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Good points.

I'm not a gun nutadvocate, but I have friends who are. I have shot a fairly wide range of guns with them, including an AR-15. For myself, I only ever owned BB guns and a .22 pellet air rifle, for target shooting and varmint control on my family farm. I did go pheasant hunting with borrowed 20 and 12 gauge shotguns a couple times.

My friend that owns the AR-15 is a responsible gun owner. Do I think he needs it? Hell no. But he likes it. Do I need a PC with an i7 processor and nVidia 1060 GPU? Hell no. But I like it.

So I guess it becomes a question of to what extent the things that we like can be used for negative purposes. My nVidia 1060 is unlikely to be used to facilitate a crime (unless games or bitcoin mining get criminalized). However, even though AR-15s might be one of the primary firearms of choice for murderous wackos, the percentage of people that own AR-15's who are murderous wackos is also extremely low.

If banning AR-15s would significantly reduce the rate of mass shootings and/or the average number of deaths per incident, it could be well worth doing even though it would annoy many responsible owners like my friend. ...But, I just don't think that would be the case. Not by itself.

I think we're at a point where we NEED to do something. If the something that we decide to do is to ban AR-15s, well, so be it I guess. But I don't think we'd be pleased with the long-term results of that. It'd be cutting the flower off of the top of the weed. We need to dig deeper, and I think that registration and licensing are sane ways to attempt to do that.

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This Bloomberg article was in today's local paper:

The Criminal Underworld Is Dropping Bitcoin for Another Currency
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-02/criminal-underworld-is-dropping-bitcoin-for-another-currency

I guess it wouldn't become worthless by inflation, since there are a finite possible number of bit coins, most of which already exist.

But would some amazing code breaking computer allow people to somehow copy or spoof or otherwise steal bitcoins? Shit's confusing.

...then someone creates a stable, proven-theory quantum computer in their garage and bitcoins become worthless.

I bought 32 bitcoins throughout 2012. Now worth close to half a mil. I bought about 4 or 5 grams of DMT over the next two years... each 20 mg of DMT - in my mind - is worth at least $1,000,000. Regardless, even when I started putting money in, there was serious paranoia about the volatility that exists today but isn't as bad as it was back then. You could not trust any of the bitcoin banks or markets back then. A lot of them would just close down and take off with your motherfucking bitcoins, a lot of them would get hacked or say they got hacked, so I always just wanted to get the money transferred out of the bank to a market and released to a trustworthy vendor as fast as possible. So, if you're thinking woulda coulda shoulda - you too probably wouldnah. That on top of the fact that bitcoin transactions took dayyyyssss sometimes, it was fucking slow and a lot of it was through cold hard cash not debit/credit cards...

Several years ago (2) it was under $500
One year ago it was around $1,000
6 months ago around $2,500
3 months ago around $4,300
1 week ago it was almost $20,000
Today around $14,300
https://www.worldcoinindex.com/coin/bitcoin

Bitcoin is perfectly safe. 1 bitcoin is worth$20000US. No wait, it's $11000US. No wait it's $14000. Whatever, it's still the perfect time to jump in with both feet.

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Good post, I was just looking into how Bitcoin works a week ago and this video helped solidify what I learned online. I can see the appeal of cryptocurrencies to criminals, hackers, or your garden variety government conspiracy theorist but I don't really see why an average person would have any interest in this, particularly given the volatility of the exchange rates between cryptocurrencies and the real world or the potential for hacking/losses due to errors in the system (see the disastrous Mt. Gox case here in Japan).

*ban
Bitcoin Casino
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPljP7QfWF8

One tip - VirWox.com is still the best & easiest way to buy bitcoins with a debit/credit card. Buy, SLL and then convert SLL to bitcoins -> send the bitcoins to your wallet, where-ever it might be It took me much fucking around with redphones in strange places in public transferring money here to there to there paying with cash etc - before I figured the VirWox out. The only other thing besides DMT that I bought off the markets was 10grams of phenobarbital. I don't like living without knowing I don't have a relaxing / easy way out and with capitalism fucking the entire planet over I'm fairly happy that I have that option, lol!

And what significance did the McWraps have in your life? Gave you some sloppy shits? And what McDonalds did you go to that had the foresight of using bitcoins?