I just had a quick look at the reviews of this on Amazon and it looks like it is pretty good. I like reading about ancient Rome but I don't think I've read a historical fiction novel based on that era. Looks like other books by this author are highly regarded as well.

It's been a while since I read it, but I remember thinking that while it might be true that genetic differences aren't a actor in "Eurasian" success, cultural differences might have had a lot more to do with it than he theorises. That's not to say that the environmental/geographical factors like he outlines in the book weren't a huge factor.

If anyone has played both Rust and The Forest I'd be interested to know which one they think is better.

With this thought nothing would be stored on the USB drive. If it works the way I think it does all of the information I need to access the wallet is stored in the twelve word seed provided by Electrum. This way the only way I could lose the bitcoins here are through some sort of Linux vulnerability, an issue with Electrum, or something physically stealing my written down seed in real life.

Or maybe my ISP could do a man in the middle attack? Not that it's likely, but is that an issue as well? Since I'm downloading Electrum from a live internet connection. I guess thinking about it that way means that it could be my ISP, or Electrum's web server or anything inbetween...

Yeah, Mass Effect trilogy and Dragon Age are both on my to do list.

Is it worth playing the old Fallouts or should I just skip to the more recent ones? What are they, Fallout 3 and New Vegas?

I remember I got Fallout 1, 2 and 3 from gog.com for free a while ago but I can't find them there to download on the site anymore. I probably missed my window to download them or something.

When you say that Karpeles is fucked, what do you mean by that? Like do you think he's legally fucked? Like he'll be actually charged with something by law enforcement(Japanese?). Or do you mean he's fucked like he's just fucked up in the head?

Yeah, I use localbitcoins quite a bit and I'm getting hit on both ends with buying and selling coins at a markup.

In this regard bitcoin still has long way to go.

Maybe in the future when there's a lot more volume these spreads will come down and sellers margins will thin out. But I think we're still a long way away from that happening.

The crashes seem to be more like corrections. On average bitcoin has definitely gained a lot. People just get carried away and buy at the same time and then freak out and sell most of what they bought off altogether at once.

Aren't HYIPs all inherently scams? Like all ponzi schemes? I don't care if people gamble their money in them.

I guess maybe if everyone knows what they're getting into it's not really a scam. But for the most part people running them are misleading people and attempting to scam them.

Which games do you consider the best in the genre?

Definitely one of the best books of all time. Such a good read. I've read it twice and I think I'll go and read it again soon.

Fat Tay Choon went to the Mining Academy in Brazil, east of Satoshi's yurt, where Gavin was kidnapped by the CIA's goons and forced to pretend fucking an anonymous decentralized biscuit—better than all the fish in the Pacific Ocean—but also to defray leeches intelligently with ECDSA fighting qubits for 16.8 dree12, or Phinnaeus must fling toilets towards psy‐ops, without potato smoothies mixed with fried chicken wings from BitMunchies.com, urbanchickennj.com, and Popeye's Bitcoin wallet, which deleted Satoshi's premine ability to cheer very victoriously, none like Butterfly Labs better enabled, but also Pirate crashing AIR applications without the express use of interest-free scams, conspiring with fraudulent sockpuppets and PPTs and..., you troll-herding piece of Shiitake mushroom, go lick Goat's horns until Theymos admits to having a quite erotic fetish involving honey badgers wearing thongs composed of soggy burlap waffles dangling from cosmic linoleum-based iphones running quantum chips explodes spewing deadly acid! b!z screamed out "Light is bright like...like... stars." When Markjamrobin opens the isolated window, he sees three pigs together in bed. Kouye and myself laugh when chinese food falls the impact kills Obama Bin ladin whoever thinks he may be terrorist, is correct but hates the bitcoin logo. Earth has snakes. Currently, the other species have decimated to tiny groups called "marko solo" whatever time it all comes and ends? However, Bitcoin's acidity level dipped causing catastrophic double-spends!

Meanwhile, AntiOps was confused by the awkward change to his penis melting uncontrollably. Vanilla Ice perfume spritzed onto cheese and greasy slime covered with babies boiled in a smelly old heatsink. But it tasted like shit therefore it poisoned his blood although he did survive. Reproductive organisms attacked the internal testicle which caused terrible congestion somehow. Evolution then terminated the smelly old business thank the inability of AntiOps to lock Satoshi's thread. In a transactional forum there was a debate about hacking unprotected accounts, however the debate shortly ended.

Phinnaeus Gage, king pluto, duke of the people. Returned one of his loans that he fraudulently claimed without declaring intentionally. Although this was bullshit. Earth was hit by a meteor which cause catastrophic events which cause people to cause mass destruction by proxy voting it was documented recently on the news that oranges are disguised anti-gravity pockets which have giant bears attacked Zeus because bitcoin accidentally crashed to Mars which created spaceships and aliens who pretended being humans wearing hats on their toes.

Altcoin suck on apples and oranges too. Megacoin is the most shit sucker of apples and  melons ever. Most people love to troll others. Evolution is a slow process which created forks. It is beneficial to wash your feet because it distributes bacteria and oil, notwithstanding the beneficial attributes which are how chocolate arouses some of the miners brains. Today was an abysmal event which caused many abnormal but not smart bitcoiners because many of them are cute animals who were insane because of excessive oreo consumption. One watermelon is not love how people try me explotation Maybe Heisenberg Breaking bad control guy director or masturbation my time vampire drinks urine not lemon tek and water supernatural.

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The universe is populated with many planets which were destroyed by pirateat40. Cyborgs then warped to the zoo and ate mushroom with a aerospace technician. Bitcoin has used a lot resources from peoples although people smell like melons.

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Humanity sold pubes to Zeus. Nevertheless, Cinnamon was crying

Haha, how is it possible to mess up instant noodles? It's just pouring powered in to the hot water.

They could create a coin to 'hedge their bets' so to speak with the dollar. The advantages that 'Fedcoin' would have is being backed by the government, meaning the core developers would be paid by the government, instead of what we have with the bitcoin foundation. They could have hundreds of paid developers constantly iterating a superior software product. With the type of programmers they could attract they could take every advantage of altcoins like faster confirms and cpu mining. As well as have decentralised exchanges with the free flow of fiat to fedcoin(I don't know exactly how they would do this, but obviously the government controls fiat, so if they wanted to open this up they could).

There's lots of options for them if they chose to do something like this. I think if they wanted to establish a coin with clear advantages over bitcoin, they could. They have the resources.

Of course for a lot of people it would all be meaningless since their primary motivation for using bitcoin is to detach themselves from government control, but the majority of people aren't necessarily interested in that.

I don't think the Fed or the government would actually do a project like this. But they probably should. Even just as a reference type of thing to help propel the technology forward.

Why do you think it's so certain that they will get Gox? Anything specific?

Anything other than microbitcoin is seriously misguided. Microbitcoin is the logical choice.

Centoshi is ridiculous and doesn't even make sense at all.

Bits is bad too. Should have simply been ubits.

If a bitcoin private key was encoded on to a smart card chip on a credit card style plastic card, what would happen if you lost the card? I guess that would mean anyone could go around signing transactions with your private key. People lose their (physical)wallets or have them stolen often enough that this would be a real concern.

I guess one solution would be to load only very small amounts you could afford to lose on the wallet that has the private key attached to the smart card. The pin system is interesting too, would you simply be able to set your own pin on the smart card after loading it with money? Is that possible. I'm guessing the way it works now is that your pin is verified by your credit card company. That obviously wouldn't work for bitcoin unless you were using a centralised service like circle or something similar.

It's good to see some positive talk from them regarding setting up a welcoming environment for innovative bitcoin companies. But I'm always skeptical that things like this will work out as well as some people intend them too. There's definitely going to be some resistance. And since like it says in the article "FCA has not yet made its official position on cryptocurrency clear" we'll just have to wait and see what happens.

Well, it's not too surprising that the price is going up now that the shock of the Gox failure has worn off a bit. Sentiment is generally positive and there seem to be a good amount of new projects on the horizon. And I can't remember any major negative news stories to come out in the last little while. Slowly but surely bitcoin is seeping in the the public mind share.

How is it possible under any calculation to come up with a penalty of only $50,000 when we're talking about a site that was sold for millions. If not tens of millions...

It's pretty odd that the SEC would let him off so light. Does anyone have any idea why the SEC might fine such a low amount? Did they not do their research before proceeding with this?