I think the C8 is very cheap for a mid engine car and I know their is plenty of room to build a twin turbo setup in the back of them almost as if they designed it to be done that way..
Put standalone engine management on it and I can also fix that easily and forever..
Convert it to a manual steering rack, tilton pedal box, coil over non-electronic suspension, throw away the abs and any traction control..

Could make a pretty nice cart..
Maybe in 10 years I can buy one, lol..

Crossing my fingers they release a manual trans option for it, or someone designs a good swap..
Yeah the paddle box is probably faster, don’t care..

I am into slightly older cars with non-electronic manual drivetrains and relatively simple electronics.. And even slightly older cars with almost no electronics at all..

They break, sure, but I can fix them forever...
Changing spark plugs? Well yeah I run cold copper plugs for performance reasons and check them often anyway..

60s and 70s cars can be restored.. In my opinion these newer vehicles with their miles of wire and 10 computers will not be able to be restored like we do “classic” cars of this age..

I’m just not into the new car tech really.. People brag to me about their dash touchscreens that control everything from their heat to steering feel, and it only makes me recoil in fear of ever having to fix it..

I’m liking the C8 Vette though..

This is a problem: I was working on checking the belts on my car the other day and getting up and down in the driveway was a bit more annoying than normal. Yes I should build a garage with a lift, but the thought of a trouble free GT3 did cross my mind.

:-)

Consider me to be a case point for "Buying car of my dreams" with a couple of BTC at 2.5k. Yes, it was and is super worth it, but price went up since then :-)

Problem with 60's muscle cars is they appealed seriously to Boomers as kids (who could not afford them) and Boomers as adults (who finally had the money/time for them). Now that Boomers are dropping dead a lot, they come up for sale and the Gen X'ers & Millenials really don't have much of a connection to them. Plus they are a maintenance pain in the ass: Replace spark plugs every 10k miles? Adjust carburator floats? Oi.

Times change.

  If BTC plunges another $3-4K,  what does XMR do?  Say fuck it, and go on a tear? or get dragged or pushed down?  It's been a bit like a balloon on a long string in a wind storm, lately.

6 weeks passed and still waiting. So boring.

Get a Maybach and it could be.

Minor question: For those using systems like Kraken, are you keeping your coin there, or just putting some pennies in every month for the auto withdrawls?

A concern is starting to grow in my mind: That exchanges will start considering bitcoins transferred from/to private wallets to be "suspect" by default.

Kind of like how email evolved: It used to be following standards, but these days Google mail will only trust mail from other large centralized mail systems (MS Mail, Yahoo, and Google) with everything else being treated as "spam" by default.

I’ve already written somewhere that it rarely or not at all happens that small people have an advantage over big predators in something - and now some even have a 10-year advantage in their favor. I agree with PS to some extent, and I'm sure that his son is also glad that his dad softened his attitude towards BTC a bit


https://twitter.com/apompliano/status/1303010909208666112?s=21

Although I think Anthony Pompliano made the best comment on his statements

Replying to
@APompliano
Not really. He's only 18. He does not have much money to blow on #Bitcoin
, which is actually a very good thing. My concern is for older people who will lose a lot more, and who don't have enough years left to make back what the loss.

 Ah, Peter Schiff's Shtick - always good for a chuckle.  

That was a short dip, way shorter than I expected in any case.

Considering to buy a car soon as an investment, to keep on the side for the next years. The way things are looking now, it might be possible that I'll be buying it completely with BTC profits.

I have been hodling for 3 years and never-ever cashed. The idea of being able to buy a car with crypto hodlings makes my head spin.

Mind you, we're talking about 1/25th of a Lambo's price, so don't expect jumbo jet prices, but hey, I think it's spectacular anyway.

Yeah fuck coinbase seems a reasonable stance.  I expect to get an earful regarding KYC etc regardless of exchange, though.

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Here you go I guess

OT: In what fucking universe does it make sense that the NASDAQ is up (not down) +25% from its start of the year, during the worst economic crash since the Great Depression?

Seriously??

The NASDAQ didn't just beat some inflation number for the year. UP 25 fucking percent, folks. And it's up +50% from Nov 2019.

Incredible. Average Joe zombies are asleep or flat out ignoring reality.

IMHO, they shouldn't have changed their village's name. It was their original name, it carried historical meaning, it had existed for 800 years, the locals didn't have any issues with it, other than stupid, ignorant, immature foreigners causing trouble and not respecting the region's history and tradition.

What's wrong with Fucking? Those who are offended can go to Hell instead.

Chew on this

194,775 Bitcoin (BTC), 833,083 Ether (ETH), 1.4 million Litecoin (LTC), 27.6 million EOS, 74,167 Dash, 487 million XRP, 6 billion Dogecoin (DOGE), 79,581 Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and 213,724 Tether (USDT)

Confirmed true proven fact: Bitcoin resumes multi-year downtrend after false, fake-out top, driven by fake news and hoax that bitcoin is successful. SHORT BITCOIN!

 ^"Best Caption" contest  anyone?

(I haven't thought of one.... yet)

In other news: Austrian Fucking gets renamed to Fugging!

Last call to go there and make that precious selfie with the village sign.