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by ferdo 13y ago
Bitcoin's rise in value will reflect the same curve that rise of information has taken: http://peculium.net/2013/04/08/bitcoin-is-a-bubble-only-if-y... Straight up is also a curve.
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Bitcoin surpasses PayPal, Discover and Western Union for daily dollar volume
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by ferdo 13y ago
> Name a time and place where you'd rather live than today in the western world. Fiji, circa 16th century.
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by ferdo 13y ago
Maybe you could submit a video of someone doing a dramatic reading of the Patriot Act as a counterpoint.
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by ferdo 13y ago
Buy gold at a coin store/jewelry store. Sell gold for btc to: https://www.goldsilverbitcoin.com/products/gold/gold-america...
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by ferdo 13y ago
> "The distrust of the political system is unhealthy," he says. Tell that to the dead souls of the Jewish, Russian/kulak, Native American, Cambodian, Central American and hundreds of other communities that were beneficiari
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Intelligence Officials Object To New Regulations(talkradionews.com)
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Bitcoin is the 9th largest payment network on Earth(coinometrics.com)
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by ferdo 13y ago
The future price of Bitcoin will recapitulate the rise of information: http://peculium.net/2013/04/08/bitcoin-is-a-bubble-only-if-y...
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by ferdo 13y ago
> if you can't buy BitCoin in your native currency legally My native currency is now Bitcoin. ;)
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by ferdo 13y ago
The first altcoin to utilize and implement M-of-N-signatures will take over. Bitcoin is close but not quite.
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Utah data center reviewed on Google Plus(plus.google.com)
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by ferdo 13y ago
China likes Bitcoin because the USG doesn't. As long as that dynamic holds, Bitcoin is safe in China. Unlike the US, a hundred million+ internet users in China are already accustomed to digital money through the use of the now defunct
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by ferdo 13y ago
And as more dollars come into existence, they'll continue to be worth less in comparison to Bitcoin's fixed supply. Also, the accumulated transactional value of Bitcoin is increasing. All of the fees and other costs associated wit
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by ferdo 13y ago
> Step 1: make Bitcoin exchanges illegal to operate. There is no Step 2. Step 2 is moving my Bitcoin business to a country that's not afraid of Bitcoin.
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by ferdo 13y ago
Then the yuan exchanges will pick up the slack. I'd dump my dollars for yuan and btc, as would other people. The USG would be slitting its own throat if it made btc > $ exchanges outright illegal.
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by ferdo 13y ago
How does the US govt. deploy force against decentralized crypto? It can go after the exchanges and clamp down on bank-to-Bitcoin services but it can do nothing against the network itself. Should the USG clamp down on Bitcoin too hard, Bitco
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by ferdo 13y ago
> Filtering is not always bad That wasn't the issue. The issue was the word 'censorship' being perceived as a biased word. Only censors or those with the predilection to censor would think the word is "biased".
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by ferdo 13y ago
Buy some gold or silver if the price of btc gets up to where you want it: amagimetals.com goldsilverbitcoin.com I fixed up my house with a Lowe's giftcard bought with btc: gyft.com
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by ferdo 13y ago
Let them bust a few miners. More will take their place.
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by ferdo 13y ago
> US billionaire Sheldon Adelson - a staunch supporter of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a big donor to the Republican party - who said dropping an atom bomb in the middle of Iran's desert would ensure that they get t
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by ferdo 13y ago
> "Censorship" is a biased word Only to someone in favor of censorship.
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by ferdo 13y ago
Kyle, you're kind of a badass. This could be an important project for Bitcoin usability. I'll be sending you some satoshis in the next few days for a bounty to hand out.
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Twitter Marks "Philadelphia City Paper" as Spam, Breaks All Links to the Site(theatlantic.com)
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Darpa developing implant to monitor brain in real time(news.cnet.com)
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by ferdo 13y ago
> But the users are idiots. Since mods come from the userbase, what does that say about the mods? > The users on the thread you linked think that filtering out shitty new sources is some kind of right-wing conspiracy. Some do, sure. M
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by ferdo 13y ago
> "I don't get the sense that this was unwanted from the community either." It was unwanted. The mods' announcement was even downvoted to zero by the community: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics&#
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by ferdo 13y ago
I suspect that reddit's management is looking for the kind of audience that's perfectly content just staring at a TV screen no matter what's on. This appears to be an active push to chase away people with higher functioning i
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HSBC banker first in line for Bitcoin ATM(cmspaymentsintelligence.com)
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Tech Should Make It Easier To Escape Govt Control: Startup Vet Balaji Srinivasan(reason.com)
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