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richwicks says

. I do not think this is an appropriate way to make money, even if I knew the scam and this is a scam. It's not usable as a currency.

A very power hungry scam that has no practical use. It is dependent on the greater fool to get money out of the system as the money going in is consumed on hardware, electricity, wages, hookers and blow.

There is no there there.

Richwicks,

"If you get in and out at the right time, you're rich, but if you wait too long, you're destroyed"

You could have gotten into Bitcoin at any time for the last 11 years and would be in profit or break even since we basically hit new all time highs on some exchanges the other day.

Two questions for you (which you wont answer):
1) Do you know what decentralized means? I'll dumb it down. There is no marketing department for Bitcoin, there is no CEO, no CFO. So who would be paying me to promote to buy Bitcoin? Honest question, I would love to reach out to that person/entity/department.

2) Are tulips smart, decentralized, scarce? When you try plugging in your tulip to a laptop, could you please video it and post here?

G36 says

You could have gotten into Bitcoin at any time for the last 11 years and would be in profit or break even since we basically hit new all time highs on some exchanges the other day.

Look, I don't need to get involved with a scam even if it makes me wealthier. It's immoral to steal money from the ignorant. It's immoral to be involved with a Ponzi scheme. I'm not entirely immoral. It's the same reason I wouldn't purchase Facebook.

G36 says

Two questions for you (which you wont answer):
1) Do you know what decentralized means? I'll dumb it down. There is no marketing department for Bitcoin, there is no CEO, no CFO. So who would be paying me to promote to buy Bitcoin? Honest question, I would love to reach out to that person/entity/department.

I'm not saying somebody is paying you to promote bitcoin, but if you were being paid, you'd be working for a bank that had a shitload of bitcoin and you'd be PR directed to drive up the price. You won't be on this little forum though.

G36 says

2) Are tulips smart, decentralized, scarce? When you try plugging in your tulip to a laptop, could you please video it and post here?

No, it's just a mania.

G36 says

Just because you have a graphic doesn't make it true. Bitcoin is NOT fungible. If a million people tried to move 1 bitcoin from one wallet to another, it would take months to complete the transactions, regardless of cost. A million is a TRIVIAL amount of transactions. More credit card transactions than that will be done today.

Richwicks,

immoral? steal money from people??? What? You trade BTC on exchanges. there is smart money and dumb money. How do you think people make money in trading NIO or Pot stocks? Some people buy low and sell high. Others buy high and panic sell when it dips 3% or 70%. Thats not stealing, thats called trading.

Have you ever sold a stock and realized a gain? You ponzi sheme/con guy! You money thief!

G36 says

You ponzi sheme/con guy!

I've heard of he-she but never "sheme". Is that one of the 32 genders?

G36 says

Richwicks,

immoral? steal money from people??? What? You trade BTC on exchanges. there is smart money and dumb money. How do you think people make money in trading NIO or Pot stocks? Some people buy low and sell high. Others buy high and panic sell when it dips 3% or 70%. Thats not stealing, thats called trading.

Have you ever sold a stock and realized a gain? You ponzi sheme/con guy! You money thief!

Look, I'm tired of having to talk about this.

I hope you do well in bitcoin, but it isn't workable as a currency. I keep pointing that out and you never respond to it. It cannot be used as a currency. It takes MINUTES to do a transaction. This means you can never use it to buy gas, groceries, beer, cigarettes or anything. You might be able to buy a pizza with it, possibly, as long as you're the only one buying a pizza. If 10 people buy a pizza, that will take 60 minutes to clear those transactions.

I KNOW this can't be a currency because of this one limitation alone. Even if the transaction fee was 0.

The price of bitcoin might go to lunatic levels, but it's not ever going to be usable as an actual currency, ever, so it has no utility, it's purely a speculative investment and its value is entirely based on people's misconception of its utility, which is has none. This is what I don't just consider it a big scam, it is a scam. This will never be able to be used as a currency, ever, for day to day transactions.

G36 says

Have you ever sold a stock and realized a gain? You ponzi sheme/con guy! You money thief!

Stocks are a way for a business to capitalize on an idea that could make money. The investors put money in in the hope that the business will offer a product or service that will make them more money. Sometimes they win, sometimes they lose, sometimes they get scammed.

A Ponzi scheme takes money from new players and gives it to the earlier players. The scheme can go on as long as new players are putting in new money. In the bitcoin scam the incoming money is consumed to maintain a distributed ledger.

See the difference?

I cannot support an energy wasting scheme that takes advantage of the ignorant.

HODL on.

Richwicks,

"coin, but it isn't workable as a currency. I keep pointing that out and you never respond to it. "

I said at least 75 times, don't think of Bitcoin as a day-to-day currency. Think of it as digital gold. Gold 2.0.

Why isnt that arriving somewhere in your head? Do you use gold to buy a cup of coffee? Is that simplified enough?

" sometimes they get scammed." "A Ponzi scheme takes money " Nope. still called trading.


-There is smart money and dumb money.
-How do you think people make money in trading NIO or Pot stocks?
-Some people buy low and sell high. Others buy high and panic sell when it dips 3% or 70%.
-Thats not stealing, thats called trading.
-No conspiracy here, you are able to trade if you have a phone and have done your KYC. Win or lose.

I understand that a guy who collects silver coins would love to have Bitcoin labeled a certain way but hedge funds, square, PayPal, Guggenheimer, billionaires and myself know its gold 2.0 / Digital Gold.

G36 says

I said at least 75 times, don't think of Bitcoin as a day-to-day currency. Think of it as digital gold. Gold 2.0.

Yes, of course, this time is different. As I've said, I'm tired of talking about this.

I think of gold as gold. This is a graph of the national debt of the United States in terms of units of silver.



We always return to a commodity standard, always. Everything is a bubble except commodities at this point. If we returned to the 1980 peak of silver, guess what silver would be valued at today? Over $2,000 an ounce. This will destroy the entire banking system. I do not look forward to this event, but it will happen. It always does.

When I was a kid I used to talk to my grandparents and my great aunts and uncles about the Great Depression because they were adults when it hit and they lived through it. "If only I didn't have any debt when it happened, I would have been fine.." was a common thing I heard. When hyperinflation hit the Wiemar Republic, you could buy a house with a single ounce of gold. That's the insanity we're headed toward.

G36 says

I understand that a guy who collects silver coins would love to have Bitcoin labeled a certain way but hedge funds, square, PayPal, Guggenheimer, billionaires and myself know its gold 2.0 / Digital Gold.

lol

Richwicks,

-we have immaterialized books. We have immaterialized music. In order words, music and books are digital now.
-Why should money or gold not be digitalized?
-I dont think you have been outside of the US in the last couple of years? Some countries are way ahead of the digitalization of money (in some asian cities you pay by phone, almost nobody carries cash anymore)
-Gold will be digital. Physical gold may still play a small role.
-That doesnt mean you have to get on the train. Also, it doesnt mean you can change it.
-It happens as we speak.
-There was pushback by some elder people when we got cell phones. Some older folks will never have a cell and will keep their landline until their last breath.

G36 says

-Why should money or gold not be digitalized?

Because government will inflate it to pay for budget deficits. With physical gold, it is impossible. Imagine how much more efficient Rudy Havenstein would have been if he could inflate DM by a keystroke and would not have to print it?

Onvacation says

G36 says

I understand that a guy who collects silver coins would love to have Bitcoin labeled a certain way but hedge funds, square, PayPal, Guggenheimer, billionaires and myself know its gold 2.0 / Digital Gold.

lol

Pretty good line I think, thats a keeper.

"Because government will inflate it to pay for budget deficits."

I would love an inflated Bitcoin price.
The first boom was by retail,
the second boom (right now) is driven by institutions (Square/Paypal/Hedge Funds/banks).
The third boom might be by governments.


by governments?????? Bitcoin price at $1M incoming.....?

G36 says

-we have immaterialized books. We have immaterialized music. In order words, music and books are digital now.

Gee whiz, someday we'll have immaterialized food, and immaterialized shelter, and immaterialized clothing, and immaterialized air and water...

G36 says

-I dont think you have been outside of the US in the last couple of years? Some countries are way ahead of the digitalization of money (in some asian cities you pay by phone, almost nobody carries cash anymore)

Yeah, people are stupid.

richwicks says

G36 says

-I dont think you have been outside of the US in the last couple of years? Some countries are way ahead of the digitalization of money (in some asian cities you pay by phone, almost nobody carries cash anymore)

Yeah, people are stupid.

Not only are they stupid, but apparently no one pays by phone in the USA. Nobody. Only Asian countries. Lol. Once a troll, always a troll. I'd move on from this thread Rich. I thought there was some reasoning and intelligence there, but it clearly didn't work out.

WookieMan says

Not only are they stupid, but apparently no one pays by phone in the USA. Nobody. Only Asian countries. Lol. Once a troll, always a troll. I'd move on from this thread Rich. I thought there was some reasoning and intelligence there, but it clearly didn't work out.

The point I'm making with cash versus, a phone QR code or even a credit card, is that cash is a lot faster. Whenever I go to store to buy something, nearly every time as I'm waiting to check out, some stupid twat is fumbling around with a fucking credit card. First they have to pull out their wallet or purse, then they have to go through their 30 different cards, then they finally find the damned card, then they insert it, maybe enter a pin number. Transactions being validated.... OK - it's validated, finally.

I'm there, hand them a $20 or a $100, they give me change, I'm done.

I'm always amazed that people are too fucking stupid just to have the credit card out when they hit the cashier. They're just assholes. People do the same goddamned thing with their phone too. "Oh yeah, I didn't realize I had to pay, forgot about that DUH, here let me pull out my wallet/phone/purse whatever because I'm so fucking stupid I didn't realize I had to pay at this store to buy stuff".

And you know what I do when I go out to eat? I never tip with a credit card. I cross out the tip on the bill, leave at least 15% in cash, and if the waiter is around I tell them specifically - I left a gift for you, gifts aren't taxable like tips are. Even when I'm with a group, I try to allow them to leave a tip in cash.

richwicks says

And you know what I do when I go out to eat? I never tip with a credit card. I cross out the tip on the bill, leave at least 15% in cash, and if the waiter is around I tell them specifically - I left a gift for you, gifts aren't taxable like tips are. Even when I'm with a group, I try to allow them to leave a tip in cash.

I agree from the severs standpoint that cash is king. I'm a CC points guy though, so that tip is a free kickback whereas cash gets me nothing. There are jackasses out there for sure, but my card is always ready at a restaurant, gas station, grocery store, etc. It does piss me off too when you're in line and someone is fumbling around with a wallet or purse as they just sat there until it came to crunch time. I usually have my card in the machine before the groceries are even scanned. Ready before the server brings the check. Vast majority of people give zero shits, hence why it's so easy to brainwash them.

wow, I am amazed.

Wookie,
Another stupid response. We are used to that. Who said nobody pays with a phone in the US??? Who said that? And you didnt even get Richwicks point. Yes, please do us all a favor and stop talking/writing.

Richwick,
you are telling us it takes longer to pay with a credit card or phone than with cash? you got to be kidding me.
With the credit card you dont even have to slide it anymore. Just tap it.

https://globalnews.ca/news/2295763/tap-and-pay-cards-its-fast-and-convenient-but-is-it-more-secure/

I dont think I have ever heard that paying cash is actually faster than a CC or paying via phone, but i guess nothing should shock me anymore.
You probably pay for gas in cash instead of using your card at the machine?

When i think about cash, i think about dirty coins/paper that has gone through dirty hands. I dont even want to touch it and i havent had a traditional wallet in 10-15 years now. (i do have several crypto wallets :) )
Easy to lose some cash in your wallet/pockets too. If you lose a credit card you just cancel it.

personal

G36 says

Another stupid response. We are used to that.

G36 says

-I dont think you have been outside of the US in the last couple of years? Some countries are way ahead of the digitalization of money (in some asian cities you pay by phone, almost nobody carries cash anymore)

G36 says

Who said nobody pays with a phone in the US??? Who said that?

G36 says

Pls wookie, you said several times you are not commenting anymore.

Reading. Quote it. Should be easy enough.

Your inner troll is coming out from past crypto posts/comments. Good for you.

Now you are even confirming your own stupidity by reposting it. What kind of a troll are you? And I said asian cities not countries. fuck are you special. ROFL

G36 says
-I dont think you have been outside of the US in the last couple of years? Some countries are way ahead of the digitalization of money (in some asian cities you pay by phone, almost nobody carries cash anymore)

WookieMan says
Not only are they stupid, but apparently no one pays by phone in the USA. Nobody. Only Asian countries. Lol.

so again, who said nobody pays by phone in the USA?
Maybe you are even dumber than I thought and you dont understand the sentence:
"in some asian cities you pay by phone, almost nobody carries cash anymore"

G36 says

I dont think I have ever heard that paying cash is actually faster than a CC or paying via phone, but i guess nothing should shock me anymore.

HEARD of it?

I experience it, CONSTANTLY.

There are a great deal of people who won't believe anything unless somebody else has TAUGHT it to them. The reason you think a credit card to pay for a $5 coffee is faster than just handing the server $5 is because of a fucking commercial. 1/2 the time I'm in line, I've got enough time to calculate the cost of what I'm buying anyhow. If I'm buying a coffee or a burger, I don't take change, I just give them the cash and leave them with a tip.

I fucking have to live in this goddamn clown world where there's a BUNCH of people who won't believe their lying eyes, but will believe a fucking commercial. So goddamned tired of it.

richwicks, when I go to starbucks i pay via app.

"If I'm buying a coffee or a burger, I don't take change, I just give them the cash and leave them with a tip." Thats your choice to overpay everytime.

What do you do at the gas station if you hate CC so much? Do you know how many CC points you could collect by paying the same amount in a cleaner way (cash coins are dirty).

Tell us how you pay for gas!

G36 says

when I go to starbucks i pay via app.

lol. That explains a lot....

WookieMan says

G36 says

when I go to starbucks i pay via app.

lol. That explains a lot....

a lot? name one thing. name a single thing thats wrong with that. just one.

G36 says

WookieMan says
Not only are they stupid, but apparently no one pays by phone in the USA. Nobody. Only Asian countries. Lol.

So those cities are in Australia? Lebanon? Why Asian? You're dense bro. You decided to pick Asian cities. That doesn't change the country.

G36 says

WookieMan says

G36 says

when I go to starbucks i pay via app.

lol. That explains a lot....

a lot? name one thing. name a single thing thats wrong with that. just one.

Was it Bitcoin? That you paid for with an app or cash? If it was an app surely you were in Asia.

Starbucks is pure trash coffee. Grow up and brew you own. If you enjoy trash.... well I guess I understand more about you now. ;)

WookieMan says

G36 says

WookieMan says
Not only are they stupid, but apparently no one pays by phone in the USA. Nobody. Only Asian countries. Lol.

So those cities are in Australia? Lebanon? Why Asian? You're dense bro. You decided to pick Asian cities. That doesn't change the country.

Who said nobody pays by phone in the US? Still no answer?
And yes, there is a big difference between some asian cities and the entire country. Its like comparing San Diego to IL. You clearly havent been in Asia before.
They pay in certain cities by phone and barely carry cash. China for instance is a fuckin large country. Somewhere in the boondocks of china they dont pay via phone.....they might trade or pay by cash. Go to a large city and its like being in a different world.

Every single comment you make could be screenshotted. You must be the du*** f*** / most uneducated guy on this site. I am surprised you only have 6 ignores.
Jesus.

G36 says

"If I'm buying a coffee or a burger, I don't take change, I just give them the cash and leave them with a tip." Thats your choice to overpay everytime.

Oh my fucking god! Some poor bastard is making me a sandwich and I'm supposed to be worried about the $1 extra I gave the minimum wage worker? I probably make about 7 times what that guy makes.

G36 says

What do you do at the gas station if you hate CC so much?

What do you think? At 1/2 the gas stations there isn't even an attendant anymore.

G36 says

Do you know how many CC points you could collect by paying the same amount in a cleaner way (cash coins are dirty).

Well, my answer is, who gives a shit?

Do you clip coupons? You know how much you could save if you did?!?!

WookieMan says

Starbucks is pure trash coffee.

And @WookieMan is goddamned right about that one. Basically all coffee in the United States is crap. I'll never get why people think Starbucks is "good". All it is, is sugar and dirty brown water.

G36 says

Every single comment you make could be screenshotted. You must be the du*** f*** / most uneducated guy on this site. I am surprised you only have 6 ignores.
Jesus.

Took me almost a decade to get there bud. You're on pace for 6 in a year. lol.

Keep up the insults though big boy.

WookieMan says

G36 says

WookieMan says

G36 says

when I go to starbucks i pay via app.

lol. That explains a lot....

a lot? name one thing. name a single thing thats wrong with that. just one.

Was it Bitcoin? That you paid for with an app or cash? If it was an app surely you were in Asia.

Starbucks is pure trash coffee. Grow up and brew you own. If you enjoy trash.... well I guess I understand more about you now. ;)

oh my f.ing gosh.

"grow up and brew you own" really dude? Thats your line?
"Was it Bitcoin" ....to pay for coffee??? it was the fuckin starbucks app
"If it was an app surely you were in Asia" muahhaha, so you never your heard of a starbucks app. cool.

jesus. I wish somehow your internet access would get interrupted....for maybe a couple of years :D

G36 says

jesus. I wish somehow your internet access would get interrupted....for maybe a couple of years :D

It hasn't been interrupted going about 4 years now. You can't get rid of me. Battery backup and all that fun stuff. If you're not a BTC troll, maybe post in other threads here. Maybe you'll surprise me? I don't expect much though.

well i really dont care what coffee you guys like or what you drink. Back to the real topic. Traits of money

G36 says

well i really dont care what coffee you guys like or what you drink.

Why bring it back up at all then if you don't care? You clearly do. As evidenced by your comment quoted here.

WookieMan says

G36 says

jesus. I wish somehow your internet access would get interrupted....for maybe a couple of years :D

You can't get rid of me.

I know. Life's never easy. Stupid people have a vote too and they can spread their stupidity online. The fact that you only have 6 ignores is still a surprise though. I havent read a single thing from you that made any sense.

G36 says

Stupid people have a vote too and they can spread their stupidity online.

WookieMan says

Why bring it back up at all then if you don't care? You clearly do.

Grow up softy. Lol. You need a tissue for those tears?

G36 says

"If it was an app surely you were in Asia" muahhaha, so you never your heard of a starbucks app. cool.

I doubt he goes to Starbucks. It's the most over-rated coffee ever. Have you ever had real coffee in your life before? There's a wonderful Ethiopian restaurant called Zeni's near where I live. They serve a coffee called "Boona" but you kind of have to know an insider to get it. One of my coworkers was an Ethiopian, so he ordered it.

This is actually good coffee, it's served in a TINY little saucer, it's EXTREMELY strong, and it has a hint of sweetness to it, and it's just coffee. Ethiopians sometimes flavor their coffee with salt and not sugar.

Coffee in the United States is almost universally burnt. You're drinking charcoal flavored water. That's what Starbucks serves. You can brew better coffee in a Mr Coffee than Star Bucks can. Their coffee is horrible. Starbucks is to coffee as Taco Bell is to Mexican food and holy cow, it's expensive for what you get. I'd have no problem paying $5 for a coffee, if it wasn't awful coffee.

Starbucks can't even make Chai correctly. Here's the recipe for ice Chai

1) Box of tea (get something that isn't fancy or flavored, Earl Grey for example
2) Ginger root
3) Cardamom pods.
4) (optional - cinnamon sticks / cloves) - you have to vary the quantities on your own for this
5) Saucepan and about a pint of water.

Cut off about 4 slices of ginger root - it's a weird thing so you kind of have to learn how much you like. Crush about 6 cardamom pods up - just open it so the seeds can be exposed to the water. Throw that into a pan and add about a pint of water and bring to a boil. Once it's boiling, for a bit, place ALL your teabags into the pan, and let it brew, turn off the heat. Let it sit for 10 minutes or so.

Remove bags, and squeeze them out, remove pods and ginger. Let cool (I like ice chai). There - it's highly concentrated but you can fix that by adding water. If you want you can dissolve sugar into this or another sweetner. I drink it over ice, with heavy cream and sugar. That's much better than you get at Starbucks, and the irony is, I'm taking a ton of shortcuts - real chai is boiled in milk.