Do you really think other currencies aren't based on trust? Government backing doesn't mean anything when people don't believe in it and don't want to use it. Look at some of the inflated African currencies. They are backed by governments and still worth dust. Like those dollars from Zimbabwe and similar banana republics.
Trust and faith is the most important. The government doesn't make a country, the people do.

I also think that holding is better. Bitcoin is very profitable at the moment and has high chances of being worth much more. Holding fiat isn't profitable at all, so I'd say the answer what to do is obvious. Spend fiat and hold/accumulate Bitcoin.
If I could I'd switch all my fiat to Bitcoins, but I still need fiat to pay my bills.

His plane doesn't have a long range radar. They'd have to send something like that to follow him and warn of incoming planes.


If a supersonic jet comes at you and you're flying a big cow like the minister, you can only sit and watch. If that F-16 pilot wanted to shoot him down there would be no stopping him. Escort would probably shoot him down after the fact, but the minister's plane would be a fireball.

Correct. They may have shortages locally, but there's always import.
Chinese stores are offering cheap shipment to Russia and it takes maybe 5 days for a product to reach you. Also their prices are sometimes much lower than retail. If you're determined to buy hardware there's no stopping you. Also, like you said, there's so much used hardware on the market, but miners are afraid of buying those because they're planning to stress their cards and need long warranty.

Actually the more people are using it the less volatile it becomes. More distribution = more stabilization. If a country started using it as a main currency, there would be 20 million people using it on a daily basis. That's 20 million more users who have to turn their savings into Bitcoin.
We'd have a sharp increase in price, a lot of new users that will receive their wages in Bitcoin, more stability in the market as new people won't be playing, they will be using it to buy stuff, which means they won't be dumping or reacting to dumps, as there will be nothing to dump into with no national fiat currency.

It's not farming because as a user you have the right to a single claim, and that's what you're doing, just not with the account that you use to play.
Why are you doing it though? You're not gaining anything by claiming a faucet with an alt and also risking a ban.

Last time I checked Putin had no beard
On the other hand does that mean the longer the beard the more scared you are? If it's like a talisman, those with long beards must feel very threatened, maybe even on edge. That priest's beard is quite long 

If you take Philip's estimation, you're looking at 2 years of mining ROI, but that is with power cost. If you have panels it's a different story, because after those 2 years the panels will still be operating, so you have to take that $126 a month in power, multiply by 24 and subtract from the cost of the panels that you'll need to run a miner and you'll know how much of the cost of panels will the S9s cover in 2 years, while they are reaching ROI themselves.

Many people were posting here before the era of signatures begun and are still posting (some of them with sigs), why shouldn't they?
If you're doing something anyway and someone offers to pay you for that you'd be stupid not to agree. Campaigns won't be banned because people are free to pay for advertising and free to advertise. This forum is all about freedoms and choices, if you don't like sigs you can disable them, report spamming users, or leave the forum and move to reddit.

And what will happen to Ukraine's GDP and currency if Russia decides it's time to annex more than just Crimea?
We can speculate like that, but ultimately all fiat is vulnerable not only to manipulation and local disturbances and natural disasters, but also to war.
In a wartime prices of land and properties fall and prices of gold and silver go up. Bitcoin could and probably will act like gold in such case.

It depends. If you're trading it surely matters, because you're frequently converting, so you have to consider both prices, whatever it is that you're trading for (fiat, another altcoin). If you're holding and aren't interested in conversion, the price still matters to you, because value in fiat is the value in products and services and that''s your ultimate goal, to convert Bitcoin into products and services and make your life more comfortable.

This is an unreasonable fear spread by some crazies, probably those weirdos from greenpeace.
Do you know how much land is currently uninhabited? I'm not talking about land with extreme conditions like the Arctic Circle, but normal land that can be used for farming.
The answer is a lot, more than we need and more than we will need in another 100 years of growing. If somebody decided to grow food in the uninhabited parts of Russia, he'd be able to feed whole Europe for centuries to come. We're not facing overpopulation problems, just some areas are becoming crowded.

The main problem that I see is you have no idea how mining works and how rigs are assembled and operate. In your case I'd recommend hiring an experienced miner, even one that does it as a hobby, to prepare everything for you.
You need to make calculations and decide if it's profitable in your area, get a secure location with stable power and internet and buy hardware. You'll also need someone to monitor the rigs and be there to check if anything stops working or starts to overheat.

Don't buy accounts. It's not only easy to get scammed, even if you use an escrow.
What if you buy an account and the seller reports you to a trusted user and that person leaves you a negative?
What if the seller scammed someone, but that person hasn't come forth yet?

It's much better to make a new account and gradually build your reputation.

It used to be much easier back when the transactions were confirming in 15 min and fees were at half of today's prices. I've been doing it from time to time, but I don't recommend sending from one exchange to another because it might be hard to prove you own the sending address in case your balance doesn't get updated. This means you have to send from exchange 1 to your wallet and to exchange 2, which is going to take about an hour and cost you a few $.

And it's all your fault. If you spent as little as 10min reading threads about them you wouldn't have paid anything for their falsely advertised services.
There's so much written about them here. Some opinions are positive, but most are not. If people really cared about their money nobody would buy cloud mining contracts and there would be no need for threads like this one.

I heard there were experiments in order to create a virus that targets certain genes and attacks only if it finds them. This means you can program it to kill only black people or only men... The main problem is containing it to an area, so that it doesn't travel back to you

Watch out, agencies are watching us here. If you ever commit a crime they will use this post in court to prove that you're a sociopath

People are hitting back. Muslims think they're going to keep attacking people with no response. That could have worked when they were living in their third world countries and coming to Europe just to blow themselves up, but now their families are here and can be targeted. Unfortunately terrorism is not the best way of fighting these fanatics, we should be better than this and fight them openly by deporting them and banning their extremism.

What fork fears? We are still far from accepting any network upgrade and if it comes nothing bad will happen. We'll have an upgrade that many altcoins already had and went through. After a fork you don't lose any money, you get your money in both chains and both will have value. Once people decide one of them is better and worth pursuing that one will gain value while the other may start losing it. May meaning that both chains can be gaining value if people decide so.

What about the humans that live to kill others? If you let them run loose they'll start raping and killing children, maybe your children. If you put them in jail they'll look for an opportunity to kill other inmates or guards. Such rabid dogs should be put down.
I respect your opinion and am generally against death penalty, but serial killers and especially serial child killers should isolated from society completely. The best idea would be to drill a hole in the rock, 50m deep with polished walls, so that they can't dig and climb, and throw them all in there. If they kill each other then so be it, but it's much cheaper to just kill them.