Glad to see Patrick Beverly traded from the Clippers. His dangerous play to break Booker’s nose in the playoffs has become all too much what you expect from him. He shouldn’t even be in the NBA in my opinion, but I’m glad he’s going to a non-contender to be a backup as opposed to his role on the Clippers.

I may or may not ever get around to making more bitpics, but I have made all of the images public on an opensea collection for those who would like to view them, and if you would like to own them for yourself, they are available for purchase. If you own a bitpic, reach out to me. I’m glad to finally make these images available for everyone to see.

https://opensea.io/collection/blockchain-treasure

The capsules are great, but in addition to keeping things organized I always place them in tubes after they’ve been placed in capsules. This has the bonus of adding an extra layer of protection for those is us who may be obsessed with keeping their metal shiny. You can grab them fairly cheap off eBay (cheapest listing linked) and I’m sure there are better deals than this out there as I don’t recall paying so much: https://www.ebay.com/itm/1-Model-H-Storage-Tube-for-Airtite-Holder-Direct-Fit-Capsules-/401898104222?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l6249&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0

I’m heating a lot of Ben Simmons to the Kings talk… Looks like Fox may be on his way to the 76ers. Some of my friends back in Sacramento are already celebrating but I haven’t heard that the trade has been finalized yet. It seemed like Fox wanted out, so this was probably the best they could get for him, but man is he a great prospect to have to watch slip through your fingers. Another DeMarcus Cousins situation.

That Zed Run horse racing game looks interesting. I’ve been meaning to check it out. Not sure how wise it would be to bet on that sort of thing (although I’m sure it’s fine) but it seems like it could be fun regardless and I hear you can do free races also. Just make sure you’re having fun, as the main benefit to gambling should be entertainment.

He has the talent to play in the NBA without a doubt. He just has some mental issues that can really cost his team at times. Basketball really is a sport you need to be aware of what’s going on at all times and similar to JR Smith (who is going back to college to play golf) Lance has at times shown to not fully have that awareness.

Everything I posted above is a fact. It’s all public data anyone can research.

If you don't believe those returns just wait until I locate the GLBSE data.

I’m not sure which part is under dispute that has brought on the hate…that you couldn’t buy 649 NastyMining shares on the GLBSE for $1000 originally, that they aren’t selling for >$30 per seat currently, or that they aren’t holding >$1900 per seat in untouched distributions now, but that’s all very easily verifiable and the number will go up when the GLBSE distribution data is located (and even more if you factor in the forks).

Does anyone have a link to this data?  It appears the OP's link has gone dead.  I'm looking for all the "dividend" data from the GLBSE.  I downloaded it somewhere a long time ago, but have no idea where it is now.  I'll have to do some searching around on my pc and the internet, but it would be great if someone had this data and could upload it somewhere for historical reference.  I get that 99% of these operations are now defunct, but can think of at least one that is still running.

Very interesting image.  Thanks for posting as it shows just how even the best of investment opportunities in the world appears to be trash next to Bitcoin!  It made me do a little calculating and see what the value of $1,000 would be if it were invested in the NastyMining IPO back in June of 2012.  The result, $1,000 invested in NastyMining would be worth $20,136.36 today.  Additionally, you would have received $1,331,098.23 in BTC distributions at their current value.  That makes a current total of $1,351,234.59 gained from a $1,000 investment in NastyMining (now NastyFans.org) in less than a decade if you never sold or spent your distributions.

Even with turning $1,000 into $1,351,234.59 over the last decade, there are still users who complain and have even left me negative trust for speaking this factual information.  Let that be a lesson to you...  Don't judge your success by what you hear from the peanut gallery.  The more amazing your accomplishments, the more hate you will receive from those watching from the sidelines.  That's just how miserable people react to the success of others.

That BTC return in a decade is amazing no doubt.

EDIT: Oops, this data doesn't include the BTC distributions that went out before GLBSE was closed...  I'll have to locate that and update this post as the real return will be significantly higher with that data included.

Nope.  1 BTC is almost never 1 BTC in the sense it is used.  Nearly all BTC purchased by retail users these days have a different cost basis and therefore different tax liabilities making them have different values to those that hold them.  Still, it's fun to pretend that 1 BTC equals 1 BTC, especially when you're trying to get ignorant people to pay massively inflated crypto prices for goods using past crypto prices as a basis for current valuation which seems to be extremely popular around here.  

My personal opinion is that if you are daytrading crypto for any other reason than to harvest tax losses then you are only creating profits for the exchange and will likely end up missing out on the mother of all rallies while you try to capture small gains.  Doing this will likely result in you being audited, or if the government changes the 30 day tax loss harvesting rules to include crypto, you could be looking at legal repercussions.  In short, lots of people dream about making huge returns daytrading.  However, of all those I've known who have traveled down this road, nothing but disappointment was ever reached.

If you are using Bitcoin as your cost basis then it is likely that there will never be a bull market in crypto collectibles without being the result of a drop in exchange rate resulting in you losing you real $ value even as the BTC price of your collectible rises, and they will likely continue to lose value slowly against Bitcoin forever over the long term.  If you are using USD as your cost basis (like the IRS, investors, businesses, & reality) then you are likely to make a decent return on your investment so long as you are buying maker funded collectibles and the makers took appropriate precautions, didn't make mistakes, and aren't scammers.

This is why the forum needs a block option.  Ignoring doesn't stop trolls from getting paid via their signature campaigns to troll users and derail their threads/efforts to be a productive member of the community.  So much talent has been chased away from this forum that could have likely been saved to stick around and innovate here as opposed to joining other communities and dumping their efforts into an ever growing altcoin market (that is now larger than Bitcoin).  At some point we should probably make an effort to retain talent around here, although I guess you don't need talent for a store of value, so that's a possible explanation.  It's really sad that this is even an issue.  I guess this is what happens when your lead developers think that a toxic attitude is good for a project and the best way to use Bitcoin is to not use it.

Anybody looking into the possibility of going solar with a Tesla roof, I have a referral code to get you a $100 discount.  Every new customer who uses the referral code to activate their Tesla solar roof will get a free gift from me and if 10 people use the code successfully, I will give away $1000 to one of the referred users.

This giveaway is to incentivize solar power use and do my part to share referrals with potential customers to give them a little extra incentive to go green.  Best of luck to everyone!

Reach out to me via a personal message and let me know you want a Tesla Solar Roof referral code.  Thanks!

You can't blame them.  That's what the "store of value" change did to the community.  It was no longer about building Bitcoin infrastructure to change the world, it was about assimilating into legacy finance in order to make the price go up.  Those early developers who built useful things to show what Bitcoin could achieve have become enemies clogging the mempool, while clueless investors who want to dump their money into Robinhood and get rich became the target audience. 

Bitcoin isn't losing it's purpose, it lost it's purpose, several years ago.  The community at large is now just hoping to sell coins for a lot more than was paid for them to new entrants in the space.  We all know what that's called, but there is hope that once Bitcoin assimilates into the legacy finance system that changes will be made and it will return to a permissionless p2p currency.  I like the Trojan Horse line of thought, but am not sure I believe it.  In any event, buy, hold, get rich.  That's why satoshi made Bitcoin right?

The main risk of using Bitcoin is that you could turn into a toxic maximalist asshole that nobody who isn't into crypto wants to be around.

I often see people make this claim but it simply is not true.  If that were the case then taxes would certainly be easier, but it isn't.  $1=$1 but 1 BTC does not equal 1 BTC, at least in the eyes of the law.  It's all fun and games to pretend that Bitcoin is it's own thing, but it isn't.  I feel like people with this attitude are LARPing as Bitcoiners, but actually have no idea what they're doing, don't pay taxes, and likely don't even understand what Bitcoin is.  I'd love to see the face of someone's accountant when they utter the phrase, "1 BTC is 1 BTC" as that is the sort of stupidity that people tell stories about to their friends over a beer and a laugh.

I'm still awaiting quite a few addresses for the winners of this giveaway...  If you haven't received your coin, please make sure that you have checked with nonnakip to make sure that you have provided the requested information.  I sent out the coins to addresses I received immediately, so if you haven't received yours please double check that you've provided your address.  I had all these coins engraved and ready to go so people could get them quickly!  I want to get you your prizes as that was my intent with this giveaway and don't want to do any more auctions for new buyers until the winners have been sent their winnings!

No error, you just didn't follow instructions.

Anybody else catch that walk off home run into the corn field at the field of dreams to get the White Sox the victory over the Yankees? Wow, what a moment. If you missed it, check out the news for a clip of not only the walk off home run into the corn to end the game, but also the pregame speech from Kevin Costner.