^ Good point...

True Duty Of A Jury - Jury Nullification - Josie the Outlaw

The Law You Won't Be Told - CGP Grey

... but Diebold is not the reason your vote is meaningless (see OP).

I'm familiar with the idea, but I don't quite see how it relates to the blockchain... The blockchain is accelerating novelty to some degree, and is in the process of destroying the long held habit of the debt-based banking system... but to the point of vindicating the theory? Seems like a bit of a stretch to me.

You have presented a false dichotomy... see here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=732610.0

LOL, how so?

I think you're right about the rest though! The invention of the blockchain marks the beginning of the end of the fear-based centralized authority control system.

The Complete and Undeniable Truth - Larken Rose

Can you handle it? (if you are a true believer, probably not)

(see also: What anarchy isn't)

No, the root is not "the Government". It's that we hallucinate that we have an obligation to obey "authority". There is no "the Government", only people who believe they have the right to rule by force.


Satoshi hasn't sold "the average Joe blow" anything mysterious. It's an open source, mathematically driven system; there is no single point of failure. Decentralization is the antithesis to centralized authority (placing trust in people who call themselves government).

Ahh, this explains it. Were fluoridated water (systemic fluoridation, as opposed to topical) significantly neurotoxic, the implications would be unacceptable to your ego. This is silly though, because only the present moment exists; the past doesn't exist. Nothing is permanent. Even the worst effect of chronic systemic fluoride ingestion, pineal calcification, can be healed.

^ You'd want to respond to the logic of the video, unless you are letting others (authority figures, such as Wikipedia [which relies on "reliable" ("authoritative") sources]) decide for you.

Anarchy is not a system, or an ideology, or a utopian idea. It's a description of the natural order.



Too vague. If your thinking operates under unclear definitions, then you are an easy pray for mind control. "Certain social rules and cohesion" do not need to be violently enforced by a gang of people calling themselves government.


If you believe that voluntary cooperation is an extreme while involuntary cooperation (coercion under the threat of violence) is a worthy system upon which to "build our society and community on", then you may be the victim of mind control.



Assumption after assumption. The blockchain technology is already in the process of rendering obsolete the need for authority-based (hence violence-premised) centralized systems. That you imagine that "any idea of a society without a central government is too utopic and too far away to the current reality" is just that, an imagined limitation.

Could you elaborate on this? What is an Oracle? How could multisig escrow be used to this end?

There's one obvious big difference. Alex Jones hasn't actually killed anybody, and doesn't advocate war.



You can argue that the intention behind water fluoridation is benign, but you can't argue with the scientific studies, which prove that fluoride is highly neurotoxic and that systemic fluoridation (as opposed to topical) does not help prevent cavities. This is fact, and if you believe otherwise you are the biggest fool. Research the full body of scientific studies, not a subset of selected ones by proponents of involuntary mass medication.


So is the neurotoxicity of fluoride.



+1

Terrorism is carried out by the people who benefit from it. If you believe otherwise, you are the victim of brainwashing.

The cryptographic proof of the promise doesn't have to be part of the Bitcoin protocol. Could there be a way, perhaps, to use Ethereum (or anything else) to do this, simply converting whatever currency to BTC at the exchange rate at date Y?

Thanks for your input y'all.

^ waldox, see post above yours. Alex doesn't understand cryptocurrency, and has no motivation to study it, because Alex only cares about one thing: Alex.



+1

It's also very funny, if you pretend it's a parody.



That's not the reason you don't want him on your team. If you believe that, then I wouldn't want you on my team, LOL.



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Why would you let him succeed?! Whatever attention he brings to Bitcoin, it's not gonna be nearly as bad as MtGox. Mild negative attention is good in the long run.



Or, in the case of some, we have listened to dozens/hundreds of hours of him and thousands of hours of countless other interesting people. It doesn't take that long to realize how incredibly full of shit Alex Jones is.



 

He wouldn't call it Alexcoin though; it would have to be AlexJonesCoin.

Say I promise 1 BTC in address X be sent to a recipient at date Y. The recipient is not yet known, but will be one of array(Z). Is there any way to create a cryptographic proof of the promise? In other words, a way to guarantee that the 1 BTC is not spent before date Y and is not sent to any address other than one in array(Z).

Why would you want to persist in this idea when your reasons for doing so have been shown to be bogus?

^ That's a rather gross misrepresentation of Buddhism... What you are doing here is elevating the scientific method to a position it has not earned (and cannot earn), and then using it as a superset (a kind of God figure) within which you believe that you must fit other ontologically-distinct approaches to understanding what reality is. To understand where Buddhism is even coming from, you have to go back to Plato and ignore the Aristotelian separation of physics and metaphysics, science and natural philosophy, for that is the reductionist distinction that has turned science/philosophy into the religion of science. Instead of oral traditions and Church on Sundays, this religion is handed down via the unconscious belief in authority. Here's probably the nicest place to start to get a grip on Buddhism:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Alan+Watts+Buddhism

There is no system to withdraw from. The system isn't real. Its only existence is in the individual's belief that the system is real.


Can you give us an approximate date for when you envision your Ascension Concert to occur? How many times have you experienced it happening in your dreams, astral travels, or entheogenic trips?

Well put; you are "absolutely" right!


Now wouldn't THAT be a surprise!


Or, put another way, resist the egoic urge to embrace any one particular belief to make your (its) own.


Though opposite in concept, that pretty much perfectly describes modern-day "scientific" inquiry by the "scientific" establishment. And religion.



Your thinking is sound, except when you slip in the Bible as if an authority of ontological inquiry. What makes you believe the Bible has this status? What Bible are you reading? Even if KJV, it's still very far from the original Aramaic. What's your explanation for the Dead Sea Scrolls? What's your view on Calvinism, dispensationalism, and the apocalyptic Christian Zionists?

^ Please define "divine intervention". If you can't define it, then how are your beliefs more grounded than those of an evolutionist? How are you not grasping at straws like the evolutionists?

Well that's where the awareness gap is.

You believe (and I agree to the extent that I can) that crypto is the "greatest hope of dismantling the power of major corps and the corrupt rich few who run this world", but that isn't anywhere near the full extent of the problem. The problem begins and ends with you. The problem is inside of us. From the moment of birth we were subjected to mental programming. Remove the "corrupt rich few" and new ones will rise to take their place... unless we remove our mental malware and realize that these people don't actually have any power, except the power that we give away by our unconscious belief in authority. I hope these will help you see what I mean:

Larken Rose on Removing Mental Malware - Do You WANT To Know The Truth? - Free Your Mind Conference 2013

The Complete and Undeniable Truth - Larken Rose - Can you handle it?

Stefan Molyneux - The Story of Your Enslavement - We can only be kept in the cages we do not see. A brief history of human enslavement - up to and including your own.