There aren't any warmongering nationalist gangg. There are very few nationalists in Ukraine that were visible during the Maidan protests, but they had very little support,and their party got less than 1% of the votes (There are MANY more nationalists and neonazis in Russia though). The first "warmongering gangs" appeared when Russia started putting out a whole bunch of scaremongering propaganda, claiming that Kiev is taken over by fascists who want to ban Russian language and kill all Russians (which was of course not true in any way), so the gangs were actually separatists, not Ukrainians, who were nothing more than hooligans with guns, going around taking over government buildings, and shooting anyone who they thought was a right sector supporter. Ukraine sent in troops to put a stop to their mayhem and bring peace back, as a police force,nothing more. No one in Ukraine wanted a war, not with eastern ukraine and not with russian, ESPECIALLY while the government is weak and the country is still unstable. The idea that there are warmongering Ukrainian gangs, or especially that they are being provoked and supported by government, sounds ridiculous in light of that situation.

That said,there probably are some nationalists in those areas who would be unhappy if after all this "Russia was never there, and was not responsible" fighting and killing that has been going on, if Russia were tomroll in their factories and start pumping gas from the lands they supposedly didn't invade and didn't conquer.

How can Poroshenko guarantee a ceasefire if the troops fighting the separatists are all volunteers, and are not there? Why does he answer for them any more than Putin answers for the Russian volunteers?
And before you say, "But it's the Ukrainian army!" do remember that a lot of Ukrainians are fighting against the Russian invasion as guerillas, too.

Because US is imperialist scum that wants to impose its democracy and capitalism on other nations. OK, your turn guys. Why did Russian troops refuse to go home?

You say that as if that's a good reason to kill hundreds of people, including your own.


Maybe they are having a crisis and we haven't heard about it yet. Or maybe they will start when the food starts running out.

And sure, I'm biased. I have a good reason to be, which is almost 100 years of family and personal experience living under Rissian propaganda machine. You'd thing that it changed after the fall of USSR, but considering the lies Russia got caught in just since April, it would seem no.

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Start with 100 fiats. You own 100 fiats, and fiats are 100% of the world's economy

Mine 10 fiats worth of bitcoins. Trade your 10 fiats worth of bitcoins to someone else. Now there is 110 fiats worth of wealth in the world. Actual fiats take up only 90.9% of the world's economy. Bitcoins took over 9.1% of fiats in the world's economy.


I don't think fiats will exist for 100 more years. It will only take dollars and/or euros to collapse for fiats to end and the world to switch to bitcoin. Euro fiat is only about 25 years old, and dollar fiat is only about 45 years old. They are both very new, and historically fiats have an average lifespan of about 27 years.

USD backed tokens, issued and backed by a bank, running on Mastercoin on to of bitcoin. Bank can always issue or take in tokens to control supply, and promises to back 1:1 with full reserves.


Brock IS the VC, and has been the funder in all those business, including failed one. He has more money than he knows what to do with, so doesn't need anyone else's help to live large.

But you yourself said that the Russians fighting in Ukraine are volunteers. So are there Russian volunteers fighting in Russia, and should Russia condemn their citizens for fighting another country's army, or not?


They are not punishing Crimeans, they are punishing Russia, whom Crimeans decided to side with. If Crimeans don't want to be sanctioned, they can easily democratically distance themselves from Russia and declare themselves as an independent state.

More and more of the world is catching on to Russian lies.

Very glad to hear about those low poll numbers! Especially if they came from Russia! Since it would mean that in reality a huge majority of Ukrainians are supporting their new government, and support defending the country against the Russian invasion.

Curious what those separatists will do when they get to Mariupol, a city that doesn't want them. Will they leave them alone, or "liberate" them by force?

By the way, I spoke to my Ukrainian contact in Kiev recently. Kiev is quiet, there are no protests, and haven't been any for a while now, people are OK with their new government and are mostly worried about Russia coming in further into the country, and there are A LOT of refugees from Eastern Ukraine there. School just started, and classes that typically have 20 to 25 kids per class are now crammed with 47 to 50 kids per class. For a major city with a population of 2.78 million, to have just their number of kids double suggests that there may be as many as a million reffugies in that city alone. Considering Russian media report of 800,000 refugees going into Russia, and that Russia always lies by stating the opposite of the truth, I guess there are now 800,000 refugees in Kiev.

I generally oppose military involvement, but I kinda wish Ukraine could resolve this situation by announcing that all Ukrainian military who wants to stop breaking international laws should pull back into Kiev, then sail a Ukrainian USS Nimitz class aircraft carrier into the Black Sea, and launch a whole bunch of Ukrainian Patriot Missiles and Ukrainian F18 SuperHornets to shred ALL military equipment that is still there, obviously only owned by the evil Ukrainians who refuse to stop bombing civilians, into scrap metal. Along with anyone who is in or near them. Because obviously there won't be any Russians there.

Kind of like how when rebels declare a safety corridor, they end up killing hundreds of people passing through it, including Russian POWs?


These are obviously not even same locations. Note the burning Russian military stuff is in front of a row of trees with houses, while the burning Ukrainian truck is in front of a forest without houses. There is more than just one field in that country, you know.

v1.3.3 was released to Google Play store, github, and our site.

The list of changes from last regular release include:

* Generic scan button in the main view - Use this to quickly scan QR codes to send bitcoins. In the future, this may be used to quickly log into websites with BitID.
* Improvements to barcode scanning with flashlight toggle and autofocus setting
* Email notifications for LocalTrader - Google Push Notifications system is still kind of unreliable, and we can't fix it because it's Google servers that are having issues, so this is a fix until we figure out something better.
* Fixes and connectivity fallback for dns issues - A few days ago we had an issue where our domain name, which is pointing to our servers, was temporarily turned off by our provider while they verified that we are who we say we are. Should this happen again, wallets will switch to contacting our servers with their IP numbers directly (this is also likely temporary, until we move everything to Tor)
* Various crash fixes

We think that this will be the last feature update for the non-HD version. Stay tuned for an upcoming Mycelium HD release.

Actually there are a few benefits that HD gives besides just privacy. There are a few features we haven't been able to add until we got this HD thing implemented. But we're getting there!

Just proves that Russia has been doing business with dictators that subjugate and murder their own people. But that's not news.

Same with my family. There's a very good reason why Ukrainians welcomed the Germans with flowers and gifts as liberators when they invaded Ukraine. Russia, and Stalin, probably killed many more Ukrainians than Germany.


Imperialism is taking over control of countries. And while yes, it has done that with some countries, that is not the ultimate goal. Hell, Japan is part of USA "empire" if that was true. And don't worry, USA is paying for its actual imperialism, the same way Soviet Russia paid for theirs, with the economy no longer able to sustain the military needed to keep the empire alive.


These are too recent to judge, and Iraq was an actual example of imperialism. Many Americans protested that, understood that it was just our crazy president being controlled by Cheney to get Cheney's oil company access to oil there, and most Americans now admit it was a huge mistake. Syria was not invaded, and America only got involved when chemical weapons were used.
For good examples of the past, look at South Korea and Vietnam (although both were likely started with lies). Do you think South Korea is doing better than the communist North Korea? What about Vietnam? Both countries are international economic powerhouses. What about Chile? It has a fairly free government, with major businesses, including a private company that's the biggest producer of paper in the world. Compare that to Argentina, or Equador.

I think you don't understand what whataboutism is.

This:  "Russia invaded Ukraine." | "Well, America invaded Iraq, so Russia is not to blame"  is whataboutism.

This: "Russia invaded and subjugated Poland." |  " Well, Russia saved Poland when Poland was invaded by Germany."  is just the same country doing some good FTER it did bad.

Notice the difference? Whataboutism is excusing your bad actions because someone else did bad things too (like, if you were to murder someone, and then say that it's OK, because someone else murdered someone too). What happened to Poland is excusing your bad actions because you did something good later.

Actually, no, it appeared in my imagination because that's what Russian Soviet propaganda kept telling me is the glorious goal of the motherland when I lived there.



Uh, the British colonists, who fought for their blind idealism, and established USA which became a global superpower? I guess Russia brainwashed you into thinking that fighting for political from is a stupid thing, and you should just follow whatever big brother tells you.



They're not blaming everyone. Just Russia. For invading them.

If you think Russia wants a multipolar world, you must have been asleep for the last 200 years, or know absolutely nothing of Russia's history. You at least remember the Soviet Union, right? There is a major misconception between what USA wants and what Russia says USA wants. When USA is "expanding," it is trying to open up more countries to international trade, so that countries will have their economic levels brought up and supported by other major world economies. And sure, sometimes that means deposing dictators that stifle economic and personal freedoms, and steal their country's resources. When Russia talks about USA wanting to expand, they claim that it's USA wanting to expand dictatorial military power, because that's what Russia is, and has been trying to do since it was taken over by Mongolians many centuries ago.
Why do you think that a culture that was literally creating a unipolar world throughout most of the 1900's, that now has many of the same people in power that were in power when it was USSR, suddenly wants a multipolar world?



What happened is Ukrainians deposed a wanabe dictator with close ties to Russia. They chose freedom over strong rule, which Russia is yet to do. And if the new government is as bad as Russians claim it is, they will do it again and again. Ukraine is no longer safe for socialist dictators that rob the country of its resources with Russia's blessing. That's what happened.

This is a good example of Russian insanity. When "The West" talks about integrating countries into its community, they are talking about opening up trade restrictions and expanding economic relations, mainly between private companies. When the Russia hears about integration, they immediately think "imperialistic expansion and installing puppet governments." Because that's what the Russia's policy itself is, or was, most of the time. (Sure, USA is guilty of that too at times, but USA is not the entirety of "the west")

Putin is as close as you can get to a dictator without actually being called a dictator, and 80% of Russians support him? Even George W Bush never got anywhere near that amount of support, despite being an imperialist asshole.

But that's what you keep promoting, when you keep saying you wish EU and USA will collapse economically, and Russia will win this war and its war on Ukraine. What, you think if EU and USA collapses, and Russia wins, it will stop with just Ukraine?

So, again, I ask, why do you want a Global Soviet Empire so much?