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Keep stacking, we’re still early.




Maybe nice, but does anyone around here seriously expect to be around by the last couple of halving dates?

Not expecting that.
But we are the lucky ones.

I am pretty confident we are the new wealthy elite, gentlemen.

Our task is to build and preserve the intergenerational wealth.

Regarding the halving, another way of looking at this:
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1. Halvings do not rewrite Bitcoin’s code, they have been in Bitcoin’s code from the beginning.

2. Mining rigs hash block headers, they don’t validate transactions.

We need more #Bitcoin education! Especially for mainstream journalists. These paragraphs are from Bloomberg
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Maybe nice, but does anyone around here seriously expect to be around by the last couple of halving dates?

Probably not, but this here famous thread will be, so there is that.
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Hey, future "wealthy elite"...perhaps the 'dark forest' mode is in order. js
consider the future, etc, etc

and here is the Sunday #haiku (sorry if it is a bit gloomy):

bots are roaming free
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Keep stacking, we’re still early.




Maybe nice, but does anyone around here seriously expect to be around by the last couple of halving dates?

Yeah I just saw a lady on NJ news 12 she celebrates here 105th birthday.

Realistically I won't reach 100 no less than 105

but even if I make 105 I am 66 so in 2062 less than 39 years from now I will be 105.

and as of 2060 blocks are only

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Keep stacking, we’re still early.




Happy bitcoin 2nd Halving Anniversary..
It is truly incredible to see how the second half of the event has shaped the crypto world...

We have even more brilliant milestones and exciting times ahead just waiting to be seen.

I'll make sure we celebrate the bitcoin halving in 2032 with BTC0.78125 bitcoins!
After 10 years it will be really interesting.
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Adding a digit to the price is always exciting. Many of us started with only 3 digits, then another one was added, and another. 3 --> 4  was exciting, 4 --> 5 was even more so. 5 --> 6 will be even bigger for many of us long-time HoDLers. Many of us will get deep into fuck-you status and can finally make some major changes to their lives. Late 2024 or 2025 will probably be that time. This means roughly 10 years of HoDLing/DCA. What a ride!

Ten years is nothing,
When you're on board the rocket.
This ain't OceanGate!
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Wow!!!

If anyone actually goes from zero investments to fuck you status within 10 years, then that would be quite something, and sure I recognize that it is doable and it has happened with bitcoiners who have mostly errored on the side of a certain level of attempting to front load their BTC investment and ongoingly and persistently stacking sats without fucking around with trading and without losing their coins.. and maybe without overdoing it (which is kind of the same as losing their coins).

We might think about many folks in the traditional world needing 30-40 years of investing to get to fuck you status (that is even if they are able to make it), and it seems to me that many of us have witnessed that some of those thoughts about "how much is enough" could end up getting quite eroded by the money printing that we witnessed since March 2020... which ends up taking some of that security away from the traditional investors' abilities to even arrive at fuck you status in any kind of sustainable way, unless maybe they need to exceed entry-level fuck you status by 5x-10x in order to just start to rest somewhat assured,. and even some of the shocking (quick and crazy) happenings that we saw in and around March 2020.. should show us that there remains a decent amount of desperation in various status quo systems that should contribute to any of us having concerns regarding the degrees that status quo institutions might go to try to remove us from our wealth.. whether that might be bitcoin or any other wealth that we might have that might be more vulnerable.

We may well realize that we need a lot value that is in the cushions to feel that we are able to stay in fuck you status - once we have entered it.. which seems to be part of the reason that we likely do not want to overly exaggerate whether we are sufficiently there (which seems to establish some hesitancies in terms of merely relying upon BTC spot price assessment in regards to our wealth), yet it seems likely that bitcoin has had great odds of even overcoming (and making up for) the differences.. so long as we continued to error on the side of accumulating and HODLing it.. even though there is also likely some points in which realize that we have enough and we just can continue to allow the movements of the market to continue to rise.. that includes the fact that the 200-week moving average continue to go up.. including around $14 per day in recent times.. and by the way, those little balls have been blue and dark blue for quite a while, but the 200-week moving average has still continued to move up.

Of course, "we" already recognize that you are quite likely using a round about $2 million to calculate entry-level fuck you status, so we are on a similar page, there, even though we know that some folks might want to use either higher or lower numbers, but even using such $2 million entry-level amount, we can use something like my round-about "when fuck you status" chart, to show that a person who started investing in BTC in 2015 likely would need around 35-40 BTC to get to a pretty solid fuck you status by 2024/2025, yet a person who started in 2019 may well need to get to 10-12 BTC in order to get to fuck you status by 2029-ish.. and a person starting now, would likely need to get to right around 4 BTC to get to fuck you status by 2033/2024.... which also tends to show that any of those have been doable, but it seeming that it is going to take more and more front-loading capital to achieve similar results that had been easier to accomplish if a guy (or gal) had started earlier.

We cannot turn the clock back, so any no coiners/low coiners, still likely need to attempt to be somewhat aggressive in their frontloading, and if you believe that the accumulation of 4 BTC right now is somewhat difficult, then you do what you can, and work your way to 4 BTC and if you are not able to achieve the accumulation of BTC, then you still may well be in a decent position even if you are ONLY able to accomplish the accumulation of 1 BTC...  ..and you are still likely way better off to be accumulating BTC than NOT accumulating BTC, and you have to measure for yourself regarding how much BTC to accumulate versus any other asset(s) that you might accumulate.

Keep stacking, we’re still early.

Maybe nice, but does anyone around here seriously expect to be around by the last couple of halving dates?
Probably not, but this here famous thread will be, so there is that.

Do you really think so?

In 110 years, these here parts, aka "this here famous thread," might be in the archives of something. somewhere...  Maybe?

still active?  I really wonder 'bout dat?  Odds don't seem very high that this here thread would still be actually, realistically, reliably and undeniably still alive (kind of the opposite of this), but never say never.

Call me a party poop, if you feel that you must.
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92.5% of all the bitcoin has officially been mined. Only 7.5% left.
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Very cool. The race for the remaining coins intensifies…. Meanwhile, the price is the most stable in the last week as I can remember ever seeing. I had to make sure my ticker was working. It’s like you can feel the rising tide beginning to lift the boats… I think we’re building the base that’s going to rally from here up until the halving moment next April (with some blips for events here and there).
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Thomas Jefferson third president of USA



Thomas Jefferson was a huge slave owner.

Plus he was fucking and making kids with them.

Anything he speaks about freedom is pretty much a fucking joke.

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Slaves and slavery
Main article: Thomas Jefferson and slavery
Jefferson slaves
Jefferson's 1795 Farm book, page 30, lists 163 slaves at Monticello.
Jefferson lived in a Virginia planter society economically dependent on slavery. A wealthy slave owner himself, he employed slave labor which he depended on to run his household and work the fields and shops. Children of slaves began work at the age of ten, either in the fields, the nailery, the textile shop, or in the houses according to their capabilities. Children under ten usually minded the infants or did other light work in and around the house.[220][221] Yet throughout his life Jefferson maintained that the institution of slavery was harmful to both slave and master in his writings and discourse.[222][223] His views on slavery and African slaves, however, were complex; historians are divided on whether he truly opposed the institution largely because Jefferson was publicly silent on emancipation during his presidency and only freed a few slaves on his Monticello plantation.[224][225] Some researchers suggest Jefferson's slave ownership contradicted his philosophy of "all men are created equal".[224] Other historians, however, maintain that the sentiment in this statement is what actually inspired and drove Jefferson to advance legislation to abolish slavery and that [226] he believed slavery was contrary to the laws of nature where everyone had a right to personal liberty.[227] Jefferson attempted to legislate the emancipation of slaves on three occasions; once in 1769 at the Virginia General Assembly,[228] another in 1784 at the Continental Congress [229] and once when he proposed to ban slavery in all Western Territories after 1800 where he was defeated by Congress by one vote.[224]

Over the course of his life he owned some 600 slaves, buying and selling them as required, maintaining about 130 at any one time.[230][231] On a number of occasions Jefferson would also purchase slaves to unite families.[232][233] Jefferson held a paternalist view towards his slaves, frequently referring to them as his extended family who needed his guidance, discipline and protection.[234][235]

Jefferson accepted conventional thought during his lifetime that Africans were an inferior race. In his 'Notes on the State of Virginia' (1785), he expressed a "strong suspicion" that the Negro was inferior to whites in both the endowments of body and mind but wasn't sure if it was because they were a "distinct race" or were so because of "time and circumstances".[236][237] Historians have generally described Jefferson as a benevolent slaveowner,[238][239][240] though some historians have expressed doubts about that.[241] Jefferson did not allow his slaves to be overworked and gave them Sundays, Christmas and Easter off.[238][239][240] According to a former Monticello slave, slaves were seldom punished except for stealing or fighting or other extreme offenses, though there were some cases of excessive whippings at the hand of overseers.[242][243] Slaves were provided with log cabins with a fireplace, good clothing and food and were allowed to have their own gardens and raise chickens which, along with eggs and produce, were sold by more than half the adult slaves to the Jefferson household.[244]

Throughout Jefferson's political career he opposed the international slave trade. His proposed solution for the slavery dilemma was to transport freed slaves to Africa where they could set up an independent black nation, leaving the United States a country primarily of European-American and Native Americans. In his annual message to Congress in 1806, President Jefferson called for outlawing the trans-Atlantic slave trade, asking Congress to "withdraw the citizens of the United States from all further participation in those violations of human rights . . . which the morality, the reputation, and the best of our country have long been eager to proscribe." Congress complied and on March 2, 1807, Jefferson signed the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves into law; it took effect 1 January 1808, the earliest date permitted by the Constitution.[245][246] The abolition of the slave trade was a major achievement of Jefferson's presidency.[247] Jefferson, while President, privately sought to deport emancipated Virginia slaves through British and Portugal companies to Sierra Leone off the coast of Africa, however, these efforts were unsuccessful.[248] Southern contemporary critics viewed Jefferson was opposed to slavery for his Notes on the State of Virginia, his letter to Benjamin Banneker in 1791, and his reference to St. George Tucker's federal plan to purchase and free slaves.[249] Jefferson's 1803 Louisiana Purchase treaty allowed slavery to continue as the French were assured that there would be no interference with their interests when the purchase was made.[250]

While Jefferson on occasion had expressed reservations about releasing unprepared slaves into freedom it was something he had always wanted to do according to his main overseer of slaves, Edmund Bacon and his slave Joseph Fossett. Jefferson freed five slaves in his will providing a monetary endowment and trade tools to aid in making a living. Jefferson also successfully petitioned the Virginia legislature to allow freed slaves to remain in Virginia. However, Jefferson's encumbered debt from an agricultural depression and the mortgaging of his slaves, legally prevented him from freeing the remaining slaves who were later auctioned locally by his surviving family to pay his creditors and avoid their confiscation by Virginia debt law.[251][252][253][254]

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92.5% of all the bitcoin has officially been mined. Only 7.5% left.
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Even though 92.5% of Bitcoins are mined, we are still at the early stage!

Keep stacking, we’re still early.



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Bitcoin is not a hedge against inflation.

At least if you are using a strict definition of inflation hedge.

But anyone who has bought Bitcoin when the Federal Reserve was injecting trillions of US$ into the system back in 2020 is up against inflation.

Moral of the story: don’t wait to be thirsty to start digging a well.
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Thomas Jefferson would have alive, he would have love bitcoin.
Thomas Jefferson third president of USA



Thomas Jefferson was a huge slave owner.

Plus he was fucking and making kids with them.

Anything he speaks about freedom is pretty much a fucking joke.

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Slaves and slavery
Main article: Thomas Jefferson and slavery
Jefferson slaves
Jefferson's 1795 Farm book, page 30, lists 163 slaves at Monticello.
Jefferson lived in a Virginia planter society economically dependent on slavery. A wealthy slave owner himself, he employed slave labor which he depended on to run his household and work the fields and shops. Children of slaves began work at the age of ten, either in the fields, the nailery, the textile shop, or in the houses according to their capabilities. Children under ten usually minded the infants or did other light work in and around the house.[220][221] Yet throughout his life Jefferson maintained that the institution of slavery was harmful to both slave and master in his writings and discourse.[222][223] His views on slavery and African slaves, however, were complex; historians are divided on whether he truly opposed the institution largely because Jefferson was publicly silent on emancipation during his presidency and only freed a few slaves on his Monticello plantation.[224][225] Some researchers suggest Jefferson's slave ownership contradicted his philosophy of "all men are created equal".[224] Other historians, however, maintain that the sentiment in this statement is what actually inspired and drove Jefferson to advance legislation to abolish slavery and that [226] he believed slavery was contrary to the laws of nature where everyone had a right to personal liberty.[227] Jefferson attempted to legislate the emancipation of slaves on three occasions; once in 1769 at the Virginia General Assembly,[228] another in 1784 at the Continental Congress [229] and once when he proposed to ban slavery in all Western Territories after 1800 where he was defeated by Congress by one vote.[224]

Over the course of his life he owned some 600 slaves, buying and selling them as required, maintaining about 130 at any one time.[230][231] On a number of occasions Jefferson would also purchase slaves to unite families.[232][233] Jefferson held a paternalist view towards his slaves, frequently referring to them as his extended family who needed his guidance, discipline and protection.[234][235]

Jefferson accepted conventional thought during his lifetime that Africans were an inferior race. In his 'Notes on the State of Virginia' (1785), he expressed a "strong suspicion" that the Negro was inferior to whites in both the endowments of body and mind but wasn't sure if it was because they were a "distinct race" or were so because of "time and circumstances".[236][237] Historians have generally described Jefferson as a benevolent slaveowner,[238][239][240] though some historians have expressed doubts about that.[241] Jefferson did not allow his slaves to be overworked and gave them Sundays, Christmas and Easter off.[238][239][240] According to a former Monticello slave, slaves were seldom punished except for stealing or fighting or other extreme offenses, though there were some cases of excessive whippings at the hand of overseers.[242][243] Slaves were provided with log cabins with a fireplace, good clothing and food and were allowed to have their own gardens and raise chickens which, along with eggs and produce, were sold by more than half the adult slaves to the Jefferson household.[244]

Throughout Jefferson's political career he opposed the international slave trade. His proposed solution for the slavery dilemma was to transport freed slaves to Africa where they could set up an independent black nation, leaving the United States a country primarily of European-American and Native Americans. In his annual message to Congress in 1806, President Jefferson called for outlawing the trans-Atlantic slave trade, asking Congress to "withdraw the citizens of the United States from all further participation in those violations of human rights . . . which the morality, the reputation, and the best of our country have long been eager to proscribe." Congress complied and on March 2, 1807, Jefferson signed the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves into law; it took effect 1 January 1808, the earliest date permitted by the Constitution.[245][246] The abolition of the slave trade was a major achievement of Jefferson's presidency.[247] Jefferson, while President, privately sought to deport emancipated Virginia slaves through British and Portugal companies to Sierra Leone off the coast of Africa, however, these efforts were unsuccessful.[248] Southern contemporary critics viewed Jefferson was opposed to slavery for his Notes on the State of Virginia, his letter to Benjamin Banneker in 1791, and his reference to St. George Tucker's federal plan to purchase and free slaves.[249] Jefferson's 1803 Louisiana Purchase treaty allowed slavery to continue as the French were assured that there would be no interference with their interests when the purchase was made.[250]

While Jefferson on occasion had expressed reservations about releasing unprepared slaves into freedom it was something he had always wanted to do according to his main overseer of slaves, Edmund Bacon and his slave Joseph Fossett. Jefferson freed five slaves in his will providing a monetary endowment and trade tools to aid in making a living. Jefferson also successfully petitioned the Virginia legislature to allow freed slaves to remain in Virginia. However, Jefferson's encumbered debt from an agricultural depression and the mortgaging of his slaves, legally prevented him from freeing the remaining slaves who were later auctioned locally by his surviving family to pay his creditors and avoid their confiscation by Virginia debt law.[251][252][253][254]

here is a list of 163 he had at one time


  Phil, let's not be too hard on the man (with a purported IQ of 190); we shouldn't judge historical figures by today's moral standards and slavery wasn't generally considered immoral in the early 1800's when he passed on.  In the words of the great Aristotle - "since such a great number of men are not virtuous, laws are necessary".  By the way, Aristotle had some questionable views on slavery even among his contemporaries and yet his work on "ethics" continues to be influential in western philosophy.


 @HelliumZ,  While Jefferson didn't trust in the banks to do the right thing, that quote you posted is totally made up.


 On a lighter note:

 Nicolae Guta - Poa' sa vina ploaia ma duc la Mamaia

Sorry Smiley  It's my favourite summer song and indicative of my summer of (bitcoin) sideways.

 edit: The song plays on the word Mamaia which is a popular destination for summer vacations in Romania and also the word for parent.  So the guy says he's going to Mamaia and has no problem with food and he doesn't even have to pay for accommodations and then later he wakes up to a nice warm morning looking to drink a coffee on a beach somewhere at his mother's garden (in gradina la Mamaia mea)
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Thomas Jefferson third president of USA



Thomas Jefferson was a huge slave owner.

Plus he was fucking and making kids with them.

Anything he speaks about freedom is pretty much a fucking joke.

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https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson

Slaves and slavery
Main article: Thomas Jefferson and slavery
Jefferson slaves
Jefferson's 1795 Farm book, page 30, lists 163 slaves at Monticello.
Jefferson lived in a Virginia planter society economically dependent on slavery. A wealthy slave owner himself, he employed slave labor which he depended on to run his household and work the fields and shops. Children of slaves began work at the age of ten, either in the fields, the nailery, the textile shop, or in the houses according to their capabilities. Children under ten usually minded the infants or did other light work in and around the house.[220][221] Yet throughout his life Jefferson maintained that the institution of slavery was harmful to both slave and master in his writings and discourse.[222][223] His views on slavery and African slaves, however, were complex; historians are divided on whether he truly opposed the institution largely because Jefferson was publicly silent on emancipation during his presidency and only freed a few slaves on his Monticello plantation.[224][225] Some researchers suggest Jefferson's slave ownership contradicted his philosophy of "all men are created equal".[224] Other historians, however, maintain that the sentiment in this statement is what actually inspired and drove Jefferson to advance legislation to abolish slavery and that [226] he believed slavery was contrary to the laws of nature where everyone had a right to personal liberty.[227] Jefferson attempted to legislate the emancipation of slaves on three occasions; once in 1769 at the Virginia General Assembly,[228] another in 1784 at the Continental Congress [229] and once when he proposed to ban slavery in all Western Territories after 1800 where he was defeated by Congress by one vote.[224]

Over the course of his life he owned some 600 slaves, buying and selling them as required, maintaining about 130 at any one time.[230][231] On a number of occasions Jefferson would also purchase slaves to unite families.[232][233] Jefferson held a paternalist view towards his slaves, frequently referring to them as his extended family who needed his guidance, discipline and protection.[234][235]

Jefferson accepted conventional thought during his lifetime that Africans were an inferior race. In his 'Notes on the State of Virginia' (1785), he expressed a "strong suspicion" that the Negro was inferior to whites in both the endowments of body and mind but wasn't sure if it was because they were a "distinct race" or were so because of "time and circumstances".[236][237] Historians have generally described Jefferson as a benevolent slaveowner,[238][239][240] though some historians have expressed doubts about that.[241] Jefferson did not allow his slaves to be overworked and gave them Sundays, Christmas and Easter off.[238][239][240] According to a former Monticello slave, slaves were seldom punished except for stealing or fighting or other extreme offenses, though there were some cases of excessive whippings at the hand of overseers.[242][243] Slaves were provided with log cabins with a fireplace, good clothing and food and were allowed to have their own gardens and raise chickens which, along with eggs and produce, were sold by more than half the adult slaves to the Jefferson household.[244]

Throughout Jefferson's political career he opposed the international slave trade. His proposed solution for the slavery dilemma was to transport freed slaves to Africa where they could set up an independent black nation, leaving the United States a country primarily of European-American and Native Americans. In his annual message to Congress in 1806, President Jefferson called for outlawing the trans-Atlantic slave trade, asking Congress to "withdraw the citizens of the United States from all further participation in those violations of human rights . . . which the morality, the reputation, and the best of our country have long been eager to proscribe." Congress complied and on March 2, 1807, Jefferson signed the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves into law; it took effect 1 January 1808, the earliest date permitted by the Constitution.[245][246] The abolition of the slave trade was a major achievement of Jefferson's presidency.[247] Jefferson, while President, privately sought to deport emancipated Virginia slaves through British and Portugal companies to Sierra Leone off the coast of Africa, however, these efforts were unsuccessful.[248] Southern contemporary critics viewed Jefferson was opposed to slavery for his Notes on the State of Virginia, his letter to Benjamin Banneker in 1791, and his reference to St. George Tucker's federal plan to purchase and free slaves.[249] Jefferson's 1803 Louisiana Purchase treaty allowed slavery to continue as the French were assured that there would be no interference with their interests when the purchase was made.[250]

While Jefferson on occasion had expressed reservations about releasing unprepared slaves into freedom it was something he had always wanted to do according to his main overseer of slaves, Edmund Bacon and his slave Joseph Fossett. Jefferson freed five slaves in his will providing a monetary endowment and trade tools to aid in making a living. Jefferson also successfully petitioned the Virginia legislature to allow freed slaves to remain in Virginia. However, Jefferson's encumbered debt from an agricultural depression and the mortgaging of his slaves, legally prevented him from freeing the remaining slaves who were later auctioned locally by his surviving family to pay his creditors and avoid their confiscation by Virginia debt law.[251][252][253][254]

here is a list of 163 he had at one time


  Phil, let's not be too hard on the man (with a purported IQ of 190); we shouldn't judge historical figures by today's moral standards and slavery wasn't generally considered immoral in the early 1800's when he passed on.  In the words of the great Aristotle - "since such a great number of men are not virtuous, laws are necessary".  By the way, Aristotle had some questionable views on slavery even among his contemporaries and yet his work on "ethics" continues to be influential in western philosophy.


 @HelliumZ,  While Jefferson didn't trust in the banks to do the right thing, that quote you posted is totally made up.


 On a lighter note:

 Nicolae Guta - Poa' sa vina ploaia ma duc la Mamaia

Sorry Smiley  It's my favourite summer song and indicative of my summer of (bitcoin) sideways.

 edit: The song plays on the word Mamaia which is a popular destination for summer vacations in Romania and also the word for parent.  So the guy says he's going to Mamaia and has no problem with food and he doesn't even have to pay for accommodations and then later he wakes up to a nice warm morning looking to drink a coffee on a beach somewhere at his mother's garden (in gradina la Mamaia mea)


I am more inclined to defend Christopher Columbus then Thomas Jefferson.

I also don’t care much for the Adams family.

not the tv show. but sam adams and john adams are not on my list of outstanding  old school founders.

George Washington
Ben Franklin

I liked.

Of course when dealing with 250year old history we are likely to not have great acurate facts.
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