In essence, they got its users (me included) to sign away our sovereign data before we knew its value. I feel the equivalent is colonialists in Africa getting African chiefs to sign away their land for a bottle of whiskey. I would go as far as to say Facebook is a neo-colonialist land-grabber - except its not your land you've given away, it's your most personal information. Zuckerberg = world's biggest douche. A modern day Cecil Rhodes.
I've bought a bunch of bitcoins: it's a fantastic investment in the vast and indubitable stupidity of humans.
People don't sell, they only "hlod" (it's no coincidence that the rallying cry for the numbnut bitcoiners is a typo), and the market is incredibly thin, driven up by people's willingness to buy smaller and smaller slices of the wretched things.
Downside will always be limited, as sell-offs can always be stanched by whales holding up prices and people's training to hlod and hlod and hlod.
It's such a headfvck, and all these bog-country paddies telling me in the wide suits on youtube about the future of internet currencies, convinces me that spivs and idiots will chase the value of bitcoin up for a long time to come. Bleeuuuurrrgggghhhhhh.
Is it any wonder this is happening when the central organising feature of our political, economic and personal lives is a huge ponzi scheme? This reality has destroyed the possibility of changing a system to benefit all. This ponzi scheme is the housing market: since the late 90s this has ceased to be a true market, and instead became a pyramid scheme in which value growth and price is based on the expectation that money will be sucked in from new investors, not derived from the utility of house-ownership or expectation for yield. This is the very definition of ponzi - and it governs so much of our lives. Why are the young and the old so segregated in their voting? It's because they are either the beneficiaries of or the 'bigger suckers' in this state-sponsored fraud - and can be mobilised accordingly. Until the housing market is dealt with, it will be impossible for politicians to create policies which 'grow the pie', increasing wealth for all, rather than simply carving it up - governing by robbing Peter to pay Paul.
The only solution I can see if for the young to organise to boycott house purchase, but I am not yet sure how realistic this.
Theresa May is a copper-bottomed cvnt. She is apparently steering Britain into a hard-Brexit for the sole reason of preserving the Conservative party. She cannot even issue a pronouncement on what form Brexit will take, or call an election which will require a manifesto setting out her position, because the party will implode.
What a way to run a country: all to keep a bunch of bastards in blazers from throttling each other.
1. Cost of living soars in Britain.
2. Britain's young people want to leave: Europe offers a better deal. Cheaper property, better employment conditions, better looking men and women, good food.
3. Britain's codger population votes to pull up the drawbridge - not to keep the foreigners out, but to keep its youth enslaved.
I am not an American and I wonder why the most likely presidential candidate is the one taking somewhat opaque "speaker's fees" from an organisation that a lot of Americans realise operates in ways akin to a mafia. From the outside it like turkeys voting for Xmas.
WELL DONE CHAPS! Hopefully this will push governments into contributions of equivalent relative magnitude - ie many times the 20 BN that ZuckerGates are valiantly contributing.
In essence, they got its users (me included) to sign away our sovereign data before we knew its value. I feel the equivalent is colonialists in Africa getting African chiefs to sign away their land for a bottle of whiskey. I would go as far as to say Facebook is a neo-colonialist land-grabber - except its not your land you've given away, it's your most personal information. Zuckerberg = world's biggest douche. A modern day Cecil Rhodes.