60 BTC to 380$

1. The ~10 minute confirmation time
2. The reliance on set encryption protocols which could be broken in the future (EC and SHA256). For something to become as big as a world currency, it needs to be trusted that the technology would last hundreds of years.
3. The blockchain size.
4. The amount of resources that the client uses on a device.
5. Other scalability issues, such as the amount of transactions which can be handled per minute.
6. Irreversibility of transactions.
7. The extreme ease of the average person losing coins due one of many vectors of mistakes and hardware failures, or hackers.
8. The technical difficulty for the average user trying to even use it.
9. Bitcoin commerce and usage has mostly formed within centralized entities even though it is supposed to be decentralized.
10. There are still humans who ultimately control Bitcoin and who must be trusted by its users, even though the system is supposed to be decentralized.
11. Volatility - it is not an attractive store of value for someone who just wants to use it as a store of value or a currency and isn't into investing or speculating.
12. The present distribution of wealth.
13. The reliance on the internet in order to function.
14. Also, what happens if the internet is split apart due to government firewalls.
15. Governments, corporations, and hackers could ultimate control and restrict Bitcoin usage if they really wanted. And mass adoption will not be reached when users have to do it illegally, run tor, and run checks on every client they download to make sure it isn't a hacked client. Even tor traffic or bitcoin traffic over tor could be blocked too by smart routers.
16. Some of the worlds most powerful contries have already banned or restricted it.

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The people saying this are dreaming that bitcoin becomes a world reserve fiat currency as big as the USD (or bigger), but BTC has too many flaws to do anything like that.

The main problem with ancap is that there's nothing preventing a violent gang (a new government if you will) from forming, because everyone else is being so peaceful, and if everyone else stops being peaceful, then it it isn't ancap any more - its just regular anarchy.

Ancap will only work if there is some force to stop people from conducting acts of violence, preferably some force that isn't corruptible. So, until we have open-source peacemaking enforcement droids no such utopia can exist.

Time to the most popular game of the day..Internet detective or chief fud engineer . I really hope i'm wrong
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Last Active:    February 25, 2014, 02:34:46 PM

evidence #4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2ku1A5Ox8U
i know he said he hired someone on fiverr but that could be to hide he's really a she?

evidence #5
Autumn Radtke, chief executive of First Meta Pte Ltd, was found dead at her Singapore home on Feb 26.

And are you posing for Vogue?  If you were, would it justify that statement?  Do you really just want to hurt people?  Whatever you might get out of that, it's just not worth it.  Criticizing her journalism seems apt, perhaps even necessary, certainly justified.  But would you want someone telling the world your daughter was ugly?  I admit:  I say nasty things sometimes.  Then I feel bad about it, and try not to do it again.

It is intriguing. From a primary English speaker this sounds odd (meaning it sounds as if he is admitting he would be lying if he told her he wasn't involved). Obviously it could have come out worse if he doesn't speak/understand English from birth. I could easily see this going either way. Imagine it from a strong English speaker, then imagine that answer from someone who isn't so strong. "I can not do that," could simply be frustration. I mean he had to call the cops. Anyway, we could parse this forever. I guess we'll find out for sure one day.

Wow, she really is pathetic, isn't she? And the interviewers know it.

You're pretty unlikely to find anything where I don't do that.  Old habits die hard and, as many here have pointed out, if you learned to type when typewriters and word processors were still a thing, it's pretty standard behaviour.

its not enthusiasm believe me....its just feeling culpable for having sold the goxcoins profiteering from other peoples Stockholm syndrom..

or who were blinded  to see through this " making the Ponzi work to rid the last idiot of his monies" which is still going on because nobody wants to

accept the fact that there have been 800000 stolen coins sold down to a hundred dollars at empty Gox.....

I would be rather worried that the plug is again pulled- why not tomorrow morning ? - nobody else suspicious why it is being held at 650 if you ´d really

come to your senses thinking the matters through ?   ok then cheers

How long before someone Photoshops the Bitcoin symbol onto his hat?

We'll know soon if it is him or not. The guy will have to address public, either to deny it or to admit it as he's going to be under lot of pressure now from media.