Stive Pesley

I'd pay to see a punch up between the lot of them tbh.

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 😞

One for the Metallica fans amongst us

Even away from politics, on subjects like football, people just post pure engagement bait, because more comments and interaction means more revenue. The decision to give posters revenue may have been made with good intentions, but it’s made the app worse overall imo. 

And Islamophobic 

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

Another tactical masterclass from warne today with the prefect set up to tear orient a new one.
You don't get manager of the month twice in a season without having some knowhow.
Nice one gaffer.
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I think Truss is selling herself short here.
I don't recall Brian Clough ever opening up new pork markets.

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 🤣

😂i know where ur coming from it is a weird concept lol
 
So I bought 3, 6 and 12 months ago all in profit even post potential ww3 dump 
the profit or potential profit depends on your time frames
For the record i didnt buy the above 3,6 and 12 months expecting a profit in those time frames … that isnt investing thats gambling / hoping  
interestingly though, as i mentioned previously just by holding say the 400 quid i put in the other week when i got my eon rebate for my winter overpayments purely by the fact that in a week the pound has gone down to 1.24 from 1.27 against the dollar iv protected the buying power of that 400 quid when measured in the currency i need to survive 

He seemed fine on X factor. 

I’m just thinking if you don’t have a friendly Anne Hathaway because there is no option other than to send the space ship on a red dwarf style journey spanning thousands of years (unless you had like one generational family of in bred caretakers on the ship), then you’d need to work out a way of automatically raising embryos into a civilisation of children, without it descending into lord of the flies. That’s going to be a pretty shitty childhood at best. And with absolutely no way for us sending the ship to know how it would turn out. Seems like it would be theoretically possible, but it all seems a bit unethical. Stupid ethics getting in the way of a good bit of science. If nothing else I’ve come up with the plot of a decent sci fi book. If anyone needs me, I’ll be in my study. 

We've just watched this and it is excellent. Some brilliant acting and nicely ambiguous.
Since you went for Mel Sage, I'll go Michael Forsyth / 10.

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
 
 

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"
 

Oh im sure it is a little manipulated to fit the agenda  lol
Tell u what though … when is is going to be 1btc = 1 median american house 👀
 

Exactly this 
we still have to operate in a fiat world
so our “spendability” (great word lol) has to be measured in fiat. 
 
if i can protect and grow my money when measured against fiat i will.
im effectively doing the same when i cash out ill be paying off my mortage, so like u with that deposit on a flat im putting into a “safer” investment ie the bricks and mortar that i live in. 
 
i mean u could argue, people invest in stocks and shares or gold, u cant spend that at tesco and like bitcoin u have to cash out into fiat too.
 

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!
 

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. 
 

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!
 

Multi sig wallets.
as i mentioned, it takes some planning but no more than a will does
but lets be honest when ur young ur not thinking about planning ahead and when ur gone 

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

Plenty of ill-gotten gains tied up in Crypto Stive! The anonymity used to be a prime draw and not every investor is a spotty yoof! Sadly that includes yours truly! 😂