Difficulty is a tad too high, block times remain wonky. Somebody sent me a 4 sat/byte tx 2 days ago and it still hasn't confirmed :/

Maybe we are talking past each other or alternatively, maybe we can just agree to disagree to the extent that I am just going to repeat my point that the dynamics have not really changed in this cycle as compared with previous cycles including how much you might also have feelings regarding what the pulse of members of this thread might be, including whether honey badger gives any shits about what regular members of this thread might do.

Of course, there are always going to be people already in bitcoin that are anxious to sell out as soon as we even get close to our previous ATH.. just like that was true in 2015/2016 when so many HODLers were talking like desperate fanatics to cash out at or near $1k, including having doubts that the BTC price would ever return to $1k again and also arguing that they wanted to cash out before everyone else who was eager to cash out.  

How the fuck are they feeling after the BTC price went to $19,666 and they blew their load at $1k-ish under the belief that everyone else would be selling and the BTC price could not be supported up to those higher prices... furthermore, if they were planning to buy back later at a cheaper price, so far, they have been kind of fucked out of that and the best that they could have done was somewhere in the $3k's even though they might have been waiting for even lower prices, so they even failed to buy back in the $3ks..

How have those smarter than the rest of us theories about: 1) "the BTC price NOT being sustainable" and 2) "everyone is desperate to lock-in profits" working out?  Not so well, I would maintain.    In other words, good luck selling all your coins around $20k and the same may be true regarding other price points in the 5 digits realm... even though none of these matters are guaranteed, there are likely opportunity costs and risks in trying to believe that you are smarter than everyone else and selling too much too soon based on such skepticism theories regarding what prices might be sustainable in BTClandia.

That assertion from @mikeinspace is nearly pure bullshit.

It's like arguing that every $100 step from $200, to $300, to $500 etc was going to be painstaking while the BTC price was in the double digits in late 2012, and we know how that played out.

Also

It's like arguing that every $1,000 step from $2,000, to $3,000, to $5,000 etc was going to be painstaking while the BTC price was in the triple digits in late 2016, and we know how that is playing out.

In other words, even if we might experience some BTC price stagnation points and maybe even BTC price percentage increases that are NOT as outrageously extreme as they had been in previous cycles, there is no reason (beyond pure naysaying) to believe that the BTC UPpity price dynamics are NOT much different than they had been in those earlier cycles.. even if the waves are quite likely to play out in somewhat different ways (and we have seen that too, in each cycle, the waves do NOT play out exactly the same, even though the generally go in the same UPpity direction if we zoom out a wee bit).

It’s easy to say you’ll hang on white knuckled all the way up but when will you lick the fiat boot... 20K? 30K? 50K?

JJ Grey & Mofro  'Brighter Days'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpXTK7HD2Ls

above $10,200

um ...nope, but that's just me...

Another day, another bart, meh... I voted for August as well. We stayed at $9200 for too long, let's hope we will see some action in the right direction in July.

Yes, you do. Coinbase as opposed to what? Binance? BitFinex?

BSV as opposed to what? BTC? From a fundamental analysis they are exactly as centralized as each other.

So I have tried a few times to download the Coinbase app needed to sign up for the Coinbase debit card. Each time I get "This is not supported in your country".

I use a VPN to set my IP in the US so is it not supported in the US? Or is it somehow detecting that I'm really in Panama?

Also, I finally got around to filing my extortion papers for the IRS.

Getting married helped keep me from needing to pay any taxes.

Land of the free...where you have to file your taxes even if you haven't stepped foot in the country all year.

In other news; I read in a local rag recently that Belichick is writing off a quarterback this year because he anticipates an opportunity to trade for Garoppolo before the 2021 season. 

Firstly, it's interesting that the US, per head of population (one node per million) actually has less than many European countries.  Germany is 3 per million, Finland is 12 per million - even little Iceland has two nodes - one per 150,000 people.

Concentration in areas or cities is more interesting.  In the USA California on its own has more nodes than most countries (56) - more than the whole of China or Russia - which is perhaps not surprising.

Looks like we have six members interested in a fantasy football league, we're 60-75% there.

Here're the members who expressed interest so far:

@figmentofmyass
@nutildah
@bbc.reporter
@South Park
@tyKiwanuka
@DireWolfM14


I'm calling out some of the members who were active in the Essential NFL thread throughout last season.  Maybe we can entice two or four of them to join as well.

@Hueristic
@wheelz1200
@DaveF
@Gyfts
@rdbase
@ralle14
@morvillz7z

Thanks for the ping @DireWolfM14, not sure how i missed the discussion but you can count me in.

I think we can get 10, but if we need 1-2, i remember ChiBitCTy had a fantasy league going on, maybe some of those guys might be interested?

Nor top nor bottom matter that much. After last ATH in Dec 2017, Bitcoin was less then 3 months over $10000 and a bit more then half year under $6000. For almost 2 years was $6-10k.   So in 3 years time we will most likely complain about $50-100k Bitcoin price. What the hell is wrong that it dont move up?

Hey antimaskers... your idol caved in, time for you to get on with the program too.

Way ahead of you: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5220206.msg54776832#msg54776832

Granted it wasn't a meme-thread-worthy effort but really just the facial expression is meme enough.

cat comes home for.... WHAT??  TEA?

nope nope nope nope nope

white russians only