PUNIC sells??? That would be breaking news indeed,

CARTHAGE ADOPTS BITCOIN! MOON TRAIN CONF1RM3D
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It's a bit of a stretch but you may want to look into Entropy and how it relates to the encryption algorithms used by various crypto currencies, but I'm guessing you may already be aware of this 

The vast majority of alt-coins have their value determined by BTC value. With the exception of LTC and a handful of other alt-coins, there's no direct means of converting fiat into these without having purchased BTC or LTC first and then exchanging them for the alt-coins. In other words, if someone wants to buy an altcoin, they more likely than not will have to buy and sell through BTC to get there.

As with any other market, speculators will throw down money in related commodities/companies/goods whenever there's a rise in the value of the primary item. It's possible that alt-coins are somehow impairing BTC, but I don't think this is a valid reason.

**Sees headlines**
 

**Sees that it's from RT**
 

Sure, and an omniscient and omnibenevolent god would surely never leave such loopholes included in the first place right?

People might get really confused and unintentionally do something wrong by doing things literally by the book - especially when he says we need to be careful and follow all of his rules in James 2:10 AND Deuteronomy 28:1-12. I mean god is such a swell guy that if he didn't like what I'm doing he would have said so - he even told me that in 1 John 2:18-29. On top of that, I have to recognize passages like Matthew 5:42 that say I need to let my fellow man borrow from me. I can't charge interest to secure my loan, but Psalms 37:21 gives me some hope because it says that you're wicked if you don't pay me back and that it's good to be generous in general! So if I lend you the money to get your car - you'll surely pay it back and be righteous enough to pay me back a little something extra as a sign of goodwill! Or better yet - I don't even have to get involved in the messy business of lending money to you and trying to work with very complicated rules, I can just buy the car and you can rent it from me and once you've made 11 payments of $500, I'll just go ahead and give you the car . In the end we'll both walk from this happier and in a better position than we started - me being up $500 and you being up a car! How can the lord be upset with us improving each other's lives simultaneously?


Which is to say - not very moving or impressive at all while at the same time being overrated and unoriginal.

I'm confused as to why you think money is intrinsically evil. What makes that so? How it's used? How it's produced?

What a relief, because that means all of these pyramid sch... I mean multi-level marketing businesses will get shut down by the government because they're totally violating the spirit of the law even though they follow the letter of the law!

 **sees that Amway  has been in business since 1959 and had the FTC rule in 1979 that they're not doing anything illegal**

Oh, nevermind..

Don't rule it out.

There's very interesting theological loopholes/acrobatics that allowed both Jews and Christians (and Muslims) to make money by lending money.

For a Christian who can't lend money and charge interest (per Jesus' teachings), there's nothing preventing him/her from charging a preset commission/fee for lending money to someone and including the fee in the repayment or by doing something like this for example:

You want a car but can't afford it. I have lots of money, enough money to buy the car you want in fact, but since charging interest rustles my lord's jimmies, I have no incentive or security in lending you money. To get around charging interest and still make it worth my while - here's what I do: I'll buy the car for say $5000, sell it to you for my asking price of $5500 (10% above what I bought it for), but since you don't have $5500, I conveniently have exactly $5500 for you to borrow from me which you agree to pay back. Wam bam, no interest, no usury per new testament definitions of usury.

For a Jew on the other hand, (in addition to the one mentioned for Christians) there's a different loophole which resulted in a lot of awful stereotypes. Usury was forbidden in the old testament....as it applies to your brother, or your people, or in other words, other Jews...as stated here Deuteronomy 23:21 - it's perfectly okay to lend with interest as long as you're not doing it to another fellow Jew. I'm sure you can connect the dots as to what happened when Jewish communities were the only ones allowed to offer straightforward banking services to people who needed them but couldn't because their big dude in the sky said "Nah brah, sorry".

I'd rather not lump Economics with TA.

With that said - TA seems to be different than the fields you mentioned. I don't discount the value of TA, but I think it's being highly abused and improperly applied.

Physics/Chemistry have very comprehensive foundations in both theory and practice that while not perfect, allow for consistently accurate and precise predictions to be made by anyone that's "well-versed" in the field - whereas TA can have scores of experts in the field making analyses that are as noisy as the charts being interpreted. Even a subject like quantum physics that's frustratingly nebulous and hard to comprehend has razor sharp theory surrounding the "hows" the game if not perhaps the "whys" - predictable unpredictability.

History and etymology on the other hand don't have that predictive/empirical power - but that's fine, because it hasn't been the intention of these fields to have it. The beauty of fields like these is that they're great at distilling the noise of past events getting it all to coalesce into a big picture that tells us where we are at the moment and how we got here. I think TA is in this camp and the TA dismissals that occur are a result of trying to make it fit in with the other camp.

TA is not the friend that tells you "Bro, if you finish that whole bottle of whiskey tonight, you're going to need to go to the hospital...tonight.".

TA is the friend that's sitting next to you in the hospital the next day telling you "Well, you finished the first half by 10:00 P.M. and by midnight you were wearing your underwear on your head pretending to be Sam Fisher with an empty bottle of Jack. You can't handle your drank."

It's a kind of graphics card that's used in a rig. I can't speak for mining profitability of bitcoin during that timeframe, but if he mined and held litecoins with his 7970's he would have made a killing.

I just had a random thought and though I'm sure it's been discussed before ... just imagine how much of a shitstorm this would cause:

Random picture tweet from Tim Cook early June

Picture of QR code with Apple logo drawn in the middle

Has surprise conference next day

"SUPRISE MOTHAFUCKAS. I'M HERE TO ANNOUNCE THE FIRST INSURED BITCOIN WALLET we're gonna charge you a buttload of fees to make it worth it to us, but fuck it, safe coin storage and itz apple amirite guiz???. iWallet!! EVERYONE REJOICE AND CREAM YOUR iPANTS ! **crowd goes wild, bitcointalk and reddit have civil war over how this is awesome/the worst news in the history bitcoin, price gets huge pump regardless**"

-facepalm-

THIS JUST CAME IN FROM THE PBOC!!!!!!!!

吃了阴茎

Dons extremely tin foil gilded head armor

Thine chinese are using ASICs from thine cheap electronics production!

As much it annoys and frustrates the hell out of us, some people think this is a reason  :

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Fully agreed.

Bitcoin represents a major paradigm shift in so many different fields and I'll continue to think it's wicked cool regardless of what happens to it.

It brings back that feeling I had back in the early 2000s playing an online multiplayer game for the first time and thinking "This is so f****** cool!", and then seeing internet gaming become a normal part of the average household in a decade.