My birthday today, I'm now 60, got celebrated by the family earlier.
I didn't really care that much when I turned 50, but 60 does make me feel a bit old.
O well,nothing I can do about it, back to the internet and my model rocket rabbithole.
Arrie, Happy Birtday, man! It's ok to feel a bit old at 60, because it's just an alternative expression for a bit less young  I'll drink some Gin to you tonight! |
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WO is not really the place to be discussing this, but for those abstaining from eating meat (vegetarians, vegans, etc.) for ethical reasons (i.e., being against cruelty to animals), please understand that our very existence and way of life in this world is based on violence and causes violence by natural necessity. To really stop causing violence, one must commit suicide. It is of no coincidence that in certain languages, the word "life" is exactly the same as the word "violence". It's a cause and effect thing. We cannot escape it. This is part of the tragedy of our existence.
Having said the above, I fully understand OOM's stance on this. I once watched a YouTube video (now banned) of slaughtering a cow in a slaughterhouse in former East-Germany, and I literally threw up. I would probably feel and do the same as OOM, if I was forced to slaughter an animal with my own hands before eating it. This is just our brains trying to deal with an act that seems so incompatible with our ethical values. Is this what we do to animals? Yes, it is! And many more, unspeakable acts of violence, that we do to animals and fellow humans, to sustain our existence and way of life. Violence that society/civilization carefully shields us from. It's kind of like unplugging yourself from The Matrix and seeing reality in its truly raw form.
+1 WOsMerit Thanks! As someone once said, veganism is a mental disorder. I did not say it, just quoting someone else. (shots fired!)
Plenty of my own family members are either vegans or vegetarians, or were, or tried it. I let them be.
Those who got hypnotized out of it are exempted, it's not your fault.
Define "mental disorder". But i can understand that view, too. Let's agree on "mentality"? That's what left when the subjective part "disorder" is taken out of the equation. As for hypnosis: It triggered something that quietly simmered inside me for decades, but i learned to ignore it. That's what hypnosis does. It's awesome. I think the more appropriate joke is: I'm a budgetarian ... If it's within the budget, I'll eat it.
That one was funny, i'll try to remember it  |
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$45k.. We reached the bottom guys... Time to fill up bags!!! Hope that's true but we still have chance to see 38k for the dip. yeah, sure. some people are m..dr..t still waiting for 2k  The Future contracts will expire tonight, it can make BTC price very volatile. Upside ; 48K Downside : 42K Aight, that explains a lot. Do you please have a resource link for watching all contract opening and closing dates handy? |
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Green candle in less than ten minutes (or i will go to sleep).  Me too... This $49-50k grinding is boring AF... Maybe it's better to stop following the price so closely, and just wait for it to pick up when it will. But, CAN WE? See, we're turning into TradeView junkies I fear... HoDLsleep soon (after watching a movie). Goodnight WOerzzzZZZZZ... You speak my mind. #hodlsleep EDIT: Looks like painting a bear flag. I don't wanna see how it's going on. As always, when i'm out of fiat. |
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Green candle in less than ten minutes (or i will go to sleep). |
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Should be easy. If i sell all my holdings, bitcoin will moon, mars, sol and then andromeda. PM me your offers  |
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proudhon was right. time to pack it in before the government deletes the coins
How about delete yourself from this thread? Nomen est omen |
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Wow thats very interesting never thought of this way. But how do they track liquid and illiquid supply?
They use figures like when BTC on a certain address were last moved. Less than a month ago (higly liquid), less than a year ago (liquid). I don't know the correct timespans, thought i read it somewhere. I was watching these figures since a couple of months, quite interesting. Illiquid supply is the sum of all BTC on the network that were mined and not moved, or bought on an exchange and never moved or moved only once (or longer times ago), to an address from which not a single Satoshi was sent to another address yet or more than n years ago. I don't remember the value of n. Short: Bitcoins that are moved frequently are considered highly liquid, Bitcoins that are moved from time to time are considered liquid. |
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Forgot to mention, met these two dudes at a club last night. Pretty cool guys. Said they were brothers visiting from out of town.  Maybe cool, yes, but.... ...these deer knobs, though... |
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It looks funny, who is it ? I think it's an actor from the first star wars trilogy, the movie (episode 6?) with the brown little bears Ewoks on Endor, the wood planet (IIRC), playing one of the rebels taking over the federational post that is somehow important to destroy the new death star. Photoshopped onto some male "model" showing off really ugly clothes, probably destined for some kind of perverted fetish. |
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Cψbra, the admin of bitcoin.org tweeted this https://www.twitter.com/CobraBitcoin/status/1364582843796578307A while ago Craig threatened to "bankrupt" and "destroy the lives" of developers. Today, some of Bitcoin Core's longest and most talented developers are getting sued by him. He's trying to drive them away, bully them, and ultimately tie them up in nonsense litigation. If you hold Bitcoin, you need to seriously start campaigning to get BSV delisted everywhere. And fight back *hard* against this rubbish. If he scares away our best developers, and distracts them with legal rubbish, he's hurting Bitcoin's technical progress. We need to make noise, and make sure the people contributing to Bitcoin Core don't get bullied by this man. It won't ever end, the next thing will be patent trolling, or some other kind of legal bullying. Enough is enough. BSV *has* to be removed from every exchange. CSW truly is rat poison squared. I wonder how it is not possible to see where it's heading. I am so proud I never touched, not even by mistake, that BSV shit. Such a small man he is. If I've ever "touched" anything CSW-related, that would be BCH (a.k.a. bcash LOL) and BTG (Bitcoin Gold), which were given to me for free due to the forks, as with all Bitcoin HoDLers back then. I dumped them all near their peak, and this got me nearly 10 extra BTC to add to my stash. I would never ever get my hands on those shittiest-of-shitcoins. I sold my BCH straight away after the fork, so i didn't get any BSV, it was under a whole BTC back then. Narcissism should be treated as it is, a sickness. Narcs like CSW don't have insight into their own sickness. He might get a good the rapist in jail, hopefully. Pun intended. |
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Calling him dangerously insane because he argues for synthetic beef isn't a great starter. Producing beef is incredibly wasteful, not to mention you have to butcher an animal.
I'm a proud carnivore, yet I would gladly switch to synthetic meat when it is similar in taste and cost. There's simply no reason not to. After what I have read on the subject so far, it seams that synthetic meat lacks a lot of the nutrients that natural meat has. Cows and what not, eat natural food and get all the nutrients in that food, synthetic food is just cells grown in a dish (or similar) with only the basics for cell survival. I wish it would be as good as real meat, it would help stop the maltreatment of animals that takes place in many countries. Until then I will just have to try to chose meat from good farms. Ok, i start straight away and hope i don't lose track. I'm a Vegetarian. Don't judge it yet. Why? I (thought) i always liked meat. I had pretty much of it, in it's more ugly and more delicious forms. But then, my wife made a hypnosis cert. When she was learning it, we did some practice sessions, which you need to get the certification. One of these sessions ran under the topic "I'd like to be more proud of my values, to act more faithfully towards them". Spoiler: Turned out that the first animal i killed as consciously, as a kid, a toad, raised an unknown level of shame and guilt in me. I remembered that months after the actual hypnosis session but i knew it was related. After the session i couldn't eat meat any more. I could well taste and chew it, but i couldn't swallow it. I had to spit out. I also saw pictures of the living animals in my mind when i tried to. Fine. In the end i didn't care. I am also forgetful, as most of WO might know, so i always tend to forget that i am a Veggie, bite into a sausage, but then i realize So i had plenty of occasions to discover the dynamics behind my new unwanted "lifestyle". But i also forget about many problems i have, and this one was just in line with others i encounter over time. This way my mind brought up that event from my childhood, when i killed that fat toad, by putting it in a jar and throwing stones at it, so it bleeded to death by the cuts. I didn't think about the outcome, but when the obvious happened, it struck me. There was a second kid, he was amused. I wasn't. This event made me really take care to not ever hurt or kill an animal. Decades later, i thought it is an idea to raise chicken and slaughter them. Said and done. But i the meat tasted horrible, while everyone else said it was tasting really good. So as long as the animal is hidden by the product (in form of ready cut meat and meat products), i had no problem eating and enjoying meat. I also don't care if everybody else enjoys meat. I don't see the "lambie killer" ( sorry Lambie Slayer) in a person that likes to eat meat or slaughters animals. When i go fishing, one of my kids has to kill the fish, but i still prepare (and sometimes) cook the filets without a bad feeling. As a side effect, i learned to honor animals as the source of one of our most important foods. Which takes me to the point, after writing 15-20 minutes on it, that animals and their meat should be treated and eaten respectful. I even would recommend everybody to slaughter an animal to finally eat its meat, before judging over vegetarians. I never judged them. Sure, we know there's many of them that are veggies to put themselves unconsciously above ordinary meat-eating people (lambie killers and all), but it is exactly the motivation that is to be judged, not the lifestyle as such. EDIT: Producing and eating "artificial meat" would be just the same as tofu. Even vegetarians should have not much of a problem to eat it. What bugs me the most about it is that it's not a 100% substitute (nutritional aspects, mainly) and it's also fucking disrespectful to nature (which isn't exactly unusual in most of our cultures). That sounds like a bunch of bullshit, OOM.. I am not suggesting that you are not saying the truth, but get the fuck over the psychological aspects of being bothered by eating meat and killing animals. I am not even suggesting that vegetarians might not have good intentions in terms of having sympathies for animals, but if you are actually considering your health, you would probably be much healthier if you make sure to include decent amounts of meat in your diet on a daily basis would be good.. include eggs if you like. So yeah, if you have memory issues, you better start fucking eating some meat because b12 deficiencies are a real thing and difficult to reverse from my understanding. Anyhow, sorry to come out so harsh, but I think people should not be mixing up their good feelings towards animals blah blah blah as compared with what is actually healthy for themselves to make sure that they have some of it (talking about meat and meat fat) in their diets. I still love you, OOM, even though you have fucked up ideas in regard to diets.. #nohomoWell, that is just uhm... your opinion, man  I value the fact that you wrote "sounds like a bunch of BS" instead of "is a bunch of ...", which i can comprehend IF you didn't misread my post. To emphasize the key points: I loved eating meat, also for its nutritional value. I also take a supporting amount (60% RDA) of B12, along with other B-vitamins daily, as i work out almost daily to compete back and neck pain from many years of sitting in front of a screen at work. I always consume a lot of dairy, at the moment i'm even chewing on a chunk of cheese (#nohomo). I have chicken, and eggs are also a foundation of my food plan. It's clearly a psychological thing, triggered by intentional hypnosis, as a side effect though. It never was a point that i didn't WANT to eat meat. The deeper source of this transformation of mindset is the fact that i honestly hate to hurt or mistreat animals. The goal was not to live against my "true values", which ALSO reflected in my new veggie being. I don't even promote veggie lifestyle, but personally, i don't suffer in any way from it. It's just that eating meat got somewhat unimportant, and if i happen to eat some hidden meat, say a crumb of ham on a pizza, i won't become a drama queen about that Hypnosis is so powerful in that regard, i clearly underestimated it as well before i tried. You should probably try it too, without intentional aspects, just for the experience of that mind-centering feeling of "floating" (or "flowing"? or both... hard to describe). It leaves you somewhat "anchored" or "grounded" (for lack of better terms) for some weeks after, which is a fucking awesome experience by itself. So no worries, everyone in the family loves the meat and i don't care. No offensive feelings in any way there. As i said, for one time in a life, kill and prepare the animals you eat yourself, if you have the ability to do so (i have a farming neighborhood). It will change your way of looking at meat, although it will not make you a veggie, probably, and even if, you wouldn't feel too bad about it. Please, eat meat, drink blood etc. but maybe, sometimes, imagine that it would come from (formerly) living beings, which look into your eyes before you kill and dissect them, take care of their remainings and wash off their blood of your skin. love out to you as well #nohomo |
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Heh, i am still holding for the spirit of the squeeze i feel like i will be kinda disappointed if i actually make money on gme.. LOL, i haven't. Still -60%
Maybe I don't really understand how things work very well, because it seems to me that financial advisors are partially motivated by assets that have some kind of financial vehicle rather than buying the asset directly
Fine, but financial vehicles can break. Like if a bicycle breaks, the wheel itself (as the invention) can't be "broken". Bitcoin is "the wheel" of cryptocurrencies. EDIT: Going to bed now with that epic thought in mind |
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Calling him dangerously insane because he argues for synthetic beef isn't a great starter. Producing beef is incredibly wasteful, not to mention you have to butcher an animal.
I'm a proud carnivore, yet I would gladly switch to synthetic meat when it is similar in taste and cost. There's simply no reason not to. After what I have read on the subject so far, it seams that synthetic meat lacks a lot of the nutrients that natural meat has. Cows and what not, eat natural food and get all the nutrients in that food, synthetic food is just cells grown in a dish (or similar) with only the basics for cell survival. I wish it would be as good as real meat, it would help stop the maltreatment of animals that takes place in many countries. Until then I will just have to try to chose meat from good farms. Ok, i start straight away and hope i don't lose track. I'm a Vegetarian. Don't judge it yet. Why? I (thought) i always liked meat. I had pretty much of it, in it's more ugly and more delicious forms. But then, my wife made a hypnosis cert. When she was learning it, we did some practice sessions, which you need to get the certification. One of these sessions ran under the topic "I'd like to be more proud of my values, to act more faithfully towards them". Spoiler: Turned out that the first animal i killed as consciously, as a kid, a toad, raised an unknown level of shame and guilt in me. I remembered that months after the actual hypnosis session but i knew it was related. After the session i couldn't eat meat any more. I could well taste and chew it, but i couldn't swallow it. I had to spit out. I also saw pictures of the living animals in my mind when i tried to. Fine. In the end i didn't care. I am also forgetful, as most of WO might know, so i always tend to forget that i am a Veggie, bite into a sausage, but then i realize So i had plenty of occasions to discover the dynamics behind my new unwanted "lifestyle". But i also forget about many problems i have, and this one was just in line with others i encounter over time. This way my mind brought up that event from my childhood, when i killed that fat toad, by putting it in a jar and throwing stones at it, so it bleeded to death by the cuts. I didn't think about the outcome, but when the obvious happened, it struck me. There was a second kid, he was amused. I wasn't. This event made me really take care to not ever hurt or kill an animal. Decades later, i thought it is an idea to raise chicken and slaughter them. Said and done. But i the meat tasted horrible, while everyone else said it was tasting really good. So as long as the animal is hidden by the product (in form of ready cut meat and meat products), i had no problem eating and enjoying meat. I also don't care if everybody else enjoys meat. I don't see the "lambie killer" ( sorry Lambie Slayer) in a person that likes to eat meat or slaughters animals. When i go fishing, one of my kids has to kill the fish, but i still prepare (and sometimes) cook the filets without a bad feeling. As a side effect, i learned to honor animals as the source of one of our most important foods. Which takes me to the point, after writing 15-20 minutes on it, that animals and their meat should be treated and eaten respectful. I even would recommend everybody to slaughter an animal to finally eat its meat, before judging over vegetarians. I never judged them. Sure, we know there's many of them that are veggies to put themselves unconsciously above ordinary meat-eating people (lambie killers and all), but it is exactly the motivation that is to be judged, not the lifestyle as such. EDIT: Producing and eating "artificial meat" would be just the same as tofu. Even vegetarians should have not much of a problem to eat it. What bugs me the most about it is that it's not a 100% substitute (nutritional aspects, mainly) and it's also fucking disrespectful to nature (which isn't exactly unusual in most of our cultures). |
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Heh, i am still holding for the spirit of the squeeze |
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And this is the kind of banker statement that makes me sick.
In my opinion, the "then they will fight us" era is still ahead of us.
This is well behind us, they are just doing everything they can to keep the price down while they secretly accumulate. German banks? I ain't so sure about that. Otherwise, i don't know for sure, so... |
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I sometimes have prophetic dreams.
... common sheeple folk.
to rodeo some billionaire pricks. *edit(): I also am perverted sometimes and think I am "a God" and like to pretend like I'm knowing when the price will dip again and I buy the dip so I can sell/dump later to buy the next dip. Easy on the coke, it might wreck you faster than you think... @Gyrsur, @Karartma1, thanks guys, for the useful info/links.
@Gyrsur: Yes, using Kraken, and everything goes through Fidor Bank (Munich). When you say 1000 upper limit, you mean per transaction? Can I transfer, say, 900 on the 1st of the month, another 900 on the 10th, and another 900 on the 20th? Haven't been able to check the link you provided, sorry if this is already mentioned there.
I know for a fact that we Euro-landers will face difficulties in enjoying our newfound wealth... I think the IRS in the USA are better. They are brutal and check everything, but at least they seem to be more knowledgeable and once you pay your dues they don't bother you. Or so I've heard.
I as understand it right if your crypto-related transaction from/to the bank is over 1000 EUR the bank is forced to report it somehow. this are just plans at the moment to go in this direction. but it will come, I am sure. Hmm, strangely i only read about "bitcoin transactions with value over 1000". Means that wallet providers have to implement an interface to track KYC bitcoin transactions over a value of 1000. I don't see tracking EUR transactions from exchange to bank here. The government wants to restrict the anonymity of crypto payments. It will not succeed in doing this, but will only sell wallet providers and custodians abroad. Legal uncertainty will be the result. The fight against cryptocurrencies is part of the financial repression of this federal government. Only a year ago, the anonymity of gold transactions was reduced to 2,000 euros. With crypto assets, the government is now going even further.
It's more clear in untranslated version, imho. It wouldn't make much sense to capture EUR going from/to wallet providers to banks, but they want to sniff into btc transactions, because they lack the ability to monitor money flows like with fiat. Prove me wrong It's only my opinion on the contents of the article. I don't welcome monitoring and control of flows (whichever currency) at all. still not convinced about the direction how it should developing (Banks included)? https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=de&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.n-tv.de%2Fwirtschaft%2Fder_boersen_tag%2FBankenverband-fordert-strengere-Regulierung-von-Kryptowaehrungen-article22382819.htmlAnd this is the kind of banker statement that makes me sick. In my opinion, the "then they will fight us" era is still ahead of us. |
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@Gyrsur, @Karartma1, thanks guys, for the useful info/links.
@Gyrsur: Yes, using Kraken, and everything goes through Fidor Bank (Munich). When you say 1000 upper limit, you mean per transaction? Can I transfer, say, 900 on the 1st of the month, another 900 on the 10th, and another 900 on the 20th? Haven't been able to check the link you provided, sorry if this is already mentioned there.
I know for a fact that we Euro-landers will face difficulties in enjoying our newfound wealth... I think the IRS in the USA are better. They are brutal and check everything, but at least they seem to be more knowledgeable and once you pay your dues they don't bother you. Or so I've heard.
I as understand it right if your crypto-related transaction from/to the bank is over 1000 EUR the bank is forced to report it somehow. this are just plans at the moment to go in this direction. but it will come, I am sure. Hmm, strangely i only read about "bitcoin transactions with value over 1000". Means that wallet providers have to implement an interface to track KYC bitcoin transactions over a value of 1000. I don't see tracking EUR transactions from exchange to bank here. The government wants to restrict the anonymity of crypto payments. It will not succeed in doing this, but will only sell wallet providers and custodians abroad. Legal uncertainty will be the result. The fight against cryptocurrencies is part of the financial repression of this federal government. Only a year ago, the anonymity of gold transactions was reduced to 2,000 euros. With crypto assets, the government is now going even further.
It's more clear in untranslated version, imho. It wouldn't make much sense to capture EUR going from/to wallet providers to banks, but they want to sniff into btc transactions, because they lack the ability to monitor money flows like with fiat. Prove me wrong It's only my opinion on the contents of the article. I don't welcome monitoring and control of flows (whichever currency) at all. |
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Good morning WOers! I see Warren Buffett's wisdom has worked again nicely while I was sleeping. We've crossed $50k, then pulled back to just under it. It's just a matter of time (hours/days) before we leave $50k behind for good. I believe the recent correction showed that there is good support at lower levels. This is not just a bubble ready to pop, as some falsely claim. This will pave the way for a slow and steady rise to $60k, $100k and beyond. I haven't sold a single sat during the dip (and, sadly, I haven't bought a single sat either). We may need some time to reach the above levels, but we will. My SOMA guess: Q2: attack on $100k, Q3: $100k (stable), Q4: $200~400k (unstable).
Regarding my earlier post/query about Bitcoin-funded Credit Cards, many thanks to those who replied. I checked out 2 companies ( Binance and Crypto.com). They both offer such services and I may consider applying there, just for a test drive. Still, IMHO, the best course of action in this matter, as Richy_T has pointed out, is total transparency, i.e., declaring everything and doing things the legal way. Paying taxes too. That way, no one will bother me and question my financial status change (quitting my job while being able to increase my spending activity 10-fold). It's one thing to become super-wealthy, it's quite another to be able to use your wealth without raising red flags and being labeled a criminal. Got to be careful with such things... Fortunately, my expenses and desires are not too extravagant, so I could stay under the radar, but still, this is an issue that needs to be looked at.BTW, $50k crossed again, and rising.  very important flying under the radar! IMO it means < 1000 EUR transactions BTC to FIAT.  https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=de&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.btc-echo.de%2Fso-will-die-bundesregierung-die-krypto-anonymitaet-einschraenken%2FWho is using a german online wallet, anyway? Bitpanda is the only one i can remind, and coinfinity as a broker, but are there more than five services like these based in Germany? Thanks for the info, might address some people. * OutOfMemory stroking his hardware wallet |
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