I get the feeling that people without an Iphone are more hung up on its role as a status symbol than those who own one.
I think it's more down to the bizarro smugness of their owners than their desirability. There are plenty of other phones that cost just as much. Have you ever met someone (and I don't mean online) who owns an iPhone? All I ever hear is people calling iPhone owners smug, but in my opinion it's the Android owners that are smug!  Yes. They were pleased with their choices and I applaud it. I didn't applaud spending ten minutes listening to them trying to convert me. I'm a neither person at the moment. Which means you're supporting Darth Vader and The Evil Empire. People who bitch about apple now are either children or amnesiacs. It was reeeeaaally crappy when we were forced to deal with Microsoft products. |
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Would you seriously recommend anything else for your sister, cousin, parents, grandparents?
You bet. Anything cheap that works. There's a big old choice. .... Except it doesn't work. I can make it work, you can make it work. But the people who asks us... they need an Iphone. |
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The exact words that came to mind when i saw the TV ad for applepay were "ooohhhh fuck this'll kill bitcoin for sure" ... sorry folks but people in the billions will flock to that type of service as will all of the merchants ... it's just easier to use a phone based prepaid account using the phone you already have and the currency you already have than to bother fucking with all the ridiculous by comparison hassles of buying/storing/spending bitcoin ...
I'm sorry if it's complicated for you. Just to add another layer of complication: not everyone owns an Iphone. And its competitor PayPal is offering the option of filling up with Bitcoin. The overwhelming majority of the world can't afford Apple or thinks those who advocate their products are nincompoops. It's a bit of fraying tinsel on a system that is not engaging with the world at large. Except if they eventually let you fill up with Bitcoin. Then it is the greatest thing ever. If that transpires I will still regard Apple fans as silly sausages, but I'll be pleased anyway. Would you seriously recommend anything else for your sister, cousin, parents, grandparents? |
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The overwhelming majority of the world can't afford Apple or thinks those who advocate their products are nincompoops. It's a bit of fraying tinsel on a system that is not engaging with the world at large.
+1  Well, that is their main competitors search engine. I get the feeling that people without an Iphone are more hung up on its role as a status symbol than those who own one. |
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The exact words that came to mind when i saw the TV ad for applepay were "ooohhhh fuck this'll kill bitcoin for sure" ... sorry folks but people in the billions will flock to that type of service as will all of the merchants ... it's just easier to use a phone based prepaid account using the phone you already have and the currency you already have than to bother fucking with all the ridiculous by comparison hassles of buying/storing/spending bitcoin ...
I'm sorry if it's complicated for you. Just to add another layer of complication: not everyone owns an Iphone. And its competitor PayPal is offering the option of filling up with Bitcoin. The overwhelming majority of the world can't afford Apple or thinks those who advocate their products are nincompoops. It's a bit of fraying tinsel on a system that is not engaging with the world at large. Except if they eventually let you fill up with Bitcoin. Then it is the greatest thing ever. |
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The exact words that came to mind when i saw the TV ad for applepay were "ooohhhh fuck this'll kill bitcoin for sure" ... sorry folks but people in the billions will flock to that type of service as will all of the merchants ... it's just easier to use a phone based prepaid account using the phone you already have and the currency you already have than to bother fucking with all the ridiculous by comparison hassles of buying/storing/spending bitcoin ...
I'm sorry if it's complicated for you. Just to add another layer of complication: not everyone owns an Iphone. And its competitor PayPal is offering the option of filling up with Bitcoin. |
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Well, if it does go to zero, I'm buying everything.
Me too, so I guess it won't. |
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Tonight I have met a Danish guy who explained me in Denmark everybody uses MobilePay which is basically like Bitcoin but easier to use. We are doomed.
.... It is an app from one (1) danish bank that is connected to your credit card. I think we're safe. |
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just done something really stupid  Got an email from support@localbitcoin.com saying my account had been flagged for fraudulent activity. checked my account and nothing, opened up electru grabbed an address and then send my funds to the wallet. incoming transaction. check the support desk no ticket. check back at email and obviously the link contains a hidden phishing address, phew close call but all is safe. Go to electrum to send my funds back over to LBTC, need them to have online adverts active, upon entering the password all i get is invalid. Turns out i sent them to a wallet that was generated on the 6th of December on my run around laptop and i don't appear to know the password at the moment  tried several combinations but nope..... must have been feeling smart that day and NO i did not right down the seed as i was actually generating the wallet whilst giving my friend a step by step run down on how to setup electrum, why i didn't follow my own instructions of remembering password and keeping a copy of the seed safe i will probably never live down  who's the local brute force expert? is this the wrong subsection or something but not even noobs want to help  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=958012.msg10483136#msg10483136I see you are working hard to solve the problem. My brother is like that. He buys the same gear as I have so he won't have to read the manual. |
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I think lambie hacked hdbucks account |
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I'm new to the forum... Why do so many people get on here hating Bitcoin? If they have nothing invested it seems like a waste of time unless their plan was to sell, bash and then buy in at a lower price.
Usually it's people who thinks the bitcoin hypetrain is over and are mad that they didn't get a chance to capitalize on it. Those are the funny ones. They are so hung up about the past that they can't see what's ahead of them if they just shut up and board the train. |
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I'm new to the forum... Why do so many people get on here hating Bitcoin? If they have nothing invested it seems like a waste of time unless their plan was to sell, bash and then buy in at a lower price.
Some are sosiopaths, but most are shorting bears who think they can move the price by shitting on everyone. |
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4 Chartbuddys on one page.
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only 2 pages? wow, bulls are bleeding bad.
will 210 hold?
Tarmi you two-faced so and so! I thought you had seen the light? |
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silverfuture: you spread fucking FUD, you motherfucking one world order-bitcoiner
you are an disgrace to bitcoin, generally crypto currency and crypto finance as a whole
"Monero Evangelist" LOL Don't type while you're drinking |
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The real victim of bitcoin is selling now.
Imagine telling your grandchildren that you bailed out @234. They will pull the plug. |
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It's interesting that the BTER hackers grabbed the BTC but left the altcoins alone. Hmmn..
Nobody wants shitcoins, not even those who want them. They are just a way to get bitcoins from people who are looking to go back in time to be an early adopter for the next coin (which won't materialize). Anyone who understand economics a bit sees that any rival to Bitcoin has a seriously steep hill to climb. I saw a podcast with Vitalik Buterin where he talked about different technical solutions to adjusting the flow of new coins, but he is blinded by the technology. Any rival to Bitcoin will have to go through the same rollercoaster, except there might be more mature exchanges around by then. Edit: LTCM thought they had figured it out (with maths, not really tech), that was an epic disaster. A similar kind of "exploit" in one of these more advanced hypotethical altcoins could render it useless. KISS is the safest approach to avoid getting f@$#d. |
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make money or starve to death
That's pretty much the way things work. You can try to force the ones that make money to pay for the needs of those that don't, but in practice it doesn't turn out well............. Presenting opinion as fact hasn't had much success either. I don't know by what measure you think those kinds of arrangements have failed, but there are plenty of redistribution systems that have worked very well at lifting swathes of people out of unfortunate situations. If you look at every country with a higher GDP per capita than the US you will find that they all have far more generous redistribution programs. AND THEY ARE ALL BANKRUPT. Norway? Denmark? Sweden? Switzerland? Luxembourg? What are you talking about? By what measure? |
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Are we in single digits yet? Yes, hundreds of them |
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Lawl, dudes, dont forget about 80k btc auction coming this quarter, i bet btc is gonna hit 130$ within a month.
Which means you're going to go short. You make sure to tell us how that's working for you a month from now. |
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