political affiliation and ass kissing.
Right, and what do you think happens in the management of these companies? I'm not here to defend the political bureaucracy here, but cooperate bureaucracy isn't better either. The "Invisible hand of the free market" is the same Bullshit as the "Representative Democracy" Bureaucracy always leads to the same conclusion and there is no point in substituting one form for the other, they're all bad. I think there is only one effective mechanism to counteract it: De-urbanisation. I know that sounds inconvenient... |
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I'm curious what happens to your prediction in case of an anti-bubble? Will it suddenly switch over and show a bottom or will we get something like $542, October 12, 2015?
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Insurance companies are big centralized operations full of bureaucrats. They have to please their shareholders which are after profits coming out of the depositors pockets.
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You've wrote first "fake" then edited with new text. I misinterpreted. I was thinking they confiskated private money, while it wasn't. That's difference between Cyprus. Yeah. This is not at all the same as Cyprus. Not at all. Cyprus = state takes private money for itself. Poland = state takes pension money from private pension funds who manage it on behalf of private individuals so that it will be managed by a state institution instead. On behalf of the private individuals. Ok, if you've got an anti-statist thing going on ideologically, sure ok, you might see this as a problem. But there's no sense in which the money has been taken from the people who it actually belongs to ie. the people who are supposed to get paid out by the pension. Sure, that could happen later. But that's not what's happened here. Wow A post with shot of common sense in the Economics forum, I'm shocked.  |
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It seems Bitcoin has just got much more popular in Poland. Anti-fragile, bitches!
If the same happens to the real money laying around at Gox we'll see how "anti-fragile" Butts really are. |
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killhamster summed this Bullshit up perfectly, as usual:
@ButtCoin
eBay considering accepting Bitcoin. In related news, my uncle totally works at Nintendo and I have the new Super Mario and it's awesome and...
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1. SEO:
eBay deals is similar to Goupon imho. They are in a huge marketing phase right now and it could be that the blog post is intended for search engines aka. SEO optimization.
It's not linked in the blog itself, get it? Ask yourself, why is that? Totally. That was the initial reason for this conclusion. It shouldn't necessarily be found by human, but by robots. The reference to the blog entry is in their sitemap, which is crawled by the search engine bots: http://deals.ebay.com/blog/sitemap.xml -> http://deals.ebay.com/blog/sitemap_index.xml -> http://deals.ebay.com/blog/page-sitemap.xmlI know this is vague and speculative and one might ask: why would they put so much effort in this? Maybe the above stated statement should be redefined to: "It should be found by those who are interested in this topic and search engines." edccdn.com is an external content provider, I guess. ( recipes, thanksgiving, tablets) Get it?  All of those are linked in the blog. The shopping tips, recepies and whatever all show up at some point in the list, only the Bitcoin one doesn't. The only way to find it is to know the url or enter "bitcoin" into the search box. |
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1. SEO:
eBay deals is similar to Goupon imho. They are in a huge marketing phase right now and it could be that the blog post is intended for search engines aka. SEO optimization.
It's not linked in the blog itself, get it? Ask yourself, why is that? |
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Some say Bitcoins will be accepted on eBay next month. Very, Very Misleading TM
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Pump & Dump
also and most importantly a comedy goldmine.
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As posted before it's fishy, the post doesn't show up where it is supposed to, in http://deals.ebay.com/blog list. If you enter "bitcoin" in the search page it turns out it was posted on August 20, 2013 4:30 pm. It should turn up currently at this page: http://deals.ebay.com/blog/page/20/But it doesn't. Looks like somebody who works there is a Bitcoin Evangelist and tries to make it look as official as possible while trying to avoid detection from eBay. Then they went through a hell of a lot of trouble to create that video, most elaborate attempt at trying to pump the price. Wouldn't be the first time. Remember the alleged Joe Lewis Avalon investment? |
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As posted before it's fishy, the post doesn't show up where it is supposed to, in http://deals.ebay.com/blog list. If you enter "bitcoin" in the search page it turns out it was posted on August 20, 2013 4:30 pm. It should turn up currently at this page: http://deals.ebay.com/blog/page/20/But it doesn't. Looks like somebody who works there is a Bitcoin Evangelist and tries to make it look as official as possible while trying to avoid detection from eBay. |
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cool story, I like how you are avoiding the question.
Seriously please stop it with the made up Bullshit, or at least don't do it here and make your own thread.
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Nightowlace do you happen to work for eBay deals as a tech guy? Like to keep the job?
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Bitcoin has been replaced, by Bitcoin.
At some later time it will likely be replaced by Bitcoin 1.0
No it will be replaced by Brettcoin. |
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In a way this is inevitable. In 3 years 75% in 7 years almost 90% will have been mined. Bitcoin will not replace fiat in that time frame. Cryptocurrency is superior to fiat but do you really expect the powers that be to sit back and adopt it as a world currency.
Think about it if you first learn about bitcoin 7 years from now would you support a cryptocurrency that had been nearly 90% premined by a select elite for a world currency or a new coin that everyone had a chance to mine.
Disregarding the fact that gold already existed, think about how what you are saying applies to it. Gold is so premined I can NEVER expect to become a well established profitable miner, but that doesn't mean I would begrudge the youkoners who dug it up. With the difference that Gold production rate has been steadily increasing since 6000 years. |
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Rouge admin it is.  I don't want to be a grammar nazi but it's rogue. Rouge means something completely different. ok I apologize. |
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Rouge admin it is. |
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Pictures are hosted on edccdn.com, a private host by some guy. Notice how this isn't linked to the deal.ebay.com/blog site anywhere. My best guess is it's a rouge admin. This blog post is completely embedded as an iframe: http://edccdn.com/bitcoin/Thanks, that makes it even more fishy. To the guy responsible for this, (I'm pretty sure he read this): You dun' goofed. |
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