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Is this for the Texas Bitcoin Conference coming up here where the hackathon's prize is $1 million? Or, what is going on here? OP hasn't made it clear yet.
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bro with all due respect,you are one ugly motherfucker.
Do yourself a favor and never get on camera ever again.
Now there is an argument in favor of your failed bitcoin - calling me ugly. Besides the fact that I am handsome and you all know it, bitcoin is going to lose you even more money if you stay in that garbage. ZERO! before the year is finished. I told you so. I warned you. Don't be a RETARD! Amuse me,what is your source? What separates you from the other retards who said bitcoin has failed when it hasn't? Always interesting and annoying to see these kinds of threads during the bear markets and we're nearing the end of one so a last hurrah of sorts. There won't be a peep of this kind of stuff during the next bull run and I'm not talking about another civil war battle.  |
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Even if you have a beef with bitcoin because of the price or whatever your thing is, it's still great as a payment protocol to and from across the world and that is a big benefit to me in my life no matter the price. The price will come around to your liking in due time but the positives of the protocol are constant if you have a need for it. I sure hope the remittance market industry people are getting their business model out because that is a great area to drive demand on a continual basis no matter what happens. The remit market will be big time for bitcoin.
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You never bothered to google 'bitcoin news' at any point? There's been plenty of news stories being shelled out by all kinds of press, mainstream and otherwise. I give you credit for steering clear of bitcoin sites for a week as an exercise of sorts cause I couldn't.  |
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Enlightening.
People outside the US still believe in the American dream.
They think immigrating to the US is a ticket out of poverty.
It used to be but bringing one's family here and only being able to get a job (if you're lucky) at or just above the minimum wage range will keep you living in poverty and amongst drug infested communities. If you come here to hop on to government services then shame on you cause we're the most broke country in the history of the world and it can't last forever. Most immigrants who come here do so to work because they live in areas where lack of work is the cause of their poverty and there is no government safety net to keep them fed. There is a 1:1 correlation between working and not starving in their lives and work is the only means of not starving. The notion that immigrants come here for government handouts is largely a republican fiction. In more places than not on this planet, an immigrant coming here and making minimum wage would give be a dramatic improvement compared to the poverty they're used to. Immigrants believe in the American dream because it exists for them, and everything they've seen in life confirms the notion that you get what you work for, they're just looking for the opportunity to work. I'm not denying any of their motives but you can't show up here and make a minimum wage and take care of a family (clothing, feeding, housing) on that. Then, you consider health care, schooling and the like and you're starting to become a parasite on the limited and dwindling amount of domestic citizen workers contributing to the tax base. This isn't the immigrants coming to America at the turn of the 20th century where they show up with $20 in their pockets and immediately find some low wage job (when there was no welfare programs) and then you work for many years before you're able to afford bringing one or more of your family members here w/ the ability to take care of and/or absorb them into your income level and be sustainable. In theory, I'm all for free people crossing imaginary borders but the dynamics separating us from a time where that can work are enormous. We have over 80 million working age adults our of work and not counted in the unemployment numbers and 47 million on food stamps and other forms of welfare just for starters, so we really can't absorb the costs of further immigrants until the ship can be turned around or it's defaulted to hell and something else arises. My thread about the loss of the american dream in 22 numbers provides a big picture of the domestic situation and it's not conducive to further poor people coming here when we can't take care of our own thanks to big government deteriorating this country for far too long. I've heard of and agree w/ all of the ancap/libertarian positions on immigration but they can only exist when there is no welfare state bleeding the productive class of their labor and stripping the job market for newcomers and the ability to foster a charitable society to handle those that can't take care of themselves w/o govt assistance. |
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Are these new ATMs being purchased through shares sold via your hedge fund? And are the primary dividends being paid at the moment being funded solely through profits generated by this hedge fund through the two current ATMs or part of something else? I just ask this because of your details sections listing other investment interests in your executive summary.
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I've seen my coins appear and disappear tons of times on there, the servers are overloaded. Luckily I only store shitcoins there.
From what I've heard, cryptsy is like the main place to go to purchase and hold the worst of the worst of the shitcoins. My friend, who's had a habit of using a portion of his meager overall bitcoin holdings to purchase crap coins there, had an email alert pop up of someone trying to sneak into his account. He's into the cannibascoin stuff falling prey to all the hype of the organizer thinking it'll 'take off' one day but lucky for him he was able to lock down this account - don't ask me how - and claims he just won't use it anymore until he hopes to exit those coins for bitcoin. However, he still doesn't get that their may never be any other users there that will want his stash of crap. I at least give poloniex credit for de-listing certain coins that are over the top garbage. They have enough alts there to satisfy one's appetite for such things and seem to be head and shoulders more legitimate than cryptsy, just sayin. |
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The pattern since Milosevic (and before) has been to demonize a foreign head of state and to take the US to war to get rid of him. That way the secret agenda is achieved under the cover of the necessity of deposing a bad or dangerous ruler.
Parry describes this well. Group-Think plays the important role of preventing any dissent, any suspicion of the case against the demonized person, and any examination of the real agenda that is being pursued.
Now it is Russian President Vladimir Putin who is being demonized. As Parry and I and Stephen F. Cohen, the most knowledgeable of the Russian experts, appreciate, Putin is not Saddam Hussein and Russia is not Iraq, Libya, Syria, Serbia, or Iran. To foment conflict with Russia that could lead to war is worse than irresponsible. Yet, as Parry writes, “from the start of the Ukraine crisis in fall 2013, the New York Times, the Washington Post and virtually every mainstream U.S. news outlet have behaved as dishonestly as they did during the run-up to war with Iraq.”
When Professor Cohen pointed out, correctly, that the lies about Russia, Ukraine, and Putin were hot and heavy, the propagandists had to get rid of the man with the facts. The New Republic, a hang-out for low IQ fools, called America’s leading Russian expert “Putin’s American toady.”
From Parry’s reporting, it appears that Group-Think has spread from the media and foreign policy community into the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, which has decided that academic careers require adherence to the government’s propaganda line, which means the neoconservatives’ line.
As I have written on a number of occasions, facts no longer play a role in American political life. Fact-based analysis is also disappearing from academic life and no longer plays a role in official economic reporting. A matrix has been created, an artificial reality that channels the energies and resources of the country into secret agendas that serve the interests of the ruling private interest groups and neoconservative ideology.
The United States government and the American people cannot contend with reality, because they do not know what the reality is.
In America’s make-believe world, neoconservative toadies such as New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, set the Group-Think tone, while knowledgeable experts such as Stephen Cohen are tuned out.
In effect, America is both blind and deaf. It lives in delusions. Consequently, it will destroy itself and perhaps the world. The backdrop to this article is at link, which is written by Paul Craig Roberts (assistant secretary of the treasury under Reagan)... http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-01/paul-craig-roberts-delusional-america |
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Is Lindsey Graham running for president to Troll Rand Paul?On Thursday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) launched an exploratory committee for a 2016 presidential run, as Arlette Saenz of ABC News reported.
The committee, named "Security through Strength," will allow Graham to fundraise while he decides whether to officially launch a bid.
The committee's website implies that a Graham presidential bid will focus on foreign policy. It quotes Graham citing Ronald Reagan's "Peace Through Strength" policy for the Cold War, and adds that for "radical Islam," whose "followers are committed to destroying us and our way of life," Graham's own policy will be "Security through Strength."
What it means More... http://www.vox.com/2015/1/29/7944905/lindsey-graham-president-2016Lindsey Graham: Send 10,000 U.S. Ground Troops to Fight Islamic StateSenator Lindsey Graham wants to put 10,000 "boots on the ground" to confront the Islamic State
The South Carolina Republican, who on Thursday premiered a political action committee aimed at exploring a run for president, told Face the Nation on Sunday that the terrorist organization could launch an attack on the U.S. that would be like "Paris on steroids" and that the group won't stop executing hostages aide workers and journalists until "they're degraded and destroyed."
"An aerial campaign will not destroy them," Graham said. "You're going to need boots on the ground, not only in Iraq, but in Syria."
Host Norah O'Donnell said the Islamic State effectively controls 20,000 square miles in those two countries, and the group released a video on Friday that appears to show the execution of Japanese hostage Kenji Goto. Graham called Iraq and Syria the "best platforms to launch an attack on [the] United States" since 9/11.
Graham said he thought aerial strikes, which have been ongoing against the group, have helped push it back but that "there's got to be some regional force formed with an American component, somewhere around 10,000" in order to stop the group.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who is considering his own run for president in 2016, also said on Sunday that "ultimately, we have to be prepared to put boots on the ground," although he said that wasn't "an immediate plan."
Sending ground troops to Iraq and Syria may play well in the upcoming GOP primary. Fifty-seven percent of Republicans support the idea, according to a Pew poll released in October. Conversely, the issue could be a liability in the general election as 55 percent of respondents from both parties opposed sending in ground troops. http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-02-01/lindsey-graham-send-10-000-u-s-ground-troops-to-fight-islamic-state
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Governor Walker Endorses the Bush DoctrineGov. Scott Walker wants the American military to be everywhere on earth.
“I think anywhere and everywhere, we have to go beyond just aggressive air strikes,” Walker said during a live interview on ABC’s This Week. “We need to have an aggressive strategy anywhere around the world.”
Walker is Republican governor of Wisconsin and considering running for president in 2016. Walker said
“I think when you have the lives of Americans at stake and our freedom loving allies anywhere in the world, we have to be prepared to do things that don’t allow those measures, those attacks, those abuses to come to our shores.”
This is the Bush Doctrine, which is for the U.S. to attack threats that it perceives even before they are actual threats, that is, to attack threats of threats. To quote what Bush proposed in full:
“The security environment confronting the United States today is radically different from what we have faced before. Yet the first duty of the United States Government remains what it always has been: to protect the American people and American interests. It is an enduring American principle that this duty obligates the government to anticipate and counter threats, using all elements of national power, before the threats can do grave damage. The greater the threat, the greater is the risk of inaction – and the more compelling the case for taking anticipatory action to defend ourselves, even if uncertainty remains as to the time and place of the enemy’s attack. There are few greater threats than a terrorist attack with WMD. More... http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/governor-walker-endorses-the-bush-doctrine/
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Rand Paul on Vaccines: 'Most of Them Ought to Be Voluntary'UPDATE: A few hours after this story went up, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul appeared on CNBC and was asked to clarify if he thought most vaccines should be voluntary.
"I guess being for freedom would be really unusual?" Paul said, sarcastically. "I guess I don't understand the point, as to why that would be controversial."
As he clarified, he mostly stuck to what he'd said on talk radio today. Only toward the end of his answer did he explain the dangers, as he saw them, in vaccinating children.
“I didn't like 'em getting 10 vaccines at once.”
"I've heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines," said Paul. "I'm not arguing vaccines are a bad idea. I think they're a good thing. But I think the parents should have some input." More... http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-02-02/rand-paul-on-vaccines-most-of-them-ought-to-be-voluntary-
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Rand Paul Started His Own Medical Certification Board? He Attempted Every Doctor's Dream.Doctors in multiple specialties perceive the existing system as favoring established players without improving the quality of care.Sen. Rand Paul's somewhat quixotic 1990s-era effort to start an organization to certify opthalmologists in competition with increasingly onerous and expensive old-guard practices gets an interesting write-up in the Washington Post. Unlike early coverage that treated the then new senatorial candidate's National Board of Opthalmology as odd or dodgy, David A. Farenthold's Post piece is ultimately fair, quoting other eye surgeons who praise both Paul's medical skills and his effort to establish an alternative to the existing board certification process. That's the way that it should be, considering that his complaints about the established process are shared by plenty of physicians, and his try at creating an alternative choice, though it ultimately failed, is a cherished dream of many doctors.
The American Board of Opthalmology is the "official" certifying organization for eye surgeons. It operates under the umbrella of the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) along with 23 other member boards. Certification is nominally voluntary, but the ABMS has convinced many hospitals and health organizations to require it for employment, and the various boards constantly threaten that insurers will demand it, too. More... http://reason.com/blog/2015/02/02/rand-paul-started-his-own-medical-certif
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Liberal paternalistic opposition to Rand Paul’s audit the FedIf you covet Platonic Guardians in lieu of self-government, you’ll love the antagonists of Sen. Rand Paul’s Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2015.
They include Janet Yellen, chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, and Catherine Rampell, a liberal dogmatist at The Washington Post.
Mr. Paul’s legislation should be uncontroversial and universally supported. Transparency is the rule and secrecy is the rare exception in every flourishing democracy. Secret government violates core democratic principles of accountability and government by the informed consent of the governed. As Justice Louis D. Brandeis sermonized, sunshine is said to be the best of disinfectants.
Mr. Paul elaborated: “A complete and thorough audit of the Fed will finally allow the American people to know exactly how their money is spent in Washington. [The Fed] currently operates under a cloak of secrecy and it has gone on for too long.”
More... http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/feb/2/bruce-fein-liberal-paternalistic-opposition-rand-p/
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Rand Paul has my vote for the primary, without question, because there's no one else worth voting for on either side. (I live in a state where you can only vote on one side, which is dumb.) But in the general election, I'll be back to someone who more closely represents libertarianism in Gary Johnson.
Well, at least I'll give you props for helping out in the primary. I vote for lots of LP candidate each election but when there's a demonstrably proven libertarian-leaning republican running for federal office that maintains stances in favor of civil liberties and a restrained foreign policy then it's up to me as a Libertarian to lend that candidate (that has a way better chance of winning than the LP candidate) my vote, activism and maybe even my money. In a situation of practicality like this, the good is not the enemy of the perfect. |
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Pretty much back to what it was before we ever bought BTC, and at the price it is even now, even better than when we started.
In other words you are completely underwater. While it's not the optimum situation to be in it isn't highly unusual nor the end of hope for someone. There's many hundreds of thousands or millions of people underwater on their home investment and that is something that typically has to be paid off if they want to stay on the right path. This scenario is merely one where the underwater investment was already paid for back in time in full but just a little behind in valuation at the moment. Considering the untold many that have bought into this ballgame over the last year, it sounds like this particular case is pretty undeserving of using the 'completely underwater' terminology and is a rather mild one at worst. |
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If and when bitcoin makes its next major move, are people expecting a similar move to last time with litecoin? Spec away
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what a stupid call. Carroll should be fired.
a quick slant pass into traffic was asinine. give it to Lynch and game over.
So true on such a large scale! This call is almost laughable and will go down as one of the worst decisions in football or Super Bowl history. I was floored to see it happen, the defensive back read it a mile away and scored himself mass cred and future worth by this retardedness. Oh and Katy Perry was hot as ever tonight. |
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I wasn't paying the Bitcoin progress for a past few months and when I came back I saw that the price has dropped for about 100$. What has lead to that drop and when is it expected to rise up?
Welcome back, you obviously pay almost no attention to the price if you just stick your head above water just to make a comment after a few months and complain, thus you have none. There's no person that has an investment that doesn't check the market or the price multiple times a day or once a day, much less every other day or less. Traders gonna trade and whales gonna stick and move a playa. |
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Wow, this is becoming one of the epic trolling columns around here and most are falling for it. Precious metals are fine and grab them if that's your thing or you like the looks of them but tossing bitcoin to the wind in the same breath is stupid as well. Specifically, silver has been in a bear market way longer than bitcoin. I'll stop here for now.
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