the thing that gets me is its only on that ONE flash drive. how can you trust that amount of money on a single device with no backups.

at least get several. and use different brands and/or media whenever possible.

i have a similar flash drive (it has a number pad to unlock it) and that code is stashed away in several places.

of course 20/20 hind site and all.. i really hope he gets it unlocked. as others said, hire someone from the factory or some other high tech way to hack it without the code.

heh i talked to my money guy a few weeks back. she just congratulated me on my corn. they of course wanted me to sell a good chunk when i 1st went with them years back and thats their job: to advise the risks and explain the safe bets. every visit we always yakked a bit about bitcoin as they were fascinated by it but of course that couldnt recommend it, to them bitcoin was in a risk category so far beyond what the normal risk categories they are used to that it needed a new word or something.

but it now turns out now their clients are asking them about bitcoin. lol. they are learning but they of course will have to go with something  approved and whatnot. thats if they jump in of course. they have their legal duty and requirements as a fiduciary adviser (if i got that term right).

i joke with them that i have the low risk stuff through them and have the high risk side covered in corn.

ive got some snowbird friends. they swear by it. and that options looking pretty good to me now too.

words words words

gimee the tl;dr  we are rich again?

bold of them to think my internet can hit even 1/10 of my wifi speed. if that.

*cries at my 4g modem with its crappy signal out here in the sticks*

~54k USD

yeah thats a nice way to wake up.

true now, but back in 2011 i sure wasnt going to hand over my ID and such to sketch af exchanges to buy corn. so i mined coins directly as it was safer from an identity theft point of view. no giving out info, just mine direct to my wallet.

so i did mine at a loss for a while (a year maybe? that looooong period that it went from $35 to ~$2 USD in 2011-2012 or so) but not much of a loss as opposed to straight up buying, perhaps a 20% premium?  but then again i was used to doing folding@home and SETI, both which cost money (electric cost plus buying dedicated hardware that folded) and provided absolutely no return at all aside from the warm fuzzies from supporting science and medicine.

and that mining at a loss in the 2011-2012 timeframe sure paid off bigly now of course. VERY bigly.

today is of course different.

bold of you to think people dont want to miss anything jjg writes

*ducks*

the core wallet in 2010 didnt use passwords iirc. that was added much later.

his only chance is to search for private keys in that mess as the file system is no help. as he has overwritten that drive many times from a (very) fast glance though what he has done, looks pretty bad.

do a full image of the disk. work only on the copy.

then use something to scan every single thing  on the drive that looks like a private key. raw sector reads for the raw data at this point is likely your best chance,

soooo

• is this number goes up day?

• or number goes down day?

• or number goes sideways day?

• or honey badger doesnt give a fuck day?

inquiring minds want to know

edit: well not my mind really; i just sleep though all that crap

my life after 10 years of bitcoin has taught me more than i ever wanted to know about fiat, the fed, central banks what sound money is (and is not).

of course im glad i learned it; what an eye opener.

peeps, start (keep) learning and stack those sats. its changed my life. it might change yours too

i mined mine back in the day (2011 to 2012) while the price went from 10 to 35 to 2. so ill do the 11-100 as the cost basis.

shot outta a cannon ala Jules Vern's From the Earth to the Moon?

obviously you can tell im not NASA lol

yup, geosync orbit is the midpoint of the elevator. well, more or less. as you say it needs a counterweight further out so it doesnt need to be the actual midpoint. one can go with no real dedicated counterweight, just make the cable twice as long and use the mass of the cable itself thats past geosync as the counterweight.

i believe you can sling stuff off the far end too if its just cable past the geosync point. iirc.

but you know this of course, this is for those who havent looked into it.

didnt Arthur C. Clarke 1st came up with the space elevator concept?. Fountains of Paradise.

well not if youre in its path when it falls heh

as someone mentioned larry niven has written about them, both in essays and in his fiction. anything by him is good reading.

no. i remember almost donating back in the day (~2012) and fiat wise it was WAY less costly. several thousand dollars USD vs what like 500 grand now

dont forget potential forks like rusty nails coin, rusty rebar coin and such. collect them all!

yes, its better for us old farts as it keeps our napping down to reasonable levels, plus weve already left our mark in the gene pool anyway.

charts???

do you know where you are?

oh wait

or dyslexia

cuz i smell 93k, not 39k