I don't think it works that way. Usually it is not the exchange's task to convert bitcoin to fiat: the exchange is just a middleman that (optimally) guarantees that a transaction between two parties will go smoothly. This is mainly done by having an online 'balance' of bitcoin, same as having a balance on a bank account. The exchange company will allow to 'withdraw' your remainder if you wish, by sending you bitcoin to an address of your liking: but if you want money for bitcoin, this will be wired (or otherwise transfered) to your *bank* account, from the buyer, through the exchange.

So there is always money for bitcoin as long as there are buyers for it.

What it would separate, if it was real, would be the oxygen (gas) that is dissolved in water: not the oxygen atoms that are part of the water molecule. At least this is where gills get their oxygen from: from air dissolved in water.

What I mistakenly thought was that the joke was on cryptocurrency --hence my reaction. Now then, I apologise for my tone.

Actually it's 'never go full retard, man'. Know your memes! I believe you are not quite ready to give up your regular job and become a comedian.

By the way, thanks for collaterally pointing out to me that I can become borderline psychotic with bitcoin if I do not keep it together.

Nice try. Only you forgot that it was actually you who brought the cryptocurrency subject up, when you proclaimed that "you will shop at Silk Road while you wait for your download", perhaps in an attempt to be the funny guy of this hour by throwing an unspecified 'joke' in the form of general mockery against 'all things cryptoanarchy', most probably because of your personal distaste and/or fear for them.

See how simple you are to figure out?

Disgusting and repulsive manipulation of the legal and penal system, that borders on being plain corrupt. Consider the precedent and the example it sets.

Yet another dissapointing fail for this country.

You would not sound sarcastic and an ass if perhaps you knew that in the future it will not be as easy for a central authority to take down websites at a whim.

You may want to look at what Namecoin is.

.. F*ck Yeah!

Coming again, to save the mutherf*cking day, yeah!

How so? Who's going to stop them?

I think the real issue here is screening 1058 suicidal or terminal maniacs with a death wish out of 200k suicidal or terminal maniacs with an even greater death wish, and hope that somehow out of those a useful crew will be able to run a friggin' spaceship. To Mars. And build the foundations of a colony. On Mars.

An astronaut is usually a pilot, AND a glorified lab manager, AND an engineer, AND physically superfit, AND possesses iron willpower, and his balls are probably made of some badass titanium alloy. He/she is NOT suicidal and, though risks are understood, made a brave choice and is backed by thousands of professionals on the ground. He/she is not a telephone sanitizer backed by some soap opera script writer and his CEO.

There are many, many, many things that can go wrong here: and I am not talking technicalia, I am talking about human behaviour and attitude: people become obscene, detached, depressed, sarcastic, suicidal and even aggressive in reality shows on EARTH. And the masterminds behind this endeavour are okay in sending I-am-cool-with-it-being-a-one-way-trip reality show material to Mars?

The sad part is that I am pretty sure that it is going to actually happen, and it might end up badly not because of a hardware failure or similar, but because of human moronity: this sound more like a "put some humans in an airtight tin-can on Mars, and watch them perish on TV" (or even "better", watch them kill each other)

There spawned a couple of new exchange sites in India over the past few weeks. A few that I checked look legit, demanding some sort of official government documents for user identification, making it non-trivial for scammers to jump aboard the train. It is only natural that there is a warning, and those sites already had more or less the same warning on their frontpages. The fact that this warning is on a state level is a good think for bitcoin (and for potential traders) I think.

Correct: the flag is pretty obvious.

Why would I want to actually run around in real life to play Minecraft?

"No, thanks."

You know they don't. Who you search for, your browsing habits and clicks, none of that turns up either.

I do not know what purpose this 'download all your data' option serves, but it is certainly not there to give you the option to actually download all data facebook has on you: it is something ridiculous like your name, your birthday and a couple of other useless stuff. It does not even include the messages you have sent and received.