For those of you out there that mine at home with a decent amount of equipment and you own your house, did you check with your home insurance provider about mining to let them know what you're doing? I want to mine in the room of a home that one of my relatives owns but he is concerned about the house insurance going up because of the risk of running the miners in the house, or that they would void his insurance if they somehow caught fire and burned the house down, and the fact that I would technically be running a business as a sole proprietor from the house.

Any input on this type of thing? Would be interesting to hear what your experiences have been!

Cory Johnson, Ripple Chief Market Strategist said that "Bitcoin is slow when you talk about moving money" in a recent discussion on the future of blockchain and cryptocurrency @ foxbusiness.com.

Following this comment, Ripple tweeted on its official twitter page that
 “Money should move as fast as ideas move as fast as data moves and right now it doesn’t.”

While i strongly agree to Ripples tweet, i turn to ponder over exactly what Cory John has experience with Bitcoin. So i gave it a try, and the transaction experience is nothing better to write home about nor keep mute over

Anyways before i draw any conclusions. I just want to find out if
1. You agree or disagree with Ripples tweet.
2. You agree or disagree with Cory John assertion.

However before you comment on the Number two. You should have had an experience with transferring money with Bitcoin in the past couple of Weeks.

Is the crypto scene developing how you expected it? Do you find it progressing faster than you expected or slower? Does the progress please you or bum you out?

Obviously much of it is amazing, but at the same time it appears the same old mistakes are being made and some new ones too. Humanity is more inclined to bend something to its collective stupidity rather than head down a new road inspired by the good stuff.

Example? I've been sitting around in NEM since it was sub peanuts. There'd be one tweet a month about it and you'd have to sift through ten pages of google to find a relevant mention of it. Now it appears to be the basis of Venezuela's Petro, a coin 'backed' by the Bolivar, not oil or owt.

On one level this is mind blowing considering how nowhere it was. At the same time it's pretty fucking skeevy.

A lot has been said about mining and about the electricity consumption of the activities related to bitcoin mining. However, I have thought of the alternatives and how other systems produce not just energy waste, but also plenty of useless work and "human waste".

To have a network that can ensure the completeness of transactions, the global accessibility and all the features that bitcoins, and many alts, have at the moment, would probable produce a huge carbon footprint. Just think of the VISA system or the banking system... the amount of people working on it, the waste of commuting to works, the infrastructure.

Thinking of all that, would you still say Bitcoin is bad for the environment?

Do you think Satoshi wanted the market to grow that much? So many different companies, ICO's, different opinions etc...