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colemanY2K
Roy Keane Fresh minty breath Joined: 01 Mar 2010 Location: London Status: Offline Points: 14959 |
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Had a chat with a couple of buddies working in finance who threw a few hundred euro into the cryptocurrency craic at the start of the year. One was showing me the app with charts of the various currencies he bought. Some of them increased in value at a steady rate and others were all over the shop. It appears to be a popular hobby amongst folk in the city of London.
It'll be interesting to see how this will pan out. Personally I'm staying well clear of it. Edited by colemanY2K - 20 Dec 2017 at 8:39am |
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"One of the dominant facts in English life during the past three quarters of a century has been the decay of ability in the ruling class." Orwell, 1942.
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Whelo79
Davey Langan Joined: 15 Feb 2012 Location: Dublin Status: Offline Points: 772 |
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You can also quite easily link it to a credit card and spend as easily as you would with any other credit card bases on fiat. It's nowhere near as difficult as some people want to make out.
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SuperDave84
Robbie Keane ooh Thomas, how could you do this to me! Joined: 26 Aug 2011 Location: Far Fungannon Status: Offline Points: 21384 |
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No, you just sell it to the next chump. It isn't that hard.
It's hard to spend directly at the minute, as there aren't that many places that accept it; that doesn't make it hard to sell, though. Put it like this: could you buy a can of coke with a solid gold coin? Unlikely. But could you sell it for cash? Damned right you could. |
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colemanY2K
Roy Keane Fresh minty breath Joined: 01 Mar 2010 Location: London Status: Offline Points: 14959 |
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Singapore sound alarm over bitcoinSingapore’s financial watchdog has joined the chorus of concerns over cryptocurrencies. Sopnendu Mohanty, the top fintech official at Singapore’s monetary authority (MAS), has warned that people who have invested in bitcoin will come a cropper when they try to withdraw their funds. The Telegraph’s Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has the story:
Is it true Bitcoin is difficult to convert into Euros, dollars etc. ?
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"One of the dominant facts in English life during the past three quarters of a century has been the decay of ability in the ruling class." Orwell, 1942.
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The White Cafu
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Watched it and he basically just talked absolute sh*te, was as if he was reading the Wikipedia page. |
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Trap junior
Robbie Keane YBIG Minister of Doom & Gloom Joined: 25 Jan 2010 Location: Irish Riviera Status: Offline Points: 39489 |
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Was some bloke on Prime Time talking about Bitcoin there. Missed nearly all of it so didn't hear what he said
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deise316
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Fcukin hell Bob. That means our avian friends are better able to evaluate shiny metal than we are. That can't be good.
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Bob Hoskins
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Sorry to piss on your grapes there Deise Magpies don’t like shiny things12:30PM, AUGUST 26, 2014 Magpies have a reputation for thievery and are supposedly fond of shiny things. A new study finds no evidence of that. STEFAN BERNDTSSON/FLICKR (CC BY 2.0) SPONSOR MESSAGE < width="300" height="250" ="https://g.adspeed.net/ad.php?do=&zid=47245&wd=300&ht=250&target=_top" border="0" scrolling="no"> Magpies deserve our apology. Apparently humans have been unnecessarily maligning the birds for centuries. They actually aren’t attracted to shiny things, and they’re probably not thieves, Toni Shephard and colleagues at the University of Exeter report in the August Animal Cognition. The birds have a reputation for stealing jewelry and other bright objects. Look in the American Heritage Dictionaryand you’ll find a definition of magpie that isn’t for the bird but for “one who compulsively collects or hoards small objects.” And Rossini even based an opera on the birds’ reputation for thievery: In La gazza ladra, or “The Thieving Magpie,” a magpie takes several silver items and a maidservant gets executed for the crime. |
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Romario 2016: And the ticket mafia gets caught! Well, four years ago I had already told the government.
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Huggybeer
Liam Brady Joined: 29 Mar 2011 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 1420 |
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Remember the movie The Big Short, Christian Bales character who predicted the property crash in the states using analytics, invested all the cash he made into water. Scary times ahead
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Getting old and intolerant
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TonyNotJack
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Still one of the best conpiracy theories
http://www.politics.ie/forum/foreign-affairs/162186-strauss-kahn-framed-over-missing-fort-knox-gold.html
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deise316
Moderator Group Don't ask me about car warranty Joined: 11 Apr 2009 Location: The Déise Status: Offline Points: 10921 |
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Gold has been decoupled from paper currency since the 60's or 70's I think, though you are right about the origins of the banks having to store some in vaults etc. That no longer applies, as far as I know.
But tis still all the one really, as we have ascribed a value to gold which is arbitrary. In supply & demand terms, gold, like anything else, is worth whatever it is worth, but that's still only because there is a demand for it, 90% of which has zero practical value (10% is used in the electrical industry). If you aren't an electrical engineer, there isn't a hell of a lot you can do with gold only make jewelry out of it. Extreme, but in an apopalyptic scenario, where survivors of a worldwide flood or nuclear war are looking to build shelter for themselves, and jewelry is the last thing on their minds, what's gold worth in that scenario, in comparison to 10 tonnes of steel bars, or even a warehouse full of wooden logs ? Pretty much fcuk all, which means its intrinsic worth is pretty much fcuk all now as well. |
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Trap junior
Robbie Keane YBIG Minister of Doom & Gloom Joined: 25 Jan 2010 Location: Irish Riviera Status: Offline Points: 39489 |
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My understanding is that real currencies have Gold in the country's vaults to back up a certain amount of money. Banks can then 'create' money on the basis that not all the money in the bank will be withdrawn at an one time and they can play around with that leeway. But in a crisis they have a certain percentage of gold to fall back on which will always hold value like land. Printing money doesn't work as far as I know to create wealth. Bitcoin has no physical essence at all. Somebody made up something one day like TJ Coin and said these are valuable and people started buying them. You can't even withdraw your money is that right? You have to find someone to buy it off you. There doesn't seem to be an institution. It's like buying fairy dust. I just don't get it at all. P.S. I don't know why gold is precious either tbh. But its at least something you can hold in your hand and barter with. |
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deise316
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There is nothing to back up any currency, only the belief we put in a piece of paper which is intrinsically worthless in itself. If that belief switches to bitcoin, or if enough people believe in the value of it, it's as good a currency as any of the rest of them. Gold as currency has always confused the fcuk out of me, that too, as a metal, while not completely useless (it's anti corrosive properties are useful in the electrical industry) is only worth anything because of a historical value ascribed to it by important people of the time, Kings and the like, who admired shiny stuff and it's relative rarity. As a metal, there are far more practical ones, so essentially, it has its value because we aren't all that far up the evolutionary chain from magpies, who also like shiny stuff. Back to barter after the revolution I suppose. |
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TonyNotJack
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Interesting thread on Reddit about this from september. This lad in the UK cashed out his 4 million in bitcoin all at once without getting any advice.Seems like it was a big mistake.He now has to pay 15% tax (£600,000) to the UK government.If he'd moved to other EU countries like the Netherlands or Germany for a while it would have only been 61,000 tax there.
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Gaz
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Some clarity on the bro in law:
- he's single yeah. No woman would let you gamble your life savings - he has 30 bitcoins. He started buying them in Jan and has bought some after that. Total investment was 50 grand - can't see him selling. He's adamant it will keep rising. I reckon it's gonna plummet in the near future but sure what do I know |
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I dont email the count anymore, its been 9 months : ( He even sent me a YBIG scarf for my Birthday
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Saint Tom
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My destination inchicore my next stop being kilmainham
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Borussia
Roy Keane Joined: 14 Oct 2010 Location: UK Status: Offline Points: 10608 |
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They could have saved themselves a lot of hassle but just getting a Revolut card.
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AntrimMan
Jack Charlton YBIG's resident Nordy/London Hipster Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Location: Christmas Island Status: Offline Points: 9442 |
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You can still mine bitcoin but the computing power needed to do so it crazy. People buy specialist mining rigs. The idea was it was easy to do in the beginning and the complexity and resource needed would grow and grow. I think at current rate the last one will be mined in 2147 or something.
Interesting this week that CBOE and CME are launching futures in this. Its an unprecedented 'Legitimacy' for want of a better word given to a Crypto. It means institutional investors can get involved and you can hedge against the bubble bursting. Which in theory would control crazy price rises. Goldman Sachs appear a bit ahead of the game here ( or taking a massive gamble - based on your POV ) by setting up a specialist Crypto trading desk
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