肯定是可以的，但是现在比特币系统这么庞大，硬分叉成本应该很高。

If he goes to trial, yes.

Only a fool goes to trial in the federal system.

Only a really big fool has a bench trial (i.e. judge decides, no jury) in the federal system.

I gotta say, it's pretty obvious that none of you guys have ever had the misfortune of having to deal with a federal prosecution.

I'm not saying that in a condescending way. I'm saying it in an envious way.

The truth is a federal prosecutor can walk into a courtroom with his penis hanging out of his pants in a clown suit. Federal judges are rubber stamps for the US Attorney's Office, plain and simple. This isn't a state/local court where legal precedent and constitutional rights are valued. This is a dog-and-pony show designed to give the illusion of fairness.

The truth is, they might as well take him out back and put him down like Old Yeller if he goes to trial. He's not going to win. He's just not.

There is a reason that U.S. federal conviction rates are on par with Russia, China and other horrendously unfair justices systems throughout the world.

The sad thing is, 99% of Americans are completely oblivious to the miscarriage of justice carried out every day in any federal court in the country. Ask any attorney that deals specifically in federal cases. Ask any retired federal prosecutor. Ask any retired federal judge. It's downright wrong how unfair some of these prosecutions are.

When you are indicted, it's not a question of *if* you're going to jail...it's a question of for how long.

The only system that's worse is the UCMJ.

I honestly have no idea how federal prosecutors sleep at night. Sure, in some cases they are doing society a great service. Unfortunately, in a disproportionately high amount of cases, they are causing so much more societal harm than good.

I don't know about you, but I don't think 19 year old crack addicts that get tied up in drug conspiracies deserve 20 year mandatory minimum sentences, without parole. Particularly when no violence is even alleged.

It's quite despicable, actually.

Yes BUT

They need to prove that he made an equivalent amnt of BTC equal to the amount they seized.  Not that they seized the RIGHT btc, but that they seized the RIGHT AMNT of BTC.

See?

Proving he is guilty is one thing. Proving ALL of the coins were profit from SR is another thing. I am assuming when he got paid by SR, the BTC was sent through a tumbler, so for them to prove which coins are his and which coins are from SR will take forever if even possible.

Also, I'm not 100% convinced he will be proven guilty of ALL charges.

请问为何有的区块会早于前一个区块出现？比如309736和309735

这个问题我都可以回答，地址一共有2^160个，重复的几率相当于你每天买彩票中五百万，连中一辈子。

I agree that Tera's claim that "the auction doesn't matter" was kind of naive. His point is, and it's a valid one, that the amount of coins auctioned is simply too small to be significant, when compared to what is mined,

such are the cultists...

Woot.

"So basically at least USD$20MM of bitcoin buying demand went unsatisfied in the auction and will look elsewhere to buy bitcoins i.e. market" Alan Silbert

I think attempting to return the coins to Mt Gox would probably be hard to get consensus behind, but as it's never been tried nobody really knows for sure.

Respawning those coins into the money supply is probably a lot less controversial and I did consider the idea a few times before, bit it's also not clear it's worth the effort and complexity. Actually I'd say it's not.

I am reading the Registration Statement now. I do not understand the maths behind it. Can anyone help me out?

My understanding (could be wrong) of the COIN ETF: WBT is issuing 1 million shares and each share represents 0.2btc. The price of bitcoin today is around $600 (for easy calculation). So, each share should have a trading value of around $120. But on page 1 of the Registration Statement, it says "proposed maximum offering price per Share" is $20.09??

The share price listed on nasdaq is also $20.09:
http://www.nasdaq.com/markets/ipos/company/winklevoss-bitcoin-trust-909930-72927

Is that $20.09 offering price going to change?
If not, who is going to make money from the $100 price difference?

Thanks!

Maybe there is a markup to make up for transaction fees. The point that Im making is that the merchants charge the same price whether you pay by cc or cash or bitcoin. At least I get a few % cashback + other benefits and it basically negates any markup. You pay the same price with bitcoin and get no benefits.

Therefore unless bitcoin payments get some sort of discount youd have to be pretty stupid or paranoid about the nsa snooping on you to pay via bitcoins...

Interesting points. However I still cannot understand why someone would pay with bitcoins if rewards credit cards offer bonus cashback + services and features.
eg. many companies add an extra year warranty + some have purchase protection if item gets stolen/breaks within 90 days + protection from sellers who dont send quality goods and refuse to make good on the purchase and many more features.

Some of these benefits coupled with extra cash back (eg. I have a card that gives 2% cashback on all purchases) wont exactly make people flock to bitcoin unless they have something to hide or are paranoid and want to be "anonymous" (as if the nsa cant track you anyway...).

P.S. Of course there is a use for someone who cant get their hands on a credit card with features like those mentioned above (most people probably can though).

Give me a seed of your hope in this.
I see a lot of absurd (for my opinion of course) things in real world created by crowd.
Why bitcoin is free of it?

This is all bullshit if your alternative is to hold onto the BTC1. You are still stuck thinking in fiat. Think about it.

But it will only count if Bitcoin reaches $1k one day so effectively it will have cost you $1k. There's no way around this.

So the ticket to the $1k party was $1k (as you will only get to use it if Bitcoin reaches $1k again). That's quite pricey for a party ...