Good morning Bitcoinland. The battle for $11K continues... currently $11003USD/$41200CAD (Bitcoinaverage). We've been stuck here for a week now. At least we're still in 5 digits. Still, it's getting boring. Awhile back I read a thread somewhere on here that some company did just that.
i.e ...actually engraved the priv key with a “sealed” hologram or some such thing and sold
the various bitcoin valued coins they fabricated.
And guess what ended up happening?
Not too hard to figure out...lol
You mean the Casascius coins? Lots of those still out there unswept, they are legit. I always got a chuckle out of Casascius coins. They're a 360 degree turnaround on gold and silver certificates. Instead of using paper tokens to represent metal money, they use metal tokens to represent digital ("paper") money. |
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Good morning Bitcoinland.
Still going sideways I see... currently $11520USD/$14942CAD (Bitcoinaverage).
I think we've had enough consolidation for now. Let's move on up.
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I prefer our solution here in America: just give everyone guns and let things sort themselves out.
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A late good morning Bitcoinland. Just got home.
Seems we're still going sideways... currently $11307USD/$14577CAD (Bitcoinaverage).
It's been almost a week since we've seen 4 digits. Are we finally over $10k for good?
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Good morning Bitcoinland.
Back up over $11k I see... currently $11466USD/$14775CAD (Bitcoinaverage).
It's starting to feel like we may have finally left 4 digits behind us. (I hope I didn't just jinx it!)
Go bitcoin go.
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I hate hard drives...fickle, delicate beasts
No freaking kidding. HDDs are obsolete relics from the 20th century second millennium. It's time to move on from moving-parts contraptions. glass-bulb technologies and other fragile inefficient garbage. I've been using SSDs since the days of IDE (PATA) and have never had an SSD fail. I originally got into SSDs for performance (used HDDs in RAID-0 and RAID-5 before that), backing up to HDDs. It was the HDDs that actually failed. I was mainly seeking fast writes and reads. The extremely lower failure rate of SSDs was just a bonus. What's the longest time you have used an SSD for? I thought they were supposed to wear out faster than HDDs. I'm pushing 5 years on my oldest one, and it has been flawless. Pretty sure I've never had a HDD last that long, or even close. My newest NVMe Pro is ridiculously fast. Friends don't let friends HDD  Was your oldest one a cheap brand, an expensive brand, or a mid range brand? All Samsung. The old one I'm assuming, as it is in a sealed Samsung laptop... All my newest ones are Samsungs and a few Adatas. My first real SSD was a 32GB Memoright SLC PATA 1.8" card with a ZIF connector that ran WinXP faster than any HDD at any speed. It's still running fine after more than a decade, AFAIK, although I haven't booted up the device in years to find out for sure. In other words, it became obsolete without failing. A couple of years later SATA took over and SSDs went mainstream with consumer/retail SSDs hitting the market. Intel and OCZ led this early push. I replaced my 4 WD Raptor RAID-0 array with 4 OCZ Vertex SSDs only to have the whole storage subsystem bottlenecked by the southbridge. After moving up to PCI-e SSD arrays I re-purposed my old Vertex SSDs, using them to replace HDDs in friends' netbooks and notebooks. I never heard of one failing. I haven't booted from a HDD in over 10 years and I still have never had an SSD fail. My elderly main desktop PC still boots from an ancient OCZ Revodrive3x2 PCI-e card without any problems. My newest SSD is a 500GB Samsung 960EVO M.2 NVMe SSD in my newest laptop. It rocks. "Friends don't let friends HDD." Indeed. |
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I hate hard drives...fickle, delicate beasts
No freaking kidding. HDDs are obsolete relics from the 20th century second millennium. It's time to move on from moving-parts contraptions. glass-bulb technologies and other fragile inefficient garbage. I've been using SSDs since the days of IDE (PATA) and have never had an SSD fail. I originally got into SSDs for performance (used HDDs in RAID-0 and RAID-5 before that), backing up to HDDs. It was the HDDs that actually failed. I was mainly seeking fast writes and reads. The extremely lower failure rate of SSDs was just a bonus. |
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Good morning Bitcoinland. The battle for $11k continues... currently $10849USD/$13956CAD (Bitcoinaverage). This could take some time. and now the weekend dump....
Probably below 10k soon and the cycle continues.
Should I go back in the thread and quote all the people how said bitcoin would be risen again in March?
Which cycle are you talking about? The one in which the price of Bitcoin has risen in the last year, the last month, the last week and the last 24 hours? Bitcoin rising in March? So far it has. Mind you, March is only 2 days old. It's a little early to call. What's the matter? Miss the chance to buy when it was ridiculously low in early February? Wishfully dreaming for another dip? Noobs, sigh. |
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If a guitar player is immature, overplaying is sometimes just a lack of experience. If the player is insecure (no matter their age, especially if there are other good players present) sometimes they overplay as if it's a pissing match, and showing off. A jam, with a rotating cast of many is bad for encouraging this.
A gigging band should be tight, know exactly what is coming up next. No extra times around for an extra solo unless it is really happening, and the crowd is reacting accordingly Strong band leadership and rehearsal makes this happen. In a recording session, the producer is king.
One of the best guitar players I have ever seen has traveled the country several times gigging. He used to be in a band with Sheryl Crowe before she hit ("she wasn't that good, at the time", he says). Now he is a painter with a mortgage, wife and kids. He has a room of amps, another room of guitars. He says it is his 401k, but he loves them too much to sell any. He is a white guy, plays in an all-black soul band (and in several other bands), and in the soul band, he is magnificent. He plays a lot of our jams, and he is overplaying, arrogant, and way too loud on stage. The soul band has strong leaderhip, and he keeps it in line. In the jam, there is lax leadership. He is trying to be the biggest fish in the pond.
Music isn't a competition. It's all about cooperation. Any real musician's ears are far more important than his hands. |
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Though I will say if a lead guitar break is well thought out ,arranged and melodically slick,
it can add substance to the track, especially maybe for the middle eight.
David Gilmore of Pink Floyd for one was a master at this.
But mindless shredding to show off ones playing speed? oh perleeeze!
Leave that for the Spinal Tap metal head moroons holding lighters over their heads, I'll pass thank you...
Absolutely. Strong melodies are what most audiences want to hear, not noodling nor technique wanking. |
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Good morning Bitcoinland. I see we're still going sideways in the $10K-$11k range... currently $10724USD/$13775CAD (Bitcoinaverage). Seems February ended up about where it began, after all kinds of drama. Winter's grinding down. Hopefully we'll have our spring rally soon. I always found it hard to play with more than one guitarist. They tend to go off on long jammy tangents without telling me. I guess my ear wasn't good enough to pick up the chord changes quick enough.
It's hard to imagine having another guitar in our outfit. It is a hell of a lot of noise the way it is. "Lead" guitar players are annoying. I hate having to play with more than one guitarist at a time. One good rhythm guitarist is worth more than 100 noisy, self-centered "lead" guitarists with all their goofy effects pedals and total lack of self control. They're so clueless some of them actually think that people other than guitarists actually give a shit about some rambling pointless guitar solo. Most audiences are concerned primarily with the actual melody and lyrics of the song. They consciously listen mostly to the lead vocals while subconsciously being moved by the groove of the rhythm section. The singer is the main treble voice, not some silly guitar. As a bassist, I'd rather play with 2 drummers than 2 guitarists. I can handle a good 3-piece (bass, drums, guitar) band because the guitarist is forced to play mainly strong rhythm with only the occasional "lead" fluff. Frankly, I'd rather have a good sax player to play the instrumental breaks, as long as he doesn't think he's John Coltraine. /rant |
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First official day of retirement.
Woke up. Not sure what day it was.
Rick texted me and is totally fucking jelly that I'm a free man.
Already on beer #4.
Think I'm going to take a nap after this beer.
Welcome to the club. Isn't freedom fun? If you don't mind me saying so though, you're acting like a bit of a noob. Getting shitfaced on beer first thing in the morning gets a little boring after a while. In fact full retirement gets boring. I strongly recommend semi-retirement. You can still earn money and keep active after retirement. You just get to do it on your own rules and at your own pace. If it's fun and profitable, do it. If not, take a pass. Stress is a killer. Many people who've worked their entire lives get so stressed by inactivity that they drop dead within a few years after retiring. Hobbies help, but they may as well be hobbies you're paid for. Travel is also excellent. It pays handsome dividends in experience. _____ I quit my last "job" in 1976. I still continued making pretty good money playing music in bars. I never considered it to be work. It was a hobby for which I was paid. I earned money for traveling, meeting people, partying and a lifestyle of sex&drugs&rock&roll. Above all, it was fun. Now there's no money in playing music but I still do it, albeit a few times a month instead of every day. In fact I'll be onstage in 2 hours. Maybe some young milf babe will hit on the old guy who still rocks. In 2 weeks I'll be back in Mexico. Indeed, retirement (or semi-retirement) is fun. |
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A bright early good morning Bitcoinland.
The battle for 5 digits continues... currently $10328USD/$13102CAD (Bitcoinaverage).
Maybe one of these times it'll stick. 4 digits is so 2017. It's time to move on.
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Meanwhile on the wall observation front, there's been some fancy dancing of multiple 200 coin bids at Stamp. Phony or real?
Hopefully they'll keep the price moving upward. Unfortunately I need to acquire some dollars today. I always hate selling Bitcoin, especially when the price is this low, but at least it's back up over $10k and I'll only be selling less than half a coin.
I suppose I could rationalize it by trying to justifying it as "profit-taking" but I'd rather have my profits in Bitcoin. Selling always makes me feel like a failure.
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Good morning Bitcoinland.
I was too hung over to post yesterday (should remember not to mix more than 4 kinds of booze) but I see we briefly dipped back down to 4 digits. I thought we were done with that horseshit.
It's since recovered to 5 digits... currently $10133USD/$12843CAD (Bitcoinaverage).
It seems that putting $10k behind us for good will take weeks instead of days.
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Good morning Bitcoinland.
I see we've had a dip/correction back to where we were the day before yesterday... currently $19463USD/$13250CAD (Bitcoinaverage).
It's certainly not a buyable dip in my estimation, but it does serve as a healthy correction just when things were starting to heat up a little too fast.
We don't need bubbles. We need sustained growth.
I like your optimism Jimbo. Unfortunately the loonie has not appreciated that much against the greenback yet! Oops, typo. Fixed. Just woke up. I should probably wait until my first coffee before posting. $10463USD it is. Or was. Greenbacks? I'm actually more concerned with loonies and pesos these days. There's little I use USD for. |
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Good morning Bitcoinland.
I see we've had a dip/correction back to where we were the day before yesterday... currently $10463USD/$13250CAD (Bitcoinaverage).
It's certainly not a buyable dip in my estimation, but it does serve as a healthy correction just when things were starting to heat up a little too fast.
We don't need bubbles. We need sustained growth.
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Good morning Bitcoinland.
The steady recovery continues... currently $11631USD/$14673CAD (Bitcoinaverage).
Will we pass $12k soon? I figure after we hit $15k it should really take off.
Go Bitcoin go.
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That's racist.
"ga" or "gah" are, for the most part, considered friendly, colloquial terms. "ger" is where things start turning ugly. Racist is if I posted something like "My cracker". "Cracka", or "Crackah" are acceptable colloquialisms, IMO, in an established relationship, to add further perspective. Just don't call me white. That's racist. I'm not an albino. Call me pink if you have to. Actually, according to my childhood colored pencil sets, I'm "flesh colored".     |
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Good morning Bitcoinland.
A new week is upon us and a new year (lunar) and we're back up over $11k... currently $11219USD/$14108CAD (Bitcoinaverage).
Maybe this time we're ready to leave $11k behind for good and keep moving on up.
I wanna see a serious rise before I'm forced to sell some coin in a month or so. Go Bitcoin go.
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Good morning Bitcoinland. It looks like we're winning the battle for 5 digits, albeit barely... currently $10862USD/$13641CAD (Bitcoinaverage). Hopefully we'll see some real upward movement soon. What we today call a job is, effectively, slavery. Yes people can choose what kind of work they do, but they can't decide if they want to do it - they have to work.
Jordan Peterson said it perfectly. If you can't say no, you can't negotiate. And if you can't negotiate you are a slave. Jobs are slavery, even if we are determined not to think of them as such.
And it's not like I do nothing but sit around, now that I have the option to do so. I have been studying anthropology for the past... almost 7 years now, and see myself doing it for perhaps the rest of my life. It is endlessly fascinating and there is always more to learn, and it has practical utility. But it is not a job. It is something I choose to do, and for which I receive no direct compensation. And that makes all the difference. I could not do it to the same degree if I was saddled with a Job.
But what if you did receive direct compensation? Would that make it a "job" and thus a form of enslavement? Mark twain once said that work was what a fellow was obliged to do. I agree. If you are doing it strictly for the money, it's work. If you are doing it for fun it's a hobby, paid or not. A professional ballplayer may be paid millions of dollars a year but during a game he's playing, not working. Sure there may be lots of work involved.... dealing with agents, travel, workouts, etc., but ultimately it's a paid hobby. Maybe it's not having the option of a day off that makes it a job. When I was getting paid good money for playing music in bars and living a life of partying, sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll, I never considered it as work. It was fun and I was being paid for it. Sure we had to deal with agents, loading equipment, traveling, and (gasp) rehearsing, but it was still just a paid hobby, not a "job". |
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