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MoonShadow will never admit that it's wrong to hit children, because that would require confessing to unjustified aggression against children. Instead of coming clean he's chosen the route of doubling down on wrong.

I don't think there's much that can be done at this point other than to spread the knowledge that relationships are voluntary, so that the children he's raising will encounter it when they are no longer under his control and realize they aren't bound or obligated in any way to maintain a relationship with someone who hit them.

Of all the ways in which the US legal system sucks, at least there's the fact that libel and slander laws have such a high burden of proof, and are so easy to defend against, that most people never need to worry about them.

You're neglecting the velocity component of the money supply. There's a huge difference between 10.5 million BTC sitting idle in the blockchain and the same amount being continually spent.

If people are converting their paychecks to bitcoin, and then converting back to fiat as needed to pay expenses the total amount of bitcoins they will move in a year vastly exceeds their balance at any given time.

Much better, once the central planners are tossed to the curb.

Of course.

The Layman command will clone the contents of this repository: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=user/jranvier.git;a=summary into /var/lib/layman/jranvier. They'll have access to the entire git history.

The reason I made an overlay is because working with bare ebuilds is a PITA. Portage doesn't want to manipulate ebuilds unless they are in a properly-formatted repository so the user would need to have made their own overlay anyway. This way saves them a few steps.

Another thing that may be possible is adding an additional SSH key to the overlays.gentoo.org account so that you could clone the repository and update it yourself.

The reason they don't try to fund their spending entirely through inflation is because the population would never tolerate it. They'd dump dollars and look for alternate places to store their savings (see Argentina).

The only way the government can spend 25% of GDP is to get control of as many income streams as possible at their source, and to implement capital controls.

I got a user overlay set up on overlays.gentoo.org, so you can use the following installation instructions to install Armory on Gentoo:

Interfaces with the legacy financial are transitional technologies that help make the conversion easier.

Most people right now can neither obtain a salary in bitcoins, nor use bitcoins to  pay for their expenses whether or not regulated companies like this exist.

What these transitional technologies allow individuals do is take the first step towards Bitcoin adoption by using it to store their savings. A smart European customer of Bitcoin-Central could use them to convert his paychecks automatically to bitcoins, immediately withdraw them to an offline wallet under his own control, and then add small amounts bitcoins to the account to fund the debit card. This provides the maximum amount of security and usability.

As more companies begin to accept bitcoins directly the user will have less need to use the debit card, and eventually won't fund it at all. The final stage will come when his employer is willing to pay him directly in bitcoin. At this point the transitional technology will no longer be necessary and Bitcoin-Central will either move on to provide other services or will close shop.

How long does it take to scrape a new signature?

This is v0.7.1-244-g3ccb06f-beta starting from a completely bare directory, downloading the blockchain from a peer on the same LAN to remove internet connection speed as a factor.


Again with a larger cache.

It's been almost 300 years since epistemology was invented as a discipline, and yet people can still say things like this and expect to be taken seriously.

"mind-virus" is an understatement.

Nothing good comes from believing things which aren't true. There's no way to "twist" religion because it's inherently twisted due to being false.

Clients could be programmed to do this automatically.

I should have been more clear.


Does the procedure you described represent what needs to be done to generate a 2 of 3 multisig key, or is it something that users only need to do until good UI tools for using multisig keys exist in the clients?

I'm working on setting up a user overlay for Gentoo so that you'll be able to have proper installation instructions for Gentoo.

I thought the inclusion of multisig feature already implemented everything necessary to do escrow.

I'm guessing it refers to some of the other recent threads in the Meta section.

The criminals and the cartels they operate shouldn't have the power they have, but there's nothing we can do about it. The reality of the situation is that we don't live in a voluntary society, and sometimes dealing with the state on its terms is an unfortunate necessity.

Merely using government provided (and mandated) services by itself does not constitute an endorsement of the state in the same way a prisoner does not endorse the criminal justice system merely be eating food provided by the jailer.

This is a clarification of an earlier post I made:

Children fully own themselves, yet by nature are not competent to manage their own affairs. Thus they require resources from someone else in order to survive. Some people interpret this situation to mean parents own their children and the care they provide incurs an debt which the children are obligated to repay but logically the opposite is true.

Children exist in a state of infirmary, not due their own actions and choices, but due to the actions and choices of their parents. The consequences of their state of dependency, then are the responsibility of their parents. The care and nurturing that a child needs in order to reach a state of being a competent adult is not a gift from the parents, but rather a debt the parents owe their children as compensation for bringing them into existence in a helpless state. Once this debt is satisfied the children owe their parents nothing.

If parents want to earn some kind of consideration from their children they have to go above and beyond merely supporting their children while they grow up. They need to earn consideration with virtuous behavior.

I've often had similar thoughts.

While I'm a fan of what BitPay has accomplished I think Paysius has a better name. It speaks directly to what businesses want - to get paid.