FellowTraveler

They should publicly post all of these "Russian propaganda" items in a single place, so we can all see them.

TERM LIMITS

Everyone knows Seth Rich was the leaker.

> once it is perceived as more than just a nuisance by some major government it will be shut down in a heartbeat

Actually, the unique feature that makes Bitcoin special is specifically its censorship-resistance. That's why people value it -- because it cannot be shut down.

Even if there is no other life in the Universe, the Universe would still have to be the size that it is, for life on Earth to even exist at all.

Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the 5th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

What is the Tor .onion address for hacker news?

That's what I'm interested in, I'll add it to my bookmarks and use it by default. I don't see why we want to involve exit nodes at all.

The title appears to be exaggerated.

According to the article, Overstock is performing all the transactions in their own private system, with hashes periodically posted to the actual Bitcoin blockchain for transparency purposes, and regular proofs of state.

The added transparency IS enabled by the Bitcoin blockchain, and this is commendable, but the units issued by Overstock do not appear to be actually circulating on the Bitcoin blockchain itself.

It's an important distinction. We're working on this problem at my own company (Stash).

Mass surveillance is only historically ever used for one purpose: to crush dissent.

Any sufficiently advanced civilization will have encrypted communications, and thus their broadcasts will appear to be noise.

This isn't true. A business can receive Bitcoin and convert it all to gold daily. They can sell some of this gold for cash to pay their expenses.

They can also start a separate company, say, an investment company, to take the gold and store it, or convert it to dollars or stocks.

There are lots of solutions made possible by Bitcoin, none of which are impacted in the slightest by the investment volatility of Bitcoin.

Cops are going to shoot these people.

I recommend Bitcoin.

Corn is subsidized.

It's not that "eating healthy" is "more expensive" necessarily in real terms.

A big factor is the fact that our government uses the threat of violence to extract money from people, and then uses it to pay people to make less healthy food cheaper.