The fact that proves that Adesanya has won Vettori by unanimous decision is that he keeps trolling him over the fight  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96zbWSvxXjU How do you like that? Adesanya was very confident in this fight. Same shows judge cards. Speaking about judge cards - they sure have a lot of work that night. 11 out of 14 fight ended by decision. P.S. We are getting close to McGregor - Poirier trilogy, less than a month is left. I think Israel Adesanya should stop with the McGregor mind games and just be a professional fighter. Yes, he won the fight and he deserved it, but trolling him is not necessary. In any way, I won some money on this match.. so I am in a forgiving mood today.  (My mind was saying... this was a setup for a 1 win each and a possible re-match situation... but I think Adesanya had something to prove.. after his previous loss)  |
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I am a bit of a traditionalist when it comes to property... because I was taught from a young age that it is of utmost importance that you own the roof over your head. My Dad has always said, "Why make someone else rich by paying him rental, if you can use that to pay for your own roof over your head"? The problem is that times have changed and the younger generation are faced with high unemployment and very high property prices. The Banks does not give 100% guarantees anymore, so most people have to fork out huge deposits and they simply do not have that. (They also do not have assets to put up for guarantee, so they have to take out loans to pay the deposit too) The rental scene is very competitive and if you are clever, you can stay in some fancy house that you would never have been able to buy for yourself and you can quickly move to a new place, if the rent goes up too much. (That is to say, if you are not contractually bound in a long-term rental agreement) |
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There are so many ways in which they could have seized those bitcoins. Let's say the hackers were dumb enough to transfer those coins to a hardware wallet and they raided their house and they got hold of the Seed. They can also have transferred it to a paper wallet and the authorities might have found the Paper wallets (A lot of people store those wallets in a Safe ... or somewhere obvious.)  I am also a conspiracy nut... so I do believe some of these "Mixer" services are "Honey pots" for the NSA ...so they might have used that to track them down. |
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My luck with the Sport betting really sucked these last few weeks, because I only won 1 bet from the 15 bets I made in the last 3 or 4 weeks. (So I need a bit of a boost) Which one of these two are going to take it this Sunday? ==> Israel Adesanya VS Marvin Vettori I think Israel Adesanya is going to show that he did win against Marvin Vettori, so he is going to fight a lit bit harder this time to settle the debate. The question is... does he now have what it takes to win Vettori? ...It was a bit of a disputed fight last time... so Vettori will fight a lot harder this time around.. |
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Really.... Fck Google and the knight on the white horse he is riding with this gesture. They want to make money, but they got burnt when people started complaining that they were losing money on scam ICO's that was advertised on their platform. Now they saw a loophole, where they can allow "Big Brother" certified companies to advertise on their platform. These platforms halted Crypto currencies progress for years.... and now they want to be the hero again. |
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Well, when you control the people... you control their wealth and you can misuse your power. This is exactly why Bitcoin was invented.. because Satoshi saw how Banks and Governments colluded during the previous financial crisis and how governments misused taxpayers money to bail out Banks. China do not want their citizens to have any control, so they will censor their access to people that has freedom. The firewalls that are in place, can easily be circumvented... so it is not a big issue. (VPN's) |
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On August 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon announced that the United States would no longer convert dollars to gold at a fixed value, thus completely abandoning the gold standard. So now Fiat currencies are simply IOU's for debt on a piece of paper or on a coin... because governments are printing fiat currencies like toilet paper. Crypto currencies removed the government and private Banks to eliminate their manipulation of our wealth, so now we can deal directly between each other, without a 3rd party controlling our wealth. (Some people use 3rd party services like centralized wallets and exchanges, so they give back control to governments..because these services are regulated)  |
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The problem with this strategy is this, if you choose a bunch of Alt coins and you do not buy on the dip... your money might be stuck in that Alt coin for months. People jump in and buy Alt coins on a ATH and then with some of these Alt coins, they have to sell at a loss, because the Alt coin price does not increase to a new ATH soon. It is usually the case when someone watch these "hype" videos on Youtube and TikTok and they are late for the party. Do your research and buy low (watch the trading graphs to determine what the high and lows was for that Alt coin) and then trade in and out to increase your Bitcoin holdings. Locked Money = Dead Money |
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Is there any way that the Freebitco.in developers can add a feature where you can leave messages for your "downline" in your affiliates? I want to motivate my affiliates with rewards and bonuses, if they are active and I cannot communicate with them. I even want to add a small Lotto for them, so if they are active.. they will be eligible for tickets for this Lotto? It might sound weird.. but I need to motivate affiliates .. and I cannot do it, if I do not have a way to communicate with them.  A percentage of my rewards will go towards their rewards.... so they will be incentivized to be active and that will increase my rewards. It would be a good idea to be able to send some messages, at least of few words, to the other users of the website and especially to our affiliates. But unfortunately I don't think there is a way to identify affiliates and to know their ID so for this you will have to discover their ID or login by your own first. Go to the "referral" option and you will see a list of the affiliates that are registered as your affiliates (You will not see the whole ID, but you can see the first part of their ID) - Freebitco.in is keeping a record of all the affiliates that are linked to each other, so it cannot be such a big deal for them to do this. They can still hide the full ID, but just give people extra privileges to communicate to people that are linked to their ID. It can also be restricted to 1 message a day, to prevent people from spamming other players. They can even limit the size of the message that can be send... AND also prevent scripts or Urls to be used. |
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Is there any way that the Freebitco.in developers can add a feature where you can leave messages for your "downline" in your affiliates? I want to motivate my affiliates with rewards and bonuses, if they are active and I cannot communicate with them. I even want to add a small Lotto for them, so if they are active.. they will be eligible for tickets for this Lotto? It might sound weird.. but I need to motivate affiliates .. and I cannot do it, if I do not have a way to communicate with them. A percentage of my rewards will go towards their rewards.... so they will be incentivized to be active and that will increase my rewards. |
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I remember wannacry in 2017, Bitcoin also reached ATH at the end of 2017. Hacking companies over a computer network is also a way to promote Bitcoin to people around the world.
Bitcoin is a global currency and it needs more attention.
In data attacks that require payment in Bitcoin, the problem is not with Bitcoin because it is only a payment unit. The problem lies in how to set up the data encryption protocol to blackmail, so that's the job of cybersecurity organizations. We should not blame Bitcoin.
See you are so focused on the "price" impact and how media attention will increase the price.. that you are missing the whole point. We do not want all the negative attention, because it will cause a ripple affect... where one country decides to ban Crypto currencies (using these hacks as an excuse) and then other countries jumping onto that bandwagon and doing the same. We already have Butthurt Yellen wanting to take revenge on "The Bitcoin Guy" ..... so these hacks will just give her ammunition to do just that.. (When the USA goes down, the others will follow)  |
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Ok, so we have seen several large companies being targeted by hackers and then ransomware being used to extort money from these companies. The latest being one of the largest meat suppliers in the world ==> https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57318965The hackers will then demand Crypto currency payments to "unlock" the Cyber attack for these people to continue with their business. Now, most of the previous Cyber attacks have received little or no media attention.. but things have changed and these hackers are now targeting large companies and these hacks are getting a lot of media attention. Cyber attacks linked to Crypto payments will ultimately lead to a "blanket ban" of all Crypto currencies, because this is giving the regulatory authorities the ammunition they want to ban Crypto currencies. I will not be surprised if these hacks are government sanctioned attacks (Russia) to enable governments to instantiate these bans. (Now they have a perfect excuse to do it) |
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You had your chance to buy at $1.
You had your chance to buy at $10.
You had your chance to buy at $100.
You had your chance to buy at $1,000.
You had your chance to buy at $10,000
You still have the chance to buy NOW.
If you've failed all these times you deserve staying poor. No offence, but I think you had all the chances in the world. We can't make you rich by force.
Why stop at $10 000? ~ You had your chance to buy at $20,000 ~ You had your chance to buy at $30,000 ~ You had your chance to buy at $40,000 ~ You had your chance to buy at $50,000 ~ You had your chance to buy at $60,000 I feel that this has to be posted on Billboards around the world, because it is the truth and I see this happening since 2014. A lot of people asked me in the past.. " When is the best time to buy Bitcoin?" and my answer is always the same... "Buy the Dip" !!!! In 2017... my friends said.... "Bitcoin is too expensive" ....and they did not buy at $18 000 ....... now they are complaining about $36 000 ...after they saw that it reached $60 000. On the one hand you want them to fail, because they are too stubborn to listen... but on the other hand you want them to share in the joy, when Bitcoin goes to the next ATH. |
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You are just focused on the negative externalities and you forget about the positive externalities, namely : 1. Gambling create jobs. (3rd party Slot and Game developers / Gambling hosts / Site admins & Mods... etc) 2. Gambling (licensed sites) pay taxes in a regulated capacity. (Less of a burned on individual tax payers) 3. Gambling sites give sponsorship and donations to charity. 4. Gambling sites make some people rich. (Yes, might be a small percentage, but it happens) 5. Gambling sites give some people entertainment and it helps them with stress. (A lot of people get stressed, when they get addicted) So, yes..... there are some positive things that come from gambling too... |
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You know what you can develop is something that Encrypt the Private Key when you have to "sweep" it from your Paper wallet to your desktop wallet. It will be nice if someone will not be able to keylog your Private key, when you are in the process to sweep it from cold storage to your Paper Wallet. So you can go offline when you "Copy" the Private Key, then this software encrypts it and then you go online again and it is in memory in a encrypted format and once you logged into your Online wallet and you Paste it.. it will decrypt it and insert it in the field to sweep the wallet. It is always stressful when you have to sweep a wallet and you do not know if it can be intercepted before you are able to sweep it. I guess it'd be safer to automatically/manually generate encrypted private keys which can be decrypted with keys you previously generated to use for safe decryption of all your future private keys that are encrypted. You get the encrypted private keys and decrypt them automatically/manually on very secure devices or on secure physical environments. This ^ is recommended on well decentralized system (on full node) so that no one ever knows your decryption keys I think you missed the suggestion that I made... What I would like to see ..is some kind of method that will enable you to transfer a "Private Key" in a encrypted state, from say a air-gapped computer or a Paper wallet to a online wallet. So you generate or scan the "Private Key" on another "offline" computer and then you encrypt that key ..before you transfer it to the online wallet. So when you paste that information in the "Private Key" field, you press a combination of keys and it will automatically decrypt it and you can simply press enter to sweep the wallet to the online wallet. (Example : Electrum) |
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I do not know why we should even congratulate them, because investment firms like this are harmful to Bitcoin. They come in guns loaded with Fiat and they buy huge amounts of bitcoins and every speculator out there goes crazy, because it bumps up the Bitcoin price.
Then a few months after that, they pull their investment in Crypto currencies and you never hear from them again. The people that must get all our attention ... must surely be the large retailers and eCommerce businesses that accepts Bitcoin as a payment method. (These are the companies that will have a long-term partnership with Crypto currencies and they are the people that should get our support)
Bitcoin is not an investment... it is a currency!
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Well, I hope it is not going to be Offline for too long, because I think they still have the $1 000 000 Pragmatic promotion on and I do not want to miss any opportunity to grab one of those prizes. ($500 000 Slots & $500 000 Sports betting) I have to say, I am enjoying the new Jammin Jars II release and I have won some nice multipliers since it was released. This one was added to my favorites on the first day it was released.  Stake should seriously reconsider the "Reloads" .... because the Alts are killing the site, when the "Reloads" are activated. The user count are usually around 4000 ...but during "Reloads" it shoots up to 9000+ |
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Code is a set of program instructions that do something. Hence, code is something that exists. Numbers are human concepts that express the quantity of existent things. So you can say that you own 10 (quantity) MS Office programs. But quantity in itself is just an abstraction, mathematical concept of the human mind.
What if I told you that there is something backing those BTC numbers? Just like there is a tangible item backing each MS office program (the license key), the item that backs the quantity of BTC is the transaction output. Whereas you can get more than one copy of a MS office program in the activated state by possessing more than one key, by possessing more than one "mass" of BTC you get a transaction output in a different size. Just as not all MS Office keys are created equally (those 10 keys might as well be for Personal, Business, Office 365 and Enterprise), neither are transaction outputs. MS Office license keys (just a string of alphanumeric "codes") the "numbers" back the virtual tangible MS office "source code", the "program". And similarly, the BTC "numbers" back the virtual tangible transaction outputs which are stored on the ledger. Get it? Hey, this could be a good guest post for Bitcoin Magazine, "Bitcoin exists; beyond the numbers on the balance". Ok, let me make this easier for you by asking you a question. If bitcoin is a thing that exists, then you don't need a new investor to voluntarily accept quantity next to your address in the exchange for his funds. Rather, you can benefit from the thing behind the quantity, which you claim exists. However, if Bitcoin doesn't exist then you are left only with quantity next to your address. Since quantity by itself is just a mathematical concept you are left with nothing. Now the question: can you benefit from the quantity next to your address without a new investor voluntarily accepting this quantity? You seem to get stuck on "quantity" for some reason and your definition of quantity and what other people's definition of quantity must be, is open for interpretation. You are saying that "other code" like MS Office is different than Bitcoin, but the Bitcoin protocol are a combination of ideas and inputs from several Open source developers from all over the world ==> https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/graphs/contributorsBitcoin exist and you can physically see the lines of code and the output that it generates and the energy that it use and the nodes it is runs on... so your whole theory falls flat...when you actually know what you are talking about. It is as real as the numbers that are entered into a Bank account and/or Reserve Bank.... only difference is... one is backed by debt and the other by Supply and demand for a virtual token. |
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It is strange that they are not mentioning what Crypto currency it is.... could be anything, XRP / ETH / Dash etc... I reckon if it was Bitcoin, they would have grabbed the opportunity to "name and shame" it. The only way for them to seize it, is if the hackers were caught and if they gave up the "Private Key" by themselves OR if the hackers moved the coins through a government controlled Mixer service and then to a KYC (Exchange) that can be used to identify them. Will be interested to know how they did this... and kuddos for them to be able to seize that. |
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drop a bitcoin wallet address.
i will send you 10 bucks in bitcoin. Money where my mouth is. note. it tends to move around since markets havnt yet come in to large scale agreement of what bitcoin is worth.
Once you have that 10 bucks. go buy a coffee with it and then tell me its not money.
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drop a bitcoin wallet address.
i will send you 10 bucks in bitcoin. Money where my mouth is. note. it tends to move around since markets havnt yet come in to large scale agreement of what bitcoin is worth.
Once you have that 10 bucks. go buy a coffee with it and then tell me its not money.
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If a coffee shop give me coffee because I told them via Bitcoin software that quantity is money that doesn't make my statement true. Money is not quantity, but a thing measured with quantity. I could just as well go to a coffee shop, order a coffee and pay it by writing number 1 on a peace of paper. This won't make number "1" money, but coffee owner stupid. Number is an abstraction, it holds no value and it is impossible to compare it to the value of the coffee to find out whether the "exchange" is beneficial or not. So exchanging coffee or anything for numbers is stupid. You exchange them for things, existing things - other goods, debt (fiat money), services or labor. And you use numbers only to express the quantity of these existent things. Your argument is so funny ... So it is more valid if a government prints a number on a piece of paper and tells you what the value of that piece of paper is, because they determine that by printing more or less of that toilet paper money? What happens if a software developer creates a software program or a application for your mobile phone? (Example : Apple Pay / debit/credit cards / Internet Banking / NFC payments / IMPS, NEFT, RTGS, IMPS) .....all of these use digital "numbers" reflected of a centralized database to transfer value.) You are such a Fiat sheep.... ....The world of payment systems and currencies are changing and people like you are clinging to the past. You are holding onto a "Titanic" that are sinking... and you are still singing and dancing and ignoring the tragedy that are happening with government controlled currencies. The government prints numbers on a peace of paper to measure debt. So I am not exchanging things for numbers but for debt ownership. I explained in the OP how this debt gets paid by the borrowers. In the past there was ownership of gold measured with numbers. Today it is the ownership of debt. Gold and debt exist. Debt is protected via collateral. That's why you need to whole banking system - the middleman, who will ensure the debt that you own gets paid. Bitcoin on the other hand doesn't exist and all you have is numbers. Numbers that express the ownership of nothing. That's why you don't need a middleman. You just transfer numbers and pretend they quantify imaginary thing that you call "bitcoin". So your idea for a "perfect" currency is a currency that are based on debt? ===> https://www.usdebtclock.org/world-debt-clock.htmlThe imaginary "debt" that are being controlled or rather uncontrolled by corrupt governments around the world? You might be one of the lucky people who live in a first world country where the demise of fiat currencies are slowed down and manipulated by a very clever government... but for many people living in third world countries... that reality is already showing it's ugly face. (Hyperinflation -- Venezuela, Hungary, Zimbabwe, and Yugoslavia) Satoshi Nakamoto created this technology to eliminate the corrupted "middleman" (Governments & Banks) and to stop the manipulation of the currency by replacing that with real "Supply and demand". Why should people only have one currency? Why should the use of that currency be enforced with guns and violence? Why should a few elites determine the value of that currency? ====> Bitcoin was created to give people an alternative option and a choice if they wanted to use the Fiat currency or if they wanted to take the control of their own wealth and to use it as an alternative. I have no ideas. I am just stating the fact that quantity on paper bills or banking accounts quantifies debt ownership. Debt is not imaginary. It is created with every granted loan, paid with every loan repayment, and protected with collateral. And yes, in some countries the debt is bad, but that has nothing to do with non-existence of Bitcoin. It has a lot to do with Bitcoin, because YOU are using it as a comparison. Answer me this... Can computer code have value? (Let me answer for you, because I know you are cherry picking certain things in people's responses and you are just answering those... Yes, it can have a value, because we are paying for digital software like MS Windows or Office / Applications in Play Store etc.. etc.) So if a well-known artists creates digital art work and he/she link that to a transferable Blockchain (Smart Contract) ...then people will pay for that art... because there are a demand for it. So, Satoshi created a "digital" token that are limited and transferable, so people can take ownership of that digital token and it is displayed on a public ledger that are shared. Soon Governments and Banks will have their own tokens & Blockchains ....and Fiat slaves like you, will once again be forced to use that. (Why is there not a global ban on Crypto currencies?.... because government and Banks want to develop their own) |
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