I have a bunch of cards I want to trade. Is there some sort of Magic The Gathering Online eXchange?

I watched it too and they were just talking gibberish. This is bad news for Bitcoin.

I was even able to show my 75 year old mother how to use CoinBase.

Do you have a bank account?

Yes, it is definitely different from the $2 low in 2011 where people were not sure if Bitcoin would even survive.

Now it is about the price going down so you can get your hands on some bitcoins. Not all that bearish.

Aliens

I still could not find the donation link for helping to colonize space. Could you provide a link?

Your other link is just to some Alex Jones conspiracy theorist type.

Is there not a method of choosing new leaders to the board within the foundation membership?

If that is not specified, then joining a foundation that has that capability would probably be a good move.

Geography does not necessarily hinder this approach, look at how Iceland worked for over 300 years.

http://praxeology.net/libertariannation/a/f13l1.html

In outline, the system's main features were these: Legislative power was vested in the General Assembly (althingi); the legislators were Chieftains (godhar; singular, godhi) representing their Assemblymen (thingmenn; singular, thingmadhr). Every Icelander was attached to a Chieftain, either directly, by being an Assemblyman, or indirectly, by belonging to a household headed by an Assemblyman. A Chieftaincy (godhordh) was private property, which could be bought and sold. Representation was determined by choice rather than by place of residence; an Assemblyman could transfer his allegiance (and attendant fees) at will from one Chieftain to another without moving to a new district. Hence competition among Chieftains served to keep them in line.

The General Assembly passed laws, but had no executive authority; law enforcement was up to the individual, with the help of his friends, family, and Chieftain. Disputes were resolved either through private arbitration or through the court system administered by the General Assembly. Wrongdoers were required to pay financial restitution to their victims; those who refused were denied all legal protection in the future (and thus, e.g., could be killed with impunity). The claim to such compensation was itself a marketable commodity; a person too weak to enforce his claim could sell it to someone more powerful. This served to prevent the powerful from preying on the weak. Foreigners were scandalized by this "land without a king"; but Iceland's system appears to have kept the peace at least as well as those of its monarchical neighbors.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Commonwealth

historian Birgir Solvason states that Icelandic society was "more peaceful and cooperative than its contemporaries"; in England and Norway, by contrast, "the period from about 800 to 1200 is a period of continuous struggle; high in both violence and killings."

The US government is making sure decentralization is very difficult. Mainly the part about anyone exchanging currencies requiring huge license fees and other hoops to jump through.

But he lives in the US...you would think he would have gotten the messaged that the SPLC is a hate group that collects money so that they can publish lists of people they hate.

That is some scary shit.


The insane person who wrote that article actually quoted The Southern Poverty Law Center as being a reputable group.

It has been discussed here.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=191039.0

Fortunately right now there is only a link to the porn on Tor. But it is certainly possible to put a series of numbers into the block chain such that when put together can be read by an image viewer.

The thing is, it cannot be taken out of the chain without compromising the whole chain.

The only way to address this would be for miners to filter every transaction for a potentially harmful series of numbers and catch it before it goes onto the chain. But that is just about impossible and harmful to Bitcoin itself.

Like I said, I love Bitcoin but the first time someone is prosecuted for having kiddie porn on their computer because of the blockchain, then Bitcoin will suffer horribly. This would be the answer that governments could use to cripple Bitcoin.

At the very least, the economic stuff can be easily taken care of this way. Especially with the help of Bitcoin.

As solid as Bitcoin is, I believe this would be the easiest way to attack it. To knowingly possess child porn is a crime. As decentralized as Bitcoin is, only offshore sites holding the blockchain would make it vulnerable.

Down below $100....here it goes...


Kiddie porn in the block chain, DDOS on Silk Road, CoinLab suing MtGox...

This will be a long fall.

I do not care what you call it. As long as I can use it to buy things then that is all I need.

Or I just go to wikipedia and find the exceptions.

If the information is incorrect maybe you should edit the page so we can all benefit.

Tirades about how forcing people to do things against their will is good for society in 5...4...3...2...

http://money.cnn.com/2013/05/02/technology/security/bitcoin-porn/?source=cnn_bin

"The U.S. Justice Department wouldn't comment on this specific case, but an agency spokesman pointed CNNMoney to the exact wording of the law, which states that the issue becomes a crime when a person "knowingly possesses, or knowingly accesses with intent to view" child porn. It doesn't appear that an unsuspecting user with these coded links sitting on their hard drive has much to worry about. "

Downloading the blockchain to look at some porn? No? Then no crime.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_tax_in_the_United_States
"Non-taxable gifts"

Took less than a minute to find what gifts are not taxable.