It's a way to live, honestly. It has its advantages, but the disadvantages outweigh them IMO. Unless you have a bitcoin debit card, you will be relegated to using gift cards, or using the rare business that actually accepts bitcoin. You will gain if you hold, but unless you make enough income to actually save money/bitcoin, the short term dips might have you unable to pay a bill, or a few cents short when you had enough a fee minutes ago. You are also subject to network congestion. I cannot tell you how many times I have sent btx to my shift card, left the house, arrived at the store, and still had to wait an additional 30 minutes (I went home waiting, once).

Good observation. Also, may I add that Cash has unique properties because it is a physical token of value. Many transactions made are not made to be seen by the public eye, and cash facilitates this, it is the ultimate anonymous value transfer mechanism. Also, if it became a world currency, we would see individual governments have unique currencies. They would not late adopt into a global currency.

We agree good sir  we also need to reduce corporate pollution, through the extraction/processing of resources and manufacturing wastes. And, we need to put all petrochemicals down, or at least use them for something more exotic than powering a car. I'm a realist, this won't happen over night, and certain parties will resist. But, if we want the marble to last, we have to take care of it. They will only be more of us. I would make a joke about white genocide and that 'more of us' being brown, but we stand in solidarity at the moment, friend.

You, get a cookie.

Valid point. Even if the network still exists, staying alive would take the cake, I don't think folks would bother with btc given how unreliable access would be in this situation. There might be nternet, but it just won't be everywhere. Also, ID much rather some ammunition, food, or precious metal, as they would be the most liquidable assets in this scenario. Hell, medicine, tools, seeds, nutrients, seasonal clothes, drugs, fuck it, anything that I can hold in my hand and has value, period.

Although magic internet money has its advantages, a SHTF scenario is not its shining moment.

Give this man a cookie. You have the good sense your parents gave you. It's rare here, and welcome aboard.

Even if you did (the paranoid) believe that vaccines are harmful, despite an overwhelming majority of scientific evidence which suggest otherwise, you have to concede that the benefits (not dying for the majority of folks) greatly outweigh the risks (possibly dying for a few folks, or developing autism). If I'm going to roll a d00 in the game of life, fuck it, I'll take those chances. And depend on my Constitution bonus because I'm a dwarf.

Oh, BTW folks, the earth is flat, and aliens killed Kennedy.

True story.

Was Nixon the most powerful person in the world, when he resigned instead of being impeached? No, the president isn't the most powerful person in the world. The Constitution was established to prevent just that, through separation of powers.

You are mixing the men with the message. The idea here is that the judges represent The Law. The Law deemed his shit weak. You know, Law as dictated by a duly elected officer of the Court. You guys believe in elections right? 'That judge won his seat fair and square', just like old 45   Without any of the zesty bite of Russian interference.

You are absolutely right Trump sure is creating jobs. Helping the dead coal industry, and hiring plenty of new law enforcement agents to police our borders, LOL. What about the jobs he is taking away from low income rural Americans, by reducing funding to programs that incentivize rural business? Rural business boards have been cut, the Appalachian Rural board has been practically killed (13 States affected, not just NC).

So we got a few factory jobs back, and plenty of new boys in uniform. And the coal guys are going crazy that someone even gives a flip about an industry that is at the mercy of China (there are strategic economic reasons why the coal industry has been depressed, we lost control of it).

And though we all love to point out how the budget dipped while Trump was in office (he hasn't passed/endorsed any legislature with domestic implications on labor, I may be wrong). We have a travel ban, and really clearly defined immigration.

Wait for the wall (don't hold your breath). If you thought the budget had hopes, they will be dashed over a cliff if happens. Mexico said, send them a bill, they will get back to us 

Grow trees. I shit you not.

You may be specifically talking about bitcoin, but I want to point this out because value is value, and bitcoins can be fiat, and the inverse.


“Studies have shown that you can approach 10-13% rate of return from land which beats just about anything you can put your money in,”

It’s seriously profitable, too. If you had bought Apple stock at its IPO in 1980, you’d be up over 200x your money. And that is truly phenomenal performance.

But had you instead planted an apple tree back in 1980, that investment of roughly $1 would have yielded you THOUSANDS of dollars over the last 35 years.

Planting a tree in a container = 10 bucks tops. Three years later, depending on the type of tree, you could easily ask for 100 dollars. Maybe even less, it really depends on the tree.

And, you get to watch your investment every day, as it literally growa. And noone can pull a Gox and abscond with your shit.

Solid.

Agree. But, it will dip, and this has been quite bullish for a while, I don't expect this to keep up forever. It will retract, but I doubt it will get sub 1000 anytime soon. The last massive edump following the ETF rejection proved that for me. But, it the actual stock market falters (it's starting to fumble as we speak, fiscal policies are unclear this administration, and the health care repeal is complicating this so wonderfully).

I laughed, Good God I laughed. You get a cookie, Mister.

I understand the angst, OP, but removing that much of the network would have grave consequences on network congestion. And network confidence. Ultimately, it would shake up the dice cuo, but in a bad way.

There will indeed be a finite number of coins issued, as you have stated, but miners will still get fees from the solving of blocks, even after coins have stopped generating. At this point, the fees will probably be more profitable than mining for block rewards, given the price of bitcoin if it survives that long.

I will concede your point, but consider; did we have all the environmental factors available back in the day that could influence the Climate? A much higher population, the widespread combustion of fossil fuels, and industrial waste/environmental damage?  Should we fear making extrapolations using all if the technology we have accumulated, because we may be wrong? Even if you don't want to include the current climactic deviations, surely, we as a larger group of humans have a larger effect on the environment, which will grow as our numbers do?

Don't you think addressing those concerns proactively is better than cleaning up a mess,? Especially if our knowledge is so limited, as you have stated?

And yes, all things of this world lead to substance, to Mammon. We can agree on that, brother.

No, seriously, I would honestly like to know what time period in America was great, that you want to return to. I'm pretty sure the last 8 years for you, since we had an African American president, were pretty shitty. So, we obviously aren't talking about that.

So again, what years are we talking about? To happen again, something did have to happen initially, no?



Do you even know?

Not in its entirety, but yes, I actually have read the commentary. But I am far from an expert. Are you?

You sound angry man.

Please don't underestimate my intelligence, I respect yours. Priori statements by Trump associates fucked this for Trump, yes, I believe that statements of intent (is this is a Muslim ban) should reflect in judgements, as this applies to all other citizens (if I make ridiculous public statements concerning the civil issue at hand, of course it would effect judgement). Calling something a Muslim ban is a clear violation of freedom of religion. The primary fucking amendment. Your were saying, originalist? And I am merely illustrating the constitutional argument. We won't address the preference of religion, and lack of legal process denied citizens.

No crisis here. Your boy did a dumbass thing, and got called on it.

If the system was so broken, with all 178 judges, why has it only failed now, during a Trump  Presidency?

Your move.

And no more diirect ad hominems. Attack my ideas, not me. But, this is fun, I don't have a ton of fucks to give, and they pay me for it.

Edit: oh, I mispoke earlier, meant judicial when I said legislative. Just reread, you pointed it out for me already. Appreciated 

use empathy and ask yourself the same question. If Obama had used an  executive order to legalize abortion, would you want that to be irreversible? So to answer your question again, yes, a circuit court should be able to squash a POTUS executive order.
No piece of legislation should be permanent. People are imperfect and times change.

And, you know, Trumps shit was unconstitutional, there is that.

LMAO, Naw, those are real numbers bro, not fake news. Check out your hero's stats on Gallup (he got one HP back).

http://www.gallup.com/poll/201617/gallup-daily-trump-job-approval.aspx

He's at a whopping 40% now. Good job, Middle America. You picked a lemon off the lot. Buyers remorse yet?

Oh,  even beloved Fox, the bastion of factual reporting, has him under 50%
http://www.foxnews.com/official-polls/index.html

Well, from the moderate camp, we love all you guys, but we are shocked and awed at the present state of dismay, and we need your help to get this train back on track. And I dunno, I don't think too many liberal types swung after the Comey thing. True old school Republicans only have disdain for Trump. New money, too brash. He only became useful when they realized the motivations aligned (lower corporate taxes, less regulation = more profits).

 And Trump is fucking it up for us, our immigration policies might make it hard in the future for us to travel to said countries, LOL. What goes around will come around.

Who will want to deal with crazy ass Americans?

I went to comment on this, was about to yell at you, and got my pleasant surprise. You sir, win for today, and get a cookie.


It will take the pee pee tapes, before they will accept reality.

It's crazy that the GOP is supporting him so soundly. Outright incompetence, international uproar and domestic unrest. Damn Obama, he was so boring compared to this... clusterfuck.

So, you obviously voted for our dear President Trump. What part of his message resonated most in your heart and mind? Lock her up, or build a wall?

Maybe it was drain the swamp.


      

Your cohorts made a mistake, that they won't admit to. This will become apparent soon, to those that can't see the obvious.

Can you please name the particular era in American history that you are referring to, when America was great? And can you please identify your demographic (at least age range and sex, ID love to know your race)

A range of dates is fine, even a whole decade.

Never mind, you are most likely Caucasian. You don't have to answer that