It will and you'll move your goalpost yet again rather than admit your continuous naysaying has been wrong. 12 years is hardly enough history to prove you wrong, but maybe a bit of humility and acceptance that this whole thing is more complicated than you seem to be able to model in your head is in order. But I doubt that will happen. You'd watch it fail as everything else in the universe also succumbs to the heat death and still claim victory.

It produces a trustless permissionless ledger of value transfer not dependent on cantilionaires. If you see no value in that, then you are likely part of the privileged end of society that benefits from isolating and economically exploiting others for your benefit.

If that is true Bitcoin will never succeed as money. It needs to have a fair distribution like the USD.

There is no reality in which congress and the special interests that write the regulations for them are going to fix this problem. There is probably not even any sane legislation that can be written, even well-intended, that won't ripple into unintended consequences that can be taken advantage of by the powerful to further their agenda and further limit the freedom of the masses. DCMA is regulation. Stop trying to dig your way out of a hole with more regulation.

Pretty sure they are doing fine with USD.

So, they are moving on the extend portion of their mantra?

Seems every one missed it, Craig.

The last dozen or so purchases I've made with Bitcoin used the Lightning Network. They don't seem to be accounting for anything on a second layer that only settles many transactions with only one Bitcoin transaction. Of course, part of LIghtning's design is also to thwart big data analytics and preserve privacy, so it's not likely they could include it in their research.

I think it's "most powerful in the free world" but the accuracy of that is waning as well. But I think you might want a benevolent dictator rather than a president.

I've never had enough windows disks to create enough BTUs to power a car; I could have had an AOL powered car for several years, though.

I do, but I find it too difficult to use the mouse while I'm using my right had.

It doesn't allow non-surgeons to perform surgery. It lowers the skill level to be a surgeon.

Oh, come on. Slashdot has been in this degraded state for years. Coming here is just a hard habit to break, and the only way the current staff know to get people involved in conversation is to throw up this sort of BS for people to complain about. Unless the editors are completely lacking in technical knowledge-- clearly the strategy is stir up controversy like this. Hell, the only reason I clicked on the summary, was to be entertained by the snark pointing out the ridiculousness of the article.

I ran the math and the early Earth, 6000 years ago, did not have 6.5 hours days. Nice try, Science.

There is not much to support this. Many also argue that pornography give a alleviates the desire. Who knows, probably both depending the individual. Would the Columbine shooters come up with the fantasy that became reality without playing Doom (or whatever game it was) obsessively, probably not. Would many here go into a nerdrage and kill people at work because of extreme dissatisfaction with their mediocre jobs without the outlet gaming provides them, probably.

I'm not for passing laws because we did a sociology 'study' and 'calculated' the net benefit to be on one side.

Are child porn producers harming children? Yes. That should be illegal.

Does purchasing child porn directly support the production of more porn and harm more children? Yes. That should be illegal.

Does a creepy guy possessing images on his hard drive because he is likely a product of abuse himself, harm anyone else? No. Or at best, we don't know and suspect that it might lead to eventually harm children. It should not be illegal.