"and it will be fine if every exchange dies off."

Except for the fact that there will be no way to acquire bitcoins?

Bitcoin never claimed to be an anonymous payment solution. In fact every single payment (along with sender and recipient address) ever made is visible in the very public block chain.

People who don't understand bitcoin claimed it was an anonymous payment solution.

I was replying to the guy who said "$5 million on virtual pet clothes? I dont want to live on this planet anymore"

wow, i thought you were joking until I looked it up

http://blogs.oracle.com/templedf/entry/it_s_the_tachyon_signature

"5 mill on virtual pet cloths?"

averages out to less than a dollar per person.

what's the big deal?

It's not like 4G speeds are even worth it when you get capped or throttled at a measly 2GB/month

You mean just like your IPv4 address can be tied to your home?

Works for me

"Slashdot is unusable without noscript."

?

He's probably referring to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel#Greek_Apocalypse_of_Baruch

"Those who gave counsel to build the tower, for they whom thou seest drove forth multitudes of both men and women, to make bricks; among whom, a woman making bricks was not allowed to be released in the hour of child-birth, but brought forth while she was making bricks, and carried her child in her apron, and continued to make bricks. And the Lord appeared to them and confused their speech..."