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[ChartBuddy]

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[xhomerx10]

NGU yo

 Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit checking the bitcoin price.

[Negotiation]

so $30k-$60kish just on the upcoming halfing perhaps

Earlier in the day I thought $30k would be passed very quickly, but now it looks very close to the touchpoint.  

[Biodom]

wow..., buddy, that's awfully close to 30K.
Nice.

[Gachapin]

My memory is not the best on that case, but the hitman stuff seems to have been a kind of set-up by the feds who lured Ulbricht into it.  
Afaik, the murder allegations were dismissed in the end.

I do not know if it a pre-planned setup into getting him to hire killers or if it was his own plan. But ultimately, giving the order was Ross's own decision. He thought they were real killers at the time and he gave them the order to murder 6 people. Whether he was egged on by the FBI or not does not really matter to me after that point. I do not see how anyone can defend him. He himself does not deny this.

I'm not a fan of him and I think he is responsible for his decisions.
But it's not easy for me to decide what he did or did not do, only by reading a bunch of news stories.

If he did order the hits as it's written in the transcripts (1, 2), I'd say fuck him.  Luckily it was all fake and the hits didn't happen.  

But ordering the murder of other humans often shows at least some asshole hubris, to say it very mildly.
And listening to his phone call to the '21 Bitcoin conference, I felt some of that vibe in his talking...  quite self-absorbed and egoistic.

I was court ordered to AA years ago and went up there and called them all a bunch of weak willed pussies and was told I was a disrupting influence and they signed off on my court mandated meetings.

*I was pissed right off the bat when I read the steps and one of them was to accept jesus as my lord and savior and told them there is no way I was going to do that.

many of these AA and NA groups are gateways into religion...  though it may help some to get rid of drugs, I think they only change one addiction/obsession for another

[Arriemoller]

I was court ordered to AA years ago and went up there and called them all a bunch of weak willed pussies and was told I was a disrupting influence and they signed off on my court mandated meetings.

*I was pissed right off the bat when I read the steps and one of them was to accept jesus as my lord and savior and told them there is no way I was going to do that.

I too was once court ordered to attend a AA meeting in the late 90s. It was one meeting only and I didn't need to participate if i didn't want too, but since I was there I decided to go all in and participate.
As I remember it it was rather fun, can't remember any religious stuff, probably wouldn't work in a secular country like Sweden. The participants were alright and seemed like nice people, some of them maybe a bit on the looser side. All in all a new and exciting experience.

Why, I here you say. I was moving my car from one side of the street to the other to avoid a parking ticket on new years eve and stepped right out of my car and in to a police car, I was somewhat over the limit.

[Arriemoller]

Ukraine is by the way still winning and the spring offensive is coming soon
#springiscoming

[sirazimuth]

……

 …., I think they only change one addiction/obsession for another

Too right.
Reminds me of the dude I chatted with at that retarded one meeting I attended…
I asked  “so how long have you been coming to meetings?”
He proudly replied “25 years and counting!”
I’m thinking….”Good Lord!
Whatever floats your boat, man….. “

[Gachapin]

……

 …., I think they only change one addiction/obsession for another

Too right.
Reminds me of the dude I chatted with at that retarded one meeting I attended…
I asked  “so how long have you been coming to meetings?”
He proudly replied “25 years and counting!”
I’m thinking….”Good Lord!
Whatever floats your boat, man….. “

fantastic example 

[xhomerx10]

……

 …., I think they only change one addiction/obsession for another

Too right.
Reminds me of the dude I chatted with at that retarded one meeting I attended…
I asked  “so how long have you been coming to meetings?”
He proudly replied “25 years and counting!”
I’m thinking….”Good Lord!
Whatever floats your boat, man….. “

fantastic example 

 *xhomer checks the date he joined bitcointalk.org

 Whew!  Not quite 10 years yet.  For a second there I felt like a freak 

[Gachapin]

But back then the WO was different, so that I didn't even want an ignore list.  ...Even the former trolls, like Stolfi or Roach were always an interesting read.

The idiots don't even write anything to read anymore, let alone anything interesting.
They just post images and links from Twatter.

You rang?

mmh.. based on your humor I just had the idea that you could be proudhorn...

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 …., I think they only change one addiction/obsession for another

Too right.
Reminds me of the dude I chatted with at that retarded one meeting I attended…
I asked  “so how long have you been coming to meetings?”
He proudly replied “25 years and counting!”
I’m thinking….”Good Lord!
Whatever floats your boat, man….. “

fantastic example 

 *xhomer checks the date he joined bitcointalk.org

 Whew!  Not quite 10 years yet.  For a second there I felt like a freak 

here, you only have to accept Bitcoin as your Lord and Savior...

[sirazimuth]

……

 …., I think they only change one addiction/obsession for another

Too right.
Reminds me of the dude I chatted with at that retarded one meeting I attended…
I asked  “so how long have you been coming to meetings?”
He proudly replied “25 years and counting!”
I’m thinking….”Good Lord!
Whatever floats your boat, man….. “

fantastic example 

 *xhomer checks the date he joined bitcointalk.org

 Whew!  Not quite 10 years yet.  For a second there I felt like a freak 

Um….Sorry to break it you homer, but you are a freak, just like the rest of us wo bro regulars……;)

[ChartBuddy]

Explanation

[machasm]

I haven't been able to post much, but I have been reading and following the thread whenever I have the chance. I was wondering, am I the only one who reads this thread backwards to catch up on new posts?

Anyhow, I've been busy updating my servers in the datacenter where I work. It had been four years since my last visit, and I needed to replace a failed hard drive with new SSD drives, as well as update some old cPanel VMs.

All was going well until I forgot the admin password - un-fucking-believable! Panic set in as I never forget passwords or at least have them securely stored somewhere. This hypervisor contained 12 important VMs and our Primary DNS, and after an hour of trying every possible password, websites and webapps started dropping! I knew I knew the password, as I remembered rebooting it a few years back (it had over 1000 days of uptime). It was late, and the stress and pressure were really getting to me - I'm not usually like this, I work well under pressure. In fact, back in high school, I used to complete my assignments the night before and still do better than 95% of the class. Eventually, I managed to crack into the box, change the admin password and booted everything back up. Just the thought of what would have happened, caused this sinking feeling I wouldn't want to have again!

I think I'll pull the plug with working at the next ATH (whenever that may be). While I've always thought that I don't need to work, but rather want to work, the truth is that many people rely on me to show up, causing me to need to work! However, it has all started to really get to me.

As you may know, I work in IT, and the ever-changing landscape is starting to affect me negatively. I used to enjoy it, but now, even small things are starting to bother me - dropping support for "screen"? What the fuck? My muscle memory for ctrl-a-d is ingrained in my fingers! Now they want me to use tmux? That stuff is dreadful - or am I just getting too old for this shit?

CentOS has stopped development of CentOS 8 in favour of CentOS stream, and I'm not sure why. I couldn't be bothered with digesting the information to work out the advantages, etc. How does this affect me? cPanel will drop support for CentOS 7 in June 2024, and I think they've already dropped support for CentOS 8, and will not support any Stream variants. Anyhow, they're pushing for a paid version of CloudLinux, which I was very tempted to use to replace the current setup as I thought there weren't many options.

I was wrong - AlmaLinux and RockyLinux are excellent alternatives. The younger me would have realized this years ago! What I'm noticing is that I'm not doing my due diligence or researching. Has the landscape gotten so big? Am I just getting too tired to learn more, or am I holding onto the past? Or has YouTube Shorts and Instagram rewired my brain to have the attention span of a 10-year-old?


TL;DR - CentOS is now AlmaLinux

I know where your coming from.
Having worked in IT for a number of years the appetite for learning yet another distro or windows install wanes.
Eventually you get to the stage of not giving a cr@p and thats when I got out.
Too many people rely on your skillset to not care so it was time to change my job.
To be fair the size and scope of IT these days is so vast that you need many specialists.
I now enjoy my retirement with more sedate things but still tinker with computers on things that interest me.
Also remember that if you were to drop dead today your position at work would probably be filled within a week.
Life is too short to not enjoy it.

[machasm]

many of these AA and NA groups are gateways into religion...  though it may help some to get rid of drugs, I think they only change one addiction/obsession for another

Reminds of an old Cheech and Chong sketch
A bible basher knocks on a door and says
"I used to be all messed up on drugs now Im all messed up on the Lord"
Made me chuckle

[HI-TEC99]

2010: $0.09 on July 17  but easter was 04 April. still can't find a price for it.

2011: $0.77 on April 1. easter was 24 April. I  found a price for $1.65 on this site https://bitcoinpricelookup.com/bitcoin-price-on-april-24-2011/
Looking for better info than I found

I just checked the historic Bitcoin chart on BuyBitcoinWorldwide and it gives me the following data:

4th April 2010: no data (it starts on 19th July, 2010). I just found this for 2010:

How Much was 1 Bitcoin Worth in 2010? Bitcoin's price never topped $1 in 2010! Its highest price for the year was just $0.39!

24th April 2011: $1.70

However, not sure if this price is accurate.

So either $1.65 or $1.70 for easter 2011.

and no known price for easter 2010. close we have is bitcoin pizza day for a spring 2010 price I think.

may 22 , 2010
10,000 coins for 1 pizza.

I could get a pizza for 10 dollars in 2011 so 1/10 of a cent would be the may 22, 2010 price.

https://www.investopedia.com/news/bitcoin-pizza-day-celebrating-20-million-pizza-order/

Now the guy who got 10000 coins on may 22 could have sold them on July 9 for 900 usd.

as btc was 9 cents in July on mt gox.

he would end up regretting that if it is what he did.

I like to use Bitcoincharts.com to try to pinpoint historical BTC price data, even though there might not have had been an exchange that had any price on Easter in 2010 as you mentioned, and even the bitcoin charts seem to NOT start to show MTGOX price information until September 2011.

NewLibertyStandard ran an early bitcoin exchange from his site and put the exchange rate here.

http://newlibertystandard.wetpaint.com/page/Exchange+Rate

People made snapshots of it. Here's some early ones.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100301174241/http://newlibertystandard.wetpaint.com:80/page/Exchange+Rate



https://web.archive.org/web/20100628150819/http://newlibertystandard.wetpaint.com/page/Exchange%2BRate



BitcoinFX ran another early bitcoin exchange.

I ran the '2nd' known Bitcoin <> fiat exchange service, using Liberty Reserve (now defunct - with my totally legally earned Forex trading funds being 'confiscated' when LR was shut down).

I had a basic website with contact information and a simple pricing widget, but the few successful trades I conducted were all manual and done via email. I certainly did not accept credit cards either and none of the trades I conducted totalled more than $10 in fiat value, at that time.

Before the BitcoinMarket exchange was established, there was someone in the US who made exchanges by accepting cash in the mail. I don't recall who that was and I think they also deleted most of their post history.

I just checked the way back machine archive and no copies of my website exist during the time it was online, which was for less than a few months, probably. I used a free .cc.cz domain with my forum account name. It was hosted for free on weebly.

There are waybackmachine snapshots of it. This is the earliest one. It says "Our maximum Exchange per request is currently 2500 BTC or $10 LR USD" on the homepage.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100617031313/http://www.bitcoinfx.cz.cc/

This is all the snapshots on the waybackmachine. The second one says "Available Bitcoins = 15,000 BTC".

https://web.archive.org/web/20100601000000*/http://www.bitcoinfx.cz.cc/

Thanks for correcting me on Bitcoin's history. I thought Bitcoin Market was the second exchange. You should be in the history books (and in the wiki).

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The data for the NewLibertyStandard snapshots came from here.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120130064803/http://numsum.com/spreadsheet/show_plain/110566?null

Here's the maximum and minimum daily trading rates it shows for quite a few months from March 2010 to June 2010.

[Hueristic]

... stepped right out of my car and in to a police car, I was somewhat over the limit.

Fuccckkkkkk!

* I was almost a pig after the Marines, can you imagine!

[HI-TEC99]

[ChartBuddy]

Explanation

[goldkingcoiner]

I do not know about you fellas but I absolutely count this as 30k. Because I round up.