Would someone who is sufficiently retarded to use Twitter please go necro-bump this thread, or however it works there? It seems that this thread hasn’t gotten any love since the start of the bear market in January of 2018. N.b. that if he had held, he would have reached 1,000,000x gains at $60,000. (100,000,000% ROI at $60,000.06.) But the bubble has burst, and now he would be down to about 909,000x gains. Bitcoin is dead, etc., etc. https://twitter.com/GregSchoen/status/70261648811761665 That's one of my favourite tweets, and it makes my day whenever I see it. This is the picture I see in my head whenever I get the urge to sell a sat, and it has served me well as a deterrent of said action. I can imagine Greg Schoen feeling his neurons literally moving inside his head, and short-circuiting themselves in a positive feedback loop, until his entire brain melts down. It really sucks to be him. |
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As a mostly layman when it comes to maths (and sciences) funzies, could it be that one of the goals of continuing to attempt to calculate pi to further digits is to see if there might be a zero in there somewhere (I mean a last digit)? - and then we know how many actual digits pi has, rather than what seems to be an infinite number of digits without a last digit.
We already know the answer to this: Pi has an infinite number of digits (i.e., there is no "last digit"). This is because Pi is an irrational number (it cannot be expressed as the ratio of two integers). Proof of this dates back to the 18th century (Lambert, 1761). The square root of 2 (1.414...) is another well-known irrational number. We all (except Jay) know that π is an irrational sonofabitch; but is he normal?  * Wrathful nullius is the negative one, because ’e is powered to imaginary·π. Yes, I just implied that 0 = -1. Well, that’s not as bad as looking for the last digit of π.I presume you're referring to Pi and not Jay. Now, that's a challenge. I would bet that Pi is normal, but that statement is worthless... |
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What's the value of Pi?
Mathematician - 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620 8998628034825342117067982148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128481
Physicist - 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716
Engineer - about 3 something
My take on this: Mathematician — Pi = C/d, where C is the circumference and d is the diameter of a circle (symbolic math, exact). Physicist — Pi = 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841972 (40 decimal places, near-zero numerical error). Engineer — Pi = 3.1415927 (7 decimal places, sufficient for most practical applications). Layman — Pi = 3.14 (2 decimal places, distant school memory). As a mostly layman when it comes to maths (and sciences) funzies, could it be that one of the goals of continuing to attempt to calculate pi to further digits is to see if there might be a zero in there somewhere (I mean a last digit)? - and then we know how many actual digits pi has, rather than what seems to be an infinite number of digits without a last digit.
We already know the answer to this: Pi has an infinite number of digits (i.e., there is no "last digit"). This is because Pi is an irrational number (it cannot be expressed as the ratio of two integers). Proof of this dates back to the 18th century (Lambert, 1761). The square root of 2 (1.414...) is another well-known irrational number. |
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Does a pump smell?
Because I smell a pump.
Could be COVID-19 though...
Thanks for the merit, serveria.com, but my above post didn't age well. No worries, next week things will be totally different, as we all know... |
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And the next tweet:
There won’t be enough bitcoin though.
[...] But you know in the far far future when we are about to build Dyson spheres we better be having bigger of Pi value  [...] I remember I read somewhere that Pi to an accuracy of only 5 decimal places is sufficient for practical orbital calculations up to the scale of our solar system. Given that, I'd risk a guess that the approximation of Pi that I get using Windows 10 calculator (3.1415926535897932384626433832795) should be sufficient for Dyson Sphere calculations. But I'm not a physicist.
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Though the truth is that you should have a backup strategy and use it (RAID is not a backup). Two is one and one is none. All storage equipment is ephemeral.
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Anyone who has ever lost data due to a failed storage device would attest to that. I've set up my main PC to take daily backups to a device in a different physical location. Funny thing is that, since I started doing this, I haven't had a single device failure... Murphy's Law? |
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This one gonna HODLsleep for little over 7 hours probably
7 hours of sleep is perfectly fine. 7 is my favourite number. 7 is odd (indivisible by 2), it is a prime number (it's even a Mersenne prime and a factorial prime), and the regular 7-gon (heptagon) cannot be constructed by using only a compass and straightedge. ...among many other things. Most importantly, there are 7 deadly sins, specifically pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and sloth, a few of which I intend to indulge in, when Bitcoin exceeds $100k. HoDLsleep for me too, but for much less than 7 hours... |
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Does a pump smell?
Because I smell a pump.
Could be COVID-19 though...
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bitcoin down over $1000! is this the start of a bear market?
Quick search of post history & I can see the username matches (I’m not sure if you belong with elite gentlemen in the WO. The Altcoin sub called, it’s missing its brokedummy). I’ve seen many of your kind come & go over the years. Trolling in this thread won’t make you happy after messing up the opportunity of the century by selling all your bitcoin too cheap & ending up as a sad, brokedummy.  Well I hope ya'll are proud of yourselves. down $5000 in 6 hours, of course one more tweet and you're all rekt again. we'll see tomorrow
I sold too early on the last bull run and never got to buy the coins back.... Hi guys I also need a loan of 500$ right now through paypal
Good find, LFC, good find. Observing those weak hands that sold their coins so low, coming over to WO to troll and play smart and know-it-all wise guys, is sad and amusing at the same time. That's why my Ignore List is, and always will be, empty. Guys like brokedummy, proudhon, r0ach, STRF, gembitz, are kind of like little clowns that cheer us up when corn is going sideways and things get a little boring. I'd say, let them troll and enjoy the show. Just don't feed them, 'cause they're going to shit on you. I mean I'm still hodling the second half of my stack after all these years. Yeah I sold early to make sure I was playing with house money and lost half my bitcoins that I'll never get back but I just posted that I sold puts and bought out of the money calls for this week. It's a bullish play. Why the hate? There's no hate. Just try to read your own posts that LFC has dug out... I've gotta tell you man, posting that you sold a good chunk of your BTC for $1200 and you put it all on shitcoins (and calling them shitcoins yourself) sounds like Bozo the Clown Amusement Park material. But no, there's no hate here in WO, I can assure you of that. |
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bitcoin down over $1000! is this the start of a bear market?
Quick search of post history & I can see the username matches (I’m not sure if you belong with elite gentlemen in the WO. The Altcoin sub called, it’s missing its brokedummy). I’ve seen many of your kind come & go over the years. Trolling in this thread won’t make you happy after messing up the opportunity of the century by selling all your bitcoin too cheap & ending up as a sad, brokedummy. Well I hope ya'll are proud of yourselves. down $5000 in 6 hours, of course one more tweet and you're all rekt again. we'll see tomorrow
I sold too early on the last bull run and never got to buy the coins back.... Hi guys I also need a loan of 500$ right now through paypal
Good find, LFC, good find. Observing those weak hands that sold their coins so low, coming over to WO to troll and play smart and know-it-all wise guys, is sad and amusing at the same time. That's why my Ignore List is, and always will be, empty. Guys like brokedummy, proudhon, r0ach, STRF, gembitz, are kind of like little clowns that cheer us up when corn is going sideways and things get a little boring. I'd say, let them troll and enjoy the show. Just don't feed them, 'cause they're going to shit on you. |
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Actually it has become quite boring TBH...
I need $100k.
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I'd better charge that damned phone. It's going to be a long night.
Off to watch a movie (if I can).
BTW, cutting through $61k like butter.
Edit: On a serious note: to all of us HoDLers out there. Congrats on our perseverance, patience and belief in Bitcoin. It has paid off so dearly, and we all deserve it. I have a friend who has invested something like $5,000 in altcoins (nothing in BTC, because "it's too expensive"). He has traded his stash to a volume of millions, buying/selling between all those shitcoins. I've told him so many times: "Just BUY BTC and HoDL! Listen to me man, just throw it all on BTC and forget about it." He didn't listen to me. He now has some modest gains, but nowhere near what he could now have by just HoDLing BTC. He could now have more than $100k $150k. Pity, because he's a very good guy, and smart too, but it's the smart ones that get caught it seems...
Congrats again, guys ('n' gal). Our patience paid off. And we haven't ever started yet.
Thank you, Bitcoin.
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Decisively through 61K.
Where's Proudhon when you need a terrible maths and science lesson.
Crying in the closet.... I wish I had proudhon's BTC stash... Most of us are small fish compared to him. |
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LFC Bitcoin Price IndicatorTM: $339* (578% gain)Onwards & upwards. HoDL.* Explanation.
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Hey man. Wanted to PM you, but it may interest others too. IIRC, you mentioned you're using Blockfolio (smartphone app). Do you recommend it (the Android version)? Is it stable and does it have reliable alerts? I don't want to add my actual portfolio (for security reasons), but just to easily check candlestick charts and have price alerts on the go. I currently use a Bitcoin widget, but it just shows the current price and no alerts... Also, does Blockfolio show ads, and if yes, is there an ad-free (paid) version? I hate buggy and/or ad-based apps. The OCD in me... Thx!
Blockfolio... It's OK at the current stage. I liked it better in the first major version, it was minimal but stable. With every update the bugs got more, but also the features (which i mostly don't use anyway). At least the team is working quite hard to react to bugs and push updates. Grpahics got smoother, but i don'T get much from that. Now for the alerts: They are well thought out, but you better make sure to check your power saving mode and always stay online with the app allowed to run in the background. It's pretty reliable then. Only one caveat, when for example you define an alert (say 3% price change in an hour), the timespan has to pass to raise an alert. So if BTC goes up/down 3% within 30 minutes, the app will alert you up to 30 minutes later. You could get alerted of a dip, check the price and see that it already bounced and it's over. I don't use alerts that much, so maybe i just haven't laid out alerts schemes that work good enough for me. Ads: Well, there are ads, but all crypto related at least. There is a tiny bar, that is sometimes scrolling, to display the ads on the main screen, you'll get used to it and it doesn't interfere with operation much. I don't use any trading functions, i am only tracking prices and view charts. You should try it out, i'd say. Didn't find anything like that, apart from cryptowatch's mobile version of their web page, which i use when blockfolio leaves me hanging because of bugs. EDIT: Oh, forgot about the pro version (paid) which should be ad free, afair. Who the fuck would even publish a paid app with ads anyway, i just asked myself... I used Blockfolio and it was ok.
But then switched to DELTA. I like the numbering format better, as Blockfolio uses abreviations for some numbers and i like seeing the whole digits.
Thanks to OutOfMemory for the mini-review of Blockfolio, and to _javi_ for pointing me to Delta. I've just tried both apps, and, although both look nice and appear to do what I want, Delta wins hands down for its beautiful and fast user interface, ease of use, and clean, to-the-point information. So, I'm sticking with Delta for now, and see how it goes. The only bummer with Delta is that you need to pay $50/year if you want to have the Pro version (no ads), but the free version seems clean enough (I haven't seen any ads yet). Thanks again to _javi_, for the pointer to Delta, which I wasn't aware of.
Euro-chart (Kraken) is stuck at 50,000 € due to a 250 BTC wall that is quickly eaten away... 21 BTC left now... Aaaand... EATEN ALIVE! 50,008 € now! |
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Damn. Stuck at $60k... Too much sideways action...
Come on, Bitcoin, do something!
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Oh no.
It's dipping...
Are we poor?
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Its like trying to stop a tsunami of honey badgers
thats an image i wont be able to erase from my mind now lol pretty accurate discretion actually. and $60k USD? shiny! had several sells pop off, time to reset some ladders. I have currently set up only one sell order. It will sell some Bitcoin leftover dust I have in Kraken. This will give me back the entire fiat I spent buying Bitcoin from 2015 until now. The order is coming too close to being executed, and I'm considering canceling it to be honest... |
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Finally hit $60k USD/BTC! Woo!!  Sheeeeeit! There's good shit, and then there's bad shit. This is good shit! |
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