There's a reason why Buffet called the stock markets a device for transfering money from the impatient to the patient.



Isn't it going to run out of energy eventually? Did they say how long it'd last?

It's a scam and the "devs" have long disappeared even from their Telegram group apparently.

Once 6000 Ether has been raised, currently at 3893. So at current rates in around 1-2 weeks. Would expect a slight acceleration near the end though.

You're just seeing shit.

Bitcoin is still "down" from a short-term perspective and pretty much all altcoin valuations are denominated in BTC, not USD. Once Bitcoin starts tracing back up, altcoins will probably go down in terms of BTC while roughly tracing their "original" USD valuations. Then once Bitcoin starts moving sideways, alts will play their usual catchup game.

In the meantime, whichever alts have strong changes in fundamentals will go up regardless of the current market situation.

But in short, there's certainly no reason to assume that altcoins are "ending". They are primed to be the equity of the future, especially if regulators actually start embracing cryptos. Of course, that does not include complete and utter shitcoins with no value proposition.

My brudda. I never said I was.

No fee until your order gets triggered.

It was just a typo. Things have a tendency to take on a life of their own though, like the Ugandan Knuckles conglomerate of memes for example.

BitConnect was at no point an investment. It has always been an immediately obvious ponzi scheme.

And earth is flat and space doesn't exist.

I'm not sure to what extent the frequency matters while "scanning" the universe though. If a civilization used a frequency that we dismiss as inconspicuous they could've slipped our attention while in plain sight.

And I agree with the notion that life is all around the universe. I am ~99% leaning towards believing that the universe is infinite in size and that there's any number of life out there. But in such a universe there's also going to be any number of civilizations that have yet to find any life other than them, as well as any number of civilizations that will either never find any life or simply be convinced that none exists.

Weren't we deliberately sending out signals to try and contact or attract the attention of aliens by the way? Although even in that case, I don't think it would be possible for us to cover the whole globe and to send a signal into all directions simultaneously, which has a compounding effect by distance travelled of the signal. The more I think about this the more absurd the idea of finding any civilization becomes. There seem to be a ton of factors that could make finding life extremely difficult even "close by".

Bitcoin didn't drop from 12k to 1,8k like DO effectively did. Neither did any of the other real cryptos.

Wasn't that just Parity?

We don't have to look everywhere, but as far as I'm aware we have looked virtually nowhere so far. I would also be cautious about assuming that radio waves would be used by such an advanced civilization. They could very well be using different frequencies. But that's overall an interesting point that I haven't really thought of yet.

What if we haven't found any other civilizations because they don't broadcast anything that we would search for into space? That combined with the tiny bit of universe that we have even attempted of exploring "in detail" so far further decreases the chances of finding anything.

Use Adblock, Noscript, and don't download random shit. Then keep your crypto stash on cold storage wallets and you won't really have to worry about an Antivirus or the like.

I haven't studied astrophysics so I wouldn't know this. But that could be another potential reason for not seeing anybody around us.

That would require a civilization to actually have existed for a long enough time to be millions/billions of years ahead of us without having gone extinct. They would also have to exist in sufficient proximity of us.

Who knows how many galaxies (if any) are already partially or even fully colonized, but simply beyond our reach? We can only see as far as the light allows us to. And if the actual, rather than just the observable, universe is actually expanding faster than light that would make it virtually impossible to even attempt reaching some places. Given the potentially infinite size of the universe it seems potentially infinitely improbable for such a civilization not to exist in some place. But we know for fact that we haven't really seen shit yet. Maybe we got lucky and we're the first to get a shot, or maybe we're unlucky and just happened to be dropped in a place with nobody else close by.

That would mean something like 2 million years at 50% the speed of light to get across. Let's be generous and overestimate to upwards of 10 million years to colonize whatever can be. That's virtually nothing compared to the time until a potential heat death, which may or may not even take place.

Without any means for teleportation/breaking the speed limit it would certainly require many generations of people to even get to every place that humans can settle in, but it's not impossible. And if humans don't get wiped out by themselves or some natural extinction kind of event, I don't see why we wouldn't end up colonizing the galaxy. In fact, it would seem inevitable to me if humans don't die out. Who knows if whatever reaches different places can still be called human though, the differences are bound to be quite drastic on those time scales. Communication would be pretty much nonexistant without superluminal transmission of information as well and a holiday trip across the galaxy won't be possible either, which makes the whole prospect at least as exciting as sobering.

As far as energy is concerned: https://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/global-primary-energy-consumption-1800-2015-1.png
And we're still absolutely terrible at harnessing the energy output of the sun. Plus, if "uploading human consciousness" turns out to be possible, the amount of mass that would have to be sent through space could be drastically lowered. That would also allow for conscious travel, perhaps within a digital world. Although that would seem to make the whole endeavour redundant beyond climbing a mountain simply because it's there.

If Ripple was backed by equity and derivatives... maybe. But that's not going to happen.

He was a nerd, of course he's a little bitch.

Jokes aside, while it's well possible that light is the end all be all upper speed limit, I still haven't seen anything that convinced me of that being the case. Heck, we're incapable of even really studying something like 95% of the "stuff" in our observable universe alone, and who knows how much is outside of it. Given from what I've learned from studying Mathematics I don't think that the universe could be in any way finite, so I'm expecting there to be an infinite amount of knowledge to be created in the future for as long as conscious beings exist. The "worst case" scenario would be that we're simply incapable of accessing superluminal speeds (as humans), but I would be quite surprised if they really weren't possible. Viability of practical applications aside, entanglement technically is one type of superluminal transmission of information that we know to exist.

As far as colonizing the galaxy goes. I don't have the exact numbers of the milky way in my head anymore, but wouldn't it be possible for humans to just go from planet to planet slowly if we were capable of moving around close to the speed of light? Galaxies other than the Milky Way would be a completely different story though. And that's ignoring the problem of the expansion of the universe, which drives "stuff" further away from us as time passes.

The sheer size of the universe makes it quite sobering to think of all the stuff that we might never experience if death turns out to be an actual end though. I'm already overloaded with things that I want to do just on earth alone right now, nevermind what will be possible in the near future.

You could make that argument if DO didn't drop by nearly 85%.