Everything needs to get out of the US not just DefCon. Even the UN end up having important people refused entry and how about that robotics competition when the girls from Afghanistan who should have been encouraged where refused entry. The US is the worst country in the world for just about anything.
I think it is the fashion now to say you are Syrian even if you are not the right colour or even speak the correct language. I went bush 15 years ago and am in Cambodia at the moment so the reply was stupid.
I would say that bitcoin is a very real competitor to PayPal but also a competitor to Visa and Mastercard. For me the more the government regulate these people the more attractive bitcoin becomes. A lot of my customers are Russian and the current crazy shit means that getting paid is a problem so I love bitcoin and am moving over. At the moment it is a good time to take the plunge if you want to speculate. Of course it is a risk so do not bet more than you can afford to lose. There has just been a fork in bitcoin so the value has plunged but I think it will rise again (note think=opinion not fact). Many people have made a lot of money on bitcoin but the big money is over. In most of the world it is already mainstream.
You are welcome but you are not welcome to stop me from doing my legitimate business using bitcoin. I do not see why I should pay between 6-10% to the banks when I can do business for 1%. Yes, criminals can use bitcoin just like they can use cash but that does not justify making it illegal any more than saying that peadophiles sometimes use hotels so we should make hotels illegal. It is a total fallacy. There is no real link between criminals and bitcoin, in fact the opposite.
There are criminals that know as little about it as you do. The blockchain is public, anyone can look at it and the police can see where money goes in and where money comes out. Bitcoin is not secret.
https://darkwebnews.com/bitcoi...
Laundering money is easy and does not involve banks or flights as the media wish to teach you. The reason why they tell you that is so that they can regulate how much money you can carry etc. and force you to use the banks and pay. I first looked at this when I was working in the middle east and earning a lot of money. To send it home would cost 6-10% of my money. Why? If I carry my money a plane I am accused of money laundering... Why? The government force you to pay your money to the bank by telling you that they are stopping money laundering, bullshit. Real money laundering is far easier. You start a business and it does very well. The business does not need to actually do anything except make money from strangers who you give receipts to but as they are never seen again neither are the receipts. You can make so much in the first month that you can use that profit to buy a bigger business etc. In Chiang Mai in Thailand, Yingluk Shinawatra owned a shopping mall that had a complete staff but no working shops. On paper it was earning a fortune all tax paid and used to legally buy property in the UK. The money does not travel until after it is laundered through the shopping mall. She sold the shopping mall when she became prime minister. Other people have resorts etc. You do not more the money until after it is laundered. Bitcoin cannot help you as that is a store. In reality bitcoin is bad for criminals as it is traceable just like all P2P. In Denmark the police arrested a drug dealer based on bitcoin payments. The blockchain is public and you can follow a payment to the exchange at the other end and arrest the person who receives it. It is only hidden while it remains in the chain.
Not true. Most illegal money is stored in things like Delare Corporations in the US because the US banks are the best place to launder money. The government only arrest people who use other banks. The feds do not shut down drug cartels etc. that use US banks only ones that use Panama banks. Again, numbnuts, ransomeware gets stopped by bitcoin exchanges.
No, anyone with experience of the real benefits of crypto currencies is not going to let some law stop them from doing something that there is no justification in making illegal. No one is going to dump it, they will just continue to trade, as they do now, in foreign exchanges. You do not find $10k in bitcoin. It is not a physical object. There is nothing to explain as there is nothing to find. The problem with armchair warriors is the that they honestly think they know what they are talking about. I am currently moving my business to bitcoin because I do know what I am talking about. I would rather stop using Visa and Mastercard than stop using bitcoin and stupid laws will not stop that as my servers are outside the US. I would rather leave the US than go bankrupt. Your weird idea that bitcoin is for criminals only shows how little you understand the subject as other countries are accepting bitcoin for utility payments etc. To everyone else in the world it is stupid to pay fees to Visa and Mastercard for something that can be free.
Ransomware does not work with crypto currencies so I fail to see the analogy. All legitimate exchanges will close the account of such criminals and in the recent famous wave of malware people could not pay the ransoms because the accounts were closed. All this sort of stupidity will do is push it underground and stop reasonable people from being able to benefit from the latest secure currency. As illegitimate exchanges spring up the ransomware makers etc. will be the main beneficiaries of such laws. The problems with you Luddites is that you have no idea what you are objecting to. Crypto currencies are so much better than the current debt based economy that the banks are running scared from the real threat they pose. So most of the dumb propaganda is just that. Countries like Japan and South Africa can see the benefits but the US is run by the banks and would rather the country suffered than the banks lose some business.
What planet have you been living on since the 60s? You are a slave and if you do not know that yet you are a stupid slave. Your freedom was taken away a long time ago and now you will obey the man or you will go to prison.
"entirely screwing themselves over" like people who invested in Bitcoin a few years back when they were $1 and now have something worth $1600... I wish I got screwed over like that. It does not matter. Such regulation is totally unenforceable and therefore totally stupid. More sensible governments are embracing such things and US people are totally welcome to invest in other countries under their laws. All this does is cut the US out of a growing sector.
Do you honestly believe that statutes can stop people in the US buying things in Europe? Marketting is done on the internet which is global and sales take place on the internet. This is an unenforcable regulation and therefore stupid. The main hole in their logic is that they cannot come to terms with non physical property. They have searched people coming into the US looking for bitcoin as if they are going to find a physical object. They are regulating something they do not understand. It scares them but they have no idea what to do. Wise countries are embracing the technology but the US is, as usual, acting like a Luddite simply because they lack control.
What bugs me is that before Let's encrypt, if you created an http:/// site all was well but if you made that site a little bit more secure by adding self signed certificates there were warnings on your site and visitors were warned against going there. The bottom tier of CA certificates only differ in that you gave someone money. At that time I only had to reply to an email and add a code to my web site. So there was a disincentive to adding a snake oil certificate that seemed to only be there to get you to part with $50. If you pay more and really do prove who you are the green bar travels further across the browser. The information is there to tell people what level of test you have faced but they should take away the warnings on snake oil certs as they are not dangerous and certainly less dangerous than no certificate.
If the American troops stationed in Guantanamo occupied Havana invaded that would be an invasion but if the people of Havana overthrew their government that would not be. There was no invasion, it did not happen. If Cuba was overthrown by anti US rebels that were busy murdering US citizens the US would reinforce Guantanamo. That would not be a shock. There was no fake referendum, calling it such only shows how little you know the area. The people are Russian and work for Russia. If Russia left they would be out of work and overrun by Svoboda Nazis. Why would they not vote for continuing the good life? 50% of Ukraine is ethnic Russian and they were being dragged out of their houses and burnt alive. Crimea had a choice and took it without even needing to think about it as there was no viable option. Why would you think that Russian troops would be needed to invade a Russian population?
No one has ever doubted that troops were stationed at Svastapol. Do you know of any major US naval bases that do not have troops? That does not make an invasion. There was none. It does not matter how many times you call it an invasion, the people of Crimea declared their independence not incoming troops.
Propaganda works by citing a Russian invasion of Crimea that never happened and an election hack that never happened either. Lie to people often enough and they eventually believe it. Just as people now believe that Taiwan is a breakaway part of China even though it was part of Japan. They hear the lie for long enough and it seems true.
Wouldn't it be better if the work went to the best suited? We are all foreigners so the xenophobic crap is just that. If we have to justify this with lies about Russia invading Crimea then I would rather have someone I can trust than someone who the liars trust.
It cannot be aerodynamic in a tube. Aerodynamic is about pushing the air out of the way easily but in a tube there is nowhere to push the air to. The train would not gradually slow down. It would hit a wall.
I can only assume that you have never been to Russia and why you are explaining that one maybe you can tell me what is wrong with having a bank account in Panama? Protest is a normal part of life in Russia just like most European countries. Yes, bad things happen but far less than in the US.
As for the US spreading freedom, you must be smoking some really strong stuff. Iraq was a free country that is now overrun with terrorists, Libya had a good democracy but now overrun with terrorists, Syria was the most secular country in the middle east and is now overrun with terrorists. You seem to be confusing destroying countries with spreading freedom.
Maybe if we started respecting and encouraging other people's culture rather than always invading and destroying they would flourish. Our arrogance is totally destructive.
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Everything needs to get out of the US not just DefCon. Even the UN end up having important people refused entry and how about that robotics competition when the girls from Afghanistan who should have been encouraged where refused entry. The US is the worst country in the world for just about anything.
I think it is the fashion now to say you are Syrian even if you are not the right colour or even speak the correct language. I went bush 15 years ago and am in Cambodia at the moment so the reply was stupid.
I would say that bitcoin is a very real competitor to PayPal but also a competitor to Visa and Mastercard. For me the more the government regulate these people the more attractive bitcoin becomes. A lot of my customers are Russian and the current crazy shit means that getting paid is a problem so I love bitcoin and am moving over. At the moment it is a good time to take the plunge if you want to speculate. Of course it is a risk so do not bet more than you can afford to lose. There has just been a fork in bitcoin so the value has plunged but I think it will rise again (note think=opinion not fact). Many people have made a lot of money on bitcoin but the big money is over. In most of the world it is already mainstream.
You are welcome but you are not welcome to stop me from doing my legitimate business using bitcoin. I do not see why I should pay between 6-10% to the banks when I can do business for 1%. Yes, criminals can use bitcoin just like they can use cash but that does not justify making it illegal any more than saying that peadophiles sometimes use hotels so we should make hotels illegal. It is a total fallacy. There is no real link between criminals and bitcoin, in fact the opposite.
There are criminals that know as little about it as you do. The blockchain is public, anyone can look at it and the police can see where money goes in and where money comes out. Bitcoin is not secret. https://darkwebnews.com/bitcoi...
Laundering money is easy and does not involve banks or flights as the media wish to teach you. The reason why they tell you that is so that they can regulate how much money you can carry etc. and force you to use the banks and pay. I first looked at this when I was working in the middle east and earning a lot of money. To send it home would cost 6-10% of my money. Why? If I carry my money a plane I am accused of money laundering... Why? The government force you to pay your money to the bank by telling you that they are stopping money laundering, bullshit. Real money laundering is far easier. You start a business and it does very well. The business does not need to actually do anything except make money from strangers who you give receipts to but as they are never seen again neither are the receipts. You can make so much in the first month that you can use that profit to buy a bigger business etc. In Chiang Mai in Thailand, Yingluk Shinawatra owned a shopping mall that had a complete staff but no working shops. On paper it was earning a fortune all tax paid and used to legally buy property in the UK. The money does not travel until after it is laundered through the shopping mall. She sold the shopping mall when she became prime minister. Other people have resorts etc. You do not more the money until after it is laundered. Bitcoin cannot help you as that is a store. In reality bitcoin is bad for criminals as it is traceable just like all P2P. In Denmark the police arrested a drug dealer based on bitcoin payments. The blockchain is public and you can follow a payment to the exchange at the other end and arrest the person who receives it. It is only hidden while it remains in the chain.
Not true. Most illegal money is stored in things like Delare Corporations in the US because the US banks are the best place to launder money. The government only arrest people who use other banks. The feds do not shut down drug cartels etc. that use US banks only ones that use Panama banks. Again, numbnuts, ransomeware gets stopped by bitcoin exchanges.
No, anyone with experience of the real benefits of crypto currencies is not going to let some law stop them from doing something that there is no justification in making illegal. No one is going to dump it, they will just continue to trade, as they do now, in foreign exchanges. You do not find $10k in bitcoin. It is not a physical object. There is nothing to explain as there is nothing to find. The problem with armchair warriors is the that they honestly think they know what they are talking about. I am currently moving my business to bitcoin because I do know what I am talking about. I would rather stop using Visa and Mastercard than stop using bitcoin and stupid laws will not stop that as my servers are outside the US. I would rather leave the US than go bankrupt. Your weird idea that bitcoin is for criminals only shows how little you understand the subject as other countries are accepting bitcoin for utility payments etc. To everyone else in the world it is stupid to pay fees to Visa and Mastercard for something that can be free.
Ransomware does not work with crypto currencies so I fail to see the analogy. All legitimate exchanges will close the account of such criminals and in the recent famous wave of malware people could not pay the ransoms because the accounts were closed. All this sort of stupidity will do is push it underground and stop reasonable people from being able to benefit from the latest secure currency. As illegitimate exchanges spring up the ransomware makers etc. will be the main beneficiaries of such laws. The problems with you Luddites is that you have no idea what you are objecting to. Crypto currencies are so much better than the current debt based economy that the banks are running scared from the real threat they pose. So most of the dumb propaganda is just that. Countries like Japan and South Africa can see the benefits but the US is run by the banks and would rather the country suffered than the banks lose some business.
What planet have you been living on since the 60s? You are a slave and if you do not know that yet you are a stupid slave. Your freedom was taken away a long time ago and now you will obey the man or you will go to prison.
"entirely screwing themselves over" like people who invested in Bitcoin a few years back when they were $1 and now have something worth $1600... I wish I got screwed over like that. It does not matter. Such regulation is totally unenforceable and therefore totally stupid. More sensible governments are embracing such things and US people are totally welcome to invest in other countries under their laws. All this does is cut the US out of a growing sector.
Do you honestly believe that statutes can stop people in the US buying things in Europe? Marketting is done on the internet which is global and sales take place on the internet. This is an unenforcable regulation and therefore stupid. The main hole in their logic is that they cannot come to terms with non physical property. They have searched people coming into the US looking for bitcoin as if they are going to find a physical object. They are regulating something they do not understand. It scares them but they have no idea what to do. Wise countries are embracing the technology but the US is, as usual, acting like a Luddite simply because they lack control.
... the ministry of agriculture has arranged a meeting of wolves to discuss lamb security in preparation for next spring.
What bugs me is that before Let's encrypt, if you created an http:/// site all was well but if you made that site a little bit more secure by adding self signed certificates there were warnings on your site and visitors were warned against going there. The bottom tier of CA certificates only differ in that you gave someone money. At that time I only had to reply to an email and add a code to my web site. So there was a disincentive to adding a snake oil certificate that seemed to only be there to get you to part with $50. If you pay more and really do prove who you are the green bar travels further across the browser. The information is there to tell people what level of test you have faced but they should take away the warnings on snake oil certs as they are not dangerous and certainly less dangerous than no certificate.
If the American troops stationed in Guantanamo occupied Havana invaded that would be an invasion but if the people of Havana overthrew their government that would not be. There was no invasion, it did not happen. If Cuba was overthrown by anti US rebels that were busy murdering US citizens the US would reinforce Guantanamo. That would not be a shock. There was no fake referendum, calling it such only shows how little you know the area. The people are Russian and work for Russia. If Russia left they would be out of work and overrun by Svoboda Nazis. Why would they not vote for continuing the good life? 50% of Ukraine is ethnic Russian and they were being dragged out of their houses and burnt alive. Crimea had a choice and took it without even needing to think about it as there was no viable option. Why would you think that Russian troops would be needed to invade a Russian population?
No one has ever doubted that troops were stationed at Svastapol. Do you know of any major US naval bases that do not have troops? That does not make an invasion. There was none. It does not matter how many times you call it an invasion, the people of Crimea declared their independence not incoming troops.
It is called history. Taiwan was (note: "was" is past tense which I used and "is" is present tense which you used) part of Japan prior to WWII.
Propaganda works by citing a Russian invasion of Crimea that never happened and an election hack that never happened either. Lie to people often enough and they eventually believe it. Just as people now believe that Taiwan is a breakaway part of China even though it was part of Japan. They hear the lie for long enough and it seems true.
Wouldn't it be better if the work went to the best suited? We are all foreigners so the xenophobic crap is just that. If we have to justify this with lies about Russia invading Crimea then I would rather have someone I can trust than someone who the liars trust.
Air does compress but only so much. There is a very good reason why you cannot push all the air out of the way.
It cannot be aerodynamic in a tube. Aerodynamic is about pushing the air out of the way easily but in a tube there is nowhere to push the air to. The train would not gradually slow down. It would hit a wall.
It is also a new definition of new. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I can only assume that you have never been to Russia and why you are explaining that one maybe you can tell me what is wrong with having a bank account in Panama? Protest is a normal part of life in Russia just like most European countries. Yes, bad things happen but far less than in the US. As for the US spreading freedom, you must be smoking some really strong stuff. Iraq was a free country that is now overrun with terrorists, Libya had a good democracy but now overrun with terrorists, Syria was the most secular country in the middle east and is now overrun with terrorists. You seem to be confusing destroying countries with spreading freedom.
All this is talking about is the FSB wanting normal protection that any business would want. Somehow because they are Russian that is bad.
Maybe if we started respecting and encouraging other people's culture rather than always invading and destroying they would flourish. Our arrogance is totally destructive.