This is all you need anyway

There's like a dent where the top left-radius meets the top. I figured that might just be an illusion of perspective though.

Meh, kind-of a red herring. Those holes can be repaired and can end up looking like pristine countryside within a couple of decades. Then there's also the fact that your solar panels require minerals that need mining.

Not that I'm against solar. I'm just a cynic.

Have you not been paying attention?

18 months.

Dave from eevblog just revealed that when you get a youtube silver plaque, you get to enter whatever name you like to be engraved on it. I'm sure Craig Wright will get right on that.

Take two of these and call me in the morning.

Let me stop you right there. That is by no means the case and I don't believe I have ever stated anything that could even be construed as such.

As far as I'm concerned, we're in a process where Bitcoin is trying to find where its price matches its value (and I believe we are quite a long way yet) via the market discovery process. Along the way that will be moderated by a variety of mechanisms which I won't go into here but a little logic shows that this can only be accomplished via a volatile process (how volatile it needs to be is an interesting question but the actuality is that it has been violently volatile). This process seems to be fairly well divorced from the hashrate.

Now, the mechanism for hashrate seems to be "If Bitcoin is profitable, buy more equipment". That does potentially link hashrate and price (but not in the direction that the opinion you incorrectly ascribe to me would suggest). However, as Bitcoin as near as dammit always been profitable, the restricting factor has been equipment availability which has lead to a total divorce between the two concepts. I will say that on at least one occasion, miners have surprised me by being willing to be patient for future profits rather than following pragmatism but they surely had good reason and that doesn't really affect things much.

While this is basically true, it's worth noting that mining expansion has typically been limited by equipment availability (once things got past the initial "anyone interested in this thing?" phase). This has lead to mining not quite following price which may partly explain the misapprehension of price following hash.

I saw many people saying it didn't matter if CSW was a fraudulent asshole, what was important was the fundamentals. No, the character of people is important. Steer clear of such people as much as you possibly can.

Good news for Bitcoin right now be like

100%? That's CONFIRMED!

Sell ETH for METH.

Can't argue with one iota of that. Good deal all around.

I have become less and less agreeable to three-wheelers over the years. Chopped VWs were really the only ones I ever thought worthwhile.

I do give a pass for those physically unable to ride a proper motorcycle. But there are better options even for many of them.

Well, truth is, I'm just not a joiner. So I'm just poking a bit of light fun.

No wonder the dip with shit news like this. /s

Come on Bitcoin. I'm never going to be able to lie on a bed wearing sunglasses covered in $100 bills and holding a gun at this rate...

"Getting rich" does not necessarily mean amounting to anything. Good for him for making a good decision though.

FIAT - 'flate it again, Tony.

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FIAT - Funds Inflated Away Totally

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FIAT - Financial Ignorants, Always Thieving.

There was a fuss a while back about some state not allowing people to disconnect from the grid if they were self sufficient (Florida?) Not sure what became of that.