[XMR] Monero Speculation

[Monerobuyer0]

Monero currently still requires an intrinsic need (nerds aside) to be willing to understand the fundamental difference.

Totally.

Do you watch television?  I don't, but occasionally when I somehow can't avoid it (birthday parties for example, wtf) I am truly amazed how an average human being can passively stare to such brainless crap full of commercials, for multiple hours a day. And apparently pay (!) for the privilege.

Funnily enough I haven't owned a television in about ten years, and yes completely agree.

You guys are missing the golden age of television.  There are some amazing shows out there these days. 
Also, watching commercials is no longer necessary. 

[Hueristic]

Monero currently still requires an intrinsic need (nerds aside) to be willing to understand the fundamental difference.

Totally.

Do you watch television?  I don't, but occasionally when I somehow can't avoid it (birthday parties for example, wtf) I am truly amazed how an average human being can passively stare to such brainless crap full of commercials, for multiple hours a day. And apparently pay (!) for the privilege.

Funnily enough I haven't owned a television in about ten years, and yes completely agree.

You guys are missing the golden age of television.  There are some amazing shows out there these days. 
Also, watching commercials is no longer necessary. 

I agree, the Content is much better these days (and also mind numbing in the other direction : Reality shit shows) The Man in High Castle and Mr. Robot come to mind just to name a few. And yeah I didn't watch tv from Early 80's till about 2000 and then have just been streaming (or acquiring otherwise) Commercial-less content. I never stopped watching movies though and probably never will.

[r0ach]

I own a television waiting for the day Anonymint is on the news for murdering a random Bitcointalk user for having a myopic view and not understanding his salient point.

[razen489]

  https://www.coingecko.com/en/price_charts/monero/btc

[iCEBREAKER]

https://www.coingecko.com/en/price_charts/monero/btc

Bouncing off support; 200k is the new 100k.   

[explorer]

Yes it can be a time wasting addiction. 

Hello my name is nioc and I have been without TV for 15 years.  Welcome to TV watchers anonymous

 Closing in on 11 years with no TV, and a few longer since I watched one regularly.  I believe I watched the very first episode of Survivor, and never watched TV again.

[Hueristic]

Yes it can be a time wasting addiction. 

Hello my name is nioc and I have been without TV for 15 years.  Welcome to TV watchers anonymous

 Closing in on 11 years with no TV, and a few longer since I watched one regularly.  I believe I watched the very first episode of Survivor, and never watched TV again.

I could see how that would turn you off for life! Or American Idol or the apprentice and the list really is too long to list. Democracy player in I think 2000 when I first got laid up was a godsend.

[rpietila]

Ditto on both points (20 years I haven't owned a TV). Seems to be an addiction that once you lose it, it looks silly in retrospect just like any other addiction.

I am also in 20 years without watching club, 16 years without owning.

...even a few years' difference in "time without TV" correlates massively with astuteness.

[medusa13]

i dont own a tv too...but i want one
not because i want to watch tv but i would like to have a big screen to watch downloaded movies and to watch charts (like https://hypron.net/bitcoinwisdom)

i think UHD tv screens are nice since they can display lots of info on one screen for an OK price. But sure, several old 21" TFT's will get you cheaper anyway.

btw yeah interesting to see the price actions. its completely a group thing. its still somehow too high for me to step in aggressively...but if someone else does i might join in too..i hope you understand what i mean. everyone seems to be waiting for the first big shot. for now i just do what i always do, buy some, sell some and earn small amounts of xmr

btw i know some very very intelligent people (math people) who enjoy watching the most stupid shit on TV..i asked one of them why, she told me its very relaxing to her...maybe they can not turn off their minds, so they direct their attention to the most brain dead thing in existence ?

[elrippo]

I love to watch a good documentation about nature, astronomy, historics or a good old Hitchcock on our Sony LED Smart TV in HD 
The rest of the propaganda is not touching me even tangentially, so i am not able to talk about the latest sopes or any stupidity TV, sorry 

[kjadB]

Monero currently still requires an intrinsic need (nerds aside) to be willing to understand the fundamental difference.

Totally.

Do you watch television?  I don't, but occasionally when I somehow can't avoid it (birthday parties for example, wtf) I am truly amazed how an average human being can passively stare to such brainless crap full of commercials, for multiple hours a day. And apparently pay (!) for the privilege.

Funnily enough I haven't owned a television in about ten years, and yes completely agree.

You guys are missing the golden age of television.  There are some amazing shows out there these days. 
Also, watching commercials is no longer necessary. 

I agree, the Content is much better these days (and also mind numbing in the other direction : Reality shit shows) The Man in High Castle and Mr. Robot come to mind just to name a few. And yeah I didn't watch tv from Early 80's till about 2000 and then have just been streaming (or acquiring otherwise) Commercial-less content. I never stopped watching movies though and probably never will.

Not watching Breaking Bad before you die would be almost as bad as dying a virgin. TV celibacy made sense in the old passive free-to-air TV wasteland of the 80's and early 90's, but things are very different now. Just don't watch crap you didn't select yourself. The other day I watched all of GoT season 5 in one sitting, the most fun I've had with my pants on for months, just like Crypto Kingdom but with breasts and violence (alas no $$).

Being proud of not watching TV is like being same about not reading books - I haven't watched a TV advert in +10 years, and every bit of tele I've watched was awesome (I read reviews and go for the gold only)

[rdnkjdi]

I agree Breaking Bad is the only TV show made in the last 10 years worth watching

[r0ach]

I agree Breaking Bad is the only TV show made in the last 10 years worth watching

Black Sails > Breaking Bad > New Battlestar Galactica > Mr Robot

[kjadB]

I agree Breaking Bad is the only TV show made in the last 10 years worth watching

Black Sails > Breaking Bad > New Battlestar Galactica > Mr Robot

The Wire > Breaking Bad > Sopranos > GoT

[Shrikez]

such a deliciously offtopic topic

being a cinephile I never was without a big screen but I haven't had an antenna attached for a good 15 years.

However I think I am losing the same amount of brain cells per time unit reading bitcointalk

[elrippo]

We went under 0,002 a few times now. Wondering if this is the way down or the way up 

[DaveyJones]

We went under 0,002 a few times now. Wondering if this is the way down or the way up 

i would say under ... everyone is waiting for btc to move or not move :p

[nioc]

We went under 0,002 a few times now. Wondering if this is the way down or the way up 

i would say under ... everyone is waiting for btc to move or not move :p

Yes virtually all alts seem inextricably tied to btc right now.  This week I have been buying btc with cash.  I buy whatever I can with cash in my day to day life.  Monero is the closest thing to cash.   No I haven't been buying btc with Monero.  In the past whenever I accrued enough btc, that definition varies, it somehow became Monero.  As usual I have no idea what happens from here


Instead of TV I read or wander the world wide web, wow.  I have 2 "videos" that I just started watching.  Gravity and Entanglement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQU9yOtWrQk&nohtml5=False
At around 1:45 an older gentleman in the audience stands up and briefly talks to the audience.  That is Leonard Susskind who is great and at 75 years old is still going strong.  So with only watching a short part of the first I looked at the beginning of this second video,
Leonard Susskind | "ER = EPR" or "What's Behind the Horizons of Black Holes?" - 2 of 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiG_EtVQu5o
As Susskind oft times explains things in a way that lesser minds can grasp I probably will watch his video first.

WONDER

[vuduchyld]

I agree Breaking Bad is the only TV show made in the last 10 years worth watching

Black Sails > Breaking Bad > New Battlestar Galactica > Mr Robot

The Wire > Breaking Bad > Sopranos > GoT

Perfection.  You absolutely nailed it.

I believe that people will be watching The Wire 100 years from now as a didactic/historical tale about the fall of American rust belt cities.  It is probably the most amazing work of literature/art of my lifetime. 

(I have a cousin who is married to a Baltimore city councilman.  He's nothing like Clay Davis.)

Oh by the way, just to ensure this is on-topic, don't you think that Stringer Bell and D'Angelo and them would have been TOTALLY into crypto if it had been around at the time?

[r0ach]

I agree Breaking Bad is the only TV show made in the last 10 years worth watching

Black Sails > Breaking Bad > New Battlestar Galactica > Mr Robot

The Wire > Breaking Bad > Sopranos > GoT

Blacks Sails is The Wire for white people