is a cryptocurrency (which is something the community has yet to agree on), but if we talk about them here what are we going to compare them to in a crypto vs fiat thread? They aren't very volatile, so in these terms cryptos score even better.

Anyway, like you said it's a tricky question. As a fiat hater I took the obvious stance. The stability of fiat is fake, superficial, like that house that looks good on the outside but is ready to collapse and when it happens it's going to be quick and sudden.

Why are you bossing around in here? It's his thread, he can run it the way. You're acting like that typical backseat driver. Also, I'll give you a good advice for free. Change that attitude or your chances of getting accepted into any campaign and getting merit will be very low.

I'm more inclined towards a normal technical explanation. We've touched 9k twice in May and formed double top, after which we had a correction and a bounce of last chance that didn't reach 9k and was followed by an even deeper pullback. This is some by the book market action. It got even better later as we had double bottom followed by a higher low that shows exhaustion on the bear side and we formed another higher low on June 11 and were in a rally ever since.
I believe the price is drawn to the big round level of 10k and will want to retest it. We'll probably have a big pullback after touching it, but with Bitcoin you can never be sure.

It will only give the newcomers a wrong idea that cryptocurrency can and should be centralized. The average facebook addict/apple fanboy/starbucks drinker will follow his favourite companies and think he's cool for using a cryptocurrency, while in fact he could be using a stablecoin and living in denial. Using bitcoin is completely different from using a centralized stablecoin. This message should be made clear and reach as far as possible.

Exactly! A good example of the way communism defined equality is the idea of forced buyout. The government needed land to form giant agricultural complexes, so it basically seized the land from private owners and paid them a few kopecks to make it look like a genuine sale, not an outright theft it really was. I have a friend whose father owned land in one of the countries of the Eastern Bloc and was a victim of such seizures.
Another great example was compulsory work. When you finished school you were allocated by some government official to a job that needed to be done. It was supposed to be based on your skills, but in reality young people whose parents were in the party always got better positions. There's a lot of nepotism in capitalism as well, but if you don't like it, you can always work for yourself. Stay at home and be a freelancer, or start your own company. In communism you were always ordered around like a tool.


They could also install cameras and stream everyday life of the community. They could set up patronite, gofundme, social media and use various other "capitalist ideas" to get rich. After a time young people from the commie island would watch and follow the lives of people on the capitalist island and their parents would ban it, which would only escalate things and make young commies leave the community to move to the other island. How many times did we see it happen in the real world?

I'd put many small benefits into one category, that is safety.
By owning Bitcoin I'm safe from government surveillance. Safe from inflation and monetary policies. Safe from stupid laws, like the ones that limit the amount of money I can withdraw at once or take out of the country. I don't have to explain why I sent more than €20k to someone and what where did the money originated from.
Nobody can profile me when they don't know how much money I have and how much I earn per month. I'm not their typical brainwashed citizen who works overtime to pay mortgage and keeps everything in the bank.

He even gave 50% off for a review. I'd be eating there every day. To help a cause of course  Cheap pizza made by an Italian? You can count on me!
The idea was actually quite good. He didn't want to pay for adds and faking reviews would work even worse, so he played it on his terms by setting on a journey to become the lowest rated on site. He beat them in their own game.

Here's the problem. All fiat currencies will collapse at some point and history shows that most of them need less than 50 years for it to happen. Some countries already went through hyperinflation and that includes some giants of the economy like USA and Germany. What makes you think any modern fiat currency will survive until the end of the century? Also, it might have been more volatile than commodities, but commodities are not currencies. It's a fiat vs crypto thread.

He was right because as any novelty Bitcoin will either get world's attention or not. It's not a simple product but something controversial, more like a trend that needs to be accepted and followed, or not. Many things we are using now were in the same situation at some point in time. Read about forgotten inventions if you don't know what I'm talking about.

You got it all right. I'm far from rivers and the seaside and there hasn't been an earthquake in my area like ever. I'm not in a tectonically active spot and there are no records of it ever happening here for the last 1000 years, so I feel like I'm pretty safe. Also, stainless steel containers are pretty solid, don't rust, don't burn and are airtight.

If the seed is the most important why would I use a hardware wallet for a long time storage. I will have to hold the seed somewhere anyway (like in that steel container in the garden), so I might do that anyway and save some money.

It survived but you can never be sure if yours will. Fires aren't the same each time and depend on many factors like the size of the room, the materials inside, amount of air coming in, and so on. The temperatures can be much different each time.


If I die my wife will know where to look for it. I know it will sound selfish, but when I die I won't really care about my asset. If a few Bitcoins disappear from circulation to be found 50 years later by some treasure hunter with a metal detector, they won't be missed.

Unfortunately, Vat in the EU is completely independent of the location. There are exempt goods and goods with low vat rates. For instance, baby products are usually taxed very little. At the same time, alcohol and tobacco are taxed as high as possible, sometimes there are even additional taxes added to make them even more expensive. Same thing with gasoline.
https://ec.europa.eu/ireland/sites/ireland/files/vat_rates_2014.png


It's the same in the EU, at least when it comes to your paycheck being cut in half. You have to pay income tax, which usually is around 20% and then health insurance, pension, and some other small things that add up to 40%. The pension fund is one of the greatest scams by the government because it doesn't work. People who made it thought the population will be growing and there will be more people working and adding to the system every year. This could have worked in China, but most EU countries have declining populations, so the system is failing and generating losses that all taxpayers are covering.

I also used to be against it, but there's what we could call the rabid dog dilemma. A murderer is caught and put in jail, where he murders someone again and is diagnosed as a psychopath beyond recovery. Should he be kept in isolation and on meds for another 50 years? In extreme cases a death penalty is a better option.


Is there even such a thing? Those are just 2 ideas from the opposite side that I support.


Not many things can be put into black or white category these days. I watched a debate between left and right about to what extent should children be taught about sex and preferences at school. I was surprised to see that the left side found nothing bad in teaching 8 year olds about gay sex, orgasms and masturbation. We should be all about freedom of choice, but a line has to be drawn somewhere. When a country becomes too liberal scumbags start coming out of the woodwork.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/jul/18/topstories3.mainsection

I used to support all libertarian ideas, including the right to move and live where you please, and I thought the right to leave the country and migrate somewhere else should be one of the basic freedoms. That ended when I saw what countries that opened their borders to muslim migrants have experienced.
There's a middle ground between many left and right ideas, like on one hand you could say that people should have the right to buy land next to you, even if they come from a different culture and a different religion, but on the other, you have to make sure they know the rules and are willing to adapt. The far left would allow them all in without any rules, and even give them money for a good start, while the far right would kick them all out.
I support some ideas from the left and some from the right side. For instance, I'm not against gays and lesbians, it's their choice, and I'm against religion being brought into politics and support the right to abortion in extreme cases, like when the health of the mother is at stake. At the same time I fully support capital punishment for the worst criminals and believe there prisoners should work instead of being served food and clean clothes at the expense of the taxpayer. So, as you can see I don't fully agree with neither side.

Personally, I find hardware wallets a waste of money. They are just another electronic device you have to charge and store somewhere safe and dry. If I have to remember about a hardware wallet I could as well remember about a laminated paper wallet in a safety deposit box, especially since I can have 2 or more of them and be sure that they will never get destroyed all at once. I'm all about the classics. If I wanted to store my coins for a long time, I'd put a paper wallet in a tightly closed container and bury it in the garden. I don't get floods or earthquakes in my area so I'm pretty sure it would survive for another 20 years, or more. 

Youtube is known for its censorship and shady tactics. I remember when a local guy who openly criticized politics said that YT is unsubscribing people from his channel and people who were subbed were writing him messages that suddenly yt unsubbed them and they had to press the button again. Demonetization is just another move towards silencing youtubers. It used to be that a video had to be original to be monetized and the subjects was unimportant. You could talk about a pimple on your butt and get it monetized. Now you have to be politically correct.