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Marinea – Sustainable ‘Village At Sea’ – Plans To Use Bitcoin
Cyptocoinnews.com ^ | 25 August 2015 | Elliot Maras

Posted on 08/25/2016 1:24:59 PM PDT by amorphous

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Fresh Water?, waste control?, food?, energy source?, medical care?, a foolish proposition that will be destroyed by the first bad weather. A fool and his money is soon parted!


21 posted on 08/25/2016 2:06:14 PM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: amorphous

None of those examples are of societies basing their economies on bitcoin though. The basic problem I’m curious about is how does one enforce a judgement? Let’s say I don’t agree with a ruling against me and I’m just not going to pay. What can they do? Expel me? Even then I still don’t have to pay.


22 posted on 08/25/2016 2:09:33 PM PDT by SeeSharp
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'Enforcing judgement' may take many forms in such a community; banishment, loss of freedom, forfeiture of assets (whatever they may be - maybe just a deposit).

The use of crypto-currency, as a means of exchange, doesn't prevent a society from enforcing some kind of community based judgement against a member(s).

23 posted on 08/25/2016 2:19:31 PM PDT by amorphous
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To: Rastus

That’s how come I replied twice.

-Frank Fontaine


24 posted on 08/25/2016 2:22:04 PM PDT by AloneInMass (Ready for Her Heinous!)
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To: amorphous
In other words, Marinea is a giant floating "safe space."

Just wait until hurricane season.

25 posted on 08/25/2016 2:23:21 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Rastus
LMAO!!!

Nailed it...


26 posted on 08/25/2016 2:55:38 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: txnativegop
First hurricane will do them in. just sayin’ . . .

Yep. It's not unusual for storms to track right through the Florida Straits.

27 posted on 08/25/2016 3:41:24 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: amorphous

No, but it does prevent you from being able to collect money from someone, which is what civil cases are almost always about.


28 posted on 08/25/2016 3:59:15 PM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: GreenHornet
So, they're building a cruise ship?

Sounds more like one of those "eco-pod" experimental community structures, only floating (presumably anchored) in the Gulf Stream.

It's not as cool as, say, a Bond film villain's lair:


29 posted on 08/25/2016 4:04:35 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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Give ‘em a couple of hurricanes and it will be a ghost town and a navigation hazard.

I’ve been on a pipeline barge in the Gulf of Mexico being towed in as a hurricane was bearing down. When the waves are so high that you see the tug towing you only every so often and your life depends on a single cable not snapping then you Know Who is really in charge and that we exist by his grace alone. Everybody should do it at least once.


30 posted on 08/25/2016 4:05:32 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: amorphous

Pro-abortion people set up hospital ships that could do abortions.
Imagine something far more life-affirming set up just off shore when Obamacare starts denying types of care per cost saving measures and those on Medicare aren’t allowed to get the care in the US outside of the Medicare network.


31 posted on 08/25/2016 6:11:03 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: txnativegop

There are areas not far from the equator (Pacific) suitable for long term parking of a sea-stead; but, not in the middle of hurricane alley for the Atlantic.


32 posted on 08/25/2016 8:03:09 PM PDT by Ozark Tom (The binding rules only allow hints to be given freely in lieu of actual disclosures.)
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To: amorphous

Likely being sold for aging lefties who are consumed with trying to live forever though medicines etc. On this “island” any kind of unethical research with embryos, cloning, animal human hybrids etc. will likely be allowed. The Bahamas need to look into this and see if they are really onboard with it.

It would be nice, though, for there to be somewhere where informed people could be involved in experimental drugs if that is their only human hope for living longer. Now people die while they drugs may exist that can help them, if they weren’t still prohibited by the FDA.


33 posted on 08/26/2016 7:47:19 PM PDT by Bellflower (Dems = Mat 6:23 ....If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!)
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Drugs, child prostitution, pornography ...


34 posted on 08/26/2016 7:51:19 PM PDT by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: corrupt unreliable negligent traitor)
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Drugs, child prostitution, pornography ...

Very possibly. The Bahamas are known among Christians to be a very Christianized island. I hope that they aren't fooled into supporting anything that they wouldn't want to support.

35 posted on 08/27/2016 4:26:30 PM PDT by Bellflower (Dems = Mat 6:23 ....If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!)
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