Can someone with access to Stratfor post the text of this article?

https://www.stratfor.com/analysis/bitcoin-moves-closer-regulation

My being so right and you being so wrong with your one-trick-pony show is really getting under your skin I guess.  Sorry about that.  My good calls are mostly luck I assure you.

I am quite confident that if you get your way on Bitcoin it will be curtains for the solution.  You may realize that and simply plan to do your dump at that point, but I actually believe there is a better than 50% chance that you earnestly believe your own nonsense.  I'm burnt out on being more rude then that at the moment else I would use a variety of caustic characterizations to describe your being here.

There is a irreconcilable difference between you two. cypherdoc wants to profit from Bitcoin's wide adoption while tvbcof wants to profit from daytrading. cypherdoc believes in the long term sociological impact the Bitcoin experiment will have while tvbcof believes Bitcoin is doomed to the whims of the controlling powers and no more than a pyramid that will eventually collapse.

As long as neither resort to social engineering, it's all good.

I understand the upload vs download bandwidth argument. It's not a problem because it will deter no fee transactions. Nobody wants to spend bitcoins that will never get confirm. Except double spenders, but there are better ways to catch them.

I understand the attractiveness of parallel processing Bitcoin transactions through side chains, but they don't solve the bandwidth problem unless you use only one side chain exclusively. That issue has not been addressed.

I also get 'ya' and 'yeah' mixed up.  Me dumb-dumb.

Really?  I've gone through exactly three periods of activity since 2011.  Buying until the bottom, Getting my money back at 10x, and taking some profits at 100x.  'daytrading' is not at all my game.  For folks who like it and are good at it, God bless.

I did play around on Bitcoinica out of boredom once.  IIRC I about 10x'd my money in a few weeks trying to lose it.  That was PURE shit-house luck.  It was not worth the few hundred bucks to hand over my identity docs to an exchange in order to try to get USD so I just gave the proceeds to ~goat who used them for a party for some orphans in Thailand.  So he said anyway.

--edit:  Bitcoinica proceeded to 'lose' everyone's money not long after I drained my account.  I had similar 'luck' at Mt. Gox.  I took half the one-time 'pocket change' I had with Instawallet out like the day before they 'got hacked'.  Happily they gave me the other half back.  I guess I'm just lucky with these things.  Mt. Gox still owes me a $5k wire.  That's the one place I've been burnt so far.  Perhaps fiat will take precidence over BTC when the dust from this event finally settles.  Time will tell.  Whatever the case it is such a tiny fraction of my activities I can easily write it off as a 'cost of doing business'.  At least I didn't have to pay taxes on the $5k.  Yet.

As for being doomed, I wouldn't be here if I thought that.  The number of users even here on trolltalk who recognize the danger and futility of trying to make it some sort of universal exchange currency is one thing that I find encouraging.  There is a fair chance that the 1MB blocksize won't even be attempted which would gives me hope.  And of course, sidechains...


...which give the masses the power of Bitcoin at it's core and a whole heap of bells and whistles which actually make it usable by them.  Many of the additional capabilities will be mutually exclusive options so it would be logically impossible for native Bitcoin to fulfill these needs in any circumstance.

Well hopefully people haven't been taking your advice for the past year.  Unfortunately, I'm sure some did, and they have paid dearly.  Shame on you.

Cypher, you've been nothing but bullish over the course of the entire thread's life.  In fact, you admitted that this is a place for you to troll to bears.  When it comes to PMs, I never said buy (to my recollection).  I'm not a salesman, unlike you.  I called you out on being wrong on gold vs Bitcoin for an entire year.  Hell, more than a year.  And although you probably do not recall, what I said about PMs was my shift to them from Bitcoin worked in my favor.  Furthermore, I have stated many times that gold and Bitcoin solve different problems.  Comparing the two from a functional standpoint doesn't make sense.  You, on the other hand, would rather preach the ultimate dominance of Bitcoin from your pulpit.  And like I said, this I'm sure has resulted in losses from those hapless people who have taken your advice over the past year.  It is your unmitigated arrogance that I take exception to.

cypherdoc has not suggested anyone to buy more than they can hold long term. Therefore, there have been no resultant losses over the past year.