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I should have said "the derivatives in question" instead of simply "derivatives". My point stands: OP claimed that most trading volume happens in securities and it simply does not.…

Correct. And this case hinges on the yet undecided question as to whether or not Bitcoin and numerous other cryptocurrencies are actually securities.

From the CFTC's official website: "The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is an independent U.S. government agency that regulates the U.S. derivatives markets, including futures,…

Derivatives are governed by the CFTC not the SEC. It does matter, because they aren't doing anything wrong if these crypto assets are considered commodities and not securities. Als…

Why not? It is highly litigated and still abundantly unclear whether certain cryptocurrencies are securities or commodities. That's the whole point of these legal battles. If it wa…

The vast majority of arbitrage of fungible assets happens in commodities, not securities. The SEC regulates securities. The CFTC regulates commodities.

That's theatrics. Everyone on Wall Street and Main Street knows the true cost of living — housing, gas, and grocery prices — has increased dramatically more than any Fed-anointed n…

Inflation far outpaces whatever "fat interest" rates you have on your savings. You need to hold real assets, not fiat currency.

In Russian, работа simply means "work" or "job" without any negative connotation.

I think OP's point about it being faster and cheaper stands. What exactly are you trying to say?

Energy will continue to get cheaper and less scarce over the long term. This is a bad argument.

Why'd you buy it in the first place if your only perception of its value is to use it to buy something else? Why not just buy the thing you wanted to buy?

> contrary to fiat cryptocurrencies, called "cryptos" This is wrong. No one says this.

You can do extremely complicated things on chain that require manual human analysis to figure out how to report it. You can do this thousands of times per year. It adds up to a hug…

That's so evil. How do you put up with that? Why don't Danes change their obviously evil tax code regarding deducting losses?

"Lead poisoning kills millions annually. One country is showing the way forward." Extremely ironic and deceptive title, considering Bangladesh was also one of the only countries wh…

You have to have a pretty helpless attitude to blame someone else (teachers) on your inability to learn from a good textbook. How are you ever going to learn anything truly novel i…

Yes and the most well-known historical cases involved diethylene glycol, not lead. But lead is used, too.

Without commenting on how likely it is the hypothesis is true, the lead-crime hypothesis has always been academic handwaving to make a different, political point.

Front speakers and microphone are lost. Bluetooth audio still works. I can still stream music over Bluetooth.

> In that context you only give the shills more sway. This is a really good point that I overlooked. I'm in an industry where sophisticated participants can see the blatant scams, …

I've always been a fan of this. If RoundUp is so safe, why don't the execs and lawyers and shills all douse themselves in it? It'd prove their alleged point against the guy who got…