Excellent! Simple, cheap & small (unlike CryptoSteel), durable, and the seed words are not in plain sight unless you unscrew it. Make sure you use stainless steel to avoid (mind)rust. For those who don't know/understand how it's done, you just punch or permanently engrave/etch the first 4 letters (no need for more) of each of the seed words on each of the washers, lock them tightly in the screw with the wing nut, store it somewhere safe, all done!

Very important warning: when punching the 4 letters of each word on each of the washers, make sure you also punch the seed index of each word/washer (i.e., its order position in the seed). If you don't, and you just rely on the washers being arranged in proper order in the screw, you may mess things up if you or someone else unscrews it and the washers fall off. If the order is lost, the seed is also effectively lost.

This below-linked podcast that came out today reminded me of this thread, in terms of talking about bitcoin precursors and the problems that were attempting to be solved in the lead up to bitcoin.

Unchained: Why Bitcoin Now: The History of Digital Currency - Ep.185

In other words: a crash is impossible. I really don't think USA, Russia and China can agree on anything... 

A crash is possible if USA Russia and China all agree to out law it.  

He used to say something along the lines of "Don't hold Monero, use it".

He was basically trying to deny the number go up appeal of crypto investment, and argue that the main focus of Monero is it's usability, not it's potential for Lambos.  This was during the whole ICO surge and I think in some ways he was tying to differentiate XMR from all the thousands of projects who's seeming point was to enrich the developers/scammers.

I remember he was criticized for this position being a sort of reverse psychology play by some twitter personality who I think is a pretty big jerk.  But the point is certainly reasonable in a way.  And so is the saying.  

Fuck yes, the avatar is back.

Not a noob... trollin' since 2013^TM.

Wife update: First day without constantly "mounted" neck support, off the opioids and on mild dose of ibuprofen.
Good development. Luckily, the local physiotherapist had a client that cancelled treatment, so she will be getting therapy way sooner than expected.

“MicroStrategy Adopts Bitcoin as Primary Treasury Reserve Asset.

MicroStrategy has recognized Bitcoin as a legitimate investment asset that can be superior to cash and accordingly has made Bitcoin the principal holding in its treasury reserve strategy

I stand by my earlier comment, and if you are retiring, you do not want anyone exit scamming with your retirement principle merely because you feel insecure about whether you have enough to be able to cash out 4% per year or some other reasonable liquidation plan and still be able to largely preserve the value of your principle and to have the asset (in this case bitcoin) to appreciate in value enough to be comfortable with the amount that you are withdrawing.

Of course, if you are retiring, the longer your timeline, the more secure that you need to feel about having enough principle to last you whether for the duration of your retirement and that you do not have to go back to work because you failed to properly plan in term s of the amount that you have and the amount of your spending.  

If you anticipate your retirement to be 10 years, 20 years, 30 years or more.. then the longer the timeline, the more you need to be careful regarding how much you withdraw or if you go into retirement too early, then you might not have been ready for retirement if you cannot sustain your withdrawal amount..

I personally believe that $2million in principle would be sufficient for a lot of people around the world, because withdrawing 4% per year from a $2million principle would allow for $6,666, in passive income.. which presumes that the value of your various investments (in this case bitcoin) will appreciate on average at least 4% per year.. Personally, I believe that bitcoin can meet the at least 4% per year of sustaining its value or appreciating in value presumption without having to take 3rd party risks, and sure other people are going to make other presumptions or take other gambles, and they might end up getting exit scammed which will cause them to have less money in their retirement, presuming that they do not put all of their eggs in one basket.  

I personally do not have all my eggs in one basket, but I am thinking that bitcoin will constitute a pretty decent size of what is available t me, and my other investments by themselves are also enough to sustain me so bitcoin, for me, kind of serves as extra icing on the cake.  Of course, also, we live in uncertain times, so it becomes more possible that I will have to live off of my bitcoin, but my bitcoin is way larger than my conception of my basic needs.. so in any event it seems to be both good to have a cushion and also not feel that there is any kind of need to earn money on your bitcoin through some potentially problematic third party for the reasons that I already repeated several times.

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I had hopes for the league originally, but then Covid fucked their season over good.  I don't know how the NFL is going to fair with the pandemic and the political divisiveness they've engaged in.  It seems like now is as good of a time as any for an alternate league to stake a foothold.

She can play. But I'll see your Sina, and raise you a Meytal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yw8aaqnnrg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKFJbSzhovk

Oh my, a real unicorn! Ouch, my heart. Don't tell me she's a Bitcoiner too.

I wonder if any of these shit coin profits will end up being converted into King BTC? Shit coins are shit coins, they pump & inevitably dump, hopefully some of the profits find their way into bitcoin.

Cut him and he bleeds Blockstream all over you. And he does it in a rather trollish manner.

Not totally sure what my feelings are about the whole Blockstream thing, but he's one of those people who you already know what their point of view will be without having to check what they've actually said. Such people sideline themselves and everything they touch.

I'll be interested to see what it comes out with but anything with Samson Mow involved has murdered its objectivity before it was born. He could do with getting a nice job on a fishing boat or something.