A late good morning Bitcoinland. Been a while since I posted. Very busy. Back down in Playa del Carmen with the girl to get her tooth extracted.

Still going sideways... currently $3578USD/$4730CAD (Bitcoinaverage).

Ho hum.
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I try to stay out of foreign politics but with some recent posts and being a Canadian in Mexico, I couldn't help being reminded of this:

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Just hold and accumulate for a few more years and you can do it too.

It's actually really cheap. Once you've bought a cheap place, you don't need to pay for accommodations. The main expenses are air travel and land transit. There are no property taxes.
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Soon?

Soon takes a lot longer here in Mexico.

Everone's got lots of time. It's money that's scarce. 

Buenos dias Bitcoinland.

Still freaking sideways... currently $3636USD/$4836CAD (Bitcoinaverage).

Yawn. Mas cafe por favor.


When?

Good morning Bitcoinland.

Sideways again... currently $3616USD/$4792CAD (Bitcoinaverage).

Better than down I suppose.
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Cool here in the jungle today. The locals call it "el norte" no matter which direction it blows in from. Not cold, just not hot.

It's still better than freezing in Toronto.

Good morning Bitcoinland.

Nice to see a small leg up... currently $3720USD/$4935CAD (Bitcoinaverage).

I'm beginning to feel less superstitious.  


Or:

3. I should not sell unless I absolutely must, keep holding, take advantage of the low prices and buy as much more as I can afford.

I'll choose option 3.

Good afternoon Bitcoinland. Arrived in the jungle to find the power out and the fridge full of bugs and rot. Luckily I brought a Honda EU2000i generator with me when I came down in November. My cooler full of imported beef is now safely vacuum packed and frozen

Amazingly I was able to get a competent electrician on a weekend. He happened to be in town working for a friend. He's up the pole replacing the old feed, meter mount and cable in, which were installed years ago by a local drunk.

Cleaning lady was glad to come out on a Sunday to earn some money mucking out the fridge and cleaning up a month and a half's worth of accumulated mess. Thank gawd local labor is cheap.

Meanwhile, I see that we had a $100 dip overnight... currently $3531USD/$4685CAD (Bitcoinaverage).

This makes it official. Price has fallen since I got here. As I said. it's enough to make you superstitious.
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OK. As I was typing this the regular lights just came back on. I can shut down the Honda. Total cost: 400 pesos ($21USD)

Life is good. I think I'll mix a martini.
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Oops, forgot it was Poetry Sunday. Let me rephrase that as a Haiku:

Life is very good.
So I'll mix a martini,
Hendrick's and Dolins.

Buenos dias Bitcoinland.

Amazingly, the price hasn't crashed since I got here in Playa D.C. We're still approximately where we were at this time yesterday... currently $3675USD/$4872CAD (Bitcoinaverage).

Hopefully we'll see a move up soon. Shaking out the rest of the weak hands involves both up and down movements. You can't shake in just one direction.

Heading out to the jungle tomorrow with supplies only available in tourist cities such as USDA prime beef, an uninterruptable power supply, Dolin's vermouth and Hendrick's gin. Hopefully internet service will be better there now. I invested in the local infrastructure back in November. Hopefully the improvements are in place now.

Good morning Bitcoinland.

I see we had a rather healthy dip... currently $3634USD/$4812CAD (Bitcoinaverage).

Before anyone goes blaming me for this, I should tell you I'm still in Toronto. Mind you, I'm at the airport, past security, waiting for my flight.

It works out to the same thing though. I can't buy this dip.

This is getting annoying. At what point does coincidence happen so often it makes you superstitious?  

Does that mean we can "unfriend" certain posters?

I wish I could take credit for this one:

A pansy who came from Khartoum
Took a lesbian up to his room.
They argued all night
Over who had the right
To do what and with which and to whom.

The limerick's a verse form complex,
Whose content runs chiefly to sex.
It burgeons with virgins,
And masculine urgin's,
And swarms with erotic effects.
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Your old friend Jimbo may think
He's so great that his shit doesn't stink,
But the stench of his balls
Peels the paint off the walls
And leaves a brown stain in the sink.

 

I'd rather be a hammer than a nail,
Yes I would, if I could,
I surely would.

-Simon & Garfunkle

Actually he already doxxed himself by using his real name. I'd never checked him out before.

Wow. That's a pretty good set of credentials and accomplishments there. I'm impressed.


Thank you, thank you, thank you.

We've come a long way from punch cards.

Sorry. I had no intent at doxxing him.

I 'd already figured out he was one of the more technologically knowledgeable and experienced people here.

I was just curious about his implied involvement in SSD development.

SSDs were my biggest source of tech fascination a dozen years ago. Then I discovered Bitcoin.

? ? ?

What was your involvement? NVRAM or controller development? Civil or military?

I realize SSDs date back to the late 1980s. I'm fascinated by the early history.

I always saw storage as the main performance bottleneck in any computer system. I figured when cheap low-power-consumption high-capacity dependable solid state storage was achieved, we'd see a whole new world of portable devices.

It's not surprising that the first netbooks and then smartphones and tablets followed closely behind the development of MLC and TLC flash and controllers with improved wear leveling and garbage collection algorithms. Sure, improved battery and radio technologies helped but the mobile revolution was spurred by SSDs.

A late good morning Bitcoinland.

I see that sleeping in caused me to miss a nice little leg up... currently $4075USD/$5450CAD (Bitcoinaverage).

Hopefully the worst is behind us.


I guess I'm living in the past a bit. Since Win7, Microsoft has regressed so far it's lost its advantage.

Apple products are still overpriced though.

I was an SSD fan years before most people heard of them. Remember stuffing DIMMs in a PCI (pre-PCIe) card for a faster boot? My first real SSD was a 2.5" IDE (PATA) 32gb Memoright that cost me an arm and a leg but left even a Raptor in the dust.

When SSDs started to go mainstream a year or 2 later, someone on the OCZ SSD forum asked what the difference was between the regular Vertex (1st-gen) and the Mac version. Why did the Mac version cost $150 more?  One of the OCZ engineers replied that they had identical hardware and firmware. The only difference was the label.


Yes just a typo- Non Volatile Memory Express


Sorry. Tickets are bought and arrangements made.

As I told someone else, I think the pattern is broken anyway. The price didn't rebound when I got back at the end of November.

That's the trouble with coincidence. It's enough to make you superstitious.

Haiku? OK.

Cold paper wallets
Nothing to do except wait
Oh thank you Bitcoin

Good morning Bitcoinland.

Still going sideways... currently $3860USD/$5162CAD (Bitcoinaverage).

Blah. If I wasn't going to Mexico, I'd be hibernating. Meanwhile this place is stagnating. I don't normally put people on ignore but this crap is tempting me.


I guess it depends on how you define "all in".

Not everyone here is a daytrader. Some of us are investors who mined/bought because we see the value of the technology and support its potential.

Many of us keep accumulating regardless of price trends. Sure, we try to time our purchases to dips but when we sell it's determined by need, not price.

Of course we're "all in" almost all the time.

Took the words out of my mouth. Any real computing, I do on a real Win7 Laptop (HP Probook450 with i7-6500U, 16gbDDR3, 500GB M-2 MVMe boot SSD, additional 1tb sata storage SSD,etc). Runs circles around any silly little phone.

I don't usually even keep a SIM card in my Android device. Only in Mexico where I don't usually have cell access. I use it mainly as pocket-sized wifi access when I go out of town and as a camera. The SIM is in the name of a Mexican woman and the only place I can occasionally get a signal in town is standing under a 1000-year-old sacred tree. Only thing I connect to in Toronto is public wifi hotspots. My Toronto SIM card is not associated with any name and is in an ancient Samsung Rugby flip-phone. I value my anonymity.
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@jbreher, jojo69, micgoossens:

Sorry if  the price follows me south again.

Actually I think we broke the pattern. Sure it dipped when I went down in November but it didn't rally when I got back in December.

Maybe It'll go up this time.  
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Gotta head out now for some Friday night fun. See y'all at the crack of noon.

And good women.