Anyone missing The Bug?

Could do with some Nazi/Jew shit to break the boredom, just for lulz.

We're having kebab tonight.

Should I take my Trezor with me?

Just imagine finding a USB stick on the street, all crushed by passing cars, and taking it home, repairing it, and discovering that it contained the private key to thousands of BTC. Wet dream?

Has happened to me once (sans the BTC). Found the remains of a USB stick on the street (only the PCB had remained, and badly damaged). I tried to repair it, but couldn't. Could it have contained Satoshi's coins? No one will ever know.

I'm paranoid like that...

He was stupid, and deserved it.

He ended up with over 6000 BTC. Why continue to deal drugs? He was already set for life. But he was greedy. And stupid.

All the better for us. Price will appreciate slightly, due to his stupidity. Thanks Clifton.

I agree, it depends on the individual. For me, $100k is beyond Moon, and closer to Mars. So I will definitely cash out some of my stash, mainly to buy equipment for my home electronics laboratory (childhood dream), and also to enjoy life (nothing major, just carefree lifestyle, travelling, not worrying about cost of living). No Lambos for me, never fancied them, never dreamt of owning one. A decent standard car (which I already own) is good enough for me. I could quit my job, but it's a job I enjoy, and a job that gives me the satisfaction of doing things that I could not do otherwise, so I don't think I'll quit. Not yet anyway.

The main thing for me is for Bitcoin to keep rising, or at least stay close to the $100k level in the long term, and not plummet to zero suddenly (which it won't, but nothing is certain in this life, and enemies are always lurking).

Problem is, we most probably won't cash out when it reaches $100k. Hardened by the previous cycle, we'll stoically watch our corn plummet to only $30k, upon which time it will be declared dead, weak hands will sell, some of us will get wrenched, the rest of us will HoDL (because we're HoDLers) until 2026 when it reaches $1M. We might sell some at that time...

Alan Turing used to chain his mug to the radiator in his office to stop it being stolen. It's still there today.



https://twitter.com/bletchleypark/status/855376587600080896

Plausible deniability is what you're describing. That's an extremely effective method of protecting your coins/data and still minimizing the chances of being tortured to death. Of course, poor OpSec is your worst enemy in such matters.

The problem is not that your family members will steal your money intentionally. The problem is that they may innocently tell someone about it, or just not take proper care of it and let it leak to the wrong hands. This is exacerbated by the fact that they don't understand it, and may even think it's not so important, thus not treating it seriously. That's why you should never share a passphrase, even with your parents or spouse.

Personally, when they complain that "I don't trust them" or "I don't love them enough", or whatever, I say "it's because I love you dearly that I don't share it with you". It's a bit difficult for them to understand, but eventually they get it (girlfriends are the most difficult).

When it comes to security, my motto is "if you disclose it to anyone, consider it compromised".

Italy is indeed the biggest blob on the map, excluding Asia.

It should be noted, however, that all four people in Italy that died from the virus were elderly (78, 75, 77, and 84 years old).

100% guaranteed remedy when worried about price drops:

Just zoom out.

We exceeded $10k. Only briefly, but we did.

My 5-digit "Bitcoin moon solar eclipse" hat stays put.

Number go up!

Or for all of us, if there's no will. 

Fortunately, we have COVID-19 that keeps it alive! 

Even after the recent correction from this year's AYH, we're still doing fine. LFCBPI is $7 above baseline.

LFC Bitcoin Price Indicator: $57

Go BTC, go!

...and employ them for our seedy activities.

Green is nice, yeah. Good for the eyes too.

@Olegya199:

What you're offering is physically posting a gift to WO members you don't know IRL (and who don't know you), and expecting us to accept it. This doesn't make sense from an OpSec point of view, especially considering that many of us have in their possessions the private keys to hundreds or thousands of BTC.

For all we know, you could be:

1. A thief, trying to locate our physical addresses, by exploiting our trust in revealing them to you, or by placing a geotagging device in the package, and then paying us a visit to steal our coins using the $5 wrench method.

2. A member of a criminal, government, or terrorist organization, trying to fish for potential targets to extort and blackmail.

3. A mentally unstable person, trying to poison or harm us, because of envy of what we have that you don't.

Who, in their right mind, would risk dealing with you just to get a home-made bar of chocolate? Would you?

If you really like WO, and want to show your appreciation by giving us a gift, just do it the Bitcoin way. Send a small tip in Bitcoin to those of us whom you respect the most. This would respect our privacy and show us that you really mean well. Alternatively, just post some photos of you making the chocolate (you already did), and a hand-written, dated dedication to all WO members, just like The Dude and LFC have done several times, by sharing their cool resto-adventures with us. All nice and clean. And more than enough. If I want some hand-made chocolate I can go to Max Perry's down the street, thank you.

Coming here out of the blue, trying to send us chocolates and other physical goods, and insisting in doing so by posting several times in the WO thread, raises some big OpSec red flags in my book.