I think it's also possible that a black hole will suddenly erupt above the New York Stock Exchange and suck in everything there, then suddenly disappear back to whence it emerged.

It COULD happen.  Prove it couldn't. 

So we should probably get rid of stock exchanges.  Especially the Nikkei.  It's just as likely to suffer such an event.

Birthday paradox my ass.  I had already noted and ignored that.  It will probably be a meaningless dust transaction if you've looked at the blockchain lately. Even if it does happen.

I have to say my response to the subject line is "No it isn't."

The person putting the affirmative statement on the table has the obligation actually to prove it.  My guess is you can't.

So basically, you reject math since set theory and Cantor.

Okay, but don't expect the world to join your retard parade.

I long ago ran out of faces and palms.

They wouldn't be the first completely moronic, uninformed media attention Bitcoin has survived. 

I'm not sure we should make technical decisions based on the moronic, uninformed opinions of, well, morons.  Seems the current system is inevitably going to lead to some measurable problems, while the alternative leads to a nearly unmeasurable chance of a problem.  Also, if that completely breaks Bitcoin, then the mere existence of brain wallets using bad passphrases is much more of a worry.

Daily Fail has enhanced their reputation as a source of gibberish with a series of recent articles about "sciences proves [something it didn't prove]" lately.

Ask Greece how impressed they are with Germany's "neutrality."  Germany is by no means immune to the same pressures to respond to anything threatening their own hegemony in their own area of the world, just as the United States is.  Simply because they haven't done anything horrible yet with relation to BTC doesn't mean they never will.

While I agree that BCF (or its replacement if that is ever necessary) should be worldwide, the first regulatory pressure is likely to come from the direction of the United States.  You may try to ignore the U.S. government but it won't ignore you.  Having input into that process generally has better results than having the only people drafting regulations be ignorant people or actively enemies.

Sounds like he restated the anthropic principle and then put "quantum physics" next to it.

The advantage is you don't need any copy at all of a private key, and therefore, you can't lose it other than by forgetting the passphrase, because you can use the passphrase to re-generate the private key.

The disadvantages can be pretty huge, though, because the passphrase is the ONLY thing protecting the wallet.  Anyone who comes up with the same passphrase can spend everything in the wallet.

That certainly put the lie to the idea that "Bitcoin isn't for anything but buying drugs and illegal porn."  Shutting down the two largest sources of that barely touched the price.

Now, wouldn't someone taking care of BTC for others have some kind of obligation to take action when it was "stolen?"  Seems they'd want it investigated.

I'd like a 1 chip or 10 chip idiotic tournament with 1 minute blinds or something crazy like that, maybe with half rake or less.  The old Prima networks used to have these stupid things with 4 seat SNGs and the blinds going up every two hands.

No, OP is Supa.  Why would I say "Fuck off Supa" if I was Supa?

So really, the only people who lost anything related to the Ripple caper were actually ripped off by someone who wasn't even TF.

Fuck off Supa.

I think he'd use it to buy black market adrenochrome.

This motherfucker.  

What would he think about it and why?

I hope I'm improving this incredibly important thread with this observation.

Bitcoin is NOT my dick.

My dick is incredibly important.  It accomplishes a lot of things and inseminates a lot of bitches.

Bitcoin does NONE of these things.

We should, therefore, get rid of Bitcoin and replace it with my dick.

Discussion ensues.

More importantly, we don't know what the ultimate demand is for rhodium.  Maybe we come up with some great application and suddenly the really limited supply of rhodium is incredibly valuable.  Weird ideas about what this might be are why rhodium values fluctuate so rapidly.  (Or at least I speculate this wildly out of my ass with no clue about rhodium other than what I've read on Wikipedia.  Actually, I do know a fair amount about rhodium because it's very interesting, seriously, look into it, but nearly nothing about it as a commodity.)

Bitcoin is fundamentally different from rhodium, because its value or lack of value depends solely on inherent attributes of the commodity.  Those attributes are deliberately built into it.  Unlike, say, rhodium, Bitcoin has no values other than as money.  You can't make wire out of it.  You can't make jewelry out of it.  It won't get put into a catalytic converter (like platinum or palladium or whatever). 

So its price isn't going to go into weird spirals based on external ideas.  Okay, its price can and has gone into weird spirals because of weird ideas about its actual attributes.  But that's a different thing.

Bitcoin isn't an electronic anything.

It's Bitcoin.  Sui generis, bitch.