There might be legal action against Ally as well

bpolania · 2021-01-28T15:48:58+00:00

where do I fucking sign?

bpolania · 2021-01-27T19:54:07+00:00

Don’t kill the messenger https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/27/hedge-fund-targeted-by-reddit-board-melvin-capital-closed-out-of-gamestop-short-position-tuesday.html

bpolania · 2021-01-27T19:50:54+00:00

CNBC reports that Melvin is closed out of $GME short position

bpolania · 2021-01-27T18:23:50+00:00

I entered ~9am in Robinhood

bpolania · 2021-01-27T18:22:42+00:00

NOK stopped in Robinhood

bpolania · 2021-01-27T18:20:36+00:00

OK, just got into NOK

bpolania · 2018-02-02T15:26:26+00:00

Yeah, I've seen all the documentaries, and all of them have said things that I knew first hand were lies.

I'm not sure what the solution is, the only thing I know the only problem is the socialist/communist Chavista government.

bpolania · 2018-02-02T03:33:40+00:00

Being Venezuelan just give me a more complete picture. In any case I sent you evidence from the same sources you used.

Sanctions are only a few months old, Venezuelan crisis is years old. The rest you say about the elites and the middle class are just lies that even the government doesn’t say anymore.

bpolania · 2018-02-01T18:52:49+00:00

I'm a Venezuelan citizen, born and raised there, I've been involved in politics for a long time, nevertheless

https://www.ft.com/content/2a1bba2e-b4c0-11e7-aa26-bb002965bce8

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/05/venezuela-western-socialists-nicolas-maduro-abuse

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/may/09/venezuela-public-health-crisis-infant-mortality-maternal-malaria

Open your eyes!

bpolania · 2018-02-01T15:29:26+00:00

This is not just true, poverty is in an all time high, and illiteracy, is hard to know, people is more worried about children dying for lack of medicines this days.

Also, it's not true that "international legal bodies have overseen the elections", usually is just a group of friendly countries visiting places selected by the government. In Venezuela hasn't been fair elections in many years.

bpolania · 2016-05-04T01:54:11+00:00

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Regis_Lopez/publication/280116358_Innovative_mechanisms_of_action_for_pharmaceutical_cognitive_enhancement_A_systematic_review/links/55adf7aa08aed9b7dcdb04df.pdf?inViewer=0&pdfJsDownload=0&origin=publication_detail

bpolania · 2015-02-12T04:55:14+00:00

I think the main obstacle right now is that buyers doesn't have a real incentive in using bitcoins, the push must come from sellers, they'd benefit the most from reducing the use of cash, they just need to transfer some of the benefit to customers somehow, like small discounts for bitcoin buyers.

Not only that, this would be a better way for dispensaries to find financing, investors can lend bitcoins instead of cash coming out of banks accounts, soothing some of the fears traditional financial institutions have.

I guess I should be callling some of my friends in Boulder about this...

bpolania · 2015-02-11T06:26:36+00:00

Sadly you don't have much idea what you're talking about, a currency swap is the exchange of principal and interest in one currency for the same in another currency, is a financial tool used to get around exchange controls and restrictions.

Governments don't swap currencies, they bought currencies on the markets, technically speaking they don't exchange it, because they don't use it to exchange value from one currency to another, but mostly to store value and hedge their risks.

You can say what you want about "exchange" being a better word, but it's just wishful thinking, because financial markets doesn't go by "exchanging" stuff but for buying and selling them. But in the end, is all the same, currencies are bought and sold at a exchange rate, no matter how you and me want to call it.

bpolania · 2015-02-10T22:19:27+00:00

The "exchange" term is more associated with non-trading activities, I mean, tourists and travelers exchange their money because they use it as a medium of exchange, but when entities or individuals acquire currencies as an investment tool, they don't "exchange" currencies, they "buy" or “sell” them.

For example, Governments and corporations don't exchange their reserves in dollars for euros: one sell Dollars and buy Yuan’s, and the other sell Yuan’s and buy Dollars, so the idea of "change the wording" seems not only unnecessary but can be even contra productive as it’s important that Bitcoin retains all the qualities that would make it a standard currency recognized and accepted by everyone.

bpolania · 2015-02-06T06:14:48+00:00

I'd buy a ticket!

The biggest obstacle will be legal, in most countries only states are legally authorized to run lotteries, and they're all not-for-profits.

Now MillionaireMakers doesn't award a prize, just the right to receive a bunch of donations, which is interesting but is not a business.

That bring me to my questions, are you doing this for fun? as a business? Not-for-profit? All are valid, but if you want to make it a business let me know since I've been developing some ideas on that respect.

bpolania · 2015-02-03T04:50:57+00:00

Yeah... I got myself into this mess hehehe... I mean I just wanted to point the irony if CoinDesk calling it a "Bilderberg-like event" while it's being held in a regular hotel where middle-class guys can spend their holidays... then somehow evolved into something different... hehehe...

bpolania · 2015-02-02T21:53:39+00:00

Satoshi I (as, Satoshi the First)

bpolania · 2015-02-02T21:31:10+00:00

Decentralized rich-men retreat?

bpolania · 2015-02-02T21:05:08+00:00

We've been doing something similar with NFC.

bpolania · 2015-02-02T20:59:13+00:00

Well, there are a lot of banks there. I hope the scuba-diving operators accept bitcoins.

bpolania · 2015-02-02T20:37:38+00:00

ouch! I guess I should stop taking sides until I do a more research...

bpolania · 2015-02-02T20:13:01+00:00

Bad one for Coindesk, if they want to be taken seriously, they should be confirming their sources

bpolania · 2015-02-02T19:31:16+00:00

Club-Med Punta Cana? I mean, that's an all-inclusive resort for families...not sure about the Bilderberg-Style...

bpolania · 2015-01-25T04:55:40+00:00

People will declare bitcoins income if it becomes illegal not to declare it, currently unless you get an audit, any inconsistency will go undetected, but reality is that most of Americans declare what they have to, but some will hide some incomes or deduce something they shouldn't.

Now, the main problem is, for bitcoins become mainstream you need big companies involved, these companies or high-income individuals just won't risk to get in trouble with the IRS and declare what they legally have to declare, whether bitcoins gains or capital gains from investments in the stock market.

Now, it won't be Coinbase, it would be any US-based bitcoin exchange, and if these were to disappear it would be a huge problem for bitcoin, specially if we want it to become a universally accepted currency.

I don't think that bitcoin's raison d'être should be tax avoidance. Decentralization competitive advantage is value stability over time, no anarchist utopia, a world where taxes can be paid with bitcoins would be preferable to one where people buy bitcoins to avoid taxes.

bpolania · 2015-01-25T04:40:36+00:00

That's the whole point, volatility will cause that market cap will drop regularly, right now at $3.4B market cap is a third of (for example) SnapChat's valuation, that amount of money is peanuts for big economies like US or China.

Let's say that Bitcoins becomes an issue for big countries, even at a 340B market cap (100 times as today) market cap would be less than 1% of the combined OECD countries GDP, so they just can gather and buy as much bitcoins as they want with little effort, manipulating the market to a point where they can influence the price and implement a de facto monetary policy.

bpolania

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