You could always just send it back to the sending address. No proofs needed.

Such things, if they happen are most likely to be computer errors. Notably some people have run untested software on wallets that contain most of their stash and have come to regret it. Human error is definitely not out of the question but far less likely in my estimation.

All big blockers wanted was for low-friction transactions to continue to be part of Bitcoin as they already had for the previous six years. They are original Bitcoiners as much as any small-blockers. I'm back because small blocks and high fees do not (possibly yet) appear to have negatively affected Bitcoin's price. However, it must be understood that small-blocks and high fees does remove certain functionality from Bitcoin and while I'll generally not bring this up for no reason, when I see someone act like Bitcoin still has these properties, I'll comment if appropriate. In this recent case, small blocks, DCA and 'not your keys, not your coins' were not compatible together. Choose two. There are several other examples but I won't go into them since it will seem like proselytising.

Now, if all people want is an expensive-to-move SOV, as some in this thread have stated, that's definitely what you got. Otherwise, you just have to accept that the nature of Bitcoin changed when the blocks became permanently full and adjust expectations appropriately.


Beyond Burger and friends are not synthetic meat as far as I'm aware, mostly next-generation attempts to simulate meat with vegetable and chemical products. They are considerably more expensive to buy in grocery stores (most of the price in fast food joints goes to overhead and staff so the gap closes) which indicates that the degree of processing probably makes them financially and ecologically worse than cow meat. So again, if it's about killing animals, fine but if not, probably no good reason to get it. Simulated meat likely has better prospects than synthetic meat in the mid-future though.

I dunno. To my semi-trained but experienced eye, I'd picked somewhere around 60k for the top. I didn't really see the FOMO though. We'll see, I suppose.

Synthetic meat may sound like a decent idea but people typically think of the final stage where presumably chunks of cloned meat are cut off in a vat with no cruelty or pain to animals. The issue is that animals are pretty fantastic machines. You grow some typically-vegetable type crops of nominal nutritional value and you feed the animal and it takes care of growing. If you are doing this industrially for synthetic meat, now you are having to provide a carefully balanced nutrient broth which has to be specifically distilled from crops, since you have no stomach, guarded from contamination since you have no kidneys, liver nor immune system and diffused into the "meat" since you have no circulatory system. You also have to deal with texture created by muscle use (unless we're all going to be eating synthetic veal). These things *are* solvable, I have zero doubt but they're not free and make the economic aspect a lot more marginal. Unless you're making the life of animals paramount (though bear in mind cows would effectively cease to exist as a species except as zoo specimens and pets under such an arrangement) which is certainly a market, though niche, that bears serving, it seems to be more of a solution looking for a problem.

A lot of the times when things are "priced in" it just means you don't feel the shock around the time of the event. Often, things aren't "priced in" enough and it takes a little while for reality to catch up with expectations. Certainly the last couple of halvings have been this way. Not sure how the stimulus is going to play into things. It's a *lot* of moolah being magiced out of nowhere though. One of the things that got me into Bitcoin was concern about how governments were printing money but inflation back then pales in comparison. The country (and others) are being looted.

I have a 2000 TDI. Like it a lot, know it inside-out but it's definitely showing its age. Promised to reward myself when we hit 20k. Was hoping to use it for a trip we just took but yeah...

Best bet might be to DCA and sell a little more coin and get a better car. Or I can just fix the 2000 up and spend the money on other stuff, I guess.

It was a TDI Sportwagen. Still is, I guess . They delayed delivery three times so I cancelled. Then I saw they'd actually got it fairly close so I called to give them another chance but apparently they're not competent enough to swing that so it's showing as purchased by someone else now. Ah well, there are other cars. Cashing out for nothing stings though.

I'm hoping someone local bought it so at least they'd be screwed out of the delivery charge for getting it from Nevada.

So much for Lambos. Carvana totally fucked up my car purchase and it was only a used VW. Bonus in Bitcoin tripling between when I withdrew the funds for purchase and when it almost happened.

I hope we're not in for years of slow downward slide again. That was demoralizing.

As I say, it depends who you are. You and me are going to have difficulties there. A large company that moves billions through the bank yearly? They've probably got a permanently assigned employee or two who can make it happen.

I don't know why not. Perhaps your biases against "big blockers" are affecting your perceptions. From being in it, I can assure you that the vast majority saw through CSWs bullshit like it was tissue paper.

That he has a poor grasp of Bitcoin's concepts has been shown on multiple occasions. Having failed to dupe BTCers, he tried to be the big fish in the small pond of BCH and when even that didn't work, BSV. It's been interesting to see the knots BSVers will tie themselves into to justify his bullshit. He just keeps pushing and it's amazing to me that he has yet to come to the end of his rope.

Depending on who you are, you certainly can. Hence Bitcoin.

Although that is definitely one way to use the system, it seems nearly everything Wright does is an attempt to legitimize his absurd claim of being Satoshi (or occasionally some other aspect of his dealings) and that's usually the angle to look at first. If there's an act that will cause someone with some kind of authority to write his name adjacently to Satoshi's, he'll give it a go.



It beggars belief how much he's been able to skate on while committing perjury in court.

Odd. Came back after a few hours and refreshed the page and a bunch of pets moved backwards. Don't recall much delete-worthy

Probably not. As an immigrant who has had to deal with foreign accounts, income, inheritance and now crypto, I've handled it all openly and legally and I've heard not a peep from the bank or any government agency. I suspect there will be focus on crypto at some point but I've been quite surprised the foreign stuff has been as smooth as it has.

Quitting your job can have a positive impact on your capital gains taxes too, I believe.

Oh wait, did you imply you're in the EU? Nothing I said is probably relevant then.

Probably accurate as most people have no life savings.

Cold wallets though, surely?

That's pretty much where I am right now. But I think it's an issue that's far from over and I think it's fair to point out when it has negatively affected some parts of Bitcoin that people think are still viable. Non-custodial DCA for the small investor is pretty much off the table in this example. Bitcoin has gained a lot of friction. Whether you think that's a good or a bad thing, it has to be accounted for. Given that it may ultimately affect the price, I think it's on-topic for this thread (though I agree it doesn't need to be done to death). Not least, I'm sure there are newer members of this thread who are unfamiliar with the history.

Checks for admin or mod flair. Observes none. Disregards gatekeeping attempt.

Some people get really uncomfortable hearing views which don't agree with their own. It's the curse of this age.

No, there is no well defined criteria, only a bidding war which drives the cost up in unhealthy ways.