What issues have you had?

I've read so many complaints about wirex bank transfers I haven't done a single one.

It seems to be the primary bone of contention.

I tend to refer to this tweet of his before anything else. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1119093220544147457?lang=en

I think he uses it as a weird little outlet more than any type of meaningful platform much of the time. If I were him I would've quit some time ago as having an instant conduit from his mind to a global audience must've cost tens of millions in legal ball ache by now.

Fair enough but it's rather telling that the prime focus is on dead five year old free money versus whether any of this money will be worth anything in future.

That's one thing that hasn't changed at all for me. The social impact has always been the most interesting aspect for me. I would've expected some technical seepage to happen but I made my peace with the fact I'll always be clueless about that a long time ago.

What is the Qatar Financial Centre? It's quite hard to tell. Is it one building or area or the heart of their entire financial apparatus?

Odd how not one single Islamic economy has piped up definitively about crypto. All the clerics seem to do is contradict each other about it.

Another interesting feature of the early posts of many is that they were clearly already mining before signing up here. As a noob mining never occurred to me for a second. I'm not sure why.

Maybe I should've rephrased that. I think speculation will likely be the prime mover forever but practical usage and savings will shore up what is currently a market filled with nothing else.

Gold's value is little but speculation but its sheer size gives it some solidity to dip into.

I cannae believe the silver fund thing is still being discussed. There are rather more important things to be focusing on such as whether this project and its descendant has a future other than oblivion.

My own take on the silver thing is I never handed over any money for it or felt any ownership of it, I just got 70-75,000 less XEM and stakeholders paid chump change for what they did receive.

I seem to recall saying it was a fucking stupid idea at the time and my opinion has not wavered. It's been pathetically handled but it'll soon be five years ago and since then literally nothing has been done about it so it clearly never will by this point. They'll intend for the idea of it to fade away. I won't particularly care for one.

One day we will all be gone. You will remain and become the speaker of the dead.

The little ones will gather at your feet as you recall the great battles that were once fought here.

And there's nothing exactly impressive about being a veteran here. You just have to sit on your ever expanding arse posting nob gags for long enough.

That's proper weird.

It's still you she wants dead.

Don't you worry.

Turns out she doesn't want to get jiggy. She just wants you dead.

I'll split the fee if you disappear tonight.

This is the rather lithe little thing who'll be keeping me warm tonight arriving at Nobu earlier on. Things are heating up already and she's only on her fourth bag of offal.

When I decide to give up my virginity some lucky lady will be receiving one of these.

In fifteen years she'll be wearing a plastic tiara and torn Frozen costume in an empty Nebraska John Deere dealership and will 'knight' every customer who limps through the door with section of rod they dug out the back of the workshop. For an extra ten bucks she'll say into your camera phone 'My lord, thou hast purchased the mightiest steed in our stable.'  

Harry will be living with his father in law in Mexico bitching over Skype to the press in return for six packs of beer.

If the HMRC says you pay 20% on your capital gain, you do your sums and hand over 20% of your gain. That's completely unambiguous.

If some dick chooses to sell a scheme based on their own ludicrous interpretation of a wording that's a different matter. If people want to push the envelope then they shouldn't start crying if the tax man pushes back.

He was escrowing the deals. That makes him a key component in the selling of drugs. Barely any sales would've taken place had he not been doing that.

It would be a totally different deal if he'd put some software together and sent it out into the world just as Satoshi did. He didn't.

I don't see how he could be any more guilty of running SR. Though I think the sentence is ridiculous if we look at the volume of drugs sold through there I can't imagine someone running a drug distribution/sales network via other means would get much or any less of a sentence in the US.

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R45075.pdf  



Look at the figure for what they term a drug kingpin. It's way less than SR's turnover.

'A drug kingpin is a person who controls a network of persons involved in the illegal drugs trade and transactions' I dunno about controlling but at the very least he was facilitating.  

It also enriched drug cartels who are responsible for countless horrors. The only bit of violence it removed was street level. That's still important but it's possible SR's existence created more violence elsewhere.

If I'd been running it I would do my best to only directly link up drug makers to drug consumers. The whole site started with him selling nothing but mushrooms he'd grown. Idealistic of course but I for one would not be happy knowing I was making money for scum.

The only questionable bit is the trial and I can well believe they went all out to warp it to make sure they won. This was too hot a subject not to. It'll take a huge attitude change for it to be looked at again and if I remember rightly they've now officially exhausted all options.

There should be a retrial by the sounds of it. It won't happen. They've buried him and they intend for him to stay there. No one should be handed a sentence of that magnitude without a totally bulletproof legal process which doesn't seem to be the case at all.

I think he's a twat who knew what he was getting into. He's also the victim of a system out for his blood.

I had absolutely no idea these were this small.

You learn summat every day.

Sod today's price. There are much more important things to be worrying about than wars and stuff.

We're about to lose the queen of our hearts.

Can you point to a single case of that anywhere?

If that was the case if the government was running low on money they could simply add 20% to your income tax in 2002.

They'd get their heads kicked in.

Once it's paid under the rules that exist on that day it stays paid. A bit different if you're using some ludicrous avoidance that gets picked apart scheme of course.