here you go my friend https://www.bitmex.com/
Bitcoin is virtually useless as a currency but as a commodity you can gamble on it's pretty good
― frogbs, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 19:57 (five years ago) link
The CFO said Goldman is working on a type of derivative for bitcoin because "clients want it."
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/06/goldman-sachs-cfo-calls-reports-of-shutting-down-crypto-desk-fake-news.html
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 19:59 (five years ago) link
"A trader wants to goes long 10 XBT of TRON futures contracts, which trades at 0.0200 XBT. As the leverage is 20x, the trader only needs 0.5 XBT of margin for this trade."
now we are getting in too deep
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 20:09 (five years ago) link
you can do 100x leverage. shoot for the moon. even if you fail, you'll still land among the stars
― frogbs, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 20:10 (five years ago) link
McAfee
The first Bitcoin forecast that I want to discuss with you is by John McAfee, the creator of the popular anti-virus software McAfee. McAfee is well-known in the cryptocurrency industry because he makes lots of insane price predictions on Twitter, however, it has since been revealed that crypto projects pay him more than $100,000 to do so.Anyway, in 2017, MacAfee said that Bitcoin would reach $500,000 in 2020, and if it didn’t, he would eat his private parts live on TV! If you didn’t think this was crazy enough, McAfee then increased his Bitcoin price prediction 2020 to $1 million! To be honest, he seems rather confident to me.
https://www.bitdegree.org/tutorials/bitcoin-price-prediction-2020/#Bitcoin_Price_Prediction_2020
― | (Latham Green), Monday, 17 September 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link
I went to my local coffee shop and the barista didn't talk to me about it. The delivery guy as well, not a word, zip.
Even in my local bar, I must have overheard 3 or 4 conversations, every one literally the same, not a mention of bitcoin. Even the bartender was at it, ethereum, ethereum, ethereum, literally absent from every sentence
is it.....time to go all in?
― anvil, Sunday, 14 October 2018 10:13 (five years ago) link
Incidentally just came across this on my lunch break pic.twitter.com/w2NuIbhs0h— Bryan Ma (@bryanbma) October 15, 2018
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 15 October 2018 20:13 (five years ago) link
A couple years back I used to work at a BTC-related startup, which was hell, but I met some cool folks there. I've now reunited with the good people at another startup in more or less the same sector. It may drive me insane in a year or two but in the meantime, I gotta eat.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 03:48 (five years ago) link
no shame. got those bits yo
― self (alomar lines), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 04:07 (five years ago) link
Simon HODL
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 04:13 (five years ago) link
It is interesting, when you're in the space, to observe the interaction between true believers and cautious employees/careerists. I'm beginning to realize the latter group dwarfs the former at this point in time.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 04:18 (five years ago) link
this could probably lead to a wolf of mt gox book deal someday. Take notes!
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 04:21 (five years ago) link
joeks but hoping this all goes well for you
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 04:22 (five years ago) link
I feel like the popular fervor has died down now but I kind of expect there to be another wave next financial crisis. It will play the role gold did last time.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 04:23 (five years ago) link
I literally said "love to do crimes on day one" aloud to a co-worker after a client asked us to perform an ethically dubious task lol
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 04:30 (five years ago) link
The next financial crisis will be huge for crypto for sure.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 04:31 (five years ago) link
feds are better at controlling currency than algorithms and they don't waste as much energy.
― adam the (abanana), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 05:29 (five years ago) link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46150107
― Neil S, Friday, 9 November 2018 12:43 (five years ago) link
lol
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 19 November 2018 16:45 (five years ago) link
not @ the link, just a general lol
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 19 November 2018 16:46 (five years ago) link
I watch a lot of Shark Tank now and it occurred to me that bitcoin is just like every single product that gets brought on where the entrepreneur is like "this is going to take over the world because x y z" and the sharks are like "Sounds great but you have no sales"
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 19 November 2018 16:47 (five years ago) link
HODL not the best investment strategy for moving through a bubble
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 19 November 2018 17:22 (five years ago) link
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/9ylaxp/the_rocket_has_taken_off/
simple but effective imo
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 20 November 2018 14:45 (five years ago) link
looool
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 20 November 2018 14:51 (five years ago) link
https://exchangewar.info/
someone's having a good day
― frogbs, Tuesday, 20 November 2018 15:23 (five years ago) link
That made me look into wtf Tether is and HOO boy.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 20 November 2018 15:34 (five years ago) link
yea Tether is amusing in that it's both an attempt to reverse-engineer real money AND a blatantly illegal financial scheme in which the creators just "invent" billions of dollars
― frogbs, Tuesday, 20 November 2018 15:41 (five years ago) link
Enron?
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 20 November 2018 19:29 (five years ago) link
https://breakermag.com/trapped-at-sea-with-cryptos-nouveau-riche/
― sleeve, Friday, 7 December 2018 04:23 (five years ago) link
^^^ excellent writing. confirms my bias that crypto is a cult of thirsty dudebros above all
― davey, Friday, 7 December 2018 17:00 (five years ago) link
yeah it's a great article
― sleeve, Friday, 7 December 2018 17:05 (five years ago) link
yup, handy encapsulation of everything that's horribly wrong in the space
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 7 December 2018 17:15 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rGuH0vBLLs
― mick signals, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 17:43 (five years ago) link
roffle
― davey, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 20:01 (five years ago) link
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2019/02/crypto-exchange-says-it-cant-repay-145-million-to-clients-after-founder-dies-with-only-password/
― koogs, Monday, 4 February 2019 13:02 (five years ago) link
whoops
― maxwell’s silver hang suite (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 4 February 2019 13:10 (five years ago) link
My 'lol' and 'sad' levels were fluctuating wildly as I read that story.
― See you later, I'm going to go take a look at this suicide robot. (Old Lunch), Monday, 4 February 2019 13:21 (five years ago) link
Not convinced yet that the guy is actually dead
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Monday, 4 February 2019 13:22 (five years ago) link
“This is a tough lesson learned,” Calgary customer Elvis Cavalic told CBC
at least i got a new screen name out of it i guess
― Calgary customer Elvis Cavalic (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 4 February 2019 13:26 (five years ago) link
srsly tho it's great that crypto companies are run so competently that a guy dropping dead can just wipe out 190mil, v cool new money system we have here
― Calgary customer Elvis Cavalic (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 4 February 2019 13:27 (five years ago) link
If there was ever a time to amass a crypto-fortune and then pull a D.B. Cooper in the hopes that a septuagenarian judge will throw up his hands in confusion at the blockchain jargon used to explain the inaccessibility of the funds in question...that time is now.
― Why have more than 1,000 of my bucks disappearded? (Old Lunch), Monday, 4 February 2019 14:00 (five years ago) link
“Sorry bros”
― calstars, Monday, 4 February 2019 14:05 (five years ago) link
look far be it from me to suggest that crypto's uniquely insane weaknesses to scamming means that it is uniquely attractive to scammers but
― Calgary customer Elvis Cavalic (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 4 February 2019 14:05 (five years ago) link
might try to get in touch with this dude via Ouija board later today
― frogbs, Monday, 4 February 2019 14:09 (five years ago) link
https://pics.me.me/john-cena-laughing-19985692.png
is p much how I feel about that
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 4 February 2019 16:47 (five years ago) link
good lord
― the real indie runs (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 4 February 2019 18:09 (five years ago) link
ive a fella works beside me keeps telling me his e-purse is worth 3 million spends the rest of his time complaining he cant get a loan to cover his kitchen extension
― ɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ (darraghmac), Monday, 4 February 2019 18:22 (five years ago) link
i was giving him the benefit of the doubt for a long time due to a language barrier issue but ive decided hes quite the most stupid human ive seen earn a midrange salary
― ɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ (darraghmac), Monday, 4 February 2019 18:23 (five years ago) link
Just realized I've met Gerald Cotten lol
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 00:07 (five years ago) link
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/researcher-counts-the-reasons-he-wants-cryptocurrency-burned-with-fire/
nicholas weaver not mincing words here
― The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 01:29 (five years ago) link