It's proper buggered in my opinion. I gave up using it.

Why not post what your skills are and see whether anyone bites? There might be plenty of unspoken need out there.

I don't think it's budging from the range it's been in all year. History is being made. Dead boring history.

I looked briefly into mining well over a couple of years ago and ran away screaming. GPU era and before yes, any time after that, hell no. I wonder what the landscape will look like in another five years.

The 100 trillion dollar Zimbabwean note was worth around 25c when it was an actual currency. Now it's obsolete they go for $10-20 all day long on Ebay. Their government should get in on the act.

Even if BTC dies then it will never be forgotten and a Casascius coin in particular will always be of interest to collectors. They ain't making any more and it is THE image for Bitcoin in countless media articles. All the other ones ain't worth shit in the long run IMO but those are cool little hedges.

Yup. I think that's the most sensible strategy. Lots of noise, issues and wrinkles to iron in the short term. If there isn't a clear path upwards by then I'm not sure there'll ever be one.

There ain't too many folks with $25,000 or so to park on an extreme bet for the future. Overall though you're right. One coin is unlikely to be life changing before you're back in nappies.

I assume the broker type places often sell coins as fast as they're buying them so there's little need to access supplies elsewhere.

With that fat 0.25% fee they should make back what they laid out somewhere around the year 6712. These are long game players.

Hands down the best handling car I've ever driven, apart from a Lancia Integrale that had been destroyed and rebuilt with new panels from the floor upwards, but really not very quick at all. I had a couple but they were both very low mileage so perhaps the engines would've loosened up. These days I get the impression that parts are very hard to come by so it would be a bitch to run one.

Quick cars are out of my system now. They're like really shit relationships. A few moments of joy mixed in with long stretches of utter horror when they go wrong.

It's an India only thing. Their attempt to compete with Mastercard and Visa. No merchant beyond India will have any interest in taking it but perhaps they'll cut a deal with another processor.

You'd be surprised. Especially when you're into your 30s and beyond. A piece of shit 20 year old Citroen only cost $150 less than a V12 Aston Martin worth 100 times more when I was checking out insurance quotes. No idea why.

If you'd bought one of the current hot sellers in the last 2-3 years you'd no doubt make bank. There've been some insane price rises. If you'd cherished your whatever from new it probably absorbed its purchase price and more in keeping it rolling over the years.

I remember the car bubble of the late 80s. Investment banks were buying cars to stick in vaults believing they were on to a dead cert. Then it turned to dust in a truly stunning fashion. I bought an Alfa SZ around 2000 for about $18,000. In 1989-90 they were being advertised for $180,000 and more. Not such a hot investment after all.

Rephrase this to 'digital tokens' because that's what they'll be.

Bitcoin is fundamentally different from any currency any country or bank (not that a retail bank has created a standalone currency, er, EVER, not that that stops people on here spouting off about such possibilities) will ever create.

There will never, ever, ever be anything like Bitcoin that comes from the regular suspects. It goes against every single thing that turns them on. A lot of folks here really don't seem capable of comprehending this.

I've owned a few borderline supercars but would never go overboard into a proper one. They invoke some violent reactions from people. And lower tier cars as an 'investment' rather than the blue chip stuff are a mirage if you own them for long periods. They'll break even maybe but all that maintenance and taxation adds up rapidly.

It's a different matter if you've bought within the last few years maybe but they're only worth what others'll pay. Not the most liquid thing you can ever own. I think a shit ton of people will be burned with the more modest stuff. Old style BMW M3 Evo Sport's go for up to $150,000. I nearly bought one at $10,000 but it was a dog. That doesn't smell sustainable to me.

Yes, there's always that market cap thing out there waiting to distort things. I think it's a truly dismal metric. A few mindless idiots who bought dust on Ebay have probably already raised the market cap to trillions if their transactions had been recorded.

But that only required a few hundred thousand people to get sufficiently excited. 1 mil would require several hundred million or more. Zero to a handful of billions can happen repeatedly. Zero to trillions is a once in multiple generations type of thing. I won't be moaning if it occurs but I'm not holding my breath.

I was under the impression they've offered zero fees to certain traders. That being the case there's nothing to stop said traders beefing up volume in an attempt to attract some fresh meat to prey upon.

If it stayed alive long enough and the dollar still existed then it's borderline inevitable that there'll be a million dollar coin one day. At today's buying power? It would've had to have conquered the world.

I've used Payivy and it works very well. It might depend on the type of thing you're selling. That's more of a digital goods thing as far as I could tell.

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