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21  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] NEM :: descendant of NXT - 4 billion coins on: January 19, 2014, 04:36:59 PM
I love NEM

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22  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] NEM :: descendant of NXT - 4 billion coins on: January 19, 2014, 04:30:35 PM
I'm in. 
23  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: Nxt :: descendant of Bitcoin - Updated Information on: January 10, 2014, 05:41:37 AM
How would you suggest to prevent such things? A guy is walking with a dog and suddenly seeing another dog running on them. What should he do? Unload his .44 into that mothafucker? What if he doesn't have one?


It rarely happens like that - out of nowhere he's on your dog. An owner should keep awareness.
If your dog is little you can pick him up. If not, you can still probably pick him up.
And never trust your or any other dog 100%. These things usually happen because of poor judgment.

But judging by the injuries, Charlie was either very young, or it was a prolonged attack.
That's why I mentioned how to break the bite and pause the aggressor.
But thats all gone. I loved to hear there's some good out of NXT. Fingers crossed for Charlie's recovery!

I was walking on the sidewalk with Charlie.  Charlie was 3 3/4 Years old at the time.  The dog ran out of a person's property and went straight for his throat.  It took me, and 4 neighborhood kids to get the dog off of Charlie.

So yes, it was prolonged (lasted 15 or so minutes).  And yes, the dog came out of nowhere.
24  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: Nxt :: descendant of Bitcoin - Updated Information on: January 10, 2014, 12:27:23 AM

I love Charlie Smiley

Me too.  NXT - is the only animal friendly coin.  LOL.
25  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: Nxt :: descendant of Bitcoin - Updated Information on: January 10, 2014, 12:00:35 AM
I am here, hoping to share my success story from NXT.  I’m hoping it might inspire some people, and I hope it might help bring the community closer together; even boost the morale some.

TL;DR -  Thank you people.

Firstly I would like to thank ByBitCoin –without whom, none of this would have been possible.  Thank you for the opportunity to buy in so early.
Secondly, I would like to thank C-F-B, and BCNext for obvious reasons.
Thirdly, I would like to thank GCInc.  While some people do not appreciate his services, I am very much in his debt.  It’s because of his services, time, and his risk, that I was able to even share the following story.
Lastly, I would like to thank those that purchased the NXT from me from Dgex.  I am so thankful, both that you were able to also buy in at cheaper prices, and that I was able to shuffle some of the early wealth around.

TL;DR – Invest, wait, ? , profit.

So what is this story that I have to share?  I would like to tell you about my dog Charlie.  I met Charlie 4 years ago when he was a baby pup.  Since that time Charlie and I have only been apart for two days.  We used to go swimming and running (and walking) in the summer, and hiking in the spring, winter, and fall.  Needless to say, Charlie is and has been my best friend.
In July, Charlie was attacked by a pitt bull while we were walking through our neighborhood.  Charlie’s neck was torn open and thankfully, the dog didn’t get his jugular.  Charlie lived, the owner paid for the initial bills.  However, a few weeks later my dog started to have a limp.  I took him to the Veterinarian, over, and over, during the next few months and his limp didn’t improve—it kept getting worse.  I spent over $1,500 to eventually get the diagnosis that, “Charlie has to see a specialist, I suspect he tore his cruciate ligament.”  

(This is Charlie as a puppy).
http://imgur.com/6jabxnI
http://imgur.com/CH6ZVH6

To me, this is a HUGE amount of money so far.  I work IT for roughly $15 an hour.  It’s full time, but I don’t get benefits, and honestly between student loans, my apartment, and Charlie, I eat Ramen most days of the week.  I was thankful enough to have scrounged up 1BTC in the past year through LiteCoin mining.  

Back to the story!  So, I took Charlie to a specialist and was told that his left knee definitely had a torn cruciate ligament.  The surgery was expensive, roughly $2290, and Charlie would never be at 100% again.  The best I could hope for is 90% mobility. Sadly, he can never fetch a tennis ball again, according to the Veterinarian.  I would like to say that was the ‘kicker,’ but, honestly, the worst part is that he has a 25-50% chance of his other knee going.

(Here's Charlie all grown up)!
http://imgur.com/AQdjrGU
http://imgur.com/eAhNVSQ

So how does this involve NXT you ask?  Well, I was lucky enough to catch some of the very early NXT sales from the founders.  I was able to take my 1.xxx BTC and buy 1,600,000NXT.  I asked for 1.5M and ByBitCoin was so kind as to give me an extra 100K.  This all happened well before the dreaded specialist visit.  By the time that I got the news and had to schedule the appointment, I had to come up with that money ASAP.  After talking to my local tax professional and figuring out how much I had to set aside for capital gains taxes.  I transferred about 400K NXT to dgex over the next few weeks.    I was able to sell my NXT (though not at the price I would have liked), and was able to cash out my BTC.  GCInc. Was spectacular during this time—he was responsive to all my messages and was able to kindly help me get my money in and out within a very fast amount of time.  So there I was, a few hundred thousand NXT lighter, my dreams of paying off my student loans gone, but my dog had the money for his surgery.  

Yesterday came, Charlie had TTA his surgery, and was home today by 5pm.    He’s a bit doped up, and he’s in pain, but it’s hopeful that he will recover well.

(Charlie Post-Op).
http://imgur.com/dHWFeQv

Thank you to everyone for supporting this community.  It has helped me keep my best friend in the best health I can keep him in.  And I suppose, what I would really like to say, and what I really mean by this is that for some... NXT isn't just about making money, it isn't about revolutionizing how things are.  To some of us, NXT is a dream, or a hope, to be able to take care of those closest to us.  To be able to support those things that matter most to us. 




26  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: Nxt :: descendant of Bitcoin - Updated Information on: December 29, 2013, 04:03:25 PM
user1922,

This forum is not censored, anyone can post repeatedly, even people like yuriygeorge.


Why am I afraid that if you say his username two more times he'll suddenly appear?
27  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: Nxt :: descendant of Bitcoin - Updated Information on: December 28, 2013, 11:08:23 PM
I changed some Btc from a couple days switch mining alt coins into a couple thousand nxt this morning..

I guess it really makes no sense now holding some other alt-coins for diversification, which really offer nothing unique over bitcoin and litecoin, even BTC and LTC now seem a bit outdated after NXT.

yeah, Btc seems so foolish now after nxt. it's like investing in T-Bills.



I had this realization today while looking at Asics...  I don't want to spend money on electricity, and have ever diminishing returns...
I don't want to have to deal with bloated blockchain.
I don't want to have to wait an hour for a transfer.
28  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Stablecoin, heavily premined, 1.2+ million coins premined!! on: June 15, 2013, 09:53:47 PM
I'm not sure which was worse, the original post, or the fact I read this whole thread.
29  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: [ANN][SBC] StableCoin ¦¦ A new breed of cryptocurrency ¦¦ v1.1 RELEASED on: June 14, 2013, 11:21:02 AM
Dear miners,

Someone hacked our pools (username xrom) and withdrew significant amount of coins from wallets on two pools: wdc.coinmine.pl and stc.coinmine.pl. Right now we are not able to process all payments as we have huge hole in the wallets.

I've disabled manual payments on all our mines until the issue is resolved.

We are counting on your donations to fill the gap and start functioning normally.

feeleep

I was wondering why I only mined 100 coins in the past 10 hours....
30  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Dont want to cost panic on: June 02, 2013, 11:12:29 PM
I want to panic.  Can I panic?
31  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Hello From The East Coast on: May 31, 2013, 05:06:27 PM
Hello From The East Coast of the United States. I hope you guys are doing well here. I'm in my 20s and hope to make some money with Bitcoin just like everyone else I suppose.

Don't we all... don't we all...

Btw, nice name... I bet there's a musical jingle in there where.
32  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Interesting facts about bitcoin! on: May 31, 2013, 04:39:08 PM
Seems to be a bandwagon event of "Nice."  Nice fine....
33  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Say Hi on: May 31, 2013, 04:34:38 PM
Hello  Cool
34  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Butterflylabs Huge SCAM on: May 31, 2013, 03:03:55 AM
Maybe if some of the rumblings regarding legislation to register ownership of precious metals comes to fruition, there will be a larger demand for Bitcoins as a store of wealth. I know I'm seriously thinking about it.
Huh?  Where'd you hear that from, the registration?  I know our pseudo pres is trying to say that the internet fuels extremism and that he's trying to control it.  Heck telegrams fuel extremism, people riding around on horseback fuel extremism, i.e. "The British are coming!"  Bumper stickers fuel it.  There's no end to the governments reach when it comes to security. 

I digress.  Point being, the big O is trying to control bitcoins by controlling the internet.  And the public is oblivious.  Actually makes me comfortable knowing what I know and actually doing something about it. 

Nothing at the federal level right now, just a few states considering laws to document precious metal transactions and limit the use of cash. I believe the intent is to mostly limit crime of precious metals, but it also infringes on those of us that want to anonymous.

http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?GAID=11&SessionID=84&GA=97&DocTypeID=SB&DocNum=3341&LegID=64562&SpecSess=0&Session=0

Sometimes it feels like any rights or privileges we have are slowly disappearing.
35  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Nice to meet you on: May 31, 2013, 02:49:24 AM
Hi,
I'm new around here, and to bitcoin in general. But it looks like an interesting idea, so i'll be sticking around for a while.
New here too...
Would like to read up on some diff alt-coins and post... but limits. Does seem interesting though, doesn't it?
36  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Way to get round the 5 post limit... on: May 31, 2013, 02:45:04 AM
Post #5

Damn.  I've forgotten what I came here for.  Angry

Yes... I've thought about this method too... But I'm not even sure how to begin.  This doesn't seem to unreasonable a limit.
I don't necessarily need immediate access to everything.
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