bearister;842113372 said:

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http://news.yahoo.com/wild-unregulated-hacker-currency-gains-following-015010691--finance.html

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When asked, [Mike] Caldwell acknowledged that bitcoin might be in for a bumpy ride.
But he drew the analogy between the peer-to-peer currency enthusiasts who hope to shake
the finance world in the 2010s with the generation of peer-to-peer movie swappers who
challenged the entertainment industry's business model in the 2000s.

"Movie pirates always win the long game against Hollywood," he said. "Bitcoin works the same way."

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bearister;842113372 said:

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http://news.yahoo.com/wild-unregulated-hacker-currency-gains-following-015010691--finance.html

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drizzlybears brother;842113412 said:

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Who is John Galt?

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John Galt is a character in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged (1957). Although he is not identified by name until the last third of the novel, he is the object of its often-repeated question "Who is John Galt?" and of the quest to discover the answer.

As the plot unfolds, Galt is acknowledged to be a creator, philosopher, and inventor who symbolizes the power and glory of the human mind. He serves as a principled counterpoint to the collectivist social and economic structure depicted in the novel. The depiction portrays a society based on oppressive bureaucratic functionaries and a culture that embraces mediocrity and egalitarianism, which the novel associates with socialistic idealism.

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