Most likely they are getting strong armed by the USA or the EU.
It is the US, ever since 9/11 the US has mandated a pile of legislation changes that their trading partners must make.
With any luck NZ will make the changes and then never enforce them.
Miles is an archaic form of measurement. If you want to get into space you need to use something a bit more modern.
The universe is so complex, there must be a supreme being guiding its creation
I highly doubt this as a conclusion.
History is full of things that could not be understood and therefore must be "the work of a supreme being" that have later been worked out and understood (fire for example). My preference is that there are just some things we don't understand yet.
I remember a saying when I was learning programming;-
With C it is easy to shoot yourself in the foot, with C++ it is a lot harder, but when you do shoot yourself in the foot you take your entire leg off.
I have a chronic disease that can be controlled through medication that already limits my lifespan.
Because of this I deliberately have no children or spouse and I avoid developing long term relationships.
My Parents are old and are unlikely to outlive me anyway.
I am aware of the implications of a one way trip to Mars and realise I wont be coming back and wont have any new companions for at least 10 years... if ever.
Send me.
that's fraud and practically a Ponzi scheme.
Yep, it is total fraud, but it is not "practically a Ponzi scheme", it is just plain old fraud.
That's exactly what a Ponzi scheme is. Fraud, claiming that you are making money when you aren't, and paying out people from the money contributed by new investors.
As I have mentioned elsewhere.
You should also probably look up Ponzi's as well, it is not some generic term you can trough at any sort of fraud. It is a specific type of fraud that does not apply here (MtGOX never returned a percentage per day/week/month/year as interest).
I am not sure that this will catch on given that iDevices need it every day.
Sort of...
If 51% of miners got together they could in theory stop the FBI from using that wallet (it is actually an address, not a wallet but that is another story).
They would have to continue to do so though, and once they stop the FBI could then use the funds. One of the tennents of bitcoin is that it is very hard (if not near imposable) to confiscate/block/invalidate etc someone else's funds.
*cough* bitcoin *cough*
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
