I used to live near there. It looked peaceful enough on the surface but I kept my guard up.

If you're in the area you should check it out. You might find some of its descendants standing guard.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Tomnadashan+Mine/@56.5144681,-4.1308138,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x4888be386b95bd15:0x1358278ec5e0beec!8m2!3d56.5144681!4d-4.1286251

I don't know what the attitude of the Indian police is on a day to day basis, but in the UK the police are asking for cooperation mainly. If they all started chasing people around with sticks I don't think their legitimacy would last too long.

If inflation really takes hold then the whole country seizes up and even if you're earning in an effectively inflation free way there might not be anything to buy. Look at supply chains, imports and production in places like Zimbabwe and Venezuela.

I don't know how you moderate it but you'd need to keep a careful eye on it.

Anyone who bases their moves on the opinion of the mindless slugs, me included, in here is probably better off exiting completely and finding something more steady. Nobody knows shit. Anyone claiming to is a double dollop of shit.

The feeling I get from India is that the leadership either doesn't know or doesn't care what real life is like for most people. They have their space program. They also have people who live in toilets.

The rescinding of bank notes fucked millions of people. Their lockdown fucked even more. How they didn't figure out that most people live hand to mouth on a daily basis and would face starvation within a few days is beyond me.

That being the case I think the Indian establishment should commit suicide and enrich the real people they're supposed to serve on the way down. Do it. It's not as if day to day life would be much more desperate than it already is.

Disregarding the mechanics of it and who would be doing it, if offered a stimulus bill during a ploppy time I wonder how many Bitcoin fans would clamour for it? I'm willing to guess it would be in the region of 95% or more.

It would certainly separate the dollar hunters from the true believers and I'm confident the former outweigh the latter by a factor of - fucktons.

Unless an 'analyst' can tell me what's going to happen with this pandemic then I may as well consult my turds as they'll have just as valid a guess as them.

Fuck knows why anyone would even mention TA at a time like this. The world is waiting to see whether it's going to bounce back or fly down the toilet. That is what'll decide the future of everything including Bitcoin.

Pretty good list. I guess you'll need to ask people familiar with their own countries whether there's anything obvious missing. For instance I'm in the UK and you're missing Coinfloor. It's not a huge player but it has been going for a long time now without raping anyone to my knowledge.

It's one thing to meddle with a shitcoin, and even then what little community there is rose up and fucked them, quite another to attempt to mess with BTC. Literally everyone who is not CZ would go all out to wipe him out. I think he might possibly be dim witted enough to attempt something some day. He will get rapidly and brutally put in his place.

It could be mean cheaper and better mining machines or better power deals. It's nothing much to do with tomorrow's price. They have massive outgoings to meet today. If you'd told people on here in 2017 what the hash rates would be today and asked them to guess the price they'd be saying it was telephone numbers rather than 3-6x lower than back then.

Centralised systems will always have whining, peer pressure and lawsuits to fall back on. That's why decentralisation for services is a lovely idea that most people will prefer to leave on the shelf.

The only place it'll fly is in services that can't operate any other way. If there's a centralised service the average customer will gravitate towards that out of instinct.

Hmm. I did not digest the retrospective aspect. Poor show.

I would've preferred a totally blank merit slate for everyone with existing ranks intact. Whatever 'work' you put in for you rank would still exist. To get further you would've needed to embark on a different type of it just like everyone else.

Where it's can get confusing is that there's no delineation between merit shoved up you in the first place and that that you've earned. That should've been dealt with from the off.

I guess everyone still needed a pool of merit to get rid of in the first place but that didn't need to show up as awarded merit too.

I think ranking up for the lower levels should've been harder, easier for the mids and the golden heights are about right.

Binance is highly likely to not be mining themselves. Miners will. It's down to Binance to tempt them with the right terms.

I can't imagine any universe where mining makes more money than running an exchange. Mining costs millions to set up and keep going with no guarantee of profit. An exchange is a fountain of money no matter what the market does, as long as it does something.

I tend to delete the deleted messages PMs so can't fully remember but it's usually several months between them. I'm a good little forum robot, yes sir.

However if we're talking self moderated deletions then I tend to get a blizzard of them when they get poked for the reason they created a self moderated thread.

Airdropped merit should totally be erased. It serves no purpose other than giving false authority to farmed accounts over those not in the know.

If someone had a good account that hasn't been back in two years it's still a good account. The ranks can stay if need be. The merit should go.

There've been repeated hash rate all time highs in recent times. They've obliterated 2017's hash rate. I did not notice much price action or enthusiasm.

Mining means nothing in regards to influencing the price. The miners contend with the price and related costs the market forces on them.

That analysis is mind blowing. I can't believe people are that stupid. Even if they think they got away with it there may be a day when they're retrospectively hammered up the bum.

I remember a thread somewhere about swapping Monero for BTC on Bisq. As soon as the person moved the BTC they received to a third party it was frozen cos it was nicked.

Banks HATE him.

Only a true computer science obsessive could come up with something like that. I've no idea whether it took off but I'd never have otherwise heard of it if not for BTC. Loads of the best stuff is identified and repurposed by someone with true vision. Satoshi made him, and vice versa of course. I hope they raise a glass to each other every now and then.

I've yet to see one remotely convincing and this is yet another one to slap upside the head.

I'd really want to see something properly on chain or in a core wallet and a fundamental part of the protocol before starting to feel confident about one. Even then I'm not sure enough people will ever be able to let go of having their hand held. But I'd rather know I was being watched from afar from the off rather than having it sprung on me like this.