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November 04, 2017, 01:38:46 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrLr7MdyyLg

Confirmed @11:50 what I've always suspected to be true: fractional reserve shares (aka "phantom shares") in the U.S. stock market are real. I fkn knew it! That along with collateralized and even naked re-hypo liens on personal/corp shares exactly confirms why when the U.S. stock market crashes, it crashes so hard.... because of all the unwinding.
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November 04, 2017, 01:46:43 AM

When all this forking business dust settles sometime in the next couple of weeks or so 
I predict there is going to be some serious eating of crow....
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November 04, 2017, 01:50:25 AM

So is the general consensus that everyone's going to dump their s2x coins asap?
To get at my keys I'd have to travel to Antarctica, dig down through 40M of ice, disarm the traps (non trivial undertaking even knowing how they are set up) cut open the welded shut vault and then defrost the Pentium 3 inside.

pffft ... and you call that security?

To get my keys I'd have to travel to Kilimanjaro, hike up to a cave guarded by Chaga clan's finest warriors where the climax of a violent ritual releases the participant into the inner caves and there a map and keys to a secret location on a remote Pacific atoll housing a base for an ultra-deep submarine, guarded by native Melanesian ninjas, from where the submarine is used to dive to the greatest depths achievable in the Mariana trench where the seed phrase etched onto a titanium plaque is only readable by a special microscope.

god      dayum


Imma have to up my game
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November 04, 2017, 01:57:23 AM

How much do accounts like ours go for, anyway? Surely he has a max price in mind.

I dunno, his PM just said "Name your price." I didn't reply, and don't plan to.

Nice to see you back! Was starting to wonder.
Is the user anonymous or can you out the user name at least?
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November 04, 2017, 02:01:49 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrLr7MdyyLg

Confirmed @11:50 what I've always suspected to be true: fractional reserve shares (aka "phantom shares") in the U.S. stock market are real. I fkn knew it! That along with collateralized and even naked re-hypo liens on personal/corp shares exactly confirms why when the U.S. stock market crashes, it crashes so hard.... because of all the unwinding.
Where it is possible to cheat and there is a low chance of getting caught or punished if caught, someone will cheat. Scott Adams pointed this out during the election and it holds true in life in general.
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November 04, 2017, 02:12:39 AM

Nice to see you back! Was starting to wonder.
Is the user anonymous or can you out the user name at least?

I thought about that. Should I out him? It's a newb account with like a dozen or so posts. But interestingly, it doesn't fit the profile of a typical throwaway troll account. His initial posts seem to indicate that he's perhaps somewhat young-ish and passionate about Bitcoin, pro-Bitcoin beyond just making money. I know posts can be deceiving though.

I thought that maybe I would just let it lie for now. Maybe if he is reading this then perhaps he will realize that he made a rash decision in PM'ing me and regret it. I always try to give people second chances to make right.

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November 04, 2017, 02:39:39 AM

Nice to see you back! Was starting to wonder.
Is the user anonymous or can you out the user name at least?

I thought about that. Should I out him? It's a newb account with like a dozen or so posts. But interestingly, it doesn't fit the profile of a typical throwaway troll account. His initial posts seem to indicate that he's perhaps somewhat young-ish and passionate about Bitcoin, pro-Bitcoin beyond just making money. I know posts can be deceiving though.

I thought that maybe I would just let it lie for now. Maybe if he is reading this then perhaps he will realize that he made a rash decision in PM'ing me and regret it. I always try to give people second chances to make right.



I'd take it as a compliment. Nobody ever tried to buy me out. Not even Marcus just to shut me up. Roll Eyes
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November 04, 2017, 02:42:44 AM

I always try to give people second chances to make right.



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November 04, 2017, 02:48:24 AM

Nice to see you back! Was starting to wonder.
Is the user anonymous or can you out the user name at least?

I thought about that. Should I out him? It's a newb account with like a dozen or so posts. But interestingly, it doesn't fit the profile of a typical throwaway troll account. His initial posts seem to indicate that he's perhaps somewhat young-ish and passionate about Bitcoin, pro-Bitcoin beyond just making money. I know posts can be deceiving though.

I thought that maybe I would just let it lie for now. Maybe if he is reading this then perhaps he will realize that he made a rash decision in PM'ing me and regret it. I always try to give people second chances to make right.



Respect!
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November 04, 2017, 02:52:55 AM

TORQUE!!!

<bro fist> Sorry, was away for awhile tending to some things.  Smiley

Btw this is unrelated to my going dark, but for years I had heard the rumors of certain Legendary users being approached by other anonymous users with offers to sell their accounts to them. And even rumors that some had taken them up on it.

Well... it's now happened to me too. "Name your price", he said. I find it all amusing. Just know that I am a person of integrity and would never do something like that, no matter what the offer was. Anyone who wants to buy your account intends to impersonate you and do bad things with it.  No thanks.




It's not worth it... .. .. but how are we going to know for sure?  OMG    Shocked Shocked
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November 04, 2017, 03:29:09 AM

A very very worse case scenario would be that 2x garners network support and becomes the new bitcoin

Certainly, I personally believe there is a very good chance that BCH becomes the victor of the enforkenating. I assume you merely cast this off as implausible?

Sure you want to throw a monkey wrench in my framing of various scenarios to add another possible scenario that to me seems to me to be less plausible than a segwit2x take-over... so you are correct that I am perceiving such a supposed BCH take over scenario as less plausible than a segwit2x take over... .

Part of my reasoning is that BCH seems to already have proven itself as crap, corrupted, quasi-centralized, so I can't really imagine any reasonably plausible scenario that would cause BTC networking effects to migrate over to BCH, at least NOT on any kind of sustainable scenario.




But really, if S2X emerges the victor, is that really a 'worst case' for you Core acolytes?

hahahahaha.. you goofie picnic food stealing bear.....

"core acolytes" is a name for someone like me who is continuing to find nonsense in the various attack ploys and propaganda coming from BIG blockers...


Let me see if I can address this.  I understand that frequently you do not appreciate my way of framing these matters; however, it seems to make a whole hell-of-a lot more sense that I call names to attackers and to non-status quo whiners than for you and other nonsense BIG blockers to continue to attack and denigrate and try to suggest that  "core acolytes" are an actual category of equals.  These "core acolytes" are not part of any religion, and don't have any duty to justify anything.. Instead , those challenging the system have the duty to justify and persuade with facts and/or logic.. and they continuously are not able to do such justification to get the bitcoin system changed, so instead they attack and try to destroy with ongoing seemingly more desperate mechanisms.. and hoping that sooner or later they are going to attract actual and meaningful networking support to their ongoing lame-ass side.  Maybe if they actually used reasonable and merit based measures, then perhaps (seems a long shot) they could graduate above and beyond "lame-ass?"  perhaps?



Seems to me that there ain't more than a RCH difference between S1X and S2X.

I don't know what is RCH, and you could be correct that there is NOT much of a difference, and maybe for that reason , we could see that logically there is a problem to attempt to take over the whole fucking thing of bitcoin over some stupid-ass minor difference for which there is little to no justification in terms of logic and/or facts that would cause it to be necessary in any kind of way beyond a bunch of whiners who say that they want it.



Sure, a handful of overly-entitled neckbeards either whiny-ragequit or have their bluffs exposed. Other than that, what?


I think that your reference to whiners and my reference to whiners if different, but I believe that I understand what you are getting at.  So you are going with the scenario that S2x becomes the new bitcoin, and then you are supposing that everything is the same, except for some whiny core developers would quit.. which you characterize as a kind of trivial thing.  Go figure the amount of spinning going on, here, to be kind of narrowly describing and denigrating core developers.. and I suppose that is also part of the problem with S2x, is that they personalize the bullshit when they would be welcome to contribute to core (and bitcoin) if they stop acting like a bunch of kids and engage in constructive contributions that are based on factual and/or logical backings...

Sure, not every proposal has to be factual and logical and could include some other considerations, but seems that if some of these immature BIG blockers were able to grow up a bit, remove some of their emotional and personal animosity, then there could be some ways that they would actually be able to positively affect the direction of bitcoin, perhaps?




Again only tangentially related: the arcane mechanism by which 'US GDP growth rate' is calculated.
But first! Be prepared to be stunned and amazed!
http://netrightdaily.com/2017/11/average-annual-gdp-growth-not-think/

Does "tangentially related" also mean irrelevant to the current discussion?  Don't you need to make some kind of connection, and even if you might be presenting some non-controversial data, but what is the connection to the current topic?

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November 04, 2017, 03:41:39 AM

hey jberher,  if you need a job after all this, drop me a line.
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November 04, 2017, 03:46:13 AM

If someone offered me a pizza ... I'd take the coins instead. But then no one is going to offer that much anyways ...
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November 04, 2017, 04:07:56 AM

Fuck off you imbeciles and let the adults get to work already.

Exactly what am I doing that is preventing your so-called 'adults' from getting your/their work done?

Tend to your own fucking garden.
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November 04, 2017, 04:12:12 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrLr7MdyyLg

Confirmed @11:50 what I've always suspected to be true: fractional reserve shares (aka "phantom shares") in the U.S. stock market are real. I fkn knew it! That along with collateralized and even naked re-hypo liens on personal/corp shares exactly confirms why when the U.S. stock market crashes, it crashes so hard.... because of all the unwinding.

Before Patrick Byrne was into Bitcoin, he brought to light this very issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_FZO9-ZIWU

There's some good tutorial material on the topic he developed back then floating around the web as well.
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Again only tangentially related: the arcane mechanism by which 'US GDP growth rate' is calculated.
But first! Be prepared to be stunned and amazed!
http://netrightdaily.com/2017/11/average-annual-gdp-growth-not-think/

Does "tangentially related" also mean irrelevant to the current discussion?  Don't you need to make some kind of connection, and even if you might be presenting some non-controversial data, but what is the connection to the current topic?

Yes. Irrelevant to the discussion above the horizontal rule. The horizontal rule itself denoting a change in topic. I thought this was the custom, no?
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November 04, 2017, 04:19:39 AM

hey jberher,  if you need a job after all this, drop me a line.

Can't see why I might, but thanks.

After all, even if I wasn't sitting on big bags o' Bitcoin, I have a lucrative career. Of course, I have informed by boss I'll be out the door once I finish two projects. But I get regular inquiries from headhunters, so I think I'm OK even in the unlikely event that crypto does shit the bed.
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hey jberher,  if you need a job after all this, drop me a line.

Can't see why I might, but thanks.

After all, even if I wasn't sitting on big bags o' Bitcoin, I have a lucrative career. Of course, I have informed by boss I'll be out the door once I finish two projects. But I get regular inquiries from headhunters, so I think I'm OK even in the unlikely event that crypto does shit the bed.

I imagine so.

Whatever happens, you are a superlative propagandist, and I mean that in the best way.  I truly hope that you believe your line...if not, you should sell that dearly my friend.  Do not give that shit away.
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November 04, 2017, 06:24:08 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrLr7MdyyLg

Confirmed @11:50 what I've always suspected to be true: fractional reserve shares (aka "phantom shares") in the U.S. stock market are real. I fkn knew it! That along with collateralized and even naked re-hypo liens on personal/corp shares exactly confirms why when the U.S. stock market crashes, it crashes so hard.... because of all the unwinding.

I read that interview the other day, very interesting. I am also deep in the weeds in the securities world now and see that more companies are looking to put their securities on a blockchain. It should be an interesting dynamic. One company that has been doing securities for years is now opening things up to crypto securities on the blockchain. Though just about all of them are using Ethereum. I keep raising my hand when it comes to which blockchain to use mentioning Bitcoin but all of the smart contract developers are in the ETH world. Hopefully this all changes after Rootstock opens up later this month.

Overstock's T0 should be interesting as well, it's been a long time coming.


As for account sales...someone offered me what would have been the equivalent of $2 per post for their signature campaign. Would be attractive to someone in a 2nd or 3rd world.

Interestingly enough...I nobody see anyone's signatures...is this happening? Is bitcointalk going to make a comeback?

nvm...looks like just this thread
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November 04, 2017, 06:46:18 AM

@Elwar, yep, it is only this thread.

Theymos removed the signatures from displaying here as part of the "deal" to allow the thread to be excempt of on-topicness and other rules of bitcointalk. Wise move that seems to have mostly got rid of the plague of signature spammers and affiliate campaigners that are pretty much elsewhere all over this board.

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