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181  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Please, I urge you to buy bitcoin! on: April 25, 2024, 02:57:51 AM
Seems to me that it wouldn't be all that hard for the Core Devs to split the SAT into another hundred million divisions. It would drive all the rest of the wallet makers nuts to have to change their wallets to match.

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182  Other / Off-topic / Re: Why do you think there are craters on the moon? on: April 25, 2024, 02:43:30 AM
Perhaps these craters are the remnants of ancient lunar civilizations’ grand constructions or the result of cosmic-scale artistry by unknown celestial beings. Who knows Grin


Well, isn't that what happened in the movie The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/ ? Except in the movie, it was the Earth that had been destroyed, and some jokers were rebuilding it... a big construction project.


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183  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: People have a complete misunderstanding of Bitcoin. on: April 25, 2024, 02:32:11 AM
We can all send and receive our cryptocurrencies from decentralized wallets that anyone can create. I could create one right now and the odds of it being me is 1 in 8 billion. Not just using them for receiving and sending money but equally using decentralized exchanges which no one can tell who is selling and when you receive money to your bank, no one knows what business you had with the sender or why it was sent to you.

Yes, but. If you buy a car from Pete, and you pay for it with Bitcoin, and Pete ships it to you from Montreal, where does he get the money to pay for shipping if you don't pay him first? And how do you know he is going to ship it if he has your money?

The point is safety and security... all of it without governmental or banking regulation. And that means privacy so that they don't even know you did it. But if they find out that something was done, how do we keep the details quiet?

Private escrow clubs?

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184  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: April 25, 2024, 02:19:10 AM
Totally disgusting. Anybody who likes the Zelensky regime should go and fight for them so this kind of thing doesn't happen.


Kiev Regime About To Recruit Children In Schools



https://dailynewsfromaolf.substack.com/p/kiev-regime-about-to-recruit-children?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
Written by Lucas Leiroz, member of the BRICS Journalists Association, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, military expert

Forced to continue fighting, the Kiev regime is desperately trying to supply its troops on the front lines with new recruits. Having already exhausted its reserves, the Ukrainian government is now betting on recruiting children in schools as an efficient way of replacing its casualties on the battlefield. From a realistic point of view, however, such a measure tends to further increase the regime's unpopularity.

A bill is being discussed in the Ukrainian Parliament to establish basic military training in the country's schools. Ukrainian high school students would be required to undergo military training classes in schools, in which they would learn basic combat lessons, weapons handling, as well as receiving a "patriotic education" – which in Ukraine, as well known, basically means neo-Nazi, anti-Russian brainwashing.
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185  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Natural selection explains why bitcoin will always rise on: April 24, 2024, 10:38:42 PM
No wonder people are losers. The term 'selection' indicates that there is choice. 'Natural selection' means that nature has the ability to make choices.

Scientists can't easily come up with ways to imitate nature. If they could, they would have created life in  the testube long ago. But they still haven't been able to do it from scratch.

Or look at how long it took for somebody to develop Bitcoin. The basics of the encryption used was developed in WW2. Yet it wasn't until 1990 that PGP was developed... and 2009 until Bitcoin was launched.

The point is, 'natural selection' is a moronic term that only indicates that nature is way smarter than science. It doesn't have anything to do with Bitcoin. Or does somebody think that if Russia detonates a nuke, causing a EMP wave that destroys Bitcoin and banking because the grid went down... does somebody think that that is natural selection, because both of those systems didn't survive?

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186  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: People have a complete misunderstanding of Bitcoin. on: April 24, 2024, 10:24:04 PM
BISQ transacting is only in small amounts. People realize that there isn't any safety when you must trust.

This brings us to the question of decentralization. Is Bitcoin worth it as a usable buy/sell currency between people if there isn't any way to trust? The banking system has built up a method of trust between little people. They keep people honest by being honest, themselves... by forcing honesty among people.

Now, I don't mean that the banking system is conscionable on the big scale. But even there, they follow their own wise rules as much as they can. And the result is safe money. But it costs a lot, which goes to the banks.

The point is, how do we make Bitcoin safe, yet keep it out of regulation. I mean, even if two people do a face-to-face, private, Bitcoin transaction over their cellphone wallets, if one of them doesn't like the way it worked out, he goes to the government with a complaint in the courts, and makes the whole thing public this way.

Is there a way to keep it safe and private?

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187  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: April 24, 2024, 12:37:29 AM
Hostile military alliance creeping toward their border is not enough reason to think about bad intentions?

Is that the same "hostile military alliance" that has gotten even closer to "their border" in the last couple of years? Such victory. Afghanistan 2.0 but more stupider.

Back up your words or stop attempting to fool people. Find any major news outlets that claim that Ukraine is doing good at the front (overall not some marginal local victory), then we'll see who's cherry picking.

Why the fuck would I waste my time with your straw people. Seems like your brain damage is getting worse, you're not even trying to tell the difference between reality and your fantasy world.

You waste your time eating meals now and again, don't you? So, why not watch the old Wizard of Oz movie, again. It was the straw man, the scarecrow, that had the brains. You just might learn how destroyed Ukraine really is.

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188  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Time to Invest and Hodl - Bitcoin, Silver, Gold, etc. on: April 24, 2024, 12:28:44 AM
^^^ But if fiat DOES crash - a nuclear or solar EMP could do this - we can't even imagine what this would be like regarding simple living. Suddenly, no electronic transfers of any kind. Banks would have to re-learn how to use filing cabinets. Crypto would simply be gone. It might take as long as a year to get the power grid back up and running.

If we push Russia hard enough, they just might do it to us - although it would hurt them at the same time. And if we push God's buttons the wrong way - as we have been doing - He might do the solar one.

The point is, there would be freedom... at least for those who have the guns, silver junk coins, and gold coin for larger transactions. Local governments wouldn't know what to do; their authority would be diminished. People would have to live on their own ingenuity and conscience.


Moscow issues dire warning over US-Ukraine aid bill



https://www.rt.com/russia/596341-moscow-warning-ukraine-aid-bill/
The approval of a large aid package for Ukraine by the US House of Representatives is the same as funding terrorism, according to Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.

In a post on her Telegram channel on Saturday, Zakharova said that the potential allocation of further military assistance to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan would only aggravate the crisis in the world.

“Military aid to the Kiev regime is direct sponsorship of terrorist activities, funds sent to Taiwan is interference in the internal affairs of China, while aid sent to Israel is a straight way to unprecedented escalation of a conflict in the region,” she said.

On Saturday, the lower house of the US Congress passed a $95 billion package that includes almost $61 billion in aid to Ukraine, including funds for the purchase of weapons and military equipment. Most of the rest is allocated to Israel and Taiwan. The Senate is poised to vote on the bill on April 23 with final passage expected by the end of the week.

Washington is driving deeper into a hybrid war with Russia, Zakharova said in a separate statement issued by the Russian Foreign Ministry, adding that the US would end up facing a “loud and humiliating fiasco on a par with Vietnam or Afghanistan.”

READ MORE: Kiev deliberately targeting journalists – Kremlin
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189  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Time to Invest and Hodl - Bitcoin, Silver, Gold, etc. on: April 23, 2024, 07:01:24 PM
The book of Revelations at the end of the Bible is a difficult read. But one of the things that it indicates is that there is a money system in control of the world at the end times. This money system has converted everything in the world into monetary terms. It is so strong that it thinks that it can never die... or at least certain of its member leaders think this. Sounds to me like the USD around the world.

But it will fall in one hour. One hour in terms that the Bible uses doesn't necessarily mean a literal 60 minutes. What it DOES mean is that it will be fast once it starts. It could take a few months, or probably the 3 1/2 years that is so often spoken about in the end times.

The point is that the fiat system absolutely will crash. When? By the way Congress in the USA is 'printing' money to send around the world in wars, we might already be well into the 3 1/2 years.

The point for us little people is to invest in different areas - don't put all your eggs in one basket.

- fertile land with water/a-well
- Bitcoin
- gold
- silver - bags of junk silver coins if you are in the US
- learn to live off the land
- make friends with like-minded people

Anybody can add to this list. When the crash comes, it might cause standard communications to fail. Short wave radio might be a good idea.

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190  Other / Politics & Society / Final Nail in America's Coffin? by Ron Paul on: April 23, 2024, 06:47:32 PM
The question mark in the title indicates that nobody knows what will really happen in the future. As of right now, the current state of living that Americans have had for several decades is totally being eroded. Of course, American erosion is nothing compared with what is happening in Ukraine's economy.

Dr. Paul doesn't talk about auditing the Fed in this article, but doing such, and presenting the audit info to the public, would certainly surprise and scare both America and the rest of the free world.

Or, watch the video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeyQ84kyQp4.


Final Nail in America's Coffin? by Ron Paul



https://ronpaulinstitute.org/final-nail-in-americas-coffin/
On that day Congress passed legislation to fund two and a half wars, hand what's left of our privacy over to the CIA and NSA, and give the US president the power to shut down whatever part of the Internet he disagrees with.

The nearly $100 billion grossly misnamed "National Security Supplemental" guarantees that Ukrainians will continue to die in that country's unwinnable war with Russia, that Palestinian civilians will continue to be slaughtered in Gaza with US weapons, and that the neocons will continue to push us toward a war with China.

It was a total victory for the war party.

The huge spending bill is all about politics for Biden, yet so many Republicans simply went along with it. The last thing the people running Biden's White House want to see as a close election approaches are ads blaming Biden for "losing Ukraine."
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191  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: People have a complete misunderstanding of Bitcoin. on: April 23, 2024, 06:30:11 PM
Let's say that your buddy, Pete, comes over to your house. He parks his car in your driveway, knocks on the door, and you let him in. There's a cop parked in his car across the street, and he's watching all this. But if he wants to come into your house against your will, he has to get a warrant, and have probable cause. Let's examine this scenario.

Your house is located in the public.
Pete drove his car in the public, and onto your private driveway.
The cop is in the public, and watches from the public.
All kinds of things related to you and Pete are in the public eye.

What you and Pete do and transact behind closed doors in private. Unless there is probable cause and a warrant, the cop isn't supposed to break into your privacy.


Now, lets look at Bitcoin.
Bitcoin is public.
The code is open source = public.
The blockchain is public.
The public addresses of each of you are public.
The NSA might even be able to track that it is you and Pete who did such and such a transfer.

But the transaction is private until you or Pete disclose the reasons for it.

The private addresses that you and Pete each have automatically inside your Btc client are private to each of you.


Everything is both public and private. It is this way for all people and governments and nations. Privacy in the US is strong until people want to give it up. Foundational US law upholds the privacy, in the 4th Amendment, and in loads of Supreme Court decisions going way back to 1800.

It is only when Bitcoin exchanges open themselves up to the public that they make themselves vulnerable to public laws that government might pass. And if people use these exchanges, they lose some of their privacy, even though the details of the reason behind any transaction remains private.

The point is to make some of the exchanges to be private. This means that they can't advertise in public ways. It all has to be word of mouth to get anybody to join.


An example of this is the failed Paraiba fraudulent securities company - https://outranklab.com/is-paraiba-world-a-scam. The leaders and heads of this Ponzi got away with it because they didn't advertise publicly. Everything was done by word of mouth, and an applicant had to be accepted privately. Info leaked out, of course, but it never leaked from the official company, except by word of mouth, person to person.

Paraiba was a scam, a Ponzi. But we know that Bitcoin is legit. The point is, an exchange that is advertised only by word of mouth among its members can be private. This means, no exchange website. Being private takes it outside the rules of public law. Examining how Paraiba was set up and 'advertised', might be the best way to set up a private exchange, outside of government control.

Note that, for all we know, there might be many little private exchanges... exchanges that do not advertise, but grow by word of mouth among members and potential members. We don't know about them, because nobody talks about them publicly.

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192  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The war in Ukraine has been going on for the third year on: April 23, 2024, 04:08:14 PM
We will see what is stronger in the cancer in Ukraine.

When people get cancer, they use chemotherapy to kill the cancer. The chemo is poison that is used to poison the cancer dead. But it also poisons the person who has the cancer. The results depend on who/what is stronger... the person's life vitality, or the cancer within.

Ukraine has a cancer within. It's the ignorance of their people to see that they are being used by the US government and banking system. Will Ukraine survive? It all depends on the strength of the people. Will they be strong enough to finally see that the US chemo is killing them all off? Or will they simply die, with Ukraine ultimately being totally gone?

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193  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Time to Invest and Hodl - Bitcoin, Silver, Gold, etc. on: April 23, 2024, 03:59:35 PM
^^^ But government IS pushing fiat to collapse, even if they don't realize it. How are they doing this? They are borrowing more fiat from the banking system, and sending some of it around the world.

How does this push fiat towards collapse? Because of one thing that people don't know about, and don't believe when they hear about it. Borrowing money from a bank or the banking system, is really a creation of new money.

Near the end of WW2, when Germany needed more money to fight the war, they printed more German Mark fiat. It didn't take long for this inflation to drop the value of the Mark. Finally, it seemed like it would take a wheelbarrow full of Marks just to buy a loaf of bread.

Because of the greed of the bankers and some of the people in government, the same creation of new fiat is happening today. While it is true that some of the bankers and government people remember what happened to the German Mark, and many financial people know all about what happened to the Argentine Peso at least twice in the last few decades, it seems that nobody can stop the greed of the fiat printers.

Fiat won't crash because of Bitcoin. It will crash because of greed and lack of understanding in people who control the printing of it.

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194  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / People have a complete misunderstanding of Bitcoin. on: April 23, 2024, 03:33:05 PM
People have a complete misunderstanding of Bitcoin. They think of the 'bit' in Bitcoin as the bit in computer language. And, to some extent they are right. But the 'bit' is so much more than that, and in some ways, so much less. Here's what I mean.

The bit in the mouth of a horse can turn the whole animal at the will of the rider. But if all you have is the bit, it will fall right out of the horse's mouth. You also need the bridle if you want the bit to be able to do it's job. And you need the reins if you want control.

What is the bridle in Bitcoin? To some extent it's the blockchain. And what are the reins? They are the extent that the rider allows himself to control the horse, with or without the control of government or banking. It's up to the rider where he wants to sit in the saddle... in control of the horse, or under the thumb of government.

When does government control at least some of the Bitcoin activity? When it is public, right? Like Coinbase, and their relationship with anybody who uses their system.

But you and I can transact privately in Bitcoin, and nobody in government might even know about it. If there isn't any memo in the blockchain record, the reason why we transacted is known only to the two of us, except when we make it known to others. It's private, between you and me, and nobody can interfere, not even government.

This might sound funny regarding Bitcoin, but read the short article, "Properly Adjusting a Bridle: How to Fit a Western Bit" - https://www.aqha.com/widget/-/properly-adjusting-a-bridle - and think about how to apply the info to Bitcoin and your transacting using it.

It's time that we start to properly understand how we can totally bypass government and banking through privacy laws and rules. By going through public exchanges, we are sticking ourselves right into government. As a possible alternative, consider BISQ and BISQ 2.

What other alternatives might there be to using a public exchange? How can we turn media apps - like Telegram - into private Bitcoin transfer places that might 'push' Bitcoin into private use among a lot more people?

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195  Other / Off-topic / Re: Why do you think there are craters on the moon? on: April 23, 2024, 04:04:22 AM
I need to quote this so that others can view it, it shouldn’t be in the dark lol 😂

What an instant order from above

I hadn't read much of the rest of that website I linked above, but now that I have read more, I think I know why D-8218 doesn't want this info out there. The reason? It destroys the symmetry of the Jewish religion of today.

The timing of the last Mars Earth flyby in 701 BC, coincides with the time of God announcing through His prophets that Jerusalem and Israel were going to fall to some nation. There were actually two nations - Ancient Assyria and Ancient Babylonia.

What the flyby did was to disrupt the timing of the Jewish Passovers, and other timing that was based on the movement of the moon, and a 360-day year. The Jews have adapted to the current 365-day year - changed by the last flyby - but the flyby knowledge in the website would prove to them that God had rejected them because of their disobedience.

The alternative for average Jews if they understood this, would be to understand that Jesus was/is the Messiah. It would overturn all their thinking about God and their religion, and show that they had thrown away their specialness... their being the chosen nation... by their rebellion against God's laws. It's not that God has rejected them individually, but that He has accepted any believing Gentiles... a thing that they can't stand as Jews.

The idea of craters on the moon, and the fact that SeeBiscuit started the thread, and the way I answered it, are all part of many wake-up calls that God is doing for the Jewish people. Can't say for sure, but probably D-8218 is Jewish and understands that this might change his people.

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196  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Please, I urge you to buy bitcoin! on: April 22, 2024, 08:17:19 PM
^^^ With 8 billion people on Earth, that's (on average) 262500 satoshi's per person. Plenty enough to do business with.

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197  Other / Politics & Society / Re: [Canada] Trudeau's balls are nowhere to be found 🤣 on: April 22, 2024, 07:00:56 PM
I have friends in Canada and it’s amazing how little they are aware of what is going on. I often ask them if they’ve heard news stories or if they are able to view news certain news sites and that’s when they realize how bad it is… The recent video circulating of a man being refused his own money during a bank withdrawal attempt should scare everyone into researching Bitcoin, although I doubt those in Canada are able to view it.

Canada claim to be a free and democratic society while it is busy promoting sensoship. My first experience of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s misuse of power was during the truck convoy protest that paralyzed economic activity in  Ottawa in 2022. Truck drivers were molested, intimidated and some of the them were unlawfully arrested.

In January this year a Federal Court of Canada ruled that the Prime Minister's use of the country’s Emergencies Act to end a truck convoy was an unjustified infringement of civil rights, including the protection against unreasonable search and seizure, and, in some instances, the freedom of expression as well. This shows that these leaders are despots in democrats clothing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/23/world/canada/trudeau-emergencies-act-trucker-convoy.html

The people won't get repayment from Trudeau, unless they file man-to-man claims against the him for misusing his authority.

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198  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Publicly held Trump trials - ongoing on: April 22, 2024, 06:58:15 PM
If Trump is a loser, who would you suggest for the Presidency?

For you - no one. Trump is the second coming of Jesus. Make sure to give all your life savings to him because he's very rich and doesn't need your money.

You can easily see that the only reason why there are any Trump trials is that the opposition is so unpopular, that the only way they have a chance of winning among Americans is if they lie and cheat. Consider that they themselves, and thousands or millions of other Americans have done the same kinds of things that Trump has been accused of... and often much worse. But nobody else is facing the kinds of accusations that Trump is.

Millions of Americans have cheated on their spouses with porn stars and illegally paid $130k to said porn stars? And stored stolen top secret documents in their bathrooms? Seems unlikely. And if that were true it still wouldn't make it not a crime. If a guy in the trailer next door kills his wife, it doesn't make it right for you to kill yours - that's some free legal advice for you.

Time to wake up and realize that you are on the side of death and destruction when you are against Trump. If Trump loses, and Biden-Team-like people win, they will overtake and destroy everything, even you. How blind are you that you are in favor of your own destruction?

Well, the evil Biden people had nearly 4 years to destroy me and failed miserably, so you're probably full shit on that one just like on everything else. Good to see that some things never change on this shithole of a forum.


You misunderstand about the whole thing. The only reason why the evil Biden people failed to destroy you is because it takes a long time for anybody to destroy the good that Trump did in his first term. But there are a whole bunch of other people around the world that Trump didn't have enough time to protect from the Biden Team and the Deep State.

You should really be praying to your lucky stars - or whatever you pray to - that Trump gets in, in 2024. If he does, you just might have a chance to go on living before the Biden Team takes you and bunch of the rest of us out.

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199  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: April 22, 2024, 06:48:52 PM
[...]

The more money the US sends to Ukraine and elsewhere, the more devalued it becomes. The USD might be worth only half the value of what it was at the start of the war. Sending more money will only devalue it more, until people everywhere start serious trading with gold and silver... which China and Russia are stockpiling for BRICS.

How do we know this? US banks are stockpiling gold and silver, but are way behind China and Russia.

[...]


dumBAss, the US is sending mostly military aid, the coin stays at home and it is not being financed by printing money - among other things because the democrats are quite concerned with inflation. Also, this is a showroom that is encouraging many countries in the world to get better armed and do so buying US stuff - ethically questionable, but financially effective.

China is in the middle of a property crisis dumBAss, even the Chinese gov has said that growth is going to be much slower than in the past.

Please, provide any evidence of "banks stockpiling gold - ... aaw forget it, it is just another crap you heard in either in the bar or some Methodist Church in San Antonio. Sufficient to say that the wealth of nations is nowadays based on what they can produce and their influence, but you are a lost cause, is not worth discussing with someone that does not respect the basic facts and reason. Your head is so full of the wrong stuff that nothing else can get in.


"aaw forget it..." Lol. What? did you finally look up the stockpiling of gold that the banks are doing... along with China and Russia? China is telling its people to hedge their 'money' and investments by getting into gold and silver. This means that the reports that you see about a floundering Chinese economy have to do their relation to the USD. The USD is dying, but China and Russia are backing out of it rather than dying along with it. The reports don't show this, because they are focused on the USD.

I hope that the US is sending military aid rather than $$$ in their latest, $60 billion for Ukraine package. At least that way some of the money will remain in the USA, even though it still devalues the USD. But Russia is already technologically ahead of anything that the US is going to send to Ukraine.

The USD is starting to go the way of the German Mark in WW2. Soon it will be less than worthless to Ukraine.

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200  Other / Politics & Society / Re: I disagree that each person has the right to choose their own path in life. on: April 22, 2024, 06:36:51 PM
It is said that everyone has the freedom to choose their own path in life, but the reality of today's world is completely different; the most powerful individuals in it now pressure their children to follow in their footsteps. Consider the best footballer in the world like Messi and Ronaldo from a different angle. Their children play football; are you arguing that this is their destiny or that their parents are pressuring them against their will?
 Since the beginning of human history, the world's most powerful family has held distinct perspectives and shaped their offspring's trajectories. A hundred years ago, the best farmers, hunters, drummers, and other professions came from Africa. It was believed that a child born into such a family must have a certain gift from birth and fulfill a certain role in life.

Arnold Vosloo and Charlize Theron come from South Africa, don't they?

But Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, and his brother, Nikolai, were born in Russia.

Telegram seems to have 900 million users, because they all want privacy, and freedom. And that is what Pavel and Telegram offer them.

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