Yep. It also contributes to the vicious cycle of partisan politics. The Internet has made it so easy to find people with similar views, it leads to folks becoming even more emotionally invested in those beliefs, to the point where it gets increasingly difficult to consider other points of view. That's why you and Grandma will laugh at each other WAY more than you'll consider each other's points. On top of the fact that we're all using memes to make fun of each other, you're already conditioned to support other folks who agree with you.
By the way, it's not just social media and human nature causing the problem. Google is making it worse too. Consider reading up on the concept of a filter bubble, and if it strikes your fancy, I just started reading a book I'm recommending to a lot of people called The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think. Basically, when Google, Amazon, and other sites try to tailor search results and ads to what they already know you like and agree with, you become even less likely to be introduced to viewpoints outside of our own.
We can talk all day long about how partisan and segregated we are in today's global society, but in reality, it's the things that connect us that are feeding the problem.
>"advertising my goods"
Be very careful with those words in social media. Gary V has a book, Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook. Hate him all you want, but the concept is clear: spend at least 80% of your posts providing value to your fans, and 20% on advertising (more or less).
Accounts that just sell sell sell can turn people off. It's good if they're new - but in the end, you want to build a community, or tribe, of followers.
For those who are interested in the details of the case and would like to see a take different from the typical "Free Ross" one, I recommend checking out American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road.
I know right? He should educate himself about other coins before he opens his mouth.
This is a good book he could start on, from an author who's more open minded:
https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Ethereum-Building-Smart-Contracts/dp/1491971940
Read this book - https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Standard-Decentralized-Alternative-Central/dp/1119473861
As most bitcoin books are either technical in nature or written by journalists who don't understand it well. This book answers the "why" of bitcoin, the economics and monetary policy that makes it so special.
Overview - https://medium.com/@jimmysong/why-bitcoin-works-fe32879a73f5
Don’t trade. That’s gambling & speculating. Buy a bit of Bitcoin as a long term insurance against existing fiat system and just sit on it.
Or invest by doing some research. I recommend this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Standard-Decentralized-Alternative-Central/dp/1119473861
It’s not the case, he was fighting with the developers and the rest of the team and Gavin ultimately pressured Vitalik into firing him.
https://www.amazon.com/Out-Ether-Amazing-Ethereum-Destroyed/dp/1119602939
You need to show them first why there is a problem in the first place. Show them the history of currency and fiat, the fall of the gold standard.
If you liked Hunting Warhead, you should check out American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road. The audiobook will keep you hooked until the end!
Ugh, I just went to Amazon to double check the delayed release date of Mastering Ethereum (it went from Dec 10 to Dec 25ish). Now it's pushed back to January 10th. You know he'll be discussing his book. Link for anyone interested in ordering it.
If you read this i guarantee you'd reconsider your position. https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Standard-Decentralized-Alternative-Central/dp/1119473861
You're completely missing the point on what a non-sovereign money brings to the global marketplace. Do you do business internationally? Send money across borders ever? International banking absolutely sucks. What about the several billion people that are unbanked because it's a permission based system that they don't have the privilege to be a part of? How about you're living in a country like Venezuela, Iran, Turkey, Greece, etc that are experiencing hyper-inflation and seeing their savings absolutely devastated by poor economic policies instituted by broken governments?
If you think bitcoin is all about speculation you haven't done your homework. It's about taking back control of your finances and being your own bank.
El mundo está adoctrinado a creer en el papel moneda. La política monetaria es controlada por los gobiernos y la manejan a su conveniencia.
Ahora que las criptomonedas bajan la barrera de entrada para muchos tipos de inversión, los gobiernos y los bancos centrales hacen todo lo posible por descalificarlas.
Pero no pueden. No han podido. Y no podrán.
Estamos ante un gran cambio de paradigma. Es difícil de comprender, por eso este sub (y la mayoría de las personas) le temen. Pero es el siguiente paso de la economía.
Y si llegaron hasta aquí (los downvotes dirán si llegaron o no), lean The Bitcoin Standard
Creo en las criptomonedas porque son una alternativa a la centralización y control. Sí, son riesgosas. Pero es el primer paso para que cada quien se vuelva su propio banco.
Awesome exposure, great for awareness about CL. And it's going to be on Amazon later this year! (already available for preorder: https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Ethereum-Building-Smart-Contracts/dp/1491971940/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1527274613&sr=8-1&keywords=mastering+ethereum+antonopoulos). Somebody please make a Kindle version, please!
learn the book the bitcoin standard
https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Standard-Decentralized-Alternative-Central/dp/1119473861
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its simple on exchanges you have uncovered bitcoins and covered bitcoin.
if you take btc to you own wallet the coin can no longer be double lent it is out of the exchange suppley!
btc is limited , and CAN NOT be created out of thin air like bank can with fiat money.
I recommend the book Cryptoassets. It’s a bit dated since it came out in 2017. But it covers all the fundamentals about cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. Dives in specifics such as the differences between utility tokens, smart contracts, ledger blocks. Also talks about centralized and secret slide networks / private and public block chains. I’ve had a chance to meet the authors in person and pick their brains, very knowledgeable guys. My recommendation.
https://www.amazon.com/Cryptoassets-Innovative-Investors-Bitcoin-Beyond/dp/1260026671
If you are referring to the intra-bank transfers, Saifdean outlines it The Bitcoin Standard and this great talk. If something else maybe you could give me a question.
I think you're looking for this. It's basically the economic side of Bitcoin;
My favorite drink is whatever alcoholic beverage I can get my hands around on a big ass cruise ship.
American Kingpin, the story of Ross Ulbricht (better known as Dread Pirate Roberts) and how he built and crashed the online drug market known as The Silk Road, is out and on my amazon wishlist. Hint hint. Just kidding, I'll probably buy it myself for lounge-reading on the boat.
I think I'm starting to get sick - sore throat, congested head, stuffed up nose - and I'm freaking out because I don't want to be sick on vacation.
I ordered American Kingpin on Amazon for some cruise/beach reading - did any of you follow the story of Ross Ulbricht/"Dread Pirate Roberts" and The Silk Road drug marketplace? I ordered a few times from there years ago when it was still operational. I find it fascinating. Can't wait to read it.
So it's officially been two months since I've tapered, and two months since I had my period. You would think that I would be stable on my sub dose by now, but I'm starting to get withdrawal symptoms at night again. I posted on a suboxone taper facebook group asking if anyone had ever done a medically-assisted rapid detox and linked to the website online. I swear, people on facebook are so dumb. They assumed I meant the Waismann Method, or that I was talking about a rapid taper. One person told me to take the money and go on vacation, because tapering "isn't so hard" - if I could punch someone, I would. I feel like I'm being belittled and it's really frustrating.
This is great work u/amandamichelle90. I've been in this community for a few weeks, unaware of this amazing crypto universe being created before us, and the amount of HODL, DCA, fuck/shit, shit/fuck posts is overwhelming (underwhelming?). Thank you for condensing this glorious new world into something most folks can understand.
For community members that were not fully around for the Internet revolution in the late 90's, hold on this is going to be one amazing journey.
I was completely ignorant of what Bitcoin actually is (I thought it was for ransom ware, drug purchases, anonymous trading, etc.). After reading The Bitcoin Standard, whether Bitcoin survives or not, its a beautiful work of decentralized art.
I also didn't fully grasp the power of Blockchain technology until reading this article about Ethereum and everything that is being built under and on top of it.
Sure, it will be great to make money of these technologies and investments, but just as equally we can take part of this historical evolution/revolution in decentralized software.
Read "The Bitcoin Standard" by Saifedean Ammous. If that doesn't clear up any misconceptions... find a new wife.
You can get a sense of the book at his Bitcoin Austria book launch here.
You've hit upon the fundamental question to this particular issue: is Bitcoin useful or not? People who don't see any use for it will come to the conclusion that it is a waste. Yet, other people keep adopting it.
For those interested in this question - why more and more people think it is useful - I'd suggest reading The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous.
It depends on whether you want to learn the basics of programming first or the basics of ethereum first. It also depends on how you best learn - tutorials, videos, books. I guess I would suggest "Mastering Ethereum" by Andreas Antonopoulos.
Yes I do sound like an *** but that's what happens when I read 10 books on Bitcoin, come to the internet, and find 99% of the posts written about Bitcoin make absolutely no sense in the context of monetary principles. After a while, the manners go out the window and the abrasiveness sets in permanently.
Just read the Bitcoin Standard and call it a day. It's one of many that I've read, but most fundamental to the topics that were discussed in the previous posts.
https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Standard-Decentralized-Alternative-Central/dp/1119473861
this would help if you're actually interested.
Look up "The Bitcoin Standard" by Saifedean Ammous, a young Austrian economist (PhD and all).
There is a strong Austrian argument in favour of Bitcoin, and the Austrian school seems to be the only methodology that can make sense of it (as per Bob Murphy). Bitcoin is engineered money, distilled to money's most abstract properties and divorced from its traditional but incidental properties.
Curiously, Bitcoin also seems to contradict classic Austrian theory in that its price so far has been following a simple analytical model (the stock-to-flow model), which is deemed naive by the old Austrians. It's uncharted territory.
I just started reading this one. Looks promising. I’ll leave full Amazon link without shortening.
I'd recommend you to start by understanding the crypto father: Bitcoin. There are great resources out there. My favourites are the works from Andreas Antonopoulos (Both books and even his Youtube channel). He is great, explains with such an ease everyone can understand
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJWCJCWOxBYSi5DhCieLOLQ
His book 'Mastering Bitcoin' is also available on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Bitcoin-Unlocking-Digital-Cryptocurrencies/dp/1449374042
This one might get a bit technical, but it's a great resource to understand why cryptocurrencies are not a 'digital collectible' as the OP mentioned. I think they are gonna revolutionaze the world as we know it today.
If you are up for lighter material, check out the documentary 'Banking on Bitcoin'. It's on Netflix and is awesome too.