I'm coming up to 81, and I'm a Bitcoin maximalist. I've rejected most of the current and other controls that try to restrict my lifestyle. I'm now living in a converted van, and I love the freedom. I'm considering a Raspberry Pi based installation to manage my Bitcoin node, and maybe do a bit of mining. Although I'm living primarily offgrid, I'm still a member of conventional society, and utilise thosed facilities that are useful to me. I'm monitoring the current banking changes, and hoping to increase my use of Bitcoin.
So, is there anyone else here that is questioning the current political and banking changes, and moving to an independent offgrid lifestyle?

https://twitter.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/1651979784555986948?t=CpgXrTvClaIShFGipwOrJQ&s=19

Another reason to think twice about using banks or any centralized institution to have our asset in custody, exercise control over them, denied us from having access to our assets, leak our private information and take down all our hard earned labour earnings we have secured with them or take advantage of a decentralized network with your investment in bitcoin and have full control over your financial assets.

Now that the bank is at the verge of going down completely due to a sudden withdrawal of it investors, this gives more closer attention to using a traditional fiat system and embrace the new era of digital currency with bitcoin, such a decentralized network is what people feels more secured because you can have full control over your financial lives, investing in banks is no more an interesting thing to do than taking a big risk on investment having several recent examples of centralized institutions going down.

https://cryptopanic.com

Here you go. This is a website that gathers all of the news in a single place. All the famous crypto twitter people are there too, and all the news website of crypto is in there and many other stuff, you can check the prices and movements as well for certain coins. Basically one stop shop for everything you may need. Ther are also "latest" news parts and the trending ones as well, that way you get to see which ones are getting more attention, there are so many useless news so checking only the latest would not give you anything, you may miss the important ones but if you check the trending ones then you will be able to actually make some profit from it if you know the trending information. I personally used this since it started, great advantage when you are investing.

Thanks! The silver prototypes aren't available anymore. We'll at least not through me. Some people bought multiples and may sell one.

Haha I haven't had anyone walk the plank yet, but that does sound like a fun jungle swimhole party.

I'd like to move into a direction of crudely made pieces...not in quality, but in style. Like it was made long ago or at the mouth of a gold mine using only fire and hammers. Maybe people wouldn't be afraid to handle them and have them as pocket pieces to show others. 🤔  silver pieces that don't leave finger prints when you touch it.....so maybe an antique matte finish with no proofing. We shall see.

These copper bars are nice though. Almost to nice and they make you want to put them in a case and not touch them. 

Btcusa.com could well serve as an exchange platform for USA citizens, we all know that USA is a very strict country in terms of regulations and all that, most especially for cryptocurrencies, but if coinbase can do it, plus a host of others including binance.us, then you can too, and if you are able to pull this off, trust me, btcusa.com could really become a big crypto currency exchange, one that could compete with other big shots in the industry, no doubt, this is an investment that would require alot of money, but trust me, it will be worth it...
This is what I think, what ever your decision is by the end of the day, good luck to you friend.

  What a motherfucker! So he possibly held onto all the Private keys of all his creations!

   Everyone should have swept all their items by now and not take any chances!

   I swept all except for the bonds as I am still awaiting the locktime date to arrive...But will check them now and see if he swept mine!

   What a piece of shit man!
 

Have you bought btc to HODL and wonder when it will rise to a point where your life will be changed financially?
Are you a newbie like me and everytime you log in to the group the best you do is to read and wonder when you'll understand the system and grow?
Have you made investments and it seems stagnant not knowing whether to pull out or hold on a little?
I want to tell you that it won't be long and you'll smile soon. just do the following
1. Be patient and keep learning (whether newbie or guru)
2. Be consistent and be willing to ask questions where confused
3. Always be optimistic and put in your best effort
4. Remove fear, buy when it's best for you and hold as if you don't care
5. Avoid listening and reading wrong informations from Bitcoin haters.

One of the things I have learnt on this platform is to learn, make research more than comment And i have learnt a lot and still learning and opened to learning
Be encouraged btc will make us smile...

I signed up on this forum in 2014 with minimal knowledge of cryptocurrencies and a restricted ability to comprehend their concept. Being a young teenager, you'll understand. On top of that, I had no way of acquiring it myself. Thus, I missed the opportunity to buy at ridiculously low prices (compared to today's). I gave up shortly after and reappeared on the forum in 2017 for about a year or two at most, abandoning it again and kicking some great opportunities once again.

I've seen an increasing trend over the past few months, mostly from newer BTT users striving to acquire as much Bitcoin as possible as soon as possible. Some even claim to sell their jewelry or other personal belongings in an attempt to acquire more capital to use towards a Bitcoin purchase. Other newbies claim that they found wallets filled with Bitcoin in the early stages, in an attempt to impress others, while a few days ago they'd be asking how to sign up on Binance or whatever. It's unclear whether any of these stories are true, but that's not the point.

The majority of us missed the boat when Bitcoin was cheap, and now acquiring a whole coin isn't affordable anymore. The average wage in Greece is approximately €800 (about €10,000 per year), while Bitcoin's price is at $27,500 as we speak (about €25,000), which means that I will need 2.5 years to acquire the requested amount of money, in the condition of not spending a single Euro, without taking into account any price increases. Thus, purchasing a whole coin would effectively require up to 6 or even 7 years for the average person in Greece.

I currently have less than 0.20 BTC, which is still a semi-decent amount for myself, the majority of which are from signature campaigns (huge thanks to Cryptobrainboss and Hampuzz for having me in their campaigns), and I'm totally okay with the idea of never owning a single Bitcoin; it's not the end of the world. So far, I'm earning an important side income through it, while spending time on the forum is like a hobby of mine now. This is what matters most to me.

To summarize, my point is that many of us won't become rich or earn a great deal of money through Bitcoin, but that's okay; money isn't the greatest goal in life. We missed the early stages, but that doesn't mean that we don't have a chance in the future. There's no need to regret anything, coming from someone who was here during the first years and missed the boat. It's completely unnecessary to stress over how to acquire more and go above and beyond by selling stuff or exceeding the budget you can afford. Stick to what you can afford to spend and stick to that plan; don't go to extreme measures; and remember, there are no guarantees in investments.

I caught two persons arguing this morning that led to this post, one on the other hand says this person introduced me to bitcoin July 2022 while i was doing my normal buying and selling of yam and palm oil, quoting him; my business of selling yam was doing good, I buy yam in bags with palm oil and I have a store where I normally distribute it to customers, before he came with his ideas of buying and storing bitcoin and since then I have not gotten shishi, all my money has gone and am asking him to explains what went wrong? What happen to my money or bitcoin? Why is it only eating and not vomiting?

My reply, sir generally the market is down not only to you but everybody, just exercise patients because even myself can not explains to you why the price is not going up, I guess this is as a result of low demands and supply's chain of distribution of bitcoin that has affect the market but don't panic am sure you will recover your money when the market rise soon, but how soon he ask? I said the market is rising slowly already.

The argument ends but I want to draw this lesson to everyone;
1. When introducing crypto to anyone let them know you're not responsible for anything contrary.
2. Tell them you don't control the price, the system does.
3. You're not liable to any losses
4. The person should make good decision before joining
5. Don't collect money from the person to trade or invest for them. Them should do it themselves.
6. Don't tells the person when to withdrew his or her, they should chose went to.
7. No promises for anybody joining cryptosystem is a free market.

I hadn't heard anything about this story--but then again, my grasp of crypto news has always been a little weak, so thanks for posting this, tread93.

Man, I didn't even know Cheetos came in a can!  I've been gobbling them down out of those stupid bags that never seem to open right.  But you're right, and in the end since he buried his illicit bitcoin stash underground it really doesn't matter what kind of canister he put them in (though something non-magnetic might have been a better choice, like a sealed Cheetos bag).

The feds may or may not have all things crypto under the microscope, but this Cheetos-eating bitcoin-stealer did, in fact, steal a hell of a lot of money.  If he'd stolen cash and buried it, I would hope the same action would have been taken.  Going after thieves is something law enforcement should do, as long as there's good reason for them to believe something was stolen and they don't abuse their powers of surveillance and everything else.

By the way:  The Flamin' Hot variety of Cheetos suck ass.  If you haven't already, do yourself a favor and don't try them.

Edit:  And boy, if ever there was a need for someone to use a mixer, this would be the case--and yet our junk food boy didn't.  Amazing, right?

Gang,

I exchanged a couple of emails with James McCartney with Stacks Bowers and they are going to attend the Bitcoin Conference in Miami this year. If anyone has been curious about selling coins in future auctions or if you are just curious to meet them and hear how they think about the future of physical bitcoins, feel free to reach out and plan a way to meet up. James can be reached at jmccartney@stacksbowers.com.

I'm not shilling anything here. I just follow them a lot since I think public auction action is a good way to gauge the real potential of these collectibles being mainstream. I think the Stacks Bowers auctions in tandem with PCGS leaning into grading physical bitcoins are positive.

Steeley