almost 2 years from the last post ...er I'll jump right on this as it is 'GPU Hostile'.

Seeings how it is NOT ASIC it would go nowhere even if you had hooks that made you the next Satoshi!

Naw. Don't fall for this. I'd bet that at best this is a wasted effort with the above link

or more likely after all this time, it is newbie malware phishing.

Meh!

Brad

I figure I need about $30k BTC to have a 'shot' at even getting dinner with her. Of course, she would have to be a Bitcoin Gold Digger.

Then again, I"m an old pervert for suggesting the above.

Meh! We all have our faults.

(Amazing how much more attractive I become to the world as Bitcoin goes up in price, go figure)

Brad

The catch with Craig Wright and his claim to be Satoshi is now moot. After the Klieman trial and the rest, he has been proven a fraud and stole Dave Klieman's works, who

I think was likely Satoshi. Thus, even if he does get 'access' to some/part or whatever of the so-called Tulip Fund on 1/1/2020, no one will believe he was Satoshi.

At worst folks with think he was part of the Satoshi Group which was likely Hal Finney and Dave Klieman and I guess this idiot Craig Wright. So again, even at worst

case scenario, folks will know him still as Fake Satoshi and profiting off the efforts of a partner that likely was Satoshi and ripping him off with fake documents too boot.

(see court case)

Also, if 1/2 goes to the Klieman estate as per the ruling and taxes paid and Craig Wright claims he will 'dump' all Bitcoin. You have taxes off of that dump as well, plus

penalties and fees for likely tax avoidance by the Australian Authorities on top of what he would owe them.

Well, Bitcoin Will survive, again, even if the above 1 out of 1,000 set of circumstances is true.

He is a fraud, even if he was, in the past, part of the Satoshi Group and outlived the others and there is a Tulip Fund due on 1/1/2020.

He has shown his true colors that of a megalomaniac fraudster who ripped off the credit from a dead man, according to the court case.

So access to Tulip Fund or not he is still an untrustworthy ass!

Brad

I bought in at around $85 before the Litecoin halving (big yawn for price).

Thus, myself, I think that LTC will not break over $100 until the Litecoin Devs do something, that shows some actual progress on GitHub and or actually

implement Mimblewimble. Without any of that happening, IMHO, with say one more bit of FUD that Litecoin is not doing much or delays and again IMHO,

Litecoin could easily go under $50 and stay there UNTIL if/when/never SOMETHING is actually in play for coding and Mimblewimble.

Afraid with all the other altcoins in trouble and scrambling for reasons to exist, Litecoin just sitting on their hands is not gonna cut it anymore.

Indeed, Litecoin as it exists if launched now, would not even get off the ground. Stuff has to happen or Litecoin will be bypassed and lose relevance and value

till it expires. Sh*t needs to be done, show a direction, do some code, do something. Half-Assed because you were the first Altcoin is not gonna cut it anymore.

Brad

Well..if I understand correctly you are stating that 'biggest problem with current alt is that there is no practical use' also above ' I think it is good that ridulious alts are eliminated'

Well FJC is dead on in both categories. I is a ridiculous alt with no practical use at this time and the fact the network is being maintained by KNC Titans (in less than a month) 4 years

old with Scrypt-N protocol (the last coin left using Scrypt-N protocol) ..well...not sure what you meant by the reply, but you have seem to have given up and made my points on

how futile FJC is as a cryptocurrency in its present form.

Sorry for your loss.

Brad

Yeah, "hopefully" =-> You fickle merciless bitch!

Sorry at 80 million JFC or some such for sale and ZERO buyers....would take a much bigger whale then myself.

The coin NEEDS to have some kind of new or interesting hook! Look at Litecoin it has the same issues, it is ramping up development

and also Mimblewimble. FJC needs to do something more than the same old, same old.

It is a matter of being lost in the clutter and still mostly a 2014 coin. Even LTC, which is being beaten up as, more than a bit stodgy,

at least since 2014, occasionally tries to shake things up in some manner.

I'm really not trying to beat you up on FJC, but the amount of buys (zip) vs sells (all) has to tell you the coin needs some kind of

major revamp and new interesting features. Hell, you'd probably get more buys on an 'epic' fail at this point, simply for the effort

of trying something new!

You can't get this stone to roll downhill without some kinda 'push'. The coin is completely static now for offering nothing new

and no new innovations or movement.

Sorry to say, that is just how I see it.

Brad


It is just the way it is.

Brad

As far as I can tell there have to be 'buyers' of FJC for this to happen. Whenever I want to sell FJC there is no one buying on any exchange.

A conundrum!

Brad

Does not matter if you are a U.S. Citizen, you always have to pay income tax no matter where you are in the world.

However, I assume that they mean local/state/federal from outside sources are not taxed by Portugal.

This is true in a number of countries I think. I think Belize is also one of these countries doing the same, at least

for 'retiree's' in Belize (over 55 years and spend at least 30 days in-country in 5 years I think, need not be concurrent

either if I remember correctly.

Others on here are a better source than me, just stuff told to me by a buddy in Belize.

later

Brad

Will do so if I have to, according to CPA, if the price dumps to Tulip Prices, etc. But the IRS question this year is the FORKS of all coins on the blockchain.

There is a chance, that the IRS (hating BTC and crypto and all) will count all that as income, AT THE TIME IT LANDS ON YOUR BLOCKCHAIN. Not big odds,

but if you wanted as the U.S. Government or IRS to put a crimp in Crypto Adoption that is how you would do so.

Also, likely, even though my CPA in 2013 and beyond said the IRS would NEVER do so. In the time before there were NO tools to use CSV etc to see profits

on mining and such and you had to figure stuff out by hand. It seems likely that the IRS will say you need to use 'modern tools' to the time/minute on all the

crypto you mined and exchanges and bought and sold, using such modern tools for all transactions back to 2009. KYC and Money Laundering don't ya know.

Most of us, use the figure DAILY average from say www.coinmarketcap.com on a piece of paper.

Well, that is likely out the window and all tax forms by

I would have to be amended back to 2013! Assuming they want modern blockchain tools to use 'retro-actively' in their tax review this year. Again, using

modern tax links for CSV etc down to the last day/time/minute due to crypto volatility as their excuse.

For whatever reason, the usual IRS guidelines for only looking back 3 years for a not thinking their was a crime

and 7 years if they suspect something, has been tossed. At least from the compliance letters sent so far.

So no, most of us are just gonna leave the forks alone and when the IRS says I owe money on such forked coin, I will say, what the hell are you talking about

and I have no idea what people are doing dropping stuff on my blockchain and have MAYBE an out..if things get as stupid as I suspect.

Again, I'm likely paranoid, but in 2013 my banker called the SEC on me to be investigated because I bought a KNC Jupiter BTC miner via wire transfer and

all Bitcoin was 'drug money'. Was a fun 2 weeks with everyone looking at me like a 'desperado' when I went to use the bank. Thus got the CPA, the SEC guy

was like 'what am I doing here' on the voice phone. Was all cleared up. But the banker DID try to hang me out to dry on saying I had no taxes done, and I

slapped my 2013 (amended for crypto) tax forms down in his face. Needless to say, I've changed banks.

But, IMHO, we could have some really stupid rules come out 'hopefully only initially till found unworkable' from the IRS. So no, just leaving the stuff ride.

Before forks fell out of the sky they were worthless, maybe they will be worthless again, just not gonna poke the bear or the IRS by claiming such this year

to the IRS, not worth the hassle, again IMHO. In fact, this year is a clear year for me. No crypto sold. No Crypto mined. Some equip for income sold, but that is

it. One year of less drama with CPA lady is probably due after 6 years of crypto CPA manipulation.

Anyway, my view on forked coins sitting about on my BTC and/or other Crypto blockchains, that fell from the sky.

Brad

Not sure what you mean, if you HODL enough Bitcoin and did so early enough, you ARE  Venture Capital Investor! Assuming you are still in HODL mode.

That is why I am in BTC. Venture Capitalist says that by the time you learn of something at that level you may be interested in getting into IF it is already

at 50/50 odds it is too late. Nothing to buy. Because everyone will jump on something on first knowing about it at 50/50 odds.

This seems to be the case because in 2013 and again in 2019(?) when Bitcoin hit its $3,200 USD low, the yelling and screaming  from family/friends/strangers

the internet...on me continuing to HOLD and even, gasp BUY MORE, BTC, er, hmmm, .well, it was sooooo bad, I expected a county social worker to be called

on me because I could not manage my money. From what everyone was shouting.

So I don't need to find a Venture Capitalist, as long as I am in HODL mode, I am that beastie!

Brad

What will it be by the time they hit the USA shoreline? October 1st, 2019.

32.7% with import fee? So that would be $3,938 x 1.327 = $5,225.73 with Tariff/Import Fees and Shipping. (supposedly).

https://www.asicminervalue.com/miners/microbt/whatsminer-m20s

according to above (stock unit) at 10c kWh electric. $9.34 per day at about $9,673 per BTC in USD.

Yeah, the BTC boat did not float a few days ago, now I find that BTC is really playing Submarine and diving, at least from a mining point of view.

Brad

A lot of people HODL BCH and BSV from their old BTC Addresses in the USA in that it is NOT clear yet how the IRS will tax this stuff falling from the sky! So it is better to just

let these sh*tcoin's ride, rather than move them out to something else and expose yourself to unknow tax problems or other issues. My CPA says you can't get burnt if you

just leave it the hell alone.

Anyway, what I'm doing and so others have said. Kinda a big Meh! It fell on a person's BTC Blockchain roof..if it stays and adds value somehow, well meh! If it slides off the

blockchain roof without any value someday, well meh! Most of us have missed so many boats since 2013 on either buy or sell or whatever at this point in time or that particular

coin launch (like ETH) that we are like the Pregnant Waitress waving at the fleet from the dock as they sail off to war, hoping someone waves back!

So again, meh!

Brad

This is true. Boring, but not mining anymore, pulling tricks on the Bitcointalk street, just to get a trickle of BTC into the HODL address, dust though it may be.

Mining a Bitmain S9i at a 60c (I think) loss a day in electric, just to get some more BTC into the coffers and to watch the trickle into the BTC address occasionally.

Hard to just sell BTC to live on just to get more BTC, kinda messes up the 'live on' part of the whole crypto thingy. At least I 'cremated' the Alts for the most part first.

I suppose I could get a job again, just to keep the BTC 'current' alive in the wires in some manner going, so to speak.

Nah, sell crap in the attic next I guess, yep, that's the ticket! Rummage Sales! Garage Sales! Selling Sweet Corn from a stand!

Brad

Let say everything he says is true, in his own mind at least. The problems are these:

1) If he really did lose the HD with the development coins on them, feeling stupid, he would not tell anyone ever. He would have

simply said they were 'development coins' which they kinda were and say he 'burned' the keys. No one would admit being that

stupid, even if you were that stupid, especially with the ego of someone to think he/she could make a cryptocurrency to rule the world.

This would stay a secret till his/her grave! I mean really, why tell anyone something like this on development coins? At worst, you could

say you never bothered to keep keys because you were testing the concept and development of BTC not in its final form.

2) So say above happened, Satoshi is feeling low and a bit dumb. So what to do? It is obvious, fire up the laptop and makes some

more Bitcoin and this time secure the keys. So IF this guy was Satoshi and IF the above (1) happened, he/she would have at least

mined some 'early BTC addresses' and accumulated some 'decent' coin and say, I realize I have no real proof that I am Satoshi, but see

I was at 'least' a very, very, very early Bitcoin Adopter. Sh*t he said he lost faith and did not even do that.

3) experts have stated since he has pop'd on the scene that the picture is a computer composite.

There are about 9 more things that don't jive with this and his P.R. plug for $$$ on the site.

It is like everything else, people take shortcuts, no 'real' true evil scammers anymore. It is like they never saw an 'evil genius' cartoon!

At least be up to the level of my expectations of such when I was 5 years old. Alas, no skills!

Brad

Alas, I am cursed with 'Hat Abandonment'. I'm so 'dirty'.

Yep, every day I look at the BTC price and say, its gonna go down. Eventually, I've been right!

Some days I say BTC is gonna pump! Also some days I'm right also!

The problem with Bitcoin is like the drop today, some say it was because of this whale, doing this buy, in order to keep the price of BTC high as he sold down

from other BTC addresses.

https://eng.ambcrypto.com/bitcoins-130-million-buy-wall-on-bitmex-is-either-an-actual-whale-helping-bulls-or-a-spoof-trader-trying-to-profit/

As long as BTC Whales can move the market, (the billionaire class of BTC whales) with the 'ease' that I could manipulate some altcoin/sh*tcoin for say

$1,200 (of which $200 is risked) as a comparison to how it would affect my finances and I assume how he feels about the 130 million affecting this.

Well, you are gonna have 20-40% variations in price. This is where Boom and Bust came from. This was the common way to make and lose fortunes before

the early 1900's, hell until the 1930s and beyond. We are back to these times with all currencies virtual or fiat.

In the 1800s and this was common, it was due to NOT having enough info. (Ships at sea, no one knew what was on them...thus 'speculation' or educated guesses)

Now we are in a time, where there is SO much info you can spin any story anyway and speculate accordingly.

So with the BTC market and whales and bots and a little finesse, you can make pretty good coin. Perhaps 'chump change' for fun to a Billionaire Bitcoin Whale, but

hey, they can have fun too I guess.

Get used to this, this is not gonna go away any time soon, if ever.

The game will continue to murky the waters with too much 'real' info, not enough facts and big players messing up the grass, along with the usual FUD.

Bitcoin: This is how we roll! (tm Bitcoin)

Brad

1) is the supposed wallet update done/fixed?

2) is your above setup from the picture actually sync'd now or are you still in limbo?

3) If you do have the masternode working?

Tell us how it is going and is it paying you what https://masternodes.online/currencies/BTC2/

is claiming per day, etc. (more or less).

Again, just lurking, but as long as you are doing all the work, figured I'd ask!

Brad

That's just it. This is a 'civil' case in the USA and he is from Australia. He, IMHO, can just be playing the 'long con and when 1/1/2020 comes along, he will say the following.

More or less in this order.

(1) Around January 1st, 2020 he will announce a 'delay' on accessing the 'supposed Tulip Fund and his 'supposed' Bitcoin access due to legal and tax reasons and the uncertainty

of 'supposed 2019 USA taxes clarification on cryptocurrency and Bitcoin. That will kill at least a year, if not more time, for the 'big con' and stall.

(2) After the above, he will then say he has run into difficulties with exactly 'how much' BTC there is in the various 'supposed' Tulip Fund BTC addresses and such. Again, for

tax purposes.  Then, of course, there is how to distribute the funds that he lost in the lawsuit and to his partners who have floated this scam for him for years, etc. Note: the

mt. Gox distribution has taken what, 4 years? Also, don't forget he can bring up tax issues again for the USA yet, on this new conundrum and also Australia and the United Kingdom,

which he has lived for awhile. Again, all this and 'still' not proving he even has any access to any original Satoshi Bitcoin Address of any kind.

(3) He could also lie (gasp!) and say he has decided to NOT sell all his BTC and NOT by selling much at all get around the above tax burdens in mass on the above messes

in (1) and (2) above he claims. He will however then say that he WILL be pulling all the BCH and BSV OUT of his wallets. Not sure when of course, see some issues on above

(1) and (2) etc, further kicking his actual proof of owning any keys down the road. Even IF he has NO access to Bitcoin keys, by that point he may have enough access to BTC he has

mined and/or has converted from BSV at the high, back in the day, with partners in last 2 years or so. Thus the long con would be to take that BTC ..strip out the BCH and BSV and then

dump the BCH and claim the run has started and he is dumping all BCH from his now supposedly accessible Tulip Trust soon after, a test of market conditions, using, of course, NON-Tulip

Trust Bitcoin for tax purposes and see how it goes. Gonna use the last out on Bitcoin, I've mined since 2017 don't ya know, as a test before dumping the 2009 BTC don't ya know.

Thus on this  supposed panic he has created FUD that can pump BSV and sell it high and drive BCH down massively. Reaping the rewards for a time.

(4) After that he says he has changed his mind and WILL release a mass amount of Bitcoin in that tax issues and such have been solved and also he will now dump a bunch

he owes $2 billion to the Klieman estate and also at least $1 Billion? for USA and Australia and United Kingdom taxes. Then on this 'supposed move, he will drive BSV up in

price and thus dump at the high again. Are you seeing a rinse/wash/repeat pattern?

(5) Alas after say about 3 years of the above, and NOW finally saying he has everything now in order, he has tried to get the Bitcoin out of the Tulip Trust and alas!

He has been betrayed by the trustees of the fund, lost keys, took off with keys, our 'soon to be benevolent alien overlords, take your pick, etc, etc.

Alas, such bad luck, so sorry. Thus, he has dumped or is dumping BSV on these actions, he has no choice, none of the coins he dumps will be Bitcoin coins from the Klieman

the settlement, those, of course, are 'lost' so sorry. Also, from these last 3 years of future drama, say till 2023 of these games, he probably could use this con to at least get say (IMHO)

about $1 billion dollars USD from all this drama/BTC/bch/bsv manipulation/bsv selling on high on artificial pumps etc, etc. Maybe more if he secretly does believe in BTC and is just

using this long con to fill his HODL hoard.

Thus even after paying off his partners in crime he still could clear $1/2 Billion USD (IMHO)  in Bitcoin and if he DOES HODL that (hey, by that time he has destroyed BCH and BSV)

has to go someplace. Thus with the supposed 'technical' fixes by Bitcoin Core in the next 3 years he now claims, he has a 'come to Jesus' moment and Bitcoin Core is just dandy

and as Satoshi, he is pleased they have now seen the light and is going to jump back in and lead Bitcoin Core into the future! ( I threw up a little bit in my throat on typing this)

Indeed, he could write a tell-all, book, from an un-extraditable nation and probably have a best seller for another 1/2 million best seller!

This is just what comes to mind, and I'm a fairly honest fellow, I'm sure he has much better skills in this than myself, thus it will likely be much worse than any of the above.

Of course, the 'worst' is if he actually is the last man alive from the Satoshi Group and has full access to the Bitcoin Tulip Fund in 1/1/2020...but the universe could not be that cruel!

(shudder!)

What do you all think? Is this too far fetched? Will he crash and burn sooner or later or never? Will he play this and some folk like a fiddle as the master of scam and FUD?

Above is all supposition on my part, but he has options to play this into a long con for some dubious uses on the crypto/BTC community.

How much success he has I've no idea, but I'm damn sure he is gonna try like hell!

Brad

The testimony is 'false' but just in case there is a 'Tulip Fund' he is still on the hook for the $2 Billion Dollars in BTC if he has access to such funds?

or

He has to pay the estate $2 Billion Dollars because they can prove he ripped off the Bitcoin?

or

Nothing comes of this, because when the time comes to pay (after 1/1/2020) Craig Wright (FakeSatoshi) will announce the 'evil' trustees of the

'supposed' Tulip Fund, has run off with the private keys and as such, as usual, he will 'claim his bad luck and innocence and move onward and ever forward

with his fake claim to be Satoshi.

I mean, on any of the above is there any real consequences? (I refuse to believe he can pay the estate that is just too far fetched) but on his flat out lies?

Seems little or NO consequences in that this is a USA court and he is Australian.

Anyone, want to show me how he can be hung out to dry on his claims and/or how he can continue to get away with this scam, feel free to reply.

I've already heard from Craig Wright believers that because the court says he has to pay, regardless if he has/can find/or whatever with the BTC private keys,

he must be Satoshi! (the mind cringes from the lack of logic)

Anyway, seems to be still a muddled mess, he can squeak his way out of without any real consequences to his continued lies.

Brad