This little graphic may have originated at some exchange or from aggregated data from a couple of exchanges?
I found this one, seems to show more realistic figures, and there are links to source reports (at a fist glance, i'm still checking this out ATM).

https://www.triple-a.io/cryptocurrency-ownership-data

And yeah, it's "crypto" (the shadow of Bitcoin), again  

IDC

Why?

Insurance tried to kick me out again, the trial started last fall, so it's almost a year now and they will have to pay me all the money they held back since.
Seems like they can't afford to hire even moderately competent lawyers. It's the fourth trial and they always fail in the same argument.
The final hearing was delayed by four weeks (19 more days to go) and the judge gave the insurance company the opportunity to give in within that time, because ihe already made clear in the last session that they will lose the case.

That means some time within the next two to eight weeks they have to give me a load of withheld money, and i don't have any planned nvestments.

Except buying Bitcoin 

Back again.
Price $8k lower, 34 pages to backread 
This will take some days... 

Andererseits kommt der (anstehende?) Bullrun etwas verspätet...

finished the video
filming, cutting for a week
it went really good

booking vacation
ten days no wall observer
which means cold turkey

got so much to do
but only so little time
until school begins

#quickanddirtyhaiku

Wish you luck.
I planned to shoot some bright meteors at the peak of the Perseides showers the day before yesterday, but clouds were pushed between my camera and the sky, by distant, big thunderstorms. So i tried last night, when the sky was clear, but the results turned out not-so-great when it comes to meteor trails. Only short ones, judged by scrolling through a few hundred images. At least there are plenty of planes and satellites crossing the pics... Given that i did not achieve what i was aiming for, i should have enough good images to stack, for a clean, detailed pic of a part of the Milky Way. Stay tuned.

I hope it's not going to look like a circle-jerk with only two participants  
Other than that: yes, why not?


Aaaaw!!! Cats!   

!BuddyBreaker!

I came here only for the haikus  

OT:
Veeery busy travelling, recording interviews for cutting a fun mockumentary about my father-in-law, which we will play in a loop on his upcoming birthday party.
I also plan to put out a wide angle camera tonight, pointing straight up at the sky, shooting unguided 20-second exposures. Maybe i get lucky catching some meteor trails. If i'm really lucky, i'll catch one on the telescope, too. That happended one time already, one time in tens of thousands of exposures. Wish me luck

Yep, i do have a filament printer (Bowden, so no TPU for me, yet), and i mostly do functional parts of any kind.
This thing has saved me a ton of money already and made me even learn 3D modeling using 3D Builder (the easy route) and FreeCAD (mainly for threaded stuff and parts based on advanced geometry). Some of you might know FreeCAD, it's a bit of a pain in the ass to use, but delivers perfect results if you do it the "FreeCAD way" from start to finish.


3D Builder is a good starting point for beginning modeling. It's basically combining/substracting simple parts to/from each other, and also included from Windows 10 and higher.

EDIT: Slicing is a different story, though.


I prefer Lavazza over any other brand since years now. Strength 8/10 minimum.

I'm too tired already  
I wonder which price i will wake up to, tomorrow.
Go, go, go, good night!


Like iced green tea?
Great idea. I have some dried Benifuuki leaves lying around in a bag somewhere here...
How do you do it, exactly?

Ain't nothing wrong with that.
A coffee maker once told me, that all machines are worth shit when it comes to deliver the character of coffee. I use mine for convenience, mostly for whole milk Lattes, so the character doesn't matter that much. Here, the taste of the milk is way more important. Real coffee farmers do roast by hand, grind by hand and pour hot water from the kettle over it in tiny, thick glasses (like a whiskey glass, but ordered at "Wish" ). They wait for the coffee to settle and sip it after a minute or two.  
The same coffee maker got me a cotton-pad machine with italian coffee-pads, which was "the best coffee you can get, without much hassle", because i fixed some of his computers for free and probably because i was dating his daughter. He maybe also tried to help me get away from filtered and machine-coffee for good. I used this for almost a decade, and i was a regular guest at the factory, where i got the most intense coffee served, every time, for free, fresh from the roasting machine.

Rarely, i do espressi using a coffee cooker, which uses low pressure, high temperature steam, by just being put on a stove. I like them with equal to a little less of cold milk. Very strong.
If i want iced coffee, i set up a liter of cold brew with beans, coarse grinded by hand, for 24 hours. It's working well (caffeine wise), and the taste is a bomb. It's the only type of black coffee that doesn't give me stomach discomfort, but most of the time i mix it with 1:1 - 1:2 milk and one or two icecubes, using a stainless steel strawl.
Whenever i used the frech press/pourover, i added some crumbs of Cinnamon and/or Cardamom, but more like filtered coffee it's on the bitter side of the coffee "spectrum", while it's less acidic. My wife introduced me into this type of making coffee. Before that, i used the french press for tea only.


Some thoughts on this:
"Paper" towels are typically not pure paper, there is stuff in them you don't want to have in your coffee.
There are sheet of filtering fabrics, originally for making syrup, which you can use. They should keep most of the aroma, while getting rid of crema.

The crema-info you provided is interesting, i will follow it soon.
(Blood-) Cholesterol has been said to originate by various sources, but many of the theories have been proven wrong over time. If troubled, add Serratiopeptidase (a fibriolytic enzyme) to your diet.
I also came across some research that was investigating Cholesterol as a biomarker for inflammation that causes blood clots, rather than being the cause for arterial clogging. Didn't follow it, though.

American coffee... i always asked myself how to get a coffee so weak that dark. However, less bitter.
Starbucks roast is too strong, and strong roasts contain more Acrylamide than light roasts, and AA seems to be able to cause cancer. Hands off!


I suggest we'll either recover to sub $70k levels, when the market grasps that the recent "crash" was just a shakeout of weak hands and a hunt for late longs.
Either that or Bart. (down to $55k-ish)

#GN

I used to use these too, and "designed by italian engineers" means Philips collaborated with Saeco and in turn took over their brewing unit.
The reason i went to DeLonghi, which do the same job in terms of making a good "everyday coffee" was that the Saeco brewing group was a real pain in the ass to clean. You have mold in places you can't really reach in no time, the coffee remains are spilled inside the whole thing, even worse there is a small valve designed to drain excess brewing water, which clogs easily and very often.
DeLonghi did a better job in their design. I can keep the brewing group unserviced for a couple of weeks (unthinkable with Saeco/Philips) and it takes me a single piece of cloth, a bit of hot water from the tap and a minute at most to thoroughly clean an be good to go.
My current DeLonghi machine is five years old, while every Philips/Saeco (2x) i had was beyond repair after three years. Last year i had to replace the brewing flask because of leakage due to the fact that i descale only every 2-3 months (using 50% lactic acid, just like the pros), also because we have very little calcium in our tap water.
The DeLonghi's weakness are the grinders. Either you have a good one that is relatively silent and will run for 10 years without problems, or you have a bad one which will give up within 1-2 years of use (6-8 preparations a day).

I don't want to talk you out of Philips, but keep DeLonghi as a alternative in mind if you can't stand the burden of regularly cleaning the Saeco "design".


Well, i will (try to) keep THAT as an alternative in my mind  


True that. Drugs don't have a place everywhere. Most users forget that most drugs are just substitutes.

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OT:
One of my teen kids received his Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis today. He took it quite well, despite he had no idea why he had to do 6 hours in four sessions of psychological testing within the last couple of weeks.
The pychologist was exceptionally competent and sensible when she explained all this to him. Quite pricey, but worth every cent.
My son kept to often blame me as "mentally disabled", mostly when he was raging in one of those autistic breakdowns, but today he was showing so much remorse for this, and it not only just seemingly bonded the two of us together more. This and (almost) $60k made this day feel complete.

TLDR

If you say Shitcoin, you should include the fiat currencies as well.
The pivot points are still: (De)centralization and Inflation.
Bitcoin (the protocol) was created to solve both, very basic problems of financial systems, while all the other Shitcoins failed to do so.
Sure, there are always some caveats, for example the 51% theorem in regard of Decentralization, but basically using Shitcoins for payment systems is only better (or more widely) supported, yet.
If you are really interested in free (as freedom) money, you should not be interested in getting any support for shitcoins.
Lightning is a step on the evolution of Bitcoin as a global payment system. Pretty clever, as it also solves a big part of the scaling problem, but that's just my opinion.

Let me transform your original question to be more compatible with this thread's topic:

What does Bitcoin need to replace shitcoins and centralized payment systems?

Yeah. But i did. Read on...


Yes, that's right, we are never the completely same person. I was explaining it a bit 'rong.
A better explanation: Before that LSD trip i experienced "me" as a kind of idea of a deeply bored (egocentric) self, while i was used to blame everyone and everything else when something went wrong in my life. After this trip, my old "me" (or idea of who i believed i was) kind of dissolved and i was forced to search for my real me, from a point where i was left with the remains of the crapped person i used to be.
If that is better understandable (which i doubt a wee bit, though).
There's a lot longer story/explanation with more background, i'll try my best to keep it short:

Imagine you are past teen age, still insecure and also a bit anxious. You started to work for good cash, rent your first apartment, you have had a girlfriend for two years about whom you never knew she was a narcissist, which just left you over night with the guy she used to secretly date for some weeks and completely ghosts you now, like literally walking away the moment she randomly crosses your way. You habe no idea you will never see her from less than 50m away. Even if you would, it would be one of four times, seen from today, which is about 30 years later. I even talked to the guy, years later, after she pulled off the same shitshow with him as well. He said he used to hate me, because she told him i abused and controlled her until she managed to flee with his help (yeah, sure). In the end, he was thrown out of his own apartment by her next guy, after she talked him into having to help a "close friend" to find a place to sleep and eat (that she already sucked and fucked when my successor wasnt home). This guy was really broken by her. In comparison, i was lucky, but i could relate a 100% to what he was going through.
Now, imagine you are quite broken by these events and as you are making your way through the weekend, trying to distract yourself with party and booze, some old friend offers you some LSD. Time to get distracted a little more, you think. And while all your company on this trip starts to enjoy it an hour after swallowing the small piece of paper soaked with Alice, you start to feel unusually miserable, followed by experiencing that everybodies face you come to see is looking the saddest way you ever saw.
That was, my inner self projected onto my environment, but i wasn't aware about that at the time. In the morning you get home, hit some bongs and start to feel out-of-body-like, and everything heavy and sad is falling off of you, like a bad dream.
When you wake up next time and finally go outside, you are struck by pure panic by the presence of any human being...
That's how it started. The journey of finding my real self and building a new life around it. This was the quest this LSD trip made me go on, and it took a painful while under medication and therapy, until i found my own way of getting ahead, which made me able to taper the meds without turning into a shaking bag of anxiousness.
About 30 years have passed. The first time i was able to think, write or talk about these experiences, without my muscles starting to get stiff and my heart start to race, must be about 8 to 10 years ago, i guess.

Anyway, my "second life" got way fucking better, and it obviously needed that dose of LSD for.
On the other hand, now try to second guess why i consider myself done with it (LSD) as well  


Sheesh, same here. But let's see observe. I am also way too in-profit (in theoretical fiat terms) to really care. I can imagine to start sweating it if we re-visit $20k (wait, what did he just write?!), but as i'm long-term bullish and also long-term invested, i couldn't care less.

Let me use the words of Public Enemy's Flava Flav:

Don't believe the hype!


That's similar shit like the lightheads that claimed that Psylocybe mushrooms and LSD or LSA (a.k.a. Morning Glories) are the same.
It's all different. If you know how to threat them, you can even wash the stuff that makes you vomit out of Morning Glory seeds prior to fabricate a fine, psychoactive schnapps out of them. These, like Mesc and (real) Ayahuasca are exceptional drugs most people never experienced on this planet.


Me too. I claim to know what you mean. My last trip was the most critical one. My brain was fucked. It kinda sucked up all of mankind's sadness. It was my fault, i didn't respect the set/setting rules at all, tried to entertain my miserable being after a huge, emotional loss. That didn't go well.
After all, and after slowly working myself out of depression and anxiety over the course of a decade, i had emerged to Me, v2.0. The person that i experience as myself, until today.
All i know is that i never want and need a LSD trip again, ever. It has taught me the lesson of my life.

That's what i have learned painfully from my first trade...

With no more bags to dump at the next top 

Investment money is always on a round trip, so expect it to come back into BTC sooner or later.
Some less faint hearted pockets should take advantage of the dip either through ETF's or Exchanges/OTC, so mid/longterm the anticipated rise of BTC will resume.
In fact, i'v been waiting for this post-halving, pre-bullrun dip already, because it's almost traditional, if you zoom out.

#GM

The best thing of today was me checking the price shortly after waking up.
On the phone.
Without my glasses.

Thought i saw $61k, thought "alright..."

When checking the WO an hour later:

 

Why, thank clown Boris Johnson (or the voters) then, who started to make UK politics an absolute joke.
Monty Python couln't have done it better. Now swallow the bill.
Sorry.