With money you can only do three things: spend it, save/invest it and give it away. You have concentrated too much on saving, now it's your turn to enjoy it as you have been told. Other than that, I see you too exposed to Bitcoin. Even though I myself believe it is the best asset to invest in at the moment, I would take money out of Bitcoin and buy other assets that give you income, such as dividend paying stocks or ETFs or income-producing real estate.

I don't know how you will have your legal situation because by the looks of it your Bitcoin is undeclared. The first thing you have to do is to legalize it. If you can't in your country go to another one. There are many where they will welcome you with open arms.

Your post has a problem: although you have taken some time to write, and it is well structured, it seems too much aimed at praising the merit system in order to fish some merit.

As for what you are asking, I will tell you what Bitcointalk says when you are going to send some merit: "There is no point in hoarding sMerit; keeping it yourself does not benefit you, and we reserve the right to decay unused sMerit in the future."

In my case I don't keep sMerit, on the contrary, I would like to have many more to send, because many times I see posts that I would like to give them merits and at that moment I can't because I don't have any to send.

I think it has more to do with the massive printing of money than with the value of the good itself. When so much money is printed and money is not circulating, which is what is happening today, a lot of that money ends up in speculative assets at crazy valuations.

Yes, I think the effect on Bitcoin prices is generally overestimated. A lot of that money will go into financial assets in general, that's true, including Bitcoin, but it doesn't seem like it's going to have much more influence than the supply<demand equation is already having. This shows how useless the populist stimulus check measure is.

I'm surprised this thread doesn't get more replies. Probably because it's self-moderated and people are afraid of getting their post deleted.

I see it's a bit advanced for the time we are in but it points to what will be the future. For something to be considered a proper currency, it has to meet three conditions: to be a store of value, medium of exchange and unit of account. The bitcoin today, meets the first, not so much the second and is far from being the third, but that seems to be the future we'll get to. @nullius has an advanced view in this regard. Most of us who own Bitcoin do not use it as a unit of account, let alone people who do not own Bitcoin, since those of us who do are in the minority. In any case, this way of looking at things I believe will become more widespread in the future as fiat currencies continue to devalue and Bitcoin continues to be increasingly adopted.

It is curious how the infographic is completely opposite to that of the purchasing power of fiat currencies. Here we can see one about the (US) dollar:

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/buying-power-us-dollar-century/

Summary, please. I'm not going to watch a 25-minute video.


That is the problem, they are not going to make the vaccine mandatory but you will not be able to do anything if you don't get it, so in practice it will be mandatory.

Yeah, well. That is the position I have defended. That having vitamin D levels of at least 60ng/ml is going to protect you against the virus at least as well as the vaccine. And vitamin D is not an experiment, you can get those levels by sunbathing (depends on where you live). If you add some vitamin C and zinc you further strengthen the immune system. There are a lot of studies on them that I have cited in other posts, published in Pubmed and other medical journals. What happens is that Big Pharma and the doctors paid by it are not interested in this and you are not going to see it on TV.

This would be better placed in the newbies and help section. You can move your thread, but it will probably get reported to be moved there.

There's always going to be fees but if you want to minimize them, you'd better stay away from ATMs. When you buy something, you'll also pay fees but you can also try to minimize them. I am talking inso far as Bitcoin is concerned. I would also forget about anything apart from it, which we usually call shitcoins.

The most normal scenario is that it will continue to rise. I don't expect any major correction (40% or more) until we cross $100k. Demand clearly outstrips supply, and that can only drive the price higher.

The way you write doesn't sound like a guy who has almost half a million dollars to invest. Unless you inherited them or hit the lottery.

I go 100% Bitcoin. Anything else is shitcoins. The best thing you can do is buy Bitcoin and hold. Don't touch it for at least 4 years. But it's your decision.

Almost 60k on Bitstamp now ($59,750).

The truth is that these are delicious times, after a few years of waiting, beating ATH after ATH is comforting. And it looks like it's going to stay that way. It is normal that we will pass $100k this year, and some predictions point to much more.

Yeah, well. There is one thing we agree on, the current guidelines for how much vitamin D to take are very low, if everyone would take higher doses (or sunbathe more) they would get multiple benefits, including a strong immune system, etc.

But don't just give me a link from a search because I can give you a bunch of links that don't say that. A GP may not be the best person to give nutrition advice but this is not just about nutrition, vitamin D is not a food, it is actually a prohormone. And again I tell you that taking high doses, over 20k regularly is best supervised by a doctor especially to monitor vitamin D levels and blood calcium.

Can you back up what you say with links? Here you have some:

Fact check: The virus that causes COVID-19 has been isolated, and is the basis for the vaccines currently in development

SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, was isolated in the laboratory and is available for research by the scientific and medical community.

Isolation and characterization of SARS-CoV-2 from the first US COVID-19 patient

I would open a charity for you and all like-minded people to understand the concept of Expected Value.


No, you couldn't. You could have less debt if you haven't gambled at all, but no, this story you are telling yourself is based on the fact that you do not understand the concept of Expected Value or Mathematical Expectation. I don't know if it's worth explaining it to you because I've tried it with other people and it goes in one ear and out the other. If I see interest I will explain it.

This is another effect of massive money printing by central banks. The money that is printed does little to move the day-to-day economy. Little cash flows, and most of it ends up in speculative assets. Some of these assets make more sense, such as shares of solid companies, or Bitcoin, which is proving to be the best store of value in the world, but these types of assets are very much pure speculation.

I didn't say you said doctor. I am saying that if you are taking those amounts you should be supervised by a doctor.



Ok. Links please. I've been reading a lot about vitamin D for years, I even take about 20k daily (average) but I haven't heard about those many nutritional professionals saying that amounts higher than 50k are harmless.

You will only get bored if you play poker live. If you play online, what people do is to multi-table, so you often get playable hands, both because you are playing at various tables and also because the speed is much faster than in a land-based casino. If you play zoom or snap tables it's even faster.

But yeah, that is the basic strategy that everyone who starts out and wants to learn how to make money with poker (or at least not lose) should internalize: play few hands. And I would add: play them aggressively.

Then as you move up in levels things change a bit, and although you keep selecting hands, you open up the range a bit, but that's another story.

Covid-19: European countries suspend use of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine after reports of blood clots

That the vaccine causes blood cloths is not proven and is being investigated but to me this shows that there was a bit of a rush. If the usual approval timelines had been followed, these doubts would have appeared in the pre-approval phase. Besides, it seems that the vaccine of this brand is the one with the most side effects.

That what you just said is bordering on trolling. No doctor who is most favorable to the use of megadoses of vitamin D is going to tell you to take that amount just like that. If you go over 20k a day it's best to get blood work done and at 50k you have to be supervised by a doctor. I don't know which nutritionist you go to but those mega amounts are only used to treat certain diseases, as for example Dr. Coimbra does with autoimmune diseases.