Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion

[AlexGR]

Yeah, like Wall Street, and New York in particular, are somehow very Bitcoin-friendly

[blunderer]

Yeah, like Wall Street, and New York in particular, are somehow very Bitcoin-friendly

Remember how y'all was courtin' Wall St. tho?
Remember lusting after Gemini & "big corporate money waiting in the wings"?



Yeah... we never really liked them anyhow.

[shmadz]

... I really didn't want to get into a little nationalistic sandbox dispute with a member of our number one trading partner, but you started it. First blood.

Anyway, I'm done with this nonsense. Goodnight.

... stop bragging about how smart you are for stealing from us because we have more guns than you and we're getting pretty fed up.  

[bargainbin]

Anyone following MP/#bitcoin-assets drama? Shrews in a fishbowl...

[spiderbrain]

Canada doesn't have a monopoly on smart people but on a basis of population we're still well ahead of the Russians

Only because you import Chinese and export Celene Dion and Nickleback.

We also don't put our healthcare in the hands of sleazy insurance corporations or spend more on the military than on education.

I tried not to mention the Land of the Incarcerated and the Home of the Emboldened. Sigh.
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Sorry everybody. I should never have bitten Bargainchop's trollbait. My apologies.

No, that was funny, keep it up! =D

[Chainsaw]

Anyone following MP/#bitcoin-assets drama? Shrews in a fishbowl...

What's going on?

[JimboToronto]

Good morning Bitcoinland.

Still around $420 I see. Marginally better than $416 I suppose but still pretty much sideways.

Let's see what the weekend brings.

[JimboToronto]

Anyone following MP/#bitcoin-assets drama? Shrews in a fishbowl...

What's going on?

The HashFast cypherdoc court case.

http://www.coindesk.com/bankrupt-bitcoin-mining-firm-trustee-seeks-return-of-funds-from-former-promoter/

[bargainbin]

Anyone following MP/#bitcoin-assets drama? Shrews in a fishbowl...

What's going on?

Just like Bitcoin is time-compressed, HO-scale model of IRL money, #bitcoin-assets is time-compressed Bitcoin in a teacup petri dish.
The drama that takes years to play out in Bitcoin (devs rage-quitting, "the Great Schism," etc., etc.) takes weeks to play out there (Mircea rage-quits; BFF/WoT wars; people getting kicked (& B&); passion & grandiosity; unironic likening of MP to God/Pope; talk of "dying for an idea," etc.).
All set off with that 0-fee tx that "bankrupted" BitBet.
Antifragile.

[adamstgBit]

Anyone following MP/#bitcoin-assets drama? Shrews in a fishbowl...

What's going on?

The HashFast cypherdoc court case.

http://www.coindesk.com/bankrupt-bitcoin-mining-firm-trustee-seeks-return-of-funds-from-former-promoter/

cypherdoc will win!
bitcoin is a currency

[yefi]

Anyone following MP/#bitcoin-assets drama? Shrews in a fishbowl...

What's going on?

The HashFast cypherdoc court case.

http://www.coindesk.com/bankrupt-bitcoin-mining-firm-trustee-seeks-return-of-funds-from-former-promoter/

Don't believe that has anything to do with it. The brouhaha has been over Bitbet being liquidated: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1383537

[lemmyK]

http://www.hightimes.com/      this business will have the BIG boom.More capitalization than whole bitcoins. In the coming years... Only a fool, today not invest in it now . im start prepare start move my ass to some good future countries ..
   http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/08/news/cannabis-israel-medical-exports/
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/209933#.VwAOAqSLRPY
I understand the circumstances and life in all countries ... soo       often I do not give advice for free..

[Fatman3001]

The smartest Russian, Vitalik Buterin grew up and was educated in Canada. Coincidence?

o rly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman

Fair enough. Perelman is no slouch.

For a country with the population of Russia though, they don't do so well.

Meanwhile, half of the original Silicon Valley was educated at The University of Western Ontario or the University of Waterloo. The rest came mostly from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Michigan at Dearborn. That's not counting Stanford of course. The were the destination.

Many of our best minds were scooped up by the Americans (and their money) in the 1960s. At the time we called it the brain drain.

Canada doesn't have a monopoly on smart people but on a basis of population we're still well ahead of the Russians

It sort of helps to speak english in Silicon Valley.

Let's look at some other measures:

This is what Russia sent up into space 30 years ago:



This is their contribution to the ISS:



And Canada?



"fap fap fap fap fap"


Ok, change of focus:

Russia: Mussorgsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff.

Canada: Avril Lavigne, Bryan Adams...... eh...ehh...

Russia: Bolshoi Ballet, Mariinsky Ballet.

Canada: Cirque du Soleil.

As for "easy pickings" remember who won the War of 1812 (hint: it wasn't the USA).

Great Britain

[Oblodo]

Hi hi, you primitive nationalist you. I forget sometimes that some groups of eukaryotes are so stupid that they believe in lines on maps.. We live on the same fucking planet, and have evolved from the same cells. Talking about who's "best" is stupid.

[Fatman3001]

Hi hi, you primitive nationalist you. I forget sometimes that some groups of eukaryotes are so stupid that they believe in lines on maps.. We live on the same fucking planet, and have evolved from the same cells. Talking about who's "best" is stupid.

I'm pretty sure I live in the same country you're living in. I'm just trying to piss off a drunk canadian. You should try it. It's fun!

[r0ach]

Hi hi, you primitive nationalist you. I forget sometimes that some groups of eukaryotes are so stupid that they believe in lines on maps.. We live on the same fucking planet, and have evolved from the same cells. Talking about who's "best" is stupid.

In the same amount of time it took to change wolves to dogs, some groups of humans have been isolated from each other that long.  There are obvious differences in groups and it would be illogical if there wasn't.

[Spaceman_Spiff]

being fully honest, i have simply dont understand what your saying, maybe my view is too high level. to me you either prove you computing power  (POW) or you prove your economic power ( POS)

i think we'd need a face to face discussion with a blackboard to understand your point.

Do you understand that the act of mining itself is technically a decentralized exchange?  Most people don't know Bitcoin has a decentralized exchange, but that's exactly what it is.  It's a permanent decentralized exchange because the block reward is subsidized by transaction fees so you can always go straight to the tree itself to pluck off coins.  If you remove this peg, it becomes a closed entropy system and is no longer decentralized, but only a distributed, permissioned ledger.

Bullshit, an exchange is a place you can buy and sell stuff.  You can't sell bitcoins by mining.
Mining is a way of obtaining bitcoin that doesn't require authentication, but that's about it.....  

[Fatman3001]

Hi hi, you primitive nationalist you. I forget sometimes that some groups of eukaryotes are so stupid that they believe in lines on maps.. We live on the same fucking planet, and have evolved from the same cells. Talking about who's "best" is stupid.

In the same amount of time it took to change wolves to dogs, some groups of humans have been isolated from each other that long.  There are obvious differences in groups and it would be illogical if there wasn't.

Dogs are exceptionally diverse. Partly because they've been bred by humans, partly because of their unique genetic characteristics. Cats have pretty much looked the same for 40 million years. But even there we find more diversity than between humans. Although they look similar, a normal house cat is 4kg, a siberian tiger is 423kg. The global average of 72.7kg for humans is a figure everyone on the planet can relate to, regardless of geographic location or ethnicity. The reason for this is in large part due to the amount of energy the human brain consumes.

This big brain has made it possible for us humans to adapt our environment to us rather than we adapting to our environment. So humans are pretty much the same as they were when part of the human species moved out of Africa. One of the things we struggled to adapt to us was the sun. Dark skin requires a lot of sunlight to produce vitamin D. Humans in colder environments would have an evolutionary bias towards lighter skin. At the same time the large asian deserts made it difficult for people with large round eyes, so an evolutionary bias towards more narrow eye shapes developed in parts of Asia.

So yes, there are differences. But none that are significant in relation to your social darwinistic delusion.

[Andre#]

Hi hi, you primitive nationalist you. I forget sometimes that some groups of eukaryotes are so stupid that they believe in lines on maps.. We live on the same fucking planet, and have evolved from the same cells. Talking about who's "best" is stupid.

In the same amount of time it took to change wolves to dogs, some groups of humans have been isolated from each other that long.  There are obvious differences in groups and it would be illogical if there wasn't.

Dogs are exceptionally diverse. Partly because they've been bred by humans, partly because of their unique genetic characteristics. Cats have pretty much looked the same for 40 million years. But even there we find more diversity than between humans. Although they look similar, a normal house cat is 4kg, a siberian tiger is 423kg. The global average of 72.7kg for humans is a figure everyone on the planet can relate to, regardless of geographic location or ethnicity. The reason for this is in large part due to the amount of energy the human brain consumes.

This big brain has made it possible for us humans to adapt our environment to us rather than we adapting to our environment. So humans are pretty much the same as they were when part of the human species moved out of Africa. One of the things we struggled to adapt to us was the sun. Dark skin requires a lot of sunlight to produce vitamin E. Humans in colder environments would have an evolutionary bias towards lighter skin. At the same time the large asian deserts made it difficult for people with large round eyes, so an evolutionary bias towards more narrow eye shapes developed in parts of Asia.

So yes, there are differences. But none that are significant in relation to your social darwinistic delusion.

 

[nioc]

All good but it's vitamin D not vitamin E,  I know you know that and it's only a typo.