Here's mine. Italians call this product an abomination, since it's the type of pizza you either love or hate. Personally, I love the taste, you be the judge.
 






I forgot to take a photo of my name with the pizza before we ate it all, so I have one with an empty wooden plate that I served it on.
Hope that still counts as proof

You take me for a US supporter, which I'm not. The US did a a lot of bad things, especially in Vietnam and Iraq, but it doesn't change the fact that Russia is doing these things as we speak.
I wouldn't compare the stance of NATO to what Russia is doing. It's clearly on a different level.


I come here from time to time, usually after a few weeks break from posting in this thread to check if anything has changed. In fact one of my posts is on the very first page of this thread because I feel sympathy for Ukrainians since my parents lived in a country "liberated" by the Soviet Union and I know how people wanted to finally kick these liberators out of their country.

Russians were like neighbor's cows that wander into your field and lay there eating grass and screaming and cursing will not get them to move. You either have to get some dogs to scare them away, or use a whip. They were sitting there for decades drinking vodka, taking natural resources and giving nothing in return until the collapse of the Soviet union and protests of the local population made them run back to Mother Russia.

I'd never wish for any country to become a part of Russia, especially when that process is accompanied by what we saw in Bucha, or earlier in Katyn.

That said, you're really stubborn and dedicated, I give you that. Some Ukrainian officials should send you a medal for years of service.
On the other hand, the attitude presented by some Russians here reminds me of Lavrov. When they see you with a hand in the cookie jar, say it's not your hand. When they see you eating the cookie, say that someone stuffed it into your mouth by force.

There's a saying that "money talks" which means that you can have your disagreements, but many things change when there's money on the table.

I know so many stories when my own family members who did not like each other and did not talk for years suddenly came together to settle because there was some money to be made from inheritance or they had a piece of land that none of them used and a buyer came around and gave them good price. Suddenly the disagreements disappeared and they sat at one table, talking and joking, but when the deal was done there was no more talking.

Yes people who hate you, be it for gambling or not, will eventually come to ask you for a favor and it's up to you whether you help them or not.

I have to be honest here that I was really afraid they might treat me like a money launderer, so I did extensive research, looking into banks that don't ban clients for transferring money from and to bitcoin exchanges. For that I've contacted a guy that I knew who was a localbitcoins trader for a few years and asked him which banks gave him problems and which did not and I made an account with the bank he told me about.

When it comes to taxes, there was completely no problems since bitcoin is considered a legal investment in the EU, so as long as the bank accepts the money and you pay tax, the government will not interfere.

That said, I no longer declare my bitcoin and prefer to exchange it for cash p2p.

Funny that you're asking because what will happen if big whales also stop selling? The market is healthy and everything remains in balance. For one whale selling now is an opportunity to buy something he wants and for his friend buying is an opportunity because, for instance, his parent died an his fortune became even bigger thanks to inheritance.

When one whale stops buying another will start. You can't make everybody leave bitcoin behind just like that, unless you manage to scare people always somehow, for instance by issuing a ban.

I focus on what's close and the way I see it, the conflict is local. It's not the US vs China, but Ukraine vs Russia that we're talking about. What's happening here and now is Russians and Ukrainians killing each other with the help of weapons sent to them by other countries. China is playing it's own game trying to take over Taiwan and I'm of course against that.
It's interesting that you feel like we have to be "brainwashed" to think that Russia is bad. Have you ever considered that Russia might actually be bad, or are you blinded by propaganda coming straight from Kremlin?

You potentially could lose everything you own. It's possible for your house to burn down, your bank to go bankrupt, your car to be stolen. Are you afraid it will happen? Are you losing sleep every night thinking about it? I sure don't.

Yes' there's a chance to lose everything when you buy bitcoin, but there's also a chance to lose it all when you continue to hold fiat money.
IMO buying bitcoin is one of the smartest things you can do in life.

Are you really comparing WW2 to this? Sure I'll follow your logic.
Do you know why the West cheered every dead Russian? Because Russians were the aggressors along with Germans, they just happen to have a disagreement somewhere allowing the way.

In WW2 Germans and Russians were like 2 wolves sharing one prey, be it a deer, and one thought he's the stronger one and can have all the meat, so he jumped the other one while it was eating and you're surprised that the other animals came to watch and give themselves high fives while the wolves bled?

I'm an Eastern European and from my perspective the bigger the Russian losses the better. I won't shed a tear for your soldiers. They go to war for money and it's their choice to kill Ukrainians. The more of these murderers and invaders die out there, the less we'll have to deal with when the time comes.

There's 2 basic types of nuclear weapons tactical and strategic. A tactical strike on Ukraine would not cause NATO to retaliate, but a strategic strike would likely trigger a conventional response. NATO would not nuke Russia, but would send its troops to Ukraine claiming that it wants to assess the damage, radiation, and help victims. If those forces got attacked by Russians, we'd have an all out war.

What's the difference between tactical and strategic nukes? Tactical can be launched from many different delivery systems. I don't think it's being done at the moment, but technically a shoulder fired system like a javelin could carry a tactical nuke. The power of that is small enough to level a part of a town, or a small village, without too much pollution.

You can never know. It's usually the most normal looking people that throw money around. Those that wear flashy clothes are usually just attention seekers and wannabees (just as people who make threads about betting a million without posting a single screenshot for proof).

Anyway, I've been to the dealerships to buy a car wearing normal everyday clothes and people (especially couples) would look like they took their church clothes out of the closet just to look more serious, be noticed. They'd look around like they're in a gallery and seek attention from the salesmen, but they wouldn't buy anything, so who knows, 1m is not that much, especially for an early bitcoin investor.

Unfortunately no. I had a lot of picks in my life where I was pretty confident and they turned out to be disappointing.

A great example was world cup 2018 where everybody was betting for the Germans (former champions) to get at the very least to semifinals and they ended on 20th something place. I had so many bets where I felt strong over the years. Especially in UFC you can never be sure, like in that last fight where Gaethje was knocked out in the last minute of the last round.

Which government? I'll give you a typical situation that happens all the time.

The casino owner is from counytry A.
The casino is registered in country B and it gets its license from there.
The player is from country C.
The person whose money was stolen is from country D.
Often the person who lost the money lost it on an exchange or platform registered in country E and that's where the theft occured.

Who should get the money?

Taiwan is in a worse situation than NATO with Russia because if you compare military firepower NATO is much stronger than Russia. Putin even said it himself that the US alone is spending much more on military every year than Russia, so they will not seek a conflict they cannot win. Even NATO without the US is much stronger than Russia, especially in the air.

Taiwan on the other hand is much weaker than China. It's more of a David vs Goliath situation. It can't even be compared to Ukraine VS Russia. It's more like if Russia was fighting Finland before it joined NATO.

It's like in physics, the energy never disappears it just changes form and it's the same with the money. Whether you spend money in a casino, waste it on netflix subscriptions, get a plastic surgery, or a new car, the money changes hands, moves around.

You could say that casinos are bad, but they pay taxes, they help circulate money, they move wealth from one person to the other.

Do you really believe that the gambling addict who wastes money every single day on a slot machine would spend time with his family if there was no casino? He's doing that to escape the family life, hios job and reality. Many of these people would become drug addicts or alcoholics. That's how I see it.

You can';t make the world better by removing a casino because people will find other ways to gamble.

I get it, if you're in a country where you don't use USD and an employee would give you a choice to either get paid in dollar that you have to convert, or USDt that you also have to convert, USDt will produce lower fees and probably be faster to exhange online. Also, in such situation USDt would give you an option to convert it into bitcoin fast and cheap.

I was talking from the point of view of someone who earns in EURO and would either get fiat money or USDt. In such case I'd rather take EUR since I have plenty of BTC and would rather hold that and spend my fiat. Spending EUR here is much easier and cheaper than converting USDt through an exchange since I'd have to pay additional fee on that.

I hope you're just being sarcastic here. If you are then ignore this post because humor is sometimes difficult to understand when one reads a post.

Bitcoin of course has use cases and practical applications and not just one or two. Just think of the unbanked. Are you aware that if you live in certain Afrincan countries like Zimbabwe you can't use international payment systems like PayPal? You also will have a problem when trying to send money out of the country or open a bank account in Europe or the US. For many people bitcoin is one of a very limited number of ways to store value and move money out of the country.

The way I see it, the difference is huge, a bit like between real cheese and cheese-like product.

USDT has the value of USD, but it's not USD. It's a coin issued by a private company that follows the price of USD, like a price tracking ETF. When you hold USDT you don't hold USD. You hold an IOU from ifinex - a Hong Kong company. Do you trust that company with your money? Do you really want an IOU from them every month instead of USD? You're not going to be able to spend your USDT in any store.

That must be one of these things on the mind of two people who decide to have children. Come on love, we have to make children because otherwise the human race will cease to exist.
When she's in labor the father stands beside her and whispers in her ear - be strong, you're pushing out the future of our planet. Do it for the world!



Do you think women don't enjoy these attempts?

He doesn't care, but he cares about the money and accepting bitcoin donations shows he's picked a side.

Biden clearly showed us what side he's on. His senator Warren has been attacking bitcoin for years and trying to promote CBDC and trying to implement 30% tax on mining. Trump on the other hand said he's against CBDC, doesn't support the mining tax and accepts bitcoin donations.

If I had to choose between these two I'd obviously choose Trump. If I could vote for people like Kennedy Jr, that would be my choice, but no real bitcoiner is going to vote for Biden.

Scarcity is important just as the hard cap limit, but these things have never defined the value of something. The most important thing is use cases. Real acceptance.

I can give you many examples of things that are scarce but not really valuable, just because nobody needs them for anything.
Take tellurium - one of the least common elements on Earth. It's not that expensive for something that rare. It costs $80 per kg, which is much cheaper than silver, not to mention some other, rare metals like ruthenium that's over 10x the price of silver.

Rarity, cost of production and all that does not equal value.