Bitcoin = 19223.99 US Dollar

How many telescopes can be bought from 1 bitcoin, eh? (o:

On Sunday, 17 December 2017 09:53:16 UTC+1, StarDust wrote:
How many telescopes can be bought from 1 bitcoin, eh? (o:

Bitcoin is the absolute proof that investors are delusional optimists.

Much like all the criminals in prisons.

On Sunday, December 17, 2017 at 1:57:55 AM UTC-8, Chris.B wrote:
On Sunday, 17 December 2017 09:53:16 UTC+1, StarDust wrote:
How many telescopes can be bought from 1 bitcoin, eh? (o:

Bitcoin is the absolute proof that investors are delusional optimists.

Much like all the criminals in prisons.

You wouldn't talk like that if you would have a few million pesos in bitf***coin and you could buy the Keck telescope for fun,if you want?

On Sunday, 17 December 2017 11:07:51 UTC+1, StarDust wrote:

You wouldn't talk like that if you would have a few million pesos in bitf***coin and you could buy the Keck telescope for fun,if you want?

Funding observatories to give them your name is so "yesterday."
Nowadays the obscenely wealthy stash their funds offshore.
Seeing their names is the last thing they want to read in the headlines! ;-)

On Sunday, December 17, 2017 at 2:12:57 AM UTC-8, Chris.B wrote:
On Sunday, 17 December 2017 11:07:51 UTC+1, StarDust wrote:

You wouldn't talk like that if you would have a few million pesos in bitf***coin and you could buy the Keck telescope for fun,if you want?

Funding observatories to give them your name is so "yesterday."
Nowadays the obscenely wealthy stash their funds offshore.
Seeing their names is the last thing they want to read in the headlines! ;-)

Any tsunami can flood offshore's, washing every thing away!
Including your pesos!

On Sunday, 17 December 2017 11:22:05 UTC+1, StarDust wrote:

Any tsunami can flood offshore's, washing every thing away!
Including your pesos!

Well, luckily, I don't have two pesos to rub together. ;-)

On Sunday, December 17, 2017 at 4:34:47 AM UTC-8, Chris.B wrote:
On Sunday, 17 December 2017 11:22:05 UTC+1, StarDust wrote:

Any tsunami can flood offshore's, washing every thing away!
Including your pesos!

Well, luckily, I don't have two pesos to rub together. ;-)

Best to store your pesos up in your anus where no one looks, unless you're one of those pervert? (o:

On Sunday, 17 December 2017 04:57:55 UTC-5, Chris.B wrote:
On Sunday, 17 December 2017 09:53:16 UTC+1, StarDust wrote:
How many telescopes can be bought from 1 bitcoin, eh? (o:

Bitcoin is the absolute proof that investors are delusional optimists.

Much like all the criminals in prisons.

Seething hatred of banks for it because they can't charge outrageous fees for transactions and seething hatred from governments that can't control it and track people by their purchases.
I love it.

On 17/12/2017 10:12, Chris.B wrote:
On Sunday, 17 December 2017 11:07:51 UTC+1, StarDust wrote:

You wouldn't talk like that if you would have a few million pesos
in bitf***coin and you could buy the Keck telescope for fun,if you
want?

Funding observatories to give them your name is so "yesterday."

Physics laboratories are in the news at the moment.

Ray Dolby's estate has just made the second largest ever donation to
Cambridge university for a new building for the Cavendish laboratory.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-42234034

Nowadays the obscenely wealthy stash their funds offshore. Seeing
their names is the last thing they want to read in the headlines!
;-)

I love the idea that Bitcoin wasn't volatile enough for some investors
and so now we have "Bitcoin futures" as well! Tulip mania writ large!

https://www.ft.com/content/1c9f468a-...6-b25f8adaa111

I think that article is not behind a paywall.

--
Regards,
Martin Brown

On Tuesday, 19 December 2017 06:51:13 UTC-5, Martin Brown wrote:
On 17/12/2017 10:12, Chris.B wrote:
On Sunday, 17 December 2017 11:07:51 UTC+1, StarDust wrote:

You wouldn't talk like that if you would have a few million pesos
in bitf***coin and you could buy the Keck telescope for fun,if you
want?

Funding observatories to give them your name is so "yesterday."

Physics laboratories are in the news at the moment.

Ray Dolby's estate has just made the second largest ever donation to
Cambridge university for a new building for the Cavendish laboratory.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-42234034

Nowadays the obscenely wealthy stash their funds offshore. Seeing
their names is the last thing they want to read in the headlines!
;-)

I love the idea that Bitcoin wasn't volatile enough for some investors
and so now we have "Bitcoin futures" as well! Tulip mania writ large!

https://www.ft.com/content/1c9f468a-...6-b25f8adaa111

I think that article is not behind a paywall.

--
Regards,
Martin Brown

There are plenty of manias all the time. There was a morse code key collection mania a few years back on Ebay. Prices went nuts. All because two rich buyers were vying with each other for them. Then one guy died. The "market" collapsed.