Unlike business or entertainment, it is supposed to be the arena in which our democratic values are secured and preserved.
Because most cryptocurrencies (by market value) are secured by a consensus mechanism through which new users increase network security when they join the networks, and this generally pushes up the price.
But John Wolf, who, as George W. Bush's Assistant Secretary of State for Nonproliferation, played a key role in dismantling Libya's program, maintains that something of real value was secured — more by way of information and evidence than by the removal of a present threat.
"We have really tried to ensure the commercially values programmes are secure so the funding gap doesn't get bigger and also to protect peak time," he said.
And we do not value those who are secure less when we say that our first priority must be to help the insecure.
What started happening at that time was the wholesale destruction of the social contract, a contract that told people that "ordinary" was respected and valued, was safe and secure, was important.
EVER since the Labour government started spending like a drunken sailor, ministers have felt vulnerable to the charge that they are securing poor value for taxpayers' money.
I am describing a situation where, thinking they are securing real value from education, people are tempted to pursue narrow and short-sighted versions of that value, and so short-change themselves and the world.
Stocks like Goldman Sachs, Hartford and even Bank of America now sell far below stated book value, but nobody is secure owning them because we can't sharp-pencil their asset base and near-term earning power.
The debts are secured by the value of Mr. Ebbers's investment in WorldCom, including its MCI tracking stock.
