Every post I have sent for about three hours goes to cloud flare. Then posts time out.  If I open another window the post did take.

This issue comes and goes for over a decade. I suspect it may be general internet issue today due to the Israel 🇮🇱 Vs Palestine 🇵🇸 that fired up yesterday.

Sorry it is not a Biden thing it is we gotta sell guns and weapons thing.

USA has been doing this for 100 years 1920 to now.

They are deliberately tearing down the old banking system in front of our eyes

https://www.investopedia.com/us-national-debt-by-year-7499291

1971   $398   Wage-price controls
1972   $427   Stagflation
1973   $458   Nixon ended gold standard; OPEC oil embargo
1974   $475   Watergate; Nixon resigns; budget process created
1975   $533   Vietnam War ended
1976   $620   Stagflation
1977   $699   Stagflation
1978   $772   Carter budgets and recession
1979   $827   
1980   $908   Fed Chairman Volcker raised fed rate to 20%
1981   $998   Reagan tax cut
1982   $1,142   Reagan increased spending
1983   $1,377   Jobless rate 10.8%
1984   $1,572   Increased defense spending
1985   $1,823   
1986   $2,125   Reagan lowered taxes
1987   $2,350   Market crash
1988   $2,602   Fed raised rates
1989   $2,857   S&L Crisis
1990   $3,233   First Iraq War
1991   $3,665   Recession
1992   $4,065   
1993   $4,411   Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
1994   $4,693   Clinton budgets
1995   $4,974   
1996   $5,225   Welfare reform
1997   $5,413   
1998   $5,526   Long-Term Capital Management crisis; recession
1999   $5,656   Glass-Steagall Act repealed
2000   $5,674   Budget surplus
2001   $5,807   9/11 attacks; Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act
2002   $6,228   War on Terror
2003   $6,783   Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act; second Iraq War
2004   $7,379   Second Iraq War
2005   $7,933   Bankruptcy Act; Hurricane Katrina
2006   $8,507   Bernanke chaired Fed
2007   $9,008   Banks crisis
2008   $10,025   Bank bailouts; quantitative easing (QE)
2009   $11,910   Bailout cost $250 billion; American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) added $242 billion
2010   $13,562   ARRA added $400B; payroll tax holiday ended; Obama tax cuts; Affordable Care Act; Simpson-Bowles debt reduction plan
2011   $14,790   Debt crisis, recession, and tax cuts reduced revenue
2012   $16,066   Fiscal cliff
2013   $16,738   Sequester; government shutdown
2014   $17,824   QE ended; debt ceiling crisis
2015   $18,151   Oil prices fell
2016   $19,573   Brexit
2017   $20,245   Congress raised the debt ceiling
2018   $21,516   Trump tax cuts
2019   $22,719   Trade wars
2020   $26,945   COVID-19 and recession
2021   $28,428   COVID-19 and American Rescue Plan Act
2022   $30,928   Inflation Reduction Act


in 1971 Nixon killed off gold standard just see the debt spiral out of control since then

Heck so far we are earning a profit this year.. Not much
my last 8 years
2016 good
2017 great
2018 okay
2019 loss
2020 okay
2021 really really really good
2022 okay
2023 a little ahead and a lot of work

2024 I am willing to take a small loss

I do not like to see the hydro 3 phase liquid gear as I am not looking to convert all my s19xp's to s21 hydros.

So if we were having a very slow stretch of blocks we could push 20 minutes and if we were in a hot streak we could be at 5 minutes.

Those would likely be the far extremes 5 to 20 could work

I bolded two sections I liked and for the most part believe in even though they contradict each other a bit.



And I blocked that mother fucker buddy.

My position is they founded bitcoin core to get the world introduced to the blockchain. The next step is do CBDC and then make blockchains not legal unless they are cbdc.

Finally they will zero out all cash and throughout the world debts will be cancelled.

You know the story. Alan pays Bob the 10 he owes him. Bob pays Charlie the ten he owes him and Charlie pays Alan the 10 he owes him. As simple as A B C


I give the above conspiracy theory as least a 20% shot of being true.

right now  2 hodl wallets are at say 0.5 btc each and they are fulling consolidated. Ie their tx size is 227 bytes as they are legacy

So they can be moved to coin base for a sale at 1 sat x 227 bytes. = 0.00000227 btc which is nothing  about 6.3 cents even at 11 sats it is nothing about 70 cents  ... So I hodl them and in 2029 they are worth same .5 btc each but btc is at 1,000,000 and a send at 11 sats a byte is 2497 sats or

$24.97 usd  and the fee is 110 sats a byte which means you need to pay $249.70 to send it

but you could do 11 sats and use viabtc's free service you save 200 plus dollars.  but who cares as the long hodl made you good money.

every example above I consolidated to 227 bytes on a legacy.

Now take my signature address I have not consolidated it and it has 4 tx which is 4 x 110 bytes 440 bytes.and I hodl all my deposits to 2029 that signature address would have 52 a year for

2024
2025
2026
2027
2028
2029 and some of 2023.

easily 300 tx so 300 x 110 = 33000 bytes at 110 a byte = 3630000 sats or a fee over .3 btc

that is a worst case example.

exactly this and it is especially important  if a well trusted legendary member does it.

Sometimes I float 5-10k in coin on a business deal if I do this I have to feel safe. Seeing the member just changed his pass word would scare me.

It has me thinking a lot. I remember the 911 attacks. I lost a cousin-in-law as he was a fire fighter he died rescuing people in the twin towers.

A lot of the world changed then. KYC airport security.

It seems the Russia vs Ukraine ,
Palestine vs Israel ,
Taiwan vs China in the future
. Not to mention 1 or 2 revolutions in South America Africa and Central America.

all mean an unsettled unstable world.

Bad for tech not sure as WWII was good for weapons tech. I just feel we don't need the weapons tech it does not help the world very much.

I know my digital assets are way safer than any physical assets.  I can place seeds in a few places not one. They won't all be knocked off.

Oh I can show a 24 word seed in an email to myself  that is not my seed but would let me find my seed later on.

or I could hide my seed on multiple emails to my self on multiple emails.  I do not worry if I have digital assets. they are safer than a bar of gold or even a home.

Crypto is looking better than gold or bank deposits.

I would do

Crypto
then banks
lastly gold.

Gold can easily be stolen or even destroyed.

I am sure that some Russians and Some Ukrainians lost gold when the staff place was bombed


I am also sure that some Israelis lost their gold when they were missed yesterday. (Oct 7)

I locked this as it should not be political and I worded the title poorly.

I start this thread because my other thread was moved to politics.




https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5469546.msg62960887#msg62960887

2200 Rockets shot at Israel 40 killed.
October 07, 2023, 09:43:26

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I have zero issues with the people that moved it with out letting me know.


My main point is the new conflict was accelerated because the world is bored tired disinterested with Ukraine vs Russia

So we now have Israel vs Palestine

And likely we will next have China vs Taiwan . Just a future guess.


I see a huge shift in the military industrial complex's ability to earn profits. Due to modern tech ie Drones and the like.

I watched on film about 5000 usd worth of gear take out a 1 million dollar Russian tank .  At no risk to the operator of that 5000 worth of gear. 

So I am wondering when do these wasteful conflicts alter. Ships don't have the value they used to have.

 you can sink a 500 million dollar  ship with a 20,000 dollar drone.

This mean a huge shift in making money with military gear is going to occur over the next 5-10 years.

Is this new conflict going to be yet one more shift in weaponry.

And does the ability to easily attack almost anywhere anyplace mean having crypto is more important than physical assets.

I.E 10,000 cash in a home could be burnt. But my digital wealth is safe.

So forget

the war as political and think of the economic angles here.

To all in Ukraine vs Russia I hope for peace.
To all in Israel vs Palestine I hope for peace.
To all in China vs Taiwan please keep the peace.


To this forum will the new methods of attack alter the value of physical assets thus increasing crypto assets.

Please support: $BTC 1AeYQnpEqxAV4LdrFE5AzquqheTekLNggx

I will be giving you a donation this evening. It is nice work and a lot of effort.

I will be reading more of it today.

It's all about proper money management. And looking at the 'real' value of A vs B



   I have pointed out time and time again that the 400 usd samsung A54 is really close to the quality of the lower priced basic iPhone 15. So why lay out 400 or 500 more for a product that lasts 2-3 years at best.

You can take this across the board with 10 items .

Starbucks coffee vs home made.

I can make quality coffee at home 1quart thermos for about 1 dollar. So 32 oz of coffee for $1.00 a Starbucks venti + a tall equal 32 oz the cost $5.90 plus tax .  That is 6 bucks a day vs 1 buck a day .

yearly total 5 x 365 =         1825
iphone 15 vs samsung a54 = 500 over 2-3 years say 200 in a year
So on two items you save about 2025 in a year.

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Netflix streaming 240 usd a year
Going to movies 1 day a week = 15 x 52 or 760
save 520 + 2025 = 2545 in a year.

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phone plans I can do tracfone for 30 a month unlimited text and calls Verizon is 50 save 20 a month or 240 a year.
240 + 2545 = 2785 a year.
What did I give up to be saving 2785 a year not much.

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I like to cook I buy quality beef and lamb.
If I buy hi end lamb steak  it costs me $40 a meal for me and my wife.
If I buy lamb roasts it costs me $17 a meal for me and my wife
So 10 times a year savings $230 + 2785 = 3015 a year saved.

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I buy a special quality fig/coconut bar for desert.
If I buy 8 oz cost 16 usd 20 x that = 160 usd
If I buy 10 pound cost 100 usd. savings = $60 two buys a year saving $120. to do this I bag into 5 bags and freeze 4 of them.

120+ 3015 = 3135 saved a year

Doge is at 6.1 cents and for the last 10 days its high was 6.4 cents

We are not getting a pump on it any time soon.

Maybe next fall if then.

Oh for those that wonder what is a use case for Doge.

It is a dirt cheap way to id yourself via a doge address. It is secure and backed by close to 1 billion in gear and power.

about 950 th in asics which is 100,000 L7 units  cost for that is 500 million usd. Plus structures to house and supply the gear along with the power.

And it will get worse due to Israel vs Palestine conflict during into a declared war.
So the USA will to supply Ukraine with arms was slipping.
and new conflict new reason to deal arms.

What is new China vs Taiwan?

Buying an iPhone 15 for 829 usd is a waste of about 400 usd. Just buy a samsung a54 cost 400


829  locked to boost as your carrier

https://www.amazon.com/Apple-iPhone-128-Unlimited-trade/dp/B0CHBNXW73/?


399 unlocked a54
https://www.amazon.com/SAMSUNG-Factory-Unlocked-Android-Smartphone/dp/B0BSLRXF1H/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?

I think he is cool and not a bad guy. I do think his actions would weaken the warnings we have in place.

Oh I just sent the 0.1000 and change back from that ltc address

https://ltc1.trezor.io/tx/8e0cdcc4904622c3d7cb42fc811e9f74251029c42ca9ffbb6fe339f2baa2e1f0


BTW LTC is a dirt cheap way to id yourself I spent 0.00000301 in ltc to prove I control that address.

Simple to do compared to signing an address and just as effective.

If you really control a btc address you do not need to sign it to prove it is yours.


Simple say my address is 123 bla bla bla.
It has very little  coin in it.  Pick an amount of btc lower than 0.00010000 and I will move it out.
That is pretty much just as good as signing for it. And it proves you control the address.

Or do it with LTC that's cheaper to move it about. You can prove you own control the  coin's address that way.



ltc1qu7sw3p78w5gq67276kuv6hu4e8zyj76zhnalmd is empty

I can put 0.1 ltc in it and withdraw it.

https://ltc1.trezor.io/address/ltc1qu7sw3p78w5gq67276kuv6hu4e8zyj76zhnalmd

that shows I control it and someone can quote the post I just made.

It is simpler to do that then sign a signature.

And as a demo I sent 0.10000166 into

ltc1qu7sw3p78w5gq67276kuv6hu4e8zyj76zhnalmd

I will with draw it in the morning thus it proves I control that ltc address and I only spent

0.00000166 ltc two times to prove it.

https://ltc1.trezor.io/tx/623fce1dd6eb352bd5754c4d7a1c27bd3a4c95e2debee03eaff9ae710b112cbf


here is the send info cost me 0.00000166 ltc to do it.

I will pull the coin out on Sunday.