To be truly effective, all these efforts require close international cooperation. Since crypto-assets know no borders, the framework to regulate them must be global as well. They are screwed. The moment they finally get that nailed down Elon lands on mars and thumbs his nose at them. You're making it sound as if Elon is never going to land on Mars. :/ |
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There’s FUD around Kucoin running a fractional reserve. Consider pulling your coins off.
Telling people to pull their coins off of some shady ass fly-by-night Cryptsy 2.0 is like advising millennials that eating Tide Pods could be "a health risk". Are you saying that it should not be done so natural selection can run its course? Or that it's just simply a futile endeavour? |
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Does anyone even edit any more? The piece would be fine, and I agree with its thesis, but proofreading errors drive me absolutely nuts. I see it more and more in so called journalism, even on big name sites. The hard bitten copy editors of old are spinning in their graves. Yeah that irks me quite a bit too. I don't get how a fucking journalist could be too incompetent and/or lazy to publish a decent article. And let's not even get started about the often poorly researched and sometimes outright false information. |
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What if miners had to pay a fee to mine but that was their entry ticket to a prize pool?
That is pretty much how Bitcoin mining works. Are you trying to imply that hardware and electricity costs could be called a fee? I guess it depends upon what your definition of fee is. Not having specified to whom said free would be paidxi I merely assumed you only meant it in the generic sense of an expense. Nah I agree with you. Miners already pay "for a ticket to a prize pool". Whether or not those costs are called fees is just semantics and doesn't change anything. |
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My vote is yes, for those over 18 years of age. I think all drugs should be available over the counter. Instead of creating black markets for drugs, why not have it open market and just propagandize the dangers? --- Edit1: Wow. That's a pretty even split in votes. We're at 2/2/2!  Edit2: 20 / 14 / 17. Legalization of all drugs is winning. Noice. It seems to me that you're an addict(sorry for that), really. I respect your opinion but I will never ever agree in legalization of illegal drugs. It was made illegal not only because someone wants it to be like that or whatsoever, illegal drugs are once consider regular drugs like others before because I believe that it has a sole purpose to enhance and treat some of our human anatomy but people tend to abused it for their so called 'Recreational drugs' and we all know that continuous usage of this illegal substance affects the way the user's think that can increase the chance of them committing crimes to others. So it's like you are voting also for an increase crime rate. Anything in this world that is too much is bad even love(lol). You don't know what you're talking about. Drugs were made illegal for political reasons and power games. Most of them were even known to have positive effects and to be far superior to what pharma shits out today to keep people in perpetual need to "treatment". It's quite interesting that people are still completely brainwashed to this day despite the internet being a thing and research papers being freely accessible. Also, your crime argument is backwards. Drug crimes exist because drugs were made illegal, which creates a multi billion dollar black market. If drugs were legal there would be no need for a black market, and drug crime and gang violence would disappear virtually over night. |
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What is happening in this thread now, I'm confused.
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What if miners had to pay a fee to mine but that was their entry ticket to a prize pool?
That is pretty much how Bitcoin mining works. Are you trying to imply that hardware and electricity costs could be called a fee?  |
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Hah. Is the author having a seizure? I couldn’t get past the second paragraph. Was Occupy Wall Street a left wing thing? The movement wasn’t supported by Libertarians? OWS had a good number of leftist/socialist dweebs in it. Not sure if there were right wingers as well. But most of the people that I've heard talk were a bunch of morons who blamed capitalism for everything without even understanding the most basic basics of Economics and voluntary exchange. |
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I feel like I'm stuck here until I get 9 more merits.
Only 8 more now for you. Thanksssss I blinked and you are up to 103 merits. Congratulations, in a few hours the forum engine should upgrade you to full member. Woops. Looks like I was late to the party. Guess it'll go towards Senior Member then instead. Either way, best wishes Tera, hope you'll get well. |
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Is there anyway to bypass their Adblock-blocker? Don't feel like supporting lolForbes and Adnauseum doesn't seem to work there. |
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The utility side of Bitcoin sucks!  I just paid less than 10 cents for a Bitcoin transaction, and I didn't even use SegWit. |
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I am a heavy smoker though. Maybe you will get a nicotine buzz.
random: I quit cold turkey almost 15 years ago. Best decision I've ever made for my life and health. Very empowering to know I had the will to pull through the withdrawal symptoms. How long did the withdrawal symptoms last, and how bad were they? I used to smoke quite heavily, but I never had any withdrawals. When I feel like stopping for any reason I just stop. Right now I'm in an appartment where I can't smoke and I had no problems just not doing so when I moved in here. Smoking in general is more of a social/meditative kind of thing for me though, especially the process of rolling a cigarette. My attention also snowballs into just about anything and everything else just disappears from existence during that time, so perhaps I just don't notice any withdrawals by focusing my attention on other things. Heck, I forget to eat on some days, and I absolutely love food. |
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2013 saw a bubble and fast recovery, then another bubble just a few months later. The speed of the drop and the apparent bottoming out at $6k suggests the same here - at least, it argues against 2014's slow grind.
There's also the fundamentals argument. And the fact that Bitcorn usually takes a dive after rallies, and generally takes a break after the holiday season. But given that banks already conceded their impotency I don't see any problem at this point. Worst conceivable scenario at this point seems to be a slower than expected grind to 6-7 digits and a global blockchain Economy. |
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Fuck society. I did not came in the world to serve others. And yes, bitcoin is about money.
someone has to work for your food and shelter, well but maybe you're lucky and find some idiot to do it for you ah and i forgot, in the end, whenever that may be, you all want to cash out to that filthy fiat what is the real life use case for
BTC? i thought we just HODL it to the moon without spending it? It's quite interesting that you'd talk about society while completely failing to grasp the complexity of it. Also, no job doesn't imply a lack of productivity. |
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The fact that bitcoin is sound money trumps everything; adoption, payment networks, umwelts, all these buzzwords newcomers bandy.
This shit is real money and it will absorb all the capital there is, with or without us.
This illustrates how sound bitcoin is as money.  It was posted earlier on, but the more people see it the better. The bottom right corner should have a lambo with a shopping cart inside of it for accuracy. |
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No way could I ever work for somebody else now, been out on my own even without bitcoin for 10 years. I remember being 19/20 & being told to put the kettle on for an office full of people.
I remember being 5/10 minutes late for work a bunch of times & panicking about it.
I’d ratter die than go back to that kind of humiliating existence.
Me too. Been job-free for 42 years now. I guess I'm lucky because my father was self-employed for as long as I can remember and so I wasn't brainwashed with the idea of a "regular job" since early childhood. _____ When I was in kindergarten I was shown watercress growing wild in a creek in what is now a drained park in Toronto. I filled a 4 quart basket with cress and stopped by at the grocery store on my way home. I asked the owner if he wanted to sell it in his store. He tasted it, remarked on its freshness (I just picked it!), divided it into 4 bunches held together with rubber bands, and said he'd give me 5 cents for 2 bunches. I got my first arithmetic lesson when he took 2 bunches and gave me a nickel and then repeated it, telling me I had 10 cents. I promptly spent half of it on candy, 3 for a penny of this, 4 for a penny of that. When I got home, my parents were concerned about where I got the remaining nickel and the candy. When I told them, they were so proud of me, bringing home the bacon so to speak. Later that day I went back for more candy and learned 2 more lessons. First I learned the hard way about spending your earnings too soon. Then when I saw only 3 bunches remaining with a price of 10 cents per bunch, I realized he had paid for the whole lot with just one sale and had 3 more to go. That was my biggest lesson... retail markup and profit. I originally wanted to go the traditional "job" route to make absolutely sure that I'll have enough money to be financially independent for the rest of my life before I hit 40 (by getting a very high paying Math/Tech related job and investing virtually everything), since I've figured out quite early in school that I just couldn't deal with a predefined lifestyle. Somehow managed to get there way before that and the only jobs I've ever had were as a research assistant at university, which were less of a job and more of an interesting learning experience to me. Going full capitalist in online games as a kid helped, taught me a lot of valuable skills and made me some decent starter money on top of future scholarships. Then Bitcorns came around and just obliterated the need of a job under a massive snowball. It's quite interesting how quickly things went from "what the fuck am I doing I'm about to lose everything" to shrugging off massive drops in net worth. Glad I took the plunge, not sure if I would have if I didn't know that I could easily score a >200k p.a. job though, despite having analyzed financial markets very carefully and concluding quite early on that Bitcorn is the holy grail of finance. It's also quite interesting how the fear of making a wrong move diminishes as the portfolio grows, although I wonder if that's due to confidence from past successes or just because of having the money to burn. |
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Ok, at this rate, I'm starting to wonder if I pull my BTC off the exchange and back into my wallet. Something tells me I'm not selling BTC before end of March.
This is starting to look like a downright apocalyptic shakeout.
I would, just to make sure no panic selling takes place due to inconvenience of doing so. |
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Bitcoin go up Bitcoin go down. Reasons don’t matter.
Seriously. I guess it’s a whimsical market. The wind blows bitcoin explodes or collapses. I’m baffeled.  Have you read about the cyclones on Saturn? They'd make for a pretty accurate comparison to the winds that blow in the crypto world. |
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