Mark Zuckerberg creating his "own country" sounds funny to us because we tend to think of these entities as having a jurisdiction attached to a land mass. As Tim Draper said, in the future land

There's also Bitfi, which doesn't store your keys, but instead generates them every time from your passphrase. The problem with Bitfi is that it has a screen that can be hacked, so you don't know if what

Our house is sitting on land that has been in the family since the US civil war. No mortgages or rent as far as I know in over a century. Taxes are the only issue.

It'll be fun watching congressional hearings like we did yesterday with Maxine Waters... Then one day while they are debating over Libra, bitcoin will pump from the current range of 10K - 15K to 100K in

The sooner we learn the lesson that leadership is a con game the better. This book might cause the bottom to fall out of your mind... but maybe Donald Trump read it and decided to name one of his son's

At 1% global adoption, that's saying that 75 million people have some crypto. I thought the number was closer to about 30 million. May have to add an extra year to reach 50% adoption.

In regard to Cedric's video, for bitcoin to go up that much, it pretty much requires LN adoption. Without it, on chain transactions will be so slow that to get one into a block, you're probably looking

My gut tells me to watch for big news in early 2020 regarding this (probably March).

It's a bit simplistic to say that the side that can come up with the most money will win, but that's not news. Politics has worked that way for millennia. The vote is a placebo for the public.

This battle is primarily between the existing banking system and the Libra Consortium whose wealth from silicon valley is rivaling the central banks. They applied for banking licenses in the last decade

They will make examples of a few, but it is too late to stop the bitcoin train. If they try to ban it, and it skyrockets in price, then the USD loses value. If they ban it and the price collapses, then

Sorry to hear it. I use Yubico for 2FA, but in some cases Trezor can perform the same function. Trezor can also store your passwords. Security will become an increasingly unsustainable nightmare until

Voluntarism does make an exception for self defense. In this case, where's the line for self defense? The laws are getting so out of whack that an inevitable pendulum swing is coming. Remember Christopher

What's it going to take to stop parasites from stealing. Do we need to start shooting cops?

There has never been a single currency in all of human history. Very likely the trend is toward even more currencies than in the past. Seashells were valuable in the mountains, not so useful at the beach.

We're still in 2016 in terms of the boom bust cycle that bitcoin has repeatedly had since the beginning. The latter half of 2020 will be like the latter half of 2017, except that it will be at least an

Many people live in reality bubbles (aka ones own little world). I spent about 45 years working in the field of astrology, specifically astrology software in the last 23 years) and it was this narrow focus

According to Vedic astrology, called Jyotish, which is apparently thousands of years old, eclipses are not very auspicious... You will find a similar statement in Valens Antonology (translated by Robert

I think we will have another astonishing bull run in the latter half of 2020. I also predicted that bitcoin would be in a bear market from Feb 2018 - Feb 2019 back in 2017. I used the software (based upon

Maybe something has changed since the 90's, but in the past, when I got a file with a hash, a hash was signed by a known entity (a trusted PGP signature) so that you could know that it wasn't tampered