I did not take part in this event for a simple reason, holding some big amount of coins in exchanges/online wallets for me makes no sense, unfortunately this is not the case for many crypto owners these days. Most users just use any online service because it is the the easiest way to start buying/using BTC, almost same as open new e-mail account.
Imagine that most of them start to download desktop wallets which are free to use, number of users who would lose their coins due fake wallets, malware, transaction to wrong address/chain would probably be significant. This means that the damage would be greater than the potential benefit from this event.
However this can be good in a way that users become aware how important is to have full control over private keys, and to never hold big amounts of coins online.
I did the same but I feel like I have participated in the event by not keeping my coins on exchanges at all. One of the goals of this event was to make people aware that if they don't hold private keys the coins don't belong to them, and educate them about the risks of letting other people manage your wealth. I'm one of the ones that need no further education, but I would withdraw my coins if I had any online and to me this event was a huge success. I hope it becomes a tradition. |
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They should release it anyway and I'm pretty sure people would donate money to them for doing it. Why blackmail if you can go full Snowden and help the society wake up?
Even people who don't believe in conspiracies have this gut feeling that there was something very wrong with 9.11. There was just too many incredible things happening all at once. Invisible jet hitting Pentagon, passports surviving the fire that managed to melt steel beams, Norad having scheduled exercise at the time of the attack. Everything was swept under the rug by the Bush administration. Do we have to wait until he joins his father before we learn the truth?
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The best explanation for me was the comparison to foods or drinks. If you don't like caviar it's worth nothing to you. If you had a can of it you would throw it away because you don't eat it. Another person will be willing to pay a lot of money for it and feel great eating it. Your view on things is very rarely unbiased and it's important to look from a different perspective. I love Bitcoin and it's valuable to me despite what someone else will say, but I'm not trying to put this opinion in other people's mouths. I'm fine with them not being interested in decentralized, private money.
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I believe that an ETF will get approved sooner or later. It's only a matter of time before they get all the legal framework straight and there will be nothing that the SEC can throw at them. Remember that the SEC also operates in accordance with the law and they can't deny something because they feel like it. There needs to be a viable law-based explanation. They are buying time to find reasons to deny it and to make it look like they're thoroughly researching the case.
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You can, where it's accepted. I know it is not accepted everywhere yet, but you cannot deny that it is a currency that can also be used for purchases like normal. Some examples for you down below:
You can not name currency thing, that every merchant exchange to real currency as soon as possible when he get payed, Term "assets" is more accurate for Bitcoin What does "real currency" mean? Which currencies are real and which are unreal? Does a country standing behind a currency makes it real, or maybe the use cases do? For instance, there's a country behind The Zimbabwean Dollar, but there are no use cases. The bills aren't even fit to be used as toilet paper. |
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I'd be very interested to know what proportion of newbies went straight to ICO shit that'll never recover vs buying Bitcoin. It's quite possible many of them never gave BTC a second's thought.
They needed it to learn that drowning money in ICOs is like gambling. People learn through experience and I've been watching this take place in cryptocurrencies throughout the years. There was a mining boom where everyone wanted to preorder new hardware in 2013 and 2014. Many companies saw an opportunity in scamming and the hype died. There was a cloud mining boom in 2014-2016 and it also ended with hundreds of scam companies. In 2017 we had ICO boom and it also needed about 2 years to turn sour. In time more people will learn that you don't have to run around throwing money into all these altcoins, startups, mining farms. All you need to do is hold Bitcoin. |
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Duplicate entries are especially valuable, as they show when a user abandoned an old staked address. That could indicate a new account owner. That's what I was curious about in my previous post but didn't get the answer. There are also entries that have been edited at some point because they differ from other people's quotes. Should I continue checking that part? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5090133.msg48922181#msg48922181What about that previous idea of listing scammers addresses separately? |
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They won't be able to keep saving it. At some point the USD will reach the point of no return when people actually wake up and start dumping it to buy goods, metals, crypto, whatever they can just to get rid of the dollar. At this point it will be too late for you to do anything if you are still a dolar holder at that point. Market crashes come suddenly and hit fast. One day it's all fine the next it's people standing in lines in front of their banks, and all ATMs are empty. You wake up, watch the news, and it's all in chaos.  |
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try spending a substantial amount ($10k) fiat via a bank account without the bank asking questions.
you do not own FIAT. they are just letting you handle it under their licence terms
try crossing a state/country border with $10k see how much FIAT you get to own without question
I was watching a series about debt collectors in the UK the other day, and they knocked on the door of one lady asking that she cleared the debt right away or they'd start removing goods. She asked them to wait and went to the bank. Came back minutes later saying that her withdrawal attempt triggered some scam alerts in the bank. She had to call the police to her home, to confirm the paperwork the bailiffs had, go with her back to the bank and vouch that it's not a scam. Even when she did all of it they didn't allow her to withdraw the full amount! And the best part is that she was only asking for £10k of her own money, deposited on a personal account. |
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The most important part is that they were only able to harvest a fraction of the heat generated by human body. They theoretically could be getting 100W per person, but were getting much less due to inefficiency of the system. To be able to get everything they would have to embed the probes into clothes and make sure they cover at least 80% of the body, which means tight suits.  The most efficient would be an insulated tank filled with water that would cover 100% of the body surface. The person would be completely submerged and breathing through a tube. There are areas in human body that get warmer than the rest, like the head, and not adding any generators there was a mistake that impacted their results. It's of course a great idea. Not for mining, but for charging your phone, or being able to power up small devices like electronic locks, thermometers, heart rate sensors. |
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Are you aware that when you trade goods, services or fiat currencies for Bitcoin, you actually bought nothing. In other words, by buying Bitcoin you sold the ownership of something and bought the ownership of nothing. Bitcoin is the first time in human history that people voluntarily give up something to become the owners of absolutely and literally nothing.
And what happens when someone pays for your goods with a card? A third party payment processor logs the transaction on their servers and messages your bank that it took place. You don't get any physical item, you don't get money. Only thing that changes are some digits on a privately own mainframe. How is that different from the blockchain? Let's start by saying that blockchain cannot be changed or erased, but the mainframe can. Blockchain can't go bankrupt, but both the payment processor and your bank can. Even your country that issues cash (that you aren't getting for that transaction because it was digital) can go bankrupt. I'll take my coins, thank you. |
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How are you planning to divide the work? Give each person a letter and ask them to find members beginning with that letter? Assign different pages of the thread to different people? like 1-10 10-20 and so on?
I'm willing to give you a hand, just tell me what to do. I wouldn't want to put in work just to find out that someone else was doing the exact same part.
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The curious case of a buttom:  Do you think crypto has hit it's very buttom for this year.... the market want red yesterday.. but I'm thinking it won't go lower than this..
Please whats your take on this??
Probably the buttom this year is already $3000 as it already started to rise in crypto price overall. In the next year, there is a possibility of the new buttom but if it starts good in the first quarter it will probably go higher and higher over the next few months
See stunning photos of Kim Kardashian's buttom on holiday in Mexico(photos) https://www.nelstorm.com/2016/08/see-stunning-photos-of-kim-kardashians.html |
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Perhaps his kindness doesn't work properly, instead of throwing money from the window causing a commotion in the street, he should send it to charity. I admire him very much because he is a good and passionate person with crypto.
Sending it to charity wouldn't make all news outlets write about it. He was in it for the fame. You can put money to work by buying ads, give free t-shirts with your message to people, or you can do something crazy like this money rain. the maximum penalty for his offense is a 12-month prison term and a fine of HK$5,000. Innocent bystanders at the location attested to the total amount of money that was thrown away could be millions, although the police reported that they were only able to recover HK$5,000 (the equivalent of $639) from the streets.
It looks like the fine part of his penalty is already covered. |
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Wake up OP! Trust system is unfair. Look how many people got red tagged by Vod for being shitposters. Most of them think it's unfair because in their opinion they are good posters. The same sentence will look legit to someone with very basic English and like shit to a native speaker. Your point of view usually differs from the point of view of other people and all you can do is accept it. In other words, deal with it and move on.
Define what you mean by shitposter, because Vod tags scammers  Noun. shitposter (plural shitposters) (Internet, slang, vulgar, derogatory) A person who makes worthless posts on a messageboard, newsgroup, or other online discussion platform.https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shitposter |
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You pulled the dragons tail and I am already massively wealthy now thanks to bitcointalk and my excellent trading skills ..and well thanks the pharmacist you did your bit...hahah I'll have a bottle of 2013 Armand de Brignac Rose on you ...thanks dude,.
thanks for proving how amazing i have been ...look at your crawling around in my history admiring me wish you were me...hahah
Just going out for a drive in my VERY expensive automobile hahah catch you bums later you broke down cowardly scum
I am net positive beyond what you will ever be and am a giant of achievements compared to you all
my friends will join this board to destroy you alll over and over and over again with my legendary story
will live on forever I will instruct all of my friends to join and tell my story and you lack of achievements over and over and over and over,
This is like something Roger Ver and Craig Wright would write. Do you remember that famous Ver interview when he showed people the finger and said "I'm a self made millionaire, I was a millionaire before I made bitcoin cash it's not bcash, apologize, I demand an apology"? Or famous Craig: "I don't care what you think, I have more money than your country". This is the same level of presumptuous and entitled attitude, but they at least are rich and can prove it. |
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The movie that I always think about when someone asks about gambling flicks is of Casino Royale, just because it was so good, but I also can recommend 21 if you haven't seen it. I liked Kevin Spacey ever since I saw him in The Usual Suspects. His role in 21 is definitely not a disappointment and the whole movie is action packed so you won't be bored. I've always been fascinated by card counting which made this movie even more enjoyable.
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I wish my government was asking people to be careful buying weed.  Instead they prefer the "don't buy weed! you'll be an addict, lose everything, go to prison, detox, maybe you'll die die, or be a homeless hobo living under a bridge". We're the opposite. I still prefer the negative perspective of our government or at least the majority of our population when it comes to marijuana's legalization, but the sad thing is I think this mindset will change sooner or later just because one of the answers of the current reigning Miss Universe strongly influenced others' way of thinking. How silly to think that a simple answer from a pageant suddenly made our government officials to consider passing a bill/law favorable to marijuana . I'm not really against to its legalization because I know that it could :)contribute a lot for medicating patients. Maybe I'm just scared that time will come when the obedience of the policies and regulations regarding this just become an option— that others will be out of control and can easily access it for "fun". I'd recommend you not to blindly accept and follow the rules but question them. 100 years ago smoking weed was legal and nobody was put in jail for possession. Did that make everyone forget about their jobs and responsibilities and run high all day long? Of course not. What you're experiencing is a baseless fear of the unknown that the government is inciting. They're telling you that if weed was legal your children would be able to get it and lower their IQ by getting high on regular basis. It's funny, because in many countries possessing small amounts of drugs for private use is not illegal, and in those countries there is no higher drug use than everywhere else. For instance in the Czech Republic possession of drugs is a misdemeanor, which means that if you're caught smoking in public you will get a fine, just like for pissing in a park. Despite that, people aren't smoking in public more than US citizens who can go to jail for the same thing. |
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