Yeah, you are right (in some way) but i personally think this is a reminder for BTC 2nd level solutions, i am not sure if crypto diversity, which i think we have way too much nowadays, may service as good for longer - or broader use.


Funny aviation insights
As i tried to say, if you plan ahead for the halving(s) and difficulty rise as a miner, preferably in a rather pessimistic way, you should be safe. If one runs his business optimistically in a high-risk manner, well who would he want to blame?
I also share your opinion on the media, they also don't care what they are starting off sometimes, too. Carelessness was undermining quality journalism, but if you ask me, the whole world is slowly going stupid (know the movie "Idiocracy?" - that's what i'm talking about). A tiny percentage of "black sheep" media outlets do try to manipulate for whatever reason, in fact. If you look at how Russia manipulated EU politics, and also the US votes... Bit scary, in the face of coming (de?)generations, imo.

I'm surely fine with that, but what the fee/tx RUNE (iirc) madness does (aside from being a stupid game), is:

1. slowing adoption (even if companies offer LN, when they regularly sync to the main chain, the fees are more of a loss)
2. degrading performance (from a use-case-of view, not a nonsense-case-like-RUNE-of view)
3. bring bad news about BTC, which is not always bad, as we know, but makes new investors overthink their planned investments.

Look at it like that: Cars are made for bringing you from A to B in a convenient, fast and personal way. Now, someone propagates a stupid trend (remember one or the other challenge hype)to attach your household waste to random cars, to get it away. Would you feel good if your and every other's car is driving around with litter bags tied to their back several times a day? You'd have to get rid of the stuff at your own cost, effort and time.
I would be annoyed as fuck, honestly. But this is just what is happening, Gen-Z-ers are encouraged to tie their waste to Bitcoin blocks by someone exploiting that stupid Ordinals concept, just because it hasn't got any other valuable use.
This is what happens if developers don't overthink the consequences of their solutions. You know the old saying "the solution became the problem"? (or something like that)

I may sound angry, but i am just feeling a bit surprised, but not in a positive way.
Opportunism, like using shitcoins, including fiat money, seems to help to get by, but who really wants that compromise?
Not me, for sure  


Hellow, fellow  
I didn't stay awake, either...

The miners who did not take periodic halving effects into account in their business calculations (some won't even have had a clear vision of how long they plan to profitably run this), they may well be concerned in the face of rising hashing difficulty. Then there was the rise of energy prices, inflation and so on, which set back some newer mining companies in their profits to extend their business. It's always those unforseen events (black swans) that cause a lot of unfavorable side-effects. If you don't think about such, you remain with "the pants pulled down" in such situations (while all the others are able to run away)  

Aaand, you know the media. They put up their (horror) stories, and then they are looking for ways to sell them to the public. What's really going on behind the media narratives might be very different.

I LMGTFY'ed for y'all:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/runes-protocol-ignite-new-season-bitcoin-after-halving


OMFG, hordes of apes competing over block space.
Ordinals must be stopped ASAP  


Chain my ass!
*SMH*

My opinion is that Ordinals were just a useless addition to Bitcoin. Maybe the chain should be split in a Core and an Ordinals variant, maybe with higher blocksize limit on the latter, to satisfy those blockwar-morons? IDK, but i wish inclusion of Ordinals would be rolled back ASAP. Who needs another sea of NFT's anyway?
I wish developers and individuals voting for BIPs would take a more cautious approach to add bitcoin functionality. It's not that hard. Just try to keep an eye on possible unwanted effects and outcomes of software "solutions" to problems or added functionality and address them before actually changing any code.
This type of thinking was the reason why i was hated by most collegues and even some of my bosses ("destroying" their "great" visions through factual criticism), and successful at the same time (through my own contributions and working alternatives to their "great" solutions) when i was working in the IT industry, back then.
Maybe Ordinals were orginally intended to break Bitcoin, who knows? I don't have enough background information on this branch/feature, so this is pure hollywood scriptbook thinking of mine. But, with an eye on NFTs and the presence of Bitcoin's slow transaction rate and limited block size, it would result in a nice attack vector to include the possibility to spam blocks, tainted as functionality.

Anyway, i was unhappy with the Ordinals idea as soon as i read about it the first time. This block spam confirmed my worries.

EDIT: And the whole drama with fees does have a touch of Ethereum to it, in regard to your original question, dunnit?

Dude, what a crazy read. The last few lines tell it all: Days of no sleep... Poor guy fell into the conspiracy-theory trap hole and went insane.
Our biggest enemy is our own mind.

Slept over the halving   No party, this time  

No bear posts, please  


(Today) passive fuck-richies damned to watch several cycles finally emerged to hodlers who grew diamond hands in the process?
Or did you mean the opposite?

Even if all of them would dump. In the shadow of an upcoming supply shock, they're either damn stupid or just wanting to do everybody else a favor.
Say it ain't so 

The humor is great, i was just trying to be funny as well  
Generally, it's best to try to be humorous as often as possible.
It's one life for each of us, you don't want to be one of them wasting it being grumpy and serious all time.

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Buddy gathered some breath, huh. Or just setting up a pre-halvening Fakeout?


Bank of Israel: "Bitcoin still too high!"
Prime Minister: "hold my beer"

Maybe the two girls recognized they were raised in disposable coffee cups and stopped growing, once they became big enough to peek over the edge...
Dude, organic growth in a plastic-lined cardboard cup?! WTF!!! Shiva might have noted that to address this issue after the grower's life will end.

Not

Good

(for the grower)

Source: WillyWoo's tweet from yesterday.
Users postet some more charts from earlier in the comments.

EDIT: https://twitter.com/woonomic/status/1780545180715848186

Maybe, Baby 
Could also be that gains are parked in USDT to prevent (midterm?) taxation or future investment in different assets.
We will probably never know...
For sure, there's one thing: Bitcoin won't give a fuck 

Mirrors might serve you better, me thinks. You might try curved (convex) and straight ones, probably hanging on cord, so they can freely rotate and reflect squirrels from more than a single direction. The flasks might work better, maybe even more if the water is colored (black?) which should create a more intense reflection.

Back on these here parts after three days of vacation.
Noticed the iran/israel attack hours after it was carried out, had no opportunity to buy the dip while on the trip.
I already had a little fiat on one exchange and finally hit the buy button the other minute right after coming home.

Gotta backread some pages, but now it's time to go to sleep after an exhausting 7 hour drive.
#HODL

Thanks, now i can give him one too

EDIT: I bet (hope) there will be a song composed about his experience soon, too.

Great stuff right there!
Once-in-a-lifetime-experience (just like Bitcoin)
Next time (LOL) you got to turn down the exposure for an even more awesome ecliptic shot.
But the photo is as good as a trigger for remembering the experience, anytime.

I'm OOM (Out Of Merit), so have +1 WOsMerit from me, at least!

Tip: Google on explanations for solar eclipse by flat earthers, if you need some good laughs 

Looks good. Like Quake in PUBG's footsteps. It's a pity that i have to play Fortnite with the kids because the violence of adult shooters is too much for the youngest party member.
However, it's still feeling good fragging at advanced age, even if my cognitive flexibility and coordination suffered a lot over the years. Still getting regular solo Epic Victories on "Zero Build Battle Royale". I love hideously gearing up over the game with zero enemy contact, before taking out some of the last dozen of enemies.
Feels good to know that there are some other "old guys" still rocking those ego-shooters.

I remember the last total eclipse i've seen 30 years ago. It was in early summer and the most spooky thing was the silence, when the birds stopped singing and the bees stopped flying.

Buddy surfing the small waves.
When Tsunami?
 

Dude's just trying to get your corn in exchange for his worthless metal.
His son must be proud of him, finally. 

I don't know the book, but books are usually (almost) error-free, while there are so many errors in filmed versions. I don't mean not following the story tightly, but for example an actor carrying a watch in an ancient movie (just for example). Those do stick out a lot for me, most of the times i just notice them, but sometimes i find them really annoying. Overall, the error-rate was ok-ish when following "3 Body Problem".
However, the series was really good, i enjoyed watching it a lot, just finished it two days ago. Had to watch the scence where the ship was fucked over three times in a row 

I asked my wife to include your wishes in her shaman fire ceremony this evening. Hope it's not too late (and that it actually works)