A dialog between Bitcoin and the bears...

https://youtu.be/x2WK_eWihdU

... some seriously weird behind-the-scenes charts in the gold market.

https://www.kitco.com/lease.chart.html

... the fiat funny farm is tearing itself apart, it's so large, has so much inertia and is taking years to play out that it is almost impossible for any one individual to describe the total collapse in detail.

As an analogy, imagine if something the size of the moon crashed into the earth in ancient times and all the individual reports described their local experience but nobody had satellites or aircraft to get higher level views of the totality of the impact. There would be reports of massive waves, floods, clouds of dust reaching to the sky, fireballs streaking across hellscapes, earthquakes and ground runctions that threw people hundreds of meters, mountain ranges either appearing or disappearing on the horizon. The reports would read like an alternate reality to someone living in 'normal' times. This is what it is going to be like for a collapse of the global fiat reserve monetary system, generally craziness on a grand scale in all economic and financial affairs.

Because....?

Reasons.

Except, Araoz wasn’t the one writing the blog. He hasn’t posted anything on bitcointalk.org’s forums for years —  and has nothing against its users. It was GPT-3 the whole time, he said...The bot’s predicted sentences were used for posts on the bitcointalk.org forum in recent days, leading to ‘positive’ feedback concluding “the system must have been intelligent".

Your bloated Weather recording chain will never cut it

It also hurts my soul that JB is parroting the talking points of the BSV drones. I mean, it's one thing if the argument is valid. But this is just as bad as the "thousand socks of nullc" talking point (quite the neckbeard by the way...).

And that's just it.  No one is making a coherent argument for that fork.  They bring up "protocol set in stone" as they change it.  They fall back on "Law(l) and courts".  Often you get to hear the "So many people are not smart enough to get it" or the "DYOR" argument.  The the abominable "CSW is SN" garbage.

Another one of my favs is Calvin running around accusing people LEFT AND RIGHT of being paid trolls.  I think Kevin Pham was OBVIOUS in that regard, and I have my suspicions that possibly Daniel Krawictz also was in that category.  I have NO DOUBT that various twitter "influencers" received compensation for something like that.  And his proclaimations of paid trolls sort of ignores the FACT that Bitcoin niether NEEDS or even cares about paid trolls.

What bitcoin HAS done is chew up and spit out just about everyone who has ever either purposefully (Pirate@40, so many others) or accidentally (Carpeles) attacked it.

I was gonna kick that fuckers ass but I could never catch him in the parking lot so I got sick of driving out of my way and just did the windshield.

..... I smashed the guys windshield one day.

Staying positive, glad not to be stuck on a 6 number after a painful while

Not true. They just pass on the costs to their customers in the form of increased premiums. I worked in the anti-fraud division of a major health insurer for a number of years. It was depressing to see exactly how much hospitals can get away with and how little the insurance companies are willing to do about it. There's a lot of dynamics at play here, like hospital physicians sitting on the medical boards of the insurance companies. The insurance companies have no interest to pay out as little as possible, I promise you.

Turns out, insurers don't have to decrease spending to make money. They just have to accurately predict how much the people they insure will cost. That way they can set premiums to cover those costs — adding about 20 percent for their administration and profit. If they're right, they make money. If they're wrong, they lose money. But, they aren't too worried if they guess wrong. They can usually cover losses by raising rates the following year.