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[samsonn25]

I bet all those chumps who paid half a bitcoin for some bud from
Alpha Bay last year are kicking themselves about now...

Can never regret having fun.

Just like paying 10,000 bitcoin for 2 large papa John's pizzas.   When btc was worth much less than a penny.

[aesma]

Finding it difficult to concentrate at work

Same problem. Well today is a holy day so no problem, but since this summer, and it has worsened recently, I care less and less about my job.

During the summer I had decided that I needed my BTC stash to be worth a certain amount of euros, then, considering how I'm able to grow that stash, I could quit my job and live off the earned BTC. I thought this could happen in the middle of next year at the earliest, but today it has happened.

It would not be reasonable to quit my job right away, but I can't see myself continuing for years, that's for sure.

[Last of the V8s]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uV5KDS2_C4 BD #47: Tales from the Fork - Block Digest

https://blockstream.com/simplicity.pdf

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2338626.0

a new scripting lang for btc

SegWit introduced script versioning so maybe they will be able to deploy Simplicity using that -- which means without a hardfork. But I guess the jury is still out on that one, otherwise they would have explicitely mentioned that in the whitepaper.

::sigh::  People think weird stuff.   The paper does not talk about Bitcoin integration in any detail, as it is massively premature for that.


But adding a new script system is a softfork, it's always been a softfork. It's pretty much the most softforky thing you can imagine, and moreover it's already been done before!  P2SH replaced Script with a nested copy of Script..  In that case the nested thing was the same as the outer thing, but there was no technical reason it couldn't have been different.

simple

[aesma]

Finding it difficult to concentrate at work

Yep, it is bit of a problem. It's difficult to concentrate when dollar and euro are collapsing at such a pace.

This.
Two things: either I quit or they fire me for good. In the end it's up to us. Do we feel we can really be gentlemen living on Bitcoin magic money?
I planned to decide by the end of the year but Bitcoin does not care about my plans 

Ah ah, I'm a bit on the same boat, but getting fired in my country is quite difficult. I'm more likely to get improvements in my work conditions and salary than being fired.

On the flip side I'd like to buy a house, because that's what I've always wanted, and I have enough of fiat/fiat based assets to put down a 50% downpayment, however in this country there is no way I'm getting a mortgage without a stable job.

Then, I'm thinking, do I even want to stay here ?

Life became quite a bit more complicated since this summer...

[Last of the V8s]

'''snip"
Life became quite a bit more complicated since this summer...

sure did. some of us will be richer than banks any minute

<= hence my motto thingie over there, 'be a bank'.

it's no longer just a matter of doing your own transactions safely and in real money

and soon some of us will be richer than nation states

they will be coming to us for capital

if we hodl

[Dabs]

Apparently that 2nd place coin (that's not to be mentioned in here)
buys a lot less bitcoin than last week...

Or, you could buy more of that coin with your bitcoins, if you feel inclined.

[Arriemoller]

So, I bought a little today, and immediately bitcoin stalled. Sorry guys.

[pfrtlpfmpf]

It would not be reasonable to quit my job right away, but I can't see myself continuing for years, that's for sure.

I'm in the same boat as you, presently.

My hoard passed the "Fuck You" money-level a few months back and since then I've been really starting to question a lot of things about life. "Why am I not enjoying life when I have more than I could responsibly spend in my lifetime ? I'm completely debt free, Thank God."

Going to hold out for three more stock vesting cycles and then make a decision late in the summer about retiring a year earlier than planned.

At the end of the day, I still do enjoy the work I do, find it mostly gratifying, and still am learning quite a bit in my old age. It's... ((( them ))) that make things unenjoyable and aggravating with social politics in my work environment.

It's all about perspective I guess.

I know I'm retiring "soon", just "not yet".

KnowwhatImean ?

Exactly, let´s go to Hawaii, and learn surfing. Fuck them all ! You´re just fucking around a little more . . . We just have to do it !

I´m just taking the piss, but on the other hand, it´s the truth. No ?

[d_eddie]

So, I bought i little today, and immediately bitcoin stalled. Sorry guys.

Don't worry, keep on buyin', we need moar cheap korn.

[Last of the V8s]

[ask]

We are defeating all walls build against bitcoin. And poll is currently needs an update to add 10000+ option for reality kings
we are going to 10000+ clearly and will be done by the end of 2017.

[Dabs]

@Bob ... more than a thousand coins?

[samsonn25]

LmAO

[preshpresh]

I bet all those chumps who paid half a bitcoin for some bud from
Alpha Bay last year are kicking themselves about now...

I am.

except i used xmr.

but still...

[Meuh6879]

they try to trigger the bots ?

[Paashaas]

I follow the upcoming Bcash hard fork but it's turning into a major shitshow...suprise suprise  

So one of the Bcash devs are using his algorithm instead of going with consensus while they realease spec without coding and all done behind close-doors

I'm not a coder but i'm sure you need to code first, spec and comments after...

All of this within a 2 week time line lol.

[kurious]

It would not be reasonable to quit my job right away, but I can't see myself continuing for years, that's for sure.

I'm in the same boat as you, presently.

My hoard passed the "Fuck You" money-level a few months back and since then I've been really starting to question a lot of things about life. "Why am I not enjoying life when I have more than I could responsibly spend in my lifetime ? I'm completely debt free, Thank God."

Going to hold out for three more stock vesting cycles and then make a decision late in the summer about retiring a year earlier than planned.

At the end of the day, I still do enjoy the work I do, find it mostly gratifying, and still am learning quite a bit in my old age. It's... ((( them ))) that make things unenjoyable and aggravating with social politics in my work environment.

It's all about perspective I guess.

I know I'm retiring "soon", just "not yet".

KnowwhatImean ?

I don't want to actually 'retire' at all.  I am fine for money now, but I don't want to have nothing to do, no reason to get up in the morning...

To be smart enough to get into Bitcoin, it requires a risk-taking and adventurous nature - I can't see how 'sitting on a beach' is going to be any fun at all for the majority of us!

I have some land overseas in a place I am fond of and I am looking at building there, perhaps to rent out for a while (it will pay for itself then) and it can either be where I go to for breaks, or to retire, or help out my income in old age.

I still run a business, but I just put all the staff on a profit share and told then I won't be around as much, so it's more up to them.  They are working much harder now, so the business is growing more, it's great to see.  I am now going in to work when I feel like it, just to cheer them on - I no longer have to, I enjoy it. I did just buy a new car, not a lambo - but something classy that isn't pretenetious and feels a pleasure to drive.  To have nowhere to go and no reson to go in it woudl be heartbreaking.

Us Bitcoiner, we can't do 'nothing'  - but we can do something positive, which we enjoy.  We can all trust our investment instincts, right - so cash a litte out and well, invest it in something we are excited about - that we can enjoy.

Oh - and (if you're already much better off) don't keep waiting forever to cash something out, it may not last forever and life certainly doesn't.

[kurious]

I bet all those chumps who paid half a bitcoin for some bud from
Alpha Bay last year are kicking themselves about now...

I am.

except i used xmr.

but still...

Less likely to be on a list somewhere, then, at least.  I woudln't use anything else for dark web (if I were to transact there).

[Last of the V8s]

https://bc-2.jp/mempool.pdf Mempool optimized fees, and the correlation between user costs, miner incentives, and block capacity.

moar pdf, brazenly coining the word 'seldomly'.

[Last of the V8s]

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