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  1. Bucky

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    No, this was 5 years ago - just a straight pipe transaction. When, I had Circle - went to a blockchain wallet first - and seemed to go ok. Monkey makes a good point. I just use Kraken as a transfer tool. To move money from one book to another. Have never wired money to them or had them wire to me or ever received a 1099 from them. . Even then, I guess you could carry over a balance from one year to the next and transfer to somebody the next year. Technically, that year you could have have a withdrawal that looks like profit.
  2. Bucky

    bitcoin

    I thought they would dry up and blow away like Circle. Coinbase is from San Francisco and would puss out in a heartbeat if anybody every wanted information on your account. Stay away from anybody like that - try Kraken out of Canada or something from any other country than the USA. So, Moldo - still think they cannot tell where your transactions are going? I am not saying precisely but maybe they can determine the country???
  3. Bucky

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    Hey Moldo - take a look at this! , 2015 | replied: Hi,Upon review of your Coinbase account, we have determined that we can no longer provide you access to Coinbase services. Please understand that Coinbase is a regulated Money Service Business under the FinCEN division of the U.S. Treasury Department and as such, we are required to review accounts in order to ensure compliance with regulations.Online gambling is illegal under US law, and even if you live outside of the US, we cannot provide services to your account for the purpose of any type of gambling activity. Please see our User Agreement (https://www.coinbase.com/legal/user_agreement#toc_11).Please note that we have not blocked access to the bitcoin balance currently in your Coinbase account; while we can no longer process transactions of this bitcoin via our banking relationship or future wallet service, you may send this bitcoin to a local wallet or another bitcoin address away from Coinbase.You can fully close/delete your Coinbase account using this link: https://www.coinbase.com/settings/cancelRespectfully,Coinbase Compliance Team A bunch of us got letters like this! How they flagged the account I do not know. I would not touch Coinbase with a ten foot pole!
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    bitcoin

    It has been a while now but, they sent me an email that they do not allow Coinbase to be used for gambling transactions and my account was being closed. Are you from the USA? Big thread on it at the time. Several other guys said the same thing. Maybe, I can find it - Raiders had several comments.
  5. Bucky

    bitcoin

    Coinbase is so anal about transactions that look like they are being used for gambling purposes. That is the reason for the wallet step - get it to a wallet that will do that - at least one level of separation. I just do not like Coinbase at all for any kind of withdrawal back to a bank account. You put it 10k and take out 20 k they think you made a 10 k profit..They do seem to like it if you use it for what looks like it must be for online purchasing ( they collect some fees then ). Coinbase will close your account if they think you are using it for gambling.
  6. Some numbers are not really there. You have to refresh it to get the right number. Does not work when you go to bet it. That being said - even if you do get it down the donkey will cancel it n you later.
  7. Agreed and your second point is just not right/fair for those people. Back in the old days there were things like a 25000 deductible. I would still sell that if I could. A customer at least has a chance to pay that off. I do not even have a problem if that product is underwritten. The real cold,cruel world can be medicine. Put the money on the counter or walk. No back door emergency room there. But, some pharmaceutical companies are compassionate with coupons.
  8. One of the biggest things for basketball, also. Some of those pros have close to 10 inch hands. That is gift. Doublt there are any NFL QB's with 7 inch hands?
  9. Certainly a factor - company does not have to pay the social security tax - unemployment insurance - maybe as much as 30 a month - 360 a year savings for the company - but the other 600 is coming out of their pocket even though that is certainly a deduction for them. An HSA is a real good thing for the employee. But, too complicated and too much paperwork to do by themselves right out of the box without help from an accountant. Some day will really help with a high deductibe - takes a few years to build a little money up. If someone has to meet the deductible in the first year or two - not much time to self insure the first out of pocket max.
  10. Employers pay a tremendous amount of health insurance premium for their employees, Let's say $20 an hour employee. Health insurance gross cost of 800. Employee has 100 held out twice a month - Company pays 300 twice a month. So, 40 hours = 3200 a month - add 600 for insurance - almost another 4 bucks an hour. Not much else the employer can do - you want good employees you have to offer benefits. So,people that do have a w-2 job have a tremendous advantage over 1099 people as far as health insurance. That is the W-2 jobs that offer benefits. It is the 1099 people that holler and scream because they are paying the whole thing. And the whole w-2 world and higher income 1099 world are jealous because medium to lower income people are getting a subsidy to pay their insurance. Medicare for all is not any more fair. People with more money will have to pay a lot more taxes than the low income people. Health insurance will never again cost the same for all human beings like it used to.
  11. Fair Warning - that was a good point about individual insurance has to be like group insurance - no preexisting conditions. The two biggest things in the affordable care act responded to: I would buy insurance but my application gets declined to preexisting conditions and I am ridered, rated up or decined. I would buy insurance if I could afford it. We cannot get this confused when a premium is 800 but would have been 1600 if not for a subsidy to help pay the premium from the healthcare.gov marketplace. That is 9600 a year in help on the subsidy. But, the lower income demographic of 20-30k a year has no shot and paying 1600 out of pocket.
  12. Well said! There is no number or % of income agreeable to everybody. Let's say it was 10% - Very few people would say that is reasonable. 20k income guy cannot afford 2k. 300k income guy says this sucks - I am paying 30K and the scientific cost is much less. 85k guy with 8500 held out - might be a fair price. We have not even mentioned that medical and pharmaceutical technology would stagnate a great deal. No incentive to research.
  13. Medicare taxes get held out of everybody's pay check. There are no refunds. If there is medicare for all. Medicare taxes will sky rocket and minimum wage people will get a much smaller pay check. If the government just pays for healthcare - they will pay much more then than they do now.
  14. Solid idea! But, the no social security # might be a problem?
  15. Man that guy could throw an F bomb!
  16. Gridlock between Republicans and Democrats is the prime reason why nothing ever gets done to prevent mass shootings. Absolutely a worthless body of government! If it is a republican controlled house the democrats could just as well go home and vice versa. It would take a 100,000 school kids getting shot in a years time for them to respond.
  17. I just do not see that. Ok so, Foles just was named the MVP of the Super Bowl. But, I think Keenum is just as good. Unless, Keenum goes brain dead and wants too much money. I think the Vikings sign Keenum and TB. The bigger problem for the Vikings is replacing their OC Shurmur. No chance the Vikings would want a guy like Cousins either - totally different style that doesn't fit their passing game and personnel.
  18. They will give you a specific time - like 4 pm cst - but that is not exact - so, the thing I worry about is the time between their purchase of bitcoin with my money and how soon I get it in my wallet or exchange. Not the kind of thing you just let happen with mid 4 figures. What's the best guess - 5% fluctuation can happen in any given hour?
  19. So, buying across state lines, elimination of csr's, The individual mandate is up for grabs. Wow, shopping all 50 states is going to be interesting-sort out all of the HMO's, PPO's,POS plans. I do not think it is going to help. The people I sold to who bought a plan with the csr's will just take the plan the government pays all the premium on. Essentially pay nothing in and stiff on any medical services.
  20. Guys, what good does this do? Have you looked at the different state marketplaces? Hello! they are all PPO's, HMO's & POS plans. Why would anybody in Virginia want an Iowa HMO?
  21. Have you heard the one about the guy that was beating his head against his own garage door - head butt after head butt. The neighbor walks over and asks him, "what are you doing"? The guy says. "I don't know - but it feels so good when I stop!"
  22. Epitome of Guilty until proven innocent. Cory was hung up on Easy Street having to prove he was guilty. That he was innocent until proven guilty. Boggled my mind that Easy Street said they would pay him if he would take and pass a lie detector that he did not use a bot. They also said they would pay him if he would play in their presence and prove he was that fast and that good with proper play. And Cory would not do it - said he did not have to. Nothing ever got proven on the card distribution and play of the cards-I think Only one supposed expert got to look at it. Don't think Cory got the card distribution and able to have his fair chance at that analysis. But, everybody thought he already had it and had uncovered a flaw in the random number generator. The software went bye bye for the game and the manufacturer caught a lot of heat. Cory collected squat and became well known across the marketplace. Almost every casino operator said they would have paid him and then kicked him out. Which is what Easy Street should have done because there is a good argument this bad publicity put them out of business. So, Teddy - these are my cliffs notes on the way I saw it but, you could talk to ten guys and get a little different version each time. An Unregulated marketplace really screams that the rules are not consistent but how many times in Las Vegas has somebody won a jackpot and got screwed???
  23. Every time he opens his mouth he starts a fight or barks back at something. He just cannot walk away from a fight and if he isn't in one he starts one. Like right now - there has been a shvt storm for a few days so, he is probably bored? But, in all seriousness the media seems to be the biggest problem to getting things done. They hound and question every little detail on anything. I think the president could get 10 times as much done without any communication with the media whatsoever. Just say - I am busy - everybody here is busy doing their job - we do not have the time to explain everything we do to the media. Or is it necessary to manipulate the media in order to control public opinion and get votes? Seems to me the media is manipulating politicians and pressuring them to act in a media friendly personality.
  24. So, he did not exactly get away with it - maybe, Nicole's dad feels better now that OJ has been in misery and ruined his life, too?
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