This is a crazy story and it's hard to know what exactly to believe.  War is not good for anyone.  This conflict has gone on for far too long.  I hope it ends soon for the sake of both sides.  Whatever the resolution is, it has to be better than seeing stories like this in the news.

I feel as bullish as everyone else I guess. The amount of people stacking sats and different incentive programs allowing users to accumulate Bitcoin seem almost certain to send the price sky high at some point. I’m a bit surprised we didn’t hit $100K on the last bubble, but it seems a certainty on the next round.

I was glad to see that someone dropped 47 BTC into Hodlonaut's defense fund.  That's a great deal of coin.  While I'm not a huge fan of some maximalist tactics, I can appreciate that Hodlonaut stood up for himself and the community by calling out a fraudster.  While it is a shame that so much money has to be wasted that could have undoubtedly gone to better places, I am hoping for the best, which is that CSW loses and goes away.  I'll admit it took me longer than it should have to realize what CSW was trying to do and he did have a good plan (as far as scammers go), but in the end, Hal remains victorious. 

2 months to go until the NBA season is back.  I hope Stake brings back the individual player bets and other types of bets as opposed to just the win/loss.  I really enjoyed making player bets while it was available last year.  So my wish list is for player bets to happen when the NBA season starts back up.  It would make me a happy camper. 

Stake still providing a great service every time I use the site. 

It's hard to argue against.  Stephen Curry is the greatest shooter the NBA has ever seen.  He changes the game and requires the defense to pay special attention to him at all times.  This makes his teammates much better than they otherwise would be if the defense didn't have to focus on Step.  Offensively, Steph is hands down the best player in the NBA.

However, he is also a pretty big liability on defense.  You could make the case that his defense cost them the title in 2016 and that other teams target him.  So it's tough to say he's the best player in the world.  I'd rather call him the best shooter of all time.

I think there's probably an option between safe haven and the end of Bitcoin.  It's a speculative asset and we're heading into a recession, so there's definitely a good chance it doesn't hold it's value.  That being said, it's an innovative product with a lot of money on the sidelines waiting to get in.  Wall Street is looking at a potential new asset class they can manage for investors and licking their chops at the management fees.  I don't think they'll let their cash cow die before they start milking it.

Polarization is going to become a larger issue as we go forward.  The pendulum is swinging further and further in each direction and that means more and more craziness.  I feel like after 9/11 it seemed like Americans were feeling patriotic and coming together, but cooperation and patriotism has been on the downhill slide since then.  This recent rise in Trump supporters has seemed to buck the trend a bit over the last few years, but I feel like that's just a blip.

We are almost certainly going to feel a little bit of downside pressure in the coming weeks.  How low it goes is anyone's guess really.  I'm not super worried about that because I think once this final dip is behind us, the market is going to reward those who held onto their coins.  One more new low, then off to new highs.  It may take a couple of years, but I think the future is bright for the BTC price.  Just stay calm for a month or two.

I was watching the Nelk Boys - Full Send podcast they released yesterday with the founders of the Bored Ape Yacht club. They spent some time at the beginning of the video giving a shoutout to Stake and saying they’re the best gambling platform. A decent watch and shows just how fast things move in crypto. It’s been a wild ride for the BAYC founders.

I only recently learned how these machines worked.  I always thought there was some skill involved as a kid, like this was the one game I could get over on.  However, now that I've learned it is just as much a game of chance as everything else, I'm a bit let down.  Spoiler Alert: The pressure that the claws use to grab things changes every attempt and only every so often is strong enough to pick up one of the prizes.

You are most welcome!  I've just packaged up your coins for shipment and they'll be going out first thing in the morning.  I hope you enjoy them!  Feel free to post some pictures once they've arrived and be sure to let me know when you're ready to order more so I can help you out.  Thanks again for your order.

Looks like LeBron will most likely retire a Laker on that contract. The extension also makes him the new highest paid career earner in NBA history, passing Kevin Durant. In another two years I’m not sure if LeBron will still be able to be healthy and play at a high level, but he’ll probably have the option to sign another deal if he wants to. I’m sure LeBron is celebrating tonight…

Things are good.  I hope they are for you as well.  Seeing all of your red feedback is a little troubling, but I'm sure everything will go smoothly with this trade.

No problem about the coin order.  Usually this sort of transaction is handled via personal messaging so I went ahead and sent you a personal message with a total and address that you can send BTC to in order to complete the transaction.  Please also provide your address information and feel free to use a service like https://privnote.com/.  Thanks for inquiring.  I'm sure once you get them you'll be ordering more. 

Now that we’re all up to speed on what this actually was, seems like the thread can be closed.

The only other coins I've mined with GPUs in the last half a decade are (I believe) Ravencoin and Grin.  I think these two coins are good candidates for some hashrate after the ETH2.0 merge.  Grin maybe not so much as I don't think there's much support of it outside of this forum, but Ravencoin has always been a pretty profitable coin to mine with GPUs.  I wouldn't be surprised at all to see that hashrate move to RVN, but I think the network itself needs to show that it's capable of being used for real world things, or at least metaverse things...  Right now I'm not sure what people are doing with their RVN...

I hope you are right.  I think that much supply being dumped on the market has to effect something, but there appear to be Wall Steet firms lining up to soak up the excess coins. 

I also think most of the coins will be sold.  They should have a clear cost basis and that makes them perfect candidates for selling in order to have a nice clean paper trail for Uncle Sam.  I think that alone will be a temptation for many of the mtgox coin recipients.  I'm also not sure how taxes will be handled yet with these coins.  Are the recipients going to owe capital gains taxes or is that being stripped out prior to the distribution?  That could also have a big effect on so many coins...  I'm still waiting until I have coins in hand before I have the necessary talks with a lawyer, but I assume there will be forced selling.

I don't think Trump could lift boxes of National Security related documents, let alone sneak them to his house from the White House.  I think it's possible that aides were bribed into moving some boxes they shouldn't have or that an administrative error resulted in boxes being moved to the wrong place.  Highly doubtful a billionaire who was just President of the United States was trying to steal boxes to sell. 

You think he was trying to build a clubhouse or something?

Have you ever seen the movie Friday?  Craig wasn't stealing boxes either, but they "had him on camera" supposedly.  Sometimes you just have to use common sense.  Trump isn't trying to sell out our national secrets.  That's just plain dumb.

I was waiting for you to chime in here.  I thought it was a bit odd that suddenly an escrow drama blows up after you again start launching attacks on me.  Last time you started launching attacks on me via the trust network and posting lies there was the drama of the telegram impersonator which stopped completely once your Freudian slip of the tongue seemingly became an admission of guilt...  I wasn't going to bring up the timing of this, but it is suspect to say the least given your recent harassment and negative trust.  I have no evidence other than coincidence, but if the shoe fits...  I only hope this drama blows up enough for you to be worth the escrow fee it cost...

This should be moved to reputation so that I at least get paid for sig spam for engaging in what I believe to be manufactured forum drama.

Ya, I saw the tweet he made where he was calling that rumor BS.  That was the first time I saw KD suggesting that he may return to the Nets this upcoming season.  With no movement on Kyrie and Ben Simmons being a total mystery, it's starting to look like the Nets may have a big 3 come the start of the season.  I do like that Vegas bumped up the odds for Phoenix to get KD, making Phoenix and Boston tied for likely destinations for Durant.  I think it would be a horrible move for either team to trade for him as far as their future goes, but it would be one hell of an exciting season for whoever gets him.

It’s hard to believe this is really happening. How long until debtors prisons make a comeback? This IRS misstep is certain to doom the democrats in future elections. I think pretty much everybody wants to see this ridiculous waste of money reversed. The whole gun training thing is just the icing on the cake. Hard to believe it is even real. What a bad political decision.