Obviously, you can do whatever you want with your money. What I see is that you think there is going to be a growth market in the same way that you think there are a lot of people dying in the short term from the effects of the vaccine.


I don't see either that there is going to be a growth in that market or that a lot of people are dying from the vaccine. Every day I meet more and more people who have had it and have had only mild symptoms or none at all.

You have to think that Israel started vaccinating almost half a year ago now, and we have no evidence that people are dying (in a statistically significant way) from it. Historically, negative side effects from vaccines have appeared up to six months after being vaccinated.

No. Actually, his disappearance has nothing to do with the vaccine. He was banned:

A likely case of merit purchased.

Another thing @The Pharmacist was asking was whether there has been an adoption of cryptos in Venezuela. I remember seeing news that said yes, but I would like to hear about your experience. Also, I guess what you earn from the signature campaign will help quite a bit. I have checked the campaign spreadsheet and I see that you will be earning about $20-25 per week, which is not much but I imagine that in Venezuela it is a blessing.

That's one thing that Saylor is popularizing and I think it can lead to problems because he has become very popular and keeps repeating it over and over again. He gives the example of what the very rich do, which is not to sell and use their first-class assets as collateral. The thing is, and he's said this once, but it's not emphasized nearly as much, they borrow on a very small percentage of their assets.

To give a practical example, what a Rockefeller who has Bitcoin and wants cash would do, assuming he has 1,000 Bitcoin, is to ask for $250k in cash and give 10 Bitcoin as collateral. When the market goes up, he keeps refinancing the 10 Bitcoin and getting more cash. If the market goes down, he can give 10 or 20 more Bitcoin as collateral and not even bat an eyelid.

The problem with popularizing this idea is that it seems to me that we are going to have legions of people only keeping the first part of the idea, and going into excessive debt. That is, someone who has 0.1 or 1 Bitcoin, borrowing and leaving as collateral everything they have. And when there is a market downturn there will be thousands of little fish that will be devoured.

I have also explained in several posts why martingale sucks. There is always someone who thinks they have found a good system, which after all is a variant of martingale. They are systems that do not work, as no strategy works against the casino, because they are EV-games. If you play casino games, do it to pass the time and knowing that the potential return is negative. If you then get lucky in the short term, that's what you get.

I agree. 50k daily over the long them would make an average person, say middle-aged, thin or slightly overweight and with no vitamin D absorption problems, clearly exceed 100 ng/ml. I would never recommend taking those doses without a doctor's supervision. Doctor Coimbra for example, uses high doses like that to treat autoimmune diseases:

Coimbra Protocol


Yeah, well, it's more than enough if your target level is at least 30 ng/ml, which is too low in my opinion. If your target level is something like 60-80 ng/ml, a level not considered toxic by any standards, something like 5k-10k would be better for the average person.

It is clear that correlation does not imply causation. It had some influence, but it need not have been the only influence. I also believe that the threat of hyperinflation that brought down the stock market also had some influence on the price of Bitcoin. In the medium and long term, inflation should drive the price up, but in the short term there are people who invest in Bitcoin as just another financial asset and when faced with news like this, they sell. Simply because they believe the price is going to go down.

That makes sense to me. That instead of being due only to the excuse of environmentalism, which I understand that it matters to a certain extent, it also has an economic component. He has already been fined for market manipulation], as I mentioned in another post, although I don't think anything will happen to him now.

I think it would have been better if you had quoted him, but I gave you merit anyway. This is what the Pharmacist said:


Are you from Venezuela @verita1? You seem to at least know well the country.

I hope the money will be put to good use. Thank goodness that many people who become multimillionaires, think of others and help them as in this case. I make some donations too, on a small scale and as I increase my net worth, I will donate more.

That's exactly what I was thinking. Pooya87 has made a detailed explanation that has left me a bit perplexed. Perhaps it is that the rounding of the Bitcoin price is different from the way it is done in classical arithmetic.

Yes it can be toxic. With vitamin D supplements, everyone can potentially overdose, unlike what happens when we sunbathe.

In reality, we should not be talking so much about the amount to be taken, as the blood levels that are reached. In general, it is considered a safe level to have up to 100 ng/ml in the blood, but severe and widespread cases of hypercalcemia start at levels well above that, although there are some cases of people with a level slightly above 100 ng/ml who had several other health conditions and developed hypercalcemia. I have read a lot during the subject for several years, and accordingly I would say:

1) If you take 10,000 IU daily or less, you don't need to get blood work done.
2) If you take between 10,000 and 20,000 IU, I would go once or twice a year for a vitamin D and calcium test. Normally nothing happens with these doses but it is better to be safe.
3) If you take more than 20,000 IU daily, get in the hands of a medical professional.

There are other things that reduce the risk of developing hypercalcemia if you take doses that are considered high according to current guidelines:

1) Take your vitamin D3 with K2. Many supplements have them combined.
2) Drink enough water. 1.5 to 2 liters should be fine.
3) Don't take to much of calcium-rich products, like cheese etc.

Another thing you can do is what I do. In the winter months I take doses of 20,000 IU or sometimes more, in the spring and fall it would be between 10,000 and 20,000 and in the summer I don't usually take vitamin D supplements.

I always take it with K2 and I don't test myself anymore but in the past I did and I know that with this pattern I don't develop any health problems.

I, on the contrary, this it's likely. A little bump on the road will not prevent us from reaching our destination. Fundamentals are good, and I don't think the many companies that are buying bitcoin and offering it as a payment method are going to follow Musk for supposedly ecological reasons.

The thing is, Musk was already fined for market manipulation. But I think he will not be charged with anything now because his statements affect the crypto world.

Well, that's the way things work here. That post wouldn't have been deleted in other forums, but usually too short posts that don't add anything meaningful are at risk of being reported and deleted.

In my case, I had some posts deleted after someone considered one of my posts low value and went through my post history on a reporting spree.

It has not happened again, I guess it is clear that I am a decent poster. Although I suppose I might get some post deleted in the future but I know 99%+ of my posts won't.

Nothing in my case, although I am not in a risk group. I also take vitamin D but not everything can be cured or prevented naturally and through exercise.

I don't mind going to the doctor and I would listen to him if I suspected I had something serious, although I would consult more than one.

Do you really think he will see a significant reduction in sales? I don't think there are that many people who were going to buy Tesla with bitcoin or are upset about this (even if they were going to buy it in fiat) and are no longer going to do so because of this.

I did see it because I follow the stock market and it has had a negative effect on it.

There has also been a price drop in Bitcoin, but I'm not clear how much is due to this and how much is due to Elon Musk, but in theory, in the medium to long term, this should drive the price up. As bitmover ironically says, I don't know what the massive money printers expected. History teaches us that this inevitably ends badly, and we are starting to see the first signs of it.

I think exactly the same.


I'll leave it open a little bit more, in case someone else wants to reply/add something to the selling merits issue.

If the thread doesn't die by itself, and I see that the replies (if any) don't add much to what has already been said, I'll lock the thread, as I have done other times.

I don't agree with that at all. Theymos explicitly prohibited merit sources from selling merit. That does not mean that he allows others to sell them. I saw this discussed on the forum in some thread in the past, but I can't find it now.