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561  Economy / Speculation / [WO] Monday 🌙 on: November 23, 2020, 12:00:00 AM
It’s Monday.

Shut the fuck up, nullius!


😈  ← clicky-clicky
562  Other / Politics & Society / Re: [BET] Trump or not Trump 2020: Unappealing arguments on: November 22, 2020, 11:30:22 PM
The lower court rulings are not going to matter. You should expect at least one PA case to make it to the SCOTUS.

Trump is challenging the election results in court. Expect there to be multiple lawsuits and SC rulings.

The lower court rulings are a pretty good indicator of whether or not there's a valid legal argument being made.

Why do appeals exist?  /logic
563  Economy / Speculation / Re: [WO] None of the bank’s business on: November 22, 2020, 11:22:13 PM
It should not need to be said that I am not giving advice here.  However...

The primary reason why I avoid “KYC” is that I will not answer these questions.  On principle.  [...]

as to my private wallets, what happens there, stays there.
It should not need to be said that I am not giving advice here.  However...

The primary reason why I avoid “KYC” is that I will not answer these questions.  On principle.

Surely interesting points, and I hope that you are not overdoing matters.  I probably have communicated with you about this matter previously, but in my thinkening there can be some advantages (and even practicality, me thinks) in having a foot in both worlds, and I would hope that you would have something like that going on, as well...
In my country, there is an exchange which I use, which gives me a call about once a year. They ask the same questions, I always give them the same answers, which are generic or vague. If they need something specific, I also have an answer for that as well.

The truth is they will never really know, but at least I keep them satisfied so they don't fry my accounts.

I think the trick is not that you are invisible or anonymous, but something along hiding in plain sight, and below the radar.

I have no idea about your particular situations, and I do not want to know.  The following applies only to me.  YMMV.

A part of the problem is that if I were to do as you say, then I may need to lie (whether explicitly or by omission).  As it stands, where I am located, to the best of my knowledge, I am not doing anything whatsoever illegal.  Whereas I may trap myself, if I tried to answer any questions that I refuse to answer.  Moreover, TPTB probably know that some Bitcoiners don’t spill the beans.  I am not on any lists for potential audits or targeted surveillance as to this (albeit almost certainly on many other little lists—enough for me!).

I think of it like cash.  I am not doing anything otherwise illegal; and there is no law against my possessing a significant quantity of legally obtained cash (although it may be uncomfortable if I were found with it—so much for the honesty of laws...).  I would not place myself in a position ever to be asked questions about whether or not I keep cash, what I do with it, etc.  None of your business.

In my situation, the golden silence that I achieve by avoiding “KYC” exchanges altogether can never be held against me—not in theory, and not in practice.
Quote from: Sir Walter Scott, “Marmion” (PSA: ***NOT*** Shakespeare)
O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
Furthermore, I don’t give the “KYC” exchanges any profit; I am effectually boycotting the rat-bastards.

Thus, I lead a different kind of double life with “a foot in both worlds” as naïve nocoiner, and a secret Bitcoin fanatic.

During the December 2017 pump, some idiot who knows me as a moderately adequate tech enthusiast e-mailed me to ask my opinion of Bitcoin.  I replied dismissively:  It’s all bullshit, it will crash, don’t bother with it.  I figured that anyone stupid enough to e-mail my IRL identity about Bitcoin from a @gmail.com address does not deserve Bitcoin, anyway.  Protip:  If you want an honest answer, ask me in private!

If I had at least an order of magnitude more money than I actually have, then I may not be able to pull this off whilst satisfying my desire to hoard as many magic coins as I can.  (“Focus on the IF.”)  So, if you are richer than I am not too poor, then you may need a different strategy.



Historic Currency

On a related note:  In the modern world, never show too much intelligence.  Smart plus principled equals dangerous.

High-IQ weaklings who are subservient to the system, or who compromise with it, are useful.  Smart men who refuse to compromise are ipso facto undesirable threats.  Smart plus principled equals “evil”, worse than “criminal”.

* nullius keeps his brain hidden under the mattress, with his bitcoins and some private photos of trysts with Phryne.
564  Economy / Speculation / [WO] The risk of co-option on: November 22, 2020, 03:07:41 PM
in the same way traditional publishers of print news or books got eaten by software, banks will not disappear all of a sudden. 500 years is some huge momentum. it will take decades, but their fate is sealed already.

That statement may have been colourable (if arguable) decades ago.  Similarly as for similar statements about the recording industry, the film industry, etc.

Now:

  • Amazon has both a monopoly and a monopsony on e-books.
  • A lawsuit by BigCorp book publishers may destroy archive.org.  (This may take awhile.)
  • DRM has corrupted the W3C standardization process.  It is now impossible to build an independent, standards-compliant web browser without paying ridiculous licence fees for the privilege of abusing your users—if the DRM gatekeepers will even allow you such a privilege.

    Summarizing our options

    Ultimately there are two potential options: Widevine or PlayReady.

    With Widevine we’ll be stuck waiting for an indefinite amount of time without certainty of whether they’ll agree to provide their solution.

    With PlayReady we can expect to have to pay $10,000 upfront.
  • Universities still pay obscene amounts of money for access to scholarly journals.  The profit goes into the pockets of BigCorps, not to scholars and researchers.  When last I checked, Alexandra Elbakyan (—who has nothing to do with America—) was in hiding, with tens of millions of dollars in American court judgments against her, and a ridiculous U.S. “Justice” Department investigation against her.  Usage of Sci-Hub and Library Genesis is relatively marginal, whilst billions of dollars in value are extracted by parasitic middlemen.

    Consider Elsevier, the largest scholarly publisher, whose 37% profit margin1 stands in sharp contrast to the rising fees, expanding student loan debt and poverty-level wages for adjunct faculty. Elsevier owns some of the largest databases of academic material, which are licensed at prices so scandalously high that even Harvard, the richest university of the global north, has complained that it cannot afford them any longer. Robert Darnton, the past director of Harvard Library, says "We faculty do the research, write the papers, referee papers by other researchers, serve on editorial boards, all of it for free … and then we buy back the results of our labour at outrageous prices."2  [...]
  • Nowadays, hoi polloi watch movies on Netflix instead of torrenting.
  • iTunes not only saved the “music” industry with a new business model:  It was the precursor for the “app store” business model by which device makers control what software you can run on “your” device.  This is an existential threat to the free availability of general-purpose computing.
  • —This list could be much extended.  I think that I have made my point.—

Do you suppose that the bankers be stupider than the publishing industry, et al.?

next time you are talking to a banker enjoy it as if you were able to watch some dinosaurs in rl. bitcoin is their asteroid.

Not if these “dinosaurs” exploit mass greed to seize control of Bitcoin.

As Bitcoin’s price “moons”, which the bankers themselves can easily cause at will, how many people do you know who will say NO to ridiculous regulations and “KYC”-enforcing, transaction-censoring mining pools?

For a quick index on the answer to that question:  How many people do you know who say NO to “KYC”?


Nobody will say it.

Be vigilant.

If I could have Bitcoin keep its freedom and be worth exactly what I bought it for—no more, no less, forever—then I would be much happier than I will be to see my modest stash “moon” as I lose my tiny little sliver of financial freedom.
565  Economy / Speculation / [WO] Millennial Generation Gap & Forensic Memetic Testing on: November 22, 2020, 03:07:03 PM




As a long-term investment, I think she turned out quite fine:



Plagiarism disclaimer: I didn't take this picture myself - no shit.
You shall be baned!  Prepare for your Red Trust!
(not sure if this is a generation gap thing, but I do sincerely hope I'm not the only one who recognized this "hottie", otherwise I'd feel horribly old)

Fuck you for doxing my age.  Though I am older, and she has aged better:



SKAM!
Code:
~Areopagus


🙃☮

I love this Fuchs:




Although in reality I would have hidden a sheep under the stairs.

I have mutton and lamb chops in a deep freezer under the stairs.  Good?  🐺

Although in reality I would have hidden a sheep under the stairs.

In that case, if something goes South, you will need to prove that you are not a sheep.
Best to be on the sincere side, and ... hide!

*. Just remembered about a guy that spent many years in jail, for pretending to be someone else (a serial killer), and evidently was sentenced as if he was the one.
That was before DNA testing - which actually set him free, decades later.

Genetic testing is not required.  Memetic testing proves that I am not a sheep!

...fantasies about “educating” the ineducable.  Sheep can no more be taught to think than dogs can be taught to sing opera.  Indeed, for the intended readers of this essay (others are hereby irrelevant), sheep can no more be taught to be you than you can be taught to be a mindless sheep...
566  Economy / Speculation / [WO] None of the bank’s business on: November 22, 2020, 12:46:10 PM
kyc'd to the hilt on coinbase  and such. i started with them in 2013 and while i knew about the whole pseudonymous thing but now with modern chain analysis man they can do some serious guesswork. i like that most of my coins are mainly from pool payouts, and all properly claimed on my taxes.

im sure i raised flags at the bank. i mean ive gone out of my way trigger flags, might as well flaunt it. and did get a call, specifically asking about coinbase, from my banks due diligence office. she mainly wanted to know what i used it for (investment none of your business) and do i send anything out of the country (no none of your business). thats was about it. coinbase and that particular bank account had been linked for like 8 years.

FTFY.

It should not need to be said that I am not giving advice here.  However...

The primary reason why I avoid “KYC” is that I will not answer these questions.  On principle.  Not to save money—privacy has been absurdly expensive for me!  I have lost a lot of money in Bitcoin and especially, in privacy coins.  Bitcoin’s rise in value may offset that.

And I could not answer some of these questions.  For fully legitimate purposes, I have made transactions with cypherpunks whose locations are as unknown to me as my location is unknown to them:  Essentially cash transactions with people who could be in the same city as I am, or on the other side of the world.  Do I send anything out of the country?  I honestly don’t know, and it is none of my business.

And if you ever send me money, then you will never again be able to answer such questions, either.  My homeland is terra nullius—that is all you need to know.
567  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [XMR] Monero - all addresses are “stealth” addresses on: November 22, 2020, 11:56:24 AM
How do I create stealth address with monero wallet?, what kind of wallet support create stealth address?, anyone here have example of stealth address transaction on monero blockchain?

What do you mean?  In Monero, all addresses are “stealth” addresses.

example of stealth address transaction on monero blockchain

Pick any transaction, and tell me the addresses associated with its inputs and outputs:
https://xmrchain.net/
568  Economy / Reputation / Re: Ban-evasion by user “Rainbowsky” (and aliases), WHOSE WEAPON IS LOVE! on: November 22, 2020, 03:53:04 AM

Hey asshole - You are shitting on one person who's now grieving for a loved one, can ya just fuck off with your butthurt for a weekend?

You uncaring, unloving bastards!  Don’t you understand?  He is trying to kill us all with the power of love!

My main goal is to bring people in the community together and educate each others so that we can grow positively.

LOVE IS POWER.


FTFY, “Rainbowsky”.


P.S., you lovely Care Bear:  If you had any money, then based on confirmed science and mathematics, I would beary strongly advise you to SHORT BITCOIN AT HIGH LEVERAGE!  (“Focus on the IF.”)  (← Wall Observer jokes that I am too lazy to explain right now.)  I offer this absolutely sound financial advice because I care.  :-) 🙃☮
569  Economy / Speculation / [WO] Social media on: November 21, 2020, 08:31:01 AM
Tongue

 Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy

Fuck you, too, Jay.  Tongue  #nohomo   Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy

you are just imitating me.. so there was absolutely no originality in your response.   Tongue Tongue


 Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy

Don’t you know when I am doing my Jay impression?   Tongue Tongue Tongue

Being one who pays attention to details, I even emulate the spacing between your punctuation and your smileys.  Wink


Wow perhaps we should do a wo gf ass challenge? A woer posts a pic of his gf/wife (bf for Bawb) ass with BTC price written on it and also write a username of a woer he challenges...  Grin

Bunch of degenerates in this place.

Folks have got to get their social media jollies somehow!   Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy


stfu nullius

less is more. small is beautiful. concision breeds precision

So, when do folks beg me to go back to writing words?   😺 😺 😺 😺 😺

🐺  😹
570  Economy / Speculation / [WO] The cost of a photograph on: November 21, 2020, 03:43:40 AM
I didn’t ask about the writing, just did it.. She held still??

Asked if I could post an anonymous pic of her ass online.. Said yes..

Says the pic isn’t very good, wants to make a better one..

Maybe $19,000 we makes a better one??

Maybe every time the price increases by $1,000 you can try making a better one.

At the rate that Bitcoin is “mooning” (and that she’s mooning the camera), are you trying to bankrupt poor eddie with the cost of film?  Shocked
571  Economy / Speculation / Re: [WO] Bitcoin вapвapизaция кpecтьянaми on: November 21, 2020, 03:41:08 AM
The gist of my intended Part 2/2 has been preëmpted by someone else much more succinctly, in a post that I will leave untranslated so that I can avoid being suddenly ignore-listed by both Jay and CT—and pretty much everybody else on WO, except (ironically) marcus.

So far, I have not put any forum member on my ignore list.. in other words, my ignore list is empty..

Same here!  I tried the ignore-list function when I was a n00b, and I disliked it.
On the other hand, my mental ignore function automagically files the majority of the forum in “taken under advisement”. 🗑️

Don’t take it the wrong way, Jay.  I was simply making a rhetorical point about how roundly hated I may be if, amidst celebrations of “to the moon!”, I were to express my serious concern that in the wrong social and political conditions, a sharp rise in the price of Bitcoin could be leverage for banks and governments to co-opt Bitcoin as their own tool.  —I don’t like seeing so much institutional money flowing in, especially at just the moment when regulations are increasing, a new blacklisting mining pool rolls out, ...oh, bloody hell!  No, I can’t stop it—but that is not the point!

My own (very much admitted) wish to have more purchase power for my coins shall not corrupt my reasons for being in Bitcoin!

“Embrace, extend...”  How does that go?

If that happens, then you may expect to see me change my tune.  I have no use for a “KYC” coin with miner blacklisting and government regulations, controlled by the same system that had made the whole world into a virtual slave estate.  Quoting myself out of context, I will always oppose this:
hyping how Govecoin With Anti Four Horsemen KYC/AML Cavity Search Technology is going to the MOON.

I see Bitcoin as the only realistic hope for most individuals to have any measure of financial freedom whatsoever.  If Bitcoin goes bad—if Bitcoin fails as a technology for freedom—then why would I treat it differently than banks and the stock market?  Some people get rich with the existing financial system, too.  Whereas the old financial system could exert less total control than the same system, upgraded with Blockchains (an uncomfortable word in this context)...

Wake up, Bitcoiners!  If big money flows into Bitcoin, greed may be the leverage that banks and governments can use to seize control of Bitcoin altogether.  —For who will oppose it, if Bitcoin (with “KYC/AML” mass-surveillance, doxing, regulations, confiscatory Marxist taxes, etc. gradually added) goes “to the moon”?  —Nobody, that is who!

If Bitcoin cannot survive without being tied to Mommy American-CFTC’s apron strings totally co-opted, then you should sell right now because it’s worthless.


Am I running out of words yet?

Well, that would be a harbinger of impending mass catastrophe.  A sign to short the forum at high leverage?  Is that scientific?

even though I have heard quite a bit about such "ignore" function, from other members of this here forum, I have not found my way to such button.   Tongue   Tongue

For some reason (or rather: unreason), “people” like to brag about it.  As if anyone in his right mind would give a flying fuck about getting attention (or not) from some conceited retard who wants to feel powerful.

The almighty ignore button!  What a threat!  LOL.

I have been amused, as you can tell.

Out of context cherry-pick, which just seems appropriate:
In other words, hahahahaha...  [...]   Tongue   Tongue


P.S., why the hell does this forum sometimes unpredictably transform Cyrillic letters into visually similar Latin letters?  At least, it does in my browser.  That can cause serious breakage.  Buggy, it is.
572  Economy / Speculation / Re: [WO] You fixate on the foreground. I observe the background. on: November 21, 2020, 03:09:33 AM
It’s her house/room..
She has a serious thing for elephants.. Specifically African elephants.. Towels, stuffies, blankets, paintings..
“Beat their ass if they wanna talk shit about my elephants”, says she..

You may have political compatibility.  (FTFY.)

Does she gamble, too?

She had no idea what bitcoins were before me.. I sent her $10 in BTC to her cash app the other day just for fun, and it’s like $11.50 now..

For opsec and privacy reasons, I will not ask about guns.  ;-)

She was one of those like, concerned that they were so much, so I had to explain to her that you can own very small pieces of them called “Satoshis”...
I didn’t ask about the writing, just did it.. She held still??

Asked if I could post an anonymous pic of her ass online.. Said yes..

She sounds sweet.  Just be careful, getting her into the habit of posting risqué photos on Bitcoin forums.  You never know where that may lead.

Says the pic isn’t very good, wants to make a better one..

Ahem—I was saying...

What a “better one” means (trust me—I have an artistic eye!):
573  Economy / Speculation / [WO] Toxic Masculinity on: November 21, 2020, 02:43:34 AM
Did I mention curves?

legit gentlemening observed



I really need to know the process that was used when you asked this person if you could write that on their arse

I think that we are allowed to use the noun “woman” and the pronoun “her” without objections from eddie (or from her).  LOL.  But I like the golden spiral.
for science

Your remark invokes that jest that I blacked out of my previous post as too ungentlemanly. ;-)


P.S., did nobody notice the fucking elephants!?  Are you all blind and—unobservant!?
574  Economy / Speculation / [WO] You fixate on the foreground. I observe the background. on: November 21, 2020, 02:28:18 AM
   

There was this member called Eddie
Claimed he'd taken up with a new reddie.
He regaled us with tales
With many likely details.
But we all knew Eddie's reddy was his teddy.



Did I mention curves?

Looking up at the headboard, I see that somebodies are fond of elephants—perhaps from loathing for asses?  —I mean, in contradistinction to arses.

* nullius is the Wall’s Observer.



I have no idea what kind of a relationship you have, and it is none of my business, and she looks like a fine lass to stir new eddies into the currents of the world.

Thus despite the risqué photo, I will not risk giving unintentional offence with my usual speculation about affinities for bitcoins.  ;-)
575  Economy / Speculation / Re: [WO] In which nullius has gay intercourse with Jay on the Wall (#nohomo) on: November 20, 2020, 08:46:34 PM

It is officially Monday; V8s called it months ago.  What can I say, the man is insightful.

right we need a day of the week when we are rude to nullius for his lengthy expostulations. the scrolling past is getting tiring

jjg has stfu jjg thursdays, sunday is sacred to the haiku

monday then? today in fact?

stfu nullius

less is more. small is beautiful. concision breeds precision

(you know I love you but)

For the information of the Wall, my previous post linked to prior discussion:


I would like to say, fuck you nullius just to get it off my chest early (especially, since it has been building up for a while)...

So there you go.  I've said it.  Tongue

 Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy

Fuck you, too, Jay.  Tongue  #nohomo   Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy

Quote from: nullius (Secret Arcana of the Unpublished Nullian Drafts)
An I be wont to wax sesquipedalian, I’ll retreat to the phrontistery for to desiderate lost epochs of literacy.
576  Economy / Speculation / [WO] On the value of inflationary debt-based script as illusory “money” on: November 20, 2020, 08:33:05 PM

Imagine being fiat, and the most valuable thing you do on the planet is get traded for more valuable, deflationary assets magically move wealth from the slaves to their masters, with an invisible tax that the said slaves are too stupid to notice.

FTFY.  Your mistake is that inflationary debt-based script is very valuable—to somebody, as a tool.

Meanwhile, sheep are made mutton.


I said “conjoined twins” for a reason.  Study history, economics, and political philosophy.
It is no accident that they arrived almost simultaneously—both with roots
c. 1909 from earlier seeds, both signed by Wilson in 1913.
They are parts of an integral system.
577  Economy / Speculation / [WO] nullian tweets about /r/ethcucks on: November 20, 2020, 08:23:21 PM

dude, theres like, a whole subreddit devoted too that with alot of fans

chill, loose the judgmental stuff, Your harshing my buzz 🙃☮
578  Economy / Speculation / Re: [WO] Bitcoin вapвapизaция кpecтьянaми on: November 20, 2020, 07:58:12 PM
[WO] Bitcoin вapвapизaция кpecтьянaми

Exhibit EOVERFLOW:

Bitcoin Forum > Other > “Serious discussion” (LOL!) > Too strong KYC
Topic totally derailed by nullius to:  Re: Any KYC is “Too strong KYC”

It's simple.

If you move around Huge Money you want every partner (exchange) to hold your ID details so you won't have problems proving that transactions did occur on your part.

It’s simple.

If you move around Huge Money (or any money!), you want to use private keys in your own wallet—“Not your keys, not your coins!”—so you won’t have problems proving that transactions did occurr with your digital signatures on the blockchain.

Most websites that use KYC feature have a third-party KYC processor who holds the data secure. Still, use your own research on each KYC demanding project as these policies differ a lot.

I advise that you read through a thread with much more serious discussion of the “KYC” issue than this “Serious Discussion” idiot-thread, and heed the advice thereby from people who understand this subject as you assuredly do not.

When someone is doing KYC, they are forced to hand out parts of their personal identity to a third party (such as an exchange, ICO, etc). After that point, they aren’t in control of the process anymore and are totally exposed on the third party to handle their sensitive data safely. If something should be hacked, the affected people can't do anything.
I suggest not to try KYC with websites that do not have a third party KYC Service, having a third party service will make your mind at ease but of course, a reputable service just like Binance is using "Refinitiv" is decent one.
Why is a company using a third party service safer? I'd argue the exact opposite. Companies often tender this out to the lowest bidder, who invariably have very poor security. It also means your KYC documents are being shared around with more people and with third party companies, so there are more opportunities for a malicious employee to access them or a hacker to steal them. Your Binance example is a poor one considering they were hacked for thousands of users' documents and information just a few months ago.


I’ve never submitted to any “KYC” identity-rape doxing for anything whatsoever even remotely related to Bitcoin.  On principle, I never will.

Edit, P.S.:

you = 🐑

Any mad hatters want to cap that muttonhead with a cluestick!?

[🚀🤩🤩🤩🌙🤩🤩🤩🚀]
—then I would be much happier than I will be to see my modest stash “moon” as I lose my tiny little sliver of financial freedom.


P.S., that is in the so-called “Serious Discussion” forum.  Roll Eyes

Also there is literally a board named "Serious Discussion". That's where serious discussion can go without being subject to the uncertainty of a special excempt self-mod thread.
Arguing against my expectation that I can safely post serious discussion outside of the forum named Serious Discussion—are you serious!?  Roll Eyes
I think nullius' posts are a category of their own and maybe Serious Discussion > Ivory Tower > Nullius' Dungeon might be a solution to avoid having his posts deleted from the WO in the future. Cool
579  Other / Serious discussion / Re: Any KYC is “Too strong KYC” on: November 20, 2020, 07:43:09 PM
It's simple.

If you move around Huge Money you want every partner (exchange) to hold your ID details so you won't have problems proving that transactions did occur on your part.

It’s simple.

If you move around Huge Money (or any money!), you want to use private keys in your own wallet—“Not your keys, not your coins!”—so you won’t have problems proving that transactions did occurr with your digital signatures on the blockchain.

Most websites that use KYC feature have a third-party KYC processor who holds the data secure. Still, use your own research on each KYC demanding project as these policies differ a lot.

I advise that you read through a thread with much more serious discussion of the “KYC” issue than this “Serious Discussion” idiot-thread, and heed the advice thereby from people who understand this subject as you assuredly do not.

When someone is doing KYC, they are forced to hand out parts of their personal identity to a third party (such as an exchange, ICO, etc). After that point, they aren’t in control of the process anymore and are totally exposed on the third party to handle their sensitive data safely. If something should be hacked, the affected people can't do anything.
I suggest not to try KYC with websites that do not have a third party KYC Service, having a third party service will make your mind at ease but of course, a reputable service just like Binance is using "Refinitiv" is decent one.
Why is a company using a third party service safer? I'd argue the exact opposite. Companies often tender this out to the lowest bidder, who invariably have very poor security. It also means your KYC documents are being shared around with more people and with third party companies, so there are more opportunities for a malicious employee to access them or a hacker to steal them. Your Binance example is a poor one considering they were hacked for thousands of users' documents and information just a few months ago.


I’ve never submitted to any “KYC” identity-rape doxing for anything whatsoever even remotely related to Bitcoin.  On principle, I never will.

Edit, P.S.:

you = 🐑
580  Economy / Speculation / [WO] Bitcoin вapвapизaция кpecтьянaми on: November 20, 2020, 07:11:33 PM
Nullian coredump, Part 1/2.  h/t johhnyUA for a link to an article dated 12 November 2020.

Red alert:  Imminent plans for a mining pool with transaction blacklisting, based on blockchain analysis and, of course, the Diktat of the American world-police OFAC.

The gist of my intended Part 2/2 has been preëmpted by someone else much more succinctly, in a post that I will leave untranslated so that I can avoid being suddenly ignore-listed by both Jay and CT—and pretty much everybody else on WO, except (ironically) marcus.

Merits to the man who had the moral courage to say this publicly, amidst 🚀🤩🤩🤩🌙🤩🤩🤩🚀:
Пpoблeмкa тoлькo oднa. Tyзeмyн идeт yжe ceйчac, кaк нa фoндe тaк и в кpиптe. Кopoнaвиpycный фoн мoжeт тoлькo пoвлиять нa eгo aмплитyдy и пpoдoлжитeльнocть, a тaк тo этo yжe cвepшившийcя фaкт. Пpитoм, личнo я пoкa пpoтив вxoждeния шиpoкиx мac кpecтьян кpивoзyбыx. Ecли вoйдeт cpaзy opдa кyгyтoв (нy я, кpиптaн элитapий тaк иx вocпpинимaю), тo кyгyты бyдyт дaлeкo нe пpoтив peгyляций, aнaльнoгo oгopaживaния, нaлoгoв пoд 50 % пoд видoм зaщиты oт злoбныx xaкepoв и пpoчий тoтaльный кoнтpoль.

Этo кaк c Pимoм - кoгдa кpитичecкaя мacca вapвapoв нaчaлa жить в Pимcкoй Импepии, тo Импepия и пpeвpaтилacь в бaнтycтaн. Ecть дaжe тepмин "вapвapизaция". И в cлyчae кpипты этo бyдeт имeннo чтo вapвapизaция. Taкoe мнe нe нaдo. Лyчшe бит пo 3к  Smiley

Honest and admirable.  Freedom and privacy—principles over greed—and an historical perspective, too.

I have been avoiding this, but I do need to say it publicly sometime.  For the record.

I fear that Bitcoin may be a victim of its own success.  I try to avoid saying this too explicitly in public, so as to avoid FUDding Bitcoin and discouraging the HODLers; but it has been implied in some of my Wall Observer posts in various contexts pertaining to regulation generally (privacy and otherwise).

If we “moon” and get big institutional money onboard, then greed will prevent people from resisting regulatory strangulation of Bitcoin’s freedom—[...]

If I could have Bitcoin keep its freedom and be worth exactly what I bought it for—no more, no less, forever—then I would be much happier than I will be to see my modest stash “moon” as I lose my tiny little sliver of financial freedom.


I think nullius' posts are a category of their own and maybe Serious Discussion > Ivory Tower > Nullius' Dungeon might be a solution to avoid having his posts deleted from the WO in the future. Cool
Thanks.  Quotable. ;-)
Quote from: nullius (DRAFT)
...und so wird er damit entweder ein großer Mensch oder ein verrückter und absonderlicher, sofern er überhaupt nicht beizeiten zugrunde geht.
My ego is invincible; therefore, I am at ease with some ironical self-deprecation. ;-)
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