in october 2022 kingsway bought into blockchain.com
in january 2023 blockchain.com bought into polysign


nothing relates to companies such as coinbase

blockchain.coms 'capital/collateral'(valuation) is not based on office space, equipment, hardware.. but on crypto reserves, which since 2021 valuations, has caused blockchain.com's valuation to decrease due to crypto currency market corrections of 2022(outside of blockchain.com control)

thus yes blockchain.coms 2022 valuation is lower than 2021 due to its reserves having less value due to coin price corrections(blockchain.com cant control the spot market of coins).

this is the same for any company holding alot of coin.

they are not selling lots of coin nor lots of % of their company. the change of company valuation is not company prompted discount to beg investors to buy sections of business. its just market price of collateral corrections in 2022 made shares of the company cheaper

so that kingsway bought blockchain.com shares in october 2022. and this gave blockchain.com more money to then buy into other companies and also buy more coin

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(random numbers for simple demo. dont knitpick)
EG imagine a company had $200m in cash, $50m in hardware/office infrastructure and
50k in btc at @$50k each in autumn 2021
thats 2.5bill in coin and $250m in capital valuation=$2.75bill

then in autumn 2022 without doing a single thing
the spot market turns 50k in btc at @$50k each in autumn 2021 into 50k@$20k each
meaning the valuation drops from 2.5bill of coin to 1bill of coin
thus company valuation is 1.25bill

thus appears as discounted, but not due to internal decision to cut their valuation. not selling off or any other internal things. its just how the market plays out to cause a companies reserves to be worth less due to market movements they cannot control

again your stuck in the mindset of "follow a narrative" game where you think if i am trying to get a bunch of idiots to stop following one false narrative. you feel it must be becasue i am trying to recruit them into my narrative(facepalm)

please try to escape the mindset that its about choosing sides.. where you thin there is a competition of 2 sides..

the dozen i call idiots are idiots becasue they dont want or avoid doing research and instead follow a script nearly word for word of a stupid narrative that cannot be backed up by blockdata/code or historic events

everyone else can and does do some research or atleast shows willingness to learn, for themelves.. i dont need asskissers nor want people to quote me as their source. i want people to actually look at real sources like the blockchain data, statistics and actual information they can learn from independantly. and not be spoonfed


its never been about some silly recruitment for people to follow my narrative. its about willingness to learn and not just viral spam a stupid false narrative inspired by the same dozen idiots confirmation biasing each other in s echo chamber of cabin fever

i am not calling loads of people idiots .. just the main dozen
i am not even trying to get people to quote me word for word so its not even about people needing to follow me
i dont want idiots script following me. i want people to learn for themselves, to do their own research and think for themselves and not sound like mindless sheep just spamming some narrative they found in some social club

if you think i want or need followers. then you are still thinking too small

sounds like he is trying to prove himself as a "poor boy" to garner donations.

there is no reason to need to prove your age or gender or name or location. unless your trying to get funds from someone that doesnt trust who you are

and the only reason i can see where age and value needs to be proven is where you are trying to get people to pay you.
again age is not important unless your trying to set a narrative where the need of funds relates to age/poverty status

having provenance of a "lower #" is one thing. but thats just receipts. thats just chain of provenance.

take real world art
if you went to an auction house not with the art in your hand. but just a box of receipts that show a chain of purchases that predates someone elses receipts..

but can you truly say you actually hold the art and want to sell the art if you are not also actually holding the art and only holding the receipts

this is why nft need to bring the file or file hash forward into the tx data of the recipient. where the recipient can control where it next moves which destroys the previous parents control

as oppose to keeping the art vaulted up at some origin point where casey can simply change his algo(de-peg) and declare new owners by saying "instead of first sat, i now declare last sat owns the association to witness bloat of the vault"
where by no chain re-orgs happen. but suddenly owners change overnight and the provenance has changed.

a true nft system truly spends the nft out of origin control by actually passing the property/value to the new owner. where you can actually see who is the unspent owner that actually has the property/value in their tx

this is why i have been saying that casey idea is not a NFT. because it would need to move the property forward.. and caseys idea doesnt.

he says/promotes/words it, that the witness is linked to output0 and whoever has output0 owned it.
but that can be de-pegged easily by changing his algo to say all outputs 1 own the association
and in a n instant his analysis of provenance follows a different taint path from origin to different descendant(it does not require re-orging the blockchain to break caseys provenance idea)

however if the file hash was included in each tx. THEN it would be impossible to de-peg and thus securing ownership to the current file hash holder in the active unspent tx where the data in the original creation tx is deemed as spent and changing a taint algo isnt able to just declare a different output as owner

..
once you read passed the illusion of "what casey says is..."
and actually look at the code and data and use real world scenarios based on the actual data that is on the blockchain.
emphasis think outside the box of casey quotes.
you will see that ordinals are not NFT system and can easily de-peg. thus ordinals are not a feature of NFT and thus not something we should support while it is being abused to reduce bitcoins real utility(payment network of actual value thet does and should move per tx)

luck.. not smarts
its a learning process. dont stop learning

i dont need to keep buying im self sustainable and live a good life thanks to bitcoin
i choose to buy more when there are undeniably cheap dips worthy of grabbing more

im no where near the desire to just sell it all. so i dont
its not "smart". its just not needing to.
yea i use small play money amounts as a general living/short term income accumulator but its like 0.0X% 0.0xxx of stashes so risk is low

but my main goal.. i want to ensure bitcoin functions as a financial payment network to protect my value..  and is not turned into a meme-stock storage network

from a technical side of data storage growth of 210gb a year is not disastrous growth. but how that data is used, is a disaster if majority of it is just memes. memes is very inefficient use of the available data growth and it limits/decreases of the financial utility of bitcoin

i do love laughing at those silly mindsets
the mindsets that idiots think im looking for support, idiots think im looking for back up

there have been people that have been against doomads group scripts. but they thought they should play the recruitee game of repeating my words like a script.. i have called those  repeating me idiots too


im not the one trying to recruit anyone
i just want idiots to stop being idiots, just repeating scripts..

its just when those that say stupid stuff that i have seen doomad say, like a script.(and even those repeating me like a script) then they earn the idiot tag by not thinking independently

the reason why i repeat myself is because there is a group of about ~12 idiots(doomads losing a couple so is trying to get a few new ones to replace them) that just say the same crap as doomad. on repeat and thus before their stupidity goes viral. it needs correcting

my repeats are as a result of crap i see wrote. not as the cause

alot just dont care about doomad or have been attacked by him they gave up.

doomad and his chums (you can spot them always backing each other up) get angry that i correct them and i dont need people to back me up. i use DATA. SOURCE MATERIAL

its the doomad buddy group that has the need to recruit idiots to back each other up. and then use each other as quotes to back up their story. their proof is each other. (echo chamber/confirmation bias)

i am not the one that wants or needs ass kissers. i have data stats and reality on my side. im just not scared to say it when ignorant people start insulting anyone that dares say it

i have given the 12 recruits of doomads mantra plenty of opportunity to get some data, code or statistic. and all they reply with is social quotes of each other and posts of confirmation bias messages..

plus unlike doomads cult(where he wants everyone to sing the same songs..) there are hundreds of  hundreds of THOUSANDS of bitcoiners that have their own minds. and they make their own topics about bitcoin scaling, said in their own ways. that ask about onchain scaling. not subnetwork crap
...
so if you want data.. that shows the 12 idiots working together on the same scripts and backing each other up
well lets use loyces merit stats.. that way you cant say the data is manipulated by my thoughts.
look at the usual merit cycling of the same dozen people in this topic that side with doomads mantra are always meriting each other
then look at the topics doomad(and those that just sound like doomad) group is in and who comes to their rescue to defend that narrative. same dozen people

their anger is their salepitches are not gaining momentum of going viral thus their subnetwork is not populating to the speeds they hoped for 7 years ago

yet there are a whole lot more then his silly dozen that have independent minds wanting onchain scaling. thousands of people. they say things in their own way, their own opinions and their own words, just nt getting involved in the doomad drama

doomads chums are subnetwork adorers, acting as failed sales men that have doomad and those like doomad spreading the same crap snake oils salesmen scripts..

hundreds of thousands of other people have their own mind and want bitcoin mainnet growth
but are being told "be patient" for the last 7 years

i am not the only one that wants onchain scaling(there are hundreds of topics with thousands of people). but then we see the same dozen invade those topics to advertise doomads favoured subnet as the solution and how doomad keeps trying to say onchain scaling is not needed, wont happen cant happen until his subnetwork is popular
but doomad only sees me, because im one of the few to call him out on his BS(other independent minds just ignore/avoid him) so he and his chums have gone narrow vision on those that are fighting off his snake oil salesman speaches

whilst thousands of other just dont want to be involved in his silly crap fights

what doomad chums need to realise
in the many many years that doomad says "be patient" wait for his favoured subnetwork to populate before getting anything else...
other subnetworks not part of doomads favoured brand. are getting more recognition and populated than doomads favoured subnetwork

there are some[non doomad favoured subnetworks] that have locked up more bitcoin and using that as value representation on those subnetworks. and gained more liquidity and utility in under 18 months. compared to the hopes that the doomad cult have achieve in 6 years of waiting for doomads favoured brand of subnetwork has

doomads not getting the momentum of recruits he wants to jump over to his schemes. and some of his previous recruits are seeing the holes in his narrative and slowly pulling away

so doomad is obsessed with thinking his fight is about recruiting and his opposers need to show their own ass-kisser recruitment plan.. he think is its a competition

he doesnt realise that its not... becasue he has lost

my mantra is just to wake up idiots to his game.

at this moment.
america is seeing "opportunity abuse"

(UK is like the US, we dont get our gas from russia so while EU HAS to pay more, UK gets to sell high buy low from its own operations/sources)

america is not getting supplies from russia so is not hinged on the whole EU war stuff
so while EU mainland prices are going up for real reasons, causing EU market rises.. america/UK get to inflate their goods prices for lots of profit
because they are not getting gas/oil from the euro/russia. so not paying high prices. instead they get to have their cheap oil (self sustained) and sell the end product out to others for a high price and keep the profit

this means with a 'retail sell high, wholesale buy low' there is more profit, to then employ more and produce more locally

however
this retail sale high, wholesale low opportunity.. is temporary
meaning the "buy local" "buy US" will end and things will go back to producing cheap in 3rd world countries again when things settle down
thus many lay-offs and cutting staff later on


 

@tread93
seems your reading the crap that shows bias towards wanting it to continue

bitcoin is a consent network by default
learn the difference between consent vs the other terms like "permissionless" and "censorship resistance

funny how the link you pick only has content that lean towards the wording that say it cant be stopped and should continue

oh well down that rabbit hole you go, hope it takes you less than a few months to re-surface

by the way adam back is not a big coder, he just employs them. so dont take his word as a coder of possibility. take his words of which direction he is sponsoring his employees to push, pull of not bother with

take your time. no rush

but when you are ready post some summary. like chapter names of certain thing. not years(thats boring) but summary of content. like some little quotes or exerts

you know little preview to tug at the purse strings of wanting to read more(by buying) the book
dont just call each chapter Year 2008
dangle us a hook of intriguing content to spark our interest to want to read more

there are some of us that know all the history. but if we can see something thats well written that sounds more like a novel rather than a list of calendar date events with witness(observation) statements, the more you might get wanting to read it

as for the hopes of a hardback.. well dont try seeking to go get it published by mainstream
find a private publisher to help your design your book for private print of first editions

then let that be your advert for a publisher to make second editions for mainstream

if you included all networks that pretended to be bitcoin. your book would be 3000 pages long

i know you dont want to publish it for review because you want people to buy the book to read it.. but how about a chapter list with a summary/exert per chapter to see if your book is atleast on the right lines

main things to have (not exact order, just going by memory)

satoshis whitepaper, satoshis first block (genesis(going live))
and first payment to another dev(hal)
first difficulty change (competition ramps up)
  -which causes cost increase(first signs of price discovery)
bitcoin pizza deal
first exchange
change of lead maintainer. satoshi-gavin
first ATH
first legal merchants
-alpaca socks
-bitcoin cupcakes
new features like multisig
  -allowing for multi party 'trusts'/'joint account' concepts
change of regulatory view (legally recognised as currency)
first halving
second ATH
some exchange drama (mtgox)
change of lead maintainer. gavin-wlad
some core drama
some softening of consensus
core contentions drama
more features added
change of regulatory view (legally recognised as asset currency)
some core drama
-legal disputes (scammers vs bitcoin influencers)
change of regulatory view (legally recognised as commodity currency)
-legal disputes (scammers vs bitcoin influencers)
more softening of consensus
a [feature/flaw] added
core contentions drama

that quote was based on the solo mining of single user= single CPU
where by the more users = more hashing = more competition for units of coin. thus increasing cost thus increasing price

however. now we have asic farm mining (users with multiple devices)
the cost and thus the price can increase without needing "more users"

thus if there are more users and more miners and more miners with more rigs. the cost can move up even more(multiplier effect) compared to the olden days of solo mining on 1 cpu=1 user philosophy the olden days

i was trying to simply explain it fails the NFT test of ownership due to lack of transfering the meme or a hash of meme per tx

shame it takes the adoration brigade/blind devotee's several posts of explaining things before they realise what they got suckered into.

but yes. this junk is junk and not even a NFT thing. as its not a solid method of ownership control.
thus has no purpose. thus something we shouldnt let keep being added to bitcoin, as even NFT is not a purpose of bitcoin "ethos"

it is doable. but expect hassle

you will get the transfer paused where the bank will contact its listed number for you and put you through to the "crime prevention/fraud prevention line"

they will ask you to confirm your identity and ask you some questions such as
"are you being held under duress and being requested to make a payment by someone"
"have you been contacted by some (scammer) saying you need to pay them in crypto!
"do you understand the risks of investing"
"do you give full consent that you are making this payment of your own free will and understanding of the risks"

or something along those lines.

if your using a business bank account that usually moves large amounts like you suggest the hassle will be the same as your other payments. but if this is the first "large" amount from this account. expect them to want to double check

i did. there are many posts
where i said about it

seems you are just angry that i am showing you how these ordinals are not actual ownerships of the memes YOU BOUGHT and you are suckered into buying something thats not actually transfered to you. but still locked up in caseys vault
where he can later do a protocol change and boom. you own nothing

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remember
he has told you "stuff in witness of tx. is associated to output 0"
where he sold you small value of output zero for more then that output 0 value

however. nothing in bitcoin associates that witness with output 0
nothing in your child tx contains the actual meme

he could EASILY change his protocol and say.. hmm actually output 1 owns the witness

so again show me the child (receiver) tx. and where in that child receiver TX does it contain any direct info/data of the property(meme)

responding to below
how casey describes things is deceptive.
so no i wont just pander and repeat how he says his system works. i instead look passed the illusion and explain how it really works

EG there is no meme in the "value" data field of a tx where sats sit
although idiots think thats where the meme sits due to reading caseys promotional material

i am not going to pander to caseys wording . because caseys wording is not 'as described' of what actually happens

i hope you did not pay too much more for the sats he sent you. but i guess you need to learn the hard way that you got screwed over

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take the instant adoration away.
and think of the situation the same as how banks vaulted up gold and handed people promissory notes. and try reading the detail of what the promissory(bank note) actually says and how it does not mention gold or anything on it
where its simply a presumption that if bank has gold and you have paper that it somehow means you own gold.. (but reality is not the same as presumption=ownership)

shouting but this bank note prove i got it from...
is meaningless it does not mean you own gold
there is no gold in your possession, no reference to gold in your possession.

read your TX. is there a ordinal in your TX. no.. then you dont own a ordinal

firstly witness data does not move to the next tx...

secondly if your not moving the value per tx.. your recipient is not getting the value
they are getting a promise of chain of custody but not the actual property
where that promise only holds if using caseys taint analysis

anyways
do you still believe that if you hand over a bank note to someone without moving the gold out of the national reserve... that you ever owned the gold. and that you moved the gold and gave it to a new owner??
or can you see the trick the national reserve banks done on citizens many decades ago

imagine your transfers you speak of which you think is true solid proven holding and ownership

now imagine there has been 3 transfers down a lineage.
now tell me in that child transaction. show me whats inside the data of THE CHILD transaction

that is (no taint analysis crap stuff your dying to mention) actual identifying of the property

oh your talking about caseys NFT system
and what you are not realising is

i was too. and comparing it to how proper ownership works


i know casey game. and yes im calling it a game
where its vaulted up in some ancestor vault and people just trade claims.. not actually OWN an nft.. though casey and his fanbase want to think its a real NFT thing

yea i get it.
but like i said many many many posts ago and repeated a few times. its not actually owning a property. its just changing registry.

i have said many times to separate your minds of caseys games and caseys words. and actually think about real hard data. and real legal and practical methods of real world ownership

you dont own the gold in your hand because the tx/promissory note you receive contains no property in it.
you are relying on a chain of custody analysis

this same problem occured over a century ago.. gold sits in a bank and doesnt move, but here is a bank note that says you own it
.. and we know how that went
(it only works. until the real vault owner changes the gold standard and keeps the gold)

if your not able to move the gold from your hand to someone elses hand and it remains in a ancestor vault. then you dont own it. because you are not moving it

there is good reason why bitcoin included the value field and not just had public addresses as input ans outputs
there is good reason why part of the verification is to remove utxo(as spent) add in a new utxo as unspent where the value is seen to move per transaction

but i dont think you are grasping these deeper details.

@nutilda
i get what casey says about his system
but his system FAILS at being an NFT

im not going to go through all the reasons again. .. actually i think it should. seems you have not got it thus far

to be a successful true NFT with great provenance(chain of custody)
the file or hash of file needs to transfer per user.
so the new owner has content in a tx destined for him with data destinged for him. thus he receives said data. to claim true ownership of it

the blockdata at binary level of the .. lets say grandchild tx.. would contain no binary data, hex data, or human readable data. that shows association to the tx that had the meme in it

emphasis
the grandchild tx would have different txid to the grandfather tx.. due to it having the parent txid in the childs tx

thus the grandchild does not hold the so called ~{NFT}~ they only hold a provenance record. not the actual token/meme itself
its like saying the NFT will forever be held in some ancestor vault. but the record of ownership changes of who can view the gold in the ancestor vault

the bank of england keeps the gold but changes who is the current owner
(it only lasts until the bank of england changes "the gold standard"
where casey(no longer associates the great great great grandchilds ledger to the great great great grandfathers gold vault)


a true NFT would be where the NFT is actually moved.

bitcoin cant do this because bitcoin does not use output hashes as inputs. it uses utxo's of a txid, which change per decendant

thus has to use some lame outside explorer to try to taint them together using provenance viewer

its like
having grandpa hold some gold. and he buried it somewhere.
but then in his Will he said "my son jimmy can have it, if he can find it"
jimmy doesnt find it but uses the Will to say he owns gold
jimmy passes that to his son in his Will

but jimmys son, doesnt have gold in his hands. just a chain of Wills that says he has gold

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this is why bitcoin when moving coin. doesnt just have txid(utxo) and output(destination)

itinsteadn ahs the value field included and a protocol to destroy a UTXO out of a UTXO set and add the output as a new uxto
where the value is seen per tx as moving.. rather than remaining in the coinbase value field

because the actual moving of value is important to the ownership claim of said value

.. this is why i said for there to be a NFT on bitcoin without bloat. it would require dressing up a hash of file as a output. and move that output with the destined owners output which he sign for where he puts said output(nft hash) beside who he wishes to give ownership to

so that it shows true ownership change

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caseys separate taint explorer. is just reading of the wills of ancestry. not actually being a property mover

my old stash is on legacy
.. am i doing a LukeJR.. nope

i have a few other features on my node i added myself so i just do "watch only" for the old stash thus not importing private, but importing public address just as a balance display

but if it was time to spend them. then yes i treat it as a hot wallet meaning get a (offline) new set of keypair. to use only public address as change address. and then spend old private key to destination address+ to the new public address(change) i import. and then wipe drive. and redo it all again.

its a hassle to spend old stash but that hassle is avoided by making it another reason to not wanna spend old stash.. making it complicated avoids easy temptation to spend

i have not put my private key of old stash in my node..ever

my 1frank funds are not my main stash. the 1frank funds was/are just a side 'dont give a crap' play money small fund. and i havnt bothered with that private key for 5 ish years which was the last time i had to do the hassle method of wiping hard drive and starting again due to treating it as a hot wallet in relation to those funds.
newer play money amounts i have(different keys) as display of balance using public keys on the node. but spend on a different device thats easier to wipe and start again.(lite wallet)

if your copying over a whole wallet file that also contains UTXO details of your spends. then yes. it can pop up instantly when initiating core, and will appear as pending confirmation until synced

but if just importing a private key you will have to wait for the section of a sync where by it recognises the association between the key pair to then display it mid sync while its building the blockchain

those that only got involved in say 2020 and just imported a private key/seed key, will still have to wait until 350gb+ is download to get to blockheight sync of 2020+ for their input to show up..

luckily my 2012 stash pops up on GUI display in the first ~100gb*
luckily my 2014 stash pops up on GUI display in the first ~150gb*
luckily my 201x stash's pop up on GUI display in the first ~300gb*
unluckily my 2022 play amount pops up after 400gb

* (im hoarding thus dont want to spend these)

maybe also put a sticker on the inside of back seat passenger area so passengers inside your car during your ride can read it from their side window or on the backside head rest of your drivers seat.

by being on the windscreen facing out. its probably more a a conversation of "whats that sticker on your window say" as the conversation starter, because while riding in your car its not so clear what it says from the back seat

other things:
know the times, dates and locations of local bitcoin meetings, events in your area. and be positioned nearby when those events are meant to finish so you can be pinged as the closest vehicle available to give bitcoiners a ride after their event. then seeing they can pay you in bitcoin. they are more likely to get paid in bitcoin

just riding around randomly. is pot luck of finding some random person that wants a ride, also being a bitcoiner.
so increase the chances. by being near known bitcoin events at the time period of the end of the session of a bitcoin event to get paid

and then the rest of the day/week month. the sticker is there to be a conversation starter for those that dont know about bitcoin. where you can also tell them about bitcoin events in your area if they want to learn more/get involved