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1  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: BitMex Founder Accuses Trump of Being Insincere About His Support for Crypto on: Today at 09:42:49 PM
Apart from the moments where he's talking about himself and how great he thinks he is, *everything* Trump says is insincere.  Even when he comes out with whatever latest extremist political rhetoric,  I don't think he genuinely believes it.  His advisers just tell him it'll play well with the dumbasses who are likely to vote for him.  All facade.  No substance.
2  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: BITCOIN FUTURE IN DOUBT on: July 12, 2024, 10:44:35 AM
I notice OP still hasn't returned to the topic.  Just posts the FUD and then disappears off to the next thread without a care.  Maybe this current generation of speculators just have short attention spans.   Roll Eyes
3  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Craig Wright ASSETS FROZEN WORLDWIDE on: July 07, 2024, 05:59:37 PM
Imagine how much Craig could have done and won if he was an honest and respectable person. 

What actual skills does he have, though?  I figure without the deceit and the fraud, at best, he'd be a mid-tier IT worker.  Sociopathy disorder aside, there's nothing remarkable about him once you take away all the lies and misrepresentations.
4  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Winklevoss "Gemini" twins donate $2m to support Trump on: July 05, 2024, 10:37:22 AM
Of course. Trump doesn't need the money. He is already wealthy.

He was wealthy.  Not fully convinced he still is.  After all his failed business ventures and now that many of his assets are revealed to be not the value he purported them to be, plus the cost of constant litigation and legal fees, I'd say he's now considerably less wealthy.  

Probably why he's asking for donations in Bitcoin from gullible chumps, like some of the people in this topic, and opportunistic sleazebags like the twins.
5  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: BITCOIN FUTURE (not remotely) IN DOUBT on: July 04, 2024, 06:32:32 PM
Speculators will spook themselves over just about anything, won't they?  So dramatic.

Insert usual comments about weak hands.  Keep calm and zoom out, etc.

The sky is not falling. 
6  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Winklevoss "Gemini" twins donate $2m to support Trump on: July 03, 2024, 04:53:37 PM
America will be run by criminals if Trump is elected, so what will America be like when an 81-year-old man who has almost lost his cognitive ability becomes president? Trump is accused of being a criminal while Biden is too old and doesn't even realize what he is doing. I really don't know what's going on in American politics, are they making a fool of themselves for the whole world to see? Don't they have any more worthy candidates than these two? Because what I find most people complain about is more than they praise. If I were an American citizen, I would not vote for either one, neither of them is worthy of being president. America's era will end regardless of who becomes president.

I'm starting to wonder if it's all some sort of elaborate test.  Like "What are the worst possible candidates we can field before Joe Public gets a clue and starts voting for something other than the continuation of the two-party system".  If America elects either of them, the nation deserves to implode, frankly.  And I know my own nation, the UK, isn't much better with its own mostly-two-party system.  But the UK is already effectively a third-world country where we can't even get clean, sanitary water from our pipes.  People need to stop voting for shit (and you can take that meaning quite literally in the UK if you go near the rivers or the sea, it's all raw sewage now because we're a failed state).

I thought Trump promised to "drain the swamp".  Now he seems to be the source of the swamp being filled.  Corruption, lies, even violence.  And people still think it's great that two shady cryptobros gave money to him?  I give up.  Some people can't be saved. 
7  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Trump accepts Lightning Network for donation of his campaign in Bitcoin on: June 27, 2024, 04:58:49 PM
Yes. I remember when Saylor used to be against Bitcoin. But all of a sudden, he changed his views about it. Now he's a true Bitcoin maximalist.

I wouldn't throw the term around too loosely.  Perhaps a small minority are genuine converts, but I suspect the vast majority of business people and career politicians are still fiat maximalists and only like Bitcoin while it suits their goals.  Often "fairweather supporters" at best.

And with "friends" like Trump, who needs enemies?  The man is a sociopath.
8  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Winklevoss "Gemini" twins donate $2m to support Trump on: June 25, 2024, 09:48:23 AM
Trump is winning the support of the crypto community around the world

But seemingly only the gullible and stupid portion of the crypto community.  The same types of people who have put loads of money into NFTs and memecoins because they're so easily mislead.  Such people habitually make foolish decisions and are destined to be life's losers. 
9  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Winklevoss "Gemini" twins donate $2m to support Trump on: June 24, 2024, 01:31:59 PM
My guess is that Trump will govern the nation in jail if re-elected as POTUS.

So when all the other world leaders are meeting in person at some global summit or another, they're just going to have a live video stream of him in a cell?  Yeah, that'll make the US look great on the world stage.   Roll Eyes

And on top of that, people want this image associated with Bitcoin too?  Trying to stifle my gag reflex here.  In all seriousness, do people really understand the ramifications of this?  It's like some sort of sick joke that people could even entertain the possibility that a felon could run a nation from inside a jail cell, let alone that anyone wants to support said felon by sending him Bitcoin.  I swear you've all lost the plot.
10  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Winklevoss "Gemini" twins donate $2m to support Trump on: June 23, 2024, 12:42:42 PM
To us, who are looking at all this from outside the US, it all looks like a very bad combination of hypocrisy, sick obsession and delusion among American voters. I don't see how people can even look at themselves in the mirror if they choose one of the two options offered - because both are disastrous in every sense.

It is more than obvious that the only thing that has absolute power in that country is only money, which can buy you a medical certificate that you are healthy while you are obviously demented and lost in space and time - or on the other hand, you can launch a coup d'état, cheat on taxes, paying prostitutes for silence and who knows what else and that people prefer you because of that.

It's not strange to me that there are people like Biden or Trump in that country, but there are obviously hundreds of millions of them who live in a really strange world that is hard to explain to us who don't live there.

They pledge allegiance to the brainwashed cult of The United Cesspit of America.  One nation under a make-believe deity.  Corruption and Injustice for all.

The rest of the world will no longer recognise it as a sovereign nation, merely as a crime syndicate.
11  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Donald Trump's stance on Bitcoin is changing, the Trump pump is beginning on: June 22, 2024, 12:54:46 PM
They also gave reasons why they supported Mr. Trump and not Biden on their X account, I think you should take the time to read to understand better why they decided to support Mr. Trump.

Criminals like to scratch each others' backs?  

All I see here is organised crime.  Reprehensible people manipulating the system to keep themselves wealthy and in power.

Everyone supporting this has to be brain-dead.
12  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Winklevoss "Gemini" twins donate $2m to support Trump on: June 22, 2024, 12:48:43 PM
When is he going to jail, though?  Going to be difficult to run for office from a cell.  Doesn't sound like a sensible investment from the Winklevii.  Or it's just a ridiculously expensive political statement.

I don't know that anyone believes that the former US president will end up in prison, especially since he is a presidential candidate, which complicates the situation significantly.

It shouldn't.  Preferential treatment makes the justice system a joke.  Any non-celebrity would absolutely go to jail for breaking that many laws.  It's a disgusting double standard if they treat him any differently. 

The US still wants to portray itself as "leader of the free world", yet it's fully prepared to be this corrupt?  Words can't condemn strongly enough.
13  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Winklevoss "Gemini" twins donate $2m to support Trump on: June 21, 2024, 06:07:20 PM
When is he going to jail, though?  Going to be difficult to run for office from a cell.  Doesn't sound like a sensible investment from the Winklevii.  Or it's just a ridiculously expensive political statement.
14  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Bitcoin will exacerbate wealth inequality on: June 19, 2024, 05:18:20 PM
But a world in which Bitcoin is the de facto currency is one in which governments will no longer have the option to print currency and attempt to distribute it to the less well off.

I don't think many governments have done anything like that lately.  All the new money tends to flow straight to the top of the pyramid because governments are still pushing that abhorrent 'trickle down' lie.

Whether Bitcoin causes greater wealth inequality or not is immaterial.  Governments have proven they can't be trusted to run economies and this is the direct response to that failure.  It was never Bitcoin's goal to eradicate poverty.  It's just there to negate the need for trust.
15  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin Lightning Network under attack in EU on: June 18, 2024, 12:05:23 PM
According to that kind of thinking we better ban cash

That does appear to be a long term goal for them, yes.  All of this is small steps towards that.  They don't want any of this to gain traction because it runs contrary to what they want.
16  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The Internet don't forget, many times Donald Trump says bad about Bitcoin on: June 09, 2024, 03:03:00 PM
Glad there seem to be more people are talking sense in this topic compared to the other Trump one.  Was starting to think the whole planet was descending into lunacy.  Bitcoin doesn't need personalities or politicians.  It's stronger without them.
17  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Trump accepts Lightning Network for donation of his campaign in Bitcoin on: June 07, 2024, 04:41:46 PM
Just don't forget about this tweet though,



https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1149472282584072192?lang=en

In short he calls Bitcoin as a scam, so why the sudden change of stance here?
Obviously, it's election time, gals and guys, others might argue that this is not a political statement, but still coming from a President and then suddenly make a U-turn statement to suddenly accepts LN for his campaign donation? You have to think twice American voters.

That's the problem, populism causes people to stop thinking altogether.  Politics has become 'personalities over policies'.  Trump could stand on a stage tomorrow and announce that he's going to shoot a baby in the face and plenty of dumbfucks would still vote for him.  Hopefully he ends up in jail and the Republicans will be forced to select a new candidate.
18  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The absolute insanity Congress is writing now... on: June 06, 2024, 01:13:36 PM

you are not correct. If I go to a public beach and film I can not show the video
without permission if the people filmed are underage.

and what law is that exactly? enlighten us. i doubt loyce is underage though.  Grin

We're clearly reaching the point where the arguments being made are no longer relevant to the topic at hand. You can buy into franky1's absolutist, black-and-white view of the world, where he pretends that he and he alone can determine the outcome of all things.  Or, you can come back to reality where nuance is a real thing that people comprehend.  I personally find his wild delusions have precisely zero influence on what really happens in this world (outside of his magical world of make-believe).  When it comes down to it, a court will decide an outcome to whatever hypothetical scenario it is you're making.  Until such an incident goes to trial, it's generally considered a fool's errand to assume the outcome until the specifics are heard and deliberated upon.
19  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Trump accepts Lightning Network for donation of his campaign in Bitcoin on: June 03, 2024, 01:28:09 PM
If you want to give your money to a liar and convicted felon, go ahead.  You're just throwing your money away, though.  That selfish piece of shit isn't going to do anything for you even if he did get re-elected.  And he's probably going to jail and won't be able to run for president anyway.
20  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The absolute insanity Congress is writing now... on: June 02, 2024, 11:18:34 PM
The fact that my honesty is being questioned by default only because I want Privacy is outrageous.

Can't help but notice it's usually the same predictable names attacking privacy.  The same ones who often seem to advocate restrictions on freedom in response to just about any subject.  Such people hate freedom and privacy in equal measure.  They feel compelled to attack what they cannot control.  They aren't like us.

Authoritarians will always lose here.  Pay them no mind.
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