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121  Economy / Economics / Re: What if there is a natural disaster, such as an earthquake? on: October 05, 2018, 05:57:14 PM
Crypto is just the money, the economy would suffer the same way if the currency used on that country is fiat or Bitcoin. The roads will be damaged, preventing supplies to reach different places and also affecting exportation. You might have Bitcoin and internet access, but what will you be able to buy with this without disponible supplies at the stores (or without even stores)?

During crisis times like this money isn't very useful...
122  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Is bitcoin investors more focus than altcoin investors? on: October 05, 2018, 05:10:35 PM
This AltCoin's public you mentioned is very similar to Ponzi HYIP schemes public. They want fast profit, probably to double their money in few days, benefiting themselves from the fast pumps some coins offer (and definitive dumps rigth after). Then yes, they are very impatient and think that is how Crypto world works.

However, there are many exceptions, not all AltCoins have the same goals and serious investors can have long term interests on these currencies too, depending how serious the teams behind these currencies look like and how solid are their proposals.
123  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Imagine a world where Bitcoin will be used as a primary payment option on: October 04, 2018, 02:49:08 AM
It would be similar to debit cards. The only exciting part for me would be if it continued being decentralized like now, otherwise it wouldn't be only similar to debit cards, but exactly the same thing... However, would a decentralized primary payment option work in a society? There is some risk of chaos involved...
124  Economy / Economics / Re: Apart from trading where else to use crypto? on: October 04, 2018, 01:36:37 AM
I have already seen games ICOs which you could use the tokens later inside the game to buy stuff, maybe membership, benefits, etc... But on the practice I don't know if it worked. The goal of many ICOs look interesting, but most of them fail.

Your idea of "tokenizing" products already exist, but not with Crypto-Currency. Aliexpress has this feature, you collect coins daily and exchange these coins later for a product or for a discount. To implement Crypto-Currency on it would be interesting, but I'm not sure if it would work, as they would be giving free money to customers this way... Because if these tokens were a Crypto-Currency they could be exchanged into another currencies, so not necessarily used to buy a product inside the shop.
125  Economy / Economics / Re: Money Matters on: October 02, 2018, 01:27:20 AM
Those who say money doesn't matter are hypocrites. If deserved and honestly earned, money is the proof of prosperity someone achieved in life. It's the proof the person had progress with the talents received by God, from a biblical perspective. So even towards religion money is something good and positive. People are criminalized by having money only in countries where the envy is strong and consequently the leftism...
126  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Crypto is a poor form of money for terrorists. on: October 01, 2018, 08:08:31 PM
I don't want to stay against Bitcoin or to blame it, but it's a fact terrorists can benefit themselves from Crypto, no doubts about it. It's true they can't buy useful necessary items with Crypto-Currency, but it's a smart way to send money abroad, to fund allied countries and friends. It can work like a parallel financial market operated by criminals from different countries. Not impossible to be tracked and discovered by skilled intelligence agencies anyway.
127  Economy / Economics / Re: How to scam people for money on: September 30, 2018, 02:37:39 AM
Lol, this is actually all true.  Cheesy

Scammers always use pictures of themselves wearing formal expensive clothes and accessories, participating in meetings, flying to foreign countries as it was a routine, exposing themselves during recreation time at apparently luxuous places (parties, yachts, pools, inside top notch cars). And it's impressive how people still believe on these lies in 2018. Always stay alert about exhibitionists.
128  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: I LOVE WHAT I'M BECOMING IN THE BITCOIN WORLD!!!!!!! on: September 29, 2018, 10:44:31 PM
The man wants to be your partner, you must decide if you trust him or not to work together. No one here knows the man so it's really difficult to say if you should accept the proposal or not. Put in the balance the benefits and disadvantages of this co-op, analyze everything carefully and you will reach to a consistent decision.
129  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why are suicide rates rising? on: September 29, 2018, 01:34:31 AM
Empty lives... People are living without a purpose, they just exist. It makes the frustration grows along the time and at some point it becomes intolerable. The lack of empathy nowadays is too strong too, there is a false charity in the air. People simulate to be sympathetic and simulate about caring others, but when it's not for real the effect will be null.

Those who can't solve their personal issues only hearing the inner voice will have difficult to solve it, as they probably can't rely on others to assist them, and this loneliness can also lead to suicide...
130  Economy / Economics / Re: WORLD CRISIS IN 2018 on: September 29, 2018, 12:42:05 AM
Countries going broke have to collect money somehow to revert the situation. It would be wise if they cut expenses, but it usually doesn't happen, so they increase taxes and start extorting the population. That is when Crypto-Currency appears. Those who have money and want to hide it from the government to avoid taxes can use Bitcoin to convert their funds and keep it away from taxation.

Or Crypto-Currency appears when the country is totally broken, in chaos, like in Venezuela. People start working online for pennies, anything worths, because their local currency is too devalued. Others find in Crypto-Currency a profitable investment, a source of extra income that help them to survive during the crisis times. However, none of these Crypto impacts are solutions for broken countries, they are just palliative. Solutions are made through efficient changes in politics.
131  Economy / Economics / Re: What can be done to make bitcoin stable? on: September 28, 2018, 08:46:13 PM
Volatility is part of Bitcoin's nature, to do something artificially to "fix" it would mean it's not decentralized.
To have a more stable price the relation between supply and demand should be balanced. None of them can be too big in relation to the other, there couldn't be many people selling BTCs while only few people are buying it, and there couldn't be so many people buying BTCs while there are only few selling the coins. But it's a natural process, we can't interfere on it...
132  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin and fake news on: September 28, 2018, 04:51:25 PM
Fake news vehicles usually take a story that is somehow true and misrepresent it to prove the point they want you to believe. They can consider an isolated case as it was the main rule, they can simply misrepresent someone's speech, highlighting only the interesting parts for their fake narrative or they can subvert a fact of the past of someone or even of a society.

Thanks to internet nowadays and its vast access, the fake news don't last for a long time. They are constantly being rejected by the public and the vehicles spreading lies are losing reputation like never before. Bitcoin has a strong support that protects it against all the lies. It's an intensive and exhaustive war, but it has to continue.
133  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Why Bitcoin will be the safest investment on: September 28, 2018, 01:59:01 AM
Bitcoin is the safest investment only among other Crypto-Currencies, because it's the currency that came first, it's the precursor of the entire market and the most trusted one by the investors. But when you think about another investments it's not safe, there isn't any guarantee you will make profit by holding Bitcoins, there is a lot of risk involved and it's very important for every investor to be aware about it before putting money on it expecting returns.
134  Economy / Economics / Re: Differences between the developed countries and developing countires on: September 28, 2018, 01:31:23 AM
The developed countries invented the technology the whole world has access nowadays, even the developing countries. It's acceptable they needed manpower a century or centuries ago, when these technologies weren't disponible yet. Once new technologies came in, they were shared with another countries too (machinery, vehicles, tools, internet, cellphones, computers, transgenic food, etc...). The whole world was benefited, including the poor countries. So why would they still need manpower like in the old times?

You know, reality is pretty damn harsh sometimes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Im_8sI0QFQ
7:25 , people applauding a 2500 year-old invention  Shocked

Some trips in the poorest areas of your country or in some asian or African country would make you change your mind about how much access they have to technology.

The differences are enormous and it will take a decade before they at least learn about that stuff, probably a century before they can afford it. Even Eastern Europe lags well behind western Europe, with a lot of villagers still depending on horses for farming and transporting stuff, in other countries they can't have even those.

Now that they have scythes, the work executed by 10 before can be executed by 2. Less manpower is needed, let's see if it will reflect on the population growment tendency or not.

There are traditional villages like that everywhere, but they are decreasing even more as technology is coming. From your perspective the population should be decreasing as well... But it's not happening.
135  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Can facebook change the way you vote ?. on: September 26, 2018, 03:44:37 PM
No, Facebook can't change the way I think or the way I vote. But they are indeed a danger for democracy. It's well known they censor conservative pages in different countries because they don't attend to Facebook's ideology. They manipulate informations this way. They choose what kind of informations you can have access, creating a bubble that doesn't correspond to the reality.

For this reason it's better that you don't waste too much time on Facebook and look for informations on another social medias too. I hearded there is a new one called Gab, this one is really decentralized and respect others speeches.
136  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Do you think there's another way to pay in the future? on: September 26, 2018, 03:27:19 AM
Im thinking like an micro chip implanted in our body. This system is not out of the picture because how we discover things every year, it is not impossible that in the future this things may happen and it will boom like btc.

It could work, of course. In fact, it could work right now but better methods can be developed.

In fact, insert chips is the lazy way of imagining the possibilities to solve this problem in the future. Especially since we don't really know how much society will advance in the next 10 years for example.

For one method to be developed and widely accepted in a relatively short time it has to be non-invasive. I'm pretty sure that most people won't like sticking stuffs inside their body when other ways could be invented. From my point of view, external technologies are the way to go.

You are right, it could work, but more experiments are necessary before implementing this kind of technology right now. It can be very dangerous, especially because each person reacts according to his own organism.

Personally I don't like this idea of having a chip implemented in my body to execute payments, but I know some people endorse this idea. Good for them, however it can open a precedent for governments force people in the future to implement the chips, arguing the facilities it can bring to our lives. It can go through a dangerous path, must be observed very carefully.
137  Economy / Economics / Re: Differences between the developed countries and developing countires on: September 25, 2018, 04:07:43 PM
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All the examples of high population density per kmē countries are losing population on long term (probably it can reverted in Netherlands and Belgium due mass immigration, but then it's another story). People from developed countries tend to have less children for some reason.

And these Africa countries population is growing fast on long term. One of the reasons may be due the mortality rates are decreasing. Africa is one of the most chaotic continents in the world, many epidemics and wars make the population grow slower, but it doesn't mean they tend to have less children.

Well, it's just an observation. You will find exceptions, but from a general perspective it really makes sense.

Yeah, I can agree with that but they are losing population only AFTER they have reached a developed status.
And people in developed countries tend to do that because they want to still have some time off while raising kids (impossible with Cool and because they are planning ahead, you won't be able on the average wage to sustain 8 kids at the level you can do with 2.

In poor countries...those are stupid ideas. You need to keep producing them to help you at work, screw education, screw other needs, all that is important is manpower. No wonder in many countries families is really disappointed when they get a daughter and not a son.
The developed countries invented the technology the whole world has access nowadays, even the developing countries. It's acceptable they needed manpower a century or centuries ago, when these technologies weren't disponible yet. Once new technologies came in, they were shared with another countries too (machinery, vehicles, tools, internet, cellphones, computers, transgenic food, etc...). The whole world was benefited, including the poor countries. So why would they still need manpower like in the old times?

Also note that assistencialism nowadays is much stronger than times ago.

If they had followed the developed countries trend, they would be more wealthy nowadays. As you said: "you won't be able on the average wage to sustain 8 kids at the level you can do with 2." The same premise worths for developed and developing countries. This mass production developing countries keep doing isn't necessary anymore on the modern world... But they keep doing this.

Besides, density is also heavy influenced by a lot of other factors.
If we look at Japan and New Zealand,330 vs 15 per km2, both islands, both developed countries yet....
Even if we talk about African Countries, Nigeria is at 200 while Niger at 15.
And there are huge differences even in the US, for example, Nebraska and California.
As you said, countries start losing population AFTER they reach a developed status, that is Japan's case. New Zealand was established by British people, another situation; There are countries which part of their territory is uninhabitable, and it can also happen in regions inside a same country: Like drought areas, protected environmental areas... Instead of looking the general density of a country, to look the cities density would be wiser. They are overpopulated, precarious and keep increasing without planning, that is a characteristic of developing countries.
138  Other / Politics & Society / Re: What is School for? on: September 24, 2018, 02:37:31 AM
Your testimony is very comprehensive, it's a reality shared by many students. The educational method used nowadays in the world is a method for masses, the individual is ignored, all that matters are the statistics. Students are just numbers for their local governments.

An alternative for this is the homeschooling. Children and youngs can educate themselves at home, by their parents, by personal teachers or even by themselves and complete a test later to prove they were really educated.
139  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Why is Bitcoin allowed to continue? on: September 24, 2018, 12:39:19 AM
Why would they allow Bitcoin to continue like this and grow momentum?  All they would have to do is outlaw it and 90% of the world population would bitch out immediately and stop.  But they don't do it. 

central banks aren't a united front. you have to consider geopolitics, and the fact that nation-states are competing against one another.

if one superpower prohibits BTC, they might put their industry and population at great disadvantage to the rest of the world. this is a nascent industry where there is potentially massive economic growth and transfer of wealth. it would be outright foolish to purposely get left behind.

if all the superpowers and most of the others all agreed to ban BTC, maybe you'd be onto something. but that would never happen!

Yes, not only Bitcoin, but the entire Crypto market is a great opportunity to accumulate more wealth and no one wants to waste it. It can be an opportunity for a country to rise faster compared to its rivals and even allies.

To destroy/ban Bitcoin doesn't make sense. For an example: It's like an american scientist destroying a nazi technology during the war, so no one could use it... It's a stupid idea, no? The correct would be to study and improve that technology to use against the enemy. And with Crypto-Currency that is what will happen, to have advantage over other countries on the "economic war".
140  Economy / Economics / Re: Differences between the developed countries and developing countires on: September 24, 2018, 12:15:02 AM
Population might be another factor: Developed countries aren't overpopulated in relation to their territory size, developing countries are.

Density is relly not a criteria

Density per sq km
Netherlands      416
Belgium                   355   
Japan                   337   

Botswana      3.4
Angola      15
Madagascar   35

All the examples of high population density per kmē countries are losing population on long term (probably it can reverted in Netherlands and Belgium due mass immigration, but then it's another story). People from developed countries tend to have less children for some reason.

And these Africa countries population is growing fast on long term. One of the reasons may be due the mortality rates are decreasing. Africa is one of the most chaotic continents in the world, many epidemics and wars make the population grow slower, but it doesn't mean they tend to have less children.

Well, it's just an observation. You will find exceptions, but from a general perspective it really makes sense.
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