That Core devs are bad? Half of posts here are saying that lol

Being such an urgent topic, it is good to see so much attention.

I agree with all but one thing above, and especially getting professional instruction (though I am remiss in doing so myself.)  I would add that practicing regularly is a good idea and here again I fall somewhat flat.  When we do the next round of training on the 9mm I'll bring along my shotgun and 357 and brush up for my own good.  For a number of years it was hell to find 357 mag ammo, but when it become available again I stocked up.

In my rural area almost everyone has firearms and as a consequence almost all proficient home invaders ply their trade only when they believe that nobody is around.  Firing a warning shot from any gun will dispel that misconception, and a shotgun is easy for the semi-trained ear to recognize.  And again, many criminals have a special fear of the homeowner+shotguns combination.  Even when jacked on meth I suspect.

You ever shot a shotgun? I am sure that there. Home-defense aimed at preventing a robbery, and not the destruction of your home. Besides injuries from a shotgun causing more serious injuries and can lead to death. I don't consider the shotgun an acceptable weapon for self-defense of habitation.

You are wrong.  Firstly bitcoin CANNOT be Ideal Money.

Secondly the relevant of bitcoin and john nash's lecture is such that bitcoin fits PERFECTLY as the premise which is an international e-currency with a stably issued supply that has an inflation rate that halves periodically.

You are confused, and I am not confused.

I think we've had this discussion before, but it was a while back.  I personally prefer a shotgun for home defense (and investigating issues on my property be they human, sub-human, or animal), but one can have both.

In this case, it was a struggle to get the family member to have anything at all.  The anti-gun propaganda strongly effects a lot of people.  A small firearm is a good first step and I hope that once the shame and guilt of being a gun owner subsides there will be upgrades in the mix.  Additionally, the people who need guns the most tend to be those who are the least physically capable of dealing with their operation because the scumbags who are a threat target them specifically.

The primary load I choose for my shotgun(s) are 00-buck and slugs.  This in case I need to defend against bears or engine blocks.  I personally don't have much of an issue with the recoil but everyone is built differently.

Camera technology is increasing rapidly.  I just put some effort into hooking everything into zoneminder.  There is a fair chance that by the time an attacker and I meet I will have been watching them for 15 minutes or so and will have selected the proper mix of weapons, but this is due to the layout of my property as much as anything.

Bitcoin cannot be ideal money.  Economists know this because money stable in value needs to be able to expand and contract with its underlying economy.  

This means that its an irrational pursuit from both sides of the debate.  

This is happening because both sides are functioning on the tacit assumption that a good medium of exchange solves an important problem.  It doesn't.

The REAL problem we need to solve is creating a stable unit of value for the markets so they can optimally distribute our commodities.

Money can help play this role, but this creates pressure, and the pressure has always historically corrupted the metric.

Core's mandate needs to be (if it is possible) to use bitcoin to facilitate the creation of a stable unit of value.  This is wholly different than trying to idealize bitcoin as a currency.  In fact the latter will destroy the possibility of the former.

Core's misunderstanding of this is what is perpetuating the debate, not Ver ignorance.  It's both sides. And that's why the debate is unending.

I propose a protocol by David Bohm, Einstein's protege, called On Dialogue.  It's specific quality is that it lift's tacit assumptions.

This is related to why Adam Back said Trace Mayer would be interested (and he knows who Bohm is and that Bohm is relevant) and that Roger Ver would probably be receptive to this.

I just got a 9mm which is a caliber I've not had any experience with.  Actually I got it for someone else, but might buy them a different one and trade them.  It is a Taurus 709 slim which is sort of targeted at the concealed carry crowd.  I'm mostly familiar with my 357 mag.  The 9mm is quite manageable by comparison.  Even with the relatively small automatic I feel that I could put a number of bullets into someone breaking through a door in under a second.

For home defense purposes I would suggest a more full sized automatic mostly because it holds more rounds.  Might be even easier to rack and fire also.  Not sure since I've not played around with one.  The one I got was sort of a spur-of-the-moment purchase for a family member since there have been troubles with tweekers in my area of late.

In contemplating tactics recently and watching some of the home invasion footage on youtube, I would suggest that the most important thing a person can do is to have a well thought out and well rehearsed plan about where in the house to retreat to. and how to mount an attack or defense from there.  Practice it a bunch so it is Pavlovian should one's window breaking be what wakes a person up.

I would also suggest to analyze various available footage paying attention to the behavior of the home invaders and put yourself into their minds remembering that in the common case they will be learning the layout of the house as they go.  It is interesting to note how common it is for home invaders to work in groups of three.

Not sure if it's been posted on this board or not, but here is a rather delightful bit of footage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stOcTAADa38

Shows how useless 911 can be and it is awfully amusing when the woman loses patience and hangs up on 911 to call her husband in order to get some actual help.  Apparently Asian restaurant owners are specifically targeted because they close late and often take the night's earnings home.  Interestingly and not surprisingly the strong consensus is that this woman should be granted instant U.S. citizenship if she wants it.

You didn't refute anything I said and just posted the equivalent of a bitcoin bumper sticker.  Bitcoin does not function as a store of value.  In the long run I believe this will be a rather large problem since being a store of value is critical to a settlement network.  In the short term the price can pump and dump to any kind of number imaginable.  The market can be irrational longer than you can remain solvent, as the saying goes.

As for a real world example, let's say you worked your entire life, 40-50 years or whatever, and you're sitting on a pile of money and are forced at gunpoint to convert every cent of it into either gold and silver or bitcoin.  In that theoretical example, who is actually going to choose bitcoin?  Pretty much nobody.  It's not because bitcoin is an "immature" technology or whatever.  This is the way it will always be.  Bitcoin cannot defeat the noble metals as the base of Exter's pyramid.  It's completely impossible.

yeah been a long time since i've seen a huge buy wall like that.

1/8th inch thick, yea. and the handle is held on with the pins and loctite 5 minute epoxy. it should hold up to whatever just fine.

i'm just afraid to try it!

and yea, i need a good sharpener... first thing i'll buy when i get some money.

In addition to that, we have been in testnet for over 3 months then mainnet for a month. If we were the cause then you would see a floor in the memory pool numbers for that duration, which you cant.

nodes running out of usable utxo.

Your description of the green circles as spikes would be more accurate if they didn't occupy more than half the horizontal axis in your figure.

i can get it hair shaving sharp, but since i only have a dremel it's a very uneven, ugly looking edge.

i think the biggest bushcraft concern would be rust. it's 1080 steel, high carbon and not much else, so it'll be susceptible to rust.

I send the whole $20 to achow then.