Bit of an odd subject for a film. It's not overflowing with urgency and most of the drama involves Charlie Shrem drinking too many cocktails.

Digital Gold by Nathaniel Popper dated itself badly by dwelling on their relationship for far too long.

TLDR - 'I didn't ask to be BORN.'

Followed by painting the bedroom black.

Yes, sir.

Duckduckgo is not good enough as a search engine. End of. If I ran my life through it I would still have to refer to better ones to make sure it was giving me the results I needed because its results do not deliver. You can seek out privacy and still acknowledge when something isn't good enough.

Please don't hurt me.

I've been moaning on ongoing basis about people calling crappy tributes fakes. They may resemble aspects of Casascius design but the only person who'd fall for it would be an absolute know nothing and since they're almost always priced between $1-5 it's clear enough.

Anyway I'm still waiting for the indistinguishable fake including hologram. It hasn't arrived yet. If and when it does it's going to stir things up.

You are correct but I was thinking more along the lines of actual achievements beyond conning and lying as I'm a real old fuddy duddy and call that type of behaviour real success.

I've no doubt he'll come out with far more money than he went in with but that'll mean he's still the same piece of excrement he was before he turned up in Bitcoinland and defecated on our laps.

I think that's the biggest unanswered question in the future. If the Bitcoin economy becomes largely a closed loop how will governments react? I've not to far off reached it myself. I'd rather sell stuff for BTC and I spend plenty of it too. There'll always be a need for some people to get back into fiat but if a big percentage of anyone's earnings or spending never leave what are they going to do?

It's a piece of piss when everyone's tied to fiat or still wants it, vastly less so when fiat is treated like a pain up the arse rather than the end goal. Will we wind up with government registered wallets?

Craigy's legal failure rate keeps up its 100% record.



https://twitter.com/hodlonaut/status/1269999617413984261

This is only regarding jurisdiction and so is only the beginning of this particular failure but my spidey senses are telling me what the likelihood of the outcome will be...

Come on Craiglets, PLEASE show us one instance where he actually succeeded. I'm getting desperate now.

And more winning here - https://twitter.com/MyLegacyKit/status/1269990321355730949

That's what I don't quite get about this whole thing. Humongous liquidations must've happened countless times since this was launched. That's what happens to traders. I can't see how Blockfi's selection of traders would be any better than any other ones.

They must either have massive collateral or tiny positions or Blockfi dictate how much they can risk. It's all a bit murky.

I believe with all my heart that Satoshi would not have used his real surname as this would be a ever so slightly large security slip up.

I do also believe that he was only human so would be worried about forgetting his original name. Therefore he would've slightly changed it.

Due to my research I wholeheartedly believe Satoshi is Dr Shakamoto - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfs4vGDMWBE

If it had been taken over by someone faintly legit then I'd expect some resolution at some point.

Since Justin Sun is behind the wheel, a sort of crypto herpes that infects anything he inserts his filthy little willy into, then it's safe to say it is case closed. In his favour of course. The only consolation is that Poloniex is continuing to fade. I certainly won't be using them ever again.

I expect this type of thing from a browser. When you think of the amount of potential power you're handing to them by using their product it's mind boggling. It's a portal into your online entirety.

I would not have expected it from a browser that claimed to be your wee buddy on your side. It's a really stupid move on their part as it gobs on exactly the reasons many people took it on in the first place.

I'd much rather pay a browser that guaranteed certain standards of respect and behaviour.

Gate.io was BTER which got 'hacked' to the tune of several thousand BTC. They started off saying they would pay back their customers with earnings from fees. Then they got bored and relaunched as Gate.io after having paid back a derisory amount.

That makes them at the very least lazy assholes, more likely they were the hackers and gave up pretending to give a shit when enough time had passed. Do not be shocked when lightning strikes twice.

Hard is a bit like a Coelacanth, a breed who we thought were long extinct and then one day they pop up again out of nowhere. Living fossils are a fine thing for us to marvel at. He's straight out of 2014/15 where people like this were ejaculating all over the forum. We all know how that period of time concluded - in way that stopped that orgasm mid grunt.

https://www.consultancy.uk/news/14478/the-top-five-impacts-of-gdpr-on-the-financial-services-industry

"Financial institutions may keep some data to ensure compliance with other regulations, but in all other circumstances where there is no valid justification, the individual’s right to be forgotten applies."

Which sounds like a free for all by any other name.

Each nation had to pass it into their own law via their own parliament so no doubt they dropped in their own exemptions too. And I can imagine financial dealing data is a separate and ring fenced area to the privacy of your general data.

You are incorrect, here it is - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.duckduckgo.mobile.android&hl=en_GB

And it's open source too. I gotta say duckduckgo's search is still crap in my opinion and I would never use it for regular use but perhaps the more use it gets the better it'll be.

Brave have jumped the shark - https://decrypt.co/31522/crypto-brave-browser-redirect   so if you care about that type of thing they're probably best to be left off the list.

I kind of assumed properly private browsing would be impossible on a phone. If the browser itself does the job, the phone might be happily sending everything to some creepy men who live inside a hollowed out mountain.

But doing what you can is still helpful and don't forget VPNs, proper ones, especially if you use public wifi.

I think that's totally inevitability myself. Anyone not planning for it is a bit of a silly sausage. The day is coming.

But that doesn't mean the death of it by any means. There'll always be exchanges on the fringes happy to deal with it and at some point there'll be robust and decent decentralised options with some volume.

This is the first time I have ever, ever heard of such a requirement from anyone, certainly no non crypto organisation. You can still run a trillion dollars through your bank account with a proof of address and a bit of ID and not even a hint of a selfie.  

If a normalton's bank called up and ordered them to take a series of mugshots before they could access their money again they'd wonder what the fuck was going on and run straight to the press.

Other than leaving we have no choice of course, but it's strange how many people in cryptoland regard this as normal. Compared to every other area of finance I've dealt with it sure as shit is not.

Riiight.

That's the sort of thing someone tells their wife as he yanks her clothes off to pawn them, and that's after selling the cardboard she was sleeping on.

If you're crap at it and consistently crap at it then that's the universe trying to tell you something. Some people aren't fated to make a go of it. You should be carefully managing your risk so this isn't an issue in the first place.

And no one should be trading with everything. If you retain 80% or more of your funds that are never touched then your trading losses will sting but they won't finish you off or drive you to total ruin.

Well, I think I was probably being more generous than I should've been. The only ones I can think of off the top of my head who aren't totally cock a hoop at the cock bearing down on them are Shapeshift and Kraken, but they'll still toe the line.