Small update. Tomorrow is payday, but my plane back is delayed and I'll be landing near midnight tomorrow. Therefore, I can't do post counting tomorrow.
I'll make post cutoff at 11:59 PM MDT tomorrow, and hopefully get counting done on Sunday. Future weeks should continue as normal.
Have a safe trip. Flight delays are the worst to happen whenever you're on your way home lol. I don't know, the plane you're in getting hijacked by terrorists?  A bad joke I must say, but apparently Darkstar_ managed to get home safely, lol.
@Darkstar_, it's okay if you can't get the post counting and payments done by today. Just finish it off whenever your body permits. Rest well man. haha. I'm sorry. Of course I don't want something bad to happen to anyone. I'm just somewhat a fan of dark jokes.  You'll love this, broseph http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/watch-drunk-passenger-tries-to-bite-security-officers-on-flight-to-san-francisco/A drunk man tried to bite security officers after they tried to remove him from his seat for causing a disturbance on a flight to San Francisco last week.
Mercury News reports that a drunken man riding on an Aeromexico flight from Mexico City began yelling loudly roughly 30 minutes after the plane took off. The plane then performed an emergency landing at Guadalajara International Airport, where security officers stepped on board to remove him from the plane.
20-year-old passenger Laura Aceves took out her phone and started taking video as officers started to force the man down the aisle of the plane — and the man began screaming and even tried to bite one of the officers.
“It took them 30 to 40 minutes to get him out of his seat and off the plane,” Aceves told Mercury News. “He was hitting and punching other passengers as they were trying to drag him out. He was under the influence, and you could smell the alcohol on him.”
Aceves said that she could smell alcohol on the passenger, who was clearly very intoxicated. There is video, and yes, it is great. So, add biting to the list (you cant make this stuff up, people). we are living in mad max times, it seems. Its safer to walk nowadays. if you get to an ocean, its still probably safer to swim.  |
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he has also banned the Department of Defense from using its resources to provide medical treatment for transgender individuals currently serving in the military
The Army funds must be spent on the medical treatment of the veterans who were maimed and injured in places such as Iraq and Afghanistan. These funds should not be wasted on sex-change surgeries (i.e. medical treatment for transgenders, as they call it). Considering the prevalence of transgender servicemembers among the active duty military and the typical health-care costs for gender-transition-related medical treatment, the Rand study estimated that these treatments would cost the military between $2.4 million and $8.4 million annually.
The study didn't include estimates of these costs for reservists, because of their “highly limited military health care eligibility.” It also didn't include estimates for retirees or military family members, because many of those individuals may also have “limited eligibility” for care via military treatment facilities.
“The implication is that even in the most extreme scenario that we were able to identify … we expect only a 0.13-percent ($8.4 million out of $6.2 billion) increase in health care spending,” Rand's authors concluded.
By contrast, total military spending on erectile dysfunction medicines amounts to $84 million annually, according to an analysis by the Military Times — 10 times the cost of annual transition-related medical care for active duty transgender servicemembers. The facts are that there are so few transgender folks in the military; that if you gave them golden assholes, it still wouldnt amount to a whole lot. Meanwhile, I pay taxes so that other folks in the military can get dick pills. My dick, works amazing. So I would rather the money be spent on more meatshields, more boots on the ground, rather than supporting someone having a fucking erection. Other poster, you are right. It is not a right to serve your country, it is a duty. Sad is the day when ideology prevents a patriotic citizen from doing just that. Meh. Thats them changes. |
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Oh, they aren't coming, they have been here for quite a while  I see your demographic may not have experienced this enough already, so that it is novel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-and-frisk_in_New_York_CityThe stop-question-and-frisk program, or stop-and-frisk, in New York City, is a New York City Police Department practice of temporarily detaining, questioning, and at times searching civilians on the street for weapons and other contraband.[1] This is what is known in other places in the United States as the Terry stop. The rules for stop, question, and frisk are found in the state's criminal procedure law section 140.50, and are based on the decision of the US Supreme Court in the case of Terry v. Ohio.[2][3]
12,404 stops were made in 2016.[4] The stop-and-frisk program has previously taken place on a much wider scale. Between 2003 and 2013, over 100,000 stops were made per year, with 685,724 people being stopped at the height of the program in 2011.[4] The program became the subject of a racial profiling controversy.[2][5] The vast majority of those stopped were African-American or Latino, most of whom were aged 14–24.[2][4][5] The racial disparity persists even after controlling for precinct variability and race-specific estimates of crime participation.[6][7] Research suggests that stop-and-frisk had few effects, if any, on crime in New York City.[8][9]
Stop-and-frisk became an issue in the 2016 presidential election.[10][11] Racial composition of New York city: White 44.6% Black 25.1% Hispanic (any race) 27.5% Asian 11.8% This, is the tip of the iceberg. Its racial, but more importantly, these rights have been chipped away long ago as we have shifted away from a community/reactive policing paradigm. This affects us all; but it is downplayed as a minority "complaint" by those that would like to conflate the issue  |
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Has the definition of a sjw developed since the creation of this topic? It certainly felt like there was less awareness of the phenomena even just a short time ago.
Type "sjw" on youtube. It is getting worse, taking over google, etc... Forgive me for being slow. Are you Wilikon? Not getting on you about alts, just confused a bit. Carry on. I was confused myself when the old account was banned a year ago or so, thinking I was following all the rules. Apparently not, not sure why really. I can't prove who I am, obviously. I don't believe in alt accounts, or spamming forums with multiple new threads every week. No need for my forgiveness. You are not slow as I read your replies. I cherish the time anyone (but pedophiles) spends replying to any of my threads, no matter their motivations. If it was not for the bitcoin's creator... Are you still confused about who I am? i understand now. Yours is a great mind. We do not agree, but I have long respected your rhetoric, and your ability to defend your rhetoric cogently. We all play the same game; I pay heed to those that are old hands at this. You can sit with us we would have a lot to discuss, LMAO, but dammit, you can sit with us. |
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So is there anyone here that has access to a mining pool's transaction selector?
this is in the wrong section, you want the Technical subforum. But to answer your question, you want to use one of these services: https://pool.viabtc.com/tools/txaccelerator/https://pushtx.btc.com/these are likely to be fully que'd up, so you may want to look for some of the guys on the board that offer this as a service. some guys are generous on the Tech sub, they will accelerate it for you for free, as a community service. If you manually set this fee, remember to check the state of the network before you use a preset fee. If this came from an exchange, yell at them for not having proper dynamic fees, and stop using them You are welcome |
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is there any Legal methods ?
Its not illegal, per se, its just absolutely 100 percent over the top condemed by PayPal's Terms of Service. You will never go to jail for this, but they will lock the bejeezus out of your account, and freeze your funds for 30-270 days. Seriously. Even if you dont get caught, you have no recourse if you get a chargeback. Paypal automatically loses chargebacks against credit card companies, per arrangement (this is why they freak out when you chargeback against one of their transactions), so they will get the money from somewhere, to not incur a loss. You will lose your bitcoin, owe them money, and have your account locked. Paypal is the goddamned Devil, I've said this many times before. Dont play with them, you will get burned, eventually. |
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I new to bitcointalk but not new to bitcoin. I was just wondering which countries supports bitcoin, this could be of help as I will be moving to other country for work.
You are new, so we wont yell at you about searching, this time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_bitcoin_by_country_or_territoryTo save you some time, its pretty much legal everywhere except Bangladesh, Bolivia, Ecuador, Kyrgyzstan and Saudi Arabia. This shouldnt really impede your search for a new place to expatriate to, not shitting on any of these places but meh. Now, that doesnt speak to regulation; if you are opening a business, specifically a financial institution, you may run into additional shit in certain locales. welcome to the board |
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I have not heard too much talk regarding the recent (July 25th, 2017) release of the DAO Investigative Report. It clearly states that US citizens who participate in ICOs that are considered securities can be legally held liable. I understand no charges were brought in this case in particular, but what does this mean for US citizens who invested into other ICOs? Full report: https://www.sec.gov/litigation/investreport/34-81207.pdf US Investors held liable: http://imgur.com/a/IcNYx Recently the SEC declared the DAO as securities: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2017-131 Basically this means that they are subject to the agencies regulations. From their standpoint, these tokens are a form of shares and selling them without licenses violates federal securities laws. Many pI eople who were unable to access ICOs because of geo-restrictions used VPNs. From my knowledge, the reasons ICO providers prevented US citizens from participating was to protect themselves legally from the United States government. That is true, but also note that the investor themselves can be at fault as well. Reference this thread by Marco Santori, who is well known when it comes to law and cryptocurrency. He had this to say about the recent SEC statements. Please pay close attention to #6. Let me know your thoughts! https://twitter.com/msantoriESQ/status/890200014370287620 https://twitter.com/msantoriESQ/status/890187373828616192Sounds like we need to hire a lawyer to know which tokens are safe to invest in, based on that tweet thread. In fact, knowing Marco Santori, that thread was a big advertisement to provide exactly that service.  I gave the SEC decision a look over, and my take is that they are taking a hands-off approach. I don't think they are going to find investors at fault for anything. It's more of a question of establishing a test for future cases against those offering unregistered securities (including exchanges that allow trading of such tokens for US customers). you dont need a lawyer. you only need the howey test observe: http://consumer.findlaw.com/securities-law/what-is-the-howey-test.htmlThe "Howey Test" is a test created by the Supreme Court for determining whether certain transactions qualify as "investment contracts." If so, then under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, those transactions are considered securities and therefore subject to certain disclosure and registration requirements....
....The Supreme Court, in issuing its decision finding that the defendants' leaseback agreement is a form of security, developed a landmark test for determining whether certain transactions are investment contracts (and thus subject to securities registration requirements). Under the Howey Test, a transaction is an investment contract if:
It is an investment of money
There is an expectation of profits from the investment
The investment of money is in a common enterprise
Any profit comes from the efforts of a promoter or third party Essentially, when you look at a whitepaper, look at the reason they are issuing you a token. Is there an expectation of profit? Not a speculative valuation spike, like the UET, but profit sharing/interest. If so, its a security. Its that simple |
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Dude, I tottally misunderstood the OP the first time I read this. I thought he was talking about farming gold in an MMO, like WOW or Everquest. Hilariously, everything I said still stands completely true. Unless you have an obviously legit, decent paying job online (there really arent alot, most jobs that can be completed remotely can be completed by almost anyone with the proper lang/math skills). You will get so much more value simply working a real job, and your parents wont give you shit because they see you wasting away in front of a computer. Heres a test; if you can make minimum wage online, adjusted for your time, you should probably explain to your parents in more detail what you are doing. They will understand, because min wage at home is more efficient tan the same wage out of the house. If you can't make that much, go get a job, dammit. it will save you so much time. if you live in a severely economically depressed area, ignore all the above and carry on |
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There is little incentive for a shop to accept bitcoin at the moment.
Granted, its pretty easy to actually accept BTC, via coinbase, bitpay, the list goes on. but what would be the reason? there is a pretty strong chance absolutely none of your customers are actually holding bitcoin, even if they have heard of it. the initial confirmation takes way too long for how fast the average point of sale transaction takes. if it were a drive through, those precious seconds would add up to a big wait for people farther back in the line.
the fees fuck this up as well. you have to sell pretty expensive stuff in order to justify the fees, and you would have to eat them yourself. most modern customers wouldnt accept the idea of an additional fee on top of the purchase price.
and finally, if someone does use bitcoin, if you want to spend it, you have to convert it right back to fiat to buy more goods/pay workers.
so, just easier to take fiat.
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Thats about all it is. It certainly isnt a currency, at least a good one, given its constraints bitcoin is an asset and not a payment facilitator. Given the ever increasing fees and confirmation times, in this current iteration it will never replace fiat. However, since bitcoin is riding a tsunami of speculation, its a decent asset to invest in; you could do much worse. Investing in bitcoin can fetch you much higher returns than the majority of traditional assets. Unfortunately, bitcoin is largely unregulated and not secured by a real, underlying asset. When you buy a stock, you are purchasing the company assets and infrastructure. Same with a fiat. Bitcoin is mostly backed up by public trust  So buy, speculate and hodl. Again, you could do much worse. |
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bitcoin cannot replace currency in the world because price is not stable.
currency should be more stable.
you may reply me. currency is not stable also but you should think
USD currency price is up and down 1-2% in 1 month.
bitcoin price is up and down 20% in 1 month.
what will people think if they just change USD to bitcoin then their money down 10% in 10 minutes?
bitcoin can become stock but cannot become currency
Fuck to the YES my man. Make this a sticky. Despite all the bitcoin apologist on the board, this is the fatal flaw of bitcoin. The volatility, while cool if you are on the good side of it, is absolutely soul crushing of you are on the wrong side of the fence. You cant plan a future around something this volatile. Imagine if you had a utility bill for say, 2000 USD (thats a hell of a bill, I know, but bear with me for the sake of argument). You put away .5 btc to pay the bill, but come back a week later to find out that .5 is worth 1700 USD. Not only cant you pay the bill, you will need additional value to repair the loss. The same would go for a car, a house, and thing of value that takes time to accrue. Yes, its a general uptrend; but when it isnt, it can be enough to ruin a fortune (ask those that bought in at the first 1k ATH). |
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Has the definition of a sjw developed since the creation of this topic? It certainly felt like there was less awareness of the phenomena even just a short time ago.
Type "sjw" on youtube. It is getting worse, taking over google, etc... Forgive me for being slow. Are you Wilikon? Not getting on you about alts, just confused a bit. Carry on. |
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He didn't made money from investing in ICO's, he did it by advertising them. Do you really think he will provide some time just to read more about crypto currencies and sh$t? A big "NO". With the amount of money that he have all he will do is enjoy it and not a single moment to think of making money from computers and internet. That is one hell of a big bully and he will just call us geeks. I guess Floyd has a team of people that looks for advertisement deals. They saw these Stox guys willing to give him millions for an instagram post (because I doubt the would do it for less than a million). So all he has to do is sit back, take a picture and do fuck nothing else. Just watch millions of people comment on it and some may become interested in Stox. That is the number #1 good thing about being famous, you get paid to advertise doing minimum effort. Of course, fame has a lot of negatives, but that is one clear positive. You would be floored at the amount of money it takes to get a sponsored tweet, or an instagram post. I know the Kardashians are like a .5mil to 1 mil, Beyonce is a definite million. Like, a million dollars to make a fucking tweet? To hell with bitcoin, this is where the real money is at. George Lopez is like 10k for 3 tweets over a time period. My car, adjusted for age/use, for a freaking tweet. It must be nice. |
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bitcoin illegal some asia country bt why?can you give me some reason about this?? thanks
Depends on where you are at. Its fine in a bunch of Asian locales, but again, you would have to define Asian a little more specifically. As far as I see, only Kyrgyzstan, Saudi Arabia and Bangladesh has expressly forbid/prohibited btc/cryptocurrencies. The common feature of all these governments is they are a Muslim majority. This is curious, is there something in the Koran against bitcoin, or more specifically, speculation on it? |
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This was the whole idea behind 21.com. They proposed making a whole bunch of appliances with miner chips in them, so they could mine with an IoT at your expense. Seriously. The offset was that the devices were cheaper than normal/free, but really? I think they eventually diversified the portfolio, so to speak. I notice they are a more all inclusive bitcoin resource (block chain explorer, statistics, etc). |
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Yes. Next question. |
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/08/26/sebastian_gorka_tried_to_make_it_sound_like_his_firing_was_really_a_resignation.htmlSebastian Gorka, the nationalist White House adviser with a British accent and questionable credentials, is no longer working for President Donald Trump’s administration. In short, he was fired, as many people predicted he would be following Steve Bannon’s ouster from the White House. But if you were to believe Gorka’s version of events he actually resigned out of frustration of being surrounded by people who had no interest in making America great again.
Gorka, whose main role in the White House seemed to be to go on television and fight with journalists, tried to get in front of the story. Conservative website the Federalist was first to report on the move, publishing Gorkas scathing resignation letter. “It is clear to me that forces that do not support the MAGA promise are—for now—ascendant within the White House,” Gorka wrote. “As a result, the best and most effective way I can support you, Mr. President, is from outside the People’s House.” Gorka took particular issue with the fact that Trump didn’t mention the words “Radical Islam or radical Islamic terrorism” in his Afghanistan speech on Monday.
That led a White House official to issue a cryptic statement that had a clear undertone: Gorka was fired. “Sebastian Gorka did not resign, but I can confirm he no longer works at the White House,” the unnamed official said in a statement to reporters. That statement raised more than a few eyebrows. A Republican with close ties to the White House told BuzzFeed that the statement marked the “first time I have ever seen surrogate operations send out something like this.” so lets count these out. Michael Flynn Preet Bharara Derek Harvey Katie Walsh James Comey (this, was a severe fuckup) Reince Priebus Michael Dubke (dos Michaels!) Walter Shaub The Mooch, himself. Sean Spicer Micheal Short (DING DING DING! Tres MIchaeles! Arriba!) (an aside, you really cant make this shit up) Steve BANNON, BANNON (dont try to understand, just vibe) I wont even count the agency officials that have resigned, it wouldnt make this fair. If this is bigly, by all means, make this shit as bigly as possible. I have an infinite popcorn budget, for this.
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If more people would actually hold their bitcoin, we would have more potential for upside ( I dont even know if that a good thing at this point). When the new money enters to the markets, that money will only be able to buy the coins which are available on the exchanges.
If you don't list your coins on the exchanges, that money won't be able to buy your coins and he will pay someone else more money to get his coins. Now think about this on a larger scale. it makes a huge difference, trust me.
For the current state of BTC, that's the future extrapolation of all the viable altcoins out there. If we can't successfully resolve the issues we have now, those self same altcoins will leave us in the dust.
The moral of the story is; If you believe in bitcoin, just hold the shit, LOL.
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It makes no sense to think bitcoin is an easy-way-to-get-rich kind of thing. The value created in this sphere is purely a thing of speculation, not actual utility. To get rich, you'll need to work hard, for a long time, or efficiently (take two of those at least). Being rich is being happy, hopefully. This is a state of being, not a noble goal. Wealth should be the emergant product of focused will.
I digress. Bitcoin, for all the hype, is a digital currency among many. Essentially, electronic money. Just because we wax poetic about it, it doesnt really change that too much. It won't make you rich( esp at these rates!) but you can use it to increase your value; if and only if you are willing to brave the risks of investment ( its a wild fucking ride). If you want to get rich with BTC asap, forget it. It will never happen, at least not overnight.
Bitcoin is a long-term investment. It's also a playing field of waiting and learning.
Learn, dammit. There is time.
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