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Bitcoin has more than doubled in price in the past year. On an even longer timeline, we're all dead.

I'm basing it on eight years of experience in Bitcoin. "Bitcoin for coffee" and the like is a waste of the tech, imo. Buying network services such as you described is a better use …

Of course only small communities have a majority of btc. Too many people - geeks included - spent too many years believing the fud being broadcast about Bitcoin while others were c…

I'm a child of the 60s/early 70s who grew up watching Fred Rogers. My environment was hell as a child. His show was a small counterbalance. Every little bit helps.

My paper wallet has never asked for KYC/AML info.

Bitfloor. That was a doozy too.

Whenever I need them. I generate keypairs using the reference client on an offline device that never touches a network. Private keys can be imported and spent using almost any wall…

Fireproof boxes. I hope Coinbase gives you your btc when the run starts next year or two.

I've been holding btc in paper wallets since 2011. They're easy, free and no one has access to my btc but me.

"Hold my private keys" has the same intellectual heft as "hold my beer and watch this".

I'm old and now believe in the hereafter. I walk into a room and ask myself, "What am I here after?"

No one stores their wealth in USD because it's not a good store of value. > What store of value can you purchase with BTC without first converting to USD? Switching out to gold fro…

Here's one. https://keepingstock.net/binance-does-it-again-passes-deutsc...

Binance made more money than Deutsche Bank last year. They funded growth with an ICO. > What's wrong with US Dollars? It's not a good store of value over the long haul: https://vis…

The concepts of "bought for $7.5 billion" and "independent" strike me as mutually exclusive.

Why I'll never trust Microsoft ever again. "postmaster@nsa.gov" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY

Objectively, Western corporate-military ideology has been far deadlier in Asia and Africa than religious fundamentalism. The US has attacked far more countries and killed more civi…

The system is working as designed: shield state actors from liability while increasing police powers. A few lose their jobs or get fined, but fewer go to jail or have to account fo…