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Can you please describe the inherent value of each of diamonds, gold, frankincense and bitcoin?

Do you think diamonds are pointless lumps of carbon btw or do they have inherent value?

Why is it necessary if we already have gold? A standard around the world for thousands of years. I suppose it's useful as a hedge? It seems the price is largely being driven by speculation; what is the naked value (to the nearest thousand or even five thousand) of it as a store of wealth? As to your question about fiat, it is in the interests of the most powerful people in the world that it does not collapse (assuming major currencies). It's also in all of our interests given the probable armageddon that would follow a true global financial collapse. We found out post-2008 what happens when the status quo is in danger of collapsing, they just change the rules. Bitcoin is great because it's free from government control, it also lacks their protection. The problems that Bitcoin has, I feel, are being resolved too slowly to cope with how fast this kind of technology moves these days.

BTC != Blockchain. I don't believe it will succeed as a currency or as a Blockchain technology for contracts or autonomous cars for example. It is purely a speculative investment and has value only as it's tied to Blockchain. I'm happy to listen to the other side.

You can have a garden of hash plants with bitcoin.

Thank Christ; I thought I was losing my marbles the way they were going on about it being a stone-bonker penalty.

Am I only the one who thinks Willian would have been soft?

I agree, it's not a matter of life and death...

Life is imperfect, why do we bother extending our lives with all this fancy dan modern medicine? We became the dominant species on the planet without that nonsense.

Or it's posturing.

Haven't played in ages; a lot of that time is probably me leaving the game idling while I do something else. In short, I'm still beyond shite. Might just venture online for a laugh anyway as I can't imagine other n00bs being that good either. Hopefully things will be a little less hectic soon.

Those two rags are linked, apparently.

Likes to watch the old man work from the corner of the room.

I'd like to see an artist's impression of this new side of Rafa.

Is "Mike Ashley's a gargantuan tumour on a fat bull's knacker" underthinking it?

Surely Ashley has to be close to blinking here? He's not that rich that he can afford to drop a couple hundred million to piss off a few Geordies and/or Arabs.

A quality Championship side though. Small mercies.

Bournemouth beating fucking Arsenal.

Also a fair point.

Sounds familiar tbf.

You don't even think he'll get a striker in on loan? That's bleaker than anything I've heard thus far.

Rafa will probably manage to get two from a GK/Target man/#10 on a shoestring and just about survive. He's too honourable to walk pre-Summer regardless but will be gone if no takeover materialises by then, I'm almost certain.

Oh sorry, you didn't say the midfield selection was wrong, you just said the wrong midfielder was selected, my apologies. The team that Rafa picked produced the chances to win the game. The strikers that Rafa wasn't allowed to buy didn't score. Diamé had a good game. Baffling.