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361  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: January 08, 2024, 06:11:22 PM
Court documents allege sex tapes taken of Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton and Sir Richard Branson by Jeffrey Epstein.

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Sex tapes are alleged to have been taken of Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton and Sir Richard Branson by Jeffrey Epstein, court documents have revealed.

Sarah Ransome, who says she was a victim of Epstein, wrote about claims that the Duke of York, the ex-US president and billionaire businessman were filmed by the paedophile US financier.

A firm representing Epstein's lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, highlighted the allegations to demonstrate Ms Ransome "manifestly lacks credibility".

Ms Ransome gave a victim impact statement ahead of British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell being sentenced for sex-trafficking.

Andrew has strenuously denied any wrongdoing.

Just wondering why and if Andrew, Bill and Sir Richard would have allowed to be filmed doing their thang with girls...
I doubt Epstein would have killed himself if he really owned those tapes.

Wait...

362  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: January 08, 2024, 05:44:06 PM
Hope to be wrong, but with how hyper bullish the media is being (as well as the shill/trolls in this very WO thread) about the "inevitable" and "sure thing" Bitcoin ETF approvals this week...

....I'm sensing a sell-the-news head fake coming.   Undecided

I mean god forbid that it's all priced in already. They never do that, riiiight?   Roll Eyes

We will see, but we might not care so much about what King Daddy gon' do.
We never do that, riiight?  Cool

EDIT:
In other words: Short term is just noise.

For some it may look bearish, for others bullish, but I think this is unusually realistic prediction, provided there won't be a black swan event.

Mike Alfred
@mikealfred
Standard Chartered just put out a note saying that we could see $50-100B of spot Bitcoin ETF inflows in 2024 and a BTC price of $200,000 by the end of 2025. This is a big traditional bank, folks. The whole world is about to wake up on this.
...

Alfred, the Permabull you can count on to be bullish. Every. fucking. post.
363  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: January 08, 2024, 01:17:07 PM
Something's happening...

Pump in progress!  Cheesy

$45k touched.

We don't want $45k touched, we want $45k raped ripped  Grin Cool

EDIT: Grayscale fees  Cheesy Tongue
364  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: January 06, 2024, 10:01:35 PM
How do y'all take your coffee when chart watching?
I usually do a sugar and splash or milk/heavy whipping cream but Im out of sugar!  So I did manage to find a bag of brown sugar and tried it. To my surprise it pairs well!  

With sugar and milk. And drugs.

Fun fact: I’ve never had coffee. I did have a neighbor growing up who used to drink his coffee with mushrooms in the morning. I thought that was weird until I got older.

This could be the last week without an ETF approval. I feel like there’s a good chance we could see a massive price swing next week. There will certainly be big news one way or the other.

Since caffeine is considered a drug, anyone who drinks coffee everyday is technically a drug addict. Good on you for staying clean Tongue

Mushrooms and coffee? I don't think my stomach could keep that down.

I gave up coffee for a few months.
You first get horrible withdrawal headaches, really different than a normal headache. It was quite a surprise as I only used to drink 1 cup of coffee per day and maybe 2 cups of extremely weak tea.

In the end it felt like it made no real difference to me as coffee only gives me a calm short energy boost and never interfered with sleep, and I actually only had negative effects giving it up, such as more irregular bowel movements that were a bit harder to endure also.

I also spoke to my doctor about caffeine a few years ago and he reckons the whole "I stopped coffee and this is what happened..." YouTube viral stuff is just a fad and exaggerated nonsense mostly.

As long as you don't drink more than 1-5 cups of coffee per day or so I doubt it has a significant effect on your health.
Like anything, excessive consumption of anything will cause problems somewhere.

Also, black coffee has virtually no calories so it works well with a diet etc.

I drink 2 large cups of coffee per day and non caffeinated rooibos/redbush tea.
All with sweeteners.
These are not necessary perhaps and some people reckon they are cancerous garbage.

Still, I reckon this is much less worse than excessive alcohol or smoking.

Since going back to coffee, I actually really enjoy the process of making filtered coffee.
I have an old fashioned filter machine (with the paper filter things).

Interesting topic.

I was never a coffee person, contrary to 99% of the rest of the population, it seems. I may drink coffee when out with friends, or sometimes I would take hot/cold chocolate instead. About 2 years ago I started drinking coffee regularly at work, using a Nespresso machine. I usually use 2 capsules to cover a day (espressos, even lungos, are so low in quantity).

As for caffeine intake, I take plenty. Not from coffee, but from Coca-Cola. I'm almost ashamed to say it, but I'm addicted to it. It's of the "Zero" variety, so there are no calories, but there is caffeine (and other chemicals). I think I may have become immune to it by now, I don't sense any caffeine effect by drinking or not drinking coffee, as long as I take my daily fix of Coke.

Thinking of getting a filter machine at home like the one you have. I like the taste of that coffee. And the ritual of making it.

Uhh, i would prefer old school Coca Cola (not that old school, which is connected to the brand name's origin) over Zero at any time. Zero tastes like shit, imo. All those Zero-ized stuff is making your liver work hard to process the sweeteners.
I don't tolerate sugars and most sweeteners well, so i always treated Coke like weak poison, best mixed with alcohol of certain different blends. Too much of it, usually  Grin

(EDIT: Oh, did i forget to mention that citric acid is able to bind heavy metals, which are then able to pass the blood-brain barrier? I try to avoid it as best as i can, as i would advise to everybody i care about. And no, that's not Parascience there...)

To contribute a lil more:
I was a coffee drinker since i was 15yo.
Didn't tolerate it well, gave me the shits almost every morning, but i couldn't stop to love it. I was a smoker at that time, where tobacco and coffee were teaming up well together. Later i found out that it might be the sugar that stirs up my intestines, and the former love of my life, who happened to manufacture roasted coffee, made me try to exclude the 3-5 usual teaspoons of sugar i added to every cup. Guess what? The shits and bowel problems were gone, and since that day i was loving coffee even more. I know about the withdrawal of caffeine, but one can compensate the headaches and lack of energy with hydration and blood pressure elevating nutritients. The last twenty years i had at least 6-8 cups of strong, aromatic espresso coffee almost every day, most of them with plenty of milk (steam foamed). No probs with sleep and guts. No sugar, no nothing but milk, sometimes water, very rarely cognac or liquor.
And of course, in Summer it's sometimes a cold, unsweetened White Russian in the evening.

EDIT2: I like Buddy, he's trying to go up again and again and again.
365  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: January 06, 2024, 09:45:41 AM
I enjoyed Luc Besson's movies in the past, but the thrilling plot carrying you along was mostly replaced by bullet- and explosion -heavy SFX warfare CGI scenes, lately.
And there are soo many errors, no more fun to watch action movies when you go "wtf, did you see this?" every couple of minutes.

Leon still holds up. I watched it a year or two ago again. Still so good 30 years on.

Imo, the best one. Gary Oldman was really good in acting the badass.
366  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: January 06, 2024, 09:40:11 AM
I enjoyed Luc Besson's movies in the past, but the thrilling plot carrying you along was mostly replaced by bullet- and explosion -heavy SFX warfare CGI scenes, lately.
And there are soo many errors, no more fun to watch action movies when you go "wtf, did you see this?" every couple of minutes.

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(Jaws & Jurassic Park mostly, even a hint of Saving Private Ryan is in there).

Now that sounds really interesting. Maybe i'll check that one out.
Anectdote: Saving Private Ryan was the first movie in a long time which almost made me threw up (i was really stoned, though). Very impressive. Watched it again later, brilliant!

I had some good laughs watching "Babylon" (2022) a few days ago, which was lurking on my harddrive for a couple of months already.
367  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: January 06, 2024, 09:17:13 AM
Insidious: The Red Door (2023)

Don't even bother. 2 hours wasted.

3/10, and I'm being too generous to this boring, recycled, predictable, Hollywood horror flick.

I abandoned the horror genre shortly after i witnessed my first Bitcoin bear market  Shocked

....
 Dude!  I smell another song brewin'  Grin
 "Asshat Self"


Great concept bro.
However, for now it will have to go on the back burner.
I recently got sucked into a band situation, so and now I gotta practice someone else's songs.

I'd wish to do some band stuff just for funzies, but the metalheads in my area are either way too young (below 25, not very disciplined and always drunk), or they are 50+ and already engaged in their bands for years or decades. My electronic drumkit doesn't help, it's fine for basic practice. Mesh drumheads also feel too "bouncy", and you can't compare that heavy, slow rubberized plastic plate(s) to a real hihat. You are pretty lost with that in any non-studio rehearsal situation (good headphone mixing needed at least), too. So i think i'll settle on instrumental guitar/bass tracks to play along. Not that there are many to find, but youtube has some gems to offer.

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So Bitcoin to $200k via Quatar?
I don't know. I think they won't be so stupid to buy in a manner that they drive up the price. I also think they have a lot of experience from other markets, so it's unlikely they gonna go all in at once.
368  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: January 05, 2024, 06:27:03 PM
JustIN Bieber: Exceptional Trustworthy Females (ETFs) win approval.



Two different pupils, two different nipples... AI still has some way to go.
369  Economy / Speculation / Re: Automated posting on: January 05, 2024, 01:19:15 AM
Who runs ChartBuddy?

I am planning to run my own bot in a similar way, and I have some questions about how to log with a bot. I am have problems with captcha!

I have memorization problems, but it seems to me that brother RichieT is the one you're looking for.
Sorry if i was wrong, though.

I remember you've mentioned before that you have some memory issues, am I right? I just now realized that your nickname "OutOfMemory" may be related to this. It's fun/interesting to speculate about each of us by analyzing our nicknames.

BTW, yes, I think the creator of ChartBuddy is Richy_T (correct spelling).

Thanks for putting the Nickname right.

My nickname is directly related to my biggest weakness, yes. I also suck at choosing new nicknames, didn't want to use my regular one(s) for OpSec reasons.
370  Economy / Speculation / Re: Automated posting on: January 05, 2024, 12:39:17 AM

Explanation
Chartbuddy thanks talkimg.com


Who runs ChartBuddy?

I am planning to run my own bot in a similar way, and I have some questions about how to log with a bot. I am have problems with captcha!

I have memorization problems, but it seems to me that brother "Richie T" is the one you're looking for.
Sorry if i was wrong, though.
371  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: January 04, 2024, 08:57:08 PM


Apparently, David Hasselhoff reacts to acceleration faster than his passenger... So funny!

I remember I was hooked on that show.

May be anticipation, though.
I watched all of them, with the K.A.R.R. episode as my all-time-favourite.
372  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: January 03, 2024, 01:35:40 PM
Someone took a dump?
I was hoping to find the reason here Smiley

It is all just market manipulation so the whales can buy cheaper Bitcoin before the real ETF approval.  Roll Eyes

It shows the strength of $42k support, though.
373  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: January 03, 2024, 01:15:30 PM
Nice one! I was in Vienna and tomorrow I will post a new picture.

My trackdown of flight/destination was correct?
I like to know when i make mistakes  Grin
374  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: January 03, 2024, 10:00:05 AM
Breaking: Found my old Ledger Nano, which was believed to be lost.

Don't ask  Cheesy  Cheesy Cheesy
375  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: January 03, 2024, 08:49:36 AM

You were flying to Sarajevo, and you the plane just landed a few minutes ago.
Right?  Grin
if this is correct, i will start believing in magic.
I would pick Luxembourg or Copenhagen feeling lucky since yesterday.

Magic?
It's dark outside the gates on the photo, i happen to know how to read maps and that Gate 04 is opposite/next to Gate 03. Following the date of post, extracted from the image hoster url, i can only find one flight on this day after sunset boarding from Gate 04, and this was the one announced 20 or 30 mintues from the time of the post.
I'm pretty sure, at least as far as the evidences were telling me...

 Very nice!  I had to start by looking for airport terminals with a G gate which was underlined in orange and that took a while.  I was lucky to have spotted an image with a G underlined in orange which also had a sign with the word "ausgang" near it so I narrowed it down quite a bit with that.  I believe you are correct and vroom flew to Sarajevo.


I had some slight advantage, i admit, because i have seen this airport from inside quite often and recognized that WiFi sign in the quote from AlcoHODL, where he already correctly identified the airport. A quick google search for the map of VIE to confirm that Gate G04 is opposite to G03. After spotting the post datetime and photo upload date, it was an easy find in the flight listing app of the airport. It would have been harder if vrooom had posted on the next day, though.

EDIT: And it's a good place to hang out, with the "Wiener Bierbar" (Vienna Beer Bar) next to the left  Grin
376  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: January 03, 2024, 12:44:54 AM
So will we see pre- and post- ETF FOMO?
Alts would bleed a bit, i guess.
377  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: January 02, 2024, 11:42:37 PM

You were flying to Sarajevo, and you the plane just landed a few minutes ago.
Right?  Grin
if this is correct, i will start believing in magic.
I would pick Luxembourg or Copenhagen feeling lucky since yesterday.

Magic?
It's dark outside the gates on the photo, i happen to know how to read maps and that Gate 04 is opposite/next to Gate 03. Following the date of post, extracted from the image hoster url, i can only find one flight on this day after sunset boarding from Gate 04, and this was the one announced 20 or 30 mintues from the time of the post.
I'm pretty sure, at least as far as the evidences were telling me...
378  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: January 02, 2024, 09:51:26 PM
where am I and where am I flying to? Smiley



You were flying to Sarajevo, and you the plane just landed a few minutes ago.
Right?  Grin
379  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: January 02, 2024, 10:08:11 AM

Wow...mastoiditis, I know about it as a possibility, but the first actual case, sorry.
Indeed, a potentially dangerous condition, glad that it was discovered and treated early.
Cohlear implant-if that is what you are talking about (no need to specify if it is or isn't as it is personal, I am just going off of what you already said)-it is almost a miracle of modern medicine.

Yeah, seems to be rare. The only symptoms were a feeling of liquid inside the ear (the doctor didn't see any liquid, though) and a constant hum (like a car with diesel engine running in idle mode outside a flat, when listened to from inside) - which he thought was psychic  Roll Eyes Though, when knocking with my thumb on the bone behind my ear it was sounding like a fat, sustained TR808 bassdrum, which kinda proved a physical relationship, but i'm not a doctor  Tongue Tongue  Roll Eyes
I insisted on getting the ossicle implant checked in the hospital, which was made of a neurotoxic aluminium-glass compound (wait for the full story).
The surgeon found the infection just when he was about to end the inspection of the implant, cut it out and threated it with antibiotics.

Now, how did i get an implant costisting of some rather dangerous material?
They just didn't know it, it was a new surgery compound from a well known manufacturer's (3M) subdivision branch, used successfully for some time already in dental lab work, when brain surgeons started to use it for replacing skull bone, resulting in early post-surgery death of the patiens because aluminium ions were leaking into the brain's liquor fluid, causing fatal encephalitis. So the sub-branch of the company was closed, de-registered, all of the material was recalled. In between those happenings, i was getting my implant, to lessen my post-accidental hearing loss, in the 80s, when you didn't need something like a certificate for implants, for airports, MRI an so on. This became obvious when i almost had my first MRI (of the head) post Y2K, and they asked me for implants, and in turn for the certificate. Then they said i can't get an MRI without the certificate. When i went to the hospital and asked to issue one, they didn't have a reference to the manufacturer and no brand name of the material, and the manufacturer, as registrar of the patent didn't exist anymore. So i just took the plunge, made another appointment at a different MRI facility and denied any knowledge of implants, like i do until today. Knowing that aluminium is not ferromagnetic, i was pretty sure that there won't be problems until the field strength of the MRI would not exceed extremely high figures.
I found this all out by research about the used material, to get a certificate for the implant. In the process i had eMail contact with a woman at 3M, who was an employee of the vanished sub-branch/corp which manufactured the withdrawn material. She brought me onto the right track. I was only lucky that this one woman got my eMail assigned, i guess.

Now that's the story. A great chain of lucky events, considering the accident which was the reason for implanting the ossicular plastic, almost got me killed in the first place as a child.  Grin

A good morning out of Thailand it is
Enjoy... but remember Elwar and Nadia.

I do remember

Haven't seen him around in a while, after the Bitcoin-Titanic story...
Also missed here: LastoftheV8s, Hairymaclary, Arriemoller and a few others i maybe forgot about since i registered to bitcointalk.


It could be a tax thing. Or human semantics. Or ETF pre-pumping. Or...just plain old unpredictable Bitcoin.  Grin

Looking fwd to the upcoming C(arolina)CMF...

Though, it's no more Choo-Choo, it's Chop-Chop nowadays, innit?  Grin
EDIT: Or is it vrooom-vroom, actually  Huh
* OutOfMemory scratching his head...
380  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: January 01, 2024, 09:50:27 PM
HNY man!

This sounds awful. Never had infections in my ears, but have heard it can be nasty.

Get well soon, you can't miss January -- the popcorn month! (read: ETF and other fun stuff...)

Thanks, man.
I find pain manageable up to the point where you have to constantly move (kind of flight as in freeze/fight/flight?). This night was below that point, so no biggie.
The first time i had (a much more intense) ear infection, it felt like knitting needles periodically piercing my eardrum. It set in at around 1am when i was sleeping on the floor (no questions), one hour later i was in a phone booth, almost crying, when i phoned up my parents at home for some painkillers. I had a short sedated sleep at their house and went to the hospital early morning.
More than twenty years later, i learned from the doctor of my children that you have to get rid of sinus clogging ASAP after the eardrum starts twitching (precedes the pain), using decongestant nasal spray, which i always have at home since. Same procedure last night as i've done to my kids a couple of times each: unclogging sinuses, but after pain onset. Worked after two hours, when ear pressure decreased with a clicky sound a little each time. Everything was slowly getting better since.
To avoid antibiotics and painkillers: Keep nasal spray at home, especially if you have kids. If there's no major improvement after three days of spraying: Go to a (possibly better than just) good doctor. The body will get used to the spraying after a week or so, after which nothing will probably work to combat the infection, other than surgery, including local use of Antibiotics, maybe even combined with oral AB and other meds.
I had a cold infection of the bone behind the ear, which was slowly extending through the skull bone over years, which could have killed me some day, discovered by accident while undergoing a check of a tiny implant i happen to have in my head since i was 7 yo, and this infection was taken care of this way. After the surgery i had a kind of waking coma for one and a half hour, until i could move my eyes and fingers, toes again. Fucking awesome experience, i went double lucky that day, but that's already a whole different story now, which i might have already told here. This reply is already too long, i should better get some of my sleep back.

Stay healthy, brothers.
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