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halamadridon SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches

What an amazing feat! Well done SpaceX. Hope the core made it too!

halamadridon Goldman Sachs Report Explores Use of Bitcoin as Currency

And this article is published on iconow.net

I am guessing it’s not biased?

halamadridon DHS weighs major change to H-1B foreign tech worker visa program

What if this is fake news?

Once it becomes law you can ask for people with decency to resign.

halamadridon India Says Bitcoin as Risky as Ponzi Schemes

Or crash down to nothing and lose it all in a hack.

By the way can you please cite sources for your stats around inflation?

Last I read a Bloomberg article quoted Indian economy to be no. 3 behind China and US by 2030.

halamadridon India Says Bitcoin as Risky as Ponzi Schemes

Please don’t compare gold with bitcoin and make bitcoin look good.

How is bitcoin super reliable? Someone could buy it for 20k$ and next thing he is getting only 5k$ for it because of a crash. Or someone has hacked the exchange and it’s all gone.

How can it ever be reliable?

halamadridon Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Commercials a Year

So we checked into a hotel today and my 4 year old decided to try TV for the first time. His was initially frustrated with the time it took for him to find a channel he thought he would like (Disney Junior). He had to hop through a ton of channels and missed a few kid friendly channels as Ads were playing on them.

Finally he found Disney Junior, and then the whole ad thing started. He was so frustrated with all the ad breaks, he switched off the TV. Enough said.

halamadridon Goldman Sachs Is Setting Up a Cryptocurrency Trading Desk

1. Goldman Sachs going to open trading desk 2. CBOE launches futures 3. CME launches futures 4. Fed sells seized crypto coins from silk road 5. ...

The list of things that makes this as genuine as it can be goes on and on.

It's a repeat of the 2008-09 crash from subprime loans. Everyone knew what was happening. But they just wanted to make as much money from the situation before getting out. Of course Lehman Brothers didn't get out in time.

halamadridon Thank Kim Jong Un for your crypto gains

I don't think that will happen anytime soon. It's hard to see everyone we thought was trustworthy and will do the right thing doing exactly the opposite and take advantage of the situation.

1. Goldman Sachs going to open trading desk 2. CBOE launches futures 3. CME launches futures 4. Fed sells seized cryptos from silk road 5. ...

The list of things that makes this as genuine as it can be goes on and on.

It's a repeat of the 2008-09 crash from sub prime loans. Everyone knew what was happening. But they just wanted to make as much money from the situation before getting out. Of course Lehman Brothers didn't get out in time.

halamadridon Exploring different microcontrollers less than $1

The waybackmachine link didn't work for me, but this did:

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