He's planting the Asperger's seed now for insurance purposes. It gets you off the hook for any amount of errant behaviour. When every foundation of his ludicrous crap is finally chipped away he can offload it all on that.

And then he'll claim to be trans to add some extra heart wrenching detail. And an alien.

The posts after that are consistent with his past habits and his mood which is... not great so there's little reason to think it's a sold account. And if someone did want to sell it they wouldn't gut the account by removing all the posts.

He originally wanted to delete his account. You can't do that. I assume he created a junk email address without noting the password and then planned to abandon it so he can't get back in again.

Wirex charge 1% and have a spread they don't tell you about. I worked it out and the overall cost averages at about 1.7% of what you spend. The cost for using it in any currency other than the one it's issued in is in line with any other prepaid card - fooking horrible.

The Coinbase card charges 2.5%. Dunno what the cost of the Bitpay card is but that's US only.

I wouldn't touch Wirex for banking, that's where all the problems seem to be, but the card bit works fine, certainly far better than any Wavecrest cards which quite often got rejected.

News like this increases my confidence in them but I'll still only load, spend it all and run.

Aren't some of them some sort of automated death pool thing? It's been a while since I solicited a murder.

Ah yes - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_market

If it was straightforward darknet Craigslist ad then of course the 'killer' will be a 9yr old in Siberia.

Must've been. I shrugged and moved on but others very kindly spoke up for me and I was offered a spot in the renewed version while I wasn't looking.

Because it was such a piddling amount of money I didn't take the automated version seriously and would create all the posts in a short period of time. There must've been some right dross.

It's kind of bizarre how revered the Chipmixer campaign has become. I doubt I'd get in now. You basically need to be Miss World to get on the short list.



I never got as low as Yobit. But who knows where desperation would've taken me? Not that far. I think I would've bought one less sandwich a week and wound up with more money.

I got fired from the Coinsbank campaign or whatever it was called for posting a large photo of Blythe Masters with swearwords in it.

There wasn't much else out there so I joined Bitmixer as any old vegetable could indeed join with no oversight at all. It was pretty much the lowest paying campaign at the time. 0.035 was about $8-10 per week. Then I got fired from that for shitposting. 

Well, I did join a long, long, long time ago when it was just another campaign and many others paid better. These days it seems easier to become an astronaut than get on there.

I don't remember undergoing any strange initiations or anything. I put my name down. Darkstar said yes shortly afterwards. I haven't really heard from him since. I'm going to chase this gang up and find out what other benefits are available like uniforms and lowriders.

Wirex have been going for years. The only difference this will make is that it should make their service much more secure. So many of them have had the card provider balls up. It is a generally positive sign that a heavyweight is directly dealing with a crypto company.

As for Paypal, we're going to have to wait and see what type of service it actually is. It's quite possible they'll only be offering an entry in your Paypal account linked to the Bitcoin price. You won't be able to deposit or withdraw the real deal.

I wonder what these developments would make a 2010/11/12/13 Bitcoin fan think.

I'm in a gang too? Coolio. I look forward to meeting them and finding out who they are.

As for trust I have never and will never have one single thing to do with it beyond reviewing the handful I know well. I find it an incomprehensible and pointless piece of shit.

That's not avoiding, that's evasion. That's what sends them coming down on you hard.

OP's question largely depends on what country they're in and what their policies are.

In the UK you'd have to move away and convince them that you'd permanently moved to remove any tax liability. We have a few local tax havens like the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands where there's no capital gains if you didn't fancy going far.

There's no such as sending your BTC to another country and staying put while it's cashed out and then comes back magically free of tax. If that were possible the entire world would be doing it.

Their money, their choice.

They're at the end of their lives. If it were me I'd be blowing it all as fast as possible. Which means I wouldn't be very interested in Bitcoin either unless I believed a bubble was just around the corner so I could blow more.

If I were an oldie, or more ancient than I am, buying BTC for my mewling vegetable descendants would appeal to me.

Slightly rude name.

This gang occasionally bubbles up and it makes me realise there are things that dominate the feverish minds of others on here that don't dawn on me in the slightest.

The main thing it says to me is - too much free time.

https://www.coindesk.com/mastercard-now-allows-crypto-firm-wirex-to-issue-payment-cards

Wirex can now directly issue cards as they're a principal Mastercard member.

Dunno whether this will improve everyone's lives immeasurably but I guess it removes the chances of a third party issuer flaking out on them.  

It's going to be interesting to see how their market develops. No way will any of them last on any fully legitimised platform. They'll all be driven out as a condition of being regulated.

There of course always will be a market for such a thing but I expect an awful lot of people would be turned off from entering it. They'll be hives of scum and villainy with people trying to offload toxic non private coins on sellers.

https://www.coindesk.com/paypal-picks-paxos-to-supply-crypto-for-new-service-sources-say

According to that Paxos have been chosen to handle Paypal's crypto side.

I'm still expecting it to be like Revolut and only offer you price exposure and Paxos seem well qualified to supply that. If it goes beyond that I'll be rather surprised.

I'd do Paypal. I'm sure most people here would rather get rid of their fiat than their BTC.

You'd also find that subscriptions would fall away in no time at all if you were crypto only.

Many, many services make a big chunk of their money from users being too lazy to cancel their subscriptions. With crypto you'll be asking customers to weigh up whether they need the service every single time they send the payment.

If the service has wide appeal you're also crippling your potential market by not accommodating the conventional route.

I think the main things are that Japan is incredibly cash heavy and they've been stagnant since forever. Neither of those will inspire people to have a dabble. If it was going to explode we would've seen a few tremors by now.

Maybe there have been but it's telling how rarely the Japanese market is mentioned by others.

Demographics aren't really much of an issue when very few are on board at present. If education and enthusiasm increases from 2% to 20% it doesn't matter if millions are dying out.

Why are the only threads on here regarding ATMs only ever about their geographical spread? We rarely read about anyone here actually using them.

Every now and then I consider having a play with one. Then I look up what's nearby and what they fleece me for. Then the idea is forgotten again.

I think you underestimate the amount of skill out there and willingness of people to throw away their time too. If you're willing to spend 19 hours a day clicking faucets then you're certainly going to look into this as well.

There are many areas of the world where opportunities are very limited and this place looks compelling if you're unfortunate enough to be marooned like that.

The businesses that advertise here need real people to use them.

If this forum really did get totally infested with AI, and that is verrrry possible as I'm sure it would be a gift from the heavens for shitposters, those real customers will find it increasingly unbearable  and business will dry up. Something will need to be done to keep them at bay.

It's no good if they are more articulate than genuine users and the quality of posts actually rises. AI doesn't have any money to spend or any needs to service.

I'm very curious to see how this system interacts with other users in a forum environment. Writing an article on its own is a very different thing. It might fall apart when juggling and responding to other points of view despite being convincing on the surface, that's if it does that at all.