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.

Used to be better? When? The 1980s?

Windows95 left the Mac world in the dust and they didn't start to come close to catching up until they got rid of the old Motorola and IBM CPUs and switched to Intel. Even then Windows and Linux-based systems consistently posted better benchmarks.

Windows10? I wouldn't use that either. I'm strictly Windows7. Of course I turn off all updates.

Nanny system? That's how I consider Apple. Why do you have to use malware like iTunes just to do a factory reset of an apple device or transfer media files from a PC through a USB cable? Why do they want you to identify yourself and make you jump through hoops just to make an anonymous account. Why even have accounts?

At least you can use Android without a Google account. Just download APK files, copy them over via USB, and install them with your file manager. Voila, no "apps" store, "play" store or any other store. Just install your mobile programs and run them.

Of course you have to remove any SIM cards and not enter any wifi passwords so the slimeballs can't connect to you until you've got your system set up.
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I realize not everybody prizes privacy and anonymity. Those who do avoid Apple, Google, and anything Microsoft after Win7.

In fact, avoid anything made by an American (or by extension Japanese, S. Korean, Taiwanese etc.) corporation. Trust only open-source, vetted by a worldwide community of volunteers.

Ever wonder why after all those years of product registration, activation and rigorous anti-"piracy" schemes, Microsoft not only started giving away their flagship product for free, but shoved it down people's throats? Same with their #2 product, their office productivity suite? Where are their revenues coming from now?

Face it neither Bill Gates, nor Larry Page nor the late Steve Jobs, nor anyone else wants to be waterboarded at Guantanamo Bay.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist but I'm not a conspiracy denier either.

Top o' the morning Bitcoinland.

Still basically sideways... currently $3797USD/$1584CAD.

Ho hum. It's the January blahs.

Meanwhile winter just hit Toronto like someone threw a switch on New Year's Day. No problem, I'm flying back down to Mexico next week.

No dental work this time. I have to wait until May for that. This is strictly about escaping winter and living happily ever after, although I'll probably be doing some improvements to my properties there.

Booked to fly back for the Jays' home opener but I'm leaving the possibility open of flying up mid-winter for a couple of days if I need money or in case of an emergency. I might be jonesing for a musical audience by then too.

Life is good. Thank you Bitcoin.


I can understand why 12-year-old girls get iPhones. They're cute and all the other kids have them.

But why would any otherwise halfway intelligent adult buy any crappy, overpriced low-quality Apple product?

I'd rather spend my money on materials, workmanship, research and development than on advertising.

I think it's a cock tit.

Is a woodpecker a dildo?

Good morning Bitcoinland.

Down a bit in the last little while I see, but still going basically sideways... currently $3798USD/$5130CAD (Bitcoinaverage).

Meanwhile this place seems especially infested with trolls and FUDsters today.   Get a life losers.


Cold storage holders unaffected.

Didn't anyone learn a lesson from MtGox?

Good morning Bitcoinland and a late happy new year to all. I didn't check in yesterday because I didn't make it home until 5:00PM, still hung over and just washed off the juices and went straight back to bed.

Still sideways with an upward tilt... currently $3860USD/$5252CAD (Bitcoinaverage).

Hopefully we'll keep going up this time but I won't lose any sleep if it dips some more.



You forgot to mention those of us who are living happily ever after on our Bitcoin earnings.

I use an old computer with no wifi adapter, no ethernet cable, and a printer that has never been connected to an internet-capable computer.

Print spoolers can be hacked.

For ultimate security, keep multiple encrypted copies offsite in multiple locations.

It's always time to dump crap and buy Bitcoin.

There's an understatement. 

Actually it peaked in Dec 2017 and no, I have no regrets.

In truth I'm a little miffed that I had to sell part of a bitcoin in January to buy my house and land in Mexico. I would rather still be holding it.

Luckily I sold at the top of the January bounce and got almost $21kCAD. That represented almost a third of the dollers I had invested in Bitcoin. Since then I've sold well over twice that much more to buy 2 more properties in Mexico, extensive dental restoration surgery (including 16 implants) and assorted lifestyle improvements.

The last thing I would have done is sell my precious bitcoins for mere dollars. The bulk of my wealth is still in Bitcoin. It's also all profit.

See you in 5 years.


Below $200USD? The price is currently at $3830USD .

Proof of keys? I control my own keys thank you.

Trusted third parties? Isn't that an oxymoron?

I haven't had any coins on an exchange since MtGox. Luckily that mistake only cost me 50BTC. Never again.

Closest thing I have to a trusted third party is my Trezor which I somehow got talked into using against my better judgment. Luckily I only have 5BTC on it. I stopped using it last year after having it for less than half a year.

Obviously cold ("paper" wallet) storage is much more secure. Only I have control over the keys and they're never exposed to the internet except when I sweep a wallet into Mycelium to transfer coins and that's only small amounts for short periods of time.  

This is why it's good to spread your stash between dozens or hundreds of small wallets. My biggest single wallet has a little over 30 coins in it (from pulling out what I had at Cavirtex after being Goxed) but I'm almost scared to sweep it to split it into smaller wallets because that would entail risking that many coins at once by exposing them to the internet.

I suppose I should empty my Trezor on Genesis Block Day as a way to assert ownership of my keys instead of trusting Trezor. Then again why wait until Jan. 3?

Bear trap within a bull trap within a bear trap.

The year 2018 is one big bear trap just like 2014 was.

Well good morning Bitcoinland.

Just woke up in time to see we've obliterated yesterday's little dip and we're back in range to continue the assault on $4k... currently $3885USD/$5297CAD (Bitcoinaverage).

Go Bitcoin go.

Merry Xmas Bitcoinland. Greetings on this day of family, friends, food and music.

Peace to all, bulls and bears alike.



Too bad about the Bitcoin price... currently $3750USD/$5130CAD (Bitcoinaverage).

Let's hope this dip below $4k is short-lived.

I always had my suspicions about you. This post seems to have confirmed them.

Cheers chick. Or is that frail, dame, broad, babe, gurrrl, or wymyn? Somehow you don't strike me as the kind to call herself a wymyn.

Doesn't matter what you call 'em, I like 'em.



Merry Xmas.