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Topic: Parity watch -> Who's next? - page 5. (Read 68157 times)

legendary
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March 03, 2017, 12:51:04 AM
Wow, that's a beautiful beach in Cuba ... commies can ruin anything.

I highly recommend you watch The Cuba Libre Story on Netflix.  Yes, Che Guevara was communist, but Fidel Castro was opposed to it until the US branded him as one.  At that point he had no choice but to embrace the Soviets.  That said, we've never seen real communism on a national scale.  We've seen autocracies hiding behind a communist banner.  The central tenant of communism is worker owned businesses, not state run economies.

yea, but now the concept of communism is tainted by those autocracies, so we may never see a real one. least in our life times.


Certainly not an entire nation-state.  Communism is alive and well on a small scale embedded in every nation.  Even in the uber-capitalist US, there are companies who are nearly entirely employee owned.  There are many advantages of such a structure, starting with the ability to look more at the long term consequences of decisions rather than focusing on the next quarter's earnings.
legendary
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March 02, 2017, 09:24:28 PM
Wow, that's a beautiful beach in Cuba ... commies can ruin anything.

I highly recommend you watch The Cuba Libre Story on Netflix.  Yes, Che Guevara was communist, but Fidel Castro was opposed to it until the US branded him as one.  At that point he had no choice but to embrace the Soviets.  That said, we've never seen real communism on a national scale.  We've seen autocracies hiding behind a communist banner.  The central tenant of communism is worker owned businesses, not state run economies.

yea, but now the concept of communism is tainted by those autocracies, so we may never see a real one. least in our life times.
legendary
Activity: 1904
Merit: 1002
March 02, 2017, 07:20:39 PM
Wow, that's a beautiful beach in Cuba ... commies can ruin anything.

I highly recommend you watch The Cuba Libre Story on Netflix.  Yes, Che Guevara was communist, but Fidel Castro was opposed to it until the US branded him as one.  At that point he had no choice but to embrace the Soviets.  That said, we've never seen real communism on a national scale.  We've seen autocracies hiding behind a communist banner.  The central tenant of communism is worker owned businesses, not state run economies.
legendary
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Eadem mutata resurgo
March 02, 2017, 06:56:39 PM
Wow, that's a beautiful beach in Cuba ... commies can ruin anything.
full member
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March 02, 2017, 12:14:24 PM
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2214rank.html

Looks like the CIA database of M1 has been updated as at 2017-12-31 ... unsurprisingly a lot of these countries have inflated their money supplies (as measured in USD  Cheesy ) so some of the countries that bitcoin had surpassed have now got 'bigger' money stocks. Isn't money wonderful when you can just print it out of thin air like that! So bitcoin needs to run faster just to stay still it seems  Wink

bitcoin is now back below Burma at position 69 with $18.2 billion M1, i.e stock of narrow money.

Just for fun: http://pastebin.com/LQ0VB5ip
legendary
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March 02, 2017, 11:13:15 AM
67. Cuba ($19.95B)



Next stop, Bulgaria
sr. member
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March 02, 2017, 09:55:57 AM
68. Ukraine ($19.8 bill)

legendary
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Eadem mutata resurgo
February 22, 2017, 07:00:25 PM
69. Burma ($18.3 bill)

legendary
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February 08, 2017, 01:57:31 AM
i'm so glad to see this thread continue.
legendary
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Eadem mutata resurgo
February 08, 2017, 01:21:35 AM
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2214rank.html

Looks like the CIA database of M1 has been updated as at 2017-12-31 ... unsurprisingly a lot of these countries have inflated their money supplies (as measured in USD  Cheesy ) so some of the countries that bitcoin had surpassed have now got 'bigger' money stocks. Isn't money wonderful when you can just print it out of thin air like that! So bitcoin needs to run faster just to stay still it seems  Wink

bitcoin is now back below Burma at position 69 with $18.2 billion M1, i.e stock of narrow money.
legendary
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Eadem mutata resurgo
December 23, 2016, 04:52:18 PM
69. Slovenia ($14.39 B)
legendary
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Eadem mutata resurgo
December 23, 2016, 04:50:20 PM
70. Oman
legendary
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December 23, 2016, 04:48:30 PM
71. Jordan
legendary
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Viva Ut Vivas
December 22, 2016, 08:28:58 PM
72. Burma

legendary
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October 27, 2016, 08:58:19 AM
Nup we dropped back down to between Slovenia and Estonia ... I have a feeling we won't be there long however.

Oh dear, I'm too eager for "something to happen" lol. I share your sense we don't have that long though, similarly to how you say "halving's not over yet". Also, interesting that Malta is so high on the list for somewhere so small... I did hear somewhere recently that Malta has a long history in the espionage world, I wonder if that has anything to do with it. Cheesy
legendary
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October 26, 2016, 08:43:48 PM
How's this effort going? Who's brave enough to hit the CIA website to find out if we're beating Malta yet? (not me... Cheesy)
Weird you say that, i hit that cia link and my VPN crashed ...

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I did a quick estimate, and it seems like hitting the all-time-high market cap of $14 billion will occur at around $900 market price with today's Bitcoin M1 supply; surely Malta is roadkill by now?!

Nup we dropped back down to between Slovenia and Estonia ... I have a feeling we won't be there long however.
legendary
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October 26, 2016, 02:25:26 PM
How's this effort going? Who's brave enough to hit the CIA website to find out if we're beating Malta yet? (not me... Cheesy)

I did a quick estimate, and it seems like hitting the all-time-high market cap of $14 billion will occur at around $900 market price with today's Bitcoin M1 supply; surely Malta is roadkill by now?!
legendary
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Eadem mutata resurgo
June 16, 2016, 07:17:36 PM
73. Malta
legendary
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June 16, 2016, 07:13:52 PM
74. Slovenia
legendary
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Merit: 2106
June 16, 2016, 07:41:09 AM
well said. i have to add though, that it ended a centuries long fuck up for every traveller crossing borders (in europe, the next border is just around the corner) when you wanted to travel from the netherlands to italy you had to convert your gulden into dmarks, swissfrancs/austrian schilling (depends how you crossed the alps) and italian lira. you got robbed by kiosk exchanges every time you needed to change, you never really knew how much to change, if you changed too much, you got robbed again converting it all back to your dutch gulden. we are talking about one little trip of less than 1000 miles. what a clusterfuck that was.

I wonder how far back in time you have to go to find people travelling the countries (kingdoms?) of Europe with raw gold or silver bullion in their pockets to solve that problem? It seems odd that such a ubiquitous institution as precious-metals-as-money could be stifled so effectively without electronic banking acting as a gatekeeper.

I mean, before WW1, it was possible to travel Europe without a passport of any kind quite far into the East or South unimpeded, and no Shengen agreement or United States of Europe was required! Could it be that simple freedom to choose is the most powerful universal system there is! It's cheaper and more effective than federalsim/statism at playing the same ostensible role.

correct. there was a rather liberal time before ww1.
before germany "deutsches reich" was formed 1871 you couldn´t even travel from hesse to bavaria without approval from government. even the right to travel for the traveling journeymen that was in place since medivial times was taken in the first half of the 19th century Tongue
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