Not being that familiar with WoW, wouldn't it be classed as income more than speculation? These people grinded away at a game and earned "gold", now they want to convert it into a different currency.
Doesn't seem speculative for the people playing the game. Though for a trader it is.
Fail to see the difference between buy/sells on the company platform compared to a third party. Both could be used for speculation.
The difference from what I understand is an exchange vs a platform. A platform has utility, an exchange is investing. On an exchange you can trade one currency for another to ideally make a profit. On a platform you buy/sell as part of using the system.
Lots? Name one ico over $1m that has run off with others money?
Plenty of raisings based on spurious concepts but yet to see one actually go full scam, essentially these people have bs programming jobs for a few years until they admit their product is not desirable to anyone.
Most will fail, but at the very least the world will get some open source software from it.
More than could be said for all the dodgy mining explorers I've invested in.
Automatically assume anyone who uses all caps mid sentence hasnt thought through their point and is internet rambling. I stop reading everytime.
Quite sure there's a few of us, if you need to emphasise anything perhaps being more succinct is better than subscribing to this form of communication.
Thx for the tip. Sometimes a quick rant is more effective or all I've got time to post (vs a substantially edited essay).
I'm also disappointed in the formatting: I meant only the first sentence to have a mid-sentence all-caps. The list of "AND..." items was supposed to be just that, a list, each on it's own line with those as the bullet point leaders. Sadly, it refused to format as I entered it and mangled it all into one paragraph, and I didn't have time to take more than one shot at fixing/debugging it.
At least, though it was an imperfect post, there are those who liked it.
Plenty of western countries recently seem to realise that its far cheapear to take in educated immigrants rather than pay the cost of raising and educating a child. It's most certainly a trend.
Aren't the whatsapp messages sent over the net? I.e. wouldn't it be the case that the government could only see the outgoing IP address? I guess if they were very well organized and working with the telecoms, they could then maybe see the outgoing IP and assuming that IP were on a telecom network they also controlled they could turn that into a person. This is all assuming that they could even figure out which encrypted outgoing packets correspond to calls (maybe this isn't too bad considering call streams would maybe have a fairly standard packet rate, etc.?).
Either way seems pretty hard without direct help from whatsapp.
> While the metadata is encrypted during transit, phone numbers, timestamps, connection duration, connection frequency, as well as user location are being stored on the company’s servers [0]
https://twitter.com/petertoddbtc/status/861726383730503680