The downloading part is what I would be more concerned about. It's really cheap to get enough storage space to hold your own copy, but it can take weeks for your core client to download it. It can take days with a high speed connection, but the majority of the world doesn't have access to it. For many of us 50 or 100 megabit connection is nothing to brag about, but in many countries 2 is all that you will get. Getting a node to run in such conditions, especially with the client messing up the database from time to time, requires a huge effort.

I know answering with a question might be rude, but why does a sr. member with 6000 posts (3 times more than me) want me to explain the basics of cryptocurrency?
How can computation power be pointless if it enables us to transact? Do you know how much power bank mainframes used to consume? Many banks still depend on them instead of switching to more efficient servers.

I totally agree. Some whales were setting their profit taking mark for 9k because they were logically expecting that the majority will dump att 10k anyway.
It really was to be expected. Personally, I've been expecting a major dump from around 7k back to 6k and we had it. What I didn't expect is that we'll recover this fast and go to new yearly high just days later. Expecting 10k in such a short time is greedy as there are bound to be pullbacks along the way.

While I don't like how the Chinese are spying and remaking everything to be cheaper and less durable, Apple is a shit company as well. Many of Apple's products are faulty and most are overpriced and bought only for display, for the logo. Apple used to be innovative but now it's only trying to milk their customers, get them to pay more money for nothing. A great example of this milking is iphone 9 vs X. Just compare the specs and prices and you'll see that it's not worth the price tag, especially when compared to what the competition from China and Korea is offering.

I don't know why people are blaming bitcoin for the decisions of centralized entities. It really is pointless and stupid. If you get a ban somewhere it has nothing to do with bitcoin. You should be blaming the platform that banned you, which TOS you had to accept to begin trading/advertising. They have to register and comply with local laws and we can't expect them to remain decentralized in a centralized world.


You are either high or trolling. On a second thought, you could be both.

I also see this pattern of them being overly optimistic in a bull market and pessimistic in a bear market. You could see them being very negative and warning us about the possibility of a $1000 bitcoin just 2 months ago and slowly changing into bulls when that did not happen. You could also see permabulls like Max Keiser and Tom Lee doing their thing in the werly 2018. My advice to you all is: do your thing, have your own opinions. Don't invest as they are telling you to, do your own analysis. If the "experts" can change their opinions every few months it only shows that there are no experts. Everyone is clueless here.

I like boxing so I'll remind you all about the famous Tyson vs Holyfield match that dethroned the famous champion and basically ended his career. The odds were 25-1 against Holyfield. This wasn't the greatest underdog story, especially since Holyfield held a title before, so he wasn't a newbie, but still very impressive.

My first thought is a question: why do people like to seek help from the government and laws and try to force their views on others? Why are you a bigot OP?

When you don't like that people around me are catholic and go to church every Sunday, you don't fraternize with them, ignore them, or sell your property and move. You don't go around town telling them to stop believing and you don't write letters to the government to ban public display of religious views.
It's the same about eating meat. You are a vegetarian, you're welcome to grill onions and carrots while I grill a steak. Those who call the police or write to the government because they don't like something are cowards and bigots.

Opportunity makes a thief. Do you know why this saying is true in her case? Electricity is basically unprotected. It's there, outside your home, available for anyone who knows how to connect 2 wires. She made a mistake and will face the consequences, but let's not make a criminal mastermind out of her. Millions of people steal electricity, it's not a big deal. In India it's as common as urinating on the pavement. I guess if she was planting weed or stealing electricity to do the laundry there wouldn't even be an article about her.

It's never too late... unless you buy a shitcoin. In other words, if the project has real value and real use cases, like Bitcoin, it's fine no matter when you invest. If you do it on top, there's still a very high probability that you will profit anyway. If the project is bad, like so many altcoins are, you can buy cheap, but you still won't profit, unless you catch a speculative pump. Something like that happened recently with SV. That said, I wouldn't bet my money on a random event.

Not really. You said that all countries would welcome a partnership with Russia and I said that the ones that were abused by the Soviet union, especially the countries that were "aligned" with them in 1950-90 would not welcome it. It doesn't matter that now it's called Russian federation, it's the same country under a different leadership.



Why are we suddenly changing the topic to the US? Every time I see someone say something about Russia the retaliation is "and US did this or US did that"
I don't care about the US, I told you my views on Russia vs Eastern Europe. I've never been to the US and we could jump from a country to a country because Japan killed a lot of Chinese, US nuked Japan, Germany and Italy did WW2 and Russians happily raped all the way to Berlin.


Looks like this is a sensitive topic for the Russians, but there was a lot of abuse in communism. You can say what you want about capitalism, it's not perfect, but at least nobody shoots you in the back of the head and buries you in a mass grave.

Every time somebody asks me that question I tell them to watch Star Trek. Before you disregard this series as science fiction, think about the systems they were using. In the early 90s there was no portable computers and no folded phones, but they had folded communicators, touchscreens, flat screen monitors, buttons that reacted to touch and later even glass panel tablets. Think about it for a second. In the time when mobile phones were the size of a brick, they designed tablets and later tablets that were just a piece of glass, the ones that are being developed now, 20 years later. When the series was airing, people were looking at these things like it was something from another planet, just like we are looking now at their scanning equipment or teleportation technology.

Did you have history at school? I shouldn't even ask because in some countries these topics aren't even covered, but i'll give you some examples.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47725239
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_Soviet_Union

Have you heard about people prosecuted and jailed in the Union for having capitalist views? Have you heard of media censorship? It was almost like in NK right now where you can go to a labor camp for not crying on a funeral of the head of state.



The Union was supported because the union made sure people were uneducated and there was no free media. Books were being censored, Russian language was a compulsory subject in schools and if you had other views there were paragraphs for that. Dissidents were being taken to camps in Siberia or shot in the head, like
What about the countries that were forced to obey and had puppet governments with strings in Moscow, like Hungary, Poland and so on? I'm sure they were happy about being ruled by Russia as well. Probably that's why they were protesting and opposing it so much.

I'll also add that prolonged communism lead to hyperinflation, especially in the frontier countries. You can also read about it online. 

I haven't seen a more ridiculous request (provided that this one is true). How would I send it to them? By mail? Normally blood samples are a biohazard and need to be well contained and disposed of. Do they even have the permits to handle them? I don't believe people will comply even if they really demand this.
As for the EU law compliance there are many other EU exchanges and none of them came up with something like that, so it's not part of the EU law or anything similar.. This must be a joke.

What is racist about stating the truth? I invite you to check the IQ statistics per country.
These days when you say something uncomfortable you're automatically labelled. Stating that Jews have significant influence over international media and banking, which is true, will make them call you an anti-semite. Saying that the average African is not as smart as the average European is racist, and so on. Suddenly when I say that a penis of an average african is longer than the one of the average european it's all fine. When I state that black men are usually taller and stronger than asians it's all fine, but when you say that asians are smarter than blacks you're suddenly racist.


Should we be concerned? The mortality was being taken into account in these regions and for that reason an average woman in Nigeria has 5 children while an average woman in Europe has less than 2. We should rather ask why they're conceiving 5 or 6 children if they barely can feed one. A smart parent thinks about these things, a dumb parent doesn't care.

All? Really? What about the countries that suffered abuse by the Soviet Union? Are you so sure they are dreaming about cooperation with Russia? What about Ukraine that is basically at war with Russia? What about Poland that couldn't even get the wreckage of their crashed plane back from Russia and was being threatened by gazprom? AFAIK Lithuania is also afraid of Russia. Most of the former Soviet Union would do anything not to become a part of it again, including an all out war.

There were a lot of money drowned in Africa and not much has changed. I think that the most basic reason why they are underdeveloped is lack of education and the overall low IQ in these region. Think about it. It doesn't matter how much money you'll give to an idiot, he'll lose it anyway and eventually be poor again.
Not all of Africa is poor and not all Africans are poor. It's just that there's more dumb and lazy people there than in other parts of the world.

He gave it all he had and all it did was push Arnold a bit. He turned around confused like he was thinking if that was a mistake and one of the girls behind him stumbled into him or something. Even if you don't like Arnold the politician, you should appreciate and respect Arnold the actor.


That's what I heard too. He's clearly screaming I need a lamborghini. What a weirdo.

I would do it using LN. It's much cheaper this way. The only problem is finding a place that accepts bitcoin and then hope they are taking LN payments. You got like 10% chance that they do. It's still to early. I have ordered food for bitcoin though and it works fine. I don't care though. I used my BTC to buy a nice automatic coffee machine last year and I love it. I don't need to order anymore. That's what I call money well spent.

I'll ask from a point of view of a capitalist: if they don't need money, why don't they spend what they have on food and shelter. It's much cheaper than drugs and booze.
Isn't giving them good conditions for free like casting pearls before swine? Many of these people have families and friends, but they choose the street.


I agree. Abandoned property should be rented out to homeless people in exchange for caretaking. There are abandoned buildings wasting away everywhere and the police is throwing squatters out just like that. If they are on drugs they should be offered help, but many won't take it. They're too proud, or like that way of life.


You did a good deed, but rehab isn't free. Once he sobers up and sees the bill, he'll resign. Even going through detox will cost him >$1000 and that's just the beginning, unless in your country it's free somehow.