You can't even attempt to say that if you have the opportunity to make $40,000 USD you'd just go ahead and donate $39,000 to people because you're such a wonderful person. That's just something us humans would never do, and with such a high amount of money it means that I would really never go ahead and do such a thing.

I love donating money to good causes as much as the next guy, but not that high of an amount bud, that's just you attempting to crave for attention.

I wouldn't really think to find any banks that are going to be friendly relating to bitcoin but it's probably rather easy to find banks that don't really care as to what you do with your business account as some people will use these accounts in order to exchange cash to bitcoin and so on. My bank, TD Bank has really never given me an issue when I spoke to them about a problem I had with Gdax / Coinbase which was relating to a deposit to their website.

The person on the phone didn't seem to care much about what I was buying so I guess thats all that was, I guess it was less about them being friendly towards bitcoin and more about them just wanting to get off the phone with me.

The centralized Bank of Canada has went forward and made the bold claim that "Digital Currencies Will Not Be Safe Without Government Intervention" and they feel that without government intervention / support none of these cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin will be able to thrive and be used. The claim does make sense in the fact that governments will be the only people that can fully allow a currency to be adopted without an issue.

What are your thoughts on Bitcoin needing government intervention / centralization to survive?

Article - https://news.bitcoin.com/digital-currencies-need-government-intervention-bank-canada/

Easiest and cheapest are going to be two different things, I know you only mentioned easiest so I'll just go forward and say the easiest would have to be using an online marketplace such as Paxful and Localbitcoins, though they do incur pretty hefty fees but it matters on what way you want your money back. (Example - cheaper to have money go straight to cash to your bank account)

Cheapest would have to be using a service such as Coinbase, Kraken, BTC-E and so on which allows you to sell and buy bitcoin but you usually must adhere to KYC laws which will take some time to verify all of your ID, Passport and so on.


Those may be easy, but those Bitcoin ATM's take a disgusting amount of money from you. Just steer clear from them unless you're really that desperate to sell quickly. Plus I highly doubt your area has one close to where you live, I know I don't.

Yeah you're going to have to be a bit more specific on that way you're going to be purchasing, it seems to me that you want to buy the bitcoin with cash as you say "with cash in hand" but I don't fully know.

That's also a hefty sum of bitcoin but if you're going to be buying with a payment method that doesn't allow any sort of chargeback you should be fine with Localbitcoins or Paxful, which are both great marketplaces to use. You could also look on the currency exchange part of this forum.

I think within the first 4 weeks of his presidency he easily did better than former President Obama just be fulfilling a majority of his campaign promises, this is something that most politicians will never do and will keep just attempting to change their promises in order to keep getting voted in.

Trump is someone who has already achieved many promises and is keeping his people happy by doing rallies and such, something that is viewed as un-presidential but loved by the American people. But as one president once said "Anything I do is presidential, I'm the president"


Sad that some people think that award really means anything. You can't even say that someone deserved the PEACE PRIZE when they're authorizing the usage of drones of civilians in the middle east. Sorry, but that was easily an award picked on race.

This whole raid and investigation was more along the lines of investigating Le Pen due "fake" jobs. This is relating to a job given to her bodyguard and assistant paid by the EU funds which is obviously not allowed in the least. It is alleged / claimed that Le Pen marked them as parliamentary assistants.

She says she's not going to submit and fall for persecution and she feels that all of this is based off of her political views and people are attempting to discredit her in the French political system. I guess they dont want to see the Trump of France rise.

If you're looking to buy and sell on the daily but doing this as a currency exchange I would recommend going on a site like Paxful or LocalBitcoins (LBC gets more volume, less clean interfaces and slower support though) If you want to be a day trader or something along those lines go with GDAX, Kraken, Bitfinex, Bitstamp and so on.

I personally use GDAX at the moment which is owned by Coinbase in order to do my daily trading with bitcoin, some people don't like Coinbase and have some horror stories relating to them so think that through before you go ahead and use them.

Good luck!

I personally feel as if the ways the Filipino President is going to be fighting all of these injustices in socities are going to be frowned upon, but the thing is it's probably going to work. Some people may say that he can't kill his way into having a society where people follow all the laws, or most of them at least. Think of it like this, would you go ahead and sell drugs or gamble if you know you'd be tortured or shot instantly when you did this?


Is he trying to fight online gambling too? That seems like an insane task unless the people have servers in the Philippines.

I don't really see how this fits the Politics and Society section in the least just based on the fact that you're a Muslim in this community. Maybe you feel as if being Muslim is something that is above all due to what the recent media has been saying relating to how Donald Trumps comments are this and that--

We'll I'll get off my tangent and just go ahead and say congratulations for joining the community, it's a pretty niche one but it's a nice one to be in. Comments in this thread are fucked though, gosh guys.

Site does look a bit nicer now, before it kind of looked like a site from the 90's and it was a turn off for me to be using the service. I guess I'm one of those people that cares a good amount for design.

At the moment I'm using BitGo, they're not big on design but the better security that comes with them really does help me use them.


This seems to be working? https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions I'm not getting a 404 error or anything along those lines.

I would have to disagree with you, the media is attempting to follow this new culture that is present in the US where everyone that doesn't agree with a Liberal is a racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, and so on and so forth. They're banking on the current divide in America due to the recent election and so on before it.

They just haven't noticed that the silent majority doesn't care what they do, they voted for Donald Trump in order to have people know that the MSM (Main Stream Media) are a bunch of lying cowards who are just following orders from above to promote the Liberal agenda
 
Not true in the least buddy, I'll go on CNN one day and out of the 10 "top stories" or whatever they call them, at least 8 of them are attempting to exaggerate a story, pull some words out of context, deceive people, and so on in order to make Trump look like the bad guy.

Going ahead and doing all this just so you won't be exposed to fake news narratives and so on is really just a waste of time. You have to know as a person what to weed out and what you know is true with real evidence backing it, this is why I am always one to ask for sources and such when people post in this sub section of the forum.

I go through a good amount of news sources which include CNN, Fox, NY Post, Reddit (Couple sub reddits that are both Liberal and Conservative in nature, one even outright supports Donald Trump) You have to be able to know what is real and what is fake, it's tough but it really teaches you what point of view and bias can do to a certain topic / article.


Don't do this, just watch all the sources and decide yourself what is exaggerated, outright fake, true and so on. Everyone has a bias so just going on a certain couple of sites will just confirm your own views and you never want that. You want to see what other people feel and see about a topic.

Recent article on CNN went forward and was asking why do you think Trumps base / his supporters still support him even after all the controversies that he's went through within his campaign and his presidency.

I'm going to start off and say that Trumps supporters love him based on the simple fact that he gets shit down and he's fulfilling the promises that he made to them, this is something that they believed in and they wanted. They wanted change and that's what he's giving them. Trump is the grenade that the middle class is throwing into Washington and they're going to see change, immense change.

Here's the article by the way - http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/19/opinions/why-trump-supporters-love-him-not-the-media-stanley/index.html

What in gods fucking name is wrong with you? Holy shit I've never seen someone so ignorant to the point of calling for such a horrible terroist attack to occur on U.S soil, it's something that is uncalled for and horrible in nature to think about. Have you ever listened to the phone called of the people in the building who are screaming, the hundreds of people that knew they were going to face death by burning that just jumped off the world trade center.

Back on subject, you're going to need a source for all this information OP "Your local newspaper" or whatever you stated isn't close to enough.

I don't really know why Kim Jong Un felt as if his half-brother would be attempting a coup of some sort, does anyone know if his brother held any power back home after the whole Tokyo Disney disaster that threw his half-brother from heir to be, to exiled from the country.

Some people in this thread are saying that Kim Jong Un is ruthless and still holds power unlike other dictators, I feel as if he really doesn't hold any power at all and someone is just pulling his strings in order to move a political agenda. I have zero clue who it is, nor any evidence to relate in the least but I feel as if countries took him as seriously as they should relating to his potential to have Weapons of Mass Destruction (This again, hey BUSH!) they really should invade the country and take this away + remove his regime.

Sad point to think about is that even in the most built up places in North Korea where most of the elite reside is also a place where DVD's and other technologies that most developed nations have mostly stopped using altogether. Some people are still keen on using them but most DVD shops and stuff along those lines have been taken over by online digital services such as Netflix, Hulu, Youtube, and so on.

Would really hope that the North Korean regime is overthrown in order to allow the development of North Korea to really occur.

This is something that is so far from the truth it's possible disgusting in nature when you go ahead and think about it. Look at it like this, the world really isn't a wonderful place and people need something to look forward to / to believe in.

People need to feel their is reason behind everything that occurs in their day to day lives which are usually rather shitty, for most people. A good amount of both uneducated people and educated people believe in religion.

Don't really see how this fully relates to "Politics and Society" but I guess you're trying to match the part about governments controlling the FIAT currencies in the world. Anything that you read online relating to cryptos that are going to take over the world are full of shit, it's never going to happen.

The only time I can see it happening is if it's government sanctioned by a world power such as the U.S, UK, etc. Government has a high interest in controlling the currency flow in the world, a big threat would be decentralization which they won't let occur.

Yeah I get the error every so often but you kind of just have to spam your way through it by trying like 3 times or just wait 30 mins to try again. Weird error but no solution as it seems.

Could be an issue with bitcointalk API I suppose? (Don't even know if an API is used, hehe)