Another way to describe what Ethereum is: Rube Goldberg machine
oh man soooo right back when eth started i tried running an eth node. using the mist and geth clients i think they were called. neither worked right they would always stall and choke on a block somewhere. the "solution" .. delete everything and start from scratch. repeat as needed and it was needed a LOT. i very quickly learned that there is Bitcoin.. and Not Bitcoin. no other distinction is needed. edit especially considering the following statistic: |
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We need thousands of votes to have a somewhat reliable and bulkier statistic to work with. With one or two hundred votes it is hard to make a reliable assumption. Also, how many people use forums nowadays? Also many people who have bitcoin may not even know that this forum exist, especially older generations who don't do everything on the internet.
I would argue it might be the opposite way. Younger generations seem to prefer videos over text and social media over forums due to more pleasant UI experience and more comfort. I rather see older generations searching for a forum than young ones. But maybe I am just wrong. i cut my teeth on dial up BBSs in the 70s and 80s, which were very like the forums today.. which because basically internet forums pretty much just emulated the BBS forums that existed back then. discord.. videos.. bleh. gimme a straight up no nonsense linear forum anyday. easy to read (im pretty much a speed reader anyway), old info can be easily searched for. and old info is kept (usually). bitcointalk has some amazing threads from back in the day if you want a good romp through the early days of btc history. btw im in the "over 55" club... way over |
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back in 2011 when i started my interest in btc and before i started to gpu mine and receive actual btc i wanted to test my core wallet to make sure i knew how to receive btc and could create an address and play with how the wallet worked. so i remember getting some btc once from a faucet, maybe gavins as there were hardly any at that time. wish i could remember which one and how much.. thought it was less that 1 btc though.
but heres the thing. im still running and actively using the core wallet i created in june 2011...
Gavin's faucet was probably paying between 0.001 and 0.02 BTC in June 2011. All the pages between these two cover that month. https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/15VjRaDX9zpbA8LVnbrCAFzrVzN7ixHNsC?page=1156https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/15VjRaDX9zpbA8LVnbrCAFzrVzN7ixHNsC?page=1199He gradually reduced the payout over the years. sweet! thanks for that. gonna check it out. the 1st few txs from my current wallet (my original 2011 wallet thats still in use) were from slush, so i must of been confident had figured it out then. so apparently i created a new wallet (the current one) at that point. |
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[faucets]
back in 2011 when i started my interest in btc and before i started to gpu mine and receive actual btc i wanted to test my core wallet to make sure i knew how to receive btc and could create an address and play with how the wallet worked. so i remember getting some btc once from a faucet, maybe gavins as there were hardly any at that time. wish i could remember which one and how much.. thought it was less that 1 btc though.
but heres the thing. im still running and actively using the core wallet i created in june 2011. and i cannot find that transaction. should of been the 1st transaction in the wallet.
now before i started mining to i do remember creating a few early test wallets as i want sure if i was doing it right, plus my internet sucked so bad i may of not waited for full sync, figured i did it wrong, and just ignored the early test wallets and created new ones. ergo that 1st transaction from an early faucet (gavins?) to my one of the early test wallet is likely lost.
however since i almost never delete anything i still wonder if i still have the early test wallets, as i have many early wallet.dats on my old backups. and im pretty anal about backups. so, one day, all those old early wallets copies will get plugged in and run against the blockchain. who knows maybe i will finally find out what happened to that early faucet transaction lol.
Did you feel 'early' or already kind of "late' when you entered in 2011? I definitely felt 'late' in Q3 2013 and blamed myself for not acting upon reading about btc in Wired for the first time in Nov 2011 (at ~$2). It was one of those "bitcoin is dead" articles, but i distinctly remember why I did not invest: it said that you have to use Linux or something to that extent (to run the chain and the wallet) and I had zero interest in Linux at the time (to my ignorant self circa 2011, it seemed kind of irrelevant, lol). seemed pretty early to me as the infrastructure was still pretty rudimentary. btw i was using windows, linux miners were a thing but many miners could run on windows by then. info was spread all over the place, bitcointalk was still the place to find most stuff and a lot was way over my head. and i was used to distributed computing (f@h) so i was already very comfortable building multi gpu rigs and running varied weird clients. but i still took a few weeks to wrap my head around miner software, mining pools, workers, wallets and all that. and that was just the btc side. getting actual fiat was another area that was a minefield. like i was no way doing kyc stuff with some of the rickity "exchanges" that existed then. mt gox needed dwolla, what fun. both are defunct now althiugh mtgox wound up being the ultimate hodl scenario lol. well kinda. so thats a long winded way of saying judging based the infrastructure at the time, the learning curve, and finding things that actually worked.. well yea it did seem early to me. of course to OG guys lazlo and co, it was old hat by then. but to me i gotta admit getting it all up and running was amazing, to be part of the Grand Experiment. its a lot easier for noobs to start nowadays. but there still be lots minefields around these parts. |
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who of you made use of this service back then?  this site has somehow passed me by at that time...   There were many faucets back in the day but you only got very little (for that period) and needed to watch ads or wait a certain period of time. You got 5 bitcoins from that faucet when it first started, and you didn't need to watch ads or wait. However 5 bitcoins was probably worth less than half a cent back then. On June 23, 2010 Gavin added a CAPTCHA. He discusses it in this post. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=206.msg1711#msg1711back in 2011 when i started my interest in btc and before i started to gpu mine and receive actual btc i wanted to test my core wallet to make sure i knew how to receive btc and could create an address and play with how the wallet worked. so i remember getting some btc once from a faucet, maybe gavins as there were hardly any at that time. wish i could remember which one and how much.. thought it was less that 1 btc though. but heres the thing. im still running and actively using the core wallet i created in june 2011. and i cannot find that transaction. should of been the 1st transaction in the wallet. now before i started mining to i do remember creating a few early test wallets as i want sure if i was doing it right, plus my internet sucked so bad i may of not waited for full sync, figured i did it wrong, and just ignored the early test wallets and created new ones. ergo that 1st transaction from an early faucet (gavins?) to my one of the early test wallet is likely lost. however since i almost never delete anything i still wonder if i still have the early test wallets, as i have many early wallet.dats on my old backups. and im pretty anal about backups. so, one day, all those old early wallets copies will get plugged in and run against the blockchain. who knows maybe i will finally find out what happened to that early faucet transaction lol. |
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 Where the dude @…. Merit worthy game well duh, judging by the tie down anchors youre in the bed of a pickup truck. obvious answer is oblivious. |
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Dabs has raised a great point re OPSEC while out and about on private business.
A mask, hat, sunglasses (try to partly cover ears, distinctive for every person) and a burner (with your main phone Faraday'ed or back home).
Other simple ideas very welcome...
Edit: Maybe learning some of those old spy tricks re OPSEC may make a comeback.
They now also have gait analysis in the works so sticking a stone in your shoe per the spy book I had as a kid may make a comeback. Or you could develop a range of different gaits. Take a look at these.   or do the Dune sandwalk https://www.yahoo.com/news/walking-sandwalk-dune-choreographed-timoth-190936983.html |
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Anyways, sunshine is calling.... too nice to be sat at a screen.
PEACE.
exactly. thats why i set my phone to voice announce bitcoins price every 30 seconds. so i dont need to look whilst i lounge outside. |
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That said, now I am a wimp for not selling at $60 or 50K? Hilarious.
Here is a bet (nonfunded): within 2-3 years anyone who sold at 50-60K would be considered a wimp, unless, of course, they sold at 60K, then bought back at 17.5-20K, but it is REALLY difficult to do if you already did something with that profit plus paid taxes on it; not impossible, but difficult. Every time I sell, I consider that bitcoin gone..but I haven't sell for a while.
hey i sold some on the latest run up in the 50ks and 60ks. and with no intention to buy back, although as it worked out i did buy some back just cuz the price was to good to pass up. i mean those who say "HODL FOREVER!!!!!" well cool if that works for you. me, i sell on the uppidies, and sometimes buy back on the dips - depending on whats going on in meatspace at the time. but mainly i sell on the ups to get enough fiat to coast through the inevitable bear markets without worries about the price. i do hobby mine shitcoins to trade for btc so i always have a small dca thing going on. that helps things out too. naturally what works out decently for me may not for others blah blah etc. JJG called me a "walking moral hazard" once. take that as you may  |
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There won't be any OPSEC issues, as we'll all be meeting in Bob's Virtual Ranch using our $10k VR gear, which will stimulate all 5 (6?) senses to the point of not being able to tell the difference from RL.
as long as the 6th VR sense doesnt involve the rusty pipe thing. think ill pass on that particular one thanks. other than that sounds very cool. |
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I grew up in the 80's, first thing I thought of! My TRS model III still sits in my moms garage. I should gut the thing and hack a pc into it. Hmmmmm i have a trs80 model 4p,, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_4#Model_4Pnot exactly briefcase sized (more like sewing machine sized like the osborne) and it needs an outlet. but it was the bomb back in the day - z80 8 bit cpu, 128k ram (bank switched) two 180k floppies, 1200 baud modem, 9 inch green screen with 80x24 character display. ran cpm/80 as well as trsdos, dosplus etc. i wonder if its possible to pull the guts out and use it in a briefcase type deal. after all most of the space was for the 9 inch crt screen. mod it to use a flatscreen lcd and a notebook keyboard.. but still need a power source. although it would pale in comparison to whats being considered here. there was also a trs80 model 100 (i have one of those too). notebook sized before therer were notebooks lol. ran on 4 AA batteries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100 again pretty lame compared to whats being discussed here. if this is too off topic, my apologies. but maybe it can spark some ideas. |
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and the ring door camera records audio.. wonder how sensitive it is.. like can it record conversations inside the house near the wall its mounted on? and, if so, how near is near..
Can the Ring hear conversations inside the house?
Melissa Clarke, a county court judge in Oxford, pointed out that Woodward's Ring camera could reliably record audio at conversational volume from 68 feet away, based on an experiment carried out by one of the witnesses in the case. 68 feet from the externally camera it can record sound that far into the house? outside i can see, but inside? lol my house isnt that big in any direction. btw i saw the figure of 30 feet (outside the house) in the article, where did you see 68 feet. apologies if its right there somewhere still working on coffee atm. i have cams setup all over my place but without going into details on types, capabilities and setup, none of them are ring cams. |
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and the ring door camera records audio.. wonder how sensitive it is.. like can it record conversations inside the house near the wall its mounted on? and, if so, how near is near.. |
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docked at mtgox seaport no doubt |
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Wait and where do you collect this because my account at mtgox have a few thousand BTC in it when they shut down .
the time period where you registered your claim is long past, so if you havent done anything as of this point youre likely too late. unless im reading this wrong: from https://claims.mtgox.com/faq I would like to file my proof of rehabilitation claim.
Please note that, the Tokyo District Court had already issued an order to refer the draft rehabilitation plan to a resolution (the “Referral Order”) on February 22, 2021 in this Civil Rehabilitation Proceedings, and in accordance with Article 95, paragraph (4) of the Civil Rehabilitation Act , new proofs of rehabilitation claims cannot be filed after the Referral Order is made.
For more details, please consult your own expert.
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^
iirc i think its about 20% of what you had. minus some overhead which is basically unknown at this point.
so for 17 btc, a bit less than ~3.4 btc
someone correct me if im wrong.
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are we sane?
do we want to be sane? If I have to speak for all of us. Yes "we" do. party pooper  |
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Yeah, Crypto used to be short for Cryptography, or Cryptographic, or codes and ciphers.
Now it is short for 'ponzi scam' "rugpull liquidity" applies too i think? english is such an evolving language lol |
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Plus there is debate on the use of the word "assault", or a question on its definition.
I'd argue we should call them defensive rifles.
for me, a defensive weapon is a scatter gun. to make them keep their heads down whilst i split to a better position and/or a better weapon for the occasion. everything else is offensive by default. but then again of course there is the argument that the best defense is a good offense. so assault vs defensive is a wash i suppose. |
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The USA is a gun toting culture. Always has been, always will be.
pretty much. guess instead of a lambo its gonna be an armored up merc for wheels. and a tactical vest with plate is what 20 lbs? man i need to get into shape to carry that extra weight so i can go to the store for milk and bread. |
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