No one is going to have a clue to figure out who you are because you have privacy embedded right into your user name.   

Of course... it is part of the article, you patronizing fuck wannabe...       

You notice the Bitcoin.com stickers in the pictures in the article, and sure bitcoin.com is that the "real bitcoin?" Those fucks.

I think that is something like what I am saying regarding my disbelief about any claims that the winlevii actually have their BTC "locked up"

I am not saying that they actually borrowed against it, but when they filed their various licensing petitions, whether with the exchange or with the ETF or other business branches that they have, they likely used some or part of their bitcoin stash as a form of collateral to show that they could support some of the business liquidity.

I will provide the hookers (not going to say whether I am really going to be there due to fear of receiving a wedgie).

I have heard some of the Windlevii claims, and I just don't buy the parts about the locked up bitcoin.  I believe that they can honestly maintain their claim that they have not spent any of their bitcoin, but still move their bitcoin.  It seems that they did use some of their own bitcoin to collateralize petitions that they were making.

I do agree with your point that there are likely some BIG OG Bcash holders out there that currently could pretty much drive the Bcash market into a pretty low price status, if they were to chose to take such action.  It may be wishful thinking to hope for such, and perhaps we are merely going to witness ongoing Bcash bleeding.. and maybe some here and there attempts at pumps.  Unless we witness some pretty calamitous Bcash price dumping, I don't doubt that there are some businesses that might not be gullible enough to take bcash on as a "cheaper bitcoin," which could cause further pumps.

How do we know that Winklvii and some of the other BIG ones have not dumped their Bcash?

You are all going to die from overdoses, unless a lot of WO trolls show up to rescue (If they all don't happen to be Notlambchop?)

we have falling lantern, and falling and shroomie and the old timer trolls showing up, but then they end up being the same peeps, so that is when the hiring of actors come in handy.  And, I'm sure Stolfi doesn't drink or smoke, but Adamsgbt  would be more than  willing to have a few.. Of course, chartbuddy and richie_t are the same peeps.  

Surely, after Adam gets drunk and smokes some weed, he is not going to be very pleasant with infofront.  I can see Roachie getting a little clan of haters such as Ibian, explorer and arriemoller together.. just gotta keep matches and bed sheets away from them.  

Terabeara, jbreher and PeterR will be pretty boringly complaining the whole time about the party being too much fun, and that we gotta bring down the fun level a notch or two to be more realistic.  

Probably Jimbo, bitserver and d_eddie will be fighting over the guitars and trying to take over the role of the band.

I'm sure Torque will end up getting arrested for sure, a conspiracy, of course.  

Jojo and v8 will be obsessed with identifying me in order that they will be able to give me a snuggie wedgie, but I am not going to be there, except perhaps I will wire the place in order to be able to watch remotely.. alternatively, I might have binoculars.    

I am more likeable online, too.

And, that ain't saying much.   

Themz R B fightin wurds!!!!

Is that the only way we get him to buy the drink that he promised each and every one of us?

Yeah... I would be scared to death to meet you lunatic fucks IRL.  

After the merit system implemented, I did venture out there into the forum - outside of the WO thread, and it surely can be a scary place in which I bumped into a few things that maybe are not necessary to know regarding forum politics... - especially when it seems messy enough just to attempt to watch BTC price dynamics and the politics involved with BTC prices.. anyhow, there are a few things in the non-WO that I would not mind unseeing.

Surely personal discretion regarding how anyone spends their smerits, and merits are likely not only going to be used for ranking up since merits may end up displacing credibility aspects of the trust system in the future or establishing higher than Legendary ranks, perhaps?  Also, there can be some value with merits to identify relatively higher quality posts, too, perhaps?

Surely, there have been a lot of criticisms of whether the merit system has been implemented fairly and whether it is going to achieve various forum objectives including ranking up and encouraging quality participation (contributions). 

I doubt that there would be a desire for complete decentralization the forum or the merit system and you can tell by the limited number of starting merit sources, that theymos does not want a completely decentralized merit system because it seems to be aimed to solve some problems with trolls and spammers and perhaps even to lessen the importance of the trust system.

If you are a merit source, then your merit page will come up like the below purple highlighted two paragraphs (though not really purple in real life) - noteably the difference in the second paragraph for merit sources:

>>>>>>>>You have received a total of XXXX merit. This is what determines your forum rank. You typically cannot lose this merit. You have XXX sendable merit (sMerit) which you can send to other people. There is no point in hoarding sMerit; keeping it yourself does not benefit you, and we reserve the right to decay unused sMerit in the future.

You are a merit source. The next XXX merit you spend will come from your source rather than your sMerit balance. Merit spent from your source will come back in 30 days. Unused source merit is wasted. It is not allowed for merit sources to sell their merit.<<<<<<<<<<<<

As you may recall, the merit system activated on January 24, and therefore it was thought that if merit sources spent their smerits, then those smerits would start to replenish into the merit source on about February 23 - however, theymos stated that he had run into some glitch in the way that he had programmed the replenishment of merit source merits - in essence the script or the algorithm was screwed up.  

It appears that theymos fixed that merit source replenishment glitch on about March 5, and replenishment of merit source smerits began again around March 5.

I'm kind of thinking that in order for the merit source thingie ma jiggie to work with fewer glitches (especially in the begging arena), there may be a need for theymos to designate nearly one thousand members as merit sources..

Perhaps, theymos is working his way up to that 1000 number.. , but only slowly.. hahahahaha..   He started with 35 merit sources, and currently there are 77.. so could be more and more and more?  There is likely a decent amount of analysis going into how merits are being distributed. and whether the new system is going to allow for both ranking up and disincentivizing spam-like posts...

That's another form of the "royal" we....   hahahahaha

Oh my...  




 

Your characterization is fair enough, because you seem to acknowledge that laddering is not a unique practice, but it is one that jbreher and I have gone on extended tangents to discuss our attempts at systemic ways to employ it.



O.k.  I think that I understand what you are saying, and there are probably various ways to frame the situation, but in essence if you are holding a decent amount of BTC... let's say 10 BTC, then if the price goes up 2x from $8k to $16k, then you could have sold 50% of your BTC and still be in the same place in terms of financial value.  I don't like to have to rely on that BIG of a price jump in order for things to work out (but yeah we should also prepare for extremes because they do happen in bitcoin, too), so let's say for example that you hold 10 BTC and you hold $8,000.  That would be about 9.1% of your BTC investment in fiat ((10btc x $8k = $80,000)+ $8,000 = $88,000), but you are feeling a bit nervous about downside scenarios, so you decide to double the amount of your available fiat by selling 1BTC, so you then have 9BTC and $16,000, which would be about 18.2% fiat ((9btc x $8k = $72,000)+ $16,000 = $88,000).  In that case, you would have doubled the amount of fiat that you have available to play with, and if the BTC price ends up doubling by going up to $16k - you would thereby have ((9btc x $16k = $144,000)+ $16,000 = $160,000) rather than ((10btc x $16k = $160,000)+ $16,000 = $176,000).  

Taking out insurance for the downside does have a price, but in the end, you may be able to play the situation in such a way that the outcomes end up being close to the same either way, while feeling more comfortable that you are prepared for either direction and you have enough downside price insurance (as you put it).




Sometimes quicker doesn't work out as well as anticpated.  





I admit that it can be a bit of a pain in the ass to attempt to find your comfort zone, and even to experience levels of temptation emotion to deviate.  Furthermore, the market can play out in ways that are a bit beyond expectations and new preparations need to take place to ensure that you remain prepared for either price direction.  

In the last month, I made a couple decently-sized tweaks, and I designed each of my tweaks in order to feel more comfortable for either direction rather than attempting to increase my profits.  And, in November/December, I had to make a couple of decently-sized tweaks, too, because the price was performing more bullishly than anticipated.



 

That's what I am talking about!!!!!!!

At some point in the near future, we are going to have to refer to the d_eddie ladder-scalping method... a form of tailoring, tweaking and adjusting particular to bitcoinlandia...