Off-topic, but happy Steak and Blowjob day, Mar 14!
I'll ask my wife to skip the steak, then  Shit coins are equivalent to gambling and gambling is for losers. One can invest few bucks in shitcoins for fun but real focus and most of your capital should be going to Bitcoin alone. 1 bitcoin is difficult.
Investing in bitcoin is also gambling. Uhm, no. Fiddling around with shitcoins, especially going in and out of BTC, is gambling. Secondly, hodling is the opposite of gambling. Why? Easy: 1 BTC = 1 BTC |
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Btw these rallies are they more exciting for last cycle newcomers
Or for the more OG multiple cycle hodlers?
For example I see some cheering from people buying 20-30-40-50k coins but the feeling for true OG’s is little more life changing somehow?
Also been through some aweful bears, still being here, believing, knowing what we have in hand and ultimately being strongly rewarded etc
Success just needs stamina. GrayScale selling hopefully slowing down.
Only 560 BTC transferred today.
About -$40m. Yesterday: -$80m Monday: -$494m Only in the first two days of sport ETF trading Grayscale had less than three digit $m outflow (-$44m and -$22m, respectively). EDIT: source https://farside.co.uk/?p=997 |
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How much bitcoin (in percent) do you guys have of bitcoin in your overall portfolio? I have nearly 30%, which i always thought to be quiet large.. however, I have the feelings it should be more now. at least 50%  99.99% The remaining 0.01% are shitcoin dust.  |
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a true storage gourmet
Speaking of which, a lot of people here might not know of the accomplishments of Joe Breher. They see his Picnic Bear avatar and think of him as a grammar/spelling-obsessed grinch. In the world of data storage he was a hero, developer of many systems. Yeah, i recognized that after a few storage specific posts. I personally was not aware of the possibility to inject code via harddrive firmware, he was showing competence in these topics and lectured me one time after i wrote a rather naive reply in these regards, if i remember correctly. The term "hero" triggered me.to remember about Hans Reiser, the creator of Reiser File System, which i used a lot for good performance and journaling reliability in Linux. The standard EXTFS disappointed me a little bit too often in kernel generations 2.2 and 2.4. But his career had a sudden, sad ending, though. He went in jail for murdering his wife and development stopped. Time to put my wandering mind to rest. See you tomorrow when Blackrock clients may serve us a new ATH  EDIT: I learned that the SEC delayed their decision about Blackrock's ETH Spot ETF on Monday. Seems i'm not very up to date at the time #GN |
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I remember there was a time (maybe early '10s) when you could crack Wi-Fi passwords fairly easily, esp. those of the WEP variety. I did it a few times, mainly to speed up downloading time (run a couple of VMs, each with a Wi-Fi stick connected to a neighbor's cracked Wi-Fi). 3 connections simultaneously downloading stuff. Used Kali Linux to do the cracking. Fun times. Now it's not so easy, probably much harder than I can hope I'm capable of. For my own router, I use a self-chosen, strong password and have all my Wi-Fi devices on the router's MAC-address white list, although I have a feeling all these can easily be defeated by a determined attacker, considering the usually poor f/w programming in those provider-supplied routers.
Indeed. It's not so easy over the air, but if an attacker gets LAN access, there are some more vulnerabilities, especially with branded firmware in WIFI routers, which gets modified by the provider before pushed to the devices, delaying important security fixes. Sensitive nodes need to run in their own networks, protected by hardware firewalls with IDS if connected to the web. They should not even be connected to any WIFI. In my case, neighbors are not near enough. Attackers would have to hide on my property to get in WIFI range. I probably would easily get paranoid in a city appartment/flat. OT: I took the time to measure the dimensions of my custom "laptop holder" in the basement today. I can install any Laptop that is less than 20cm deep, so i can replace the eeePC with an old 12" windows7 netbook from my mother, as soon as i get to her this week. At least the bigger screen will be worth it, while the cheap, slow laptop must be sped up with an internal SSD. Then i can continue with the milling and don't have to rush it to look for a newer windows10/11 Netbook of about the same size. All good. |
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Interesting. It was also my first SSD based netbook, while i did experiment with Linux based VDR (DVB-S) before, in which i decided to install 4GB SSD as a system drive for fast boot, 2007, AFAIR. My eeePC was a later edition, including 3G sim slot and most components were covered by a plastic sheet inside, for dust protection. It was the perfect tool for hacking on the road and wardriving in urban areas. For now i will move to 12" mediatek netbook, some leftover from my mother, but i will have to install an SSD first, beacuse booting this thing to working state takes at least five minutes.
One thing to add: The eeePC battery held up quite well over all those years.
The netbooks were nice. It's a shame Microsoft decided to embrace, extend, extinguish. Now we have Chromebooks, I guess. I still have an eeepc with Ubuntu myself which is still useful on occasion. I saw this Sony Vaio 10" netbook with debian on it on a IT security conference in Maastricht in 2002 and instantly fell in love with it. The eeePC was just a continuation of my love for tiny notebooks, and it had 3G, otherwise i would have chosen the VAIO (can't remember the model name, maybe it was X10?) At least you were aware back then about what a performance bottleneck storage was. It seemed as if CPU speed was the only thing a lot of people cared about. I remember a friend being annoyed that my old Socket7 AMD K6-2 system was visibly faster than his brand spanking new Pentium3 system. I pointed out that I had 4 times as much RAM and a faster HDD.
Indeed. I remember reading about SSD technology in a tech magazine. The main advantage (besides speed) that i saw was replacing temperatur sensitive disk drives. High spinning drives got hot and were noisy, but in Laptops you could not bring them inside from the cold in winter without letting the HDD warm up for at least 30 minutes or you risked to kill them because of condensation problems. When i was working for a support team, i got many of them for repair because the users kept them in the car's trunk overnight, bringing them into the office next day and litterally booting them to death. This problem was gone with SSD technology. I was always fascinated by the idea of booting from solid-state storage but flash memory capacities were too small then. In 2005 Gigabyte brought out iRAM which put 4 DIMMs on a PCI card to allow fast booting but it was vulnerable to power outages. I backed off until decently sized SLC non-volatile SSDs became available a year or two later. My big breakthrough came when I replaced my RAID-0 array of 4 10000RPM WD Raptors with 4 OCZ Vertex SSDs in RAID-0. I was disappointed to find it was bottlenecked by my motherboard's southbridge. I had to get a PCIe RAID card to get full performance. From there I graduated to my first OCZ Revodrive.
Those were the days.
Story of a true storage gourmet You mention wardriving. Many people didn't bother to protect their wifi back then so wardriving was a thing. I remember warning people about protecting their wifi after an incident in Toronto's west end. The cops stopped a car at 5:00am driving the wrong way on a residential street. They found the driver with his pants at his ankles masturbating as he downloaded kiddie porn onto his laptop using other people's wifi networks. Good thing the cops got the guy. Imagine some sucker sleeping innocently at home not knowing he was getting put on the kiddie porn list.
Struck by Karma. We did the wardriving to find entry nodes for carrying out mass-website-defacing, which is also not quite nice, but way nicer than downloading ch1ld-pr0n. It was about competition, not about doing harm to website owners (mostly companies). There was a site on the internet, where every defaced index page was mirrored after you reported it, as well as toplists of the most successful groups, where we held first place for some time, until one of our members in Brazil got busted after hacking (the wrong) FTP servers. It then fell all apart quickly and the rest of us got real jobs. EDIT: Haiku! Bitcoin lingering slightly below all-time-high When will we push through? |
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My 17 years old trusty, eeePC901 running Windows XP, died today. It's a 9inch minibook, because i have limited space and the "laptop" (more a knee-top... LOL) did fit perfectly in the space above the milling machine (a converted engraving machine, built like a tank).
The thing is beyond repair, i have to look for replacement. What pisses me off is that you can only buy tablets (only one USB port, but i need two) or totally cheap chinese no-name netbooks with small screen sizes up to 10 inch, otherwise i could run windows 10/11 on newer, fanless hardware, which is expected to live longer in the dusty environment.
I hope i can get some appropiate replacement asap.
I weep a tear for your old EeePC901. Best netbook ever. I was an early EeePC adopter due to my interest in the development of SSDs. The Asus EeePC701 was the first readily available system that booted directly from an SSD. I immediately set about modding the hardware, replacing the webcam with a 4-port USB hub and adding bluetooth and additional internal flash storage. I took a pass on adding a touch screen which was the most common EeePC mod. I hate touch screens. Give me a good mouse any day. I even used a mouse with a pocket-sized Windows tablet. When the 901 came out I jumped all over it. I had a sexy black one running Window7 complete with Aero and another prissy little white one running Apple OS10. Eventually I switched over to ultrabooks but there will always be a place in my heart for the EeePC. Interesting. It was also my first SSD based netbook, while i did experiment with Linux based VDR (DVB-S) before, in which i decided to install 4GB SSD as a system drive for fast boot, 2007, AFAIR. My eeePC was a later edition, including 3G sim slot and most components were covered by a plastic sheet inside, for dust protection. It was the perfect tool for hacking on the road and wardriving in urban areas. For now i will move to 12" mediatek netbook, some leftover from my mother, but i will have to install an SSD first, beacuse booting this thing to working state takes at least five minutes. One thing to add: The eeePC battery held up quite well over all those years. |
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Had to put the Bitcoin earring-tag project on hold.  My 17 years old trusty, eeePC901 running Windows XP, died today. It's a 9inch minibook, because i have limited space and the "laptop" (more a knee-top... LOL) did fit perfectly in the space above the milling machine (a converted engraving machine, built like a tank). The thing is beyond repair, i have to look for replacement. What pisses me off is that you can only buy tablets (only one USB port, but i need two) or totally cheap chinese no-name netbooks with small screen sizes up to 10 inch, otherwise i could run windows 10/11 on newer, fanless hardware, which is expected to live longer in the dusty environment. I hope i can get some appropiate replacement asap. Shit happens.  |
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I had a life-changing BTC theft, I am a security-oriented kinduva guy. It's a long story, plz don't ask. Three-letter-agencies are involved.
Welcome back! You probably knew this makes most of us even wanting to know even harder now.   |
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blackrock wants to buy moar p0Rn cheap, therefore...
See you in three weeks, (pet shop) Boys. #nohomo
Pet Shop Boys and #nohomo? Doesn't work out  Spot ETFs are holding only about 7.000 BTC less than Grayscale, as of yesterday. https://bitcointreasuries.com/grayscale/ |
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Here's the first carve of the Bitcoin earrings in Ebony wood (24mm diameter), the smartphone macro-lens quality sucks ass, though. IRL it looks much better. I think i will make a inverted carve of this and fill it with acrylic and gold dust.  Tell me what do you think? I apologize to the members that were interested in a replica of the 10 year anniversary Bitcointalk poker chip, i told you it will take longer, and i didn't forget about it. |
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Bitcoin to $100K!
Not more? Of course. But 100K is secret handshake time. IYKYK has anyone decided on the dress code yet? pants are still optional? Kilt lover revealed? |
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EDIT: Welcome back, Gyrsur Thank you brother in arms. Looks like Black Rock & Co. are buying massive amounts of physical BTC OTC and are hoping not to trigger the ATH again. Some nasty players build massive sell walls against the buying pressure. I smell conspiracy for not lifting up the price too soon before the Halving. Suckers. Let's recapitulate: The massive sellwalls, as intimidating as they might appear, help to keep the price down, which is not the worst thing pre-Halving, because it makes Bitcoin look more attractive, price wise. On the other hand, drying up OTC markets will do us an additional favor later in the cycle. Blackrock (and co.) is aware of and trying to delay the unavoidable supply shock. This is fine, because it will come anyway. If only the mt.gox coins were already released, to take away future uncertainties, but i watched the wallet tracker yesterday and there was null of movement, so the recent twatter news (currently known as "X") about payouts, even double payouts must have been fake. Watching the chart of BTC distribution chilled my concerns instantly, 10 millions of BTC in private hands, the ETF hyenas are currently running for their lives. Now isn't that really sweet? EDIT: It's just useless to look too negatively at things that cannot be changed. Embrace. Maybe it's just me, being overly positive today, because my new astro-camera arrived today. |
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I was planning to install Solar system in my home for last 2 years because electricity prices are too high and there is lots of load shedding specially in summers. Temperature goes high to 40 - 45 Celsius here (Pakistan). This bull run is a blessing for me as I have acquired necessary funds to finance a solar system that can run 2 Inverter Split AC. I feel so happy while placing the order today.
Big thanks to BTC and an example of how Bitcoin is helping people in improving there living standards.
Hopefully it is ONLY a small part of your BTC stash since it does not seem to be a great time to be selling BTC... to each their own. JJG I know it's still too low to sell bitcoin but trust me I badly needed financial assistance for my solar system installation. Reason I have already mentioned. This summer me and my family will chill thanks to BTCDon't worry I still have bitcons that I well sell only once Bitcoin strikes 100k. Moreover, our journey with Bitcoin is never ending. We won't stop accumulating bitcoins no matter what circumstances are. According to your forum registration date, you are ONLY barely 4 years into bitcoin, so yeah, maybe I can give you a break on the solar panel system, but still I can hardly consider that you would necessarily be in a position to be selling very many BTC, especially since you are claiming that you are still in accumulation mode.. so why sell with one hand and buy with the other.. since you are the one who says that you are supposedly still accumulating. Don't get me wrong, I am not trying to yuck your yum, but selling BTC does not seem to be a mode to accumulate more BTC... #justsayingCertainly not. When reading WatChe's explanation i remembered when i was offering my brother in law 0.2 BTC for roofing (i wanted to help his poor heroin-addicted ass), i think the price was pretty low, not much after the mindrust-event, when he replied "BTC will never go over $10k again" and refused, while he happily took the equivalent amount in fiat money. Well, months later, at a very similar stage of last cycle, i still had the 0.2 BTC, sold them with another 0.4 BTC which i had invested in the early bull phase ($9k to $25k-ish it was from in to out, rougly), which were destined to help financing the house extension, because Covid drove up the material prices (only by about 2x so far, lucky me). However, i was aware that selling this early wasn't the way to accumulate more BTC, but it was helping to raise the value of our home (in case we have to sell our home some day, to leave the EU) and increased the overall quality of life at home. I wouldn't do anything different if i had a second chance, though. (EDIT: I mixed up the numbers a lil bit, beacuse i remember i got out more than 0.6x$25k, when revisiting the chart i must have sold at $38-$42k/BTC in 2021) But, yeah, JJG, it is what it is: A tradeoff (in various ways i won't cover explicitly). In the case of WatChe, i can just congratulate him that he doesn't put the fiat from his sale into more or less useless, needless things and/or services, while keeping the BTC would have been a little better (in future hindsight, practically), but don't forget: YOLO. @WatChe: Take care for proper cooling (airflow! for better performance) and spacing (for repair issues) around the panels. And electric security. A burning roof is not a good roof We're speaking several hundreds of Volts with a good Amperage. Thanks! Mango says here I am in the kitchen! . .Some monster over clipped his wings, and so he can't fly.  We adopted him as a rescue bird. He does have full run of the house though, no cages for this guy. Well we do have one, but the door is always open, and he has a little nest on top that he usually hangs out in. Sweeeeeeet  |
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Is it just me or are these sellwalls quite high atm? |
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Ok, that's enough of that nonsense. No more pasting of the already infamous post. My fingers are bleeding all over my trackpad.
*Sigh* Where are the good old times of holding PgUp/PgDn... |
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Modern day "AI" fucking sucks. I was wanting to beat JJG in post length, but it's not possible. I don't have the time or the interest to do it myself, so wanted to be clever and use "AI". I asked that racist piece of crap Gemini: Make a 1000 point bullet list of why you should in invest into Bitcoin, positive reasons only.
And this is the piece of shit answer Maybe you should just ask here in the forum....? Sorry, but EXPhorizon won't answer, i fear. The Cuntonian is banned, Roach is missing (not really missed, though)... EDIT: I misread your answer, but you get the idea? |
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THIS is trolling, but you know that, Phil EDIT: I'm just asking myself which is the number of the longest page on WO. (Line count at Full HD resolution - 1920px width) |
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What the fucking Oppenheimer JayJuanHeimer!
I think this is the first time I merit a post that I wasn't able to FULLY read.
i have literally worn the rubber coating of the scroll wheel on a mouse off from this thread, i think i uploaded a picture of it a while back. Not surprised at all... but... what I really wonder is if dragonvslinux will try to reply back... or just concede the "fight" to JJG. All the bets are against him right now tbh. I don't remember anyone surviving the impact of a wall of such size. While many of the wall's building blocks were quotes... But still, even mass-texters like Nullius would be impressed. EDIT: Welcome back, Gyrsur |
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