When it comes to being rich or poor, I’ve found that at least in developed nations it is more determined by your spending habits than you ability to earn income. I know people who make over a quarter million dollars a year and are nearly broke from vacations and fancy rental homes and leased cars. I also know people who make less than $20K a year and live like Kings because they are debt free and self sustaining. If you’ve worked for 20 years and are broke, check your spending habits.

I tossed a couple bucks on the Miami Heat to close out the Boston Celtics tonight. I think Bston gave it their all last game to avoid a sweep and now it’s time for them to go fishing and leave the Finals for a matchup between the Heat and the Nuggets. I think the Nuggets will win that series fairly easily as Miami just doesn’t have enough talent.

I feel like the next week or two is going to be pretty scary for investments of all kinds. With politicians seemingly playing chicken over a debt ceiling agreement and equities already beginning to selloff, you have to be worried that Bitcoin could see a major dip here. I’m not a believer that Bitcoin will be a savior asset that goes up when everything else crashes.

Nvidia’s stock price soaring is great for the company and their future products. With their company’s value shooting up to all time highs, they should have no problem raising the money to build whatever they need to maintain a best in class product line for years to come. I imagine that is good news for fans of their GPUs.

If you ask me, going from $16K to $26K is the bull run...  These runs have a tendency to last multiple years when you zoom out and tune out the noise.  Come next April, the block reward will be slashed in half and demand will likely be higher than it is today.  There won't be US government auctions and the mtgox coins will be distributed.  You're going to want to have a position built by then so I think the way to play it is to dollar cost average into the market for the next two years and then enjoy the rewards that come with that decision.

You shouldn't think of it as stagnation.  Think of it as accumulation after a large increase.  Not long ago the price was $16K.  A lot of people have profits to cash out and the longer it sits at a certain level the more people get exhausted of holding and sell.  Once the weak hands have all sold and all that is left is buyers, the price will move up again.  Consolidation phases are not bad at all for the market.  They exhaust those with leverage payments to make and those who don't believe sell off their coins for other get rich quick attempts.  Strong hands can then scoop up coins for the next wave upward.

Given that this is a Bitcoin forum I would assume that most people here are gambling with BTC.  That being said, something about gambling with USDT or other stablecoins seems like you're inviting bad things.  Maybe that's just an old timer's perspective, but Bitcoin is still somewhat new and regulation of it is changing constantly whereas stablecoins appear to me to be a direct attack on fiat currency that will be cracked down on and regulated out of existence.  Combining online gambling and a currency that is under attack already by regulators seems like compounding potential issues.

Sure, if you can find a buyer for your service I'm sure nobody would have a problem with you offering it here.  You do have a lack of feedback with the exception of one negative so you might have problems receiving payments without an escrow agent.  There's also the rise of AI being taken advantage of to create things like this so you have plenty of competition there as well.  Good luck!

Decentraland is dead as far as I know.  Last I heard it had only a couple daily users and it's only become less popular since then.  I wouldn't be surprised if literally nobody is using it nowadays.  I've also never heard of Pariz so if it has any volume at all it's likely from the founders.  The Sandbox however is partnered with plenty of big brands and is constantly having play to earn events with celebrities endorsing the products that are continuously being minted by users.  Unless I'm completely out of touch here, the Sandbox is the only metaverse actively doing much of anything these days.

It is funny when MrBeast tells the story of his laptop being taken but the private key for his Bitcoin on a sticky note was ignored. It shows you that Bitcoin still isn't mainstream and common thieves aren't yet targeting it.  That's a good thing I guess.

MrBeast's gaming channel seems ripe for crypto infiltration if you ask me.  He puts on a lot of events using Minecraft that I think would actually be better done in the Sandbox if he were to develop his own land.  I'm sure somebody's gotta be working on this idea.  I think MrBeast has the potential to bring the metaverse mainstream. 

It always has been, so it would be a pretty wild change if they no longer were.  It's possible though.  Most algorithms now have ASICs and if they don't then ASICs or FPGAs can still be created rather quickly to take advantage of anything new.  That certainly puts GPUs on the back burner.  However, with AI being a massive user of GPUs I would think an obvious solution to this would be a blockchain that somehow powered AI creations using GPUs.  If something like this gets created, I could see it's coin being an extremely valuable to "mine" asset.

It seems like markets are starting to get a little spooked by the debt limit and whether or not a deal to raise the ceiling will be made or not.  With around a week left now before something big happens, Bitcoin and traditional markets both nosedived this morning.  I've seen this happen enough times now to where I'm sure it isn't a big deal and traders are just trying to profit from the chaos.  If anything, shutting down the government until they get a clue about their spending not being sustainable doesn't sound like the worst thing to me.  As far as job losses, the government employs too many people as it is.

I think it isn't that the companies wanted to do it.  I also heard that Budweiser executives had no idea the trans can was being made.  It seems that people get themselves into positions where they're in charge of marketing and then use it to push their personal agendas.  Maybe I'm wrong and these businesses just made a bad bet, but I don't think so from what I've read.  I hear that Target may be issuing an apology soon so maybe we'll hear more.  Times are changing though.  Soon it will no longer be legal to have your child's penis cut off before they're old enough to speak.

I was honestly surprised that the Celtics were able to win and stay alive here. Usually faced against those odds you teams give up halfway through the game and end up getting blown out. Now they’re delaying the inevitable but I’m glad for any extra games we get to watch this time of year. Seems like we are set for a Nuggets vs Heat Finals. Thursday will make it official.

This thread being in the altcoin section I'm surprised that people are focusing on ASIC information and not GPUs.  I would say if you want to know information about profitability then look to https://whattomine.com/ for a list of GPUs and algorithms that can also have electricity price entered into the equation.  With such a cheap price to pay for electricity, most likely it will be whatever you can get the most revenue from for the least amount of equipment purchase cost.

I don't know if this is his only contribution, but he is listed as a contributor to Bitcoin Core's code, so I assume he's made changes to the code that we probably all utilize today.  It goes to show you that sometimes you can make history in the software industry just by ordering a pizza, even when you've contributed to one of the most successful open source projects of all time.  People like a good story. 

It would appear that Target is the current boycott to watch as people are unhappy with the 'tucking' clothing and pro-trans products being marketed to children.  The left has finally gotten the right to start taking boycotts seriously.  All it took was a man dressed up like a woman on a beer can.  Do you think this boycott will be as effective as the Budweiser boycott?  Target executives are already having emergency meetings to try and get ahead of this issue as they do not want their sales to reflect a 25% decline like Bud Light.

https://www.thestreet.com/retailers/target-faces-bud-light-like-woke-backlash-boycott-calls

Sounds like a ChatGPT response.  LOL

More seriously...  I've always wondered why it was said that the Democratic Party wanted to destroy the family unit, but after a few decades of watching their political base change it appears that's exactly what they were going for and have had great success.  Now they're trying to blur the lines between genders for some strange reason.  It's almost like they want a society of children suffering from mental health with no positive role models for some reason.

In passing I quickly glanced over an article about an underwater tennis court being built for professional use...  No idea if that was true or what but it looked pretty awesome.  I'll admit that the idea of watching a tennis match has never excited me, but I would jump at the chance to see a sporting event underwater.  Although when you think about it, it really is a recipe for quite a spectacular disaster.

It seems like the NBA is really trying hard to support the WNBA and help them build a league.  I'm seeing more WNBA advertisements on TV and their players doing media interviews than I've ever seen.  While I do wish the WNBA success, I think they're going to need more support from women to truly be able to be profitable.  However, maybe as the league does more and more business via things like gambling, it will enable them to turn a profit outside of the typical revenue sources.