The good old my wife, my bro, my gf, my roommate excuse. Does everyone around you use the same exact bitcoin address? If my wife was using bitcointalk she would at the very least have her own computer with her own wallet. If you guys are taking turns on the same computer with the same exact address, it's beyond suspicious.

Also, don't post outside the meta if your account is banned or you'll get another one. Especially now that you've confirmed it.


Your chances of getting Lauda to change that rating were slim before you raged. Now, I'd say they are below 1%.

Would you rather they did not give any money?
In a perfect world we should be feeding children in Africa and rebuilding countries devastated by natural disasters, but I'd rather see those rich corporations rebuild a monument that stood there for centuries than buy another thousand billboards across the country to display their stupid logo and remind every dumb lady that if her purse says LV she automatically becomes high class.

What strikes me is that they took all his bitcoins even when there was no proof of how he got all those coins. Innocent until proven guilty, right? So they found some drugs at his house and proof that he bought it online with bitcoins, but it was worth much less than was taken from him, despite his claims that most of the coins were purchased years ago.
I always feel like the law is there to steal as much as possible to feed hungry gov agencies. You had drugs at home? Now your home, computer, bank accounts belong to us. 

The technicals are inconclusive at this time. We can be facing a selloff to confirm the bottom again, a smaller one to confirm the higher lows at 4,8k or something different. Historically, the beginning of a bitcoin bull market played very similar to what we are seeing now, but was followed with a drop to a third of the previous gain before the uptrend was confirmed and continued up. We could be facing 4,5k before we establish a new permanent support and go up.

One thing that this asset has taught me over the years is not to be sure of anything. Although the chances of 3k or lower are slim, they still exist.
If I were to make a prediction, I'd say we'll be going up from here with or without a small short-term drop. 6k in Summer.

Oh man, he thinks the price should be at 14k because it's fair. Guess what, life isn't fair! I can say that IMO a fair price of bitcoin is 20k and my prediction will be as valuable as one of Tom Lee's predictions. Wanna know why? Because I haven't made a big prediction yet that came true, maybe besides being a long term bull, just like Tom Lee. His predictions are being published for some reason, despite them being wrong for over 15 months straight.

Maybe that's because your account was created first and was made to be the "main one". The sockpuppets came later (which is confirmed by the dadets of creation) and their names weren't so thoroughly thought through. Making 2 posts with a reference to football in a period of 3 weeks doesn't really change anything.


These accounts are too new and have too few posts to draw conclusions.

Too short of a timespan to use it as proof in your case. Who told you that all socks have to be registered on the same day?
Your post history is almost non-existent. There's not enough data to paint a picture.

It's not even about that.
Take a look at the statistics that show the number of businesses run by men and women. If you're looking for a job it's much more probable that your boss will be a man, simply because women in general prefer to follow than to lead. I'm not saying that they aren't capable of leading or running their own business, on the contrary, but it's a part of their nature, just like a part of man's nature is to fight. How many times do you see road rage incidents or street fights that involve women?

It's a very difficult question, and my answer would be yes or no, depending on the circumstances.
Since we are understanding "soul" as acting good, doing the right thing, being able to live with your actions, I wouldn't sell mine for money, but I would if I had my family to take care of. In other words, it wouldn't be difficult to choose if only my life was on the line and I could go from being an average guy to a jet flying millionaire, whose problems are whether to buy a ferrari or a lamborghini. It would be much more difficult if my family was poor and I could change that and give them all easier and more comfortable lives. I'd probably be able to live with the guilt, because looking at them doing fine would compensate for it.

I'm not against homosexuals, as long as they aren't trying to involve politics into their sexual preference. I hate all this "fight for our rights" movements that make it sound like they're trying to force a certain way of thinking on others around them. What you do in your bedroom is your private matter. Don't go public with it! Other people have the right to their opinions about you, just like you have the right to screw 3 other guys at the same time, if that's what you like.
It's not a mental disorder. People were gay in ancient Rome and Greece, and it was actually more common at that time. Christianity made it into a perversion, just like it did with many other things in the dark ages, and hundreds of years later we're still experiencing the aftershock.

I don't see it happening. Most countries don't have enough money to pay the EU for breaking the agreement and leaving. The EU comprises of a group of rich countries, among which we have Germany and France, and the group of poor countries, like Bulgaria and Romania. The rich function as loan providers for the poor. After a while the poor are expected to pay it all back, once their economies get in shape. The rich have no incentive to leave, because they still expect to profit from their loans, mainly in the form of new markets for their products, while the poor cannot leave because they are unable to pay back what they took right away.

Will it affect bitcoin? I see no way how it could. Only the collapse of the EU might have an impact.

In 2017, since January, we could see higher highs and higher lows. It was a very long uptrend that became more volatile in May and June, with prices going up without backtracking to retest the newly established supports. This was the result of a confirmed bull market in late 2016, which ended in a crucial bull run in December, that took us to the previous ATH of 1.1k USD.
We are nowhere near that now. You're comparing a year where we came back to the ATH after 2 years of bear market to a year where we are struggling to go back over 5000 dollars (25% of the previous ATH).

Again, in case you you didn't get it. 100% previous ath and a bull run in 2017 vs 25% of ATH and still a bear market now.


Even if we reach a new ATH I'm not going to buy something as trivial as an expensive car made of plastic and glass fiber, that burns 3 times more fuel than a normal sports car and costs 5 times more to repair if something fails. There are more important things in life, really.

What market dump are you talking about? $200 down and people are already screaming "dump". If this is a dump, how would you describe a $500 loss, is that a big dump? $1000 is a great dump, and $2k (like that drop from 5k to 3k) is a humongous dump.

As for Brian Kelly, here's a nice piece about him.

If there's one 'crypto analyst' who's especially prominent and virtually always wrong, it's Brian Kelly. The founder and CEO of digital-asset investment firm BKCM LLC, Brian Kelly has generally been CNBC's go-to expert whenever it has wanted to run a story on crypto’s latest goings-on.
For example, on July 24 he predicted that Bitcoin's recent rally from around USD 6,200 to USD 8,000 would continue, with CNBC reporting, "The bitcoin rally is underway and crypto trader Brian Kelly said the digital coin will likely continue to appreciate in value." Sadly, this was wrong: after rising to about USD 8,200 on July 25, Bitcoin began sinking at the end of the month, plunging to just under USD 6,000 on August 14.
In April, Kelly predicted that Q2 2018 would see Bitcoin recover from its poor first quarter of the year, which had seen Bitcoin drop from USD 14,000 on Jan. 1 to USD 7,000 on Mar. 31. "Q2 is always good for Bitcoin," he said confidently. Was he right? Um, no: BTC was down at the end of Q2 compared to the end of Q1, from USD 7,000 to USD 6,350 (on June 31).
Bringing this tour of Brian Kelly's (many) mistakes to a premature end, the crypto maestro predicted on February 20 that Bitcoin would surge "even higher" than USD 12,000. Its price was at USD 11,500 when he made his prediction, but it then sank down to USD 9,500 by February 25, before reaching USD 11,600 on March 4 and falling again, to USD 7,400 by Mar. 18.
https://cryptonews.com/exclusives/reading-crypto-price-forecast-take-it-with-a-large-grain-of-2726.htm

It's not being solved because they aren't cooperating. The staff had no access to the funds and it was all supposedly held by the CEO but somehow the money were being withdrawn before he died and after he died. That doesn't add up! The wife can be innocent or not, but some of the money being withdrawn by her after his death is really damning and nobody seems to know anything. Crypto security is fine and this example proves it. He had full control and nobody can access the money now, because this is how secure bitcoin is!

Really? You need to broaden your horizons, friend. I'll give you a few examples.
There are cartoons with more mature audience. As a matter of fact, there are cartoons that should not be watched by children, like South Park. Some of the Marvel and DC superhero cartoons are made for wide audience and I enjoyed watching them as a teenager. Last but not least, there's anime. It ranges from series for children to really mature content for adults that's no different from what Hollywood is serving us.

And I have done that on my phone. When you have a clean setup that doesn't use browser history, cookies, passwords or anything like that, you have to write the desired phrase every time you want to see the news. I don't expect most people to do it because of this exact reason, but even older bitcoiners sometimes find themselves googling the word.
The increase in searches is pretty normal since there are clear indications that the futures market, responsible for our 20k to 6k drop, is no longer shorting bitcoin.

Note that I'm not a professional lawyer, but even if you had all his personal details it would be really difficult to persuade the prosecutor to press charges. Why? Because you admit that he didn't know of it being a scam, so his intentions were good, and there's a chance he also got scammed, so he's a victim, like you. His only fault was spreading the word, but this is natural for someone excited and full of confidence in the scheme. Technically, I'm spreading the word about yolodice in my every post, but am I responsible for their every move? No. I could tell you now to go play there, because I personally find the site to be fair and legit, but the code can theoretically be modified, or they can at some point in the future decide to run with the money. Should I be held responsible and sued?

Imagine that you invest in something and tell everyone you know about it, just like I'm telling people around me about bitcoin, and this investment happens to be a big scam. Should the court find you responsible for other people's losses? In such case it would be possible to sue TV stations, newspapers, advertising agencies, graphic artists, even actors who play in ads.

The justice system is unpredictable at times, but there are cases we can use as examples. One of such is the one of Bernie Madoff. He had a special room where the scheme was being run from, and people inside knew the details. He also had a company in which he employed people who had no idea they're participating in a massive fraud. The employees of the company were never charged, even though they took part in finding clients and promoting the company. They were being fed information by Madoff and acted on his behalf. They also did not profit from the scam.

That was my intent after seeing this post:


It's possible to find more proof than said transaction that their accounts were controlled by the same person.

There's also the argument 2double0 that their language is different. IMO, it was still undergoing similar changes in 2016 and significantly improving.

Over the years marco went from posting like this:


To this:


So, I'm sure he would be perfectly capable of producing posts of 2double0. Unfortunately, we can't compare. After 2015, his activity decreased from 10 post per day to 10 posts a month in 2016, and 5 (mostly short) posts per month in 2017. It gives the impression that it all went downhill from when he got his first red (2015). Switching to a new main account and working on improving the language there would seem like a good idea, don't you think?

To be clear, I'm not saying the accounts are still owned by the same person. I just haven't seen a single proof that they aren't throughout the thread, and explanations like "we aren't the same, compare our posts!" are poor and questionable.


Are, or at least were. Marco used to bump ponzi threads, farm giveaways with his alts, shitpost to level up accounts and trade them in 2013/14. You can expect a lot of questionable future activity from someone like him.

Let me try.

You're close. Global debt is of course humans to humans, but mainly private sector to the governments. When private banks got in trouble and we had all that drama with bailouts, they become indebted to the governments and fallen into a sort of status quo, where the governments need banks to stay afloat, but the banks cannot repay their loans. In an ideal world they would either pay or go bankrupt, but since the bankruptcies would create chaos the governments aren't taking action to reclaim what they are owed and the debt keeps growing.

They could forget about it, nullify it, because money that weren't used in the budget for a given year are no longer necessary to sustain the economy and the needs of the people, but this debt gives the government influence over the private sector. They can use it to leverage deals, force compliance, increase taxes, lower interest rates.
Do you remember how 20 years ago some banks were offering you 6% a year on your deposits and that number kept going lower and lower? Nowadays 3% is a fair deal and many banks go as low as 1%.

It is, but you have to prove that the promoter knew what he was promoting (intent). One case can be totally different from another. To visualize this I'll give you some examples.

1. The promoter took a referral link from a site that he was investing in and believed to be real, not a scam. You clicked in the link, registered into the program and lost.
2. The promoter thought it to be legit and told you about it, invited you in. You know the rest.
3. The promoter knew it to be a ponzi scheme and invited you in, but he was honest and told you what it was and that you're risking everything.
4. The promoter knew what it was but joined the referral program to lure others in. He did not invest himself, only took profits from the referral program.
5. The promoter was paid to lie about the program and invite people in. He knew what it was, did not invest himself, was being paid a wage.
6. The promoter was an employee of a company that he believed to be legit and paid a wage. He was hired to advertise them and was never told that it's a scam.

If he was a contract worker on a wage you'll be wasting time. In all cases you'll have to prove that he knew what he was promoting, and it would be best if he had a stake in the scheme and pulled out before the collapse. If he also lost money (was scammed), it will make the case much harder if not impossible to win.

Some say that our purpose in life is to procreate and share the experience we've gathered over the years with our children. Making money is much less important, but it also serves a purpose. We cannot go through our lives like animals, living from day to day, eating, drinking, sleeping and shitting. Try doing it and you'll most likely end up in some dirty hole begging for a dose. Our goals can be as small as building a shed or a swing for children, getting that dream car, or house, or bigger like getting a PhD, inventing something, becoming a CEO of a company. It really doesn't matter how high we're aiming, as long as we are aiming at something and trying to improve.