I've ran into a few issues with VLC. That being said, I'd probably only ever replace VLC with WinAmp.

Damn. I guess this is why we can't have nice things.

I guess I'll take this opportunity mention if one cannot make a monetary donation to IA. You can always help them out by help seed some of their torrents. I'd appreciate it at least :P

That may be true. To me, however, not all regulation are ethically or morally sound. I hear people in countries with corrupt governments can use these new fangled monies to avoid the regulations/sanctions put on their countries.

The example that comes to my mind was some guy in Turkey buying medicine. I guess Turkey isn't allowed to trade many countries because they government is corrupt? And this person was unable to get the medicine they needed in Turkey. Only way was to in port I guess? So they converted their local turkish currency to something the medicine maker would accept.

I can't really verify such claims but seemed like an alright "breaking of the rules".

Now a days we peer review medicine. As I mentioned, in the "wild west". There's no peer reviewing. The metaphor of the wild west was also pointing out the infancy of a technology. Another example could be how the "self driving cars" aren't actually that self driving. However I suspect that over time even those cars will actually become peer reviewed, functional and what not.

The example that I saw that I liked the best was video games. Just because someone sells bad video games. Doesn't mean all video games are a scam. Ya, know?

When the Wild West was around Medicine was used as a scam too. Snake Oil salesmen aren't very nice people. But that doesn't mean medicine is a bad idea ya know?

I agree that there are a lot of snake oil sellers in the cryptographic currencies realm. But that world is basically the digital wild west at the moment to me. I too am waiting to see what happens.

Also consider that many peoples (me) would like to move from the older cryptocurrencies that needs lots of power to run (proof of work) and try to advocate for newer proof of stake models.

To my understanding proof of stake models have dramatically lower power requirements.

In the United States you cannot vote for the people who issue currencies. The Federal Reserve are a bunch of privately owned banks.

Sure that number might look big. BUT YOU DON'T FEEL IT just looking at it.

And that's seven trillion right ther'. That's 7000 billion. Whew. P.S Rip Byron. We hardly knew ye.

It doesn't sounds like you get the point to me. You're leaving out the part the men also kill women too. At an alarming rate in many countries.

Like in my country the number one killer of pregnant women is being killed. And while I admit I don't know the distribution. I suspect women kill other pregnant women far less often than a jealous man or an upset father. Remember that part in To Kill A Mockingbird where the dad strangled his daughter? I do.

Oh it's not outright laughable because women get killed in the wild pretty often by wild men. Near me a lady was raped and killed while solo hiking a several months ago. I actually just got an amber alert a few days ago that a guy killed his girlfriend, ex-girlfriend, and is now on the run with their child. Crazy shit. Hell the number one killer of pregnant women in my country is being murdered by someone. I don't know the distribution. But I suspect women aren't going around killing other pregnant women that often.

It makes me wonder if getting amber alerts at 11pm about murders on the run is a good idea... But I also don't have any better ideas regarding the matter. :/

Also I see a lot of people thinking it's a grizzly bear or something. There's many species of bears. And many fear people more than hunt them.

Anyway that's why I don't see this decision laughable.

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I can't wait to see companies like Visa and Mastercard become obsolete. I think it will really help out my aunt's family business by cutting crazy high transaction fees she has to pay as a vendor.