You can only change your account ID if it hasn't been sent yet.  I don't get where you get the idea that people are somehow getting multiple stakes.   

I am 99% sure it doesn't work that way in NODE, at least in other coins it doesn't.  When a Genesis account sends coins out it can't be reversed or deleted.   They also just can't create more coins out of thin air.  You're just going to have to plead with them to restart the whole distribution, or get a refund, or buy NODE at the exchanges.

Problem of course is I assume this glitch happened to quite a few people but most of them won't speak up until it's too late.  If you cancel and redo the distribution now, what's to say that someone with the name N will say: "umm my ID is different guys, please restart a second time".

A lot of issues in that area of the world comes down to Middle Eastern tribalism, where everyone traces themselves to a patrilineal male ancestor and then they war each other under vendetta or religious pretexts.  Saddam's army was spending most of its' time fighting desert warlords in the boonies to keep Iraq together.  The Communists in Afghanistan faced the same issue.

.  We're not talking about some guy in the 1800s either, some of these tribes trace ancestries to guys back in the early Medieval Ages (way way before the nation states existed in Europe).  Tribal / Clan identity comes before nation or religious identity.

That's arguably the end result of societal practices.  Muslim Polygamy meant that rulers could have multiple wives / concubines and thus a patrilineal descendent was always ensured.  This is in contrast to European Dynasties which 98% would die out in the patrilineal line due to a lack of male children.

I would walk to the police station, confess to the crime of owning Bitcoin and share a cell with Bubba (convicted  murderers / pedophiles).

How's this any different then what the Austrians did in Serbia a hundred years ago, where they killed 57% of the male  population?  

Seeing as how the whole Ukraine thing is being tolerated in Europe right now it goes to show that we haven't changed in mindset from earlier times.  If ISIS was doing this in Britain no one would care, not even the Scottish or Welsh ("as long as they don't come here").

The password ID thing was an obscure glitch.  It only happened to 4 stakeholders out of nearly 1000, unless it happened to way more people and they haven't realized it yet.   

Node your money
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How can it be worse than sub prime?  Sub prime wiped out the construction industry (which hasn't come anywhere close to recovering in terms of jobs).

There's nothing left to wipe out anymore unless it's oil jobs, government jobs or office jobs..

Is the Ora price correct on the exchange?  It's already going for $1200? 

The guy who used to own 26 stakes now owns 32 on the asset exchange.  Especially when volume is only $1000 a day, it's very easy to unload stakes to crash the price to trigger a sell panic (thus sell walls) and then to buy up entire sell walls on the cheap.


If NEM isn't going to be released until September / October then it was put on the asset exchange too soon.  That guy who owns 32 will likely own 100s by the time of release.  It's very easy to manipulate the token price if the volume is that low.

I disagree.  The Government isn't the Borg Queen, it's a collection of individuals & agencies who are motivated by their individual goals and wishes.  The Federal Reserve for instance is distinct from the other arms of the government.

Bitcoin can be used as a national currency, no reason why it couldn't.  Governments can collect their revenue from taxation and then spend the funds accordingly.

Essentially said "Uncle" will be rewarded when/if Bitcoin hits $1 trillion capitalization.

There's a realistic chance of it happening but no guarantee yet.  It would be nice to see Dot.com styled money ($7 trillion in the late 1990s) but there's no signs of that happening yet.

Hard to say what's going to happen with crypto currencies.  It's the uncomfortable truth but maybe the concept is good but the deliverance is bad.  Don't forget that Ripple came before Bitcoin and went no where and still hasn't go anywhere (if you took away the 97% premine Ripple is worth very little).  The myspace comparisons could be correct in that Bitcoin could be replaced by an unforeseen alternate which is better at advertising or is more accessible to use.

Looks like the urbanism bubble just popped - people around the world may have to start returning to the rurals.

There's enough people who hate this world who would like to see Ebola spread and will do it themselves.

This is often forgotten but Europe, during the Black Death (killed 50 - 200 million), the flagellants were a doomsday cult who were actively spreading the infection to as many people as possible.    The flagellants, who were often infected themselves, would literally go from town to town to spread the Black Death.

Then there were people who were poisoning the wells with biological contaminants.

Just wait until someone dumps Ebola into a drinking reservoir supplying a million, there's someone crazy enough out there to try it.

Deregulating banking rules =/= deregulation or free market.

If you go to the park in a major city and try to sell lemonade - I'll give you two hours tops until the cops show up and slap you with a $500 fine for selling without a permit - got to sell a lot of lemonade just to break even.  

All the regulations in societies means that the only people who can compete are those with capital.  The permit costs alone, if you can get a permit, is going to disincentive small entrepreneurs.  

Ironically products like Coca Colathrived in a time when there were less permits and simply less rules all around.  Today something like Coca Cola would never be allowed because it originally used to contain cocaine and that's how it got people hooked.

Good find.  I'm waiting for someone undercover more of these.  It will be icing on the cake if someone can pin a MtGox connection with Ethereum.

All these unlimited buy in IPOs are simply going to attract laundered and/or stolen money, that's the end of it.  Maidsafe and Ethereum would never admit to receiving laundered funds as it would be too much bad press for them (nor would they want to return any money they get).

Almost every video there only has a few hundred views over a time span of months, with an exception of one view with 1000 views in 4 days.  Wow the most important video for Ethereum and 1000 views in 4 days!  Stop the presses and shoot off the fireworks!

Someone posting a video of a sleeping kitten can get a million views in 24 hours, it's been done on YouTube.

There's no community there to sustain a coin after launch.  Ethereum is a ponzi scheme ran by a few wealthy investors who think throwing bags of money to a coin will attract subsequent bags of money from subsequent investors (one problem - it didn't work for Mastercoin or Maidsafe yet)

http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/news/breaking-mt-gox-maidsafe-gox-coins-flowing-maidsafe-ipo/2014/04/24

You assume that the media cared about MtGox that much.  They only cared about FUDing bitcoin.

I thought it looked like a penis since I first saw it.  

Maybe this is some psychology thing ("sex sells").  Maybe the reason Google became so popular was because it rhymed with oogle and/or the noises you make in the shack.  

BTW, if you guys want to keep the cube then you must vote.  Don't assume being apathetic.  Chances are all the phallic supporters are coming out in full force to vote.

Quebec will legally never be allowed to leave Canada.  Ottawa is full of 'Canadian Nationalists' (pretty much Bolsheviks) who want a Canada of 100 million people from Victoria to St. John.  Quebec would have to resort to insurgency to free themselves of Canada.