There's a whole lot of wrong with this post.  Please spend some time learning about economics and come back. 

It's as amusing to myself to dissect your jokes as it is for you to ridicule my belief system.

What do you believe in?

Wouldn't matter.  The Sea of Galliee never freezes.

Within the US, the deception goes much deeper than that.  For example, the official CPI (Consumer Price Index of inflation) deliberately excludes prices in food or energy; which just happen to be two of the most important things that people around the world really need.  Also, changes in real estate are not directly considered; instead a massaged number called "Owner's Equivilant Rent" is included. 

Yes, but with cavets.

Obviously, one can use paper wallets or Cascious coins like cash, just as others have pointed out, but it's also possible for two clients not connected to the Internet to transact so long as they can connect to one another.

For example, say you have two parties that both have mesh wifi on their smartphones, and bitcoin apps that will let the user do this (presently, as far as I know, no current bitcoin wallet clients would let the user do this).

Adam and Bob meet sometime during TEOTWAWKI, both have working smartphones, neither has any cell service.  Adam has canned goods & bullets for sale, Bob has only bitcoins to offer.  Assuming that Adam actually want's bitcoins due to the future outlook of the Internet, they agree to trade using bitcoins if they can manage it.  So long as the two apps can connect over the mesh wifi connection, Bob's client can create at least one transaction without needing access to the Bitcoin network, and it can send that transaction to Adam's phone.  So long as Adam's phone client has a local copy of the blockchain (or even just the blockchain headers and merkle trees, within risk conditions) it can verifty Bob's transaction as valid.  However, in the absence of Internet access, it's impossible for Adam to verifty that Bob isn't some hacker repeatedly spending the same bitcoins during the crisis.  The risk then is all Adam's.  He may choose to accept the transaction at face value, and forward it to the Bitcoin network at the next opprotunity.

Additionally, transactions can be created in advance that permits such an offline capable client to spend funds many times before it runs out of usable inputs.  It is generally assumed that the Bitcoincard hardware wallet would function in this manner on some level, assuming it's more than vaporware.
http://bitcoincard.org/

For the record, I thought the last one was a reference to late at night, and that the answer would be my username.  That's why I thought I might be in there somewhere.

Obviously, I was wrong.

And that is why I'm wavering....

It's pocket change.  The Federal Reserve is creating new US dollars at a rate of $85 Billion per month, or about 2.25 billion per day.  And that is just what they will admit.

Zerocoins arent' even an alt-coin, it's a protocol extension to Bitcoin to improve the anonymousness of Bitcoin.  IMHO the claims by other crytocoins to being more anonymous should be suspect, and the most anonymous is to mine Bitcoins independently while providing the miner with a new address from your wallet for each found block.  The coinbase coins are the most anonymous because they don't have a history to 'taint' their anonymousness.

He's been in a Federal holding jail for most of the time, and the Gmen have been watching him like a hawk for this exact reason.

Let's start a thread for Bitcoin related mottos that one might see on a bumper sticker.  Short and to the point.  Anything that you put here is going to be free to use by anyone who actually does print bumber stickers.  So keep that in mind if you are into keeping your ideas for your personal profit.

I'll start....

Bitcoin: The Revolution Will Not Be Centralized!

Okay, so what was the solution?

They've moved the coins that were deposited into the server pool addresses, because that wallet.dat was probably on the server itself.  Last that I heard, the address that the feds assume was the private wallet of DPR had not been moved; and if it had it would be more likely to be proof that they have a fallguy, and that DPR just moved them to make that point clear.  It's hard to access the Internet securely from a jail cell.

Atlas was a child with a great mind.  He will be truly great one day, but while he was here he mostly aggravated everyone with his inmature worldview and narrow ideology.  He needs to grow up some, but I have no doubt that he has enough of his own bitcoins that he many never want for anything.

Have you tried localbitcoins.com?

There are already a couple of churches and missions that accept bitcoin donations.  Google is your friend.

Yes, it does.  It's expected.


Yes and no.  Yes they could do it, no it wouldn't be bitcoin anymore.  That would be a 'breaking' change.  Bitcoins would functionally cease to exist.  The price would collapse, and it should.


Nothing is ever impossible, but it would still be astronomically unlikely.


If ther i s aflaw discovered in the address keypari algos, then everyone using bitcoin would migrate to a new address format with a new algo.  Whatever was left after some transitional period would be assumed to be lost coins, and thus salvage.  Perhaps such a flaw could be exploited to permit breaking of the addresses, but that is unlikley.  Such as it is, those lost coins will remain lost for well beyond our natural lifetimes.

Pre-1993

Once upon a time, the same thing could have been said about the Internet at large.