Fair enough.... Though I'm not sure that all of us sitting in isolated boxes free of any "interference" results in better decisions.

Not being in touch with what your friends are saying makes you more likely to be manipulated by mainstream media for lack of having as sizeable/technically-augmented of an alternative.

And anyone who wants to blame someone's suicide on the content of that person's facebook feed... is the type of person who blames a death on a gun, instead of the real cause.

Except for the fact that they aren't, and there are reasoned, logical, and very verifiable ways to predict, yea -- your gross oversimplification is totally accurate! But I know how easy it is to pretend the details are mysterious when you haven't spent 100+ hrs doing your own research and investments.

Why didn't I buy the mining rigs? Because the calculations demonstrated that ROI would only be achieved within the first month, and I knew a mining rig manufacturer could just give it to me late. So I didn't. This is all very predictable stuff. Most pools pay out on calculated effort regardless of if they hit a reward, or not. When you're doing billions of calculations, you absolutely can predict what you are going to make.

But, y'know, wave your hands and pretend you've spent time looking into this stuff... If it makes you happy.

Only way I've lost money on BTC is the currency fluctuation itself. My cryptostocks are beating my NYSE stocks by virtue of not being down.

FUD

It's not a coin toss. Your metaphor is not a model. You don't understand details, so you simplify. Which is understandable, until you try to present your simplification as reality. That's just douchey. Most pools payout based on effort. Whatever you put in, you get out. The amount is proportional to your computing power. If you don't get the power you paid for, you lose a measurable amount of money. No coins are tossed. Network difficulty is the only thing that ever changes, and it's calculatable and predictable and follows set rules. In hindsight, you could calculate to the penny exactly how much money was lost by changing a single cell in a spreadsheet.

But yea, pretend it's a coin toss if it makes you feel better.

Why do you think it came late? They probably had it running by the promised date, realized they'd make more money keeping it, kept it, then tried to sell it once it couldn't provide ROI. Of course they deserve to be sued.

It is absolutely not speculation, and is governed by mathematically laws. Furthermore, there will be existing data for the delta between delivery date and now; data on network difficulty, which gets harder and harder. You literally make all your money in the first month or 2 of buying a mining rig. It is worthless 6 months later, and won't provide ROI even 1 month late.

But, y'know, keep pretending things you haven't investigated the details on are speculation, if that's an easier way for you to understand our world.

While it may be funny, it's perfectly valid.

No, we would not.

And it is a bloody shame that any organized mythology can have such a deep impact on public policy and the governing of a nation that is supposed to be hands off on such beliefs.

Just as long as I don't have to see Uranus...

I just hope it doesn't discover the Goatse Nebula, or the Goatse Galaxy.

Actually, it would be pretty damn hilarious if either of those were actually out there somewhere in the vast cosmos.

It would obviously have to be before 2620. After then, Uranus will be renamed.

Therefore, you speak for all!

It couldn't possibly be that conservatives love football and hate change.