Kudos for sticking to science.

Boos for giving any credence to the term "Anthropocene Epoch" which has no basis in geological history.

It will take centuries to know if we have really established a geological epoch. Really, thousands of years.

Name one species now extinct due to higher CO2.

People hunt, pollute, plow, pave, burn, and do all sorts of other stuff that kill off species. Emissions of CO2 and 1.5 C higher temperatures have not killed off any species that we can identify.

Science means data and evidence. Propaganda is about pushing narratives with social traction. The latter might even be true, but without any evidence and data, it still isn't science.

Not really.

Inflation is driven by the government pouring money into the economy, without increasing the supply of goods and services.

More money chasing less stuff.

Inflation could be worse if the mostly largest corporations and the richest individuals were not sucking up the excess cash and storing it away. Most businesses don't qualify as rich, and they have to deal with costs, and that means higher prices. It is pretty absurd to blame the messenger (businesses) when they have no control over government spending and monetary policy.

That's all it amounts to. The government pressures banks, wall street, who pressure forum censorship.

Follow the money. Nobody really cares about terrorism or whatever is the hot button. They care about speech that impacts markets.

They can't measure how much energy is saved from having better information in many cases.

Data integrity matters. Historical records that are both secure and freely distributed has enormous value.

Not seeing that.

The sec makes rules, enforces them, and industry has no path for appeal. Until this ruling.

If the sec has to defend rulings in court, they will have to demonstrate that the rules were clear, and the offenders willfully broke them. Today industry often has to guess what the rules even are.

To win in an independent court the SEC will have to show that the rules are reasonable interpretations of legislation, understood by industry, and rooted in legislation. (Not made up, not just popped into existence by the action in question)

If he has secured his private keys, then nobody can touch his Bitcoins. Not the NSA, FBI, CIA...

If he has the key in some obvious place, well, he is toast. But if it has been this long, I'd guess he secured is stuff.

Microsoft gave a bit of detail about how this is done:

"We are permitted to publish data on national security orders received (including, if any, FISA Orders and FISA Directives), but only if aggregated with law enforcement requests from all other U.S. local, state and federal law enforcement agencies; only for the six-month period of July 1, 2012 thru December 31, 2012; only if the totals are presented in bands of 1,000; and all Microsoft consumer services had to be reported together."

That way nobody can really tell what these numbers mean...

Inflation is good for bankers and Wall Street, not the common man.

The income gap has been rising consistently, independent of government policy and party since 1971 when the last tenuous tie to gold was cut. That might not be due to monetary policy, but I know of zero economists (not even Krugman) who claims inflation raises the real value of wages and savings.

"So basically you're suggesting a system that hurts the poor and middle class (who have loans), which benefits people with large cash holdings, and which promotes stockpiling money over investment, which hurts everybody. What a load of bullshit. And we haven't had fixed exchange rates between most currencies since the Bretton-Woods system collapsed decades ago."

And do you know why Bretton-Woods collapsed? Could it have been the Federal Reserve printed way more money than they could back by Gold, when that money was supposed to be worth 35 dollars an ounce?

People accuse Bitcoin of being a pyramid scheme, but when the tower of debt collapses (as it did with Bretton-Woods, and it did numerous other times in the past) what then?

Look up the term. "Good Money" generally refers to Gold, money that cannot be printed by the banks/governments. It isn't a term that refers to an emotional judgement about money, i.e. what is "better".

You are arguing about why we have an inflationary currency, and you may be right.

I am pointing out that when a business or a consumer (both sides of a transaction involving money) using a currency that holds its value wins over a currency that loses value over time.

Again, love it or hate it, Thier's Law does apply.

Bitcoin is a deflationary currency. The more people use it (and our economies do grow) the more it is worth. That is how it expands.

That means anyone holding Bitcoin in savings, or in their wages, will share in the "growth" (via growth in value) of the money supply with Bitcoin.

The current system inflates the money supply. And not just to meet new demand, but to insure increasing prices of a set of consumer goods. This is pretty much done by providing money at way below market prices to banks and large corporate entities. Thus the benefits of the growth of the money supply are concentrated with these groups (Bankers and Wall Street).

The consumer is thus faced with a simple choice. How would you like your Wages? In a currency that mostly goes up in value? Or in a currency that certainly (by design and policy) goes down in value?

Thus Thier's Law: When the exchange rate is allowed to float, Good Money drives out Bad Money.