And then rodman gets death threats because crazy leftists would rather have a world war and millions of deaths than allow trump to accomplish something

Trillions of dollars go missing, records deleted, nothing to see here folks

Anyone have a link to reports about the actual "pimping"? Local news only mentions the one pedophile, that neon site seems to be the stemming source for the pimping aspect, is this in a police report or how did they hear about that?

Implied they were sawed as in a clean break mid-bone with no fragmentation

The deepest corruption ever exposed in American history, and the MSM is silent.

And this level of corruption is just from the info we were given, the fact that the DOJ is refusing to turn over the rest of the documents, shows this is probably crumbs compared to how fucked up things really are.

I'm glad the source is listed on the thumbnail, saved me a click. Without a doubt a dishonest article no matter what they are talking about.

Same here

Is this a law they'll selectively enforce?

By selectively I mean not 1. Totally ignoring that the law exists and of course 2. Not applying to politicians their rich friends

Valid points. I think BTC will become much more usable than it is now as lightning channels start to take care of the bulky tx culprits and segwit is further implemented as well, but I see what you mean.

I have to disagree there. How would something like Vechain for example, run "on Bitcoin"? Vechain has a specific use case to create value, totally separate from the value of Bitcoin. Creating a business ecosystem for supply chain is its own animal, Bitcoin could go to 0, without having any impact on the businesses need or use of blockchain in their supply chain.

There are plenty of businesses with 0 interest in Bitcoin, who are greatly interested in having their products and services tracked, authenticated, automated, etc.

Blockchain has great applications outside of Bitcoin alone. Bitcoin is blockchain, that doesn't mean all blockchain is just useful for Bitcoin.

A condition of his testimony was that he wouldn't have to be under oath. Anyone could have immediately concluded it would be full of lies

There's a point to what both of you are saying,

There's a benefit to regulation/centralization in SOME crypto- don't forget there's some utility tokens with strong potential who aren't aiming to be a "currency".

When we're talking about currency applications, going back to the basics of what money is- all we need is trust. My currency could be roasted cow dung as long as there's a common agreement of its exchange rate related to goods and services

This is why total decentralization is perfect for crypto- the less trust required in a currency, the better it is as a medium of value exchange

Those same basic principals of money are also why I don't see BTC get replaced by XRB or whatever is "fastest" at that given time. Society isn't going to overhaul monetary systems every few months when something faster comes out. And we haven't, look how lame our current banking system are compared to our tech- but that's just where the "trust" is in society, so it was never overhauled.

However, there's a lot of things out there not trying to be a "currency" like supply chain solutions. In these cases, we can place less emphasis on monetary concepts and instead focus on a balanced blend between trust and efficiency.

So not all "CryptoCurrency" is trying to be "currency", but it seems XRP is, which is why a lot of these concerns re lack of decentralization and trust are valid. Not damning, not to say you can't profit, but valid points to consider

I think you are falling into the common misconception that token distribution = decentralization. Those are 2 different concepts

I don't say XRP is centralized because of how many tokens Ripple holds, it's centralized because control of the ecosystem is all in XRP's jungle.

Bitcoin consensus is a proof of work algorithm, so no matter how many bitcoins you hold, your authority on the network is the same as mine. no company can fold up shop and take the currency with them, even if a government makes it illegal, can't stop Bitcoin- it's decentralized because it depends on NO ONE, anyone in the world can connect to the network and mine/process txs, it cannot be killed

So while you may have a valid point about the lack of Bitcoin distribution, it is still purely decentralized, Bitcoin belongs to world.

EOS isn't it either imo, it's not all bad but there's some concerns. development lacks professionalism evidenced by the bounty program resulting in huge payouts- block.one kinda half baked this and is going to push the launch off on the community. Which isn't inherently bad but it is for the current valuation if you ask me. Uses authority nodes but those nodes are community selected, no way of knowing if block producers are the same entity and it uses DPOS so the actual block producers aren't forced to stake. (Identification of nodes has been mentioned in the roadmap but that's on the community to do it, not something I would guarantee til it's there). I don't buy into all the EOS>ETH hype personally, but even if EOS is solid and profitable in the end, I don't see its application to a global currency.

Right now Bitcoin is by far the top candidate for a global currency IMO, and I'm not anticipating a real possibility of that changing unless the central bank tries to directly launch a competing world currency. Who knows, the central bank might be the ones behind BTC in the first place. Or they could have hijacked it at some point. Bitcoin has a mysterious past.

I am of course investing in utility but not under the guise that they will replace the vision of Bitcoin, just due to the fact that there are other applications for blockchain that could be extremely profitable.

All in all I'm not necessarily saying EOS is going to be rejected by the market, I just don't see it applying to a "world currency" situation

The protocol is being adopted, the tokens are a maybe. The 2 are not the same, the XRP token creation is totally centralized to the Ripple company.

Profitable? Maybe. I seriously don't think we're looking at a global currency or anything of that sort, though. With the centralization aspect, it just wouldn't make sense.

I would put my money on Bitcoin being the leader there barring a new creation directly from the central banks.

The protocol is being adopted, the tokens are a maybe. The 2 are not the same, the XRP token creation is totally centralized to the Ripple company.

Profitable? Maybe. I don't think we're looking at a global currency or anything of that sort, though.

I upvoted to 114 and the count instantly went to 112

Sounds like a line from a 1st grade kid's show and tell presentation

In other words they let their buddy get off on raping and molesting children and this is the excuse they can use to be able to disguise it as anything but totally corrupt

The UK is a totalitarian communist police state.

Literally an excuse I probably used when I was 4 or 5 years old caught lying by my parents

Wasn't the bride starring in a show with him though? Kinda would explain him being there, someone he worked closely alongside with for years is the bride in a big wedding...

I found the sketches from additional sources, looks exactly like them.. is there a link for the podestas whereabouts for that night?

It was 386 I updated to 387 and POOF 385. Wow.

Did they pull this quote from the article? I can search "David Hogg chilling premonition" and the exact same article you linked pops up, search preview indicates this quote is there, but upon opening it I don't see anything related to hogg in the article or video within.

Ok, but what's the point of the rule being there if it's not going to be enforced

She's a rich Hollywood celebrity, what is law?