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[d_eddie]

I can manage the dishes just fine and flip them in my head. The rotating ballerina is harder. When seeing it first (scroll out, then back in), it's always CCW to me. It takes some time and conscious effort to make it spin clockwise. Is it a brain hemisphere thing (right handed vs lefty)?

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[AlcoHoDL]

I can manage the dishes just fine and flip them in my head. The rotating ballerina is harder. When seeing it first (scroll out, then back in), it's always CCW to me. It takes some time and conscious effort to make it spin clockwise. Is it a brain hemisphere thing (right handed vs lefty)?

CW for me. Maybe because I'm left-handed...

As for the plates, it seems that the brain "locks" in a specific perception, and then it's difficult to change it. But once you stop looking for some time, it reverts to the "default" perception, which, for me, is "plates upside down".

[AlcoHoDL]

Future pics

I bought a laptop some years ago for 0.6BTC.
So I know how it feels.

Oh how I wish I was smarter than that.

I bought a Trezor for 0.13 BTC. It's now worth $7,272.  

Looking forward to the day it will be worth $100,000!

[Richy_T]

I bought a laptop some years ago for 0.6BTC.
So I know how it feels.

Oh how I wish I was smarter than that.

Just looked back and my earliest BTC purchase was a GPU for, wait for it... 3.375BTC.

They did get replaced so I don't have hard feelings about it. I think I ended up mostly mining Litecoin with the GPU though. Crypto's "purest green" to Bitcoin's gold.

[lightfoot]

Interesting. She is CW when I look at her but if I stare long enough she stops and goes CCW. Closing eyes for a second reverts to CW.

[Karma24]

I can manage the dishes just fine and flip them in my head. The rotating ballerina is harder. When seeing it first (scroll out, then back in), it's always CCW to me. It takes some time and conscious effort to make it spin clockwise. Is it a brain hemisphere thing (right handed vs lefty)?

CW for me. Maybe because I'm left-handed...

Nah It's also CW for me and i'm right handed i did manage to get it to spin CCW you kinda need to close your eyes and imagine it spin that way,What's intresting tho is that when she's spinning clockwise, she's on her left foot, but when she's spinning counterclockwise, she's on her right foot.  cool...

[P_Shep]

I bought a Trezor for 0.13 BTC. It's now worth $7,272.  

Looking forward to the day it will be worth $100,000!

Is that all?
Mine was 1 BTC.
But it does have 'First edition' embossed on the back.

[AlcoHoDL]

I bought a Trezor for 0.13 BTC. It's now worth $7,272.  

Looking forward to the day it will be worth $100,000!

Is that all?
Mine was 1 BTC.
But it does have 'First edition' embossed on the back.

Yes, that's all. In fact, that's the only purchase I've ever made with Bitcoin. I've also given $1 worth of coins to some of my students and colleagues, for motivating them to get involved (now worth several hundred dollars, and probably lost already—nobody really cared). All the rest I've been HoDLing. I feel almost ashamed... As if I didn't give enough support to the cause (usage of Bitcoin as a payment method). But... How could I bring myself to spend something so precious? The way things are going, I don't see myself selling any coins, unless I need them to buy some expensive product or service. Certainly not to convert to fiat to sit at the bank, and certainly not to buy coffee, Trezors, mobile phones, or Netflix subscriptions. There's my regular fiat income for those.

"First Edition"? Mmm... Nice to have. Don't tell me it's an all-metal one! I would love to own one of these. Mine is just the plain, plastic, standard version. Works great though. Has never failed me. Good design.

[JimboToronto]

I've still got a couple of BTC logo ballcaps which I bought with Bitcoin. This one is the most recent and it's over 6 years old:



I got it because I was sick of people seeing my first one with the proper orange logo and thinking I was a Boston Bruins fan.

Needless to say, I haven't worn either one for years. Almost everyone can identify the Bitcoin logo now.

I seem to recall paying about a third of a coin for the first one. I was happy just to be supporting the Bitcoin "movement" by using it to buy something.

Of course that was a lot of money for a ballcap but I have no regrets. I feel I was doing my part.

Hopefully Laszlo is living extremely happily ever after. He more than did his part.

[Hueristic]

I sold most on the 2017 run-up and didn't want to mention that during the winter while people were suffering because I'm not that kind of person.

Do I wish I had that now?

Yes but do I feel stupid for doing it?

NO

[Elwar]

What if it looks like she's waving one leg back and forth in front of her?

[vapourminer]

What if it looks like she's waving one leg back and forth in front of her?

or worse, no movement at all. as i have animated gifs set to only play once and the 1st couple times i saw this in a post it was at the last frame so done with the animation. but since i didnt know it was an animated gif and thought it was just a static jpg optical illusion thingie i stared at that last frame of the gif for, well, an embarrassingly long time expecting some perspective change before i caught on and refreshed the post lol

edit: cw. usually.

 

[Biodom]

It seems whatever your brain latches on first.
One time I looked and it was cw, next time ccw.
disturbing.

EDIT: It changes if I close one eye.

EDIT 2: Here is another anecdote-there is a spot in your retina, which has no light receptors, called the optic disk (blind spot). Yet, you don't see a round hole in your vision field.
Your brain performs 'filling-in', like an advanced photoshop and you don't notice anything unusual, the field of vision is smooth. There is some way you can find the blind spot, but it is a bit involved.

[JayJuanGee]

I sold most on the 2017 run-up and didn't want to mention that during the winter while people were suffering because I'm not that kind of person.

Do I wish I had that now?

Yes but do I feel stupid for doing it?

NO

Hahahahaha  fair enough.. .. and how gentlemanly of you not to be rubbing in your smartie pants during the sufferenings of many of us mostly HODLers.

As many peeps who follow this thread likely realize, I have always been a bit too chicken shit to sell large portions of my BTC stash, ever since I got into BTC, even in the 2017 run up and the 2018 correction and various times in-between and even before 2017.

I must be dumb.

I actually don't feel as reluctant to sell large portions now, but I just don't know where I would put it, so I suppose, I just remain stuck on the default of ongoingly HODLing and riding the waves... unless something attractive comes along, I suppose.

Anywhooooo.. ... so when did you buy back your BTC.. assuming that you did.. was it incrementally and at various points or did you do a small number of lump buys?  Another part that had always scared me, too is to sell significant portions of BTC (in theory) and then figure out at what points to buy back in... so hypothetically, if I were selling, then I would get nervous and end up buying back with hardly any profits... So not really sure about how to resolve that angle, except the system that I already established for myself, which seems to conform with my comfort levels regarding allocation and largely just staying in BTC.

[vapourminer]

It seems whatever your brain latches on first.
One time I looked and it was cw, next time ccw.
disturbing.

its also started one way and then reversed and gone the other way half way through a couple times.

[d_eddie]

It seems whatever your brain latches on first.
One time I looked and it was cw, next time ccw.
disturbing.

EDIT: It changes if I close one eye.

EDIT 2: Here is another anecdote-there is a spot in your retina, which has no light receptors, called the optic disk (blind spot). Yet, you don't see a round hole in your vision field.
Your brain performs 'filling-in', like an advanced photoshop and you don't notice anything unusual, the field of vision is smooth. There is some way you can find the blind spot, but it is a bit involved.

Use something small - like a small coin in your hand. Keep it on the side, far from the center of your visual field. For example, keep your arm extended forward while you hold the coin. Look and focus straight ahead, so the coin is on the side of your vision. Slowly bring your hand closer until the coin is "gone". They key is: don't look at the coin. Keep looking ahead. The blind spot is on the side, and you will find it when your hand (that is, the coin) is at the right distance.

It seems whatever your brain latches on first.
One time I looked and it was cw, next time ccw.
disturbing.

its also started one way and then reversed and gone the other way half way through a couple times.

CW for me now, on first (re)sight! It really is unstable, but when it settles it's harder to "flip" than the dishes.

[Biodom]

It seems whatever your brain latches on first.
One time I looked and it was cw, next time ccw.
disturbing.

its also started one way and then reversed and gone the other way half way through a couple times.

yes, that happened too.

EDIT: at least the bathtub water typically swirls cw (in the Northern hemisphere). The legend says that it goes ccw in the Southern, but HM (or any other "southie") need to make an appearance to confirm if it is so.

[marcus_of_augustus]

It seems whatever your brain latches on first.
One time I looked and it was cw, next time ccw.
disturbing.

EDIT: It changes if I close one eye.

EDIT 2: Here is another anecdote-there is a spot in your retina, which has no light receptors, called the optic disk (blind spot). Yet, you don't see a round hole in your vision field.
Your brain performs 'filling-in', like an advanced photoshop and you don't notice anything unusual, the field of vision is smooth. There is some way you can find the blind spot, but it is a bit involved.

... if you focus on the ballerina's foot she goes one direction, focus on the top of the head and it reverses

[Biodom]

It seems whatever your brain latches on first.
One time I looked and it was cw, next time ccw.
disturbing.

EDIT: It changes if I close one eye.

EDIT 2: Here is another anecdote-there is a spot in your retina, which has no light receptors, called the optic disk (blind spot). Yet, you don't see a round hole in your vision field.
Your brain performs 'filling-in', like an advanced photoshop and you don't notice anything unusual, the field of vision is smooth. There is some way you can find the blind spot, but it is a bit involved.

... if you focus on the ballerina's foot she goes one direction, focus on the top of the head and it reverses

hmm...not for me
for me if I look at the head, it goes in a certain direction, then reverses, then AFTER it reversed and I look at the feet, it does not change again (for the second time).
The clincher is that it changes once, then stays put (experiences could vary, of course).

[marcus_of_augustus]

56K all the way