The Apple ecosystem is a closed system that does a tremendous job at retaining customers but leaves it vulnerable to the innovation of open source projects. This is a flaw that Google's Android has exploited brilliantly and profitably. In addition, Apple's plan to layer another fee on top of an already expensive payment network is an opportunity for digital currencies. Offering a product that is open source and virtually free is how Android became the top mobile operating system in the world. Digital currencies should borrow from Google's playbook in order to compete with Apple.
The open-source nature of digital currencies gives them a major competitive edge as the best technology can be immediately integrated without the need to navigate a corporate culture. This gives digital currencies a first mover advantage as consumers begin to embrace a digital payment network. Android was able to gain market share by offering apps that Apple had yet to approve and therefore opened itself to the early adoption of game changing tech.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101988826#_gus
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“The state’s entire court system has been compromised,” says Matt Weidner, an outspoken foreclosure defense lawyer who practices in Tampa and St. Petersburg and blogs about the system. “They’re stripping away private property rights and transferring billions of dollars in assets from individuals to large entities.
What began as an effort by the Florida Legislature and judicial leaders to help the state’s economy by moving properties out of foreclosure and back into the market has turned into a Kafkaesque nightmare for people struggling to hang on to their homes.”
http://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/09/10/15463/homeowners-steamrolled-florida-courts-clear-foreclosure-backlog
What began as an effort by the Florida Legislature and judicial leaders to help the state’s economy by moving properties out of foreclosure and back into the market has turned into a Kafkaesque nightmare for people struggling to hang on to their homes.”
http://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/09/10/15463/homeowners-steamrolled-florida-courts-clear-foreclosure-backlog
The cheapest Android phone can sufficiently operate a Bitcoin wallet, as long as it has a camera. Apple Pay will be on the newest devices only and which third world bum has a credit card (compared to each first world bum 
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).the best chance ApplePay has is in the US as it controls 40% of smartphones sold here. but you're right, worldwide, Bitcoin + Android should still win. and, as Apple continues to arguably lose US marketshare to Android, Bitcoin + Android should win here too long term as the fees involved with cc tx's hasn't changed. in fact, in Oct 2015, liability for stolen cc's presented and accepted at merchant stores shifts to the merchant away from the banks and payment processors.
The cheapest Android phone can sufficiently operate a Bitcoin wallet, as long as it has a camera. Apple Pay will be on the newest devices only and which third world bum has a credit card (compared to each first world bum ).
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nice Coinapult:
Gold collapsing. Bitcoin up:
Big money are on the way...
How Bitcoin is penetrating RIA portfolios by looking riskier to ignore than embrace
(The next "bubble" will be fun
)
How Bitcoin is penetrating RIA portfolios by looking riskier to ignore than embrace
(The next "bubble" will be fun
)They are more correctly waves than bubbles since they all have reverted to higher lows, so far.
Big money are here now, confirmed.
From first and second hand discussions with people employed with large financial institutions, including several megabanks, that have active research into bitcoin as an investment strategy or data analytics tool. Notably one with ~US 1.5 T (yes trillion) under private wealth management and a consortium of banks who are interested in establishing a BTC futures clearing platform (apparently legally easier than adopting/handling the BTC itself in their legal/accounting, go figure).
No BS, you heard it here first.
Forgot who introduced it (wachtwoord, maybe), but the term "growth spurts" is the most fitting expression imo, though "waves" is still a lot better than "bubbles".
It was, see The fifth growth spurt from December 24, 2013
I wish people would adopt this terminology because "bubble" now is even used by the people that don't believe one of the peaks in the growth represents a large overvaluation (which is the meaning of the word bubble).
Big money are on the way...
How Bitcoin is penetrating RIA portfolios by looking riskier to ignore than embrace
(The next "bubble" will be fun )
How Bitcoin is penetrating RIA portfolios by looking riskier to ignore than embrace
(The next "bubble" will be fun
)They are more correctly waves than bubbles since they all have reverted to higher lows, so far.
Big money are here now, confirmed.
From first and second hand discussions with people employed with large financial institutions, including several megabanks, that have active research into bitcoin as an investment strategy or data analytics tool. Notably one with ~US 1.5 T (yes trillion) under private wealth management and a consortium of banks who are interested in establishing a BTC futures clearing platform (apparently legally easier than adopting/handling the BTC itself in their legal/accounting, go figure).
No BS, you heard it here first.
Forgot who introduced it (wachtwoord, maybe), but the term "growth spurts" is the most fitting expression imo, though "waves" is still a lot better than "bubbles".
One question, if bitcoin is up in the bitcoin educated countries does that mean that Gold is down too in the third world countries?
Big money are on the way...
How Bitcoin is penetrating RIA portfolios by looking riskier to ignore than embrace
(The next "bubble" will be fun )
RIA?How Bitcoin is penetrating RIA portfolios by looking riskier to ignore than embrace
(The next "bubble" will be fun
)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_Investment_Advisor
Big money are on the way...
How Bitcoin is penetrating RIA portfolios by looking riskier to ignore than embrace
(The next "bubble" will be fun )
RIA? How Bitcoin is penetrating RIA portfolios by looking riskier to ignore than embrace
(The next "bubble" will be fun
)
Big money are on the way...
How Bitcoin is penetrating RIA portfolios by looking riskier to ignore than embrace
(The next "bubble" will be fun )
How Bitcoin is penetrating RIA portfolios by looking riskier to ignore than embrace
(The next "bubble" will be fun
)They are more correctly waves than bubbles since they all have reverted to higher lows, so far.
Big money are here now, confirmed.
From first and second hand discussions with people employed with large financial institutions, including several megabanks, that have active research into bitcoin as an investment strategy or data analytics tool. Notably one with ~US 1.5 T (yes trillion) under private wealth management and a consortium of banks who are interested in establishing a BTC futures clearing platform (apparently legally easier than adopting/handling the BTC itself in their legal/accounting, go figure).
No BS, you heard it here first.
Big money are on the way...
How Bitcoin is penetrating RIA portfolios by looking riskier to ignore than embrace
(The next "bubble" will be fun )
How Bitcoin is penetrating RIA portfolios by looking riskier to ignore than embrace
(The next "bubble" will be fun
)They are more correctly waves than bubbles since they all have reverted to higher lows, so far.
Big money are here now, confirmed.
From first and second hand discussions with people employed with large financial institutions, including several megabanks, that have active research into bitcoin as an investment strategy or data analytics tool. Notably one with ~US 1.5 T (yes trillion) under private wealth management and a consortium of banks who are interested in establishing a BTC futures clearing platform (apparently legally easier than adopting/handling the BTC itself in their legal/accounting, go figure).
No BS, you heard it here first.
Big money are on the way...
How Bitcoin is penetrating RIA portfolios by looking riskier to ignore than embrace
(The next "bubble" will be fun )
How Bitcoin is penetrating RIA portfolios by looking riskier to ignore than embrace
(The next "bubble" will be fun
) 
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Unfortunately for gold, it is relatively stagnant in terms of its use.
Well evidentially not as gold usage has declined dramatically in the last century despite being used for millennia. Certainly in proportion to the amount of cash used this is true, ie. western countries do not value gold where as eastern cultures may still retain and use gold in more regular set patterns still such as the Indian wedding season, etc
If I estimate any great rise its likely a large reversal of this decline
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This is superior over gold where it's functionality is largely fixed and static. Granted gold's functionality worked very well in the pre-digial era of thousands of years, but in the digital era we can do better.
No I think this is a fallacy. Im all for technology but some things are constant like human nature and elemental properties. Every generation thinks they can discard mistakes made previously as obvious and easily avoidable but we havent got past political bias and interference in economies yet.
Gold is inverse in its function, so yea its nothing new but look at the world now and effects in progress. Such as the ECB moves recently to increase the magnitude of negative rates and so on. The need and possible usage for gold or any steady medium of exchange is rising in proportion to systemic failure implemented by unproductive elements of the economy like government or general beaurcarcy. At some point they'll be so much crap the demand will break badly in favour of any competitive free medium of value exchange
Gold usage for the last 100 years is in an extended local minimum. This aberration will revert to the historical trend sooner or later.
The last century was dominated by world war and central banks (happy birthday US FED). FDR banned gold, as did his authoritarian brethren in China, etc.
Now hard money is making a comeback. Gold is in a 12 year bull run, silver tested ATHs, and the people of the BRICs and other emerging markets are once again able to put into practice the wisdom of the average Indian onion farmer who never stopped hloding (his wife would murder him if he did).
Most of the world's people are not the bi-coastal cosmopolitan elites who are vastly overrepresented on this thread. Worry about PM vs BTC allocation is a first world problem. Indian onion farmers are not going to diversify into cryptocash, although their computer savvy children are starting to.
Speaking of human nature, sweet shiny gold/silver/platinum are absolutely guaranteed get you laid. BTC might also, but only if you are into furries...
Up to 80% of the world's physical gold is commanded by the banking cartel, and they have also been campaigning for the demonetization for 1.5 centuries at least.
The plan until crypto was probably that fiat money regime earns them the best fees, but even if they lose control, they have the control of the only alternative also.
I don't believe that a sufficient number of wealthy entities ever discards gold totally, and therefore its monetary premium will stay forever. Only 1% need to care, for gold still to have a high value.
The plan until crypto was probably that fiat money regime earns them the best fees, but even if they lose control, they have the control of the only alternative also.
I don't believe that a sufficient number of wealthy entities ever discards gold totally, and therefore its monetary premium will stay forever. Only 1% need to care, for gold still to have a high value.
Gold is actually pretty widely distributed, with a majority in private hands via jewelry and to a lesser extent private investment. Central banks have around 18%, not 80%. Of course those are official numbers, they could very well have quite a bit less gold.
From: http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/gold/myb1-2011-gold.pdf
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An estimated 171,300 metric tons (t) of gold was mined historically through 2011, with 29,500 t held by central banks as official stocks, 33,000 t held privately as investment, 84,300 t held privately as jewelry, 20,800 t in other fabricated products, and the remaining 3,600 t unaccounted (Klapwijk and others, 2012, p. 59).
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Many of us here are betting on a significant and permanent change to the concept of money.
Iam still going to switch back and say the biggest change to money was not this current development but something like what Nixon did in 1972 and has been built on since. That whole focus switch over to debt, away from productive assets and to stop the distribution of capital among people by centralising money production (ie no link to assets) this meant the failure of capitalism itself . I dont think bitcoin fixes that, it may bypass some of the effects however which is helpful, but the biggest changes are to democracy and various 'rights' perhaps. I dont think this is a mainly technology change occurring now, we are just the side menu
Those are great points and I agree with all of that.
One comment though is it really was Wilson and FDR who created the switch in money to a debt based system, Nixon just inherited the mess and was forced to close the gold window to protect the US's remaining holding. By the time Nixon came to office the run on the US's gold holdings was accelerating since the amount of money and debt created previously was vastly larger than the amount of gold held. This started in the 1950s.
From: http://www.marketskeptics.com/2010/06/draft.html
How high a proportion of the world's gold would need to be with one entity (e.g. the Chinese gov't), given a viable alternative to the rest of us as a store of value were an option, for gov'ts and people worldwide to go: 'nah, I'm not playing the game of gold having a substantial store of value anymore, we're just going to buy it for pretty things and industrial use' and it's value permanently dive off a cliff to somewhere relative to its demand for those other things?
Up to 80% of the world's physical gold is commanded by the banking cartel, and they have also been campaigning for the demonetization for 1.5 centuries at least.
The plan until crypto was probably that fiat money regime earns them the best fees, but even if they lose control, they have the control of the only alternative also.
I don't believe that a sufficient number of wealthy entities ever discards gold totally, and therefore its monetary premium will stay forever. Only 1% need to care, for gold still to have a high value.
How high a proportion of the world's gold would need to be with one entity (e.g. the Chinese gov't), given a viable alternative to the rest of us as a store of value were an option, for gov'ts and people worldwide to go: 'nah, I'm not playing the game of gold having a substantial store of value anymore, we're just going to buy it for pretty things and industrial use' and it's value permanently dive off a cliff to somewhere relative to its demand for those other things?
Gold collapsing? I don't follow the metal prices. Link?
For years gold is one of the 3 things that doesnt depreciate. You think Gold Reserves of the US doesnt regulate these things?
You assume there is still gold left in those reserves?
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