If there happens a WW3, then most probably the middle-east will act as a trigger. Because, as of now there are two possibilities to trigger a new world war. The first one is the ongoing rivalry between the North Korea and the US, and the second one is the Shia-Sunni rivalry in the middle east (Iran vs Saudi). In case of the DPRK, I don't expect the rivalry will progress in to a world war, as DPRK is quite isolated right now. But that is not the case with Iran.

That is exactly what I was saying as well. Nowadays, people are getting married in their late 30s or in their early 40s. It is very foolish to wait until that age to have your first sexual experience. Because the sexual health peaks during the early 20s, and biologically the humans needs to engage in physical relationship at that age.

Fake news is a tricky topic. The government can ban independent media and then give the excuse that they are trying to weed out fake news. This is exactly what is happening in the United States and the European Union. If some media outlet is churning out fake news, then sooner or later people will realize that this particular outlet is unreliable and stop relying on it.

There were very few Jews in the United States during the 19th century. Most of them immigrated to the US during the first half of the 20th century from Western Europe. Most of the enterprises in the US were started by the English speaking natives during the second half of the 18th century, and benefited immensely from the cheap labor.

I can't agree with what you had posted above. Because many countries have shown that corruption can be successfully eliminated. But it depends more on the voters and the civilians than the governments. So you can't say that it is something which is deep embedded in to the human brain. If there is a will, then you can find a way to reduce corruption.

Isolated incidents can't be used to tarnish a country. As far as I know, Ukraine is pretty safe for anyone, as long as you avoid the troubled areas and stay away from the drug paddlers. At least when you compare Ukraine to other expat destinations such as South Africa and Indonesia, the former looks like a heaven. But language problems can be a concern though.

I guess you are wrong. There are a lot of nations were corruption is unheard of. Countries such as New Zealand and Norway have managed to stamp out corruption, and you may hear only isolated incidents from these nations. IMO, corruption is not a major issue in the vast majority of the developed nations and it is most limited to the third world nations.

You need to carefully analyze the future potential of Bitcoin before investing your hard earned money in to it. There are mainly two things which bother me right now. The first thing is that the scaling issues with BTC hasn't been resolved yet. The worst part about it is that the core developers are not showing any interest in resolving it as well. And the second issue is the declining market dominance of BTC. Right now it is around 34%.

This is not an isolated incident. Back in 2011, Bitcoins were worth only around $0.10 per coin, and no one thought that it will be giving 100,000x returns in less than seven years. This guy lost only 103 coins. I have heard incidents where users lost thousands of coins, due to their carelessness. You can't blame them, as they had no idea about the future prices in 2011.

Paid porn is getting less and less popular by the day. Everything is available for free (including 4K porn and live cams, up to a point). The users doesn't feel the need to pay for porn. We should rather encourage the escort agencies and brothels to accept Bitcoin or altcoins such as Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash. Sites which sell sex toys can also use BTC as a payment method.

Out of the 19 forks in 2017, I claimed just one (Bitcoin Cash). I need to claim the other forks as well, but exporting the private key is a bit risky. I would do that sometime in 2018, together with all these 50 other forks. Anyway, I am glad that these guys are forking Bitcoin. I am getting free coins, which I can either convert to BTC, or sell for fiat cash.

Seriously? The Arctic ice cover is at all time low, and many of the Antarctic ice sheets are breaking off and disappearing. The Russians are rejoicing because now it has become much easier to ship their Arctic LNG and petroleum to Asian markets such as South Korea and Japan. And still you are claiming here that the water is getting frozen in the polar regions!

I agree that they should not be bullied or discriminated. They are mentally handicapped and therefore we should sympathize with them and encourage them to take proper treatment in some institution. I am against the discrimination of transgenders. But that doesn't mean that we should give an impression that they don't have a mental disease.

LOL... obesity due to smartphone use? This is the first time I am hearing about it. But I would agree with you on the point that using smartphones during the nighttime can be detrimental to the health. I have seen this firsthand, as many of my friends are addicted to the social media (Facebook, Instagram, twitter .etc) and remain hooked on to their smartphones for the entire day.

Donating money to old age homes and orphanages is a good idea. But you need to make sure that the money is used for constructive purposes rather than getting wasted in "administrative expenses". If you are running short of money, then you can help these institutions by doing volunteer work (whenever you are getting free time, like Sundays).

South Asian countries need a strict one child policy, rather than a two child policy. Because even a two-child policy would see the population growing at a rate of some 1% to 1.5% per year for the next couple of decades. By then, India will be having a population of close to 1.6 billion and Pakistan and Bangladesh will be having a population of around 400 to 500 million each.

There are a few stable nations, such as Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. And many of these nations are investing a lot of money in order to attract international tourists. But even then, I would advise everyone to avoid these countries like plague. You never know when you will be arrested for the silliest of the charges, and put behind the bars. An example is here:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/03/10/couple-found-out-they-were-pregnant-uae-arrested-them/99001736/

Who is allowing these sort of idiots to post here in Bitcointalk? IMO, the noob members must be banned from posting anywhere other than the Beginners section, until they show that they can make posts which are not spam.

See this post. Middle-East is the only source of oil? I am sure that this guy knows that it is not the case. Still posting this rubbish just to increase his post-count. Spamming has reached epidemic proportions here in BCT.

And here is the chart showing petroleum production by country:

Reminds me of Rip van Winkle, who woke up after twenty years of sleep. Dude, Barack Obama stepped down two years back and Donald Trump is the president of the United States right now. Obama on the other hand is enjoying his vacations in Hawaii and Florida, the last time I heard about him. And his term as the POTUS is widely regarded as a failure by the political analysts.

What sort of rubbish? Are you saying that the unbelievers (i.e non-Muslims) are evil? I am not surprised. This is the general mentality of the Muslims. They have gone great lengths to demonize the non-Muslims. And this is evident from their treatment of non-Muslims in Muslim majority nations (examples are Egypt, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan).