Regardless of whether you lose them you pay taxes when you make a taxable transaction, being either exchanging FIAT to crypto or crypto to a different crypto.
If you itemize deductions, and the loss is large enough, you can deduct a loss or theft.
So if you mined and then traded $100k in Bitcoin for Ethereum and then the Ethereum was stolen, you would use form 4684 to claim the loss against your taxable income.
But I haven't heard of anyone doing this yet and I can imagine it would get some scrutiny from the IRS, seeing as it would be hard to prove a loss or theft.
China is definitely doing this already, more effectively than any other country they view economics and other alternative forms of warfare as the bread and butter of diplomatic policy and they are very good at mixing it with realpolitik when for example building islands or offering foreign aid.
I agree, they're very clearly doing that already. Fortunately there's not much new about it however. Japan was supposed to conquer the world with its economy in the 1980s. Every headline breathlessly touted that fact. It was seemingly universally believed. They had a vast trade surplus, their market was hyper restricted to outsiders, they were rapidly generating wealth and had a higher GDP per capita than the US. The Japanese were conquering one industry after another, whether traditional industrial or electronics, and frequently accused of dumping as they went. Sound familiar?
Today:
US GDP per capita: $60,000
Japan: $38,000
If China does everything right, somehow avoids any recessions or depressions, sees no major consequences from dictator Xi, magically stops accumulating debt at a torrid pace - in about 20 years they'll finally catch up to the US economy in size.
Given their population base, maybe it is inevitable; it won't be easy however. The US has been a comparatively very well oiled economic juggernaut for 150 years, and it's still rolling, commonly outpacing far smaller economies in growth. No country in world history has put together an economic stretch like the US has since the Civil War. China has a lot to prove about being able to manage something like that, especially under a power hungry dictatorship and utilizing a command & control tilted model. Filling in economic slack is the easiest part of growing an economy, that's where all the talking heads got Japan so wrong. Today all the talking heads are extrapolating China's easy fill-in-the-slack growth forward perpetually. They're going to be wrong again, the question is to what degree.
Yeah, more resources for the newer generation and more adaptability from generations occurring more frequently. The extreme of this might be HIV or the common cold.
Another possibility is that aging is actually a side effect of some other important process. This would make it difficult to evolve ways to slow down aging without affecting the original process. My guess is that aging is somehow related to growth rates since organisms with longer life spans like humans or turtles often take a long time to reach maturity. Most forms of life need to reach full size as quickly as possible followed by a rapid stop in growth once full size is reached. Perhaps the rapid stop in growth causes problems with the body's repair mechanisms which ultimately lead to aging. This would be kind of like a business or city which experiences a sudden stop in growth that eventually leads to breakdowns as there is no longer enough money to maintain the infrastructure built up during the growth phase. The physics based theory in the article can't explain why similar forms of life age at very different rates (i.e. dogs aging 7x faster than humans) so something else must be going on.
Ketamine was used to sedate my then two-year-old daughter in the ER when she needed stitches near her lip. The doc didn't want to foul up her face if she thrashed. It was definitely odd. She was awake, but no reaction AT ALL.
Ketamine gets more use in kids than adults because they tend to react better to the dissociative effects. Adults can become combative.
To your point, when the first dissociative hit the market, phencyclidine (PCP), it was a bit of a miracle drug. No respiratory depression, actually makes the heart beat a little stronger. It wasn't until the dissociative effects became more known was it withdrawn from the market.
You jest, but the the goal of this "coalition" is to do good enough to not make you want to do that. Of course, the human review built in would preclude most of the large botnet attempts. An analogy:
This is exactly what came to my mind when I saw the headline. I'm sure this will happen, and a new arms race will ensue. Users are better off with uBlock Origin and such, instead of relying on advertising companies to handle ads better.
While ironic, if you pay any attention to mission and vision statements in general for government/military organizations it's quite commonplace for such statements to change in opaque and confusing ways, especially so after any change in leadership.
Most of the time it isn't some dark conspiracy but rather someone with enough stars on their shoulder said "Why is this even in the mission statement? Every organization should do that so it's implied, what the mission statement really needs is..."
