Some dummy suggested I try pool mining

I would like to buy a kncminer controller board for an art project. Doesn't need to work just need for the slogan to be legible. What is best price including shipping to Texas?

What if there were a terror attack like 9/11 financed with cryptocurrency or the US government decided that the risks to financial surveillance and tax collection posed by cryptocurrency was so high that it decided to launch a war against cryptocurrency like its war against drugs or radical Islam and was willing to spend upwards of a trillion dollars over the next several years to combat it? Couldn’t they just mount 51% attacks on every current and future cryptocurrency and freeze all transactions?
 
For example, ballpark figures to duplicate current Bitcoin network hashrate would be $600 million equipment cost and $5 million per day electricity cost.
 
Might a response be to create niche, private, “underground” non open source, restricted access cryptocurrencies? Could these gather enough network effect to have any utility without being vulnerable to attack?

I will pay $20 plus shipping to US. How much is cheapest shipping option?

I'll pay $40 including shipping to US.

Mooning today 

Hitler Gets White Hacked

https://steemit.com/dao/@imsatoshi/hitler-gets-white-hacked

Hitler gets a haircut.

https://youtu.be/CN4RdrN80ic

Reasons hacker might agree to negotiate:

1) The advantage of not being investigated might outweigh the difference in lifestyle between having $10 million and $60 million.

2) If he keeps a portion of his settlement in BTC, the price will rise after she agrees to settle.

3) If he takes a long position in bitcoin before agreeing to settle, he will profit.

4) He will be seen as a hero by many instead of a theif and will be sought after for security advice.

5) He will be able to convert his BTC to USD easily.

Bitfinex should negotiate with hacker. Offer $10 million to return the stolen bitcoins and drop investigation.

Update - As it stands, we are continuing to investigate the hack and cooperating with authorities and the top blockchain analytic companies in the space to track the stolen bitcoins. In the meantime, we have been working on getting the platform up and running on a secure instance so that users can log in and see if their accounts have been affected as well as the state of their positions and orders. We hope to have an update with more substance later today UTC time.
Aug 3, 17:43 UTC

http://bitfinex.statuspage.io

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Sounds like denial, anger and bargaining all rolled into one.

You can file lawsuits but once a company enters bankruptcy lawsuits are usually discharged and everybody gets in line together. That's the whole purpose of bankruptcy protection.

Ps- It is often the threat of lawsuits that forces a company into bankruptcy.

Regarding #2, whitepaper compares rationality of miners in Bitcoin to rationality of gold custodians. That rationality is not analogous.  If the gold custodians steal all the gold the market price of gold does not go to zero.

This is more like an audited version of Mt. Gox. If the custodians hold the gold, it's their gold just like an exchange that holds your keys.

Read whitepaper but still do not understand.

1) Why can't this be shut down just like E-Gold was?
2) Once the Proof of asset and proof of audit takes place why can't the gold bars be suddenly removed or stolen?

It's morning in China. Maybe we'll get a confirmation or denial.

Censorship is enabled by technical factors but motivated by political sentiment.
All other things being equal, increased user adoption decreases technical vulnerability (more users means more nodes and a higher bitcoin price which means more miners) and improves political standing.

https://security.cs.georgetown.edu/~msherr/papers/censorship-as-sideeffect.pdf

Decentralization is not an important goal in and of itself.  The end goal is censorship resistance.
User adoption contributes to censorship resistance. Therefore to the extent a block size limit restricts user adoption, it also diminishes censorship resistance.