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[ChartBuddy]

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[philipma1957]

Went from NJ to NY today to find out about my dementia ill bro-in-law and his cancerous kidney.

It is a small growth only 1.6 cm in 2017 it was 1.0 cm

Doctor thinks it grows slow and may or may not be cancerous. He wants a scan for my bro-in-law around May.

So it is okay news. could be worse.

Next silver holding at over 84 we hit an all time high to day.


also okay news.


Did 35 sales on ebay of silver 35 positive feedbacks all shipped correctly by the post office most before christmas.

pretty impressive work.

and this allowed me to buy a bit of corn this morning.

the hosted mine is running well.


will be stacking about 0.0011 btc a day for some of the year. subject to difficulty changes.


now the bad news. The Verrazano Bridge funnelled all drivers into 1 lane upper roadway and 1 lane lower roadway.

Why the Iceman and the state police and new york city police were doing brown man check.

Ie they looked at you and if you were brown they pulled you over for a full id check.

blacks , non-brown asian and whites they let pass.

pretty freaking scary.

[Biodom]

maybe that ^ explains this->OT: Risto was saying it >10 years ago; I didn't believe it and did not buy....
Q: which prominent coin (not VB coin!) increased 2000X in the last 10 years, exceeding "just" 200X (well, 200X is super sweet, of course) for btc?
2000X=pennies (50-90c) became >$ thousand.

[cAPSLOCK]

[edited out]

Government has always moved at a slow pace! Here is what the GENIUS act has resulted in thus far - all good for further follow-on acts, which will [also] be favorable for Bitcoin, with more promising action for Bitcoin yet to come!

The GENIUS Act created the first comprehensive U.S. federal framework for regulating payment stablecoins, bringing them inside formal financial oversight while aiming to balance innovation, consumer protection, and monetary stability. It passed in July 2025 and is now shaping crypto markets, banking practices, and regulatory enforcement.

Also known as steps towards CBDC.

Exactly.

My catastrophizing goes like this. They passed Genius, which gives them the tools they need to do The Mar-a-Lago, accords, and then Clarity either gets modified to give the state more power or just doesn't pass... oh too bad at least we got half of it done.

But to me, it smells like everything so far has been for a digital dollar, not for Bitcoin.

That said, even if I go into catastrophication mode, I still hear Bessant very clearly saying bullish things about Bitcoin. And that guy's a strange bird.  He tends to tell the truth and his language is very precise.

A while back, he was saying that he didn't think they would be buying any Bitcoin for the reserve.  And look at where we are. They have soaked up quite a bit. I don't know if the Venezuela rumor is true, but if it is, they are the largest holder.

[cAPSLOCK]

maybe that ^ explains this->OT: Risto was saying it >10 years ago; I didn't believe it and did not buy....
Q: which prominent coin (not VB coin!) increased 2000X in the last 10 years, exceeding "just" 200X (well, 200X is super sweet, of course) for btc?
2000X=pennies (50-90c) became >$ thousand.

I am really puzzled as to what any of that means, but seeing as it's Risto, I feel like I ought to know.

Such a loon that guy was.

(that said, one of Risto's favorite coins has been going hyperbreserk for quite some time now, but particularly the last couple of days. But I'll hush my mouth.)

[AlcoHoDL]

maybe that ^ explains this->OT: Risto was saying it >10 years ago; I didn't believe it and did not buy....
Q: which prominent coin (not VB coin!) increased 2000X in the last 10 years, exceeding "just" 200X (well, 200X is super sweet, of course) for btc?
2000X=pennies (50-90c) became >$ thousand.

I wanted to say DOGE. Just checked it.

DOGE did 800x in the last 10 years. 12/01/2016 ~ 12/01/2026.

BTC did "only" 200x in the exact same period.

An interesting observation.

[bracing for Jay's incoming Batslap... hahaha]

[ChartBuddy]

Explanation
Chartbuddy thanks talkimg.com

[cAPSLOCK]

Went from NJ to NY today to find out about my dementia ill bro-in-law and his cancerous kidney.

It is a small growth only 1.6 cm in 2017 it was 1.0 cm

Doctor thinks it grows slow and may or may not be cancerous. He wants a scan for my bro-in-law around May.

So it is okay news. could be worse.

Next silver holding at over 84 we hit an all time high to day.


also okay news.


Did 35 sales on ebay of silver 35 positive feedbacks all shipped correctly by the post office most before christmas.

pretty impressive work.

and this allowed me to buy a bit of corn this morning.

the hosted mine is running well.


will be stacking about 0.0011 btc a day for some of the year. subject to difficulty changes.


now the bad news. The Verrazano Bridge funnelled all drivers into 1 lane upper roadway and 1 lane lower roadway.

Why the Iceman and the statepolcie and new york city police were doing brown man check.

Ie they looked at you and if you were brown they pulled you over for a full id check.

blacks , non-brown asian and whites they let pass.

pretty freaking scary.

Glad to hear about your brothernlaw's cancer.  But dementia is a doozy.  I will never forget when my sister and I were on the phone. It would have been my mother's latest life-saving surgery. She was so gone.

Nice on the silver, selling and also the Bitcoin buying and mining.

[Biodom]

[edited out]

Government has always moved at a slow pace! Here is what the GENIUS act has resulted in thus far - all good for further follow-on acts, which will [also] be favorable for Bitcoin, with more promising action for Bitcoin yet to come!

The GENIUS Act created the first comprehensive U.S. federal framework for regulating payment stablecoins, bringing them inside formal financial oversight while aiming to balance innovation, consumer protection, and monetary stability. It passed in July 2025 and is now shaping crypto markets, banking practices, and regulatory enforcement.

Also known as steps towards CBDC.

Exactly.

My catastrophizing goes like this. They passed Genius, which gives them the tools they need to do The Mar-a-Lago, accords, and then Clarity either gets modified to give the state more power or just doesn't pass... oh too bad at least we got half of it done.

But to me, it smells like everything so far has been for a digital dollar, not for Bitcoin.

That said, even if I go into catastrophication mode, I still hear Bessant very clearly saying bullish things about Bitcoin. And that guy's a strange bird.  He tends to tell the truth and his language is very precise.

A while back, he was saying that he didn't think they would be buying any Bitcoin for the reserve.  And look at where we are. They have soaked up quite a bit. I don't know if the Venezuela rumor is true, but if it is, they are the largest holder.

Yeah, well...you may come up with a thousand ways they could increase it...all of which do nothing for the "number goes up".

[cAPSLOCK]

maybe that ^ explains this->OT: Risto was saying it >10 years ago; I didn't believe it and did not buy....
Q: which prominent coin (not VB coin!) increased 2000X in the last 10 years, exceeding "just" 200X (well, 200X is super sweet, of course) for btc?
2000X=pennies (50-90c) became >$ thousand.

I am really puzzled as to what any of that means, but seeing as it's Risto, I feel like I ought to know.

Such a loon that guy was.

(that said, one of Risto's favorite coins has been going hyperbreserk for quite some time now, but particularly the last couple of days. But I'll hush my mouth.)

Ah, it is my only other coin.  I got a little bit around a quarter too, although I bought in before that crash.

Bat slaps are definitely on the way at this point.

[Biodom]

maybe that ^ explains this->OT: Risto was saying it >10 years ago; I didn't believe it and did not buy....
Q: which prominent coin (not VB coin!) increased 2000X in the last 10 years, exceeding "just" 200X (well, 200X is super sweet, of course) for btc?
2000X=pennies (50-90c) became >$ thousand.

I am really puzzled as to what any of that means, but seeing as it's Risto, I feel like I ought to know.

Such a loon that guy was.

(that said, one of Risto's favorite coins has been going hyperbreserk for quite some time now, but particularly the last couple of days. But I'll hush my mouth.)

Ah, it is my only other coin.  I got a little bit around a quarter too, although I bought in before that crash.

Bat slaps are definitely on the way at this point.

lol...this is what "stability" does to the collective psyche around here.
Barting 10-20%-we may handle that, but the "stability"....oh, boy!

[cAPSLOCK]

Yeah, well...you may come up with a thousand ways they could increase it...all of which do nothing for the "number goes up".

Not directly. No.  But indirectly, it would be quite bullish in sort of a game theory realm.

And, unless I am stupid and wrong about what I think as I've thought this through...

I believe the biggest planned achievement for the Secretary of the Treasury is to save the US dollar, at least for one more. jog around the track.  Really everything they've been doing is leading up to that. And I think some of the things they have done start to be enacted this year.

The outstanding questions I have are things like are they trying to do this independently? Are they partnering with hopefully Tether?

And before some of you Puritans get all up in arms about what I'm saying, I'm not a big fan of stable coins, but it's inevitable because they are going to need a digital version of the dollar that the US controls for them to be able to keep the dollar on life support for X amount more years 

It's not optional as far as I can see and there are too many people that will be yelling if we don't at least make it look like it's not a central bank digital currency

But there are many, many ways that this can be architected that is extremely good for Bitcoin and just makes a layup for it being the backbone of the world financial system.  And I think the US is going to need to maintain a large footprint in holdings and in mining at the least as a hedge against a coalition like bricks choosing to use Bitcoin as their reserve currency.  In fact, any way that Bitcoin ends up becoming more and more important would benefit us just because of our position and our tech. It's just truly strategically mandatory. 

In my opinion, probably over the span of this year we will see this whole process go into Overdrive because chances are getting greater and greater that they're going to have to have it pretty sewed up before 2027.

Okay, I'm blathering. I apologize to the thread.

[philipma1957]

those 10 pieces mentioned which are my best pieces are physically in iowa and or south dakota as he has five containers for gear.

four smaller ones in south dakota and the larger one in iowa .

he can do about 2.5 megawatts of units about 600-650 s21xps and or L9s

if he were all s21xps it would be 600x270=162,000 th

or 162ph

Phil - That is indeed interesting. Will you please explain how this is done. Do you buy the equipment and then ship it to a company in Iowa and South Dakota for them to setup and operate (run) it on your behalf? Or, does the company have the equipment and you lease it from the company located in Iowa and South Dakota?

order at altairtech.io
it gets dropped shipped to iowamining.io


both companies are in the center of the USA. shipping is fast.


use my altairtech below to buy from them if you buy gear.

[philipma1957]

Went from NJ to NY today to find out about my dementia ill bro-in-law and his cancerous kidney.

It is a small growth only 1.6 cm in 2017 it was 1.0 cm

Doctor thinks it grows slow and may or may not be cancerous. He wants a scan for my bro-in-law around May.

So it is okay news. could be worse.

Next silver holding at over 84 we hit an all time high to day.


also okay news.


Did 35 sales on ebay of silver 35 positive feedbacks all shipped correctly by the post office most before christmas.

pretty impressive work.

and this allowed me to buy a bit of corn this morning.

the hosted mine is running well.


will be stacking about 0.0011 btc a day for some of the year. subject to difficulty changes.


now the bad news. The Verrazano Bridge funnelled all drivers into 1 lane upper roadway and 1 lane lower roadway.

Why the Iceman and the statepolcie and new york city police were doing brown man check.

Ie they looked at you and if you were brown they pulled you over for a full id check.

blacks , non-brown asian and whites they let pass.

pretty freaking scary.

Glad to hear about your brothernlaw's cancer.  But dementia is a doozy.  I will never forget when my sister and I were on the phone. It would have been my mother's latest life-saving surgery. She was so gone.

Nice on the silver, selling and also the Bitcoin buying and mining.

yeah he has good dementia ie it was stroke induced and damaged his hippocampus.

why good it is not always progressive.

so while somewhat diminished he may never get worse.

Aging can be hard.

he had colon cancer
he had the stroke
he has vascular dementia from it.

he is only 75 could stick around for a decade or more.

[ChartBuddy]

Explanation
Chartbuddy thanks talkimg.com

[vapourminer]

hey buddy do me a favor

[JayJuanGee]

[edited out]

Government has always moved at a slow pace! Here is what the GENIUS act has resulted in thus far - all good for further follow-on acts, which will [also] be favorable for Bitcoin, with more promising action for Bitcoin yet to come!

The GENIUS Act created the first comprehensive U.S. federal framework for regulating payment stablecoins, bringing them inside formal financial oversight while aiming to balance innovation, consumer protection, and monetary stability. It passed in July 2025 and is now shaping crypto markets, banking practices, and regulatory enforcement.

Also known as steps towards CBDC.

Exactly.
My catastrophizing goes like this. They passed Genius, which gives them the tools they need to do The Mar-a-Lago, accords, and then Clarity either gets modified to give the state more power or just doesn't pass... oh too bad at least we got half of it done.

But to me, it smells like everything so far has been for a digital dollar, not for Bitcoin.

That said, even if I go into catastrophication mode, I still hear Bessant very clearly saying bullish things about Bitcoin. And that guy's a strange bird.  He tends to tell the truth and his language is very precise.

A while back, he was saying that he didn't think they would be buying any Bitcoin for the reserve.  And look at where we are. They have soaked up quite a bit. I don't know if the Venezuela rumor is true, but if it is, they are the largest holder.

Not that I am a great fan of purchasing bitcoin, yet purchasing might be a bit more honest (and less tricky) than policies that might seem inspired to confiscate bitcoin and confiscation laws are already quite screwed in this country - whether on local levels of Federal levels.  Frequently it ends up being the case that folks who get their property confiscated, they lose rights and even have burdens to show that the property was acquired lawfully and bullshit like those kinds of shifting burden's when the government should have to prove that they had sufficient evidence to confiscate the property or that the property was acquired through criminal means.  We have similar losses of rights when crossing borders and also communications on the internet are becoming more scrutinized, and it seems that certain countries are following draconian precedents of countries that don't seem to respect individual rights to communicate freely about controversial topics.

maybe that ^ explains this->OT: Risto was saying it >10 years ago; I didn't believe it and did not buy....
Q: which prominent coin (not VB coin!) increased 2000X in the last 10 years, exceeding "just" 200X (well, 200X is super sweet, of course) for btc?
2000X=pennies (50-90c) became >$ thousand.

I am really puzzled as to what any of that means, but seeing as it's Risto, I feel like I ought to know.

Such a loon that guy was.

(that said, one of Risto's favorite coins has been going hyperbreserk for quite some time now, but particularly the last couple of days. But I'll hush my mouth.)

Ah, it is my only other coin.  I got a little bit around a quarter too, although I bought in before that crash.
Bat slaps are definitely on the way at this point.

Your quoting of yourself does not really help.. hahahahahaha

Guys just seem to love themselves some bat slappenings,... and I wonder if pushing shitcoins is objectively worse than pushing various paper bitcoin products in recent times?  or pushing the transacting and holding of coins with third parties as if they were real bitcoin? 

The attacks on bitcoin are surely evolving, and the co-optation might even be worse than talking about the pumping of shitcoins.  We have even been witnessing some narratives involving some seeming pumping of gold and/or silver, as if they truly are going to be taking over monetary systems in any kind of a meaningful way, even though various shiny metal rocks (paper versions too?) have had some pretty great pumping streaks in recent times.

[edited out]

lol...this is what "stability" does to the collective psyche around here.
Barting 10-20%-we may handle that, but the "stability"....oh, boy!

I would suggest that what is happening in regards to prices of dee cornz is only the appearance of "stability."

[edited out]

.....any way that Bitcoin ends up becoming more and more important would benefit us just because of our position and our tech. It's just truly strategically mandatory. 

I am not excited about the "any way" ideas.... Maybe I am starting to question the "anything is good for bitcoin" thesis?

[ChartBuddy]

Explanation
Chartbuddy thanks talkimg.com

[cAPSLOCK]

I am not excited about the "any way" ideas.... Maybe I am starting to question the "anything is good for bitcoin" thesis?

I would agree.  I'm just analyzing the paths forward from what I believe is going to happen in the U.S. Treasury within a relatively short amount of time.  And there are scenarios in which Bitcoin is going to suffer. Ultimately, I think nothing stops it other than something completely catastrophic, which I think is highly unlikely. But there are definitely things that could happen that would slow it down.

The fact is, to people that are smart enough to understand it in the government, understand that it is a direct competition with the Federal Reserve.  And actually I think some people in gvmt might like that to a certain extent.

So, I don't see every possible path they could take as being good for Bitcoin. I think some of them could be catastrophic, but I don't think they're going to do one of those, and we know it survives in the end anyway. And it just depends on how big a wrench gets thrown into it.

I am both nervous and excited about some of these developments.


On a sort of unrelated topic, did anybody see Sailor Rip into Danny Knowles like a rag doll? Oh my goodness. I don't know what's going on there. Maybe he forgot to pack his cocaine? I don't know.  I get his point to the mix here though, but I haven't seen Sailor come so unhinged.

https://x.com/i/status/2010746171397177577

[ChartBuddy]

Explanation
Chartbuddy thanks talkimg.com