Only Ayre alone as part of a deal agreed to spend $0.5B to slay BTC. There is so much money that is having to be thrown around for all of this to happen that it ain't even funny anymore. It's almost unimaginable how much money these whales are throwing around to make these crazy swings happen. I'm holding onto my select coins ATM and haven't sold my BCH or BSV because you never know what's going to happen. BCH will still be open source peer-to-peer and BSV will be institutionalized and ran by a select few, as Core did. There aren't 1M people that just joined the scene and spend beaucoup bucks on BSV. This will be the biggest pump and dump we ever see in our lives. BSV could get to number 1 spot and would then argue that by all rights BSV should be "bitcoin", and bitcoin "bitcoin core".
Only Ayre alone as part of a deal agreed to spend $0.5B to slay BTC...
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yep, buy more sv.
He aged like 30 years in a 5 year timespan
Was he kneepadding at guantanamo?
I feel so sad for him.
He is like a Billionaire senior citizen and he has no legacy.
He keeps posting pictures of himself with young prostitutes.
Was he really born on May 25?
That is interdatsing.
From wikipedia:
In February 2012, Ayre and three other individuals were indicted by the US Attorney for Maryland on charges of illegal gambling and money laundering related to conduct that occurred before the 2006 passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA). Ayre released a statement via CalvinAyre.com saying he viewed the indictment as "abuse of the US criminal justice system for the commercial gain of large US corporations." Ayre also noted that the US Attorney had seized Bodog.com, a domain that had been dormant since the Bodog brand revoked its licensing agreement with MMGG the previous year.[30][31]
In July 2017, US federal prosecutors dropped the remaining charges against Ayre and Bodog[32] after Ayre pled guilty to a single misdemeanor charge and admitted to an accessory after the fact charge related to the transmission of gambling information in violation of the federal Wire Act.[1] The Bodog.com domain has since been returned to its owners with an accompanying payment of $100,000, after it had been seized by US federal prosecutors as part of the criminal case.[33] Judge Catherine Blake sentenced Ayre to one year of unsupervised probation and a $500,000 fine.[1]
In September 2017, think tank Democracy Institute published Patrick Basham's case study [34] slamming US trade hypocrisy over online gambling dispute with Antigua-Barbuda. The report calls the US government's prosecution of Ayre highly irregular, ill-advised, and unsuccessful.[35] The study states that Ayre's conviction ran afoul of the WTO's ruling as to America's General Agreement on Trade in Services obligations. The WTO's Appellate Body Report found America undertook a commitment to provide open and nondiscriminatory market access for recreational services, "including online gambling services." [36]
I still have no idea what BCH is, why its useful, who the people involved are, and why I should give the slightest fuck. You guys throw these names around, "Roger Ver", "Craig Wright" literally who? All I hear is faggots. saged, and reported. fuck off with this pajeet faggot spam shit
Those are old photos I am assuming.. bodog is an older company
Hmm
Even wiki lists his DOB as May 25
Very intreedasti.
Try stressful casino business with unlimited hookers, coke, and meth.
OP is right, next target is Blockchain and other banking cartels.
I remember the online poker apocalypse.
(((They))) were just mad that people were making money outside of their system.
Critically, it found that The Illegal Gambling Business Act, which made it illegal for anyone to conduct a gambling business, was explicitly in conflict with America’s commitment under subsection 10D. Hence, the Appellate Body Report concluded that America was in violation of its obligations under its GATS Schedule by maintaining and enforcing these laws.[34]
The review claims that law enforcement officials tried to intimidate Ayre years before the indictments against him were filed, and that prosecutors "…covertly reached out to Ayre through respective third parties … including Ayre’s known business associates and industry contacts, to ‘encourage’ Ayre to make a US$350 million payment to the US Treasury." [37]
The government of Antigua and Barbuda welcomed Ayre’s vindication as part of the failure of the US to comply with World Trade Organization ruling on Internet Gaming.[38] The twin islands government said in a statement, "In light of the WTO ruling in Antigua and Barbuda’s favour, prosecutions by the United States of licensed gaming entities and their principals in Antigua and Barbuda, such as Calvin Ayre, are completely contrary to binding international agreements. In this context, Calvin Ayre and all other Antigua and Barbuda licensed gaming operators, who were indicted in the United States on Internet Gaming charges, are victims not culprits." [39]
So, I find it interesting that all of this occurred and yet Calvin says that SV is government friendly.
Roger, on the other side has been punished too. For fireworks I think it was.
These guys are on like 77 levels of chess right now, and I'm just trying to keep up.
We'll see what happens.
Plus I know that Bitcoin is actually a gov invention in the first place, it's a very complex situation.
I'm not anti-gov but damn, they need to be cleaned up.. so much corruption and stupidity.
He’s clearly compromised. Working for the FEDs to stop his own ass being thrown in jail
>Roger, on the other side has been punished too. For fireworks I think it was.
Roger was never anywhere nearly as deeply in debt to the state. CSW was in the same involvement as Ayre with the tax man. It's a long story, but CSW owed millions, Ayre owed hundreds of millions, and they repaid by providing a shit cover story for ---'s op of slaying bitcoin.
Taxmen come after money that isn't theirs sometimes.
For normal people this usually never happens.
For entrepreneurs running highly technical and grey-area things like poker and bitcoin, it's probably highly possible.
They were being squeezed.
Same shit that happened to KDC
I think everything changed in 2016
>Taxmen come after money that isn't theirs sometimes.
Very very true. Assuming they were "fairly" offered a deal and not outright blackmailed or pressured is naive.
>KDC
What's KDC?
>Plus I know that Bitcoin is actually a gov invention in the first place
That's a stupid theory. If it was done by the gov they'd do much much better work and made it really useful and not some speculative virtual tulip grade.
Kim Dotcom
None of these guys are angels.
But the other side acted worse, I would say.
That they were fucked over by the gov actually makes them quite useful to those who are looking to launch a soft coup.
>fairly offered a deal
exactly. I highly doubt power structures are in the busness of giving out fair deals.
2016 = soft coup launch
I always wondered about that.
Well first of all.
>if it was done by the gov they'd do better work
kek
I make the assumption that there is some tiny smart group inside the government somewhere that invented this.
But you're right.. why was Bitcoin so under the radar and basically barebones for so long.
Why was Bitcoin halted so many times...
Well here is one guess.
Releasing Bitcoin as a speculation only tool was useful when the old corrupt gov was in place.
THey could never kill it, and it existing meant that if they tried to pull some hyperinflation garbage as the ace up their sleeve like the always do when they are done fucking over a country, it would have killed their power.
Building up Bitcoin to be actually useful during this time period would have been basically impossible, they owned everything.
>2016
After the soft coup, Bitcoin can finally be free and useful and live.
Now all the banks, gov branches, etc that would have killed it, are controlled and are forced to comply with sound money.
Just a guess.
>"government friendly"
>didn't mention the chain is open for everyone
>didn't mention coins like monero can wash coins for open blockchains to make them more private
>whimsically crying like a bitch when evades taxes and webmasters a gambling site while being illegal scum
Good ridden. Put a cap in him ICE.
Watch "banking on bitcoin" on Netflix if you want some background history.
>That they were fucked over by the gov actually makes them quite useful
Oh, yes, it's a correlation, not causation. They were pro conmen so ideal for the job.
OK, since you seem to know this stuff I'll tell you how it went: BTC was a complete black swan event, tl;dr --- wanted to go the usual course and infiltrate development to minimize the effectivity of the invention, with the aim of forcing everyone only to use the secretly tweaked version, but then BCH forked and threatened to make something they can't control. Since hardforks are the achilles heal of BTC they're concnetrating all their efforts in them to strand people in the original crippled chain they at least control.
>implying XRP and Ripple aren't already governed coins
I only trust the Russian. Buy Ethereum, buy litecoin.
the delusion is strong with these pajeets
Sounds very probable.
I remember that Satoshi left after Gavin met with ---.
The BCH fork was interesting. Always wondered who that came over was real. Lotta people had plenty of excuses as to why we couldn't simply start scaling asap.
The SV fork caused them to all expend the entirety of their social capital though.
There's nothing left to argue about.
--- is an agency.
>There's nothing left to argue about.
They'll start harassing and suing Ver and Jihan. They own a huge amount of BCH.
>--- is an agency
bitcointalk.org
Yeah, I'm with you.
>harassing Ver/Jihan
we'll see, I'm still confused over all that.
The main play is to kill BTC, it's the biggest piece of shit.
Everything else I take as Kabuki until I know for sure
Wasn't every applauding bsv because it best bch for like 3 hours but now it's below it again.
MORONS