Hi there, dude, I live in a CR postcode too, incidentally. So AS isn't just a rich white kid's disease, hehe, that's kind of good to know, or interesting at least. More unity for us! (I'm kind of kidding, I knew all that, in case you take me too literally... my sense of humour is very very 'dry')
Bitcoins is an interesting alternative to what some call the Rothschild Banking System, isn't it? I also heard they were destined to crash, like anything else.
That made me think of the fall of Warsaw Pact Communism - if the Capitalists hadn't been fighting Communism and lived up to their 'let the market [i.e. the people] decide' ethic, and let those who wanted Communism have it. Then let it work on its own merits, as opposed to 'under pressure from Capitalist wars', then who knows if it would have been an improvement on what we have today? Food for thought.
So, the scenario is that once ('if'?) Bitcoin becomes a credible threat to the status quo, those who it threatens, will, like when Sky TV was threatened by ITV Digital offering pay-TV Football subscriptions and hired hackers to crack their card-encryption codes (successfully), the bankers at the top will possibly attempt to wage war on (hack) the bitcoin system.
So that it gets a fair crack of the whip at showing the current system up for what it is, I hope three things:
1) That bitcoin is a genuine, uncynical and integrity-based alternative currency.
2) It can protect itself against interference from outside.
3) It can work better than current gold-based (actually no longer gold-based as the gold has been sold-off etc) currencies.
I'm pretty cynical about the powers-that-be in this world, though, so it'll take some doing for Bitcoin to achieve all of this.
However, it doesn't seem to be any more or less 'virtual' than the current Fiat Currency systems, does it?
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That 'emulator' concept of processing social data is a new one to me, but makes perfect sense.
"No man can hold what the darkness can sow" - Agents Of Oblivion - Hangman's Daughter.