nuclear weapons are not a deterrent to non state actors and never have been, that’s not what a nuclear deterrent is meant for.

Careful there, you are coming dangerously close to admitting we don’t need a marine corps. I mean we don’t, but they’ve got such iron clad PR that you’ll be lynched for even admitting they are a giant waste of cash.

Ocean-going speed of 6 knots max?

Does the Navy’s Army really need any more expensive toys? Does the Navy actually even need its own army which in turn has its own navy and airforce?

“Uncrackable”, right. Also, the encryption isn’t unprecedented, it is pretty standard encryption. It can be broken... it just isn’t easy.

It’s not that they can’t, it’s that they don’t. The obstacle to understanding isn’t their intelligence or education, it’s their assumption that they DO understand it, that the framework they use to understand their own field is suitable to understanding this other field, and that they therefore don’t need to examine…

“then it’s another example of experts in one field with an unwarranted belief that they understand an entirely unrelated field.”

Let’s just say there’s a really fucking good reason why one of the more common nicknames for Bitcoins outside of bitcoin fans is “Dunning-Krugerrands”.

You mean that fake currency without the backing of at least the promise of a country to back it up, is unsustainable? No!

Right on the money.

Way to coin a phrase.

I don’t believe him one bit.

The more and more I learn about Bitcoin and its possible origins, the more I feel that this is a very long con. That Satoshi, whoever he/she/they is/are, are just waiting for the right moment to pull the rug out and run away with a huge pile of cash or to somehow screw over the financial system. Something tells me…