... vaccine update 

... for all those who climbed onto the Pfizer jab hamster wheel, your synthetic immunity is waning away every day
https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1429878195420024832

... while this may seem like no big deal if the Sars-CoV-2 virus is going away also, not so fast

^^
don't know who that is either but he didn't hold up nearly as well as Ringo.

Keith Moon  1978
John Bonham  1980
Buddy Rich 1987
Ginger Baker  2019
Neil Peart  2020

Charlie Watts  8/24/2021

RIP guys

And The Children's Children!

This was probably true back then, but now? I don’t think so, there are too few people which understand what’s going on and even then they aren’t willing to take any action, forget about a revolution just the thought of doing anything is too much for them.

This reminds me of the Titanic, the ship that was practically unsinkable sank and many people didn’t believed this was possible until it actually happen, and in the minds of the majority the fiat system is thought to be the same, it’s simply too big too fail they think, but size has never been a good enough defense against catastrophic events, but by the time they realize this simple truth it’ll be too late to do anything, however I wonder what comes next? As it should be obvious to anyone the fiat system cannot last forever and at some point it needs to be replaced by something else.

That reminds me of something...

I have often thought, that since the IRS (and others) are so concerned about Monero privacy it would be feasible that they might try to sybil various aspects of the network.  Obviously the protocol itself is way ahead of almost anything other than TOR for privacy and things like dandelion++ make attacks on the protocol hard.

But a cryptocurrency is more than it's code, and protocol.  It is also it's community, it's users individually, the exchanges, and vendors etc.

I wonder if money is being spent by "whales" to be a lot of exchange traffic for example.

I have not thought about this a lot... there could be big holes in it.

I guess he tried to point out that BTC adresses are resolvable and one could create a profile of pm1957's use of Bitcoin.
Tracking adresses to businesses or individuals would be the simplest thing within the scope of that topic.

EDIT: And as soon as you have a single transaction successfully mapped to the receiving individual, you could do things like call the receiver and "hi, this is agent herold bloblobrob from the fbi. You were receiving bitcoins a couple of years ago that were stolen. Can you look up/remember this transaction and possibly identify who sent it? For the love of your country..."

@philipma1957

FFS dude, are you sure you should be linking an address with so many transactions publicly?

Think about your OPSEC.

Huh?  Am I really seeing what I am seeing?



Biodom proclaiming that "stock to flow" is an actual factor in bitcoinlandia?

The sawtooth is beautiful.  Coins that are traded on exchanges and used for speculation only do NOT have this sort of pattern as clearly.  Look at BCH.  It's basically a random walk.  This coin IS moved around more than Monero... but Monero follows a pattern that has been strengthening for over a year.  One that corresponds with the days the US Postal Service is delivering.  Or the days that vendors on online markets would take and process orders.  You want to get your stuff before the end of the week?  Better order it on Monday.  But no real use rushing to complete a purchase on a SAT or SUN... the vendors won't process it 'till Monday anyway.

So what are people doing with Bitcoin Cash?  Nothing really.

But the proof is on chain for Monero.

I think the best outlet for Fantasy news is Fantasy Pros ( https://www.fantasypros.com/ ).  They've got a great website with tons of good information, they've got a pretty good podcast that I will listen to from time to time and they've also got a Discord group that I will hop in and out of from time to time.  For me personally they are the best resource overall.  Sites like Rotoworld used to be my favorite but they've since fallen off a bit.

I think the Bears will suck this year tbh.  We will certainly be a bit better than the Giants however that is for sure..not that that is saying very much lol.  Outside of Saquon Barkley the Giants are going to be very, very, very BAD lol. 

And look at little XMR bucking the field yet again.  The transaction volume is very weird/interesting.  It's hard for me to imagine explanations for all the fairly non-random actions on that chart...  Like the recent strong spike (10 days ago or so) with a gentle falling off to where we were... it's a very strange effect, all encased in a weekly rhythm which i think is most certainly corresponding with DNM activity.

No other coin looks like this.  BTC and ETH come closest.  It is a signature, in my opinion, for a project with actual commerce at the core.

See the difference?

My first (several) cars had vacuum windshield wipers. They slowed down when you went up a hill.

You kids, get out of my yard...

That Ford Capri of mine didn't have a rear window heater either, I also added a aftermarket one. I remember it was a sticker type thing, peel of the protective plastic and attach it to the window and plug in the the two wires to a power source via a switch. Simple and worked pretty well, but ugly as f.
They don't make them anymore, I was looking for one a couple of years ago as replacement for the broken one on the car I had back then.

I have been pondering if I should change the thermostat or not, but I might just as well go all the way and change that and the pump while I'm at it.
Electric fans is nothing new to me however, my SAAB 900 from -88 had one.

The Bolt was first recalled in November after five cars that hadn’t been in crashes caught fire. After investigating the problem further, Chevy recalled a second batch in July. The problem was traced to two manufacturing defects that could occur simultaneously. The defects—a torn anode tab and folded separator—created conditions that could lead to a short in affected cells. So far, the company has identified 10 fires that involve faulty batteries, according to an AP report.

Haven't read the previous posts to this, but couldn't resist a discussion of ignition mods.  I used to mod my old points vehicles with electronic ignitions, often of my own design.  My favorite hack was to make a cascode circuit by putting an IGBT between the points and the coil, which relieves the points of the high voltage burden and passes the high voltage switching load to the transistor (points still carry the current in series with the IGBT).  Simplest circuit possible.  I've done complicated stuff like building a hall effect ignition with magnets on a spinning disk in the breaker (the cannister that contains the points) of an old panhead.  Good memories.  Now I drive a modern car and do abstract stuff like modeling an oscillator based on bitcoin's 100 week geometric mean.  Life goes on.

I guess it's just because I have never really been a trader... but I have NEVER understood holding coins on an exchange or ANY service.  I did not do it with Mt Gox, I did not do it with Polo. I (almost) never did it anywhere.

I would never guess that this many exit scams, fractional reserves, and rug pulls would happen and people would still not learn.

Monero is just SO CHEAP and easy to use.  It was not always so.  Cheap, yes, but easy?  Not like now.  There is just about zero excuse.  Your reason up there is compelling entirely without the safety/self sovereignty angle.  But this has been attempted many times (proof of keys).  Even though we can essentially force a massive short squeeze by withdrawing everything...

We never do.

Sounds great, wish that could be retrofitted to my car.

I actually did the cardboard thing last winter, I have trouble getting the car really hot. One of the reasons I'm changing the fluid, I'm gonna flush the heatpack.