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641  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 17, 2023, 10:14:40 PM
^Okay, with all the discussion around AI generated content, I want to conduct a little test to see if you guys can discern AI from reality.  Obviously, this is an informal test but here goes.  (feel free to use one of those detection tools on it as well).  It's not necessary for everyone to respond to this post - I'll update this post with an edit at  ~2100 UST to let you know.  Oh, regardless of what comes after this, I still love you JJG Smiley


I just wanted to bring up a point about JJG's forum postings. Don't get me wrong, the guy knows his stuff and has some really useful insights. But seriously, he uses way too many words to make a simple point! I mean, come on, who has the time to read through a novel every time he posts something? It's like he's trying to show off how smart he is by using a million unnecessary words. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate a well-thought-out argument, but sometimes brevity is key.


#nohomo

 The content was generated using AI.  Thanks for all the responses; you guys brought up some interesting points.
642  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 17, 2023, 02:57:38 PM
^Okay, with all the discussion around AI generated content, I want to conduct a little test to see if you guys can discern AI from reality.  Obviously, this is an informal test but here goes.  (feel free to use one of those detection tools on it as well).  It's not necessary for everyone to respond to this post - I'll update this post with an edit at  ~2100 UST to let you know.  Oh, regardless of what comes after this, I still love you JJG Smiley


I just wanted to bring up a point about JJG's forum postings. Don't get me wrong, the guy knows his stuff and has some really useful insights. But seriously, he uses way too many words to make a simple point! I mean, come on, who has the time to read through a novel every time he posts something? It's like he's trying to show off how smart he is by using a million unnecessary words. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate a well-thought-out argument, but sometimes brevity is key.


#nohomo
643  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 16, 2023, 04:29:42 AM

 I love that song.  Now that you've got me going down memory lane, another song came to mind when I saw this breaking news clip.

 

 Oliver- Good morning starshine

Well thanx for sending me down the YouTube nostalgia rabbit hole homer. (not that I don't fall down it on a daily basis)
This Seekers (RIP Judith Durham) started playing after your link (before I could click away) and down that rabbit hole I fell...again.


 Yeah it took me a while to get out as well.  I ended up listening to Astrud Gilberto - Girl from Ipanema and to my dismay, I learned that she passed away on June 6th this year so I ended up listening to more of her music and reading the rather sad story of how she pretty much got stiffed on any proceeds from the recording and didn't get even get album credit for the recording.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/astrud-gilberto-girl-from-ipanema-b2006879.html
644  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 15, 2023, 10:25:43 PM

 I love that song.  Now that you've got me going down memory lane, another song came to mind when I saw this breaking news clip.

 

 Oliver- Good morning starshine
645  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 15, 2023, 09:09:08 PM
It wont be long before we taste the rainbow.

646  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 15, 2023, 08:51:30 PM
.... we all should do at least something for Bitcoin either in form of promoting its awareness in our communities .....


Yeah, I used to do that. Not any more though. As it is, normies already think I'm a few fries short of a happy meal.

 Exactly!  After the first few times discussing bitcoin with people, I realized that nobody I knew was going to willingly buy bitcoin so I stopped bringing it up.  Afterward, where I worked, someone would come up to me at lunchtime occasionally and say, "Hey, I heard you know about bitcoin" at which point some at my table would groan and literally everyone, would take their half eaten food, get up and go to another table.  After it happened a couple of times, I thought for sure I was being punked and they were purposely telling some newbie to ask me about bitcoin.  I never was able to prove it.
647  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 15, 2023, 07:33:19 PM
Bitcoin goes up and it comes down, and again it goes up and down, but why it doesn't goes up only? I was positive that the pump could at least take Bitcoin close to $32K in price, but nope it was dumped once again after that pump. There is something going on behind the scenes, and if I'm true regarding those behind the scenes plans then the price of Bitcoin will face another pump once again within a week or so on. However, I'm quite sure that Bitcoin will see another pump of at least 5% or more this month. Let's see what's going to take place.

 Zoom out
648  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 15, 2023, 02:29:26 PM

 I like your enthusiasm but some of us old farts can't read that tiny print.  Also, that third pane makes no sense from a bitcoin perspective - it's just sad that the guy lives hand to mouth with no savings other than gold which is... less than adequate.  So (imo) I fixed them for us.  Now we don't have to squint, get angry and yell at kids/dog/cat for being too noisy while we're trying to see before finally give up.

649  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 14, 2023, 01:24:16 PM
Someone fixed ChartBuddy, ty!
  Wink

 Nice gif I'm stealing it for future use  Grin

  Pro tip - the image file has to occupy less than 2.5 Mb of storage space or it wont display properly on bitcointalk (ezgif.com will optimize animated gifs for you fairlyeasily and free with no pesky no signup required) this message is approved by xhomerx10

 Viola!

 
 It's a Stiffler!
650  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 13, 2023, 08:40:32 PM
^I'll take a weekend pump any day of the week  Wink
651  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 13, 2023, 08:32:00 PM


 Edit: Perhaps my timing is slightly off  Undecided  but in the words of one of our beloved merit farmers, "Everything depends on your perspective! change it and you're bullish again! Join me"
652  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 13, 2023, 01:45:14 AM
Well Well Well, never thought I'd see a Senator with the balls to call out and expose the Billionaires behind the bought and paid for Supreme Court but maybe this country has a chance to right the ship after all.

*Doubt it as MSM owned by those same billionaires wont cover this shit.

The Scheme 22: Justice Alito and the Polluter Page
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NuQIDga5Ik

wonder what his life expectancy is now.


 WTF?!  I thought conspiracy theories were exclusively under the purview of far-right, flag-waving, bigoted, xenophobic, misogynistic, racist, nazi extremists?
 

edit: Oh... never mind.  They still are.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/sheldon-whitehouse-senator-beach-club-b1870050.html

 Democrat senator refuses to leave all-white private beach club despite championing racial justice
The senator said he hoped the club would change but absolved himself of responsibility by saying it was not his place to challenge the club’s rules

 He's a lawyer AND a politician.  That's never a good thing.
653  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 12, 2023, 07:05:06 PM
One of my kid's favourite bands just released a new "album" which of course is on the birthday list.  Suddenly what's old is new again.

If you know... you know.
Just wish I hadn't tossed out my old Sony Walkman Sport with AM/FM and convenient armband.


Is it on CD too?



 Yes and it's also on Spotify; I've asked all the pertinent questions but apparently I'm missing the point and I've decided it's easier simply to defer to her superior intelligence.  She's doing waaaaaay better in school than I ever did - I don't want to mess with that Smiley
654  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 12, 2023, 06:12:24 PM
One of my kid's favourite bands just released a new "album" which of course is on the birthday list.  Suddenly what's old is new again.

If you know... you know.
Just wish I hadn't tossed out my old Sony Walkman Sport with AM/FM and convenient armband.


Mine has mega bass!

..and auto reverse

nothing can beat 8 tracks switching tracks in the middle of a song

*ka-chunk*

 We used to have one of those at a store I worked in as a kid.  The only one tape we had was Mickey Gilley; luckily it had a radio as well.
655  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 12, 2023, 02:07:49 PM
One of my kid's favourite bands just released a new "album" which of course is on the birthday list.  Suddenly what's old is new again.

If you know... you know.
Just wish I hadn't tossed out my old Sony Walkman Sport with AM/FM and convenient armband.
656  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 12, 2023, 01:56:55 PM
^You bastard! 
Calling false "Green Dildo!" alerts in the WO thread is an offence punishable by Bob's rusty pipe.
657  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 11, 2023, 06:38:25 PM
Quick! Somebody wake up philipma1957; ChartBuddy is gaining on him!
658  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 11, 2023, 03:30:12 AM
Would you go on a date with Ivanka Trump if she paid you 1 #Bitcoin ?
The only catch is you have to wear a MAGA hat and she will call you “Daddy” for the entirety of the date.  Grin
Source

I would go on a date with her or her father or biden or his wife or kamela for 1 btc.

It is just a date.

I would not even need to get paid.  I would go for fffffffffrrrrrrreeeeeeeeee.. just to say that I did it.

Does that make me a slut?

Are we going dutch?  or are they (each or all of them) paying for my meal?   We're not going to Mickey Dees are we?  

Is it like a several hour date (which would be a usual kind of "date", or just a quickie date ...?  I mean what's in the "date" besides food, drinks and/or dessert..  staples of any meaningful date, no?  

 Given that she's a Trump, I believe it's called going Deutsch and thanks to the patriarchy, you can't be a slut.  In fact, you could do the same thing with Salma Hayek on the same night  Cool and the worst thing we could call you would be "gigolo" unless of course you didn't use protection - then we might call you "careless" as well.
659  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 10, 2023, 03:01:44 AM
Thomas Jefferson would have alive, he would have love bitcoin.
Thomas Jefferson third president of USA



Thomas Jefferson was a huge slave owner.

Plus he was fucking and making kids with them.

Anything he speaks about freedom is pretty much a fucking joke.

Quote
https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson

Slaves and slavery
Main article: Thomas Jefferson and slavery
Jefferson slaves
Jefferson's 1795 Farm book, page 30, lists 163 slaves at Monticello.
Jefferson lived in a Virginia planter society economically dependent on slavery. A wealthy slave owner himself, he employed slave labor which he depended on to run his household and work the fields and shops. Children of slaves began work at the age of ten, either in the fields, the nailery, the textile shop, or in the houses according to their capabilities. Children under ten usually minded the infants or did other light work in and around the house.[220][221] Yet throughout his life Jefferson maintained that the institution of slavery was harmful to both slave and master in his writings and discourse.[222][223] His views on slavery and African slaves, however, were complex; historians are divided on whether he truly opposed the institution largely because Jefferson was publicly silent on emancipation during his presidency and only freed a few slaves on his Monticello plantation.[224][225] Some researchers suggest Jefferson's slave ownership contradicted his philosophy of "all men are created equal".[224] Other historians, however, maintain that the sentiment in this statement is what actually inspired and drove Jefferson to advance legislation to abolish slavery and that [226] he believed slavery was contrary to the laws of nature where everyone had a right to personal liberty.[227] Jefferson attempted to legislate the emancipation of slaves on three occasions; once in 1769 at the Virginia General Assembly,[228] another in 1784 at the Continental Congress [229] and once when he proposed to ban slavery in all Western Territories after 1800 where he was defeated by Congress by one vote.[224]

Over the course of his life he owned some 600 slaves, buying and selling them as required, maintaining about 130 at any one time.[230][231] On a number of occasions Jefferson would also purchase slaves to unite families.[232][233] Jefferson held a paternalist view towards his slaves, frequently referring to them as his extended family who needed his guidance, discipline and protection.[234][235]

Jefferson accepted conventional thought during his lifetime that Africans were an inferior race. In his 'Notes on the State of Virginia' (1785), he expressed a "strong suspicion" that the Negro was inferior to whites in both the endowments of body and mind but wasn't sure if it was because they were a "distinct race" or were so because of "time and circumstances".[236][237] Historians have generally described Jefferson as a benevolent slaveowner,[238][239][240] though some historians have expressed doubts about that.[241] Jefferson did not allow his slaves to be overworked and gave them Sundays, Christmas and Easter off.[238][239][240] According to a former Monticello slave, slaves were seldom punished except for stealing or fighting or other extreme offenses, though there were some cases of excessive whippings at the hand of overseers.[242][243] Slaves were provided with log cabins with a fireplace, good clothing and food and were allowed to have their own gardens and raise chickens which, along with eggs and produce, were sold by more than half the adult slaves to the Jefferson household.[244]

Throughout Jefferson's political career he opposed the international slave trade. His proposed solution for the slavery dilemma was to transport freed slaves to Africa where they could set up an independent black nation, leaving the United States a country primarily of European-American and Native Americans. In his annual message to Congress in 1806, President Jefferson called for outlawing the trans-Atlantic slave trade, asking Congress to "withdraw the citizens of the United States from all further participation in those violations of human rights . . . which the morality, the reputation, and the best of our country have long been eager to proscribe." Congress complied and on March 2, 1807, Jefferson signed the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves into law; it took effect 1 January 1808, the earliest date permitted by the Constitution.[245][246] The abolition of the slave trade was a major achievement of Jefferson's presidency.[247] Jefferson, while President, privately sought to deport emancipated Virginia slaves through British and Portugal companies to Sierra Leone off the coast of Africa, however, these efforts were unsuccessful.[248] Southern contemporary critics viewed Jefferson was opposed to slavery for his Notes on the State of Virginia, his letter to Benjamin Banneker in 1791, and his reference to St. George Tucker's federal plan to purchase and free slaves.[249] Jefferson's 1803 Louisiana Purchase treaty allowed slavery to continue as the French were assured that there would be no interference with their interests when the purchase was made.[250]

While Jefferson on occasion had expressed reservations about releasing unprepared slaves into freedom it was something he had always wanted to do according to his main overseer of slaves, Edmund Bacon and his slave Joseph Fossett. Jefferson freed five slaves in his will providing a monetary endowment and trade tools to aid in making a living. Jefferson also successfully petitioned the Virginia legislature to allow freed slaves to remain in Virginia. However, Jefferson's encumbered debt from an agricultural depression and the mortgaging of his slaves, legally prevented him from freeing the remaining slaves who were later auctioned locally by his surviving family to pay his creditors and avoid their confiscation by Virginia debt law.[251][252][253][254]

here is a list of 163 he had at one time


  Phil, let's not be too hard on the man (with a purported IQ of 190); we shouldn't judge historical figures by today's moral standards and slavery wasn't generally considered immoral in the early 1800's when he passed on.  In the words of the great Aristotle - "since such a great number of men are not virtuous, laws are necessary".  By the way, Aristotle had some questionable views on slavery even among his contemporaries and yet his work on "ethics" continues to be influential in western philosophy.


 @HelliumZ,  While Jefferson didn't trust in the banks to do the right thing, that quote you posted is totally made up.


 On a lighter note:

 Nicolae Guta - Poa' sa vina ploaia ma duc la Mamaia

Sorry Smiley  It's my favourite summer song and indicative of my summer of (bitcoin) sideways.

 edit: The song plays on the word Mamaia which is a popular destination for summer vacations in Romania and also the word for parent.  So the guy says he's going to Mamaia and has no problem with food and he doesn't even have to pay for accommodations and then later he wakes up to a nice warm morning looking to drink a coffee on a beach somewhere at his mother's garden (in gradina la Mamaia mea)
660  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 08, 2023, 05:40:32 PM
JPMorgan Doubts That the Approval of a US Bitcoin ETF Would Be a Game-Changer. Such funds have existed in Canada and Europe for years already. Bitcoin funds overall have attracted little investor interest.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-07/jpmorgan-says-a-bitcoin-etf-wouldn-t-be-an-industry-game-changer

 Why would we care about JPMorgan's beliefs?  They have already missed the boat a few times on Bitcoin.  As an aside, Sonali Basak is a good-looking woman... I wonder if she has any bitcoin.
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