Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion

[Hueristic]

Simulant is a pretty good flick.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13130024/

[jojo69]

[Bitcoin_people]

The email that started a revolution. #Bitcoin   

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[philipma1957]

looking 👀 for a buddy bump

[Rigon]

Good idea. But drinking lemonade with bitcoins would be very expensive. Here the cost will be 20-30 times higher due to the increased transaction fee of Bitcoin. So I consider it totally expensive. Business can be profitable if cryptocurrency other than bitcoin can be set in this business.

[Richy_T]

Good idea. But drinking lemonade with bitcoins would be very expensive. Here the cost will be 20-30 times higher due to the increased transaction fee of Bitcoin. So I consider it totally expensive. Business can be profitable if cryptocurrency other than bitcoin can be set in this business.

Dude, they just need to buy a raspberry pi and set up a lightning node and preload their channel with a couplea hundred bucks and they're golden once the blockchain has synced.

[philipma1957]

Good idea. But drinking lemonade with bitcoins would be very expensive. Here the cost will be 20-30 times higher due to the increased transaction fee of Bitcoin. So I consider it totally expensive. Business can be profitable if cryptocurrency other than bitcoin can be set in this business.

Dude, they just need to buy a raspberry pi and set up a lightning node and preload their channel with a couplea hundred bucks and they're golden once the blockchain has synced.

raspberry pi is a terrible choice to run any btc node of any kind

https://www.ebay.com/itm/115807198208?


just put in a 1tb ssd


for like 80 bucks

 $220. for a far superior way to run a node.

[nutildah]

Good idea. But drinking lemonade with bitcoins would be very expensive. Here the cost will be 20-30 times higher due to the increased transaction fee of Bitcoin. So I consider it totally expensive. Business can be profitable if cryptocurrency other than bitcoin can be set in this business.

This is from April 2022. Fees were actually much, much higher then than they are now, and it hasn't been wise to use BTC to pay for something that costs 25 cents since 2016.

Dude, they just need to buy a raspberry pi and set up a lightning node and preload their channel with a couplea hundred bucks and they're golden once the blockchain has synced.

LOL

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[philipma1957]

buddy be bopping along in the 27k range. wanted the uptick.

oh well

[JimboToronto]

Illegal cab company? You mean Uber?

Uber isn't illegal. It is a scam though.

I hail a cab on a street corner, get dropped off at another street corner, and pay cash, my ride is totally private. Nobody takes my name, address, destination, banking information or any other sensitive information. The driver gets his money and has the choice of declaring his tip or not. I get to go where I'm going. No problem.

As soon as you start using phones and credit cards anonymity is lost. There's permanent record of who you are, where you came from, where you went, and how much you paid. No thanks.

[Richy_T]

raspberry pi is a terrible choice to run any btc node of any kind

Completely agree.

[philipma1957]

Illegal cab company? You mean Uber?

Uber isn't illegal. It is a scam though.

I hail a cab on a street corner, get dropped off at another street corner, and pay cash, my ride is totally private. Nobody takes my name, address, destination, banking information or any other sensitive information. The driver gets his money and has the choice of declaring his tip or not. I get to go where I'm going. No problem.

As soon as you start using phones and credit cards anonymity is lost. There's permanent record of who you are, where you came from, where you went, and how much you paid. No thanks.

Same is true with subway in NYC.

Used to buy a token for 35 cents drop it in the turnstile and no one knew if you were on any subway.


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[Who is John Galt?]

Illegal cab company? You mean Uber?

Uber isn't illegal. It is a scam though.

I hail a cab on a street corner, get dropped off at another street corner, and pay cash, my ride is totally private. Nobody takes my name, address, destination, banking information or any other sensitive information. The driver gets his money and has the choice of declaring his tip or not. I get to go where I'm going. No problem.

As soon as you start using phones and credit cards anonymity is lost. There's permanent record of who you are, where you came from, where you went, and how much you paid. No thanks.

Same is true with subway in NYC.

Used buy a token for 35% drop it in the turnstile and no one knew if you were on any subway.

After they install CCTV cameras in every subway car, I wouldn't say it's all that anonymous. Maintaining anonymity becomes more and more difficult over time.

[JimboToronto]

Illegal cab company? You mean Uber?

Uber isn't illegal. It is a scam though.

I hail a cab on a street corner, get dropped off at another street corner, and pay cash, my ride is totally private. Nobody takes my name, address, destination, banking information or any other sensitive information. The driver gets his money and has the choice of declaring his tip or not. I get to go where I'm going. No problem.

As soon as you start using phones and credit cards anonymity is lost. There's permanent record of who you are, where you came from, where you went, and how much you paid. No thanks.

Same is true with subway in NYC.

Used buy a token for 35% drop it in the turnstile and no one knew if you were on any subway.

Same also in Toronto with the whole public transit system but they're trying to change that. They recently stopped selling subway tokens and they want to phase out tickets and cash on surface routes and get everybody using "Presto" smart cards. Their excuse is that 90% of passengers already use the cards. I haven't checked out how difficult it is to obtain a card anon-/pseudonymously. I still use metal coins.

I'm a big baseball fan. I used to be able to walk up to the box office and buy a ticket anonymously with cash and then pay for a beer with cash. No cards or identification required (although I did get carded buying a beer when I was 60 years old). Now they've discontinued paper tickets and even scannable season ticket holder cards. Now you're obliged to bring an Android or Apple device to the ballpark and use their "Ballpark" application to display a moving barcode to be scanned at the gate. Last year you could print the QR codes for your tickets on paper and scan that. Not any more. Now you must physically bring a device to the park. The last thing I want to bring to a ball game is a telephone, especially one with a GPS that can be triangulated by cellular towers . To add insult to injury, they don't accept cash for beer anymore. Now you have to keep a permanent credit card record of every beer and hot dog along with the time of purchase.

There is no freedom without anonymity. I'm constantly amazed by how many people don't care about freedom anymore.