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541  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Pools (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] The First Litecoin PPS Pool (litecoinpool.org) on: April 08, 2020, 10:14:14 PM
Curious.

I show 3 blocks hit on the data hall with my ONE S9i mining on your pool from whenever.  Those are NOT BTC blocks only right? You merge mine

so they are likely other blocks from other coins? (If not I shall be 'despondent' indeed) Sad

Searing
542  Economy / Computer hardware / Re: [h] Skybox Pro SkyMiner [w] $700usd on: April 06, 2020, 05:27:44 PM
my point is having a unit that is just a demo/prototype (see past mnfgs) mentioned does not mean you are gonna have a working miner with a network to mine on...

with no PR on the project and the head of the project ONLY being able to be contacted by you! It seems a bit of a risk, regardless of the 1 year ROI.

Also, add to the fact BTC/cyrpto has dumped in half in last month in price...does not help any project.

again, lack of info on a project... the fact it is a pre-order with no ship dates and no contact can be made with anyone on the project

well ..that ain't good

But good luck with your sale anyway... I feel anyone buying such has bigger brass ones than the rest of us with the above confusion and lack of contact with Dev.

As long as 'anyone buying your unit" is aware of the 'dangers' and pitfalls of above....and that it is a demo/unit you have ...they have been indeed warned of risks

on this thread..so that is a plus...things would be a hell of a lot more clear if a person could actually get a reply from the developer of these in some manner Sad

brad
543  Economy / Marketplace / Re: Why do whales move Bitcoin around from wallet to wallet? on: April 06, 2020, 01:55:34 AM
Maybe they use it to something or it can be also because of the security matters..


IF you have a 'big' 'blooming' Satoshi era type wallet and just move, say 100,000,000 USD of BTC to Coinbase and let such sit...folk 'freak out' if they find
such as on 'whale tracker' and 'assume' you are going to sell...then you sit back and simply move it off without selling and buy the dip that you caused...
this only works if you have one big fricking wallet IMHO of major market shaking noteworthiness. (Ah, I could have been 'so evil' and played this game
if I'd only found out about BTC in Jan of 2009 (took  down like 5 towers of major bbs  game server that same month and year... I woulda been primed...loaded and set..sigh
....instead of 2013.)


544  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: April 06, 2020, 01:47:21 AM
please MODs of bitcointalk.org have mercy with me. free my bot account "Gyrsur_Bot" for future automated posting like this post below. thank you very much!

   Bitstamp    6795.00 USD   
(source: Bitstamp API)[/size

this is an automated post but unfortunately I'm not able to post it via my bot account Gyrsur_Bot because of restrictions.

Let's say you get this ticker verified and able to run the bot ticker account just for prices as you wish...I've been here long enough that you likely would be banded, like 'chart buddy' from posting on Wall Observer anyway. Chart Buddy was banned for too much spam and not enough posts back in the day....on W0.
So 'likely' you would have to put this bot account if given permission on your 'own' thread that people would have to tag to see...
you might be better off just asking Thermos to put such a BTC Ticker on the main page or Bitcointalk or have it show up as an addition to your profile info page....or something

Anyway, from what I remember on Chart Buddy going away on WO, back in the day, anyway...

545  Economy / Computer hardware / Re: [h] Skybox Pro SkyMiner [w] $700usd on: April 05, 2020, 09:00:55 PM


Sent you a PM. But after 3 tries if not contact at my end...I don't see how he can get this project off the ground....

I sent you my email...he can contact me via that...but right now everyone is wasting their time trying to do anything with this

no real info, no demo units, etc, etc

with the pandemic and crypto crash...he may, if he was borderline, out of the running on this anyway at this time

later

brad


Hi Searing,

You seem to be missing this point completely. I believe this is NOT a scam, because I have dealt with the manufacturer and believe him, he has put significant effort into this and until I see a scam report, I do not think this is a scam.

Irrespective of that, I am not saying go and buy 1000s of pre-order units, I am trying to sell a demo unit I have in hand.

If you want the demo unit I have in hand, purchase it from me (At a heavily discounted rate compared to retail)




I dealt with BFL and I dealt with GAW and Paycoin (usb device) I've dealt with KNC and had friends where after pre-order Neptune device was made was mined by KNC for 9-10 months in 'testing'

like BFL and when released to customers only 3 months and then doorstop  and never to ROI...I've dealt with alpha tech which even took PayPal and had a prototype...never released publicly

the list goes on and on

all the above aside...if you can't get a hold of the place via their www site for months via email and no info on a PRE_ORDER these days you run away anyway

also, BFL has a fine FPGA brick that worked fine and on time before they released before their next releases which never showed up until way, way beyond ROI (SEC shut them down)...so just

having prototypes don't cut it either
---------------------------------------------
but again all the above set aside
---------------------------------------------
1) no way to contact the dev..no info on progress from dev...no prototypes to someone like me, Searing, or Philipma1957 nor even Voskooin ...you and a couple of NZ

folk just don't cut it...I mean really a pre-order page and no contact and no way to ask questions but through you who 'happens' to have gotten a unit or so?

2) network still in test mode.....again back to 'deafening silence'

3) no frigging info of any real note or kind on a google search on this product ..no one has heard of it..and if they have the buzz is that it has been a scam for the last 9 months

the only reason I even posted here was from what I've heard that it was a scam for the last 9 months and I know you are legit....thus my WTH posting of such?

Unless more info on all the above I'd stay away...good intentions are fine..but I'm not sure if even if such a badly run development project ..even if legit...can hang

together at the dump to the crypto prices, we have now..and the epic dump...so that is another boat anchor to what I see as probably a pie in the sky dream project

4) light a fire under the devs ass and get some 'legit' 3rd party reviews out there on bitcointalk and some development news and such...not just everything through

you and a frigging www page link and no reply

hell of a way to run a legit project IMHO..keep it secret with only the pre-order web site it seems and no reply to inquires on your project

also, why are you selling a unit if you think this is such a good project and coming out of development?

Without some more info from other sources (you are legit ..just saying) other sources....this does not pass the 'smell test' in any way at all at this time

perhaps this will change..but the project has a lot of miles to make up....in that like me most people that have heard about this project I talk to have said is a scam

for months now ....sad to say if legit...but hey..what's a guy supposed to think..again wrote off this project back months and months ago....so again am still dubious

in that, it pops up now as legit with the same lack of info and bad management and such...

legit it may end up being, but damn, they better ramp stuff up pronto, I do  google search and this thread pops up that can't be good...tell the dev he needs to step

things up or legit of not his project is doomed

Brad
546  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: April 05, 2020, 08:48:38 PM
Sorry to hear that. Guess the crisis actor thing is fake, who knew?

In other news, looks like the Trump Administration (I'd say the US Govt but it's really just Trump and his crap) is lying once again and under counting COVID deaths.

(See WaPo. They have screwed up links right now)

Will be interesting to see if they can keep these people off the "dead" roles long enough to vote R in November. After all I'm sure that is what they would have wanted.
One could of course speculate on how a Hillary administration would have handled things.

Well, it is likely that the 2.2 Trillion dollars would have not gone into permanent tax cuts for corporations and the rich in the USA.
Also likely would not have a former coal industry exec to run the EPA nor a pate school and destroy public education run the Education Department
No silly 'picture show' with the North Koreans
A lot more sanctions and not a love fest with Russia and Putin
More noise over the Wegar Muslims millions in detention in China, also a lot more noise about and such on Hong Kong
We would still have some kind of aid for Central America linked to reforms and such and gang violence...thus likely not have as big a refugee crisis
likely still have better relations and travel to Cuba

Would not likely have pulled troops out in a whim and abandoned Kurds in syria...against military advice-giving Russia the win in Syria
Also would likely have not mucked up the Nuclear Weapon Limits from the I think it was 1964 and Salt treaties
Likely would not have abandoned the 'pandemic study group' in the last year and the actual pandemic response team in full in last 2 years of the CDC ..center of disease control
and probably would have been more likely to take the threat of current pandemic seriously like Obama and SARS and announce national defense act and such response like Obama
before any deaths from sars back in the day...to get the military and infrastructure in place to move stuff where needed

Would have released his tax forms...all of them and separated business concerns in a trust like all previous presidents to trump has done
Also, would have (even if republican's see below) much more moderate supreme court picks (two)

OF COURSE

you could make the argument than a 'responsible' Republican from back in the day like John McCain or Mitt Romney MAY have done most of the list above also
but whatever your politics on above...we'd have a hell of a lot less drama in the world IMHO

Brad
547  Economy / Computer hardware / Re: [h] Skybox Pro SkyMiner [w] $700usd on: April 05, 2020, 04:52:37 PM


Sent you a PM. But after 3 tries if not contact at my end...I don't see how he can get this project off the ground....

I sent you my email...he can contact me via that...but right now everyone is wasting their time trying to do anything with this

no real info, no demo units, etc, etc

with the pandemic and crypto crash...he may, if he was borderline, out of the running on this anyway at this time

later

brad
548  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: April 05, 2020, 03:10:18 AM


She looks a lot like Brooke Adams. One of my biggest teenage crushes.



Nice


Terri Garr was mine.




BTW I do not recommending googling what your chilhood dream girl looks like now...you've been warned. I can't un-see it now.

Not much more to say here

Dito




Alas, was thinking about the BTC ATH of around 18K or so....sigh......I coulda/shoulda...

and maybe could have had this...



but on the other hand, pretty sure I'd be taken for ALL I'm worth now with the Pandemic and Economic Downturn and all...

so maybe I missed a bullet huh? (20/20 hindsight allows you to think up all sorts of alternate realities in which you come up justified) Smiley
549  Economy / Computer hardware / Re: [h] Skybox Pro SkyMiner [w] $700usd on: April 04, 2020, 09:35:59 PM
now that the month has ended - how much SKY did you get?




Not saying this is a scam..but told it WAS a scam ie 'vaporware' so if not show me a picture of the 'unit in hand' and I'll

show this to the folk who said this is a proven scam. So are you selling a 'pre-order' or what? Makes a big difference indeed!

Not trying to be an ass, but getting 'conflicting' reports on this beastie as being 'vaporware' Sad

Searing


please see my trust review

Looks like the nicest sleekest skyminer available

I have one in hand.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5224548.msg53814291#msg53814291

Sent you a pm in detail. Not gonna beat you up here..but I've seen pro-types on pre-sales go out before. A google search only shows mostly your comments and stuff.

There is no hype on this product...even though it is a cute toy. I also tried a couple of months ago to contact them repeatedly no reply...

and with the pandemic economic downturn ..the odds ...even if they are struggling..seems IFFY as hell. So again, unless I see some reviews by Voskcoin

or Philipma1957 and some more 'push' of this item and more than one prototype...well if they are legit..send me one to review or any of the above to the guys mentioned above

if they ARE legit they need a lot more word of mouth traction and prototypes out there especially on a pre-order...or nothing will come of such IMHO

just saying, Butterfly Labs, Paycoin, Alpha-Tech all played these games....indeed even with PayPal and were found wanting and just a few prototypes only....never

released working real products in time and/or ever. Anyway, for a project like this, you'd think it would get at LEAST as much word of mouth as the gekkoscience hobby

BTC and LTC miners...it is sparse indeed on this project if it indeed is legit ...or even now with the crash of stock market and crypto prices even viable anymore.

Brad

edit: also a couple of months in Jan and Feb i sent them an email on these miners and never got a reply...that probably needs to end pronto if they are legit...but again

most people I talk to on here think they are a scam, so if not, it is up to them to prove such I guess, with actual stuff to review at the very least out in the world.

Still not ideal, but something.

550  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: April 04, 2020, 02:21:07 AM
but ChartBuddy's most posts were completely posted by a bot.

I slowly grew to hate chartbuddy in the depths of 2014/15. It was often the only poster several times in a row over multiple hours. As if it was rubbing our faces in our deadness.

I 'miss' chartbuddy...someone should make a thread on Bitcointalk just for chartbuddy IMHO. Smiley

Brad
551  Economy / Computer hardware / Re: [h] Skybox Pro SkyMiner [w] $700usd on: April 03, 2020, 04:02:10 AM
now that the month has ended - how much SKY did you get?




Not saying this is a scam..but told it WAS a scam ie 'vaporware' so if not show me a picture of the 'unit in hand' and I'll

show this to the folk who said this is a proven scam. So are you selling a 'pre-order' or what? Makes a big difference indeed!

Not trying to be an ass, but getting 'conflicting' reports on this beastie as being 'vaporware' Sad

Searing
552  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: April 01, 2020, 04:13:36 AM
... looks like I contacted the virus bad, maximum viral loading achieved, they must have piped it into the bunker air inlet/vent Huh
time to think about a Will? Cry

Worth it the WO sex was really, really, good! Smiley

hubba hubba

Searing
553  Economy / Services / Re: [CFNP] blender.io Signature Campaign | Sr./Hero&Legendary Members | on: March 30, 2020, 11:58:05 PM
This weeks payments have been sent out!


Thanks for yet another fantastic week everyone! As always it's been my pleasure to work with you all and I hope we can do it again soon!

As of now the week has ended and you are free to remove the Signature & Avatar and I'll update this thread if we do another week in the future Smiley


So the campaign is dead? er huh?

wow! I seem to come to a campaign, kill the campaign, move on to another, rinse/wash/repeat..sheesh

Searing


edit: seems I misread the day/timeline and did not have enough posts anyway lol...man my luck has been bad on all things crypto in this last month indeed...lol Smiley


I'm an idiot edit:  I misread above was for people applying not the campaign..which is good...me being an idiot and misreading not so good...sent a PM to the OP. Sad

will also make the 15 min posts I for some reason also thought it was on Wens...no idea why...maybe I like Wens? sheesh...

(home confinement....losing my figging mind it seems) Sad

brad
554  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 30, 2020, 04:00:37 AM
Bitcoin broke ten-year support and struggles to get back on track





It will only get worse I'm afraid. Trump just announced 100,000 dead Americans ONLY in all this and he will call it a 'good job'. Damn, the Dow Jones is gonna crap itself on Monday.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/29/president-trump-extends-national-social-distancing-guidelines-through-april-30.html

It would be nice if that happens BTC/Crypto would at least 'decouple' somewhat and at least go 'sideways' for the price..er...kinda sorta?

I should probably get used to this, it will be 'quite a ride' for ANY asset of ANY kind in the next 2-months. Black Swan Event Indeed! Sad



555  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: Will Crypto recover from the most recent crypto dip? on: March 29, 2020, 08:48:46 PM
Thus, again my fear is that WHEN IMHO, the stock market actually does dump out at 50% of the
2020 high of around 2/14/20...Bitcoin will follow. Not because that BTC is not a good value long term, but because people will crack at a 50% drop in the stock market
and the frigging country is going shut down dead for 3-4 months! People may WANT to buy cheap stocks and cheap BTC/Crypto but real-life issues like keeping and paying for
Grandma in the Nursing home will take priority. Thus, if it is so bad that the major Whale HODL'ers also start to bail out at that point. We are screwed.

I'd like to buy more BTC at these prices long term but I am dead broke with real-life issues likely for the next 3 months as well! A friend said the good thing is the rental property will be 50% cheaper and he could buy one each. Until I pointed out NO RENTERS the university is likely closed till FALL and who knows about enrollment
than would be enough to even find renters at that point and he likely will be laid off in less than a month! Tossing BTC/Crypto if it becomes a long term
speculative investment into rental properties on my part, also long term, if that becomes the case for both, well, I like my odds with BTC/Crypto better, so I'm not gonna do it.

So hopefully, and I mean, I really, really, hope....that BTC only also goes down to 1/2 value more or less....say $5k when sh*t hits the fan. These next 2 months or
so with halving are gonna determine if BTC/Crypto is a store of value, unlike stocks, once the bottom price of both is hit? Or that BTC/Crypto is just a nice normal long term speculative investment you can dump quickly in bad economic times to fill your emergency/catastrophic fund 24/7. Thus as a 'speculative asset' it indeed may
come back when the stock market hits ATH again, in what 7-12 years maybe?

The next 2 months will tell. I'd settle for a nice sideways uncoupled from stock market
panic approaching, IMHO, at whatever price! Also that the Whales have drunk enough kool-aid to not 'crack' under pressure to dump on top of the above, that would be 'catastrophic'! Damn, 'Black Swan Events' on top of the Halving!

No idea myself wtf is gonna happen...but IMHO it will happen in next 2 months. I'm HODL'ing!

I just hope others are as stubborn and will accept a worse case, long term recovery to boot a

Brad


edit: well this sure did not help much

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/29/president-trump-extends-national-social-distancing-guidelines-through-april-30.html

The stock market is gonna lose their ever-loving mind on Monday and dump I fear. Would be nice if BTC decoupled from such. Sad
556  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 29, 2020, 05:32:57 PM
Other than the people in this thread that are here to bullshit about everything and anything, does anyone on this forum still support bitcoin? The top sections are all altcoin shit. Oh, and whatever happened to the great new forum they were making to replace this Simple Machines freeware crap?

Bounties (Altcoins)          7476553
Announcements (Altcoins)       7149603
Altcoin Discussion          3032532

Many of the more smarties of the form do not hang out in the various altcoin discussion sections.

There is plenty of bitcoin talk in this here particular thread, and even references, from time to time, to other threads in the forum that might have some good bitcoin-based discussions.

So, yeah, accordingly, we have had a pretty strong tendency in this here particular thread to say "fuck you" to attempts at alt coin discussions in this thread, and to frequently nip it in the budd when it happens, so I am having some difficulties understanding what problem, exactly, you are perceiving there to be with the forum, as long as you choose the forum threads in which you participate.

Of course, I will concede that in recent times this thread has a lot of corona virus discussions, but no one is pumping corona virus, so there are a large number of attempts to bring it back to bitcoin, from time to time, and even link the corona virus discussions to bitcoin.

Jay, I don’t understand why people can’t see, now more than ever, that bitcoin is the perfect replacement for every other type of money. These altcoin shitheads that have literally taken over our forum are deluding and polluting the concept of cryptocurrency. I remember how it all started, a bunch of spoiled children that wanted to be first and reap the benefits of early mining came up with these variants that do nothing but distract the public attention away from bitcoin. Bitcoin is the perfect pandemic money. You don’t have to meet face-to-face. You don’t have to hand something to someone. It’s more reliable than a ACH/EFT for long distance value transfer. It’s transparent, meaning that governments can’t hide what their spending the money on (like buying or refusing to buy respirators). The only reason I can see for continuing to allow altcoins to dominate this forum is if this forum is nothing but a for-profit entity. Speaking of “for profit” whatever happened to that new fucking expensive forum we were supposed to get?



Thus, again my fear is that WHEN IMHO, the stock market actually does dump out at 50% of the
2020 high of around 2/14/20...Bitcoin will follow. Not because that BTC is not a good value long term, but because people will crack at a 50% drop in the stock market
and the frigging country is going shut down dead for 3-4 months! People may WANT to buy cheap stocks and cheap BTC/Crypto but real-life issues like keeping and paying for
Grandma in the Nursing home will take priority. Thus, if it is so bad that the major Whale HODL'ers also start to bail out at that point. We are screwed.

I'd like to buy more BTC at these prices long term but I am dead broke with real-life issues likely for the next 3 months as well! A friend said the good thing is the rental property will be 50% cheaper and he could buy one each. Until I pointed out NO RENTERS the university is likely closed till FALL and who knows about enrollment
than would be enough to even find renters at that point and he likely will be laid off in less than a month! Tossing BTC/Crypto if it becomes a long term
speculative investment into rental properties on my part, also long term, if that becomes the case for both, well, I like my odds with BTC/Crypto better, so I'm not gonna do it.

So hopefully, and I mean, I really, really, hope....that BTC only also goes down to 1/2 value more or less....say $5k when sh*t hits the fan. These next 2 months or
so with halving are gonna determine if BTC/Crypto is a store of value, unlike stocks, once the bottom price of both is hit? Or that BTC/Crypto is just a nice normal long term speculative investment you can dump quickly in bad economic times to fill your emergency/catastrophic fund 24/7. Thus as a 'speculative asset' it indeed may
come back when the stock market hits ATH again, in what 7-12 years maybe?

The next 2 months will tell. I'd settle for a nice sideways uncoupled from stock market
panic approaching, IMHO, at whatever price! Also that the Whales have drunk enough kool-aid to not 'crack' under pressure to dump on top of the above, that would be 'catastrophic'! Damn, 'Black Swan Events' on top of the Halving!

No idea myself wtf is gonna happen...but IMHO it will happen in next 2 months. I'm HODL'ing!

I just hope others are as stubborn and will accept a worse case, long term recovery to boot a

Brad
557  Economy / Computer hardware / Re: Raffle for one (1) Antminer T17 40 TH/s Free USA Shipping on: March 29, 2020, 04:42:04 PM
I'll ONE take slot! Be still my heart! What a gambler I am!

5

For a total of $10 bucks whenever the address becomes available from Philipma1957.

Truly the only way one should buy ASIC's anymore, by raffle, as the gamble they are these days!

Thanks.

Searing
558  Economy / Speculation / Re: Anyone else think "long term" hodlers are idiots? on: March 28, 2020, 01:22:06 AM
Funny how every time the market is in a recession and losers keep holding on to their losses they magically become "long term" holders.

God damn it, "long term" is such a stupid meme. Admit it, you wanted to get rich quick and once you realised you are too dumb to swing trade you suddenly became a "long term" loser.

Such idiocity.

You think Dan Balzerian held anything "long term"?

Long term is for losers.

I resemble the remarks above but then again been in HODL mode (mostly) since 2013.
The current catch is with the Pandemic and IMHO, the crummy way Trump and the Senate are managing the USA, I currently look at BTC/Crypto as a 'hedge'.
If the current powers that be have or can exert control and destroy decentralized crypto-currency like BTC and privatize the blockchain process completely.
Well, I am retired on 'traditional stocks', etc.  So no great risk. Living off the 4% interest and 65 years old so 60% bonds/etc suited to people old as dirt as myself.

If on the other hand, now with Trump in office and the Pandemic and other black swan events in the play, we have what 7 trillion dollars of printed out of air money
now in the USA with pandemic and tax cuts from the last few years? Well, then when the Pandemic goes away (whenever) then IMHO we will have to not only pay
as a society for probably the 'needed' 7 Trillion to survive this and recover in the USA, I feel it very, very likely some hard questions will be asked about other things.
Gonna be a 'lot' more clarity on the 2.5 trillion of the above that did not 'trickle' down and help society before or after this Pandemic. Schools/Roads/Bridges/etc and
infrastructure, in general, will also be past the pale to ignore. Add to the fact that after this pandemic, will be MORE of a push towards telework/robots/or moving and decentralizing manufacturing around the world....it will be damn harder to get a job or go to University or whatever.

Also, everyone after the pandemic, from a 'fiscal' point of view, is going to be Japanese in how they use money, tight as f*ck. The days of 70% of the economy
of consumer spending driving the market are gone. Everyone under 40 years, never really facing this before are gonna pay off their house, they almost lost in
the pandemic) get health care, freak out about the job they lost save for other options or education. Everyone will have 'fiscally' grown the f*ck up as they did
after the roaring 1920s of wine and song after the great depression in the 1930s. People, even if it is a fast rebound, would have looked fiscal reality in the face.
50% of retirement and house value or business or corporation value 'poof' ...even if it all comes back, people will be changed. Like the Japanese economy for the last
20 plus years more conservative growth and less consumer spending and more debt pay down and saving.

So, if the above 2nd process comes to pass (remember I'm clueless this is my speculative bet) and the politicians use hyperinflation and other tricks to pay
down these economic bills, I'm talking 1980's 23% credit cards and over 10% inflation a  year. Bitcoin/Crypto is the other half of this and why I'm in HODL mode.
IF it acts, especially in developing nations that, in the above manner,  will have it much worse than the USA, as a truly decentralized store of value that out-paces traditional investments, you may have BTC/Crypto make up for the above.

So sh*t goes sideways on traditional investments...stocks/gold and ESPECIALLY BTC/crypto is where the $$$ will run to. IF they are a store of value at that time.

Now I know I'm wrong on ONE of the TWO above. One or on the other hand,  I will get creamed. But to think I'd dump a mess of BTC/Crypto cash out into a US economy
where I'm already well invested and taking retirement income as a 'double down' now is just silly, again, IMHO. The plan B of BTC/Crypto seems well in play now
with Trump in office and this Black Swan Event and likely very deep recession, if not worse. We will have to see inflation and job losses come back with the usual economic problems that come with it. BTC/Crypto is my hopeful store of value hedge on this. But again, this could take years in either camp to come back.

In the short-term say next 2 months. I expect my traditional investments to go down below 50% from highs in Feb 2020. I would not be surprised if BTC
went down even more to around 3-4k... But, again, IMHO, you can't just watch traditional investments get creamed like this and print trillions of dollars worldwide and expect not to have economic and inflationary consequences...thus leaving my Hoard/HODL as it is.

If they both go, well won't matter much will it. IF one of the above goes sh*t, say BTC/Crypto goes beanie baby...I'm still ok...but on the other side if traditional
investments and such take a 'decade' to come back to 2020 highs...I have a damn hard time believing that BTC/Crypto will not act, even if modestly, as a store
of value and hedge my bets, with all the inflation and mass economic damage of these trillions printed out of thin air.  Also, remember at 65 years old as of this last Monday, in 20  years they will stick me a Nursing Home anyway, if I'm lucky..so big whoop, take a chance on my views on BTC/Crypto...well, it won't matter much if I'm full of sh*t.

Again, I do think when the reality of the coronavirus hits the rest of the country, and hospitals are overcome for a period of say 2-3 weeks, even with good
social distancing the stock market will level  out at 50% down from Feb 2020 high and BTC could go below 3k. You have to sell in either area due to world and real-life issues you are neither buying stock nor crypto. Real-life issues with everyone selling at the same time is gonna be dire. Got to pay for grandma in the ICU. I have to believe for both systems when thing stabilizes there will be a buyback, tough one against inflation, but still a buyback. Or hell all hope is lost and the world indeed
will have a 'blade runner' type future. But in the next 5 years say, yech, IMHO.
 
Sh*t is gonna get real. Brace for such. If I'm wrong, well I hope so, but if I'm right, prepare yourself, all of this is black swan uncharted economic times even
without tossing BTC/crypto in the mix. again, I'm clueless, but I'm playing it this way. Only risk what you can afford to lose in real-life issues though, there is a possibility it may take a generation to get out of this hole in whatever you own in this black swan pandemic and economic event.

It may come to pass, economically speaking that today's millennial generation is in economic terms, may have more in common someday with their depression era
great,great,grandparents...then their parents when all this is said and done!

dire times indeed

my 2 satoshi's worth

Brad
559  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Coronavirus Outbreak on: March 28, 2020, 12:35:55 AM
Well, what I'm up to. So a month now and about 35 days in self-isolation. It would be nice to see if I actually already had this or not...but that seems unlikely for a couple of months. Sad

I had a mild sore throat and diarrhea for a week before things took off in March..also no fever...but that is the mild end of this corona-virus...then the scale goes all the way to 'get to ICU' now. Essentially, anything from my mild symptoms to a full crisis seems to be a symptom. Been in self-isolation since 2/24/20. Sucks. It will really suck if I had it and did not have to do the above. I figure everyone will get this (its the frigging flu) but figure friends/neighbors someone will 'tag' me to take them to the doctor or something...so no reason for everyone to get sick at the same time. Retired. So no place to be. So I'm currently in the 'break glass in case of emergency role" now. If this comes to pass, then 2 weeks after I'll get sick and my friends can do the reverse. Also, if the mild symptoms turn out to be the coronavirus, I did the right thing anyway. Boy, I did not feel too bad, if it was, I may have taken out a lot of people!

So sitting on my ass here at home on Bitcointalk doing my part on this great (if somewhat managed badly) effort in the Pandemic. Damn, I'm bored. Sad



560  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: [4+ EH] Slush Pool (slushpool.com); Overt AsicBoost; World First Mining Pool on: March 27, 2020, 05:01:41 PM


I'm curious about something. I a mining ONE Bitmain S9i on www.slushpool.com and my buddy at the data hall

said I found a block. This is likely a block from 'merge mining' right, some other coin besides BTC? Curious, if I missed out on the

BTC Lottery option is all Smiley

later

brad
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