The Current Bitcoin Market

The current bitcoin market is volatile and uninsured (part of it's uniqueness). With a lost paper, wiped disc, broken computer, your investment can be wiped away without ever having the chance to return. The recent closing of the mt. gox exchange in Japan is a prime example of how to lose your bitcoins without losing their keys (because you probably never had them in the first place). 

 

Was it a scheme from the developers of mt. gox to extract money from those who trust in the bitcoin concept and markets? Have they been gathering people's funds for their bitcoins, only to deflate their value after halting trading, and purchasing back or holding the bitcoin keys for their own wealth? We may never know exactly which one of the numerous hypothetical schemes is the complete truth. But it does make you wonder.

Thought Provoking Question on Reality

     After watching several Leonardo DiCaprio films over the past few weeks, a common question is often formulated by his role in the films. It does not question what is real, whether or not there is a God, nor the validity of the deep workings of society. It touches on another realm of reality. The state in which we would rather live.

Would you rather be present and aware of what is truly happening around you and to yourself? Or would you rather live happily in an unreal world that you perceive as real?

   One can virtually reduce the question to, would you happily live in a lie, or be present in an unhappy truth? Each of our own perceptions and experiences will determine our individual answers, for there is neither a correct nor incorrect answer. Just merely a preference. Perceive your preference.