The anonymity is available, but costs some extra money and time (and may be illegal if you are using it to hide fraud; not sure on that). But the real selling point isn't anonymity as much as it is control. No one can really stop you from using it, even if - for example - you want to send money back home to Iran.
You are ignorant of how the electricity consumption of the Bitcoin network works. Feel free to search my old comments for an education, but I've given up trying to explain this to people who are willfully ignorant.
Yeah, because 17th century futures contracts that bubbled for a season before complete collapse is exactly like a 21st century distributed payment network which has been growing for a decade.
There are already solutions to that problem, but Bitcoin tends towards protocol stability. There is little reason to doubt this issue will be completely resolved by the time quantum comuters become powerful enough to "break" the protocol.
Plenty of currencies are volatile. But if the volatility of Bitcoin - for example - is part of a long-term upward trend, then it serves as a much better currency than many national currencies.
Bitcoin isn't going to compete with the USD; it competes with all the flaky currencies of the third world, and in that competition, it does pretty well as a currency.
And your credit card takes a full day to clear at least. What's your point? Ten minutes sounds better than 24 hours, unless you have an unjustified hatred/jealousy of crypto-holders.
Go learn how Bitcoin works before making such ignorant statements.
If I had to guess based on my own experience in San Diego, I'd say there are too many drivers competing for the same customers. Every other car har an Uber logo on it.
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The anonymity is available, but costs some extra money and time (and may be illegal if you are using it to hide fraud; not sure on that). But the real selling point isn't anonymity as much as it is control. No one can really stop you from using it, even if - for example - you want to send money back home to Iran.
And pay a 3% premium on everything? No thanks.
You are ignorant of how the electricity consumption of the Bitcoin network works. Feel free to search my old comments for an education, but I've given up trying to explain this to people who are willfully ignorant.
Yeah, because 17th century futures contracts that bubbled for a season before complete collapse is exactly like a 21st century distributed payment network which has been growing for a decade.
There are already solutions to that problem, but Bitcoin tends towards protocol stability. There is little reason to doubt this issue will be completely resolved by the time quantum comuters become powerful enough to "break" the protocol.
That's not true. If the Chinese government and the NSA decided they wanted to kill it, they could probably still do it. But it would be expensive af.
Plenty of currencies are volatile. But if the volatility of Bitcoin - for example - is part of a long-term upward trend, then it serves as a much better currency than many national currencies.
Bitcoin isn't going to compete with the USD; it competes with all the flaky currencies of the third world, and in that competition, it does pretty well as a currency.
And your credit card takes a full day to clear at least. What's your point? Ten minutes sounds better than 24 hours, unless you have an unjustified hatred/jealousy of crypto-holders.
Go learn how Bitcoin works before making such ignorant statements.
Population control is essential to fight this. Meat is not the problem.
It seems unlikely to me that Apple is going to find many subscribers outside of their own device network.
P/E isn't super relevant to growth startups, which is what TSLA clearly is.
Or, the Trump administration is trying to make Bloomberg look like fake news.
Wait... you actually think it was Germany vs. the world? I think you may be missing a dozen or so nations.
Water is not scarce everywhere. Why switch over all the toilets when you can just ship toilet paper from a place with plenty of water?
Wtf does paying for water have to do with using too much water? Are you a moron or just high? Talk about stupid responses...
Hey dipshit, the law as described already covers that.
You sound like those ignorant out-of-state yokels always asking about the wild fires.
CA is enormous. Every societal problem found in the world is found in CA, simply due to its size.
Then yokels like you find a problem in one small neighborhood in the most populous state and you get an erection trying to pretend CA is a shithole.
We're fine dude.
And where do you suppose they'll print the default password if it doesn't match the serial number?
Office 365 disagrees.
QA includes things like taking data from two sources and verifying they match. At many operations, this is the extent of QA's role.
If I had to guess based on my own experience in San Diego, I'd say there are too many drivers competing for the same customers. Every other car har an Uber logo on it.
My revoler doesn't get much use from them, truth be told.
We built that. It's called Unix. Those who refuse to learn Unix are condemned to re-implement it. Poorly.
RAM is still scarce if you stop using shared memory. Shit, RAM is still scarce on a Mac even with shared memory...
Unfortunately, software developers keep introducing endless layers of abstraction so that shit still isn't running nearly as fast as it should be.