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Themanbun said:
Maremma sheepdog? Anatolian Shepherd?
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We had 3 on our farm, beautiful beasts. Twice as fast as a fox, and when you see your big boy in full flight after one of those poxy vermin, it's like you've backed a 100/1 cup winner and you're living every footfall, twist and turn. The fox is obviously running for his life, but you can go all Wyle E Coyote and just about picture the Maremma reaching for his napkin, then his knife and then fork. Old Swampy Marsh and Oddball is a great tale.
 

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rickety said:
We had 3 on our farm, beautiful beasts. Twice as fast as a fox, and when you see your big boy in full flight after one of those poxy vermin, it's like you've backed a 100/1 cup winner and you're living every footfall, twist and turn. The fox is obviously running for his life, but you can go all Wyle E Coyote and just about picture the alking Maremma reaching for his napkin, then his knife Maremmasand then fork. Old Swampy Marsh and Oddball is a great tale.
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I don't mean to be argumentative you're talking Meremma not Anatolian?
 
rickety said:
We had 3 on our farm, beautiful beasts. Twice as fast as a fox, and when you see your big boy in full flight after one of those poxy vermin, it's like you've backed a 100/1 cup winner and you're living every footfall, twist and turn. The fox is obviously running for his life, but you can go all Wyle E Coyote and just about picture the Maremma reaching for his napkin, then his knife and then fork. Old Swampy Marsh and Oddball is a great tale.
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Sounds like an excellent breed.

Thsnk you for sharing.
 
Some of the comments made in here about bitcoin and crypto in general are quite humorous. Same stuff that was said in 2018 and 19 when it was down. It's always dead and a scam when bad actors screw up or when there is a market wide drop. But then it's silence when it's booming or when institutional investors/asset managers are talking about it in a positive light.

Bitcoin's a speculative asset and 2020's print fest by governments around the world proved its worth to people. The wheels are turning. The SEC will eventually stop being so wishy-washy and will approve a spot bitcoin ETF. When regulation comes into play Blackrock will grease the right wheels and it with happen. Then the dominoes will fall.

SBF deserves to be locked up. He was the chosen one a year ago (crypto has had many) but he's another that was playing with users money and when CZ came knocking the liquidity wasn't there. Just another false prophet that had his own intentions. He wanted control of crypto. It's why he would list crypto's on his exchange and then short them to hell. Their own research facility would smash bitcoin on low volume weekends and then brag about it. He crushed projects and took users funds just because he could. He "saved" failing projects just so he could dump them later or get his hands on more liquidity (sushi is a good example. He helped when the dev exit scammed. He rode in, bought a shit tonne under $1, used his name to repair the projects image. Let it ride to above $20 and then he crushed it into dust by using large downward pressure). He was Biden's second biggest donor in the last election...not because he believed in him...but because he wanted a seat at the table and to get favourable treatment when it came time to regulate the space.

The space is still young and it's highly volatile. Look at tech stocks right now...they've been smashed too. Shocking, speculative assets tank during bear markets...who'da thunk it. Yes a lot of it needs healthy regulation (not the kind SBF called for last month when he sat in front of the senate). No one in the space denies that.

A lot of the stuff written in here isn't new or earth shattering. It's tired rhetoric we've all heard before. Next people in here are going to say NFT's are useless because you can "right click + save"...It's sad when even people like dave portnoy can give an accurate description of the space (albeit in lay terms) and others can't.

Great comments by tas...he gets it. Highly unlikely any crypto will be used as a currency (too many negatives)...i know many would like USDC to head down that route. And the US government have already sunk their teeth into it. Those that use 'Tornado Cash' have been warned. They will render your stable coins useless if you use their product. They have done it with those connected to the Russian mafia too.

It's likely that if one is created it'll be one made by governments. A centralised digital currency (China are doing it). The democrats wanted to bring one in during the covid relief bill...the excuse was physical money transmits sickness etc. Real reason is they want more of a stranglehold over our money and complete oversight with what we do with it. Think of the money they could make from selling our data to companies...
 
Kangaroos techno said:
Some of the comments made in here about bitcoin and crypto in general are quite humorous. Same stuff that was said in 2018 and 19 when it was down. It's always dead and a scam when bad actors screw up or when there is a market wide drop. But then it's silence when it's booming or when institutional investors/asset managers are talking about it in a positive light.

Bitcoin's a speculative asset and 2020's print fest by governments around the world proved its worth to people. The wheels are turning. The SEC will eventually stop being so wishy-washy and will approve a spot bitcoin ETF. When regulation comes into play Blackrock will grease the right wheels and it with happen. Then the dominoes will fall.

SBF deserves to be locked up. He was the chosen one a year ago (crypto has had many) but he's another that was playing with users money and when CZ came knocking the liquidity wasn't there. Just another false prophet that had his own intentions. He wanted control of crypto. It's why he would list crypto's on his exchange and then short them to hell. Their own research facility would smash bitcoin on low volume weekends and then brag about it. He crushed projects and took users funds just because he could. He "saved" failing projects just so he could dump them later or get his hands on more liquidity (sushi is a good example. He helped when the dev exit scammed. He rode in, bought a s**t tonne under $1, used his name to repair the projects image. Let it ride to above $20 and then he crushed it into dust by using large downward pressure). He was Biden's second biggest donor in the last election...not because he believed in him...but because he wanted a seat at the table and to get favourable treatment when it came time to regulate the space.

The space is still young and it's highly volatile. Look at tech stocks right now...they've been smashed too. Shocking, speculative assets tank during bear markets...who'da thunk it. Yes a lot of it needs healthy regulation (not the kind SBF called for last month when he sat in front of the senate). No one in the space denies that.

A lot of the stuff written in here isn't new or earth shattering. It's tired rhetoric we've all heard before. Next people in here are going to say NFT's are useless because you can "right click + save"...It's sad when even people like dave portnoy can give an accurate description of the space (albeit in lay terms) and others can't.

Great comments by tas...he gets it. Highly unlikely any crypto will be used as a currency (too many negatives)...i know many would like USDC to head down that route. And the US government have already sunk their teeth into it. Those that use 'Tornado Cash' have been warned. They will render your stable coins useless if you use their product. They have done it with those connected to the Russian mafia too.

It's likely that if one is created it'll be one made by governments. A centralised digital currency (China are doing it). The democrats wanted to bring one in during the covid relief bill...the excuse was physical money transmits sickness etc. Real reason is they want more of a stranglehold over our money and complete oversight with what we do with it. Think of the money they could make from selling our data to companies...
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Ironically, your post is longer than a bitcoin chain.
 
rickety said:
We had 3 on our farm, beautiful beasts. Twice as fast as a fox, and when you see your big boy in full flight after one of those poxy vermin, it's like you've backed a 100/1 cup winner and you're living every footfall, twist and turn. The fox is obviously running for his life, but you can go all Wyle E Coyote and just about picture the Maremma reaching for his napkin, then his knife and then fork. Old Swampy Marsh and Oddball is a great tale.
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I'm more of an Alpaca man myself.
 
Lomas said:
I'm more of an Alpaca man myself.
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We had 2 but didn't really understand how they worked. After the great fox attack of 2012, I spent the next night out and about and watched them work ..... efficiently for where they "were" but pretty much no good anywhere else. They copped an almighty spray, Barassi style, and the very next day we were in touch with the Maremma rescue folk. Was also the very 1st time I witnessed my cat stalk and kill a rabbit, before eating it's head, well, minus the ears. Quite ghastly to hear, mind you, my cat wasn't scared of the Maremmas.
 
rickety said:
We had 2 but didn't really understand how they worked. After the great fox attack of 2012, I spent the next night out and about and watched them work ..... efficiently for where they "were" but pretty much no good anywhere else. They copped an almighty spray, Barassi style, and the very next day we were in touch with the Maremma rescue folk. Was also the very 1st time I witnessed my cat stalk and kill a rabbit, before eating it's head, well, minus the ears. Quite ghastly to hear, mind you, my cat wasn't scared of the Maremmas.
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We have six, and spread them out in pairs to bond with the new lambs and birds. Left to their own devices they will herd together, but usually have a buddy you team them with. We find them lower maintenance.
 
Kangaroos techno said:
Some of the comments made in here about bitcoin and crypto in general are quite humorous. Same stuff that was said in 2018 and 19 when it was down. It's always dead and a scam when bad actors screw up or when there is a market wide drop. But then it's silence when it's booming or when institutional investors/asset managers are talking about it in a positive light.

Bitcoin's a speculative asset and 2020's print fest by governments around the world proved its worth to people. The wheels are turning. The SEC will eventually stop being so wishy-washy and will approve a spot bitcoin ETF. When regulation comes into play Blackrock will grease the right wheels and it with happen. Then the dominoes will fall.

SBF deserves to be locked up. He was the chosen one a year ago (crypto has had many) but he's another that was playing with users money and when CZ came knocking the liquidity wasn't there. Just another false prophet that had his own intentions. He wanted control of crypto. It's why he would list crypto's on his exchange and then short them to hell. Their own research facility would smash bitcoin on low volume weekends and then brag about it. He crushed projects and took users funds just because he could. He "saved" failing projects just so he could dump them later or get his hands on more liquidity (sushi is a good example. He helped when the dev exit scammed. He rode in, bought a s**t tonne under $1, used his name to repair the projects image. Let it ride to above $20 and then he crushed it into dust by using large downward pressure). He was Biden's second biggest donor in the last election...not because he believed in him...but because he wanted a seat at the table and to get favourable treatment when it came time to regulate the space.

The space is still young and it's highly volatile. Look at tech stocks right now...they've been smashed too. Shocking, speculative assets tank during bear markets...who'da thunk it. Yes a lot of it needs healthy regulation (not the kind SBF called for last month when he sat in front of the senate). No one in the space denies that.

A lot of the stuff written in here isn't new or earth shattering. It's tired rhetoric we've all heard before. Next people in here are going to say NFT's are useless because you can "right click + save"...It's sad when even people like dave portnoy can give an accurate description of the space (albeit in lay terms) and others can't.

Great comments by tas...he gets it. Highly unlikely any crypto will be used as a currency (too many negatives)...i know many would like USDC to head down that route. And the US government have already sunk their teeth into it. Those that use 'Tornado Cash' have been warned. They will render your stable coins useless if you use their product. They have done it with those connected to the Russian mafia too.

It's likely that if one is created it'll be one made by governments. A centralised digital currency (China are doing it). The democrats wanted to bring one in during the covid relief bill...the excuse was physical money transmits sickness etc. Real reason is they want more of a stranglehold over our money and complete oversight with what we do with it. Think of the money they could make from selling our data to companies...
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Wow. Was that off the top of your head?
 

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The other elephant in the room is the massive amount of money he donated to the democrats. Where does all that money go? The politicians only earn about $200k a year but they’re all worth at least tens of millions of dollars. Doesnt add up.
 
Val Keating said:
The other elephant in the room is the massive amount of money he donated to the democrats. Where does all that money go? The politicians only earn about $200k a year but they’re all worth at least tens of millions of dollars. Doesnt add up.
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it adds up allright, just like Geelongs salary cap ;-)
 
koshari said:
it adds up allright, just like Geelongs salary cap ;-)
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It’s right there in plain sight. Soros the number 1 donor. I can see how people get lost in the conspiracy theories.

You have the Democrats constantly going on about equality and lifting up the poor by using taxes, while they’re making hundreds of millions in donations.

If taxes worked they wouldn’t need donations, but because the politicians are getting rich off the system there’s no incentive to change it. Even the young ones that come in with good intentions end up comprised.
 
Val Keating said:
What do you make of the White House saying they want to regulate Crypto? Do you reckon that’ll happen?
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I am surprised any government has allowed crypto, largely due to the anonymity of it. If government in general wasn't technologically backwards they probably would have put a stop to it before it got off the ground.
 
Val Keating said:
The other elephant in the room is the massive amount of money he donated to the democrats. Where does all that money go? The politicians only earn about $200k a year but they’re all worth at least tens of millions of dollars. Doesnt add up.
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It depends on which set of books you are looking at. I guarantee it adds up in one of the books.
 

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Tas said:
I am surprised any government has allowed crypto, largely due to the anonymity of it. If government in general wasn't technologically backwards they probably would have put a stop to it before it got off the ground.
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I spose when they’re some of their biggest donors there’s no incentive to go after it.
 
Tas said:
It depends on which set of books you are looking at. I guarantee it adds up in one of the books.
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No doubt it would work out on paper, they’re good at that.

It’s hard because they can’t be stopped from making money on the side. One of the politicians would have to be caught red handed inside trading, even then though, where’s the incentive to even open a genuine investigation? Itd be shutdown immediately.
 
Speaking of crooks, that international operation that used the ANON encrypted phone app the jacks set up and tricked the crooks into thinking their messages were safe has really got the bikies by the balls. Credit where it’s due, it’s a top shelf operation.

Feels like it’s getting someone every week. Hope the bloke that put them onto the app is safe.

 
Val Keating said:
What do you make of the White House saying they want to regulate Crypto? Do you reckon that’ll happen?
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Not a matter of if but when. The issue is can they do it without stifling innovation...They'll go hard after those that get in the way or don't play ball (working with Netherlands to push for the arrest of Tornado Cash developer. All he did was create the software that allowed people to mix their crypto and add an extra layer of privacy and he's been arrested for it. If you use that software now there is no doubt in my mind you're being added to watchlists around the world. So it's a big warning to people...we want to see what you do with your money).

For years it has been "It's coming" (Yellen mentioned it in her first speech). Sen. Warren has pretty much made it her number one priority since Biden was voted in because she wants to "protect the people"...lol. An infamous meeting in 2018 saved the market from crashing momentarily - "cryptodad" Giancarlo (former chief of the US CFTC) basically advocated for it. Senator Warner did the same comparing it to other early tech cycles. Both were more switched on than the other fossils that have no clue in DC.

At the end of the day most people in crypto want it. Personally, i think it's a need. It's just the die hards that don't. But if they space wants to move forward and onboard more people it needs to happen. When it does more institutions will hop on in. Banks are ready and waiting. In the future they will handle cryptocurrency wallets...no doubt in my mind.
 
Val Keating said:
No doubt it would work out on paper, they’re good at that.

It’s hard because they can’t be stopped from making money on the side. One of the politicians would have to be caught red handed inside trading, even then though, where’s the incentive to even open a genuine investigation? Itd be shutdown immediately.
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Well, Putin is worth around $70b, you can take a wild guess and figure out someone who has only ever worked for the government is a thief when he is worth $70b.
 
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