If you dig past Alex Jones, you're likely to meet David Icke.

Just curious but what is the ETA on the reservations in terms of placing the order?

Interesting topic. I'm going down to Comerica Park tonight for the Tiger's game.

I never said it would die or vanish. The amount of printing and future liabilities is eroding the purchasing power and one of the main veneers hiding this is the continuation of pumping money into the stock market. When the bartenders stop serving, the rug will be pulled on the market and the greedy retail investors will be stuck holding the bag. Most people in the know have pulled out and/or have greatly limited their exposure.

What I am saying, like the other poster mentioned, the inflation will be magnified when this hoopla over the stock market goes away and middle aged people as well as retirees will be looking to diversify out of paper. The only way I see things turning around is if Rand Paul is elected President and has a decent amount of allies in Congress to stave off the cheap money policies and cut govt spending with a meat hook; and that means starting with reigning in the American Empire and abolishing whole govt depts. Also, govt regs need to be slashed to open up the private market for better job opportunities. As it stands, younger generations are screwed whether they go to college or not. Now, Obamacare is set to fleece the young in another way.

There's no chance that these paper currencies can hold stability for that amount of time. There's already indicators that Bernanke may back off on stimulus even tho he hasn't expressly stated. There's a portion of his board that want to back off and this will affect the phony stock market that is propping up this facade of stability. I'd venture to say that being stable longer than 5 years is pushing it optimistically. When those in the market get their clocks cleaned, watch out in bitcoinland - the ship is leaving the port.

me too

 
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My friend, who's a noob like me, had his 5 BTC taken out of his Blockchain wallet a few days ago by some random address and he's worried to ever use bitcoin again even tho he still likes it. He's notified Blockchain about the situation but afaik hasn't heard back from them. Any likelihood that he'll get them back? I can't figure out how it happened but he said he bought like 1.7 BTC a day before the incident and then woke up the next day and his phone app (which is all he uses) showed a 0 balance. He uses 2-factor authentication, as do I, yet he still got sniped. I immediately checked my balance and was thankful to see everything was fine. Any insight?

While he's been disappointing on some key issues, I'm glad to see he's got some cajones on this. I still have like 70 of his yard signs in my garage and was thinking about putting them out with the trash but he's redeemed himself a little on this one. Now, if he only doesn't vote in favor of another fiscal cliff deal like he campaigned against. The others you listed are no big surprise, Massie, Jones and Amash are top shelf congressmen for sure. Yoho and Labrador get honorable mentions.

I would imagine that this exponential rate of computation leading to increased difficulty will coincide with the upcoming deliveries of ASIC miners to more people. Between BFL, KncMiner and Avalon there's likely to be a 100k new miners out there (when delivery launches en masse or however it goes) which might hurt profitability yet will broaden the mining base and make it more healthy. Course, that's just my noob opinion based upon a limited amount of research.