But what Abrahamic faith didn't kill non believers at some point in history, on a large scale? The Crusades invalidate a claim of peace for all the Abrahamics except Judaism, and the current state of Israel Palestine reflects quite poorly on the dominate culture group, which we can all agree are the Israelis. People tend to die when a majority decides it's time to, it's the unfortunate but the way shit works here.

Now that I have said that, is see another definition for politics; codifying opinions that aren't universally popular so that they stand the test of time.

Nah. Bitcoin is king, and will be king, because of primacy. But a king doesn't exist in a vacuum; I mean there is plenty of space for other coins to exist without infringing on each other. I do think bitcoin can adapt to any function, but sometimes that adaptation is inefficient, compared to the alt coin it is trying to emulate.  Hashrate is meaningless. Liquidity is meaningless. These coin's value are due to utility. Ans that's an ever evolving thing.

Their interest concerns me however. The East is way more enthusiastic about crypto than the West, every time we get a new nation to invest, we bubble and pop. I loved the rally we.just had, it was timely for me, but I cant help but think the price isn't sustainable, growing this quickly. The chart looked like a goddamed ski slope before the price started pulling back. We have to be more responsible about our growth; I like profits as much as anyone else, but unsustainable growth is well, unsustainable.

I disagree. While I prefer bitcoin, the transaction fees are levied on the merchants for ACH, and are instantaneous. No doubt the fees are priced back into the products, but given the current state of fees and transaction speed on the bitcoin network, you are getting a more efficient deal with bitcoin. We need to scale people, the advantages of bitcoin to the traditional bankng syatem are slowly eroding as the network degrades in quality.

And I'm a maximalist, I guess.

LOL, and you might have some upset family members if your asset goes south, has a technical issue like slock.it, or is an outright scam, like the overwhelming majority of early cryptoassets. Educate those that ask to the best of your ability. It's your duty if you care about bitcoin. But at the end of your spiel, you must encourage them to do their own diligence. If they do, you will have two informed opinions on the matter, and you aren't as liable if an unknown thing makes everything go to shit. You cant predict the future, but you can educate yourself and other to hedge against catastrophe

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I'm American. Our coffers allocated for fighting this problem are tremendous, bigger than the GDPs of some small nations, yet our opiod epidemic has only grown on the face of our increasing efforts to stems the tide of drugs, and educate users on the dangers of the drug, preventing addiction in the first place. Our enemy is the doctor, that prescribed these drugs becuase they got a bonus to do so, not understanding that their patients would be addicted to said substances after treatment. You can't kill this problem. It has to actually be fixed, and it's honestly a problem that is borne of the attitude of the populace, not the availability of drugs. Bored/sad people use hard drugs. Drugs cost money. Money isn't so free flowing nowadays. You need to be addicted to a substance to waste money supporting a habit. The Chinese triads are feeling your addictions; our government is subsidizing ours, through subsidy of the pharmaceutical industry.

You missed out on Silk Road
 It was ' a thing'

But seriously, it's full retard to purchase drugs with anything other than cash. Do you really want a record of your drug transaction, even anonymously, recorded on a block chain until the end of time?

Operational security is key

For the record, drug dealers are aware of bitcoin, and computer savvy dealers have started using the protocol to store illicit funds. Trust me on this I know a few dealers.

To me, trading is investing with the intention of repeated repositioning to maximize profits over time. You buy and sell with the ultimate intention of acquiring as much of the asset as possible. Investing, on the other hand, is not about the amount of asset but the value of the asset. Put x in a thing, and with minimal supervision, its value should grow to y. A forex guy is a good example  of trading, he won't survive without huge positions, or repeatedly moving in and out. Someone investing however, in say bitcoin, would buy some coins, lock them up, wait, then come back, sell and collect profits. It's just my opinion, but investing, while the same concept, is much more passive than trading.

I'm not so rosy. The last time a chart looked like this, was right before Gox. Gox undoubtedly did a lot to kill the price at that time, but the price stayed down forever after that. That was a bubble, and this looks the same. Sure, there are reasons that the price would surge (Japan, traditional market instability) but the amount of growth, like last time, is too much too quick. People are buying on hype again; notice the amount of newbies washing up nowadays. I hope I'm wrong, but I think people are going to get burned short term. If you didn't buy already, unless you are looking really, really long term, you may want to hang tight/ pay attention . this upward growth will stop eventually. It can't go up forever. But when it does, how bad will the correction be, at least temporarily, and will that be a superior buy given the current price? If you figure it out, share with us please sir

Crackheads have an obvious problem. Their drug isn't something you get to keep under wraps, you don't get to have a stealth crack habit. Same with meth. This makes them dangerous, but a known known. The guys on these forums are a much rougher lot. The drugs you want to be concerned about are the drugs that people can abuse on the slick. There is someone reading this post that just did a line, there are several more people reading this post taking some form of prescription opiod. The crackhead would be obvious enough to avoid, if you know what to look for. The covert drug users have alot of the same issues, you just won't see it coming. They understand the importance of maintaining the semblance of normalcy known unknown. I say better the enemy you know than the one you don't, ID rather know who to look out for than get blindsided by a 'friend' or 'associate'.

TLDR; people suck generally; don't discriminate in your suspicion.

While there is wisdom in holding, if you have the patience to trade, you can make alot more than you would have by passively holding. Imagine the line of a chart as earning potential. The more volatility; the more the ups and downs on the line make it longer, making more earning potential. If you can exit and enter the line correctly, you will make a magnitude more than you would have just hodling. But that increased earning potential comes with increased risk; mess up on that line and you can lose value in a ruinous way.

My bad, wasn't insinuating that the fee was proportional, was pointing out an excessive fee is the only way to get the job done at the moment (ironically, in Mycelium, this recently resulted in a greater than a dollar fee an a roughly 10 dollar transaction. It was priority, but damn.)

The amount of 'angst' for the state of bitcoin concerns me sometimes. The alt coin fan boys treat BTC like Voldemort sometimes, bitcoin was the first mover but doesn't have to be the only one. The different coins serve various functions; although you can argue bitcoin can do alot of it with development, the others already do it, and most of the time, more efficiently. There is a place for all the coins; what's important is overall investment in the crypto sphere. If we build it, they will come

Dude, ETH is sooo much faster than BTC at the moment. You can read the forum if you have been living under a rock, concerning the state of the bitcoin network, but ETH always zips along at less than 5 minutes. When ETH was first introduced to exchanges, the wallets were slow about registering incoming transactions, but it's been ages since then, its all gravy now.

I've never gotten a single confirmation of a bitcoin network as fast as I have on Ethereum's. And I lurvs me some bitcoin.

To not seemed biased, LTC and Doge rock for fast confirms.

This is all my talking points in a nutshell. I don't think Satoshi ever wanted to replace fiat; the supreme understanding of money that created bitcoin would understand the necessity of fiat in a global economy. It's supposed to be an alternative damned near the opposite of fiat. Deregulated, decentralized, trustless and deflationary. They complement each other, and can strengthen each other when used in tandem, because they address the weaknesses of each other in their implementation (this was intentional).

Bitcoin is the yin to the yang of fiat

Amen. I don't know where y'all live where people even know about btc, but people look at me like a Salem witch whenever I mention bitcoin. The few people that know I'm into it, know enough about it. The only time I hear about it really is my parents, they monitor the price because it's my thing, and comment on retiring early at my expense when bitcoin hits 10k.

Everyone's a comedian

I am legitimately geeked about this. Japanese society does not fuck around with automated vending technologies; not only can you get virtually anything from a vending machine in Japan (including some really questionable shit), the are ubiquitous and don't charge for the extra functionality they provide. If they enter the market, the fees will come down, and the bar for service/ features will raise. As a consumer, I definitely approve

Who said globalization is bad?

NEOBEE.

We weren't as pacifist as people think under Obama. One of my biggest critiques of Obama is his foreign policy; when we weren't catering to nations that we should have been sterner with, we were drone bombing the dog shit out of folks, back when we weren't such cool hands at it. We did a lot of collateral damage, while we did get the bad guys, we made a LOT of mistakes that we didn't accept responsibility for. This is part of the reason for Arab aggression/rhetoric against us, we killed a lot of innocents while seeking our justice.  We also deported a shit ton of illegals, for those that would start the 'soft on crime' argument. He wasn't a saint. But I agree with his choices, for the most part, especially domestically. Not all, certainly. But enough.

How? You yourself have pointed out the extreme adversity that Trump suffers at the hands of the rest of government, particularly the judicial branch. In such a hostile environment, how in the blue fuck (I've been itching to say that) could he even begin to launch his ill conceived policy? The best thing Trump has done for your party is get a Justice seated, due to Rebuplican assholery this was certainly beyond Obama. Healthcare repeal is DOA, CBO just scored that shit pretty much the same as the last version of the bill. Tax cuts won't fly becuase he won't be there long enough to institute them. And his budget, which hurts his own voting base, won't look anything like that once Congress gets ahold of it. Individual state politicians, bith sides, aren't going to like major defunding of programs their citizens use, they won't get relected and the state will foot the difference one way or another.

Trump did more on the Apprentice, than he has his first 100 days.

He should have stayed there.