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Let's Clear Up One Confusion About Bitcoin November 3, 2017 If bitcoin can be converted into fiat currencies at a lower transaction cost than the fiat-to-fiat conversions made by banks and credit card companies, it's a superior means of exchange. One of the most common comments I hear from bitcoin skeptics goes something like this:Bitcoin isn't real money until I can buy a cup of coffee with it. In other words, bitcoin fails the first of the two core tests of "money": that it is a means of exchange and a store of value. The confusion here is the same one that plagues the conventional understanding of the foreign exchange markets: people confuse exchange and convertibility, which are both flows, i.e. transactions. Here's an illustration of the difference. Let's say Hipster Coffee Bar accepts payment in bitcoin (BTC) for a cup of coffee. The Hipster Coffee Bar branch in Mexico converts the BTC into pesos, the branch in Thailand converts the BTC into baht, and so on around the world.

Welcome to in5d - UPDATED DAILY! www.acting-man.com Know Your Neurons: How to Classify Different Types of Neurons in the Brain’s Forest | Brainwaves Previously, on Know Your Neurons: Chapter 1: The Discovery and Naming of the Neuron Chapter 2: How to Classify Different Types of Neurons, or The Dendrology of the Neuron Forest Scientists have organized the cells that make up the nervous system into two broad groups: neurons, which are the primary signaling cells, and glia, which support neurons in various ways. All these cells are packed into a three-pound organ about the size of both your fists stuck together. Different Types of Neurons (click to enlarge). A model neuron. Before exploring the brain's cellular diversity, let's look at a model neuron. Sign up for Scientific American’s free newsletters. Neurons classified by structure. Scientists have classified neurons into four main groups based on differences in shape. Neurons classified by function. Researchers also categorize neurons by function. Do these basic classes account for all types of neurons? So how many different types of neurons have scientists named so far? References

Blog Blog Crumbling fundamentals in both the short term & long by Chris Martenson Wednesday, February 26, 2014, 8:21 PM According to the stock markets in the US and in Europe, the world’s economy is not just in good shape, but is in the best shape it’s ever been. The S&P 500 hit an intraday new record high of 1858.71 on Feb 24, 2014, and is now 18.6% above the peak it hit in 2007, a moment everybody now recognizes was heavily overvalued. A nearly 19% gain above the prior all time high is an enormous and unusual event.

Audio: Public Talk#3 | Is There Security at All, Psychologically? If one may, let us think over together this question. That is, if you are willing, put aside your particular vanity, your particular prejudice, your own conclusions and let's think over this problem together. Which means you are not accepting what the speaker is saying, nor are you accepting your own conclusions because you have none, you have put them aside. So let us think this over very carefully, and this may be one of the factors, that human beings are so frightened. Save as favorite J. Third Public Talk in Saanen July 1979 I've got a bad cold. Shall we go on with what we were talking about the day before yesterday? And the other is: each human being seeks psychological security, inward security, relying on belief, holding on, hoping thereby in a belief to find security, in an ideal, in a person, in a concept, in an experience and does he ever find security in any of this? Have you any belief that you hold on to? So after talking over together - together - does one put aside ideals?

GOLDEN JACKASS.COM - The Golden Jackass Knows Gold, Currencies & Bonds" Welcome to Golden Jackass website -- SUBSCRIBE today for Login access trouble, use Login Finder feature to retrieve passcodes (back to 2004) (recent work) April 7th: on Japanese in a monetary vise, the Petro-Dollar demise in the face of tight Russian & Chinese teamwork, and the dreadful importing of price inflation to the United States after 40 years of its export in the form of USTreasury Bonds April 6th: The Eastern Rebellion against the USDollar has begun in earnest and picks up speed, with a new Russia-Iran $20 oil for products deal, with a Russian central bank Project Double Eagle to create a gold-backed Ruble currency (to complement the Chinese Yuan gold-backed currency), sure to result in a parade of gold-backed currencies (Gulf Dinar, Nordic Euro, Panama Balboa) used

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