The dude just waiting…
To observe choppers flying
into the W O
You won't wait for long. Chopper never stops flying. 71k! |
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Just had a shower, checked charts, price rising nicely. What's not to like? Getting richer while taking showers... Works for me.  BTW, 7 is here, 8 soon, 6 (digits) this year. |
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What happened? Grayscale run out of coins? As if...  |
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[...]
5 "Here is one for you
7 I did not know the meaning
6 Haiku a mystery"
5 I queried the wo
8 the answer they said a poem
5 five words seven five"
[...]
Damn it, Phil! None of them qualify... But who cares? We have a pump! |
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So we're poor again.
The filthy rich kind of poor.
Better call Saylor!
From sardines to whales,
The rich get richer again.
Go sell some more, fools!
Grayscale dumping coins.
BlackRock buys them like hot cakes.
Tissue sales will peak!
Jay don't like Ledgers.
I agree, and so should you,
Or you'll get Bat-slapped!
Rusty rings or bulls?
Bulls for sure, but with a catch:
They've got to have balls!
Halving's coming soon.
Less than one month remaining.
Countdown GIF says so.
The vastness of space...
Thank you, OutOfMemory,
For letting us see!
#7wodigestsundayhaikus
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[...]  [...] Wow! Breathtaking! +1 WOsMerit. |
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 I'll go with the rusty ring... Yeah, right. Just wait until the two hatches open and the giant robo-balls come out... |
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Now, I'm all up for Bitcoin monuments, but this doesn't do Bitcoin any justice IMHO... The '$' sign would be much more fitting in what looks like a rusty old metal ring... Bitcoin is far grander than this! Something like this, maybe:  |
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The ending was fun: But... Ultimately... There are always only 3 rules to Bitcoin:
1. You buy Bitcoin,
2. You shut the fuck up,
3. You get fabulously wealthy! |
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Got so many calls, From old friends who ignored me, Asking how it's done. "Google it" I say. "Google what?" I hear some cry... "Click here" I reply! #pleasemakeitstophaikuThat is funny, but it is not very nice... and I suppose it depends on the "friend." I know that it can get annoying to continue to have to say the same thing to people and they continue to ignore us and they fail/refuse to act and/or to take responsibility for their own research, due diligence and also taking proper steps rather than having to get spoon fed and hand holding along the way.. There are ONLY so many hours in the day... and yeah, maybe if they came to you after having had done some proper research, then surely there is information out there.. but sometimes they might still need to be guided to help to know the difference between good information and information that is not so good. I am not completely disagreeing with your seeming saltiness, but there are virtues in patience too.. .. maybe een to suggest an assignment and then have them come back to you after they did the assignment. [...] The next haiku in the sequence completes the story: I may play it tough, I may smile while I'm angry, But I always help. Sad part is, many of them end up at a loss by selling the next dip. What to do? What to do?  |
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Got so many calls, From old friends who ignored me, Asking how it's done. "Google it" I say. "Google what?" I hear some cry... "Click here" I reply! #pleasemakeitstophaiku |
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Another week gone...
Brought us a new ATH,
Then a dip for ants.
Bcash LOL junkie.
Data storage hero, too.
Thank you, jbreher!
Wi-Fi password cracked.
Neighbor's sleeping like a log.
Ignorance is bliss!
Google sucks. Bing too.
Use Startpage or DuckDuckGo.
Even better: Tor!
Touchscreen car controls?
Teslas backing into pools?
Ain't self-driving great?
Saylor buys again.
Jay thinks he has a screw loose.
Time is always tight!
Halving approaching.
Nocoiners' last chance to buy.
You know what to do!
#7wodigestsundayhaikus
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[...] What it means to be a HoDLer:
A couple of days ago I sold some fraction of BTC for $900 (unintentionally caught the top!) just for fun, to test a new overseas bank account for future fiat money transfers. Everything went smoothly, got my $900, but then it dawned on me that I actually lost 0.0123 BTC! Still feel bad about it...
Never again! Buy when you can, sell when you absolutely must!
HoDL.
NO problema. Buy them back. It takes a while to get used to selling BTC, but when you are multitudes or even magnitudes in profits, and also if you have gotten to a status that you know that you have accumulated enough (and/or more than enough), then it becomes easier and easier to shave some off here and there at various points... and if you sell a small enough amount you realize that you still have plenty. Saylor should be in the same camp as me... but he is not. something is wrong with him. You don't need to be like Saylor.. at some point, you have enough BTC.. and you can start to shave some off. Don't get me wrong. From what I have come to understand, it is not like Saylor is living any kind of deprived life materially, so yeah, he seems to have plenty of resources to just live.. so he seems to be making some other kind of a point by wanting to gather as many coins as he can. But normies like us (royal perhaps?) should not necessarily need to live like that. At some point we have enough and we have more than enough.. and there should be no problem to set some free.. and to let someone else buy them..and get involved in dee cornz. [...] I agree with what you're saying, and you are describing my situation quite accurately. The thing is, I have reached a stage where I have enough BTC (even though the amount may be considered quite low for many WOers' standards) that I don't feel I need to buy more, and I also have enough fiat to use for everyday expenses and to sustain a good lifestyle. And new fiat keeps coming in every month. So, why should I shave off from my BTC stash? Yet, I still feel a psychological need to shave off small amounts (a few thousand dollars every now and then), just to enjoy using them for the fun of it. Buying things, traveling, doing fun stuff. And yes, I do feel I still have plenty left, even to the point of not being able to live long enough to really spend them all. It's a strange feeling actually, when you consider that I don't generally have the need to buy luxury stuff. I drive a Toyota and really love it. I would not go near a Ferrari or Lambo, even if you gifted it to me. Having said that, there are many very expensive things that I'd like to own, that would not appeal to most people. I don't think there's anything wrong with Saylor. His material needs are satisfied many lifetimes over, with his fiat inflows. His Bitcoin stash may be serving a higher purpose for him. Perhaps, he envisions a time when Bitcoin will give him absolute control and dominance over things that go beyond personal material needs. Come to think of it, this last part doesn't sound very healthy to me, but being a multi-billionaire, and fueled by the very realistic, even near-certain prospect of Bitcoin's multi-magnitude price appreciation, can elevate one's grandiosity to extreme levels. So, maybe you're right in that there is something "wrong" with him. He seems very likable when he talks, and it's fun to read about his BTC purchases. Those laser eyes... Looking forward to putting mine back on when price surpasses $100k. BTW, my take on "we" is that, deep down, it's always royal... |
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Too much ChartBuddy...
Too quiet in these here parts.
Calm before next pump?
#presundayhaiku
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What it means to be a HoDLer:
A couple of days ago I sold some fraction of BTC for $900 (unintentionally caught the top!) just for fun, to test a new overseas bank account for future fiat money transfers. Everything went smoothly, got my $900, but then it dawned on me that I actually lost 0.0123 BTC! Still feel bad about it...
Never again! Buy when you can, sell when you absolutely must!
HoDL.
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Somehow I got logged out. The capchas on this site are ridiculous.
I use a VPN and I find the captchas everywhere ridiculous - especially on Google. I don't think it really has much to do with security... they just want to know exactly who you are and hate it so much when they don't that they want to cause you max pain in hopes you'll give up on privacy. Duckduckgo is my best friend for searches now. duckduckgo uses google search so I've been using https://www.webcrawler.comSomehow I got logged out. The capchas on this site are ridiculous.
I use a VPN and I find the captchas everywhere ridiculous - especially on Google. I don't think it really has much to do with security... they just want to know exactly who you are and hate it so much when they don't that they want to cause you max pain in hopes you'll give up on privacy. Duckduckgo is my best friend for searches now. is also a good choice. They have been proven to log you. Very quickly tried to look for sources of this (not using Startpage!), but could not find any. If you have a link, please post it for us. Privacy Tools lists both Startpage and DuckDuckGo in their Best Private Web Search Engines (if this means anything). I guess one can never be 100% sure of who's watching... Tor, maybe? |
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a true storage gourmet
Speaking of which, a lot of people here might not know of the accomplishments of Joe Breher. They see his Picnic Bear avatar and think of him as a grammar/spelling-obsessed grinch. In the world of data storage he was a hero, developer of many systems, storage engineer extraordinaire. I respect jbreher, and don't doubt (although I do not know the specifics of) his achievements, and I'm similarly obsessed with spelling/grammar (I consider this a positive trait). However, in my opinion, he was wrong about strongly supporting BCH (Bitcoin Cash, a.k.a. Bcash LOL) and the big-blocker camp, back in 2017. Had I followed his advice, my stash would now be several Bitcoins smaller. I'm so very glad I did not! |
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Interesting. It was also my first SSD based netbook, while i did experiment with Linux based VDR (DVB-S) before, in which i decided to install 4GB SSD as a system drive for fast boot, 2007, AFAIR. My eeePC was a later edition, including 3G sim slot and most components were covered by a plastic sheet inside, for dust protection. It was the perfect tool for hacking on the road and wardriving in urban areas. For now i will move to 12" mediatek netbook, some leftover from my mother, but i will have to install an SSD first, beacuse booting this thing to working state takes at least five minutes.
One thing to add: The eeePC battery held up quite well over all those years.
The netbooks were nice. It's a shame Microsoft decided to embrace, extend, extinguish. Now we have Chromebooks, I guess. I still have an eeepc with Ubuntu myself which is still useful on occasion. I saw this Sony Vaio 10" netbook with debian on it on a IT security conference in Maastricht in 2002 and instantly fell in love with it. The eeePC was just a continuation of my love for tiny notebooks, and it had 3G, otherwise i would have chosen the VAIO (can't remember the model name, maybe it was X10?) At least you were aware back then about what a performance bottleneck storage was. It seemed as if CPU speed was the only thing a lot of people cared about. I remember a friend being annoyed that my old Socket7 AMD K6-2 system was visibly faster than his brand spanking new Pentium3 system. I pointed out that I had 4 times as much RAM and a faster HDD.
Indeed. I remember reading about SSD technology in a tech magazine. The main advantage (besides speed) that i saw was replacing temperatur sensitive disk drives. High spinning drives got hot and were noisy, but in Laptops you could not bring them inside from the cold in winter without letting the HDD warm up for at least 30 minutes or you risked to kill them because of condensation problems. When i was working for a support team, i got many of them for repair because the users kept them in the car's trunk overnight, bringing them into the office next day and litterally booting them to death. This problem was gone with SSD technology. I was always fascinated by the idea of booting from solid-state storage but flash memory capacities were too small then. In 2005 Gigabyte brought out iRAM which put 4 DIMMs on a PCI card to allow fast booting but it was vulnerable to power outages. I backed off until decently sized SLC non-volatile SSDs became available a year or two later. My big breakthrough came when I replaced my RAID-0 array of 4 10000RPM WD Raptors with 4 OCZ Vertex SSDs in RAID-0. I was disappointed to find it was bottlenecked by my motherboard's southbridge. I had to get a PCIe RAID card to get full performance. From there I graduated to my first OCZ Revodrive.
Those were the days.
Story of a true storage gourmet You mention wardriving. Many people didn't bother to protect their wifi back then so wardriving was a thing. I remember warning people about protecting their wifi after an incident in Toronto's west end. The cops stopped a car at 5:00am driving the wrong way on a residential street. They found the driver with his pants at his ankles masturbating as he downloaded kiddie porn onto his laptop using other people's wifi networks. Good thing the cops got the guy. Imagine some sucker sleeping innocently at home not knowing he was getting put on the kiddie porn list.
Struck by Karma. We did the wardriving to find entry nodes for carrying out mass-website-defacing, which is also not quite nice, but way nicer than downloading ch1ld-pr0n. It was about competition, not about doing harm to website owners (mostly companies). There was a site on the internet, where every defaced index page was mirrored after you reported it, as well as toplists of the most successful groups, where we held first place for some time, until one of our members in Brazil got busted after hacking (the wrong) FTP servers. It then fell all apart quickly and the rest of us got real jobs. I remember there was a time (maybe early '10s) when you could crack Wi-Fi passwords fairly easily, esp. those of the WEP variety. I did it a few times, mainly to speed up downloading time (run a couple of VMs, each with a Wi-Fi stick connected to a neighbor's cracked Wi-Fi). 3 connections simultaneously downloading stuff. Used Kali Linux to do the cracking. Fun times. Now it's not so easy, probably much harder than I can hope I'm capable of. For my own router, I use a self-chosen, strong password and have all my Wi-Fi devices on the router's MAC-address white list, although I have a feeling all these can easily be defeated by a determined attacker, considering the usually poor f/w programming in those provider-supplied routers. |
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You know "their" from "there",
And you know "lose" from "loose" too.
Watch that bear, will you?
Ledgers made in France,
Trezors in Czech Republic.
Eurotrash wallets!
Green candles pumpin',
Nocoiners waiting to buy,
Bears trying to fly...
Sci-fi choo-choo trains,
Yellow dancing bananas,
Wooden corn earrings.
We knew it would come.
Few expected it so soon.
ATH is here!
Cats elongating...
Mouse scroll-wheels red-hot spinning...
iPhone screens bulging...
Bye bears, hello bulls.
proudhon has shown us the way.
6 digits this year!
#7wodigestsundayhaikus
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$2 short of $70k...
FFS, Bitcoin! Give us what we want!
Edit: $1 to go!
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