Bitcoin Price Tops $1,000 in First Day of 2017 Trading

Re:Bitcoin Price Tops $1,000 in First Day of 2017 Trading by smokeyj on Sunday January 01, 2017 @05:08PM (#13297658)

Makes me wonder what other essential functions of society can be digitized, decentralized, and put out of reach of irresponsible government entities.

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Re:Bitcoin Price Tops $1,000 in First Day of 2017 Trading by jacobush on Sunday January 01, 2017 @05:41PM (#13297817)

Into the reach of irresponsible private entities

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Re:Bitcoin Price Tops $1,000 in First Day of 2017 Trading by stale2002 on Sunday January 01, 2017 @06:07PM (#13297942)

The difference being that irresponsible governments use force to require you to use their services.

At least if a private party screws me over, I can stop doing business with them.

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Re:Bitcoin Price Tops $1,000 in First Day of 2017 Trading by jacobush on Sunday January 01, 2017 @06:18PM (#13297988)

You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multi-variate, multi-national dominion of dollars/bitcoins

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Re:Bitcoin Price Tops $1,000 in First Day of 2017 Trading by firebones on Sunday January 01, 2017 @07:02PM (#13298152)

Bravo. It's time to watch "Network" again!

https://sfy.ru/?script=network

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Re:Bitcoin Price Tops $1,000 in First Day of 2017 Trading by jacobush on Sunday January 01, 2017 @07:50PM (#13298332)

This movie is so quotable it's almost scary.

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Re:Bitcoin Price Tops $1,000 in First Day of 2017 Trading by firebones on Monday January 02, 2017 @12:58AM (#13299367)

I thought about creating a syllabus of essential biz/capitalism/media movies for new grads tonight. "Network", "There Will Be Blood", "Office Space", etc.

Let's build this thing...

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Re:Bitcoin Price Tops $1,000 in First Day of 2017 Trading by jacobush on Monday January 02, 2017 @07:13PM (#13305598)

Fork it on github

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