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1961  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: June 23, 2020, 09:51:15 AM
LibertyX Allows BTC Purchases in Cash at 7-Eleven, CVS, and Rite Aid

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In a June 22 announcement on LibertyX’s Twitter account, the crypto ATM service company said customers of retailers including 7-Eleven, CVS Pharmacy, and Rite Aid would be able to buy Bitcoin (BTC) with cash.

Users need to have the LibertyX mobile app installed, select which retailer location they will visit in advance, and scan their barcodes at the time of purchase. According to LibertyX, crypto holders can buy between $20-$500—up to 0.052 BTC as of this writing—with transactions processed in minutes for a small fee.


https://cointelegraph.com/news/libertyx-allows-btc-purchases-in-cash-at-7-eleven-cvs-and-rite-aid

https://twitter.com/libertyx/status/1275089855689654273

cant wait for one to come around here, just to buy some to support it.

on a related note, the coinstar machines around here (the change sorting machine you see at some supermarkets) dont offer bitcoin yet even though apparently some do.. bummer. i remember those machines being a life saver back when i was broke af.
1962  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: June 23, 2020, 09:29:50 AM
good morning (such as it is in 2020)

observing ~ $9600 USD at, uh, that place.

its like we are stuck in groundhog day.

but hey im cool with that 9 to 10k(ish)... for now.
1963  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: June 23, 2020, 01:24:57 AM


so instead of the four horses of the apocalypse we get the four oompaloompas? the world sure is going down hill.
1964  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: June 22, 2020, 04:45:41 PM
So I was thinking on this whole trump rally thing without masks.

If his supporters all show up and start getting sick and he takes away their right to mail in a vote then how the hell is he gonna get re-elected when they are all sick?

he doesnt plan on leaving whether he win or loses. so it matters not how many of his supporters die and cant vote.
1965  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: June 22, 2020, 04:29:38 PM
Extracts are fine and most of the peeps I know vape but it’s not for me.

dab rigs are discrete and have.. use cases

edit. too stoned to type
1966  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: June 22, 2020, 04:24:55 PM
I bet I made hash brownies before you were born.

whats the wager Grin
1967  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: June 22, 2020, 12:23:14 PM
Is 5 figures too much to ask?

Smiley
Nah! It was never to hard to ask but from last few weeks it seems the market is liking the range of $9.2k to $9.7kish. Once only it broke $10k but then again came back to it's own range LOL

6 figures or bust.
Not so fast, we need strength.

man whats with the doom and gloom. a few pages back it was $100k+ we were shooting for.

everyone run out of coke or meth or something?
1968  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: June 22, 2020, 12:16:24 PM
Possibly the next pump is on the way. Observing @ $9,458

Hopefully, we’ve been trading in this current range for what feels like a very long time. Is 5 figures too much to ask?



only 5 figures?

why so pessimistic?

6 figures or bust.
1969  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: June 22, 2020, 10:05:59 AM
Mmmm so JJG you’re always awake?

as long as JJGs power source is on.

rarely, JJG goes down for scheduled upgrades. you can tell those periods when his (her?) programmers are forced to type a response on JJGs downtime; typically those are one or two lines, and sometimes they are not punctuated correctly.

JJGs uptime has been impressive though. hot swap stuff mostly i assume.
1970  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: June 22, 2020, 09:48:51 AM
Yeah, tried VM also. Managed to set it up, but after restart there was a display issue.The VM appeared as a square in the middle of the screen, leaving about half the distance to each side unused. Basically meaning that my display had shrunk by 50%.I looked through all the display options on Mint, but the best I could find was "maximize windows". Which did indeed maximize the VM window - but not what was displayed in the window...I still downloaded one of my favourite games and managed to log into my account. After loading was finished, it took me back to the account screen, though.

I also cound not connect an external hd, usb port was not detected. Might have to do with the passthrough-option you mentioned (which I have not looked into. Is that on Mint or VM or both?).

But I agree that having a properly working Win-VM on Linux would be the best of both worlds.

may be way off here buy when setting up VMs on my supermicro server i needed special video drivers for that funky VGA only chip in the server (BMC chip..? sorry half asleep), until i had that particular distros special server chips vga driver all my GUIs in the VM looked like crap. wrong resolution, weird colors sometimes, laggy as crap. once that driver was loaded all the VMs displays came up proper over the network.

sorry if im not reading this correctly but ive only on my 5th coffee.
1971  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: June 22, 2020, 09:40:49 AM

....
I’m into weed now. ...
You and me both bro, though I gave up using it years ago. Legal growing is far more fun, healthy and lucrative.

do you ever try to makes extracts (oils, wax etc) or just straight up smoke the bud?

asking for SWIM
1972  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: June 22, 2020, 09:31:38 AM
And thank you to everyone who gave me my first merits. I appreciate it.

1st: Welcome!


no need to thank for merits, they just flow when good posts are made. so please dont take offense but generally we dont thank for them. when you deserve em, you get them.  at least here in the WO thread. perhaps im wrong though. being polite cant hurt. others may chime in on this, as im not very socially adept.

and your 1st ones are kinda cool Smiley

again, no offense meant.
1973  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: June 22, 2020, 09:22:46 AM
observing ~$9400 USD at that , uh, other place.

honey badger has been torpid lately. maybe it doesnt like wearing a mask? cramps his style perhaps.

or its just the ungodly hour of 5:15 am UTC-5. bleh
1974  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: June 20, 2020, 11:55:53 PM
..... i live within my means and plan accordingly.

I absolutely live within my means also and will never go in cc debt again. It's just that it's not always convenient to pay with cash.
I just swipe and pay off every month. The only time I have a wad of cash in my pocket is when I sell my annual crop of....  (ehem) ....tomatoes!   Wink Cheesy

idea being i would either draw on cash reserves and/or sell whatever needed to make up the difference. so "cash" is just the easiest way to describe it.. NO loan and debt would be taken, or i simply dont buy it.

so, really a check (perhaps a bank check), once i knew the account could cover it, was used. cash can be.. awkward. which speaks volumes as to where this society is going.
1975  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: June 20, 2020, 05:44:31 PM
https://medium.com/swlh/the-greatest-capitalist-scam-of-the-century-why-credit-scores-are-screwing-us-all-over-7f6b607e745d

Quote from: Samuel James White....Why Credit Scores are Screwing Us All Over
The sad fact is that two-thirds of Americans can’t pass a basic financial literacy test, and it’s not getting better at a rapid pace, either.

That's the gist of it.
I learned many years ago after going bankrupt (entirely my fault, young and stupid) you have to play the credit game
correctly and follow the mostly unwritten rules he spells out.
I did that and over the years since my bankruptcy my credit score is virtually perfect now... 830 or something. I don't really care tbh.
I only know that, not because I check it (I don't, that's bad for credit score) but when re-upping my last car lease,
the salesperson mentioned he never sees folks come in with perfect credit scores.

a while back at a bank they wanted to do a "financial wellness score." whatev. so one question was "what do you think your credit score is?" my answer: i dont care. they were kinda put off.. like what if you need a loan. i told them i will pay cash for whatever i need a loan for. as i DONT do debt.

they were not really impressed. kept telling me i may need it. i just told them i dont play that game any more. i live within my means and plan accordingly.
1976  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Taxes on Bitcoins: Unreasonable or essential? on: June 20, 2020, 11:47:19 AM
Sad to now but only with taxation we will have real adoption and legalization

agreed. perhaps im wrong, but once something is taxable, that adds legitimacy. after all you dont tax illegal gains.. like there is no tax on selling heroin on the streets. or taxing bribes. etc.
1977  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Storing data on the bitcoin blockchain on: June 17, 2020, 01:13:23 AM
Not wanted by you, maybe. Do you speak for the entire community? I'm sure many people would welcome a way to store small, critical pieces of data, safe in the knowledge that the data can never be lost and they can access it any time in the future.

This is not just about private individuals storing their favourite cat pictures though, you need to think bigger. How about law firms storing important legal information? Think bigger.

what happens when the encryption is inevitably broken and all those sensitive files are now out in the open?

EDIT: as the thread starter you can lock this thread yourself i believe. but an answer to my question 1st would be cool.
1978  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: June 15, 2020, 03:21:48 PM

I’m not going to answer this with any clue as to what sea dwelling creature I am but I saw this before & it made me laugh. I imagine we have all types of so called sea creatures related to bitcoin, swimming around the WO at times Smiley


What's your Bitcoin rank?

Humpback Whale = 5000 BTC or more

Whale = 1000 - 5000 BTC

Shark = 500 - 1000 BTC

Dolphin = 100 - 500 BTC

Fish = 50 - 100 BTC

Octopus = 10 - 50 BTC

Crab = 1 - 10 BTC

Shrimp = less then 1 BTC


plankton
1979  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] [BSV] [Bitcoin SV] Original Satoshi Vision on: June 15, 2020, 12:34:41 PM
The real satoshi told you what happens to minority forks ...

A second version would be a massive development and maintenance hassle for me.  It's hard enough maintaining backward compatibility while upgrading the network without a second version locking things in.  If the second version screwed up, the user experience would reflect badly on both, although it would at least reinforce to users the importance of staying with the official version.  If someone was getting ready to fork a second version, I would have to air a lot of disclaimers about the risks of using a minority version.  This is a design where the majority version wins if there's any disagreement, and that can be pretty ugly for the minority version and I'd rather not go into it, and I don't have to as long as there's only one version.

I know, most developers don't like their software forked, but I have real technical reasons in this case.


...snip...

were there not two versions of the client early one? the official of course but also a second one written from scratch independently updated to be protocol level compatible by someone else. satoshi could ignore it so no extra work for him. as a second client can be useful in case a bug takes out one version. but core has been amazingly robust though.

but maybe im thinking ethereum.. i know that one had a couple.

1980  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: June 15, 2020, 11:14:31 AM
Yup. Some people are born strong. Some tall. Some smart. Some rich. Life isn't fair. Tough titties. But almost everybody has some opportunity for bettering their economic condition. All I'm hearing from you is a buncha whining about how it ain't a level playing field. No shit. Two choices: 1) Whine and wallow, or; 2) Buck up and expend some effort at bettering yourself.

And to return to point where I first responded, it is not the case that there is zero opportunity for the current generation of protesters, and it is also untrue that the boomers were able to just waltz into the job of their choosing.

where do they get that impression. im a boomer and my 1st job was washing pots and pans at a restaurant for the summer. it wasnt my 1st pick, thats for sure. but i decided to be the best pots and pan washer they ever had. with them as a glowing reference my next was janitorial work, scrubbing toilets among the other duties. again i decided to be the best toilet scrubber there was (this was a warehouse). and when the company corp guys came down for inspection our warehouse was awarded for being cleanest facility. so i was promoted to a crew chief and taught others how to scrub toilets properly. then i was promoted to oversee other warehouses. etc. with that as reference.. etc

none of that required extensive schooling or brains even. just basic math and more importantly a willing to work and learn attitude.

so come on i scrubbed shit as one of my 1st jobs. to those people saying we boomers had some magic head start: stop being lazy and get your ass to work and IMPROVE yourselves, just as i did.
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