Today i went through an article published on a website claiming that a report published by a Denmark-based Saxo bank has forecasted the bitcoin price to leap upto 165% or $2000 in 2017 beacause of economic stimulus and aggressive fiscal spendings by Newly elected U.S President Donald Trump. What does you guys think?

Reason why you should Buy bitcoin now

What are the features that a good investor should have? What are the characteristics of people who have enough capital and earn money from money?

What are the factors that make these people successful in their investments?

What kind of knowledge do you need to create a gambling site? I assume many sites are written in Javascript? Or PHP? I am not saying that I think I could create a gambling site, but I find the topic interesting and wonder if some people here can share their knowledge about it, like how they got into it.

The poor don’t pay a lot in taxes and sometimes they can even get money out of the government, the rich can hide their money, the ones that suffer are the middle class since they have money to be taxed but not the means to protect their assets.

The dogma of ‘increasing wants’ as an indispensible basis for further industrial progress. Instead of the duty to work, we now have the duty to consume. To ensure rapid absorbtion of its immense productivity, megatechnics resorts to a score of different devices: consumer credit, installment buying, multiple packaging, non-functional designs, meretricious novelties, shoddy materials, defective workmanship, built-in fragility.

The aim of industry is not primarily to satisfy essential human needs with a minimal productive effort, but to multiply the number of needs, factitious and fictitious, and accommodate them to the maximum mechanical capacity to produce profits. These are the sacred principle of the power complex. Not the least effort of this system is that of replacing selectivity and quantitative restriction by indiscriminate and incontinent consumption.

Thus the shorter working day promised by this system is already turning into a cheat. In order to achieve the higher level of consumption required, the members of the family must take on extra jobs. […] The effect, ironically, is to turn the newly won six- or seven-hour day to twelve or fourteen hours; so in effect, the worker is back where he started, with more material goods than ever before, but with less time to enjoy them or the promised leisure.

If all these goods are in themselves sound and individually desirable, on what grounds can we condemn the system that totalizes them? So say the official spokesmen. All these goods remain valuable if more important human concerns are not overlooked or eradicated. Unqualified successes in over-quantification.

When a scientist in good repute, like Dr. Lee du Bridge, can defend the wholesale immediate use of pesticides, bactericides, and possibly equally dangerous pharmaceuticals, by saying that it would take ten years to test them sufficiently to certify their value and innocuousness and that ‘industry cannot wait’ – it is obvious that his rational commitments to science are secondary to financial pressures, and that the safeguarding of human life is for industry not a matter of major concern.

The ironic effect of quantification is that many of the most desirable gifts of modern technics disappear when distributed en masse, or when – as with the television – they are used too constantly and too automatically. No umbilical cord attached man to nature: neiter ‘security’ nor ‘adjustment’ were the guidelines to human development.

Patrick Geddes: Conditions of degeneration in the organic world are approximately known. These conditions are often of two distinct kinds, deprivation of food, light, etc. so leading to imperfect nutrition and enervation; the other, a life of repose, with abundant supply of food and decreased exposure to the dangers of the environment. It is noteworthy that while the former only depresses, or at most distinguishes the specific type, the latter, through the disuse of the nervous and other structures etc. which such a simplification of life involves, brings about that far more insidious and through degeneration seen in the life history of myriads of parasites.

THE PENTAGON OF POWER, Lewis Mumford, 1970

JPMorgan Chase to Porn Stars: You’re Not Welcome

The adult movie business in the United States, as NBC News reported earlier this year, is grappling with tough times “because of piracy and an abundance of free content on the Internet.” CNBC noted in March:

Income in the adult film industry is down by 50 percent from about a decade ago due to shrinking profits. Only a few performers are lucky enough to be on the A-list. . . . The rest, on average, earn a yearly salary of just around $50,000—a few thousand dollars shy of the national median household income—and, of course, have no pension plan or 401(k) plan.

Now, it’s just gotten a whole lot harder for some of those performers to find a bank to park their cash. As if to add further financial insult to an already injured and consolidating industry, the leading adult trade publications in Southern California, AVN and XBIZ, reported in late April that JPMorgan Chase is sending letters to performers terminating their bank accounts. According to VICE News, word is “surfacing that shows the US Department of Justice may be strong-arming banks into banning porn stars” as part of Operation Choke Point. As The Huffington Post reported, that operation “attempts to curb money laundering by scrutinizing banks and payment processors that facilitate transactions with illegal businesses — petty fraudsters running payday lending scams, sham telemarketing operations and other shady groups.”

Well, it now seems that adult stars are being lumped together with “shady groups,” despite the fact that their business is perfectly legal. Of course, it’s hard for some people, based upon their moral or religious grounds, to feel any sympathy for people who make their living on their backs and knees. But the current actions taken by JPMorgan Chase fit a larger pattern, according to Mark Kernes, senior editor for legal affairs for AVN Media Network and AVN.com.

“The adult industry has a long history of being discriminated against by banks and credit card companies. Several years ago, American Express canceled the billing services it had previously been providing to adult retailers and webmasters, and I believe some other credit card companies have followed suit. And last year at about this time, City National Bank canceled the checking account of, and denied a home loan to, popular actress Chanel Preston without providing a legitimate reason,” Kernes told me in a recent email.

Kernes, who has reported for more than 20 years on legal issues facing the adult entertainment industry, pointed out in that email that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation lists pornography as “merchant categories that have been associated with high-risk activity.” In an April 28 article on AVN, Kernes elaborates that “from the few industry members who’ve had their bank accounts closed who were willing to speak to AVN, the most common excuse given to them for the closures has been ‘risk management,’ the exact reason cited in the FDIC memo for why banks should avoid doing business with any type of company on the FDIC’s ‘blacklist.’”

Although Kernes said he is “unclear how much government pressure is being brought to bear on” JPMorgan Chase, he stresses that “for the banks to claim that the government wants them to cancel adult industry members’ accounts as part of the ‘risk management’ mandated by Operation Choke Point is absurd, and certainly a type of class discrimination on the banks’ part.”

For now, the letters are coming to some to porn stars. After receiving a notice from JPMorgan Chase, performer Teagan Presley called the bank and, according to XBIZ, was told “that because I am, I guess, public and am recognizable in the adult business, they’re closing my account.” As Kernes writes on AVN, “it’s not as if the banks have necessarily experienced any problems with the porn people’s accounts; it’s apparently just that they work in the ‘pornography’ business or are related to someone who does, and ‘pornography’ appears on the FDIC’s blacklist.”

Regardless of one’s personal views about either adult movies or their performers, one must wonder whether JPMorgan Chase, which reportedly paid more than $20 billion in penalties and settlements in 2013 alone, might have more important things to do, like cleaning up its own financial house. And if the Department of Justice really is pressuring banks to target members of the adult industry, then surely its priorities might need to be recalibrated. Similarly, if it turns out the pressure is due to the FDIC’s blacklisting of pornography, then it sadly reflects a guilt-by-association mentality; if one works in the adult industry, no matter what segment of it, then one must also be blacklisted.

We’re not likely to see any politicians or lawmakers, however, coming to the defense of the adult stars and questioning JPMorgan Chase about why the performers are being targeted. After all, there aren’t too many cars on the road today, be it in the Porn Valley of San Fernando or elsewhere, sporting bumper stickers proclaiming “I Watch Porn and I Vote.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/clay-calvert/jpmorgan-chase-to-porn-st_b_5247668.html

I don't know why are you mad about this. It is just normal to pay taxes since we are all getting benefited by the government in so many ways, also, the taxes that we are paying to them is the money that they are using to build roads and others structures to improve or develop our countries, so please don't be mad about this "Tax" thingy.

Wire transfers will soon become obsolete

If you need instant payments you may want to use card-to-card transfers which are as instant as it gets. You may have to pay a fee but with wire transfers you have to pay almost the same fee anyway, so it doesn't make any significant difference. On the other hand, Bitcoin transaction fees are growing in dollar terms quite in line with Bitcoin price itself, therefore the fees may be quite comparable in size to fiat transfers unless you are transferring dizens of bitcoins, of course. But in the latter case the fiat fees will be likely limited as well