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Re: Are there any good movies related to/about bitcoin?
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Chapman.S
on 15/08/2018, 12:01:41 UTC
Bitcoin Heist doesn't have the best ratings. I'm not sure if that's your best bet. I found one that you might find interesting. It is a documentary though. It's called Bitcoin Big Bang: l'improbable épopée de Mark Karpeles. A man is arrested when half a billion dollars in Bitcoin disappear. He's later released for lack of evidence. In this documentary he breaks the silence. It's in French, but I think it's worth the watch if you understand French or you can find subtitles.
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Re: Many cryptocurrency players have gone bankrupt
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Chapman.S
on 14/08/2018, 10:22:20 UTC
Many cryptocurrency players have gone bankrupt
As I said in this year's new futures market
Such speculation has already allowed many former winners to Departure .
I have a hard time believing this. I'm sure some of them have gone bankrupt, but this must be for reasons other than their investing. Has any big cryptocurrency actually lost all of it's value? Not that I know of. Therefore, even if they lost a lot of money, they shouldn't be bankrupt. They must have to do with their expenses. If they spend more than they make, no matter how much they make, they may eventually need to declare bankruptcy. The only other option I can think of would be hackers. If you get hacked, you could potentially loose all your cryptocurrency. In that case, I could see a person going bankrupt.
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Re: What are your best memories?
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Chapman.S
on 13/08/2018, 16:02:10 UTC
I think my best memories are mostly associated with my family. It's especially nice when you haven't seen family in quite some time, then you can meet again. I try to visit my family every Christmas, at least. It's especially nice, now that all the children in the family are grown up and doing their own things. We all get together with our partners too, so there are lots of people in the house. It's great to eat familiar foods and play board games together.
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Re: Wise thing to do with your savings.
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Chapman.S
on 12/08/2018, 12:04:25 UTC
The best and wise thing to do is save your bitcoins and altcoins until you get a huge profits and benefits on it. If you already need it very much then go sell for it but if you don't need it then hold and wait until the right time comes so you will gain a lot of money for it. If you do this then you are right because this is the only way to do with your savings.
I hope that you're right. How can you be so sure about it though? I don't think it's wise to go around giving people this advice. What if you're wrong? I hope Bitcoin with keep growing. I think it will. I think a lot of altcoins will keep growing too. There's no guarantee of this though. I'm sure that many altcoins will fail. How can you account for that? What if this guy has his money in altcoins that will fail? It wouldn't be to smart to HODL then would it?
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Re: Wise thing to do with your savings.
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Chapman.S
on 11/08/2018, 15:17:27 UTC
The wise thing to do with your savings? Well if you want to regrow your savings then invest it to something that is not volatile like stocks. However it would take you so much time before it increases unlike in cryptocurrency the price grows so much but the decrease of its price is also faster.

So it's all up to you what are the wise thing to do with your profit.

1. Withdraw it and use it.
2. Save it.
3. Invest to stocks.
4. Invest to cryptocurrency.
5. Just let them be in your wallet for future use/ Emergency money.

We do have different decisions from this, well i'm just giving you an idea on what are the wise thing to do with your savings. If you're contended with your savings then just let it be in your wallet because if you do something to it like investing to stocks or cryptocurrency there's a high chance that it will reduce or lose your savings, so you better be responsible with your actions.
I like this simplification. I think there are loads of other options though. You could invest in a new business. There are many business that can be very profitable. I don't this is the best time to get into it, but mining could be a good option too. I think real estate can be one of the best investments if you go about it properly. If you get into rental properties, you can pay off a mortgage, so you will have a property in the end, plus you'll get a little bit each month for yourself.
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Re: Wise thing to do with your savings.
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Chapman.S
on 10/08/2018, 11:28:31 UTC
I see that many of you actually liked the concept of 20 % method wherein you allot 20% of your earnings to be saved as emergency fund.
So I was thinking, if that 20% allotted will be invested in a time deposit kind of account, will it still be possible to earn as much or invest it in cryptocurrency? Or maybe just let the money sleep until such time you will need it?
What will be a wise kove to do with the noney you have saved up?
I guess that most people here are more into crypto than the stock market, but there's a fairly safe option on the stock market you could look into. Investing works best when you make decisions based on rules. There is a simple investment strategy call the Dogs of the Dow. The idea is just that on January 1st you split the money you want to invest equally in the top 10 highest yielding stocks of the Dow Jones Industrial average. The next year you just sell the ones that are no longer in the top 10 and split the money up between the new top 10. You can see how this strategy has performed over the years on this site: http://www.dogsofthedow.com/. It does better than any mutual fund will.
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Re: Food Chain Supply
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Chapman.S
on 09/08/2018, 11:04:53 UTC
I can't see my being able to scan a QR code on my burger box, to find out the birth time of the cow that was used to create the burger, and what about Subway?
Yeah, especially considering that burgers are not usually made of stay. It's ground meat (surely mixed with other things). Would they have a list of all the cows they kills and ground up that day with all their b-days etc.?
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Could somebody please clarify something for me? The way I understand it, blockchain is a technology that entails many computers in a network maintaining a single ledger. All the computers all work together to make sure the ledger is the same on all computers. Is that about right? If that's right, then what is this article even talking about? I mean, blockchain is basically just a way to store and communicate information, isn't it? Automatically tracking supply chains could be done without blockchain.

Blockchains can use oracles to record data onto the blockchain automatically. For example, blockchains can keep track of the temperature at which food products are stored and record the data onto the blockchain. And since blockchains are untamperable, they provide transparency.
Yeah, I don't doubt that you could automatically record data to a blockchain. You use temperature as an example. That's probably the easiest example because it's just a number that a sensor can give back. When you get into other things discussed here, it's much less straightforward. It would require human input. Even with the temperature, sure maybe the blockchain would be tamperfree, but you could easily tamper with data before it goes to the blockchain. They only thing blockchain offers to this issue seems to be a database that's hard to tamper with. All the talk about cow data on QR codes and stuff is things that could be done completely independently of blockchain.
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Re: Food Chain Supply
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Chapman.S
on 08/08/2018, 14:09:53 UTC
A lot of food giants explore how to apply blockchain technology to their food supply chains. Some people use blockchain just as a PR and a tribute to modern fashion on technology, and someone really uses the developments. But is it so necessary for the food industry?
What are your opinions on this matter?

If you are out of the loop, check out this article.
Could somebody please clarify something for me? The way I understand it, blockchain is a technology that entails many computers in a network maintaining a single ledger. All the computers all work together to make sure the ledger is the same on all computers. Is that about right? If that's right, then what is this article even talking about? I mean, blockchain is basically just a way to store and communicate information, isn't it? Automatically tracking supply chains could be done without blockchain.
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By scanning a simple QR-code with a smartphone, customers can learn important data such as the animals’ birthtime, use of antibiotics, vaccinations, the location where the livestock was harvested, and be sure there is no fraud And this will also challenge the food producers to bring the best quality.
This could also be done without blockchain. What is it that I'm not getting?

P.S. The article also has many grammar and punctuation mistakes. A bit annoying.
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Re: Bitcoin is how the NWO takes power
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Chapman.S
on 07/08/2018, 13:57:01 UTC
Quite interesting to read such old articles. Am I missing something though? The first article talks about Phoenix. It also talks about a central bank imposing tight standards on governments. How does this match the title of your post? Isn't that the main point of Bitcoin, that there is no central bank? Could you explain the title? How do you thin Bitcoin will help the NWO take power? How would block chain be a bad thing instead of SSNs? It sort of seems like you're mixing up different ideas.
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Re: Have you ever been scammed?
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Chapman.S
on 06/08/2018, 18:06:03 UTC
Nobody is going to believe me but that’s okay.

Do you know those Instagram fake accounts of regular people “flipping” money?

They claim you give them $300 and they turn it into $3000, $400 into $4000, and so on..

Unfortunately many desperate people fall for the scams because they have a feed full of luxuries and cash. To an average person, it’s clearly a scam, but yet people fall prey to these scammers everyday. Today it’s not as prevalent but I still see them out there. Here’s a good link pretty much explaining in a nutshell how they get people.

When I was 18 one of them DM’ed me asking me if I wanted to get some quick cash. I honestly had a good bit of money saved up already so I wasn’t money hungry at that time. I was already wasting my money on stupid things online like fake soccer cleats from aliexpress so I figured, why not? I spent some time reading exactly how they scam people so I decided to try to scam one myself.

I chatted with the scammer for a few days, posing as a skeptic and I told him if he could prove to me that he could flip my $100 into $200 I would send him $800 to flip into the $8000 he promised.

So I sent him $100.

A day went by and in my mind I was thinking, yep, this is what I get. But when I checked my balance on one of the Visa Prepaid cards - voila! $200 something dollars and a couple of cents.

Obviously he was trying to fish me to actually send the larger amount but I knew better. I said thanks :-) and I blocked him.

Riskiest and easiest $100 I’ve ever made. Not that I have never fallen prey for online scammers. I’ve given away my email many times by accident, ordered things that never came, lost some percentage of bitcoins but nothing too major.
I believe you! Haha. I never heard about these "money flippers". Seems like quite a risky business. It seems so ridiculous that they can actually get people to trust them. You did make a risky move, but 100% return on investment in one day is pretty good. I don't think I'd ever try it, but it must feel good to scam a scammer. A little bit of karma for him. Thanks for sharing!
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Re: Have you ever been scammed?
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Chapman.S
on 05/08/2018, 12:40:53 UTC
Can you share this experience?

If you say yes, what the project was it? Why did you believe in this project?
I don't think I have ever really been scammed. Well, actually a couple days ago I may have been to a small extent. Our washing machine broke. I called a repairman to take a look at it. I told him what the problem was and he said it was probably the motor. He came and took at look at it. In about 5 minutes he already told us that it was actually another problem that would cost 3 times as much. He told us he doesn't have time to do it. I think he could have told us what the problem was by phone, if he had just asked us one more question. For some reason, he didn't ask. He just came and took the money for diagnostics after 10 minutes of "work".
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Re: What will the world be like in 100 years
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Chapman.S
on 03/08/2018, 14:35:59 UTC
I think the world will be full of androids that will do work for us, people. We will be living in smart houses, driving smart vehicles, and living a lot into VR. We just have to wait, and we'll see Smiley
It's cool that you brought that up. I have been using Android phones for so long, but I never realized what it means. Wikipedia says at and android is a humanoid robot or synthetic organism designed to imitate a human. Why do you think that we should have humanoid robots? Could we just have some robots that don't imitate humans, but fulfill that roles that humans used to? If the robots are doing all the work that we used to do, what will we do?
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Re: What will the world be like in 100 years
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Chapman.S
on 02/08/2018, 12:08:32 UTC
I think humans will be more introverted and individual because humans are already dependent on technology and interaction with others will be greatly reduced
I think that sometimes this can be a misinterpretation. I know that many older people accuse kids of not being social because they are always in their phone or on their computer. Maybe this was more founded in the past before the internet. Now, though, so much time spent on our devices is actually spent communicating. We are constantly writing messages. As technology and internet speeds get better, we are doing audio and video chats more and more often. Often times, when somebody is spending a lot of time on their phone, it may just mean that there are more interesting people online than in new proximity.
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Re: What will the world be like in 100 years
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Chapman.S
on 01/08/2018, 13:48:14 UTC
What will the world be like in 100 years ?
What will happen?
And will everything be the same as in the movies about monsters?  Grin
Maybe you're one of the film victims. The next 100 years will remain the same now. The difference is that in the next 100 years all systems are in the works with all sophisticated technology. because the more and more years of advancing technology in this world.
What do you mean by film victim? Are you implying that the world only changes in films? How can technological advancements now be considered as the world advancing? Do you mean to say that our world today is the same as it was in 1918? How about cars? Planes? Phones? The internet? Computers? I feel like transportation and communication technologies alone have completely changed the world.
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Re: What will the world be like in 100 years
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Chapman.S
on 30/07/2018, 14:17:08 UTC
I don't know, may be more new technologies may develop by that time, more hightech gadgets.
Maybe in 100 years we can have advanced technologies, more innovation on what we call "Advaced Technology" in present time. Sounds scary, yeah but I do believe it would be it. Accept changes.
Haha, maybe more new technologies? Maybe more innovation in "Advanced Technologies"? Of course there will be massive advancements in technologies. This is happening every day. Can't you remember that just 15 years ago, hardly anybody had cell phones, now almost everybody has smartphones in their pockets (or more often in their hands). We have access to the entire world from our pocket! Even from the top of a mountain. What could make you there that "maybe" this development wouldn't continue. I'm really excited to see what the world will be like even in 50 years. If I live another 100 years, that will be even better!
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Re: What will you advice educational system on?
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Chapman.S
on 29/07/2018, 17:35:06 UTC
Blanca_Gregory is definitely right about the lack of evolution in public schools. If you took a public school from a hundred year ago and one from today, they would differ so little. That's a bit startling, if you think about how many other things have changed the the world. I honestly don't have much hope for public schools. I definitely don't plan to ever send my children to public school unless they really want to. Peter Thiel is funding kids to quit college and develop their business ideas (https://www.fastcompany.com/1755089/peter-thiel-gives-whiz-kids-100k-quit-college-start-businesses). Praxis is another great example of a company that is helping young people gain real work experience instead of a degree. I think this type of practical education, when people do what they actually want, is the future. I am a big supporter of the unschooling movement.
Great! You know the funny thing is that no one seems to be discussing these obvious things. I graduated from institutions where the members of the faculty felt they were doing such a fantastic job. Maybe they actually were trying their best. But time has shown that their best is not good enough. Regardless of the fact that these institutions rate highly in the world, they were still not meeting the society's needs. So, I think the reference point for performance must be reviewed. A higher institution must be judged based on how well it meets the society's needs and not by how well it is taking on other institutions of its kind.
I agree that there is no point in competing between different indicators that don't necessarily mean anything in the end. So what if your students do better on a standardized test? Is that actually going to help them in their careers? We suffer from education inflation. What we could do 50 years ago with no education, or a grade 5 education, now we "need" a high school degree. What we used to need a high school degree for, now we need a bachelor's. What we used to need a bachelor's for, now we need a masters. This just makes it easier for HR departments to filter through the applications. It doesn't actually give any kind of guarantee that the quality of the employees will be any better. Luckily, some companies are starting to realize that and are looking at other things rather than degrees.
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Re: What will you advice educational system on?
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Chapman.S
on 27/07/2018, 16:11:32 UTC
Blanca_Gregory is definitely right about the lack of evolution in public schools. If you took a public school from a hundred year ago and one from today, they would differ so little. That's a bit startling, if you think about how many other things have changed the the world. I honestly don't have much hope for public schools. I definitely don't plan to ever send my children to public school unless they really want to. Peter Thiel is funding kids to quit college and develop their business ideas (https://www.fastcompany.com/1755089/peter-thiel-gives-whiz-kids-100k-quit-college-start-businesses). Praxis is another great example of a company that is helping young people gain real work experience instead of a degree. I think this type of practical education, when people do what they actually want, is the future. I am a big supporter of the unschooling movement.
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Re: Show you the real China, not the illusion that the media gives you
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Chapman.S
on 26/07/2018, 07:32:51 UTC
There are definitely a lot of problems in China, as in any country. I agree that it's horrible that the government seems to want to have total control over anything. One thing I have been impressed by in China is how developed everything is though. I have been in other countries with somewhat totalitarian governments and the people seem to be suffering much more than in China. I visited a couple dozen cities and China and the people are making much more money on average than in many other countries. The people that I met didn't seem too bothered by their government's shenanigans. When it comes to internet censorship, almost all the Chinese people I met know how to get around any of the blocks. I guess everything is good until you get on the government's bad side.
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Re: Daily Cursing of Americans nowadays as intense as Russians at 1990.
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Chapman.S
on 25/07/2018, 16:33:09 UTC
It seems like this is something that is so hard to measure. How many people on this forum actually speak Russian and were around in 1990 to measure the levels of profanity? I find that American television at least is still quite tame. Most channels censor the "harshest" profanity. In any formal situations, it's almost always taboo for Americans to use profanity. I find that there other culture that swear a lot more. I have studied a little bit of Portuguese and it seems like people in Brazil are much more accepting of profanity.
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Re: Why do people go into prostitution?
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Chapman.S
on 24/07/2018, 16:15:22 UTC
While there are many negative reasons for people to become prostitutes, I think there actually are some different cases. In some places prostitution is completely legal. I have never actually talked to a prostitute, but according to some reports there are prostitutes who just choose it as a profession. In places like the Netherlands prostitution is legal and highly regulated. This can make it a safer profession for people than in places where it is not regulated. I read about two twins who are the oldest prostitutes in the world. They have been doing it since the 60s and in their interview they seem happy. (https://www.aol.com/article/2015/09/23/sisterly-love-worlds-oldest-prostitutes-reveal-secrets-to-a-ha/21240090/)