Nah his lawyers covered that angle by playing the retard card. Now he can get away with anything he says, by claiming it on his autism.

Why do you say their 200bps days are numbered? Do you expect US to approve their application to convert GBTC into spot ETF? At current -14% discount to NAV market doesn't seem to think that it'll happen anytime soon. If market values GBTC shares at 14% discount to NAV now, wondering if hype of spot ETF will be enough to offset the redemption rate once people can exit the $28BB fund at NAV

It's like good ol' times, even Lamby is back

No more tres comas, now we're into "cuatro comas"™!

Will need an updated image

Ahh the beauty of centralization, would be interesting to see the effects of Visa going down for few hrs.

Only it does, atmosphere doesn't follow city borders, and local air pollutants don't stay local. The fact that the world is an awfully big place, only leaves the extent of the effects debatable, but in no way does it rule it out. The question becomes what are the side effects at each level of pollution. And finally, the cost/benefits analysis, personal risk tolerances, who benefit vs. who suffer etc etc etc... come into play. Saying that the city/state/country next to yours can fuck up their air pollution as much as they want without it having any effect on you is borderline delusional.


 

My argument was about the overall air pollution from the start (CO2 is a subset). Then i just took it to its logical conclusion, if we all can agree that air pollution is already an issue at many local levels, how can anyone argue that it has no effect on the global level? The levels of that effect can of course be argued. If we know that we already fucked up environments on many city levels, saying that everything is fine, that's just nature, so we should continue doing what we are doing just sounds retarded.

Typical straw man, about the govermentz. Yeah i stand by it, at this stage it takes someone reallllly "special" to deny effects of pollution in some of the most polluted cities in India and China. Then i did a "slippery slope" argument, *hint, that's the one that's easiest to attack

Pretty sure everyone (everyone sane?) will agree that we (humans) already managed to fuck up environment at the city levels in many locations around the globe (possibly country levels, fancy a health retreat in Bangladesh?). Yet even the thought, that combined effect of all those fucked up cities could have some not so positive effects on a global scale, is completely incomprehensible and alien to them.

I know right, caveman had those smog cities and toxic lakes in inner Mongolia back in the day too! What a nice place for a fishing trip, or perhaps a family vacation for kids to go swimming in the water? If you know for a fact that we shouldn't worry about it now, then care to share how bad should the man-made smog get before we should start getting worried? Throw some ppms or cancer rates or something at which you wouldn't advice your kids to play outside?


Cheap energy that you can actually taste. Like everywhere, just by breathing.
Think those Russians found the answer to the long life longevity, burn baby burn. Fuck the government for telling me what color my snow should be

Is this the effect of the Pandora papers with money floating into BTC?

https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1443410462129983490

I got many questions on this (like why isn't the discount for payments in BTC only, and why Chivo app and not any lightning wallet etc...) but conceptually this is what it's all about. Sure you can continue paying with your credit card for "free" or get savings for transaction fees passed back to you if you pay with lightning. Market cap of credit card companies is (was?) $1T oops...

Let me provide discount on every global transaction and I care not who writes the laws (or BTC's current price action)

https://cointelegraph.com/news/morgan-stanley-doubles-exposure-to-bitcoin-through-grayscale-shares

not sure if it's cause they're so bullish with BTC and couldn't find a cheaper alternative, or they're just betting on the ETF that'll erase the current 16% discount

Looks like a full out ban on mining and exchanges in China, and we (so far?) only go back to where we were 3 days ago? Doesn't look like there are that many left that care anymore, or couldn't foresee this happening with Chinas push for CBDCs.

I see bitcoin .org hack as a net positive. Bitcoin doesn't have or need any rulers or websites. I applaud the "hacker" and find it hilariously suspicious that after getting full control of such website all they do is put up double your BTC scam. Can't think of a better way of discrediting such website without causing harm to underlying BTC.
In fact I'd love to see all of the devs go fully anonymous, and just sign the released code as their sign of approval that they have vetted the code. i.e. just take the roll of official "auditors" of the code

As far as faketoshi, BSv is now outside of top 50 on coinmarketcap behind "Klaytn" (whatever that is). Market has deemed him irrelevant, and i couldn't agree more

There's nothing outlandish in that quote. It's almost entirely taken from their main site

https://grayscale.com/products/grayscale-bitcoin-trust/

GBTC fund is closed so nothing is going into it. Bottom line shows GBTC premium over secondary. As we can see it's negative (discount) at last data point climbing to around -7%. Top two lines are market price and holdings in $ which is essentially same thing since fund is still closed.





This graph is for BTCC Canadian "Purpose Bitcoin ETF" showing price and AUM in CAD$ so once again they're both climbing because BTC is climbing. Nothing new to see here

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-26/tether-executives-said-to-face-criminal-probe-into-bank-fraud
Way overdue if you ask me, stablecoins shouldn't have been allowed to get as big as they got

If you believe that the current levels are not significant enough to affect the climate, would you care to state your position on what levels of co2 you feel would have an effect?

Surely you don't think that fees will fall linearly 4x with 4mb blocks right? So how many minutes do you think it'll be, before 4mb blocks get back jammed with 1sat/byte transactions? And that will be the point where people will start making fun of you for trying to run a global currency network on such crappy low end PC. And now clearly you need to upgrade to at least 64gb ram and a 4tb ssd for 8mb blocks. And just few minutes after that will come a need for 8mb blocks with a mid tower, then 16mb, then 32mb with a high end server etc etc etc ...?

So the trade of is, you wipe out Pie nodes while ... achieving absolutely nothing  (or at max managed to drop the fees 25% for few months)

In any case, bitcoin is going the way of an El Salvadorian fisherman with an LN channel on a Pie node transacting his business for fraction of a cent. Surely this is not the end stage and there's plenty that still will need to be improved, but this is a best solution so far, if you think a global currency can keep every transaction on layer one while maintaining decentralization you're delusional.