I predict Donald's frontal lobes will fully liquidise this year rendering him completely insensate and incapacitated.

But they have the technology - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9frVTgoKSI&t=7m54s

I wouldn't call it a moderate opinion, I would call it the sustainable and realistic opinion. Anything built on bilge ultimately means nothing.

It doesn't really matter if pitiful lies are spun or wishful thinking reigns. It won't have any actual effect other than potential short term pumps that burn every moron who buys into them.

Bitcoin fans do not have a very good record for thinking through an actual truth if there's an eye catching headline to be spun out of it. In fact it is 100% guaranteed and those few voices who point it out get told to put a sock in it. Whatever truth there was is eternally forgotten and the horseshit becomes Bitcoin lore.

Most people can't read to the end of a headline before making up their mind, let alone investigating any actual facts, let alone attempting to process them.

Localbitcoins can't account for a piece of shit currency with an official exchange and then the real one. There are quite a few out there. 

I'm willing to take a Scud to the face for a $200 rise.

Remember me fondly.

And spend it on something nice.

Forget tax concessions, one of the biggest factors would be being able to pay tax in crypto.

I know that's unsexy but for many I'm sure the prospect of having to dick with exchanges, worrying about banks getting funny with you and timing the sale into fiat to meet the required amount is a vast turn off.

If there's a QR code you can send straight to that removes a lot of friction. It also removes barriers for people unfamiliar with crypto who might be offered to be paid in it.

Earning in it is what will create a vibrant crypto economy.

I just had a quick catty judge. You definitely had the right perspective from the off. Lots of vision for the future unlike most. You also seem to have nursed a lengthy and deep seated obsession with blockchain.info but I guess that's understandable if you coins were in there. I can't remember how long I stuck with them but it was a while.

Not you, your lack of merit.

Now go forth.

A pisspoor show.

For old news it's amazing how Gox just keeps on giving. It says here everyone's friend Mark's story convinced Carlo Ghosn to chip - https://www.asiatimes.com/2020/01/article/flight-or-fight-why-carlos-ghosn-decided-on-both/

But it's hard to argue that they're wrong. This is a moment in time that'll pass but for now it's the prime reason most people are here. Most establishment development around services in recent times has been almost entirely around milking its volatility.

There are people making proper use of its properties but they must be in a very small minority.

I'm getting old. I feel GREAT even though I'm sicking up blood jelly and run out of breath rising from my chair.

One problem with being fragile in the US is you never know whether your doctor is adding some extra disease just to puff your bill.

Here in commie UK if I were to enter a hospital with a gunshot wound that started in my forehead and exited out the back they'll stuff it with confiscated capitalist pamphlets and tell you to fuck off. But not before requisitioning my clothes.

It would be interesting to know how many have edited their deep histories. That may well have happened in pursuit of a long con. It's the ones who delete everything I find most mysterious. For starters that must take freaking forever unless there's a bot to do it and second I wonder what there is to hide. Surely not every post is evil and incriminating.



I really can't remember why I signed up and the idea of earning money either didn't exist then or didn't occur to me. It would be interesting to hear from more who signed up in 2011/12 or before and what their motivations were. The idea of making a living from your internet cafe through it would've been non existent.

I did it for you. You appear to have had some hormonal moments starting off but did indeed turn into a butterfly eventually.

Shitposts make me feel like a Matrix operator. I barely see them any more. They sort of float past me undigested. From looking at AI bots talking to each other on Reddit I wonder how many of them are on here. They feel very similar.



The non native English always impress me a great deal. I've always been terrible at reading and writing foreign languages. A lot of posters who turn out to be foreign have better use of English than me. I wouldn't have known unless they'd said.

More than a few people, most especially merit fishers, seem to mistake flatulent length for 'quality' when it is the precise opposite. I like to be crisp. Deliver your point, or rebuke, or flirtation and depart. That's the mark of of a poster worth a reader's time.

I can't speak for anyone else but my winning guess did have a little bit of thought behind it. This one does not. From now on I'm declaring myself officially clueless and proud to admit it.

My prediction - Iran attacks Trump's properties. Trump's employees tell them to bugger off and let them do it themselves.

I think that's a teensy bit dismissive of the average person and I myself am an average person.

When I first looked into buying BTC after remembering it it must've been July/August 2013 perhaps. At that point Mt Gox was still the most recommended place by all the major sites though cracks were definitely emerging. I knew effectively nothing about Bitcoin. I spent five minutes reading about Gox and resolved to never, ever, ever touch it no matter what and I wondered what the hell was wrong with anyone who did use it.

That was simply being objective and moderately pacing myself.

If someone does decide they want to buy BSV the first thing they'll discover is that they can't buy it on the most common platforms, the thing called Bitcoin without weird letters that everyone is selling and talking about costs rather a lot more and there are hardly any wallets for it. That should be enough of a clue to look a little deeper.

There's certainly no harm on keeping the visibility of what idiots they all are high but they themselves do an excellent job of it. Literally nothing he has done or said has disproved what the consensus is regarding him.



That was a viable threat. This one is distasteful and pathetic and a pure quasi surreal piss take. That's why it's laughed at.

Mr. Maxwell's view will have a ton more weight and direct experience than mine but that's what it looks like from here at least.

I still don't.



I had no idea I'd become part of the furniture when I arrived so didn't consider the future. I'm fine with the same questions from newcomers. What I'm not fine with is the posters who've clearly not read the thread title or any other replies. That's when I get a bit queeny.

You can know nothing about the subject but still demonstrate common sense, comprehension and courtesy.



If I looked through too many first posts the procession of aching innocence would break me.

That is something I was never interested in. The more I ignore it the more adamant I am that I NEVER will be either.

If I ever do find myself delivering bitch slaps in the trenches there I have a 'bonded courier' who has been contracted to deliver a hand grenade to my door and drop it in my panties.

Buying at the bottom?

Sounds totally brilliant. Why isn't everyone doing that?

Maybe because the bottom is only clear months or years after it happened. That's the whole point of this thread. Sometimes you'll pay more than you'd like, other times you'll pay so much less you'll start to question why you're doing it.

In the end the chances of your having done better than some twat who thought they were a trading god and pissed it all up against the wall holding on for prices that never came or betting everything on movements that went against them are rather high.