Mendenhall

Did they do this to "protect" people, or for more control?

Almost any ban can be said to be done to protect people.

Cant have them reading some books for their own good!

#1 Nothing more than what is needed. I agreed with many of his points, but I always place this as number one.

Anything "big" causes me to pause and count the concerns. The bigger any entity is the more damage they can cause. I tend to support "small" things as best I can.

I have read FinCen guidelines and not being a lawyer its not clear to me. In one part it seems to say its fine but in another it appears to be able to fit into "exchanger"

I find it odd to have not found an easy clear answer to this at this point.

Please link to some information.

I would also add that there are many cryptos, that comes into play in a few ways. One major difference with traditional "money" right now is the wild price fluctuations. You can have $100 worth of a crypto one day and the next its worth $1000. In some ways that is bad, but in others it is very very good!

I am no bitcoin evangelist by any means, but I do try to see both the positive and negatives. With taxes I have a feeling in due time because of the "recorded" nature it will be even easier to track than cash. How is the government supposed to collect taxes if I sell someone a baseball card for $1000 cash? I personally would pay taxes on cash or crypto just to avoid any hassle.

I would say much of the negativity is because certain very large institutions have a huge incentive to not want bitcoin to "succeed" and would paint it in a negative light any way they could.

While I am sure those reasons play a part I think thats not even close to all of what makes it valuable. Ease of use is a huge one. I can set up a wallet in less than a minute and someone from across the world can send me bitcoin in the time it takes for it to clear the block, other cryptos even faster.

One can post their wallet address and make jokes on social media and receive bitcoin just because people like the content and are happy to support it. (yes that works)

You can receive bitcoin without giving anyone your name,address,etc,same with sending it to someone and do so for legal purposes.

Try to do any of those 3 above with dollar bills and its just not even in the same realm. I see great value in that.

Please post what he said is incorrect. I read the article and found he is mostly correct depending on models etc. Perhaps I missed something but there were no blatent lies etc from my reading.

I notice most articles and news coverage dont get too much into the details. Its nice to hear some counterpoints.

And things like this

http://reason.com/blog/2017/06/01/california-gov-jerry-brown...

I find it interesting this article says nothing about the actual details of the agreement.

I would say people.

I wonder how many know the details of what the deal actually is.

Thats what I really value about them.

It removes all of the below and then some.

"That never happened.

Forget I said that.

Can we start again?

I’m just going to pretend you didn’t just say that."

Whats interesting and very telling is the medias coverage of this.

It amazes me how few know about the mounds. I look through a lot of the books from 1840's that detail them all in Oh/Mi/IL/etc.

Link with cool descriptions and maps etc of those in Ohio. I located some on modern maps that you can still see and that havent been disturbed in a long long time.

https://archive.org/details/descriptionsofan00whit

If you are a US citizen contact your representative and let them know you want people held accountable. Be active in social media calling for the same (if you're on social media).

I know many wont do that based simply on political affiliation which is sad but expected in todays environment.

I dont understand much of the "hate" that goes on with bitcoin/blockchain in tech circles. I get that people may not like the ideology/uses of some of the people involved but that to me has nothing to do with the tech. I downloaded a wallet and by using twitter I was able to have people send me coin within minutes and never had to identify etc. I know of no other medium that could do that.

I love using the original GLO maps from 1800s, you can find some fascinating long forgotten things on them. I enjoy a good map nerd session myself.

Depends on what you are doing. Is it really a currency? I dont personally treat it as such no matter what anyone says. I enjoy and profit off the volatility, at this point its impossible for me to lose any money if it crashes to zero even while I am holding botcoins. If I want "stable" I have stock market etc.

Heck I think even dogecoin went +2x.

Some of these exchanges have come a long way and the volatility makes it great to trade cryptos. I still view it as the wild west, so scammers everywhere, but where there is chaos there is profit!

Fall from heaven 2 beyond the sword mod, if you like civ and never played it do yourself a huge favor and get it! I loved the civ games and this mod makes them all look boring.

I miss MicroProse and those fat game manuals! Looking inside for code words so you could land in Gunship...good times.

Edit-Airborne ranger was well ahead of its time IMO. Think that was first game I really felt like I was "sneaking".

I can see a fair amount of situations that would be better to have employees on location. That being said I wonder if a part of the "dont work from home" type feelings come from managers/employees who may resent that they have to be on location?

I down voted because of the "surely youre joking" comment. Its a petty passive aggressive insult to the parent, like the parent post was so obtuse that they must be joking. Ironic to me in an etiquette post.

I enjoy being mortal, can only suffer the fools for so long.

All these problema already have laws on the books.

“People are beginning to run across the streets, parking is absolutely overloaded, the police are now ticketing, food trucks are showing up,” the Milwaukee County Supervisor remembers. “It was unbelievable. There’s no facilities to go to the bathroom. People are urinating on people’s lawns. You’re finding female napkins and feminine hygiene stuff all over the place.”

With all the talk about healthcare these days I wonder as an experiment what a "machine" could detect if you gave it saliva,urine,stool,hair sample.

Privacy concerns aside I would assume many basic medical issues could be diagnosed through those without the need for a "doctor".