Introducing the Biggest Loser Raffle...
There is no fee to enter, but if you are selected as the biggest loser you are required to pay for the prize.  Due to shipping variances, this raffle will be restricted to continental US shipping addresses only.  If you would like to enter, please have a trading history with positive feedback and be ready to spend BTC and get nothing if you lose.  

2 blocks will be selected to determine the outcome.  The first block selecting the winner and the second block selecting the loser. The winner cannot also be the loser.  The winner will supply a US address and receive their prize once the loser has paid for it.  Payment will be made to: 168WXhArv7Fasqvi2xm5MQMfLhG18jifMe

The cost to enter is a promise to pay $40 in BTC upon completion of the raffle.  Please select an open character below to particpate.

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I didn't get any messages about the 0.69 BTC tentative offer on this Casascius coin so I think I will most likely start an auction for it at 0.65 BTC and see if anyone is interested in bidding.  I need to get it and get pics and all that wonderful stuff first... 

I also hear that people want raffles but I don't think this is the coin for it (I'd love to be wrong if there were enough folks to pull it off).  I'll toss something fun up to keep people busy with a different prize and see what happens.

Man… Ben Simmons got kicked out of practice and suspended today… The drama continues. We’ll have to wait for more details on what occurred, but I think it’s safe to say that Ben Simmons won’t be making up with Philadelphia anytime soon. I really don’t think the sixers have any choice at this point but to dump him off to Sacramento for Fox and try to salvage something from the Ben Simmons failed experiment.

Google is your friend when it comes to searches like this.  There are lots of different vendors that offer these services, but there are also a lot of different options involved.  You'd be surprised...  You need to find the vendor that offers the price that fits your budget and the features you want.  Some have 5000pcs minimums, some have massive costs, some can get them to you in a week, some take months...  Once you know exactly what features you want, your budget, and how many pieces you need, the search gets easier.

I’m sure people are attacking Bitcoin constantly. I wouldn’t expect anything less. There is such a massive amount of wealth held on the blockchain now, it would be almost irresponsible of the community not to have people constantly looking for new exploits. Whether or not they will be successful is another story. The L1 blockchain looks pretty secure to me.

This market doesn’t seem to want to dip. I figured we’d see a sell the news situation on the ETF approval but we barely dipped below $60K. That makes me think this rally has legs still… I think there’s a good chance we could see new highs tomorrow and break into price discovery territory. That probably means we’ll get the dip to clear out some leverage.

Don't you love talking big government liberals into a corner?  They are so hell bent on pushing their agendas that their own talking points are dangerous warnings.  Imagine thinking the government wants the population to be dumb so it is easier to control, and then saying they should control our healthcare and tax the rich to pay for further growth and dependency of these "dumb" people.  If you believe the government is trying to dumb down and control the population, stop advocating for a larger government and more taxes.  It's really that simple, but don't expect the braindead Trump hurt me crowd to accept reality anytime soon.  They can't even figure out which bathroom to use...

Somewhat of a blanket statement that couldn't possibly hold true.  For example, when I make jewelry out of my Bitcoin, nobody ever gives me compliments.  Electricity also doesn't seem to travel along Bitcoin quite as easily and Bitcoin makes for poor teeth fillings.  In the event of a global internet outage or solar flare taking out the power grid, gold may find itself holding value a little better than Bitcoin.  Just a couple things off the top of my head.  Is Bitcoin a better investment vehicle for online trading, sure.  Is it going to be replacing gold in our circuitry anytime soon?  No.

They have got to have something planned.  Booker never really seemed to get along with Ayton and Chris Paul is destined for retirement soon.  Maybe they're planning to do a sign and trade with Ayton and let Chris Paul go to do some major free agent signings?  There's been talk about Deangelo Russel and KAT teaming up with Booker, but that might be a tall order for management.  The Bridges signing for 90 million just doesn't make much sense to me no matter which route they take, which makes me think that Suns management are going to do something stupid.  If only it weren't expected at this point.

If any other signature campaign was advertising services like this, they would be attacked and trolled into non-existence on this forum.  Every user wearing the signature would be blasted with negative feedback, and possibly warning flags as well.  Why isn't this happening here you ask?  That's simple.  It's the guys that wear the chipmixer signatures that are the ones who do this to everyone else.  Now that they're wearing scam enabling signatures, all you get is them claiming they aren't responsible or deflecting and acting like nothing bad is happening.  Meanwhile these same individuals suck each other off on the trust network and with merit cycling.  Disgusting double standards...  

Edit: Funny that suchmoon's buddy ibminer left me negative feedback and has been trolling me for years over advertising a legitimate gambling site that he lost money using, but has no problem with his partner in crime suchmoon advertising money laundering schemes that have now been proven to launder illegally gotten funds for criminals...

Ask yourself why the self-described scam busters here are advertising operations that launder money for scams while the forum's position is not to moderate scams without coming to a nefarious conclusion...

I can’t believe the Suns didn’t give Ayton a max deal. The one good player they draft in years and they’re going to let him slip away while giving 90 million to a backup and keeping Chris Paul around. Sometimes you have to wonder what management is thinking. Does this mean we’ll see an Ayton trade sometime in the future?

Sometimes truth can be inconvenient. The inconvenient truth here is that the vaccine did not work to keep Colin Powell healthy. I understand that doesn’t align with the agenda of many here, but nothing I post alters the inconvenient truth. That is, the vaccine will not save you. The government will not save you. We are all going to die. Some of us choose not to live in fear clutching ineffective vaccines.

Colin Powell was a great public servant and his death will surely bring sadness to many. He died due to covid complications, and was fully vaccinated. This will surely add more fuel to the fire that vaccines don’t work, as Massachusetts also reported 45% of their covid related deaths last week were fully vaccinated.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33957894

Transaction fees are determined by the market. Miners can process whatever transactions they want, but it is obviously the most beneficial to include the highest fee per byte transactions as the space is limited in each block. This is a great incentive system that they say cures some problem with some generals or something. (Kidding, but look it up and appreciate greatness.)

The most important issue in my opinion is the inability to scale on-chain.  The limits put in place have stifled Bitcoin's developer community and largely forced those who remain to develop on a subpar chain as they risk being passed up by newer and shinier innovations.  Projects that once thrived on Bitcoin's blockchain are now graveyards of what once was while all attention is on assimilating with the legacy system.  I think Bitcoin's development away from forging a new path and towards legacy systems is going to end up being one of the biggest missed opportunities in the history of mankind.

I doubt the government could pull off anything like this.  You're giving them way too much credit.  More likely would be that covid is nothing more than a rough flu strain they used to fearmonger everyone into letting them print 10 trillion dollars.  Injectable computing systems sound expensive and this was an obvious cash grab to make up for the lack of success in the universal health care objective.  I don't think it has to be a complicated conspiracy.  More of the usual inciting fear to print money that we should all be well aware of by this point.

Sure.  We'll go with "forgot" her bikini. 

One thing that didn't get forgotten, the amazing silver minted seat coins they're displaying.  If the artwork isn't beautiful enough to captivate your sense of collector's spirit, that sweet sweet silver is still for sale at your favorite online shop.   

I'm also giving away NFTs to friendly folks.  If you're a friendly guy or gal (not a troll) hit me up on the PM.

Still seeing a weekend pump? Cooler heads prevail friend. We all want the price to go up but you have to watch the market and listen to what it’s trying to tell you. There are ebbs and flows to this. It isn’t a straight ride to $200K. The leveraged longs make sure of it. We gotta keep liquidating them so no Johnny come latelys get rich overnight with dumb bets.

I think it has more to do with style than clutch-ness. LeBron isn’t a finesse player, he’s a power player. In last second situations that isn’t what you want, so he demands attention and passes the ball to the open man like he’s supposed to. This play style is the same reason Giannis is easily shut down by good defensive teams while Durant does not.

Oh memories...  If only the people who were posting about this topic back then had any idea what would be coming down the line...  As a once member of this club myself, it wasn't as amazing as it now would appear.  Relatively speaking, I was quite poor when I was a member of this club but very much still a believer in Bitcoin's potential.  I think the mistake that I made was thinking there would be more time before the world caught on.  Everything happened so fast that it was difficult to hang onto your BTC and resist the temptation to cash in massive gains, even back when the price was below $100.