You're right   But that blockchain is a pain to download, and having to catch up every day takes a while.  Some find it appropriate to sacrifice that "trust no-one" stasis for convenience.

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That's one of their only arguments; along with, "Everybody has to pay taxes, so you have to pay them, too."  Because apparently, everyone loves to wallow in their own shit, and if you don't force everyone to pay for better roads, no roads will ever be built.

To support taxation is to support violence and the killing of innocent people.  Anyone who understands this, completely understands this, and still supports such a system, lacks empathy; you mas as well call yourself a robot, a sociopath, someone who would kill if someone with a shiny badge walked in and said it was okay.  Yet we call ourselves "civilized".  We're still living as the Egyptians did; the circumstances are better, but the pyramids are still there.


That's commonly referred to as Anarchism  And we are in complete agreement.

And who is this cunt supposed to be? 

Not everyone is quite as paranoid

It's all about the taxes.  Which is why I don't understand people who advocate taxation.  The money goes in, pays a whole lot of paychecks, gets funneled into war, gets funneled into SS, and then when our roads aren't being built, we assume we need to throw more money into the system so the government can outsource labor to build the roads.

Meanwhile, my poor wall has a hole in it, and the plaster is beginning to fuse with my skin.

Maybe I need a new neuralizer...

"Bitcoin is not going to solve all our problems." -- Some Bitcointalk user or another I dunno whoever it is

The problem isn't Bitcoin.  The problem is the State.  Deny the State and the events you described will not ensue.  Bitcoin is like any other tool, and anyone can use it.  Though it is resistant, it's not impenetrable.  It's a step in the right direction, but like the Internet, it needs to be protected, until we can overthrow the meat grinder.

You were just about to put another load in the wash.  Resume.

Oh no; you mean the existence of pesos, rubles and yen mean "currency" (aka the dollar) can be hyperinflated in substance?

Oh, and did I mention, my grocer doesn't take any of those alt-currencies; not even the euro!!  Gotta be some kind of conspiracy.

Silliness aside, if nobody accepts those currencies as tender, they don't work.  Nobody wants to use 100 different altcoins.  We're all going to default to a few, and since this is the Internet, we're literally ALL going to default to a few--not just Americans all defaulting to the dollar, not just all Japs defaulting to the yen, but anyone and everyone coming together and using the same ones.

OTOH, once a dev releases wallet software which can safely store all the coins in one app, and displays the rates at which each coin translate into how much they're worth in Bitcoin, then we can use pretty much any coin we personally prefer.  I can use Bitcoin, Litecoin, Terracoin, Peepeecoin, all conveniently located in the same (secure) wallet.  That is, as long as a coin is popular enough to have market data

Raspberry Pi is smaller, but not quite as powerful.  I kinda want one but I kinda don't; just to toy with, but I already have a desktop and a lappie, so it's kinda overkill.

I predict Bitcoin or its alternatives will take over the world as the #1 currency of choice.  Therefor, mass adoption will ensue, and the price for a single Bitcoin will rise to high enough levels to feed and clothe you for the rest of your life--that is, if Bitcoin remains the king of crypto-currencies.

So if you think this is a bubble, just wait ten years from now, and saying to yourself, "We thought that was a bubble?!"

Never get between Luke and his licorice.

On a need-to-know basis.

Buy back in and ride to $1000

Seems like a Meta thread

With Litecoin or one of its clones.

TOR is one thing.  Getting between America and its profits is high treason; nobody working directly beneath them would dare introduce a new currency.