The United States issues Treasury Bonds. Anyone, including US and foreign citizens, can buy those bonds. Some foreign governments also buy them for the stability of the investment.

It is strange that that map says the US debt is $14 trillion. It is over $18 trillion by now.

I sent 100 bitcoins and got this pic:




So worth it!

And that is the main decider, at what point do we plant our flag and say "at this point on we do not kill"?

I would think that most of us would not kill a monkey that can actively speak sign language just to fill our bellies.

Even vegetarians choose at what level of life they are willing to kill. Do you swat at a mosquito or step on a bug? What about living viruses? Do you bring out the holocaust inducing bleach to eradicate bacteria and other living organisms? Is there a certain configuration of living cells that is ok to kill and not ok?

You might plant your flag and say that anything with a smaller brain than maybe 1000 cells can be killed but anything more than that is off limits. This is the same as a meat eater saying we will not eat something with the intellect of a monkey or horse or house pet, but beyond that everything is fair game. Or being willing to kill a human based on some pre-defined justification.

First the ability to do so needs to be established, then the willingness to do so.

What is stopping you from becoming the CEO of your own business right now and growing it to multi-million dollar status?

Based on your post that you will be suing them, I will be sure to short Bitcoin because I believe in my heart that you will do so and this will bring the price down some.

No problem, the argument can also go the other way. Us libertarians complain about the government and yet we are willing to use force against those that have less power than us (animals). It makes you wonder, if you were actually in charge would you do anything differently? Especially considering you already have that choice and you choose to use force.

Something to think about. I will not try to justify my eating meat. I can probably count the number of vegetables I like on one hand and those are mostly of the potato chip/nacho chip variety. I know it is unhealthy but I try to expand my tastes as much as I can hope to. I have also at times phased in meat substitutes but those processed frankensteins are probably not all that much healthier than the meat version.

When you can amass power then you can have control over everyone else.

Those 85 people control the most guns which keep the rest of us in line.

And by guns, I mean the governments that keep us in line.

And yet, so many people believe that the solution to such a wealth distribution is to give the government more power (through taxes/stealing). When all that does is give those people in charge of that power even more wealth.

It is called survival of the fittest. That is what our world revolves around.

Our governments have more guns, that is how they are able to tell us what to do and jail us if they want to jail us or kill us if they want to kill us.

Humans have more power than animals. That is why we can kill them and eat them.

If you are outraged about this, are you equally outraged about our governments being able to steal money from us and kidnap us?

If animals had more power than humans, then things would be different.

We live in an anarchist world, if you want to protect animals, protect them with guns from the other humans (or convince those with the most guns, ie the government, to protect the animals from humans).

So Coinbase launched and the price dropped, then you bought on the news you read on WSJ?

What I saw was that there was rumor of Coinbase becoming an exchange, then the price went up over $300, then when they launched the price came back down to sane levels. Are you saying the news came out before the launch?

Do you have an article where Coinbase stated that they were licensed in California?

Technically they are a licensed and regulated exchange in California.

I checked, they are licensed in 14 states.

That would make them a Licensed and Regulated exchange.

Where are they located?  (hint: California)

I would not get your hopes up on suing on the theory that it was that news that made the price go down from $300. People bought on rumor and sold on news. A 20+% rise in one day was bound to have a lot of sell off. I would have done the same had I not been traveling. No matter what the news was.

You could just as well blame the trolls in the Speculation forum for losing you money with their FUD. It is just as viable.

That about sums it up. That was the first conference I had been to so I didn't have anything to compare it to but it does not motivate me to go to any more conferences, it is certainly not what I had expected.

Though to be fair, the second day they made seating available and the microphones worked for the most part.

If they have at least one license, and they (like all businesses) are regulated. Then they are a Regulated and Licensed exchange.

Did someone at Coinbase claim anything more than that?

Probably for the millions of dollars worth of licensing and regulation requirements for each of the 50 states in the US, which is the reason why there has not yet been a major Bitcoin exchange set up in the US.

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The java wallets that are available for cell phones are an implementation of that. It has been around for years.

From the White Paper:
https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

8.
Simplified Payment Verification
It is possible to verify payments without running a full network node. A user only needs to keep
a copy of the block headers of the longest proof-of-work chain, which he can get by querying
network nodes until he's convinced he has the longest chain, and obtain the Merkle branch
linking the transaction to the block it's timestamped in. He can't check the transaction for
himself, but by linking it to a place in the chain, he can see that a network node has accepted it,
and blocks added after it further confirm the network has accepted it.

As such, the verification is reliable as long as honest nodes control the network, but is more
vulnerable if the network is overpowered by an attacker. While network nodes can verify
transactions for themselves, the simplified method can be fooled by an attacker's fabricated
transactions for as long as the attacker can continue to overpower the network. One strategy to
protect against this would be to accept alerts from network nodes when they detect an invalid
block, prompting the user's software to download the full block and alerted transactions to
confirm the inconsistency. Businesses that receive frequent payments will probably still want to
run their own nodes for more independent security and quicker verification.

Gen 2 Social Media like Chicisimo, Google+, Yelp are sure to replace the outdated Facebook considering they offer something better.

How much have you shorted Facebook?

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