Debt, the 1st 5000 Years.

"What we’d now call “virtual money” preceded coinage by thousands of years, and human history has alternated back and forth between periods of virtual money, and periods dominated by gold and silver—which have also, invariably, been times of empire, war, and slavery."

http://bit.ly/oIiQWw

So, the Israeli rowing team was having real problems.
In every competition, they'd come in last.
So one year they decided to send Irving to the U.S.
To spy on the Americans
And find out the key to success.

Irving went to America.
He went to Cambridge
And studied to U.S. rowing team
Very closely.

The next year
Irving returned to Israel
To give his report.

Well, said the captain,
What did you find out?

The boat is the same, said Irving.
The oars, exactly the same.
They got 13 guys,
Just like we do.

Except
12 of them row
and only one of them yells.

Michelle Bachman

that story has 0% credibility. it would survive for no more than 10 seconds in a newsroom, but it's got 3 pages here. oh well.

what's a FUD?

So please, Mr. or Ms. Moderator, move me out of the newbie class. I'm fascinated by BitCoin as a social and political movement. I promise to be polite and intelligent. Whether I have anything helpful to add to the BitCoin discussion only time will tell.

Thanks.

But man, some of the attacks are vicious. Don't post if you don't want to get insulted!

So, yes, I am trying to get out of the newbie status with these posts.

It's been interesting just watching the forums during the Mt. Gox crash.
I hope that doesn't make me a troll.

Merton Cage. Go figure.