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Re: Lightning Network Discussion Thread
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Flatulenters
on 05/09/2018, 00:14:46 UTC
⭐ Merited by JayJuanGee (1)
It would be pretty darn nice to have a hardware lightning channel that could be bought, plugged in, connected, and loaded with 1/10 BTC.

there is  one now, its called casa node


https://keys.casa/lightning-bitcoin-node/

Where would be the place to look at relatively objective reviews about such a device?  Of course, the company itself is going to say nice things, but how can we be assured that we are NOT screwed over in the future after we have set up the device and then later realize that our BTC ended up getting stolen?

No reviews yet as they just starting to accept pre orders. first shipments will be in ocktober. Yeah, there will always be a risk using any hardware/software built by a 3d party.
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Re: Lightning Network Discussion Thread
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Flatulenters
on 04/09/2018, 23:55:34 UTC
⭐ Merited by suchmoon (4) ,JayJuanGee (1)
It would be pretty darn nice to have a hardware lightning channel that could be bought, plugged in, connected, and loaded with 1/10 BTC.

there is  one now, its called casa node


https://keys.casa/lightning-bitcoin-node/
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Re: The blockchain and it's timing in history.
by
Flatulenters
on 08/03/2015, 20:24:37 UTC
Hey, I never stated that bitcoin would spark a revolution. Revolution is a result of the existing social structures failing, and this failure is correlated with the financial health of that society.
My point is that bitcoin is a viable(better) alternative to the autoritarian, untransparant monetary system. An alternative that might lead to a beter awareness of the abuse and misuse of financial power that currently is in the hands of centralised entities that do with it as they please.

I believe that the public awareness combined with this new technology could lead to a modernisation of our monetary system just like enlightment led to the evolution of our ideas about religion, art, science, filosofy and politics.
The monetary system is one aspect of society that didn't had an evolution during this big wave of modernisation because the basic conditions, namely the need of a trusted 3'd party did not change. The ideology that controls monetary system has seen different applications but the essence of how it works stayed the same.

This is what the blockchain is capable off. For the first time in 5000 years, we can have a monetary system that doesn't need and does'nt rise and fall with a central authority behind it. This is the first time we can have enlightment of money. Society and how the  monetary power is distributed to ensure we have a form of continuity can be fundamentally different for the first time.

You can entice people to spend their hard earned "value" other than hitting them with the stick that is called inflation.  Use a carrot instead! You'll just have to make it a better deal for people to spend it rather than save it all. Peoples needs don't go away after all.

Btw, it's part of the illusion that the same value keeps getting pumped around right now. The truth is, it syphones out of the system you and I use and enters a private system that is the sole playground of the big entities that control the whole thing. Meaning, we spend and only they save.
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The blockchain and it's timing in history.
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Flatulenters
on 08/03/2015, 16:03:28 UTC
Posted it on reddit, might aswell post it here.

In my mind,the invention of the blockchain at this time in history isn't a coincidence. It's a product of a need and means to a way. I think that it has great resemblences to the invention of the bookpress and printing. The bookpress was invented because it was a necessity at that time to easely spread ideas that opposed the dogmatic autoritarian belief system and increased literacy in the progress. This in turn led (or at the very least greatly helped) to enlightment, scientific revolution and reformation. I believe the blockchain and bitcoin is an alternative to the dogmatic autoritarian system that is our current monetary system. And the understanding of the blockchain technology can lead to economic literacy.

It also coincides with the 6th/7th stage in the life cycles of great powers and the shift from greatly devaluated currency back to real money as it is explained here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdSq5H7awi8
 

Why are people so hung on the fact that our current monetary system is to big to fail. Do they believe we're at the pinnacle of social evolution and the political, economical and financial structures can't evolve any further? If you're looking at at all the events that happen in the world today we're slapped in the face with facts that the current status quo is starting to fall apart. The world is rebelling against the domination of the petrodollar, the formation of BRICS,.... The only way the dollar can uphold it's power is ultimatly through military power and as we have seen it's that very same military that siphons the wealth away from the empire that wields it.

The blockchain that can't exist without bitcoin (Andreas 'Anology' Antonopoulos explains this very well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8y_GypCWf4
 
) is a disruptive technology that can help society shapeshift into something more global. It enables global human economic interaction without the nationalistic connotations that are a burden on todays national fiat currencies and lead to devastating economical wrangling between nations. This doesn't mean the ones in power now suddenly won't be anymore but at least the'll have to alter the ways in which they siphon wealth from all of us and in the process we might get a bit of power back.

From another discussion I cherrypicked the following: "You are as much of slave to fiat as the rest of us."

When I realised this a while ago, that was the moment I decided in order to try escape from this, I had to educate myself on how all this monetary shit really works. While educating myself I became flabbergasted by the level of oblivion we the sheeple have in regards to all these matters that rule our life.

To explain what I mean I'll again refer to the video series shown previously.( they did quite a good job to make it understandable) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFDe5kUUyT0
 

Do you also recognise how bitcoin creates an oppertunity to babystep out of this system and how it is invented out of an actual need?

Another thing I often hear is the fact that many hold on to their bitcoins and don't use them as a "currency" should be used. That is the whole situation backwards! It shows how brainwashed we are into our current system that we think it's a bad thing to be able to save a token that represents our labour instead of having to "invest" this token in order for it to remain of the same value. Or the simple fact that it encourages you to directly spend and live in the now instead of thinking about (and by doing so, questioning) the future. The more knowledgable I become about all of this the more I urge my mother, sisters, friends,.. to educate themselves and the more I'm convinced that dismissing Bitcoin is a mistake of a lifetime. Not recognizing the potential bitcoin holds, is mostly due to the fact that that we all have a tendency to dismiss change and hold on unto false and dogmatic premises. This could also explain why bitcoiners are often regarded and ridiculed to as a cult, one uses existing dominant templates as reference fields to compare new and unknown things.

The truth is, I wasn't interested in these kind of subjects like an illiterate isn't interested in getting information out of a book. The fact that I am now questioning and learning all of this leads me to believe that many more are becoming aware of this. After all, I'm not a special snowflake!

This gets me back to the beginning of this post so the circlejerk is completed.
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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Flatulenters
on 26/01/2015, 19:44:20 UTC
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Re: Automated posting
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Flatulenters
on 26/01/2015, 10:20:00 UTC

Were at 300 not a bad 24 hours that's around 20% today
Also since when did Chartbuddy get all fancy and come with preloaded images
I like it  Grin

Fancy chartbuddy is nr1 bullish indicator
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Re: Memespeculation
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Flatulenters
on 25/01/2015, 02:37:48 UTC



The neverending rally Grin
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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Flatulenters
on 25/01/2015, 02:34:19 UTC
Maybe it's time to post pix of tulips, pyramids, South Seas Co shares and Carlo Pietro Giovanni Guglielmo Tebaldo Ponzi.

Just no trains, rockets or moons. Don't want to jinx it.  Grin



The neverending rally  Grin
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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Flatulenters
on 25/01/2015, 02:22:49 UTC
breaking 250 made me feel the same like when Geoffrey died!

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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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Flatulenters
on 25/01/2015, 01:55:47 UTC
finex Shocked
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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Flatulenters
on 25/01/2015, 01:50:14 UTC
boooooooom
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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Flatulenters
on 24/01/2015, 18:02:36 UTC
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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Flatulenters
on 24/01/2015, 15:26:24 UTC
somebody fucked up buying ltc on btc-e
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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Flatulenters
on 23/01/2015, 12:09:51 UTC
Thanks lamb,jorge,... for convincing me to keep my euro's in the safe hands of the ECB instead of flushing it away by buying BTC Roll Eyes

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Re: rpietila Wall Observer - the Quality TA Thread ;)
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Flatulenters
on 20/01/2015, 19:56:33 UTC

The expected value of a poker hand can be determined using factors such as pot size, players, and probability. Those are objective measures. Warren is saying that it doesn't apply to bitcoin, because there are no objective measures to pull to come up with a proper EV.

That is how EV works. You can't just say.. there is VC investment in some third party exchanges and more stores are accepting bitcoin, so that means it has positive EV. That's just an optimistic guess... not EV.

Fundamentals(statisticated) and TA could be considered objective measurements. But I don't agree with your opinion that you need objective measurements for EV calculations in the first place.
If I had to purchase a hooker and one would look like you, the other like Penelope Cruz. I would estimate my EV  is greater with the Penelope Cruz lookalike. But beauty, hotness,... is not a objective measurement.
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commission free trading on bitstamp till Jan 17th
by
Flatulenters
on 09/01/2015, 21:48:05 UTC
Just noticed this.

https://www.bitstamp.net/article/bitstamp-is-open-for-business-better-than-ever/

"As a note of thanks to our loyal customers, all transactions conducted on Bitstamp through the end of the North American Bitcoin Conference -- January 17th (at 11:59pm UTC) -- will be commission-free."


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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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Flatulenters
on 05/01/2015, 12:51:41 UTC
just waiting for




 Grin
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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Flatulenters
on 24/12/2014, 13:41:21 UTC
december 5 2013 bottom was 850
december 6 2013 top was 1030

what's your point?
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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Flatulenters
on 16/11/2014, 12:44:12 UTC
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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Flatulenters
on 16/11/2014, 12:23:31 UTC
The professionals and academics nonunderstand money, but you, Erdogan, veryunderstand it goodly.
...or might you be unsane?




I would enjoy it to try and see you converse in someone else's native language