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  1. johnarb

    Will Blockchain Change Money and Business ? Poll

    Can you provide a quote or evidence of this from any of the bitcoin hodler's posts?
  2. johnarb

    Craps - Dice setting/ Dice control

    Sorry for posting on an old thread but since it was resurrected after a year in January, I say why not? Just like some of you, I've seen some crazy rolls, and I've had long runs myself, one time the dealer noted I shot for 52 minutes (i guess he has to time it maybe part of the work, or he's...
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    CME Bitcoin Futures Now Average $370 Million In Trading Per Day

    Yea, they should offer lower leverage products. The article/CME points to $ daily volume which is skewed by the higher price of bitcoin compared to the beginning of the year when it was less than half of current $10K price/bitcoin ~7000x5btc per contract = ~$370M
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    Bitcoin transaction fees are at the lowest level rn

    Bitcoin is an experiment. When will it be no longer considered an experiment? Who knows, but perhaps when it's available as an investment asset in IRA's and 401K's/Pension Plans or when NYSE/ICE Bakkt has sold to enough Institutional Investors and those power-players endorse bitcoin as a...
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    CME Bitcoin Futures Now Average $370 Million In Trading Per Day

    [What's going to be really exciting is the NYSE/ICE Bakkt exchange that will open in 2 weeks - Sept 23, 2019, that is a bitcoin-settled futures, with 1-day futures offering, which is really an answer to the much-talked about "overwhelming interest/demand" from Institutional Investors. We will...
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    Bitcoin transaction fees are at the lowest level rn

    To answer you question, yes. Bitcoin trades on many exchanges worldwide, including Coinbase (biggest one in the US, but could be surpassed by NYSE/ICE Bakkt exchange when it opens on Sept 23, or Ameritrade or ETrade when they open who knows when) Robinhood trades it for select customers but I...
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    Bitcoin transaction fees are at the lowest level rn

    I just sent $250 at the highest priority setting on Electrum bitcoin wallet and I had to do a double-take on the fee it was charging me, 1.5 satoshi per byte (which translated to $.05). The recipient is over 7K miles away in a different country. just fyi for the people who complain about...
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    Bitcoin Co. exchange unexpectedly shuts down

    The average naysayer-nocoiner is too stupid to understand the mathematics and system complexities of the Bitcoin distributed, decentralized, immutable, censorship-resistant network infrastructure. They'll point out negative events that happen halfway across the world that has no significance to...
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    Will Blockchain Change Money and Business ? Poll

    You write as if you understand what a blockchain is but you do not. To you it's a buzzword that you think you can throw around and mesmerize others. (I've explained what it is on one of my lengthy posts). In case you missed my thread...
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    To securely store cryptocurrency, Coinbase buys a vault under a mountain in Switzerland

    I don't think you're serious about this, are you? How does that work, Google sends the info to IRS? Or the IRS will send a subpoena to Google on all US-based users with no SSN? So, your bank is on the lookout for all of your transactions and voluntarily sends the info to the IRS? Are you...
  11. johnarb

    To securely store cryptocurrency, Coinbase buys a vault under a mountain in Switzerland

    Bitcoin is a distributed, decentralized, censorship-resistant network. It means everyone has a choice on how they use it. Institutional Investors have a need for centralized and regulated custodial ownership and that's what we're seeing as they choose to invest in this space and the companies...
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    NYSE Owner to Offer Futures Paying Out in Bitcoin Next Month

    When Bakkt’s one-day and one-month contracts expire they would pay out in Bitcoin This can be a big thing for bitcoin.... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-16/nyse-owner-to-offer-futures-that-pay-out-with-bitcoin-next-month Intercontinental Exchange Inc., the parent of the New...
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    A Goldman Sachs Analyst Is Bullish on Bitcoin. But Is Goldman?

    Goldman has legitimized bitcoin as a tradeable investment asset by making a call. This is independent of whether the prognosis turns out to be correct or not. I don't believe GS has done this before wrt to bitcoin, but I'll be happy to be corrected.
  14. johnarb

    A Goldman Sachs Analyst Is Bullish on Bitcoin. But Is Goldman?

    nice. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-12/a-goldman-sachs-analyst-is-bullish-on-bitcoin-but-is-goldman In a packet of slides sent to clients yesterday, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. technical analyst Sheba Jafari said that Bitcoin could go up by 23% in the short term, and that later...
  15. johnarb

    Bitcoin Price Thread

    How's the free money treating you? :cool:
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    Bitcoin Price Thread

    :D
  17. johnarb

    10,000 American Cryptocurrency Owners Will Receive Warning Letters From the IRS

    I did not get a letter. I bought bitcoins from Coinbase many years ago, but never sold to Coinbase, yet. Also bought bitcoins from Circle which was a much better place to buy from as they accepted CC with ease. Had I known Circle would stop operations, I'd have loaded up as much I as I could...
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    Wall Street finds blockchain hard to tame after early euphoria

    Additional reference article: Smart Money Said ‘Skip Bitcoin, Bet on Blockchain.’ Not Any More By Olga Kharif July 17, 2019, 3:33 PM PDT https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-17/smart-money-said-skip-bitcoin-bet-on-blockchain-not-any-more
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    Wall Street finds blockchain hard to tame after early euphoria

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-blockchain-finance-focus/wall-street-finds-blockchain-hard-to-tame-after-early-euphoria-idUSKCN1UB0YV NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two years ago Nasdaq Inc (NDAQ.O) and Citigroup Inc (C.N) announced a new blockchain system they said would make payments of private...
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