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The Daily PollTHE HSE TODAY released guidelines and information on which health services will and will not be in operation if next week’s planned nurses’ strike goes ahead.
Nurses and midwives will strike for a full day on Wednesday in protest against pay and what they call a recruitment and retention issue in the sector.
As a result of the strike, a significant number of services will not be in operation on Wednesday.
Today, we want to know: Do you support the nurses’ strike?
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I wonder how many people in Ireland actually hold bit coins in any useful amounts that require safe storage?
Are you joking? That’s a very silly comment. Do a bit if googling before you make daft comments, dafty.
If you know why don’t you answer the question rather then trying to be smart.
Explain it then Bee Shop and don’t be so ignorant.
I have about 80 of them Kerry. I did have 450 but sold some in October to buy a house. Boy, am I sorry I bought that house!
Anyone else turn 100% profit off BTC in the last 4 weeks?
Magic beans me sack!
I love how the nay sayers keep laughing at crypto currency’s ,
Keep trusting the bankers because they’ll never mislead you!
The value of nothing always remains as nothing.
At least when I have a 50 euro note in my pocket I know that it is 50 euros I have to spend or do whatever I like with.
I don’t understand it fully, but what I do know is that I bought some at one price and sold some at another price.
Now I’m all squared up , I’ve every cent that I spent on the BTC back in my pocket/bank and I’ve still got some BTC left over.
It’s seriously volatile, it’s a gamble and I only got interested after the Christmas hype.
But it’s something new and something that spawned from P2P culture.
Will it last? Fcuk knows!
Has it rattled the cage? Definitely!
Come back to me in 10 years time Chris and tell me what your €50 will be able to buy you.
If you say bitcoin is worth nothing, why are people paying $500 for each one at the moment?
That, like it or not is the value of bitcoin now.
And we’ll compare what 0.125BTC (€50 today) can buy in 10 years time. Should be interesting. I’m not saying for sure that bitcoin will succeed but I’ve a good feeling about it.
I’m going to put a reminder in Google Calendar for 10 years from today.
@chris kirk
A €50 note is exactly that – a note! It’s a piece of paper
It does not hold any intrinsic value only the value that the general population places on it.
Bitcoin has whatever value the market says it has based not on commodity backing but its perceived security, independence from central banks’ foolish monetary policies and its usefulness for anonymizing and cheapening international transfers of money.
Euros/Dollars/etc have whatever value the market says they have based not on commodity backing but governments’ saying it is the currency of the land.
FIAT currencies have as much or more risks than bitcoin, it’s up to buyers in a free market which they think is safer. All voluntary, no scam.
And people said the same thing a few years ago about investing in the property market. Don’t people realise when they are being conned. The bitcoin is a scam and anyone who buys something that can go up or down in value for no apparent reason is a total fool.
Buy gold if you want something that will hold it’s value.
I have a good feeling about a horse running in Fairyhouse tomorrow but I don’t intend betting on it.
I didn’t say anything of the kind about investing in the property market a few years ago. As a matter of fact I thought it was lunacy the way prices were going. That’s why I waited until last year to buy my house even though I could have got a mortgage 7 years ago.
Answer honestly Chris, have you researched how Bitcoin works?
I have extensively and that is why I have a good feeling about it.
The best minds in the IT world are working as we speak on building an infrastructure around Bitcoin that has the potential to revolutionise not only commerce but society in general.
I wonder how many of them would fall for this scam……invissible money has a habit of dissapearing in this country.
Visible money leaves the country just as fast and the ignorant still do nothing
Can they keep 5 magic beans I have,as well?
I think they only store Bitcoin, there is plenty of vaults to available for your storage needs. Better safe than sorry.
It seems that the people who dismiss it out of hand, have no idea how it works and have no intention of trying to find out.
If they spent a couple of hours looking into it, they would realise what an ingenious development bitcoin is.
If I can’t see.it touch.it or spend it in my local shop, I don’t need it.. it’s A BIT ofa CON
You prefer the official FIAT currency then. You dont touch it when its in digital form in your bank account now do you?
Tell me, the €10 note you use in the local shop, what gives it its value?
Where can I go to ‘touch’ this valuable ‘thing’ that gives value to the note?
Is it gold? Palladium? Platinum ? Silver ? Copper? Oil?
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