As for the tech behind it, I would definitely like to understand crypto currency.
This may be more information than asked for, but here goes- My post was originally strictly from the investment standpoint, after getting a finance degree and working at a French investment bank in NYC and some other lessons in the school of hard knocks. Goldman Sachs investment bank was recently announced to have started or planning to start a crypto currency trading desk. Our Treasury secretary, Steven Mnunin, is a Goldman Sachs alumnus- quite an inside connection for Goldman. And a crypto currency futures market among big banks like JP Morgan is also in progress. The long and short of that is the value of the crypto currencies is heavily manipulated by these big banks- to their advantage to the everyday investor's disadvantage. Related sidenote: the NYSE was sold a few years ago to a group of 'unspecified German investors', after merging with Euronext, under the auspices of another Goldman Sachs alumnus, John Thain, former right hand man to Goldman CEO Hank Paulson who was the last treasury secretary under president GWB. John Thain then took over at Merrill Lynch and together with treasury secretary Paulson orchestrated the $50 billion sale of Merrill to Bank of America. Before Clinton left office, his treasury secretary was Robert Rubin, previous CEO of Goldman Sachs. Rubin is the current big wig at Citigroup. Donald Trump spoke out against the NYSE sale at the time and now as president he still couldn't do anything about it if he wanted to, neither could our congressmen. We little people have no protection or recourse when the fat cats take our money in the stock market, even less so in the crypto currency markets. No government agency or official in America has a clue as to the daily goings on in our financial markets. It's all behind closed doors. Hope this information is of some benefit to someone. M Hi On Feb 15, 2018 20:18, "Greg Donald" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 6:57 PM, Richard Thomas <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I never thought I'd see such techno-luddism come from this mailing list. > > Think again! > > > I'm > > not going to do any kind of pitch but if you're interested in tech to any > > degree, > > Nope, not even a little. > > > you owe it to yourself to check out what's happening in the > > crypto-currency space (and I don't just mean all the bad BS). > > > > rich > > https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/15/17017374/coinbase- > cryptocurrency-bitcoin-ether-unauthorized-charges > > https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/cryptocurrency/loopx- > startup-pulls-ico-exit-scam-and-disappears-with-4-5-million/ > > You mean how people are getting ripped off, that 'bad BS'? > > Not the venture capitalists you're looking for. > > > -- > Greg Donald > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscribe@ > googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/ > group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
