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I had looked into Bitcoin back when it was around $1/BTC and thought it was great, tried to mine but it kept giving me errors so I moved on.
Then I read a few articles here and there, read the one about how Bitcoin had gone from pennies to a couple of dollars and how that was a 2000% increase. I tried mining again, it again gave me errors and I moved on.
Then I read an article in June about how it had been worth $10 at the beginning of the month and skyrocketed to $35 before dropping to $20. At that point I knew that I should no longer wait on the sidelines.
I sent out an e-mail to my family telling them that they should seriously check out Bitcoins, as the family geek to the family I was giving them helpful advice, hoping they might invest a little bit and see it go up to $100 or more.
My brother wrote back asking if this was one of those Nigerian scams. I told him a bit about it and he just responded with some Guardian article about how some legislator wanted to ban Bitcoins and how once that was known the price dropped to $17/BTC. I just responded that of course governments will try to make it illegal, it is competition for them. I also mentioned that $17/BTC was up from $10 just a few weeks prior.
My brother-in-law e-mailed me a link to a libertarian talk show that he listens to and said that they talk about Bitcoins once in a while.
I explained to my wife that we needed to get in on Bitcoins now before it goes up any more. She did not understand it but I told her that it would most likely at least double by the end of the year. We have a $35k balloon loan coming up next year and we are racking our brains on how we will pay for it.
I ended up taking $10k from my Roth IRA and buying Bitcoins.
Then I read a few articles here and there, read the one about how Bitcoin had gone from pennies to a couple of dollars and how that was a 2000% increase. I tried mining again, it again gave me errors and I moved on.
Then I read an article in June about how it had been worth $10 at the beginning of the month and skyrocketed to $35 before dropping to $20. At that point I knew that I should no longer wait on the sidelines.
I sent out an e-mail to my family telling them that they should seriously check out Bitcoins, as the family geek to the family I was giving them helpful advice, hoping they might invest a little bit and see it go up to $100 or more.
My brother wrote back asking if this was one of those Nigerian scams. I told him a bit about it and he just responded with some Guardian article about how some legislator wanted to ban Bitcoins and how once that was known the price dropped to $17/BTC. I just responded that of course governments will try to make it illegal, it is competition for them. I also mentioned that $17/BTC was up from $10 just a few weeks prior.
My brother-in-law e-mailed me a link to a libertarian talk show that he listens to and said that they talk about Bitcoins once in a while.
I explained to my wife that we needed to get in on Bitcoins now before it goes up any more. She did not understand it but I told her that it would most likely at least double by the end of the year. We have a $35k balloon loan coming up next year and we are racking our brains on how we will pay for it.
I ended up taking $10k from my Roth IRA and buying Bitcoins.
Normally, I wouldn't feel the need to respond to such stupidity, but this decision doesn't just affect you. Have you even read the posts on this forum? Even the more realistic Bitcoin devotees admit that, with the speculators clearing out, the price will never be as high as it was during the bubble's peak. I hope for your wife's sake that you don't get wiped out.
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I like the asterisk next to every accreditation stating that the school isn't actually accredited - they only use accredited materials. This guy is a massive fraud - even if the school is no longer open (I wonder why he closed it!).
I see a lot of similarities with the MtGox hack, they got out of it stronger. This should be possible for MyBitcoin as well.
You are dreaming. MBC is going into receivership. Game. Over.
What is it about BitCoin users that compels them to ask for a proverbial reach around after they've so clearly been raped?
Would anyone care to summarize what has happened in the last 9 pages, and what UABB is?
UABB was a good idea that I fucked up through misrepresentation that sparked fears of an attempt to defraud the community which shifted to a cross-forum obsession with digging up 'dirt' on me. So far it has been proven that:
Everything I claimed was true.
D'oh!
Every time you respond, you dig yourself into a deeper hole. This is hilarious.
Does JeffK, TaxLow, bitbot, or anyone else from the SA forums here to spy on us really think anyone believes their garbage? I have to admit, I for a moment actually thought that some of the existing members of this forum were up in arms against me, but this has evolved into a meme over there now. It's pretty entertaining to watch them fuddle through and generalize on my life, even though I've studied immigration and business laws here for 6 years. I'd really like to see what genius idea they come up with next on how I'm breaking the law by merely living in this country. I think they're trying too hard. They should have just stuck to personal cuts. Now they're entering in an area I have certain expertise in. >
Too bad you lacked certain expertise in verifying that the university you were attending held proper accreditation.
matthew n right can you answer the question, what university have you attended and did you even graduate?
...not that it matters to me if he graduated from a university or not. Sure as heck-fire I ain't got no uppity college degree none neither. Maybe it's just grist for speculation on why Korea was so tough on his school. It'd be a shame if they put pressure on him just because his degree was from a mill. But if the article was written by Matt then at least he's taking steps to correct it, so he says.It certainly matters in Korea if he's operating a school. I'm sure the Korean government would love to learn that a shitheel who doesn't possess an accredited university degree somehow thought himself qualified to operate a school. He also seems to be a racist piece of shit, too. Good to know this culture warrior is "opening the minds" of Koreans. I can't find a valid review of his school anywhere on the Internet. The only link containing any information is his school's website. The guy is a total fraud.
We don't agree on anything, but I would never want another human being to end their own life just because we disagree on the Internet.
Off Topic:
digigalt, I have the following to add to another discussion, but the the quote button is missing on that thread:
Winston Churchill was once informed that one should not end a sentence with a preposition. His response was, That is the sort of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.
The keyword is "pedantry" you used. Hint: Atlas
I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, and it's not relevant to this thread, anyway.
One is entitled to protection by having the correct amount of value to espouse it whether it be through your inherent value as a human being or direct payment.
So what happens to people who "don't [have] the correct amount of value to espouse it?"
Strength and Might is usually correct when its not limited to the elite few. That's another premise of mine.
What is protection? Who is entitled to protection? How do they get it?
Your wording makes it sound a bit like you think decentralized means distributed wealth? There are still going to be obscenely rich bitcoin holders and very poor bitcoin holders.
That's implying that the amount of wealth you have means anything. All I am an advocate of is enabling able to create wealth for themselves and others freely while that is limited with the current banking model that lends with corrupt discretion. I never said anybody was entitled to money but being able to sell and sustain upon their inherent value.No, what you said was that bitcoin was decentralized. His point was that early adopters of bitcoin hold the vast majority of bitcoin wealth because they got in when it was still possible to mine bitcoins with a CPU. You can't possibly say with the straight face that bitcoin is decentralized
In addition, those with enough wealth to buy bitcoin at any price will always control a disproportionate amount of the currency.
It's irrelevant. The early adopters continue to sell-out. All they can do is lower the price a little bit once. They aren't that powerful.
In addition, if the majority of the world is in the system, somebody rich purchasing Bitcoins is only going to get 1 or 2, not a majority of the block chain.
Okay, we're not talking about hypothetical scenarios, though. We're talking about right now. The majority of the world isn't using bitcoin.
Your wording makes it sound a bit like you think decentralized means distributed wealth? There are still going to be obscenely rich bitcoin holders and very poor bitcoin holders.
That's implying that the amount of wealth you have means anything. All I am an advocate of is enabling able to create wealth for themselves and others freely while that is limited with the current banking model that lends with corrupt discretion. I never said anybody was entitled to money but being able to sell and sustain upon their inherent value.No, what you said was that bitcoin was decentralized. His point was that early adopters of bitcoin hold the vast majority of bitcoin wealth because they got in when it was still possible to mine bitcoins with a CPU. You can't possibly say with the straight face that bitcoin is decentralized
In addition, those with enough wealth to buy bitcoin at any price will always control a disproportionate amount of the currency.
There is no such thing as a apathetic tool.
Actually, I'm fairly sure tools are incapable of emotion. I'm not sure what you're even trying to argue here.
Atlas has no say on my character, and I caution you to take anything he says about me with a grain of salt. Giving Vegetta constructive criticism - and backing it up with hard evidence - isn't trolling. Any idiot can verify, simply by visit his site and doing simple math, that 82% of the posts on his forum were made by him. How is that trolling?
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Vegetta, no matter how you slice it, there's no way you can say your forum is currently successful. I ran the math: 82% of the posts on your forum were made by you. I'm not sure how you can be so high and mighty about this project, nor do I understand why you think the people rightfully criticizing you are trolling. It just makes your pompous, misogynistic attitude toward Jesse Kang all the more hilarious.