oh that's true, lots of hassle and doubt, let alone sadness. sorry I was a bit flip. also i assumed they would take longer to start muttering about clawing it back.
moral i guess is: it's not money till it's your bitcoin under your control?
can you charge them ( he says going straight back to being flip) a few sats for the hassles?
no worries about being flippant; i would have it no other way. and the deceased would of approved too. i should deduct the price of the stamp and envelope ill need to mail an estate check back to the irs. edit: plus the price for return receipt. |
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so heres something i didnt expect.
a 1200 stimulus check was issued to a dead family member that im executor of the estate of.
it went direct deposit to the estate bank account thats in my name as im the executor. since thats me the letter that told me of the 1200 went to me.
im not even sure what to make of that.
edit that person died over a year ago. and all relevant authorities were notified immediately (irs, ssa etc)
still, sorry to hear it.
i would hold it for them in case they realise and want it back.
sorry i meant hodl it. in btc
well it turns out that indeed, they want it back. as you said i should of converted to btc - the estate would of made $400ish USD at this point. but i think i would of had to open an exchange account for the estate, which im not sure i could do, although it was probably possible. and taxes etc. sure i could of done it under my name but to satisfy the estate stuff legally (family involved would of been fine with it but you just never really know) i just left it as USD. |
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EDIT: Acronis, if you read this, i'll never buy your drive imaging software ever again, because it just sucks. Macrium Reflect FTW!
been using macrium for years. it Just Works. add syncback and youre pretty well covered. recommended. although some now swear by win10s (and 7 too i think) built in stuff as apparently its far better than previous versions. i run that too but have never actually used it for recovery. and i have blown my C: drive (samsung 840 pro pretty much died.. and it failed its own self diagnostic). oddly enough my intel X-25 80gb ssd that was a daily driver for years in my desktop is still kicking in a notebook i still use pretty often.. its like its unkillable. |
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Just put in an order my wife has been preparing for the past month. Though the low price gave me an excuse to tell her she couldn't shop.
seriously? and she actually didnt shop? cool. my wife just stays on the gas pedal. i cant see how the post office loses money when just what she alone buys online should keep it afloat. |
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You throw us in the pit for dead, but we climb out.
we all need more exercise and climbing out of pits is ok for now. scaling a new higher mountain would be perfect though. i can see one in the distance now. |
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woke up to just shy of 10k USD at that other exchange.
close enough to make me smile. looks like it could be a fine day.
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i like that definition. basically anything thats closer than ranged weapons distance is a potential enemy. |
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grabbing it now. another way i can show how talentless my musical abilities are. |
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Ordinary people who are not involved in politics (like we are) cannot know what Trump is actually doing. It seems strange to me that the media criticize him periodically. I don't think that a stupid person can become president.
i suppose stupid can be relative, but is sure looks like an unqualified person (at the least) can become president from where im sitting. |
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Using a phone without GPS seems to be the only rational solution.
its general location would still get logged by any cell tower it can reach. and if wifi is on all wifi APs will see it too, even if it doesnt connect to them. not as precise as gps but still enough to lose privacy. |
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heh easy come easy go. there goes the 1200USD my dead relative received. not sure how to return it as it went the estate account via direct deposit. shoulda bought btc with it. would of been an easy $400 profit for the estate or somewhere around there after returning the 1200. EDIT its not like they didnt know the person was dead, it said "Decd" after the persons name on the letter they sent me notifying me about the deposit. |
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Imagine if tomorrow btc is 100K and you want to sell a few.
It might cost you to deposit into exchanges with tx price going into hundreds.
Maybe it is better to position a few on exchanges beforehand, but it is bad for mitigation of the potential hacks and/or losses.
Decisions, decisions.
i keep a small amount parked on exchanges for just that reason.. to take advantage of any sudden increase that also results in packed blocks with high fees. what good is a great price for corn when you cant get it to an exchange. its sort of like keeping a small amount on a phone or other hot wallet. as long as you can afford to kiss it goodbye due to hack or whatever. not you keys not your coin is Rule One, but who wants to get stuck trying to move coins when everyone else has the same idea. waiting days for a transaction is not my idea of smooth sailing during a nice price increase that may only last for days itself. like everything else, its a trade off. pick your comfort level and sit back and relax. |
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Let's at least get over $9.5k so we can take aim at 5 digits. This 4-digit crap is getting boring and the halving is getting close.
isnt 9400 USD the next support level (or whatever its called.. TA n00b here)? i must say im enjoying this slowish rise. |
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The main thing is to keep track of your own IQ  the negative range (-22 to 0) was included for just that reason  |
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 quite hard to see but this soy sauce has almost all dried up and solidified. just add water and should be fine, right? You should definitely drink it and youtube it ftw |
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that is good advice. and considering the sucker shot covid dealt us its probably way to soon to say we are ok even if it seems we can can ride it out. im just glad most of us are even still on our feet at this point. |
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You know, something I realized this evening:
If (and this is an if) my company were to order me to go back into the office, because I have bitcoins I can tell them to fuck themselves. Been thinking about this and realized that people may be asked to choose between their job and their life....
I'm glad that choice is a simple one to make. And bitcoin is a part of that. Wealth gives you the freedom to make decisions, and I can't think of a more important decision one can make.
You have ‘f*ck you money’, a powerful weapon that can be used when really needed. They say it is good for your career as well because you can say No and speak your mind. People in debt are dependent and therefore predictable silent worker bees, just as companies and banks like it. I agree with this idea in theory, but surely there may be a lot of guys that have "almost 'fuck you' money" rather than enough to really and realistically be able to say fuck you. I am not blaming anyone because it takes a long fucking time to reach actual "fuck you" status, and the system is kind of designed in such a way that makes it really difficult to really say fuck you, until you are overly prepared. In other words, your cushion has to be really BIG because on an ongoing basis we are so tempted, also, to be indebted to the man in one way or another because we tend to want to live beyond our means. perhaps we need a new term for a somewhat lesser amount, like say a "piss off" amount of wealth. i should explain (or try to). i am not at "fuck you" level. my cushion is not huge. but it is wide (diversified). to the point where when covid blew the economy away and my traditional investments tanked (and corn to a point too) i didnt blink an eye. about the only thing i did was double check my reserves and tweak them a bit.. as lightfoot (i think) mentioned, a year long pandemic was not in my plans. and im no doomsday prepper, i just do like to be prepared for what i can foresee. so ive been blessed enough to be able to step up my donations to the local food banks, animal shelters and church. perhaps this pandemic and the resulting mess will deplete my reserves.. i certainly wont count that out. so i cant really say "fuck you" to this mess but i can tell it to piss off. for now. |
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great. there goes all the yard work i had planned for today lol thanks! |
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Must have been more than a week since I played Zaxxon from datasette (the cool guys run it from floppy nowadays) my buds and i wasted more time playing Archon on the c64 than just about anything else i can remember doing from back in the day. wore out several joysticks just on that one game until i bought the Big Red Stick (i think that was the name) best game ever. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archon:_The_Light_and_the_Darktime to fire up an emulator. maybe build an proper arcade cabinet. |
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still rockin my TRS-80 and C64 cassette drives.
Oh those times... LOAD ZAXXON,8,1
<10mins waiting, enjoying sound of tape slowly moving>
LOAD ERROR
Afternoon spoiled. oh man yup, C64 fun times. the TRS-80s displayed 2 asterisks when loading from tape, one blinked whenever a <CR> was read. i remember building a filter for the cassette recorder i used. you kept fiddling with it till the 2nd asterisk blinked more or less regularly. EDIT: wasnt the 8 for the disk drive and the 1 meant load at a specified addy provided by the program (not the standard addy it would default to if it was BASIC or something).. been a while. |
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