If it does happen in the next 30 years it will be because political jurisdictions are in a sort of competition with one another. I wouldn't be surprised to see smaller jurisdictions implement as much of this kinda stuff as they can in order to attract expats.

Who cares? Technology is a genie that once let out of the bottle can not be put back in. It will be with us forever. Bureaucrats and systems of record and title transfer come and go. In the long march of time even mountains are reduced to dust by the simple flowing of water. Technology is like the water and Bureaucrats are not even close to being mountains.

Idk. This is meme kinda true. But there is a huge range of applications out there where we dont NEED blockchain, but it would still be really cool!

I would love to have my vehicle ownership represented by a colored coin. I could use a trezor like device to start it up and no one would ever be cracking that security. I could transfer ownership via blockchain and it would be amazingly smooth and so much easier and nicer than a traditional title transfer. I could allow someone limited access to it like if my buddy wanted to borrow my car on Tuesday I could just temporarily authorize his digital signature with my digital signature and I could do it remotely.

Yea I guess all of that could be done with a service provided by a firm on a centralized database, but it would be nicer in several ways to have it recorded on a public blockchain instead. There would be less counter party risk. There would be less security risk. And it would be permissionless, man I hate asking for permission.

So I get it. People out there saying "Blockchain is going to revolutionize supply chain management, blockchain is going to replace traditional contracts, BLOCKCHAIN IS GOING TO REPLACE ALL OF THE THINGS!" are wrong, but I think people like Jimmy Song are also overstating their case in the other direction. We will be able to find a lot more awesome and legitimately practical uses for this technology than just cryptocurrency.

We launch all the time with no problem these days, If all that stuff that came after the launches is so easy, why do we never just throw in the 10% more effort on any one of the modern launches and go back some time? I'm not arguing the moon landing was a hoax here. Just pointing out the obvious followup question to what you said.

Hey it got funded! Thank you binaryFate! You have my adoration, 65 XMR is extremely generous.

For me it was always about people acting in a manner that draws attention to themselves that they ought to be embarrassed about, but of course arent, because they were after all trying to draw attention to it. Southpark had it right when they said that people on loud motorcycles are fags, or more traditionally but also appropriate people who act flamboyant, or those people who wear spandex when they ride a bike or people who's cars bounce or make loud booms, those stupid eye lashes on cars, people with a "popped" collar or those stupid hats that have the bill perfectly flat and a sticker still on them from a store in the mall called "lidz". Anything that is intended to draw attention and once it does draw your attention you are like, jesus h christ I wish I never been coerced into realizing that you existed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2k4Fsg11-w

Ok well, just in case that was partly directed at me since I have posted in here before about the JQ I guess I'll respond. The people who control the media, banks and academia are Jewish, and those people are our enemies. That said I certainly wouldn't consider myself a "jew hater". Some random dentist who is a Jew does not have my animus. I am foremost an individualist. Now Goldman Sachs hater? Yea, sure.

As for your cause. I read your post. It sounds interesting. I don't know enough about the law to comment on it. If you did talk to a lawyer and found out that goldman had done something illegal, sure I would join you in a class action against goldman if I could. They are evil bastards and part of the reason I am in the crypto space is to hurt them and if that was another way to do it than I would welcome a multi pronged approach. But you just need to talk to a lawyer bro. It won't be expensive to find out if you have a case. Find out if your idea has any merit. Then talk to us.


Very insightful. I bet you are exactly right.

That's what it's about isn't it. It's not about them having the coins, they already have plenty of coins, it's about others on the exchange NOT having them. So that said others can not impede the bull run by selling on the exchange during the way up. That is the insight I was missing. Shake everyone else out so that there are no sellers.

Running stops seems to be fundamentally about acquiring product and not so much about effecting the price. Do whales need the coins that are on offer on the exchanges? It seems to me that a whale would interact with an exchange for the purpose of effecting the price more than the purpose of accumulating/liquidating his position. If he were either accumulating or liquidating he would want to do either of those things OTC because if he were accumulating he wouldn't want to drive the price up and if he were liquidating he wouldn't want to drive the price down. So he makes changes to his position OTC but perhaps he tries to use a small portion of his stash to manipulate the price down before making an OTC purchase and vice a verca before making an OTC sale.

I'm not really trying to argue against you here. I'm mostly just interested in how you will respond to these thoughts.

No. The average random person is like some 50 year old lady on one of those scooters at Walmart. She really can not think in terms of anything that isn't a real concrete part of her physical world. That doesn't apply to people in this thread at all. Everyone in this thread is capable of abstract reasoning, even you are much much smarter than the average random person. Your problem is that your arguments are bad. They tend to have an element of truth to them, but they are always grossly overstated and full of strict black and white binaries that don't represent the nuances of real world. Your thinking always lacks nuance roach.

It's worse than that. I have found that most people can not think abstractly. As soon as I attempt to use abstract reasoning normal people accuse me of changing the subject...

Well, they aren't wrong.

What kinda cuck only doubles the block size when he forks.

It's just a signature campaign bot.

Oh sorry. I didn't realize that you were kidding. Np though.

I just listed everything that I ever bought that was even remotely like a cryptocurrency. That includes ERC20 tokens, ICO's, everything. If it wasn't on that list I didn't buy it. And I dumped NXT and IOTA (the more scammy ones listed) entirely after I had locked in a good profit. I didn't "believe in" them or "hodl" them. As of now I only own Monero and Bitcoin.

*correction* I owned a little bit of litecoin and the original bytecoin a LONG time ago. Nothing serious there. Just messing around a bit with those two back when there were only even a few altcoins in existence.

Sorry roach. That ship already sailed. I bought bitcoin @ $30, NXT @ like $0.001, Monero @ $4 and IOTA @ $0.01.

I would be rich af if I didn't take profit like it was my religion but I can still play video games all day if I want.

I've known many trolls in my day and realr0ach is by far one of the more entertaining. I don't really even mind him. Look at that meme you just made, it's awesome and hilarious and it wouldn't exist without him. He's almost like our pet or something.

Institutional investment could make the bull market of 2017 look like foreplay... no not even that... hand holding.