Christie is going to have to practice his lying skills if he wants to seriously be a contender for president. I mean, come on.. .Clinton.. the bushes.. Obama.. they gotta be looking at him as total j.v.

- mother nature

hurray for Neville! hurray mr. chamberlain!

cool - the squashes my theory, but I appreciate the clarity. nice to be able to tell one of the many consipiracy-hamsters running on the wheels in my head that it can take a break.

daytraders, sure - but that is not really the point of an alternative currency. im less curious of the market cap as I am of the depth of the trading market - ie, the flow not the stock. my question which I wonder out loud (in writing here) is - how much selling would it take to push the price down significantly?

agreed. in fact, i have been suspecting for a while now that the volatility in btc pricing (which keeps people away, as who wants a currency that can swing +-20% in a day?) might be due to the government using their seized SilkRoad wallet (and whatever other seized bitcoins they have) to overwhelm the market. people have rallied around the fact that you can't 'short' bitcoins to artificially manipulate it lower - but if you own hundreds of millions of dollars of seized bitcoins (never mind mining for new one), and don't care about preserving the value of your holdings, you could crater the market whenever you feel like it. maybe im off about the ability to push btc prices down dramatically by say, indiscriminantly selling say, $1-2 million worth? i don't know how deep the market is.. maybe someone here does.

what's to stop a central bank or government with unlimited funds (and that sees cryptocurrency as a threat) from deliberately buying up mining capacity and doing it themselves?

ever walk down the street, and stumble, but mid-way turn it into a move that some part of you thinks will convince on-lookers that you did it on purpose? like you were just testing out a new dance move for the clubs? what - you mean those thousands of broken spent fuel rod assemblies? yeah - it's cool.. we're into EXPERUMENTING. oh - and if you ask questions in japan on this, off to jail you go!

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ever walk down the street, and stumble, but mid-way turn it into a move that some part of you thinks will convince on-lookers that you did it on purpose? like you were just testing out a new dance move for the clubs? what - you mean those thousands of broken spent fuel rod assemblies? yeah - it's cool.. oh - and if you ask questions in japan on this, off to jail you go!

write your passwords down on a piece of paper. then drive out to the desert with a gps, and bury them in a box in a random spot, noting the gps location. then come back home, go to a convenience store, and buy a lotto ticket with the numbers from the gps. leave it on your fridge with a magnet. you're done! p.s. this approach may result in you getting shot and killed by an automated machine gun of your own device. but on the plus side, your old frenemies will see to it that your kids are well taken care of.

I visited laos last year and visited the landmine/amputee museum.. there are still vaste swathes of UXOs (un-exploded ordinance - ie, bombs that didn't go off) back from when the US carpet bombed them during the Vietnam war - and a lot of kids try to harvest them for scrap metal because theyre so poor, the money is worth the risk.. you can imagine what winds up happening. great to see an example of technology really helping people - not just making it easier for them to 'get more stuff' from their lazy armchair.

so the big corporate sponsors can pay to keep the sheep quietly fed and herded. this sounds like the internet equivalent of corporate 'sponsors' making it so that the supermarket quality food and produce is so much more expensive than a sack-of-10 whitecastles or a greesy $5 pizza from papa johns that can feed a poor family of four.