Meantime I wonder what the odds are that Trump will order the SS fund to put trillions into the stock market to prop it up.

(Oh wait, there is no surplus, just a box of IOUs. )

This. You don't need to have *that* much to ride out a short term screwup, I just went out and picked up a few hundred worth of extra groceries. Mostly the extra was canned goods, pasta, staples, rice, potatoes, and the like. If things don't go bad in a month I can just eat the excess over time, if things go crazy for a few weeks I'll lose some weight and be fine as well.

The goal is to have enough that you don't need to panic without tying down all your coin in one place. In most modern disasters helicopters will be dropping bags of money within a week or so, thus the goal is to not make rash moves before then.

Also remember redundancy can be expensive: When the power goes out you don't need to have a generator big enough to run your house for a month. What you need is enough power for the fridge, a lamp (really nice when it gets dark), the fans for your wood stove (in winter), cell phone charging (surprisingly little), a weber grill, and a coffee machine (because waiting in line for coffee sucks). I've done this for a week, it's really not that big of a deal and having cold beer, a light at night, and coffee in the morning goes a long way towards feeling civilized and appropriately smug at those without.

So.... Keep things in perspective. Try not to be part of the mass migration herd, either be the first one out (tricky to time) or wait a week till things settle down.

The stock market is MELTING!!!!!

Time to seal the bunkers, fire all the employees, and start evaluating neighbors for their caloric content.

Wait, Bitcoin is melting too. We're caught in the perfect storm of people believing that our Dear Leader is full of shit and our Congressional Medal of Freedom Winner saying "all is well". Man this is fun (breaks out popcorn)

Dingbat. However he did get the Presidential medal of Freedom, so one should listen to his words.

Hell I don't have a Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Well, Rush is now saying that Corona is just the common cold, so bearish for Bitcoin.

Hm.

I never heard the "Ensign Crusher, prepare to make it so".... That's just... english.

Oh yeah: Explain to them that they could be tortured if they knew your key.

Of course they may be tortured anyway, and if the torturer doesn't believe them then it's going to be a very long night. Maybe give them access to a small portion of the stash, but large enough to remove the torture.

Elwar: Cool. I thought you might be sunk since your Trezor was acting up (turned out to be a non-data USB cable). Glad you had backups.

I know. But it takes a special kind of girl to chug a 5 gallon bottle of wine single-handed.

You marry that.

It's the weekend, Bitcoin is under 10k, I'm going to start drinking with my gal....

Unless one lives in the Netherlands, "the taxpayers" have been paying less and less for the common social good of raising reasonable kids. But the key issue is what constitutes having enough resources? Current capital is tough for a 20 something to acquire and risk of serious defects goes up with the parents' age. So that would need to be factored in. Perhaps we could sell the rights to the kid for the capital, with proceeds from the kids' life being used to pay back the bill. Slavery with extra steps :-)

Hm.

Good lesson: Don't ever depend on a single supply chain.

More to the point: By doing so you expose yourself to this kind of risk. It's quite probable that the overall risk over time of having a single supplier is cheaper than maintaining fault tolerance, if so well then this is what we call "life".

Redundancy costs money. Going without saves money. Until it doesn't.

Changes in torture laws, mind ripping techniques. I can see "progress" happening in these arenas.

Kind of like when the US Govt outlawed possession of gold. Not much changes.

Don't worry though, if you are rich enough laws do not apply to you. Cultivate political pull, it is the currency of the next century.

Ok, side thought: If you saw this on a fashion runway, what would your first thought be:



Please God, don't say "Hey, they found my kink!"

Ok, whose job was it to keep bitcoin above 10k.... Come on, fess up.

Define "exist. I wonder sometimes if gravity is a force outside of our universe that leaks through our universe manifesting itself through mass.

Would explain why it is so damn weak.

Torture time I guess. But it's interesting that the coins would be considered profits from a "crime" even if they were bought before the crime occurred.

I'm sure he is guilty of something. Illegal U turn, farting in a Mormon tabernacle, etc.