I am blown away how people think that that guy is even telling the truth. Why do you think it was the woman who showed her true colors? There's a reason they split up, the reason that the man wouldn't  share here for obvious reasons, if it was because of him. She got her kid to protect as well, so she is sensitive for spotting red flags as she should in that situation. And what kind of man goes to talk to press and tries to defame her instantly?

"It just came out of the blue" is something i hear pretty much from every broken relationship where communication didn't work, and usually it is because other one wasn't listening.

And since you brought up that you would have been running away, she literally ran away already, so something tells me it wasn't the man who was trying to dodge the bullet here.

Formula for that is not public information yet, so are those rhetoric questions? And even if we did have it would probably be hard to calculate if they have balanced it out some weird ways.

All we know is what noah answered to in this thread and its all still pretty vague. There are several questions answered on that thead, so it's pointless to pick just one, but if i had to i would go for this take:



And since i am getting a hostile vibes from your post, i have to ask what you are even angry about? The fact we are uninformed about this? Seems like a waste of your time. Like noah said: "it's not that drastic".

People use them for good time, and later because they got addicted and for normal time. Some people are also so called self-medicating, as some drugs work better with some brains then others. Artists can take LSD to speed up their exploration of mind and figure out new ways to create. People with ADHD take amphetamine to relax and get their wires work like they work with normal people. Normal people would have an opposite effect of that.

Put let me put in words that our police use years ago with their drug awareness propaganda:
Our police listed every drug out there on their education paper, and side effects with them, with cannabis came paranoia, with lsd schizophrenia, with amphetamine it was heart attack and psychosis. And with heroin, it only read, extreme euphoria and possibly overdose.

If you one day decided to try drugs, which one would you pick with those symptoms? I find it weird that they have been over exaggerating the problems of mild drugs so long, that hard drugs looked good in comparison.

I don't see them anything like religions, those are not trying to work out on how to make working economy, but how to deal with death. I personally believe in Keynesian economics, even though it seems to be everything cryptocurrecy scene hates, but none of the economic systems are perfect and they may have to develop themselves to survive. If i had to guess, Satoshi followed Austrian economics. Least that it was how this started imho; cyberpunk money for libertarians.

There's really no perfect economy system. But since you asked alternative for keynesian system, i have been reading about monetarism, and while it has problems as well, it deals with some of the problems that comes with keynesian economics.



There are others as well but let's start from here.

Who are you trying to convince here? If you really think money triumphs education, just because money is the only thing you want then go for it. But don't except everyone else valuating money over everything. Money helps me with lots of things but it doesn't give any substance for my life. It's just financial safety and things i can buy.

I value good, educated conversation and learning with friends or spending time with my kids more then $10000 in hand replacing that. I value the fact, that i bothered to study and learned about cultures, music, psychology, maths, philosophy and politics. I value that there's so much to learn, and i can use my time for that instead of chasing just money. If i wanted just to be rich, i would have been studying to have a career in finances.

Education can make your life rich in ways can't even know beforehand, as you aren't educated in that section. People who know things and can explain things are interesting to talk to. Everyone i know who is purely interested to get rich haven't been interesting so far. In fact they tend to value tacky things. More you know, more you see and deeper you see, it helps you think deeper and understand cause and effect. You can't buy that just with money, you actually have to learn things to have it.

All i am saying is that money earmarked for airdrop (28%) isn't a same section of pie as early contributors (8.8%). So by giving more weight on the bets for early players from the airdrop section (as Noah said), they are keeping their commitment of rewarding early players. They don't have to give anything from early adopters pie, which they never said they would.

And platform users are far from angel investors or private investors, which is a whole different thing. Angel investors or private investors have contracts (at least when they are serious investors).

Funny thing is, while his fortune is tied to real estates, his real state assets might be loan collateral already.
And if he sells those, he needs to pay taxes for any capital gains from them, and either pay those loans he got by using collateral or fund them somehow again.

And he is probably forced to sell trump tower, which will go cheap as who the hell is going to buy that with cash with one month warning?

So good luck with his golden 'never surrender' sneakers and new nfts funding what he owes.

Just don't gamble intoxicated ever, no matter if it's drugs or alcohol. Nothing good comes from that. You don't play with guns, drive, give public statements, do surgery while drunk for a reason. Because both your motor skills and judgement are impaired.

Only semi-safe way to gamble even while drunk is not to take debit card or phone with you, and only use pocket money for doing that. There's are few things that are worse to that feeling when you wake up in hangover, can't remember anything and you have no money left. You might as well have been robbed as you didn't enjoy the experience.

I don't do drugs, but not that i think of it, i actually had one good experience while gambling drunk. I remember leaving to casino from the bar and woke up next morning with lots of more money in my pockets then i had when i went out. That was fun i admit, but i didn't have the experience from gambling. I might as well had robbed someone and just didn't know it. I had vague memory from that casino so i pieced together that i might have been lucky. But that was the only time i made money while drinking, most of the time it's just playing more then planned and woke up with hangover and regret.

I have only had 2 coins in my life that i can remember that crashed to zero when i was sleepting. Both happened when i started this cryptocurrency journey, and back then i didn't luckily have too much money on them. Even with biggest rug pulls i experienced, i either managed to cash out my initial investments when i sold them while it mooned, or managed to trade swings when it crashed.

So in theory while i lost lot of profits in in monetary value, and those were technically my biggest monetary losses, but i consider it as imaginary money, because i didn't sell in time. So when i make more money then i put in, but lose more in profits, does easy come, easy go even count?

Coins where i lost significant amount of my investments were Decent, Rise and Deep Brain. I am not surprised if you haven't heard from them. Decent even seemed like a real project, but it just faded away and no one needed it. Deep brain, which i DCA:d because at the time i had money for it, and thought it would go back up. Because at the time everything was bouncing back. It was an early AI project, during ico frenzy, and back then no one seemed to question if it was needed. Blockchain + ai was enough. That reminds me of current AI trend.
Third one was "Rise vision" That was a special kind of travesty. It was more money laundering operation than a coin.

I am having a hard time to understand your point. Most who people who holds ANY crypto including bitcoin are doing it most likely, because they are expecting growth. Even times of hiding money into crypto as an use case are fading away because of regulations. Smart contracts can turn out to be essential part of the web in he future but i believe it when i see it.

Unless you are buying and selling something with it, you are holding it because you hope it will go up. Or because you pay less fees then with bank transactions. And about those transactions, what an earth do you mean by "cant be used for p2p transactions". How do you think cryptocurrencies work? As most of them are build only for that.

This isn't a question of what we would do on that situation, because we don't know anything about them as a "couple", but just the surface. We don't know if Michael turned out to be a horrible man for example, as he most likely is painting himself in a good light.

First of all they were a dating, not married and not even engaged, but they dated for 3 months. That's barely enough time to even know if you are suitable for each other, not to mention to assume that you are going to get half of nearly everything what your date owns. People split up, that's not surprising. Especially if you take someone to celebrate, and he starts babbling how you two should buy house together. So i see a real possibility that michael turned out to be obsessive and maybe showed his true colors by demanding what they do next. They obviously weren't friends soon after the celebration, so why would anyone want to share anything in that case.

And it's not like he bought it, they were at the shop together, buying it with her money. She even scratched it.

Am i right to assume that you don't know what altcoin futures are yet? Because that question is too vague to have an answer.
You are not telling us if you know technical analysis to base your decision of shorting or longing it, nor you are saying how much leverage are you confortable to use. And if you don't know anything about risks in those, how is any of this a good idea? Playing with futures can make you money, for sure, but get even experienced traders get rekt if they aren't careful with it.

If you already know everything there's to know, then sorry if i sound condescending. If not, there is ton of reading material everywhere in net.

It's definitely a scam. Even though the whole idea itself seems pointless, i had to google and you can pretty much find that out first few reddit posts, when you google monero mixer, where people explain how it's a scam. But i am baffled why would they make such a scam? How would people even fall for this, as it's targeting paranoid people and paranoid people definitely are checking twice where they are putting their money. There isn't even any incentive for greed.

Thanks for not posting any links with that.

Just avoid such anon casinos. Legit casino owners have at least some social media presence, if not full names. They don't need to have listed team members on the web page, but as they are proud for their casinos, there's no need to hide the CEO either. Its not like with ICOs where we need to do deep research of a new system. Casinos are pretty straight forward businesses, so all we need is sense of accountability. So public CEO is enough.

While i understand why some CEOs would like to stay away from public eye, imho they chose wrong profession if they think they can avoid it, or at least wrong position in the company.

Then there are companies like Betfury, that keep the CEO hidden but are naming admins in chats as team members for example, which is just deceptive misdirection. Seemingly giving something without giving anything of value.

I haven't seen anyone in here pointing out the obvous: IF there's a bug to exploit, why is your friend still losing money? And why is your money somehow better for exploiting it? This just reeks like desperation. And just because he is your friend, it doesn't obligate you to break the law. In fact he is being a shitty friend for asking that instead of loan from you. So don't go that road, no matter if the exploit works or not.

If you want to help your friend, you must first:

1: Understand his situation. He is going for desperate measures, because he is desperate. Blaming doesn't fix his situation. If you live in an area where police is too corrupt to help, or your friend has nowhere to hide, there's a very real and urgent issue, and that's a threat against him. Loan sharks don't use collateral or legal ways to collect their money, as they most of the time operate illegally anyway. They literally can break legs and harass the victims and their close friends or relatives, if they know/ find out where they live. They also could force victims to break the law to pay their debts, and this could in fact be one of these schemes. So first they need to deal with direct threat, after that they can focus on other issues, like the one that lead him to this deep end.

Even if loanshark is operating legally, your friend could be ruining rest of his life as interests build up and he would end up paying those forever.

2: If you have money to help, i wouldn't keep my hopes up getting that money back ever. And you need to ensure that the money goes directly to the loan shark. Addicts tend to lie and might even gamble that money away, as depending how their brains are wired, they might not learn anything from this. All they get would get from this bail out is a dopamine reward, linking this to loan sharks = good in their brain. Also before you give any money to your friend, sit down with him and make him explain how he doesn't get into this situation again, and don't accept any other answer then him blaming directly himself and admitting he is an addict that needs help (other then monetary as well).

And since this situation is extreme, i would demand for extreme measures. I would demand he seeks for legal guardian of interests, he could even point you as one, so that you would have legal rights for his money. You would get paid for that job, but it's hard and level of responsibility would be high. But if you are up for it, that's an option. If legal guardian seem too emasculating for him, maybe he doesn't yet accept his situation. And the fact he he believes that luck would get him out from this makes me believe he doesn't have a clue what he is doing, nor any kind of sense of financial responsibility.

3: If you leave in somewhere with minimum corruption, in where you can trust police, he shouldn't just pay, loan sharks often don't have a leverage they claim to have, but they definitely will harass and threat you. Luckily for your friend there are ton of places where you can report loan sharks. Those you can find by googling but this all depends where you live. If this is a real option for you, i would definitely go for this road.

Inflation is a symptom for several things, but it's not necessarily a bad thing, as inflation at reasonable rate is to be expected as it's build into core of our financial system.
Prices have been rising since the start of fiat money, and every fiat money out there is build to have reasonable inflation. You can't or shouldn't really combat that, but you can combat inflation that's got out of control, because that can lead to hyper inflation.

And there will be times when inflationary rates need to be exceptionally high, that's normal in times of crisis, as you can think of it like a fever that needs to be high enough to kill a flu virus, but not the host.
That isn't a perfect analogy for it, but closest i can think of. Inflation is used stimulate the economy, like raising minimum wage as well. Economy is not doing well when people keep hoarding and holding, no matter what hodl meme tells you.

If you haven't already, i suggest you'll read about different kinds of economic systems, like keynesian, austrian, and monetarism. You don't have to invent a wheel again as there are lots of people out there who have already studied this subject.

Where do you live? Because if it's a nation with huge inflation and usdt is more stable then your currency, then it's a good choice. Or if your government is near collapsing usdt would be a safe bet as well. unless you are not a citicen in restricted region, which makes it harder for you to cash out. As you might just get your assets frozen.

If you can handle slight change of losing few % of it, but have a high change to make few %, i would put it on btc or eth. Because you don't want to fomo in when btc goes over 100k or or eth over $10. Then things really get unstable.

If you live in 1st world country, i don't see why a bank would be a bad option. Lots of them won't even charge you if you don't do anything with your money. What ever you do, i wouldn't cash out and keep physical cash. That has several issues, and more you own, more issues you have, starting from security. But you will also face the the problem of proving the origin of that cash if you'll try to re-invest it.

I can't see XRP having meaningful pump if that's what you are asking, as it's already so high in the marketcap. There's a good reason it has not moved a lot and and since it's not going anywhere technology-wise either, why it would get more attraction?

And it seems i have to state the obvious here: It's not "cheap" just because one whole coin is cheaper then bitcoin.

But if $1000 is all you got and you want to keep your money in relatively safe asset that's not moving, then XRP is a good choice. No better than btc or eth, as at least with those you have changes to make money. If that $1000 is not a huge amount for you, and you just wanted to look for speculative cheap assets, there are way better choices lower in the top marketcap list.

I am skeptical if small gamblers are counted as early adopters, as when they are referring to it, they are talking about angel investors and strategic private investors
But noah said in twitter that people who gambled early, weight more the formula they are using to calclulate the airdrops. So, in short early gamblers are getting more for their money.

Although i wouldn't have my hopes up with a huge raise for people who didn't gamble a lot of money back then.

I's not only difficult, it's next to impossible and highly impractical and expensive to try that. And luckily slot machines get audited frequently by third-party auditing organizations. As if we tried to audit them by playing ourselves, no matter what the probability is, it always contain a possibility of a huge and long lucky streak / unlucky streak. Even if that % change would get smaller more you play.

Imho these issues should be left to people whose job is to oversee and ensure that regulations are met. Instead of listening anyone's feelings about it.