I have no doubt that a decent number of big Wall St willies do have some BTC now, enough to have an effect if they decide to offload. It doesn't exist in a vacuum of its own creation any more. It would be a lot easier to think that if this were 2013.

I don't know or care whether that affects the current price action but it's time to start considering correlation when ownership overlaps with the normal markets.

I am typing this from the interior of my mausoleum. I commissioned a stone keyboard too. If you start living like a dead person right now the chances are extremely high that you'll survive.

Pah. I cannae wait to set sail across an ocean of pus and sputum. I will fish for regurgitated hospital food as I slurp my way to the high ground. I might need to boil it first.

One potential upside is that the willingness of governments to throw every last fleck of shit at the wall to prop the whole thing up will become ever starker and it might drive more people to think the whole thing through and look for alternatives.

I'm sure more and more people are looking at their own standard of living since 2008 and the numbers being claimed and wondering where that supposed prosperity is.

That's something that'll pay off considerably further down the line than right now but some day it will. In the meantime we'll just have to man up and hunker down.

This TV series Almost Human came out in 2013 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sXcxP6LuYk 

It has one of the earliest mentions I can think of from film and TV. It's set in 2048 or something and they use 'Bitcoin sticks' to do contactless payment type things.

The diamond market has got to be one of the greatest and hokiest plays of all time.

How a market cornered by one entity that managed to convince millions of people to part with large amounts of money they will never recover AND with viable artificial versions now available is considered in the context of real finance is beyond me.

It strikes me as a weird little dead end that lives in a world of its own.

Never in all my years have I seen a crypto related domain raise significant interest on here.

If I had similar I would not bother with this place and go hype it where people are a lot less jaded. It's the same as crypto stuff being sold on here vs Ebay. Ebay attracts the ill informed dreamers who are willing to pay vastly more. This place has pragmatists who will head the other way.

Anyone who believes BTC will thrive in a global cratering in its current position has spent too long reading r/bitcoin and nothing else. In a decade or two there might the glimmer of a possibility. Deffo not now.

And cash of course is not a great thing to be in long term, however it's not for the long term. All the same I wouldn't want to attempt to time it.

There are indeed other options but most of those companies are flaky and many don't seem to last very long. I fully expect the other crypto cards I have to vanish at any moment. I well remember the way the Xapo and Bitpay cards stopped immediately and there were people with thousands of dollars on them with no other form of spending stuck in far off countries.

With this announcement I'd be fully confident in starting to run a few more aspects of my life through a Coinbase card if that was my thing.

Porn always runs towards technology sooner than other areas. Bitcoin is no exception. We see sexpeople pop up here quite regularly investigating it because they've had problems with conventional banking.

What they'll have to do is cut out payment processors and seek out their own solutions as they're just moving the problem one level down. I seem to remember Bitpay freezing out several industries because ultimately they answer to the banks above all.

I'm curious to know who actually pays for it any more. I guess it's more for the personalised end of things.

'But will they regret it?'

It's time Bitcoin fans gave up worrying about the US government missing out on those mad gainz. I'm sure the government will do just fine but feel free to donate to them if you're getting sleepless nights over it.



It's not just any old prick who can bid. You had to pre register and put money down otherwise it would trolled into the ground. The people who did bid are hardly going to be worried about the government knowing where the coins go or disguising their origin. They'll want to preserve that stamp of authenticity.

I have cards that do both. They both have useful points. Sometimes you want to secure a certain amount of fiat ahead of time. It's very annoying when you were planning a purchase and there's a huge change in the exchange rate before you're ready to buy. I wouldn't want only one option.

If I were female in here I likely would not mention it. It often provokes some verrry strange reactions.

Similarly the people who do declare themselves female in here are likely to be 11 yr boys trying to sell their grandmother's underpants passed off as some lithe gym bimbette's workout clothes.

Plenty of banks have told their customers to go away and not come back because of crypto. It may not be illegal but it also isn't properly legislated for in many a place and many a legacy institution isn't going to want to dabble in a grey area.

The most significant case involving Visa is them shutting down Wavecrest's deal who issued cards for Xapo, Bitpay and many others. Wavecrest clearly weren't competent or carrying out their due diligence so the rug was pulled.

Coinbase sealed the deal because they must do enough to satisfy them.

I went to an alleyway on the outskirts of Rome and paid off a member of the Swiss Guard for a ten minute play with this.



I could taste some thrush, a hint of swarfega and a whole lot of crystal meth so I'm pretty goddamn confident it was pulled straight off the pope in his sleep.

Still dribbling about 'legacy' Bitcoin and now he's even snuck in a quote from everyone's favourite Australian impersonator. He needs to score some fresh goals to give that cred a top up. However I'm not so sure he scored any the first time round either.

But they now have a large number of coins owned by the same people. And those people are not going to hang on to their wild bet if their bread and butter starts to take a shit that looks like it's going to be properly significant.

Let's see whether conventional markets manage to shake things off in the coming weeks and rebound. If not then it's time to chuck our usual predictions out the window. Crypto has enjoyed almost total consistency from the wider markets since it emerged. If that is turned on its head then the uncertainty will be amped up big time.

I doubt they have a shortage of money what with all of their shitcoins and scummy moves.

Thieving willies know when they're being taken for a ride too. If you make something available to others the chances are they won't have the slightest qualm in taking it from you.

My guess is that he got Calvin to buy some 'cheese pizza' through a proxy and then will miraculously roll it back, but he allowed him to keep his purchase, then all of their zombies will coo together at how awesome their system is.

Yes. I don't understand why others are even bothering to consider that he's talking about Bitcoin rather than Craigycoin.

And in their case they absolutely would do it and they can do it. That's the beauty of having one miner and all nodes other than your own being driven out of the system.

I seriously doubt BSV has ever been used to buy anything, let alone anything illicit.