You sound like a candidate for Bitcoin!!
On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 12:57:57 -0800 "Gary AL9A" <al9a@mtaonline.net>
writes:
> I know, off topic, but...
>
> Don't bet the "bank" on your being held harmless because your bank
> has FDIC
> insurance. This is yet another Federal agency long on promises,
> short on
> cash to deliver. If any FDIC member bank were to fail you can count
> on the
> legal process to take months or years to do the auditing steps prior
> to
> making any payouts to the customers. Even then I would estimate
> FDIC would
> cover only about 60 - 70 % of customer losses. If many banks failed
> at the
> same time the payout would be even less. How's your sleep doing
> tonight?
>
> 73,
> Gary AL9A
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: k2qmf@juno.com
> Sent: September 19, 2014 8:29 AM
> To: w5xd@writelog.com
> Cc: writelog@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [WriteLog] WriteLog 11.22 released AND a special
> sale...
>
>
> I don't know about you but my bank
> has FDIC insurance!!!
>
> Go figure!
>
> K2QMF
>
> On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 15:30:45 +0000 "Wayne, W5XD"
> <w5xd@writelog.com>
> writes:
> > >Bitcoins sound a little bit sketchy to me...
> > >
> >
>
>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-28/mt-gox-exchange-files-for-bankr
> uptcy.html
> >
> >
>
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-28/mt-gox-exchange-files-for-bankr
> uptcy.html>
> >
> > Yes, it does sound sketchy. Here are some facts to ponder:
> >
> > mt-gox is (was) a bitcoin exchange where "exchange" is an
> important
> > word to understand.
> > It was "like" a bank in the sense that bitcoin owners entrusted
> > their private keys to
> > a third party (mt-gox) who treated them in an insecure way (i.e.
> the
> > private keys were
> > stolen). This is analogous to taking a pile of cash to a bank,
> who
> > put it in a safe, but
> > the cash disappeared from the safe. The keeper of the safe
> declared
> > bankruptcy because
> > he didn't have the resources to pay back the depositors.
> >
> > Would we allow ourselves to say cash is "sketchy" and we should
> not
> > use it? Every
> > individual has to make a choice, but the underlying choice is one
> of
> > trust: do
> > you trust (a) the technology behind the "cash" or the "digital
> > currency"? (b) the
> > keepers of the keys to lock to the safe? (c) that the "cash" is
> > itself not counterfeit?
> > or (d) the cash won't be inflated to zero value by the time you
> want
> > it back?
> >
> > My understanding of bitcoin, based on my own technical expertise,
> is
> > that its technology
> > meets basic standards of trustworthiness. But there is no
> absolute
> > standard of
> > trustworthiness. Each of us has to make a relative judgement of
> > whether one choice is
> > more trustworthy ("secure") than another. In this case, the
> choice
> > is between bitcoin
> > and the US dollar. Each offers a very different set of technical
> > tradeoffs, and a very
> > different set of human judgement tradeoffs (that is, you have to
> > predict the future
> > behavior of people in order to make a decision about who to
> trust.)
> >
> > Wayne, W5XD
> >
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