Does it really matter who provides the evidence? To me the important part is if the evidence is valid. If quickseller was offering me a deal, his trust would make me think twice, but he's not, so his reputation doesn't matter at this particular time.



Challenge accepted.


Your language wasn't that much different a couple years back. To be honest, you were both shitposting a lot.





You also both liked ponzis. 




You both took part in the same giveaways right next to each other. Coincidence?
http://archive.li/od5A0

Maybe, but then it happens again a week later.
http://archive.li/t79ct


There's also one particular thing you both liked to do and this is putting an exclamation mark (or double) after the first word or phrase in a sentence.
Examples:

Grammar police here: Spilt (or spilled), not split.

Jokes aside, you said that the main reason why you are afraid to post it is retaliation. Now that Hhampuz offered to counter it, that argument is no longer valid.
Why keep the thread open and talk about it if you obviously don't want to do it? Isn't this what trolling is all about?

No, I almost never use cash these days. I have some of it stored in a safe for hard times because I find it more reliable from a bank. In short, I get my wage to a bank account and I spend it on daily needs, so I have only 1 time my wage stored in the bank. About 10 times my monthly wage is in cash at home, and the rest is in crypto.
I don't remember the last time I had to use cash for something. Card just seems more convenient and "cleaner". Also, I like to keep my bank account as empty as possible.

Is it really lack of wisdom? I could argue. Say, you know you shouldn't overspeed, but many times I find the limits too low and frankly stupid. Come to the EU and you'll see for yourself. In most towns the limits are 50 km/h which is extremely slow for a car these days. You can break that on a moped and I've ridden faster on a bicycle (downhill). Making people drive like snails isn't helping, so everybody is speeding in these areas, because you just don't want your trip to work last for an hour every single day. I'd say we are wise enough to know that some laws are meant to be broken.

Junk food is unhealthy, but it's tasty. I know alcohol is bad, but I drink it because I like it. I like the taste and I like that it relaxes me. Is it lack of wisdom? I'd say it's a choice we are all making. A smoker knows that 30 years of smoking will probably shorten his life by at least 5 years, but he smokes anyway. Is that lack of wisdom? I'd say it's a choice combined with addiction.



Of course. I know a guy who smoked and drunk a lot until they had to cut out one of his lungs. He quit both smoking and drinking because he was wise enough to know that they won't be able to cut out his liver if it gives up like the lung.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. They know they are in control and can do whatever they want, and they are doing it! Life is short, you either go for it or you don't. Given the above, I'm not amazed that the "owners of money" are creating secret societies, conduct meetings, manipulate the markets and destabilize governments.

Who are these people? Most banks are owned by another, bigger one. You have to follow the ladder to the top. The real question is: who owns the top ones. Who is pulling the strings of people like Jamie Dimon, Timothy J. Sloan, James P. Gorman, and those other faces, because they are nothing but faces, the real bosses are whispering from backstage.

Good find, thanks.

He doesn't seem to care and is avoiding the ban by still using his other accounts:

livingfree
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5127908.msg50465653#msg50465653

minersday
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5128198.msg50463972#msg50463972

Anonylz
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5089180.msg50465860#msg50465860

In other words an allocation of money into something (movable or immovable, material or not) is an investment. Even buying a course or paying for college is an investment... in yourself! Maybe this is the safest one you can do? The only difficulty is choosing the most suitable education that will pay for itself in future, but one might argue that knowledge is always worth the money. You can never know where it will become handy.

When someone makes a claim it's wise to check if they can prove it. For instance, they say it's useless, but have no proof. I say it has it's use and provide proof in the form of something that I bought with it, or a job that I've been paid for with bitcoin. Now, this makes The Bank of Italy look a bit silly, doesn't it?
Risky? I'd argue that keeping money in a private institution that can go bankrupt is by far more risky, but what do I know, right?
Inefficient? Try sending money to another continent with PayPal, or Western Union!

^

It's just like in that story about tax authorities someone once told me. Some guy had a couple of apartments rented out and wanted to know if it's considered a profession and if he has to register a business. One office told him that he doesn't have to register it unless his revenue exceeds a certain amount, another told him that if he has less then 10 apartments he doesn't have to and the third said that if he has more than 3 he has to register.
Those were all official responses from authorities located in different districts of the same country. Sometimes it's really better to stay off the radar and avoid any interaction with these people. At least until the law becomes clear.

It always amazes me that they claim that something is world's best or worst based on a timespan of one year. Is one year the timeframe we want to base our investments on? Overall bitcoin has been, and still is, one of the best, if not the best performing assets of the decade. It has its ups and down but is still outperforming everything including gold, oil, government bonds, you name it. Calling it one of the world's worst performing assets proves that this anonymous author did not do his research, or was paid to bash BTC.

I have one thing to say about Muslims and their culture: they are incompatible with other cultures and unable to coexist, and I dare any of you to prove me wrong.
The statistics show that when a country has a small minority of Muslims within its borders they form enclaves to separate themselves from other cultures. This changes when the minority grows to reach 20-30% of the population. From that moment, they always try to subdue other cultures and turn the laws into they favor. They are selfish and believe their culture is the best and should take over the world.
I once saw a reporter ask Muslims if they dislike the Jews. Most of them answered no, but when asked if they would marry a Jew 80% answered no straight away and 10% said that they would if that person converted to Islam. This shows their attitude to religion and life as a whole. They want the rest of the world to adjust to their rules, but their own backs remain rock solid and will rather break than bend.

So, according to the charts we should be heading for something similar to June 2015, a mini rally to retest the red 50, which should bring us somewhere above $5k, and possibly lead to a golden cross somewhere around... yes, June 2019. It's going to be an interesting year for sure. It's going to be funny if we don't end up getting big capitulation candle the bears have been waiting for since that big drop from 6k.

It will. I don't believe we'll end up in a total collapse scenario that will later lead to barter trading and protesters looting shops all around the world.
A crisis will cause people to rethink their strategies. As old markets die with nobody willing to invest in things that were booming in the 20th century, like oil, new markets (cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, new energy solutions, electric car industry) will have their moment. Changes usually are volatile. They rarely happen gradually without any bubbles and sudden bankruptcies.

How can you be so sure about him being dead. Are there written statements of people who saw the body, or were able to verify that there really was a funeral?
If the money was being syphoned it means that either the CEO wasn't the only one who had access, or that he was stealing it himself and got killed by someone who found out about it and wanted the money for himself. An accomplice maybe?

Exactly. News sites are often repeating fake news sent to them by anonymous sources. They just want to be the first to publish and have no way to check the information, especially when most companies ignore crypto journalists and don't issue statements.
We could say that news sites are deliberately publishing fake news, but somehow they are getting less shit than CMC is, despite the fact that CMC has really no way to verify data.

It wasn't like that as far as I know. There were suspicions of fake volume on big Chinese exchanges in 2014 since their volume spiked to crazy high amounts when you compared them to Western exchanges. This is from December 2013, published on Coindesk.

In an online audio interview, Shi said that he would not call OKCoin out and accuse it of manipulating the exchange rate, but he cautioned traders against the exchange, claiming that it “plays both the player as well as the referee”.

In response, Star Xu (Xu Mingxing), CEO of OKCoin who is also believed to be one of the largest bitcoin holders in China, issued a very brief explanation, in which he attributed the discrepancy to the company allowing large traders to trade through its API rather than the webpage interface – an explanation, if true, that may be somewhat hypocritical given that only a couple days ago Xu wrote a statement criticizing the use of “high-frequency trading software”.

Many perceive Xu’s explanation as a cover-up, among them, some Chinese bitcoin celebrities such as Li Xiaolai and Zhao Letian who posted on Sina Weibo agreeing that OKCoin’s data was problematic.

Later, the Chinese government begun to force audits on exchanges and I remember reading about them being told that they will not be allowed to continue operation if their volume was fake. As a result, the volume dropped almost instantly. So, unless people thought the exchanges were faking volume and took the government warning for a cease and desist letter, they were really doing it. The drop in numbers was just too big and too fast and they were being accused of manipulation for more than 6 months before the actual event.

Those are very good points.

As for the comments, some of those counted as negative by the survey are actually pretty simple and childish. It's obvious that by asking for public opinion they were hoping for something more elaborate than "I don't want it, don't let it happen", but this is exactly what they got.

Hello,

I would like the committee to disapprove the proposed ETP. It has no value as a financial product let alone as a currency.

Sarah
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I don't get how he makes these predictions. If he is still bullish, I guess he should expect it much earlier, since we are already on the rise with a much earlier target.
Anyway, his predictions have proven to be so bad that you can treat playing against them as an unofficial rule. Somebody should ask him if he's considering a different line of work after 2 years of failures as a trader.

It won't persuade the environmentalists because if the cost of mining continues to go up in proportion to the value, when bitcoin reaches 14$ billion it's mining cost will surpass gold by almost $100 million. In their words a useless form of electronic money will now take more to mine than a precious metal used to create various real life products.

I don't really care what they think. POW is one of the factors that give bitcoin its value and makes the network more robust. The more it costs the better.

You fail to understand why open communities can work on a very small scale and the bigger it is the more prone to failure. It's for the same reason why you can cross state borders in the US and it works fine for the people. Put people of different culture, social status, religion in one community, have them respect your property and personal space, and you will become famous. Kids will be learning about you at school.