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Ananda:

--- Quote from: Kindler on December 12, 2017, 03:16:18 PM ---But to hear people talking about it, you could have made yourself rich overnight and retired to your own private island!

Yeah, that's about right. There are a lot of attractions to cryptocurrencies in general. There's a firm, finite supply of them (I think there can ever only be somewhere around 20 million BitCoins unless they mess with the blockchain formulae), and transactions can be conducted relatively anonymously. Mostly, I think they're going to be used as hedges against inflation eventually, the way people convert to British pounds or Euro, or gold. Some hedge funds are actually trading BitCoin futures now, which is kind of brave new worldish.

It's also literally impossible to regulate, which is why China simply banned it. It circumvents the international banking system, too, so it's making a lot of people uncomfortable. Cryptos are here to stay for those reasons alone, but nobody is going to take them seriously, with mainstream use as a currency, unless and until the volatility subsides and they stabilize. Hell, Steam was accepting BitCoin up until last week, and they cited volatility as the reason. My first thought was that some people were parking BitCoin using Steam purchases, then refunding the purchases later after there was a price change.

It's also hard to have appropriately scaled prices when there's a thirty percent change overnight.

Anyway, cryptos are weird, people are using them solely to enrich themselves or to conduct shady business at the moment, and I don't have a fifty acre plot of woodland to myself with a tiny cabin and a fishing stream, dang it.

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Just in the week that we've been saying how we should have invested, it's gone up so much. It was 10.000USD on 1 december and is 16.000USD now. If we'd have invested everything we had 2 weeks ago, we'd have made so much now.  ;D
https://charts.bitcoin.com/chart/price

wardenferry419:
Which supernatural group, other than the WC and Outsiders, will be most involved with the BAT?

Kindler:

--- Quote from: Ananda on December 13, 2017, 12:29:40 AM ---Just in the week that we've been saying how we should have invested, it's gone up so much. It was 10.000USD on 1 december and is 16.000USD now. If we'd have invested everything we had 2 weeks ago, we'd have made so much now.  ;D
https://charts.bitcoin.com/chart/price

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Yep, sixty percent growth is nice. Personally, I prefer dividend stock, because I'm boring and like my annual 5% return from AT&T. Safe, predictable, but boring and without the explosive "HOLY CRAP POP THE CHAMPAGNE BABE, WE'RE GOING TO VEGAS" that I'd like.


--- Quote from: wardenferry419 on December 13, 2017, 10:42:43 AM ---Which supernatural group, other than the WC and Outsiders, will be most involved with the BAT?

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I think that the Fomor are being set up to be important. There are a lot of Fomorian references in old Irish mythology, and Mab's got a lot of Irish and Celtic roots, so I'd assume they're going to be part of that particular apocalyptic scenario. Though the Fomor aren't exactly Fomorians, and are way more Lovecraftian, but I'm not sure that's a mark against their inclusion in the BAT.

And you can bet that there will be Ragnarok, so Monoc Securities will be hanging around. Funny nobody's mentioned Loki or Jormungandr yet in the series. 

wardenferry419:
Monoc will definitely play a big part and I am thinking Black Court has a part to play for the opposing team.

Rasins:

--- Quote from: wardenferry419 on December 13, 2017, 11:30:35 PM ---Monoc will definitely play a big part and I am thinking Black Court has a part to play for the opposing team.

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I'm not so sure.  While I believe they will be difficult if not impossible to work with, I think they recognize that if reality is destroyed, they go with it.

This is what I think Nick is thinking too.  I think they all just have their own way they think the end should be managed.  Further I don't think Nick thinks it'll be the end.  Remember, he believes that Apocalypse is a state of mind, not an actual end.

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