ZEC is OK

sorry guys

so far the drinking game has been kind of a bust

tell us Torque, what do they talk about there?

wisdom has been abandoned for months, site is on autopilot

thread here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=190722.2940;topicseen

right?

these dinosaur nation states are so far behind the technology it really is laughable, just keep it in crypto and wait them out, this empire is near it's sell by date

yes, I think folks should put valerie_zurich on ignore lest these transparent advertisements proliferate.

I have.

So, against my better judgement, I feel that I have to weigh in on this.  

You see, I too am from the future, and it may or may not surprise you to learn that we still have plenty of politics here.  While most of what junjunsalsalani says is true, as far as it goes, they have cherry picked and distorted facts to serve an agenda.  Allow me to attempt to paint a more balanced picture.

While it is certainly true that the transition to a deflationary economic model has been rocky (and yes the Africa Tragedy was outright fucking criminal) and fraught with collateral damage, junjunsalsalani conveniently ignores that the inflationary system was totally unsustainable and headed for its own reckoning.  Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on your view, we don't have access to a control timeline where the central bankers played out their game to the bitter end, but let me tell you; by 2020 it was not looking good.

The Citadels are a problem, to be sure, but their economic and military reach is not as pervasive as junjunsalsalani would have you believe.  Without access to the printing presses, the lords simply lack the resources to impose their will over most of humanity.  Oh sure, a fiery demagogue rises up every so often, scrapes up some gunships and burns a few villages, and it sucks, but they run out of steam after a time, and their reach is never more than regional.

A much bigger problem is the radiation.  Junjunsalsalani will tell you they plan their terrorism to avert "nuclear holocaust".  Piffle, we are already living in it.  You see, when things started to really come apart quite a few spent fuel pools boiled over due to corporate or government negligence.  Weapons are the least of our worries.  They sit inert in their bunkers with decaying tritium triggers, most of them wouldn't even go off any more.  But the dry pools just burn and burn.  If there is one thing you could do to help us it is not destroy Bitcoin for fucks sake, but deal with your dirty diapers.

On the flip side, the natural world has proven to be remarkably resilient.  The inflationary system of fractional reserve fiat and derivatives allowed resource extraction to radically outpace any sane balance.  When I look around here in the past, I can hardly believe what is going on.  You manufacture garbage.  I don't mean actual waste.  Your "goods" are absolute fucking shit.  I see this stuff stacked up in your "WAL-Marts" 99% of it is totally useless.  Valuable resources have been invested in creating this junk, packaging it, and shipping it, literally, to the far side of the globe where it's useful life is hours before it hits the landfill.  It is obscene.

Purchases in our system actually cost you.  There is no "putting it on the card".  There is no new wealth coming into the economy so if a new belonging is not going to help feed you, you don't buy it, period.  We invest in quality tools, productive land, water purification projects and you know what? It's all right.  We mark the seasons, we harvest our crops, we celebrate births and deaths.  It is hard work, but we get to keep what we produce and the arrangements we enter into are largely voluntary.

Don't let Junjunsalsalani's citadel underclass zealots fool you.  There is no going back.  You can't create some daddy State that will roll back the clock and take care of everything for you...time marches on.

new WOT drinking game

take a shot every time we cross $10K!!

It's not just Kraken, though I certainly have no love for them.  Yesterday demonstrated that all the exchanges are still splashing around in the shallow end of the pool.  That at this late date not even Coinbase is able to dynamically scale hardware and bandwidth to meet demand is really pretty disturbing.

They have ONE job.

yeah, one of the servers melted down, they are waiting for a new matched pair of Tualatin cores from Ebay to arrive

good to see some consolidation at these levels

it was starting to feel a little frothy

I just have to laugh at the ZH headlines, "bloodbath"  lol, fucking place is getting as bad as buzzfeed

jesus...call the fucking whaaaambulance

the forum is moving fast, I just thought it was funny we pulled the exact same headline out of it

and yeah wekkel, his puffery about the function of government being to create the currency...for fucks sake

totally morally bankrupt

dude

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg25443008#msg25443008

yes...and damn you, lol

that's...kind of one sided

Yeah, I needed some European parts, thermostats, the only supplier I could find was in Germany and wouldn't take a credit card.

The bank literally laughed in my face when I wanted to wire, like, $240 USD.  It was fucking retarded.

This was a few years ago, before all the scammy ass weirdness on here, I got a member from Germany to buy and ship them to me and paid him in BTC, easy peasy.

good news guys!

I have confirmed sources that we are going back up stronger than ever

"confirmed sources"...

smh

hey exchanges!

blow a fan on it!