I was was blown away by a couple of bitcoin ideas (in addition to no third party control, etc.):

1. Emission curve
2. The fact that you can convert electricity into something that is essentially, money (or at least immediately convertible good), and it appeared to be legal.

Hodling idea came at least a year or two later.

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Luckily the people I bought most of my coins from have a lot more than me. Many of my early coins came from the folks at Decentral, the birthplace of Ethereum where their obscene profits from that sleazy scam made some of them billionaires. I guess I could have made a shitload if I'd jumped on their offer of buying into the pre-mine but then I'd have to live with myself.

The owner of my corner store that used to have the ATM started showing me increasing respect during and after the 2016-2017 bull run though. I once asked him how big a percentage he got and he said nothing, just flat rental of his floor space. The store across the street offered lower rent and the ATM operator moved his machine. Too bad. I think he realized too late what was happening. If he'd taken his end in coins, he'd probably be rich(er) himself.

Now I'm past using ATMs (hopefully) and back to doing OTC business with devoted Bitcoiners. Hopefully no wrenches.

Only a real scumbag would look for god in money.

Verify that she is not holding any wrench or wrench-like object when you disclose this information to her.  

You will thank me later.    

At least this one is bullish on BTC. $500,000 per coin, ahhhhh **daydreams**

Almost safe to say ..... congrats LFC 

Excellent, another one. Why do you support a violent political organization that wants to eat the rich?

It is very, very curious that not one of you have an answer. Not even something as simple as an affirmation or denial of said support.

It really is weird. I'm against violent thugs and somehow that makes me the bad guy. Which also means that those who disavow me over it is for violent thugs. And they consider this good.

Just so there is no confusion, I am officially going on record as saying that black lives matter. They have negative value. We should get rid of them.

There is something very wrong with some of you.

How are we feeling on BTC today brothers

friday? whats that.

ooooh yeah a day of the week. guess being retired has perks.

as for that futures stuff, my feeble brain, which has no clue, can only watch what others say about it. lemme know if its good news please.

Seems to me that many of those services are trying to cause you to go through their app, but they do not allow peer to peer trading, unless it goes through their app....   There is a difference there.  Same with E-bay.. if you were buying and selling from ebay, the probably feel o.k about that, but if you are using the service to hook up and do a private transaction, they feel vulnerable in allowing or facilitating or being involved in those kinds of interactions...

It seems to me that anyone could get sucked into a kind of complacency, and I cannot even really blame them for getting sucked in.

The more curious that you are, and the more that you continue to attempt to build your skills and to make sure that you have options, the less likely that you might get sucked into one profession that either becomes boring, or you feel that you are being exploited because you are not being advanced through the ranks in order to be able to transition into the learning and development of new skills.

Surely, if the promotion rates are small or the industry is shrinking, we could end up kind of getting fucked because we might have and some false reliance upon the direction of the industry and whether our skills were going to be valued with the passage of time.

When I was gaining my independence in the 80s and 90s, I had recognized various computer related programing and development to be lucrative and future oriented skills, but I never personally developed those skills because I had other interests, even though I could recognize a decent amount of future-poofing into  developing those kinds of skills - perhaps so long as you do not get too trapped into some jobs that are too narrowly focused.. that might end up not giving you either upward promotion potential or the ability to laterally move if you were to want to exercise such option.

Of course, tying this into bitcoin could be that someone who has a decent amount of skills in software, hardware and firmware (whatever the fuck that is?) could develop bitcoin skills on the side, and of course, many of us also realize that we might not need to know shit about any of the technicals to be able to invest in bitcoin, but investing in bitcoin might still take 10-20 years or even more to really get to fuck you status, especially if you are only able to garner $100 per month (or some modest amount) to be able to invest into stacking sats.

Whether we are talking about personal employment skills or even side investments, each of us continues to have some obligations to attempt to secure our own future by trying to make sure that whatever investments that we are making, whether we are investing into building skills or we are investing financially is to be attempting to avoid getting trapped without hardly any options, so of course, when we are younger, we might have very few skills and maybe very little finances to be able to exercise a wide variety of options, but if we have any kind of brain (even if we might be mentally challenged) we can strive to build our skills and our finances in a way that builds our options..  Most humans have abilities to learn skills, but it takes work too, and sure there is luck involved too, while ongoing preparations and not going to crazy with burning your capital or your bridges will likely lead to more situations in which you are able to run into "lucky" breaks along the way.

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same. will catch up soon. meanwhile

@sassal0x

True. But the actual work of one's career can also change drastically over time, to become much less meaningful.

For example, when I first got into IT programming in the mid 90's, the work was actually very meaningful and fun. We were building business software applications from complete scratch, and there was a sense of passion, creativity and analysis in what I was doing day to day. Programmers could use their brains to bang out code to build custom use cases and custom UIs, were respected and revered, and got paid accordingly for their creative analysis and technical knowledge.

By the time I got out of that career in the 2010's, IT programmers were reduced to simply integrating off-the-shelf, expensive closed-source software into existing business environments. They essentially became glorified software "babysitters", having to spend their days trying to integrate and debug software that was poorly-written by someone else, often with poor performance, poor configuration, archaic APIs, missing or incomplete documentation, lack of expertise, etc. And these software integrations were often initiated under ridiculous time schedules and low/inadequate budgets, with use-case and performance expectations that could not be met in the time allotted. Or ever. It became soul-crushing work, and I started having bouts of anxiety and depression that I never had in the beginning of my IT career.

What the IT career became in the end, was not something I had signed up for in the beginning. So I got out.

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I recall that you (picnic bear) and I had already had a variation of this conversation regarding having some enjoyment in work, and surely there is going to be individual variation in that regard, and even rewards from work that are not necessarily feeling like they are slave labor. Accordingly, there are reasons why some multi-millionaires and even billionaires will continue to involve themselves in money making endeavors, even though they really do not need to be occupying their time with such business arrangements and some of the work that might come out of juggling various kinds of business relationships, so in that regard, having fuck you status can be played at higher levels, too in which wealthy persons who chooses projects based on personal enjoyment, status, purpose and sometimes will be in a position to can business relations or others to go fly a kite if they do not want to play ball with the wealthy person... of course, assuming that no contractual obligation(s) had been created... and sometimes being the one with more money can sometimes allow for the breaking of contracts without really suffering meaningful negative financial consequences, too.  

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