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4061  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: November 09, 2014, 02:28:11 PM
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Hello!

4062  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: November 09, 2014, 02:19:47 PM
Ready for the price adjustment?

4063  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: November 09, 2014, 02:04:18 PM
Dance on moonbeams
Slide on rainbows
In furs or blue jeans
You know what I mean...

4064  Economy / Speculation / Re: Operator of Silk Road 2.0, Blake Benthall, arrested yesterday by FBI agents in S on: November 09, 2014, 01:44:36 PM
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My point is  that it is not righteous to shut down a site or software that allows (1) simply because other actors might use it for other purposes...

It's not righteous to shut down CP websites!!1!
Child pornography is an invaluable tool for understanding the psyche of child molesters.  Why penalize the scholars and providers of such valuable research material just because said material could be misused?

4065  Economy / Speculation / Re: Operator of Silk Road 2.0, Blake Benthall, arrested yesterday by FBI agents in S on: November 09, 2014, 01:35:35 PM
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PS: SR (at least version 1) didn't even allow guns, hitman scams, or child porn ("loli"?).

Lol, but why?
If your argument "If drugs are not being sold safely peacefully online, they are sold in the streets with people robbing and killing each other" shows anything, it shows that all criminal activity should be allowed online, because less violence.

A budding neckbeard criminal should be able to purchase his throwaway .25 from the privacy and safety of his home mom's basement, instead of endangering himself and others by conducting business in the street Cool
4066  Economy / Economics / Re: why do people agree to pay taxes? on: November 09, 2014, 12:52:58 PM
^Of course governments are corrupt.  The reason governments are a thing is because the alternatives simply don't work Undecided

A person living in 18th Century France could use the same logic: The reason monarchies are a thing is because the alternatives simply don't work.

What's your point?

If the entire habitable surface of your planet is controlled by governments and has been for millennia, those jackbooted thugs must be doing something right Undecided
4067  Economy / Speculation / Re: One year ago... on: November 09, 2014, 12:10:05 PM
Let's not forget there are ~1.5 million more bitcoins in circulation compared to a year ago.

So even though the price remains the same, the market cap has increased from ~4B to ~4.6B.

Source: http://www.coindesk.com/data/bitcoin-market-capitalization/


So it has grown 15% in a year but people are saying it is dead. Funny. Wink

>deflationary currency
>inflating at 15% per year
Funnier.

P.S:  In a day or two, your "market cap increase" claim will be false Sad
4068  Economy / Speculation / Re: rpietila Wall Observer - the Quality TA Thread ;) on: November 09, 2014, 12:05:59 PM
You need to have wealth in order to afford a parasite class.

I hope we're not expected to be proud of our parasites.

They certainly think we should adore them.

Love us or die.



  ~Your Beneficent Reptilian Overlords.
4069  Economy / Economics / Re: why do people agree to pay taxes? on: November 09, 2014, 12:02:01 PM
^Of course governments are corrupt.  The reason governments are a thing is because the alternatives simply don't work Undecided
4070  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: November 09, 2014, 11:55:20 AM
Good morning, gentlemen.  Rally?

4071  Economy / Speculation / Re: Operator of Silk Road 2.0, Blake Benthall, arrested yesterday by FBI agents in S on: November 09, 2014, 11:35:49 AM
...I read an article few months ago all about it...

Wandererfromthenorth, you are angry and confused.  Please read the Blake Benthall Criminal Complaint here for a lollercoaster of hilarity.

SR2 charged for its services.  Dr. Blake was not running a free P2P clinic.
Re. "I'm not even sure the majority of the Fake IDs being sold in the SR were real fake IDs in the first place":
Of course fake IDs were fake. Start spending substantially more or substantially less on your medication of choice, the current regiment clearly hampers your reasoning ability.
And you can trust me--I'm a P2P doctor Cool

Re. "If drugs are not being sold safely peacefully online, they are sold in the streets with people robbing and killing each other":
Substitute "loli, shota, guns, hits" for "drugs," and your argument remains just as valid.

TL;DR: The feds don't want drugs being sold, peacefully or otherwise.  Blake was the idiot poster child of neckbeard drug trade.  Buying a Tesla, I mean, how gay is that?
Monumentally incompetent, astoundingly clueless, doing everything short of screaming "look at me ma, I'm doing it!  I'm doing it! Ma!"

The only thing I'm unsure about is if Mr. Benthall is real, or if he's a government agent planted to make "darknet" drug dealers look stoopit Undecided

4072  Economy / Speculation / Re: Operator of Silk Road 2.0, Blake Benthall, arrested yesterday by FBI agents in S on: November 09, 2014, 02:30:21 AM
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Also, when people hear "drugs" or "Silk Road" they think about crack, meth and heroin.

...none of which were sold on SR2.
The clientele--shellshocked cancer patients suffering from cluster headaches--came to SR2 in search of...

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...medical cannabis... MDMA for PTSD ...  LSD/Psilocybin Mushrooms for cancer patients and cluster headaches (pretty much the only solution THAT WORKS as a cure for people who have them)

And because heartless gubermibnts sadistically criminalized these life-saving medications, SR2 was forced to sell fake passports (to facilitate travel to more humane localities), and carding/skimming crap (to make the medical international travel more affordable).

Yeah, totally relate, bro.
I'm an anhedonia sufferer myself.  BRB, banging speedballs to feel normal.
4073  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: November 08, 2014, 11:24:18 PM
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Or do you have a reason to dislike or fear Bitcoin?

Tsk. Tsk.   Sad

It has been conclusively proven on this very forum that BTC dollar price is in no way representative of Bitcoin's success/wellbeing Cool
4074  Economy / Economics / Re: why do people agree to pay taxes? on: November 08, 2014, 10:03:44 PM
Yes, everyone, let's ignore that roads used to be funded and constructed by businesses, so you could patronize them without having to change your flat tires.

ORLY?  Other than access roads?  When/where was this?  Be specific.

Sources for people who won't feign ignorance after reading them:

Daniel Klein and John Majewski, "America's Toll Roads Heritage" in Street Smart: Competition, Entrepreneurship, and the Future of Roads, ed. Gabriel Roth (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2006). See also Daniel B. Klein and John Majewski, "Turnpikes and Toll Roads in Nineteenth-Century America," February 5, 2010
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Lol, stopped right there.  Of course private and toll roads exist.  Alongside government-funded roads.  I even had my own driveway paved once.  And referencing some d00d's school papers is pretty weak--might as well say "I did a social studies report I got an A on and posted on teh web."

How about something a bit less obscure?

Edit re. second citation:



Nice trolling there, champ Roll Eyes
4075  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: November 08, 2014, 09:32:08 PM
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The edge is an illusion.

Either all exchanges are 100% straight-up legit and market manipulation doesn't exist, or you're wrong Undecided
4076  Economy / Economics / Re: why do people agree to pay taxes? on: November 08, 2014, 09:29:44 PM
Yes, everyone, let's ignore that roads used to be funded and constructed by businesses, so you could patronize them without having to change your flat tires.

ORLY?  Other than access roads?  When/where was this?  Be specific.

4077  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: November 08, 2014, 09:23:50 PM
I mean, in a zero-sum game where the majority is losing, somebody has to win. Every day.
Obviously if you only look at a single round of a zero sum game you'll find winners and losers.

The point is that nobody can remain a winner in the long term.

Play enough rounds and eventually your track record will converge to the same as everybody else's.

Mathematically, this must be the case.

Player A is good at zero-sum game.
Player B, a typical investment aficionado, sucks at it.
Player A loses as much as player B because Bitcoin math.
4078  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: November 08, 2014, 07:13:14 PM
Unless, of course, one use real buying power as a measure of value. Like in the real world.
Your "real world" is a world in which [typical neoliber gibberish] ...

It's also YOUR real world.  So now you know.



  ~Your Beneficent Reptilian Overlords.
4079  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: November 08, 2014, 06:05:58 PM
...The price is just a reflection of people's expectations how useful it will be in the future...

Lowered expectations confirmed Sad
4080  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: November 08, 2014, 05:56:45 PM
I wonder 2 things:

1: Will the traders try to kill Bitcoin for another year?

2: Will Bitcoin even survive another year of this shit. How much longer will there be buyers before everyone gives up? This can't and won't go on forever.
Killing Bitcoin that way didn't work in 2011. Why would it work now?
Because 12 months is an eternity to deluded Shroomsy.

Another year of falling prices is entirely healthy.  Shakeout the remaining weak hands/decrease unwanted attention from authorities/regulations.
Think about it: what self-respecting TLA would want to spend time regulating something with the market cap of a yard sale?
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