I thought Mormons had to abstain from harmful substances (which include - oh the horror - coffee!)?  Some of your stories have led me to believe you did not do that.

I have all my signature campaign earnings saved, along with a decent sum of stablecoins in terms of cryptocurrency assets. I also have a decent amount of money saved in fiat, but that doesn't change the fact that housing and living costs are excessive. I'm from Greece, and the minimum salary ranges from €700 to €800 at best. Even by living with my partner, each one of us will need €300 per month just for the house. Without groceries, petrol, insurance, taxes, and so on. I don't want to be stuck in a loop, slowly draining my savings.
I'm guessing you can understand what situation I'm in right now. I'm 25 and used to live with my partner before the army came up.
Monthly tickets cost up to €60, or €40 if you're a student. I'm not sure if I'm still eligible for a student discount. However, my motorcycle doesn't use too much fuel, so the cost will be approximately close, or a little more, and will be way more convenient. I'm determined to avoid using my car or my motorcycle for short distances and stick to walking and bicycling.
That's correct; some things, such as houses, due to it being a touristy area, are quite expensive, along with fuel. I've only been to Poland abroad, which is now one of the safest countries in Europe and is against welcoming refugees, and I've got to be honest, I wasn't afraid to walk at midnight. Other Western cities are a completely different story nowadays.
I understand why the military is mandatory here, for obvious reasons of a specific neighboring country; however, I believe that it should focus more on extensive training but for a shorter time. 9 months passed way too fast, but I've been out of the job market for over a year now, and I'm starting from zero again.

Time is not on your side, today's GPUs will only depreciate over time as new ones are released. There is an opportunity for RTX-3000 series in the near term
with overpriced and underperforming RTX-4000 but once RTX-5000 comes out RTX-3000 will be virtually worthless.

I'm not an economist – but I don't completely agree with your assumption that poor countries would remain poor without debt. Abundant natural products can increase a country's income, as can its natural resources. Do you remember Qatar - yes, they are a good example to break your assumption that poor countries will remain poor without debt.

I believe Qatar may have had debts before they became a rich country due to natural gas and oil – but the natural resources they have have changed the country's economic status at the world. Of course, natural resources are a factor that will change the fate of a poor country ^{[have debt or have no debt].}

Isn't just withdrawing from further discussion a sufficient signal that the interlocutor no longer wants to answer?
There are many reasons for such a thing, but if everything has already been said and someone has nothing new to add, why would you force further discussion? This would be great for trolls, who use every little thing as an excuse to continue the provocation.

For 30 years I have been describing myself as a Confirmed Agnostic.

*this has the added benefit of shutting up any religious arguments before they start.

Oh (mythical) gawd! Don’t get me going…

You might be being too harsh LFC.  I surely agree with the idea of shaming nocoiners and low coiners who had not been sufficiently aggressive, but even $100 per week would have had need to be investing since the beginning of 2020 in order to get to the accumulation of 1BTC.

And there surely are some people who are not even able to invest $100 per week, but yeah sure, if they are able to invest $100 per week and they are not, then they should be shamed.. but then another question is when did they find out about bitcoin.. early 2020 or some later point.

By the way, the $10 per week person would have had to be investing since June 2016 in order to get to 1 BTC.

Don't get me wrong, I am not trying to give anyone any kind of free pass, but the fact of the matter, is that it is getting more and more difficult to accumulate a whole BTC.. and that seems to be part of the reason that we are likely going to NOT be too elitist in terms of maybe currently having a kind of expectation that people currently (or recently) finding out about bitcoin might need to shoot for some lower level goal.. such as 21 million sats or maybe 10 million sats or maybe even 1 million sats. .but surely if they have known about bitcon for a few years, they should already be past those levels..

again depending on their monthly budget and/or how aggressive that they are able to be without screwing things up too much in terms of losing their coins.. which would be even a worse outcome for those who might end up overdoing it in such a way that they are not able to hang onto whatever coins that they are able to accumulate.. because I think that part of this bitcoin accumulation game should be creating such a strategy that you are constantly and continuing to build your BTC stash until you get to such a point that is close to your own fuck you status... and that could take 20-30 years in regular systems, even though bitcoin likely has been able to provide ways that even normies could have gotten to fuck you status in less than 10 years. .which surely is not a usual kind of investment, and bitcoin seems to continue to be a strong investment in terms of short-cutting the getting to fuck you status as long as you don't screw things up by over doing it too much.


Even my entry-level fuck you status chart shows that it could take until late 2043 for one 1 BTC to be enough for entry-level fuck you status... and sure, it is probably way easier to be trying to front-load your BTC investment to try to get the 1BTC earlier rather than later, but still I doubt that it is fair to presume that everyone is able to invest aggressively in order to get to 1 BTC quicker than their cashflow and expenses allow them to get there.. and surely anyone with an investment portfolio of $100k or more could end up choosing to allocate 25% to BTC investments, but it is not clear that s/he would still be able to get to 1 whole bitcoin right away or if it would necessarily be good advice to immediately reallocate his/her investment portfolio in order to get 1 BTC in there at this time.. so there are some individualistic particulars that are best to be attempting to accounting.


This is a great example (even though it is sad and a bit depressing, too).

Historically, I have tended to lecture forum members about any kind of overly dependence on merely earning bitcoin rather than buying bitcoin.. because sometimes there can be ways to earn money (including fiat) that is going to allow you to buy way more bitcoin than you are able to from earning, whether we are referring to a signature campaign or other ways that you might be able to get paid for providing goods, services and/or labor...

So surely, I have sympathies for when forum members (or any other normies) have a lot of difficulties figuring out how to get BTC based on their own physical location that may well either be hostile to bitcoin or not really having ways in which you are able to find ways to purchase bitcoin... and there could be some ways that you might be able to buy some bitcoin from forum members. that is if you are able to generate some cash in other ways.. but of course, hopefully you are ongoingly trying to figure out ways that you are able to get BTC besides merely relying on signature campaigns... but surely persistence with signature campaigns could also get you over 1 BTC in less than 10 years.. maybe even less than 5 years.. .. but maybe those days are gone?


Saylor and/or MSTR is likely not going to cash out, but if he/MSTR wanted to cash out more than $26 billion at around those $200k-ish prices (or close to $32 billion in my corrected stats), he/MSTR could do that.

Sounds like you don't know nuttin, @Sophokles.


You sound really lost @Sophokles.

Do you really believe that if bitcoin were to go to $200k and Saylor's/MSTR's coins go up from just under $5 billion to nearly $32 billion, then he is going to need to sell in order to reap benefits from having such cornz? 

Try MOAR harder.  You can do better than that.  Can't you?


Those are fair points, but it seems to me that we were talking about the value of the BTC going up from a little less than $5 billion to a little more than $32 billion... so you seem to be making a different point, at least from the one that I was making.. maybe Phil could end up agreeing with you that was what he was talking about... perhaps?  I surely wasn't talking about that.

Yes, I agree. But with the tag, I know that the person I'm talking to has read it. If he doesn't reply it means he really wants that, if he comes back after a few days (but I'm not sure many do this) it's better than no further discussion

Yes, maybe your idea is good... but few people use that method, and there are too many words " I.a.d.t.w.c.b.o.t.t.i.a.d.o.t" would probably make it look like spam


It seems like the discussion in the thread didn't go well because the OP didn't reply to other members' comments

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I don't want to discuss that. But that's one example that some discussions require feedback or at least I know that the person I'm talking to has read my argument

got you alh

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"On July 26, 2023, soldiers from the Presidential Guard blocked access to Bazoum's residence. The president's office said on the president's Twitter account that individual guards "launched a mutiny in a vain attempt to gain the support of the National Armed Forces and the National Guard."....""

Typical military coup. Which means the change of power is not legitimate, and neither is the head of the military junta. And why should anyone follow their orders ?
Well and most importantly - everyone understands that a military coup in one of the poorest African countries will not lead to anything positive, neither for the inhabitants of the country nor for its political weight in the world. I can even predict what will happen. Those close to the junta will gain access to the country's wealth, or simply appropriate someone's property, organize their own private military company, just to protect themselves from the population of their country.... Such "power" is not capable of anything else....

Can you show me a thread that discusses something like this? Actually not a button, maybe something like a merit that is sent but has no effect on rank, maybe something like "karma"

Like this discussion, someone seems to be accusing me of having certain intentions, but he doesn't want to clear up the discussion. He just disappeared.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5457879.msg62874604#msg62874604


Yes, because most discussions are carried out not because of interests and hobbies of discussion but because of campaigns so they don't feel important about replies from other people


Suggestions are rejected unless you have a strong argument as to why I should lock this thread


Sorry I don't understand what you are saying. I'm not a native English speaker

Are there some recommended approaches for running Bitcoin Core on a laptop with constrained storage capacity? Is it possible to use an external hard drive as the data directory (datadir)? How does this setup work, and would I need to pay attention to?

Thank you in advance to everyone who responds to this question.

Every country on the list of the largest debts in the world will not be able to pay it off with one payment but they will pay periodically on the condition that they will not add to other debts. I am surprised that Japan is in first position on the list of the largest debts in the world even though it is said to be the country with the most advanced economy in the world.

However, apart from the countries on the list above, there are several other countries that have high amounts of debt, but the government has the worst history because the government wants to improve the country's economy from debt sources for development needs and some of it is used for community assistance so that they do not stage demonstrations against the government, many corruption cases from the main source of debt funds from other countries but they are very arrogant and anti-criticism so that many corruption cases are not tried or many corrupt convicts are free to leave prison.

Wow, the thread really blew up since the last time I opened it yesterday evening. I've read every single one of your replies, but I certainly cannot reply to everyone individually.
The truth is that there's not much to do. You can't tackle inflation and increasing costs yourself; the only thing you can do is find ways to increase your income and, at the same time, reduce your expenses by avoiding unnecessary expenditures. And honestly, the most valuable activities in life are free.
I was, honestly, the exact opposite. I had a relatively cheap house and a steady job—not the highest-paying one—but along with my partner, we earned a decent income, plus signature campaigns to save Bitcoin. I was stress-free regarding money; we'd go on trips by car and vacation once or even twice a year without worrying too much. Now things are completely different, though. These times probably came to an end.
Certainly, my mind keeps racing, and I'm not actually relaxing, even when I'm resting. I can't stop thinking of what we could have done better or what we're going to do in this dire situation of not being able to find proper accommodations. My personal items are scattered along two houses and in my car because I've got nowhere to put them. Not only is this situation frustrating, but it also causes angry outbursts from time to time. It's causing a spiral of bad moods and depression.
The military was the icing on the cake. I spent a year not earning money, and now I've returned to absolute zero. No income, no house. I'm only left with an enormous burden and stress. I'm generally an anxious person and an overthinker, and my mind just doesn't shut down anymore. I keep endlessly thinking, to no avail.

Am sure Satoshi didn't quite think BTC would turn out to an investment option for people as opposed to the idea in mind before its creation.
One thing I have always loved about new innovations is that people get to utilize it in various scenerio to ascertain which best the innovation serves.
BTC to some is just money, but to others, it is a valuable asset worth investing and HODLing for a duration and if Satoshi had thought about all the possibility of having BTC, perhaps imthe idea would have failed.