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1321  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 25, 2020, 10:33:40 PM


sweet jesus

been eating ferns so long I have forgotten what beef even tastes like

you bastard
1322  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 25, 2020, 09:39:05 PM
Cascadian here

It's not the Mexico border I'm worried about, but the front line with the Mormon Theocracy.  Currently holding them at Fort Rock in Oregon, but with the increasing pressure from the Sino-Canadians from the North, resources are stressed.

I do hold a passport for the Intermountain Redneck Autonomous Zone and have considered bugging out, but the run across the territory of the Consolidated Yakima-Umatilla has become a real problem since their ethnic cleansing of the whites.  Besides, my heart is here.
1323  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 25, 2020, 08:53:27 PM
1324  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 25, 2020, 07:44:34 PM
we need to figure out what the fuck the marker is that this thing is latching on to

the filter it is applying is just bizarre
1325  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 25, 2020, 07:14:09 PM
I keep hearing that the stimulus package passed but am seeing conflicting reports.

Is the digital dollar included?

I might be a few minutes behind, what I understand at this instant...

a supposed deal has been reached, the mechanics of passage on the floor are still pending and is not assured

the DD was dropped from the final version



grain of salt, the situation is fluid

edit/

GOP Senators Demand Fix For "Massive Error" In Coronavirus Bill Which Would Create "Perverse Incentive"

Quote
Unless this bill is fixed, there is a strong incentive for employees to be laid off instead of going to work

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/coronavirus-bill-may-suffer-further-delay-after-gop-senators-demand-fix-massive-drafting

something something, die at jamba juice you peasants
1326  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 25, 2020, 06:51:54 PM
Denver lockdown


source?

nvm, yeah

sigh...looking to get paid out of an office there...guess that's not happening
1327  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 25, 2020, 06:05:02 PM
that moment when drug cartels are more effective than your "legitimate" government

Brazil gangs impose strict curfews to slow coronavirus spread

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/25/brazil-rio-gangs-coronavirus

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In Santa Marta, a favela that sits in the shadow of Rio’s Christ the Redeemer statue, traffickers have been handing out soap and have placed signs near a public water fountain at the community’s entrance that say: “Please wash your hands before entering the favela.”
1328  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 25, 2020, 05:41:28 PM
he said he knew how to access the coins but didn't have time to do it himself

true as far as it goes, as none of us have infinite time

You are MOAR morbid than usual, recently...

Are you trying to tell us something?

At least, do you have reasonable odds of making it for at least two more halvenings?    maybe you might want to start spending some of your BTC soonertm rather than later?

Gotta try to enjoy some of our wealth (if possible) while we still have some health and energies.

Further, I would be disappointed to find out that you would be leaving your BTC stash to some "undeserving" heirs, especially if you still have an opportunity to exhaust those reserves yourself and upon yourself.

moar morbid than usual...watching the final chapter of personal liberty play out in real time will do that to you

hodl, even if I am hacking up blood I am not selling at these prices

No "undeserving heirs" here, if I get it bad enough to die I fear my primary partner, who has some asthma, will be long gone.  The paper wallets and property trust would go to other ladies I love very much.
1329  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 25, 2020, 03:35:40 PM
wjy indeed?
1330  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 25, 2020, 03:31:45 PM
he said he knew how to access the coins but didn't have time to do it himself



true as far as it goes, as none of us have infinite time
1331  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 25, 2020, 03:59:14 AM
nah

just introspection

mortality and all that
1332  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 25, 2020, 03:36:17 AM
so fucking bizarre

to have the mind of a god in this clock ticking, meat bag body
1333  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 25, 2020, 01:24:21 AM
You know, they had to break it to the public gently and gradually, and they did give out hints for the acute of hearing.
Imagine where we'd be now if on Jan 15th say, when the CCP had ignored it for too long, and it was clear it was going to go global,
"We interrupt your inessential group-sex session to inform you it is now illegal, as is meeting anyone in the street, travelling, clothes shopping, buying too much soap, underplaying the dangers of the virus on social media, wiping your arse lavishly, buying 3 or more tins of beans, visiting your grandma...""Oh btw also digital dollars, drones bossing you about, economic meltdown and more fun stuff". They didn't even know half of it and just chucked it in at the best opportunity. We'd be burning now with food riots instead of cowering at home and just possibly putting all that off for a bit while they regroup and see how to press home the advantage, I mean er continue to protect us.

aren't you just a goddamned ray of sunshine today
1334  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 25, 2020, 01:13:59 AM
I'm feeling a bit nervous about having my bitcoins on the exchange right now. If they suddenly "lose" everyone's bitcoins...what would anyone really care? Everyone has enough problems than to worry about a bunch of rich folks losing money.

I am also a bit gun shy on many cold storage systems I have used. I barely got out of Thailand with my bitcoins intact.

Keeping anything physical requires thinking of different scenarios. Bugging out I can carry it with me. What if I'm arrested for tyranny reasons and they confiscate my home again? Centralized servers don't seem very secure at this point (encrypting it and putting it on AWS, etc.). There's a brain wallet but many of those were hacked due to humans not being as crafty as they think. I had troubles with my trezor in Thailand, I had the trezor but the backup codes were on the seastead. That's part of it, you need backups but what to do with the backups?

I get pretty extreme when doing cold storage for extra security. Last time I bought a cheap computer to create the private keys, then put them into my cryptosteel in an order that only I knew, then I destroyed the computer with a hammer and burned the parts in a fire. Fortunately I had a backup that I split among family members because all of my cryptosteel was on the seastead.

Coming up with a new cold storage solution is not simple when you don't trust that your home won't be over-run. If I was thrown in jail I'd like the peace of mind that every day I'm in there I'm getting richer and richer and nobody can steal my bitcoins while I'm in there.

Would you be able to remember several random words like
peasant
cultivate
specimen
articulate
if you record just the first letter, or the first two letters, of each word?  Like this
pe cu sp ar
If so, then you have some entropy to get you started on constructing a seed.  Entropy that you can retrieve using an abbreviated mnemonic as above.
Next, you add enough salt to protect you from rainbow table attacks while lengthening the string to protect from brute force attacks.
For example, you could use your social security number and your mother's maiden name
So the reminder string becomes
pe cu sp ar ss mmn
So that you have a string with four words and a number, followed by a fifth word, and you can store just the abbreviated string.
It is highly unlikely that any thief who gets hold of your file will be able to reconstruct the string from the abbreviations, so storing it
becomes much less of a security concern.  You might even email it to yourself.
Now we probaby have enough bits to work with.  But add more words or salt if you see fit.
The next step is to create a private key or seed from your (entropy + salt) string.
Do a sha256 hash of the full string.  This will give you a 256 bit hex string (64 characters).
And that hex can be the input for a tool like
https://bip32jp.github.io/english/
or you can use Ian Coleman's mnemonic code converter
https://iancoleman.io/bip39/
and click "show entropy details" to put in your own entropy.
Now you have a seed.  But you don't need to remember the seed.
If you can reconstruct the string that was the entropy source, you can reconstruct the seed.
For me, it's easier to remember something that I came up with on my own, aided by a mnemonic shorthand like
pe cu sp ar ss mmn
than it is to remember a 12 word HD seed, for example.
But your mileage may vary; everybody's brain works different.


Notes  
the output of the hash command depends on the syntax.
I always type it like this:
echo -n 'passphrase' | sha256sum
For example,
Code:
a@galliumos:~$ echo -n 'correct horse battery staple' | sha256sum
c4bbcb1fbec99d65bf59d85c8cb62ee2db963f0fe106f483d9afa73bd4e39a8a  -
Do the following:
Use the first 32 hex chars (128 bits) of the hash as custom entropy input for one of the generators linked above
and you will get 12 words that you can use to create or restore a bip39 HD wallet.
If you don't want to use the command line to do the hash, you can hash the string by typing it into http://brain.evilbs.com/, which calls the produced hash the "secret exponent."  The output will be the same as that produced by the command line syntax specified above.
Warning:  if you use the command line, your .bash_history file will record the command, with the word string as you typed it,
so make sure to erase that line from the file.
Also, you obviously don't want to do this sort of thing on a website.  If you use one of the generators or the brainwallet site,
download the page and run it offline.

this is a great post
1335  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 25, 2020, 01:13:04 AM
Plus I can work on some home projects undisturbed if I get bored and run out of work.
Bitcoin rounds anyone?  lol

yes please
1336  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 24, 2020, 01:28:45 PM
gold getting a taste of the roller coaster this morning

BTC relatively stable...for now
1337  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 24, 2020, 01:06:18 PM
asking the important questions

1338  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 24, 2020, 01:16:16 AM

oh jesus

now I am going to hell because of you
1339  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 24, 2020, 12:58:15 AM
The governor of Washington State just put us on lockdown
1340  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 23, 2020, 01:18:41 PM
Who will buy stocks today?

I doubt any of us expect this stock pump to last long.  What will be instructive will be if BTC and gold follow when the next inevitable plunge occurs.
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