widespread use != massive popularity

Ask your average Windows user.

My dos centavos ... Running NoScript, giving full js permission to the primary domain and all (apparently) relevant 2ndary domains, home page still doesn't resolve.

If you need google, facebook and pinterest just to display a landing page, I'm never gonna use your site.

So, reading through this discussion, I'm seeing a lot of "IRS tax law is confusing, complicated, and even contradictory on cryptocurrencies", and a lot of other people saying, in effect "well tough, it's the law, deal with it".

What I'm getting out of it all is, people who did not make money on cryptocurrencies this past year are getting some satisfaction from the difficulties of those that did.

Well, apparently not impossible, if one denies hard enough.

Or is uncertain.

Musk has actually said that he expects BFR to be cheaper to fly than their original Falcon 1 ... meaning prices in the $5-10M range, as opposed to $60+M for F9.

I think that was referring to cost per kg to orbit, not cost per flight.

So, the latest drop seems to be triggered by credit card companies blocking purchase of cryptocoins "'cuz volatile".

Am I missing something? Since when do CC companies get to decide where you use your card? I thought it worked the other way around — businesses decide whether or not they accept CCs.

Are there other examples of CC companies blocking (legal) purchases made by people with good credit history?

Some credit card networks, processors, and/or banks also prohibit counterfeit or unauthorized goods, gambling, marijuana, tobacco, weapons, fireworks, radioactive materials, mug shot publication, bankruptcy lawyers, psychic services, etc. (copied from Stripe) I thought they also banned the sale of human hair (no joke) but maybe that's been changed.

Also keep in mind that these banks allow you to buy cryptocurrency with debit cards, just not with credit.

The greater fool basis for valuation runs out eventually. I believe this is simply a bubble popping.

So long as they are able, so long as it's profitable, people speculating in cryptocurrency will encourage yet more bubbles.

In the US, at least, the underwear drawer is a popular place to hide other things ... eg, your illegal drug stash, or the engagement ring you bought, etc. I think there's also subtextual implications of nosing about in your sex life.

Just curious ... show of hands, how many people here have never been on Facebook?

I created an account once, in "incognito" mode, but I only sent one message and never posted anything... It turned out that someone who couldn't be emailed or telephoned because he "was only on Facebook" also didn't respond on Facebook. Shocking!

Me. I took the founder's advice and didn't trust him.

I ran a small home/experimental aquaponics system for over a year, fed the fish, primarily, free worms out of my vermicomposters.

That just means SpaceX will become one more giant ISP that is not required to support NN in the US. I love SpaceX, and I'm optimistic that they will be a much better provider than, eg, Comcast (low bar, I realize) ... but they are not the solution to the FCC/NN debacle.