to whom it may concern

yes yall have finally shamed me into finishing setting up the gemini account i started years ago and now relegating coinbase to backup status for use only in emergencies.

yes you guys made me do actual work.

assholes, the lot of you

but thanks

edit hey they use yubikeys too. that is a MUST HAVE for any exchange i use. too bad banks havent caught up on that instead of sms or "security" questions... what a joke

seconded. good read.

i can imagine, ive done kinda similar things and would destroy several keyboards and mice doing it..  LOTS of satisfaction being hard on the gear as you do it.  bulk order them in advance.

ive read maybe 50%. unfortunate as its not fair to those i havent read but when the wave of newbies came in i lost interest. i didnt even know gmaxwell posted one until i saw the votes for him.

someone needs to tell him that 2nd place is 1st loser.

considering trumps low IQ im not surprised he cant get that little fact.

cant; i do that myself - even if ive sold lower previously. as long as the maths and science works out in the current situation..

its like become part of me: btfd is ingrained into my dna now. i can feel the mutation growing

EVERYONE save yourselves  im a goner

BTFD
i said: BTFD
cuz maths and science


#hakia

1st thing to do is copy (backup) that original wallet.dat to several places. do NOT post or send that wallet.dat to anyone. if you get private messages offering to "help" you IGNORE them.

then post here in the tech support section as it will have more people who know the software.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=4.0

i believe that there are ways to find if theres any balance without downloading the whole blockchain, probably some console command. but DO NOT run any random commands until several others have OKed those commands.

From that PR release:


core scientific.. isnt that where ohgodagirl aka the ethlargement pill..  kristy whatshername..  yes


eeeeeeewwww     but maybe shes not there now? i didnt see her on the about us -> team page: https://www.corescientific.com/team

but thats the same company

stay away is my take - everything she touched seemed to turn to a steaming stinky nasty pile of.. stuff.. after the ethlargemen pill thing from what i remember (admittedly i have not kept up).

ive actually no idea at this point as im not running any AMD cards, sorry. but if youre running PhoenixMiner ok i know its been pretty popular. but thats more an observation, not advice per se.

basically claymore is not longer supported and has not been for some time. your only real choice at this point is to switch to another miner.

"world of hurt" was my viewpoint at the time. many others seemed worried too.

of course there were blocks every 10 minutes (the protocol is the protocol) and development still happened. however at the end of 2011 the price was at the point where i was mining at a slight loss (compared to just buying btc, which i wasnt about to do at that point) even counting the heating aspect, and the drop from $35 to like $3 was the 1st time i read about the "death spiral" bit. i thought it might fail as a project. but i did folding@home for free for years, so supporting the bitcoin project by mining for free  was no different, as tthere was still the chance bitcoin might take off and be useful. money at that point was secondary to me. but for peeps that mined purely for money and as a business model it was surely different. and that mining model had to be profitable. sure looked to me at that point that aspect wasnt going so well. bitcoin wasnt in mainstream news then and exchanges seemed sketch af. mainstream mining was how to get the adoption curve up there, at least it seemed to me anyway.

mining and utility are different aspects of bitcoin. both are needed obviously, and both have different goals.

i started mining in summer 2011, and yeah i thought fall/winter 2011 bitcoin was in a world of hurt. kept mining as the rigs heated my basement anyway.

2013-16 being boring? not boring really but i dont remember too much excitement either. i mean it was declared "dead" many more times too but after the 1st one i experienced in 2011 i was used to it i guess. no big deal.

maybe that is a porta potty but for the aliens. it is open at the top.

only three sides? how do you get the critical 1:4:9 dimension ratio with three sides.

must be some new race. one that maybe is mathematically or dimensionally challenged. or just cheap knockoff. looks like the free market works with aliens too

well that depends on what you do everyday

this mercedes works for me

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unimog

yes. i find this related to one of my mottos "fun is where you find it." satisfaction is where you find it too and of course can change throughout ones life.

satisfaction for one may be being out of debt. another ones level may be knowing you have food and shelter for ones family for the immediate future. another may be just a dependable car. then there are those who want that black (or pink) helicopter on the helipad in the back yard for satisfaction. ive been at the 1st three that i mentioned, but dont aspire to last though. hope i dont get that self indulgent really.


number three is all that matters to me, and i have no need to compare the amount to anyone.. nocoiner, whale, or anyone in between.

kinda related: "life changing amounts" was discussed earlier. my life changing amount allowed me to retire many years earlier than even my most optimistic target. sweet for me. but that amount would be pocket change to many (most?) here.

its just got sooo much info and background with the explanations of the why such and such was done

ok so i just saw a grayscale commercial on tv, maybe an old one as i dont watch much tv really. it was the one where everyone is schlepping around gold bars and dropping it and such.

one thing that struck me as odd is they said something like "unlike gold bitcoin has actual utility." gold, being a noble metal, does have some utility as its good in electronics, most good connectors (like in audio, electronics slots, plugs and such) as its corrosion resistant and lowish resistance etc.

now its a very small percentage thats used for its actual physical properties as opposed to just storing it in bar/coin form or admiring how shiny it is in jewelry etc. so i supposed thats just a slight exaggeration but still.. kinda bugged me.

gold: exchange of value, storage of value, physical utility (small percentage)
btc:  exchange of value, storage of value.

maybe im too picky..

edit: for those who dont know me, im more btc vs gold myself of course. but both are handy to have for various reasons.

well apparently i was rich when i started reading the WO this morning (5 pages behind or so) but by the time i caught up and actually checked the price im poor again. maybe rich by noon?

so just another day for the honeybadger really.