Hmm, I realized that I don't have a suitable letter.

We got a knockout spectacular last February with Security Now and several other media publication, but now we're experiencing a kind of media drought for Bitcoin.

On occasion, some new services and merchants show up but nothing much happening this month.

I will get back to this neglected project soon.

Nefario still had not gave me work.

Looking for freelancing gigs!

Still selling advertising space.

+1 morpheus for reloadable debit card trade.

I got an idea for a game that use bitcoin as energy resource, except you can play lot of games with just one bitcoin. Since one bitcoin equals 100,000,000 satoshis, you will spend at most 100,000 satoshis in a long paced RTS game.

Bitcoin loans are kinda useless if you have to convert it to dollars to buy productive capital.

I must remind you that next generation nuclear power plants will reduce problem with nuclear waste, risk nuclear proliferation, as well increase efficiency. We may get all the "energy we need from the sun" but we're terribly inefficient at gathering such source. Nuclear power seem to be the more promising road.

Of course, a free market should be able to test our prediction.

Why?

In the US, investing in a nuclear power plant is very much not worth it, due to anti-nuclear feeling and the extreme cost of acquiring a building permit. At least, that's what I know.

So heavy subsidies? Maybe. However, you have to remember such things as energy subsidies toward solar power and such that discourage the construction and operation of nuclear power plants.

You have to remember that coal power plants emit lot of pollution, coals are dangerous to mine, and so on.  

You also need to remember that next generation of power plants are probably designed with better safety features.

People sure like debt to be paid, violently if needed. This is why we got stuck in the fiat dollars regime.

Somebody is going to invent a viable cryptocurrency sooner or later. It's just a matter of waiting.

The fire code, I believe, was drawn in blood. Basically, every time a bad fire happen, people figure out what's wrong and implement new rule/law to prevent it from happening again.

You can imagine the free market of regulations following that same bloody ritual.

We call it hubris!

Don't forget that Japan is also well known for amakudari, which is a form of regulatory capture.  

Regulation is pretty hard to do, but sometime you can get it right.  Remember, Japan experienced earthquake danger pretty regularly, so they would eventually get the "regulation" or "preparedness" right.

If you're in a country that doesn't experience earthquake very often, it's going to be a disaster of course.

Anybody else want to bid?

What's up with the hyperbole? You guys just can't sense the growth of the bitcoin economy because it is that *small*.

0.93, 0.94, and 0.95 is quite formidable resistance though.

You could build energy generation kit.