Ramp it up a bit!
Imagine if the Taliban would declare Ethereum halal and Bitcoin haram, this would truly be a grab popcorn time!
As for the second part I wished you would have said Justin Beiber so I could have said, well the kid deserved the beating! 


Yeah, why would the Taliban want to change when their own existence and faith are based on not changing a thing from how things were a thousand years ago?
It was obvious this would happen, they played along for a while to make sure the Americans are not coming back and launching another air campaign, but since the danger seems gone now they have shown their true colors.

You can go to http://akon.com/, his own website and you can see the links to
https://www.akoin.io/
https://akoncity.com/

Your result says that Akon city is a project launched by Akon, it doesn't deny that is related to akoin anywhere and if would have clicked on the Wikipedia age that is highlighted in your result you would have also see this:


Anyhow the project is dead, the coin is dead -98.3%, everything can be forgotten!


And those Recaths that would be inserted into your urethra and anus to collect and recycle water and waste.
Well, everyone has their own taste and pleasures but I could live a beautiful life even without them.

Why don't you make a trip out there to see it with your own eyes, but I think you would be better with no jeans, no shirt, no usa flag on anything and better keep your mouth shut and not speak a word in English. Also, burn your passport as some really bad things happen to the ones coming from certain countries.
Of course, whatever I say can be also taken for western propaganda, that's why I'm saying, go down there and see it with your own eyes! 
One thing you can be sure of, I will do miss you! 

Out of pure curiosity, is cointelegraph and their sources also mainsteam media?
https://cointelegraph.com/news/what-the-taliban-crackdown-means-for-crypto-s-future-in-afghanistan

I wonder why is everyone surprised a totalitarian zealot-like regime would ban anything that isn't explicitly allowed by their holy book, don't we already have history to confirm how they acted before? But it's really funny, every country that acts like an enemy of the US and wants death to the dollar is also against Bitcoin, while the US is quite the opposite, makes you think things for a bit.


And it was the Russians buying it, directly from Russia today:
https://www.rt.com/news/afghanistan-opiates-heroin-ivanov-140/
https://www.rt.com/news/un-report-russia-heroin/


Oh, what times, when Russia Today was actually reporting stuff, not used just for propaganda!
Do you remember those times? When you were free to talk about everything?

With every tweet it's like a tennis match from the amateur team to the scammer team, after their anime crying gif came this thing:
https://twitter.com/Hotbit_news/status/1561739497129361408


So they stopped trading to avoid user losses, but magically somehow the whole balance is gone, this makes me think they've lost a lot of actual coins and if somebody would swap them now they would be left with negative balances. But, it's for the "love" of their customers.

As for this "Sheep" guy, that's a serious lack of imagination, instead of calling him "scapegoat", they went for sheep 

I was referring to this one:


23k/2.7 was happiness, 20k/31 is not as bad, and 17.5k/35 is run for the hills I guess.


I went to that video to get depressed and, what a surprise, It might be even worse than that, 20MW of hydros being plugged in and the site expanding.
One thing that I don't get is, those are not s19 XP but standard model, at 210 of them get 52Ph at 1.45MW, so that's 247Th per unit at 5.8KW, do they squeeze this from a $4k machine?

And it keeps growing, #^%&!!!



Not as bad  , as Mikeywith was saying, at 23k and 2.7 that was still happiness level, this is not as bad as it has been level, I have to prepare myself for the just as bad and even worse levels. 220Exa and BTC at 20k you get 8 cents, 17.5k, and the same hash we're down to 7c, at which point I don't see anyone powering up more gear, I want to believe that if we touch even 19k there will be a reversal, even an XP with free energy is giving 11$ a day, who is going to buy more stuff?

Going to ask the same as Ratimov, where do you see this stuff, are you sure you don't have your smartphone auto-rotate feature completely messed up?
We're in a bear market, we're down from 69k to 20k, we've been going lower and lower for month and no news is managing to push anything up for more than a tiny percent and for a few days. It's about time for everyone to admit that and simply live on with the facts, accepting this doesn't take you a bitcoin hater or anything else but denying it sure makes you look like some cultist whose only mantra is FUD FUD FUD! The situation is really not like anything wished for and hoped for, all that bs with cheap coins is also so yesterday, if you would listen to all those screaming cheap coins since we've gone past 50k, 40k, 30, 20k there wouldn't be any coins left as holders would have already bought them all.

Of course, at the same time, this doesn't mean that bitcoin or crypto is dead or anything like this, what is for sure dead is the dreams of some to become billionaires in one month with $10 worth of satoshi.


And with the whole world economy being as it is, do you see those major investments happening?


12 years ago you could buy a pizza with 10 000 BTC
See the growth? 

Because it's only half inflated unlike other numbers.

I don't understand how people keep believing stories in some countries you have one in 3 or 4 people owning and what's even more hilarious labeling them as "users". By the numbers in the last topic you have 8% of Indians owning and using crypto, that would make at least 1.5 million crypto users in the metro area of New Delhi yet you have 3 businesses accepting crypto there. Yeah, it makes total sense, isn't it?
Move out of the capital cities of most countries and do mention Bitcoin and let's see how many will look at you as if something is wrong with you as you speak gibberish.

Do you think with 700 million people owning Bitcoin we would still be at 20k a piece?
We're nowhere near that level of adoption and look at the really bright side, if already 1/3 of the world would be owning crypto, what would be left for growth?


I actually think he is far closer o the actual numbers than sot of those, I sometimes have a feeling that anything over 5% for an entire country is an over exaggeration right now, I know personal experiences are not relevant at this level but I highly doubt that there is somebody here who can claim that in each family he knows there is at least one crypto owner.

I thought the previous estimation posted was too early so now way in hell could that pace be sustained, yet..


We're past half of the period, and it's looking really bad, we're going to reach May levels, and although no chance (yet) to beat the 31.25T ATHit's still going to be pretty close. And of course, the price is nowhere near May levels.

Since Phil mentioned the weather in Texas, yeah, the summer is almost gone here too, it's the first week in which only one of the largest cities in my country will manage to record something around 30C, and by the end of the month, we're going to a max of 20C from 37C at the start of August.
Too bad that without cheap electricity there won't be any change for the better for whatever miners are left on this continent.

Bernie Madoff got 150 years in prison for a $65 billion Ponzi scheme, Terra burned 60 billion of investors' money, and Do Con is free and tweeting all day long about new opportunities, Alex Mashinsky erased 6 billion of people's money and he's still on youtube giving advice how to lose your money in Ponzi schemes. How many years in prison did Karpeless get?


From the lawsuit and the facts presented there seems like he was the one that was actually investing in Voyager, although I don't believe he was that's stupid:
https://www.mavs.com/mavsvoyager/

Here is the full complaint, I didn't read it all (92 pages) but there is no mention of him being paid for promotion, and more being an active partner
https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/robertson-cuban-complaint-usdc-florida.pdf

Source for this?


And are you sure this discussion is not just some by-product of the flat earth channel?


Of course, just after we welcome the alien visitors from Vulpecula later in November and we finish clonning mammoths early enough to replace Santa's reindeer.


Some random columnist flaunting around stupid ideas is just nothing, besides, that article out back in May, as you can see is August and nobody treats it seriously other than in some "discussions" and "rumors".
For anyone interested, this is the article in question:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/for-russia-benjamins-moscow-putin-sanctions-100-dollar-rubles-bankers-treasury-war-ukraine-larry-summers-11652125119?mod=opinion_major_pos6

Also, just as funny as this, we had the same topic about Nigeria retiring all the Niara notes:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5399596.0
how is the removal going?

Op could have done this really easily, and this is the best way to do it for everybody who doesn't trust emails or links.
Open your Binance app and go to the rewards center, all! the offers that they are sending you emails for are listed there, you don't have to click and links in the emails, you can simply activate them from the app. Funny enough it's actually mentioned in the first email OP has posted.
I got the same offer last month:

You're mistaken trade with production. The source you're mentioning says clearly it's 30% of the trade but it's only 16% out of the top 9 wheat producers considering the Eu is the second largest as a whole with 126,658,950 tons, so bigger than Russia and Ukraine combined, and their actual size is less than 8% considering global porduction.

Also, rather than clickbait titles about famine and the end of the world
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/german-farm-association-expects-bigger-winter-wheat-crop


Oh crap, the end of the world and world famine won't come this year either, what a letdown for some grave robbers!

The least work I've ever done in my life as a detective as weirdly there is only one country with 14 million citizens and that is Zimbabwe, but if you're going to tell me that 1 in 5 down there is a crypto "user" I would say its daydreaming.


And what makes you think that everybody "has " to use it and everybody wants to use it?
It's just like credit cards here, just because you as a chain store you're forced to offer people the method of payment it doesn't mean every single person in the country has a credit or a debit card.

The reality is that there was much hype and little actual success, of course I already know, for some reality is FUD but here it goes:


Rember how Salvador was going to save trillions of quadrillions in WU fees?

I find it interesting that you think is better to have a promise of getting gas (like a Celsius agreement that we will give your money back) rather than having your own gas (your deposits, your gas), which is a bit, interesting I would say.
As for Nord Stream 2, yeah there is NS2 but so is Bucha, err I almost said Putten, and if you're at analogies moment then let me tell you that Switzerland is right now a bit of Chamberlain, how did these politics of concessions and neutrality work out for you last time?

I love when the guy that claims a month has 40 days and 3x7 is 30 is suddenly after being a military, politics, master historian turns to be an expert on EU economics. Of course even more amusing is that the only people really concern with these are the ones not living in the EU, and strangely rather than focusing on their own country they find fault with others, so let me get this right for you

India has exported $418 billion for the first time in its history. This is more than the target.

Poland exports for 2021 was $410.54B, a 22.47% increase from 2020.


So this parasitic less productive state of Poland with just 40 million people has managed to produce and export more than the whole of India. Now, looking at the 1:30 population ratio, how would you call "productivity" in India?


I find it interesting that most of the ones calling it like that are the ones that have never actually lived a second in the actual USSR.  
The ones that did know this is just bs.

Probably a dark joke of extrapolation?

So, something like you've had 1 miscarriage so you will get another 10 in ten years?

That thing is just ridiculous, UA going into negative, Nigeria getting 100% and Brazil getting stuck at 14% for a decade.

But! Since Nigeria is already at 32% which means it can grow only 3 times, so we're blocked at 60k and a bit.


Yeah, they went for the capital cities, which is really stupid:




Let's compare a city of 600k with one of 24 million and ignore that New York alone has more than anyone on that list.

I think you missed the point about storage, you can store hydrogen just as you store natural gas, it can be turned into liquid as LNG, it can be stored in pressure tanks it can even be stored in salt caverns. Or if you have the energy to spare you can simply transform it into methane gas, it's like one of easiest chemical reaction in the world, especially if you're in a pinch and you already burn coal.


And there you have it, use that energy to produce hydrogen, rather than throwing it away or letting that sunlight go to waste as it heats the roofs when you don't need it, in the Netherlands I think you actually have few options left, it's not like you can build a pump storage dam anywhere to store energy.

LE:
Of course, there is Groningen..but...

No influence, right?  
Do you know how the last elections for the governor (Cheif Executive) went?


There are 20 000 PLA soldiers right now in Jong Kong, up from 10 000, the PLA has its own building in the middle of the town, they have moved 4 corvettes there in the port, no influence, lol! Keep dreaming about "special region".


This got me thinking, I am now almost certain that a lot of users are just mistaken Taiwan with Hong Kong, otherwise, I don't see why some would claim it's a country that can make its own decisions. That aside, I wouldn't call Salvador's progress, "spectacular either, a step in the right decision, yeah, but the results are yet to be seen.

They will have to release those numbers one day or another as this will probably become more than a simple robbery case, and this will be pretty interesting from another point of view, we could finally get some number on the turnover of those ATMs that are popping up like mushrooms (at least in the US).

https://blog.kraken.com/post/11263/kraken-security-labs-identifies-vulnerabilities-in-commonly-used-bitcoin-atm/


So they knew for one year they have a ton of vulnerabilities, wonder how many more would be found on a real audit