You are right about LGBT and abortion. However, LGBT already have all rights here, they can have a normal life and get married and adopt children.
He may reduce these rights. I really doubt that, Brazil is one of the most free countries regarding this matter... But, that's not our main problem anyway...
Absolute numbers are not that meaningful, but the rates are similar to other countries in the area and I agree these are far too high.
However I fail to understand the argument of "we are going to have less crime by allowing people to carry guns" (If I understood correctly).
For now, only government and criminals have guns. Yes, criminals have a lot of guns here, more than the police in Rio de Janeiro, for example. Criminals are now 100% sure you are disarmed at home. So they are free to enter your house at night and render your family, kill you and rape your wife, because they are armed and you are not. And the police is not able to take care of our security. It may be difficult from someone from a civilized country in Europe to imagine what we have here. Your criminals are very educated and polite, so in many places in Europe even the police is disarmed. Policeman are hunted in the brazil. More than 400 were killed in 2016 . Even military soldiers are killed in Brazil's streets. Philosophically, you are basically telling people that the police forces cannot defend them and the state is going to disregard his obligation and place it on the individuals, that is "you are on your own, pick a gun and shoot them!" Why would I pay taxes for that? Philosophically, there is also one more reason to allow people to carry guns (and the most important): to defend democracy. Almost every authoritarian regime in the world always disarmed their population as fast as they could. Chaves did that in Venezuela. Fidel did that in Cuba. Hitler did that to the jews too (imagine if Jews had guns. Would Hitler take them so easily?). Can you imagine those terrible regimes going on, if people had guns? Maduro would be a refugee, not the people. Maduro is only killing and starving his people freely because they do not have guns. Only his military have guns. In practical terms, it does not work. USA murder rate is above 5 per 100k habitants. Compare that other economically developed regions like with Europe (3), Australia and New Zealand (3) and even Asia (2.9). Compare it with Canada if you will (1.7) Also, it is the country with more percent of its population incarcerated and one of the few occidental countries that apply the death penalty for a wide range of offences in many states.
Our murder rate is above 30. If we get as terrible as USA, we did great =D Anyway, 2 reasons to have guns in Brazil: 1-Defend our family, as police can't. 2-Defend our democracy against dictactors such as Maduro (which Lula is a very close friend) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf-9BfbDZf4Please watch this last video (most in spanish), and tell me if you would not be paranoid about Venezuela, having a president like Lula (he almost won, even inside jail, 45%) In Europe the situation is now totally different, democracy is much consolidated, and those terrible regimes do not haunt you anymore. However, in Brazil we are very close to Venezuela (politically, economically, and geographically). And Venezuela situation is terrible. People are eating dogs and rats. Their homicide rate is 53 per 100.000. And Lula is saying they have a wonderful country!!! And he almost won the ellection! |
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Regulation is inevitable, and it may be good in the long term.
It will give more stability to the market, as those "China ban bitcoin" news will disappear.
But bitcoin cannot be controlled or domesticated by any regulation. They will realize that soon or later.
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Nice pump was today: day result + 22%. What is the reason?
Chainlink and Morpheus.Network collaboration or something else?
BTW it has the best profit among cryptocurrencies today.
Yes, very nice. I don't think it was a "pump", we are consolidating. Link moved from 110 to now 40 rank in Coinmarketcap. more about Morpheus partnership: |
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Bolsonaro was elected president yesterday, with 55% ... I hope Brazil now willl approach free countries and stay away from Venezuela, Cuba and Angola.The statistics show that is the candidate of the white, middle-upper class with majorities in the richest regions of the country. My forecast, perhaps uninformed, is: - Economy: Will liberalise many of the very rigid sectors of the economy, so it will be good for the country in average. Will not redistribute wealth on an already polarised country, so it will be really good for a minority and will bring negative consequences for large parts of the population. Will reduce taxes, favouring the upper-middle class. You are right. This is what is going on in our economy: Our interest rates are one of the biggest in the world. Government spend more money than it receives. So our interest rates are high, so our government can get loans to pay its expenses, and more loans to pay the past loans (because we always did that. Not sustainable, right?) So Bolsonaro is promising to reduce public expenses, until we are at least spending less than it collect through taxes. Our biggest expense is the public pension, which is a bizarre part of our GDP. I believe this subject is 100% related to the our Forum.If we don't reduce public expenses, government is going to have to "print money" to pay for it's debts. It's not that simple as "printing money", but it will get the money needed through high inflation (1000% per year, near 100%/month). Venezuela is doing that. Brazil did that too few years ago. Argentina made that too. This is real. And Lula (PT), is supporting Maduro. Anyway, Bitcoin was created for those situations. - Society:
Will have a blind eye with any violation of Human Rights, even encouraging harsh dictatorial measures for the shake of "less crime / safety". However it is unlikely to have a real effect on crime, since normally petty criminals don´t have that much to loose and the only cases of police abuse that are judged are those that have unequivocal video evidence.
It is likely to be conservative on social issues, possibly regresive in abortion and LGBT and likely to impose religious education.
You are right about LGBT and abortion. However, LGBT already have all rights here, they can have a normal life and get married and adopt children. About the public security, our country is one of the most dangerous in the world. In absolute numbers, Brazil is the country with more homicides in the world. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/world/americas/brazil-murder-rate-record.htmlThis NY article talks about 63,000 killed every year here in Brazil. This is more than the War on Syria ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Syrian_Civil_War) which varies between 30,000-70,000 The biggest solution proposed by Bolsonaro related to this is that he will allow guns in our country. Just like in the USA and other countries. For now, everyone but the government agents are allowed to have guns. So in Brazil people are worried about Human Rights of innocent people, who are getting killed freely. PT (former government) was very worried about criminal's human rights (just like Maduro in Venezuela.) A discussion about rapist's human rights made Bolsonaro famous years ago.... He wanted to implement chemical castration for rapists. - Enviroment:
Please, enlighten me. For the moment he has promised not to give any additional land to aboriginal tribes.
He is not worried about the environment for now (it is not our main problem). He just said he will merge the ministry of the environment with others ministries (to reduce public expenses). |
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Any[/b] low inflation PoS coin,
go look for one that you personally like and quit being a dumbass.
Is that how you chose your investments? Based on what you "personally like"? FYI:
When a person buys a Low inflation PoS coin , they gain power in that specific network , when they sell coins they decrease their power in that network,
when you buy bitcoins or a PoW coin , you Gain NO Power in that network as transaction confirmation and fee price is always controlled by the miners.
(Of which only the Richest Elite can afford warehouses full of ASICS and the insane energy waste that comes with them.)
That's the problem. Whales can just buy PoS coins and control the nertwork. You cannot go to the walmart nearest to your house, spend 6 billion in S9 miners, plug all of them in the same plug in your bedroom and control bitcoin network. But it is much easier to buy coins and control a network. Additionally, PoW is proof of stake, because you are staking energy. You are staking something out of the system, and giving the energy you spend as a warranty that those transactions in a block are legit. On the other hand, PoS is not PoW. You are betting coins , which are from inside the system. It is a closed system. |
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All added. Can you fix the images on the last link? I think the .svg doesn't work through Bitcointalk's image proxy (make sure to refer to the original source if you convert them and upload them elsewhere).
Thank you for the suggestion LoyceV. Just fixed it. I think the .svg extension was the problem, just made new png files. |
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No it is analyzing where price moves finding probability of next move and trading with good risk reward
it is not betting ,
betting does not involves any analysis or money management
I don't agree with that. When you bet in a sport team, or a fighter, you are able to analysis who are betting and his opponent, and decide based on probability and statistics. Ta is somehow statistic as well, and may be less precise than this sport analysis |
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Edit:
Fixed images, which were not showing up anymore
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This is a real problem I think with the mindset of newbies. You can go in to any ICO thread or altcoin thread on the forum and you will see people churning out the same responses about holding/hodling/having patience/etc. This is great advice, if we are talking about bitcoin - a coin with a working product, a real world use and growing adoption. Yes, if its growth pattern continues, then holding on to bitcoin and having patience is likely to net you some profit. The whole "hodl" mentality is completely wrong when talking about the vast majority of altcoins, however. Most of these coins/tokens/projects are built on pure speculation - most do not, and likely won't ever, have a working product or real world use. Their price is driven solely by new investors and not by any intrinsic value. Holding these coins long term will only result in you bag holding as they are delisted from every exchange and no one else will buy them from you, even for a fraction of the price you paid.
Certainly some newbies arr getting screwed. But those ico are like lottery. You can lose 90% of your money in many, and still make huge profits if one of them gets 10000%. It happened a lot last year... This year was not so good for those "gamblers" |
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I don't know this PRL, but that's clearly a scam.
this SUB just looks the same.
I fear that a Smartcontract vulnerability crash ethereum some day.
One of the things most acclaimed about ethereum is that it is Turing Complete, which means anything is programmable. However, this can be considered a security flaw, and it can be exploited through smartcontracts to harm the network.
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Depending on how you trade it is still gambling.
You are like betting the price will move on the direction you bet.
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I think nano is the fastest out there with 24,000 transactions per second.
This is a lot, even compared to visa
However, nano is a very centralized cryptocurrency.
Everytime you use a centralized cryptocurrency, ask yourself why shouldn't you use visa instead? Decentralization is more important than tpa
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I think everyone's experience with cryptocurrencies is a roller coaster.
However, Bitcoin is less volatile than the other altcoins. You can have a bigger share of it in your portfolio, just to keep it less volatile and more stable.
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Is it trading from one person to another or is it trading from them to us? That is the most important part of discussion here because of the market prices.
Have you never used services like Shapeshift, easyrabbit, instaswap, changelly? Just try any of them. Usually they have accounts on exchanges such as binance, and they make the trades for you. As you don't pay withdrawal fees (they probably have some kind of partnership) it is cheaper for small amounts. You pay the market price. However, they charge a small fee for the service as well (nothing is free), but it is possibly cheaper than exchanges because of those withdrawal fees. . |
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I think an introduction of PoS as a "security booster" for Bitcoin (with a rate of 1/10 PoS blocks or so, or an "approval mechanism" where stakers must approve some PoW blocks), like I mentioned earlier, isn't very risky.
This is what ethereum casper will do. On the beginning there will be one block minted with pos for every 50 mined with pow in ethereum casper. I think ethereum could do first. If they manage to survive.... More details here https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Proof-of-Stake-FAQ |
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That is where you are misinformed, there are some alts that will skyrocket during a bitcoin crash.
Your problem is you think crypto depends on bitcoin, you are wrong ,
just as the car market does not still depend on the Ford Model A, crypto no longer needs bitcoin.
It has grown larger than a single coin.
Ok then... I will let an image speak for me. I believe this is just a coincidence, that all 1000 cryptocurrencies have the same graphic. THey are all crashing for different reasons, nothing to do with bitcoin. 
Proof of Stake can OutScale Bitcoin , about every Altcoin created after since Bitcoin OutScales Bitcoin. 
It is an irritant trying to have a logical conversation and all I get back is an emotional response of you are frighten, or devs are scared.
yeah, you are acting very logically using those blue letters and ignoring market movements... Good luck for you too. I hope you find the coin you are looking for =P |
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When too many miners drop out, the network Hash drops,
(having a difficulty only reset every 2 weeks is really a security vulnerability that has never been fixed, Most Alts reset Difficulty after every block.)
When the Hash drops too low , blocks are only found every few days, so the normal 2 weeks could take months to complete.
I don't think that would be a really great problem. Let's suppose Hash rate drops to Half (what would be a very pessimist scenario). Instead of blocks every 10 minutes, we would have blocks every 20 minutes (on average). No a problem at all in my opinion. And at the most 4 weeks, difficult would be adjusted and mining would be decentralized again, and ASIC would be gone. A drop to 1/5 of the hashrate (high unlikely, as if miners do not mine, what will they do to that equipment? They will have to mine either way, or the loss will be bigger). This could be a problem, that would be easily fixed with a fork. Anyway, bitcoin could even though be mined with low hashrates for like 2 months and then the problem would be solved. In such a situation, of a big price drop, every other alt would be completely worthless and there would be no reason to mine them. I hear alot of fear in your voice about Proof of Stake, it has been around since 2013 and so far none of the fairly tales about it's easy destruction have been accomplished by anyone. Over 5 years and no one has performed a attack that destroys the Proof of Stake Consensus , it all been falsehoods and lies about how easy PoS is to destroy. PoW is only 4 years older and it's centralization & energy waste failure are paramount and undeniable to all but the bitcoin fanatics that never recognize any of it's failures. There are many PoS Only coins with multi-million markets caps and no one has been able to destroy one of them.  Blackcoin / Ardor / and Multiple others In all those 5 years, nobody was also able to prove that PoS fairy tale work in great scale also. Those are all very small projects compared to bitcoin. Ardor has 100 million USD marketcap, which is about 40 times smaller bitcoin daily volume...... Comparing Ardor to Bitcoin is like comparing United States economy to Malaysia`s. Even Vitalik Buterin is affraid of running Casper Protocol in Ethereum, because he knows that problems will pop up when it is up and running. And there are many problems related to PoS economy, which were already mentioned in this thread. |
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What draconian rules?
This is disgusting to even suggest because current regime of Russia is dangerous to human life and freedom and stands against everything what EU stands for.
Draconian rules are rules that were imposed by the goverment, without much agreement or discussion. (in a very simple one line answer) EU has a very good understanding of economics . They are one of very few governments who understands the necessity of financial discipline and understands what happens when spending gets out of the control. The share desire of spending money which is not yours* ( as governments or any other spender is spending borrowed money ) has to be controlled otherwise it leads to catastrophic consequences.
This is disgusting to even suggest because current regime of Russia is dangerous to human life and freedom and stands against everything what EU stands for.
Russia isn't a dangerous to human life, and they share common interests with the EU. |
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Which should point out to an observing mind , how weak Bitcoin and PoW consensus truly are.
A Massive Price drop can kill bitcoin due to it's insane input costs.
I don't agree, that's not how it works. Transactions fees are defined by demand and supply, basic economics. It does not have a direct correlation with price. In December when btc price was high the fees were high (the opposite of what you aaid). Fees were high because there was a peak in demand , nothing to do with its price. And high fees didn't kill btc, wasn't even a threat to it . Nobody knows what problems pos will bring, as it has never been tested with a decent project with many transactions per day |
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