An international, truly universal classic!

Confess, Dude - you've been waiting for a sign of life to post that.
Have you used a stick to poke her??? 

Everyone and their dogs have it by now. How naughty can it be? Besides, it's what you make of it that matters IMO...


... as AlcoHoDL already pointed out. I concur.

I signed up to their mailing list, not sure with which email addr, so I am at least tangentially involved. I'm so glad I didn't order anything from such a shitty company.

Secure my ass.

I see your point and I do not doubt your honesty. I just meant the prices quoted are the basis for the auction, so just a lower bound. Had there been more prospective buyers, the final price would have been higher. Possibly much higher.

It's a ship at any rate. The captain makes the rules, not me (or Elwar, for that matter). And it's not a cruise, where it's important to make the customers happy so they bring more. It's a residential community, and the officials are unelected politicians.

The fact that it's just .5 miles from the shore makes the prospects much milder, but can it stay there? We've seen it can't be taken for granted. And even if it could, then it's Panama (or wherever) laws.

It could become necessary to do so, at least for some stretch of time. I'm not implying it would be done on purpose, cause it ain't no fun for sure.


Might well be. The idea of living in a monopoly where drinking water has a price determined by scarcity, surrounded by bigger fish (onboard and offboard!  ) is scary. If the only money is bitcoin, it's scarier enough for the small fish. One thing bitcoiners understand is the price dynamics of scarcity.


That's why I am sympathetic with this project and I always had respect for you. I support you and wish you the best of luck for your next endeavor, should you ever feel like taking on a new one. I couldn't get myself to buy a cabin, though. I was entertaining the thought "I'll have a cruise when the thing takes off" (if it's not a sausage fest).

It could be your eyes
see no volatility
or your hodler mind.



#haiku

The idea of nonstandard, extended unicode characters does not resonate well with me. Some nasty bug around the corner could turn you into a hero who offers his stash as a sacrifice against inflation. I mean you could LOSE your COINS.

I'd stick to standard ASCII just in case. Just make it long and random enough, you're good to go. IMHO YMMV etc.

Back at this, which I think can be used to make a couple of points clear.



Point 1: They have no clue about past Bitcoin forks, don't know history and feel entitled to say something just because their audience has even less of a clue.

But we can reopen closed (and still potentially profitable) mines. It could even be conceived that some big power could throttle production to manipulate the price... but what am I thinking? There's no such need, when you can just manipulate paper gold. As for fiat money, gold parity is a thing of the past, so it's basically irrelevant.

Point 2: They have no clue about the gold market.


Sure, like diamonds. Scarce by Divine Decree, right?

Point 3: Points 1 and 2 might be off. In which case, the Motley Fool knows these things; he's just bullshitting clueless readers.

They call themselves Motley Fool for a reason.

We do respect the power of SOMA.

I recommend soliciting answers in time, not page count units.

As long as you exploit any degenerate buy with a suitable Xmas card, I think it's fine (hint hint... 23900 crossed already...)

Freedom on water
sic transit gloria mundi
Satoshi is scrapped





#haiku

While I'm sympathetic with the whole seasteading idea and I respect you for standing up and actually trying to do something rather than enjoying your likely riches, this is the critical bit, as several posts have already pointed out.

The prices you quoted ("starting from" - which seems to threaten much higher numbers) weren't that high in themselves, but that would only get you an inner cabin - no sea view. Basically, a closet to sleep in and not much more.

But the real issues come when one actually considers the reality of living there. Maintenance expenses that look like a real menace. Who's going to pay for the fuel, the food, the cleaning? Rhetorical question: me of course. I'm not sure the "only BTC accepted" policy was expressely stated by you, but it's as likely as not, and it doesn't look good to an oldschool hodler. Would it have been just crappy fiat - well, maybe, who knows. But my cornz? OMG nooo!

Imagine having to splurge btc for every drink. Maybe for plain water, too... with the monopoly market that inevitably ensues on such a closed, isolated community. Mostly consisting in millionaires, go figure. Scary as hell for the small fish.

I won't even mention the risk of having dinner table neighbors that engage in endless, unsolicited tirades. Oops, I just did! (j/k)

And with the hard rules about living onboard - rules usually made and enforced by the captain, not the stakeholders, there's the sizable risk of imaginary freedom turning into perpetual obedience. The thing we were trying to run away from in the first place.

While we talk, she's nearing 23.9k.

The same officials that you bribe will screw you over immediately as the going gets tough.

Thanks bro. I've seen my share of drama, real life and fiction. The reason why that story makes me sad and wary is because it shows the level of opposition "freedom" projects can expect to face.

Elwar's story should make us all sad and wary.

This is what you get for trying to cut out an autonomous slice of world without influence from TPTB.

What didn't the insurance companies want to insure? A solid ship? I don't think so. It would be quite lucrative to insure it.

The companies bailed out because they see Elwar's dream for what it is: a revolutionary project, maybe still in its infancy, OK, maybe with several improvements and adjustments to be implemented through experience, OK, but a revolutionary project with full potential to piss off TPTB big time. See what happened in Thailand. Imagine what could happen if the next to get pissed off is Uncle Sam or the PRC.

Who in their right mind would want to insure anything against those stakes, and against those potential adversaries?

Who would have insured Ernesto Guevara, or Dr. King - or Jesus Christ, for that matter? We know how they ended eventually.



(Disclaimer: not a follower of Guevara or King or Christ, but still...)

EDIT - Not implying any comparison between Elwar and those historically important people, but the Satoshi is a revolutionary "land". A small revolution, for the time being, but atypical in that it's led by a grass roots community which - and here's the unusual part - is wealthy. Small but dangerous. Better nip in the bud.

From what I heard, he took his life. It made me sad, even if we weren't friends by any means. I think he was a troubled soul.

She likes to take pics of things before wrapping her lips around them
but she's very ashamed of her little kink
so she wears a mask.

An interesting opinion piece on Coindesk. A pearl in a load of semi-trash.

https://www.coindesk.com/personal-data-humanity-big-tech