[SaveFerris]

[BTC tonight apparently is now at or below its average mining cost]

I have always suspected Bitcoin was created for - nefarious reasons.

If I was the government, and I wanted to monitor an underground economy of some sort, I’d have my minions create such an entity (or whatever one wishes to call it). /shiny side out

I figured Bitcoin is one of the premier Ponzi Schemes because in almost every game I’d download to my (now crashed phone) there were ALWAYS multiple, multiple ads for “free” Bitcoin if you’d just sign up. I didn’t.

[C210N]

If I was the government, and I wanted to monitor an underground economy of some sort, I’d have my minions create such an entity (or whatever one wishes to call it). /shiny side out...

Wow, well put. That ALSO describes fakebook to a T (as perhaps other social eneMedia). Perhaps the internet itself - DARPA was initially "military".

FB, a way with a shiny veneer, to gather intelligence on unsuspecting people, by creating a medium for which they willingly pour out the inner thoughts on just about every topic. Interrogating becomes a lot easier.