Looks like some kind of attack to me. These are always tempoary as it becomes financially punitive to maintain. IMO the solution to high fees are high fees.

I have to agree with the comments about all the movies and what's more I reckon none of them would have got made today. These days if it is not a sequal, prequel, same universe, etc. it doesn't have a chance. I'm sure some of you saw this https://www.alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-age-of-average recently, here's a quote:


Also regarding Star Wars the only way to watch them is getting copies of the despecialized editions. These copies are exactly how they were released in the movies all those years ago and they are fantastic. Anything else plain sucks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmy%27s_Despecialized_Edition

The world will not dive into a recession, not a long one anyway. But I can assure you it won't matter because the intervention required to continue, and keep making this mess worse than before, will lift markets of all types to new highs in no time. To the 99% the recovery will feel like a recession anyway as prices for everything become more out of reach than before. But hey, at least the governments and economies will continue to function though right.

A recession they can avoid, a functional monetary system they can never achieve.

Sure there might be another covid type crash but just like last time it will be a generational buying opportunity.

The global monatary system is completely screwed and the banks are the entities that connect this system to the rest of the economy. Therefore the banks are the first to go but after them comes the real economy. So the question is will the CBs and the Govs step in to stop this mess (the mess they created in the first place through mass corruption and stupidity)? Bitcoin is holding because the answer is yes. And when this answer is obvious to everyone Bitcoin will no longer be steady but going up towards escape velocity instead. If ever there was a time to be a capital owner now is it because after the end of this episode the wealth divide is going to look like the 1800s. Charles Dickens kind of shit

I should have known that. Though, From From Dusk Till Dawn is the only thing I can actually remember her in right now so I shouldn't beat myself up too much.

Ah, just saw that I am now legendary.

Thanks all for the merits.

who is she? and what's old school about her. Can't work out.

Sure is hot though.

Thanks for posting, I would have missed it otherwise. It went pretty well.

I wish I could go watch one of these larger rockets take off. I'd have to travel a long way for that though so in the meantime I'll settle with my Estes.

Went to take a bit of a look at the hashrate on mempool.space after reading your post since it's been a while. And before I get to checking out some of the charts the first thing I notice is that the mempool is only 5 blocks deep.

Does anyone know what happened to all those ordinals blocks or whatever those things were called?

The fad died off just like the FUD around it?

How do you feel about "Peng" and "Neee-Wom"?

So you have a common cauuse that you are working towards but don't agree with everything. My god man! How do you do it.

I mean no offence here, but your attitude is juvenile. Who cares if your friend believes in chem trails or other obvious crazy conspiracy theories. Is he hurting anyone by believing in that? People believe in all sorts of sh1t, and so what, I bet you even believe in things others disagree with. Perhaps even some of your existing friends and family. And why try to debunk his crap? If someone thougt chocolate ice cream was the best but you thought vanilla ice cream was the best would you argue with them about that then cut them out of your life when you couldn’t convince them.

Seriously, cutting people off because their thinking doesn't align with yours is exactly why the world is so god damn divided these days. Whatever happened to agree to disagree then continue on with things that you both agree.

I actually have a friend who believes in more than just chem trails, he also believes in a flat earth, fake moon landing, mystical energy sources, and other crap. Yeah, I think he is crazy, but he is a nice guy and I enjoy his company. In fact, being that he is open to others ideas he is now also a bitcoiner. I have other acquaintances who are ardent no coiners and they are very unaccepting of others and other ideas.

Bond markets, funding markets, etc are still saying there are some deep seated issues in the monetary system that the CBs have yet to band-aid over with their latest alphabet toolkits. So pivot is still very possibe this year. Doesn't mean we won't see a crash though, infact that could be the final symptom before the pivot. Time will tell.

I think by that point it will be too late, especially since a CBDC makes funding universal basic income posible with freshly printed reserves, something that can't be done by governments. People will hate the zero hookers and loss of freedom but with out those freshly printed reserves they'll probably starve. Therefore there will be no rocking of the boat by the masses.

This place has really gone to hell with all the spammers.

What did your dad do once he retired though? When I retire I'll be spending my work hours doing stuff for my kids and grand kids. Just make that a full time job.

Also health, go hard on keeping in good health.

Here's a quote I saw recently that you might enjoy


We learn nothing.

My thinking is the same as yours. Bitcoin is the perfect asset especially from a portable wealth perspective. Thing is though most people won't use it as an escape boat since most people are ignorant of how the world actually works. Capital owners are not ignorant, they understand the monetary system, human pyscology, see through propaganda and know every aspect of goverment has become corrupt one way or another. It is those who understand the power of capital that will escape. Some labor may come along for the ride but the majority will not. Same as always.

You know if everyone got angry about the mass corruption it would probably be stopped. Revolutions don't happen until enough people get angry and desire change. Being calm about it certainly doesn't change anything. Having said that, chances of things changing even when the entire population is pissed off is low. Putting as much effort as possible into becoming an owner of capital then global citizen is much better for your, and your family's, future.

In my country society has degraded to a quality of life for the masses that is arguably worse than a majority of so called 3rd world countries. But you know what, even though the people complain constantly about it they vote for more of it at every election. I guess this is what we deserve for taking for granted all the benefits that our ancestors fought and died for, and then vilifying them for transgressions that were perfectly normal for the times.

Yep. Also when an exchange has issues it means that all the BTC has already been stolen or sold off by its founders. So while there may be a short term dump by traders it doesn't seem to last.