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That is not the use case I had in mind, think of amazon, ebay, etsy for international customers looking for a friction-less exchange.

And bear in mind, my original point is that bitcoin is moving away from the original intent.

The exchange would require a large amount of various currencies in stock.

With bitcoin in the example I gave earlier, the only currency required by both local exchanges would be Bitcoin, simplifying.

The original idea was that one would exchange local currency for BTC only when needed, then transfer. The person receiving the BTC would then immediately exchange into their local currency. The result would be that either party would hold BTC for such a short period of time, BTC fluctuations would be negligible.

It should be a medium of exchange, but for now its a speculative gamble.

For an exchange there needs to be a counterparty. While Bitstamp is known as 'an exchange', they are not the counterparty AFAIK.

If Satoshi rocks up with 1 meeeelion BTC, if faith evaporates, the bid price could well be zero.

The market can stay irrational a lot longer than you or I can stay solvent.

Does anyone know the ideal crop for sustenance in the case of a nuclear/volcanic winter.

Rhubarb springs to mind, grows well in cool climates and denying sunlight produces a better crop.

Any others?

Edit: the book recommends stocking up on rice, beans & grains.

Good point. I'm just not sure Russia would perform potentially delicate operations from an EU and NATO member state.

Also, not sure if all of this recent hacking is in fact leaking by persons within affected organisations. In the case of the DNC hack, I think it quite plausible to be a disgruntled employee.

Unlikely to be him, he tweeted last night. The person referred to in the article was arrested a few days ago.

I wonder if this to reciprocate for the decision by the EU against Apple to the tune of $14 billion.

Numbers seem very similar. Coincidence?

You may also be interested in Batavia's Graveyard. Fascinating & gruesome account of a Dutch ship's voyage to Java. The descriptions of the personalities and motivations of those willing to undertake such a risky voyage, were in many cases like a gamblers last throw of the dice.

Very well researched, about 1/3 of the book is references/footnotes.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0609807161

Reminds me of the film Reservoir Dogs.

Each gang member is given a nickname (Mr. Blue, Mr Pink etc) for each job. Only the leadership picks the names, the nicknames change with each job\event.

Members do not share real names or personally identifiable info.

The benefits include: Plausible deniability about duration of membership. Plausible deniability about which jobs\events member was party to. Compartmentalization of the enterprise.

I'm struggling to find a legal use case where this could be applied. Although political dissidents (with recent events in Turkey in mind) may have to break the law in any case.

It was likely suppressed as it would have drawn attention away from Iraq, and the insinuated link between Iraq and 9-11.

The fallback argument was WMD, bring democracy and prosperity.

Instead we got ISIS.

I was very surprised that this was released as it adds to the evidence that the decision to attack Iraq and to dismantle its security services was based on lies and deception.

The timing of the release, when the repercussions of creating political and military instability in the region are becoming more frequent in Europe and the US is what surprises me the most. Perhaps the US has reduced its energy dependence on the middle east sufficiently to begin focusing on Saudi Arabia?

With this release and the Chilcot report, the leaders of US/UK have created a serious deficit in credibility and trust.

The main point of the article is that scientific & regulatory community was led by profit and not in the "spirit of disinterested inquiry".

From the article: The original study on which the oil theory is founded, by Dr Juan Tabuenca Oliver, was published in the Lancet

Also from the article: they concluded that, without any doubt, the contaminated foodstuff was tomatoes, and it was the pesticides on them that were responsible for the epidemic. The organo-phosphorous chemicals would indeed cause the range of symptoms observed by clinicians.

Getting published in The Lancet does not prove anything. eg MMR vacine\autism.

The article is well worth a read.

On one occasion I overheard SQL pronounced as squeal.

Stunned into silence.

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

Andresen's support would make sense in the context of building a new blockchain\bitcoin business.

To have Satoshi & Bitcoin's chief scientist would be impressive for a start-up.

Too good in fact.

As an example:

I set up a VPN in the Netherlands, hosted on a VPS. I was connecting from another European country (where ISPs block torrent sites).

Within minutes of attempting download of recent movie release, a Cease and Desist was emailed by ip-echelon.com.

>If we want to speed up the demise of flash

I prefer to keep flash because it is easily blocked.

I find most flash to obnoxious/intrusive/distracting. I disable flash be default, and only enable the items I'm interested in. Also page loads are reduced, one less attack vector.