NottsRam77

Its a bit like if you go for a meal with the missus, you go to pay and find you don't have enough, so she pays instead. 
 

There is an element to it 
but then it is even at a trillion dollars a very thin market that can be easily manipulated by various institutions that feel there can be money to be made in from the casual retail investor 
The alt coins I’m v v sceptical over many if not all bar ethereum 
Bitcoin does have a genuine use case as a store of value in a digital world 
but hey who knows 
My view is got to be in it to win it 
if I’d taken my mates advice in 2012 and bought a load when it was like £200 a Bitcoin I’d be the proud new owner of an East Midlands football club ? 
so maybe I should be grateful for small mercies 

It’s more about the blockchain technology.. the crypto currencies are mainly an asset of worth, allow u to operate on those networks and allow it to be represented as a tradable commodity 
It’s a big misconception 
take an example 
the ethereum network allows people to operate smart contracts and apps to run off the network 
one some people may be familiar with is the game Sorare that’s a digital football trading card game that runs on the ethereum network 
On the football theme as it’s closer to home for many of us here there’s a token called chillies.. not sure what network or blockchain it’s on but it’s a token that a host of top clubs have bought into
i can’t be bothered to explain how it works but if u google it it’s effectively like a little mini share issue if u will
fans can hold the tokens In their club, it can be used for season ticket discounts, match day experience rewards and prize draws
it can and they hope it can go a lot lot further 
one club allowed their token holder fans to pick the side for a pre season friendly !!!! Lol
can imagine that here … would be carnage 

Remember the Penney shares thing lol 
them were the days 

You stab someone you intend to kill them,  should never see the outside of a prison again never mind be out in 3 years.

Agree totally 
as u say 3 times is basically attempted murder and I’m amazed a judge or jury can’t see that and punish accordingly 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe until recently, in some parts of the world it was possible to walk into a Tesla dealership and buy a car using bitcoin.

Not even slightly surprised the arboretum is an absolute poo hole 

Like to say to all 
believers or none believers 
It’s an interesting premise and point of discussion and enjoy hearing everyone’s views 
 

Agree totally 
as u say 3 times is basically attempted murder and I’m amazed a judge or jury can’t see that and punish accordingly 

Unsurprisingly, this doesn't appear to be quite as honest as it might be. Not like these big companies to come up with ways to legally lie their way to bigger profits! Incidentally, I also signed up to a 100% renewable power provider - it was more expensive but I thought I was doing a good thing. Then I got an email a year later saying that they had ceased trading and I was being auto-switched to EDF
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-7507443/How-check-100-renewable-electricity-really-green.html
 
I think the word allegedly is definitely doing the heavy lifting there ?  Again difficult to prove otherwise though, but interesting that all the major power companies are now mining bitcoin with their excess energy. I don't doubt that there is acknowledgement of crypto needing to be more efficient. Is it Ethereum that is trying to change the way it mines to use less power?
But anyway - the point is that as BTC gets nearer the 21m limit it takes more and more power to mine the coins and we end up with yet another system that favours the "already rich" who can afford the largest computing power, and craps on the little people who kinda mighta needed that electricity to heat their homes and cook their tea
Yeah that's the only sane way to approach these things - in that way it's exactly the same as gambling.
Interesting that they aren't regulated but are insured instead. In the world of crypto where prices can have insane swings, they are insured against you losing your wallet, but not if your wallet suddenly becomes worth buttons because the bubble bursts!

My electricity company seem v proud in telling me every invoice I get that 100% of my electricity needs come from renewable sources 
to add … allegedly 70% of mined Bitcoin comes from renewable sources 
but your point is totally valid 

Incorrect 
people pay fees and commission to borrow money to leverage trades 
in order to do this they use decentralised platforms that allow a form of peer to peer lending 
the fees distributed between the platform and the customers that stake the money 
there is risk involved as this is all done on smart contracts 
the platforms … or more reputable ones are insured for millions … they are not regulated and IMO I consider it money I might probably won’t  see if it went bad .. so limit my exposure 
Risk to reward etc 

I don’t use plastic bags and my energy company regularly inform me 100% of my electricity comes from renewable sources … ie they get it for free .. at no cost to the environment 
which kinda takes the piss when they keep putting it up every year lol 

Could be worth anything up to 70p that could

I would go as far as to agree with your statement that it is a "sophisticated form of betting". You could probably say that about anything where money is speculated in a way to accumulate though. No one knows what will happen in the lottery, sports betting, stocks or Crypto.

Yeah, for me it is all about disposable income - I can chuck the odd £50 here or there but aren't really in a position to potentially throw anything more at it. 

Got into Crypto at the start of this year by buying some Ripple just before the dump. I've since grown my portfolio to Cardano, Ethereum, Binance coin, Bitcoin, Zilliqa and Ripple. It is pretty much my savings account this moment in time and was going amazingly during the bull run. Now we are in a bit of a bear market so things aren't going the way they were. I've also mined about $250 worth of Ethereum in a month which was a nice little pump for my holdings as well.
Edit: missing a word.

Be about right for us to be owned by someone with an affiliation to Micky mouse lol

I keep pressing refresh to see what the latest news is on this. The time is absolutely flying by..........

I joked in the Abu Derby thread that we'd still be mucking about with takeovers over the summer. 
 
It was meant to be a joke. Not an accurate prediction. 

I believe Anya is available.

I hear what ur saying and partially agree.
I think his game is more one demiensional than waghorns, I mean waghorn can play out wise or through the middle and although last season was largely a write off for him historically at this level he has shown competence in both those roles, I would say waghorns game is a little more rounded because of that 
cocus style for someone like Marriott was totally the anti style of how he would socire his goals 
look at that Norwich away winner, as I said the Leeds goals 
he’s on the shoulder of the last man ... it’s hard to do that when that last man is about 18 yards from goal and there’s 10 men infront of him cos our ponderous play had allowed the opposition to re group 
I’m not saying Marriott will be a success here but if he had a style ... and I mean see his goals for the posh too I would have him in that category 

Yes, there is a decent player there if we can find it ?

Get him some service and players around him 
release the ball quicker 
he’s a Bobby Davidson / dean Saunders type of player ... blink and their in type 
he’s a sniffer, looks for opportunities 
Cocus style was the very last thing he wanted, slow build up with all of their players behind the ball and no space in behind to get into those little pockets 
Channel balls and in behind 
see his goals against Leeds as the perfect example of what type of finisher he is