Nice to have you back posting, even if it's about bloodiness.

Although I agree or at least resonate with most of your paranoid theories ( ), this one never makes that much sense to me.  Why would the "whales" spend the money to do this.  Unless, of course, the whales are actually the exchanges themselves?

I am not questioning the validity of your theory.  I am saying I honestly do not understand it.  Can you elucidate?

It's odd but sensible.  One can post signs, but that is messy and liable to loss and damage while painting the top of a fence post purple is cheap and will last years if not decades.  It's only drawback is you better know what it means.

My brother from a different mother.

The threaded view is too chaotic for my tastes.  A good old flat forum style with the sensible use of quotes like this one, is my fav.

I find that you are doing purple fence posts to be so delightfully appropriate.  Your color... and one the locals most likely know to respect.  I guess the tradition goes back.

My moms side of the family were country folk.  I used to visit my grandfather in rural NC and we would take a couple cane poles for fishing.  We fished in a creek on his property, but that was on the edge of his neighbors property.  My grandfather, a man of few words pointed out a post with a purple top and asked me if I knew what it meant.  Nope, I said.  And he told me, it's a friendly way to warn people "if you go on that land they'll shoot ya" (the way my grandfather said it was more like "shoochee" lol).

Have you tried rebalance.py?

It's the best, best, best.  I don't balance everything, but it will work better than anything else on what I do balance.  Has lots of safeguards built in so you do not conceptually spend more than you can make back in fees, and will try as many channels as possible 'till it finds one.  And if you want to over-ride it's various safeties you can.

Slight learning curve, mainly because it is so powerful and full featured.

https://github.com/C-Otto/rebalance-lnd

Such rare.  Much balance.  Wow!

Assuming you are talking about Tone.

Can't like the guy.

1.  He's constantly virtue signalling as a "toxic maximalist" for social media clout.  Annoying.
2.  What the heck is that crazy numerology he at least used to use?  Maybe it's a legit market analysis but it looks more like Oijia board use to me. some 1-9 thing.
3.  He wrong 50% of the time like a coinflip, IMO.  I can't remember the name of the "system" that he and some guy (who passed away RIP) will shilling back ~2018 where they were CONSTANTLY saying we would be dumping to sub 1k prices.  It was like the "supersystem" or something. He really hung his hat on that failed prediction.

I think old Vanga has more credibility than Tone as far as your random Russian market analyst goes.

I mean... i make predictions, and am probably less accurate than him.  But I do not present myself as a professional, or charge for my tea leaves.

Oh, and *YOU* have him beat 10 ways for quality TA woek!

Anyway... good luck to him, I suppose...

I really like these sorts of volume candles!

Well goody!  The corn has pushed up over my arbitrarily drawn meaningless channel top line!

This can only be good!

Wow. Wow.  Wow.

ZCash just lost the single whisp of an idea of a shadow of a reasonable chance for a reason to exist at all.

At this point there are EXACTLY ZERO reasons for it to exist (which was already 99.9% true frankly) aside from paying for "Zooko"'s groceries.  I can only hope that he gets changed with securities fraud someday, as he should.

said Tom Robinson, Elliptic’s chief scientist.

LOL.

I figure you MIGHT be asking about a way to implement HTLC type of layer two?  There are no projects that I know of outside of the vapor phase.

That said, Monero DOES take a different approach to the block size problem.  So it may evolve differently when it comes to scaling.

He basically makes the point that Bitcoin is revolutionary as it move the battle that all animals engage in into the pure form of math and energy and away from kinetic/physical violence.  It's pretty deep, and correct, in my opinion.

The idea is the things at the top of his drawing have to be defended with flesh and blood, while the lower half is a new sort of "property" that we can COORDINATE to defend with power and consensus. 

I OFTEN think about how this fourm and particularly this thread (perhaps?) will be studied by future generations who find it interesting to see what we were thinking before the rest of the world even had a CLUE about the change Bitcoin brought.

For them, it's hindsight.  For us it's foresight, and even we "early adopters" do not really understand how big the paradigm shift Bitcoin is bringing will be.  They will be fascinated when they see us discovering certain aspects of what the Bitcoin network is destined to become as we went along, and also some of the mistakes we made along the way.

What you are describing is human nature.  You are new here... I too am newer here than many others.  I have been on this FORUM for over 10 years, but came initially as a poker player, and posted primarily on the thread for the 'Seals with Clubs" poker site (now defunct, replaced by it's successor "Swcpoker" which I really do not play at much anymore since they decided to accept BCASH rather than simply implement lightning. Bad move).

But many of the people here are like a virtual family.  Complete with the annoying loud uncle, the brother in law with the shady business idea, the one with a drug habit, and the one that would be better off locked in the loony bin.

And the people here have earned the ability to be recognized by the others.  Is it worth the time and trouble?  You tell me.  I think so, and I hope to meet some of these folks in person some day.

I know you have even received some merits here.  I have sent a few, and I am sure others have as well.

It's up to you naim.  Stay and earn a place among the Watchers of the Wall, or laugh at us and leave to find a community more to your liking.

But this forum is also populated by scammers.  And from time to time they come to this thread.  Some begging for money, some trying to find out personal details for the members here.

And some are trolls who come just to annoy/entertain.

So if you find this thread intersting, then visit from time to time.  Read the posts.  Respond to the ones you find interesting.  Disagree with those you think are wrong.  Be respectful, and make yourself a valuable member of the community.

No doubt.  Great advantage is afforded those who can see farther into the future.  He is still very young.  He will be a very wealthy, and possibly powerful man.

Truth!

Though to be fair he even makes this point himself, but is betting that we don't see the real impact of the shallowing/deepening/lengthening/whatever until 1 or 2 cycles in the future.

I will die on this hill!

Well... yeah. it might kill me.

(Do we see the bulls overcome the tax selling bears and front run 2022? or do we have to slog through the rest of December?)

Yep.  I think you are saying basically exactly what I mean.  We may still see volatility and (flash?) crashes since all markets will hurt in this, but ultimately this is possibly one of the safest places for money to go!  And THIS TIME there are HUGE NUMBERS of "trad" finance folks that are waking up to that fact.  As is always said if funds only park 1-5% here??  BOOM.

*EDIT* One other thought.

Bitcoin CONTINUES to make the journey for a Risk-on asset to a Risk-off asset.  And the opinions on which it is are QUITE polarized.

The old guard see it as a ridiculously speculative and volatile asset.  And of course they are right, particularly in the short term.
And the new folks see it as the (potential)  most pristine risk-off asset humanity has ever discovered. And of course they are right, particularly in the long term

It is similar to how money is made playing poker.  The game is all about luck in the short term. The next card decides all our fate.  But in the long term you make money by making the right decisions at each point of the game regardless of the next card.  Bitcoin is just the same, and the right decision is to place the majority of our wealth in it .  But sometimes we lose sight of the double goodness we have from being early.  For us right now the ASCENT is forefront in our minds.  But in the end SAFETY will become the biggest selling point.

This is a fascinating dynamic to me.  The Chinese real estate meltdown stands to be the gasoline on the fire that has been burning since the similar situation 13 years ago (that Satoshi mentions in the genesis block).

And that will have possibly profound effects on ALL markets.

But, as we are aware bitcoin has a particular property that makes it a VERY attractive haven in the midst of a storm like the one I think we are watching unfold.

So, I think as this gets worse all markets drop as money is moved to risk off investments.  Bitcoin is still crazy speculative, and poised to be the most pristine risk-off asset in the world.

As much as I would like to see Bitcoin;s famous volatility fade a little?  I do not think we have seen the end of it yet.  But it should be interesting to watch.

They don't call him "Jay 'Blob Server' Juan 'Postgress Slayer' Gee" for nothing.