Its almost a year to the day of originally posting this and I just want to say that there is a light at the end of the tunnels!!

One year ago I had so much happen so quickly - and it was a very long and testing roller coaster of a year 2023 was. Keeping up with all of my bills and providing for my family all while trying to reinvent myself basically and finding a new line of work that I could be proud of and make enough money with (that also wasn't too far away from home.)

I almost had the perfect segway into a new position making like 20% more, getting a company car and everything and the 8th interview in the lady misinterpreted something I said and I didn't get the job lol. That pretty much monopolized my time and the rest of my PTO because I was interviewing already when I made the OP still- maybe 4 or 5 interviews in so after I didn't get that after I was so sure that I was going to land it I basically took a month and a half off to just breathe and plan my next move, I was looking for new jobs the whole time. I went on to strike a deal with a fellow hobbyist "friend" who had a gold and silver coin business that I worked in for a time before but I was never willing to fully quit my job and go in on it full time. This was something that I am truly passionate and so I had the chance to work in that area for nearly 5 months where I learned so much- I had the chance to familiarize myself with AI there as he had it completely tethered to his "backend" systems. I soaked it all in and had a very great time but the truth is that working for this man was truly very stressful and not very fun. He was the biggest micromanager ever and they monopolized my time. When I needed to take time off even if it was important they didn't really care about me or my family it was all just about the money lol pun intended. They also didn't have any benefits what so ever. I was pretty much dying to get out of there after they were literally crushing my spirit,  I did an amazing job there too and I worked my ass off  and my sales were through the roof, it was just in the end there we didn't exactly part as I would have hoped. Its a long story, but in the end the important thing is that I did what was best for me and my family. The best for me was finding yet another job, this time through a friend with a recommendation and for a very reputable company. They sent me out to the Midwest for training for a week, which was awesome! I made a lot of great friends along the way and after the training it was evident that this company truly cared about their employees and they had amazing benefits and everything! I went in there and broke the sales record in my second week for the fastest sale. I was there for a total of 3 months when I realized that I just hated it and had to find something better, something more aligned with my interests. That is when an opportunity literally landed in my lap with a phone call for a tech company that I had a keen interest in before and had actually looked at a position for 3 years prior. Well it turned out opporunity comes knocking like it usually does and so I ended up taking their interview offer and landing the job. Taking that positon back in the fall was a game changer for me! The benefits are the best I have ever had! I have the best boss and the best flexibility that I have ever had in a job. I have been working there now since then and I have to say that I really did find what I was looking for. I am now doing something I care about, making a difference, and I am even doing it alongside some of my family and even my friends now. I somehow managed to find exactly what I was looking for it seems, and I am so grateful to God for all that I have and all that he has shown me in the past year, especially the hard times because it has made me the person that I am!

Life really is incredible and if there is anything that it has taught me in the last 12 months it is this: Things are never as they appear, always read the fine print & ask all the questions you think of even if they sound stupid, you'll be thankful you had asked them and gained the clarity and fully understood. Don't every trust anyone for their word, make sure you have an agreement in writing, even if its a literal piece of paper you have them sign with some small description of contract. People always want to see a return on their investment but you have to watch out for signs of greed, aurgumentative personalities ( I mean always have to be right- egotistical), and micromanagerial tactics that are way over the top. If you ever find yourself in a situation that you are dealing with people like this and they are your boss - just get the heck out of there and find something better.) Some people in your life are only there because of something you share in common, whether that be a certain habit or a certain place you hang around with the same people etc etc. Sometimes you just have to break yourself free from situations and people like this because its most likely keeping you from growth by maintaining a constant state of either comfort of familiarity. In the pursuit of taking something you are passionate about and trying to turn this into a business first make sure that you consider that you may become so consumed with the end result after you turn your passion into a business that you may start to lose the passion for it in the first place, which to me doesn't seem worth it. Remove yourselves from such situations and allow yourself to breathe, find a better way that you can turn your passions into more lucrative opportunities on your own terms and don't let anyone hinder your growth in this stage.  I have learned that family is always the most important and they will always be there for you to lean on no matter what. They got through all of these hardships with me and as a result we are so much stronger! Thank you all for keeping up with this and for sharing your thoughts, I means a lot. I am in such a better place now and I am thankful for all that God has given me.

Thank you M8 for spelling this out the way you did! I also liked the use of Chat GPT to not only show how robotic that response looks but also it displays more context in the analysis of what others on the forum are saying about this topic from the very beginning.

I would definitely have to agree that anyone trying to take credit for a compilation of what other people wrote put together by computers is just downright preposterous!

Was just playing around on CoinRoyale and was able to double my money going back and forth from Roulette and Dice. Pretty fun play! Definitely beats watching whatever my girl is watching hahhah. I also was pleased to use the telegram bot and I placed a bet and won! Not too shabby. I am not really the gambling type and if I do it is never with large sums of money. This was taking $20 to $40. Woohoo! Lol.

Also I was having the same problem below, if you just go into your browser settings (because this image never went away for me) you just click the desktop version of the app checkbox if you are using Mobile and you will be good to go!

This map is a great visual, its nice to be able to scroll all the way down to see the full history and prices of Bitcoin. Those DCA calculators are great as well, these can always be helpful with visualization of your BTC stacking goals. All of these great tools, I would like to add something kind of fun to this mix is this one: https://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/dashboard/

(Just copied from Clark Moody:

All-Time High Price
$69,010
Decline from ATH
-37.80%
ATH Date
November 10, 2021
Days Since ATH
815

Just seeing it there looking at you brings back memories of 3 years prior and I know that day is coming again! Indeed, we need to HODL and keep these hands strong  

I just checked my ERC 20 wallet and I have recieved over 20 airdrops all that are completetly worthless lmao. At one time my wallet was worth a hundred or so but that didn't last long, I also had no clue how to actually access most of those currencies once they were awarded and later found out that many of them never actually launched lol. I was always signing up for new ones thinking maybe one that I get in on could make it super big. I missed out on the good ones tho, sadliy we have missed the fun ICO days! They have really been cracking down here.

Honestly I would tell myself to go back and get my MBA in Information Systems, I would take coding classes as well and learn all about network exploits and hacker bounties. I would definitely go back and take the photography courses. Honestly the International business class I loved in college so I don't see taking some more economics to be a bad thing. I had to take Micro and Macro econ but I definitely wish I would have spent some more time on that. Not that you can't just look it up on the Khan academy anytime, we should always be learning!

Lets go with #93 

Lot 3 0.0010BTC

 I mean look at what it took for the US to take over Pound Sterling of Great Britain and replace it with The United States Dollar, a world war and an entire people were at risk in the making of that. That is some serious SH#^$&* for that to happen. The thing that is backing the US mostly is the military , which ours is like 10 times larger than the next? idk but its bigger by a decent margin than any other country for sure....

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LMAO, this is so funny hahahhahahha. This stuff is way above my pay grade and I would never take the time to compute these things but I do find some of them rather fascinating. I do like seeing power numbers like 555 , but other than that I'm not too familiar with the science, although I do think it is very interesting to your point of the nadi using this to hide their agenda in plain sight. Maybe I need to keep more of an eye out for these things....

I mean just based on these findings below if this was a multiple choice question that stated:

"What will be the price of bitcoin after its 4th halving?"

A- 8,432

B- 16,864

C- 33, 657

D- 75,021

If I was just looking at the facts and looking at the trend, I would say the answer is D!

Now this is a completely  made up question/answer but you see where I am going with this.

The Bitcoin Trend w/ every halving is an increase in price and I believe we will continue to see this until the price is 1 Mil/coin and then after that the price will go up much faster IMO

Honestly I'd have to agree with Nrcewker. I mean honstly you should be able to do that in this day and age and I would l certainly hope that it wouldnt' matter that much if your kid is named bitcoin or not but N makes a lot of good pointers that have got me thinking that if wherever you lived did place high scrutiniy on BTC that it may end up hurting you in the long run and definitely could even get you into trouble.

 Hahhaha damn that is savage. Talk about adding salt to the wound with this whole XRP charade in court I mean talk about a fiasco and then this! Lmao what a big OOOOFFFFFFF by the co-founder. I mean talk about spilling your marbles while you have the spot light on you ahhahahah. I really hope that they win agains the SEC for good it would be fantastic to see them victorious after all this. I have a small amount of XRP just in case and man wouldn't it be epic to see it hit like 10 bucks in 10 years or something?!

The game play definitely looks cool. Like a new age runescape but with good graphics and perhaps their own token? It looks like they go live on pankakeswap in 11 hours so I assume there is in game play w/ tokenization to make your players able to do more by playing a small fee or something of the likes. I would expect something like this to have their own NFT too?

Teachers have a bigger problem with that honestly haha, and yes I would have to agree people do abuse the software for that purpose but not me, I use it as a way to enrich myself and educating myself instead of having it write things for me for my own use. I mean honestly I get where people are coming from and by no means do I want to take away the community be replacing for certain things, but for simple things like searching for example. Everybody knows that google is better to find anything on bitcointalk, but what if the built in Bot could just do the search function for us within the bitcointalk browser that we are in already? I am purely speaking from the sense that we can use this technology with simple things like that.

Haha i'm sorry m8, I know you guys have a lot on you plate and this isn't up on the priority list by any means and I'm not saying it should be all I am saying is to consider the posibilities and to embrace AI in that sense for the sheer use of utility alone like the reason I stated above.

Dude I have a shit load of PI! But how do you access it? How do you withdraw? I don't think anyone has achieve this. We are talking about the coin made from those Stanford students, right? That coin is definitely one of the coins that was in that Airdrop ICO phase long ago in like 2018 and 2019. That was a fun phase, I did a little airdrop research and signed up for a bunch on ERC-20 Metamask Acct Wllt. At one point all of my airdrops were worth nearly $100 before they all plummited lol

I do love the alure of the rolls, but honestly it is more fun to coin roll hunt! Your coins are great but idk if I have the kind of quan that you're asking for one, and that is okay! One day someone will be happy that they purchased one. Your coins are lovely in hand, there are so many variations on I have missed especially some of the fist ones! I especially love the 7 gram classical looking font silver coin, I would be more inclined to trade with you direcly for some of these pieces maybe not a roll but more of your work for sure!

I know that there are probably rules, somewhere that I haven't looked. In general I feel like noboby has really posted Rules to Chat GPT. Of course I know its foolish to use it direcly as if you are the one who created the text/thought but what about quoting? And What about as a research tool? Chat GPT really helps to you skip the learning curve if you know how to use it correctly. It has helped me loads with simply understanding complex thought that I didn't undertand. I just made a post quoting Chat GPT and I don't even know if that was following the rules. If we can't avoid it which we definitely can't, that means that Chat GPT is veriy similar to BTC in this aspect lol. What do you guys think about Chat GPT? I'd love a Btalk Bot that has kind of like a chat GPT engine but geared direclty towards helping the users/ newbies with literally anything. Would love to see this THEYMOS! I wonder if this has been discussed?

Hey guys,

I am curious as to the exact process on how to sign/ prove ownership of a BTC address with how I have seen many users do it here in this section: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=996318.0  I loved the concept that the user who started the thread above sought after, that is validation of ones account in the event is it compromised. What I am curio

Here is what Chat GPT said about this topic, but I would love to get all of your opinion on it as well and maybe we can even learn something from this informaiton

CHAT GPT SAYS THE FOLLOWING after my below prompting to it after I searched the proccess of signing one's bitcoin address since I have never actually done so nor knew the potential risks assumed once done:


"Would signing that message in any way compomise the security of the private key? What are the drawbacks to doing this for ones security both of their keys and of their location?
ChatGPT
Signing a message with a Bitcoin address does not directly compromise the security of the private key, as the key itself is never exposed or transmitted during the signing or verification process. The cryptographic algorithms used for signing (such as ECDSA in Bitcoin) are designed to ensure that the private key cannot be derived from the signature or the public key. However, there are considerations and potential drawbacks related to security and privacy to be aware of:

Security of the Private Key:

No Direct Exposure: As long as the wallet software is secure and operates correctly, signing a message does not expose the private key to risk. It's crucial to use reputable and audited wallet software to mitigate the risk of security flaws.
Replay Attacks: In theory, if you sign a poorly chosen message (e.g., one that has been signed by others), there might be a risk of replay attacks in specific, highly technical scenarios. However, this is generally not a concern with unique, personally crafted messages.
Privacy Concerns:

Association of Identity: By signing a message linked to a Bitcoin address, you publicly associate any identity or information revealed in that message (or in its context) with that address. This could affect privacy, especially if the address has been used for transactions that you prefer to keep private.
Linking Addresses Together: If you sign messages associated with multiple Bitcoin addresses, and those messages are publicly linked to your identity, it could allow others to link your addresses together. This could reduce privacy by revealing the extent of your holdings or transaction patterns.
Operational Security (OpSec):

Compromised Devices: If the device you use for signing is compromised (e.g., malware, keyloggers), your private key could be at risk, although this risk is present with any use of the private key, not just message signing.
Phishing Attacks: Be wary of any requests to sign messages, especially from unknown or untrusted sources. Phishing attacks could attempt to trick you into signing messages that could be used maliciously or to deceive others.
Location Privacy:

While signing a message itself doesn't reveal your location, the content of the message or the context in which you publish it could. Be cautious about including any location-identifying information if you wish to maintain location privacy.
In summary, while message signing is a powerful tool for proving ownership of a Bitcoin address without compromising the private key, it requires careful consideration of privacy and operational security. It's essential to be mindful of what information you're revealing through the messages you sign and to maintain good security practices for your devices and wallet software."

On number 5 I would just say that you have to be prepared for potential to have this now business turned hobby to be lacking in the passion. Once you involve business and mix it with your hobby then the sole purpose of the hobby is compomised IMO because then its all about the money and not he enjoyment. I liked what Frank said like he could just walk into the dealership and buy a bunch of crappy cars that all lose value right away, or he can just go in and enjoy the thought that he has the means to buy any car he likes. Don't bank on making your hobby your mony maker. Most money making machines are boring as fuck and never align with peoples hobbies. People get rich as fuck and live out their hobby in full enjoyment knowing full well they can aquire as much or as little as they like in their collection or hobby of interest whatever that may be.