I do not. It’s just the coins and this thread. Maybe in the crypto collectibles encyclopedia there’s some further explanation, but I don’t know. I’m not big on documents because I don’t like storing them.

Now they're saying Blake Griffin is the next suspect to go to the Nets...  Hard to believe how fast Griffin fell from being the franchise player in LA to being bought out in Detroit.
 Granted his athleticism seems to be gone (he's only dunked once this year last time I checked) he is still a decent shooter and a good presence on the floor.  He's a good insurance policy if one of the big 3 for the Nets gets injured, as he would make a decent fill in.  I could also see him adding a lot of punch to their bench.  The Lakers are going to have to make a move soon.  They need to get their hands on Drummond if they want to secure another ring without too much heroics.

https://www.netsdaily.com/2021/3/5/22315692/hello-brooklyn-nets-likely-landing-spot-for-blake-griffin-after-pistons-buyout

Bitcoin doesn't need 2fa to safeguard nearly a trillion dollars worth of wealth.  I don't think this forum needs it to safeguard accounts.  As long as users were willing to accept their account is lost forever if their 2fa access is lost I don't see a downside to it from a security standpoint.  Not adding something like this seems like it is saving the administration from a lot of headaches and protecting a lot of users from themselves.  Hard to argue it wouldn't protect against account hacks, but it would introduce a new problem.

I see the answers of people saying 1 BTC and I think maybe you don’t realize how little money that is, or maybe I don’t realize how low cost of living is in other places, or maybe I’m just greedy...

I couldn’t live a year on 1 BTC. I think it would actually take closer to 200 BTC at current prices for me to feel secure and comfortable for the rest of my life. When you’re young, a million dollars seems like a lot of money. When you get older you realize it wouldn’t even get you the house you’d like, let alone pay bills or taxes forever. With 5 million I’d feel like I could live comfortably forever. With 10 million I feel like I’d be able to live luxuriously forever. I haven’t hit 200 BTC yet, so buy some of my goods from the NastyShop. Lol

I look back at my life accomplishments and where I am now. When I think of what I’ve been through, most things that cause stress are really minor in comparison. Being grateful and proud in my opinion are natural stress reducers that anyone can take advantage of by just being a good person and helping others.

You need neither mourn nor remember them. Just be glad the world is a slightly better place once they’ve passed and let their buddies pay respects. Even if the guy was a drug addict who overdosed after stealing BTC and going wild with it ordering darknet drugs. Some people might still feel pain at the loss of their Internet buddy and start RIP threads or pay respects on their profile. In the case I mention here, lots did.

Coin mixers being able to operate publicly is a sign that the Bitcoin economy has a way to go to see legitimacy. Of course coin mixers assist scammers as their purpose is literally to launder money. I’m sure at some point these operations will be shut down, have their funds confiscated, and likely their owners jailed. You would have to be borderline insane to try and operate one without being anonymous and even more insane to lend them BTC to try and earn a return.

The folks who have held this long have done so because they didn’t try to sell and buy back cheaper. If they had, they would have never been able to buy back in. Many a “what if” stories start with the premise of getting into Bitcoin early only to sell at a big gain hoping to buy back cheaper and get rich, which never occurred. In fact, it’s that attempting to trade for riches that kept them from reaching their goal...

I saw a meme today that made me laugh. It said to honor James Harden the Rockets decided to lose 13 games in a row (his #). I enjoyed that. Poor Rockets are only proving Harden’s point that they weren’t good enough for him to win with.

I've generated thousands of long vanity addresses by myself for my Minted Seats project so it is definitely doable without too much effort.  I think the longest one I ever got was something like 1NastyFansX so finding 1ELoNMUSK would be fairly simple and not extremely time consuming for even a single computer with a decent GPU.  You would think that getting people to blindly send funds to an address would be the hard part, but it appears people are so desperate to use their crypto for SOMETHING that they'll do just about anything with it in some cases.

It is nice to see what he can do when he's healthy and in decent shape.  I think he's still not fully in professional athlete shape like he could be, but he's definitely well down the road to becoming that.  He's still a pretty young guy but when you watch him he moves like he's 10 years older.  If he ever matches his dedication off the court to his effort on the court, he will be a bad man.  I just hope it happens before he's too old to carry his team to a title. 

It's important to understand how building a transition works, why coin management is essential in your wallet, and what you can do to reduce future fees.  Using payout thresholds and merging coins with transactions during periods of low network activity are a couple good ways to keep yourself from having worthless coins in your wallet.  The best thing you can do though is educate yourself so you don't have any surprises in the future with transaction fees and you might even find yourself modifying your transaction behavior once you have a full understanding of how Bitcoin fees and transactions work.

This would certainly be an avenue I would pursue if peeling didn't exist as an option.  Being totally honest, the USD value of these coins has surpassed any expectation I ever had for them.  If/when I decide it is time to cash them out, peeling is a legitimate option due to it's simplicity.  Selling the collection to someone on the forum for a BTC premium would be my preferred method as I'd like to see this collection live on in tact, but I doubt I would deal with an auction house as that seems like a pain in the ass and the auction house would likely be the main benefactor. 

I should start auctioning the brass coins here soon.  I've just been focusing my time on other things lately while hoping someone steps up to purchase the entire collection. 

One coin I won't be peeling is the 1000 BTC gold round...

Glad you were able to notice and correct the issue on your own.

Your avatar fit this post perfectly!

Yes, you are 100% correct.  I don't think people realize how fragile Bitcoin was 'way back then' in 2009-2012.  It could have broken at any point.  The entire market cap was a few million dollars and it wasn't uncommon to see people giving away lots of BTC.  The people who stepped up and started accepting BTC for goods and services when they were basically accepting a dream and a prayer for their goods/time are the unsung heroes of crypto.  When I think about all the thousands of BTC I once held...  It would have been nice to sit on them, but you never know what the butterfly effect would have been.  Certainly if everyone sat on their BTC back then, Bitcoin would be worthless today. 

Now that Tesla has made over a billion dollars from their cash, I imagine other treasurers for big companies will be taking note.  It takes time for meetings and approvals to do something like put all your cash into BTC, but I am guessing lots of those conversations will be had in the next 3 months.  This summer is beginning to look like a perfect storm is approaching.  I don't know if Netflix will be next or not, but they are certainly a good candidate given they raised a ton of cash and need to generate revenue to offset their massive spending on content creation.  

Personally, I'd keep my eye on Apple.  They're looking to go head to head with Tesla in the car space in the next few years and have the cash to spare to eliminate Tesla's Bitcoin investment as a competitor's edge.  I would imagine a 10 billion dollar investment into Bitcoin right before accepting it as payment for iPhones and including it into the iOS wallet infrastructure would have a pretty amazing effect on the price of BTC.  Something like this could very well carry us well into the hundreds of thousands of dollars per Bitcoin and I would argue that Bitcoin's high fees make it a much better payment alternative when buying an iPhone or or electric vehicle than making payment for a monthly content subscription.  

How would reparations even work?  Do you submit a blood test to see if you're enough of a certain race for the payment, or is there a sliding payment scale based on how much of a certain race you have in your genes?  Maybe it's just if you identify as a certain race then you get the payout?  Where do these funds come from?  If it's the taxpayer that funds it, then can we get a tax deduction if our ancestors immigrated here after the civil war?

Instead, how about we stop bombing other countries and maybe take a fresh approach to not doing horrible things to the people outside of the US.  Could be a step in the right direction.

Probably a good bet.  I think it's safe to say they'd cover the spread as well.  I'm looking for the Nets to demolish the Rockets, but at the same time the Rockets could be looking to put the hurt on Harden for his public disrespect.  It's always fun to watch a player return to his previous team when there's drama, so this might be a game to take some time to watch part of. 

There have been lots of discussions lately about Bitcoin minting millionaires with this latest runup.  Articles are popping up claiming there are nearly a hundred thousand Bitcoin addresses holding over 1 million dollars worth of BTC now.  You have people celebrating these "Diamond Hands" Bitcoiners on Reddit and sharing their stories of how they got or what could have been.

I don't know how many Diamond Hands Bitcoiners we have around these parts, but...

Congrats to you if you are one of the 93 thousand addresses holding over 1 million dollars in BTC. 

Huge congrats if you are one of the 8 thousand addresses holding more than 10 million dollars in BTC!

There's also more than 423 thousand Bitcoin accounts holding more than 100 thousand dollars worth of BTC, so if you are in that club that ain't too shabby either!

They are talking about millions worth of BTC in USD not millions of bitcoins.  There are quite a bit more than 5 out there.  According to this article there are more than 93 thousand out there holding more than a million dollars worth of BTC.  It wouldn't be surprising if many of these folks were members here at one point and maybe there's even a few lurking around or participating here and there.