You fail to see the point that government naturally and generally attracts the corrupt, and this is the very weakness of government, that it has nothing above it so to corrupt it will corrupt the whole of society. Also the concept of society is something people are too attached to while they overestimate it's actual usefulness. Think about what consists in a nation and you'll see what I'm talking about.

The fact that he speaks of carrots as a currency-worthy commodity speaks volumes on his understanding of what consists in a good medium of exchange.

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 Apparently some people did quite the opposite of what this guy is saying.

I think the problem isn't whether he is a "brother in arms" but rather that he is close minded. As someone stated, his behavior indicates that he is "like minded" with anarchist or libertarian ideals not because he embraces them but rather because he nurtures anti government feelings, for whatever reason. I'm a gold bug myself yet I adopted Bitcoin at first sight, and I'm pretty sure I'm not alone here, which certainly prove the 2 aren't incompatible. Also, I'll take a wolf skull with those bison bones.

Actually it's been devalued oO

People might have put an increasing amount of trust in the currency but it doesn't change the fact that the value a dollar represents nowadays is less than what it was in 1972. Oppose to that, Bitcoins are gainly value on the long term.

You can multi-table at betco.in

As for credentials, I meant your actual irl identity. Are those turned downed now? I thought it was only your hostname that was turned down, like in France.

CoinPal is supposed to be pretty fast.

The more expensive cards can provide certain over clocking advantages, such as a custom cooler, binned gpus, better ram cooling and low heat peripheral components. In general, you can expect low-end proprietary builds to not offer voltage modification, and reference designs usually have gpu voltage control at least.

Can't you use your credentials but go through a European VPN to connect to pokerstars.eu and others?

You might want to look at the post above this one regarding taxes due on the sell.

I think there was some UN conducted survey that showed France was the country in the world with the most enacted laws. There was some ridiculous figures provided, something like each year, a branch of the French house of representatives charged of deprecating old laws would get rid of 10,000 of them, the equivalent of the whole legislative scripture of the US.

On another note, grondilu, don't forget that if you price your goods for 100,000 EUR or 1 BTC, that you'll be paying taxes on the euro price, whether it sold for euros or not.

That you can do. I think as long as there is a pricetag in euros, anything goes.

I see, thanks for the clarification

Not quite. I'm not sure about American legislation, but since we're both French, I can tell you how it would work between you and I. Say you're looking to trade a pig. If you're willing to take my goat for it, then this is barter. In this case, this is a trade between individuals. On the other hand, if you're a vendor, you have to price the goods you put up for sale. There are two consequences to this: the price has to be made public, this means if I see a price tag on something in your store, I can legally purchase that good for that price, even if you messed up with the tag. Second consequence is that you can't refuse to sell anything priced in your store as long as I can meet your price in euros. I think there is something about 24h notice before a price change, so that you can't sell me something for €20 and ask €40 for it from the guy right next to me.

Now I don't know about the US, that's why I'm asking about it.

You sure about that? I thought vendors could accept any form of payment but were not allowed to refuse payments in dollars.

Legal tender only really refers to the currency in which the government demands its taxes to be payed in and pays its dues with. From an American citizen stand point, yens and euros aren't legal tender, yet he considers them as good a currency as dollars, which means what he really is rooting for is government sanctioned currency. How can people confuse so many things when it comes to economics. It's not that complicated...

And as far as the government is concerned, if you're not trading with a currency, then it is barter, which has its own applicable taxes. As long as the man gets his cut...

I don't understand the need people have to just hate on new things...

It could be snowballing. Higher price rises interests in vendors, who start selling their goods for btc, which brings more ppl and so on

Assuming a company however wealthy they are would bother prosecuting a case they know they can't win, literally burning money over a project they haven't made a dime off in the last 10 years and won't be for another 20... Assuming he couldn't get legal support from open source developers groups... Knowing Square can't use any measure of force to stop his project without a court order...

It is not as one sided as you like to present it. Moreover, what you are pointing at is an abuse of judiciary institutions, not an abusive law as you pretend it to be.

Out of the top of my head:

At 70 Mh/s you have an average production time of 65 days, 13 hours, 57 minutes per block with this weeks difficulty. Assuming it remains at that level (which it won't), and your card is about 200W on load, now let's be nice and say 150, you'd be at 3.6 kW a day or 234 kW per block. That's $15 of electricity per block. Well, I'll be damned, that's some cheap juice you got there.

Sure it is. Had this guy known his rights, he would have kept on going with his project, and nothing legal Square could have thrown at him could have stopped him. Hell, he would have even gotten money out of them.

And anyways, who cares about society? You are so prone to look down upon laws yet your referential is the very frame for laws.