To further investigate the phenomenon, the researchers conducted two online experiments involving more than 6,000 participants. In the first experiment, participants were asked to imagine having a given amount of discretionary time every day for at least six months.
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In the second experiment, researchers looked at the potential role of productivity. Participants were asked to imagine having either a moderate (3.5 hours) or high (7 hours) amount of free time per day

They sure seem to be relying an awful lot on asking people to imagine how they would feel about certain amounts of free time. Which isn't strong evidence about how they would actually feel in the event. I know I can certainly imagine a lot of people failing to fully conceive of how they might find new and enjoyable ways to use free time that they don't currently have -- although no-one surveyed me for a study on that, so don't expect "Study links limited imagination to silly answers on surveys" as a headline any time soon.

Man, there's a lot of ignorance on here. There are literally 10 exchanges in the US you could use to legally withdraw cash. Why would regulators or LEOs be on you? I declared it on my taxes and paid my daughter's tuition. No problem. No regulators or LEOs involved at any point.

Distribution is literally world-wide to millions of people. How is it "comically concentrated"?

I just finished putting one daughter through school with no debt. Working on the second daughter soon. Will put her through without debt if it continues to go up. It's been a great investment for me.

Yep. It's gone up $1000 a month for the past 3 months. Clearly draining off.

What are you talking about? People constantly trade 10 or even 50 bitcoins in a single trade all day long. I've even seen 100 at a time on occasion. You can set a limit and wait or trade into the market immediately and you can see ahead of time exactly how far into the market that would take you price-wise. So you would have a pretty close rough idea how much you would make (of course that can change in the split-second before you hit the button like all trading platforms, but shouldn't change much).

GDAX is now called pro.coinbase.com, but yeah.

There was a guy on the BitcoinTalk forums in the early days that bought a Lambo for bitcoin.

Of course you can. If I had $1 million worth of bitcoin, I could go to pro.coinbase.com and trade it for cash right now in a single trade.

Coinbase Limits

Yes. You can trade for that much cash on CoinBase. It may take longer to get it out (daily limit on withdrawals), but I can't imagine many financial institutions that would wire you "several million" in one fell swoop without a ton of setup first.

He exposed Russians too. Putin hates Assange. But if you only listen to CNN or MSNBC, you would think they are co-conspirators in a plot to overthrow the USA.

I was with you until "Trump could lose". To whom? There isn't a Democratic candidate yet that the majority of normal people would vote for.

Are you kidding?!? I've had projects that get 26 million new records PER DAY and they work just fine in MS SQL. I have never seen a project that MS SQL couldn't handle.

That's exactly what it said. "If you bragged about a transaction amount or address on Twitter or on a Bitcoin forum, we can link you." Wow. However did you do that?

Yes, let's go with something owned entirely by Chinese miners. No chance of a 51% attack by the Chinese government there.