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481  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / There's a lamborghini available on Syscoin's blockmarket! on: October 12, 2018, 12:07:01 AM
I was browsing the marketplace when I came across this offer.

I wish the exchange rate of syscoin to lambo was much lower.

(1,603,621.80 SYS)

Quantity Remaining: 1

Report offer
A local accident free Lamborghini Gallardo LP550-2 Bicolore Coupe. See Bluestarmotors.com for more information or call Rob at 604.649.1975 Price in SYS subject to final conversion rate.
482  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: ⚒ Syscoin-Blockmarket 3.0-World 1st Decentralized Marketplace/Masternodes/Assets on: October 12, 2018, 12:02:43 AM
Community update #21 just rolled off the press! Read up on the weekly AMA's of Dan Wasyluk and J, Syscoin's listing on Bitladon and much more.

https://medium.com/@syscoincommunity/syscoin-community-weekly-update-21-bc0a42ee9cac



Another great update on the project. Sometimes I feel like I'm not engaged enough and then I realize I check how the project is going almost daily. I'll try and hold off and only check weekly.

Software can only be developed that fast after all. I can't wait until this project truly takes off. It may take years, and it's great having such regular updates.
483  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: GODcoin - Proof-Of-Stake on: October 11, 2018, 11:56:02 PM
Well, I'll buy into your project only if you can prove that god is real and you can convert me from being an atheist.

Oh wait. You can't.

Seriously this is why I hate religion in our society, it always excludes people not following that religion. One of the reasons I like bitcoin is because it doesn't have "In God We Trust" written all over it.


In fact the only motto of bitcoin I remember is Vires in numeris.
484  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why do Atheists Hate Religion? on: October 11, 2018, 05:45:15 PM
I hate religion because it divides people into groups. The division then fractures our society and gives a big advantage to those who belong to the in-groups while it pushes atheists out.

There's multiple churches and programs for religious people to just walk into and socialize, work-out make friends, and all of that shit is tax free (therefore they get a tax-advantage compared to me) and all I get is the knowledge that I'm not foolish enough to believe in fairy-tales.

485  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN CRYPTO on: October 11, 2018, 05:24:29 PM
One, Two, Three, Four

I declare a flame war.

This is going to be quite a contentious issue. I don't like what Jihan Wu did but it's completely understandable to do what he did and then lie about it regarding ASIC boost.


Ask yourself, would you do it? More money and more power, especially in a results oriented place like China are hard to turn down. I suppose here in the United States once you get to a few million dollars you're set for life and you can relax, I don't know if the same is true in China.



That being said I don't particularly like the tone of the video but I'm more interested in the like/dislike ratio. It seems that the people behind fake bitcoin (Bcash) are disliking this video, one comment declaring it "bitcoin core propaganda".

I'd be interested in something longer form and more well researched than this video. While I know many of the things discussed to be true, I just don't trust the narrator, (who is most likely the OP Lambolife here) especially with a lack of references and sources of evidence clearly labelled and pointed to.

Edit: I subscribed to this I'm subscriber number33, many YouTube channels on Bitcoin come and go (like MadBitcoins) and I'm interested in more content in this space.
486  Economy / Speculation / Re: Bitcoin plummeted, the red was flooding the market. on: October 11, 2018, 05:01:11 PM
If it went down that fast, it's probably going to go back up soon enough.

It's all short term noise anyway. The long term price is always increasing. This is nothing but a blip (although I would recommend not spending any bitcoin on dollar-denominated terms until this changes).
487  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Good news on: October 11, 2018, 02:57:33 PM
While I hated that the price went down, I did look at the positive side more than the negative one.

Our community grows unsustainably during the bull-runs. Then a crash happens and most people leave (but we still have more than we started) those who stay are mostly not the solely get rich quick guys. They are fire tested people who also dig deeper.

If the price had just been rising without crashing since 2008, the first big crash could decimate our community but instead we have built resilience through the evolution of a community that is resistant to fear uncertainty doubt and the market cycle.
488  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Do not be this type of Bitcoiner on: October 10, 2018, 11:15:57 PM
Bitcoin is definitely not just about exiting fiat. But to a lot of people, me included the draw is to be my own bank, to the extent that I can be.

I like not having other people control my money. I also believe that the dollar keeps losing it's value and it might lose its value really fast in the future.

The collapse of the dollar doesn't necessarily mean that bitcoin and other crypto (or even regular) currencies will rise to the top and that the people of the USA will all lose their money.


There's still stocks and property. Stocks and property don't base their value on the dollar even if they are dollar denominated at this point in time. The dollar collapsing doesn't necessarily mean that everyone will start using bitcoin.

Even if everyone tried to use bitcoin to be "exiting fiat" we don't currently have working scalability to keep bitcoin decentralized and censorship resistant. People would have to use bitcoin accounts on online institutions that would mirror banks. This would be a superior system (to current banking) in my opinion but this is a different discussion all together. 
489  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Where to start on: October 10, 2018, 08:55:33 PM
I have a warning for you.

In your Crypto Journey you'll see many promising altcoins. You stand to lose a lot of money if you start selling bitcoin for altcoins.

Everyone looks at altcoins moving up faster than bitcoin during bull markets and are blinded by the profits, don't be. Investing in Bitcoin is extremely risky, investing in altcoins is practically gambling.

There is only one altcoin that you need to know about and it's endorsed by Theymos, this forum's top member/staff. It's howeycoin. It really is the only altcoin I would recommend to a newbie.
490  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Starter-pack for Crypto beginners, This is the best guides you will find online on: October 10, 2018, 08:49:25 PM
There is a course on Khan Academy within the financial stuff.

There is a university Course here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOMVZXLjKYo This is the channel name on YouTube:
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies Online Course


Ant there is also the book, Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas Antonopoulos.


491  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: China: Man Sentenced to Prison for Stealing Railway Electricity to Mine Bitcoin on: October 10, 2018, 08:39:01 PM
3.5 years is excessive though jesus. THREE YEARS just for stealing electricity? Man I am glad I don't live in China, sounds like a horrible place to live.

I think a more reasonable sentence is three months, or possibly even just long community service, what a joke.

Yes, and it's quite difficult to get the actual facts of the case. The government there is so corrupt that he might have been arrested just so they could steal his bitcoin and mining hardware, only for some corrupt official to get some more money.

I think a fine in this case would have been enough. Maybe no-jailtime or just a few weeks if it was his first serious offence.
492  Economy / Lending / Re: I need a US$ 1,500 loan. I'll pay you US$ 12,000 in 20 days! on: October 10, 2018, 04:03:23 PM
Of course I will give you a loan.

Just send me the collateral in the form of ridiculous loan request coin and I'll send you 22 Million Bitcoins on the spot, in a single transaction so that you can complete the project that will make you rich overnight.


Seriously though. This loan request is basically spam. Do you really think there are people dumb enough to fall for this?
493  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Turkey on: October 10, 2018, 03:52:26 PM
Hi,
Newbie questions here:

Can I buy bitcoins and load them into an account in Turkey ?  Has anyone done it before with a Turkish bank ? Do banks ask questions if I convert bitcoins to cash ? or they will never guess from where the money came from.

Also what's the minimum and maximum I can buy.

Is it cheaper than doing bank transfer ?

Cheers and sorry for this, I tried to look on the forum but no answers.

To begin with, you want to hold your bitcoin in private keys that you control and nobody else knows. Anything else is unsafe.

Bitcoin is cheaper then doing bank transfers especially if we're talking amounts of 600 dollars or more. Maybe the banks will lower their parasitic fees on transfers once bitcoin starts eating into their profits.


There is no maximum bitcoin you can buy (as long as you have infinite money). There is a practical minimum and that is the current lowest possible transaction fee that will get a transaction included in the next block.

Also if you get a small amount of bitcoin like $10 worth and the transaction fee ends up taking 10 cents of it the percentage is going to be greater than if you were to buy $100 worth of bitcoin.


Why are you buying bitcoin?
494  Local / Αγορά / Re: Που μπορώ να αγοράσω bitcoin μέσω ίντερνετ; on: October 10, 2018, 03:06:47 PM
Καλησπέρα, μήπως κάποιος θα μπορούσε να με κατευθύνει από που μπορώ να αγοράσω με ασφάλεια bitcoin και να στέλνουν την ίδια μέρα;

Coinbase άλλα πρέπει να πας και να συνδέσεις τον λογαριασμό σου με coinbase pro για να πληρώσεις 0.15-0.25% αντι για πολύ μεγαλυτερα ποσοστά.

Οί λογαριασμού συνδέονται αύτοματα άλλα τα πόρτοφολια είναι ξεχωριστά.
495  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The Court Has Confirmed Brett Kavanaugh on: October 10, 2018, 04:59:59 AM

I just don't know how people are able to believe the allegations with such little proof, have we entered a society where we're guilty before proven innocent? I don't want that to be the new wave for our country.

This mans life was almost ruined (and will be forever tainted) in an attempt to smear him, I don't get it....


I don't think we watched the same hearings.

I'll boil it down to a simple point at first.

Do you believe that devil's triangle sounds more like a drinking game (like beer pong or quarters) or like a kinky sex act?

Here's Kavanaugh's definition of Devil's triangle.

Refer to this clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDDehM0cfOI

Is this a satisfactory answer to you?

I could break down this single exchange further but I trust you're not actually retarded.

"You ever play quarters?"
"No"
"Ok, (self satisfied I'm off the hook now! smile on Brett's face), it's a quarters game.

This kept happening throughout. Kavanaugh wasted time and evaded questions and the senators abandoned their lines of questioning.

Then here's a bit about Kavanaugh's character.

Would you say that someone who boasts about fucking a particular girl, naming her, singling her out and saying he's "an alumnius of" her is someone who respects women? Especially in the 1980's?

And that's where one of the 65 women who signed a letter supporting Kavanaugh's claim of good moral character suddenly broke rank.

Quote from: Vox
Dolphin appears not to have known about the yearbook in-joke until recently — and when she found out, she was so upset that she withdrew her endorsement of the sign-on letter.

“I don’t know what ‘Renate Alumnus’ actually means,” Dolphin told the Times. “I can’t begin to comprehend what goes through the minds of 17-year-old boys who write such things, but the insinuation is horrible, hurtful and simply untrue. I pray their daughters are never treated this way.”

The “insinuation” in question is spelled out by two classmates of Kavanaugh’s, who told the Times the yearbook jokes were a form of bragging about sexual “conquest.”

I don't know if you re-call the allegations, but the alleged assault, is a very failed version of devil's triangle, one where the woman doesn't consent and the other guy is 50/50 on the whole raping a 15 year old girl with my best friend situation.

I'm not saying you should believe Dr. Ford's story. What I'm saying is that this case is riddled with red flags and regardless of whether the assault happened or not our Supreme court is now an extra 1/9th garbage.



More to the topic at hand. In computer programming they say, Garbage In Garbage Out. 

We put garbage people into the supreme court, we shouldn't be surprised to be seeing garbage decisions coming out of it.


Kavanaugh also has voiced the opinion that the president should not be challenged during his reign. I think that's why Trump chose him out of the rest.


The Trump family has cheated the tax system in so many ways that you could start a fictional universe based around them. He needs the argument that the president needs to be isolated from criminal charges so he can focus on the more important job of governing.

We'll see how this whole thing plays out. I'm guessing the continuing erosion of our collective rights as american citizens.

496  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Crypto is a poor form of money for terrorists. on: October 10, 2018, 03:54:15 AM
It's interesting to see that crypto is not being utilized by terrorists.

I'm consistently surprised by how incompetent terrorists are. We'd all like to imagine that we're facing a silent threat of genius level people devoted to their religion and to the death of their enemies using every tool effectively to get to us.

But as it turns out, it's mostly just dumb people that don't represent a credible threat to anyone but themselves and their own countries. No wonder they are failing to use crypto.


Also, we have to be careful not to needlessly concede that terrorists using bitcoin is somehow a good argument against bitcoin. The same shit was said about the Internet when everyone in their media and the brain-dead followers were saying that the Internet is just a fad.
497  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Mt Gox balance with 0 BTC on: October 09, 2018, 11:49:07 PM

 Shocked

This is huge amount of money. Hire an advocat and pursue this.

Don't wait them to give your money back, act on this.

Beeelzebub is right, you should hire an advocat.

Although an advocate would be sufficient.



Are you sure you had 100 bitcoins? What is your proof? Bitcoin transactions? Bank statements?

If you have that you can probably take them to court for trying to scam you.
498  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The Court Has Confirmed Brett Kavanaugh on: October 09, 2018, 04:26:22 AM
After watching the hearings I believed the allegations. I don't believe he deserved to be in the supreme court. I mean, I thought we filled our quota of massive creeps with Clarence Thomas.

I don't think Kavanaugh understands the importance of separation of powers. The court is supposed to be free from influence but he's openly biased (as he was during the hearings) against the democratic party.

I personally dislike both major parties but even if I was a republican I wouldn't consider that a win.

He's not supposed to be anti-abortion but his bias might make him fall in line and under the influence of the republicans. That can't be good.
499  Other / Meta / Re: Is it possible to reach a high rank nowadays? on: October 08, 2018, 04:27:50 PM
You have made some valid points.

People that were grandfathered in, like me, had a very easy time getting high ranked accounts, and it could be argued that it's not fair.

This happens all the time in the world. An excellent example of that is bitcoin itself. The people who were here in the early days, could have mined 50 bitcoin blocks on their laptops.

The people who were in this forum back in 2010-2011, could have gotten legendary accounts by 2014 if they stayed active with not a lot of effort.


My position is that the forum rules are fair. Yes, there could be more merit to go around but we should be careful not to cheapen it. But as you are not owed bitcoins just for joining and being part of the ecosystem you are also not owed a high ranking bitcointalk account.


Yes, you'll have to work harder but you can rank up. I agree, there should be a lot more merit to go around. But ranking up always took some effort and so did bitcoin mining. (to use my analogy).


It's not like people back in 2010 showed up on the forum and were given a legendary account.

I'm not someone who puts a big effort into this forum and I'm not a bitcoin expert at this time and I've gotten a few merits here and there. The system is fairly new and merit sources are being added. I think you'll be able to rank up if you put an effort into your posts.

500  Economy / Services / Re: [1 OPEN SLOT] ChipMixer Signature Campaign | 0.00075 BTC/post on: October 08, 2018, 06:36:21 AM
I'm keeping my application active. I'm re-posting to update post count.


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