Oh  defend the ETH troll... good job jojo....   

I wonder where you are getting this idea that theymos expects merit sources to venture outside of their historical stomping grounds because I understood that theymos did not give too many guidelines for merit sources, and therefore there remains quite a decent amount of individual discretion for merit sources and other persons with smerits too.... 

What does ETH have to do with this thread?

Oh?  You are saying that ETH is bitcoin 2.0?      We should not be writing off the flippening, then, right?

Are you in this thread to warn us to move over to ETH?    You don't have enough snot-nosed 12 years olds in the ETH WO thread to share your lovely vision, if there is such a thing?

Another fuckster BIG BLOCKer nutjob.  Oh my?  

Don't you realize BIG BLOCKer talking points are dead, and you need to come up with something new?

By the way, you try to make this about me, you newbie bcash shill, and I am not arguing shit in regards to the various BIG BLOCKer nutjob claims that come into this thread periodically, so don't try to frame the issue as if I have some kind of thing to prove, because I don't.  Most frequently, when one of you BIG BLOCKer nutjob comes into the thread to make your stupid ass claims, you try to act as if the other side has the burden to prove that it is correct rather than you, when it does not.  

The fact of the matter is if you want BIG BLOCKS to be adopted, then you have the burden to show that it is going to be helpful in some kind of way (you need to show with facts and/or logic).. at least more helpful than it hurts, and it seems that no one of importance (besides a bunch of stupid ass bcash supporters) is convinced about the lack of evidence and/or logic that you various BIG BLOCKer nutjobs have produced for your position about the supposed goodness of BIG BLOCKS...

So why don't you go back to r/btc or Bitcoin.com where your views are more appreciated, and to support your bcash BIG BLOCK crap that is going to spread around the world...   hahahahahaha.. NOT too likely to spread more than sinking to zero, and that is why you are in this thread trying to bash bitcoin rather than building on your BIG BLOCKer btrash project that is going to bring more problems than it solves to the extent that it has hardly any smart/competent developers who are able to really focus on what is important in a coin...  

You are so full of shit, that perhaps you need to be careful regarding exploding at some point soon?  Cuidado mujer.

You know that you are not mirroring anybody.. but instead you come into this thread to stir shit, and then you try to flip matters around so it appears that someone else started the nonsensical discussion, so likely you have learned a lot of these trolling shill techniques through the years, and the more attention you get towards distracting topics, likely the better you get paid... however, you likely are living out of grandma's basement and you are underpaid for your trolling talents, so you don't really need much besides a good imagination to make a living off of this because grandma pays for everything, including cookies and milk from time to time as you need them to keep you revved up.

You are a useful tool for the bankster corporate shills; hopefully they are paying you in bitcoin, even if that remains ironic for you to be receiving and perhaps HODLing the thing that you are FUDding.

Could be a sign that you are overdoing your attempt to remain pure? 

You seem to be assuming a lot regarding a lack of a wack-o-mole effect, lack of problems with bitcoin going underground and abilities of governments to coordinate themselves.

Sure, of course, the BTC price might crash shortly after some kind of government crack down announcement, but then there is a risk of an underground economy.  

Govs going to squash out the underground, too?  Kill everyone who uses bitcoin?  Come on?  Are you serious?  

Is this going to be a coordinated world-wide war on decentralization?  

Governments are going to coordinate and see these crypto matters the same way?  How long will such government coordination take..?   more than a month, right? 

Seems like you have not really thought through your proposition too well, beyond scare tactics and the immediate BTC price drop that you are hoping for.

Oh??? my?? so much respect for you!!!!!!!!!!!!




NOT


Your story is so convincing that you sold your BTC at the top of the two most recent exponential peaks, and you happen to buy back at the lowest too (most likely) and you are here talking a bunch of nonsense, even though you happen to know exactly when to buy and when to sell...   Yeah right... 

I would like to have some of what you are smoking.

HODL CRAEFULly!!!!  is currently ^TM by the WO thread peeps.     

That selfie is so 4 years ago.. helrow?  

How come you have ETH in your username?  Are you a recovering mETH head, trolling the BTC channels, diversifying into BTC or already converted away from that bullshit 14 year old snot-nosed scam stuff?

And how would they accomplish making "all of this" worthless in a month?   

You party poop!!!!   

ICOs and alts are snakeoil salesmen.  they are not the same as the real deal bitcoin.  Bitcoin offers fundamentals that are going to cause you to profit long term, even if you might not see the results right away.  The various ICOs and alt coins are pump and dump scams, and you have to be careful to get in before the pump and out before the dump.

Yes, and that tends to be fair enough to leave some expertise with professionals... but there are also some problems with educations that do not equip peeps with critical thinking to take advice with a grain of salt and also to take some responsibility over some of the decisions too... whether finances, law, health.. blah blah blah.. There is a need to take the advices of specialists with a grain of salt (and perhaps even a discretionary BIG ASS grain of salt?)

Perhaps this thread could be closed, and maybe there is a reference post too that would sum up the Alia con situation - because I think what happened to Alia in the end, essentially, is that at least three of her (his) accounts ended up getting banned - perhaps because of the doxing that she did, the threats of doxing, her coming back with a new account to post and attempt to get around her ban and maybe even some of her other outrageous foney-baloney distracting and disingenuous post shenanigans that she engaged in her last weeks of forum activity..

This is be called bitcoin, it is not about "general consensus" because honey badger doesn't give a ratt's ass about "general consensus."        

I have discussed bitcoin with several of my relatives, who are much better financially established than me (at least before bitcoin) who use financial advisors, and when I discuss bitcoin with them, each of them seems very trigger shy, even when I talk with them about low level of dollar cost averaging exposure. 

One of my uncles recently seemed to be coming around to the idea because in December he said he was going to "look at" bitcoin after the new year, and then I did not hear from him until last week when he sent me text messages asking me the price direction of bitcoin, and really he was not asking me but instead wanting to confirm his theory to wait until $3k or some other low and unspecified price point.. and further he had mentioned that he was considering GBTC.... Surely I gave him a bit of an earful (in the form of text), but I doubt whether he is really listening to me, even though I have been periodically mentioning this Bitcoin stuff to him for about 3.5 years or so (since about August 2014).

My point is that smart peeps with financial advisors might be worse off than those who do not rely upon financial advisors because it remains quite difficult for so many smart people to get the recommendations of their financial advisor out of their head.. and then the ongoing onslaught of the mainstream media that nearly always is either talking about bitcoin bubble or it's imminent death or fear of govt regulation or some other nonsubstantiated corporate shill and bearish claims.

you are just a baby... remember that.   

Can you elaborate why not?

I think that people speculate that the total world adoption is likely less than .5%..... which would be around 35million... and the article seems to be speculating about 17 million americans, when maybe less than 10 million would be more realistic, maybe even less than 5 million.