I'll echo suchecki's point that while the gov could absolutely make it more difficult to use bitcoin, they cannot shut it down. Furthermore, while...
You can't really separate the two. In order to be decentralized, the network needs its own unit of account. And the network doesn't have much...
It would be great if the notion of "backing" a digital currency (crypto or otherwise) worked, but unfortunately it doesn't. All such ideas are...
http://en.community.dell.com/dell-blogs/direct2dell/b/direct2dell/archive/2014/07/18/we-re-now-accepting-bitcoin-on-dell-com.aspx More and more...
Yeah, it's nuts reading some of the earlier threads (pre-2012) on bitcointalk. People have been "missing the boat" since mid-2010. There are...
That would kill the essence of bitcoin. The entire purpose of the technology underlying bitcoin ("the blockchain") is to enable a large group of...
It's not so much the medium-term ability of these new structures to supplant the dollar as world-reserve, but more another notch in the global...
It doesn't even have to be "staggering" for bitcoin to experience enormous gains. Remember that bitcoin's market cap is only ~$1.3B. That's...
It's just MtGox being ineffective as usual. This is no surprise for those who've been around bitcoin for a while. Gox has failed to adequately...
Figure the network will be doing about 2000TH by the end of the year... ASICMiner, BFL, Avalon all have 300-400TH on tap, and then there are the...
I think you mean "mhash", not "khash". The payback on the 2.1BTC 330Mhash USB sticks is about a year at current difficulty. Obviously diff is...
Some "next-gen" uses of the bitcoin blockchain, off the top of my head: -- Decentralized stock markets (...
Jefferson nickels are the new Mercury dimes...
I have a couple 330MH ASICMiner Block-Erupter USB sticks coming this week. The ROI on those look ok right now, but obviously difficultly will rise...
Yeah, well, China is done with the dollar....that's what that says.
Does that mean I should short the Yen against Yuan instead of dollars? :-)
That's an ugly chart... Margin may be able to spike higher than usual due to the unprecedented QE, but the pendulum is certainly very much to one...
We need central banks to reduce short term volatility. Obviously this comes at the expense of much-greater long-term volatility (ie, tail-risk,...
May not make a practical difference, but it's certainly a statement of non-confidence in the Fed. And an assertion of states' rights.
How about these two together, going back a couple decades: M1: [img] Gold: [img]
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