@DecryptoBL @RyanSAdams Ok so I was a little off about them saying they'd short. But still pretty crazy throwing a hail Mary to actively trade ico funds.
@angel28kc Nobody would wish an alcoholic life on themselves. There is a deep almost instinctual craving for alcohol that is hard to remove. If it were a choice people's normal sense of reasoning would interrupt that and there wouldn't be 88,000 alcohol deaths per year.
@nlw@CryptoBrekkie When there are hundreds of thousand of affordable plug and play lightning nodes and millions of payment channels for every merchant I think it'll work just fine for payments. We're not that many years from that being a reality.
1/Why #bitcoin matters now.
Trump wants to look good for 2020. No surprise there. Strong economic numbers--especially GDP--are crucial.
So: trade war! Force a huge economy (China) to buy more of our products. Cranks up GDP. Yay us, right?!
Except China's fighting back.
@WhOmadebitcoin I went to AA, tried and do a meeting a day. I asked someone to be my sponsor. I called him every day for over a year. I met with him and others, read the big book. I found a spiritual base to put my trust in. I read books. Volunteered to share my story to help. 4yrs sober!