Not trying to rush you or anything buddy, just wanted to know if we'd be getting an update at some point?

Even a ballpark percentage is fine for BTC/BCH or whatever is easiest for you. Just like to see if this would be worth it to get involved in!

Usually if you're facing a responses like " we don't have it", or government agencies responding that they have no information or they were not responsible for the operation, you have to do your own investigation. Otherwise they're going to keep redirecting you and each of these agencies will have 30 days to respond and you'll be waiting for months just to cross them out from your list.
You need to establish who has your money. They probably don't care about the victims and expect them to come and ask for their money but to do do it you have to first know who exactly was responsible for the assets belonging to BTC-e. I'm talking about the department and agent in charge of the case.

While I don't disagree with your stance here, there is always adoption...

thank you
@squatz1   ("95% of all bad" is statistically rather impossibe. More so because most exchanges didn't offer KYC. Bitcoin was not yet defined as real money in most countries.) - Bad enough whatever percentage!
A market has two halves (bitcoin vs. fiat).  Assume most of BTC-e's Bitcoins were from a bad source, that still results in a majority of good funds and users, that need to be protected.  (And next to Fiat, the sources of Altcoins were likely fine at that time, from miners.)

I'm into math and improving the world.   Did BTC-e "hire trolls" on BitcoinTalk and more?  My info is dated but Bitstamp & BTC-e just were the "original" (oldest) bitcoin exchanges, the techie's choice?  (BTC-e had the most serious features/API, with no shiny layout/copywriting.)   Coinmarketcap(.com) looked like this for long: 1. Bitfinex 2. OkCoin  3. Bitstamp 4. BTC-E )   I was/am more suspicious about the big ones, Bitfinex, OkCoin, Bitmex from Hong Kong, they still dont offer KYC?. Bitmex volume is $Billions/day .  Why arent they closed down?

Every country has two "clowns" and their own "circus".
It is just that America is international and the most powerful country in the world so the media covers all the news that happen there as it might affect people all around the world.

How do you imagine it ending, then? At the current trajectory, it looks to me like debt will go exponential in 2030-2040.

 - Will Congress somehow massively rein in spending and/or massively increase taxes despite not really having any incentive to do so?
 - Will people/institutions/governments' demand for treasuries grow exponentially alongside the exponential increase in debt, allowing interest rates to remain low?
 - Will the US default on its treasuries, wiping out many Americans' retirement accounts in a very obvious way? (Hyperinflation might do the same thing, but it's less obvious.)
 - Will the Fed print trillions of dollars every year in order to buy treasuries, but yet this money will not cause hyperinflation? If it won't cause hyperinflation, where will the money go? The money would be created and given to the government in exchange for treasuries, and the government would be spending it on things like medical expenses, social security benefits, and military hardware, so it should in fact enter the economy pretty quickly & widely.

On Wednesday, in the wake of the arrest of Vinnik, WizSec published a blogpost presenting the findings of an investigation into the Mt. Gox thefts that they have apparently been preparing for years. According to WizSec, the Mt. Gox hot wallet private keys were stolen sometime in 2011, and the hacker (or multiple hackers) continued to steal bitcoin through 2012 and 2013. The bitcoin were laundered through wallets controlled by Alexander Vinnik. The indictment claims that 300,000 bitcoin were stolen from Mt. Gox went directly to three connected BTC-e accounts “directly linked” to “BTC-e administrative accounts” that only BTC-e admins and operators could have had access to. At least one of the accounts — under the name “Vamnedam” — was controlled by Vinnik and “others known and unknown.” (The “others known” are either not named in the indictment or have been redacted from the published document.)

More bitcoin from the theft were sent to other Mt. Gox wallets and wallets at a third exchange — the now-defunct Tradehill, which operated out of San Francisco, California. From there, they eventually ended up at BTC-e, in an account that was directly controlled by Vinnik.

WizSec also claims that the wallets that laundered Mt. Gox coins also handled “coins stolen from Bitcoinica, Bitfloor and several other thefts from back in 2011 and 2012.”

It’s not clear whether Vinnik was directly involved in the Mt. Gox theft, or how close he is to any of those previous thefts, or even the CryptoWall ransomware hackers whose funds he is accused of laundering. But when it comes to Mt. Gox, at least, BTC-e’s proximity to the theft is fairly suspicious.

Yeah, there's zero chance of the debt being resolved without some big disaster. The incentives just aren't there. Politicians get reelected by bragging about what they've delivered to their constituents, not by endlessly explaining why they tried to defund <voter's favorite project>. So you get things like McConnell's $1 billion gift to Kentucky in the latest budget. To pass a budget, every politician gets to demand increases in the total.

Currently the debt per taxpayer is $187,000, about $9000 of which came just this year. Obviously this isn't ever going to be paid.

You can play with policies to reduce the debt in this little game. For most people, it's pretty difficult to do it while worrying just about your own ideals, but imagine that you were a politician who also had to satisfy your largely-clueless voters. It's not happening.


It won't necessarily be the next generation:
 - By 2025, interest payments on the debt are projected to exceed the military budget.
 - By 2026, the Medicare Trust Fund is projected to run out of money.
 - The median baby boomer will retire in a couple of years.
 - Some predict that we're in a bond bubble that's coming to an end, leading perhaps to much higher interest rates within a few years.
 - China, Russia, Iran, etc. have a strong interest in challenging the USD's dominance, especially as the US becomes increasingly aggressive toward them.

I think that the only realistic end result is the collapse of the dollar through hyperinflation. If interest rates quickly rise or if deficits continue on their current trajectory for 5-20 years, the debt will start to truly go exponential. Once this happens, the Fed will try to rescue the situation by printing money, but this will cause hyperinflation, and the world will lose faith in the dollar. A worthless dollar "solves" the debt situation, but obviously it'd be a world-shaking event which would do enormous & widespread damage.

But because the dollar is currently the world reserve currency, this could take decades if nothing major happens to speed things up.

And of course, you have an example when this was happening, right?  


Why the hell should the indicator of how powerful the economy of a country is take into consideration environmental degradation?
That would lead to a series of far more idiotic indexes.
How are you going to quantify this, how are you going to measure it?

You think US will look worse, then how is China going to look? Or India?
Probably because it more virgin forests, Bulgaria will become the new Switzerland  


Yeah, I would love to see others doing this. Others!
Natural stuff...Please type the next message by carrier pigeon  

I don't really get the point of this part of the quote, since those things are only factors that might potentially affect the economy and it isn't as though this is the first time in the history of economics that there's been severe unrest, disasters, and everything else happening.  There are always things going on that might affect a country's economy, but good luck trying to measure the impact before the effect happens.

So this is one economist blabbering on about some iconoclastic, paradigm-shifting lunacy.  The man probably deserves some respect for his accomplishments, but I trust the academic community will be the best judge of whether to listen to his suggestions, much like what happens in the scientific community.  There are well-known scientists who don't believe the HIV virus exists and have said as much, but that line of thinking hasn't exactly gone mainstream.  True knowledge will (hopefully) always prevail.

Banks are left with no choice. They run on fiat, under the government. Non-compliance would hurt their business more. They can't pretty much do anything, since the government politicians and law enforcement could always use their power at their will. They also aren't able to support cryptocurrencies either since it is also restricted by the government.

HSBC is not in control of such, articles also states that the account closing was conducted by the police, and not voluntarily conducted by HSBC themselves.

let me remember my history knowledge, who forced a constitution on germany that forced it to basically feed, educate and house everyone that comes to germany and asks for asylum?

it was you (uk)

how about you join suffering with germany the constitution you imposed upon it.

its also not that way that germany wants to get enslaved by the entire middle east and africa.

germany is mirrowing on whole europe the constitution it was imposed upon.

btw all immigrants comming to germany vote the german left (like democrats in us) who prevent the removal of those articles cementing the enslavement.

I doubt his worshipping followers will put in the time or effort to read that, much less comprehend it.
He should split it up into his trademark nonsensical tweets with spelling and grammatical errors, then his base will get all fired up for his next rambling rant farcical rally.

This was the plan from the start. There is a reason Trump mentioned Crowdstrike in that call, it was a trap for thirsty dems looking for anything to latch on to, baiting them into exposing Biden.