Topic: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion - page 24815. (Read 26713252 times)

I suppose you would be on your hands and knees begging forgiveness. If you've lived as long as I have you would know that things like Bitcoin don't come around often. Relationships are like the seasons. I envy a man (or that rare woman) that finds real passion in life. Calling Bitcoin a gamble just shows that you are a hammer.

Coindesk?  You mean Bitcoin's premiere publication?  No.

His wife will likely come back.
Women forgive.
That's not to say that Bitcoin didn't damage his life as much as any of the more common addictions, like smoking crack.

I'm sure he'll thank you for calling his wife a gold digger when he sobers up.

You must write for coindesk. Is this tomorrows headline? Personally, I think it's going to work out for him. Wife leaves because golddigger, then he gets rich and upgrades.

This is bearish, at least until fixes will be implemented:
http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-tor-anonymity-can-busted-2500-month/

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i suppose you're calling the 400M of bitcoin VC "dumb money"?  Get real.  Please enlighten us on how to instantaneously create a digital currency with perfect distribution and no volatility in relation to already volatile fiats with automatic 100% merchant adoption and regulation in place.  fiats are speculated upon all the time, get your head out of the us dollars ass.

the price always change... always 

Halloween almost there.

And my bet is that we won't see a price change

What don't you get?  A d00d's life gets ruined by Bitcoin, he gets hammered so he could continue "investing" in this "disruptive technology."

Price tanks--bullish!
Yearlong decline--going up up up!

No shit it's hilarious.

Out in force today.

Hilarious.

(I wonder, oh I wonder why)

Thanks Dr Phil.

I don't care much about anti-government agendas and other expressions of teenage rebellion. I care about finding a practical financial tool, that can be used to develop both the finance and the economy. Bitcoin was the first to show that open-sourced monetary systems can be done, and I am thankful for that. But sadly, bitcoin the currency just isn't advanced enough to be used as a practical tool. The blockchain technology can be used as a practical tool to implement into new and better currencies, and the idea of bitcoin can be used as an source of inspiration for new cryptographic innovations.

Bitcoin the currency itself, is just a slot machine, that is shrouded with virtuous looking illusions. People with gambling problems can create a narrative to their spouses, that they are in fact "investors in an highly innovative technological project". That's the intriguing narrative that gets the permission to use the family's life savings on this "new and world changing project". The sad thing is, that if they can't see how it's really just a slot machine, then they can't also see that the machine is rigged to create profit for the house - the biggest holders of coin, and the people who run the unregulated exchanges. They have the power to raise or lower the price as they see fit, while having private information about their customers trading methods and habits.
A practical currency should be unattractive for speculative play, so gamblers who cause instability would stay away. A practical currency should be attractive to merchants, and without the need of middlemen like BitPay who take profit for offering stability. The technology can be used to make money efficient  and cheap (the cost of maintaining the monetary system). Bitcoin the currency is far from realizing the potential, and as long as the core devs aren't considering changing PoW mining and fixed coin supply, then I just can't see a way for that to change.

His wife left him because Bitcoin.  Case in point.

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