What a joke.

It was revealed just last week that Deutsche Bank, and potentially JP Morgan and Bank of America, are caught up in the Danske Bank money laundering scheme, this one worth around €200 billion ($227 billion). When a single money laundering scheme by the banks (and God knows how many there have been) has around double the value of the entire crypto market-cap, it's hard to take this nonsense seriously. 18 out of 20 of Europe's largest banks have been found to be involved in money laundering. UK banks alone launder an estimated £150 billion a year.

The vast majority of money laundering is performed by these banks, most of which have direct ties and links to the politicians of the G20. Statements like this are dressed up to be for the "common good", but it is entirely these self serving politicians looking out for their own interests.

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The address in question has previously been stated online to be a Coinbase cold wallet. If you look at this transaction from 2013, you can see at least 7 other addresses linked to this address that are also holding or have held ~66,000 BTC. If you look at this address (1JufsDQbFckDAqFfhEECh78J2YcTucDTe1) for example, you can see that back in July last year it showed a similar pattern of activity of gradually splitting the funds over multiple addresses, down to around 100 BTC per address. These addresses then made multiple smaller transactions over the following months, likely paying out withdrawal requests from Coinbase customers.

Regardless, these funds are not being moved to an exchange, so it is unlikely to affect the market. If it is Coinbase as suspected, good to see they are moving the vast majority of these funds to Segwit addresses.

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BTC Address (must be SegWit): 3FPxnNg5At7kRXpx28tKuWjAT9J2dwjoYP

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Makes sense, but I couldn't find that information on their indiegogo or their website. They just keep harping on about how it has military grade durability - because apparently being able to work down to -20 degrees Celsius and being sand and salt resistant is more important that any actual technical details. I'm not sure who is trying to spend crypto deep in the middle of the Sahara or the Antarctic, but given your phone has likely packed in long before then, you wouldn't be able to broadcast your transactions anyway.

"I acknowledge that I was driving at 120mph while three times over the blood alcohol limit, and that is against the law".

"Oh ok, as long as you acknowledge it. You are free to go then." - No police officer ever.

Ignorantia juris non excusat.

A Scottish guy invented the telephone. If you aren't Scottish, throw away your phones - you are stealing their culture. Acetaminophen was first used by a German. No more of that allowed outside Germany. And we are going to have to seize and destroy every car in the world not owned by the French. From now on, you can only use what your culture invented, for fear of offending someone.

An increase in the base rate to 4% could be catastrophic, especially since it will be going along with higher unemployment, rampant inflation, lower wages and a house price crash.

A rise from the current 0.75% to 4% will add somewhere between £100 - £400+ pounds per month to mortgage repayments. depending on your outstanding balance and remaining term. A house price crash of 30% could add a similar amount on to your monthly repayments thanks to a lower LTV ratio. Predicted inflation of 6.5% and a drop of 25% in the value of the pound will compound this.

Landlords will pass this on to their tenants immediately, so everyone in the country will be paying this. We are talking anywhere between £300 to £1000 extra per household per month. Wage growth has been stagnant for years, and real term wages will fall even further after Brexit given the huge predicted inflation. We will also have another million people in unemployment and many many more on zero hour contracts. Many will be unable to afford these higher payments. Poverty will rise. Food bank usage will rise. Homelessness will rise. Deaths will happen. Everyone in the country except the millionaires that bankrolled this nonsense will have significantly less disposable income. The economy will tank.

This isn't random FUD, and if you are quite willing to turn a blind eye to children dying from starvation and homelessness because "we need to take back our sovereignty", then I'm not sure there's much else to be said. I mean, even her own party are resigning over the complete mess May has made of this.

What the hell? Who in their right mind is going to spend 3x-5x as much for a completely untested and unverified product? All you are going on are the promises of the company. Look at McAfee's Bitfi wallet for how well that has turned out in the past. You can get a Ledger or Trezor, which have both been extensively tested and verified by external sources, for less than $100. I am also still unclear as to how they can promise such security since apparently you have to use an app on your smartphone to send transactions.

You mentioned in the other thread you were predicting 3-1 to Liverpool. That was going to be my prediction in Superbru - I'm just putting my picks in at the moment. Now given that you are in first, and I am 8.5 points behind you, I have to weight up whether I stick to my guns, or decide to go for a different score it and make make that game a differential between us. But you are in first, and Liverpool are your team, so logic suggests your predictions would be the most accurate.

Or maybe I'm just overthinking the whole thing.

I agree with you regarding this one post from Cryptopia, but if you read down the thread, he has been busted multiple times for plagiarism. On one occasion he even pasted his own referral link at the bottom of a plagiarized post - i.e. he knew fine well what he was doing and was doing it for monetary gain.

Any rise in unemployment is bad. Currently 20% of the UK live in poverty and 1 in 200 people are homeless. Those are not statistics we want to rise.



That's terrible. If my house price falls by 30%, then my LTV also falls massively when my fixed term mortgage is up in 2/3/5 years and I have to remortgage. I will get a much worse deal, and my monthly payments will go up significantly (even more so if the interest rates rise). Suddenly the entire country has much less disposable income, and spending decreases to account for this. The economy tanks.



Except that's not how the banks work, because they are greedy self-serving assholes. Look at the last interest rate rise or the one before that. Banks increased the costs of their variable mortgages literally the same day, but we are now months down the line and most savings accounts remain unchanged. They pass on the costs but absorb the profit. The same thing would happen with further rises - mortgages and loan repayments would go up, interest on your savings would stay unchanged.

Not at all - these things are a privacy nightmare. They are literally recording everything they hear all the time and are constantly sending that data back to Google/Amazon/whoever for storage and analysis. People are so lazy these days will willingly give away all their privacy so they don't have to get up to turn off the lights.

"Some of these YouTubers". You maybe want to watch the video before completely writing it off - its Warren Buffet, the third richest man in the world, not just some random "YouTuber".

It is definitely worth listening to what he has to say. Sure, we may disagree with his views, but you have to listen to them and formulate sound and reasoned arguments to refute them. You can't just ignore everything he has to say or write it off as "FUD" as some people in this thread seem to be doing. The man didn't get to his current position by being an idiot.

Can you blame them when it's that complicated? Here's the pricing in most developed countries: Every treatment/prescription/surgery/therapy/consultation: $0.


Lol. Just lol.

I respectfully disagree. The vast majority of people who aren't involved in bitcoin don't understand how bitcoin works. Hell, the majority of people who are involved with bitcoin don't understand how it works. People on this forum and reddit/medium/steemit/etc. might get swept up in the hype surrounding LN, but I doubt it will make a significant impact on widespread adoption. We already had an extended period of very cheap fees and rapid confirmations, and the price continued to fall throughout. Sure, LN is going to help long-term, but I don't think its release will cause a short-term rush, as you put it.

No, they absolutely do not. You have around $7-8 million dollars on their platform at the time your account was locked for suspicious fraudulent activity. They have stated an external investigation is ongoing - i.e. law enforcement. This means they are bound by law to co-operate with the investigation and keep your account frozen until it is complete. They are also bound by law not to disclose any details of the investigations, and since the investigation is not being carried out by them but by law enforcement agencies, they have absolutely zero control over how long it will take.

If you didn't want to be investigated by law enforcement, then you shouldn't have engaged in suspicious activities. Now that they are investigating you, it's definitely in your best interest to stop spamming details of the case all over the internet. You would be wise to lock this thread.

That video is ridiculous. I love the Fox News anchor foaming at the mouth with rage about the UK health service, when UK healthcare demonstrably and provably outranks US healthcare in every measurable way, including access to care and timeliness of care. Also, $1000 a month for insulin is utterly insane. Here are a few screenshots from the UK's national drug formulary. Each of these are for vials of 1000 units of various types of insulin, which would last a month or more for most people:









So we are talking around 1-2% of the price that someone in the US is being charged. But UK residents don't even have to pay that - they get it for free. And the UK government spends literally half as much of its GDP on healthcare as the US government spends. If this doesn't convince you that US healthcare is broken, then I don't know what will.

As a side note, is this why US residents are so averse to socialized healthcare? Do they honestly believe the price of insulin is $1000 a month? Or that it costs $40,000 to give birth or have a joint replaced? Or that a cancer treatment costs $300,000-$1,000,000. I always figured people realized they were being monumentally ripped off. But I suppose if they honestly believe those are the prices, and they believed that their taxes would have to go up even more so the government could spend even more of its GDP to cover a socialized plan, it would explain why they are so against it. It's completely wrong, but it's a possible explanation.

An interesting graph for sure, but as with all retro-fitted charts, it's only true until it isn't. I can fit 100 different curves, lines, wedges and triangles to the recent bitcoin price movements which mean nothing at all.

Still, using this graph, we've only really fallen below the lower 50% confidence interval twice in the past, and on both times it has taken years before a recovery to above the mean. The first time in 2011 took about a year and a half, and the second time in 2014 took about two and half years. If we are following this pattern, although we might see some slow general upwards trends in the price over the next few years, it will be in to the 2020s before we reach 20k again.

Exactly. Thanks to the internet, more and more we live in echo chambers. We are friends with people who share our views, and therefore our Facebooks are filled with posts that align to these views. We follow celebrities and political figures on Twitter who share similar opinions as us. We read from right-wing or left-wing websites which reinforce our biases. Because of the internet, we can rapidly find other people who share our opinions and form online groups or cliques to shield ourselves from opposing points of view.

If you don't know the opposing views, then you can't fully examine your own positions. If you don't have to defend your opinions against arguments, then how can you really be sure in what you believe? If you aren't exposed to new perspectives, then you won't grow as a person.

"You give me the awful impression, I hate to have to say it, of someone who hasn't read any of the arguments against your position ever." - Christopher Hitchens