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But now she has, she's on it (like a car bonnet)

It will certainly be very interesting if they roll this out globally. I have no interest in paying $1 a year to post on Twitter when I only ever read it. I suspect that outside of the blue tick w**kers there will be a considerable proportion of users in the same boat as me Take out those AND take out the bots and who do you have left? The danger is that it will clearly expose how few real users the site actually has

One for the Metallica fans amongst us

About as diverse as the Reform Party in the UK - what is it with these factions run by angry old blokes? 😂

At least with the football is just harmless entertainment, but search for the phrase "Who are you supporting in this war?" and there are hundreds of thousands of bots/blue ticks posting this over and over again. RT for Iran LIKE for Israel It's not the bloody X Factor or the Merseyside derby...it's real life and people are being killed - but the so-called "saviour of humanity" is just racking up the $$$ by monetising war like it's a 21st century parlour game 😞

I don't get that "used to close down an argument" line. And it's always used by the same people in the same way It's not closing down an argument - If anything it's opening the door for the accused to explain why they believe what they have said isn't racist/fascist/islamaphobic etc But (somewhat ironically) they instead use it to close down the argument and say things like "oh that word doesn't even mean anything any more" 😂

Pretty sure if he can stand the pain of getting that naff neck tattoo done, he can withstand a few boos from the odd numpty in the crowd Personally I couldn't care less - I just want to see us promoted out of this bloody awful league

Looks like I was right, as reports are now suggesting that Tesla are binning their mass-market affordable Model 2 plans Seems that their tanking share price is focusing their minds on cracking self-driving, rather than mass market production of a standard drive EV - as long term, it's self-driving that will win the market (and up the share price)

Clough also didn't get the Leeds job because the club was in turmoil, with everyone sticking the knife into Revie, leading the way for Cloughie to seize the perfect moment simultaneously gain power AND expose himself as someone whose ambition far outweighed his intellect Revie just left to take the England managers job and Cloughie was a proven winner at Derby

Is that making money though? You only make the money when you cash it in. The people who made the money are those you bought the BTC from I realise the logical paradox here, and how it applies to all money (or more accurately spendable currency) but I'm still trying to get my head around the BTC end game. Because it's a speculative asset, if everyone just buys and holds and gets horny about the price going up, how is that deflationary? And if everyone holds then where is the supply? I dunno. I've only just woken up but I do find it fascinating and I enjoy reading your thoughts @NottsRam77 Blows my mind that someone just invented a form of money that is essentially just selling cells in spreadsheet for no reason 🤣

Certainly interesting, although the price changes in both have no direct correlation, not do they indicate any kind of predictive curve Data looks to be cherry picked too - I guess it deliberately misses out the 2018 BTC peak as that would make it a bit too obvious how volatile BTC can be and wouldn't make for such an eye-catching point if it showed house prices steadily increasing while BTC goes up and down like a brides nightie!

I understand why you would (from all the very well reasoned posts you've made) - but to me, option C is by far the highest risk strategy (unregulated and volatile) of the 3 - hence one of the reasons I'm disinclined to go anywhere near it. Also ethically I don't feel comfortable with it, as I've mentioned before a few times!

I think you've highlighted exactly what I find so paradoxical about BTC. People buy it as a "store of value" but it only holds value in relation to FIAT currency. So you can only realise that value by selling it in exchange for the FIAT currency. Which of course leaves you with a fistful of the thing you claim is rubbish and needs to be replaced by BTC. The only real way to make money from BTC is to be a miner, or a broker

Key difference is that those accounts are deliberately secret and the owners never mention them. As opposed to BTC where the HODLers never shut up about how much they are into their crypto 😂 Oh definitely - which is why there is a whole industry of "estate hunters" trying to track down obscure 5th cousins for a percentage of the pot in all these unclaimed estates. Because probate law applies and if you can prove you are the next closest living relative, the bank will release the funds. Crypto is just a dead duck though. You'll be dead before you brute force a SHA-256 hash

Yeah - I meant if people *don't* manage to do that. Given that there are a large amount of young people in the BTC market, I'm guessing there will be a fair chunk of them who won't have given this a second thought. And it's not like probate laws can decrypt wallets So as NottsRam said - in this instance it's gone. I'm sure I read somewhere that an estimated 20% of BTC are already lost due to death/lost keys Kind of makes it an unusual "store of wealth" in that respect. At least gold exists and can be inherited.

Out of interest (genuine question) - what happens to someone's BTC when they die? Assuming that they kept their private key...um private

It's ok. George Galloway is a celebrity and not a politician 😂

I enjoyed Season 2, but not as much as Season 1 Season 3 (the Ewan McGregor one) was much better. Season 4 was the terrible one that we gave up on. The new one Season 5 was back on form again

Absolutely not, but the reasons for that are nothing to do with bitcoin are they? Nor would Bitcoin solve the problem. What would the above clipping look like if the example date was 2014 and he paid for his house in Bitcoin?

Will be interesting to see how this one plays out https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv2ygp5pdqlo Remember when Musk said last year that he "cannot go beyond the laws of the country to defend free speech" and he censored anti-Erdogan accounts in Turkey as a result? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/musk-defends-enabling-turkish-censorship-on-twitter-calling-it-his-choice/ The fact that he's willing to challenge the laws of a country when it comes to the "free speech" of far-right Bolsanaro supporters tells us all we need to know about the Twitter bin-fire

I watched this at the weekend - because it now appears to be free on Amazon Prime (sorry for your loss Bob!) It seemed quite long at 2.5 hours, and I was also a bit underwhelmed by the ending, but my slept-on-it thoughts were much more positive. It has all the hallmarks of a whodunnit, but seems to deliberately subvert that by making the point that in real life some things are simply unknowable and you have to make your own mind up and move on with what ever life leaves you. I also liked the dual language device which I guess was intentionally done to make you think about how hard it is to understand each others lives. The fact she (as a native German speaker) had to speak English with her French husband, and then was forced to speak French in court but had to keep switching to English when she couldn't find the words to explain her emotions. All very cleverly done Mel Sage/10 for me

Christ - I skipped through that, he's a terrible public speaker, and clearly deranged 😂 He must have said "we're actually going to do this" about a dozen times in just the snippets I watched He's obviously trying hard to convince you all!

As a small child of about 5 I vividly remember discovering that my own "little stive" sometimes went all big in the bath, and my mum telling me to stop touching it because "if you keep doing that, it will fall off" I didn't dare go near it again until I was about 13 - at which point I thought "sod it, if it falls off, it falls of - at least I'll have fun finding out"

Yeah it's weird - I really enjoyed the first season, but as it went on it became a LOT cheesier and the writing seemed to take a nose dive. As Bob said - how many times can the joke be - "oh the English have a different word for this"? Once I realised it was essentially "a US TV show about an imaginary England" and not a British sitcom, I just got a bit bored That said - the fact that there are millions of Yanks who think that is what life is like in an English Premier League team makes me chuckle though (and that people walk around London actually talking to strangers in the street!)

Let's be honest - if we have an off-day against Carlisle, a team who will have been relegated long before the last game - we don't really deserve to be promoted!