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Comment Re:An Honest Question (Score 1) 213

> not a great deal

you mean like everything in www.bitcoinstore.com, and also gold and other PMs ? Which can then trivially be redeemed for cash ?

Noone will dump 1 Megabuck on a market without rebuying later, because it is NONTRIVIAL getting 1 Megabuck TXed to your bank account; (go on, try it).

What is trivial, is buying a few 100s grams of gold. At a significant markup, but gold is valued much over the "official" rate anyway, on the street.

This is quite real I assure you - and people give other people hundreds of dollars for 1 BTC not because they lack confidence in BTC -- IT IS BECAUSE THEY LACK CONFIDENCE IN DOLLARS.

In case you haven't noticed, we have impending US dollar currency crash, and people are starting to get clued in.

Comment Let Musashi speak on this one. (Score 1) 1191

"If we look at the world we see arts for sale. Men use equipment to sell their own selves. As if with the nut and the flower, the nut has become less than the flower. In this kind of Way of strategy, both those teaching and those learning the way are concerned with coloring and showing off their technique, trying to hasten the bloom of the flower. They speak of "This Dojo" and "That Dojo". They are looking for profit. Someone once said "Immature strategy is the cause of grief". That was a true saying. "

--Miyamoto Musashi.

We should learn from the past instead of inventing The Next Fail.

Submission + - RSA devs - Do NOT USE RSA as it may have been backdoored by the NSA (bbc.co.uk) 2

An anonymous reader writes: RSA, the internet security firm, has warned customers not to use one of its own encryption algorithms after fears it can be unlocked by the US National Security Agency (NSA).
In an advisory note to its developer customers, RSA said that a default algorithm in one of its toolkits could contain a "back door" that would allow the NSA to decrypt encrypted data.
It "strongly recommends" switching to other random number generators.
RSA is reviewing all its products.

- Source (bbc.co.uk)

Submission + - The Future Will Be Modular: Tinkertoy-Like Blocks Will Build Bridges, Planes

cartechboy writes: Does that sketchy bridge on your commute to work freak you out? How about that budget airplane seat your boss puts you in once a month? If you're nervous about that, then you'll probably freak out about this: Future airplanes, bridges, boats, even spacecraft may be built from modular blocks that snap together like Tinkertoys. While the idea seems strange, the parts are claimed to be up to 10 times stiffer than existing ultralight materials and the construction work will be done by tiny robots crawling along the structure as it's built. It would even be possible to disassemble one structure, say, a bridge, and repurpose it into a new building. Imagine taking apart one wing of your office building and turning it into a boat--just be sure to bring your life jacket.

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