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4 hours ago, OILERMAN said:


The IRS doesn’t need “luck”, they do what they want

 

The IRS is not some faceless machine. The IRS is manned by people. And people can be replaced/fired and/or voted out.

 

You may think the "will of the people" is a laughable concept, and in our modern society maybe it is, but people can change their own minds if they have will enough to do so.

 

4 hours ago, OILERMAN said:

and you ain’t buying no groceries with BTC lol 

 

Not right now I'm not. But that wasn't the point of the post. People keep saying it's not "real" money because it's not practical, or even really possible, to spend it *as* a currency. Even though that was still technically false, practically speaking that's more or less been the reality. But... and this was the point... not for long.

 

You should read the comments by Lyn Alden in that Twitter thread. Who knows? She may even give you a bigger reason to think this is all a massive snipe hunt.

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3 minutes ago, pat said:

He's got other little gold coins gold bars stuffed around as well.  And he's pretty honest about their value.  You can't really buy anything with them.  All you can do is look at it and maybe sell it.

 

Right now Bitcoin is the new gold, which to say, a mediocre investment.

 

But that's the massive difference between gold and Bitcoin that is only getting more and more different. Gold's "rails" are basically horse and buggy compared to Bitcoin's lightning rails.

 

Bitcoin on its layer 1 network was basically really "only" useful as a legitimate replacement for Western Union. But getting Bitcoin to storefront acceptance on the lightning network will be Bitcoin useful as a legitimate replacement for Visa.

 

Will it get there? Idk. We better hope it does. Because the USD is skating on thin ice.

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28 minutes ago, OILERMAN said:

It’s not real money 

I would say that Bitcoin the best money ever invented in the history of the world, by practically every dimension you measure it with. 
 

 

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On 4/6/2022 at 7:48 PM, NashvilleNinja said:

 

Who cares? They're gonna be moving to another city soon... at least according to Bud. Fuck em.

 

Also... BEATCORN RUULZZ!!! :cmj:

I never said they were moving.  What I said is that if the city/state fucks up the stadium funding, they will move.  I also said I hope this happens simply for the laughs. 

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On 4/8/2022 at 4:02 AM, OILERMAN said:


 

 

 

lol who pays fees like that?

 

 

and you reeeeeeaaaallly want to compare BTC to nasdaq? why arbitrarily 6 months unless you are trying to justify something for a specific time frame?

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5 hours ago, 9 Nines said:

Traditional investment loon tells world that drinking bleach will cure a virus... 

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/23/trump-bleach-one-year-484399?_amp=true


and he thinks Ukraine are nazis! 
 

 

 

you really dont want to play this stupid game. The propaganda has gotten you too deep. 

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9 hours ago, NashvilleNinja said:

 

 

This is the same as the guy who mused about how all fast cars have tricked out wheels and then concluding that tricked out wheels make cars fast. 

 

Central and commercial banks are already using block chain to process transactions. Those units are usually temporary, created and destroyed on the fly, just to process transactions between systems.   I strongly assume that is what she is discussing in that quotation and she is not discussing a replacement for a retail payment system.

The real question is are the Dennis Porters of the world true believers who think tricked out wheels make cars fast or are they con-artists selling tricked out wheels to people with slow minds cars. 

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4 hours ago, NashvilleNinja said:

Just a little fwiw moment here, Satoshis are not "property". They are, in fact, money. They spend just like dollars do. And eventually, they will spend just like dollars do.

 

What a huge pain in the ass, and is it correct it it's a 2% for that transaction?

 

and once again, why the fuck would you buy snacks with a scarce asset going to 100ks per BTC?

 

 

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On 4/15/2022 at 5:29 AM, OILERMAN said:

 

What a huge pain in the ass, and is it correct it it's a 2% for that transaction?

 

Well, it's no more of a pain in the ass than thumbing through a wallet full of paper or counting change in your pocket. May not (yet) be as convenient as whipping our a debit/credit card and tapping/swipping a transaction through, but a lot of people pay with their phones now with Apple and Google Pay. And I'm sure they will have a "Bitcard" soon enough that utilizes the Lightning network the same way debit cards utilize the Visa network. It would just be connected to your own Bitcoin "hot" wallet.

 

Idk about the transaction fee. 

 

On 4/15/2022 at 5:29 AM, OILERMAN said:

and once again, why the fuck would you buy snacks with a scarce asset going to 100ks per BTC?

 

I wouldn't but Rome wasn't built in a day and adoption won't necessarily come overnight. Some will be ginuea pigs, incidentally or by choice. Ultimately the more valuable BTC gets the fewer sats it will take to buy things with them. Like what's happening in the reverse with dollars right now where the less valuable they get the more it takes to buy things with them.

 

The point of that video was Mallers showing the way to mass adoption. A problem with Bitcoin, something you've pointed out, is that it was something people just moved around but eventually just converted to fiat because you couldn't really spend it like money. Basically just another (better) Western Union.

 

Mallers just showed how that distinction can and potentially will disappear, and showed how the Lightning network on top of the Bitcoin network can be the replacement for Visa. It's just a matter of the infrastructure being put into place to facilitate it.

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