Let me put is like this.  Attacking North Korea has a Human capital cost.  The main objective is to liberate the North Korean people and perhaps give the land back to South Korea.  It is in the best interests of Freedom to save them but it remains as to whether we are willing to pay the price.

At best an assassination attempt could destabilize the region.  It seems that the main figurehead Kim-Jong-Un is the main malefactor and removing him could be a first step to incentivizing rebellion in North Korea, both in the Civilian population and the Military complex.

There is also the idea of striking first, the U.S could immediately target there long rang missile capabilities and remove them first.|

A direct invasion would cause a lot of bloodshed, hence why NK sustains a Large Military Force

Things to think about moving forward.  Especially if WW3 is on the Horizon. 

Oh man,  Paycoin was set to be Bitcoin 2.0.  I even used to advertise back in the day, after the fixed $20 was taken off it immediately dropped.  At that point I resigned

I guess, the value of bitcoin will increase further since there will be less mining.  

Its been pointed out that transactions are the main problem, It seems that paying a higher fee magically increases the speed of the transaction,  I guess because it prioritizes them first over others.  In that case they will continue to increase as more transactions happen and more people want things moved around faster.

I noticed that they changed it from "lifetime" mining to "Open-ended" btc Mining 

Oh man back in the day those that stuck with bitcoin became instant millionaires. im talking when it was like less than $10 a pop. Getting rich with bitcoin might be tough now.  The dream might lie with Alt-coins that take off  .

Do you mean as in One Fiat Currency? For example one "Earth" dollar.  In that case Purchasing Power Parity would be wiped from existence since the price level in each country would be based on the supply of that good.  It may work if the entire earth was aggregated into one entity with free trade since it would be based on the supply on the entire earth.

I think it would be an interesting social experiment if Trump won the election . Clinton would just be the same old same old rubbish we get.

Very risky, some guy could come along and clean house.  From what I have seen and experienced they have been profitable all around.  In my opinion just-dice which is done in CLAM currency is pretty good for investing in the bank roll.

Just watch out for that risk though.

  Sure dude place your buy order at $100/BTC. Granted this post is old even back in 2015 it was probably unreasonable to buy at $100, even $200.

Well, the media is backing the Clinton Crime family with everything they have.  I'm not sure if the Trump Syndicate will be able to pull through on this one but we will see.

Probably, the majority of consumers are risk adverse.  Risk seeking consumers would buy less bitcoin and invest into alt-coins for profit. But Risk Adverse consumers would be comfortable purchasing more bitcoin.  Also applies to investors somewhat.

I'm more worried about the sensitivity levels of some of the western men. For instance people are calling racist on anything they don't agree with and trying to gain retribution for things that happened years ago.  For example Black lives matter (BLM) trying to gain reparations for slavery back a while back.

Social Justice Warriors will turn the wheel of development backwards. Over sensitive and under the assumption that man cannot critically analyze statements and actions, to the point of trying to ban free speech.

It Depends Solely on your risk preference, if you are risk adverse then you would save your money in a bank, usually in a term deposit or even at the risk-free rate.  If you are risk-seeking then you would move into the share market and then into real estate.

If you are the ultimate risk seeking investor you would go into bitcoin and alt-coins, more riskier than stocks or real-estate but good returns, ............. real good returns.

I agree, we need proof that you are actually who you say you are, otherwise if you are actually being honest you could just raise that capital through campaign events and donations like sausage sizzles or something, its only $5000 you are looking for I assume.

If you are a scammer then you can kindly f**k off.

T-bills have the lowest risk, (unless government crashes).  Trying to make $100,000 in one year from another $100,000 "risk-free" is just not going to happen.  We can be 95% confident that you make a certain return and in general a 20% return on 100k is actually pretty good in monetary terms.  Risk-free rate is generally 2-4% depending on a countries inflation rate so if you are beating that then you are doing great.

Its mostly because people want it to be dead.  They say its dead in the hopes that people believe that it is, government in general does not like bitcoin for the obvious reason that it is anon and because they do not have control over it.

Something other than Cloud mining, currently unprofitable.  You could either play the market and invest in alt coins to get rich pretty fast, but at a very high risk. Or you could treat btc as a stock in itself and hold on to it.

There are investment platforms such as Havelock (which I use) but you have to be really careful and know exactly what you are looking for and do you research, same if you are going to loan out. 

Cloud mining contracts in general are unprofitable, in the long run at least.  Even Genesis mining with all of there system upgrades and electricity deals are not giving good ROI.

You would have to find some way to reduce power consumption per block.  Genesis tries but overall most I have spoken to have lost money in them, including myself. (lifetime =/= lifetime, only until negotiated fee level is higher than return)

Banks are useful as storage, for loans etc

Some have tossed the idea of a bitcoin reserve bank (i.e federal reserve) to for inflation targeting and currency stability, I think that is what would really make it like regular currency which is what we are trying to avoid.

Two Ways:

Either with someone who has a lot of bitcoin, (I mean a lot) and can use market power to manipulate the price, essentially simulating a pump and dump.

Or manipulate peoples expectations of the market, for example if everyone things btc will drop in price then eventually it will and vice-versa.  If you look at Augmented Phillips Curve for example, inflation = expected inflation, you affect everyone's expectations and see through it to make a profit, Br-exit is a good example.

-Source, Some Macroeconomics research I've done here and there