bitconion

>Just don't have ...

"Idiocracy"(2006) scenario :-)

problem #1 - protect freedom, liberties

problem #2 - adaptation to the needs of the complex system like modern society

those are kind of ‘significant’ problems, technologies like Internet, blockchain etc, provide sequential approximations to the solution of those problems.

and worth to mention libh2o in h2o https://github.com/h2o/h2o

so... use bitcoins!

Just to feel SWIFT in some Europian countries: for $17 fee is about $72, and sometime it took about 2 weeks for confirmation maybe because of weekend days... plus all those warnings about the purpose etc... absolutely not user friendly input fields... BTC is simply manna of heaven comparing with that

buying bitcoins, you may want to hedge your risks using futures or options derivatives (i.e. to use your bought bitcoins to get corresponding derivative contracts). There is a handful of exchanges for that (bitmex, deribit and maybe some more). if your lose in crypto you will get compensation in derivatives and vice versa. though this would require some knowledge (not the rocket science of course), there are invest firms that can help

well, also gold is yellow and shiny, not like bitcoin. the author is somewhere in the middle between abstractions and direct analogies. of course "intrinsic value" has no math definition. so one can manipulate words around it and bitcoin and gold etc

eventually (on large time scale) this "value"has no difference except it produce the garbage that pollute environment even worse

perhaps, the uprise of derivatives like LedgerX, Deribit as well as the recent CME decision will increase market efficiency and help us better to understand the underlying bitcoin market