All posts made by nanobtc in Bitcointalk.org's Wall Observer thread
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Post 3027255 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.14h):
On the fiat cost of a 51% attack, those are Really Big numbers to most normal humans. There could be more than just thinking about Google/China/Megacorp or Doctor Evil trying to 'own BTC'.
Credit cards weren't originally intended for internet use, BTC is. What if Visa just wanted to bury BTC? The cost of a 51% attack to preserve their business model could be considered a good investment to them.
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Post 3027650 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.14h):
I don't know which is cheaper, server farms or politicians...
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Post 3095006 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.15h):
Close? What time does Gox close?
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Post 3147253 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.16h):
That was Goxtool. You can optionally run strategies that buy/sell on it as well.
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Post 3147302 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.16h):
It can display candles, as well.
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Post 3190710 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.16h):
Mtgox trading engine lag: 3m 58s
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Post 3214183 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.16h):
gawd (TM). And the thread goes back to when AOL added IRC to their 'Package Deal'.
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Post 3282234 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.16h):
<sheldon>
"Chart Buddy, Chart Buddy, little bunch of truths.
Chart Buddy, Chart Buddy, we love youse."
</sheldon>
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Post 3287257 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.16h):
Fortunately, my boss is gone today...
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Post 3489619 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.20h):
I had to quit my day job in April because I could no longer in good conscience take a paycheck when I was spending all day watching Bitcoinity.
I am lucky / cursed.. depends on what way you want to look at it. I'm often so idle at work that I have little else to be doing, except looking at charts and reading on here. It's not my fault if they dont give me enough work to do!!
This is your boss, come to my office NOW.
j/k
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Post 3496089 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.20h):
bitcoinity still works.
Uganda is watching.
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Post 3569238 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.23h):
Try to stay calm, and sing "Soft Kitty"
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Post 3574840 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.23h):
Facts:
{snippety snip}
HD Moore: Information security researcher and programmer, Moore developed security software utilities for the United States Department of Defense.
Dustin D. Trammell: Entrepreneur, Security Researcher performing research within the fields of vulnerability exploitation, network protocols, steganography and covert communications, and Internet telephony
Tod Beardsley: Technical Lead for the Metasploit Framework and Metasploit Pro, Founded Austin Hackers Anonymous August 2006
I work in network security, and I cannot claim to know him well, but I have met HD Moore. I use some of his tools, and he (and his company) are pretty adamant about open source. Open source means there cannot be secret back doors. Sniffers are very common tools now, and written by many people.
He is (relatively) young, and people of any age can be swayed by big $$$ or power, but I trust him more because I met him.
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Post 3691125 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.28h):
can there be a cup & handle inside a cup & handle ?
dear god
indeed
Wow, the old "half of a smiley-face pattern". I haven't seen that in a loooong time.
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Post 3901333 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.35h):
I think the
Excited Train Guy on autotune, with music is better.
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Post 3928398 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.36h):
Fidelity? My workplace uses them! A great move towards legitimacy, but with the middlemen involved, probably more profitable to own and hold on your own.
prof7bit: The pubnub protocol worked, got goxtool back to talking to gox.
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Post 4378963 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.53h):
Blitz, buttheart since summer 2013
I loved that movie! Mel Gibson? That big BTC symbol carved into the wheat fields? I get those mixed up.
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Post 4590421 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.57h):
Goat, you brought lambo to Columbia? Looks like Jesse Hall.
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Post 4650544 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.57h):
I consider Napster is a good partial comparison.
It's a disruptive technology, there's been a lot of them. How many thousands of years did man use horses/carts/whatever to move stuff? Cars and trains changed all of that, presumably for the better.
The internet? I've been online since 1981, but only since the turn of the millennium or so has it done these things (America-centric view):
Nearly killed the postal service via email. There's been a postal service in USA longer than there's been a USA.
Newspapers and magazines? Adapt or die.
Greedy record companies? Ten years ago they were screaming that 'digital downloads' will kill the record industry. Now Walmart and Amazon have 99 cent music downloads.
Greedy movie companies? They wailed about piracy, but years later Netflix and Hulu are doing very well.
Bitcoin may not make Money 1.0 obsolete, but could very well change many parts of it forever.
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Post 5090253 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.07h):
Bitcoin does need a voice - a focus as an advocate.
However, the foundation has little has little if any credibility - so if it is possible for fresh faces (and respected ones) to move in and push for change, it can't do any harm.
You would have my vote, take Jorge with you?
Vote for Goat!
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Post 5091106 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.07h):
Despite whatever crypto holdings he has, and cool things he has bought, remember that Goat just had a child born recently. Er, his wife did, I guess. I believe he is starting classes soon. *He* should have a say, before there are ticker tape parades...
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Post 5134231 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.08h):
Searing, didn't see anyone directly answer this. Coinbase is more of a broker. They buy (presumably) from Bitstamp on your behalf, plus fees. On very busy times they have run out of coins to sell to you. You can hook it into your bank, so whatever price you buy/sell is usually locked in then. It takes 4 business days, give or take for it to happen.
Gox/btc-e/Bitstamp are exchanges, where you transfer fiat to it in whatever way works for you and is set up for them. This takes varying amounts of time. You can usually transfer btc directly in much faster, but I'm not sure about Gox right now.
The exchanges let you keep money sitting on there. You can buy/sell back and forth within minutes/seconds. The btc can be sent out to an external address, or the fiat can be removed via whatever method the exchange allows (plus "bank time").
Coinbase also wants to be an online wallet for you, and also has some nice SMS/text methods that work on any phone, no app required.
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Post 5294945 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.15h):
Goxtool's depth view looks really funny. I've never actually seen "zero" visible on the chart. It's like looking at Christopher Columbus maps, that show the edge of the world. Here Be Dragons, indeed.
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Post 5348382 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.18h):
me too...by Alice...WTF is Alivce ?
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Post 5355375 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.19h):
Ironically enough, today at 4:50pm CST I finally got my Gox verification email...
yay.
No help desk at support.mtgox.com
There is no help desk configured at this address. This means that the address is available and that you can claim it at
http://www.zendesk.com/signup/
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Post 5393313 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.20h):
For those too young to know, or not technically inclined, .pif files are very old file formats, that predate Windows (TopView and DESQview). Program Information Files contained info on DOS programs. Windows used them to store info about the programs, font type, etc. Technically .pif files are not executables, but Windows has forever treated them like one.
This makes them a popular vector for virii/keyloggers/etc. Don't click on them, there is never a good reason for them to be in an email attachment.
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Post 5497289 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.23h):
no story just thought it looked cool... i paid someone some BTC to make it in Photoshop.
Adam, I hope you didn't pay very many BTC for that,
the basic pic has been around since 1996. 
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Post 5552034 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.24h):
Just as Gutenberg's movable type revolutionized printed word, typewriters were the first time the common man could print anything without a pen or pencil.
Double spacing after a sentence's closing punctuation was "the way to do it" for a long time. Typewriters (around since the 1700s) had mono-spaced fonts. In the spacing within a word, the letter i was just as wide as a w. Double spacing at the end of a sentence was a convention when typing anything.
Early PC printers were a typewriter with a serial port. It wasn't until word processors in the 80's were developed a bit past the first-gen, that proportional spacing was available. Dot-matrix printers could print it.
Those that have not heard of that were either born into the word processor age, or never taught to type on a typewriter. Then there was teh intarwebz, which changed everything...
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Post 8782814 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.12h):
Gee, I wish we could ignore by post count.
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Post 10301438 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.54h):
By his own admission, I believe Shroomskit purchased that account.
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Post 12888661 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.31h):
Bring back newbie jail.
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Post 14839923 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.50h):
Too many words, too much NLC. Desmond Dekker and the Aces reference was funny, though.
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Post 15354431 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.54h):
These are the good old days. Get a haircut, and get a real job. Weak hands? Hold above USD $1k.
https://archive.org/details/Screenshot_20160625
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Post 15565416 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.55h):
Wow! Bulgarian, yo Engrish has had quite a massive improve'lence, dahlin'!
With apologies to the rest of the world, obscure quotes from
F. Zappa, ThingFish album. Jes' a few moments ago you was well on yo' way to bein' severely ugly! now, thoo de magik o' stagekraff, de blubulence of yo' blobulence done re Cated to a respectumal reclusium! yow! science!
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Post 15677011 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.55h):
Congrats, Elwar. I am unable to generate the intestinal fortitude to do that (also wouldn't have a place to stay while waiting for moon). Not to turn this into a real estate discussion, but for that approximate money in the Midwest USA, you could have a 4 bedroom/3 bath on 5 acres, that was about 30 years old. While both would be nice, I'd rather have BTC.
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Post 15810763 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.56h):
Perhaps it's a sign of spending too much time here, but I'm starting to be able to identify NLC pretty quickly now. Each new sock tries to have something unique initially, but speech patterns and themes keep recurring.
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Post 17021999 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.59h):
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Post 17249291 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.59h):
Whatever happened to Jaroslaw?
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Post 17358207 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.00h):
That's great news, that MS is acknowledging BTC. Don't jump to the conclusion that Microsoft itself is accepting BTC, it just means that Excel numerical formats now include BTC. Not directed at you, Torque, but subsequent posters may have been leaning that way.
2. Bitcoin currency support
In 2017, Excel will be able to recognize, format, calculate, and analyze numbers expressed in Bitcoin currency. The new feature will be available for Excel running under Windows 10, Android, Mac OS, and iOS, and will include Excel Mobile versions as well..
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Post 17359885 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.00h):
<snippage>
I stand corrected. Bullish!
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Post 17402704 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.01h):
How will this bull run effect/delay further the Gox/Kracken payout?
In the absence of updated info (and I have looked), I would guess "We need more time to study it".
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Post 17402917 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.01h):
How will this bull run effect/delay further the Gox/Kracken payout?
In the absence of updated info (and I have looked), I would guess "We need more time to study it".
I looked again, in the last few hours,
Mark K has been answering Gox questions here. Get'em while they're hot.
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Post 17426057 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.01h):
Goat? wb!
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Post 18131026 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.05h):
W.C. Fields:
"Water? Never touch the stuff".
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Post 18950293 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.09h):
/me HODL since $80. Except for that stupid SATA controller. When Newegg started accepting BTC, I was happy! I Can Buy Stuff.
In retrospect, it's starting to look like a microscopic version of the
10,000 BTC pizza.
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Post 19087395 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.10h):
It's awfully quiet in here.
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Post 19185762 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.10h):
I believe NLC/socks are back. Just my opinion.
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Post 19234424 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.11h):
If I keep pressing F5, this is almost like IRC.
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Post 19235308 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.11h):
If I keep pressing F5, this is almost like IRC.
why did you have to press F5 in IRC?
I did not have to, in IRC. I used a standalone client
(kVIRC, actually). In a web/forum that was really busy (while Adam was posting), if I refresh quickly (F5), it's almost like a live chat.
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Post 19402711 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.12h):
<snip>
Most of the people from 2013 predicting double digit coins are missing, and the next wave of newcomers hasn't started yet. After a mega ATH they will eventually discover bitcointalk, then discover this thread a month or two later. Our voices will be lost in the noise of newbies by then.
Long ago I was active on IRC. AOL floppy disks started including a link to some web-based IRC portal. Many, many channels were completely overwhelmed volume-wise with a flood of newbies. Even though there was a FAQ link, they would ignore it and continually climbed over each other asking the same "how do I" and "what is this" questions.
Finally some enterprising channel OPs simply started banning everything from AOL.
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Post 19741835 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.13h):
I don't post much, but been reading here/buying small amounts of BTC since Cyprus. Mark Marie Robert Karpelès owes me.
As mentioned, any or all m/billionaires are probably too smart to personally risk much to kill BTC.
The big moneylenders? Visa/MegaCorp/<fill in the blank>? They would/should go deeply into debt to kill BTC, because it threatens their bread and butter. They should do this for a loss, to preserve the FatCats at the top of their food chain.
I also notice that this thread is the most literate and thought-provoking one, among many that are not. Any thread that starts with "Do you think that $$$ is {anything}"? Save the bandwidth, save your time.
Thanks to you all, for what you do.
IMHO, don't buy pizza. Hodl.
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Post 19775138 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.13h):
Ugh so i got a new account, lost my old one years ago.
Been out of the bitcoin world for a few years as I had to sell my stash about 1.5 years ago as I needed the money, knew I would regret it but thats life.
Anyway Im back now and have a small stash of about £300 in various altcoins. My aim is to get back a nice BTC stash.
Just wondering if there is any point in trying to daytrade (not that I ever have, need to learn) with this small amount or am I better to wait until I have thousands in FIAT/coins?
Any feedback would be much welcome
Welcome back. If you want to daytrade crypto, and never have? That is an easier way to lose, than SODL.
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Post 20124457 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.13h):
Guys, no need to quote meters of text from the previous posts if replying with one sentence. Keep the thread lean and mean please
Agreed. dozens of lines of quotes for a few words of reply? Life is too short. Edit your stuff.
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Post 20269336 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.14h):
July 23, 2017 for me, thanks.
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Post 20285604 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.14h):
ATH prediction, August 27,2017.
Strategy? Buy low, sell high. HODL.
Thanks
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Post 20289028 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.14h):
What would continue to drive the market up higher from here? Serious question.
FOMO from n00bs?
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Post 20730997 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.17h):
I saw one of the nephews a week ago, he recently noticed current price.
Nephew: "OMG it's up a thousand percent".
Me: "It's up a lot more than that".
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Post 20750473 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.17h):
I imagine Goat has more Thai experience than most here. Long-time readers may recall that he married a Thai girl, and moved there.
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Post 20753813 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.17h):
I thought he was Thai through and through.
I don't think so, but I don't know for sure. We PMd some, but I never met him. He had a brother that went to college in Midwest USA, not too far from me. I know he spent some time there, perhaps visiting. My sister sells grass-fed lamb meat at a farmer's market, he was interested in that, but did not make it. At the time I was playing live music at a small-time weekend jam, he was potentially going to stop by. I've quit that, but I played over 250 public gigs in 4 years.
He posted a pic here of (presumably) himself,
new wife significant other, and a little boy. He and the little boy definitely appeared Caucasian.
This was about the time of the Gox ATH of $1200-ish, and he got the Lambo.
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Post 21083793 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.18h):
Advice on electrum please.
Is this a good wallet to use to be middle man when creating a new paper wallet?
I.e. Moving coins from one paper wallet to a new one.
@rjclarke2000 Yes, it is. Don't mix that up with the Electron wallet.
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Post 21431553 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.19h):
I often enjoyed what Risto had to say, but I have not kept up. Looks like the G above middle C on his piano was broken.
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Post 21555886 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.20h):
For a good time, google the usernames of those you see here (or anywhere). You'll be surprised to see what else they do.
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Post 22619386 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.22h):
Jimbo
ABP
NoScript
I have not seen an online ad in like 4 years man, do yourself a favor.
Jimbo: and I would add Ghostery.
https://www.ghostery.com/ Whitelist your favorite places, carry on.
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Post 23295923 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.24h):
This is the only thread I read here, that's plenty to keep up with. I'm going to have to cruise some of the other ones, after today. I'm sure hilarity ensues.
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Post 23300944 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.24h):
This is the only thread I read here, that's plenty to keep up with. I'm going to have to cruise some of the other ones, after today. I'm sure hilarity ensues.
Don't. The rest of the threads are like this:
{snip}
@Elwar
I agree. Life's too short. Congrats on your retirement decision! You have been through this thick and thin.
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Post 23852987 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.24h):
Nothing could be finer, than than to be in Carolina. In the Morning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4--z677590k
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Post 23903134 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.25h):
Got a source for that quote? No...? Thought not.
lood, Sweat and Tears. Spinning Wheel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK62tfoCmuQ
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Post 24209700 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.25h):
<snip>
Were you around when Linux was first taking off in the early 2000s? Literally, fly-by-night shoddy companies were popping up everywhere with their own proprietary Linux kernel versions and their own flavors of Linux. Everyone claiming to be the "one true Linux" and trying to take over the core Linux dev team. FUD about Linus Torvalds dev team was constantly flying, chaos was everywhere. HP, Microsoft and Apple were scared shitless, and eventually lost the server market (but sort of "won" the desktop).
All the late comers and crap devs/hacks eventually failed. Open Source Linux kernel eventually reigned supreme.
I don't see all this Bitcoin fork crap as any different. History repeats.
Yes, I was. I erased my last FAT32 partitions for Redhat in 1999. Remember the Santa Clara Operation (SCO Linux)? The lawsuit with Novell? It was pretty much the last gasps of the old school trying to compete with the new.
Sort of like now.
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Post 24320725 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.26h):
WSJ article is paywalled. Here's an imgur image.
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Post 24647084 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.27h):
Whoot ?
I´ll sit tight, just to be sure. That ok ?
They throw coins at me, like it´s early christmas.
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Post 24742862 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.27h):
Sung to the tune of "Royals", by Lourde?
Whales
I've never seen a Casascius in the flesh
I cut my teeth on doge coins with the groupies
And don't have no vanity address, in this Bitcoin boomtown,
no QR code envy
But every post's like Wall Street, futures, roller coaster to the moon,
blockchains, fake news, hashin' the mining boom,
We don't care, we're driving Teslas in our dreams.
But everybody's like bubble, black hat, shapeshift on your press release.
Jet planes, islands, Tethers are a conspiracy.
We don't care, we aren't caught up in your love of bears.
And we'll never be whales (Whales).
It don't run in our FUD,
That kind of bucks just ain't for us.
We crave a different kind of buzz.
Let me be your Bcash drooler (drooler),
You can call me a Ponzi
And baby I'll drool, I'll drool, I'll drool, I'll drool.
Let me live that fantasy.
My friends and I—we've cracked the code.
We count our satoshis on the train to the party.
And everyone who knows us knows that we're fine with this,
We didn't come from crypto
Awesome!
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Post 25182301 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.28h):
Pink Floyd, 1968:
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
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Post 25288888 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.29h):
NLC?
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Post 25412223 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.29h):
Johnny Paycheck:
Take this job and shove it
I ain't workin' here no more
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Post 27130173 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.36h):
I'm thinking of putting 50% of my coins in paper wallets, but I have always been worried that the private key won't work when it's time to claim them
Please you who know how these things work, ease my worries.
They work very well, but on it's lowest level, it's just two long strings of characters. Find a way to securely and safely store those two numbers in addition to paper wallets. Paper wallets do not work well in a washing machine, or a fire.
EDIT: To use paper wallets at all, you eventually have to know how to get BTC out. There are two main choices with software wallets. if you IMPORT the private key, it is available in both locations. If you SWEEP the key, it conclusively moves it. A good way to start is put a tiny bit in a paper wallet, then familiarize yourself with sweeping it to a software/hardware wallet. Sweep may be more secure than import, else you can leave several software wallets around with BTC. You need to always secure the software ones. When TX fees are low, flip it around a few times. Then you won't be stressed over moving large amounts someday.
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Post 27236120 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.36h):
I called NLC some time ago. Was not positive, but there are patterns.
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Post 27443216 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.36h):
@NLC, I LOL at the glory hole/George Michael/r0ach* connotation.
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Post 28525043 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.39h):
In other news, the US Gov did it's occasional shutdown over budget disagreements, at midnight Eastern time. They always re-shuffle $$$ to make it work, but many services are without payroll for a while.
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Post 29190333 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.40h):
Whats merit standing for ?
Some measure of 'quality of posts', and/or longevity of the user. More details are here.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.0
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Post 29421929 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.41h):
<snip>
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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Post 29860682 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.43h):
Maybe I'm stating the obvious but oscillating markets tend to favor a rebalancing strategy (bot or manual), for some reason rarely discussed in this thread (even if hinted at times).
In other words it doesn't really matter what happens to Bitcoin in the news, as long as the rate goes up or down, the only problem is when it goes sideways.
X years ago, I ran a balancing bot for Gox. It was a python script, that ran locally on my Linux box. You gave it a +/- percentage spread, and it would buy/sell, and re-figure the buy/sell orders constantly. I calculated my spread to be 2% above the exchange fees. It would try to maintain 50/50 $$$/btc. If it kept going in the same direction long enough you would eventually run out of $$$ or run out of btc.
I was never running any big money through it, but it was very reliable. My worst problems were rural/slow internet speeds, that would occasionally hiccup and be unable to keep up on a lot of rapid changes. It was a "try it, if it works, send me some btc". It worked, I like it, I think I sent the author 2 btc. It was certainly worth it at the time, though the Gox implosion sort of ruined most of that.
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Post 30177752 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.43h):
JJG, you sure are are having bad luck with exchanges. Was it your account that brought down Gox? (joking).
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Post 30243434 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.44h):
infofront, how about a new poll in a few days?
How old are you?
Some posters are obvious, some are not.
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Post 30251616 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.44h):
infofront, how about a new poll in a few days?
How old are you?
Some posters are obvious, some are not.
A/S/L?
15/F/Down the Street
Your move.
Ah, I did not state that clearly. I was not suggesting the poll guess how old infofront was. I was suggesting everyone could more or less anonymously state their age. I don't care who is how old, just curious about the spread.
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Post 31232549 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.46h):
<snip>
Oh yeah, well, real men run Lightning on MainNet. With port 22 open. AND ROOT LOGIN ENABLED !!
ROFL, I'm sure many here don't know about /etc/ssh/sshd_config but that was pretty good. We don't need no steenkin' sudo.
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Post 31304093 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.46h):
<snippage ensues>
I quit my last "job" in 1976. I still continued making pretty good money playing music in bars. I never considered it to be work. It was a hobby for which I was paid. I earned money for traveling, meeting people, partying and a lifestyle of sex&drugs&rock&roll. Above all, it was fun.
Cheers, Jimbo! I've played about 450 (4-hour) gigs in the last 6 years, in addition to the 40-50 hours a week slave labor. I dearly love it, but I'm hauling a rebuilt 1962 Leslie cab (internally miced, line out to the PA), assorted keyboards (occasionally a real Hammond) and I live a 30 minute drive from any town.
It's still fun, but I quit for time to help with aging parents, that are 15 years older than you. I haven't played for 2 months, and that's an itch that hurts. There's some jams around, I am looking for one. I can run with "slow 6/8, I/IV/V in G, let's go". The easy stuff.
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Post 31307624 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.46h):
d_eddie: Solo gigs? No, these were full band gigs. Sometimes with too many guitar players.
Rosewater Foundation: Indeed. Jams are tough without direction. I love guitar players, and I am a bad one, myself. When they know how to lay back and just go 'chucka, chucka, whoom', and let them play their leads one at a time, it's all good. All of them trying to play "WEEDLY, WEEDLY, LOOK AT ME" at the same time reduces it all to garage band status.
Real bands know how to back off during vocals, and other intruments' solos. That's the basics.
I much prefer a band that has practiced. Jams have too much dead air between songs, and too much solo competition. Decades ago I was pretty good at the home recording thing. I want to get back into that, after the slave labor is over.
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Post 31307912 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.46h):
jojo69 If you have a big enough gigging PA/venue, make the guitar guys all play small Class A amps. Point them at their ears, and take a line out to the PA, let the soundman do it. In my prime, I gigged every Friday, every Saturday, and practiced every Wednesday for 5 years. We drove from 1 to 5 hours to get to the worthwhile venues. The drummer played triggers into the PA. Three monitor mixes, with a trailer load of PA. We could go from a small room to a large outdoor space, and be very consistent.
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Post 31307940 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.46h):
d_eddie: Solo gigs? No, these were full band gigs. Sometimes with too many guitar players.
Actually, I was thinking about moving around a Leslie and several keyboards - "occasionally a real Hammond." (!)
Yes, I have the proper dollies, ramps, and a van, can load in/out by myself. It's all physics, and mechanical advantage. I need help with steps at a gig, however. I have two Hammonds, an M3, and a RT3. The Roland clone into the Leslie is more than enough to fool the crowd, and much easier.
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Post 31309154 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.46h):
In our mostly-perfect gigging world, the drums were stuffed with foam. All triggered to MIDI modules (with a line out to the PA). On stage they really sounded acoustically like "fwoomp, thud, fwoomp". We did have 2 live mics for the real cymbals. Out front on the PA, it sounded like Phil Collins, with a big gated snare. That's what the third monitor mix was for onstage, the drums. So they sounded like Phil Collins, and not "fwoomp, thud, fwoomp". Then drummer could change "kits" for every few songs, impossible with acoustic drum set. Small jazz kit for the blues tunes? click. Stadium rock? click.
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Post 31309473 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.46h):
Mine is a FrankenLeslie, originally a single-speed I converted to 2-speed, no other quite like it. Agreed on the stories.
Enough music variance, how bout them walls?
Not sure if pics are working, but here's foam-mounted condensers (with internal phantom power), stereo horns! All new bearings/belts and rubber grommets, motors overhauled.
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Post 31366875 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.46h):
<snip>
I'm curious how much of your bad experiences with players, as you have described, boil down to their own fundamental inexperience playing with a band.
As a producer myself, I find I'm brutally harsh on myself when it comes down to final mix - making sure everything ebbs and flows properly across the piece. Making sure no one element overpowers another unless I choose to accent a particular segment.
Shit like this takes at least a decade to hone.
Much of the guitar problem playing out live is immaturity, insecurity, or lack of direction.
If a guitar player is immature, overplaying is sometimes just a lack of experience. If the player is insecure (no matter their age, especially if there are other good players present) sometimes they overplay as if it's a pissing match, and showing off. A jam, with a rotating cast of many is bad for encouraging this.
A gigging band should be tight, know exactly what is coming up next. No extra times around for an extra solo unless it is really happening, and the crowd is reacting accordingly Strong band leadership and rehearsal makes this happen. In a recording session, the producer is king.
One of the best guitar players I have ever seen has traveled the country several times gigging. He used to be in a band with Sheryl Crowe before she hit ("she wasn't that good, at the time", he says). Now he is a painter with a mortgage, wife and kids. He has a room of amps, another room of guitars. He says it is his 401k, but he loves them too much to sell any. He is a white guy, plays in an all-black soul band (and in several other bands), and in the soul band, he is magnificent. He plays a lot of our jams, and he is overplaying, arrogant, and way too loud on stage. The soul band has strong leaderhip, and he keeps it in line. In the jam, there is lax leadership. He is trying to be the biggest fish in the pond.
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Post 31428031 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.46h):
Boy just add my date to the list already before someone gets hurt .
Noob with 2 posts. Cute. Ignored.
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Post 31450041 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.46h):
I'm a Les Paul kinduva guy. At first I thought that was the Zakk Wylde version, but it's not. This is an LP Deluxe or Custom (or so, I have both), with the binding, the Zakk Wylde was not. There's also quite a bit of variation on the target paint, Gibson's paint jobs did not. It has half of the Gibson split diamond logo, it might be an Epiphone, not a Gibson. Mix and match pickups, that can be OK, whatever works for the player. Gold tuners, like the oxymoron LP Studio. No binding, no fancy stuff, but gold tuners/pickups? I played one of those, the headstock got broken twice, both times not by me. I got it professionally 'clamped 'n glued' , it's still a great guitar, but a little fuglier now.
Still a cool thing for BTC geeks. I'm kind of disappointed on the METAL on the headstock. Everybody knows that pointy guitars are better for metal.
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Post 31967718 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.47h):
I'm guessing Hanlon's razor in a big way. Or possibly Heinlein's Razor if you want to get conspiratorial.
I grew up with most/all of Robert A. Heinlein's written output.
I particularly enjoyed
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
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Post 32419320 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.48h):
Damn, and I missed the
BTC1k party.
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Post 32493012 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.48h):
Already making more promises? But this one's for really reals right?
<snip>
I would need to be "on guard" all evening. We'd need massive security measures to seriously contemplate a party like that.
I agree with the idea of needing to sign a message from a pre-established address, with an arbitrary phrase given at the door, to gain entrance.
But yet? The best 'snatch and abduct' events may occur before the door. In the parking lot. Or a block away. Or at the airport.
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Post 32713911 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.49h):
[snippage]
whatever. eye of the beholder stuff. they're too brutalist and angular for me. Astons, Ferraris, Maseratis are mostly beautiful and quite fast. Lambos, Mclarens, new Bugattis are functional-looking and very fast...
E type Jag was super fast. Some say it was the most beautiful car
ever
The E's always melted my heart (deep down a former/motor guy). I rode in an XKE once, that little short-stroke V12 sounded unearthly, to a guy used to V8s/6s. I understand that their big 6 was overall better. Big inline 6s often have more torque, as well.
I never could afford a real Jag, but went on a binge with several Datsun 240z. The IRS (EDIT: That is
Independent Rear Suspension, for the tax-wary) was a very sophisticated concept at the time. Only Jags and Corvettes had that, way back. Straight 6, dual carbs, nothing at all like that fat and heavy 280zx that was popular. The first few 240s had more horsepower than cubes. That's easy now with computer motors, but astonishing for a factory car in '71-'72. Factory redline at 7k, just a cam and better breathing can give the stock motor 8500 rpm....
EDIT: I still have two '72s, the best year. When my ship comes in, they will live again. Nothing seriously wrong with them, they just need time, that I have to give to the slavery job now.
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Post 32720439 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.49h):
Goat’s one started all this IIRC, but he didn’t drive it - he just containered it home to Thailand where he could sell it for a quick double
With all due respect, you are mistaken. He drove it to see his brother, about a 2 hour drive. I used to have pics, but I think I lost them in that terrible canoe accident. I tried to get him to come see me play live music near there (a packed blues jam, in a non-town of 50 people), but it was a long and curvy rural blacktop, and the weather/road surface was bad, for that winter.
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Post 32798920 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.49h):
The next 5 WO pages are critical.
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Post 32951573 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.49h):
{cutz}
Just because it costs the miners $X today doesnt mean shit. Trump could make a comment in passing about enacting laws banning crytocurrency and the price would be $2-3K by tomorrow morning.
With all due respect, I think you are mistaken (or a newbie, full of shit, see above). Neither Trump nor the USA control BTC.
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Post 32952104 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.49h):
Does toothless go with spineless? haahahhahahhaa... All in good fun, of course.
JJG, why the personal attacks here? Your personal details are all so obvious, online.
EDIT: I have both teeth and a spine. All in good fun, of course.
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Post 33334519 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.50h):
I bought a little bit today. I quit smoking cigarettes, now I buy BTC.
Life is good.
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Post 33556081 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.50h):
Dozens upon dozens of new threads of panicked newbies spamming every day in this forum, and they will say it is not a bear market.
Other threads? Please don't tell me you went
out there!
That's right, there is an
out there, I tend to forget that. The last time I looked, it was shitcoin pump attempts, sig campaigns, and poorly Google-translated crap.
I'm sure there is something useful out there, but life is too short.
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Post 33795370 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.50h):
Where are all the GENTS/SIR’S/BOSSES off the merit sources to help out the little man, in This context like me
One simple rule. Make me laugh, get a merit. It's automatic.
The shortest joke.
A baby seal walked into a club...
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Post 34500766 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.52h):
For the senior citizens, Canned Heat in 1968, "Amphetamine Annie".
This is a song with a message
I want you to heed my warning
I wanna tell you all a story
About this chick I know
They call her "Amphetamine Annie"
She's always shovelling snow
I sat her down and told her
I told her crystal clear
"I don't mind you getting high
But there's one thing you should fear"
"Your mind might think its flying, baby
On those little pills
But you ought to know it's dying, 'cause
Speed kills"
But Annie kept on speeding
Her health was getting poor
She saw things in the window
She heard things at the door
Her mind was like a grinding mill
Her lips were cracked and sore
Her skin was turning yellow
I just couldn't take it no more
She thought her mind was flying
On those little pills
She didn't it was going down fast, 'cause
Speed kills
Well I sat her down and told her
I told her one more time
"The whole wide human race has taken
Far too much methedrine"
She said "I don't care what a Limey says
I've got to get it on
I'm not here to just see no man
Who come from across the pond
She wouldn't heed my warning
Lord, she wouldn't hear what I said
Now she's in the graveyard, and she's
Awfully dead
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Post 34560292 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.52h):
Lucinda Wiliams, Steve Earle and Dwight Yoakam are organizing a new tour, calling it The LSD Tour. Really.
Don't drink the Koolaid?
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Post 34638160 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.52h):
Several years ago I was at a gathering where I wound up playing volleyball with some Chinese girls. I thought they were teenagers, and quite surprised to later learn they were in their mid-30's.
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Post 35128005 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.52h):
well if we can't talk about the moon can we at least post jet train pics?
(snip)
Seems like that would be awfully loud, at least for the first few cars.
"AHH? WHAT'S THAT YOU SAY, BORIS?"
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Post 35527125 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.53h):
In other news, Toronto Dominion Ameritrade posted the first/largest Satoshi-free ad, on the blockchain. No Satoshis were used, nor harmed. It is just a waste of a finite (albeit moving target) space.
Each TX can have 80 characters of a memo/comment. As long as you have enough consecutive transactions, you can draw simple things.
It's cute, and historic, but a bad example of wasted space. 68 rejected transactions, with only ASCII art.
Personally I am waiting for the ANSI-enhanced version. Could Beecash provide this?
Barely above spam.
@Jimbo_Toronto can you check on this, for us?
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Post 35927838 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.54h):
Set a goal in life, figure out how much money you need to do it, and stick to the plan.
When bitcoin breaks 10k again I'm moving to Thailand to become a full-time monger.
In 1971, Zappa characterized the Trend Monger? Search for The Adventures of Gregory Peccary on your own time.
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Post 36308731 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.54h):
I have a couple of Ledger Nano S, but don't fully utilize them. By default, it looks like Chrome extensions are the preferred interface, I don't trust that. Electrum on Linux supports it, I trust that more. I keep multiple paper wallets, one per year. If I get to the point of cashing out much, it's helpful to be able to have a hard date on the blockchain of when I owned it. I'm not sure how to incorporate that into Ledger. I know about the optional hidden space.
Opendime hardware looks cool, but it's more of a one-shot thing. Good for basic transfers off-chain. You can't easily back it up, and it may not accept going through the washing machine well.
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Post 36815644 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.55h):
How long until BTC ATMs reach page count parity here?
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Post 37031847 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.55h):
WB Shroom* No, wait. Is the this Real, or the Original, or the Purchased, or the new one?
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Post 37101185 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.55h):
Vic-20? I went for TI-994a. 16 bits, and all that.
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Post 37632862 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.55h):
I got a six pack of beer...and it's titty squeezing time
Zappa, "Titties and Beer"!
"man, you can't fool me...you ain't that bad...
I mean you shoulda seen some of the souls i had...
Why there was milhous nixon 'n agnew, too...
'n both of those suckers was worse 'n you..."
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Post 37746137 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.55h):
Meet the Urwerk UR-1001 then (~$400,000).
We don't need no steenking watches. Is that a Glen Plaid (Glenurquhart check) pattern on the jacket? That's hard to find now. It's also nifty, tuff and bitchen {insert your own adjective here}.
Zappa also had a short-lived advertising company named Nifty, Tough and Bitchen. Here's an old Hagstrom guitar ad from said company.
EDIT: I can verify, this is legit. Because I'm a musician, and I saw it a magazine (it's gotta be true). A 12-string Hag? Those bent over quickly, not enough truss rod.
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Post 37748902 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.55h):
how shall i say, wham-bam-thank-you-maam
Like David Bowie/Suffragette City.
But seriously folks.Don't feed the trolls. Don't quote, nor respond.
My take on BTC? I have no take. If you cannot trade, don't. Dollar cost averaging? Buy a little on a regular basis.
I appreciate the accumulated wisdom here. Often.
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Post 37752165 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.55h):
my chartz saying going up
Sorry, I have
poor Engrish. I meant 'I have no chartz'.
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Post 37753181 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.55h):
cmon .99999 bcrew kick it in.....
@Theymos please bring back newbie jail.
junckmonkey: sorry, you may have the wrong forum/channel/chatroom/ICQ/IRC/Instagram/Teams/Slack/blah/blah.
/ignored.
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Post 38106716 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.56h):
Thanks Tzupy, for a
Gox update.
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Post 38354883 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.56h):
I love how all these new 4k resolution, 5-6k native contrast TVs that look amazing use PWM that destroy your eyes after looking at them for 10 minutes. The only option to buy are Sonys, which normally don't have it, or a few Samsungs that don't use PWM when backlight is set to 13/20 or higher. I think even the $1500-2000 OLED ones have PWM flickering just like Samsung OLED phones have it.
Do you actually notice the flicker?
infofront, please don't quote the. uh, er,
waitaminute. It only spoke about TeeVees. It must be Joos.
There were a number of rumors circulating about Studebaker Hoch recently.
Consider if you will the rumors that have spread that he could write
The lord's prayer on the head of a pin!
Some men say he could write the lord's prayer
On the head of a
Head of a
Head of a pin
(three dog night)
(yeah)Addendum:
Others say he could sing (like Neil Sedaka)
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Post 38588199 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.56h):
Please don't quote the established trolls. You cannot win, and they gain traction.
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Post 38751334 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.56h):
{snip}
[snippety snip]
That was fun. Thanks for the share. Can't wait to meet up with you other "earlies" in the citadel.
Ah, I see you are new here. Welcome to the Machine.
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Post 38758706 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.56h):
Its not a conspiracy. Its not a master entity somehow doing perfectly timed dumps and orders to 'hold it down' as if such a thing would even work. Its not the godfather. Its not god. Its not aliens. Its just normal trading. Ok.
Waitaminnut. I was told there would be aliens.
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Post 39019412 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.57h):
Uh,
realdoll.com has been around for over a decade. Not my cup of tea, and there's plenty of copies now.
Don't forget the repair kit.
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Post 39021286 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.57h):
Uh,
realdoll.com has been around for over a decade. Not my cup of tea, and there's plenty of copies now.
Don't forget the repair kit.
I'd hate to be the guy providing on site support for this.
Or the guy back at the home office, unpacking them for 'warranty repairs'. USD$8k each? I guess they could make good eye candy, as your Lambo passenger.
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Post 39093211 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.57h):
Remember the good ol' days when this was
the place to find out wtf was happening with the price?
Realdoll detected.
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Post 39107912 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.57h):
(snipped)
Carry on.
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Post 39191284 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.57h):
Gawd... Please, if you must quote wordy-man, or the bug, at least do us the grace of snipping out most/all of it.
Think of the children. Or something.
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Post 39254463 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.57h):
I like the famous anecdote about the US's phenomenal talent of wasting money. NASA engineers spent millions of dollar trying to develop a pen that could write in space, or so the story goes. Meanwhile, the soviets used pencils.
I've heard that for years as well. I recently read this about it.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-write-stuff/
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Post 39283069 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.57h):
I believe. As a ham radio operator, I have personally transmitted a signal (with my own equipment), and had it relayed back from a satellite. I communicated with another ham doing the same things.Nobody else faked that.
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Post 39332941 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.57h):
Update - Tonight's maintenance operation is proceeding as planned but is taking longer than originally expected. Our systems are operating normally and funds are safe, and we hope to have your experience back to normal soon.
Jun 3, 22:10 PDT
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Jun 3, 20:00 PDT
Scheduled - We are performing scheduled maintenance on Sunday, June 3 at 8pm PT. You will not be able to access Coinbase to buy, sell, send, receive, or withdraw funds for approximately 1.5 hours, after which service will resume as normal.
We apologize for the inconvenience and expect that this maintenance will improve the Coinbase experience.
So far, my experience has not been enhanced.
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Post 39550990 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.57h):
Burton Cummings/Guess Who?
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Post 39619454 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.57h):
Wow. An hour between posts. Is Wall Observer dead?
Is that Björk ?
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Post 39921433 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.57h):
I would like to ask my posting friend nanobtc for advice. TYIA *(TankUinAdvance)((((!!!!!!
I have no good advice, that hasn't been said.
Feed a cold, starve a fever (or is it the other way around?)
No gentleman is ever rude by mistake.
Beware of all enterprises requiring new clothes.
All advice is useless.
Never argue with a stupid person, they’ll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
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Post 40212084 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.58h):
[snippage ensues]
Related: I searched (tether, audit, audited, usdt) using the top search field in the regular thread view, and I only got results from 2016 or older. Any hints on how to search this behemoth of a thread?
d_eddie, I would use The Goggle, with refined terms.
Something like this could help. Warning! Don't click on links you cannot verify! Mouse over it, and read what it says. 'refined terms' in this case, means using the site: parameter. Add the URL, add the desired items.
Judicious use of +, -, AND, OR, and quotes can trim millions of hits down to a pertinent few.
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Post 40636447 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.59h):
Much Wow. Tubgirl/Goatse dot (cx)/Lemonparty/?
That's so last millennium. Dude.
I heard Richard Paul Astley has a new song about crypto. It's called Rick-Something-Crypto-mumble Roll.
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Post 40636636 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.59h):
AnonyMint, how is rpietila? I used to enjoy your discussions, though I never spoke.
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Post 41193631 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.00h):
JJG: why use 2000 words when 200 may not lose your audience? Your audience is obviously important to you.
Anonymint: Good to see you here again, but honestly I don't have the time.
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Post 41672339 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.00h):
* nanobtc bestows imaginary merit-thingies to the clever ones in the thread.
Whatever happened to Jarosław/Walsoraj here?
Did he get the country straightened out, or went down in a blaze of glory?
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Post 41728895 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.00h):
I have a co-worker named Garvin. Hmm. That could explain a lot.
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Post 41814090 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.00h):
A couple of decades ago, I used to have a '68 Chevy 3/4 ton truck with 70k miles. Rust-free, straight and solid. It had a crappy stock 307 V8. That was a bad engine for Chevrolet, it burnt a quart of oil in 500 miles!
I replaced it with a fresh '67 327 with 2.02 intake valves. Solid lifters, doublehump heads, Carter 4bbl, and dome pistons. Aluminum Edelbrock Torker II intake. I had to have the starter rebuilt with more windings for the high compression. It was licensed, and had open headers, it was hot shit on the farm. At the time.
It was geared too low to go fast, but it got there very, very quickly. It had the snap/crackle/pop/rumpity rump idle. The other farmers thought I was weird. Some of the young ones saluted me, for hearing it start a 1/4 mile away, on a cold winter morning.
This was a daily driver for 11 years, not just a weekend fun thing.
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Post 41935392 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.00h):
<snip>
Not only that, but also on the internet, the host needs to be online when the webpage is visited. That means, if people want to have a webpage, they can never turn off their computers.
What is this
turning a computer off, that you speak of?
19:27:55 up 243 days, 19:09, 6 users, load average: 0.52, 0.55, 0.45
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Post 42125940 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.01h):
I have been dabbling with Ledger Nano S. It handles many currencies. For a long time it's only direct connection was with Electrum on Tails Linux (very good) or Chromium plugin on Chrome (less good). They recently released a standalone Linux client for it (very good).
One feature I like, is that you can add a second password, for a second amount. Plausible deniability.
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Post 42126995 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.01h):
Damn! It was my one and only achievement.
I have my order in for a t-shirt now, at cafepress.
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Post 42128906 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.01h):
This one
https://amzn.to/2unbgwr ? I’m gunna start loading up now, I just have a feeling like we’re not gunna see the lows all these so called “experts” are claiming. I’m not waiting any more.
That's the model, but as mentioned, it's always better to purchase from the manufacturer https://www.ledgerwallet.com/ The extra doodads from that Amazon seller are nice, but realistically add up to pennies. There's been several resellers that sold "pre-initialized" devices (not saying this seller is one). At least for a Ledger Nano S, it's easy to completely blow it away and start over. When you buy it from the manufacturer, that's what you're doing anyway. If it comes with a list of words, no matter how professional or laminated, you are being scammed.
The 'archival pen' sounds nifty, tuff and bitchen, but a better way, is to keep it in a text file, on multiple encrypted USB keys at various places in your life. Keep your 24 words on there. While you're going to that (minimal) trouble, put other stuff on there. Copies of drivers license, paycheck stubs, credit card numbers, insurance info, phone list, prescriptions, car/house info. If your house gets robbed, and the paper copy of the recovery seed gets stolen? Now you have to beat them to it, on moving everything somewhere else before they do.
RF Shield? Use aluminum foil. Best worn on the head.
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Post 42132754 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.01h):
As noted above, Segwit is default setting on Trevor but you can open legacy addresses. You only get “forced” onto Segwit if you don’t understand what you are doing.
Ok, now who's Trevor? Should I update my list?
Edit: updated
?? Trevor Rabin, the guitar player from Yes ?? No, waitaminute. Steve Howe? I get those mixed up.
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Post 42821179 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.02h):
Can't we all just get along? Or at least take it to IRC?
<Donut[AFK]> HEY EURAKARTE
<Donut[AFK]> INSULT
<Eurakarte> RETORT
<Donut[AFK]> COUNTER-RETORT
<Eurakarte> QUESTIONING OF SEXUAL PREFERENCE
<Donut[AFK]> SUGGESTION TO SHUT THE FUCK UP
<Eurakarte> NOTATION THAT YOU CREATE A VACUUM
<Donut[AFK]> RIPOSTE
<Donut[AFK]> ADDON RIPOSTE
<Eurakarte> COUNTER-RIPOSTE
<Donut[AFK]> COUNTER-COUNTER RIPOSTE
<Eurakarte> NONSENSICAL STATEMENT INVOLVING PLANKTON
<Miles_Prower> RESPONSE TO RANDOM STATEMENT AND THREAT TO BAN OPPOSING SIDES
<Eurakarte> WORDS OF PRAISE FOR FISHFOOD
<Miles_Prower> ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND ACCEPTENCE OF TERMS
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Post 43855189 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.04h):
Elwar, can you repeat the story here that you've told here before, about a local bitcoin sale you did long ago, that did not go well?
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Post 43984765 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.04h):
I've been to Vegas, a couple of times in August, and not for the slots nor the buffet. It was funny to see Robert Morris Sr. (RIP) hit on my wife, because she was wearing a valid Three Letter Agency shirt. Robert Junior was famous for that Morris Worm thing. He did not attend.
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Post 44212895 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.05h):
Yo doodz! Where the bottom party at?
Hi Fatty. Bob will be along, soon.
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Post 44257892 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.05h):
Joshua/WOPR: Shall we play a game?
David: Oh!
Jennifer: I think it missed him.
David: Yeah. Weird isn't it? Love to. How about Global Thermonuclear War.
Joshua/WOPR: Wouldn't you prefer a good game of chess?
David: Later. Let's play Global Thermonuclear War.
Joshua/WOPR: Fine.
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Post 44262932 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.05h):
It's too quiet in here.
I was just thinking - there are three types of people in this world. Those that can do basic math, and those that can't.
#deepthoughts
10 print people who can do Basic
20 goto 10
Elwar, I had a t-shirt made that said:
10 REM T-shirt
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Post 44589283 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.05h):
{zappa}
She was the daughter of a Florentine Pogen. (search for yourself, if you don't know of it)
She was a debutante daisy
With a color-note organ
Deep in the street
She drove a '59 Morgan
Synopsis? BTC = Buy.
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Post 44590288 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.05h):
We don't need no steenkin' Lambos.
1959 Morgan.
I would spend one BTC for that, if I could get more BTC. Unfortunately, I can not.
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Post 44853303 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.06h):
top post . sent u a merit
Quoting the obvious trolls are bad enough.
[/ignored]
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Post 44947910 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.06h):
{snip}
Remember, somewhere, somehow, there is a guy that's tired of her shit, and wants to move on.
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Post 44962823 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.06h):
JJG, gawd, throw in a carriage return every once in a while. Many of us don't care about what you used to drive, or how much you worked.
Tell us about Naughty Nomad? Your profile is tantalizing!
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Post 45356146 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.06h):
The Gox process is moving along. Here's info from 9/5/18 about people with difficulties logging in.
https://www.mtgox.com/img/pdf/20180905_faq_en.pdfIt's true, I made about 6% on my $1.43 I had left on there. Now my grandkids can go to college. Who says investing in crypto was dumb!
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Post 45414459 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.06h):
I confess to you all, I went "out there", and viewed other sub-forums here. I saw a newbie that was whining about how much he got/lost/made/sold in the last 6 months, and should he get/lose/make/sell more?
I responded. I feel dirty.
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Post 45470562 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.07h):
goldkingcoiner:
Idiot. Begone.
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Post 45557996 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.07h):
I also got a Nano S at the fork. Just recently got a Coinkite Coldcard, it seems much more sophisticated. It can operate it's whole lifetime offline. It has a micro SD slot, you can power up the Coldcard with just an AC USB charger, and sign transactions (although recent versions of Electrum support it natively). It has a $5 wrench secondary wallet, as well as a 'burnme' PIN.
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Post 45562095 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.07h):
JJG, yes, that's it. I think the $50 was a kickstarter deal, they may be more now. The first few production batches were sold out. Yes, BIP39 comparability, seed words, easy (hopefully) to restore to another device in case of disaster. The damn thing comes sealed in a bag that changes color if it's opened, the bag's serial number is in the firmware (tamper-proof, proof).
Much more than I can relay is here: https://coldcardwallet.com/docs/
I was pretty happy with Ledger Nano S, glad to see ledger-live instead of Chrome extensions. I use it only on several Linux variants, but even on latest updates, the USB comm is messing with something. It's killing X, but the OS is still alive underneath. Chrome extension seems to work fine, but I am leery of trusting Mega-corp.
Little nit-picky stuff on the Nano S? The whole thing physically is a little 'wiggly'. The buttons don't seem physically robust. I would not expect it to take rough treatment. Nano S also has native Electrum support, but I haven't tried it yet (even though Electrum is my favorite software wallet. Paper has been preferred so far, but it was hassle to sweep the whole thing to extract shitcoins.
The Coldcard has no moving parts, the buttons are all capacitive (sp?) touch (with adjustable debounce and sensitivity), and a much better/bigger display. I think you can pretty much reset anything/everything on it, unless you use the BURNME PIN, that destroys the device.
I'm happy to see that Coldcard has source code available, and encourages home-grown extensions. That of course opens idiots to someday installing bad custom firmware (BUT THEY SAID IT WOULD CURE CANCER!). Conversely, Nano S pretty much just said "it's all a secret. Trust us".
Disclaimer: I am a hardware wallet newbie. Nano S/Coldcard are my only toes in this water. There are plenty of others. We are obviously at the tip of the iceberg, on what hardware wallets will someday become. I'm just trying to learn. I don't really need hardware wallets.
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Post 45604125 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.07h):
Coldcard is a new product and only supports bitcoin: no altcoins. Trezor has been around for four years now, Ledger Nano S for two. Best to stick with well tested products with a good history IMO.
Agreed. But I am an old product, and I only support bitcoin: no altcoins as well.
As I said, it's just a toe in the water now.
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Post 46096259 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.08h):
You can just admit that you're drinking a glass of straight vodka. No need to call it a martini to sounds like you're 007.
The name is mic. micgossen.
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Post 46635868 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.09h):
Also I would never trust my money to a bot. I mean cmon.
If you want to diss/whine on the concept of a bot, perhaps you should not use one. I trusted my millionth/billionth of a Dollar to code. Why would not you?
I mean, Get A Grip (Aerosmith Joke Here).
EDIT: If you cannot/do not grok the concept of Computer Things handling your USD$$? Then perhaps you should not use a bot.\
PS: if you are worried about your millions and billions on a computer, you may best be served by not using Windows. IMHO.
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Post 46666999 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.09h):
And the TI "Expansion Box". I built a 12v/5v power supply, and added a *second* 5.25" floppy. I think it held 90k.
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Post 46773639 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.09h):
somewhere in Poland
Oooooh I hate that.
I hate it when people don't know what HODL means.
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Post 46823029 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.09h):
I see /ignored roach posts. Bullish.
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Post 46952759 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.09h):
The Rosenbridge was only for 2001-2003 Via C3 x86 cpus. But still.....
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Post 46998914 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.10h):
Bob, didn't know your avatar had such a strong Slashdot connection... pretty funny.
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Post 47034329 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.10h):
I've been weaning myself away from the racks of H/W, trying to go all software. I've only dabbled in the last few years, but have been
using Ardour for ten years. I've not done it completely yet, but one of the things that is interesting about Ardour is that it natively supports it's own hardware slaves, on a dedicated ethernet interface. Spin up that cluster, and you could do a lot more.
It used to be Linux only, but I see that it has Mac/Winderrs versions now. I'm using a
Presonus Audiobox 1616 VLS for I/O. It's not the latest and greatest by any means, but it's 24/96, and pretty kickass compared to the interfaces a few years ago.
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Post 47051367 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.10h):
I am fashionless. Except for my hat.
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Post 47052962 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.10h):
I did not have an avatar set, so I had xhomerx10 make an avatar, of my non-avatar. Yes, mine is a genuine xhomerx10 original. Accept no substitutes.
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Post 47068557 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.10h):
A while back, there was the idea being thrown around of a WO Vegas party to celebrate $100K. Instead, we could all just meet up wearing our avatar hats and drop acid. What could go wrong?
Several whiles back in 2013,
there was a highly anticipated $1k party planned here. I could not attend, it sounds like it fell through.
Good to see a (very) few of the guest-list still here, though. I guess the original potential attendees got rich, and faded away. I miss rpietila, perhaps he just faded away. I did not know him, and I know others had problems with him.
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Post 47270229 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.10h):
I would not trust Sony with anything important at all.
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Post 47272882 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.10h):
Just got Coldcard hardware working with Electrum 3.2.3 on Linux. The odd thing was to create new udev rule in /etc/udev/rules.d
More here: https://github.com/Coldcard/ckcc-protocol/blob/master/51-coinkite.rules
EDIT: and Electrum 3.2.3 even has a firmware upgrade utility, no futzing around with micro SD card.
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Post 47308166 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.10h):
I think ShroomsKit sold his account, someone in the Netherlands. Cashing out all the way.
His posting changed drastically, several called him out on it.
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Post 47344023 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.10h):
Does this mean that your previous accounts have a negative trust? I do not condemn you for the promotion of hashish, why do you condemn me because of my profession?
Dear StartupAnalyst, welcome to the WO thread. Roach had some accounts stolen, perhaps poor computer hygiene. Many have him on ignore. If you quote him, many will ignore you.
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Post 47599211 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.11h):
Great post, no merits to give. +++L00|< Would laff again!
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Post 47599376 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.11h):
I am conflicted on organ donation. On one hand, it makes our species as a whole weaker as people who should have died stay alive and procreate, breeding even more weak and sickly people. On the other, it maximizes the use of resources. Difficult.
Humans that have automobile accidents need organs, too.
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Post 47711809 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.11h):
Why do those guys not have shirts?
Mayor?
It's plain to see, they were protected by a particularly brave herd of Chippendales.
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Post 47754777 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.12h):
Shitcoins, get'em while they're hot!
https://btcdiv.com/Don't forget to reclaim your 'Bitcoin Smart'. Flip your paper wallets, exercise your new hardware wallets.
EDIT: You may need to utilize some questionable exchanges to exchange your Sharkey Coin (wait, was that from Laurie Anderson?).
Use a VM, Don't use Winderrs, and wash your hands.
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Post 47905648 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.12h):
Cancelled dinner reservation tonight, to BTFD instead. Every little bit helps. Wife not impressed.
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Post 47913590 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.13h):
Haven't seen this mentioned yet. From Coinbase:
"On November 15, we will pause Bitcoin Cash (BCH) trading, including the ability to send and receive BCH, while monitoring the outcome of a planned hard fork."
In their blog, there's several Q&A things, several of the A's start with, "We cannot predict xxxx"
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Post 47975476 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.13h):
For a good (?) time, revisit all the
Wired brown-nosing of CSW in the last few years. Past performance, blah, blah.
I wonder what their next piece will say.
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Post 48115801 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.14h):
TheCactus, welcome to the forum. Please do not quote roach (the dog-faced guy), or many will put you on ignore. If you must respond, snip out what he says. He only comes out when BTC is down.
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Post 48176179 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.15h):
{EDIT}
Fake/incorrect/hearsay news, or idiot farmer. Many news outlets make up their own words.
I know soybeans. Anyone who has a thousand + acres of soybeans (at least in North America) has surely forsaken "plowing" for land tillage decades ago. That is so 1960's.
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Post 48176340 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.15h):
@Theymos Bring back newbie jail.
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Post 48231542 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.15h):
Whatever happened to the $1000 party?
It got cancelled. I did not attend, but celebrated in my own way.
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Post 48233742 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.15h):
@PoolMinor I revisited that thread. I notice Rosewater Foundation has a hat. Bullish.
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Post 48259340 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.16h):
@TheCactus I think you dropped this, I picked it up for you.
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Post 48276432 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.16h):
there so many debates regarding Bitcoin nowadays. I want to invest in it some money, how do you consider?
1. Find an exchange that works for you, sign up.
2. Find a bad habit you have, that costs money.
3. Quit the bad habit, and spend that money on BTC every week/month
4. Goto 3.
Don't get emotional on the charts or price. Buy the same amount, in regular increments whether the price goes up or down.
If BTC goes to the moon, you have done a good thing. If BTC goes to zero, you still have done a good thing.
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Post 48311459 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.16h):
There was a nocoiner named Roach,
Who cherished his silver brooch.
He badmouthed the Jews
Till his face was real blue,
It is a quite strange approach.
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Post 48312033 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.16h):
There was a guy, JayJuanGee.
No wordier man, than he.
Though he posts walls of text,
That leave me perplexed,
He still brings some insight to me.
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Post 48312172 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.16h):
There once was a mod, infofront.
Who has to be totally blunt.
His wife had a baby,
Their life is now crazy,
We hope his child's not, a runt.
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Post 48312395 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.16h):
There was a guy Roger Ver.
On bitcoin he only would slur.
Although it is trash,
He loves BeeCee Cash,
He still needs some help, with anger.
Argh, the meter is a little rough on that one...
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Post 48325908 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.16h):
What's all this rhyming about? I thought it was my thing
Not sure on the others, but I have only been doing limericks. It's a fairly restrictive structure (but not as much as haiku)
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Post 48454688 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.18h):
Statistically speaking you probably still drink more than me. I prefer the herb. Whisky I mostly enjoy for exploring what the fuck is going on with taste buds.
Hmmm, @BTCMILLIONAIRE...
"Whisky" spelled without an E.
BTC fan.
Are you the originator of the term 'hodl'? Does your GF go to gay bars? Do the words "pit pat piffy wing wong" mean anything to you?
Just curious.
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Post 48479523 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.18h):
More Roach posts. Bullish.
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Post 48589645 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.20h):
@JJG You've got to step back, and take a breath every once in a while. You lose people with volume, and it goes way past infotainment. Just as an exercise, I copy/paste your recent long post into a txt file, and ran wc [word count]
$ wc -w ./wordyman.txt
1507 ./wordyman.txt
1500 and 7 words.
Sorry man, life's too short. Try the decaf.
EDIT: I did not count the multiple quotes you had within.
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Post 48604907 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.20h):
@Last of the V8s, you lost your Interceptor hat!
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Post 48605435 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.20h):
I never stopped buying, albeit small amounts.
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Post 48655320 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.20h):
You guys are all veering into cats? What about the Bitcoin Bomb Threat? "Gimme $20,000 of BTC, or I'll blow up something. Somewhere."
https://news.google.com/search?q=bitcoin%20bomb%20threat&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3AenI've only casually glanced, haven't found the public address. It would be interesting to see how many suckers paid.
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Post 48675835 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.20h):
Security for civilian contractors or something else? Ok if you cant say.
? I know you are not new here, Elwar has detailed much on this.
It's hard to keep up. All I have to do is sleep for 8 hours, and then there's much more.
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Post 48675877 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.20h):
My gf of 10 years (we are early 30’s - got together young) is currently in the phase of telling me that I ruined ‘our lives by not selling when it was $19,000’.
Seek out the Savoy Brown song,
She's Got A Ring In His Nose. Pre-Foghat. Harrumph.
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Post 48731919 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.21h):
Dollar-cost-averaging/HODL Tax Tip. If you are *not* wheeling and dealing all the time, have a different paper wallet (or hardware, for that matter) for each year. You can limit your tax liability to long-term cap gains, if you only sell what you have held for a year. This applies to USA, may or may not in other places. Different wallets let you absolutely prove that it is older than a year.
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Post 48920428 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.23h):
It doesnt seem that long ago when there was talk about the 1k party, wonder if that ever happened, maybe some of the og's can comment
I believe the 1k party was cancelled, many had sent reservations, it was refunded.
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Post 49238357 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.26h):
Bitcoin is lower,
Shitcoins are the lowest yet.
I think I'll just hold.
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Post 49271964 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.26h):
Sideways, sideways....
Well... After the btcmillionaire more than successful subject about creating a self sustainable pond in his property... I would like to ask.... Anyone here has fully self-sustainable solar powered property? I have studied a lot about it, but some real life experience from another fellow WO'er would be great.
I think it is already at the point where it is cost efficient (more so considering where I live... SUN all the time!) and I am perfectly capable of doing everything myself and know my shit about buying stuff for way less that its usual price (either second hand or surplus) which will also help reduce the total cost substantially.
The property already has its own waterwell with enough capacity to fill the 125000 litres pool over a couple days. So it is only the power grid what I would like to cut off for a completely self sustainable property. My dream!
Will WO also deliver this time? lol
I am certainly not an expert, but are you building new, or retrofitting an existing AC wired home/building? With solar I think you have two main choices to wind up with usable electricity: Use an inverter to convert it to AC to run your existing appliances (expensive), or build new, with larger wiring in the walls for DC (to avoid voltage drop), then find all DC appliances (expensive). Many do that with camping and RV appliances.
That is on top of the power generation itself. Then if you want to watch TV at night (or whatever) you need batteries/storage (expensive).
I don't know what your weather is, but you can get better BTUs per dollar of heating perhaps with a passive heat storage, and pump heated water around. Perhaps gravel beds under the house, and/or water for thermal storage. If you need air conditioning, you need a serious inverter (expensive) or RV AC unit. I haven't looked, there are surely green-type DC appliances now that are better than using camping/RV appliances. It would look funny for your luxurious BTC millionaire home to have tiny RV fridges around...
If you are building new, it's much easier to implement some of this stuff, compared to retrofitting. I am not an expert.
A 125000 liter pool doesn't sound very large (is this a swimming pool?), where I am from ponds are small (measured in tens of thousands of gallons), and lakes are measured in acres. Depending on your weather, perhaps some sort of geothermal involvement could help, and that takes a lot of power for all the pumping.
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Post 49291483 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.26h):
Guess the non-English language made the entire post, including quote, just fly under my radar. I retract my former post. WO delivers.
Edit: Nevermind, I'm just blind.
I was gonna say, I posted a response (in English)
here. I saw no response, nor no merits. Sniff. EDIT: thx jjg
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Post 49304003 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.26h):
Here's the rare and unusual, Haiku Limerick!
There was a new coin,
named Grin. Seems like a real sin.
I don't think I'll join.
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Post 49404070 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.27h):
shit market
shit thread
shit
if that is the case then I think i like this shit.. sometimes this shit thread is the ONLY reason I type bitcointalk.org in my browser's address bar :p
There's other threads?
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Post 49407767 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.27h):
Dude. I'm so pumped for this, I just had to take a photo of my favorite sweater.
I hope I don't regret posting this photo.
I dunno, Bob, some of these guys are pretty amazing sleuths. Clean up all your exif data?
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Post 49443260 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.28h):
Pls someone 'remind' me how to convert a short mp4 or other video into a gif small enough for this here forum. seem to have er misplaced the link. tia
I am a few pages behind, but ffmpeg works well:
https://www.bugcodemaster.com/article/convert-video-animated-gif-using-ffmpeg
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Post 49444914 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.28h):
In fact I found you can easily and freely send messages (and files under 10Kb) through Blockstream satellites with
https://blockstream.com/satellite-queue/ (Broadcast a Transmission) by easily "paying" testnet
BTC via testnet LN with this small testnet LN webwallet :
https://htlc.me 
In fact, you can send messages/voice/files through satellites for decades, with ham radio. For free.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio_satellite
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Post 49445165 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.28h):
But only for licensed members...
The license has been free since 1901. Massachusetts 8th graders were building their own gear to transmit and receive in 1904. You can purchase inexpensive modern equipment very easily, no soldering involved.
{added to} Make no mistake, I think it is great that Blockstream satellites make this available. By the same token, it is not new tech.
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Post 49445353 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.28h):
I am very sure I have the correct license. I was doing this in 1984. I transmitted on 432 mhz right hand circular polarization, and received on 2 meters left hand circular polarization. It's easy and cheap now. Sorry you don't want to learn or study. The license has always been free.
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Post 49445538 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.28h):
CB is 11 meters (measured wavelength, from peak to trough), it's near the ham radio 10 meter band. Ham radio is much better, and it's not that hard. My significant other is not a techie, and she just passed her Technician license test. I was also sending packet data around the world before Amsat satellites with a TI-99/4A computer on a Kenwood TS-520, with just wires strung in trees for an antenna. Seriously, check it out. There are very probably free classes in your area.
EDIT. bad link.
Look for it here:
https://www.hamradiolicenseexam.com/which-exam.htm
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Post 49445824 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.28h):
VB1001 DX Century Club (confirmed contacts, with 100 countries, obviously on HF) is certainly a great accomplishment. I don't know what CFM: 312 is.
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Post 49445959 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.28h):
CFM: 312 Wow! Assuming lots of 20 meters? 40? Or during a sunspot cycle, 10-15? I used to have a quarter-mile wire, 160 was fun, but not reliable DX.
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Post 49461671 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.28h):
Guys one question for all senior members. What's so special about hats in your profile. I have never seen this craze in any other thread so far. Plz tell me.
What is this 'other threads' that you speak of?
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Post 49678190 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.30h):
"My God, it's full of stars!"
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Post 49685292 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.30h):
Unbarted debarts
and the living is easy
but she still feels fake.
Sounds like George Gershwin. In Haiku
Summertime
And the livin' is easy
Fish are jumpin'
And the cotton is high
Your daddy's rich
And your mamma's good lookin'
So hush little baby
Don't you cry
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Post 49716453 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.31h):
Bitcoin and RF will indeed become more of a thing. Just FYI, that frequency 7.077 is at the lower end of the 40 meter ham band, for every country. You need a (minimal) test and license to transmit anything there. No license required to receive (anywhere, for that matter). Not that the FCC (for USA) will immediately come knocking at your door for doing this, but it's a bad idea in that spot, if you are unlicensed. Displayed is a 'waterfall display', common in programs like FLdigi, and several others.
Hams have been sending data over the air for decades with computers, but this is a new and interesting variant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40-meter_bandEDIT: I just checked and in the USA, with Technician (beginner) license, you are only allowed to use cw (international morse code) in that slice. You have to pass the next test for General to transmit data there.
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Post 49778066 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.32h):
@jojo69 if you like low frequencies, I'm sitting here looking at a Roland Jupiter 8 synth from the early 80's. It can supposedly output 10hz, and can layer 16 oscillators. You had better be wearing a helmet.... I have nothing that can reproduce audio that low, however. It's also a good way to blow the PA mains...
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Post 49780091 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.32h):
Most of the old electrolytic caps were just a little aluminum can, with a borax solution in them, with a little rubber seal to seal the end. After a few decades/heat the rubber seal cracks/leaks, and the cap slowly drains onto the circuit board (or in the case of the older point-to-point, directly on the chassis.
I get tired of hearing guitar guys brag/whine about their 'treasured classic guitar amp' with all original caps. "I don't want to update it, I want it to sound like it really does". Earth to Guitar Hero, that amp has not sounded like it's supposed to, for decades. Fix the sumbitch. Yeah, those Mallory Orange Drops are really just bragging rights, anyway.
I've got a little 1974 Fender Vibro-Champ (think Joe Walsh solo on 'Rocky Mountain Way'). Damn right I re-capped it. I've got a '62 Hammond M3 (the baby B-3), damn right I re-capped it's power supply. I've got a '64 RT-3 that sounds great, but it's next.
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Post 49798634 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.32h):
BTC: Fuel the Engines.
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Post 49853576 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.33h):
<snip>
NoNo its actually is her, no troll in that one, sense an awesome/beautiful lady
I do 
getting ready to play some game today
Wow, Mic already said, "I do" to Cryptoqueen. Quoted for posterity.
Congrats! Can we send you BTC for a wedding gift?
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Post 49968169 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.34h):
Looks good Elwar, always nice to see a face of someone I feel like I (sorta) know.
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Post 49993338 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.34h):
http://ardour.org/ is pro-level tracking and mastering software. It was Linux only for more than a decade, I see it's available for Mac/Windows now.
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Post 50053504 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.35h):
Mic, show us your pics from El Nido, Palawan in the Philippines. It looks very nice, but I have read that some of the 'tours' only give you about 45 minutes in any one place.
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Post 50110254 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.35h):
14-Year-Old WinRAR Exploit Allegedly Threatens Crypto Wallets
[snip]
Alternatives:
7-Zip
Winzip
I feel your pain. Better Alternatives?
Don't use Winderrs.
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Post 50110427 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.35h):
I saw this one the other day, and I did not want to say anything.
Looks like a wind-up catapult. Trebuchets are better, but the increased acceleration could burst the blood vessels in your eyes, before you leave the sling. Don't try this at home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo_oigyFlTAThe acceleration is so great, that it can extinguish a burning piano, before it leaves the sling:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rn8jBzsg9UI built a small one, they are very accurate, once you get the sling length/pin release worked out, counterweight and projectile weight dialed in. I can hit a monitor with a marble 4 cubes away, 10 out of 10 tries. GTFO with your nerf guns, I have a siege weapon...
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Post 50110927 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.35h):
I built a small one, they are very accurate, once you get the sling length/pin release worked out, counterweight and projectile weight dialed in. I can hit a monitor with a marble 4 cubes away, 10 out of 10 tries. GTFO with your nerf guns, I have a siege weapon...
You can hit a monitor how far? What’s a cube? Lol a typo? Yet Another Silly Non SI unit?
Sorry, that's tech worker slang. A cube is a cubicle, an office working environment. A monitor is a computer viewing device. A monitor lizard would not be impressed by being hit with glass marbles at all, and only annoy it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monitor_lizardA nerf gun is a safe and legal toy. Siege weapons were used since 429 BC, to break down fortified environments. Sometimes, instead of breaking down the castle wall, they would just hurl a dead cow inside a castle, and wait for them to all die from disease.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_engineIf the king sent a messenger with an offer that was refused, they would sometimes just fling the messenger against the castle wall in response. Don't kill the messenger?
EDIT: Just now looked, a Trebuchet was apparently a 4BC Chinese invention, despite the French sounding name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrebuchetEDIT AGAIN: I even named my small toy trebuchet. I called it "The Duke of Hurl" You can experiment with parameters here, safely. http://www.virtualtrebuchet.com/
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Post 50120067 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.35h):
Fourth-generation farmer here. Underground farming? Not gonna happen, unless there is an extinction-level event. It takes more than space. The temperature is certainly constant, but at some stages the plants will do better if it's warmer. The realities of getting heat, light and water in needed quantities greatly outweigh the benefits. Underground caverns also (mostly) don't have appropriate soil, though hydroponics could be considered.
"Real" farming beyond hobby gardening is going to take machinery to plant and harvest (at the least). Currently that is all internal combustion tractors and combines, fuel exhaust will be a problem underground.
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Post 50138256 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.36h):
Mic, I think jojo69 was talking about the passenger, not the boat.
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Post 50138724 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.36h):
[snip]
Thanks Mr. MicG
I'm not sure but I think it might have something to do with the sleep deprivation I experience regularly while working night shift. I find myself in a dream state as soon as I close my eyes some days.
Up to a point, sometimes sleep deprivation can be it's own reward. Or at least that's what we said when I was young...
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Post 50178355 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.36h):
Pi day? Sheesh, too many math geeks in here. That's also Steak and Blowjob Day, always two weeks after Valentines day.
As far as disasters go? There is the random, remote chance of being hit by an asteroid, blah, blah. There is a physical real thing going on, as tectonic plates continue to push, as they have for thousands of years. It really, really messed North America up in 1811-1812, but there was much less infrastructure to be destroyed. It was centered in the MIdwest USA (New Madrid fault), knocked things off of shelves on the East Coast. Someday they will slip again, who knows when. There's a lot more to be damaged, now. Easy for either coast to ignore the middle of the country, but it would affect everything.
I'm not dooming and glooming, it's science, and it will happen again. It may be another 200 years, who knows.
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Post 50181914 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.37h):
Can this child get a bann? He is telling racis things and still he can speak on this forum..
You must be new, here...
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Post 50290299 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.38h):
Dweezil Zappa, with Bobcat Goldthwait in 1986.
I want a Yacht
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0rtojlvVUAHold.
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Post 50371003 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.39h):
Offtop - sorry!
Is there some kind of Mad Hatter contest)? I mean your Avatars.
Yes, there was. I won. Thank you. XhomerX10 is the millinery specialist.
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Post 50434236 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.39h):
I hope this pump doesn't frighten the Gox lawyer into dumping vast amounts. BTW, when he does that, what happens to the bcash that was there?
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Post 50465617 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.40h):
FOMO on BTC means different things, to different people.
To the OG here, who have 'been there, and done that', 30% in three days reminds them of the good old days. Days of Future Passed (make up your own Moody Blues joke here, senior citizens).
To the new kids on the block here, it's more "OMG, I won't have to work!" {Todd Rundgren: Just want to bang on the drums, all day}.
I'm new here, I cannot yet understand everything jbreher says, but he does have a few clues about what is real.
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Post 50493664 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.40h):
Thanks.
I thought it conveyed the atlatl like extra bit of overshoot pretty well.
I noticed trebuchet as a verb, as well. So much more 'physics and stuff' than the old catapults. And more accurate. The hinged weight, and the sling makes all the difference.
I built one of posterboard, reinforced with Popsicle sticks. The bucket was weighted with coins, I had an adjustable pin for release. I could put a marble into a monitor, 3 cubes away, every time. Nerf guns in the office? Fear this. A simulation here:
http://www.virtualtrebuchet.com/
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Post 50521871 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.40h):
Will trade, hats for pants. Contact XhomerX10
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Post 50565965 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.41h):
Ah, Throbbing Gristle. My grandma used to sing their songs to me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throbbing_Gristle
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Post 50579780 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.41h):
Amiga had the blitter chip for graphics.
I have an IBM System 36 in the basement.
EDIT: and some of the fancy 5250 terminals. On Twinaxial hardware communication.
Hack that, and I'll eat my hat.
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Post 50589032 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.41h):
Kaypro used 5 1/4" floppies. Big floppies are 8"
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Post 50675055 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.42h):
I hadn't seen any mention of it here (but it is fast-moving), but the Principality of Sealand was one of the micronations that kept on, for a long time. Prince Roy finally got old and died, there were armed takeovers. From what I recall, the UK mostly just tolerated them. It's an old WWII gunnery platform.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand
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Post 50717144 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.42h):
Any vapers here.
Yup, coming up on 8 years without a cig. I buy BTC instead.
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Post 50798902 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.43h):
I have another, unseen, unworn hat, V1.0 from xhomerx. I'm saving it for moon. It even still smells new.
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Post 50817882 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.43h):
Pat..I'd like to buy a continent.
No need to buy, you can just own one.
https://www.amazon.com/Stealing-Network-How-Own-Continent/dp/1931836051
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Post 50871280 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.44h):
It is indeed a binary language, Morse code, or in more modern times, International Morse Code. I can read it without looking it up.
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Post 50871540 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.44h):
Am I the only ham radio operator here (that can read code)?
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Post 50916676 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.44h):
UnknownHolder has it right. ATH = All Time High, as in forever. The "high price this year"? That should be a different acronym, but not an ATH.
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Post 50945877 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.45h):
gembitz is still in his Mom’s basement, furiously masturbating to midget porn, still waiting for $2,500.
weeeeee
I know it's a standard joke, but I used to have a serious relationship with a lady that was very short. She was also highly intelligent, and very hot.
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Post 51023793 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.46h):
Don't quote r0ach. Life is too short.
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Post 51023976 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.46h):
hehe, this be true and wise. But it happen to be embedded within the quote I was replying to, and so, it had some relevance.
You can edit embedded quotes.
Just Say No, to r0ach. He struggles for relevance, quoting helps that.
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Post 51024151 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.46h):
JJG intrigues you? You must be new, here.
Pro Tip: Just read every fourth word. It saves time, and has the same result.
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Post 51234366 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
I like AlienGear Tuck, part Kydex for the hard fit, part leather to fit me.
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Post 51246437 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
Hello WO thread!
One of the regulars here said I should stop by and say hello. I'll be honest though some of you lot scare the shit out of me!!!
Welcome.
Step 1: /ignore r0ach
Step 2: JayJuanGee will burn up your life. Only read every fourth word, and you will live longer!
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Post 51288807 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.49h):
Wright place, wrong time
Woah, you are old. Good Dr. John joke, there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5zPqgQ67yo
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Post 51329743 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.49h):
And fuck yeah I wanna yacht!
Bobcat Goldthwait. Dweezil Zappa. Heck yeah.
EDIT: 1980's MTV called. They gave approval.
(Telephone ring)
Arrgh, hello, hello Dweezil? This is Bobcat
Umm I-I-Arrgh I want a yacht
(Chorus)
I want a yacht bought by you
Nothin' less could ever do- ever do
I want a yacht bought by you
90 feet long with a ten man crew- ten man crew
(Repeat)
I want a yacht, I don't care how
I want a yacht!
I want a yacht, I want it now
I want a yacht!
I want a yacht, I want your house
I want a yacht!
I want a yacht, what else you got
Besides my yacht?
(Chorus)
I want a yacht, I want it now
I want a yacht!
I want a yacht, what else you got
Besides my yacht?
I want a yacht, I want your wallet
I want a yacht!
I want a yacht, I'm so distraught
I want a yacht!
(Chorus)
(Guitar solo)
(Regular chorus)
(Bobcat Dialogue begins, continues over balance of song)
(1st Broken Chorus)
I want a yacht bought by you
I want a yacht bought by-
I want a yacht bought by you
90 feet long with a ten man crew- ten man crew
(2nd broken chorus)
I want a yacht bought by you
I want a yacht bought by you
I want a yacht bought by
I want a yacht bought by you
Nothin' less could ever do- ever do
(Regular chorus)
(2nd broken chorus)
(Bobcat)
I wanna, I wanna, Ahh!
I want a yacht, I gotta, I gotta have a yacht
Gimmee a yacht!! I wanna, I wanna, Ahh
C'mon, please give me a yacht, I want a Arr
Ahhh! I want A YACHT, I wanna, I want a yacht
I wanna have a yacht-
You gave, you gave Simon Le Bon a yacht
C'mon, you even gave Don Johnson a yacht
C'mon please give me, I want a yacht
I want a yacht! I don't really think
I am asking for all that much, am I?
I want I want Ahh! I am a yacht guy!
I got, I got like, my yacht clothes...
I got, I've got like...
I got my new yacht attitude, man we're gonna be
We're gonna be yachtin' in Wyoming!
We're gonna be yachtin' in Nebraska! Owww!
We're gonna be yachtin' in the USA!
I want a yacht!
Thank you very much!
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Post 51360255 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
It may be wise to earmark a small % for security. Vegas is certainly used to high-roller parties. A bunch of jubilant geeks that are newly-minted millionaires can easily be low on op-sec. High value targets, low on paying attention could be a good spot for 'the bad guys', whoever they are. Vegas may be liberal on gun laws, but the airlines getting there are not.
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Post 51366286 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
As much as we may pride ourselves on 'being our own bank', that comes with it's own risks. Warren Buffet? If you can get past whatever physical security he has, on a quick demand/threat (short of kidnapping/removal, then the Bad Guys are better placed for income), he probably cannot give you much more than the cash and cards in his wallet.
A crypto-geek getting wasted at a big crypto-shennanigan, with a pocket full of hardware wallets? The $5 wrench attack will get those keys every time.
I love a good party, and would love to see many of you, but I probably cannot risk my .0000834 BTC just to do so.
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Post 51458537 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
I decided to focus on something more apparent and relatable. If you really want to get your knickers in a bunch look into the Tuarid meteor swarm and a possible relationship to the Tunguska explosion of 1908.
I have a cat named Tunguska. Really.
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Post 51495616 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
Congrats to all who hodl. I understand the fun of existing images from your childhood, that may include numbers, that we can recycle here?
Perhaps I am just too old, but when Vegeta/Dragonball Z stuff was happening? I was long out into the workforce, no cartoons for me. In bad times, my record in that era was 104 hours of work, in one week.
Vegeta first appears in chapter #204 Sayonara, Son Goku (さようなら孫悟空 Sayōnara Son Gokū), published in Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine on November 7, 1988 I first heard of Vegeta here, have not yet watched any video.
In 1988? I had been online for seven years, owning my own equipment, no school or parent help.
Harrumph.
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Post 51518760 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
"Or maybe her attention,
is drawn by Aqualung,
who watches through the railings as they play-ah-hay"
Perhaps /ignore the newbs, we will see many more, this next year. At least, don't waste brain cells on replying.
Harrumph.
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Post 51553769 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.52h):
I have a SATA drive controller, that was purchased from Newegg for (now) about $9,000 of BTC. I'M PART OF THE NEW ECONOMY!
Pro-tip: If you use BTC to conveniently buy stuff, replace it fairly soon. Because, pizza.
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Post 51556946 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.52h):
I only see {ignored} lines from roach. Probably less now, of that normal permissionless/wanker/I hate joos/Heil H. stuff for some time,now. Good riddance, so much /ignored wastes my white space.
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Post 51610661 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.53h):
I'm starting to lose motivation at work...
Ironically, I have already quit my job, but not due to BTC. I have from now until Friday without much to do. I have trained my successor, handed off my doc, planned my 'goodbye happy hour' on Friday. I have a week off, then supposed to start my new job, as Linux System Administrator.
I have to admit, I am losing motivation for work. But? New job includes a significant raise, I see it as a good chance to accumulate more corn for a year or so, through the next halvination.
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Post 51611793 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.53h):
Confirmed.
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Post 51631786 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.53h):
I see dead people. Er, I mean roach, and other failed trolls. I think, it's all ignored.
Stand up WO peeps, even if you think you do not like country muzak, consider this ode to your boss, in the upcoming years. From 1980, Johnny Paycheck.
Take this job, and shove it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPrSVkTRb24
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Post 51666892 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
censored: please don't quote roach.
Stolfi had some logical points.
Whatever happened to that guy ? His postings were always too crazy and conspiratorial to take him seriously. Sort of dropped off at some point and haven't heard much from him.
WB Xian01. Stolfi retreated into a crazed gambling-like dream that he could sway BTC price, by spouting nonsense here. He has since had a brain tumor, and can no longer function. PLease don't quote roach.
Woops, I am joking about Stolfi. Perhaps it's just the general sentiment here.
Stolfi spent three years here building up a history, so he could talk shit to the SEC about BTC. We wish him a happy late-life dementia, for investing so much energy and time, into something which he clearly never understood. In other words, fuck that shit. Pardon my French. Those that have spend more than a few years here should know.
Harrumph.
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Post 51666986 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
I don't know the display type used in all of those headsets, but I believe many of them use OLED and I'm 99% sure all OLED use PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) which is insanely bad for your eyes. Displays with PWM cause my eyes to hurt looking at them for just 5-10 minutes.
-snip-
Earlier models, yes.
But I'm sure that the latest (
Oculus Rift S) uses LCD display not because of the radiation issues (
or they didn't want to disclose it) but for the reduced screen-door effect.
Please don't quote roach, bragging beyond his knowledge level. I have been using PWM to create content since 1989 with my own equipment, and I am 100% sure roach is just struggling to keep an audience here.
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Post 51701635 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
EDIT:
Sorry for the {removed} personal rant. Everything is beautiful, in it's own way.
Haters gonna hate, bullshitters gonna brag beyond their knowledge level.
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Post 51724689 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
Yes...or are you still using the mouse that came in the Holstein motif Gateway box that your Pentium III came in?
I resemble that remark. I have moved up/down to the IBM Model M keyboard. Buckling spring clacker. Run it through the dishwasher a couple of times a decade as needed.
More info here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_M_keyboard
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Post 52173250 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
Hi all, I am a full month behind on btc-talk (I am so ashamed, I had been doing it constantly for years). Technical difficulties in the local LAN thing.Practical difficulties in the life thing.
More about me:
I quit my job.
Got a better one. (it turns out, the new job is with a company from 1911, it has BLOCKCHAIN as a buzzword. hmm, I have heard of that one)
My parents are really old, and need help.
I am clearing out decades of crap (er, I mean, SOLID GOLD, VALUABLE/RARE TREASURES)
I quit playing live music to help my parents. I clocked 450 4 hours gigs, in 6 years.
It will take several more months to get shit re-arranged. Miss you all (even JJG. Sort of).
I am a million/billion pages behind, it will take me months to catch up here.
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Post 52325165 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
Hi all, back from an absence. Buy the dip! /ignore the ignorant!
That is all.
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Post 52549745 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.02h):
I'm supposed to put brakes on my car tomorrow. I will postpone, bought $100 of corn for now. First things first. I'll drive carefully for a while...
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Post 52559349 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.02h):
I'm supposed to put brakes on my car tomorrow. I will postpone, bought $100 of corn for now. First things first. I'll drive carefully for a while...
Do it yourself. Swapping pads (esp front, which is what wears) is easy as pie.
But, of course! I know how to swap disc brake pads, for the last few decades. The parts were USD $60, I just fudged up to the nearest hunnerd dollar bill amount. And bought USD$100 of corn instead.
It's a standard transmission, it's easy to be mindful, and just downshift instead of standing on the square one....
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Post 52568941 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.03h):
I think Schlitzie was a guy.
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Post 52772980 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.04h):
Wow, I see lots of (ignored) r0ach posts. Bullish.
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Post 52815394 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.05h):
Some of my best times were spent curled in the fetal position behind the freezer in the garage, but that was long before edibles.
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Doom.
God mode: IDKFA
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Post 53927268 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.17h):
is anybody so kind and explain or send me the link to the DCA strategy please?
BTW, we should start something where the WO terms are explained to Newbies like me.
Heh, not for you, Gysur, but for actual newbs? DCA Made Easy.
Dollar Cost Averaging: Buy some reasonable fixed amount, regularly. Be fearless.
0. Never buy/sell Big Chunks of BTC/$$$
1. Choose some vice/habit/expenditure, that you can quit or reduce. Calculate the cost on an interval of a month or less.
2. Choose an amount you could invest/buy on said interval.
3. Don't sell.
4. {Non-DCA overall good advice} Pick some small % drop that means "I could buy a little more, on the dip".
5. Examine your life. Sell some things (attic mining, @Searing). Buy a few satoshis.
6. Don't borrow money, overextend yourself, or buy BTC on credit.
7. Keep abreast of news/developments, but don't get emotional. Stand tall. We are the champions (of the world).
8. (eventually) have a goal to get off. Not sell out, but a small % reward.
9. What is your goal with your life? Be it lambo/hookers/blow, or travel, freedom from work, or a private island, we all need goals.
10. If you can't sleep, worrying about it? Reduce your position, but never sell all.
Step 1 is important, especially if your vice/habit/expenditure is unhealthy. Look where to conserve in small ways. Pick a 'red beans and rice' night every week. If you go out to see a lot of movies, pick a night to sit outside and watch the stars and listen to music (weather permitting). If possible, go to bed early one night a week, and walk to work, or wherever you are going. Limit your intake of trendy chemical amusement products.
For my own darn self, I quit smoking cigarettes, and spend that money on BTC. If it all goes to zero? I pride myself in still making my life better.
Re-reading this, it seems more philosophical than I am. I just got back from two funeral visitations from two friends that did not take care of themselves. You can't take it with you, live better.
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Post 53927323 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.17h):
[snippage ensues]
I still own a pair of (working) Compaq 'sewing machine' 8088-based PC clones. DOS on floppy, store to floppy. Woo-hoo!
I keep an 8 inch floppy disk at my desk, beside my 5 pound IBM Model M keyboard. Winderrs keys are for losers! The Model M is a daily driver, the 8 inch floppy is just a momento.
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Post 53930116 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.17h):
[snip]
Why can’t the first entry be bigger sized? Then afterwards DCA.... but a bigger buy gives some kind of commitment imo, a solid base to start working up on...
Of course, adjust this to your needs and abilities. I am all in favor of bigger buys, and commitment to BTC is good. I am not an expert, just my observations. Gysur mentioned newbs, so my wall o' text was geared to beginners. If newbs can make a larger first entry, so much the better!
Any big buy could subject you to anxiety (I LOST XXXX PESOS/DOLLARS/EUROS! OMG!). DCA encourages you to be calm. It goes up? Buy your regular amount. It goes down? Buy your regular amount. DCA teaches you patience, and is best experienced over some larger period of time.
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Post 53932877 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.17h):
[snip]
If you want to have a little fun, you mix it 50/50 with hydrogen peroxide, other than that, never hear of any explosions/fires related to car batteries. Unless you decide to charge them with the voltage of thors hammer.
I have seen a car battery blow, while driving down the road, long ago. We heard a pretty big 'fooom' while driving along, pulled over and left it running. Popped the hood, the only part of the battery visible was the top, with cables still clamped on. That side of the engine compartment was a mess of little plastic pieces, and (presumably) sulfuric acid.
"Ron, don't shut'er off, let's go straight to Walmart and buy a battery".
It was an old crappy car, perhaps the voltage regulator did not stop charging when it should, and an excess of hydrogen under the hood caught a spark. It was a crappy old car.
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Post 54005154 (copy this link) (by nanobtc) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.18h):
I've been following the COVID-19 news with interest, but no panic. It is early in the game, lots of numbers are being thrown around. The sample is still small %-wise, and there is much that is under-reported. I did see this (Forbes? I forget) and thought it wise words. Surely not gospel, but it is probably laced with fact.
Abdu Sharkawy
March 6 at 2:45 AM ·
I'm a doctor and an Infectious Diseases Specialist. I've been at this for more than 20 years seeing sick patients on a daily basis. I have worked in inner city hospitals and in the poorest slums of Africa. HIV-AIDS, Hepatitis,TB, SARS, Measles, Shingles, Whooping cough, Diphtheria...there is little I haven't been exposed to in my profession. And with notable exception of SARS, very little has left me feeling vulnerable, overwhelmed or downright scared.
I am not scared of Covid-19. I am concerned about the implications of a novel infectious agent that has spread the world over and continues to find new footholds in different soil. I am rightly concerned for the welfare of those who are elderly, in frail health or disenfranchised who stand to suffer mostly, and disproportionately, at the hands of this new scourge. But I am not scared of Covid-19.
What I am scared about is the loss of reason and wave of fear that has induced the masses of society into a spellbinding spiral of panic, stockpiling obscene quantities of anything that could fill a bomb shelter adequately in a post-apocalyptic world. I am scared of the N95 masks that are stolen from hospitals and urgent care clinics where they are actually needed for front line healthcare providers and instead are being donned in airports, malls, and coffee lounges, perpetuating even more fear and suspicion of others.
I am scared that our hospitals will be overwhelmed with anyone who thinks they " probably don't have it but may as well get checked out no matter what because you just never know..." and those with heart failure, emphysema, pneumonia and strokes will pay the price for overfilled ER waiting rooms with only so many doctors and nurses to assess.
I am scared that travel restrictions will become so far reaching that weddings will be canceled, graduations missed and family reunions will not materialize. And well, even that big party called the Olympic Games...that could be kyboshed too. Can you even imagine?
I'm scared those same epidemic fears will limit trade, harm partnerships in multiple sectors, business and otherwise and ultimately culminate in a global recession.
But mostly, I'm scared about what message we are telling our kids when faced with a threat. Instead of reason, rationality, openmindedness and altruism, we are telling them to panic, be fearful, suspicious, reactionary and self-interested.
Covid-19 is nowhere near over. It will be coming to a city, a hospital, a friend, even a family member near you at some point. Expect it. Stop waiting to be surprised further. The fact is the virus itself will not likely do much harm when it arrives. But our own behaviors and "fight for yourself above all else" attitude could prove disastrous.
I implore you all. Temper fear with reason, panic with patience and uncertainty with education. We have an opportunity to learn a great deal about health hygiene and limiting the spread of innumerable transmissible diseases in our society. Let's meet this challenge together in the best spirit of compassion for others, patience, and above all, an unfailing effort to seek truth, facts and knowledge as opposed to conjecture, speculation and catastrophizing.
Facts not fear. Clean hands. Open hearts.
Our children will thank us for it.
Dr. Abdu Sharkawy, internal medicine and infectious diseases consultant with Toronto’s University Health Network and an assistant professor at University of Toronto.
