The stock market is MELTING!!!!!

Time to seal the bunkers, fire all the employees, and start evaluating neighbors for their caloric content.

Wait, Bitcoin is melting too. We're caught in the perfect storm of people believing that our Dear Leader is full of shit and our Congressional Medal of Freedom Winner saying "all is well". Man this is fun (breaks out popcorn)

Dingbat. However he did get the Presidential medal of Freedom, so one should listen to his words.

Hell I don't have a Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Well, Rush is now saying that Corona is just the common cold, so bearish for Bitcoin.

Hm.

I never heard the "Ensign Crusher, prepare to make it so".... That's just... english.

Oh yeah: Explain to them that they could be tortured if they knew your key.

Of course they may be tortured anyway, and if the torturer doesn't believe them then it's going to be a very long night. Maybe give them access to a small portion of the stash, but large enough to remove the torture.

Elwar: Cool. I thought you might be sunk since your Trezor was acting up (turned out to be a non-data USB cable). Glad you had backups.

I know. But it takes a special kind of girl to chug a 5 gallon bottle of wine single-handed.

You marry that.

It's the weekend, Bitcoin is under 10k, I'm going to start drinking with my gal....

Unless one lives in the Netherlands, "the taxpayers" have been paying less and less for the common social good of raising reasonable kids. But the key issue is what constitutes having enough resources? Current capital is tough for a 20 something to acquire and risk of serious defects goes up with the parents' age. So that would need to be factored in. Perhaps we could sell the rights to the kid for the capital, with proceeds from the kids' life being used to pay back the bill. Slavery with extra steps :-)

Hm.

Good lesson: Don't ever depend on a single supply chain.

More to the point: By doing so you expose yourself to this kind of risk. It's quite probable that the overall risk over time of having a single supplier is cheaper than maintaining fault tolerance, if so well then this is what we call "life".

Redundancy costs money. Going without saves money. Until it doesn't.

Changes in torture laws, mind ripping techniques. I can see "progress" happening in these arenas.

Kind of like when the US Govt outlawed possession of gold. Not much changes.

Don't worry though, if you are rich enough laws do not apply to you. Cultivate political pull, it is the currency of the next century.

Ok, side thought: If you saw this on a fashion runway, what would your first thought be:



Please God, don't say "Hey, they found my kink!"

Ok, whose job was it to keep bitcoin above 10k.... Come on, fess up.

Define "exist. I wonder sometimes if gravity is a force outside of our universe that leaks through our universe manifesting itself through mass.

Would explain why it is so damn weak.

Torture time I guess. But it's interesting that the coins would be considered profits from a "crime" even if they were bought before the crime occurred.

I'm sure he is guilty of something. Illegal U turn, farting in a Mormon tabernacle, etc.

You can't steal money with crypto. Small wonder the banksters hate it.

The real fun part is what happens if/when the ground opens. Let's say you didn't screw down the ground properly in the circuit box and you had a 120v motor in the appliance connecting to one hot leg and the ground (which is also attached to the frame of the washing machine for safety). Now 5 years later the ground opens. Maybe thermal expansion loosened it, maybe the small amount of current being used by the motor browned the wires a bit more each day till current would not flow. This happens.

You now have a situation where the power goes from the hot leg, through the timer motor in the appliance, and dead-ends at the ground as there is no path back to neutral. Thus the whole dryer metal box is now "hot" with the current from the dryer motor trying to find a place to go to neutral. Now you touch it, while standing in that wet puddle next to the washing machine.

You have now become the path to "ground". And since 100ma at 120v is enough to kill a person you had better hope that motor can pass less than 100ma.


(Electrical safety, the fatal current (1987), Ohio State. Retrieved from https://www.asc.ohio-state.edu/physics/p616/safety/fatal_current.html)

That is the problem. If the motor went back to the breaker panel on a neutral and the neutral opened then the frame of the dryer would not be hot as it is connected to neutral and not the motor. If the ground opened up then the frame of the dryer would still not be hot as nothing is connected to it (however if a ground fault developed say in the dryer motor the frame could become hot which is why you ground it). The voltage differential is one thing, but if the frame ground is expected to carry a load and the ground wire becomes disconnected you basically have a hot stove waiting for people to touch it.

Interesting stuff.