And to celebrate the 700,000 views, I will drop another bombshell:


During my relatively absent months in the forum (the time that I have mainly developed Crypto Kingdom), I have been thinking. The thinking is that Bitcoin as a vehicle of freedom is likely lost. The transparency and decentralization either were planned to self-destruct it, or it was too easy to be subverted to be part of the control-based world money system. People wiser than me saw this a long time ago, and also said that once the "occupation" of Bitcoin is complete, then its value will be let rise meteorically, because people cannot take the gains out anyway, and the value rise will trap the last mohicans with 100, 1000 or 10,000 BTC holdings who are charged with whatever financial crimes if they try to diversify (unless they are the insiders who get away with anything). So if you are living off-grid, you may now be able to take $100k out of Bitcoin, but when Bitcoin is 100x more valuable, you can still get $100k, maximum.


Monero version 0.9 "Hydrogen Helix" is released. There has not been new releases of Monero core for a very long time. It might be good to check out if you don't own any. The price has been modest (slightly up in fiat y/y, slightly down in BTC)

The easiest way to hedge your fortunes is to acquire the same number of XMR as you own BTC, since then it does not matter to you how their mutual exchange rate goes and which technology gains more. Only 0.1% of your BTC need to be diverted to buying XMR to achieve this.