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Yes. And all I want to know in life right now is how to short the damn thing. 
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fx trading allows for that, and with margin trading so you only need to put a small amount down
- but margin trading not for the faint hearted - even small moves are amplified by the margin percentage.
I occasionally dabble in fx trading through oanda, (can set up a demo account and 'practice' trade on real data - stops any chance to cheat as opposed to using historical data.)
They have a few trading platform variants including online, metatrade, mobile apps and even api's so it's even possible to write your own platform.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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Who knows. But more interesting is the whole concept of block chains and digital transactions, not just for currency, but for any kind of contractual arrangement. At the end of the day, it'll be the lawyers, as usual, that win. 
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The technology behind them is really interesting.
Blockchain is relatively simple concept to grasp once I looked at a few of the explanation videos and articles when it first came on the scene.
However, I'm still trying to understand the technology underpinning Ethereum which is based on "Smart Contracts" and haven't got a clue about the new kid on the block which is causing a stir "Ripple".
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blockchain is interesting but also the biggest problem with bitcoin. Its present size is a few gigabytes, when only a few people use bitcoins for transactions. Imagine where will that size grow if it was used daily by millions of people... infeasible!
so I don't think there's any future in bitcoin, and it's just a classic bubble
a friend of mine was trying to convince me into buying bitcoins last Christmas, when the price was under $1000. On what reasonable grounds did it double in size in half a year other than speculation?
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umeca74 wrote: On what reasonable grounds did it double in size in half a year other than speculation?
Increased demand and larger acceptance-base, as reported by multiple financial institutions. Since April, the BC is a legal form of payment in Japan.
umeca74 wrote: so I don't think there's any future in bitcoin, and it's just a classic bubble
I doubt you'd recognize a bubble if you were in one; most Americans don't have gold or bitcoins, but (tech)stocks, student-loans and their own house. I do not see the demand for housing grow, and the large tech companies are struggling to be profitable 
umeca74 wrote: when only a few people use bitcoins for transactions.
It is no longer "a few people". Please explain how the CURRENT situation is infeasible?
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Tulip mania.
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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Fear and Greed drive all markets.
Right now, you fighting between the two...
Are you missing out [greed] (yes), is it too late (maybe) [Fear of taking the loss]
The problem is that WAITING is what causes the insanity to get bad enough to get in at the end,
and hold through the biggest losses, and sometimes never recover.
assume there is a 100% chance of 100% loss. if you are okay with that, then buy.
If not, don't beat yourself up for not getting in.
Look at the one person who lost theirs after buying it.
Finally, know your entry, know your exit. I recently took a trade that rocketed up, I sold 75% and sat on the last 25%. I made nice profits even if 25% goes to zero. And sure enough, it has now reversed and is going to zero. I followed my plan, limited my losses, locked in my gains.
Also, be sure to backup your bitcoins! MANY MANY people have lost theirs, tossed hard drives, and thumbdrives, etc. Only to realize much later.
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Topless member of the nobility riding on a headless chicken - he doesn't much care for the daylight hours. (5, 3)
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
modified 25-May-17 6:41am.
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Night Owl
Member of the nobility - knight, topless - night
Chicken - fowl, headless - owl
Andy B
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That was somewhat quicker than I expected! Well done.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Thank you for explaining your reasoning!
Was pretty stumped by that one.
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These files are a pain to work with, are full of meaningless gibberish, and we are expected to add this guff without any support from Visual Studio...
Does anyone know every section and item that a web config file can hold?
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David Radcliffe wrote: Does anyone know every section and item that a web config file can hold?
You can create and add your own custom sections, so I guess the answer to that question is 'no'
Have you tried appsettings.json yet?
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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I'm not sure how replacing a <> delimited tag soup with a {} delimited tag soup that doesn't allow comments is supposed to be an improvement. 
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I agree.. it's fine for simple stuff, much like XML was. When you've got 200+ lines of config json to look through, it's not so easy.. 
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Lucky you weren't around when we were using the Registry....
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Try keeping up with INI files. 
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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You're telling me about INI files? I've installed OS/2....
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OS/2? OS/2!?! For goodness sake why? Is it a punishment or something? 
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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.ini files, specific to each application, make a lot more sense than one big registry. If an INI file gets screwed, only one app is screwed. If the registry gets screwed, your whole OS is screwed.
If they get too big, then a good INI-specific editing tool is needed, but it's still easier to maintain and understand than the registry. MS should have abandoned the registry long ago.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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At one time, there was win.ini / system.ini
Shove EVERYTHING IN THERE.
== Crash ==
Okay, every app gets it's own INI file, we have learned
apps require more data than can be properly stored in an INI file (was it like 16K)?
== Boom ==
We have a SINGLE registry. It can grow as needed, put everything in there!
(Ignore the 3 minute login, roaming profiles (OMG) and other stuff)
== Bang ==
So now we have Registry for SOME Things, INI Files for other things, and config files for other things.
and MANY require some combination of all of them!
In the end, property bags (some kind of complex XML/JSON configuration file is what is required). They should be application specific, and WELL-DOCUMENTED by the VENDOR. And how you add your own stuff should be VERY VERY CLEAR.
I hope we get there... Before I retire.
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Kirk 10389821 wrote: I hope we get there... Before I retire.
A beautiful plan, but I'm not holding my breath for MS to give up on the registry.
With any luck I'll retire in 7 years. I can probably suffer with the status quo that long.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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This reminds me of the time that CCP (Developer of the MMO Eve Online) accidentally deleted the boot.ini file from windows systems during a major update.
Those were the days!
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In a word: no.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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