Idunno. He's so human in speaking... I don't think he's even capable of changing the tone of his message because it's really HIS tone and message. I guess that's why he can't be a politician. It'd be like coaching Ron Paul... and then you get some ad coming out where he endorsed whats-his-name (Amit Singh?) I still remember a quote from... "TEX MESSSXT?!" Like - someone clearly wrote a script he was supposed to follow, and it was like watching a five-year-old at a school play trying to pretend they're the Duke of Butthamburg with a straight face. -Or that line, which was absolutely hilarious (mostly for the wrong reasons)... "You'd have to smoke a joint as big as a telephone pole to get high off hemp!" Ron obviously didn't write that line and he wasn't able to deliver it in any believable way, even though it's the only quote I remember from whatever speech or rally that was.

FSP's significantly older than BTC, fwiw. I had the pleasure of meeting Ian at a BTC conference in FL a few months ago. Signed a pledge of intent, but then my job hunt ended abruptly soon after (thank God). Was kind of surprised they came to a fairly low-key crypto conference... I've been hearing about Ian and the FSP for more than my entire adult life, so really putting a face to it was kind of..... .... disturbing.

+1.  It's easy to forget this, and I've forgotten it from time to time.

Bitcoin is super-efficient, though. If we all used Bitcoin, I could cross any border I want without ever having to use an ATM or talk to an exchange agent. The same effect will be a blessing for international business; currency fluctuations become a non-issue.

It's also vastly cheaper, the fastest means if sending money I've ever used. I'm a very impatient man, so that's really the sticking point. There are arguments we could make against that, but most of them are solvable by modifications to the blockchain and protocol.

I probably don't want to go through that again, though--you're right. But I'm so very disinterested in learning about cheques and stuff.  

He never made such a claim AFAIK, and even if he had 20% of the hashrate, that still wouldn't be quite enough to cause serious trouble, would it?


Why, are you missing the big boobs?

Seriously, I don't get the point of his reluctance, i.e. why he makes such a big deal about it. Not that I care a lot, to be perfectly honest. Back in the days, Luke-jr also had some reluctance regarding newer versions of bitcoind, but IIRC they were a little more / better substantiated... and *he* was running a pool, unlike MP.

100% agreed. Now, if Ebay bans such sales on their website, that is perfectly within their right and the only sentence he therefore deserved, was losing his Ebay account.

Instead he got 10 months in jail for properly executing contracts with other individuals on a voluntary basis. This obviously was the reason he renounced his citizenship. I had no idea who Roger Ver is but like him now 

Well, honestly, what the fuck are your banks doing in other countries? Here in Canada, I can send money via e-transfer as easily as sending an email, but those Nigerians demand to pay me by wire transfer. If they weren't fancy and important, I would have complained to them directly, but alas.

Pardon me for living in a city where I can get literally everything I need in Bitcoin (and even the banks are usually somewhat competent), but I don't feel like learning about stone-age financial technology. It would be more efficient for society if people learned crypto, instead, and because I am pathologically obsessed with efficiency, I intend to complain until they do.

The forks I remember were urgent, deployed in a hurry. I would assume a well planned and announced months in advance fork would be somewhat calmer.... unless the "change is bad" crowd holds out and it's only finally applied in an emergency when the network is already practically DDoSing itself to death.

Oops... am I having a conceptual problem here ? As I understand, hard fork is more about nodes than it is about the miners. Unless, there are some new mining rules coming in, miners do not probably have much to say. It will depend on the mempool of the nodes, which will decide which tx will be accepted and which not + which block found by the miners to be relayed and which not.... again I am confused. Am I wrong ?

We have previously seen that this guy, Mircea Popescu, do have some deep pocket...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/20/openbsd_bailed_out/

But I doubt, whether he'll be able to fight against the venture capitalists those have walked into the bitcoin game in 2014, e.g. Tim Draper. To these people Gavin's word is most probably more valuable and I guess, the future of Bitcoin core is ultimately in the hand of The Bitcoin Foundation. So, if Gavin can convince them, it is very difficult to resist it from outside.

At the end of the day, we need to see, who is speaking logical.

THere's no evidence that bitcoin has ANYTHING to do with it, in fact, why would it? The government has more important things to concern itself with.

The fact is, this guy renounced his citizenship, fine, and then he wants to get back into the country?? And he expects the US to say, "sure, come back in!"...this guy is a fool if he's surprised by this.

Here's an analogy...someone comes to your house and says "Fuck you, I hate this place, I don't ever want to be associated with it!" Would you want them back in your house again?

I agree with his t-shirt, but there's nothing we can do about that.

Few months ago CEX.io CIO Jeffrey Smith expressed concern about the origin of this unknown hash rate. The interview below...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvMQeCl9K-U

You could always jump off the ship or plane into the ocean and swim ashore, and pick things up from there.

 

Microchip everyone from birth, if you arent doing any wrong you have nothing to hide

Granted that "dough" eyes was an unfortunate typo, but your theory that this story is false is a lunatic conspiracy. Allow me to present a picture of me with my Nigerian students in Dubai:


My boss runs http://datapronigeria.com/; he's the short one in-between the two white guys. I'm the white guy on his right.

You see, presumptuous reader, Dubai has little-to-no visa restrictions. Nigeria does not. Further, Nigeria is a very impoverished and dangerous country, while Dubai is a playground for rich people. Nigerian officials therefore hold their annual compliance course in Dubai, where I was summoned to teach them because they'd read my Bitcoin Magazine articles.

That aside, I'm not sure how tackle the other points made. Yes, there are more fiat ATMs in convenient places than Bitcoin ATMs. That's because more fiat ATMs exist. It is stunning, therefore, that they do not place them effectively given their available numbers--the logical conclusion is that it is often intentional, to serve a middle-man profit motive.

And why would I ever need to withdraw bitcoins separately from an ATM in each country I visit? In the future, everybody will accept cryptocurrency. I will not need to withdraw fiat, and I won't.

I don't possess a credit card, to answer one of the later questions. I don't use our even understand cheques, because I grew up in the post-Internet era, and what the fuck is a cheque? Honestly. Just take my bitcoins, guys.

Bitcoin will always be a part of the world financial system. The question of course is what % of it will they occupy?
Unfortunately, our world government (USA) will be the one who allows Bitcoin to grow or not.
Just like the US does for countries, controlling their markets or imposing sanctions for political reasons.

Is this fair? Of course not, but are you going to do about it?