alexanat

How do you figure that? Elon invested in BTC and ETH? :)

This is a wonderful idea.

You mention Facebook - I think FB could be leveraged here as well.. perhaps a neighborhood group.

I can't think of a national currency that is useful beyond faith.

A better analogy in my mind is that Bitcoin can be gold coin, and a fork is someone making cardboard coin, coloring them gold, and then calling it a type of bitcoin.

Forks are completely separate from bitcoin and are worth nowhere near as much.

As a crypto trader Binance is where I do business.

Their PC app is phenomenal for the most part, doesn't lag out like a lot of other exchange I've used.

CME Bitcoin futures

CME is offering bitcoin futures starting next week.

Interestingly enough, S. Korea has declared bitcoin futures illegal today and S. Korea is the leading buyer of BTC.

Should be a good time.

No, we don't know where the wallets are located physically. I'm not sure it is possible to brute force a wallet even if we did know where it was.

A lot of people track and watch these wallets to see if anything moves, it would cause a lot of panic if these lost coins started moving.

Well - you do have to use an intermediary to exchange bitcoin for fiat, that is correct. I think the vision is that one day fiat will go away and be replaced by bitcoin and other cryptos though.

Everything is quite clunky right now, and not exactly easy but that is true of any new technology.

This is one of the growing pains of bitcoin that will have to be worked out. You can send bitcoin to addresses that nobody holds the private keys to and those coins will be gone forever. There are likely already several hundred thousand or millions of bitcoin lost this way.

There is no reversal of a transaction, the ledger is immutable.

With all of that said, bitcoin was not created to solve crime.

Near instant worldwide transfer of funds with low fees is a big one that comes to mind. I'm invested in bitcoin and it takes, on average, an hour to move around with around $10 in fees.

Of course the fees are still high but I imagine they will come down if bitcoin wants to see mass adoption.

Immutable, anonymous, and decentralized ledger.

Those are attributes of blockchain technology rather than bitcoin itself though. It's possible another cryptocurrency (litecoin anyone?) will dethrone bitcoin as the 'currency' and bitcoin will remain a store of value.

Why not counter with ~100K USD or so? Squeeze more out of it, might settle negotations around 75K.

Then you can make another similar site, maybe for books or video games. :)

I think that is the way it is framed, but as the OKCupid user base bleeds out those users are most likely turning to Tinder as it has more people. OKCupid has actually lifted some features off of Tinder which makes no sense as they're owned by the same parent company which is kind of shooting itself in the foot with this approach.

Anecdatally, I know people who have had long term relationships off of Tinder, some still together. I imagine that people will continue migrating over to Tinder from OKCupid.

I think it has to do with the human desire to be apart of something bigger than ourselves.

Major sporting organizations (MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, etc...) are very good at selling stories of players/teams and having people emotionally connect with players/teams at that level. This is what leads to favorite players which can lead to favorite teams.

Another aspect is region. For example, I've grown up in Seattle since I was a toddler. Everyone around me is a Seahawks fan. I am a Seahawks fan. It'd be too much to follow multiple teams for me, but some do.

This gives me something in common with those around me, and having team spirit and dressing up on Sundays is fun. Hanging out with friends on Sundays, watching football, and shooting the shit is a lot of fun and sometimes the only time we can all make to see each other as we get older and our lives drift in their different directions. That bit was a little off tangent but it does help illustrate why someone may like sports.

I'll agree that learning the rules really helps. When you're watching two different teams line up against each other, attempting to read what the other team is trying to do and executing against it in real time is exhilarating! There are several aspects of the game that have to be accounted for on every single play. It's a mental, physical, and emotional game.

Hope this helps you (or any reader) understand why someone may enjoy to watch sports. Go Hawks! :)

It is still not appropriate to complain (or rather cry...) about in a professional setting, imo. How can you expect to have confidence in an executive when they put on an act like that? Nothing says "I don't know what to do" more.

Yes, you are now facing some additional hardships in your job of creating a good workplace where employees can succeed. Those concerns should be addressed within the scope of what the company can or cannot do.

It seems like priorities would shift into protecting immigrant employees and that's okay - that is a hardship that the position entails and is something that should've been addressed long in advance as immigration reform was and probably always will be a controversial topic in the USA.

Agreed.

To the younger generation I am sure they already are considered equal to or better than HBO, they are less likely to factor in any legacy content.

It's pretty easy to subscribe to the 'once a <blank> always a <blank>' thought process but I don't think that is what is happening here.

Perhaps there is a mentor:mentee matching site based on certain criteria?

I think I have an idea. :)

I am one of those 63,000.

I preordered out of sheer excitement. After spending the time to sit down and work it all out realistically, I decided that a new car could wait.