mutteraloo

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by mutteraloo 9y ago
I'm worth way more than 13 million, and you will most likely lose your million because you can't read :)
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by mutteraloo 9y ago
So 10-15 more years? In the meantime we can use blockchain/bitcoin to scam money from grandmas, retired folks, and millenials. So they can hate us technologists even more. Oh, and cause global warming and destroy the planet. That wa
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by mutteraloo 9y ago
You do realize that there are other scenarios, such as North Korea launching nuclear strike into Silicon Valley or New York? Would you prefer that? or North Korea failing quietly like the collapse of USSR?
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by mutteraloo 9y ago
you do realize that China is the only reason North Korea is still operating, right? The North Korea that threatens your home country and brutalizes many of your relatives in North Korea?
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by mutteraloo 9y ago
here, let me show you why - Man in China sentenced to five years' jail for running VPN https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/22/man-in-china-s... - France couple in China unreachable after Liu
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by mutteraloo 9y ago
Xijingping this year heavily emphasized the communist ideals in the country, to a point where the civil servants have to pass tests on the ccp ideals Also China is still the censoring, authoritarian regime it was before. Look at their citiz
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by mutteraloo 9y ago
Nope. China can attribute that to cheating and lying through wto, which now us japan and eu are now stopping. Also to massive investments brought by.....guess who....evil western forces
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by mutteraloo 9y ago
Or you know, the government could just stop the polluting factories from polluting
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by mutteraloo 9y ago
Or maybe you're just under their marketing and propaganda. here are some things the authoritarian government did just this year - China puts a freeze on burning coal, leaving millions of families shivering in the cold http:/&
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by mutteraloo 9y ago
they prop up dictatorships in Iran, Pakistan, North Korea, Burma, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Venezuela
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by mutteraloo 9y ago
bullshit. or maybe the Chinese communist would have been overthrown, and they would have had a better government. all the progress China's made today is because the communist government took their foot off of the necks of the common c
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by mutteraloo 9y ago
There's a very easy way anyone can start fighting against a brutal regime like this: Stop buying stuff from China. Just stop. Support local made.
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by mutteraloo 9y ago
Lest we forget, this is still the same government that mowed down 10,000 innocent lives, that still runs China today. They've gotten better at hiding behind marketing, propaganda, and strong arming other countries, but they're st
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by mutteraloo 9y ago
Sam Altman loves China; he'll ignore everything bad about it except the (certain) libertarian aspects (which doesn't conflict with the government) EDIT: whoever modded me down, take a look at http://blog.samaltman.com&#
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by mutteraloo 9y ago
It could also go back to $100. Bitcoin has no mainstream use right now. It's too expensive to transact in terms of money and time, it's too volatile to be a store of value, it's too technical to be used casually, it's t
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by mutteraloo 9y ago
when you talk to a bitcoin enthusiast, at first it was 'well it's a currency'. then after seeing the transaction fee and time, it was 'well it's a store of value'. then after seeing the 80% price drop, it was
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by mutteraloo 9y ago
there could be thousands of crytocurrency next month.
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by mutteraloo 9y ago
there are hundreds of crytocurrencies. what makes one of them rare?
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by mutteraloo 9y ago
They didn't know what they were buying; bits in a database. A very poorly implemented database that was - not scalable - not rare - didn't have any government backing or big institutional backing in case the price dropped from 19
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Bitcoin and almost every other cryptocurrency crashed hard today(techcrunch.com)
284 points by mutteraloo 9y ago|408 comments
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by mutteraloo 9y ago
the emperor wears no clothes.....now people are seeing that bitcoin is useless for anything except gambling. it is not dollar. it is not gold. it is not visa. it is not bank.
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Bitcoin plunges again, now down more than 28% since Sunday’s all-time high(marketwatch.com)
21 points by mutteraloo 9y ago|7 comments