I'm guessing Lohoris would be the first to found a state if ever we were absent of one.  Since murder would then be legal (which would just make it killing, technically,) it would be assumed that all people, everywhere, would begin systematically killing every person they came across, until everyone was dead.  Somehow, I don't believe this is normal human behavior.

I mean, y'know, unless you're the head of a state with billions of dollars worth of a military to dispose of in some way.  Then it would just be a waste not to kill people.

Phew, I need to take a break.

If the ultimate tax is hyperinflation, Bitcoin's some kind of government kryptonite.

Crypto-nite?


You'll get much farther once you do the following:

1.  Stop saying we.  You are not me, so stop speaking for me.  Say "I", as in "I need to be taxed", as it sounds much better and less crazy.  When you say we, it makes me believe that you're okay with people being robbed, as long as you're not the only one getting shafted.
2.  There is nothing the government offers that must be forced upon us, nor is there anything the government offers which cannot be taken care of by the private sect.  If we truly need the services provided by the government, and many of them I believe we do, then it would be difficult to believe that the market could not handle these services.

Example:  I like protection.  I want to pay an entity to protect me when something bad happens.  Right now, I'm not only forced to pay for protection, but if I don't like the service, tough!  The government is the top dog on security, and even if I hired a private security firm to protect me, they must ultimately answer to the men on top, none of which I've elected to protect me, none of which I wish to pay, and whose services I do not want, yet would have to pay for on top of private security.  If the services provided by all forms of government through tax are enough to pay for both an oversized military and local police, and highway police, and constables and sheriffs, all through the little bites taken out of every dollar I earn, would I not then, if I were no longer taxed, earn enough to pay for these services on my own, if I truly wanted them?

3.  If the men in power adjusted taxes, do you truly believe they will do it in the average Joe's favor?  And if they did, how long do you believe, given the political history of, say, America, that these tax changes will remain until they begin to change again?  It would be better to simply remove the ability for the men in power to tax, and to strive for a system as explained in point 2.  This way, there's no opportunity for a central source of power to become corrupt, as we've seen happen time and time again, as there would be no central source with enough power for bribery to be a lucrative investment.  In this case, it would be the average Joe who has all the power, and he would have little power: ideally, only enough power to alter his own life, and no one else's.

There would be few scammers if there were no suckers

Because people shopping for BTC on eBay don't know any better.

...you're not a lawyer lol

Anyway, why are you selling BTC at such a ridiculously high price?  I assume it's for the risk, but, I mean, it really isn't that hard to use an exchange.

PPCoin has a competent developer so that's the one I'm holding onto.  I had Litecoin for a little while but didn't really hold onto them.  The others, I have no fucking clue, 'cos there's too many of them now.  The moment a Litecoin derivative was born, it's like 20 new altcoins followed.

Futhermore, there's no way to charge back Bitcoin, so it's impossible to have buyer protection anyway.

I'm pretty sure I saw the services section and thought I could sell my artwork.  Otherwise, I don't remember why I joined.

I don't think you'll ever accomplish that without first taking criticism.

http://www.listentobitcoin.com/

If you really want to see how often Bitcoin is being used

Hoy!

Lol Dank and Shag would probably get along famously, but they're not the same guy; Dank looks different, I think.

Only way you're going to ban crypto-currency is through banning the Internet.

Good luck doing that without the Internet!

Hrmm, you may have a point.  Then again, you are a bearded guy wearing plastic cat ears in drag.

I dunno, they kind of cancel each other out.

I wonder if anyone was guessing way back when that their novels would become so incredibly popular, people would still have debates about them the world over, two millennia later, let alone live their entire lives according to them and for one, or often more than one, character.

The ASIC miner is doing all the hard work, so it shouldn't matter what kind of computer you use with it.  I've never had one before so you'd have to look into how an ASIC is hooked up, but, with my general understanding of computers, I'd say that it could be hooked up to anything which supports its connection without any detrimental effect on the computer it's being paired with.

But aside from that, getting your hands on an ASIC is even harder, and likely much more expensive than having a separate mining and gaming rig.

'Merica

You're better off keeping one PC for gaming and another for mining; if you plan on using the same PC for both, you're not going to enjoy that video card for very long   Plus, you have to decide if you wanna mine or if you wanna play video games, and that's always a bummer.  But anyway, the gaming PC I have right now cost about 1k, and with the accessories (monitor and stuff), cost around 1.4k.  I have no idea if there's any way you can get a good gaming PC for 700, but you'll likely have to build one if that's the case.

rock