You could be investing in bitcoin if the way you put money in helps to grow the bitcoin economy or make bitcoin better.

While Gary Johnson is the best candidate the Libertarians have had for president for a while, I will still be suprised if he gets over 2% of the vote.

What Libertarians should be doing is trying to work from the bottom up. While Rand Paul jumped in at the senate level, most people have to work their way up. Like Justin Amash, who moved from the Michigan state legislature up to the house of representatives. (And while those two are republicans, not libertarians, they are very libertarian in their positions)

So go out and get a liberty-minded individual elected at the local level, and then they will have a better chance of getting elected to a national level later.

It is hard to hit such a small target through a closed door. What she was trying to do was to get him to leave her alone, that seems to have worked out according to her plan. I am sure if the assailant had continued opening the door even after being shot at, then she would have had a clearer shot to finish him off.

Why even put a self-defense law in a plan to reduce the deficit? That makes no sense. Also, self-defense is handled at the state level.

I forgot, what about the fifth of november?

I think it is important to make it just different enough that people do not confuse it. 19.10 btc is very different from 19.01 ^btc.

How about something like ²¹100 ^btc = 1.00 btc, so ²⁰5 is a cheap pizza, ¹⁹94 is a USD, etc?

Well we were about to ignore this completely, but then you went and bumped the thread, so now everybody has to post more.

To keep things on topic, has Dank ever successfully brought an idea to fruition on this forum? Maybe instead of a scammer tag he should just get a "loser with big ideas" tag?

So it makes sense that if you go down from 19.100 you go to 19.099, but what if you go up? 18.99 + 18.01 --> 19.100, you can't keep 18 as the exponent.

Hrmm, I think having the dot makes it look too much like a regular decimal. Maybe you could use a different separator in your notation, like 'x' or '#', or ';' or something:

1.00 btc = 21x100 ^btc  -  18x9 ^btc + 18x1 ^btc = 19x10 ^btc
1.00 btc = 21#100 ^btc  -  18#99 ^btc + 17#1 ^btc = 19#10 ^btc
1.00 btc = 21;100 ^btc  -  18;09 ^btc + 18;1 ^btc = 18;19 ^btc

For subtracting (or using a negative number) you should put the - before the exponent, to be more clear you could add parenthesis:
21.10 ^btc - (21.10 ^btc) = 21.0 ^btc

Wait, have we determined how to represent 0 in this system? would it be 0.0 ^btc? or just 0 ^btc?

Ok, this sorta makes sense to me, but I am not seeing where the first part of the number comes from? Why is the range from 13.1 ^BTC to 28.2099999999999999 ^BTC?

Why not use the satoshi as the base, then the range would be from 1.1 ^BTC to 15.21 ^BTC, with 1.00 BTC = 8.100 ^BTC?

If I understand correctly, 1 USD is about 19.94 ^BTC right now?

When comparing prices, can you do things like: 1 USD was selling for 20.100 ^btc the other day, but now it is down to 20.094 ^btc?

But why wouldn't individuals invest directly in bitcoins? Getting bitcoins is easier than (or at least as easy as) investing in an institutional account.  Large institutional investors might want to buy some bitocins as a hedge against inflation, but that doesn't stop individuals from doing the same thing. The beauty of bitcoins is that it serves so many roles at the same time. Bitcoins can be used by large investors, small savers, day traders, people transferring money across the globe (to do large investments in other countries, or as a way to send small amounts to family members) or by people buying things online, or by people donating money anonymously, or for micropayments. The more people use bitcoin, the stronger it becomes, and the better it serves for all the other functions. For instance, as more people use bitcoin as savings, the price will go up, and the total market cap will go up, which will make it easier to use bitcoins for larger transfers.

I haven't searched in a while, since the Armory was shutdown, has an alternative weapons marketplace sprung up yet?

Adam is eight years old! He goes into the sweat shop, where he works his 10 hour shift. He then goes to the shop manager, hands over his ID card (which has a bitcoin QR address), the manager scans the card and sends 0.5 bitcoin to that address. He then thanks Adam for the productive workday and sends him on his way.

Shouldn't you have determined the method to measure effectiveness of your advertising before you started the advertising?

Social games: some users buy to get head, others save by selling and for some there is no limit as to what they would do to get head ...

Wait, I think you meant to use the word "ahead" rather than "a head" ... 

You could just use this forum.

Bitcoin can be useful even if a store point-of-sale system is never implemented.

But to go with your scenario, I see two options:

1: The clerk scans his items, he goes to the payment device (the thing people swipe credit cards with now). The screen gives options for the buttons indicating types of transactions, one of them says "Bitcoin". Adam presses the button by bitcoins. The screen brings up a QR code bitcoin amount, store name, and address (all in a bitcoin standardized format). Adam pulls out his smartphone, opens the bitcoin app, zaps the code, presses the confirm button on his phone. After a second the screen says "transaction received" or something like that, Adam takes his stuff and walks out. (The store name is not nescesary for the bitcoin transaction, but it makes record keeping nicer so when you look back at your wallet you know what that transaction was from.)

2: The clerk scans his items, Adam swipes a card just like he would a credit card. This is linked to an account with bitcoins, but the store clerk doesn't need to know about all that, since everything happens in the backend to do the conversion and the store is electronically sent dollars, just like a credit card.

Why I say bitcoin can be useful without this setup is that bitcoins can function as a savings tool, like gold does today. People who want to save money convert it to bitcoin on an exchange or with somebody local in person, and when they are done saving they convert it back on the exchange. Bitcoin has the advantage over gold in that it is harder to fake and it is easier to trade with people farther away.

Bitcoin is also very nice for internet purchases. And for doing long-distance work (like programming or digital artwork) where there is no reason for the employer and employee to be restricted to dealing only with people in their own country.

The risk of default may be 0, but the risk that there is a flaw that will reder bitcoins worthless is non-zero. There is also the risk that people will stop using bitcoins, which would drive down the value, which to the hoder works out to about the same thing as a default.

I have no idea which other account is Dank's. I have at least one brain cell. Therefore, Dank is lying again.

In all reality, I just don't care enought to try to figure out who else is Dank.

I am not sure how Peter ended up so high on the list, he only ever had a couple hundred bitcoins at most.

In the first paragraph it says he is 48, but a couple lines lower it says he was about to turn 47 in November? Somebody failed a fact check.

The story does not say if he was armed. Based on what it does say about him, "said La Shawn Daniels, niece: 'He was a family man, family first, there for everyone'", I would venture to guess he was probably not armed.