Surely Donald will wind up looking so deranged and callous by the time this has played out they'll be able to put Lenin up against him and he'd probably give him a kicking.

You can be lying baby when times are smooth. People will not forgive or forget if the same happens when the shit hits the fan which of course it will.

Then again - https://youtu.be/LtDEeerGEJA

Disagree. It might often go to the wrong places in the opinions of some but I can tell when someone has a healthy merit count without looking at the score just by the way they write, and the same goes for people who've earned none. The rewards are going to the people who should get them.

It might not improve the quality of the hopeless. There's now enough merited posters for them to read and learn what does attract it.

Every merit score is a collective vote open to anyone.

I do not believe the probable majority of merit earned in the WO thread would have a hope in hell of being merited elsewhere but it's everyone's personal choice where that merit is sent.

The most egregious examples of merit piss taking between clearly worthless posts or accounts are usually picked up on and singled out rapidly so I think it's doing the job it was intended to do with the odd weird outlier.

And why are you not moaning about threads about merit stats? That's the true bottomless pit for the throwing around of merit.

But there's also the opposite tack which is by listing whatever they're endorsing it.

He's in a bit of a tricky position as purveying a glossy and reassuring image while being a portal to a screeching mess.

Bch has been 51% attacked. Coinbase have been tweeting about eos's functionality failing.

Look at what happened to iota with their total chain shutdown.

I get that they need the shitcoin masses but that also brings the potential for disaster.

I think that's fair enough but it's ever so slightly disingenuous of him to pretend that all the shit they're touting is somehow vying for the crown. And it is more than business for him in particular. I can't think of many other bigwigs who pussy out at remarking on reality.

Maybe that's how you get people through the door but if it were me I would remain neutral at best and acknowledge Bitcoin's position.

Contact an OTC broker. They will have clients waiting to buy large amounts and they will match you to them. If everyone's happy with the price then the sale proceeds. If it's a truly large amount I would not risk it on an exchange. You'll have slippage and the exchange might freak out and freeze you. Neither is an issue with a proper OTC broker.

Genesis Trading is one, Kraken now have a dedicated OTC operation and there are others like Itbit and a few more. Do not mistake P2P for OTC.

Bitcoin's value is in its principles, trust earned, ledger and of course its users. Those can be ported to new and exotic systems in the future. By the time we're vegetables it's possible there'll be something called Bitcoin that recognises today's private keys but it won't have any resemblance to what we're using now.

I would never think to assume private medical insurance worked abroad. What you need is travel insurance. Even the crappiest travel insurance bought in the UK covers you for £5-10 million of expense. I'm quite tempted to go above that and see what happens but I'm not sure what ailment I would need. Maybe give birth to siamese twins with AIDS?

And there's no way at all I would ever go anywhere near the US without the best possible insurance.

That's slightly insulting to the average young person. This forum's biggest problem is adults who can't speak English scraping desperately for pennies. One thing it is not is a community of professionals. And many young folks know more about computing than any adult ever will.

Ignoring looks like good advice on paper but there some genuine grade A psychos who can fill a thread 24/7 to the extent that the entire thing grinds to a halt. Once someone develops an irrational grudge that can feed them to a limitless extent.

Self moderation can be an unappetising look and it would certainly reduce my trust and interest in the subject but sometimes it's the only way. I guess the best you can hope for is that you have enough genuine contributors to drown them out.

Centralbankcoin will make the case for Bitcoin even more compelling than it was before and make the informed want out of the conventional system more than ever. They're not letting up in their lever pulling and it'll become clearer than ever that a system they have total control and surveillance over will be subject to even more weirdness.

I'm not sure what proportion of the population will care about that but it's certainly not a proportion that's going to shrink. As for illegalising it, I can see it happening in crackpot shitholes and piece of shit administrations like India.

In better developed places it's slowly creeping into conventional portfolios. If things like GBTC wind up in millions of pension funds I don't see how that can be rescinded without there being a shitstorm. It's a bit tricky to pull the rug just because it makes you sad.

People will of course refer to the gold seizures in the 1930s. It's a very different world now. Money is an awful lot more mobile and populations are a lot more vocal and a lot less likely to fall in line.

If I were living in a bucket of my own faecal matter in a third world slum somewhere I would've anticipated such an outcome and initially signed up with a VPN signalling I was living somewhere like here -



Anyone who came from here should've noticed how loathed, mindless and relentless barely coherent shitposters are and done their best to distance themselves from it.

https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1235314764219322371

Thread here - https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1235309368918388736

Now we know how much Brian Armstrong dislikes Bitcoin. Despite it being the very foundation of everything he's built he still can't bring himself to say many or any complimentary things about it.

Do you reckon he has the slightest point or is it the hopeless ramblings of someone who wants you buy as many shitcoins off him as possible and wees himself in the face of the one project immune to his power?

As far as I can tell every single other potential contender is a broken joke in some way and every day that doesn't introduce something 'better' makes it less likely. There are still a lot of things to address but nothing else appears to understand that you can't do that unless the underlying foundations respect the principles on which it's built.

The question is - will they want to?

Banks give accounts entirely at their discretion. Just because this has been lifted doesn't mean the regulation is any clearer.

For the sake of crypto fans in India I hope a bank does look into it but it may not happen and the government is appealing it - https://www.coindesk.com/indias-central-bank-plans-to-fight-supreme-court-crypto-ruling

Would you serve a few thousand customers or ignore them to avoid pissing off the RBI?

Comes a time when you need to start living and not just hoard. Of course the price may be higher in future but I'd happily spend it on enjoyable things as long as I had enough of it elsewhere.

And alts, whatever their merits or lack thereof, usually do waaay better than BTC during explosions. I got rid of some shitcoins to buy a VR headset. Less than two months later that had turned into a $10,000 headset. And it was crap.

These days the average 12-13 yr old is watching Tiny Asian Teen Anal Creampie 92 on their phones. I do not see this place as any more of a threat to their purity than anywhere else on the internet. I was quite contentedly watching Driller Killer on bootleg VHS tapes at that age.

Tons of young people that age are into coding and gaming. This is an up and coming area of computer science so it's likely they'd find it themselves anyway if they already had an interest in that. Also the lack of financial education out there seems pretty disgraceful so exploring it should be encouraged.

But I would find it very frustrating to be introduced to it and be effectively locked out of it unless my parents were on hand to sign me up to buy or sell it. I would be inclined to send them to more generalised resources. They'll find this joint off their own back if they get into it.

Eventually either miners will be commissioning their own power plants or power companies will be contracting miners to mine on site. The two are going to converge somewhere in the middle. I don't see the existing status quo continuing.

It's a golden rule that the more informed you are about a subject the more outraged you'll be by Hollywood's treatment of it. If you have blood pressure problems you may want to get someone else to watch it and report back to you.

I'm more interested in stuff that'll emerge from stories that originate from the scene itself rather than having it glued to the usual dross. If the full truth ever emerges about Silk Road that would make for a fascinating flick.

It sounds to me more like you are an investor in a real mine.

Cloud mining arranged via internet, which is normally how it happens with no option of seeing real mining, is almost always a ponzi scheme that never actually exists. They usually post photos of someone else's equipment and then keep taking money from new customers/victims to pay the old ones until the game ends.

I arrived in 2013 and even then mining made no sense to me. I guess at least there are established supplies of miners these days whereas most people got fucked with pre orders back then and missed out on profitable mining even if they eventually received their machine. Even so I still would never think of mining.