I bought 0.05638 @ ~35.5k  Not quite the bottom, but I am still feeling pretty good about it!

Although damn... That last time I got more than 4x the BTC for 1/2 the price.  It's amazing how little $2k will get you now even when it IS on sale! I say that's a 'big' buy... Well it is for me, I typically stack in the 100-200 range, and really just to feed my degenity.

It's kinda funny how we have become this way, isn't it?

So.. I will say one thing.  The last BIG corn buy I did was March 12 2020.

I am about to do another one... looks like today, but we will see.

Shut up.. S-curve is about to make a huge comeback!  Think of it as an "itallics s"!

You know... it all depends on big daddy corn.

Monero Twitter is getting giddy with flippening talk, lol. 

Fuckin noobs.  But I do have some respect for them.

One thing that is really bothering me (aside from the obvious)... 

Hi, my name is cAPS, and I am a multidump survivor.

-pause-

HIIII cAAAAPS.

-pause-

Yeah well anyway this time I was believing in something called a supercycle, and before you know it I was back up to 40% dumps in a week again.

Group hug?

Next i expect t hear that Mt. Gox is not solvent, and the mastermind of The Silk Road is behind bars.

Currently P2PKH (start with 1) and P2PSH (Start with 3 for example) payments look different in a transaction.  But with taproot you would be able to make transactions without being able to tell the difference between payments to scripts, or to public keys.  The difference between those payment types gives clues as to what the transaction is being used for.

With Taproot enabled it will be more difficult to know that a payment was going to be used in the creation of a lightning channel, for example.

The way this works is (ELI5 style) you can COMBINE all the public and private keys into something that looks like a SINGLE keypair and do transactions with that.  Pretty nifty because you get all the benefits of multisig without anyone knowing it IS multisig.

Currently we leak a lot of information just based on what our transactions LOOK like.  So one thing taproot will do is make chain analysis MUCH more difficult. (Or really I should say much less easy lol)

Uncly Tony 'splains it here...

https://youtu.be/nf_GCdCaQww?t=617

I agree with you on this... it's time, I think.

But what is a great biosphere?  That's a little granolaish for you Torque.

I am sorry for your experience with the oxygen absorber, but I am delighted you got to experience beef jerky.  Jack Links is a mainstream brand here in the US, and it's decent enough.  But there are also many small brands and less mass produced sorts of jerky that are also excellent.

But the very best of all?

My wife and I have made it with a food dehydrator.  We have the butcher cut some meat very thinly, and we season it, and put it in that gizmo and it takes a few days I think.

IT. IS. DELICIOUS.  MUCH MUCH better than anything you can buy in a store.  Similar to the difference between a loaf of bread from the store, and one baked at home.  Anyway... something to try.

Not just you... The US Senate, and the Federal Reserve are thinking exactly the same way.  They would stop bitcoin too, if there was anyone to stop.

Pretty sure he can't lie about this without going to jail.  Assuming the same rules apply to him as do me.

A few years ago I sort of had this vision that has stuck.  Bigger and bigger things would try to destroy bitcoin, or worse and worse calamities would befall it.  Six one, half a dozen the other.  Eventually nations themselves would come against it.  I saw it in the frame of a video game.  Bigger and bigger boss-fights.  Each time the hero gets to level up with better armor and weapons.  Every time it comes out stronger, ready to face the next boss/calamity.

Today even the prophet of "Anti-Fragility" himself has crashed headlong into the strange beast that is bitcoin.

No matter how many time it happens I can't get used to it.  I have to just admit it... I suppose it is like going in a haunted house.  I know what's gonna happen but it still scares me.

I think this particular calamity is starting to get close to the nation level fight... In fact I have a feeling they may have had a hand in this particular drama.  Here Elon... take this carbon cred*cough* BIG SWORD, and go kill that thing for us, Mr. Genius.

And here we are again... surrounded by wreckage and smoke.  Some of us wondering for the 719th time if Bitcoin is the one this time lying there dead on the ground...

Heh.

If this is the case...  then it would be sooooooo very delicious for Bitcoin to punish him very severely.  Until recently I had nothing against the guy (nor did I worship him as I feel some do), but as of now I would love to see him suffer.   Evil, I suppose.

Yeah... this thing really really went bad for him.  He got defensive, started bragging about starting paypal etc.

I think the really tantalizing thing to me is to know what is REALLY going through his head.

The whole bigger blocks, more TPS thing.  Can he really be that unevolved in his thinking about Bitcoin?  He has no excuse.  The math has already been laid out by so many folks.  If he really is that ignorant, then this will have been strongly embarrasing for him.  He will either dig in, or as you say disappear.

It is more interesting to think he is working some angle though.  If so... what is it?  

I think the institutional interest is enough to kick off the "supercycle".

I wish there was a way to know how many CFOs got a text from their board members this weekend about how Elon is doing them all such a big favor.  I imagine the OTC desks are going bonkers tomorrow.  in fact I imagine VIP customers are making deals tonight. The market may have already swallowed up the 19k TSLA sold, assuming I am right about this.  It will go down as a great short term move, but shortsighted.

I suppose I am a hopeless bull.  I just have a hard time seeing this pulback not getting snapped off pretty quickly.

The more I think about it... the more I think Elongate is really really positive for the corn.

We can't lose.  No matter what Elon does it will benefit Bitcoin, I think.  

If he continues to promote Doge it could be quite the detour for folks, but ultimately he will fail.  Because whatever centralizing thing he does will just drive people into the arms of bitcoin.  

He could turn out to be quite the enemy of Bitcoin too... now that the community has publicly embarrassed him.  I do not know what he does under those circumstances.

But overall I see this as probably being a net plus.

I can't stand that sentiment.

First of all, who even knows who bitcoiners are?  Bitcoin Twitter is an echo chamber.  And if you want "Crypto Twitter" then there are plenty of Laura Shin type folks to listen to.

Also what's the difference between telling someone that ETH is a scam, and wagging your finger at "toxic" people?  Isn't it really the same thing?

To be honest I am starting to see that line as scam grease.  No need to critisize folks who take the maxi line unless they threaten you, and I think what they threaten is a way he wants to make money.

I get sick of the HFSP shit too to be honest.  But a bunch of dweebs on twitter have absolutely nothing to do with bitcoin adoption.