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johnhemming2 · Joined: 30 Jun 2015 Posts: 2161

Fiat currencies have some value by being legal tender within a jurisdiction. Otherwise they might as well be tulip bulbs.

Secondly remote voting is very vulnerable to election fraud simply because the secret ballot disappears. It does not matter what cryptographic systems you use because that is irrelevant.

kenneal - lagger · Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2017 7:11 pm Post subject:

Judging by the way Bitcoin is going it is tulip bulbs!
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johnhemming2 · Joined: 30 Jun 2015 Posts: 2161

vtsnowedin · Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2017 3:47 am Post subject:

If the ladies under the lamp posts and in the titty bars start excepting bitcoin it will be as the coin of the Realm. Until then it is just imitation money. Laughing

Mark · Joined: 13 Dec 2007 Posts: 906 Location: NW England

UndercoverElephant · Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2017 12:46 am Post subject:

I am not at all sure that trying to prosecute Puigedemont and 13 other Catalan nationalist leaders for "sedition" and "rebellion" is going to prove a wise long-term move. What is he going to do? Go back to face the charges, and make himself into a political prisoner and effective martyr for the separatist cause? Can't see that playing into Madrid's hands very well. Or stay in Belgium and claim asylum? A citizen of an EU country claiming asylum in another EU country?? What precedent does that set?

This isn't over.

PS_RalphW · Joined: 24 Nov 2005 Posts: 5375 Location: Cambridge

Belgium would hand him over to Spain the day the arrest warrant was signed.

johnhemming2 · Joined: 30 Jun 2015 Posts: 2161

I think it would need an EAW rather than just an Arrest Warrant, but if he wants protection from the Spanish authorities he would probably have to go to Russia.

There is in fact a rule which makes it nigh on impossibly to get Asylum in one EEA country against other EEA countries. I helped some UK citizens try to get Asylum unsuccessfully in the RoI against the UK (Childrens issues, baby stealing that sort of thing).

On the same point, however, a mother from the USA was given Asylum in the Netherlands.

kenneal - lagger · Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2017 3:33 pm Post subject:

Lord Beria3 · Joined: 25 Feb 2009 Posts: 4219 Location: Moscow Russia

Well, I've bought bitcoin and have no regrets.

It is a bull market and is clearly not a bubble, yet.
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kenneal - lagger · Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2017 10:51 am Post subject:

johnhemming2 · Joined: 30 Jun 2015 Posts: 2161

adam2 · Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2017 5:16 pm Post subject:

8 ministers from Catalonia have just been jailed by the Spanish authorities.

I rather doubt that this will end peacefully.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41850094
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UndercoverElephant · Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2017 5:22 pm Post subject:

johnhemming2 · Joined: 30 Jun 2015 Posts: 2161

Foolish of the Spanish government. The harder they respond the more there will be Catalan support for independence.