Yup, visualizing your goals is what what you should do every morning. 

I think the really dumb people are those who don't know different types of information that Facebook and Google collect and what steps are required to mitigate and control what you choose to give out about yourself. As another poster has pointed out you cannot use Facebook effectively without giving out real information about yourself (unless you were some kind of scammer or predator with a fake identity).

Maybe somebody who is heavily vested in an AltCoin? If Bitcoin crashes then they hope that people would start buying their shitcoin instead.

Technically the transaction won't be in the blockchain until the first confirmation. I guess services like Bitpay monitor unconfirmed transactions across various nodes and have a heuristic algorithm to figure out when an unconfirmed transaction is safe to accept.

Koobface? Yeah, I have an account. I don't like to reveal too much on it, though. Certainly not my affiliations and hobbies. I use it primarily to locate old friends.

It might be indicative of a general problem with society as people tend towards specialization and only want to be good at doing their own little thing. For everything else, they look to centralized organizations or big companies for help. This is probably why some people come here thinking that reversible credit card transactions are actually a good thing. Before there can be mass adoption I think there needs to be a solution in place that would allow even an idiot to secure their coins.

Maybe because you asked in your thread title if it was "Worth it?"

If you ask me, I think that building a 2011-style GPU rig is more fun.

Or how about leasing a 42U cabinet in a datacenter and filling it up with top of the line 12-core per socket Xeon servers to build a CPU farm? If you got tired of mining you could always repurpose it to find Mersenne prime numbers.

Still buying? Not until something comes out that is significantly more efficient than 0.55 J/GHs at the wall. And that would depend on the price too.

And there are no one who know less.

All your conjugate are belong to me!

Where I live a 3 bedroom apartment costs 2 million. However, 2 states over you can still get a nice home for $200K with several acres of properly.

If it wasn't for my job, I don't see a need for living "where the action is" - i.e., a large city in a blue state.

Edit: I still have strong family ties to the old country and some of my relatives who live comfortably will not even earn and spend $2 million in their lifetimes.

Maybe because in some jurisdictions law enforcement have been known to entrap regular people with stupid charges - e.g. assisting a minor to buy drugs online.

Personally I would sell to a 15 year old but if he starts volunteering weird information I never asked for then I'd back off.

And it follows that 800 satoshis = 1 byte

Pass legislation to force more non-adopters to contribute and innovate in the Bitcoin space. They will then reap their rewards in bitcoins.

Tax the early adopters.

Maybe someone broke into your Bitmain account and donated the coupons to a different account? I would change the password just in case.

Expired and used coupons will usually turn grey and unusable, but still remain on the list.

Well, in order to create growth in Bitcoin usage through the network effect you need more people to "use" it. Even if using it means simply accepting it and dumping it for fiat 5 seconds later.

The old Bitcoin Core clients (up to v0.3 or v0.4, I think), had a built in CPU miner. I think we should re-enable it!

UUCP can and has been implemented over TCP/IP (transparently, I might add). So using your analogy Bitcoin can be implemented over some super duper Altcoin protocol. I don't think the analogy is a good one. For one, there was little vested interest for UUCP users to not migrate over to some better file transfer mechanism when that became available. On the other hand, there is a very big incentive for existing Bitcoin users to keep Bitcoin competitive by making incremental forks to the protocol/blockchain in a manner that would ensure that current holders do not get screwed over.

That would depend on the context of the discussion. Some people might think that bitcoin-qt sucks and avoid Bitcoin Core altogether, unaware that they can use the bitcoind part independently with some other advanced client implementation built on top of it.

However, since we are talking about nodes there is probably no need to differentiate.

My first August MBP Bitfury rig is still running very stable at its original 0.69 J/Gh. The newer ones that came volted higher have already started self-destructing a number of H-cards and M-boards.