Yeah, that is a problem.

And thanks for the compliment.

Well, if Grace is already well known, then her public key should be available.

Bob would have to know and trust Grace beforehand. Grace could be the IRS, for example. The idea here being to have somebody who already knows your age vouch for your age.

We could just make the middle man somebody who already needs that information, e.g. the IRS.

Here’s my idea: Bob gives Alice a token, assigning her an unique random number n. Alice goes to Grace and tells her, “Somebody assigned me number n, can you verify that I’m allowed?” Grace then writes: “User n is allowed, signed Grace”. Alice then takes this letter and shows it to Bob. Bob now knows that Alice is allowed, but nothing else. Grace only knows that somebody wanted to know that Alice is allowed, not who that somebody is.

Of note here: This system does nothing to protect against an allowed user helping a not allowed user to gain access, but I don’t think it’s possible to protect against traitorous users.

Same way you short anything else, you borrow it, sell it, and then buy it back once the price has dropped, and return it.

Investors could be bailed out. As in you invested 10e11$, so now the government gives you that money back.

What does PI mean (first sentence of your post)?

Really good ability to locate the source of a sound.

A potential strategy could be attacking Democrat seats. If a pressure group can show that they can oust a Democrat, they should be able to use that threat to influence others.

Eh, that could also include sales revenue, of which Valve pays out 70% to right holders.

Market cap is just share price times the number of shares. Can potentially be completely divorced from how well your company is actually doing. Conversely, a drop or rise in market cap doesn’t have to mean your company is doing better or worse. If you’re selling shovels, you still have the money when the music stops.

The people of Metternich for one.

I bury corpses.

Hmm, that actually sounds like you run body disposal for organized crime.

In a gold rush, the real money is in selling shovels. But you have to take cash upfront.

She looks too fancy to be an adventurer. She looks like she’d be the onegiving the quest instead.

You ran into that Socialism Everyday fellow?

Maybe “Seele mein” by Eisregen for that existential dread. Problem is, the song is in German.

Raping teens instead of kids is just as heinous.

Prisons in the US are overcrowded. On the other hand, many are in prison for stupid reasons, and should probably just get released.