I don't mind giving that dweeb some credit, yet it seems quite problematic to actually believe he is honest when he has shown he is not.

Sure, some of the things he is doing is quite positive for bitcoin, and I find the Ross release as quite a touching act with very material and symbolic results.  Trump is still a quite problematic character in a lot of ways - a lot of it comes from his own behaviors.. including that it seems that many of us should be skeptical of people in power, even if they might end up doing some things that are actually fair, just and/or the right thing to do.


I am pretty confident that uie pooie likely would have been o..k either way...whether you would have had to eat your Ramen plain or you are able to throw a shrimp or two in there due to our redheaded narcissist lil buddy.

 


I am pretty sure that even if Ross were starting at zero, he is surely not going to end up flipping burgers at McDs.

It will be interesting to see if he chooses to involve himself in any bitcoin projects, bitcoin related project or if he chooses to keep a low profile.

It could be the case that he chooses to take on an identity or maybe to contribute in ways that are less attributable to him.  He seems like a pretty interesting and talented kind of guy, and I surely don't buy the various stories about him supposedly agreeing to a hit, especially since the allegation was made and then it was dropped, so there likely were a lot of questions regarding whether some of Ross's communications were really his own or that there might have been folks who were saying things and making it look like Ross's communications.

In any event, Ross is totally pardoned and expunged, which I consider the odds to be pretty great that he is not in any kind of category that is even close to many of actual provenly violent thugs that Trump blanketedly pardoned the day before.


Holy shit Biodom.  You are a nutjob!!!  Maybe you and Phil both?.. hahahahaha  .. had to get a little dig in at Phillip too, even though you, Biodom, make Phillip look normal and/or within some kind of realm of rational.

A sell plan for the reasons that you outlined?   Oh gawd. 

Speaking of Gawd..... Gawd save you from ur lil selfie..  #nohomo 



 


For sure.  Just to reiterate.  Your "friendly neighborhood" bank would not have any problem taking your lil precious.


Getting bitcoin through Peer to peer has always been available in some kind of way, and there are ways that miners get coins too, yet several of the miners are currently going through KYC when involved with many of the pools, which wasn't always the case.

Exchanges and various third party rug pulls have frequently happened, so surely we would expect that there will be some future third party rug pulls  or hacks or creation of paper bitcoin, yet it would not necessarily need to rise to the level of a black swan kind of event, but would reinforce ideas of keeping some portion of your coins (perhaps 90% or more) in your own custody, even though we know that self-custody can have some of its own complications, and so a decent number of coins have been lost or reallocated to someone else due to self-custody mistakes.

There surely are learning curves for many of us, even if we have been in bitcoin for a while, there can be challenges regarding how we hold our coins, how we do our transactions, whether we mine  or run a node and various ways that we might interact with bitcoin directly, or use various third party custodian solutions or some folks have more technical abilities to learn and share information to help less technical people.  Even if we figure out some ways to increase our peer to peer avenues of using our bitcoin might be helpful to the various bitcoin systems.