A few years from now...



...the last of us in real life.

People infected by a brain eating fungus. Think of a worse way to die.

Does that mean we have to wait until those natural regulators get triggered? Let's drop the legends and focus on real effects of careless human behavior.
If you fish or hunt too much it will destroy the species in that certain region and you'll have no more next year, but what if the damage becomes permanent? We have to do what we can to prevent it from happening which means we need regulation.

I live near a forest and see what people can do. They throw away garbage, leave broken bottles, come at night to cut trees because they have a fireplace but don't want to buy wood, about once a year somebody brings an unwanted dog here. One time some idiot brought his dog and tied it to a tree...

And it dumped a bit.  Crazy people will say it's because of the Valentine's, analysts will say it's because of TA and conspirationists will think it's manipulation.
Life goes on, Bitcoin is still here and is not going anywhere.

There's a lot of regulation at work here because some countries will require you to measure its influence on the surroundings (how loud it is, how hot it gets, if there's a danger of fire). It's probably going to be treated like a power generation unit and I've seen these set up on temporary locations.
I'll give you an example of how what used to be public space was adapted in some buildings around me.

We had garbage chutes built in and the garbage would fall into a big container stored in a gadare-like building at the bottom of the block of flats. In similar buildings these places only bread rats and people voted they'd rather carry garbage outside than have rats running in those chutes, so they were never used, so every block has a couple of garages with a very convenient access to the street. The city allowed citizens to buy these and they used them for a range of things from storing motorcycles to holding backup generators. They even opened  bicycle repair shops and laundromats in there. If you could find a similar uoccupied space nearby it would be a much safer place to keep your hardware.

People have been converting attics, basements, laundry rooms, basically everything you can think of. It's just a matter of getting all the paperwork in order.

I'm not a supporter of the Eu, but I could play the devil's advocate and ask if you really believe that everything should be free and unregulated.
Currently, you need licenses for fishing, even with your little fishing rod in a nearby lake. You need a license to sail, to shape the riverbanks and so on.
What if you could do whatever you wanted without any rules? People would be fishing by electrocuting fish with car batteries, throwing fireworks, sail speedboats wherever they please disrupting wildlife.

EU regulations are usually stupid but I see the need for at least some licensing.

One thing is certain, you'd want to be a face mask producer or seller these days.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51363132
Although this is a tragedy it's intriguing how the opportunity is sometimes wating to manifest itself. If you had a case of face masks stashed somewhere in the basement, you could now sell them for 3 times the price and they'd all get sold in a matter of minutes.

So China was conductig research on viruses ad mutating the old ones to produce new strains in the middle of the city, just a few hundred meters from a busy market. They are as careless as the Soviets were in some of their experiments.
The world is gong to go to shit and I fully understand preppers with their remote cabins and underground bunkers. We are bound to destroy ourselves.

To me Craig is an opportunist. He saw an opening and just barged in. Such things sometimes happen on big parties or even funerals where narcissists seeking attention come in and form this aura of untouchability around them. I'm sure you've seen this in the movies where some guy comes to a wedding and hugs the bride. She hugs him back and invites him in because she thinks it's her husband's friend or family. Just look what Craig has gained when he took on the role of Satoshi. He's being invited to conferences, parties, people listen to him, he's a VIP. Have you listened to some of his speeches? He doesn't say anything important. Throws a joke here and there, parades the stage like a cock, adds a few curses here and there... All his talks are irrelevant and don't bring anything to the table, it's all just for show.

Altcoins are a gamble, you're right about that. The best part about it is that they do not go up and down, some of them go only down with small insignificant pumps along the way and the whole altcoin community is trying to catch those pumps and sell with a profit. That's why you mostly lose with alts. Bitcoiners aim at long term investment and holding while altcoiners treat their coins like shit and really want to be in fiat or BTC and are greedy.
I say buy BTC.

I agree and Sun must be making tenths of millions from it if he's able to spend 4.5 on a dinner with someone who isn't going to change his mind. What was the point of it?
Warren is an old man who is now riding the wave of the money he made many years ago. He's not going to switch from fiat to crypto or see value in it because he's been using fiat for the last 80 years and doesn't have time or the knowledge to start using digital decentralized money in the last few years of his life, because let's be honest, he's not going to live much longer.
All this TRON hype and promises are going to turn into fiat money on Sun's private account.

Or risk your anti air missiless hitting a passenger airliner instead of some military fighter jets.


Why apart from Russia or US? Are weapons in the hands of these two not dangerous? They are both known to test them out in the field.

For the same reason why forests that are public also are not public.
You can walk into a public forest and, gather herbs and mushrooms, but you need a license to hunt and cut trees. What is available to the public is in reality very limited. In most countries you need a license to fish in lakes and rivers, to sail, to put a water wheel in and make your own electricity. Public means you can go there and watch, that's it

I like the nice guy part, but don't you think that some of the US military expenses could be cut? For instance that whole F35 fiasco that's like a money eating and smoke farting monster. Think of the nice guy things this money could buy. More rescue ships, stronger coast guard, maybe some nice underwater supply facilities for submarines and ocean research, more space exploration...


Other countries have to wait their turn to invade Iraq because the US milirtary was first. Do you really feel like the US military presence is helping keep the peace? The us had in fact taken part in the highest number of military conflicts in the last century. They invaded Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, but when they were needed to keep the peace they weren't there. Big brother sat and watched as Russia invaded Ukraine a few years back.
I feel like the US military is abusing its power and putting hands into every cookie jar out there, especially when there's some money to be made. 

If I had to pay I'd include some various other departments because to me personally it's important that road are built and maintained, there's electricity, Internet. I'd surely support fire department and some basic healthcare, although I believe that healthcare and education should be private.

For me personally, the state should have money to provide all the basic infrastructure (city lights, garbage disposal, electricity, crisis management, basic healthcare like emergency services, CDC, but all the things like dental care, vaccines and such should be financed by citizens). There should be some money dedicated to research, space exploration, but I'd give 0 to the military and leave only basic defence forces and mostly stationary stuff like missile batteries, anti air defenses and such.


Just like obeying the police is your personal choice.

It's just a show for the masses. What can you learn from an old guy who hates cryptocurrencies like Warren?
He's not going to have fun on that dinner because which young guy has ever had fun with someone in his late 80s?
He spent so much money on this it has to feel like a waste. 4.5 mill is a lot of money, even for a rich boy. Most of us don't see such money at all and for this price you can buy a very nice house anywhere in the world. Is an evening with that old fart worth a whole house or a couple apartments?
The only reason for spending money like this is to get even more if it gets enough people to buy his shitcoin and increase the value of his investment. If spending 5 million makes your stash worth 6 million more than it was, it's not a wasted anymore.

That's true. There was a huge bearish pressure from people who wanted to get quick gains after buying at 6 and 7k but once we go past 9k all of this is gone. Most traders who bought in the early stages of this bull run, back when we all thought that it's just another correction in the long bearish trend (like the run to 12k in August) have already taken profit and went back in, or simply left the market to enjoy the profit and wait for either another correction or a confirmation of the bull market that we may be witnessing right now.

I wouldn't call 10k "low". The current price is already quite high if we take into account that a few months ago we were at 6k and considering a drop to 5k.
Those who do TA based on waves say that we're already witnessing the last one before a correction. I'm not one of them but this isn't something we should ignore.
Are we in a bull run? Yes, but breaking 10k is crucial. I believe we can reach 15k before the halving but there could be a correction before that.

I'll drink to that! If we break 20k it's not going to stop at 25 or 27. Historically Bitcoin always went exponential after breaking ATH so we should at least expect it to double after 25k. Bad thing is that it's going to start another bubble that will surely deflate again back to 10k after reaching the target and could push us into a 3 year long bear market (because the cycles are getting longer). That said, who wouldn't want to see 50k, even for a day?

There's much more you can do with a mobile phone than robberies.


If they know the coins were transferred there it should be easy to find usernames and IPs. One one hand I support anonymity, but I also believe that if there's no doubt that your client is a thief you should deny him service and send the money back to the people he stole from. I support social justice not government-imposed justice.

I've worked as a teacher for a year and I wouldn't say that shool is a waste of time. Especially the primary school. You can comparehow important it is by putting an average European next to an average person from Africa, where even primary education is lacking. Some of those people from Africa and the Middle East moved to Germany and here's the result:

School is supposed to teach you how to learn, give you the basics and allow you to expand your knowledge. It teaches you how to read and write, how to speak in foreign languages, how to count and fill forms, how to write letters and applitactions. All good schools do that and without it you'll be lost in the modern world. Who cares about Tinder and social media, what is important is for you to be able to compile knowledge on your own, learn how to tackle problems, how to analyse situation and adapt. It teaches you to work on your own at home, it teaches you to work in a group of peers.

There'a many things I'd change, but that doesn't undermine the basic function of schools. They are important, they could simply teach more about history, economics, society, finances, politics... I'd be happy if my children didn't have to analyse boring poems, had less P.E. and were not taught religion.