I can confirm this. About 4 years ago, I gave a lecture to my students about Bitcoin, and at the end of the lecture I gave some of them $1 worth of BTC. Recently some of those student (mostly female) are calling me to ask how I'm doing! Suddenly I became a popular figure!

Bitcoin does that!

Edit: Actually they don't give a fuck about how I'm doing, what they really want to ask is how to buy Bitcoin. To which I reply "Google it", I point them to Kraken (poor souls) and I end the conversation. I bet very few will actually buy any. I hope this will not come back to bite me with a $5 wrench, when 1 BTC = $500k... Got to spread some Kebab accident news soon.

If true, this Stefan Thomas guy has got to be the most stupid person on the planet. And his stupidity grows along with Bitcoin price... Sucks to be him.

Regarding IronKey, we use similar devices in my department, although they don't have any logos on them, and have h/w numeric keypads, like in the pic below. I checked IronKey, and it seems you need to run some s/w to enter the password, which is a disadvantage IMHO. I would prefer a device with a h/w keypad built-in, like this:



In other news, number seems to be going up. We need to break $40k ASAP. Now that I'm (probably) COVID-free, I need to see some action. Come on, Bitcoin, do something!

I liked this talk from 2016, by Andreas Antonopoulos.

https://youtu.be/l1si5ZWLgy0

Generally, his talks are little gems, highly recommended.

From the article:

"Parler’s site was a mess. Its public API used no authentication. When users deleted their posts, the site failed to remove the content and instead only added a delete flag to it. Oh, and each post carried a numerical ID that was incremented from the ID of the most recently published one."

"Another amateur mistake was Parler’s failure to scrub geolocations from images and videos posted online. Sites like Twitter and Google routinely remove such metadata from content posted by their users. The video files hosted on Parler, by contrast, were “raw,” meaning they still contained this information."

What is this? A social network for ants?

I'm trying to design a mechanical part that uses imperial units for holes and threads. Man, how can US/British engineers deal with this chaos? 3/16"-32, drill bit 21 (had to look up what actual diameter 21 translates to). This is pure BDSM pr0n material. I could torture a poor soul by forcing him to deal with this shit.



+1

Yeah... For me it's not about the left or right. It's about the violence that's deeply rooted in those people. Have they been brainwashed when they were little? Were they repressed in some way? Abused as children? Failed to fit in to society? What could be the source of such misanthropy, hatred, fanaticism and violence?

I've met such people. Based on those I've personally met and had discussions with, they are usually conservatives, they are pro-guns, pro-violence, they are homophobic and pro-white, some of them are holocaust deniers and support Hitler's policies, they support antisemitism, they easily believe in conspiracy theories (the Alex Jones type), and, wait for it, they are almost exclusively devoted Christians! How perverse is that? How can they reconcile and combine the teachings of Christianity with misanthropic and violent attitudes and behaviour?

Is society creating new waves of repressed psychopaths? What is the cause of this? What can be done about it?

I think it's the XD-M .45 ACP, made by Springfield Armory.

Springfield Armory XD-M® 4.5″ .45 ACP Handgun

Source: Statista

Thanks for asking man, yeah, feeling better than ever. All going fine, all symptoms cleared away, oximeter showed 100% once (most of the time it's between 97% and 98%, which are the values it used to show for years). So it's back to normality I guess. Will do a test soon, probably next week, to be sure I'm negative.

COVID-19 is a serious thing, but if you're strong, healthy and fit, you have a good chance of killing it on your own.

I didn't sell, I didn't buy. Tempted to sell some tiny amount I have in Kraken (around 1 coin) at the beginning of the dip, but I know I'm a lousy trader, so I just HeDL. I don't mind, it's picking up now, and even if it dips again, it's just a matter of time. So all is fine.

Wow!

I wasn't aware of Parler until the recent events. I'm not a social media fan, don't do Facebook, don't do Twitter, don't do Instagram. Don't do anything of this sort.

70 TB? This is a ton of data!

Reading the above quote just shows the intellectual and moral level of some of those American "patriots". I think many of them should probably be admitted to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation. The wiring in their brains seems seriously wrong. And the sad part for them is that Trump probably doesn't give a fuck about them...


Edit:


And another... Thanks Hairy.

Kraken is unbearable.

Had to sign in 5 times, and it keeps kicking me out in the first 10 minutes of use...

Can't even imagine placing an order. It's all so 2017...

(2017 + 4 = 2021) — Math & science checks out.

Bitcoin can't be broken. Proven by math & science.

You mean Kraken... Kraken does that in times of wild swings (usually dips).

No need to worry. All is fine.

https://youtu.be/DU-RuR-qO4Y

Leonard Cohen — Democracy

It's coming through a hole in the air,
from those nights in Tiananmen Square.
It's coming from the feel
that this ain't exactly real,
or it's real, but it ain't exactly there.

From the wars against disorder,
from the sirens night and day,
from the fires of the homeless,
from the ashes of the gay:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

It's coming through a crack in the wall;
on a visionary flood of alcohol;
from the staggering account
of the Sermon on the Mount
which I don't pretend to understand at all.

It's coming from the silence
on the dock of the bay,
from the brave, the bold, the battered
heart of Chevrolet:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

It's coming from the sorrow in the street,
the holy places where the races meet;
from the homicidal bitchin'
that goes down in every kitchen
to determine who will serve and who will eat.

From the wells of disappointment
where the women kneel to pray
for the grace of God in the desert here
and the desert far away:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

Sail on, sail on
O mighty Ship of State!
To the Shores of Need
Past the Reefs of Greed
Through the Squalls of Hate
Sail on, sail on, sail on, sail on.

It's coming to America first,
the cradle of the best and of the worst.
It's here they got the range
and the machinery for change
and it's here they got the spiritual thirst.

It's here the family's broken
and it's here the lonely say
that the heart has got to open
in a fundamental way:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

It's coming from the women and the men.
O baby, we'll be making love again.
We'll be going down so deep
the river's going to weep,
and the mountain's going to shout Amen!

It's coming like the tidal flood
beneath the lunar sway,
imperial, mysterious,
in amorous array:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

Sail on, sail on...

I'm sentimental, if you know what I mean
I love the country but I can't stand the scene.
And I'm neither left or right
I'm just staying home tonight,
getting lost in that hopeless little screen.

But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags
that Time cannot decay,
I'm junk but I'm still holding up
this little wild bouquet:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

Why are we dancing?

Price is still under $41k...

When I was a young kid (early in elementary school), one of my female cousins (older than me, maybe she was around 12 y-o) took me to her room to "show me something". She undressed completely, laid in bed and asked me to touch her. I didn't even know what was going on. I touched her, and she touched me too and seemed to enjoy it. I can't say I enjoyed it much... She made me swear not to tell anyone.

A wonderful morning to all WOers!

I see the weekend pumpening has started early. That's nice.

Trump this, Biden that. Not an American, but tired of this shit. Some politicians behave like little girls who lost their doll... Sad. Some of these politicians may even be best buddies off-camera, while the crowd is taking sides and fighting between each other... They have their game set up fine, they are always the winners, regardless of who "wins".

I don't know if Bitcoin dumps or not when Biden gets sworn in, but I'm not selling. Too stressful. Will ride the wave wherever it takes me. We've all been through deep dips and have survived. Will do so again.

Onwards & upwards!

HoDL.

You tell them early and they laugh at you.

Years later they call you and complain you didn't tell them.

What a strange world we live in...



I'd say, double digits is "soon-to-be rich", and triple digits is "rich".

This is very nice.

mindrust's sold stash is approaching $0.5M.

Where is r0ach?
proudhon?
jbreher?

Good man!

Frankly, I'm surprised you stayed there for so long... Did you really have to? Couldn't Bitcoin help?