Good morn Bitcoinland
Nine five sixty-three dollars
(Bitcoinaverage).

Still going sideways
In the mid- nine thousands range.
Time for five digits.

Go Bitcoin go go
Bitcoin go, go Bitcoin go.
Go go Bitcoin go.


This is why white protesters seem to outnumber blacks and it's happening nation-wide.

It's not all about white men killing a black man.

It's more about armed police killing an unarmed civilian over a non-violent crime.

Americans used to be appalled at Hitler's and Stalin's law enforcement policies. Now they're getting it at home.

It takes time. Anti-trust laws and labor unions didn't happen overnight, nor did the degeneration of unions from workers' collectives to extortion organizations.

Collectives are collectives, whether they are labor collectives like unions, capital collectives like banks and other corporations, political collectives like royal dynasties and communist parties, or social collectives like religions.

Collectives eventually become corrupt and must be taken down. Sometimes they can be taken down relatively peacefully like the Soviet Union. More often they require violent revolutions.

Let's hope the Bitcoin revolution is non-violent.

That's exactly what I was talking about... militarization.

If it does turn into a complete civil war, it will be the state that drew first blood.

It's not really principally a war between the public and the police. It's a war between the government and the people.

That's what makes the second amendment to the constitution of the USA so meaningless in the 21st century. What good are the arms American citizens are allowed to bear compared to military weapons? Bring a knife to a gunfight? Bring a gun to a missile fight?

When I was a kid, the police were respected members of the community, the boys in blue. They walked a beat and knew everyone by name and everyone knew them by name. We didn't fear and hate them. We respected and appreciated them.

Somewhere along the way everything changed. They switched from friendly blue to intimidating black. They started hiding their faces. They separated themselves from society. They developed an adversarial "us against them" stance and started treating the community (their bosses) as the enemy. They hid behind the anonymity of their uniforms and refused to give their names. They abdicated all personal responsibility.

What is long overdue is individual identification of all police officers. It should be mandatory for all police officers (except those on active undercover duty) be identifiable. Their names and badge numbers should be clearly displayed on the fronts and backs of all uniforms. They should also be displayed on the outside of their upper arms and thighs, so would be no doubt about the personal identity of all officers even if camera angles were obscured.

This would be an obvious first step toward re-integrating the police into decent society. Hiring practices must also be re-evaluated. As long as police officers are social pariahs, only social misfits choose to become police officers. Most normal people don't choose a career that leads to ostracism unless they are already outsiders, hence the bullied-in-the-schoolyard-and-seeking-revenge syndrome seen in so many of today's police departments. Better psychological testing must be used to weed out the violent, sadistic, authority-oriented applicants.

It's perhaps not as bad in Toronto as in most big American cities, and in fact it's getting much better since the confrontations between the public and the police during the 2010 G-20 meetings. More individual officers are making an attempt to reintegrate themselves and the evil Police Association is slowly losing it's power. It still has a long way to go though. There are still individual officers who hide behind their badges and think they're better than the law.  

Some are simply arrogant doofuses like "Officer Bubbles":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGMTm3QRwEc

Bubbles did not even lose his job.

They seem to forget who's the employee and who's the employer.

America  calls itself "The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave". You can ask George Floyd's family about freedom, and there's nothing brave about 4 fully armed police officers murdering a handcuffed, unarmed man over a $20 non-violent crime.

The time has come to start treating police officers personally, as individual men and women, not as faceless uniform wearers, and it is time for police officers to start realizing they are members of the human race and start acting like it.

It would be best if they/we could affect this change peacefully. If not it seems like civil war is close, the people versus the state. It would be a very bloody war indeed.

Buenos dias Bitcoinland.

Still in the mid-$9xxx range... currently $9539USD/$13137CAD (Bitcoinaverage).

Go Bitcoin go.


My bags have been packed for years.



Always ready to head off to the next station on this incredible journey.

I kinda like the follow-up:

https://chaser.com.au/general-news/child-molesters-to-sue-the-chaser-after-being-compared-to-mark-zuckerberg/

Sorry, but it's you who's reading it wrong. It isn't about wealth per capita. It's about percentage of the total.

The Boomers had a slightly higher percentage of the wealth at the age of 40 than the Millennials did at that age, but they also had a much higher percentage of the population due to their great numbers. The previous generations had been greatly reduced in numbers by two world wars and the great depression.

Edit:

You posted while I was typing.

First of all. The fiat-currency/central-banking scam has nothing to do with Baby Boomers. It existed long before they were born and really kicked in with Richard Nixon, who was hated by most Boomers.

What I was responding to by bolding some of your text was the "us versus them" confrontational tone.

Of course I'm against the traditional banking system. I'm a Baby Boomer. I don't even have a bank account. All my money is in Bitcoin.

 

A limp wrist who sold his bitcoins.

Just wait. Your turn will come.

It takes time to accumulate wealth. It even takes time and experience to learn how to accumulate wealth.

Even inheritances usually take many years.

Young people tend to spend and borrow. The wealthy tend to live longer.

This has been happening since time immemorial.

Good morning Bitcoinland.

Still creeping upward... currently $9482USD/$13060CAD (Bitcoinaverage).

Go Bitcoin go.


Post of the year.

What's so hard to understand about buying and not selling unnecessarily?

You crossed out "greedy" to write "stupid". It could just as easily have been "arrogant" or "childish".

"Impatient" also comes to mind, but that's basically part of being childish.

Getting rich with Bitcoin is a simple Three Step Program... 1) Buy... 2) Chill (hodl)... Don't sell unnecessarily. So simple.

What you should not do is buy and sell according to the price.

Of course there's nothing wrong with selling a small amount for life improvements after your holdings have reached critical mass. Just never sell most.

Buy, chill, don't sell, especially not according to some self-indulgent pseudoscience like TA.
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Edit:

Of course exchange operators won't agree. They make lots of money in fees from tarders.

Trading is basically gambling and like most forms of gambling, the only winner long-term is the house. The individual retail punters will break even against each other but it's the vigorish that keeps the casino, racetrack, bookie, or lottery corporation in business, while eventually making losers of everyone else.

In the case of Bitcoin, it's the exchanges and money transfer services (or ATM operators) who take the profits. The only way to avoid this is to mine your coins or buy them OTC without fees, and spend them or sell them also OTC without fees.

Buying and selling coins according to their current price (trading) is nearly impossible without paying fees regularly. This is why long-term holding is so much more profitable than retail trading.

Professionals with sufficient resources to manipulate the market are a whole different story. If you can afford to lose a few million dollars (by dumping a load of coins) to crash the price and make much more on heavily leveraged shorts at other exchanges, of course there's money to be made. Obviously that money has to come from somewhere. Well hello small-fry traders!

Trading is for suckers.

The limerick's a verse form complex,
Whose contents deal mainly with sex.
It burgeons with virgins
And masculine urgin's
And swarms with erotic effects.
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A pansy who came from Khartoum
Took a lesbian up to his room.
They argued all night
Over who had the right
To do what, and with which, and to whom.
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There was a young lass from Madras
Who had a magnificent ass.
Not pretty and pink,
As you'd probably think,
It was grey, had long ears and ate grass.
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There was an old whore from Azores
Whose parts were all covered with sores.
The dogs in the street
Wouldn't eat the green meat
That hung in festoons from her drawers.
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Your old friend Jimbo may think
He's so great that his shit doesn't stink,
But the stench of his balls
Peels the paint off the walls
And leaves a brown stain in the sink.

Good morning Bitcoinland.

Back up over $9k I see... currently $9149USD/$12600CAD.

Go Bitcoin go.


Tired of the same old kindergarten action figures and MSG-based flavor enhancers? How about one of these other fine kindergarten/kitchen memes?



 

Sorry John. It didn't work 20 years ago.

You have about as much credibility as Craig Wright.

Further back in the line like the rest of us.

The ones in the pic are just the tip of the iceberg.

Good Morning Bitcoinland.

Still having trouble getting back up over $9k I see... $8800USD/$12146CAD (Bitcoinaverage).

Life goes on.


When I was talking about French cuisine, I was talking about Classic French Cuisine, not that disgusting aberration called Nouvelle Cuisine.
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Your impression is bang on for Nouvelle Cuisine. It's basically a scam perpetrated by restaurants to rip off their patrons. They start with the cheapest ingredients, calling them locally-grown and seasonal, reduce or completely omit more expensive ingredients like butter, cream, foie gras, veal, etc., and then reduce preparation time to save labor costs and kitchen overhead.

They don't take any care in presentation. Instead of carefully arranging foods according to shape and color, everything is piled up in a heap in the middle of the plate, leaving large areas of empty plate exposed. They may try to make up for it by quickly slapping on an inexpensive decoration or two, like a kiwi slice or a couple of un-chopped (more laziness) chives.

Portions are indeed ridiculously small. Even if they were properly arranged aesthetically, they might not fill the plate. Gotta make sure you have lots of room for overpriced desserts and those aforementioned overpriced wines.

It's all about maximizing profit.
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The Classic French Cuisine I'm talking about is the cuisine of Marie-Antoine Careme and Auguste Escoffier, a time-honored  tradition developed over the centuries with the emphasis on creating the finest dishes, despite higher ingredient and preparation costs. It was the food of royalty and wealthy industrialists. Quality was the number one consideration.

Rich stocks were simmered from roasted veal knuckle bones with carefully selected vegetables and carefully matched herbs. Roux was cooked carefully to just the right color for the best flavor. Marinades were blended with care. Meticulous hand preparation was used to bone, stuff, glaze, and trim meats for presentation.

Foods were carefully laid out with careful consideration given not only to appearance but also to aroma and temperature. Sauces were not hidden underneath the meats to try to make the small portions look bigger, but served on top of them to preserve warmth and also to distill the essential oils of the garnishes directly to the diners' noses.  Garnishes were used primarily as aroma enhancers, not decorations. The foods themselves were used as decoration.

Portions were large enough that dinners often took hours to eat. Needless to say this was not conducive to maximizing restaurant profits. They needed fast food, whip it up fast, get 'em in and out the door fast. Thus Nouvelle Cuisine was born.
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5 of the 9 great cuisines I listed had their roots in Classic French Cuisine.

Nouvelle Cuisine made its debut on the maiden flight of the Concorde. How fitting. Small portions, fast preparation, short meal time. Basically it's airline food.
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Think about the difference between traditional English and French cooking:

The English boil all the flavor and nutrition out of food, throw away the flavorful, nutritious water and serve the washed out food.

The French boil all the flavor and nutrition out of the food, throw away the washed out food, and add the flavorful, nutritious water to more fresh flavorful, nutritious food and serve it.

Which will be more flavorful and nutritious?

Good afternoon Bitcoinland.

Trying to get back over $9k I see... currently $8961USD/$12533CAD (Bitcoinaverage).

This could take some time. It will probably be a bit of a wait for $10k.


Italian food is OK and certainly much better than English, German or most American, but I wouldn't rank it near the top.

IMHO, it can't hold a candle to French (the best food in the world), Hungarian, Thai, Mexican, Greek, Middle Eastern, Vietnamese, or even some regional North American cuisines like Cajun or Quebecois.

To each their own, I suppose.

Each day is Sunday
When you do not give a fuck
About anything.

Frosty cervezas
And ice-cold margaritas
Yummy gourmet food.


 

Good morn Bitcoinland.
Nine one forty two dollars
(Bitcoinaverage).

This is so boring...
Feel like going back to bed.
I need more coffee.
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After Pizza Day
With its polls of Pizzagirl,
Posts have dropped right off.

It takes me back to when
Chartbuddy was all he had
For several hours.

Maybe JJG ,
Cryptotourist and Breher
Are new Chartbuddies.

I guess it's just that
Someone has to keep this thread
Rolling right along.

My contribution
Will be to continue my
Boring morning posts.