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941  Economy / Collectibles / Re: Titan Mint Coins- Serious Issue- Titan Mint Bitcoin Coins ***NEW UPDATES*** on: July 27, 2023, 06:32:57 PM
How does someone verify the contents of their physical item now with no website to do so? The TitanBTC physical coins did not contain their "1st bits" like Casascius.
No other PK owners care about this?  Huh

I don't.
Some guys there buy stuff not based on some risk management but on a crypto frenzy / FOMO / intuition, trusting ppl based on ....well nothing.
This brilliant mismanagement lead sometime to utter failure.
I do not complain when risk materialized. Why should you?

Leasson learn the hard way i suppose : do not trust anybody, think before acting. In simple word : be adult

Lol that doesn’t make it okay, as if you should just be fine with it and move on.  I mean do you even own any? You don’t have any forum trust ratings, have you ever owned any coins that ended up being scams. No offense but this is the kind of thinking that allows people to get away with this kind of shit.
942  Economy / Collectibles / Re: [AUCTION] Lealana cent 2021, 1BTC Casascius. on: July 26, 2023, 11:40:23 PM
One of the best hologram peels I’ve seen. Did a fine job if it was you who peeled it.
943  Economy / Economics / Re: How to increase profit in business on: July 26, 2023, 06:24:16 PM
From my experience as a business person, in buying and selling, I have discovered some helpful tips on how to increase profit. I an happy to share some in this forum.
Customer relation, a business person must understand that customer is king and should be treated like a royalty. Even it they are buying the least thing in your shop. When they leave your shop delighted, be assured that they will always come back to patronise you. And they will even market your products to their friends. Meaning more patronage for your business which will be increasing your profit.
Your business should have at least one season when you give out rewards and discounts to customers when they buy your products. This will increase your sales geometrically and when you remove the cost of the reward and discounts, you will still have increased profit.
Stock different brands of the products that you sell. Customers will prefer to enter a shop where they will see different varieties of what they need. More customers will enter and will even be tempted to buy more than they planned for. More customers equals more profit.

Please feel free to drop your own ideas on how to increase profit in businesses.


I graduated college with a degree in Business Management, so this topic is right up my alley.  Now I agree with some of these things, and think you've got some solid suggestions here, but what's sort of missing is the fact that not all of these suggestions are good suggestions for every type of business. It really entirely depends on what type of business is being ran, the current location and it's closest competition etc etc.
944  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: SCAM or not ? on: July 26, 2023, 06:20:07 PM
SMH. Now the mean comments here are completely unnecessary. I am also however never ceased to be amazed at the lack of homework people do before making such investments.  This is something you should have been asking before ever getting involved in it.  Now I know you know this, but it's a valuable lesson hopefully learned.

As a financial advisor spotting scams is a big part of what I do for a living, and there's no question at all that this is one.
945  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Major League Soccer (MLS) 2021 on: July 26, 2023, 06:17:21 PM
I don't follow soccer a whole lot, but I have started to become more interested in it over the years.  However now after seeing Messi sign with an MLS team, I'm a lot more excited to start getting in to MLS soccer.  I know this is somewhat common for superstar Euro players to come to the US in their final years to get a massive contract, but I wonder if more and more players will start to give the MLS a shot now that the league seemingly is becoming a bit more competitive.
946  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Pros and Cons of Crypto vs. Traditional Gambling on: July 26, 2023, 06:10:51 PM
 When I first starting betting sports, I had a good buddy who I grew up with, having gone to both high school and college with, who decided to become a bookie.  So I used him to do my sports betting for a two-three years or so, then he stopped.  So for a while I wasn't placing any sports bets online as you really didn't have any options that weren't offshore casinos that would send shady looking checks from some tropical island bank.  Crytpo completely changed that game.  Now being able to deposit and withdraw via bitcoin, rather than waiting weeks or months to receive some shady looking check, now it's typically a 1-2 payout. 
947  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 5 Bitcoins to never gamble again. Will you take it? on: July 26, 2023, 06:07:42 PM
Absolutely.  Me personally, while I love to gamble, whether that's at a physical location or online, I don't gamble that much.  I've still yet to have ever gone to Las Vegas, and don't go to St Louis very often (closest place to me with legitimate casinos) and I most just sports bet, but I don't bet very high amounts.  If someone offered me what's not around $150,000 worth of bitcoin, I'm hoping all over that offer.
948  Other / Off-topic / Re: YouTube deleting comments, any idea why? on: July 26, 2023, 06:02:35 AM
This is from a private Reddit chat. It’s infuriating that bitcointalk is banned from being mentioned/linked on these massive platforms. Censorship bullshit. Just a rant. I wish there was a way around it.

949  Economy / Collectibles / Re: [INTEREST CHECK] Alpen Coin "Scam Coin" on: July 26, 2023, 02:56:36 AM
As you already and always know, please save one for me.

Looks really cool. I sent bigtimespaghetti a photo of the coin. I know he was honored to have this coin made.
950  Economy / Collectibles / Re: Titan Mint Coins- Serious Issue- Titan Mint Bitcoin Coins ***NEW UPDATES*** on: July 26, 2023, 02:30:42 AM
@FP530
Thanks for sharing, very helpful and informative!

The Titan Mint website should have some sort of notification and or link to an information page, perhaps a video file of some sort of the webinar explaining what’s going on and how to redeem.
951  Economy / Collectibles / Re: Titan Mint Coins- Serious Issue- Titan Mint Bitcoin Coins ***NEW UPDATES*** on: July 26, 2023, 12:23:41 AM
I'm hosting a webinar this coming week to update coin owners on the topic of redemption and answer questions.  The event is scheduled for July 28th at 6pm Pacific time (GMT -7).

Please fill your desired email address and one of your coin IDs here to receive the invitation link:

http://www.titanmint.com/webinar/

You should get an email after filling in that form confirming that you're on the webinar invite list.  The actual link for the webinar will go out on Thursday of this coming week, along with a reminder.

Let me know if you have any questions.  FYI, I need to avoid using the word "bitcoin" in the emails related to the webinar because all email delivery services now block or ban anything related to crypto currency so if you see something saying "Titan Coin" instead of Titan Bitcoin that's why.

If you've already gotten an email titled "IMPORTANT Titan Coin - Redemption Process Webinar Invitation" then you're already on the invite list and don't need to fill in this form.

Tim, I’m glad to see you’re hosting these and hopefully making everyone whole who needs to be.

That said, can you address how this will all work going forward for those with 2FA coins who have absolutely no idea about this upcoming webinar.  Will the webinar be made available afterward?

Btw I’ve never heard of any mail service blocking emails for using the word bitcoin. Between yahoo, hotmail and gmail..they all allow it.
952  Economy / Collectibles / Re: [AUCTION] 2016 Lealana King Kamehameha #19 Coins... all 8!!! on: July 25, 2023, 10:51:49 PM
Lot 5 @ .017BTC
953  Economy / Collectibles / Re: [WTS] Hero of Bitcoin DEMO Gameboy Cartridges/Stand on: July 25, 2023, 06:46:11 PM
Still have my original Gameboy. Probably got it around 1990 I’d imagine. Very interested, will DM you with some questions.

954  Economy / Collectibles / Re: [FREE RAFFLE] 521st ฿ECAUSE I AM STILL IN A GOOD MOOD-CYPHER HODL LOADED BALLET on: July 25, 2023, 04:36:50 PM
14 ChiBitCTy

These are awesome, well done. Thanks for the free raffle!!
955  Economy / Economics / Re: How do banks generate income? on: July 25, 2023, 03:42:32 PM
I would just like to add that Banks, the big ones, are corrupt as all hell.  JP Morgan/Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America..the worlds largest banks, are all corrupt crooks. 

Take a look at JP Morgan / Chase fraud violation tracker.  Since the year 2000, JP Morgan has had nearly 40 BILLION in fraud violations...and yet no one ever goes to jail.

If you use a bank, get an online account (like Ally, Capital one etc  Bankrate.com is a great place to view best current interest rates).  Now you'll also need a physical bank for ATM use, I recommend credit unions and very small "mom and pop" type banks, which are fewer and far between these days..but these two types of banks are decently legit...big banks, anything but. 

This is nearly 20 years of financial experience closely working with banks, so not coming out of my ass.
956  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: People Are Not Nerdy Enough on: July 25, 2023, 03:35:28 PM
There is actually a quite simple explanation for this...people are lazy.  As a financial advisor I'm meeting with people daily to discuss their finances.  I would say 95% of people simply have no clue about finances.  I mean the people who schedule appointments with me are at least smart enough to understand they need to seek professional help, there's countless people who are so afraid of even remotely thinking about or learning about finances/their retirement plans it’s not even funny.  For example, with retirement plans, often individuals set up an initial investment and amount coming out of their paychecks and then never look at it again. They never increase contributions or review their investments, which is so critically important. I can't even get many of my best friends to let me help them out for free (I've got close to 20 year of financial experience too, they know I'm a good advisor), that's just how much people dislike thinking about their finances.

When I speak to clients about bitcoin, which I get asked about often, they ALWAYS have the same thing in common. None of them truly understand how any of it works, they all store their coins on an exchange (typically Conbase, I mean Coinbase), they listen to my speech about the importance of buying a hardware wallet ( I always recommend Trezor ), they all tell me "yeah yeah I'll definitely buy a hardware wallet and call you to help me set it up"...none of them EVER do.  Typically they also own like 75% bitcoin and then have a slew of complete utter shitcoins that they know absolutely NOTHING about.  

People are lazy and stupid overall.  That is just a simple fact.
957  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 🏈🏈 The American Football Discussion Thread 🏈🏈 on: July 25, 2023, 03:28:54 PM
Training Camp has officially opened...so exciting that football has officially begun!

Check out this clip of Rodgers to Wilson yesterday..man this stuff is so exciting to me https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BGZY3W1E1xM



So I'm not saying we should switch to Sleeper for our league, let me start off emphatically expressing that...but that being said, I just did my first draft (dynasty) on sleeper and man it's a great fantasy app, and if it's not already the best one, it's going to be.  It's way more in-depth than any other app out there.  I'm becoming a huge fan.  It's a bit complicated at first, but once you figure out all the nuances, it really shines. 

Just thought I'd share some screen shots of some of the features just so you guys have an idea how it looks.  I know Sleeper has been discussed here a few times..




When you scroll to the far right of the app, you've got all these great links.  What I really like is the news, the podcasts and the advice section.  Really cool stuff.  You can tell they are working hard to make this the ultimate fantasy platform







958  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2023 NBA Season on: July 25, 2023, 03:12:09 PM
I’m just now reading about the Bronny James story. Bronny apparently suffered a cardiac arrest yesterday during a workout at USC. This is horrible news and I’m sure LeBron James missed a lot of sleep last night. Insane that these athletes are having so many heart problems suddenly. We all know it’s the vaccine, but that doesn’t make it any less heartbreaking.

Dude c'mon we do not all know it's the vaccine.  I mean do you know if he ever even took it?  Not really the place to discuss this, but I certainly can't agree with you here.  It's not like this has been a big issue with a lot of people all of a sudden. 

That said, it's definitely a sad situation and one I'm just hearing about.  I know he's continued to improve, but do you know if he's going to be starting?  I've just been curious how much better he's truly been getting, like I know on his HS team he wasn't even starting for a while.  The younger James apparently might end up being the better of the two.  I'm sure you've seen how tall he's gotten.  Could be a beast. 

One thing is for sure in my mind, MJ is the undisputed goat, but Lebron's (2nd best ever imo) kids will certainly have better careers than MJ's did lol.
959  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Other Things You Can Bet on Aside Sports and Casino Games on: July 25, 2023, 03:03:03 PM
Lol it's kind of crazy how much stuff you can actually bet on.  I haven't really ventured outside of sports betting and casino games much myself.  Betting NFL football has always been my "bread and butter" and playing casino games like roulette and poker have always been my bread and butter for non sports betting, but really I think the only "crazy" bet I've ever made was on the US presidential election several years ago.  I was so confident I was going to win too...didn't pan out that way lol.
960  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Farmer's Bitcoin Investment on: July 23, 2023, 11:27:07 PM
Thanks for sharing your story, this is very interesting. I am curious why you formed a “co-op” with your small society of farmers (and perhaps your teacher as well) instead of just investing on your own? I’m just curious as I’m not sure it’s really needed is it?

I would just make sure you’ve asked yourself what are the advantages and disadvantages of forming such a “co-op”.
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