Universe? 

Do you see what the dude wrote there? 

Hop to it!

I am older than all the decades you listed in there.  I used to weigh 220 pounds.  Today I imagine I am in the mid 160s.

I did not starve my body at all.  I ate shitloads.  I modulated my hormones... very different approach.

Just to nit pick.  I think it is the CONTENT of the diet that causes it, not the amount. It is easy to see the human body as an energy in->energy out machine.  But the systems (citric acid cycle, hormones, etc) are FAR more complex than that.  

It really does come down to macro nutrients.  Thre are two big things we eat now that we did not used to.  Highly refined carbohydrates and seed oils.  People who drop those two things will live longer and look more like our great grandparents who did not eat them.

This age's "people chow" has hijacked out metabolisms, and the drug companies have "fixed it" by throwing gasoline (insulin) on the fire.

The good news is you can eat real food fairly easily.

I lost 60lbs effortlessly by doing this and have kept it off for 7 years...  anyone wants any input on what works PM me, though I spelled it out 95% above. It's actually simple.

-EDIT-  I see Torque already laid this out.   I will say one other thing.  When I changed the content of my diet I did not have to even CARE about the amount.  I cuold eat like a horse and would still lose weight.

That's another clue.  If the system was purely energy in/out, then we would have skeletons and super fat people.  Because just eating an extra 100 calories a day that you do not need?  That will eventually make you morbidly obese... and same thing with a deficit.  The body would waste away with a -100 kCal deficit.  But our hormones and systems adjust and keep us in the "set weight" zone either way.  What MOVES the set weight are things that cause the body to produce insulin.

Totally agree.  So many folks see him as black and white too.  If you listen to him he very much recognizes that his models have been AMAZING that they have held up so long.

I really have come to like the second s2f model with the other assets included.  I think ultimately it is a more appropriate data set than just comparing purely against the USD.  I think comparing against the USD is like the temperature.  While the cross asset model is more like the weather.

I think he has a sizable bet he might be about to lose to another TA luminary.  I can't remember if it was a whole BTC or 100k.  Maybe because thats the whole bet... that it goes to 100k by end of year.

Even if he loses I think he got close ebnough to still be notable.  That said, if it does not quite make 100k @davethewave's model will be proven as the winner.

Thing is I think that model is doomed too since it is basically the opposite of the cross asset model.  Only taking into account the USD value, and banking on a decreasing parabolic arc.  I think the "S shaped" adoption breaks Dave's model eventually.

I hope you are wrong too... but you often are not.  I also think we can both be right... painful, but possible we stay sideways as the pressure builds.  But that's what I am feeling major pressure building.

Can you guys feel it?  This is the biggest one ever, I think I have felt. Like a panicky excitement.  



***JUST TO BE CLEAR***  Not saying we are going up right this moment... but I don't think the cork can stay in this for much longer.

I agree with your premise that ETH has interesting properties that make it worth studying in spite of it's flaws which are many and quite great.

The biggest one, in my opinion, is the SAME one that all the big block chains will try to do.  And that is to cram the entire operative data-set onto the blockchain.

If ETH continues to be relevant, or even successful then it is destined to centralize.  By the looks of it we will see it centralize both by miner centralization (eventually blockchain centralization ) as well as stake centralization.

This is dangerous because it will attract the folks who recognize that this can be exploited, and therefore make certain people rich at the expense of those who will not be.  This could include governments, and the super wealthy business folks.

In fact it's very genesis is anchored in that reality.  And ALL the changes since inception have enforces that. Pre-mines Chain splits.  Edicts. Changes to issuance.  All of these things "justified" by the leaders.  This will CONTINUE to go on, and fool the fools until ... well forever.

So the biggest most "feature rich" centralized chain will be the ultimate enemy of bitcoin.  Whether that is ETH, a CDBC, or God forbit some sort of combination.

Bitcoin's biggest problem is it is not well understood by not only the masses, but even it's faithful.  It is misunderstood why it is important.  And why ETH is fundamentally NOTHING LIKE IT.  in fact it's opposite ultimately.

Well it is interesting.  I would not think Tucker would be the place the puppeteers would want to have Saylor.  Unless they were trying to draw his audience in before xxxxx.  But that seems pretty paranoid.

That show has viewers in the millions a day.  I am not one of them, but I have no doubt some who are will get orange pilled by it, so to speak.

The question is how many... and how many will it take?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swhEa8vuP6U

Don't worry about it.  It's ok.  But it's a good lesson to learn.  Someone who has been around bitcoin since 2011, but is perhaps smarter than me, could be wealthy now.  And therefore he and his family could be a target for people who expect to threaten him.  Things like his history, the city in which he lives.  Those are details that could be dangerous for a person like that.

First of all, I am not rich, thanks to my lack of wisdom, as well as money back in 2011, and until now. 

Bitcoin will have to go up many orders of magnitude more before i could possibly retire.

You were clever to go and look.  But it is impossible for me to know your motives.  So, out here I am going to let you know... one person to another.

So, no hard feelings.

This Michael Saylor Tucker Carlson interview might be more important than we might think...

This was predicated on the concept that beer cost something in the <$5 realm.  But you might like one of those really fancy ones that is more in the bottle of wine pricing zone...  dunno.

There is a local brewer I have become extremely fond of:  https://manhattanproject.beer/

All nuclear themed.  They call their yellow pilsner "Necessary Evil".  Which is very clever in my opinion.  But it, like all the beers they make, is immaculate and delicious.

I can reccomend the taphouse as a nice place to have a date night.  The wife and I have gone.  But that was when it was still warm enough to sit on the patio.  It is getting less so now.

That list acts like that... You will reappear.

Sorry the rock has you down... I'll send you a beer's worth of corn to your node.  Buy a beer with it on cAPS.

Buying bitcoin at all was tricky in 2011.  I mean really really tricky.  One could wire money to some fly by night Japanese Magic the Gathering exchange.  Or one could go through Liberty Reserve, Dwolla, and a USD<=>Lindendollars (second life)<=>BTC exchange or the like.

Or one could use fountains.

Or like me, one could acquire it by playing poker for it.

I have never DCA'd really...  Though I have been known to fire into a blood red dip from time to time.

So, with no excuse, I have nearly no bitcoin at all...  too bad, but you can't beat yourself up that much for your mistakes.

NO!?!?

Good grief.  This is going to be quick...

Oh boy...  Something tells me *this* might have some crazy deep consequences:

I was leaning on the idea that @jack was a bleeding heart idealist type, and he was the one responsible for the corporate "censorship" Twitter has performed along with the other centralized social media platforms.

But I may have been wrong.  He may have been holding back the floodgates...

What the actual $%#$ is "Content Health"?  Never mind.  You can tell by it's choice of words EXACTLY the lines this asshole is going to draw.

Could that be the news being sold on?  Weird.

I expect we retake some of those gains fairly quickly...  This little diplet is a gift to the people who are buying.

Good man.

Oh.  And one more thing.  I own guns.  And I will not hesitate to use them.  Most likely the last thing an uninvited "visitor" to my house will see will be the muzzle flash of my most boring weapon.  Just a simple Remmington HD870 shotgun. 



So far it has only killed some tree rats.  But that is not what I bought it for.

Invited visitors will be offered coffee instead.