well...colonising and stealing from most parts of the world - South East Asia, South America, Central America, Africa...can be a pretty profitable business I heard =)

lol.. you are right, Russia has been oppressed for centuries, by their own fking leaders.

Ivan the asshole

Stalin the exterminator

Nicholas the arrogant dipshit

Putin the dictator

how are the CIA, Biden, Hillary, DNC any better than Putin? peter the great, alexander, elizabeth petrovana - those are some powerful leaders who brought positive changes in Russia - can't be selective of names. lets not forget the no of countries that attacked russia, or for how long it has been embargoed or sanctions because of ideology. what do you expect Russia to say "opps sorry US, Nato, we will worship you now? " Well most countries did do that. Russia didn't

If Bitcoiners think Peter Schiff is just wrong, why are they (you) so sensitive about it?

He says (in essence) that Bitcoin is just nothing, it's numbers made up out of thin air and there's no physical use for it. I think that's obviously correct. The Bitcoin whitepaper defines "a bitcoin" as a digital signature. This of course can be copied infinitely. In fact, Bitcoiners often encourage each other (and neophytes) to copy the entire blockchain (ie run a node). So the scarce thing isn't the technology or the bitcoins but just a ledger record.

You can deny the obvious (that Bitcoins are just made up) or you can try to make the case that these made-up things are so wonderful and useful that they have value despite being made up nothings.

The problem, from my point of view, with the latter approach is that it's circular. If there was some use for these numbers, or if people had some good reason to value them, it would be great to be able to securely and (relatively) cheaply transfer these valuable things around. That would be awesome. But that capacity only has value if the "coins" somehow have value already. It can't give them value they otherwise wouldn't have. Why not? If Bitcoins didn't have any value, transacting in them securely would not constitute a payment system or a money or a valuable service.

I observe that Bitcoins do enjoy a fiat price at the moment. So clearly some subset of people are willing to forego/provide other assets to acquire them. However, this was also true of Enron stock at one time.

I think it is totally fine for people to hear from Hillary Clinton about what she thinks of Tucker Carlson and Putin. Totally fine. She has free speech. People can judge for themselves. I don't know why free speech advocates are bitching about it... but that bitching is free speech too. It's great to see all this free speech happening.

The US intelligence agencies wrecked their own reputations over and over again. It is not a mystery why people don't trust them anymore and are curious about what Putin has to say. I think US intelligence agencies need to learn that lesson, learn that they can't deceive Americans, and work to earn back people's trust. America needs intelligence agencies that work for Americans, not for special interests. I still believe that is possible. But sadly I haven't seen any evidence yet that they are trying to earn back the trust of Americans. It is mystifying and disheartening. It may well be that America cannot be saved due to it's fundamental structure allowing special interests to control everything. If that is true, I expect continual decline until a third world war in which America loses. Be mentally prepared for that eventuality, and figure out what you are going to do about it to keep your family safe.

Still the final boss.

Everyone is salivating about the Putin interview and I'm just asking myself why I should listen to a bat shit crazy mass murderer. I didn't care about Stalin's or Hitler's philosophy either, I don't care about what the Kim family think about how a country should be run either.

Of course anyone can interview anyone they want and publish it. But I won't read a bad book and I certainly don't care about Putin's internal world and his powertrips.