Who would want to be immortal? That’s some dumb shit young people would think is cool. Wait til you start aging and see all the pains and shit you have to deal with. It’s the folks who die young before they are forced to compromise who they are to conform to society that are the ones we should be jealous of. Imagine how awful life would be at 120 years old. No thanks…

I finally got the Metacycle registered. Still waiting on my insurance company to send me a policy… I will say the experience of trying to register this thing is enough to make anyone a Libertarian. They had me jump through so many hoops and bring my motorcycle in because they “never saw an electric motorcycle before.” After 4 trips to the MVD and eventually just paying a third party service over $400, I got it registered. A horrible experience, but at least it is behind me now and I can legally enjoy this beast (once my insurance company figures out what to do).

Personally, I think it's already a done deal.  However, if it's a probability you want, I would put the probability of Bitcoin hitting $60K again in it's lifetime at about 80%.  At this point I think it would take a great deal of regulation, hacks, and competition for Bitcoin to slow it's growth.  Even though people hate it now because of it's recent price performance, a whole lot of people are now signed up to sites like Coinbase with their bank accounts already linked...  The next run up could be absolutely incredible.  I think it will be the first bubble where everyone is already ready and knows what to do.

Up only!  So far 2023 is turning out to be as predictable as the other rallies off the bottom.  I don't understand how traders could follow anything but the 4-year cycle at this point.  It's been demonstrated over and over again, but for whatever reason people want to trade the little news ticks back and forth with each other.  It really doesn't have to be so stressful guys.  Sell every 4 years, buy every 4 years and you'll do great.  Try to trade every little news article and you're going to lose your ass.  Buy now, sell in 2025.  It sounds so simple but yet so many people will miss the trade...

He's been putting on quite a bit of weight since retirement.  I think naturally he's a very big boy.  The amount of training and dieting he had to do to get into fighting shape and stay that way for so long was probably extremely difficult on him.  I don't think he'll be able to ever get back to that fighting shape now to be honest.  I also don't think he has any intention of trying to be a boxer, as he was a grappler and would probably get killed in a boxing match.  Now that he has seemingly retired from coaching as well, he'll probably continue to fade away until he is no longer mentioned, as his fighting opponents to me outside of McGregor weren't too impressive.

If you want to make a living from sports betting, you should look at ways besides just betting, which is hard to consistently win at. For example, some casinos offer referral programs. You can advertise their services and when people use them after following your link, you can get paid. Some people take out ads and really try to get referrals. Over time that can be one way you could make a living from sports betting.

Up up and away. Did you catch the bottom? Was it obvious yet? Where are we going from here?

I think this rally is going to take us over $30K before it stops. Perhaps a few months of up only. Why am I so bullish? Simple. The market never should have dropped this low. It only did because of all the scammers like Barry and Sam that suppressed this market. The rubber is hitting the road though. Don’t be left behind.

My question for someone looking into buying Polkadot is...  What are you going to do with it?  I've heard a couple people mention buying Polkadot, but it's never to use it for anything.  It's always about staking it to get more Polkadot.  I think that's a really piss poor reason to buy a currency.  I honestly couldn't even give you one example of something you'd need to own Polkadot for.  I've never even heard of a project running on it.  Granted, I'm sure there's some activity out there, but is this activity that you need to participate in, or are you fooling yourself into thinking you'll buy this coin and then sell it for more later?  If that's your thinking, keep in mind the coins you're buying are someone else's sell it for more later.

My understanding is that it's people providing their identity for the website https://nostr.com/

Their definition of the service is:

"A decentralized network based on cryptographic keypairs and that is not peer-to-peer, it is super simple and scalable and therefore has a chance of working."

You can read more here:
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

The short of it is that it's a decentralized version of Twitter.  While this isn't exactly accurate, it's a good quick explanation of why people are using their twitter accounts to promote their nostr identity.  I haven't used it personally, as I enjoy Twitter, but I can see how evolving a project like this could turn into a trusted and decentralized social network in the future.  It feels very "web3" to me, which is what I find fascinating about those who are promoting it, as they have typically been anti-web3 in the past.

Ya, it is generally a bad idea to buy accounts in any situation.  You never know if the person who owned the account before you engaged in shady behavior that could find itself to you down the line.  Maybe the account is going to have any funds deposited seized or maybe the account was KYC'd to a bad person that is wanted by the police, or who knows...  The original owner could reclaim his account using his identity as verification...  The list goes on and on why it's a bad idea to do something like this.  Least of which is probably Stake closing the account and your money being wasted.

8 NBA games today with 2 of them being televised on ESPN's NBA doubleheader.  First up is the Bucks vs the Hawks.  While the Hawks have been playing great lately, I think the Bucks are just the better team and Giannis will be able to carry them to a win.  Hopefully the Hawks big guys don't cause him too many problems.  Then later we have the Suns and Nuggets.  The Suns are fresh off a game where their reserves beat the Warriors and the Nuggets have been healthy lately, so I tend to think the Nuggets are going to win this one fairly easily.  We'll see... 

This is a problem with a lot of "provably fair" games I see.  A lot of the time the instructions of how to prove that it's fair are so confusing that people either can't determine whether it's provably fair or not, or they just take the casino's word for it.  I think maybe the casinos need to get together and come up with some standards so that provably fair games can easily be determined as provably fair without too much mental strain.  It would also be great if players voted with their money that provably fair games are what they want to play when it comes time for them to gamble.

I'm usually not big on "breakouts" or judging price movement by small movements in one direction or another.  However, it is definitely felt that BTC was so stable for months and then suddenly started melting up above $17K.  Especially with all of the exchanges out there scrambling to try and secure customer funds and the GBTC fiasco or whether or not they have the claimed funds...  It feels to me like this is the start of another bull run.  I'm sure we'll see at least one major correction on the way to new highs, but I think this entry point will be looked back upon fondly for those who buy now.

That Suns vs Warriors game was something else. No way should the Suns have won that game with that lineup. I didn’t see anything outrageous, but one has to wonder if Scott Foster doesn’t always have some ulterior motive out there. The Suns winning when he’s refereeing seems obvious now when you consider they lose every game with Chris Paul and Foster as a ref. I really think the NBA needs to retire him.

I wonder if you could preface the prediction with something.  For example, tell ChatGPT to pretend it is a famous gambler who always gets the winner right regardless of if it's an underdog or not.  Maybe specify some other ridiculous backstory for it to include in it's predictions.  Who knows, maybe you'll stumble upon the secret sauce.  I think if you introduced some interesting variables, maybe the predictions would be more than just whoever is favored to win.  I think if you can get that special sauce for it to start making genuine predictions based on something other than the odds, it could get fun and exciting pretty quickly.  Still on my to-do list.

Tesla is currently running a special of which I was just notified. Those using referrals to purchase a Tesla solar system are currently eligible to receive double the reward credits, which can be used for things like discounts on Tesla products or free supercharging. If interested or you’d like a referral code, feel free to reach out to me, as I was given referral codes when installing my Tesla Powerwall for my house.

As an alternative to trying to download via a VPN or TOR, since you’re on a laptop… Could you try going to a location with free internet and using that to download the blockchain? I didn’t catch the reason why you’re needing to use a VPN or TOR in the first place, but perhaps accessing another internet source might be a reasonable alternative to downloading over a VPN for several weeks.

You can count me in on the DCA club. I’ve been buying consistently for several months now and have no plan to stop anytime soon. I think buying under $20K is going to be looked back at as the best opportunity since $3K. Looking back there will likely be a lot of people who say it was obvious that this was the bottom, but not as many that can say they bought and took advantage. Be an advantage taker.

I’m not sure how I’d feel about this if it were me. I think there’s probably more to the story than what we’ve been given here. Keeping an open mind, it could have been a tiny win but maybe the numbers in the machine stuck so it displayed the wrong amount or something else trivial like that and not a real win. If it were a real win and they just didn’t pay out as the story would have you believe, it definitely would warrant further investigation.

This was a pretty crazy ruling by the judge in my opinion and should set off some major red flags for anyone placing their funds in someone else's hands.  It would be foolish to think that other companies can't gamble with your money and find the same outcome if things go wrong.  It seems like a pretty good deal for them.  Take customer funds, gamble them on the most outrageous nonsense possible in hopes of making x1000 on the customer money.  Then if things go wrong you say, "oops, I'm sorry" and file for bankruptcy.  It's a shame this is what the industry has evolved into and you'd expect more from big players, but it goes to show that these people who are after your money are criminals who hide behind ridiculous laws.  Don't trust them.