This isn't even a possibility.  The amount of debt held by some of the world's largest nations has grown so big that it would be absolutely impossible to even consider the idea of paying back that debt without a declining value of fiat.  In fact, their debt is so large that one can make a fairly decent living in life just betting against fiat currency (if you're lucky enough to be wealthy already).  The truth is, the people in charge of the world's financial system have fucked shit up so incredibly bad, taxes are certain to increase and the value of fiat is certain to decline.  There is no other way forward.  No fancy accounting or confiscating of people's wealth will even enable the system to continue moving forward as is.  Massive money printing and rising taxes is the only way.  Politicians have no other tools at their disposal, outside of selling off our national parks to China, which will probably happen at some point to pay debts as well.  

Put simply, we are all screwed, but the folks with leased cars who rent apartments or refinance their homes at today's valuations have almost no chance whatsoever of avoiding bankruptcy without some wild investments and dumb luck on their side.

Ya, it was great. Curry put on a shooting exhibition and the guys from Cleveland all had great games to the delight of the hometown fans. LeBron finishing off the game with the winning shot for his 5-0 all star game team captain record. It was Curry’s night though. One of the greatest all star game performances I’ve seen. Makes you think he should be shooting the ball from half court a lot more often. He deserved the MVP.

The great all star game made up for the terrible dunk contest. Until next year…

There just isn’t enough incentive for the players to do the dunk contest anymore and most of the big names have endorsement contracts that don’t let them participate in events like this due to the possible risk of injury. A shame… That’s why they wouldn’t let LeBron do it.

Team LeBron sporting a 5.5 point spread over Team Durant. I think they’ll probably win by more than that but they might keep it close for entertainment’s sake.

Thanks for posting pictures and for the kind words.  I also appreciate you ordering more of them.  The sale of any goods in the NastyShop raises donations for NastyFans that help everyone receive some Bitcoin for being members of the club, so thank you for your donations. 

While these are some of the most unique and costly coins I've made due to the .9999 silver used and colorization, they aren't tied to actual NastyFans seats (hence the "wallets" name) so they are less popular than their Minted Seats counterparts, but they're still in my opinion some of the best physical Bitcoin wallets you can find.    Enjoy!

A pretty safe bet that a large number of users on this forum would be extremely interested in the ability to purchase a GALAXY GeForce RTX 3090.  The questions for them would be how much would they have to pay in order to purchase one and what sort of deal terms would they be looking at.  I don't see the answers in your thread, so might I suggest including some additional information?  First obviously being, how much are you asking for the GPU?  Where is the GPU shipping from?  What shipping service will you be using?  Will you accept escrow?  What escrow providers are you willing to accept from?  Is the GPU new, or used? 

I think if you answer those questions you'll have a better chance of finding a trading partner.  Good luck.

I gotta say I'm team LeBron again this year.  Ever since they've been doing these drafts it has been pretty apparent that LeBron has a higher basketball IQ than Durant.  Every year LeBron's team seems to be totally stacked.  This year is no different.  While you never really can tell how an All-Star game is going to go, LeBron's team has a clear talent edge and I think that will be enough to give them the victory. 

As always, I'm most excited for the Slam Dunk competition.  I'll try to catch as many of the weekend events as I can though.  Rising Stars Game and 3 point competition definitely on the watch list as well.  The main event should be a good one though.  I'd bet the over if it was 280. 

Drake's bets might be small in comparison, but his reach isn't.  He's also a branding magician so I doubt he would be so careless as to think that him tweeting those images wouldn't be a benefit to Stake.  You'd think he would have asked for some sort of compensation before posting what appeared to be an advertisement for Stake.  Given the history of celebrities getting in trouble for stuff like that, it wouldn't be completely out of the question for me to assume that Stake actually put up all the money for the bet in exchange for his tweets.  I wonder if we'll see more mainstream appearances of Stake in the future, and what other celebrities could be next.

I'm shocked this thread isn't full of people talking about Drake's Super Bowl bet.  Not that he bet over a million dollars in Bitcoin and actually won more Bitcoin than he bet, but that he did it on Stake.com!  I really had my doubts as to whether it was real or not, especially after not seeing anything about it on these forums (maybe I didn't actually search, but I did glance) but it seems like I've seen these screenshots on enough different sites now that there must be truth to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjhACZJFeI0

I guess my curiosity now is if this was a paid advertisement by Stake, or is Drake just a guy who uses the service and decided to throw a free advertisement their way?  I also wonder if this caused a massive spike in bets.

This loss cost me my parlay for the day.    The Nuggets are a team that can definitely shock anyone on any given night.  Jokic shows why he is an MVP when he needs to.  The crazy thing is that a couple of the team's best players are out with injuries.  The Nuggets are still a young team and I think they're going to be very good for several more years.  I'm not sure if this season will lead them towards a title hope, but once they get everyone back to full strength next year (hopefully) I think they have a real shot at challenging some of the best teams in the league deep into the playoffs.

Judging from his long absence and seemingly not investing in anything, I would say you will have difficulty ever finding this person again.  Looking at their posts, it seems the interest was primarily in trying to get a bot to manipulate data to inflate the value of obscure investments.  Maybe this is what you're looking for, but it doesn't seem to be the most up and up operation going.  Personally, I would question if any money was ever available to invest in anything and without a signed address showing millions of dollars being available, I think the OP's absence from the forum says all you need to know.

It may very well work "really good" but that doesn't mean the information you've been given is not valid.  Maybe you don't care about the licensing aspect, which is your right, but promoting a fancy GUI here in the face of cg's developers is probably not the right move.  As others have stated, cg has plenty of features and the software you are promoting is likely taking advantage of them in a pretty package that while it may be easy to use, doesn't necessarily add anything (hard to say without code being available).  Instead of saying you don't think cg is the backbone of this software, maybe ask some questions so you can understand what it is you're doing wrong and why people take issue with it.

I'm a bit surprised that anyone cares what is posted in the off topic section.  I figured it was just there for people who have lost the ability to bring themselves to post anything currently being discussed in the community and want to keep their activity up.  I don't believe signature campaigns pay for posts in this section, so it seems like for a majority of the posters on this forum that section would be worthless. 

I wouldn't say to adjust your posting habits at all.  Just post on topic responses and if you have a problem with the moderation do what you did here and ask questions.  Who knows how many other people have your same opinion on the matter but don't speak up. 

As far as the circling vultures...   

I think it depends on when you invested and what metrics you're watching if you say that Bitcoin is not doing well.  10 years ago I would have told you that $4,000 would be Bitcoin's peak.  Sure, the price was only a couple dollars back then so the idea of a rise to being in the thousands was laughed at by many.  The narrative from a better Western Union to a better version of Gold has changed that opinion for myself, as I honestly didn't think we'd see the adoption we have.  Now with some pivoting to Bitcoin being "digital real estate" the sky is honestly the limit.

So I'm not sure what makes you think Bitcoin isn't doing well.  It literally surpassed all expectations I had for it in 2017 as far as an investment and did it much faster than I thought possible.  If you don't see what I see, zoom out.  What we've witnessed over the last 10 years has truly been one of the most amazing investments I've witnessed and may possible end up being the greatest investment of my lifetime.

This is a tricky question because "best" is left up for interpretation.  Will Bitcoin have the highest returns on a % basis going forward?  No.  It will most certainly not.  If performance is the only thing you consider in your equation, then Bitcoin is not the "best" investment at the moment and I think anyone would have trouble putting forth a reasonable argument how Bitcoin would outperform it's much smaller peers.  Facts are that it takes a smaller amount of money to send a micro-cap investment skyward than it does a larger asset. 

If you consider things like risk and security, then you can make the argument that Bitcoin is the best investment, but sheer returns, I do not think Bitcoin will be within 10x the greatest performing cryptocurrency this year, or any year for that matter.  There will always be new entrants coming from nothing that solve problems.  This will only become more and more evident as Bitcoin becomes more popular and thus less user-friendly. 

Mike respected Ali, sure.  I have seen the interview you mentioned many times.  It is clear that Mike was respectful of those who came before him, but it's also clear to any boxing fan over the age of 40 that Mike Tyson would have destroyed Ali in the ring.  Just like he'd destroy Pacquiao, Mayweather, Canelo, or any of the other little guys.  I think he would have cleaned Holyfield's clock if they fought sooner as well.  I believe Mike Tyson was the greatest fighter ever in his prime and I've never seen any boxer since to even put that opinion up for debate.

The real question is...  So many people seem to think this Paul/Tyson fight will happen.  Is there a place we can bet on it never happening, ever?

Does Bitcoin Suisse have an account or any presence here?  I'm a bit surprised this issue seems to have been going on quietly for so long.  So many customers here seem to be effected that I would assume they had some account here promoting or selling them.  Should we not try to get a public response from them here?

I'm always amazed that customers don't require a public list of all addresses used for physical Bitcoin goods.  I understand that nothing is concrete until all private keys have been claimed and addresses emptied, but as a community we really should require public lists of addresses so that it is possible to monitor any "fishy business" that might occur regarding funding of said addresses.  It's been over a decade now, it's time the community starts having higher standards.

Most reliable is a title that Bitcoin has likely earned.  Considering it's market cap is so much larger than everything else, it stands to reason that it would be the most stable and reliable.  This is also why so much institutional money has flooded into Bitcoin.  Sure, Ethereum has more mechanics in place and as many have stated is likely to outperform Bitcoin from here, but it's also much more risky.  Additionally, coins like MATIC and SAND have vastly outperformed Bitcoin over the last year, so you can't say Bitcoin is the "best" investment out there using real returns, and it certainly doesn't provide the best earning opportunities (MATIC/SAND staking in the Sandbox currently pays 60% interest).  Reliable though, Bitcoin has that locked for now.

I'm a huge fan of the multi bet.  Especially if you closely follow a sport.  I feel like I can hit a 5 game parlay with much better than the odds presented based on how much information I consume regarding NBA basketball.  I frequently make tiny bets, and while most of them are in fact losers, I win with a much higher % than the odds I am given.  1 large parlay can make up for weeks of losses with a very small bet.  Everything to me is risk reward.  I don't want to take a risk to double my money, I want to take a risk to 50x my money.  If it's an educated risk, all the better. 

I'd have to dig through a long list to find out what my first Bitcoin collectible was to be totally honest, but if memory were to serve me correctly I believe it was either the first Casascius coin with the hologram error, or the 1g .999 silver round by MJB Monetary Metals (Mick).  This is different from the first collectible I bought with Bitcoin, which I believe was a 1oz American Eagle that I bought from Trader Steve.  This actually got me interested in the silver for Bitcoin trade and I launched my own online store that sold various silver coins.  That later led to me creating my own silver Bitcoin collectible as I dove head first into this hobby.  So thanks to Mick, Mike, & Steve for sending me down the rabbit hole in various ways. 

It is absolutely insane watching all the celebrities at the Super Bowl shaking hands and talking with people all maskless, and then seeing their social media posts where they urge everyone to wear masks.  It seems the divide between "us" and "them" has already made it's way into this pandemic.  Little children having to wear masks and become comfortable with that being a part of their daily lives, while those in ivory towers pose for pictures and say things like they were holding their breath so it doesn't count as being maskless.  All while we all know that masks are wildly ineffective at controlling this virus.  I don't even know what to say anymore.  Those cabins in the woods are looking better and better every day.