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June 19, 2019, 03:53:06 AM |
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What an assholish thing to say.
Look, you came in here telling people to "stfu" when it came to roach. Which is ironic because now you can't shut up about him. You don't understand how the forum rules work, just humbly accept that. Nobody can censor roach except for infofront. He's clearly not going to be banned from the forum, so it really doesn't matter what any of us think.
Once again you change the subject Not ironic; I don't care about him or what he says (you should try it); if anything, I use my brain and reaffirm my arguments against him. Don't be such a pansy. You mocked me, patronized me, all because I called out the ridiculousness of people complaining about someone they can completely ignore. You can ignore me, just like I'm putting you on ignore. Yes, I am an asshole, and so are you (probably most of us here, whether we admit it or not), and the fact that you are legendary shows just how far this thread has fallen over the last 7 or so years I've been a part of it. Now I remember why I stopped coming here; if you're not part of the echo chamber, you're told to gtfo and your opinions are invalid (to get off of roach, jbreher has been subject to this multiple times)... it's pathetic.
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June 19, 2019, 03:54:14 AM |
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"Or maybe her attention, is drawn by Aqualung, who watches through the railings as they play-ah-hay"
Perhaps /ignore the newbs, we will see many more, this next year. At least, don't waste brain cells on replying.
Harrumph.
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Hueristic
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June 19, 2019, 03:55:33 AM |
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Except we don't really KNOW if it was really fully backed. Also, neither cash nor BANKING FIAT are absolutely NON-FUNGIBLE... if they were selling Tether in exchange of banking fiat coming from dubious individuals/corporations, those funds were not really worth their face value because you are assuming a risk (that finally materialised) that the funds gets frozen later.
That's the reason even people (not only governments/banks) do require reasonable KYC on the origin of funds for big purchases, because you could end up without the sold good plus the obtained funds seized on a later date.
We only know that one point in time it was backed and that was done by a law firm which was only allowed access to the balance but not the books. Shady but they did prove they had the cash at that one point in time. That's not enough evidence for ME. I can't say I know that just because of a third party dubious appraisal. In fact neither could they (not enough information and redundant verifications). And also that cash was already hindered from the origin so it was never worth its face value (which is my main point here). I can have a barrel full of (real) notes but if the origin of them is dubious it is almost (unless I manage to launder them, which has a very significant cost) as if I had nothing. Which is exactly what happened to Tether when it got a big chunk of their funds locked. I didn't say they were legitimate in any way shape or form. I only stated that at one point in time they did have backing for all issued coins. Shady but true. So the consensus I've read is this facebook coin Libra is going to 'help' Bitcoin in its role as a 'store of value'. Does everyone buy this?
Just curious. I could see this 'maybe' if the facebook wallet for Libra would also allow the use of another crypto like BTC/LTC/ETH etc, etc.
that, however, seems very unlikely.
I still like the fact that it is $10 million dollars a 'node' to run the blockchain network for this Libra coin by facebook.
Also heard on NPR today that this coin will allow for tracking your spending and personal data, etc, etc. That seems 'convenient' as hell.
anyway, was wondering what folk think in the WO board here on bitcointalk?
whatever crypto always drama!
brad It should help legitimize Crypto to a shit-ton of Plebs by extension so it is a good thing in that sense.
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June 19, 2019, 04:14:14 AM |
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What an assholish thing to say.
Look, you came in here telling people to "stfu" when it came to roach. Which is ironic because now you can't shut up about him. You don't understand how the forum rules work, just humbly accept that. Nobody can censor roach except for infofront. He's clearly not going to be banned from the forum, so it really doesn't matter what any of us think.
Once again you change the subject Not ironic; I don't care about him or what he says (you should try it); if anything, I use my brain and reaffirm my arguments against him. Don't be such a pansy. You mocked me, patronized me, all because I called out the ridiculousness of people complaining about someone they can completely ignore. You can ignore me, just like I'm putting you on ignore. Yes, I am an asshole, and so are you (probably most of us here, whether we admit it or not), and the fact that you are legendary shows just how far this thread has fallen over the last 7 or so years I've been a part of it. Now I remember why I stopped coming here; if you're not part of the echo chamber, you're told to gtfo and your opinions are invalid (to get off of roach, jbreher has been subject to this multiple times)... it's pathetic. ignoring Roach is ignoring knowledge, wisdom, politics, manipulation and many other things.
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JayJuanGee
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June 19, 2019, 04:19:34 AM |
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Nobody is censoring anybody. That's a basic misunderstanding you have. Flags don't censor people, neither do tags for that matter.
Haha, I'm sorry you keep losing the argument and have to continually change the focus of this conversation. It's like arguing with my girlfriend when she knows she is wrong, eye rolls included. Who gives a shit about flags and tags (why even bring them up?)? People are literally asking for roach to be banned and/or his posts deleted because they disagree with him and find him annoying. If that's not censoring, tell me your definition of it so we're on the same page. I'm not sure if you're trolling, or (sadly) just can't see it. What an assholish thing to say. Look, you came in here telling people to "stfu" when it came to roach. Which is ironic because now you can't shut up about him. You don't understand how the forum rules work, just humbly accept that. Nobody can censor roach except for infofront. He's clearly not going to be banned from the forum, so it really doesn't matter what any of us think. I know that some peeps don't like roach, but I thought that the most recent flag against him was merely to warn newbies (and I suppose others) about him - not to get him banned or to get his post deleted - even though some peeps would not mind achieving that either. Of course, roach seems to go on a bit of a worse spouting of nonsense from time to time, but his nonsense doesn't really seem to be getting any worse - maybe running out of shock value, and lots of folks don't likely read his posts in detail - maybe skim them from time to time, including yours truly. By the way, sometimes I believe that some of Roach's posts are allowed to stand that should be deleted - but of course, discretion is going to differ from person to person, and overall, infofront does seem to strike a decent balance with his largely hands-off style, and largely leaves it to us to tell roach to fuck off or to ignore roach or whatever other variation of interaction with roach (or not) that we might individually choose.
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June 19, 2019, 04:28:45 AM |
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Careful with your OpSec kenzawak, my friend. I do enjoy your journeys though, just stay safe Checking my ip logs at least twice a day but you're right, you never know, I need to be careful. Thanks for looking out ! Yeah, 99% of people on this thread are probably absolutely fine. There’s always a couple of cunts everywhere though. Thats why on the eight day God said "Thou shall provide an ignore button, that is all" Work on your reading skills Hueristic!!!!!!!!!!! Sometimes I get a decent amount of pleasure to boss around other WO peeps, even if they don't listen to me, no matter what I say. Anywhooo.... If you had read the contents of the posts that you responded to, you should have noticed that LFC and kenzawak are NOT discussing the kind of "fine" or "NOT fine" that the use of an ignore button will rectify. They are referring to someone who might be involved in this thread to violate the opsec of privacy of other members - which is not affected by use of the "ignore button." Actually, I would assert that way more than 99% of the peeps here don't give two shits about attempting to invade the privacy of the personal lives of other members here, but there is an industry that goes around and targets various individuals, and likely they would target the individuals with weaker opsec.. or if they can find any possible exploitable chink in the armor.
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June 19, 2019, 04:38:54 AM |
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Careful with your OpSec kenzawak, my friend. I do enjoy your journeys though, just stay safe Checking my ip logs at least twice a day but you're right, you never know, I need to be careful. Thanks for looking out ! Yeah, 99% of people on this thread are probably absolutely fine. There’s always a couple of cunts everywhere though. Thats why on the eight day God said "Thou shall provide an ignore button, that is all" Work on your reading skills Hueristic!!!!!!!!!!! Sometimes I get a decent amount of pleasure to boss around other WO peeps, even if they don't listen to me, anyhow. Anywhooo.... If you had read the contents of the posts that you responded to, you should have noticed that they are NOT referring to the kind of "fine" or "NOT fine" that the use of an ignore button will rectify. They are referring to someone who might be involved in this thread to violate the opsec of privacy of other members - which is not affected by use of the "ignore button." Actually, I would assert that way more than 99% of the peeps here don't give two shits about attempting to invade the privacy of the personal lives of other members here, but there is an industry that goes around and targets various individuals, and likely they would target the individuals with weaker opsec.. or if they can find any possible exploitable chink in the armor. Meh, I was trying to make a funny. Anything said in an open forum should be weighed v/s what OpSec level you wish to achieve. There is no way you can change that and actually thinking you could would adversely effect your ability to reach that unattainable goal by giving yourself a false sense of security which inevitably leads to lowering your guard. Now if you feel that someone is plying you for more information than you should be sharing then the ignore button is your friend.
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June 19, 2019, 04:40:17 AM |
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I find the participation of these nonprofits interesting: Nonprofit
Women’s World Banking – uses a network of 40 independent micro-finance institutions and banks provide support to entrepreneurs in the underdeveloped world with an emphasis on women
Kiva – 501 non-profit organization that allows users to lend money to low-income entrepreneurs in over 80 countries through its platform
Mercy Corps – global humanitarian aid organization that provides support to regions hit by disasters, whether they be economic, environmental, social or political Also the fact that both Uber and Lyft are onboard, but nobody else running 'the sharing economy' such as AirBnB, et al. “Participation” probably means they have signed an MOU to accept donations in Libra. Free money - what do they care.
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June 19, 2019, 04:41:48 AM |
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“Participation” probably means they have signed an MOU to accept donations in Libra. Free money - what do they care.
It's not like every scam coin ever hasn't used this method to shill its warez.
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June 19, 2019, 04:43:17 AM |
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Basically, libra (which would be based only on usd, eur, pounds and yen) would decimate local currencies. If used broadly, why would anyone use local? Binance research suggests something similar, but in a wrong direction.
If you earn USD, why would you want to take (partial) FX risk on yen, pounds and euros?
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June 19, 2019, 04:46:06 AM |
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They are reinventing the Tether scam. A crypto pegged to FIAT. Nothing to see here.
But one difference with Tether is that Tether is not a scam. Tether is actually used (and that is why tether get's so much hate in the media, including gov'ts and financial institutions), as contrasted with the vast majority of the other allegedly "stable" coins. Tether was fully backed by collateral deposits. Until it wasn't. Tether was so not a scam. Until it was. In regards to Tether, you are spouting out the mainstream media line too? For what purpose? Do you even understand what is going on in regards to the threat that tether seems to pose towards mainstream and that is largely fueling the misinformation and exaggeration campaign regarding it? Do you work for bitfinex? You've been making excuses for them for years now. They claimed they were fully capitalized. Until they were forced to admit they were not. It's really not that hard to detect their dishonesty. I really don't need to point out anything more than that.
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Yes You can collect it at 1008 Argyle Street, Finnieston, Glasgow. Go up to the bar and ask for the cookie from Hairy.
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June 19, 2019, 04:51:03 AM |
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Your limit buy order for 0.11* BTC at $8,99* has been filled immediately.
72% of the way to owning another full kernel of corn.
#btfd #hodl
I mean, that's cool and all, but I must admit some puzzlement as to why you would be publicly touting minnow activity? I had you pegged for a much larger fish.
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June 19, 2019, 04:52:03 AM |
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New Poll "When 10K"? Should be short. Nite all. <<-- Shit /OpSEc fail
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June 19, 2019, 04:57:19 AM |
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Except we don't really KNOW if it was really fully backed. Also, neither cash nor BANKING FIAT are absolutely NON-FUNGIBLE... if they were selling Tether in exchange of banking fiat coming from dubious individuals/corporations, those funds were not really worth their face value because you are assuming a risk (that finally materialised) that the funds gets frozen later.
That's the reason even people (not only governments/banks) do require reasonable KYC on the origin of funds for big purchases, because you could end up without the sold good plus the obtained funds seized on a later date.
We only know that one point in time it was backed and that was done by a law firm which was only allowed access to the balance but not the books. Shady but they did prove they had the cash at that one point in time. Shady was using a law firm instead of an accounting firm. That smacks of guilt right there.
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June 19, 2019, 04:57:48 AM |
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Basically, libra (which would be based only on usd, eur, pounds and yen) would decimate local currencies. If used broadly, why would anyone use local? Binance research suggests something similar, but in a wrong direction.
If you earn USD, why would you want to take (partial) FX risk on yen, pounds and euros? True, that goes without saying re the dollar. What I am talking about is the following: if, theoretically, libra becomes popular for exchange in countries outside of the big four currencies represented in the 'basket', I can foresee citizens of those countries abandoning their local currencies. Why would they still transact in rupee/lira/peso/rand when essentially a basket of stronger currencies is available? Obviously, this trend will not happen in places where local currency appreciated in the last 10 years.
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June 19, 2019, 05:02:49 AM |
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Basically, libra (which would be based only on usd, eur, pounds and yen) would decimate local currencies. If used broadly, why would anyone use local? Binance research suggests something similar, but in a wrong direction.
If you earn USD, why would you want to take (partial) FX risk on yen, pounds and euros? True, that goes without saying re the dollar. What I am talking about is the following: if, theoretically, libra becomes popular for exchange in countries outside of the big four currencies represented in the 'basket', I can foresee citizens of those countries abandoning their local currencies. Why would they still transact in rupee/lira/peso/rand when essentially a basket of stronger currencies is available? USD is the global reserve currency. Making it a basket of currencies is very international but unnecessarily complicated things, in a way that a Venezuelan with a grade 3 education will struggle to understand. Facebook dun goofed. It should be a USD stable coin only.
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JayJuanGee
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June 19, 2019, 05:08:33 AM |
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Good morning, WO,s It's the last comment I make about the FB shit in this thread. I think Libra will be Google+ of cryptocurrencies. There is an industry trend: IBM succeed in enterprise IT but failed to build devices for consumers, Apple succeed but failed to build internet services, Google succeed but failed to build social services, Facebook succeed but ..? https://twitter.com/hashmap/status/1140977186100404224
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