This is a great story. I’ve been certain that Apple has been accumulating Bitcoin for some time now (at least 5 years) after having discussions with one of their highest level executives. This is the first time I’ve seen any evidence of them beginning to show support for it. I guess that means they’re close to done filling their bags. I expect to see a LOT more support for Bitcoin from Apple in the future.
I've they've been accumulating Bitcoin, then they should've disclosed it already in any of their quarterly/annual results papers. Let's not forget that Apple is a public company and is required by law to disclose their finances. Apple doesn't own any bitcoins; only CEO Tim Cook does, at least according to an interview he gave last year. As it is a personal bitcoin, you shouldn't expect Cook to make his holdings public. However, just as we have the Bible and the Quran in each of our hotels, the presence of the Bitcoin Whitepaper PDF on the Apple system is not news and has no significance. maybe it was just a good pdf sample for dev testing who knows. It isn’t just the CEO. He isn’t the one I discussed Bitcoin with. A large number of people at Apple are Bitcoin supporters and I’m sure their entire top level executive team are all buying up as much as they can to front run their own company… At some point when it isn’t controversial or potentially illegal to do so, Apple will support it. Mark my words. |
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The Suns are expected to rest Booker, Durant, Paul, & Ayton tonight against the Lakers. This is a game the Lakers desperately need to win and with the Suns resting all their guys, they should be able to get it done. A shame because this would have been one hell of a matchup. I guess I don’t have to be sad anymore that I won’t be able to watch the game.
Still, maybe an opportunity to bet on the Lakers with some decent odds.
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I agree that Bitcoin mixing is a way to keep your Bitcoin information private. But some people use it to hide their bad actions, like stealing or cheating. It depends on why someone is using it if it's okay or not.
It's not fair when people blame products for bad behavior when it's really the person's fault. Sometimes law enforcement only focuses on the product instead of the person using it.
Law enforcement has to follow the stolen funds and when they are being laundered through a mixing service it really isn’t a question of whether or not mixers enable money laundering. They do. When an individual is running a mixing service, then that person has enabled money laundering and will likely go to jail. If privacy was built into the Bitcoin protocol, then there would be no individual enabling money laundering, we would only have financial privacy. Individuals laundering money for criminals = bad Currency that enables financial privacy = good Too many people are on the mixers payroll here to have a real discussion about it though. |
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That’s sort of the problem with deflationary (by comparison to traditional fiat) currencies. People don’t want to spend, they want to save. That greatly reduces the velocity of money in the economy and reduces the amount of taxable events that the government can benefit from. That is why the government prefers inflation to deflation, but recently they’ve gone way too far.
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Sounds a bit shady. I’m obviously not interested in something like this but I wonder why you want other people’s accounts instead of just opening a new one yourself. It would seemingly be much easier and wouldn’t require you having to do anything for someone. I’d be wary to let anyone have access to any of my account for any reason ever. |
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Yes getting half back would be good however it matters when. There is a difference of taking 33% back today OR getting 50% back in 10 years. Which would you pick?
Also the longer the trial goes on for the more money will get sucked out from the creditors. Lawyers are expensive and they always work slow in cases like this.
My guess is that it’s probably closer to 16% of your BTC at the end of the year or 25% of your BTC 2 years from now. Nobody is going to be getting 50% back ever. I’m not sure where this number comes from, but it doesn’t come from anybody with any knowledge of the situation. The lawyers will definitely have eaten a massive amount of the potential distribution. Makes you wonder if mtgox could have become solvent playing games with custom funds longer to try and profit themselves out of insolvency like Gemini is trying to do now. Well there is hope if Solana becomes popular again. I think they hold like 10% of the entire market cap of Solana. Since its still trading at $20 there is hope it can make its way into the $50-$100 range. If we get into the $100 range then this would be their largest holding valued at $4B. The rest of the tokens like SRM or FTX I dont think they will be worth much. Even if they start to liquidate them, the price will go down because the supply is just too large. However Solana in a strong bull market might be possible to liquidate all their holdings if done slowly. Then we might see 50 cents on the dollar. But who knows. I don’t know what you’re talking about. This thread is about mtgox and Solana didn’t exist when it closed so they certainly don’t own any. I assume this comment was about my comment mentioning Gemini’s current insolvency games as an attempt to avoid being the next mtgox… Anyway, a new letter went out from mtgox. They’re expecting payments to be made before October 31st, 2023. |
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Microstrategy has become a way for funds to get exposure to Bitcoin without having to hold it themselves, declare that they’re holding Bitcoin, or create new divisions of their company to handle crypto. They just have to add Microstrategy to their portfolios, and they are. I wonder if a spot ETF would have the major holders sell and buy the ETF instead.
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A bummer that Zion has been ruled out for the play-in tournament and likely the start of the playoffs. I’m not sure his body will ever allow him to stay healthy all season and be ready for the playoffs. That was always the concern with his size and strength. How long before they just sit him all season so he can make a playoff run? This is becoming an annual thing.
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Solana’s problem is that the price was completely manipulated upward by the FTX fraud in order to give him more collateral to take on loans. It would be completely worthless now if it didn’t build a good sized developer community. It seems like most of the funny money was washed out of the system so maybe it will start to see solid growth going forward. The ATH was totally fake though.
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Thanks for posting those pictures. I had heard of this event beforehand but didn't hear anything afterwards so it's great to see that it was a success and so many happy people are raising money for a cause that Hal Finney cared about. It's cool to know that there were some bitcointalk runners out there supporting the cause and representing for our little hobbyist corner of the internet. I do hope other people post pictures if there were any other bitcointalk members in attendance. This is one of those things that's positive all the way around. Kudos.
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Scary times. It seems like NATO is going out of their way to provoke Russia. It seems like they almost want a world war with Russia and China before they become more powerful foes. I just hope we’re able to see peace soon and get back to building instead of trying to tear down everyone and destroy everything.
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I would imagine it’s because there are a lot of costs involved with running a casino. It takes a long time to build up a reputation to wear. customers feel safe depositing large amounts of money on your casino. People also don’t really like change and established casinos do a lot to reward their customers. It would take a much better experience to get people to consider a switch.
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I never saw it but I did see pictures of the DOGE logo on twitter. I didn’t think it was real to be honest but today I read that the bird icon is back. Apparently that means it did really happen. I thought it was most likely me hearing about a late April fool’s joke. Maybe that’s even what it was… Weird regardless.
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The Suns won tonight against the Nuggets and Durant had 29 points. That’s about the only good that came out of that game for them though. Chris Paul scored 25 which is a little high for him, but they were playing against a Nuggets squad that was basically resting their entire team. Not a good look that the Suns only managed to win the game by four points.
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recently bought a bunch of coins and they look great!! is the nastyfans.uberbills.com site still maintained? only ask because I didn't see my coins there
Thanks for the positive feedback on the coins. The uberbills site is maintained by forum user naypalm. It has been some time since I’ve received responses to my messages from him, so I assume that he’s working on other things. The site was setup to be automated, so it seems like it’s still functional but who knows how often updates happen or if they do at all. I can tell you that the information site uberbills uses to gather information is actively updated and located here: https://nastyfans.org/mint.json |
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The Warriors just announced that Andrew Wiggins will be out the remainder of the regular season. I think the use of the words "regular season" gives Warriors fans reason to be hopeful that Wiggins will return for the playoffs. This is likely their way to begin putting pressure on him to come back to the team while not putting pressure on him to come back to the team. Still, the Warriors organization has been a class act throughout this entire process and I'm sure that Wiggins will return the favor by not leaving them hanging for the playoffs. Hopefully Zion comes back for the Pels also.
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Jim Cramer is actively warning people to stay away from Coinbase stock now. He believes regulation is going to destroy exchanges and likely have a negative effect on the price of cryptocurrencies. I think there’s some genuine concern in this area, but inverse Cramer fans are definitely doing better than those taking his advice. Still, it does seem like Coinbase has a fight on it’s hands.
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Just an update on the auction. It appears the 1oz all silver Minted Seat sold for $360 while the gold highlighted version sold for $1,200. While the gold highlighted versions are sold out, you can still get the silver versions. In the listing that sold for $360, it says the coin held $40 of BTC. That means the real world auction market is placing a premium of about $200 on these coins compared to what you can buy them for brand new today… Be glad you know where to buy them… It appears many people would be buying if they knew where to get them so cheap. https://NastyFans.org/mint - Grab yourself some before the secret gets out and the only way to get them is paying massive premiums. |
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I’m a little surprised that so many people want to see revenge instead of a payout. As was mentioned earlier though, voting should probably be done by the effected users only. Of course internet trolls will vote for anything that is negative like spending money on lawyers to go after someone who, let’s face it, probably doesn’t have a dollar to his name if he went through these lengths to destroy his reputation. Still, I don’t think people like myself that weren’t involved should be selecting the outcome for effected users.
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It makes me so happy to see people exploring what is possible with Ordinals like this. I can’t wait to see what other stuff people are able to come up with. Sure, Bitcoin might not have smart contracts but at least it’s moving in the direction to allow 3rd parties to use information like tracked satoshis to build organizations and groups that can work together to grow their value.
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