Here's a pic of me; I got into it rough with this Ironman cosplayer but he got what was coming to him.

It used to be a penny for your thoughts, but inflation and all, y'know.

It's a part of your browser; add it to your browser's dictionary by right-clicking the underlined word.

I second electrum; it hasn't failed me yet.

In other words, once humanity ends

I'm curious if this also applies to gold

For people who need money badly, they sure do hate money.

It works like this:

Without a vehicle to siphon wealth away from the individual and to the collective (i.e. hyperinflating fiat currencies), accomplished by using such monies like precious metals or bitcoin (not their redeemable paper counterparts but the actual items), and without a system that guarantees the top of the pyramid will always take more wealth from the working bottom, the individual retains the value of all his work done, and when coupled with machines that make the individual's job easier, he generates more energy than he expends, thus making his life more and more comfortable.

There is way too much intellectual power wasted trying to circumvent this core issue.  It's as simple as seeing it as it is: the working man can easily pay for himself and his family, as technology has improved so vastly that a minimal amount of effort can produce a lot of energy, but he cannot pay for everyone else and their families; eventually you run out of other people's money and everyone is poor again, wondering how we solve the problem of attaining a living wage.  Those who take from the working man are the reason why the working man either cannot pay his way or cannot find work at all, and thus becomes another parasite.

The solution to the living wage problem is simple, but difficult to accept: all we must do is refuse to participate in parasitical relationships, whether directly or abstractly, i.e. state welfare or business hierarchies.  Take ownership of your person and your time; let none profit from you, but instead opt to profit together.  Until we face the elephant in the room, all we'll do is skirt around the issue, forever stuck in an endless loop of sophistry, e.g. "This system has these advantages but also has these disadvantages"; the reason why no solution seems viable is because we've got the metaphorical planet Earth at the center of the solar system, so of course we have to go through extreme, complicated lengths to make it function, just to realize later that it inevitably doesn't.

The solution becomes evident once a deep understanding is made about why someone who works 8+ hours daily is having trouble with just his house payment, while someone who does not work at all can make anywhere from the same amount or more, or even far more than that, merely by claiming ownership over arbitrary lengths of land within arbitrary lengths of land and of all the profits made upon it.  The first step toward solving a problem is to see that there is a problem, and the problem of substandard living wages is but a subset of a much larger problem: sanctioned violence, enabling the theft of man's time and energy, which is itself a child of the parent problem; as Socrates put it:

inb4 domestic drone strikes of suspected economic terrorists

Jesus didn't care much for math or science; he wasn't an analytical type, not interested in systems or structures, which are musts for someone who creates software like this.  Perhaps Pythagoras would be a closer match.

All money is backed by its users.  This is why gold is forever viewed as the de facto money: you see gold in video games, novels, movies and so forth, always as the ultimate representation of wealth.  Gold is known universally as the money; if people didn't believe this was true, then it ceases to hold this title.

Bitcoin, ultimately, is backed by its users.  By holding and proselytizing it, I have acknowledged that bitcoin is valuable.  As more people agree, the value of bitcoin increases.  Because money only represents the energy of man, there is in no scenario where money can be valuable without a belief that it is so; we seek a money that will best represent our efforts, and both gold and bitcoin hold these special properties.  Nothing more backs these monies, and nothing less.  Bitcoin is backed by you and I.

He's low-balling it

Yeah; if we're smart enough to handle allegories and allusions, we can figure out if someone's asking for data or currency.

A million bits to a coin; I like it.

Unless the bitcoin killer--that is, the money that makes bitcoin obsolete and irrelevant--occurs within this decade, I expect the price to climb to insane levels, taking into account the exponentially increasing popularity of this software (i.e. more wealth being denoted with bitcoin) coupled with the USD's hyperinflation to the tune of 1 trillion indebted annually.

Since all fiat currencies go to zero...the only thing that could stop Bitcoin from hitting $10k is Bitcoin.

This has been an interesting year.

They couldn't have been taxes if they were voluntary:

tax  (tæks)
 
— n
1.   a compulsory financial contribution imposed by a government to raise revenue, levied on the income or property of persons or organizations, on the production costs or sales prices of goods and services, etc

It's interesting to note, then, that without taxes, they still got things done

Also: it's funny how they worded that definition.  An involuntary contribution is more easily defined as theft or esp. ransom.