He's not sitting on anything but 800,000 internet fun bucks until he cashes them into real money.

Yeah! Like all those damn Germans working on the A-bomb! Who the hell let THEM in?!

Nice goalpost moving.

Very little, as a percentage of total credit card transactions.

The coders behind these exchanges don't know that having a negative balance in an account is a bad thing.

You have to pay a transaction fee or it won't go through the blockchain. Plus multiple confirmations are needed to ensure that it did in fact go through. Your recipient will also have to pay a cut when they want to turn it back into real money.

The Bitcoin protocol as it exists today is absolutely terrible.

BitCoin is a fiat currency by definition.

It's their money, they can do what they want with it. Plain and simple.

"The man behind that company should be put behind bars."

No, he shouldn't.

Try giving it a rinse with white vinegar first instead of letting the dog lick it.

So that it flows back down into the water supply and keeps downstream places hydrated.

LMAO. The vast majority of kids in my high school shop programs were white.

OK, internet tough guy. I hope you record their "royal ass kicking" for the court so you can be sued for assault & battery.

Exactly. It's the same zero-sum, majority-privileged mentality.
Someone wants to have a women-only programming class? The straight white male cries "Discrimination!!"
You know, because the mere existence of such a thing DENIES him his "right."
It's fucking pathetic.

So go to a different one. Stop treating this as some ridiculous zero-sum game.

Have you seen the salaries being offered at Google, et. al these days?

Simply increasing salaries mostly means you get people who get into a field simply for the money.