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You have to ponder that reason enlightens only the ignorant, Slartibartfast. Not the stupid. The stupid will believe in capitalism or communism, the same way they believed that earth was a giant DVD floating on a sea of fire populated by demons and evil spirits. The stupid believe you can build...

Do you presume to tell me what I'm doing wrong? Are you calling me a sinner so you can be a saint? Do you have an arm like my arm? Can you shout in thunder the way I can? Go ahead, show your stuff. Let's see what you're made of, what you can do. Unleash your outrage. Target the arrogant and lay...

Taste is a pure matter of opinion, Saltynuts. This is my favourite:

I carefully write down everything in neuronal language at the very fountain of my own universe, Chuck: my very private brain. It's a huge, powerful fortress, in the middle of a far, far away Northern Sea, surrounded by murderous tides and unconquerable walls that no invader will ever be able to...

I do very much like this thinking, dear eurusddzn! An excellent big game hunter knows very well that he can become the prey anytime. And he's fit and prepared to face any beast, be it bull, bear or great mammoth revived from the old ice ages!

I believe it's best to achieve success quickly rather than slowly. Kinda the old adage from mammoth hunting times, you know: It's better to be young, strong and intelligent than to be old, weak and dumb. Well. More or less. You can add lots of variants to this great principle of plain truth, my...

You seem to confuse socialism with communism. Communism might just work, one day, because it's fundamentally the most moral of all systems. But not now. Now it's totally corrupt in all the countries which you just mentioned. You can see today some fine examples of socialism in France, Germany...

Hmm... This is the definition of corrupt socialism, Neo. This is not socialism. I could give you a definition of corrupt capitalism, but it would be quite very much off topic indeed. Socialism works for the welfare of a certain type of people. For others, it doesn't. If my memory serves me...

Hmm... This sounds like an emotional right brained eructation, Steve. Full of implied beliefs and political slogans. Totally irrational. 1) Being an employee doesn't make you productive. There is boatloads on non-productive people in any type of work. 2) Traders are very useful for society...

We will probably never know. But some people were definitely behaving like real douchebags toward him. Instead of trying to prevent people to financially kill themselves with powerful 400:1 leverages, the morons working in the US government should engage in a global witch hunting war vs all the...

Erm... What I generally hate the most about a tribal land is the law of the tribe. You talk of freedom. But you can't trade CFDs in the US, you can only do futures. However, CFDs are less risky than futures because you have no time constraint on them, while a future has an expiration date. In...

Long journey indeed! Can't wait to be educated on the subject of the full list of small islands that accept the USD as legal tender. I'm sure it will be an extremely exciting discovery, but right now it's friday, NYC is finally closed, and I've got 48 hours of freedom before Sydney opens again...

Yeah. I guess we can agree to call it a matter of taste. I loved NYC when I was younger. Lived many years there. Spent a year in Alexandria (Virginia) right next to Washington D.C. But as I said, I am a trader, not a patriot, and I go where I want to, not where I'm sent to. Time changes tastes...

No, I haven't gone to the countries that use the USD. And that's not dumb, that's just ignorant. Now that you mentionned it I googled the thing and know that Zimbabwe, Micronesia, Palau, East Timor use the USD (all countries that I had never heard about before, except Zimbabwe). Thanks to you...

Greetings from Canada, Neo. Yes, Vienna is one of my favourite spots in Europe. I love Geneva (I normally stay at Annecy on the French side when I go there) and Rome too. I spend a good part of the year all over the place in Europe, actually, but it's been more than 8 years since I haven't put a...

Hmm... That would be very stupid. Like offering a hundred Euros to buy a coffee in New York. And this was not my point. My point is that the USD has no legal tender outside the US. BTC has, in lots of places around the world. I think my point was obvious. At least for any person at or above the...

And you surely don't have mine neither, jerk. Why are these kinds of posts tolerated in these forums?

Wow. Just wow. You don't get out much of your farm, do you? Really. US dollars won't even buy you a coffee in Vienna. Bitcoins will. You really sound like a caricature. The quintessential, stupid, unilingual Yank. https://btcmanager.com/a-bitcoiners-travel-guide-vienna/

But I do, dear Martinghoul, I do. Allow me. A handful of fiat dollars is pretty much useless outside of the US. You can't buy anything with it in the European Union, for instance. A wallet of crypto, though, can get you to lots of places around the world.

Ditto, beerntrading. Bitcoin facilitates international transactions more than fiat money. Trading and investing are two different things. I'd absolutely trade hot air would there be an index on it. Why not? But I wouldn't invest in it, of course. Regarding volatility, it is actually a good...