Oort cloud?

Now you're making me nostalgic for the days Jaroslaw/Walsoraj.

 

5 consecutive jackpots and 2 more milestones... USD over $10k and CAD over $13k.

It's a longshot for 6 in a row considering the correction but anything's possible.

Go Bitcoin go.

Bah. As I was getting ready to go buy the dip, someone came to my door and delayed me.

By the time I got to the ATM, the price had bounced back to yesterday's levels and the buy fee had tripled.

I took a pass, bought some munchies and came home. I suppose I could have bought garlic dip instead of the f'ing dip.

At least I don't have a job to go back to.  

I was just about to post the old "my bitcoins are only worth what they were yesterday" meme then it dipped a little further and now I'm checking my fiat to buy some more.

I hope I didn't miss the bottom.

An amazingly good morning Bitcoinland.

What can I say? We finally hit 5 digits at all exchanges, touched on $11.4k, had two sizeable corrections, and ended over $11k... currently $11043USD/$14185CAD (Bitcoinaverage).

Old coins total at $13000USD/$16700CAD (Coinmarketcap).

Over a grand and a half in a day? A year ago we were still dreaming of getting back up to a grand.

Go Bitcoin go.

edit: I guess my numbers are outdated now, They were current when I typed them. The joys of overloaded servers.

Yep.

It was like unplugging a toilet, whoosh.

Now the shit's really flying at Stamp.

From this day forward, whenever I think of Bitstamp, the image of 9999 will come before my eyes.

 

Finally.

I was fixing it as you were posting about it. Cheers. 

Meanwhile, it's $10,090 at Bitcoinaverage, the truest gauge IMO.

Congrats to all the fearless holders who hung tough through the beartard years.

I think I'll go out and have a celebratory drink.

Here's to Notlambchop, Fonzie, Kwukduck, and lest we forget, Proudhon.

Cheers.

Still waiting on Stamp.

Someone give them a laxative.

Jeezuz Murphy. I'm still only in my 60s.  

That said, I am old enough that I should known better than to have bitten the trollbait. Sorry folks.

LOL You haven't got a clue.

You come across as an arrogant self-absorbed twit. You're so full of yourself.

You dare talk about karma?   Perhaps you should drop the pseudo-concerned schtick and actually think about your own karma. Take a look at yourself.

Do you actually have any friends in the real world?
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Don't worry about me. I'm surrounded by a community of friends. I look after them and they look after me. I feel like I'm part of a small town in the middle of a big city. I can't walk the street without people greeting me.

I don't sweat those times (such as I described) when things don't go well because I know that somehow they'll turn out for the best in the end.

In my slightly verbose reply to JJG I was attempting to instill a sense of moderation in the midst of excessive enthusiasm over the impending $10k landmark.

I was stressing how lean times can come unexpectedly without doting unnecessarily on all the good times in between. I was pointing out the wisdom of conservative spending and self control.
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Perhaps you shouldn't jump to conclusions about people you don't really know.

Cheers.

I think it has to do with bottle feeding.

Well looky here, a nice mini-correction.

Honey badger don't give a shit. 

Don't worry about that. Selling is not an option.

Meanwhile Stamp and Finex are eerily at par.*

*At least they were. Stamp has pulled ahead.

Isn't wall observation fun? 

Finally. Another ATH at Stamp.

Good morning Bitcoinland.

Another day another ATH... currently $9974USD/$12779CAD (Bitcoinaverage).

Old coins total $11881USD/$15216CAD (Coinmarketcap).

Getting closer to the USD joining the 5-digit party. C'mon, you're holding up the festivities.

Go Bitcoin go.

Without disclosing exactly how many I have (your estimate is a bit off), I could have started spending some of my coins a while ago but since I'm still earning elsewhere, I'd rather keep acquiring more coins, albeit in much smaller amounts. Keeping busy helps keep you young and I learned long ago that prosperity comes in cycles.

When I was 20, my GF was the ex-wife of a brain surgeon so we lived pretty high off the hog. We had way too much spending money for kids our age.

After Uncle Sam decided I wasn't contributing enough to the American economy and suggested I leave of my own free will, I fell on tougher times back in Toronto. I moved into a cheap rooming house and scrambled to keep myself fed. Only stubbornness kept me from moving into my parents' home, collecting welfare, or getting a job. I scraped and hustled to earn any money I could and learned to live on almost nothing.

When I finally broke down and got a job I maintained my thriftiness. I kept spending to a minimum and earned extra money playing music at night while keeping up my day job.  I only bought things that were cheap enough to resell at a profit. I kept hustling any buck I could. Slowly I accumulated enough to finally quit employment for good and live completely off of music and hustles.

If a band broke up and my musical income was interrupted, I was back to scrounging to feed myself again. I still tell the story about how, after we'd eaten all the stale pasta with takeout squeeze-packet sauce, all we had was oatmeal. We had it with old brown sugar for breakfast, chicken bouillon cube porridge for lunch and Oxo porridge for dinner. Employment, welfare and panhandling were not options.

By the time I was in my 40s, I'd managed to acquire 3 properties in downtown Toronto while still maintaining dirt-cheap tenancy in an old house next to the train tracks. My 8 tenants paid my mortgages, taxes and maintenance costs, and gave me a good income as well. I slowly started falling into bad habits. I started to eat in restaurants and take taxicabs. I bought a trailer and kept a country place. I started living high off the hog again.

When prime minister Brian Mulroney "Cooled down the over-heated Canadian economy to wrestle inflation to the ground" everything changed again. My mortgage rates tripled, I had to lower my rents because of soaring unemployment and a collapsing local real estate market. My properties weren't worth what they were mortgaged for. Then I was involved as a passenger in a head-on highway collision.

Since I wasn't an employee and had no registered business, the insurance company gave me nothing. They offered me an insulting pittance for pain and suffering, but I refused it and retained a civil litigation lawyer. It took 2 years to see a penny. In the meantime I was unable to earn, confined to a wheelchair and crutches. The banks foreclosed on my mortgages and I was forced to declare bankruptcy.

Due to a precedent in an Ontario court in the 1920s, it was determined that the bankruptcy trustee couldn't touch any receivables from an auto accident settlement. Meanwhile the insurance company played hardball, not reaching a settlement until we'd already set a court date. I was forced to go on welfare, which paid for most of the cost of my rent. To subsist I was forced to sell some of my instruments and roll up my old nickels and pennies to buy cheap raw food. I ate a meal a day at a local soup kitchen. Then finally my lawyer called to say he'd received the minutes of settlement from the insurance company. I went and signed the papers and went straight to the trustee to declare bankruptcy. The next day, I went and picked up my settlement check, took it to the bank where it was written and got it certified, then went straight to my local bank branch and opened an account, withdrawing $5k in cash to pay off actual people I owed money to. I was a real person again.

Since then, I've done okay for myself but I'll always try to maintain my poverty buying habits. Never borrow. Buy only to earn, not to spend. Avoid banks. I'll try to maintain this attitude even if I become very wealthy.

This is why I'll keep holding, and buying the dips.