So far those who have trusted have been rewarded.  I'm just not sure I could be that trusting.  Granted I haven't done my research, so maybe that's why.  I just couldn't imagine offering that service myself and expecting anyone to use it.  I'm fully capable of executing it, but I wouldn't even want the risk myself. 

It's a cool innovation for trading physical goods and there are plenty of people who will partake I'm sure.  I guess I'm just too cynical of a person to be able to trust such an operation.  I'm jealous of the premium though.  If people are willing to take the risk of using this site, there's certainly plenty of opportunity to buy coins on this forum and resell for a massive profit...  I've got a 0.5 BTC Cas coin I'd sell for much lower than this site's asking prices if someone wanted to take the risk...

I feel like we're getting there, but at $29K the market will really hit panic capitulation I think.  I'm just wondering if we'll hold there and resume rising upward, or if we'll fall all the way back to the base of this runup as would be expected from looking at previous cycles.  If you're a believer in patterns, you might say that $10K is inevitable.  There's a lot of big money on board at around $30K though, so we'll see if they choose to defend their investment from a loss or sell and move on.  Certainly companies like Tesla have the capability to elevate the Bitcoin price if they want to.  I guess the question is if they feel the Bitcoin community is worth investing in or if they should focus their efforts elsewhere.  We are starting to see a battleground form as companies like Facebook are heavily diving into the Ethereum infrastructure, while Elon Musk wants to make Dogecoin the default payments crypto, & companies like Microstrategy are betting everything on holding Bitcoin.  It will be interesting to watch this next cycle unfold and see which business investments turn out to be genius, and which were dumb in hindsight.

Isn't he still profitable not only massively with his personal trades, but also with his company's Bitcoin purchases?  Does he have to give back any bonuses or salary?  Do we suddenly forget his name?  Will his creditors break his kneecaps if he can't pay?  Is he having to eat ramen or apply for a job at McDonalds?  Will he suddenly find himself without bikini babes at his mansion?

I think if you answer those questions to yourself, you'll know he's not too worried.  I'm sure if Bitcoin goes to 0 he's still acquired more wealth than 99% of the folks on this forum.  I don't think that's something to get antsy about.  If anything he's plotting another massive buy with a debt offering and trying to get some billionaire buddies on board.  I think his approach is for people to buy all the bitcoins and price them at whatever he wants.  A lower price could be viewed as an easier path to get there.

Yes, they worked as intended.  You got a positive reading.

The ultimate bottom should be around $10K in 2024 if history is to repeat itself.  With the failure of the Stock to Flow model now, I think the danger is definitely to the downside.  Selling dead cat bounces seems to be the play here, although we have been going pretty much straight down for 3 months now, so there hasn't been much opportunity to squeak out even a little profit trading on the long side.

I've been saying for several years that the time to sell would be December of 2021.  I only wish I had managed to take more of my own advice.  For now, we watch in horror and hope that Wall Street is reloading for another pump, because Main Street has moved on to more functionally useful projects with more fun and supportive communities. 

Welcome to my point.  I'm glad you were able to connect those dots...

The point, for me to clarify for those who may need help understanding, is that their goal is to have everyone on continued health plans forever where the money is taken out before people even get to see it (not too different from inflation).  They're even printing more money to purposely set off an inflation wave disregarding the wishes of the Federal Reserve (if the Feds are against it, it's gotta be horrific).  Keeping people from working.  Even attempting to take jobs from those who do not support their universal health care (and after that universal income) future.  We can fight it, sure.  Trump reversed a lot of the Obama nonsense.  That only led to this orchestrated pandemic to further their agenda.  Can you imagine what unemployment will be if the vaccine mandate goes through eventually?  Can you imagine the amount of stimulus that will be allowed to happen in that situation?  

Universal health care and universal income are coming...  With that, will be the removal of any trace of natural selection left in our society.  We are moving towards being a species dependent upon science to survive, and to me that means we are doomed.

By all means, get the vaccine though.  It's just a little jab right?  We'll all be dead long before the consequences of these actions are widespread and obvious, but the enslaved generations that follow will likely never forgive us.

Gambling on esports seems like some weird thing you'd see in a movie about the future.  It's crazy to think about how big this business has become.  I'm even seeing on NFL games now they have weird replays where the people are generated animations like out of a video game.  It seems this is the direction the world is going.  Pretty soon we'll be having entire football teams of video game players.  I must admit I thought it was pretty crazy, but it makes more sense then robot sports, which is sort of what I was expecting for the future when I was a kid.  Now with the rise in digital capabilities and now the coming metaverse, it seems pretty obvious the future of sports is not robotics, but virtual.  I guess I should probably dip my toe in at some point.  I wish I was younger, I would probably care more.  Nowadays video games are less about winning for me and more about having ridiculous fun in any way possible (usually trolling).

According to Mike Tyson, this fight is not happening.  He said there wasn't even serious talks with his camp about this fight happening.  This from the latest Nelk podcast where he stopped by with Dana White.

Mike did say that Jake Paul's camp reached out to him about a possible fight, but that there was so many people involved and it was clearly all about the money for everyone.  Mike said he wasn't feeling it.  He stated that he wanted to fight because he loved the sport, not to make a bunch of kids a ton of money off his legacy.  Dana even said that Mike Tyson is the draw, not Jake Paul, so there's no reason why Mike needs Jake.  I'm not sure that's 100% true if Mike wants millions of dollars, but as he becomes more and more successful in the marijuana and social media spaces, there's less and less of a reason for him to get into the ring...  He's old, it's not worth it.  I think he could still kick Jake and Logan's asses, but at what cost?

Looks like we've still got a few hours before the 24 hour dip below $40K is complete.  At this point it looks extremely likely that will be the case.  I guess the questions after that are if it will get above $40K again in 2022 or maybe if it fall below $30K...  What are the thoughts here?

Personally, I think a retest of the recent low between the double top seems rather likely.  If that doesn't hold we'll fall straight to $10K. 

At this point I think it might be irresponsible for longtime holders to have not cashed out something at >$30K levels.  I know I wish I had cashed out a little more during my last sale at $57K.  With everything sinking like a stone for the last 90 days, you have to wonder when the pain will end.  At this point a dead cat bounce would be welcomed.

Looks like Demarcus Cousins to the Denver Nuggets is now official.  Glad he's getting another shot in the NBA.  Seems crazy with the way he played for the Bucks that he wouldn't have a spot somewhere.

We've got 11 NBA games today including games for the Lakers and the Nets (fan favorites).  The Yahoo! Sports app is also offering to let you stream for free 10 of those games (Bulls vs Bucks isn't included for some reason).  I find it's pretty easy to just stream the game from my phone to my TV and enjoy the freeness.  With the recent crypto crash, we need to save every penny. 

Still no Ben Simmons news...

Well, that didn't last long.  The clock is on...  The death cross is complete...  Perhaps we should change the vote to how long will the market stay under $40K?  I guess we'll let the 24 hours below $40K play out first before doing anything drastic.  Looking at the chart and ignoring fundamentals, it looks pretty clear the market will hit $10K before it hits $100K, if it can manage to break to new highs at all.  Hopefully the fundamentals continue to stay positive.  Maybe this drop will bring Tesla back to the table for accepting Bitcoin.  Maybe Apple will take this opportunity to jump in the game as well.  Maybe Saylor will issue some more debt and keep trying to catch this falling knife.  Starting to feel like Bitcoin abandoned it's community to focus on institutional acceptance, and now those institutions are starting to tighten their belts.  I hope that not swapping BTC for pictures of monkeys to be a part of a positive community doesn't turn out to be a bad decision. 

I'm just curious what made you willing to trust this site?  Seems like you could take that 3.5 BTC and buy 2 more of those coins from here to sell on that marketplace.  I know with a 250% premium on Casascius coins I would sell my entire collection.  I feel like this might fall into the too good to be true category.  The whole idea of sending them your coins in exchange for an NFT smells a little.  I'm happy for you though.  Were you ever worried you wouldn't get paid or that they would take your coin?  I don't think I could have taken such a risk.  Glad it paid off for you.  It must have felt great seeing those coins hit your wallet.  I hope others have a similar experience.

Bitcoin’s price getting you down? Is the panic setting in? Want to dump some coins before they go to zero? Want something physical instead of magic internet money? Here’s your chance. Stick me with your virtual coins and get some shiny silver shipped to your door.

Feel free to grab them from the NastyFans site or PM me directly. I’m usually willing to accept a lot of different altcoins as well. 

This forum doesn’t even moderate obvious scam activity. For your topic to have been deleted it must have been a pretty horrible waste of time and effort. You coming to create another topic complaining about it and shining light on just how terrible of a thread starter you are seems like poor judgement on your part. Just saying… Maybe I’m wrong, but without you really demonstrating your case, this is just another waste of time and effort.

I was a bit hesitant when reading about this platform.  They seem to have come out of nowhere and are now being touted on this forum as a way to get a huge return on your collectibles.  I'm not sure why this one platform would justify a massive premium over the others, and I haven't looked into their escrow system enough to see how everything works.  I am hesitant to trust them and think that others should be as well.  Escrows with long reputations are trusted here because people like myself have had the opportunity to walk away with tens of millions of dollars in other people's money, free and clear with no legal repercussions, but chose not to because we are not thieves.  This is the sort of action I would need to be displayed by an entity before I could trust them.  I know I wouldn't risk any of my collectibles to a new operation that wants other people to trust them with tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.

I hope I'm wrong and I'd love to sell my Casascius coins for that price, but something smells fishy.

Source: https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/letters-health-care-providers/potential-false-positive-results-antigen-tests-rapid-detection-sars-cov-2-letter-clinical-laboratory

I'm not one to think the FDA has our best interests in mind, but I'd trust them before some lab that requires masks to enter and sells the testing supplies and services...

It's clear the tests are WAY TOO SENSITIVE to be accurate, by a factor of 100 by some estimates.

What we're seeing is a last ditch effort to pump up the positives to justify the insane spending being done by our politicians.  Nothing more.  

I know next to nothing about Solana.  However, every single young person I know that has taken an interest in crypto only talks about Solana.  I would say of the people I know personally, more of them own Solana than Bitcoin.  I don't know if this is because they don't understand how coin prices and market caps work, or if they think Bitcoin has gone as far as it can go, but I know they are all big into DeFi and NFTs and have no idea what they would even use Bitcoin for.  They want to hold coins that will pay them huge interest for staking or providing liquidity.  They don't want to buy a small amount and expect Bitcoin to do another x10 for them to make a few bucks.  They don't care about countries adopting it.  They'll never set up a Lightning node.  They only know Bitcoin's use case is to purchase altcoins and they prefer USDT or USDC for that activity.  Even in El Salvador, which is being toted as a Bitcoin haven is seeing more usage of USDT than Bitcoin if the information I'm reading is correct.

Interesting week for sure...  

Microsoft spends 70 billion dollars on gaming assets that will be the foundation of NFTs in mainstream gaming.

Facebook, excuse me, Meta announces that users will be able to create, display, and sell NFTs on their Facebook and Instagram properties.

Looksrare, an NFT platform that came out of nowhere and airdropped tokens to NFT traders has a current market cap of over a billion dollars and growing rapidly.

Bitcointalk - Still no need for an NFT discussion section.  Nobody uses them.  They're just pictures...

Finally, a possible legitimate use case for the Lightning network and the community instead pretends it's not the single biggest onboarding opportunity for users in crypto ever...  I guess it's easier to yell scam then it is to build the future of finance.  I'm guessing the folks that left Bitcoin to create a trillion dollar altcoin market aren't missing this opportunity.

As I understand, even if you test positive using one of these tests (if you are asymptomatic) there's a 97% chance that it is a false positive.  

This to me isn't about health and safety.  It's just more propaganda.  As soon as these tests start hitting doorsteps every social media influencer in the country is going to be taking them day after day hoping for a false positive so they can make a twitter post for sympathy.  It's actually not a bad plan if your goal is fearmongering.  I'm not sure it will have the desired effect though, as it will show how many people test positive with no symptoms and begin desensitizing us to this flu.  

Buckle up, the social media campaign is starting...  So thankful to be in a position to not give a fuck...

I was a bit confused by this as well.  Seems like this sort of miner would be much better targeted at home miners with 110v power and a 1,500 watt power usage.  I've always thought it was weird how mining companies target large datacenter operations in spite of Bitcoin supposedly being invented with a distributed security model in mind.  I hope at some point (maybe Intel?) producers of mining equipment make an attempt to get Bitcoin back in the spirit of which it was created.  We seem to have fallen so far from Bitcoin's original intent that people aren't even pretending to care about the principles anymore, they just want to make the most money they can off this tech before they destroy it.  Which seems to be the inevitable course of things.