What does it matter? After the Great Flood at the time of Noah, where only the 8 people of Noah and his family survived in the ark, God formally gave mankind the right to eat meat. The only rule about it was that they wouldn't eat meat with its blood still in it.
Many people pick on this idea of draining the blood out of the meat, as a flaw in the religious side of the meat-eating idea. They suggest that nobody can get every last blood cell out, so the meat-eaters will be disobeying God at least a little by eating any meat. They also say that God's commands are contradictory regarding this.
Such people don't realize that, while a strict law was the rule of thumb before the Flood - people were much more mentally able in pre-flood days; they didn't need a Bible to remember what God was all about - God realized that people were failing through gradual entropy. He realized that never again were they going to be able to keep the strict laws. So, He gave them the semblance of strict laws, so that they could obey within their abilities, showing reverence for God in their hears, minds, and spirits where it really counts. He had it in mind already back then what He was going to do to save them without strict obedience - Jesus.
At a later date, the People of Israel asked God for strict laws - at the time God gave the Ten Commandments through Moses on Mount Sinai. God was pleased that they would ask for such a thing, since He is essentially a God of strict legality - that's why Jesus had to die for the sins of the world. God gave the people of Israel the mental makeup so that they had the ability to keep the strict laws if they only would try. That is why, even to this day, Jews are very clever in their dealings. Their cleverness came from God so they could obey His strict laws.
Not exactly on topic here, nor reflecting the views of Hashman per se, but I happened to come across this while the thread was up, so hey hey hey why not link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJkQb0nuUGA |
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Having an optional currency not controlled by the government doesn't mean that i don't need to pay taxes to the government. By itself it still need taxes to run and operate and they will levy that to the citizen so we can't run away from that.
What exactly do you mean by "the government"? I pay taxes at my restaurant directly to the waiter, and I do so with bitcoin. The governing structure there is mostly run by the manager, with approval of a group of two owners. You can avoid paying most taxes by being registered somewhere you don't have to pay much. Yeah, I could eat and run but the reason I'm in the restaurant is that I like the place. I want to support them if I can. |
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Not in the current economy. Maybe if greed is allowed to rule markets but there is the capability for better oversight which will make economies more stable and gold less attractive. It's more of an age where value is determined by what you can produce. Gold sits there and doesn't produce anything. It's expensive to mine and is better used in applications that don't include currency exchange. Gold has been dead for decades but the world hasn't woken up to that reality yet.
Could be. Sometimes I worry the biggest gold holders will have an incentive to cut the power for a little while. |
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I always find it funny when people complain about other people paying taxes when you know they're paying it themselves. I also always imagine they're typing this from an iPhone sitting in Starbucks on their work break  .  Hope that in my life I have to pay a lot of taxes, espacily hope I will be in the high value income tax and maybe, one day I will have to pay a lot of tax on my bitcoins. All will imply I have a lot of money to spend  Indeed! In fact every time you spend or trade any asset, it can be called a tax. I am currently taxed about 4 millies when I purchase a US dollar. |
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Having an optional currency not controlled by the government doesn't mean that i don't need to pay taxes to the government. By itself it still need taxes to run and operate and they will levy that to the citizen so we can't run away from that.
What exactly do you mean by "the government"? I pay taxes at my restaurant directly to the waiter, and I do so with bitcoin. The governing structure there is mostly run by the manager, with approval of a group of two owners. |
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It is abundantly clear that what really matters is the world's confidence in the dollar. They can just keep printing more and more.
If the confidence in the dollar begins to fade, they will just start a war somewhere and make some money.
You have the order confused. You need confidence in a currency you can print to be able to pay for starting your war. |
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Lose the exchanges completely. Bitcoin was supposed to be a Person to Person EXCHANGE of value. Then people started EXCHANGING local currency for Bitcoin. Then greed got in the way and someone wanted to make money, so they created EXCHANGE houses.
Every single Altcoin that has been developed, whether it is superior in technology or ease of use or adoption or speed of confirmations etc, is now brought into exchange houses against Bitcoin and every other altcoin.
Person to person has been completely overpowered by exchanges. You want to move away from exchange prices? Trade an altcoin that exchanges won't touch. It's just so unfortunate that the measure of a successful cryptocurrency is how many exchanges it exists in.
You seem to be missing something. If I trade bitcoin for rice that is an exchange. If I trade dollars for rice that is an exchange. If I trade bitcoin for dollars that is an exchange. In all cases a price must be arrived at. We have a problem of price discovery in all of these exchanges. You can't avoid the need to make exchanges. |
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Bitcoin was created to be an alternative to traditional means of payment. As we've seen it benefits from financial instability. So I think that we bitcoiners should accept that FIAT and cryptocurrencies are going to co-exist.
What do you mean "are going to co-exist"? Don't you mean the present tense "do co-exist"? They do, and they will. Agreed |
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Our hospitals are full of meat eaters because ... ? What will all you healthscam workers do if/when people stay healthy ? They, just like the private banksters, big oil, the military industrial complex ect. all have a strangle hold on your life's resources. They, do not want us to know how easy it really is to free ourselves from their 2000 year old reign.Want milk ? Drink your mom's !  2000 years ago... The birth of logic, science, philosophy and veganism? Thank you Pythagoras! |
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Bitcoin was created to be an alternative to traditional means of payment. As we've seen it benefits from financial instability. So I think that we bitcoiners should accept that FIAT and cryptocurrencies are going to co-exist.
What do you mean "are going to co-exist"? Don't you mean the present tense "do co-exist"? |
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Our hospitals are full of meat eaters because ... ? What will all you healthscam workers do if/when people stay healthy ? They, just like the private banksters, big oil, the military industrial complex ect. all have a strangle hold on your life's resources. They, do not want us to know how easy it really is to free ourselves from their 2000 year old reign. Want milk ? Drink your mom's ! HippieTech gets the +1 Bon appetit! |
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The Polio vaccine is not brand new, and you are literally a child abuser if you choose not to immunize your child against it.
Lets ignore the obvious freudian slip here and get right to the heart of the discussion. Why are you upset sir Nubbins? |
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dollars never had any value, was always a toilet paper, but you are forced to use it
You are not forced to use it. You give up your freedom voluntarily. we kind of are forced to use fiat man Tell us more. Which contract do you regret entering into? I have a few too. Lets terminate them and move on. The most obvious examples of people not using fiat are the super rich, like the Queen of England or say Fidel Castro. However more and more of us of modest means are escaping the slave class. |
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you both made me laugh and understand a bit more... thanks But you don't need to say so many times that I don't know what I'm talking about, because I really don't. So I need to ask the stupid questions the best way I know, it's part of the learning process Getting back to the main question, If I didn't miss anything in the posts its not clear yet the answer to this question: With current available technology (Considering ASICs and Current Quantum Computing), whats the max Bitcoin Private keys mankind is able to generate per second with ONE central unit of processing working at 100%? Is there some mathematical formula to calculate this? Sorry, I never saw anything about ECDSA or private keys in your original post. You can generate all the private keys in a moment. They are the numbers between 0 and 2^255 (actually a bit less than that but close). If you want to actually do something with these private keys, that will of course take more time. For example, you might wish to calculate the corresponding public key, by performing a ECDSA modular multiplication with the generator. You might wish to calculate the bitcoin address by hashing this public key a couple times and adding a checksum. You might wish to query the blockchain to see if this address has a positive balance. You can calculate the speed of these things ad nauseum, plenty have done so in this forum. In the end you will find that the chances are astronomically larger that a palate of fresh hundreds drops out of a CIA plane into your backyard than for you to guess a private key of a loaded wallet. |
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Miners are doing exactly what you describe. They are hash cracking.
Lately it has become a fad to hack the word "hack" and completely misuse it so let's call it "hash hacking".
Miners hack bitcoin, and if they succeed, they can claim 25 BTC.
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simply put what will happen when dollar has lost 100% of it's value and is as such worthless?
This is called a "debt jubilee". Debts contracted in a currency under jubilee are forgiven. People use other exchange commodities when they are necessary. There are plenty to choose from. Some people panic about this but there is nothing frightening about it; it has happened many times and is cause for great celebration. |
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dollars never had any value, was always a toilet paper, but you are forced to use it
You are not forced to use it. You give up your freedom voluntarily. |
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I think we'll always be stuck with the exchanges prices. Isn't that how all currencies and even stocks and shares' value is measured? Outside sources can still have their influence on price, though. I think more and more people will choose to trade coins outside of exchanges but they still need to get their value from somewhere.
Yes we are forced to rely on centralized markets, and hence the numerous security holes we face. However there is still hope for decentralized markets of publicly verifiable assets. |
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No one in the world is living it large except the 1%. I dont get this naive notion of some nation existing where most people live a semi luxurious life. Most people are struggling and being able to pay holidays is a luxury these days.
This is the most strange thing in the world. In fact, the human productivity has increased at least 10 fold during the latest 10 years, using various high-tech and automation technology. However, majority people's life just improved a little bit or even go backwards and still live in a very tight budget. Where are all those added wealth? They all went into the pocket of money printers +1 |
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