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realr0ach
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February 03, 2019, 08:39:10 PM |
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every time i tried to invest some btc into any alt it felt so wrong
There's no such thing as an "altcoin". It's a propaganda term used by people like Luke Jr to attempt to hide the fact bitcoin has no valid Schelling point. Every single thing about bitcoin is completely arbitrary. There is no variable or aspect of it that has to be a certain way. Trying to pretend the date should be changed from 2019 AD to 10 AB (after bitcoin) is the most ludicrous bullshit scam ever perpetrated. Even the creators of bitcoin say the design of it has a large chance of failure, so how is it possible to claim bitcoin is inherently better than anything someone else creates? It's not. This is one reason cryptocurrency is complete garbage. No Schelling point. It's not possible for something to be the unit of account of anything if it's completely arbitrary and can just be discarded at whim for something else. That and if you corner every shitcoin on the planet, no matter which coin it is, you have no power over anyone because nobody actually needs your tokens and they can just use a different one instead where the distribution favors themselves. That's why a fake commodity like bitcoin is useless. If I corner all the silver in the world, people actually need them so I can just sit in my castle and gouge the market for whatever it can bear. That is real power. Digital shitcoins give you zero power over anything. I can ignore you like you don't even exist no matter how many you hoard.
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February 03, 2019, 08:40:46 PM |
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An Israeli "startup" is monitoring Bitcoin donations to Hamas. After Hamas's military wing published a bitcoin address on Telegram on Thursday identified by Whitestream as the wallet address of Coinbase, the same Telegram channel published a second bitcoin address for collecting donations on Saturday, this time a digital wallet apparently unrelated to Coinbase. Levy explained to "Globes" today that according to a check by Whitestream, within two days of the publication of the first bitcoin address, two relatively small bitcoin donations addresses were published amounting to only $2,500.
Whitestream discovered that one of the bitcoin donations transferred to Hamas's Coinbase wallet was sent on Thursday from a "Buy Cash" bitcoin trader in Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip. Other bitcoin donations were sent to the Palestinian organization from wallets connected to Chinese cryptocurrencies exchange Binance and Russian cryptocurrencies exchange Vilkov, and from a wallet of another Coinbase account. Whitestream's check also revealed that bitcoin donations were sent late last week from Hamas's coinbase wallet to two bitcoin wallets: one belonging to CoinPayments, a company registered in the Cayman Islands, and one belonging to Binance.
The second Hamas bitcoin address has so far received donations from wallets of US trading platforms Bittrex and Coinbase, from Binance and Vilkov wallets, and from the coinMixer.io mixing service. Mixing technology mixes different addresses of digital currencies, thereby making it difficult to identify their users. Levy told "Globes" that the Hamas Coinbase wallet may have been blocked, and another wallet opened for collecting donations. The Whitestream team will continue monitoring incoming and outgoing transactions on Hamas's bitcoin addresses in the near future. . https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-hamas-raises-bitcoin-donations-via-us-crypto-exchange-1001271661
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February 03, 2019, 08:41:39 PM |
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you had 50 btc but gambled it away buying shitcoins? and you still want to keep the shitcoins? imho hodl refers to bitcoin, not to shitcoins.
Actually, no, I "earned" 50 BTC worth of shitcoins (well, I don't consider them shitcoins, but whatever) ... my mistake was not cashing them out to BTC when I had the chance, and in hindsight, cashing out those BTC to fiat (maybe some, not all) so that I can live comfortably for a couple years, and then find a normie job without worrying about the future. (50 BTC was $1m USD back in Jan 2018? Something like that.) And continue to earn or hodl everything. But hey, no one's perfect. Either learn from your mistakes, or learn from other's mistakes. Still think they were pretty good bets. A bitcoin would help so much, I'm not going homeless, and I've got a family to keep warm.
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February 03, 2019, 08:54:12 PM |
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you had 50 btc but gambled it away buying shitcoins? and you still want to keep the shitcoins? imho hodl refers to bitcoin, not to shitcoins.
Actually, no, I "earned" 50 BTC worth of shitcoins (well, I don't consider them shitcoins, but whatever) ... my mistake was not cashing them out to BTC when I had the chance, and in hindsight, cashing out those BTC to fiat (maybe some, not all) so that I can live comfortably for a couple years, and then find a normie job without worrying about the future. (50 BTC was $1m USD back in Jan 2018? Something like that.) And continue to earn or hodl everything. But hey, no one's perfect. Either learn from your mistakes, or learn from other's mistakes. Still think they were pretty good bets. A bitcoin would help so much, I'm not going homeless, and I've got a family to keep warm. pm sent.
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February 03, 2019, 09:02:13 PM |
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Currently, I am think that it is going to be pretty likely that I will be taking some BTC with me when I die, but ideally would be to spend every last satoshi by the time I take my last breath, and second best scenario would be to be able to bequeath anything that I happen to have by then (hopefully not too much, by then.. hahahaha).
First dibs on the dead man's bitcoins.
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BTC + Crossfit, living life.
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February 03, 2019, 09:04:06 PM |
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and back under that nasty ass 3.4K
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February 03, 2019, 09:04:33 PM |
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^that's what's making me feel cold
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February 03, 2019, 09:04:34 PM Merited by Globb0 (4), jojo69 (1) |
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Just don't hold on too long  Or on an exchange! 
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February 03, 2019, 09:09:14 PM |
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^^  reminded me @bean movie 
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February 03, 2019, 09:11:08 PM |
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Right I happen to mostly support Peterson (and be skeptical of Taleb), got a link to the chat in question?
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February 03, 2019, 09:17:11 PM |
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Peter Vessenes is such an incredible a..ho.e . claiming 25% of btc marketcap, what a shitshow.
It's almost like he's trying to be openly obtuse. The Japanese court ought to instantly reject these claims, but the incredibly bureaucratic nature of things probably means claimants will be waiting years now.
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February 03, 2019, 09:25:14 PM |
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you had 50 btc but gambled it away buying shitcoins? and you still want to keep the shitcoins? imho hodl refers to bitcoin, not to shitcoins.
Hodl refers to what you believe in. BTC was seen as a dubious innovation some years ago. A shitcoin now can become a very useful tool in the future. Hodl is a state of mind about you believing in a tech rather than trading for more fiat. That's all.
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February 03, 2019, 09:28:25 PM |
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you had 50 btc but gambled it away buying shitcoins? and you still want to keep the shitcoins? imho hodl refers to bitcoin, not to shitcoins.
Hodl refers to what you believe in. BTC was seen as a dubious innovation some years ago. A shitcoin now can become a very useful tool in the future. Hodl is a state of mind about you believing in a tech rather than trading for more fiat. That's all. Anything new is always doubted and ridiculed. Only those with a sharp foresight can see that there is more to it.
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February 03, 2019, 09:30:50 PM |
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you had 50 btc but gambled it away buying shitcoins? and you still want to keep the shitcoins? imho hodl refers to bitcoin, not to shitcoins.
Hodl refers to what you believe in. BTC was seen as a dubious innovation some years ago. A shitcoin now can become a very useful tool in the future. Hodl is a state of mind about you believing in a tech rather than trading for more fiat. That's all. Eh at the point I see shitcoins as opportunities to increase my Bitcoin holdings with a very few exceptions.
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February 03, 2019, 09:34:35 PM |
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Somewhat bitcoin related since it involves Richard Branson, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and numerous other shitcoiners. The TLDR version is, random autistic guy who was supposedly some type of genetic engineering genius (debatable) kills himself after being labeled a "misogynist": https://quillette.com/2019/01/30/the-death-of-a-dreamer/As for if the world would be a better place with this guy, he seemed like a true mad scientist to me eclipsing even that of Dr Frankenstein. He wanted to genetically engineer literally EVERYTHING and doesn't seem to understand or care about all the potentially catastrophic consequences such actions would cause. Allowing random autistic people to play mad scientist and experiment on the world is just not something I'm too thrilled about happening. He doesn't even seem to have real goals for his experiments. He just wants to play dice for the fuck of it = disaster waiting to happen.
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1/21000000 , the only math you need to know
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February 03, 2019, 09:52:53 PM |
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February 03, 2019, 09:54:18 PM |
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Just don't hold on too long  Or on an exchange!  And yet the BTC is worth HODL!
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