All posts made by fillippone in Bitcointalk.org's Wall Observer thread
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Post 49966520 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.34h):
Hello everyone,
As everyone here I am trying to understand what market will do in the future.
So I collected a few evidence here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5106432.msg49960305#msg49960305No TA, only “fundamental analysis”, that, in my opinion, is a strongest driver for the long term.
Because it’s the long term I am interested the most.
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Post 49966785 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.34h):
JJG3: The Italian Job
Wait actually that is unfair, they don't compare. fillippone's English is very good, and his content too.
JJG3: #rekt in Italy
Dear Lord, there’s an inside Joke and a 22k pages thread. I think I’m lost.
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Post 49967618 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.34h):
yuh not one of my best ones. just some geezer who writes unfeasibly long posts here in broken robo-English
Hey!
I write long post but my broken English is 100% human!
But actually I’m broken.
So, broken-human English, rather than broken robo-English.
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Post 49969409 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.34h):
yuh not one of my best ones. just some geezer who writes unfeasibly long posts here in broken robo-English
Hey!
I write long post but my broken English is 100% human!
But actually I’m broken.
So, broken-human English, rather than broken robo-English.
I didn't spend merit on legends like V8 inspecting AH AH AH's selfies or Mic's robofrog (well he technically is no legend but you know, I didn't notice) just so to be able to award information-rich but structured and digestible posts by prelegendaries.
Ah and thanks for the heads up, V8. Wouldn't have noticed.
+1 WOsMerit to Last of the V8s and to The Goose.
In other news, +1 WOsMerit to Elwar (wow, man) and Jojo (heads up).
Thank you for the merit from a pre-pre-legendary...
Yeah, I guess it’s very easy to miss a post given the number of post churning everyday here.
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Post 49981994 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.34h):
I have deleted my Coinbase account.
#deletecoinbase
Dammit! I just signed up for Coinbase after my Quadrigacx boondoggle... I haven't given any personally identifying info yet. I'll cancel my account asap.
It might be better for my fragile ego if I just resign myself to the status of ever-hodler. That's it. I'm never selling! They'll have to pry my bitcoin from my cold dead wallet... or dead cold wallet? Whatever! Doesn't matter because I'll be dead.
Edit: account closed
No need to close Coinbase when you never opened one in the first place because you always knew those were exactly against all the true principle of Bitcoin, shilling shitcoins (Bcash mani option?), supporting attacks to Bitcoin (Segwit 2x) and working for the government from inside the system.
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Post 50032006 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.34h):
The irony when you spend your whole life criticising Wall Street and banksters, but then you start your own bank with Wall Street!
They pay 6.2% annual interest (6% monthly compounded) in the coin you deposited (BTC payments if you deposited BTC, ETH vs ETH)
https://twitter.com/apompliano/status/1102918917255766016?s=21
I pass on this: not your keys, not your Bitcoins
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Post 50065669 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.35h):
http://charts.woobull.com/bitcoin-valuations/
Bitcoin Valuations
MARKET CAP
The market price multiplied by the coin supply. (a.k.a Network Value)
REALISED CAP
The value of all coins in circulation at the price they last moved, in other words an approximation of the value paid for all coins in circulation. By Coinmetrics.
NVT CAPS
Values the network using the networks monetary velocity. In essence mapping NVT Ratio back to target Market Cap. NVT Caps make up a fishnet that tends to converge at accumulation bottoms. (By Willy Woo)
AVERAGE CAP
This is the "forever" moving average of Market Cap. The cumulative sum of daily Market Cap values divided by the age of the market in days.
DELTA CAP
The Realised Cap minus Average Cap. Useful for catching the market bottom, and also as a timing indicator for market tops and the start of the bull phase by tracking its oscillation between Realised Cap and Average Cap. (Experimentally proposed by David Puell)
TOP CAP
The average cap multiplied by 35. Historically has matched market tops. (Experimentally proposed by Willy Woo in collaboration with David Puell)
INFLOW CAP
The cumulative value of all coins at the price they were mined.
FEES CAP
The cumulative value of all the fees paid on the network.
Those indicators by Willy Woo (TW: @woonomic) are great.
Each one of them is not built on it’s TA fuckery: every indicator has a rationale behind, something of “fundamental” analysis, not all of them must be truly reliable, but they surely help getting the whole picture. THEN if you really love TA you can draw all the channels on those indicators, but primarily there is common sense.
I used and analised those in my post
Bitcoin Bearish or Bullish? Here my thoughts: FEBRUARY UPDATE
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Post 50068185 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.35h):
There's no way they can sustain 6.2% annual Bitcoin interest unless they pay it in fiat or virtually nobody deposits/stays deposited.
Sounds sketchy but some might take the risk (not me).
Will they offer the same rate when Bitcoin is well above $100k?
Lending out just 2 coins will net you $10k every singel month...this sounds too good to be true.
BTCjam 2.0.
It is too gods to be true, because it is not true.
With bitcoin at 100k USD , lending 2 coins would give you 12,400 USD annually, with monthly payments.
6.2% annual interest means you get 6.2% of your capital...annually.
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Post 50071864 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.35h):
Hello, WO`s! I have a lot of pages to read.
What is going on in
this thread? Do hats now give everyone ?
I am ready to surrender my hat it isn’t a well deserved one!
I am not an hat abuser!
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Post 50071997 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.35h):
Hello, WO`s! I have a lot of pages to read.
What is going on in
this thread? Do hats now give everyone ?
I am ready to surrender my hat it isn’t a well deserved one!
I am not an hat abuser!
If you don't have a goal to discredit Bitcoin, promote bitcoincash, and you're a HODLer, you don't need to surrender your HAT!
Blimey!
Who do you think are talking to?
Do such horrible persons really exist? I tend not to engage with any of them, or anyone shilling for only one of those crimes you just mentioned and I don't even want to repeat!
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Post 50098782 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.35h):
Posted similar question a few pages back,but got quickly devoured by pages of memes that monopolised the short attention son of WO thread... (not whining at all, I like WO memes!)
6.2% is appealing, but remember that you are being KYC’d if you deposit. Basically you are giving up your privacy for 6.2% yearly interest.
Keep in mind that if you deposit from an address, simple chain forsensic analysis will drive the G-Guys to your BTC stash.
EDIT: Reason #1 against lending your Bitcoins to a third party is: “Not your keys, not your Bitcoins” . I think It is obvious, but it need to be remembered every time. Even if Gemini is a state of the art exchange, the risk is still present.
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Post 50098960 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.35h):
Posted similar question a few pages back,but got quickly devoured by pages of memes that monopolised the short attention son of WO thread... (not whining at all, I like WO memes!)
6.2% is appealing, but remember that you are being KYC’d if you deposit. Basically you are giving up your privacy for 6.2% yearly interest.
Keep in mind that if you deposit from an address, simple chain forsensic analysis will drive the G-Guys to your BTC stash.
More than that, you are giving your private keys to a third party entity. What if they bankrupt or they get "hacked" or their CEO dies or whatever?
Yes , of course, “Not your keys, not your Bitcoins” is the reason #1 to avoid this kind of schemes. I thought It was obvious, but yes, you are right, it need to be remembered every time. I think Gemini is a state of the art exchange, but the risk is still present.
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Post 50099169 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.35h):
Gemini is providing custodial services not running the business. It’s not backed by Gemini and by definition has to be a fractional reserve.
It’s unfortunate because this will most likely end badly, and the Gemini name will be mud.
Yes, what I meant is that if Gemini (the custodial) gets hacked, your bitcoin are gone forever. This is indipendent from the service, but dependent from the fact you are going away your BTC!
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Post 50110559 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (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?
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Post 50111585 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (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/
LOL.
Sorry, my broken English didn’t can’t catch the slang for cubicle.
Ah! I did like the attitude of the answer btw!
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Post 50116818 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.35h):
I am not expert here, just avid reader of news on the interent.
I would start from those two alternatives:
- goTenna A small device helping build a mesh network between users, each one independently powered, maybe by solar panels, until eventually one of them, maybe many hops away, is connected to the internet.
- TxTenna offline Bitcoin transactions through a collaboration of GoTenna — the radio mesh network communication company — and Samourai Wallet, the privacy and security-focused Bitcoin wallet.
- LoRa Alliance is a network based on Low Power, Wide Area (LPWA) LoRaWAN, based on an open source and free standard allowing to connect battery powered "things" to the internet trough local, regional or national networks over unlicensed spectrum.
- You could use even good'old traditional radio waves, like the old CB devices: you can broadcast Bitcoin transactions to the opposite side of the world making them conveniently bouncing on the upper ionosphere.
More on that on each websites.
If you want to read how this would work in reality you can check this entertaining read:
Completely Offline Bitcoin TransactionsSo I would say that in a wild, disrupted scenario, "cash is king", then physical gold, proven worldwide accepted SoV trough the millenia, but then third unexpected SoV would be Bitcoin.
Good luck using any centralised system like Credit Cards or Electronic Cash, requiring electricity at PoS point, at the telecommunication network, and at the central server all at the same exact time (this requirement is not necessary for Bitcoin where transaction can be broadcasted at different times).
EDIT: Some edit to be added in my monthly report.
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Post 50116955 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.35h):
This is Crap.
This is a normal ETF indexed on loosely blockchain related (wahtever this means) companies (TMSC, AMD, CME... etc).
This is hot hair bullshit marketing.
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Post 50118539 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.35h):
Let's hope whomever mines it is kind enough to return it. It's been done before.
Why should they? seriously.
BTC is personal financial sovereignty: this comes with responsibility and accountability.
I see no point giving up profitability to compensate stupidity (or bad UX choices, or whatever).
Harsh, but fair (this is a literal translation of an Italian saying, my broken English cannot find an idiomatic equivalence).
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Post 50119028 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.35h):
Big whale meets big whale.
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Post 50129013 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.36h):
Dotting the i's and crossing the t's.
That impressive figures are
without mortgages.
With mortgage included the figure is closing to an astonishing USD 14T!
... total household debt increased by $32 billion (0.2%) to $13.54 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2018
https://www.newyorkfed.org/newsevents/news/research/2019/20190212
It is also noteworthy to know what it inside that debt:
Do you want to be really scared?
Check this out:
US NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK : USD 22 TRILLIONS. DEBT PER CITIZEN: USD 67,000
and counting...
That is the debt of the government (federal + local g's) of the USA, compared to the first one, that is private debt.
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
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Post 50129729 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.36h):
... total household debt increased by $32 billion (0.2%) to $13.54 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2018
Everyone is drowning in debt because people aren't being paid for what they produce. Time to tax the billionaires.
Or, putting it in another way, the rise in productivity hasn't been driven by worker, but by machinery, that haven't been taxed properly.
Of course you cannot tax a machine, but you can tax the owner of such machine, or capital: the corporations.
BUT guess what happened to corporate tax in the U.S. in the last decades?
So, no, taxing the billionaires is not the right way to do so.
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Post 50130591 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.36h):
According to HuffPost, on average people spend about $650 on Alcohol every month.
That means if you cut your drinking habit by 50% and spent the money you saved on #Bitcoin, you could invest $325 or about .08 $BTC, at these prices, monthly.
In 12.5 months, you’d have 1 BTC.
💡
https://twitter.com/mrmichaelnye/status/1105227653257314304?s=21But but what about me saturdayzzzz ??
But BTC is the reason i drink! I bought @20K!
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Post 50130934 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.36h):
According to HuffPost, on average people spend about $650 on Alcohol every month.
That means if you cut your drinking habit by 50% and spent the money you saved on #Bitcoin, you could invest $325 or about .08 $BTC, at these prices, monthly.
In 12.5 months, you’d have 1 BTC.
💡
https://twitter.com/mrmichaelnye/status/1105227653257314304?s=21But but what about me saturdayzzzz ??
But BTC is the reason i drink! I bought @20K!
My last Smerit to eas the pain.... and continue the HODL....
20k Will be the start
X5 = 100K Then X3 and we are @ HM shedule for the next ATH run (North of that price)
GoGoGo HM follow follow follow
BTCI craft well detailed post on the overall debt burden on the US houseold, edited with graphs, links and reasonings: nothing.
I reply with a mildly witty answer (biting an easy bait), got Merited.
This thread is so fun!
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Post 50130979 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.36h):
Yes it is
And NOW i had 1 to send
Giving back that merit, because of course I didn't buy at 20K, I did only for the fun in the answer
But now i feel dirty so I have to clean sheet my conscience.
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Post 50131263 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.36h):
Ok, I like this one and I did in the past.
Very conservative back of the envelope calculations.
Let's say Gold is the only Store of Value World Needs Today (not true, conservative).
Gold capitalisation is 7.5 Trillion.
Suppose Bitcoin Matches Gold as Store of Value (conservative, Bitcoin will be better)
Each one of them would be worth 3.75 Trillions
There will eventually be 21 million Bitcoin (conservative, 2140 is far in the future)
Each Bitcoin would then be worth roughly 180,000 USD. (conservative, USD is losing value constantly)
So, if you think Bitcoin (aka Digital Gold) will match (physical) Gold as Store of Value, his terminal value will be 180,000 USD.
47x current valuation.
Hope this isn't getting devoured too early.
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Post 50133539 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.36h):
But BTC is the reason i drink! I bought @20K!
Do you believe in it?
If no, then just wait and once the price will cross 20k then get rid of them immediately .
Your money your choice, this is the beauty of Bitcoin.
I know that you are talking hypothetical here, Pamoldar, but selling just above $20k would not be a well-thought out plan.
Also, I doubt that fillippone is serious about buying at $20k and implying that he did not buy further after that.
If you believed enough to buy at $20k, and you have not bought since, and you held all the way down, then there is a time, now, to buy or continue to buy. Bring down your average price per BTC and likely increase your selling options at lower prices.
For example, buying the same amount of dollar value of BTC at $4k as what was bought at $20k would cut your average price per BTC to the mid-point between $20k and $4k, which would be $12k. Many variations on that, too, and nothing wrong with selling on the way up, as long as, from my approach to the matter, the portion that you are selling is sold for higher prices than bought.
I like the fact that you advise fillippone, but I don't think it's worth selling
BTC for less than $25,000, especially if you can buy them for $10,000 for $6,000 and finally for $4,000.
Edit:I don't think there's any point in selling your
BTC.
I made clear suggesting the idea I bought my BTC at 20K was only a joke to answer micgoossens post, I also returned the merit he sent to me because of that.
I wrote some good stuff today, whey are we only discussing the bad one?
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Post 50134179 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.36h):
[edited out]
I also returned the merit he sent to me because of that.
Stop presenting fantasy regarding how merit works, here.
There is no such thing as "returning merit" in the context that you suggest.
That was part of the joke.
But this is less and less funny the more we talk about that.
My point is this thread is fun, but as I am relatively new here I still have to work out to understand how the attention span works here.
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Post 50144690 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.36h):
Ummm these girls don’t look 18 to me
[snipped picture to be WO friendly and don’t piss off anyone]
Where boobs?
Dat ass tho
The BSV dude? Probably.
It’s getting worse and worse
Cuban national twerking team practising at my pool party yesterday
https://twitter.com/calvinayre/status/1105762349397565440?s=21
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Post 50144796 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.36h):
Guys. You gonna quote and re-quote that picture for 10 more pages, aren't you?
^^ There you go, I edited my last message
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Post 50164751 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.36h):
CME futures have always been traded an order of magnitude more in volumes.
Bad news, but not dramatic.
Bad news for Gemini used as a venue for price fixing, this is particularly true as they wanted to use that same pricing for fixing price of an hypothetical ETF.
Please remember what I am used to say: “It is not Bitcoin that neeeds Wall Street, it is Wall Street that (desperately) needs Bitcoin”!
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Post 50171412 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.36h):
thought we'd done the
https://www.politicalcompass.org/testit's not perfect, but quite thought-provoking
i always come out more wishy-washy than i'd like to imagine myself (The Khan was a pussy blahblah)
will do it later and might publish here
off to a coffee-morning for the homeless smh
No surprises here
Surprise for me. I'd have imagined I'd be more "libertarian", as I lean heavily into laissez faire, including the bad consequences of poor choices.
Useless quiz is far too statist to get proper picture
Since I'm here...
Economic Left/Right: 5.5
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.26
Close enough to Friedrich von Hayek. I'm satisfied.
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Post 50223673 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.37h):
Google analytics for "women rock climbing"
Downtrending globally since last week I am afraid to report but regionally on a uptrend...buy the dip.
United States
Global
#literalstronghands
Does Google trends go back enough in time to catch the early interest from Italy?
https://www.touringclub.it/notizie-di-viaggio/in-mostra-a-torino-il-nudo-sulle-alpi/immagine/3
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Post 50237503 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.37h):
So far it seems Europe has been pumping and the rest of the world is dumping? Every morning Europe time we're up some $40-50 then back down during the night. I remember the old good eraly morning Chinese pump times. That was cool!
Europe is drowning in debt.
GDP growth is scarce and we know it can’t go on forever.
We are bracing ourself buying hard money dumping shitcoin FIAT money.
Let me dream about this.
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Post 50309696 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.38h):
Woobull charts are the best tools I found to have a grasp of where bitcoin is headed long term.
I am not discussing short term TA speculation stuff here.
I am thinking about investment decisions spanning months if not years in the future.
I will try to include as many possible of such charts in my monthly updates as this ARE the tools to have morte people really understanding what bitcoin is all about.
Otherwise is just another toy to speculate with. I have nothing agains speculations, I like short term traders too as they provide liquidity to markets, but I think their trading drivers are way less intresting than this stuff.
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Post 50320393 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.38h):
A nice read on Bitcoin Market dominance.
We all know it’s a flawed measure, but correcting this measure to take in account the traded volumes, the story is quite different:
Bitcoin’s Market Dominance” by John-Paul ThorbjornsenBack to memes now!
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Post 50328605 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.38h):
Is there any measurement for Doge transactions? Just a curious about a comparison with bitcoin transaction.
You see the green band?
There, that’s DOGE plus ALL the other shitcoins except ETH.
Link to my post where there’s the link to original medium post where this graph has been sourced:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg50320393#msg50320393So if you want to contact the author via Twitter:
https://twitter.com/jpthor__
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Post 50358377 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.38h):
Can't believe anyone hasn't posted it yet:
which Central Bankster do you prefer today ?
FED's Alan Greenspan:
https://twitter.com/Fractalwatch/status/1111259500466573318or
ECB's Praet?
https://twitter.com/ecb/status/1105494215381913601?s=20
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Post 50358575 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.38h):
Can't believe anyone hasn't posted it yet:
they have, but still 9 hours is a long time itt
Ah!
Sorry, I stopped checking literally a couple of posts later.
Yeah, what they are claiming is true: what I wouldn't expect is how candid is their way to approach this: trust is a fragile matter, once broken, it’s hard to recover.
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Post 50364092 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.39h):
Must admit, that's a cool af ATM!
The machine is a one-way ATM, it only sells BTC, it doesn't buy it.
.... Well, not so cool then..!
Very cool machine stopping you selling your bitcoins when your mind is weak!
HODL!
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Post 50381419 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.39h):
^
But you know its Saturday, today we have to crack our head around whats gonna be the first alcoholic drink of the evening
Decided to end a shit month in a nice way. treats!
*edit* its just breathing now */edit*
Barolo. That's the best wine in the world, in my humble opinion.
Cannot recognize the bottle thou: what is it? Conterno?
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Post 50384484 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.39h):
Moscow mule in an horrible glass?
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Post 50391116 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.39h):
Good morning WO’s gang.
I wrote my monthly gibberish on Bitcoin.
Bitcoin Bearish or Bullish? Here my thoughts: MARCH UPDATE.
Help me improving that sharing your thoughts!
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Post 50392526 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.39h):
Your monthly update posts come off as a bit long.. and difficult to take in so many ideas in one post.
You might consider posting each of the chunks (idea/indicators areas) as separate posts.. just a thought....
Yes, it is long.
It’s a collection of various ideas: Bitcoin is a complicated matter, so ideas need do be well detailed and explained. I don’t think it mus be read trough in one go. It can be “bookmarked” and used as a reference. I do that myself: it’s a sort of assessment of ideas, I need to keep track of all those, because they need to be separated from the daily white noise.
but still, overall, I like that you put in various indicators and ideas, and took some time and effort to describe what they are and make some of your own assessments and analysis, too.
Oh yes... a LOT of time!
But I think it’s worth to do that for the reason I explained above...and in the interaction on the thread I might also learn something new!
I added that thread to my watchlist to perhaps catch any interactions that might happen there and maybe to try to see if some of your presentation might evolve with time. Thanks for putting the update link in this thread.
I always try to improve and get that better and better. Is some analysis becomes irrelevant, I will cut it (already done that). Or even if some analysis I stays relevant but I cannot innovate node (halving being the one... need to find new evidences for next month!)
Thanks for the feedback!
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Post 50395568 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.39h):
Your monthly update posts come off as a bit long..
...
If this is an inside joke I haven’t been here long enough to get it...
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Post 50395677 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.39h):
Your monthly update posts come off as a bit long..
...
If this is an inside joke I haven’t been here long enough to get it...
just that JJG is the one that says its a bit long..... nobody write posts as long as he does....
I write only a long post a month. Other ones have minimums required words. Or memes.
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Post 50397771 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.39h):
C'mon Bitcoin it's time to decide
Pumpin’Green always better.
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Post 50442474 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.39h):
Many of those metrics are included in my report in signature. As I stated there not all of them are meaningful.
The only one I do care about is the hash rate: The network is now almost 6x more secure.
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Post 50452665 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.40h):
Inspired by Kurious' recent post, I'd like to post about some related things I've been thinking about:
It seems there are two schools of thought regarding the bubble cycle we've just begun.
- That it will be the same length as every other cycle, as dictated by the halvings. Bubble top: late 2021/early 2022
- Or, that the cycles have been lengthening, and therefore our current cycle will be the longest and hit the top later than in previous cycles. Bubble top: late 2022/early 2023
There's a great debate, on this exact subject, between two of the best analysts on crypto twitter here:
https://twitter.com/filbfilb/status/1078316170493734918It seems that scenario 2 is the consensus among the majority of analysts (and previously myself) - that the next bubble will gain a lower percentage than previous bubbles, and it will take longer. Something like this:
However, there are reasons to believe that may not be the case:
[/SNIP]
Whoa. You have to be luck to intercept deep thought posts in WO, where it get quickly devoured in memes and one liners. I’m going to cross reference it in my
monthly post to scan for good analysis..
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Post 50460128 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.40h):
How many people in this thread run their own node? One? Two?
One!
BTC +LNThis thread doesn't allow signatures, but if you could read mine you would find a guide (in italian,sorry) on how to run a full BTC+ LN node on a Raspberry Pi.
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Post 50473425 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.40h):
BTC@ 3800$ -----> 1
BTC = 1
BTCBTC@ 5000$------>1
BTC = 1
BTCforeseeable future
BTC@ 20 000$---->1
BTC = 1
BTCBTC@ 100 000$--->1
BTC = 1
BTCAnd the story continuous
That's why my portfolio looks like this. I think Mic portfolio looks the same, but has more volume.
Something fishy here!
My portfolio look exactly the same!
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Post 50475897 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.40h):
BTC@ 3800$ -----> 1
BTC = 1
BTCBTC@ 5000$------>1
BTC = 1
BTCforeseeable future
BTC@ 20 000$---->1
BTC = 1
BTCBTC@ 100 000$--->1
BTC = 1
BTCAnd the story continuous
That's why my portfolio looks like this. I think Mic portfolio looks the same, but has more volume.
Something fishy here!
My portfolio look exactly the same!
Hmm... Maybe we have the same investment plans?
Great minds think alike.
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Post 50477477 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.40h):
Bitcoin just broke an all-time high in transactions/block.
The record has now been broken twice in the last 10 days.
Dec 20, 2017: 2722 tx/block
Mar 26, 2019: 2734 tx/block
Mar 31, 2019: 2745 tx/block
https://twitter.com/kerooke/status/1114247683340812288?s=21Blocks are full, Segwit allows more transactions in a block, LN caps fees: mempool doesn’t give a fuck.
EDIT nobody will ever see because this post is now buried under tenths of fresh WO’s pages, but I want to write for my future reference:
Probably this spike is only due to Veriblock spamming the blockchain:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg50520454#msg50520454
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Post 50477535 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.40h):
I saw someone posted while submitting my post....standard while posting on WO, but I didn’t expect this...
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Post 50477591 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.40h):
David Puell is one of the best. AT on indicators with a rationale is way better than drawing arcs on candlesticks.
That’s also why I tend to put so many indicators of @woobull in my monthly chew.
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Post 50477614 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.40h):
Bitcoin just broke an all-time high in transactions/block.
The record has now been broken twice in the last 10 days.
Dec 20, 2017: 2722 tx/block
Mar 26, 2019: 2734 tx/block
Mar 31, 2019: 2745 tx/block
https://twitter.com/kerooke/status/1114247683340812288?s=21Blocks are full, Segwit allows more transactions in a block, LN caps fees: mempool doesn’t give a fuck.
NP, yours is better deleted my one
Merited you for the FairPlay: I was thinking of deleting mine because you know that one: proof of work...time stamps...
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Post 50500100 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.40h):
What caused price surge in BTC?
I collected a few evidences, from the most simple to the most convolute. So I like the last one!
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Post 50500352 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.40h):
Exactly, as I predicted earlier $6-6.5 in Summer, $10-15k Fall and new ATH in December 2019.
I don't expect a new high until well into 2021 myself. And when it does hit it's going to be pretty electrifying. Regaining $1000 was the culmination of a seemingly endless slog. It was more relief than euphoria. Next time around there'll be more appetite and more expectation.
My predictions -
End of 2019 - $6,500 - $7,500
Price by the halving (May 2020) - $9,000 - $10,000 ish
New ATH - Some time in 2021
Over $100,000 - 2022
Quote me damn it
I am going to save this post for 2022 and hang it on my wall, behind a 2 meter high statue of your avatar in my living room if you are right.
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Post 50512555 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.40h):
I have been in bitcoin since a fair amount of time now.
But it still amazes me: this guy moved 36 MIOS USD spending 23.07 USD.
How much would it cost to move such amount of money with traditional banking system?
No to think about moving this amount in GOLD (this is why Bitcoin, digital gold, is actually BETTER than physical gold).
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Post 50512715 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.40h):
How much would it cost to move such amount of money with traditional banking system?
Where I live - $0.
I don't understand why this particular meme gives people erections.
Bull fucking shit, when you transfer large amounts especially internationally they start going off a percentage.
No one is handling 30,000,000 for free.
I never did a 30,000,000 transfer , but i can guarantee it is not free.
For sure a money transfer outside the banking zone (EU/US for example) is not free, for sure. Not to mention more exotic destinations.
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Post 50512802 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.40h):
Bull fucking shit, when you transfer large amounts especially internationally they start going off a percentage.
No one is handling 30,000,000 for free.
Internationally yes. Nationally, no. But you might live in a third world country like the USA. But for those amounts internationally you're going to be able to negotiate rates, not get hit with the dunderhead retail rate.
Yes, I was thinking about an international money transfer.
National (i.e. within banking union like SEPA) money transfer are free.
Remeber anyway just holding USD 30,000,000 in a bank is going to cost you massive amounts of money.
In some country this charge would be explicit (Switzerland charges you money to keep it in banks over a certain amount).
In some other country it would be hidden in some other costs ( taxes, hidden charges, etc.)
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Post 50513261 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.40h):
What is this a graph of ?
Users on the forum.
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Post 50513336 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.40h):
Yes, I was thinking about an international money transfer.
National (i.e. within banking union like SEPA) money transfer are free.
Remeber anyway just holding USD 30,000,000 in a bank is going to cost you massive amounts of money.
In some country this charge would be explicit (Switzerland charges you money to keep it in banks over a certain amount).
In some other country it would be hidden in some other costs ( taxes, hidden charges, etc.)
Time is what people should focus on. I've heard of international transfers taking 10 days or more to more obscure parts of the world. In this day and age that's positively medieval.
Time IS money.
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Post 50513734 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.40h):
I have been in bitcoin since a fair amount of time now.
But it still amazes me: this guy moved 36 MIOS USD spending 23.07 USD.
How much would it cost to move such amount of money with traditional banking system? No to think about moving this amount in GOLD (this is why Bitcoin, digital gold, is actually BETTER than physical gold).
0 in Spain unless you are an ignorant pleb that doesn't know any better. Not the case of someone with that amount of money. So 0, and instant transfer.
It has been a good amount of DECADES since I pay ANYTHING for a transfer. The instant thing is recent though (it was like 24-48 hours before)
Can you transfer 32 Millions to the US for free? are you sure?
I bet you have free money transfer in SEPA (EU+ SUI) only.
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Post 50518301 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.40h):
Electrum Faces Another Fake Wallet Attack, Users Reported to Lose Millions of DollarsBitcoin (BTC) wallet service Electrum is facing an ongoing Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack on its servers, the company reported on Twitter on April 7.
According to tech news website The Next Web, the new attack has caused users to lose estimatedly millions of dollars to date, with a single person alone reportedly losing about $140,000.
The ongoing DoS attack was allegedly launched by a malicious botnet of more than 140,000 machines, and aims to steal users’ Bitcoin by referring them to fake versions of Electrum software. Citing an unnamed security researcher, the article says that the recent DoS attack is deployed on a new level and was launched about a week ago.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/electrum-faces-another-fake-wallet-attack-users-reported-to-lose-millions-of-dollars This is why you need to run your own node + electrs.
Only way to be a first class bitcoiners: don’t trust verify.
Monetary sovereignty comes at a little cost
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Post 50520454 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.40h):
Transaction spike is probably due only to Veriblock spamming bitcoin blocks with their OP_Return transactions.
This is even suggested on the commment to the original tweet you posted.
I said something about that in my
monthly analysis, but basically they are doing transactions on BTC blockchain, effectively using space on BTC blocks, and using their own protocol (Proof-of-Proof) trying to secure other weak blockchains (say a random shitcoin with low hashing power) using Bitcoin's Proof-of-Work blockchain and its massive security to protect them against 51% attacks. As they put transactions from other blockchains on the Bitcoin network, that takes space in a Bitcoin block, some estimates say up to 25%, crowding out legit BTC transactions and pushing fees higher.
This is only a quick and dirty explaination, more at
www.veriblock.com.
Edit: now I really regret
getting so excited about this spike a couple of days ago...
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Post 50525554 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.40h):
A graph of the number of confirmed Bitcoin transactions over the past two years. The dynamics are obvious
You could add the graph of bullish posts.
Everyone is so bullish.
Is that a bull trap? Don't know. Don't care. That's why I HODL and don't trade.
Sadly,
Transaction number has anything to do with adoption or bull loading their guns: it is all about Veriblock.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg50520454#msg50520454And I am sorry about that.
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Post 50525935 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.40h):
BULL-
market officialy started .... good old
China-
FUD, is this the good old days back again?
This perfectly adds to the usual old scheme:
China buying gold in anticipation of Yuan devaluation, and banning Bitcoin because wants to prevent capital outflows.
2015 cycle is not repeating only in prices, apparently.
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Post 50528125 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.40h):
I have been in bitcoin since a fair amount of time now.
But it still amazes me: this guy moved 36 MIOS USD spending 23.07 USD.
How much would it cost to move such amount of money with traditional banking system? No to think about moving this amount in GOLD (this is why Bitcoin, digital gold, is actually BETTER than physical gold).
0 in Spain unless you are an ignorant pleb that doesn't know any better. Not the case of someone with that amount of money. So 0, and instant transfer.
It has been a good amount of DECADES since I pay ANYTHING for a transfer. The instant thing is recent though (it was like 24-48 hours before)
Can you transfer 32 Millions to the US for free? are you sure?
I bet you have free money transfer in SEPA (EU+ SUI) only.
Yep, you are right. The fee will surely be (way) higher (than BTC) in that case.
Again on yesterday's topic:
https://twitter.com/longhashdata/status/1115399939771617280Costs in this infographic looks exagerated to me, at least for a domestic wire transfer.
They might consider "hidden" costs of monthly fees.
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Post 50530730 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.40h):
So OT
This evening lfc and City. Tomorrow juve and i think barca but very though game IMO
Then Sunday whi is pre-F***inf-pared ?? For finally
GOT 
Fast forward my life to Sunday, please
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Post 50539567 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.41h):
Woobull always provide good analysis, with a fundamental “insight”. I think plotting AT stuff on those has more value than doing the same on price, where white noise and manipulation can easily trigger unwanted movements.
Studying those to put them into my next monthly analysis.
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Post 50548134 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.41h):
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Post 50548676 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.41h):
Ps. I usually don’t indulge in memes.. but I’m waiting for the second half. GO JUVE!!!
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Post 50552977 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.41h):
Bitcoin broke 500k payments per day for the first time since Jan 2018.
What is a Bitcoin payment? How do you recognise a “payment”? What’s the difference between a “transaction” and a “payment”?
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Post 50564816 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.41h):
Wall Observer Statistics, number of responses per month and BTCitcoin value at the end of each month: Wall Observer BTC/USD Replies +/- Replies BTC Value end Month
2018 Jan / Wall Observer BTC/USD - 386,480 > 5,680 10,138
2018 Feb / Wall Observer BTC/USD - 396,480 > 10,000 10,629
2018 Mar / Wall Observer BTC/USD - 402,460 > 5,980 7,119
2018 Apr / Wall Observer BTC/USD - 407,757 > 5,297 9,275
2018 May / Wall Observer BTC/USD - 410,507 > 2,750 7,559
2018 Jun / Wall Observer BTC/USD - 416,730 > 6,223 6,457
2018 Jul / Wall Observer BTC/USD - 419,443 > 2,713 7,848
2018 Aug / Wall Observer BTC/USD - 424,622 > 5,179 6,935
2018 Sep / Wall Observer BTC/USD - 426,942 > 2,320 6,633
2018 Oct / Wall Observer BTC/USD - 430,939 > 3,997 6,642
2018 Nov / Wall Observer BTC/USD - 437,199 > 6,260 4,015
2018 Dec / Wall Observer BTC/USD - 446,510 > 9,311 3,800
2019 Jan / Wall Observer BTC/USD - 452,916 > 6,406 3,459
2019 Feb / Wall Observer BTC/USD - 456,360 > 3,444 3,900
2019 Mar / Wall Observer BTC/USD - 464,797 > 8,437 4,103
If you think it's okay, I'll keep the statistics updated every month of the current year.And if you do not like it, or you think this is useless, there's no problem, I throw it in the trash.
But I think that WO deserves a monthly statistic, in my opinion.
The increase in visits is reciprocal with the increase and decrease in the price of BTC.
More price = More visits
Less price = Less visits
I know we all know this, but it's good to see it in numbers, in our thread, It will only be published on the 1st of each month.
Do you want a monthly statistic in WO?
I am working on something like this, for the monthly statistics of the current year in this format, I will improve the presentation, and historical statistics in an quote format.
Ok?
Why asking for permission?
We are bitcoiners, we should be anarco-crypto-liberists (not liberals).
Just do it, worst thing it can happen, someone will scroll past your post.
I would also add a link to the most merited post for every month!
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Post 50570570 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.41h):
Yet another Endowment fund invest in cryptocurrencies.
Harvard is Latest Major Institutional Investor in Cryptocurrency
https://insidebitcoins.com/news/harvard-is-latest-major-institutional-investor-in-cryptocurrency/220868Executive Summary:
The investment was in a company called Blockcstack which sold 95.8 million Blockstack Tokens to Harvard Management along with two other investors. While Harvard’s share of the tokens is less than five million it does represent a significant institutional invest directly in blockchain tokens that are not traded openly in the way Ethereum, Bitcoin and XRP are.
Well, i have two considerations.
- 1. How comes a reputed institution, where the sharpest mind are nurtured, decides to invest in something that is borderline with Scam?
- 2. How comes an Endowment fund are so rich? Tuition fees are reinvested in the school or are meant to grow this mass of money that need to be put at work outside "the campus" . I am not from the U.S. s, so this puzzles me about the US educational system. If an endowment fund has 1% of all the bitcoin ever mined (quick back of the envelope calculations convert that in 1 Billion USD), whw students are gathering piles of debt to pay that?
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Post 50578661 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.41h):
I am working on something like this, for the monthly statistics of the current year in this format, I will improve the presentation, and historical statistics in an quote format.
Ok?
Why asking for permission?
We are bitcoiners, we should be anarco-crypto-liberists (not liberals).
Just do it, worst thing it can happen, someone will scroll past your post.
I would also add a link to the most merited post for every month!
If I know, but WO is not a thread of statistics, I think it's more ethical to ask if they like the proposal. I do not want to publish something that does not interest anyone.
The issue of merits will not be in the statistics, it is very controversial and in WO there is talk of BTC, not of merits.
I, for one, would think that such a tabulation would be very useful in regards to Bitcoin price movement. For several years now, 'subfora topic daily page count' has been one of the informal indicators that has factored into my sentiment analysis. Your thoughts seem to be another view into the same sort of sentiment analysis. I commend you for thinking about taking on such a task.
I might be wrong because I could be slightly drunk after guzzling more than half a bottle of Valpolicella. But I think VB1001 you are doing the sum of the wrong column in your spreadsheet. This thread hasn’t 1,374,000 replies...
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Post 50582680 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.41h):
Buy Bitcoin
I do agree with this image, I like the conveyed message, but I find a little bit misleading and intellectually unfair.
What would you get if you had put your 20$ in 1y T bills (assuming those as risk free investments) rolling and compounding interests?
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Post 50586618 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.41h):
I'm actually a bit of a collector (or want to be when I have the space) of the vintage 80s micros. My only decent one at the moment is the Epson HX-20 (first laptop), it has a built-in dot matrix and micro cassette, I use it for printing out wallet seeds and passwords private keys etc. Very cool. Also, my son enjoys learning to type on it, because of the printer.
heh i have a bit of a collection of early (early to me, i envy you guys with the serious old iron stuff) computers too.
* timex sinclair ts 1000 (zx-81 clone) with 16k ram expansion and sparky printer - my 1st computer
* commodore 64 with tape drive and 2x1541 floppy drives
* trs-80 model 100, looks very similar to your Epson HX-20 but minus the printer (very early portable laptop type computer) with 2400 (or maybe 1200 baud) modem
* trs-80 model one with expansion interface, 48k ram, tape drive, 4x5.25 floppy drives
* lnw-80 (trs-80 clone, uses trs-80 5.25 drives plus two shugart 8 inch drives)
* trs-80 model 4P (two) with 128k ram, bank switched, runs cp/m as well as native trsdos - a portable computer the size and weight of a sewing machine, but it has a handle and is fully self contained. find an outlet and youre up and running, has two 5.25 drives and a green screen plus a built in 2400 baud modem
* apple mac classic and mac plus (plus an external apple hard drive)
* apple lisa (two) - the later lisas, not the 1st model
* one of the 1st ibm clones (cant remember the name), 8088 (8086?), 8 bit expansion slots.. love that HUGE red power lever. took the hard drive like 5 minutes to spin down on power off.
everything boots.
all work but the floppies are getting to be hit or miss now. there are various software/hardware adapters to use another computer to simulate floppies/hard drives.. gotta seriously look into them.
i cut my teeth on those things. all have a fond place in my heart, many many hours of fun and learning.
That's actually a pretty nice collection you have there. God I used to love the c64, I never had one but my cousins did and we absolutely killed that thing. 80s tech is the best, movies too.
You forgot the music. That was the best. Period.
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Post 50606074 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.41h):
The ones telling you to wait for the dip are accumulating right now.
Waiting for the dip.
Many reasons why I am waiting for the dip.
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Post 50614536 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.41h):
Another day another HODL let us proceed accumulating precious coins - HODLing and repeat.
HODLING in bull markets is for sissies.
HODLING in bear markets is for men.
HODLING in bear and dull markets increasing your HODLStash is for real men.
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Post 50614998 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.41h):
Coin Desk: LedgerX Reveals Bid to Beat Bakkt to Physical Bitcoin Futures Launch
https://www.coindesk.com/ledgerx-reveals-bid-to-beat-bakkt-to-physical-bitcoin-futures-launchHopefully they will succeed ASAP, otherwise there will be another round of: "When BAKKT?" "When LEdgerX?"
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Post 50615771 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.41h):
SV is down 25% in the last 7 days
If you have any, I suggest you transfer them all into bitcoin before it gets really ugly
I thought it’s already ugly.
I thought it has always been ugly.
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Post 50616919 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.41h):
Yet another Endowment fund invest in cryptocurrencies.
Harvard is Latest Major Institutional Investor in Cryptocurrency
https://insidebitcoins.com/news/harvard-is-latest-major-institutional-investor-in-cryptocurrency/220868Executive Summary:
The investment was in a company called Blockcstack which sold 95.8 million Blockstack Tokens to Harvard Management along with two other investors. While Harvard’s share of the tokens is less than five million it does represent a significant institutional invest directly in blockchain tokens that are not traded openly in the way Ethereum, Bitcoin and XRP are.
Well, i have two considerations.
- 1. How comes a reputed institution, where the sharpest mind are nurtured, decides to invest in something that is borderline with Scam?
- 2. How comes an Endowment fund are so rich? Tuition fees are reinvested in the school or are meant to grow this mass of money that need to be put at work outside "the campus" . I am not from the U.S. s, so this puzzles me about the US educational system. If an endowment fund has 1% of all the bitcoin ever mined (quick back of the envelope calculations convert that in 1 Billion USD), whw students are gathering piles of debt to pay that?
Turns out that 94% of endowments funds are invested in crypto:
https://www.ccn.com/shock-survey-94-of-endowments-already-invested-in-crypto-industry
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Post 50620729 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.42h):
What happens if an exchange delists every possible shitcoin?
It’s not going to be an exchange anymore, but a 1 BTC=1 BTC static ticker.
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Post 50621577 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.42h):
Dragons add a twist to genealogy plots.
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Post 50625579 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.42h):
I am not sure I understand the goals of libertarians. If they want to build their own country, they have to be able to defend it.
A small group of 40 - 50 heavily armed people will never do. A decent defense force means a large population and a taxation systems to support it. Gathering a large population is easy, you simply need to gather the world’s refugees and offer them something better. You might even gain the support of Western governments if you promise to take their unwanted refugee claimants. Israel was invented to house Jewish refugees and the model is replicable.
But all you have done is recreate the existing state system, with taxes. And that doesn’t seem to be the point.
I think their utopistic point is that in a libertarian world, organisations would adopt sound money (say, BTC) instead of FIAT Money (money that can be printed at will to finance any implausible war a government would want to fight), every nation-scale war would be simply too dear to finance, hence the necessity of every national scale defense would be unnecessary.
F. A. Hayek once said: I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.
Another important point is the fundamental difference regarding the approach. In the current system the approach is TOP DOWN: you have to pay taxes because the government decided you have to. In the second system you have to pay the “fees” because you exercise the option to join that particular community. The outcome of paying might be similar, but the underlying logic is totally different.
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Post 50625983 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.42h):
I hope all governments in the Indian subcontinent will follow the same if some sense prevails into their mind, especially my home country. Without any legit regulation
India is suffering from Brain drain because the good amount of the crypto enthusiastic moving out from the Country. Zebpay is a big example.
France will push for the European Union to adopt a regulatory framework on cryptocurrencies similar to the one it brought in last week at a national level, becoming the first major country to do so, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Monday.
https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-france-cryptocurrencies/france-to-ask-eu-partners-to-adopt-its-cryptocurrency-regulation-idUKKCN1RR1Y0Did you noticed how many times "tax", "taxes" ,"taxation" or "control" is repeated throughout the article?
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Post 50628343 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.42h):
I am not sure I understand the goals of libertarians. If they want to build their own country, they have to be able to defend it.
A small group of 40 - 50 heavily armed people will never do. A decent defense force means a large population and a taxation systems to support it. Gathering a large population is easy, you simply need to gather the world’s refugees and offer them something better. You might even gain the support of Western governments if you promise to take their unwanted refugee claimants. Israel was invented to house Jewish refugees and the model is replicable.
But all you have done is recreate the existing state system, with taxes. And that doesn’t seem to be the point.
I think their utopistic point is that in a libertarian world, organisations would adopt sound money (say, BTC) instead of FIAT Money (money that can be printed at will to finance any implausible war a government would want to fight), every nation-scale war would be simply too dear to finance, hence the necessity of every national scale defense would be unnecessary.
F. A. Hayek once said: I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.
Another important point is the fundamental difference regarding the approach. In the current system the approach is TOP DOWN: you have to pay taxes because the government decided you have to. In the second system you have to pay the “fees” because you exercise the option to join that particular community. The outcome of paying might be similar, but the underlying logic is totally different.
That’s an interesting point about wars being too expensive to fight. I will need to think about that further.
It is not entirely my work.
Theres' a lot about it in this excellent book:
The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central BankingI would suggest everyone to read it, bitcoiner or nocoiner.
Being a nocoiner after having read this book is acid test for
stupidity stubbornness.
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Post 50628636 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.42h):
Player Scores 161 BTC Single Spin Jackpot in Cloudbet’s Bitcoin CasinoTow humble considerations:
- 1. Good luck retrieving those in case of a genuine win.
- 2. Something fishy here: there is the article, then a slot of advertisement and below this reading:
"This is a paid-for submitted press release. CCN does not endorse, nor is responsible for any material included below and isn’t responsible for any damages or losses connected with any products or services mentioned in the press release. CCN urges readers to conduct their own research with due diligence into the company, product or service mentioned in the press release." (bold font mine)
So probably a borderline scam website.
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Post 50629479 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.42h):
[SNIP]
So probably a borderline scam website.
[/li]
[/list]
All gambling is borderline scam. The entertainment argument is very weak. Poker & co are not gambling.
I do agree, I mean, gambling website are borderline on the wrong (scam) side of the border!
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Post 50632355 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.42h):
Why adoption of Segwit should benefit processing times? SegWit transactions aren’t prioritised in blocks... so where does the save in time come from? Mempool isn’t empty neither...
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Post 50632571 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.42h):
Why adoption of Segwit should benefit processing times? SegWit transactions aren’t prioritised in blocks... so where does the save in time come from? Mempool isn’t empty neither...
I could speculate than as Segwit tx's do need less effective blocksize space whatever fee you specify gets higher priority over similarly priced legacy tx's. Of course if the mempool is as empty as to almost guarantee next block inclusion you wouldn't feel any delay improvement but... on average you probably do presuming the fee is the same.
Also, the more amount of people/service providers transition to segwit the more empty space there is available in the next blocks. So yes, I do agree.
A miner includes transaction on a block only on economic incentives.
Economic incentive is fee/space so sat/byte. So Segwit hasn’t any advantage on this.
I just received bitcoin Ops newsletter: seems to confirm my thesis:
. Switching to native segwit in order to reduce a transaction’s weight allows you to reduce its fee by the same percentage without changing how long it’ll take to confirm—all other things being equal.
But all other things aren’t equal. Because the transactions use less block weight, there’s more weight available for other transactions. If the supply of available block weight increases and demand remains constant, we expect prices to go down (unless they’re already at the default minimum relay fee). This means more people spending native segwit inputs lowers the fee not just for those spenders but for everyone who creates transactions—including wallets and services that support sending to bech32 addresses.
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Post 50639089 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.42h):
By Christmas time they will be able to run and pull Santa’s sledge with unprecedented speed and precision, putting Rudolph and co out of work.
Not only low productivity jobs are going to disappear, also mild magic animals.
Only fully fledged mythical creatures (Drogon and others) can survive Boston Dynamics.
We are fucked.
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Post 50641114 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.42h):
Unpopular opinion: Delisting coins is satisfying short term, but ultimately bad. It's giving the perception that exchanges are king-makers or legitimatizers. They are not.
https://twitter.com/jimmysong/status/1118339139970248704?s=21Will there follow more coins to be delisted? So many shady sh*tcoins ....
Provided that i already stated what is the ultimate consequence of the exchanges delisting shitcoins:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg50620729#msg50620729About your statement the problem is on general perception, not in the reality or the exchanges utility function:
REALITY: If it not bitcoin, it is a scam.
REALITY: Economic subjects (Exchanges,m users, scammers) react to economic incentives trying to maximise their wealth, hopefully long term, possibly short term.
The rest is FUD/misunderstatement/smoke in your eyes.
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Post 50642563 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.42h):
Bitcoin is working for what Satoshi meant it for: unseizable and uncensorable Store of Value!
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Post 50650889 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.42h):
haha ^
unconnectedly: cheer up it might never happen
https://markets.businessinsider.com/currencies/news/bitcoin-price-may-take-22-years-to-recover-2019-4-1028119753
Interpol, the world's leading police-cooperation body, aims to "connect police for a safer world." Although the organization's constitution states that Interpol cannot engage in "any intervention or activities of a political, military, religious or racial character," it is increasingly being subverted by autocratic regimes seeking to pursue their exiled political opponents. The number of Red Notices (a type of arrest request issued through Interpol) has increased tenfold in the past fifteen years. Those targeted face the risk of arrest if they travel across borders; have difficulties obtaining visas and open bank accounts; and suffer reputational damage. Interpol remains opaque and lacks accountability for its actions. Recent reforms have started to address some of these issues. But more needs to be done to prevent the hijacking, repurposing, and weaponizing of Interpol by today's globalized authoritarian regimes.
This is embarrassing.
UBS is a global bank, willing to compete on a planetary scale for financial domination, and all one of his analyst can produce is a really cheap analysis on historical returns of completely unrelated assets on different times?
I am fairly surprised I didn’t read the word “tulips” in this piece.
I want my three minutes back.
Edit: this is embarrassing.
More than one year on the forum and still cannot properly quote the right message.
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Post 50668931 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.42h):
In 1967, Italian engineer Giorgio Rosa
Republic of Rose Island
The platform declared independence on 24 June 1968https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Rose_IslandNow, after many years, they continue with the same thought.
Governments do not like this kind of micronation initiatives.
They feel intimidated by any initiative that escapes their laws.
As an italian, I've heard about this several times.
Italian Wikipedia entry gives more informations, it might be worth a read via Google Transalate.
The key passage is the following:
The claims of sovereignty, independence and international rights acquired by the owners of the platform were unfounded, as Italian citizens, even outside Italy, must abide by state laws (this in a nutshell can be deduced from the essay on the Journal of International Law of 1968 ).
Wondering if this principle applies to every citizenship or only to italians.
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Post 50670033 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.42h):
Always a good reminder
Ok,
I like the message in this meme, I get the point, but to be intellectually fair but you should account also at least the amount of interests you could gain from a saving account depositing your money in a bank.
It hasn't been zero all the time since the '20 and was a first defence against inflation.
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Post 50671389 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.42h):
6 blocks reorg. Shit, that will undo both of this weeks transactions
Another time down into the rabbit' hole!
Apparently the deepest "uncontrolled" chain reorg in BTC history was 4.
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/3343/what-is-the-longest-blockchain-fork-that-has-been-orphaned-to-dateRecord reorg is the infamous 53 block reorg due to the
Value overflow incident
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Post 50700914 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.42h):
Sounds like someone is confused about the difference between Hyperledger Fabric and Bitcoin.
I blame the “journalist”, trying to clickbait you into his revenue generating copy and paste article trough a misleading title.
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Post 50710700 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.42h):
A rural restaurant somewhere in the deep Italian countryside.
Easter lunch with relatives you see maybe once a year.
Fillippone’s brain:
...
DONT’TALK ABOUT BITCOIN
....
DONT’TALK ABOUT BITCOIN
I DON’t know how, but half an hour later:
“Well, you see, fees are not a true problem. Firstly fees are the output of a free market race to the block. In other crypto’s fees are low because nobody uses them! Secondly Bitcoin has evolved during this bear market because built a second layer called LN that allows you to ...”
Resistance is futile.
Happy Easter to the WO family...
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Post 50724021 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.42h):
https://twitter.com/100trillionusd/status/1120265384932859904?s=21#bitcoin stock-to-flow model is a power law (BTC$ = 0.4*SF^3).
This means SF change vs BTC$ change is constant: SF 2x = BTC$ 8x .. all the way from $0.01 to $10,000 .. and possibly to $100k and $1mln etc
Omg every tweet by PlanB is Gold.
I would also to say that he can write so much better than me what I “feel”.
Pure gold.
I have to admit thou, that even in the wildest dream of hyperbitcoinisation I cannot see BTC to USD 3,200,000. This would imply a massive USD devaluation: can the world be with a sort of Venezuelan Bolivar?
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Post 50724552 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.42h):
You Can Now Shop With Bitcoin on Amazon Using LightningBitcoin spenders can now use the lightning network to shop at e-commerce sites like Amazon.
Crypto payment processing startup Moon announced today that any lightning-enabled wallet can now also be used through Moon’s browser extension.
Before this lightning feature, roughly 250 beta users already used Moon to spend crypto on e-commerce sites by connecting the browser extension to exchange accounts like Coinbase.
https://www.coindesk.com/you-can-now-shop-with-bitcoin-on-amazon-using-lightningWell, I don’t understand bitcoin spenders. Where all this hurry to spend your bitcoins comes from? You should HODL your bitcoins, not spend them!
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Post 50741644 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.43h):
What is the source for this table?
I see different numbers on CMC page:
https://coinmarketcap.com/rankings/exchanges/reported/You should always provide sources if you don’t produce content yourself.
By the way, not all exchanges are producing fake volumes: The rock trading (Italian exchange with long history of reliability (never hacked)) apparently is not:
https://dgi.io/2019/04/23/TRT-Volumes.html
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Post 50772216 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.43h):
Ah!
This is not the kind of tweet i like from Plan B, I like more the S2F stuff, but nevertheless I like the bullish sentiment!
https://twitter.com/100trillionUSD/status/1121478427016609792
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Post 50780844 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.43h):
^^ Welcome to the club and congrats!
For your own safety please follow the rules below:
Rule #1 - create a second account with a nickname (not your real name) and use this account in the future. delete your post with this acount and don't use it anymore (and use Tor if possible)
Rule #2 - don't tell anybody about your investment in Bitcoin
Rule #3 - forget your investment for at least 5 years and please don't touch it to sell it in panic.
What if that account is actually THE brand new account with a nickname (not his real name)?
EDIT: not questioning merit transactions, but yeah, you get it...
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Post 50781025 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.43h):
What if that account is actually THE brand new account with a nickname (not his real name)?
The cynic in me says people know we’re generous Merit givers in this thread. Very convenient a
Brand New account makes its first post here saying how they’ve just bought their first bitcoin & oh look, 21 Merit received.
Straight to the first signature campaign or bounty requring received Merit to earn money, never to post in the WO again.
Hmmmmm!
I am more cynical than you if I checked with the DdmrDdmr tool and discovered that the account sending him 20 merits has never sent anyone merits in the last 12 months?
Provided that everyone can send merit as she prefers, this is weird, I think.
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Post 50781101 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.43h):
What if that account is actually THE brand new account with a nickname (not his real name)?
The cynic in me says people know we’re generous Merit givers in this thread. Very convenient a
Brand New account makes its first post here saying how they’ve just bought their first bitcoin & oh look, 21 Merit received.
Straight to the first signature campaign or bounty requring received Merit to earn money, never to post in the WO again.
Hmmmmm!
Yup, that's why I give them benefit of doubt... but no merits until I have verified their post history and consistency. You know, don't trust, verify
Also, even if a specific newbie is completely legit, shaddy ones might see and try to replicate.
ddmrddmr tools is here to help. As posted above, not looking good so far.
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Post 50781644 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.43h):
Exactly what I meant to say with my little investigation.
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Post 50798986 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.43h):
Boring afternoon, solution:
Sort the hats.
I will save and update the record now that it is created.
I am dumb.
Which sorting criteria did you use?
Not alphabetical, not cronologica...
Is that a beauty contest?
Merits of the hatter?
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Post 50812043 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.43h):
According to this graph made by PlanB, after the halving of 2024 his model is calling a BTC price of USD 400,000.
So I will be able to afford a brief holiday not on public holidays, when everyone is travelling too, putting an end to all of this nonsense.
I can’t wait.
I’m here for the tech, btw.
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Post 50812578 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.43h):
According to this graph made by PlanB, after the halving of 2024 his model is calling a BTC price of USD 400,000.
So I will be able to afford a brief holiday not on public holiday putting an end to all of this:
I can’t wait.
I’m here for the tech, btw.
Nothing wrong with being here for the tech & the luxurious lifestyle the halving in 2020 could give you.
I’ll be selling possibly half of my stash after the next halving & I’m not ashamed to admit it.
All the message are missing the relevant part of my post, due to my inability to write something without heavy edits:
This:
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Post 50819824 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.43h):
K, next up on the HairyMclarry name that street contest:
Easy one: Chicago.
https://gawker.com/392059/google-maps-catches-chicago-kid-about-to-shoot-someone2007 Version.
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Post 50819919 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.43h):
According to this graph made by PlanB, after the halving of 2024 his model is calling a BTC price of USD 400,000.
I dont like this graph. Because it have same factor for every halving but emission inflation keeps decreasing. So supply pressure from freshly mined coins is smaller and smaller.
When first halving happened in 2012. 50% of all Bitcoin was mined and daily emission of 3600 BTC gave us 0.03425% daily emission inflation what is if we multiply with 365 days = 12.5% yearly emission inflation
When last halving happened in 2016. 75% of all Bitcoin was mined and daily emission of 1800 BTC gave us 0.01142% daily emission inflation what is if we multiply with 365 days = 4.17% yearly emission inflation
At next halving next year 87% of all bitcoins will be already mined and daily emission of 900 BTC will give us 0.00489% daily emission inflation what is if we multiply with 365 days = 1.78% yearly emission inflation
12.5/4.17 is more then 4.17/1.78. So impact of halving on price of Bitcoin is decreasing.
BTW Gold average yearly mining inflation is 1.6%
I am not really getting your point.
Firstly this Stock to flow is not a new concept. As far as I know it was proposed in the bitcoin environment in by Saifedean Ammous in his book
The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking.
Second stock to flow is actually the inverse of inflation rate, so if you are countering this with inflation rate you are actually using the same argument for and against this graph.
Thirdly i get you didn't get the point when saying "halving" are less and less relevant: the opposite is actually true as Stock to Flow is increasing dramatically (and this is a choice made by Satoshi when defining the protocol).
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Post 50820433 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.43h):
He did NOT invent that terminology. It's an archaic business and economics term used for physical commodities like metals or value added goods. Trying to rip it off and bastardize it for use for imaginary, valueless, digital shitcoins is ridiculous. Nobody "stocks" shitcoins in a store. Shitcoins are not a resource, value added good, a commodity, or anything else. Shitcoins are Plato-Keynesian monetary theory imaginary widgets.
If you carefully read what I wrote, You'll understand I didn't stated he invented the concept, but I stated he was the first to apply it to Bitcoin.
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Post 50822442 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.43h):
Firstof all sorry If i quoted *someone* without proper warning. I don't want to be insta-ignored by anyone , I plead guilty not being part of this WO family so I need to cachup with all the feuds going on.
Secondly I think then you basically agree with me, The concept is not new, but i think that someone writing in a reddit post doesn't mean Saifedean has pagiarised anyone, did he?
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Post 50823280 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.43h):
According to this graph made by PlanB, after the halving of 2024 his model is calling a BTC price of USD 400,000.
I dont like this graph. Because it have same factor for every halving but emission inflation keeps decreasing. So supply pressure from freshly mined coins is smaller and smaller.
When first halving happened in 2012. 50% of all Bitcoin was mined and daily emission of 3600 BTC gave us 0.03425% daily emission inflation what is if we multiply with 365 days = 12.5% yearly emission inflation
When last halving happened in 2016. 75% of all Bitcoin was mined and daily emission of 1800 BTC gave us 0.01142% daily emission inflation what is if we multiply with 365 days = 4.17% yearly emission inflation
At next halving next year 87% of all bitcoins will be already mined and daily emission of 900 BTC will give us 0.00489% daily emission inflation what is if we multiply with 365 days = 1.78% yearly emission inflation
12.5/4.17 is more then 4.17/1.78. So impact of halving on price of Bitcoin is decreasing.
BTW Gold average yearly mining inflation is 1.6%
I am not really getting your point.
Firstly this Stock to flow is not a new concept. As far as I know it was proposed in the bitcoin environment in by Saifedean Ammous in his book
The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking.
Second stock to flow is actually the inverse of inflation rate, so if you are countering this with inflation rate you are actually using the same argument for and against this graph.
Thirdly i get you didn't get the point when saying "halving" are less and less relevant: the opposite is actually true as Stock to Flow is increasing dramatically (and this is a choice made by Satoshi when defining the protocol).
"halving" are less and less relevant
to the price. This table have factor 8. Price increase every halving for 8 times. That have no sense. Impact of halving on price decreases with every halving. If it had factor 8 at last halving then will have less on this halving and had more on previous halving. This is my point. Ofcourse is impossible to see this from price graphs since emission inflation just adds pressure to price increase, but there are also other factors.
This model is not black magic.
The author used data from 2009-2012 (note: no halving included) and found it pretty accurately as it was able to forecast BTC prices up to 2017.
So your "make no sense" collides with an R^" of 95%: pretty high confidence level for a coincidence or spurious correlation, also when you have a strong rationale.
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Post 50823693 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.43h):
According to this graph made by PlanB, after the halving of 2024 his model is calling a BTC price of USD 400,000.
I dont like this graph. Because it have same factor for every halving but emission inflation keeps decreasing. So supply pressure from freshly mined coins is smaller and smaller.
When first halving happened in 2012. 50% of all Bitcoin was mined and daily emission of 3600 BTC gave us 0.03425% daily emission inflation what is if we multiply with 365 days = 12.5% yearly emission inflation
When last halving happened in 2016. 75% of all Bitcoin was mined and daily emission of 1800 BTC gave us 0.01142% daily emission inflation what is if we multiply with 365 days = 4.17% yearly emission inflation
At next halving next year 87% of all bitcoins will be already mined and daily emission of 900 BTC will give us 0.00489% daily emission inflation what is if we multiply with 365 days = 1.78% yearly emission inflation
12.5/4.17 is more then 4.17/1.78. So impact of halving on price of Bitcoin is decreasing.
BTW Gold average yearly mining inflation is 1.6%
I am not really getting your point.
Firstly this Stock to flow is not a new concept. As far as I know it was proposed in the bitcoin environment in by Saifedean Ammous in his book
The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking.
Second stock to flow is actually the inverse of inflation rate, so if you are countering this with inflation rate you are actually using the same argument for and against this graph.
Thirdly i get you didn't get the point when saying "halving" are less and less relevant: the opposite is actually true as Stock to Flow is increasing dramatically (and this is a choice made by Satoshi when defining the protocol).
"halving" are less and less relevant
to the price. This table have factor 8. Price increase every halving for 8 times. That have no sense. Impact of halving on price decreases with every halving. If it had factor 8 at last halving then will have less on this halving and had more on previous halving. This is my point. Ofcourse is impossible to see this from price graphs since emission inflation just adds pressure to price increase, but there are also other factors.
This model is not black magic.
The author used data from 2009-2012 (note: no halving included) and found it pretty accurately as it was able to forecast BTC prices up to 2017.
So your "make no sense" collides with an R^" of 95%: pretty high confidence level for a coincidence or spurious correlation, also when you have a strong rationale.
Just take numbers yourself. it is not correct.
Let me go now with this stock of flow. It is just opposite of how I calculated it.
For 2012 9.5, for 2016 should be 24 and for 2020 56.
Well I double checked, for what it is worth.
IF you think you spotted some errors you can double check all the relevant code here:
https://github.com/100trillionUSD/bitcoinand then interact directly with the author via issue requests.
I am sure he's more than willing to have his numbers set straight (no sarcasm here).
Otherwise you might learn something.
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Post 50823878 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.43h):
Is this prediction updated with a daily base? If yes has a value of 0.
Do we have any past result prediction from the website (only, of course, if is not updated daily otherwise make any sense and are only random numbers)
I would be surprised if any of this "models" has a value >0.
As I posted above, the only price model that could be used to predict prices in 2019 using the data only from 2009-2012 is the one of PlanB.
That is serious stuff.
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Post 50825313 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.43h):
I see his flaw. "Bitcoin currently have a stock of 17.5m" Then he uses this 17.5m as that was stock in 2012 and 2016 and 2020 and 2024 and 2028.
Negative.
For past analysis he uses historical BTC supply, for future, projected one.
Two evidences for that:
1. In the coloured graph, SF data between halvings change every month, so by construction stock cannot be the same, montly, let alone from 2012 to 2012 and beyond.
2. In the Github there's an excel where you can check he uses historically accurate suplly for all the calculations.
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Post 50825891 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.43h):
Shame I can’t wear mine. I see it there but I earn 0.02
BTC a week in this signature campaign & I must wear the bitcasino avatar
There's a price for everything. Apparently, for you, wearing an hat is not worth 0.02
BTC per week.
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Post 50826001 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.43h):
I see his flaw. "Bitcoin currently have a stock of 17.5m" Then he uses this 17.5m as that was stock in 2012 and 2016 and 2020 and 2024 and 2028.
Negative.
For past analysis he uses historical BTC supply, for future, projected one.
Two evidences for that:
1. In the coloured graph, SF data between halvings change every month, so by construction stock cannot be the same, montly, let alone from 2012 to 2012 and beyond.
2. In the Github there's an excel where you can check he uses historically accurate suplly for all the calculations.
So how he calculated Stock of flow for 2012 halving is 12.5 if it was 8?
At that moment there were 10,512,000 BTC in existence and yearly emission was 1.314,000 (3600*365) 10512000/1314000=8
Does he calculate for some other Bitcoin?
It's an answer well detailed in the pdf, excel and code (not necessary in this order) in the GitHub, why asking me to answer this when you can simple read these documents?
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Post 50834709 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.44h):
-Avoid Sh*tcoins
The most important one:
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Post 50842065 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.44h):
My
monthly rumbling is out!
Feedbacks welcome.
Want to improve on next iteration(s), open to suggestions!
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Post 50858581 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.44h):
@PlanB updated his bitcoin price graph:
https://twitter.com/100trillionusd/status/1123691786252189697?s=21
#bitcoin chart update: 12 months to next halving .. still green but already near Stock-to-Flow model value
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Post 50870469 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.44h):
Grayscale has made a nice little video about dropping gold for bitcoins.
See it on their homepage!
https://dropgold.com/
Bitcoin: Digital Gold for a Digital Age
I like the list, but I like also intellectually honest comparisons.
A very relevant checkbox is missing here:
“Proven Store of Value over the centuries”
BTC: “No”
GOLD: Check
This is the only one Gold wins.
BTC has been a store of value with very high volatility that has gained real purchase power.
I don’t know if volatility and appreciation in real terms are desiderable properties of a Store of Value (no sarcasm here).
BTC has the full potential to tick also that box, but it requires time.
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Post 50871153 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.44h):
If on Monday we crash from 6000 to 5600 I'll be pretty devastated.
Somebody say $6,000?
When is this POMP happening?
What did I miss 🙄
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Must be a Apes language LOL
I am watching Dawn of the Planet of the ApesI am sure someone will translate here. Have some faith papi!
I am just waiting. Guess bones already got that.
Guess what, I will just wait for the translating as well
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Post 50871845 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.44h):
Nuff said.
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Do you think posts in Morse count for signature campaigns ?
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Post 50871951 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.44h):
Important announcements
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Post 50876235 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.44h):
Iranian ''Hulk'' Sajad Gharibi wants to step into the MMA ring, he needs someone to play with.
Who wants to fight this tank?
I’ll fight him if I get paid 500
BTC. Who wants to sponsor me
I’ll fight him if I get paid 499
BTC. Who wants to sponsor me
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Post 50879696 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.44h):
CNN report: WO gang spotted gathering for the 100K party.
I like bull markets.
It’s not about the Lambos, getting rich or anything like that.
It is because:
Joy and heart levity produces quality memes and entertaining content.
I can’t wait to hear again the obnoxious Bitcoin Song.
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Post 50883006 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.44h):
Seeing people smile at their phones in public...What could be instilling such joy in that moment?
Oops...
literaly two pages ago. I have been hodling this pic since 6 months...
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg50879696#msg50879696
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Post 50896533 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.44h):
I need to know more about this:
https://twitter.com/100trillionusd/status/1124633680604008454?s=21I usually don’t like to trade, but this guy is so good and with a sensible approach that I think I will give it a go.
What do you think?
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Post 50919058 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.44h):
Coin Desk: Bitfinex’s Bitcoin Price Excluded from CoinMarketCap Average CalculationCryptocurrency data provider CoinMarketCap has excluded bitcoin prices provided by the troubled Bitfinex exchange from its weighted average calculation.
At last...
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Post 50919595 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.44h):
They exclude Bitfinex but they still list shit exchanges with fake volume like Coinbene or BW.com.
CMC is corrupt to the mone. Unlisting Finex is not enough to fix it.
If you want to see how CMC should look like, use
https://openmarketcap.comNice,
I added it to the list of reliable CMC alternatives i posted in my monthly summary:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5106432.msg50841890#msg50841890Thanks.
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Post 50923524 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.44h):
The more Governmnents, Central banks or whatever BS FIAT advocates want to ban Bitcoin, the more Bitcoin will prosper.
The reason is because BTC's ultimate use case is actually to be an uncensorable, unconfiscatable form of Store of Value. The more Government want to forbid you to dispose of your wealth, the more you want to avoid Government control, so the more Bitcoin is precious.
Fiat money can only beat BTC becoming better at being hard money and making BTC useless in the first place (very difficult).
Bitcoin is a competitive push for Fiat money.
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Post 50925115 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.44h):
Turkey's state media says election officials ordered Istanbul's mayoral election redone, nullifying the opposition candidate Ekrem Imamoglu's win.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-06/lira-plunges-below-6-turkey-nears-rubiconSome serious shit is about to happen here. I never trusted banks since I understood how they work but now is a lot different than what was yesterday. The shit is about to hit the fan. (actually it did)
Seriously considering to move from bank FIAT to %100 btc lately. I'm afraid when the times comes and I make that the decision it won't be possible anymore.
Turkey is a complete mess.
There you can find the worst combination of dictatorship, lack of rights, Fiat money printing, spiralling inflation, lack of security, questionable foreign politic.
The point is that Turkey was literally inches from entering EU, but when they (ze Germans) vetoed that, Turkish they did a magnificent U turn into the Middle Ages.
It still amazes me.
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Post 50928838 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.44h):
Adding this source:
https://www.coindesk.com/new-bips-hint-at-upcoming-taproot-bitcoin-soft-forkThe more you build on bitcoin the more it is difficult to change the protocol.
With L2 solution (LN and Liquid) being more and more widespread, and L3 solutions over the horizon (see my
monthly recap) I guess those are the last possible chances to get something done at protocol level.
Protocol immutability is a feature, not a bug.
Nobody in her right mind would change the TCP/IP and Bitcoin is the TCP/IP of the internet money.
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Post 50937023 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.44h):
the admin of that group was a little bit full of himself and advised the other on what to do what to buy and not only BTC, but as for all the rest as well, what a wizard...
the admin made fun of me (haha forum loser) and blocked me....
My friend still in it for laughs, showed me he was shorting @the 1K pump, afterwards again short when pump etc (always wrong)
really i'm only invested for 3K.....
Is there a dutch word for Schadenfreude?
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Post 50938756 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.45h):
Is there a Dutch word for 'fuckery'?
Afgang ore rotzooi.
tyvm^ edit: wait what
Synonym for fuckery;
Afgang ---> failure.
Rotzooi ---> garbage.
Basic online Dutch language course: Thanks WO's Family!
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Post 50943594 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.45h):
GRIN received a 50 BTC donatation from a super very early BTC adopter. (address : 18FufdutXggR2EgBuu6xRvL15kmpaPzfTQ )
The Solo miner sent unspent coins to the GRIN address.
The coins were
mined on 25th November 2010 I'm no expert but it shows that the people that believed the very first in BTC also believe in GRIN
snip
So?
Up and on the grin train ??
Still don’t own that myself ....
I don’t like shitcoin.
I don’t own any shitcoin (Fiat money excluded).
But if any shitcoin could have any meaning this could be the one.
I still don’t own any, but getting ready in case:
https://www.coingecko.com/buzz/how-to-use-grin-wallet-to-send-receive-grin-coins?locale=it
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Post 50946077 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (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.
Dynamite comes in small packages.
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Post 50950230 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.45h):
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Post 50951046 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.45h):
If #bitcoin markets have learned and have become more efficient,
then markets could front run next halving. Front run scenario could look like this:
https://twitter.com/100trillionUSD/status/1126095595851141120One of my wildest (wet) dream. I am speaking about market efficiency, of course.
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Post 50965178 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.45h):
i think we are heading to 100k now.
Silent Legendary (merit-wise, lacking activity) wakes up after months.
Posts random one-liner on WO and get the first ever earned merit!
Ah!
Welcome back snowdropfore...
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Post 50965429 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.45h):
[snip]
I really want it to reach $100k. Can't help it. On the other hand I also want one more chance to buy cheap bitcoins.
Mixed emotions, buddy. Like Larry Wildman going off a cliff in my new Maserati.
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Post 50966881 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.45h):
He's like a broken record:
Nouriel Roubini at Salt Conference in NY: Crypto Is the Mother and Father of All Bubbles .
It he were a broken clock he'd be right twice a day.
A broken record is only a useless strain to ears.
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Post 50969536 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.45h):
It's time again, gonna change my HAT in this one when I play poker.
Today its the first session of another run in our friendly
online poker session
terms are 1-2 times game a week for a long time t'ill end I think end summer .....
Game Texas online turbo tournament start stacks 10k- chips equals a
BTC-amount, blinds go up every 3minutes
Let's go and hope for the best.
Every session day I will wear the exclusively tailor made XhomerX HAT for the best of luck
before you change your hat, has anyone heard anything on Elwar??
I'm still alive.
Bitcoin played a major role in that.
Wow
Glad to see your post!
Hopefully you won't give up dreaming on a better society based on the values of BTC!
We need you!
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Post 50970893 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.45h):
HHHHHHAAAAAATTTTTTSSSSS ?
is this some secret society or what?
First rule of the hats club: never talk about the hats club.
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Post 50972984 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.45h):
This is ridiculous. This smells scam from miles away.
I am Italian, and I have a spider sense for scams.
(Thou not difficult here)
Checking the LinkedIn profiles of one of the guys:
Lorenzo Maria Raimondo De Medici
I would let them manage anything, let alone my bitcoins.
Bank is registered in the US, but not in EU: bad.
Medici family coat of arms has 600 years of history, but doesn’t appears on the website: bad.
This is a website for another art gallery he collaborates with:
http://www.queenartstudio.it/pagine-d-artista/lorenzo-maria-r-de-medici/Bad content is not from google translate: shit in, shit out
WO family, Fillippone warns you: steer away.
I don’t even know why Last of the V8 brought that to attention.
Edit:
Coat of arms not present because that family is now extinct.
Last member of the Medici family:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Maria_Luisa_de%27_Medici
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Post 50973629 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.45h):
What happened to Elwar post?
Was it deleted?
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Post 50977245 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.45h):
Most excellently subtle
Well done. So subtle I have NFI what’s going on.
No idea, my broken english doesn't allow me to understand this.
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Post 50977351 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.45h):
Hi guys,
Just returned here to see pumpy gifs and memes. I hope you are all well
I humbly suggest you the Permabulls chat on Telegram.
Here we are indulging a little bit on Gif's and meme, there is the only topic and effort.
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Post 50977464 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.45h):
Hi guys,
Just returned here to see pumpy gifs and memes. I hope you are all well
I humbly suggest you the Permabulls chat on Telegram.
Here we are indulging a little bit on Gif's and meme, there is the only topic and effort.
I'm on there all the time. I'm a regular with another username
Great minds think alike
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Post 50977976 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.45h):
Most excellently subtle
Well done. So subtle I have NFI what’s going on.
I guess it's Carolina Country Music Festival (aka CCMF aka Coo Choo Mother Fucker). They play fiddles.
Heres a hornfiddle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iiXzcNFeCICould have thought about this until BTC hit 100K,, and I would have never got the meaning.
Btw the video reminds me this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2yGYMCJepo
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Post 50983094 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.45h):
not so bullish on UBER.
Uber Indicated to Open at $45/$45.50, IPO Priced at $45
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Post 50983290 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.45h):
not so bullish on UBER.
Uber Indicated to Open at $45/$45.50, IPO Priced at $45
Über Bullish
Yes, Fillippone Überfunny
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Post 50984628 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.45h):
Back @ 6,400, where it spent most of the 2018, before the dive to the minimum.
Do you remember when we tough the 6200-6500 range was boring?
Here we re again, but with a different attitude!
Sorry, this is the maximum amount of TA I can do on a single post.
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Post 50988382 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.45h):
Beautiful in so many ways.
I could stare it for hours.
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Post 50997630 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.45h):
last bitfinex / bitstamp spread update:
someone please promote me to a senior member on this beautiful day
Welcome news.
But I think this is related to the activation of Liquid at bitfinex:
https://www.bitfinex.com/posts/361If you can efficently move your Bitcins around echanges now every arbitrage opportunity narrows considerably.
So Liquid might be the reason for this decline in spread.
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Post 50999436 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.45h):
Ok, back of the envelope calculations:
World wealth: 317 Trillion USD
https://www.credit-suisse.com/corporate/en/research/research-institute/global-wealth-report.htmlBitcoins in circulations: 17,700,000
https://www.blockchain.com/charts/total-bitcoinsHence follows:
Tim Draper's prediction: 1BTC=5%*317,000,000 /17.7=895,000 USD
HODL!
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Post 51000156 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.45h):
Not sure how the market share of EARTH can be calculated, as it is definitely not the stock market only.
If you take ALL markets (sans derivatives), then it is about 200-240 tril.
5% of 200 tril is 10tril or about 500-600K/btc.
Ops, I was salivating over my mobile and completely ducked up all the calculations.
Edited original message.
Thanks for pointing out.
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Post 51018896 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.45h):
Nouriel Roubini.
Poor sad fuck. I literally hate him.
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Post 51028654 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.46h):
In case anyone is wondering how much pressure is out there for institutional money to get into bitcoin:
https://twitter.com/paoloardoino/status/1127839301218254851
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Post 51029980 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.46h):
2019 vs 2018
The only real question is will it crash before it makes it through the Finex wall or just after.
We're not going to crash except on the surface of the fucking moon.
Picture evidence #1:
Here you can see the BTC leaving Earth atmosphere going straight to the surface of the fucking moon.
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Post 51030331 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.46h):
Do you have any source/proof/hint for this?
Genuinely asking, no sarcasm or anything.
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Post 51030417 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.46h):
BAKKT on the news:
https://www.coindesk.com/bakkt-sets-july-test-date-for-bitcoin-futuresBitcoin futures exchange Bakkt announced it was moving forward with its plan to launch physically-settled bitcoin futures products Monday.
Don't know if it Bullish or Bearish, but adding fuel to the rockets just because i read BAKKT on the title!
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Post 51030639 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.46h):
Seriously though, has bakkt done anything yet?
Yes, a lot of vaporware/announcements/etc.
Brief recap:
Bakkt trading one-day physical futures would open the floodgates to institutional money to Bitcoin.
It would be definitely a breakthrough for a variety of technical reasons, but they are holding it back. I have the feeling they are technically ready (no reason to doubt it), but the G agencies are pressing on "moral suasion" to restrain from initiating acrivity.
This is only my gut feeling, no proofs.
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Post 51031416 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.46h):
Dear lord.
We won't ever get to post parity if a little green dildo like today's produce so many posts!
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Post 51031890 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.46h):
BAKKT x2 in the same day
keeps the Green Dildos in the way
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Post 51032022 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.46h):
READ THE FUCKING THREAD YOU ASSHOLES
No need to be angry when green dildos are everywhere.
I spent huge amount of time on the thread and didn't notice... maybe the LOADS of post flush your update too far for me...
This is going to be my first FOMO season here on the WO's family.
Bear with me...
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Post 51032825 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.46h):
I'm a big fan of Costa Rica 🇨🇷
pretty sure that as an American I'd have to pay capital gains taxes of 15% anyway..just saying...unless you get rid of your citizenship I could be on the moon and still have to do income tax as an American.
It’s the price you have to pay to have a bunch of navy seals ready to come and pick you up in case things go South.
Italian passport is cheaper, but doesn’t buy this.
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Post 51042722 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.46h):
When the finger is fatter than the FOMO:
This is going to be the LOL of the day..
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Post 51045443 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.46h):
The rally may be about to move out of BTC and into alts. BTC is finally trading above its fairvalue price after being undervalued for months.
Meanwhile alts remain well below their's on market price:
Sorry, but that "fair value" smells like bullshit to me.
Discounted Cash Flow for Currencies makes no sense whatsoever.
My
monthly rant about bitcoin is an ETH paper in comparison....
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Post 51045537 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.46h):
Sorry, but that "fair value" smells like bullshit to me.
Feel free to make your case
here.
That chart has had bitcoin at 8k for weeks. Well before any Youtuber pundit predicted it.
Diagonal read, I must admit: that makes no sense.
I will dig further into that, in any case.
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Post 51046304 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.46h):
the fair value of shitcoins is zero. null.
why would you advise bitcoiners to invest in scamcoins?
Although I appreciate the value of tribalism in a competitive environment, that is a very stupid comment if I may say so.
Bitcoin would be nowhere without "sh*coins" because they are the buttressing by which it survives. That "buttressing" provides hedging support, diversification, optimal access for new market participants and generally all round builds an industry in which bitcoin can consolidate roots.
Not least, alts are also a far more effective way of accumulating bitcoin than just buying bitcoin because at any given moment there's always one or more of them outperforming it for gain.
So all in all I wouldn't p*ss on the potato patch that you're growing in if I were you. (I also make the same case in reverse to sh*coin maximalists by the way - for the same reasons).
Totally disagree.
In ten years bitcoin value could be either zero, if BTC experiment fails, or in the hundred thousands dollars, if the BTC experiment succeeds (no need to say which one scenario I do believe in).
In ten years value of
all present day altcoins will be zero in any case.
The reason why every present day are worthless is trivial and not even worth the time I will use to type.
Mark this WO message and see you in 10 years.
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Post 51046625 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.46h):
In ten years value of all present day altcoins will be zero in any case.
The reason why every present day are worthless is trivial and not even worth the time I will use to type.
Mark this WO message and see you in 10 years.
No need to wait 10 years thanks. In case you weren't aware we already tested the scenario where bitcoin had a monopoly on digital assets.
An $80 Billion altcoin market was the result.
0- 80B - 0 Is the full trajectory.
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Post 51067667 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.46h):
https://twitter.com/100trillionusd/status/1128727807675260928?s=21#Bitcoin Relative Strength Index (RSI) > 60 .. green! 🚀
Fir all those who still don’t follow @100billiondUSD
CCMF!!
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Post 51068211 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.46h):
SBTC is actually a real BTC fork: Superbitcoin (SBTC)
https://forkdrop.io/super-bitcoin
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Post 51073875 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.46h):
https://twitter.com/awe_andwonder/status/1128840544178843654?s=21
#Bitcoin is now 7% ABOVE its logarithmic trend. The last two times this happened... (orange dotted line)
Weee!
BRACE yourself!
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Post 51076952 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.46h):
You guys are some serious chart noobs. First of all, a chart showing bitcoin going to infinity at a 45 degree angle is obviously not sustainable. Secondly, even if you make believe it is sustainable and will continue to infinity, your chart DOESN'T show the start of a bull market right now. It shows each bear market accumulation phase gaining significant length between peaks, as I've highlighted with the yellow squares, so an actual $20k-style pump and dump wouldn't even occur till like late 2021 or early 2022.
Then of course you have the issues such as transaction validators being designed to centralize giving bitcoin zero fundamentals and no reason to exist, and Lightning Network is garbage that just recreates the already existing banking system on-chain, so neither decentralization or scalability have been solved (decentralization is not actually solvable because it's 100% impossible to create a decentralized digital currency).
I have a mixed feeling: answer of ignore?
I don't know anything about TA, I think is just little more valuable than black magic fuckery.
What I do know it makes perfectly sense bitcoin going to infinity.
if you observe BTCUSD going to infinity it's not BTC going to the moon, it's USD going south.
Look at BTC/ARS: it went to infinity, of course it wasn't' BTC going anywhere, it was the ARS losing all his value: we are measuring the same distance with a shorter and shorter unit.....
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Post 51077500 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.46h):
Okay, since you people are chart illiterate, let me spell it out for you in caveman terms for the mining specifically. If the price of bitcoin is high and the mining cost of production is low, the market then becomes flooded with new mining to take advantage of that. Even though Gmaxwell tried to argue with me and claim it doesn't, I would say the bitcoin price definitely trends towards cost of production, especially because there's so much fuckery going on like people stealing power and buying miners to do things like launder money and they're willing to take a hit in the conversion.
So for mining you definitely have a decent amount of irrational actors who don't even care about mining for profit because profit isn't even their motive, just to clean the bills. Or they're stealing power and it's all free regardless. Anyway, there never was a real mining capex explosion resulting from the rise to $20k. If the price of bitcoin only went to even $50k and managed to stay near there somehow over an extended period in the near future (1-4 years), it would require mining to explode by something like an order of magnitude from where it is now. It would probably use more power than the entire US. It's not likely that happens.
Again:
what if adoption is releasing a LOT of this selling pressure?
I am thinking about this:
Square Cash App “Absorbing” 10% of Bitcoin Supply Daily, 200% Projected By 2020
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Post 51086858 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.46h):
It said address own 1BTC not the person.
A person can have 100s of BTC in his HD wallet where it's not necessary that any address has to have 1BTC or more. He may have address with 0.99999999BTC in there.
I do agree.
Also the reverse is true: one address can sum the holding of many persons: e.g. exchanges cold wallet.
In the end is a shitty metric either way.
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Post 51094835 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.46h):
Just woke up, is the red candle to $6100 on bitstamp real or is it a glitch?
It wasn't a glitch.
A "usual suspects post mortem analysis here:
BITCOIN PRICE ‘FLASH CRASHES’ TO $6.1K – HERE’S THE LIKELY REASON WHYThe Rundown
Whale Dump, ‘Fat Finger Error,’ or Bot Glitch
Bitcoin Price Parabolic Advance Halted
A 5,000 BTC dump on Bitstamp likely caused the bitcoin price flash crash that occurred during the early hours (UTC) of Friday (May 17, 2019). Bitcoin plunged to as low as $6,100 on the exchange but has since recovered over $7,000 over the past few hours.
[snip]
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Post 51095234 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.46h):
Just went grocery shopping, and they had a voting booth there so I popped in and did my duty.
Voted for this party.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=15&v=HrmF_I0-l3M (For Murricans and others, it's the EU parliament election).
Oh yeah, bitcoin and such, it's gone up much, so no it goes down some, soon it will go up some again. It's been doing that for as long as I can remember, just relax.
I am not sure what you did, but for sure you didn't vote for the European Elections will be held next week:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_European_Parliament_election
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Post 51096373 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.46h):
Wow, this is just crazy... voting two weeks ahead of schedule just because you can!
Sorry, apologizes and +1WOsMerit!
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Post 51109491 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.46h):
Nice picture,
We already dissected it
here
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Post 51110016 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.46h):
Nice picture,
We already dissected it
hereI'm so glad you like it.
Sarcasm?
According to
Poe’s Law I am not obliged to recognise sarcasm without explanatory markings.
But I liked it, and recognised I would have hated my previous post myself.
My point was that no only a single individual can hold more address, but also that one address can hold more individual’s Btc.
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Post 51112026 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.47h):
Yet another way of celebrating MS?
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Post 51112475 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.47h):
Can’t wait see bitcoin topping youporn searches too.
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Post 51115590 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.47h):
40138 acres equal 162.4 km^2: bigger than Liechtenstein.
This would be the 7th smallest nation in the world.
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-10-smallest-countries-in-the-world.htmlNot bad, really.
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Post 51119755 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.47h):
M2 money supply in 1959 = $286B, 2019 = $14.5T, or about 6.76% a year.
Dow Jones Industrial Index in 1959 = 588, 2019 = 25764, or about 6.5% a year.
Stock market as a great "investment" loses its luster when looking at real inflation.
https://twitter.com/jimmysong/status/1129767782969688066Flood the market by printing more papers, result> all false.
I am an admirer of Jimmy Song, and I support all he does and I am also going to buy his book even if I suck at programming anything, let alone programming Bitcoin... but here I think he got something wrong.
Inflation rate is very different from M2 creation rate.
You cannot ignore the difference of the two after 2008, when M2 has been created at 5% annually:
inflation failed to materialise and stayed below 2% (FED target):
You can compare M2 growth with growth in mined bitcoin OR inflation rate in USD (or whatever FIAT or mix of fiat you want) and the deflation in BTC (Bitcoin has been a deflationary currency over the years, having gained purchasing power since 2009).
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Post 51120013 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.47h):
M2 money supply in 1959 = $286B, 2019 = $14.5T, or about 6.76% a year.
Dow Jones Industrial Index in 1959 = 588, 2019 = 25764, or about 6.5% a year.
Stock market as a great "investment" loses its luster when looking at real inflation.
https://twitter.com/jimmysong/status/1129767782969688066Flood the market by printing more papers, result> all false.
I am an admirer of Jimmy Song, and I support All he does and I am also going to buy his book even if I suck at programming anything, let alone programming Bitcoin... but here I think he got something wrong.
Inflation rate is very different from M2 creation rate.
You cannot ignore the difference of the two after 2008, when M2 has been created at 5% annually (Mhh let me check this one) but inflation failed to materialised.
You can compare M2 growth with growth in mined bitcoin OR inflation rate in USD (or whatever FIAT or mix of fiat you want) and the deflation in BTC (Bitcoin has been a deflationary currency over the years, having gained purchasing power since 2009).
Ok, thank you fillippone for clarifying the M2 theme, but I have this phrase, which is the pure reality:
"Stock market as a great "investment" loses its luster when looking at real inflation."
Also this is something that need to be clarified:
1. Stocks distribute dividends over the years, those cannot be simply written out, but need to be taken in account.
2. Inflation erodes performance in real terms.
Over multi decades analysis those factors pushing in opposite directions cannot be overlooked.
I was starting to write something, but I found this good read. Good base for further discussion if anyone interested:
http://www.simplestockinvesting.com/SP500-historical-real-total-returns.htmExecutive summary: 1950-2009 YEARLY real total stock return: 7%.
This is not bad IMHO. Missing all the bull run poet 2009 with QE, high stock return and low inflation.
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Post 51145757 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.47h):
One year to halving.
Better get mining and buying.
I don’t want to be nit-picking here: little bit more than one year according to
https://www.bitcoinblockhalf.com/:
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Post 51147634 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.47h):
fair 'nough.
bet you a merit I end up being closer though.
Deal!
I just marked on my calendar!
See you in one year!
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Post 51149843 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.47h):
Gold Bar 400 oz = 
1 BTC = 
Not sure what this is supposed to show, but it'd be interesting to see a
chart of the BTC/Gold price over the last few years; Especially because the gold prices are constantly falling (aka manipulated by paper futures).
Here you go!
https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/spread/TVC%3AGOLD%2A400%2FCOINBASE%3ABTCUSD/
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Post 51150001 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.47h):
hey cool! asking for permission to use the link for further usage.
No need to ask, just do that!
"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"
Not my idea, very basic trading view skills required.
Send merits instead!
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Post 51150151 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.47h):
hey cool! asking for permission to use the link for further usage.
No need to ask, just do that!
"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"
Not my idea, very basic trading view skills required.
Send merits instead!
+1 WO Merit
thank you! unfortunately out of sMerit again.
We are WO family and all gentlemen here.
No need to rush. Time will come.
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Post 51164897 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.47h):
So Shitcoin SV is up 114% in the last 14 days?
WUT !!!!!
SV is shitcoin indeed.
Whichever price movement you can observe in such a shitcoin is worthless, as nobody uses that shitcoin:
Nobody uses this shitcoin, as there are no fees being paid on this shitcoin transactions:
https://twitter.com/longhashdata/status/1130650980884930561Nobody mines this shitcoin: to have the same security level of a Bitcoin confirmation you have to wait 74 confirmations in this schitcoin:
https://howmanyconfs.com/After all, the price will be a massive pump by CSW trying to draw attention on his shitcoin after "patenting Bitcoin" whatever this nonsense means. (nothing, IMHO).
Did I already mention that I think SV is a shitcoin?
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Post 51165911 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.47h):
So presuming you are not a complete moron, what are you trying to accomplish by posting this here?
please post BITCOIN related stuff in here and unload the bsv spam in a bsv forum. p l e a s e.
Or create a BSV wall observer, so we can all see how many enthousiast there really are .......
2K!
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Post 51165995 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.47h):
^
WoW
What an honour to have that Nr attached to me
I have half the activity, but only a fifth of your merits.
You deserve it!
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Post 51166082 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.47h):
PlanB's Stock to Flow price indicator available on Tradingview!
https://twitter.com/100trillionUSD/status/1131139610598367232
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Post 51166612 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.47h):
That's a good point. Technically you're correct about the blocksize limit not being part of the protocol, of course.
Though if everyone is running a client with a different blocksize, the network will become a clusterfuck.
No. The miners -- or rather
51% the largest group of them -- would then determine the max block size. No clusterfuck. Longest chain rules.
FTFY
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If the majority of miners mine blocks against consensus rules, as defined by nodes, nothing happens, as mined block, even if the longest chain is produced, are not relayed trough the network as rejected by the nodes.
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Post 51169171 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.47h):
Is this a big
JOKE?
Bitcoin creator Craig S. Wright (Satoshi Nakamoto) granted US copyright registrations for Bitcoin white paper and code:https://coingeek.com/bitcoin-creator-craig-s-wright-satoshi-nakamoto-granted-us-copyright-registrations-for-bitcoin-white-paper-and-code/Should we truly believe this ?
I always thought Satoshi ( even if revealed his true identity) is some japanese man, with a good heart and no greed for gaining fame or becoming famous. He loved to be anonymous and serves the world with his invention (Bitcoin) in the best way.
And on the other side, Craig just looks like a greedy man trying to build a fame in the crypto market. He even said in one of his twitts, "I want the real Satoshi to reveal his identity, or else I will do it myself" and now claiming himself as Satoshi!
Basically, I thought this guy is the real Satoshi :
you must be new here.
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Post 51179671 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.47h):
Yesterday, we made an aromatic pizza as a sign of memory.
Nice. Needs more merit.
Also, lol at Craig and the copyright office. Life's good.
What is that?
This is a true Italian Bitcoin Pizza!
as seen on an authentic italian crypto telegram group
https://twitter.com/LarryBitcoin/status/1131328520943128577Disclaimer: I'm not shilling Bitcoin Pizza (BPA)!
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Post 51180115 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.47h):
Just a random observation:
This hour (4 PM Manila, 4 AM New York, 9 AM London) seems to be when its the quietest in this thread.
Europe is still waking up, the late night owls and early risers are all asleep in America...
Things are in full swing across the Asian continent, where there aren't many English speakers, and then of course Oceania, where we seemingly don't have any WO representatives (maybe bones if I'm not mistaken).
See? That was a solid half hour between posts. Nuts.
OK time to stop procrastinating and do my goddamned work.
Actually I am a not English speaking European, bored at work and bored in this slow thread!
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Post 51180215 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.47h):
Just a random observation:
This hour (4 PM Manila, 4 AM New York, 9 AM London) seems to be when its the quietest in this thread.
Europe is still waking up, the late night owls and early risers are all asleep in America...
Things are in full swing across the Asian continent, where there aren't many English speakers, and then of course Oceania, where we seemingly don't have any WO representatives (maybe bones if I'm not mistaken).
See? That was a solid half hour between posts. Nuts.
OK time to stop procrastinating and do my goddamned work.
Actually I am a not English speaking European, bored at work and bored in this slow thread!
go back to work lazy Spagetti Fresser says the Stechschritt Nazi!
Ahah why that? You (ze germanz) are going to pay my debt in the end in this flawed EU!
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Post 51180380 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.47h):
Just a random observation:
This hour (4 PM Manila, 4 AM New York, 9 AM London) seems to be when its the quietest in this thread.
Europe is still waking up, the late night owls and early risers are all asleep in America...
Things are in full swing across the Asian continent, where there aren't many English speakers, and then of course Oceania, where we seemingly don't have any WO representatives (maybe bones if I'm not mistaken).
See? That was a solid half hour between posts. Nuts.
OK time to stop procrastinating and do my goddamned work.
Actually I am a not English speaking European, bored at work and bored in this slow thread!
go back to work lazy Spagetti Fresser says the Stechschritt Nazi!
Ahah why that? You (ze germanz) are going to pay my debt in the end in this flawed EU!
I don't pay anything for you I'm official poor on FIAT like you.
+1 Merit to cheer you up.
What about the graph in your Gold update?
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Post 51180475 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.47h):
Just a random observation:
This hour (4 PM Manila, 4 AM New York, 9 AM London) seems to be when its the quietest in this thread.
Europe is still waking up, the late night owls and early risers are all asleep in America...
Things are in full swing across the Asian continent, where there aren't many English speakers, and then of course Oceania, where we seemingly don't have any WO representatives (maybe bones if I'm not mistaken).
See? That was a solid half hour between posts. Nuts.
OK time to stop procrastinating and do my goddamned work.
Actually I am a not English speaking European, bored at work and bored in this slow thread!
go back to work lazy Spagetti Fresser says the Stechschritt Nazi!
Ahah why that? You (ze germanz) are going to pay my debt in the end in this flawed EU!
I don't pay anything for you I'm official poor on FIAT like you.
+1 Merit to cheer you up.
What about the graph in your Gold update?
open your eyes.
it's below of the pic.
Javhol, I'm too lazy to click ze button. I vant to zee ze graph.
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Post 51183286 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.47h):
@kingcolex - I wouldn’t know what to do with 1 trillion USD per coin. We could buy our own countries if we put in together
Jokes aside - $70,000 per coin will do great for me
If ever BTC get to 1 trillion USD per coin it means we get to an Hyperbitcoinisation state and FIAT money collapsed.
Very slim chance, I would say 1% in 50 years.
In that case I assure you two things:
- you won't buy a country with it 1BTC
- you won't need to change into USD to actually spend BTC.
Think what happened to BTC/VES, only bigger AND global.
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Post 51194407 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
FTFY.
That button should be put a little bit more in evidence.
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Post 51194476 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
"Bitcoin rival" what a joke.
Yes, FB coin si everything Bitcoin is not: centralised, KYC’d, not respectful of user privacy, censorable, confiscable.
It will be really useful for a lot of people, to quickly and easily move money in short distances (think about splitting restaurant bills via whatsapp, or sending money home across the ocean.
This is going to work for a lot of people, but then... the epiphany: this coin is subpar to bitcoin for a lot of reasons (I guess privacy is going to be the one people will realise the sooner: who’s afraid giving all the details of your payments to Mark Zuckerberg? /sarcasm here).
So people will start moving to bitcoin. Maybe lightning network, that in the mean time will have developed a simple, effective and robust user experience via mobile wallets.
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Post 51194554 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
FTFY.
That button should be put a little bit more in evidence.
you're right my WO brother in spaghetti. I''ll fix this.
Ze Italianz hav eztetic taste. Think about ze Italian carz against das Zerman panzerz.
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Post 51194768 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
FTFY.
That button should be put a little bit more in evidence.
you're right my WO brother in spaghetti. I''ll fix this.
Ze Italianz hav eztetic taste. Think about ze Italian carz against das Zerman panzerz.
hmm, cannot agree with you here completely!
but I agree on shoes and clothes.
Ah!
We could go on forever posting pics...of Lamborghini vs Porsche vs Ferrari vs BMW vs Alfa Romeo...
I just wanted to have a laugh!
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Post 51197312 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
The btc addr of that QR code ....is not a segwit address...
yet, new generation chooses btc!
I'm under the sneaking suspicion that it's a Photoshop as a way to get people online to say, "Awww cool I'll toss en a couple bucks" and some dweeb makes out with a few hundred and these kids have their pic circulated. But that's just the pessimistic side of me in the crypto town full of scam artist.
Here the address:
https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/address/1BGrGse1QaPQLPovUm84yHZS6kt7QHTsJqNo Segwit address, probabl to maximise compatibility with legacy customer wallets.
Otherwise well managed UTXO set.
The girls must use quite a sophisticated wallet.
You can check yourself the address history.
They are definitely in the green with that Kiosk.
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Post 51197941 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
That's fucked up! My first day of trading:
5 losing trades out of 5!
There is something to strive for and where to grow
A trader losing 100% of the times is precious as much as one hitting right 100% of the times.
You just need a friend taking a position opposite your view, but triple the size.
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Post 51198294 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
Are you traveling with NASA?
I travel first class with SPACE-X Shpaceship!
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Post 51198366 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
I'm going virgin galactic
Ouch!
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Post 51198984 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
@fillippone checked your "
Ranking up is possible" thread. Pretty impressive bro. I was under impression that you were very old user of this forum
Are you referring to my thread
Ranking up is Possible! My top 10 Hints! (self promotion here)
Yes, i am putting some effort on the forum since a few months. I firstly discovered it's quite effective way to learn new things about BTC, then i discovered it is also fun (WO played huge role here), in a different way than @permabulls chat on Telegram.
And yes, I am quite new to the forum, but not for Bitcoin, I discovered a few years earlier (without investing accordingly, sadly).
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Post 51202011 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
Facebook coin will be a great opportunity to pump & dump. Get in early, sell before it fails miserably & increase your bitcoin stash.
#winning
Yeah, why haven't I thought about that? This is the only coin I would go all in and dump when I do 2x profits. It's the sure bet which'll get me to the double digits.
Great idea. Tbh, it might even get me 3 digits, can't imagine the enormous hype.
You think Binance IEO's are overhyped? Just wait for FBC. (facebookcoin
)
Maybe I am not updated on the last rumours of this project, but this coin should be a Stablecoin isn’t it?
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Post 51202238 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
If it’s to be a stablecoin I won’t bother with it.
Do you truly honestly believe Mark will expose the wealth of his billions of users to a bunch of cockhonkers on Bitmex?
We were just having a nice dream till you guys destroyed it.
If you want memes and wild dreams go to BitcoinPermabulls t.me/bitcoinpermabulls on Telegram. Only serious and grownup discussions here on the very polished WO thread.
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Post 51202298 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
“… Facebook is seeking roughly $1 billion for the new initiative and has already approached credit card companies Visa and MasterCard about a potential partnership. The cash infusion would ensure ‘FB coin’ is well capitalized and stable, unlike most of the major cryptocurrencies today.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48383460I just don't see how they can keep a balance here. I presume the idea is to go global. How do you balance the exchange rate across the whole world while keeping everyone happy? How would any government with a crappy currency stop everyone from piling in? How do you stay on top of compliance if you get over 1 BILLION users? Ten million would be a herculean task.
No matter what, it's going to be a great show. I gave up Facebook about 12-13 years ago after trying it for a week and having an avalanche of pirate sheep thrown at me.
They are going to seek stability versus a basket of fiat currencies rather that USD dollars. I guess a basket of USD/EUR/JPY basket, maybe adding other relevant currencies as they expand towards new markets. Effectively it will be a new
dollar index, they will be able to use traditional FX hedges to stabilise the value of the thing.
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Post 51207595 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
I tell you a bit about my start in Bitcoin, I feel ridiculous, but it's like this:
I started on the Internet in its beginnings, MSDOS and then in Windows, I had my time in web pages and in the purchase of domains, but unfortunately I never heard about Bitcoin, it was in August/September of 2017 when I bought Bitcoin for the first time.
I still do not understand how it is possible to be immersed in the network since 1990 with domains, web pages, design, servers and never have news of Bitcoin.
It seems fate kept me away for some reason.
I'm late and I feel like I'm hanging in the last carriage of the train.
Always Hodl with a small part for the trade.
I would have liked to be here from the beginning of the WO thread, I would probably have more BTC.
imho 95% of very early buyers of btc don´t own a large btc stash anymore.
-lost/destroyed hardware
-lost private keys
-spent for pizza or other stuff
-got hacked
-some bad trades
-going full retard as "daytrader"
-sold because it finally went over $10
-lost btc on mtgox and other exchanges
-bought shitcoins
-fell for scams
-invested in butterfly labs or other vaporware
-believed the bcash lies
-believed in the ETH flippening
-etc, etc
you are still early. mass adoption not here yet. if you manage to hodl a few whole btc you are going to be
allright.rich.
Yeah, that’s why I am sure that if I had known bitcoin in 2009 I might be have been screwed.
I might have accumulated a lot of bitcoins via CPU mining at home, faucets, exchanging etc.
I might have lost a LOT of bitcoins due to private keys lost/hardware corruptions.
Storing private keys and transaction wasn’t as easy as today back in the days. Wallets had clumsy key and address management.
Also I had a few HW fails in the years, I lost precious data, and back then I would surely have lost some private keys.
For sure I would have sold part of stash at dollar parity in 2013, at 10 USD or at 1000 USD... regretting all my poor made choices. I would have lost more trying to recover the original stash.
Today I would be constantly banging my head against the wall because of the lost money, even if I now would have probably 10x (ultra conservative estimate) of what I actually have today.
I couldn’t be as strong as Latszo, knowing to have spent millions usd on two pizzas.
Today, instead I consider myself lucky to have my slowly always increasing stash.
Reserved for future use, very low time preferences.
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Post 51209445 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
I have had some great vegetarian Indian dishes ... no way Indian is vegan though ... but so delicious I could learn to live without meat with great Indian takeaway nearby.
India is heaven for Vegans and Vegetarians without any doubt. majority of Indians eat at least some sort of meat dishes too but Vegans and Vegetarian are in very good numbers as well.
Main Vegans and Vegetarians come from Jain, Brahmin Families. My GF is Muslim, she and half of her family are Vegetarian too. ( which is kind of depressing for me because I love Mughlai food)
I love Indian food too... vegan or not.
My ring piece complains a bit the next morning however...
Go slow with Spicy food if you don't want to disturb your belly. that's a trick.
I love Indian food... but only for a few days. After that, my stomach and my tongue ask for a break (even though I don't mind spices at all)... I need to get back to my favorite, Italian food.
Plus, whenever I eat too much Indian food, my skin starts smelling different... and not in a good way.
+1 merit for the Italian food.
But when outside Italy I rarely go eating Italian food, as firstly I like to taste the local food, secondly I always find funny things when going eating Italian abroad. Italian food outside Italy is never really Italian, no matter how hard you try (how much you spend).
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Post 51209452 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
I have had some great vegetarian Indian dishes ... no way Indian is vegan though ... but so delicious I could learn to live without meat with great Indian takeaway nearby.
India is heaven for Vegans and Vegetarians without any doubt. majority of Indians eat at least some sort of meat dishes too but Vegans and Vegetarian are in very good numbers as well.
Main Vegans and Vegetarians come from Jain, Brahmin Families. My GF is Muslim, she and half of her family are Vegetarian too. ( which is kind of depressing for me because I love Mughlai food)
I love Indian food too... vegan or not.
My ring piece complains a bit the next morning however...
Go slow with Spicy food if you don't want to disturb your belly. that's a trick.
I love Indian food... but only for a few days. After that, my stomach and my tongue ask for a break (even though I don't mind spices at all)... I need to get back to my favorite, Italian food.
Plus, whenever I eat too much Indian food, my skin starts smelling different... and not in a good way.
+1 merit for the Italian food.
But when outside Italy I rarely go eating Italian food, as firstly I like to taste the local food, secondly I always find funny things when going eating Italian abroad. Italian food outside Italy is never really Italian, no matter how hard you try (how much you spend).
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Post 51214632 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
My brother: spends $400 a month to have a nice car
Me: spends $400 to own Bitcoin
Will it be worth it?
- Most cars depreciate in value over time
- Bitcoin increases in value over time
Do the math.
High time preference vs Low time preference.
Consume vs invest
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Post 51222384 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
It would be nice to compare this to actual github activity of any shitcoins. There, you would notice how much effort is put on maintaining the leadership in the realm of crypto currencies.
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Post 51222544 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
It would be nice to compare this to actual github activity of other shitcoins. There, you would notice how much effort is put on maintaining the leadership in the realm of crypto currencies.
This may not come as a surprise but that factor is also already being manipulated by coins that want it to appear that they have a whole lot of development going on.
Challenge accepted! I bet there is a vast majority of coins not even bothering fake commits to signal some kind of activity on their github!
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Post 51222796 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
Challenge accepted! I bet there is a vast majority of coins not even bothering fake commits to signal some kind of activity on their github!
Right.. Coins that dont simply aren't being updated. But I'm just saying that github activity isn't necessarily an indicator of development. You can make documentation edits or purposeless one line changes in code and register it as a commit. It does at least mean that they are paying attention, so that's something.
There,
https://www.cryptomiso.com/Bitcoin + Shitcoins ranked for Github activity in the last 12 months.
Real life is calling me, so going down that rabbit hole later!
Already have some pearls thou: OmiseGo was supposed to be a breakthrough, right?? ... oh wait!
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Post 51224891 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
Ehi WO, why so slow today?
Here’s something fun: yesterday while browsing down the Bitcoin rabbit hole I stumbled on the infamous keys.lol website:
https://keys.lol(Warning: time sink!)
Basically it’s a website that randomly generates 128 private keys on each page, then checks the balance of the related addresses (compressed and uncompressed) on the blockchain reporting eventual positive balances or past transactions.
Wow!
If you find a positive balance in this client side generated pages, you are actually owner of the private keys, so you are legitimate owner of such balance, and nothing prevents you from transferring to your own wallet.
The story doesn’t end here...
I wrote a post about it here...
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Post 51225073 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
If I were the creators of that site. I would have something built into it that automatically imports the private key from a green-lit found address into my own wallet, but I don't think they did that.
Its like winning the lottery of a lottery if you find one.
You are overestimating greatly the chances of finding something!
Number involved are so big the escape human comprehension!
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Post 51230309 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
A more affordable version
Hey! Mrs HairyMaclairy! You are trying to seduce me, aren’t you?
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Post 51233691 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
Wow. I am squarely in C. Don’t really care about the other theses. But never seen it so eloquently put.
I am 90% C, I like that square because it also alleviate you from the strain price movement can have on your attitude (re: a few dozen back on the WO threads we had quite a few stories about that).
The other 10% is D as “Digital Gold Standard”. I second the view Expressed by Saifedean Ammous in his book about bitcoin as the ultimate hard money.
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Post 51235740 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
Ehi WO, why so slow today?
Here’s something fun: yesterday while browsing down the Bitcoin rabbit hole I stumbled on the infamous keys.lol website:
https://keys.lol(Warning: time sink!)
Basically it’s a website that randomly generates 128 private keys on each page, then checks the balance of the related addresses (compressed and uncompressed) on the blockchain reporting eventual positive balances or past transactions.
Wow!
If you find a positive balance in this client side generated pages, you are actually owner of the private keys, so you are legitimate owner of such balance, and nothing prevents you from transferring to your own wallet.
The story doesn’t end here...
I wrote a post about it here...nice project!
I run a program on my server which does the same. It checks about 150 addresses per second. It's now running for a few months and I have not found a single wallet with a positive balance.
Reading that post you should realise you are wasting electricity. At least you should consider joining LBC.
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Post 51237908 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
I seem to be getting discredited & trolled by a couple of the least respected (with the worst trust scores) people on the entire forum.
There’s a thread about me started by one of cryptohunter’s alts & every time somebody posts something positive about me he deletes it (it’s a self moderated thread).
I’ve had no choice but to start my own Reputation thread. Please feel free to leave your comments/experiences with me here -
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5147811.new#newThanks for your time
Oh,
every time I go in meta, I feel like I am a baby swimming in the big boy pool without water wings.
But when a fellow WO family member calls for help, I feel I must act.
Trust setting is quite mysterious for me, but for sure, LFC don't deserves to have his own reputation weakened!
Fillippone is helping as soon as stupid RL allows him to post a well crafted message.
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Post 51240384 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
Well yeah, of course I regret EVERY bitcoin I have ever sold, but like Laszlo, you can't beat yourself up over what is gone.
We all hoped that this would happen, we knew it was possible, but back then it seemed far from certain.
Those 6 don't really bug me at all, the 100 that went to BFL? yeah, that one is harder to be philosophical about...
This is never happened to me, as I am too late into Bitcoin to have experienced such bad accidents.
But I think the best way to look at spent bitcoin is this one:
https://twitter.com/nic__carter/status/1130135656410300417Easier said than done.
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Post 51240666 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
I have been wondering if good Hodling is in fact a predisposition.
I have my record decks and records here, my guitars. I've held them all, a long time!
Im holding them to zero lol
Maybe these are reusable skills.
I guess they are.
I think it is something that has to do with your first experiences in life: what has been taught by the people who raised you in the first few thousands of your days.
Consume vs Invest.
High time preferences vs low time preferenceIf you are Hodler, you are able to spot where the value is, not only in Bitcoin, IMHO.
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Post 51243774 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
Hey Mic!
You are here for the lolz, not for the thermodynamic shit!
Ahaha well done indeed!
Good stuff. Researching on this..
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Post 51244392 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
I found it because I stalk theymos' posts when I remember.
I can’t believe I just suggested a flat bed recipe to Theymos.
LOL!
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Post 51245545 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
^Horror Movie Daycare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WTkJHHF4B4 A sketch, not a whole movie or anything.
I found it because I stalk theymos' posts when I remember.
I can’t believe I just suggested a flat bed recipe to Theymos.
LOL!
Bet you can't eat a whole one.
I eat it in the morning with cappuccino.
I eat it during the day:
I am a pro at focaccia, my true love second only to Bitcoin.
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Post 51247899 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (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 !!!
As the price of BTC increases, the movement in WO also increases.
Good signal.
I just realised I am part of the WO family since 1,000 Pages!
Seems ages ago!
Fillippone only pawn in the game of WO!
First message on page 22,971!
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg49966520#msg49966520
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Post 51249701 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
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Post 51251878 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
Cautionary tales, it's happening again in FIAT: local Government in Zimbawe indulges in money printing, losing credibility at the expenses of the people suffering yet another time of Hyperinflation.
Do you remember Zimbawe?
Here:
A mouthful of Zollars:
The Economist
https://www.newsday.co.zw/2019/05/a-mouthful-of-zollars/Zimbabwe’s previous homegrown currency was destroyed by the hyperinflation of 2007-08, forcing the country to adopt the American dollar (and other foreign currencies) instead. That worked well until 2015. But in the final years under Robert Mugabe, the longstanding dictator ousted in November 2017, the government could not muster enough genuine dollars to meet its spending ambitions. Instead it paid people with money of its own creation, transferred electronically into their dollar bank accounts. These “zollars”, it claimed, were identical to a dollar. But if depositors withdrew them from the bank they received not greenbacks, but “bond notes”: paper currency issued by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, the country’s central bank.
Last October, the new government, led by Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured), admitted that zollars and dollars were not the same, allowing depositors to keep them in separate accounts. By mid-December the banking system had almost 9,7bn in zollar deposits and only $660m in dollars. But the government insisted that a zollar could fetch $1.
Bitcoin is the ultimate Hard Money, digital gold, allowing for individual financial sovereignty.
I personally own one of those banknotes,
easily found on eBay, as a memento of Disasters of irresponsible money printing by avid central bankers.
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Post 51253729 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
Cards, just the user name and the photo of the hat.
As a European citizen, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Montecarlo, Milan, it would be perfect.
A survey should be prepared, first in which continent and then in which city.
@infofront takes note.
I don’t want to give up too many OP sec details on me, but Milan would work good for me.
Can give directions for any WO members travelling to Italy, btw.
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Post 51255359 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
Plan B stroke another good one!
But there is more: what if the more mainstream adoption and the presence of more "institutional money", more keen to "efficient markets" (à la Fama) drives up the markets in anticipations of the halving and the subsequent stock to flow reduction? Price used to rise sharply after the halvening, reacting to this and not actually anticipating it. What if this time is different?
Link to TweetI don't like to comment too much in the current price of BTC, but the sentiment is turning more and more bullish, and I think this kind of analysis is perfectly consistent with an anticipation of the halvening.
Market doesn't like discontinuities, and so tends to anticipate drastic moves or changes in the protocol.
If had could move a critic to Satoshi for his whitepaper, I would say the choice of discrete halvening is not optimal, while a more smooth reduction of coinbase would have been better implementation, at a cost of a slightly less trivial implementation.
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Post 51256892 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
Plan B stroke another good one!
But there is more: what if the more mainstream adoption and the presence of more "institutional money", more keen to "efficient markets" (à la Fama) drives up the markets in anticipations of the halving and the subsequent stock to flow reduction? Price used to rise sharply after the halvening, reacting to this and not actually anticipating it. What if this time is different?
Link to TweetI don't like to comment too much in the current price of BTC, but the sentiment is turning more and more bullish, and I think this kind of analysis is perfectly consistent with an anticipation of the halvening.
Market doesn't like discontinuities, and so tends to anticipate drastic moves or changes in the protocol.
If had could move a critic to Satoshi for his whitepaper, I would say the choice of discrete halvening is not optimal, while a more smooth reduction of coinbase would have been better implementation, at a cost of a slightly less trivial implementation.
The market, as you say, is optimistic, but there will be correction as always from the maximum, where is the maximum?
Well, my forecast is that we're going to get to 10,000 and then we'll see what happens, obviously I can be wrong, but that's the next trip.
As for PlanB, I like your presentations, but as you comment, there are many variables at play.
Of course this is a trend, so deviation from the trend are always possible su to “overreactions” of the market.
Good thing is in the past overshoot has been 3x model values, and never below 50% model value. So actually overshoot are more pronounced on the upside!
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Post 51256933 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
anyone got that link to a site that shows btctalk user stats? I saw it a while back but cant find it now
Ddmrddmr Merit Dashboard
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Post 51258343 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
F*** when page parity!.
F*** when post parity!.
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Post 51262960 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
stock to flow reduction
The "stock to flow" scam chart people are posting are just wannabe pump and scammers. Such metrics have absolutely zero correlation with Bitcoin as I explained to Anonymint:
As for the whole stock/flow deal, it makes a lot of bad assumptions like assuming the entire planet is willing to be the greater fool for imaginary, valueless bitcoins when they aren't, or that Bitcoin even has a valid Schelling point in the first place when it doesn't. If S/F was valid for digital shitcoins, there wouldn't be a mountain of dead PoW coins already.
Stock/flow only works on an actual commodity that humans need and NOBODY actually needs Bitcoin. It's a fake commodity. If you hoard all 21 million, the entire planet can just ignore you like you don't even exist. If you hoard all the physical silver, the world doesn't get to ignore you and stock/flow actually functions. Tricking the goyim to hoard a fake, valueless commodity instead of a real one might be the greatest Jew scam of all time because it grants you absolutely zero power while pretending it does.
I usually don't answer this kind of messages, but I am being called scammer, so I have to clarify.
Stock to flow analysis comes, cutting long story short, from the digital gold analogy: the one I personally think is the best one to explain Bitcoin to a non bitcoiner.
Gold is a commodity with little industrial case (10% of his value), where much of his current market value come form the fact the offer is pretty inelastic to price, due to natural limitation. This is not true for other supposed store of value where scarcity is due to production chain management, like diamonds, or simply doesn't exists (like silver: otherwise the market cornering by Hunt Bros would have succeeded).
This scarcity caused the gold to thrive as a Store of Value (real purchasing power) trough the centuries. The bet is that in a digitised world, we can find a digital alternative to Gold.
Of course If anyone would buy all the Gold ever mined the value would drop to zero, as the market value of gold would go to zero, as there wouldn’t be any market in the first place (this is true also in the digital realm, where supercentralised shitcoins tend to have no market value because of absence of floating).
Scarcity is not a sufficient condition for Bitcoin to succeed (as you point correctly, shitcoins are scarce too), rather a necessary condition.
Value from the SF model comes from the fact that fitting the model on very early values (2009-2012, before the first halvening) it still holds true and is true on different assets (Bitcoin, Gold, Silver).
I won't elaborate more, as I don't want to indulge in further conversations.
Call me stupid, call me naive, but being called scammer is unfair and not acceptable..
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Post 51267108 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
Today I looked up down the price of a BCH. I feel dirty.
FTFY.
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Post 51267972 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
What should I change the poll to?
Boobs or butt
Butts.
If Boobs are disappointing, there is a solution:you can easily fix them with little FIAT.
If Butts are disappointing, there isn't any solution: little or big FIAT.
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Post 51268234 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
What should I change the poll to?
Boobs or butt
Butts.
If Boobs are disappointing, there is a solution:you can easily fix them with little FIAT.
If Butts are disappointing, there isn't any solution: little or big FIAT.
Fake butts are definitely a thing now, they just aren't as far down the development line as fake boobs.
Personally, I am more concerned about the abundance of such. But it is really down to personal preferences.
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Post 51273877 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
They are accumulating bitcoin because they are selling those bitcoin back to their customers via their GBTC trust shares at a premium of over 30%.
What could go wrong?
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Post 51274006 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
The only flipping I care about is Bitcoin vs Gold.
Gold: $7.5 trillion
Bitcoin: $155 billion
Once bitcoin overtakes gold, each bitcoin would be worth over $350,000.
We live in a digital age, the flip is inevitable.
https://twitter.com/Rhythmtrader/status/1133432395120742402New poll
when is this flipping going to happen!!!!
This is one of the best “back of the envelope calculations” ever done in the bitcoin valuation thesis.
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Post 51274275 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.48h):
The only flipping I care about is Bitcoin vs Gold.
Gold: $7.5 trillion
Bitcoin: $155 billion
Once bitcoin overtakes gold, each bitcoin would be worth over $350,000.
We live in a digital age, the flip is inevitable.
https://twitter.com/Rhythmtrader/status/1133432395120742402New poll
when is this flipping going to happen!!!!
This is one of the best “back of the envelope calculations” ever done in the bitcoin valuation thesis.
It would be if it was the first time I saw that argument.
Alas, it is probably the hundredth
.
I did it myself the first time BTC passed the Gold Price per Oz as a lot of people cheered that, but it was pretty insignificant to me.
Then I was shocked when I saw someone being though so smart because made the exact calculation a few months after that.
That’s why I still like that computation after so many iterations: good memories.
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Post 51279767 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.49h):
Nice list.
It's nice to be read just after checking every links at
https://www.lopp.net/bitcoin-information.htmlThis is the standard references for the nocoiner who wants to go down the rabbit hole.
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Post 51282300 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.49h):
Yeah,
I like that one.
As I try to be always unbiased and intellectually honest I have to admit that the biggest tick mark is still missing:
Proven store of value over multiple centuries:
Gold ✅
Bitcoin ❌
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Post 51287274 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.49h):
Damn a lot can happen during a movie
It depends on which movie.
This movie is quite long:
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Post 51290277 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.49h):
Good morning, WO, it's this shit, I'm going a few hours and there are 1000 dollars less .... I'm with the phone, can anyone confirm if this drop coincides with the crap of future CME?
Well, MAY contract is going to expire today.
https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/equity-index/us-index/bitcoin_product_calendar_futures.htmlHere the rule:
https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/equity-index/us-index/bitcoin_contract_specifications.htmlSorry for poor editing, but I’m over mobile too!
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Post 51290830 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.49h):
Good morning, WO, it's this shit, I'm going a few hours and there are 1000 dollars less .... I'm with the phone, can anyone confirm if this drop coincides with the crap of future CME?
No idea..they are starting to see a bit of volume however.
I might be wrong here, as I don’t know exactly how TradingView works, but you might actually looking at JUN contract volumes that are picking up because now JUN is going to be front month, so activity is picking up on that particular contract ( that was illiquid when front month was APR or MAY etc.)
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Post 51294736 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.49h):
The word 'p(a)edophile' is being shifted to a different meaning recently. Wiktionary defines it as 'An adult who is sexually attracted to or engages in sexual acts with a child.' I see no children in this pic, or in other recent party pics from the douche. Of course, I'm not debating Calvin being a douche.
You are probably not digging too much into his social media...
Not advising to do so. You wouldn't discover anything we already know: he's a douche.
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Post 51296176 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.49h):
Hello WO's Family.
It is that time of the month when Fillippone sums up what happened during last month, in case you slept under a rock.
I also added a nice poll, so you can post your wild price prediction and win
the fabulous thread prize a virtual pat on the shoulder for the best guess.
Bitcoin Bearish or Bullish? Here my thoughts: MAY UPDATE (+POLL)
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Post 51297835 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.49h):
Made it to Madrid. Hopefully tomorrow is one of the best nights of my life.
Settling down in the hotel with of course - Sangria.
I will share some pics of my experiences tomorrow fellow HODLERS!
For now -
One thing that could be random, but actually it is not: Drinks are RED!
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Post 51298845 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.49h):
Made it to Madrid. Hopefully tomorrow is one of the best nights of my life.
Settling down in the hotel with of course - Sangria.
I will share some pics of my experiences tomorrow fellow HODLERS!
For now -
via Imgflip Meme GeneratorDamn man as you posted that.... I was ready to start gritt strenght..... yeah I know what a dirty ass floor, good the owners are about to change it this summer!
Good news is i’m broken AF and its finished now ...
but a coiner must be in shape ad all time!!!!!Going for a wine and early morning taking of to Spain as well, destination still unknown for me, my GF booked it
As a surprise, looking forward for a few days of rest and peace
Surprise!
You girlfriend is taking you to Madrid to the CL final and you end up at the Wanda, sitting next to LFC!
Because, you know, girlfriend knows what Mic likes the most!
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Post 51299663 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.49h):
If BSV was a scam, why would
@CalvinAyre
invest $300 Million dollars into mining equipment that loses all its value in less than 2 years?
That’s $300 000 000. Take just 2 seconds to think about it.
Open your eyes people, the train is full steam ahead, so get on board!
Open *my* eyes???
Nicely put, or alternatively:
www.howmanyconfs.comShitcoinSV is 44x less secure than bitcoin.
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Post 51299764 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.49h):
P.S. Post author fixed the image while I was typing this
Fillippone black belt in quick mobile post editing.
Quicker than sarcasm.
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Post 51300382 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.49h):
New poll... finally something makes sense. (didn't vote bacon crap)
%20-40 is where I am right now. (north of 30)
I wish I had more but it is still better than most people i imagine.
btw that number constantly changes, it is %57 when btc hits $20k, and becomes %25 when btc is at $5k. :/
Probably makes sense to unload some when it is more than %80.
edit: aaand %80+ voters arrived. Looks like I am the nocoiner.
I would be very careful disclosing those information.
Some smart people with some tracking and educated guesses can figure out your crypto asset stash size.
When bitcoin will be worth millions, that could harm you.
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Post 51310452 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.49h):
Fillippone was right in the end.
Told you so!
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Post 51310470 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.49h):
WOW Mic!
Surprise!
You girlfriend is taking you to Madrid to the CL final and you end up at the Wanda, sitting next to LFC!
Because, you know, girlfriend knows what Mic likes the most!
I doubt that.... Cause already long time booked and the final was unknown Then....
I think it Will be highly culinair....
Fillippone was right in the end.
Told you so!
Wonderful!
The fact that your girlfriend did this means she understood you so well! Take care of her!
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Post 51310926 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.49h):
One WO’r found another .....
perfect set up of my GF This is indeed a cool pic, and I was forced by the hand of Yehova to send you a merit, but still, I have to many questions....
1. Is it like a Western Union fanclub meeting going on?
2. What is generating so much trash on the beach??
3. Did you guys remember to wear sunscreen???
Anyhow, its a big world filled with billions, and its cool that you two could meet up IRL.
Me and Mic were about 50 miles apart at one point, separated by a $40 flight. I hope to make up for that at some point.
LOL Nutildah!
This post made me giggle looking at my phone amongst other people.
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Post 51312952 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.49h):
WOW Mic!
Surprise!
You girlfriend is taking you to Madrid to the CL final and you end up at the Wanda, sitting next to LFC!
Because, you know, girlfriend knows what Mic likes the most!
I doubt that.... Cause already long time booked and the final was unknown Then....
I think it Will be highly culinair....
Fillippone was right in the end.
Told you so!
Wonderful!
The fact that your girlfriend did this means she understood you so well! Take care of her!
WELL DONE!!
CONGRATS CHAPS!
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Post 51316221 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.49h):
Good Morning WO’s Family.
Observing 8,537
Liverpool won the CL.
MogoGP@Mugello
Ready for Game 2 TOR-GSW
@100trillionUSD just tweeted:
https://twitter.com/100trillionusd/status/1134903060814356480?s=21
Have a good lazy Sunday to everyone!
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Post 51320832 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.49h):
Another great tweet by PlanB.
Sorry to bug you with this, but it’s too important to let it unnoticed!
#Bitcoin stock-to-flow and S2F multiple (BTC/S2F model value). If the model would be 100% correct then S2F would always be 1. You can see that the biggest model 'errors' just after halvings, when price lags the suddenly increased model value. Other errors are bull market peaks.
https://twitter.com/100trillionusd/status/1135107270336008192?s=21Please note that the market overshoot model 3x, whilst on the downside went to 50% of theoretical market value maximum.
So model is “conservative” in the overshoots.
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Post 51326206 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.49h):
@mic - beautiful building in your pic. I went to Madrid Royal Palace today. It was a cool building.
Maybe the party shouldn’t be too expensive. Some people here don’t even have 1BTC.
I don’t think it would be fair to stop somebody going if they have been a WO poster for many years but maybe the sold too early or don’t have much money.
I dunno, I just think it’s a bit of an asshole trick to stop less wealthy people going.
Maybe an entry fee of $10,000 worth of bitcoin when we hit $100,000 per coin. Just my opinion though.
Better hurry up then!
The 10,000$ ticket is now discounted to less than 900$!!
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Post 51335600 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.49h):
I googled. Still says the couple is on the run. Are they still on the run? Or have they been arrested yet? Hope they got out of Thailand and all is ok.
As far as I know they are still on the run.
What pisses me off is instead is the cheap reporting on the story: they focused only on the fact they wanted to avoid taxation, notingh else, no context, no reasoning.
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Post 51345464 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.49h):
I love the idea of a Halvening party. I’m in. Every 4 years. It’s like the Olympics.
This is a very nice idea indeed.
Also i favour this against trivial party of BTC breaking levels against fiat shitcoins.
1BTC =1 BTC
I laughed at this identity in the beginning, but when You get the deepest meaning of such, You are joining the enlightened ones.
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Post 51346962 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.49h):
Happy birthday Mic!
Another HODLyear has passed!
100 other HODLyears for you
Enjoy Azurmendi,
Love your queen,
Don’t vomit on the terrace!
(My wishes aren’t in rigorous order of importance)
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Post 51347157 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.49h):
1BTC =1 BTC
I laughed at this identity in the beginning, but when You get the deepest meaning of such, You are joining the enlightened ones.
It's amusing to me, how Bitcoin was instrumental in allowing me to retire early. Now that I'm not mining any more, and living well within our means, I'm slowly becoming a degenerate dip-buyer out of sheer boredom.
Feeling very blessed.
If it drops below $7,500, I'll buy another chunk.
You are a true hero to me.
HODLING is a behavioural attitude.
Hodling when investment made returns in the order of 100x means you still se where the value stands.
You might have a couple of Lambos in your parking, but if you still buy the dips, this means you are still feet well planted on the ground.
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Post 51347306 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.49h):
The news you might have missed from WWDC:
Apple Publishes Bitcoin Icons & ‘CryptoKit’; iPhone Crypto Wallet Coming?CryptoKit provides developers with a new toolkit for cryptographic functionality. It means app developers can integrate operations like hashing, key generation, and encryption. In particular, CryptoKit will facilitate the use of public and private key management.
“Use public-key cryptography to create and evaluate digital signatures, and to perform key exchange. In addition to working with keys stored in memory, you can also use private keys stored in and managed by the Secure Enclave.”
Apple put a lot of focus on privacy: can we trust them turning every iphone into an Hardware Wallet?
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Post 51347968 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.49h):
The news you might have missed from WWDC:
Apple Publishes Bitcoin Icons & ‘CryptoKit’; iPhone Crypto Wallet Coming?CryptoKit provides developers with a new toolkit for cryptographic functionality. It means app developers can integrate operations like hashing, key generation, and encryption. In particular, CryptoKit will facilitate the use of public and private key management.
“Use public-key cryptography to create and evaluate digital signatures, and to perform key exchange. In addition to working with keys stored in memory, you can also use private keys stored in and managed by the Secure Enclave.”
Apple put a lot of focus on privacy: can we trust them turning every iphone into an Hardware Wallet?
For a few thousands pocket money wallet? Sure, why not?
I see your point.
I mean for higher sum.
What's the threshold to negotiate security of a closed hardware wallet (ledger nano, only as an example) for another closed hardware wallet (iphone) with smoother useer experience and probably more secure key management?
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Post 51348683 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.49h):
[SNIP]
Ehi Mic,
Just noticing your hat .
Is that personal or can be used on the relevant day by every hat bearer?
For sure I won't ask @xhomerx10 a private birthday hat, but I would happily use the one shared by the WO family!
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Post 51348823 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.49h):
[SNIP]
Ehi Mic,
Just noticing your hat .
Is that personal or can be used on the relevant day by every hat bearer?
For sure I won't ask @xhomerx10 a private birthday hat, but I would happily use the one shared by the WO family!
This one is been used more times allready and is mentioned to use when its your Bday, its XhomerX Made for the occasions
Ah!
Didn't know that!
Sending a private message to myself just to keep track of the avatar!
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Post 51348876 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.49h):
Apple adds
BTC symbol to its icon sett.
When does this start from?
More info will be released during Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference.
They will transform your phone into a hardware wallet for example, which is good for mass adoption.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/cryptokitPosted the same link literally 3 messages before yours!
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg51347968#msg51347968
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Post 51348883 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.49h):
Apple adds
BTC symbol to its icon sett.
When does this start from?
More info will be released during Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference.
They will transform your phone into a hardware wallet for example, which is good for mass adoption.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/cryptokitAFTER Samsung, who have already done it.
Yes, but with a totally different level of security.
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Post 51349865 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.49h):
As an highly asymmetrical bet (limited downside compared to huge upside) even a small percentage of Bitcoin in an investment portfolio can give a massive boost on expected result.
This is why institutional investors are paying premiums up to 40% to gain exposure to BTC trough GBTC (Greysacale Bitcoin Fund, selling his shares at an equivalent of selling BTC@10,300USD).
This is just a glimpse of that will happen when the BTC ETF will be approved: Wall Street Money flowing into Bitcoin.
Yet another demonstration of the "it is not Bitcoin needs Wall Street to survive, but Wall Street needs Bitcoin to survive" principle.
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Post 51352430 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
To every gold bug dumfuk who shill circular logic fallacies claiming #Bitcoin has no “intrinsic value”. It took literally 5 years for Germany to get 15% of their gold reserves back from USA. Germany requested 100% of their gold back and they still👏waiting👏like👏a👏lil👏bich👏
via Imgflip Meme Generatorhttps://twitter.com/cryptopahmp/status/1135708962391822340?s=21Just Love that PIC..... probably r0ach has Some good underground unknown tunnels and sh*t
Meh can’t just argue this one!
Noboddy needs to move 1 billion dollars gold. It is just a marketing advertising.
FALSE.
It took way more than 5 years to Ze Germanz to take THEIR GOLD from the Federal Reserve. 5 years was only to organise the transport once the Muricans said they could take the Gold . It took 15 years for that.
OR
Ask Maduro what happened when asked the Bank of England to give him HIS gold: answer was not.
Bitcoin transaction are uncensorsble
Gold transactions are censorable.
Bitcoin is unconfiscstable
Gold is confiscatable
Not your keys, not your bitcoin
Not your vault, not your Gold
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Post 51352924 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
An HAT update for spaceman could look awesome witheout white and with 3D
Non nobis solum nati sumus ortusque nostri partem patria vindicat, partem amici.
I'm on it.
Thanks
Homer citing Cicero citing Plato there, which is all very cosmopolitan.
lol
Research on ancient criticism of feudal system or capitalism.
Citation of Latin maxima in Latin...
What happened to the old lateral humorous WO? Where are the memes? I want it back!
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Post 51356256 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
Now my hat is Sr.Member
This is a small balance to date in Bitcointalk, threads created:
Dec-2018 How Many Full Nodes Bitcoin Online ? 127 Replies 13.160 Views
Dec-2018 List Exchanges Hacked 2011 / 2019 152 Replies 14.473 Views
Mar-2019 Bitcoin Prehistory 56 Replies 896 Views
Well done!
I suggest you to edit your message, providing links to your threads (they look interesting), so the lazy chaps as myself can go there and have a read, and possibly merit them!
I'm glad to continue here enjoying your company, I'm not looking for a pat on the back, nor do I look for merit with this publication, I only express what I really think.
I merited your post, felt it right to provide you with a virtual pat on the shoulder for your achievement! (I also have my own self glorification thread).
Everyone needs a little bit of appreciation. No shame in that.
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Post 51356460 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
1 BTC = Where is the chart!? Di you forget ze history chart?
Ze lazy Zerman!
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Post 51356474 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
I’m out of sMerit but I would have sent you +5 for that post Lambie. Can somebody help me out & send him at least 1.
Thanks.
Sent tow merits,
+1 from LFC
+1 form Fillippone
(almost empty of merits now)
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Post 51356570 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
I’m out of sMerit but I would have sent you +5 for that post Lambie. Can somebody help me out & send him at least 1.
Thanks.
Sent tow merits,
+1 from LFC
+1 form Fillippone
(almost empty of merits now)
Lol.
Too slow
Ty gents
I do hope others will join us!
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Post 51356731 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
1 BTC = Where is the chart!? Di you forget ze history chart?
Ze lazy Zerman!
worldly wisdom: you should read the terms and conditions in any case.
OUCH!
Pretty sure the terms and conditions weren't there when I first read the message. LOL in any case mate.
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Post 51358301 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
Hi Lambie -
Multi-paties and all are fine, no problem with that. However, whether it's one or many parties - organising anything within a week or so of breaking an arbitrary figure in price is at the very least difficult. Just booking things up and people dropping everything to book a flight to get there means it is tough to see how it would work.
Fixing a date (based on Halvening, say?) and finding out well in advance how many takers there are makes it more feasible to set up, I would have thought. Shoot me down, by all means - but people have lives and need to plan in advance - even decent hotels, restaurants etc are best booked in advance, surely... Not many people will put a deposit down for a party on an unknown future date. So how would you know numbers in order to book anything?
Also, for me and maybe I am not alone (I have no idea) I am not really up for hookers and blow. Never have been for the former, have weaned myself off the latter... Call me a party pooper, if you like, but don't get me wrong; I do like the the idea of a party and a chance to meet people I have share the ups and downs with for years. I also know some will head for the hookers and blow - and good luck to them, if they do - but I hope that is not all it is about. If there was a choice, I would be opting for beers and a chat.
Lastly, I might also like to explore a city and meet new friends with my partner in town with me. I may be alone in having this as a preference of course - but if it raises eyebrows to suggest this, I will just have to wait and hear tales of what I missed out on.
Edit: Some of this answered above while I was typing.
In many cities this could be a problem, but in Vegas I can promise you that booking the restaurant for 25 people, nightclub for 75 people or less, stripclub 75 people or less, 1 stretch limo, and brothel for 25 people or less with a weeks notice would be eezy peezy lemon breezy.
A week is also plenty of time to get a fairly cheap plane ticket and hotel rooms are always abundant and inexpensive relative to quality in Vegas, even on zero days notice. Saturday is actually a better day since some will still have jobs and need to work Friday so consider this an amendment to my proposal. Also remember in my post no one but the host would have to put down a deposit for anything. As a Vegas host Im willing to pay in advance out of my pocket for the limo, VIP table and bottle deposits(the will likely just want to put a hold on a credit card at the most, if anything). The restaurant wont need a deposit for a party of 25, the stripclub wont need a deposit, and the brothel will not need a deposit.
Multiple hosts is also to help with the fact that some will want a more wholesome party. I would never call you a party pooper for having different tastes. Also remember people can stay longer than a night and as WO members meet they can make separate plans to do things on sunday monday or however long they stay in town.
My party structure proposal did have 4 events and only the last 2 were of the non wholesome variety, but certainly a host could make a party with lots of wholesome events and completely avoid anything on the leaning towards debauchery.
What if we hold multiple party over the world, each one sporting a particular theme?
e.g. (fist ideas)
- Las Vegas: Lambie Style "wild party": hookers, strippers and raw meat.
- Maundays Bay, Anguilla: Laid back beach party Mic's Style, drinks, chatter and friendship in a beautiful landscape.
- Paris: Refined and classy party, tuxedos, gowns and white gloves.
- Oxford: Knowledge Party: we use proceeds for the party to invite best lecturer and minds from all over the world to discuss about Bitcoin (jimmy Song, A Antonoupolous etc..)
- Nairobi/Maui/Lhasa (or whatever else in the world): Exploring/Adventure/Surfing/Safari/Hiking or whatever not bitcoin lateral activity. For someone now rich enough to afford a life relieving/soul enlightening experience.
The downside is that is that to gain traction it would be open also to guest/friends (maybe hatter could sport a sort of VIP treatment) but it would be nice to have each one of use finding their sweet spot.
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Post 51358375 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
Aren't we jinxing it?
LOL, we probably are, but who cares!
We believe in the magical internet money backed by cryptographically verified computations, not superstition!
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Post 51358550 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
EDIT: maybe someone should start a DAO "100kparty".
"Can you Guys stop partying??"
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Post 51359483 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
Very nice development indeed.
It makes running a full node even more useful, and so compelling.
Every first class bitcoiner should run her own Bitcoin Full Node.
It has been detailed on the Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #49
Erlay proposed: a new paper by Gleb Naumenko, Pieter Wuille, Gregory Maxwell, Sasha Fedorova, and Ivan Beschastnikh describes an alternative transaction relay protocol, Erlay. Currently, when a node learns about a new transaction that passes its relay policy, it announces the txid of that transaction to all of its peers (except any peers that announced it previously). This is a very simple and effective policy, but it’s not efficient—most of the announcements a node receives are announcements for transactions it has already learned about from a different peer a few moments before, a redundancy that wastes about 44% of all node bandwidth according to the paper.
The paper attempts to reduce that redundancy using the authors’ Erlay protocol which separates relaying into two phases, a fanout phase and a reconciliation phase. In the fanout phase, a node will only directly announce new transactions it has learned about to a maximum of eight peers selected from the node’s outbound peers.
In the reconciliation phase, a node will periodically request from each of its outbound peers a sketch of short transaction identifiers (short txids) for all the new transactions that peer would normally announce to the node. Sketches are created using the libminisketch library described in Newsletter #26 which implements a highly bandwidth efficient set reconciliation technique based on error correction codes. Upon receipt of a requested sketch, the node itself also generates a sketch of all the new transactions that it would normally announced to its peer. The node combines its sketch with the peer’s sketch to produce a list of any differences between the sketches. That diff contains the short txids of any transactions that are in one set of new transactions but not the other. The node can then request any transactions it doesn’t have from that peer and proceed to querying its next peer for that peer’s sketch. This is repeated for a new peer once each second, allowing the node to quickly receive any transactions it didn’t receive via a fanout announcement. This simple two-step protocol of fanout and reconciliation describes the primary operation of Erlay; the remaining parts of the protocol described and analyzed in the paper cover the optimal parameters to use for the sketches and a series of fallback steps to take if a particular attempt at set reconciliation fails.
After describing the Erlay protocol, the paper analyzes its performance using both a simulated network of 60,000 nodes (similar in number and use to the current Bitcoin network) and a live set of 100 nodes spread internationally across several datacenters. The most notable result is that Erlay reduces the amount of bandwidth used to announce the existence of new transactions by 84%. However, it does take about 80% (2.6 seconds) longer for transactions to propagate to all of the nodes in the network. It’s still the case that Bitcoin transactions can only be confirmed once every ten minutes on average, so a three second slowdown seems like a reasonable price to pay for a major reduction in bandwidth.
Having established that the protocol is a worthwhile efficiency improvement, the paper considers the most important of its secondary aspects: its effect on privacy. Currently, each Bitcoin Core node slightly delays the relaying of transactions to its peers; this makes it more difficult for spy nodes to use timing correlations to guess that the first peer they receive a transaction from is the peer that created the transaction. Multiple simulations were run testing the effectiveness of the current relay protocol against the effectiveness of Erlay for various amounts of spy nodes among network peers, from 5% spy nodes to 60% spy nodes. In cases where the spy nodes were public nodes accepting incoming connections, Erlay always performed as well or better than the current protocol. In cases where the spy nodes were private nodes making connections to honest nodes, Erlay sometimes performed better and sometimes performed worse—but never more than 10% worse (and this worst case is an unlikely situation). The paper also notes that Erlay is compatible with the proposed BIP156 Dandelion protocol for further improving the network’s resistance to spy nodes.
Considering future possible changes to Bitcoin relay policy, the paper notes that an increase in the number of outbound peers from 8 to 32 would only increase the bandwidth used by a node to announce the existence of new transactions by 32% with Erlay compared to 300% using the current protocol. As described in the paragraph above about Erlay’s two phases, new transactions would still only be fanned out via direct announcements to 8 peers, but nodes would perform set reconciliation with all 32 peers. A four-fold improvement in relay connectivity improves the chance that time-sensitive transactions for contract protocols like LN will make it to miners quickly.
In addition to libminisketch, the code changes necessary to implement Erlay in Bitcoin Core amount to only 584 lines of code, and the CPU intensive part of set reconciliation has been benchmarked to take less than a millisecond under conditions that are worse than expected in practice. If no objections are raised over the paper, Naumenko has announced his intention to write a BIP and work to get Erlay included in a subsequent version of Bitcoin Core. The method used for transaction relay is part of the P2P network protocol (not a consensus rule), so the change could begin operation as soon as multiple users upgrade to it, although we expect nodes will also include a backwards-compatible mode to support peers who haven’t upgraded.
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Post 51359770 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
Now my hat is Sr.Member
This is a small balance to date in Bitcointalk, threads created:
Dec-2018 How Many Full Nodes Bitcoin Online ? 127 Replies 13.160 Views
Dec-2018 List Exchanges Hacked 2011 / 2019 152 Replies 14.473 Views
Mar-2019 Bitcoin Prehistory 56 Replies 896 Views
Well done!
I suggest you to edit your message, providing links to your threads (they look interesting), so the lazy chaps as myself can go there and have a read, and possibly merit them!
I think the threads have enough merit.
Now it is good to see how the merits come from the old members of the forum, they do not publish, but they give merit, this means that they liked the thread.
Thx, fillippone.
I didn't want to search those threads to read them, but now you want me to hit the search button doing the dirty work...
I am lazy...
EDIT:
Come on Lazy Chaps, Fillippone did the job: have a read of those very intresting threads:
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Post 51360070 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
I think the threads have enough merit.
Anyway, I merited the post because they were worth it.
But only one
The last one of my merits.
I had more than 40 merits, my personal hoarding stash (pointless) PB.
Then I went on a spending spree.
It was fun as it lasted.
Now I am officially out of merits.
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Post 51360677 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
I think the threads have enough merit.
Anyway, I merited the post because they were worth it.
But only one
The last one of my merits.
I had more than 40 merits, my personal hoarding stash (pointless) PB.
Then I went on a spending spree.
It was fun as it lasted.
Now I am officially out of merits.
A poster as you shall gain quickly ..... !!
Let it rain!
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Post 51362708 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
congrats to VBs
amazing the disparity in page views on your xclnt threads due (?) to their respective subforums
what's next?
-a history of forks and fork attempts -- xt, classic, unlimited, bch, s2x, all that jazz
-i ran out of ideas for you just now
LOL, What you have to do is give me many, many, merits, ideas for the next issues are not a problem.
If I do not get big bags of merit, I'll never catch you.
A part of the success is also yours, you gave me several tips when I got to the thread of WO.
My threads are like gratitude to Bitcoin, if Satoshi was here I would settle for thanking him for having created Bitcoin, but unfortunately it is not so, for this reason as a good
BTCitcoiner, I feel that they must be related to the origin of Bitcoin.
I have one next in mind but I need a lot of time to document it, I'm sure that if I can check all the information you like it.
Thx, V8
Not for the first time you seem to think I have lots of merits to give but sorry, I've already given them away, and I don't get as many now as i used to. Am quite sure you'll overtake me anyway with all the work you put in. Welcome to pm if you need help. btw I asked LoyceV for this graph a bit ago:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5099167.msg51186664#msg51186664
in this vein:
( the most merited regular wall observers )
I do not remember asking you about your merits, I'm sorry if I bothered you with the comment.
The only merits that interest me are the minimum to be legendary.
In many occasions a good advice is more important than a handful of merits.
Thanks for everything, V8
Wow!
Congrats VB1001!
I hadn’t that graph in my mind, but I was pretty satisfied with my progression trough the member rank and the contribution (hopefully positive) to the forum.
But wow, that yellow line not only is pointing north, but also being almost a straight line means that actually your contribution has been extremely consistent and. Instant over the past months!
I think a lot can be summarised in what you said here:
In many occasions a good advice is more important than a handful of merits.
Sometimes a good advice is also a good example!
Well done!
If only I had smerits
I owe you some.
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Post 51363948 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
Meanwhile in Denmark:
My Bank In Denmark Just Offered Me A Negative Rate Of Interest To Borrow MoneyThe article says the negative interests were available for the banks and institutions... only till now. Now an average Joe go to the Danish bank, ask for money and get paid by doing so.
As somebody said in the comments, you can buy the whole country like that.
Crazy right? Interesting times. Sounds a lot like we are about to see the end of the financial system we knew.
Satoshi knew this shit was coming. When you think like that selling at $100k looks like a stupid idea.
This is nonsense.
You get paid to have money.
Hence I would to this:
- Buy an house
- mortgage at negative interest rate
- use the negative proceeds to buy bitcoin
- Use gains in bitcoin to repay the mortgage
Worst case: you got money for free to buy your house.
Best case: you got your house for free and saved some btc
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Post 51364281 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
Worst case: you got money for free to buy your house.
Best case: you got your house for free and saved some btc
inb4 we'd be in Dire Straits
Basis hypothesis is that you can afford that mortgage at 0% rates. I’m not suggesting leverage, course.
Hodling is an attitude: it is true for bitcoin, but it is applicable also to fiat, to a lesser extent.
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Post 51367156 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
but I would guess at least 60-80 with an average of 2 guests each so that would mean at least 210 people.
And average of 2 guests seems a bit too much. Most guys have only one GF/wife.
So maybe 1 guest per old hat...
One does not simply bring a gf/wife to a strip club. The smart ones would leave them at home
You don't bring sand to a beach.
You don’t bring beer to Octoberfest
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Post 51369666 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5151405.new#new^
Didn't wanna spam the WO with this, but just my experience @Azurmendi and where I will post following experiences, hopefully you guys gonna share some as well...
Of-course I will share in here as well, just don't wanna spam the thread
What is WO?
WO: stands for Wetenschappelijk Onderwijs in Dutch.
Mic is from this part of the World (vague reference to preserve his OpSec...).
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Post 51371363 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
What if we hold multiple party over the world, each one sporting a particular theme?
e.g. (fist ideas)
- Las Vegas: Lambie Style "wild party": hookers, strippers and raw meat.
- Maundays Bay, Anguilla: Laid back beach party Mic's Style, drinks, chatter and friendship in a beautiful landscape.
- Paris: Refined and classy party, tuxedos, gowns and white gloves.
- Oxford: Knowledge Party: we use proceeds for the party to invite best lecturer and minds from all over the world to discuss about Bitcoin (jimmy Song, A Antonoupolous etc..)
- Nairobi/Maui/Lhasa (or whatever else in the world): Exploring/Adventure/Surfing/Safari/Hiking or whatever not bitcoin lateral activity. For someone now rich enough to afford a life relieving/soul enlightening experience.
The downside is that is that to gain traction it would be open also to guest/friends (maybe hatter could sport a sort of VIP treatment) but it would be nice to have each one of use finding their sweet spot.
Yes, i like this, the more parties the better. Having more parties increases chances of success. Having one big clusterfuck party means something will happen to fuck it up and we get zero parties.
Things where diversification
does lead to benefit:
- Fiat Investments
- Food
- Parties
Things where diversification
does not lead to benefit:
- Shitcoins "investments"
- Drugs
- Women
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Post 51371964 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
Things where diversification
does not lead to benefit:
- Shitcoins "investments"
- Drugs
- Women
First item OK... but the other two?
Are we going crazy or what?
Holding a PORTFOLIO with more than one woman is recipe for disaster.
You can bet one at a time, no problem,long term or day trading very high turnover: no problem.
You can leverage and go long two or more different women for very short periods of time. risky, but no problem.
But investment...man we are talking about long term. Two girls is going to collapse. Transaction costs and BS management is going to kill you.
Same with drugs.
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Post 51372433 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
#Bitcoin aiming for 100trillionUSD (after 2028)?!
All physical commodities are nicely lined up on the stock-to-flow / market value grid.
I added diamonds (S2F19, market value $1.5trn).
Bitcoin seems to grow towards the 1 free spot on the S2F periodic table
https://twitter.com/100trillionUSD/status/1136569340692770816PlanB every day surpassing,
BTC>Rocket.
edit:
Great work as always! If we pessimistically project (straight line) the MC of BTC to 50T some day and remove the aprox 4M BTC lost,
it will get us to a BTC price of aprox. $3.000.000/BTC. Stack them sats man!!
https://twitter.com/Wuuzzaa1/status/1136582427403534337I am a great admirer of Plan B, but this graph has a great problem:
Diamonds are way more common than tough on the Earth, and the only reason why they retain an high value is strict supply side management by the only one producer of such.
De Beers not only manage roughly 90% of Diamond production, carefully managing how much diamonds get on the market (so they are actually able to tilt the SF on the upside), but also are controlling the nascent business of artificial diamonds.
They are using their massive financial power to buy and put out of business every artificial diamond producer, threatening the production of diamond at a lower price than anyone else can sustain (seems counter intuitive, but dumping the nascent market is actually very effective way to put a lot of competitors out of business).
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Post 51372617 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
Lambie I'd love to come to Vegas, but I must insist that we have a serious moment. Perhaps the address at the dinner could be given by that foremost bitcoin expert Ms Izabella Kaminska. I believe you know her well enough to invite her?
I hope you come to the Vegas party.
Sorry, Lambo Slayer, this was just a joke really. I can't get in to the US because of a youthful indiscretion.
Location aside, sadly I largely agree with Bob, not because I claim to be of the same ... girth as him, but still because of opsec reasons. Despite appearances I am very wary and hard to convince, and there are tons of things I just don't do irl. So we'll see.
I know you all could care less but if the party takes place in the U.S. I could not attend. I was a green card holder but used my regular (foreign) passport when entering the U.S. in 2003. They were about to throw me in jail for a couple of years because of this but was deported instead with life long forbidden re-entry. kind of sucks because half my family lives in the U.S.
I understand tough that Vegas makes sense.
It seems like we'll end up with a party on each side of the pond, with options to go to either or both.
folks, I just will attend if I can stay anonymous and only in countries with no death penalty because of OpSec.
I'm this guy here:
EDIT: not possible for me to eat something the whole time but I'm able to drink with straw.
My name is Giovanni Gyrsur, but everybody calls me Gyrsur.
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Post 51373051 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
My name is Giovanni Gyrsur, but everybody calls me Gyrsur.
from where you did get this? my first name is Walter and my second name is Giovanni because my mother is Italian. Damn! OpSec fail!
The helmet you are wearing is very closely looking to the one Thomas Bangalter, from Daft Punk, wears during his appearances.
so I tought about one of their songs: "Giorgio By Moroder"
"Giorgio By Moroder"
When I was fifteen, sixteen, when I really started to play guitar, I definitely wanted to become a musician.
It was almost impossible because it was— The dream was so big that I didn't see any chance because I was living in a little town, was studying.
And when I finally broke away from school and became musician, I thought, "Well, now, I may have a little bit of a chance." Because all I really wanted to do is music and not only play music but compose music.
At that time, in Germany, in '69, '70, they had already discotheques. So, I would take my car, would go to a discotheque, sing maybe thirty minutes. I think I had about 7-8 songs.
I would partially sleep in the car because I didn't want to drive home and that helped me for about—almost two years to survive, in the beginning,
I wanted to do an album with the sounds of the '50s, the sounds of the '60s, of the '70s, and then have a sound of the future. And I said, "Wait a second. I know the synthesizer. Why don't I use the synthesizer which is the sound of the future?"
And I didn't have any idea what to do but I knew I needed a click. So, we put a click on the 24-track which then was synced to the Moog modular. I knew that it could be a sound of the future but I didn't realize how much the impact would be.
My name is Giovanni Giorgio, but everybody calls me Giorgio.
Once you free your mind about a concept of harmony and of music being correct, you can do whatever you want. So, nobody told me what to do and there was no preconception of what to do.
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Post 51375076 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
Btw LoooooooL
This shit got to 32 usd!!
Incredible...
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Post 51378685 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
All aboard!
CCMF!
This thread ruined my life.
I cannot see a train IRL without chanting “CCMF!” in my head! Without any other present knowing what happens in my brain....
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Post 51378931 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
As long as it stays in your head... nothing to worry about.
Actually most of the time stays in my head, not every time, Phil.
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Post 51379898 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
[SNIP]
You are so sophisticated. I like you very much.
I like Dakt Punk very much (one of the very few French products I like), and Giorgio Moroder is half Italian half German just like you (He comes from a small town in the Alps where I used to go skiing).
I reciprocate your sentiments, not homo.
If I had a choice, I would like to have my sentiments reciprocated by her:
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Post 51381223 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
When people talk negatively about crypto its generally to do with some altcoin.
LoL ! I suggest you visit
Nouriel's Twitter thread to cure yourself of this delusion
Hard money is backed by gold.
Bitcoin is hard money backed by mathematics.
Fiat money is backed by force.
Fiat money is altcoins.
Fiat money is scam.
Fiat money is shitcoin.
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Post 51381410 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
Nah.
I tought you were proposing this:
(In a way) Better than Daft Punk and yet French (NSFW):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySlSspLjwnM
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Post 51381425 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
Hard money is backed by gold.
Bitcoin is hard money backed by mathematics.
Fiat money is backed by force.
Fiat money is altcoins.
Fiat money is scam.
Fiat money is shitcoin.
Indeed. The main argument against "alt" coins is tribal, not analytical as is well demonstrated here
Actually this reasoning applies to everything.
Every money but Bitcoin is a shitcoin.
Radical.
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Post 51383616 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
Hard money is backed by gold.
Bitcoin is hard money backed by mathematics.
Fiat money is backed by force.
Fiat money is altcoins.
Fiat money is scam.
Fiat money is shitcoin.
Jimmy?
You've been deceived.
Your food is poisonous, not nutritious.
Your news is mind-numbing, not enlightening.
Your job is soul-sucking, not fulfilling.
Your money is value-bleeding, not value-storing.
Start by taking the power of money away from the elites.
Start with Bitcoin.
https://twitter.com/jimmysong/status/1136888390861934592Not at all.
Before being accused of plagiarism in Meta, I specify that the Bitcoin poem it's my own work.
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Post 51384553 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
oh my god
I think I'm in love
Used to be illegal.
Now pretty safe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpbHdIrtpNoPS. In Italy we say something like: "She saw more ceilings than a painter from Bergamo"
And in Bergamo, you know, the painters paint a LOT of ceilings.
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Post 51384702 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
Salut Alizée, est-ce que tu aimes les grenouilles?
Je m'appelle JoJo et j'aime beaucoup l'argent magique sur l' Internet appelé Bitcoin
Hi Alizée, do you like frogs?
My name is JoJo and I love the magic internet money called Bitcoin
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Post 51384734 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
Si vous voulez apprendre le français, allez voir dans le google play. ils ont des applications géniales pour cela maintenant.
Facile peasy.
Tu peux etudier la langue française pour combien d'année tu veux: chaque français tu va parler avec prétendra ne pas toi comprendre à cause de ta prononciation (histoire vraie)
You can study the French language for how many years you want: every French you speak with, will pretend not to understand you because of your pronunciation (true story)
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Post 51384765 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
Oh god, the frogs are taking over!
I'm not French, I 'm Italian.
Opsec is less important than being called French and forced to eat frogs/snails and cheese for the rest of my life.
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Post 51384911 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
Oh god, the frogs are taking over!
I'm not French, I 'm Italian.
Opsec is less important than being called French and forced to eat frogs/snails and cheese for the rest of my life.
I never felt the urgency to merit someone as now.
Please someone help!
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Post 51385175 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
you know maybe it's just me but that French girl looks like she's never been fucked properly and would be all boney and whiny about what goes where and how vigorously. i just prefer some seasoned flesh i suppose
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Post 51387001 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
[SNIP]
You are so sophisticated. I like you very much.
I like Dakt Punk very much (one of the very few French products I like), and Giorgio Moroder is half Italian half German just like you (He comes from a small town in the Alps where I used to go skiing).
It was a thread about who Satoshi really is, just checked again, had just a glimpse yday.
*snip*
I don't know. That's really weird.
I suppose I would need more context on what the thread was about, but it would seem there is actually a pro-CSW moderator out there. Given the amount of absolute shitposting that goes on here on a minute-by-minute basis, I'm rather surprised these posts of yours got singled out for deletion. They seem to be contributing to an ongoing discussion and not just shitposts-in-the-wind.Edit: OH! It was a self-moderated thread. For one reason or another Gyrsur deleted all the posts in his thread, even his OP:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5002972You'll have to ask him what his reasoning was.
Dear Lord! You are Giorgio Moroder.
I worship you!
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Post 51394902 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
According to Grayscale, many investors are not aware of the bitcoin block reward halving.
As such, it still remains a key factor for the price and it is not completely priced in.
"We were surprised to learn that many of them were not even aware of this event." (Grayscale)
https://twitter.com/iamjosephyoung/status/1136949078879744000This is both interesting but also scaring:
Intresting because there was a lot of debate if the recent price action was due to markets being efficient with people pricing in halving effect before halving actually happening. Public information being incorporated in current market prices is what characterise efficient markets. Something should be granted in a mature market like the one bitcoin begins to be.
This is also scaring because grayscale targets institutional investors. I would have tough this kind of investors had done the basic due diligence of the technology. How can be prepared to invest millions in BTC without even knowing what an halving is?
This is scary. They are ready to invest in something they basically don’t know about.
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Post 51395613 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
^^^^^
This is the coolest cake I have ever seen in my life.
You are lucky to have someone that care about you so much!
+1 WO merit, because I am out of real merits!
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Post 51410535 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
ok can't bear this any more
isn't theymos (very marginally) late with the DT1 list?
what's he cooking up now?
because this has to happen
http://loyce.club/trust/ranking/1067333.html any of our posh friends hear anything on the grapevine? LFc, nutildah, bones
Yeah!
Waiting this too...
EDIT: how comes any bottle opened with my relevant person cannot survive more than 45 minutes? That’s s a mystery to me.
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Post 51410861 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
ok can't bear this any more
isn't theymos (very marginally) late with the DT1 list?
what's he cooking up now?
because this has to happen
http://loyce.club/trust/ranking/1067333.html any of our posh friends hear anything on the grapevine? LFc, nutildah, bones
Yeah!
Waiting this too...
EDIT: how comes any bottle opened with my relevant person cannot survive more than 45 minutes? That’s s a mystery to me.
gosh look at you mr smarty-pants
http://loyce.club/trust/ranking/1852120.htmlwe would have to call you sir? and not tease you for experimental english?
just wonder if theymos may change the system, hope you guys don't get disappoint.
even a whisky bottle?
My English is as broken as my last (Italian) champagne (Austrian) crystal glass:fillippone loses grace when drunk.
Yeah I know a change in the rules or cap in numbers is required.
I see this coming so I won’t be disappointed.
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Post 51411092 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
ok can't bear this any more
isn't theymos (very marginally) late with the DT1 list?
what's he cooking up now?
because this has to happen
http://loyce.club/trust/ranking/1067333.html any of our posh friends hear anything on the grapevine? LFc, nutildah, bones
Yeah!
Waiting this too...
EDIT: how comes any bottle opened with my relevant person cannot survive more than 45 minutes? That’s s a mystery to me.
gosh look at you mr smarty-pants
http://loyce.club/trust/ranking/1852120.htmlwe would have to call you sir? and not tease you for experimental english?
just wonder if theymos may change the system, hope you guys don't get disappoint.
even a whisky bottle?
My English is as broken as my last (Italian) champagne (Austrian) crystal glass:fillippone loses grace when drunk.
Yeah I know a change in the rules or cap in numbers is required.
I see this coming so I won’t be disappointed.
Just my 2cts :
A Champagne can't be Italian because it is a "Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée" from France (and only from France). It can't be used in any other countries in the world.
Ohhh...
“Italian champagne” is something to make the rest of the world understand want Italian Spumante is.
Everybody knows Spumante is better than champagne, like in general regarding every aspect of life Italian is better than French (beside snails and frogs..) but you know, French are better marketer....
EDIT: Scroll back a few pages to find a relevant GIF on Italo-French friendship
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Post 51411130 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
Well the 9k hat doesn't seem to be working too quickly so I made you guys a drink... got the idea from a jojo69 critigue of a MrFreeRoMan post
I would only substitute the tiled pavement with moon surface.
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Post 51415639 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
English food and wine are not quite the best
lol
Reminds me of that old scattergun ethnic joke:
_____
The difference between heaven and hell
In heaven
The cops are English,
The chefs are French,
The mechanics are German,
The lovers are Italian,
And the administrators are Swiss.
In hell
The cops are German,
The chefs are English,
The mechanics are French,
The lovers are Swiss,
And the administrators are Italian.
Hahah Perfect summary
(mechanics can be italian, although reliability is lower)
Since we are on old humor mood:
FIAT stands for Fix It Again Tony.
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Post 51419747 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
HELLO GUYS!I'm not active a lot lately cause of boring real life stuff, but when i can i'm always here hiddenly lurking........
today i saw an interesting pm
so i'm just passing by seeing what's new on the WO........ so, 'sup?
Bitcoin still alive?
Meanwhile glad to see the hat family has grown up, but after recent events can't understand why some fools are still walking alone....
CYALL SOON BOYS EDIT: Just saw this random hello happened to be my post #1000, cool
I am afraid Bitcoin has died again just a couple of days:
last time on Jun 6th:
https://www.express.co.uk/finance/city/1136978/Stark-warning-for-crypto-fans-crv/amphttps://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-obituaries/
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Post 51419845 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
HELLO GUYS!I'm not active a lot lately cause of boring real life stuff, but when i can i'm always here hiddenly lurking........
today i saw an interesting pm
so i'm just passing by seeing what's new on the WO........ so, 'sup?
^
Maybe just in time to get your HAT 3D'ed
Mic is referring to this, I think:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg49549748#msg49549748
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Post 51421683 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
Well the 9k hat doesn't seem to be working too quickly so I made you guys a drink... got the idea from a jojo69 critigue of a MrFreeRoMan post
I would only substitute the tiled pavement with moon surface.
Well actually, the drink is on a table...
on the edge of Valles Marineris in the east Tharsis region of mars.
It took a while to transmit all the images back to earth to finish the animation
It’sad to be out of merit to be sent to this man!
Someone help!!
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Post 51422342 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
It’sad to be out of merit!
Not that sad if some fellow bitcoiner has your back
Thanks, I owe you one then this drought will pass!
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Post 51422712 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
WO’s version:CCMF!
PlanB version:
#Bitcoin 200 week moving average is growing at 5% per month again
https://twitter.com/100trillionusd/status/1138186150361935873?s=21
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Post 51425185 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
100 Bitcoin Users Perform What Might Be Largest ‘CoinJoin’ Transaction EverThe community behind the privacy-centric bitcoin app Wasabi Wallet recently brought together 100 people to collectively execute a “CoinJoin” transaction on bitcoin in what might be the biggest event of its kind.
Some context: bitcoin itself is far from private, as users can, via the blockchain, see where coins are being transferred to and from. One effort to afford greater privacy to transactions is CoinJoin, a long-standing technology first proposed in 2013 by long-time bitcoin idea man and cryptographer Greg Maxwell. The idea is that transactions can be made more private by jumbling a number of different transactions together and then redistributing them.
https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-users-perform-what-might-be-the-largest-coinjoin-ever?Good morning WO,s
This is not a very “new” news, but it’s terribly important!
Fungibility is now one of the biggest problem in bitcoin. If bitcoin can be “marked down” because of say, they come from a suspicious activity, theft, an activity deemed as censourable by an arbitrary counterpart or anything else, different prices for different UTXO can coexist. This is very bad quality for a coin that aims at being used as world settlement currency.
Simply put: privacy is really important and not accessible, until coinjoins, to users.
This is one of the most important news in bitcoin lately.
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Post 51428324 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
blah
Welcome to DT1 ... V8 :
blah
Congrats mindtrust, fillippone, V8's and micgoossens! *nice story snipped*
thx both, congrats to those, thx to my trustees.
Sometimes it's easier to raise an issue like this here, rather than cause drama and fuss on meta.
But in principle, I'd bet that most WObservers dgaf about DT stuff, and don't want it here.
Anyone is welcome to pm me though about all that jazz, because frankly it's far from perfect, or in fact any other stuff.
Thanks nutildah V8!
I didn't expect to be in DT1, and I'll do my best to keep the drama as low as possible overall, but for sure away from the happy WO family.
HODL requires strong hands, we cannot be distracted by futile things.
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Post 51430216 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
Colonoscopy completed. Medium sized polyp detected and removed. Biopsy report in 1 week. Expecting benign results.
Take care of your assholes, brothers.
Glad everything is looking good.
Take care of your assholes, brothers
is a nice twist from
Take care of your brothers, assholes
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Post 51430475 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
http://dailybitcoinnews.com/study-74-percent-of-bitcoin-mining-powered-with-renewable-energy/According to the third installment of CoinShares’ biannual mining report, 74 percent of power on the bitcoin mining network comes from renewable energy sources.
Original report (email registration needed).
Ah!
Soon will come the day when Bitcoin Mining will be entirely powered by renewable energy, and the excess production will be used to run the most secure protocol to ensure financial individual sovereignty!
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Post 51430617 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
Oh dear Lord, I do love this man:
https://twitter.com/100trillionUSD/status/1138457543741714432
A Random Walk Down Wall Street + #bitcoin
From the comments:
1955-2019
100% SPY: 8% return (geometric), -40% max loss
100% GLD: 7.5% return, -32% max loss
100% UST 6% return, -8% max loss
Time period 1955-2019
Bitcoin 2010-2019, 1% yearly rebalanced: 8.3% return, -1% max loss
Just think about the compelling case for a Portfolio manager to include BTC in his portfolio. Negative interest rates, low and flat yield curve with stretched stock valuations.
No surprises finding CME is experiencing record volumes or that GBTC is selling shares with 40% premium over theoretical value: someone is desperate to gain exposure to BTC.
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Post 51430675 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
mindrust, fillippone, V8 and micman - Welcome to the DT1 brotherhood, we’ve been waiting for you.
Thanks m8.
You have been part of this story!
Take care of yourself Bob
Congrates - Best of luck v8, mic and fillippone for DT1:
Phillippone and mic : Guys make sure you have thick skin before getting into DT1-Meta drama. v8 already got crocodile's skin
Pamoldar : you didn't missed anything yet.
Note : Mindtrust you too bro, you just trust your mind and you are good to go
Thanks JSRAW , but I already promised to keep the meta-drama as low and as far from WO as possible!
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Post 51430839 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
Heavy weights like suchmoon, Lauda, achow101, The Pharmacist got removed from DT1. Tbh I don't expect to stay there for a very long time.
achow101 is a core developer (or contributor) as far as I know. Why did he get removed is beyond me. If he doesn't deserve to be a DT1 member, why the fuck do I?
Anyway I am happy to be included in DT1 but tbh I don't really care. Actually, I don't want to care.
Being a DT member gets you into drama. I don't want any of it.
They will comeback in no time again. Whats wrong with achow101? I never seen him in the drama.
That's my question. What's wrong with suchmoon? I don't understand why they got removed.
Theymos picked a random selection of 100 users from all the eligible ones, that this month happened to be 111.
So no ad-personam actions, supposedly: just randomness.
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Post 51438074 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
Good evening.
Apologies gentlemen, this has been a difficult and extremely busy week. I do most of my traveling during the summer months so there have been preparations to make and obligations to uphold.
It has left me exhausted to be honest and a little worse for wear so I will be brief.
Did you get married? Is this what we are talking about? Preparations, obligations, wear and absence from favourite things... this is marriage.
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Post 51440133 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
According to Grayscale, many investors are not aware of the bitcoin block reward halving.
As such, it still remains a key factor for the price and it is not completely priced in.
"We were surprised to learn that many of them were not even aware of this event." (Grayscale)
https://twitter.com/iamjosephyoung/status/1136949078879744000This is both interesting but also scaring:
Interesting because there was a lot of debate if the recent price action was due to markets being efficient with people pricing in halving effect before halving actually happening. Public information being incorporated in current market prices is what characterise efficient markets. Something should be granted in a mature market like the one bitcoin begins to be.
This is also scaring because grayscale targets institutional investors. I would have tough this kind of investors had done the basic due diligence of the technology. How can be prepared to invest millions in BTC without even knowing what an halving is?
This is scary. They are ready to invest in something they basically don’t know about.
There was a lot of chatter recently about Litecoin halving, it is going to happen in less than two months.
The story goes something like this (bot voice mindlessly reading the following strategy):
LTC is going to halve in 50 or so days, so it is going to have a huge price jump.
This is also going to bode well for bitcoin that is going to have in a little less than a year!
History is going to repeat!
Well, I would like to thing it is going according to plan, but i have a few toughs to share with you guys.
1. Bitcoin Halving rationale has to do with Stock to flow: as Bitcoin supply will suddenly reduce, there will be an imbalance with demand in bitcoin and the price will go up. Also stock to flow will rise, and bitcoin will become suddenly more scarce: then price will go up.
Well we have two propositions here, and no one will go as planned:
2. LTC is now a shitcoin like may other, gone are the times when it was seen "as Silver to Gold as Litecoin to Bitcoin". Book and liquidity is very thin, so very easy to price manipulate, to create price patterns people looking at. Once you made people think some kind of fuckery will happen when bitcoin halves, then taking profit on the back of such people is very trivial.
So take care if you want to use this argument to support your positions.
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Post 51440477 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
Colonoscopy completed. Medium sized polyp detected and removed. Biopsy report in 1 week. Expecting benign results.
Take care of your assholes, brothers.
My brother, my exit of body place is a well respected and always kept clean place, I do take care of that area
Talk about shit posting...
Merited for achievements in irony...
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Post 51444231 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
BTW who the Fuck is paying for this crap? It's the first fucking hit when I googles satoshi.
Haha. You realize that Google tunes its returned search results to each user, right?
Haha, you do realize you can block that didn't you?
Check it through a proxy if you don't believe me.
Damn Dorian, I knew he was up to something!
....really, Craig for me is not even in the first page...
Check for another Italian on the WO.
Lol for the video by BCC!
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Post 51446413 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
That's more like it. I think Theymos did a good job.
TL;DR Trust for trades, flags for marking jerks. Good.
The prime example that the merit system is a joke and serves no purpose is the fact JayJuanGee has a high level of merit. None of those systems promote any honest or factual level of discourse. All it is is someone posts "HURRR Bitcoin will go to $5 trillion each by tomorrow" then waves of mindless scammers give him +merit. Things like merit, flags, and everything else are then nothing more than gauging who is most heavily pump and dump shilling. This is why people like Trollgoossens have high merit as well, for doing nothing more than pump and dump shilling.
Haha sour grapes if its so easy where is all your merit? about 12 merits some suckers gave you. Now youre all upset.
Id say that's working pretty well.
(sorry all)
Don't get me wrong.. standing up for the sour puss, roach, but he has received much more than 12 merits. In fact, he has received 194 merits from other members since the implementation of the merit system.
You can see all of his received merits on BPIP. Currently, he is ranked as 312th most merited, which is no small feat given the thousands of BTC talk members... also, kinds of contradicts his points about only the undeserved receiving merits, and he seems to be a kind of "undeserved" merit receiver... while quite stingy in giving out any merits..
Notice that he has only given out 12 smerits in the two years since the merit system was established.
Don't get me wrong. Roachie poachie is still a fucktwat, but there are some members who do send him smerits for his largely baloney, irrelevant and/or butt hurt posts.
<sarcasm>
194 merits?
What are we talking about?
I got my 100th merit on January this year.
</sarcasm>
Sorry to be so cocky, I’m not like that usually, but Roach... come on...
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Post 51446697 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
Damn more and more on DT are respected HAT carriers, daaaaamn nice to see!
Still don't understand DT. But then again, I'm likely never to be considered for such...er ...whatever it is..er confusing (yeah read the thread on this still confused)
moving on to things I can ponder. (blocks/ants/toe jam)
I promised to keep DT drama away from WO’s family.
As far as I can see DT drama is at ATH and it’s percolating in this Thread.
I want to keep my oath and say I won’t interact anymore with any messages mentioning “DT” on this very thread.
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Post 51448780 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
Italy's Deputy Prime Minister has proposed a plan to "tax" money and valuables held by citizens in their private safety deposit boxes.
Don't be surprised if more people around the world start looking for a non-censorable, non-seizable asset to store their wealth in. 🔥
https://twitter.com/apompliano/status/1138803120119648258?s=21Lol
As a fellow Italian I suggest you an alternative way of looking at that.
G-Men are desperate for new funds.
Nobody in her right mind would voluntarily open her own security safe box just to be taxed.
So? How does it works?
If I work on the illegal economy, or simply I never paid my taxes because, you know, I’m Italian, I have a LOT of cash I store there in the bank and I cannot use in the “legal” economy.
If I want to “clean it” I can take it off, being taxed on it (15%-20%) and deposit in the bank.
State money laundering, at a very competitive rate I also would add.
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Post 51453983 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
Bakkt Reveals Bitcoin Futures Contract Details Ahead of July Test DateThe Intercontinental Exchange’s pending bitcoin platform Bakkt plans to begin testing its two futures contracts on July 22 of this year.
In a blog post that likened Bakkt’s launch to the Apollo 11 moon landing, chief operating officer Adam White wrote Thursday that the platform will “initiate user acceptance testing” for its bitcoin futures contracts, which will be listed and traded by its parent company. Bakkt announced last month that it would begin testing in July, though it did not provide a specific date at the time.
https://www.coindesk.com/bakkt-reveals-bitcoin-futures-contract-details-ahead-of-july-test-date The news here is they are also going to launch a monthly contract.
Intresting, but I think hte main volume will be on the daily contracts.
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Post 51454299 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
I see there is a new generation of hats for this new bull season.
Those new hats looks nicer.
Can I have a new one @xhomerx10? =D
I trust you to create a new one for me as you like
You could start using your new-transparent hat from here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg49549748#msg49549748EDIT: Not there actually.
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Post 51455301 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
Bakkt Reveals Bitcoin Futures Contract Details Ahead of July Test DateThe Intercontinental Exchange’s pending bitcoin platform Bakkt plans to begin testing its two futures contracts on July 22 of this year.
In a blog post that likened Bakkt’s launch to the Apollo 11 moon landing, chief operating officer Adam White wrote Thursday that the platform will “initiate user acceptance testing” for its bitcoin futures contracts, which will be listed and traded by its parent company. Bakkt announced last month that it would begin testing in July, though it did not provide a specific date at the time.
https://www.coindesk.com/bakkt-reveals-bitcoin-futures-contract-details-ahead-of-july-test-date The news here is they are also going to launch a monthly contract.
Intresting, but I think hte main volume will be on the daily contracts.
This is also important:
Bakkt to start testing futures product on July 22, and it’s eyeing $100 million insurance for storing assets"Subject to regulatory approval, Bakkt's limited purpose trust company will serve as a qualified custodian for bitcoin, will operate separately from ICE's futures exchange, will be insured for $100M, and will have separate governance," according to the blog post.
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/bakkt-to-start-testing-futures-product-on-july-22-and-its-eyeing-100-million-insurance-for-storing-assets/?Yes,
but that was already part of the business plan: if you buy a future that settles physically you want to keep your Bitcoins safe. Of course that make huge sense for BAKKT to integrate vertically into custodian business in order als oto facilitate Crypto assets for their client, who , probably, cannot/don't know how/don't want to store their coins themselves.
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Post 51455673 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
When we get above $10k, we might begin to feel as if we are richie again. Cannot be against those kinds of feelings from the likes of BTC HODLers, including yours truly.
The reason I want BTC to bounce back to 10K, let alone hit a new ATH, something that is going to happen sooner or later, is not for the feeling of being richie, but for the satisfaction coming from all the naysayer, or all the intellectually lazy people calling Bitcoin names (scam, magic internet money etc), feel embarrassed once again, this time for a massively huge amount.
This is the reason why I am waiting for the bull run, not for the Lambos.
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Post 51456343 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
So back up to 8k and stuck here. Need a breakout to 50k, when will this happen?
Observing 8190.10.
Next 30 minutes are critical.
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Post 51456510 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
The only result in doing so is that now Coinbase knows who owns 19,200 BTC.
I would say that's a terrible move.
So there must be another explaination.
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Post 51456783 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
Something very true we must never forget while observing the price:
Bitcoin, on a fundamental level, is a bet that all humans have a desire to be free.
https://twitter.com/danheld/status/1139168329132675072?s=21
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Post 51456951 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.50h):
When we get above $10k, we might begin to feel as if we are richie again. Cannot be against those kinds of feelings from the likes of BTC HODLers, including yours truly.
The reason I want BTC to bounce back to 10K, let alone hit a new ATH, something that is going to happen sooner or later, is not for the feeling of being richie, but for the satisfaction coming from all the naysayer, or all the intellectually lazy people calling Bitcoin names (scam, magic internet money etc), feel embarrassed once again, this time for a massively huge amount.
This is the reason why I am waiting for the bull run, not for the Lambos.
hahahahahaha
Why not both?
+1WO smerit as the drought continue
Fair enough.
Both is ok for me.
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Post 51457685 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
at the mean time I don't mind if people co-wear the Vegeta with me and XhomerX, to shoot into 9k's up to 5-dig
When Mic calls for actions, Filippone screams his battle cry!
Edit: wearing Vegeta hat, already fighting internet caches all over the world!
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Post 51457862 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
at the mean time I don't mind if people co-wear the Vegeta with me and XhomerX, to shoot into 9k's up to 5-dig
When Mic calls for actions, Filippone screams his battle cry!
Edit: wearing Vegeta hat, already fighting internet caches all over the world!
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Yeah Thursday a normal big chance of cinema day and damn me and bro gonna watch Aladin...... This is happening yes!
+1WO merit!
Mind blown!
WO merits are to real sMerit what FIAT money is to Bitcoin?
Soft merits vs hard merits?
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Post 51458359 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
Reading WO lately...maybe something you can find from the link that we can adopt:
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/38-wonderful-words-with-no-english-equivalentMy favorites:
16. Lagom (Swedish)
Maybe Goldilocks was Swedish? This slippery little word is hard to define, but means something like, “Not too much, and not too little, but juuuuust right.”
37 & 38. Schlemiel and schlimazel (Yiddish)
Someone prone to bad luck. Yiddish distinguishes between the schlemiel and schlimazel, whose fates would probably be grouped under those of the klutz in other languages. The schlemiel is the traditional maladroit, who spills his coffee; the schlimazel is the one on whom it's spilled.
5. Backpfeifengesicht (German)
A face badly in need of a fist.
15. Fremdschämen (German); Myötähäpeä (Finnish)
The kinder, gentler cousins of Schadenfreude, both these words mean something akin to "vicarious embarrassment.”
19. Bakku-shan (Japanese)
Or there's this Japanese slang term, which describes the experience of seeing a woman who appears pretty from behind but not from the front.
28. Boketto (Japanese)
It’s nice to know that the Japanese think enough of the act of gazing vacantly into the distance without thinking to give it a name.
32. Hygge (Danish)
Denmark’s mantra, hygge is the pleasant, genial, and intimate feeling associated with sitting around a fire in the winter with close friends.
Both Italian idiom are not correct;
23.
Slampadato (Italian)
Addicted to the UV glow of tanning salons? This word describes you.
Lampadato, not Slampadato.
33.
Cavoli Minestra Riscaldat
ia (Italian)
Never heard of Re-heated cabbage, Re-Heated soup is used, to indicate the reinstatement of a poor relationship you Andrea DT tasted: not great, better than starving.
Where is Shadendfreude, btw?
My Vegeta hat still not displaying... SAD!
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Post 51462077 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
In retrospect the whole BCH scam thing was very profitable, I just feel sorry for the poor buggers that fell for it
That's why I will be forever grateful to Roger Ver: he basically gave me some of his BTC for free.
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Post 51462279 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
That's why I will be forever grateful to Roger Ver: he basically gave me some of his BTC for free.
Bitcoin Gold is far better. Less scammy and decent return if you sold them at the right time (4-5%).
Bitcoin PIZZA (BPA) was my favourite.
Because, you know, Italians do love pizza.
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Post 51467707 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
Yeah, maybe best to keep the WO as trust-meta-drama-reputation-less as possible, we can really mis that sh*t in here cause we already have our r0ach in this space...
But exactly as infofront says keep it minimum in here, cause this is the finest hangout thread of the entire forum with a lot of regular good guys/members that share some cool on as off topic stuff that we all can appriciate......
Best post here since last DT1 rotation.
I already committed to keep WO drama-free.
I liked the happy safe place: it's a family, and like every family we discuss, we laugh, sometime we argue, we have the uncle we never liked, or the bossy cousin, but we kept drama away.
Can we please revert to it?
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Post 51470451 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
^
A bitcoin is getting more and more expensive, you will have to sell all your silver for a few satoshis
Keep waiting and buy a ATH buyer
Here, if you squint your eyes, you can see bitcoin leaving the fuckin’atmosphere:
CCMF
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Post 51475062 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
This is what I call überbullish:
Both #Bitcoin S2F growth path (95% R2) and Commodity Stock-to-Flow Line (99.5% R2) point to Bitcoin with S2F100+ and $30trn total market value, after 2024 halving.
https://twitter.com/100trillionusd/status/1139837446861000705?s=21
Also this defines value in HODLING.
No point in selling before another two halving unless absolutely necessary.
Remember that historically market value overshoot theoretical SF value 200%, but never fell below 50%, hence hodling is asymmetrical.
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Post 51480767 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
That’s probably a Jagermeister.
Anyway: cappuccino after 11:00 AM is a yellow card in Italy.
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Post 51480926 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
^
As an Italian....? Come on... its amaretto on the side, Maybe not the best glass
Cappuccino and amaretto weird matching.
No, not the best glass but you know... I like the variety!
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Post 51484898 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
I guess that's the difference between me and LFC.
If I had 100BTC right now, I can't even imagine it. The moment I see something between $500k and $1m I would get carried away very easily.
If he still can hodl 100btc without a blink of an eye, he very well deserves that $10m prize.
I am just thinking about how many years I have to work to get a $1m...
The true essence of hodling is the final prize.
Only the strong hands will get that.
I would say that every sell before the next halving after this one is premature.
Sell only if needed because of you spent all your fiat (
Gresham’s Law)
Brace yourself: The ride won’t be smooth: it will be hectic!
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Post 51490195 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
Time for a new Hat?
Vegeta hat worked fine.
Do we have a 5 digits hat? Xhomerx10 do you have something appropriate?
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Post 51496895 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
Fillippone made to
500 merits thanks to @CryptopreneurBrainboss
Fillippone Self Made Hero Member...
Fillippone going to update his
Ego-Blowing post....oh wait!
DAMN!
Activity....
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Post 51496981 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
Fillippone Self Made Hero Member...
~
Congrats for that! As I remember you before, you are the one wearing some 'lightning network' theme hat, right? that hat was cool and also your vegeta hat too.
Just a temporary hat I wore as Mic called for actions!
Sort of Battle cry to break through that barrier!
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Post 51497662 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
That’s probably a Jagermeister.
Anyway: cappuccino after 11:00 AM is a yellow card in Italy.
Hmmm. No slack for people who wake up at the crack of noon or later?
No.
Bullying late capuccinos is socially accepted.
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Post 51497672 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
Fillippone made to
500 merits thanks to @CryptopreneurBrainboss
Fillippone Self Made Hero Member...
Fillippone going to update his
Ego-Blowing post....oh wait!
DAMN!
Activity....
Congrats brother, Activity is the easy part, don’t worry it will come
Grinding activity is so much slower and less interesting than grinding merits....
Just a game of attrition.
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Post 51499166 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
See? You were to conservative!
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Post 51500754 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
WAUW 10000th post already......
And still know the basics just fine, Buy and HODL
BTC, avoid Bcash, BSV and all other sh*tcoin....
^
Only with that 1 line... people will create wealth and financial independency, the rest will follow
Cheers and have a good day fellow HODL-bro's
Spent all my sMerit & source Merit at the moment but congrats mic. It’s been a pleasure getting to know you on here & in RL. Here’s to another 10,000 posts & more plus a load more earned Merit, you fucking Merit whore
I provided him with 33% of my available sMerits!
10,000 Posts is quite an achievements!
Fillippone just a pawn in the game of posting.
only 902 Posts! 10x won't suffice getting where are you now! (When I get to 10x the post I now have, where will you be arrived?)
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Post 51503893 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
After June 20, I will do Bitcoin tattoo! WO Give me a couple of sketches for analysis!
As long as you don't copy my one then we are all fine....
I probably will tattoo the "i'm fine dog as well"
You should get the downward facing bitcoin carriage on the other arms!
That would be epic!
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Post 51508612 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
www.calibra.comEnforced KYC and insured against hacks.
Thats the Libra website if someone is wondering.
Damn! You just bested me on the news as I lost time browsing that website instead of posting it on WO!
EDIT: Website appears to be already down.
EDIT2: apparently the choice of browsing was correct as at least i could actually...browse the website!
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Post 51508900 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
DAMN! beaten again! I rushed this time!
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Post 51509200 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
DAMN! beaten again! I rushed this time!
So libra will use investor and user funds to buy low risk assets like securities and debts.
Interest from above will pay investor dividends and ongoing expenses.
They are reinventing the Tether scam. A crypto pegged to FIAT. Nothing to see here.
I would pump and dump the shit out of it if it wasn't 1:1 with USD
it is not pegged 1:1 with USD, but with a not better specified basked of currencies. As it is intended to be a global payment processor Libra (the currency) will be pegged to various securities chosen to minimise volatility and reflect users adoption (i guess bigger EUR weight on reserves if more users are buying Libra vs EUR etc...).
But in the end yes, a stable coin not subject to pump and dumps.
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Post 51509390 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
At what point are the general public going to wake up and realise that any “crypto” based on a centralised system is no better than the current FIAT system?
Sheesh.
Oh well, at least it is raising awareness of crypto in general I guess.
But with so many “solutions” in place I fear that they may not be able to see the wood from trees.
I like the idea FIAT money has competition.
Comeptition pushes markets to the better.
If bitcoin fails because FIAT money get ultimately fixed,well, I have no problem with that
Mind: blown.
Only way Governments have the possibility to beat Bitcoin is getting their FIAT money ass good as Bitcoin, not banning it, there , they are only making the case to use Bitcon better.
So, this is what i like Libra: at the end we(money system users) win.
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Post 51511395 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
Of course someone is scared this Libra thing could actually work after all:
France Calls for Central Bank Review of Facebook CryptocurrencyFacebook Inc.’s ambitious plan to roll out its own cryptocurrency ran into immediate political opposition in Europe, with calls for tighter regulation of the social-media giant.
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said the digital currency known as Libra shouldn’t be seen as a replacement for traditional currencies.
“It is out of question’’ that Libra “become a sovereign currency,’’ LeMaire said in an interview on Europe 1 radio. “It can’t and it must not happen.”
I would classify this as
Anger Stage in the
Kübler-Ross model
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Post 51511702 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
Of course someone is scared this Libra thing could actually work after all:
I think this is why there are no banks involved. They know perfectly well what a roasting it may attract.
I was actually surprised seeing Credit Cards, banks' evil cousins, stepping inside Libra with both feet.
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Post 51511757 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
www.calibra.comEnforced KYC and insured against hacks.
Thats the Libra website if someone is wondering.
What do I need to get started?
When Calibra is available, you will need a government-issued ID to sign up for an account. Identity verification is important to comply with laws and prevent fraud, so you know people are who they say they are.
Is Calibra available in my country? What countries is Calibra available in?
Our goal is to make Calibra available to everyone, anywhere in the world. We are working to bring Calibra to as many countries as possible, as soon as we can.
LOL. This shitcoin is DOA.
I wouldn't be so sure.
We are all Bitcoiners, but we don't need to be BTC zealots.
There are a lot of use case where I can give up a little of privacy for convenience (small payments, sending pocket money to friends), or where actually KYC is welcome (paying hotels with Bitcoin certainly involves my ID being photocopied, while if I pay with a KYC'd card all those process is made in advance by CC processors, which I trust more in taking care of my privacy than a random Hotel Desk in some exotic part of the world.
Of course BTC is a far superior solution where it really matters for a hard currency, but according to
Gresham Law, everyday money doesn't need to be good.
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Post 51511871 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
According to the technical White Paper there should be ways to remain pseudonymous
Account addresses.
An account address is a 256-bit value. To create a new account, a user
first generates a fresh verification/signature key-pair (vk, sk) for a signature scheme and uses the
cryptographic hash of the public verification key vk as an account address a = H(vk).1
The new account is created in the ledger state when a transaction sent from an existing account invokes the
create_account(a) Move instruction. This typically happens when a transaction attempts to send
Libra to an account at address a that has not yet been created.
Once the new account is created at a, the user can sign transactions to be sent from that account
using the private signing key sk. The user can also rotate the key used to sign transactions from the
account without changing its address, e.g., to proactively change the key or to respond to a possible
compromise of the key.
The Libra protocol does not link accounts to a real-world identity. A user is free to create multiple
accounts by generating multiple key-pairs. Accounts controlled by the same user have no inherent
link to each other. This scheme follows the example of Bitcoin and Ethereum in that it provides
pseudonymity [19] for users.
1 Concretely we instantiate hash functions with SHA3-256 [17] and digital signatures with EdDSA using the ed-
wards25519 curve [18].https://developers.libra.org/docs/assets/papers/the-libra-blockchain.pdfKYC is not at protocol level, but at Wallet Level:
Is AML/KYC required?
Apparently not at the protocol level, but the Calibra wallet states that all users will be verified via government issued ID. It also sounds like the Calibra wallet will be the only available wallet at least for a while, so it’s unclear if developers and users can run apps on the Libra network that don’t abide by the same standards as Calibra.
Thoughts on Libra “Blockchain” by @lopp
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Post 51511939 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
There are a lot of use case where I can give up a little of privacy for convenience
If you're OK with that, then you can use the credit card that you already have and:
- Get x% back
- Use your ordinary fiat currency instead of a weird amalgamation
- Have your payment accepted at pretty much every retailer on earth
There's a huge market for KYC payments, but it's already filled by credit cards etc. I see zero market for Facebook's KYC cryptocurrency: it's the worst of all worlds.
I cannot send Money from my credit Card to my young son, or I cannot send to an unbanked person.
What i am saying is that this coin is totally different from BTC, but there are some markets (read this as : use case, not geographical markets) that aren't covered by BTC (yet).
I bet in the long run BTC will wipe out all those shitty solutions: my central case is when Lightning Network will develop a smooth mobile payment solution, coupled with widespread BTC adoption (hyperbitcoinisation).
Until then I am afraid we should rely on those subpar Libra- style solutions.
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Post 51511973 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
According to the technical White Paper there should be ways to remain pseudonymous
Account addresses.
An account address is a 256-bit value. To create a new account, a user
first generates a fresh verification/signature key-pair (vk, sk) for a signature scheme and uses the
cryptographic hash of the public verification key vk as an account address a = H(vk).1
The new account is created in the ledger state when a transaction sent from an existing account invokes the
create_account(a) Move instruction. This typically happens when a transaction attempts to send
Libra to an account at address a that has not yet been created.
Once the new account is created at a, the user can sign transactions to be sent from that account
using the private signing key sk. The user can also rotate the key used to sign transactions from the
account without changing its address, e.g., to proactively change the key or to respond to a possible
compromise of the key.
The Libra protocol does not link accounts to a real-world identity. A user is free to create multiple
accounts by generating multiple key-pairs. Accounts controlled by the same user have no inherent
link to each other. This scheme follows the example of Bitcoin and Ethereum in that it provides
pseudonymity [19] for users.
1 Concretely we instantiate hash functions with SHA3-256 [17] and digital signatures with EdDSA using the ed-
wards25519 curve [18].https://developers.libra.org/docs/assets/papers/the-libra-blockchain.pdfKYC is not at protocol leve, but at Wallet Level:
Is AML/KYC required?
Apparently not at the protocol level, but the Calibra wallet states that all users will be verified via government issued ID. It also sounds like the Calibra wallet will be the only available wallet at least for a while, so it’s unclear if developers and users can run apps on the Libra network that don’t abide by the same standards as Calibra.
https://medium.com/@lopp/thoughts-on-libra-blockchain-49b8f6c26372Right and what if all the permissioned wallets i.e. wallets that are allowed to operate have KYC? What exactly does no-KYC at protocol level bring you? Don't get conned by the whitepaper. Most average Joes will be conned into the KYC wallet by FB anyways.
Maybe my broken English made me not clear: Libra is a KYC'd solution.
The KYC doesn't come from the protocol itself, but from the gateways used to access this protocol (wallets).
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Post 51512003 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
What i am saying is that this coin is totally different from BTC, but there are some markets that aren't covered by BTC (yet).
This is incorrect. BTC covers every part of the world, legal or not. For those where it is illegal, it is unlikely that this thing would be legal. Even if it becomes legal, those people will get conned by associating Libra with something that it isn't AND will get harmed once they find this our:
* Sent money with dangerous description? Flagged.
* Sent money to dangerous address? Flagged.
* Sent money to someone we don't like? Flagged.
When I said market I didn't mean geographical markets (they are all covered by bitcoin), but use-case.
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Post 51512043 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
Maybe my broken English made me not clear: Libra is a KYC'd solution.
The KYC doesn't come from the protocol itself, but from the gateways used to access this protocol (wallets).
Well it comes off as: Not at protocol level and thus can be bypassed. This statement would be incorrect. It's good that you clarified though.
What i am saying is that this coin is totally different from BTC, but there are some markets that aren't covered by BTC (yet).
This is incorrect. BTC covers every part of the world, legal or not. For those where it is illegal, it is unlikely that this thing would be legal. Even if it becomes legal, those people will get conned by associating Libra with something that it isn't AND will get harmed once they find this our:
* Sent money with dangerous description? Flagged.
* Sent money to dangerous address? Flagged.
* Sent money to someone we don't like? Flagged.
When I said market I didn't mean geographical markets (they are all covered by bitcoin), but use-case.
Such as?
As an italian, I love pizza: when I go out to eat a pizza happens I have to pay for such a pizza: I never was able to pay with Bitcoin. Or split the total bill of the pizza with my friends using Bitcoin. Only few of them owns bitcoins, but all of them own Whatsapp.
This is the only one example I am going to give you: I am sure you are smart enough to extrapolate.
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Post 51512052 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
Sadly, not worth the time to read that. Terrible shitcoin.
Great summary!
And for the first time in history, (almost) everybody at bitcointalk will agree with Lauda
Theymos included, apparently!
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Post 51512385 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
There are a lot of use case where I can give up a little of privacy for convenience
If you're OK with that, then you can use the credit card that you already have and:
- Get x% back
- Use your ordinary fiat currency instead of a weird amalgamation
- Have your payment accepted at pretty much every retailer on earth
There's a huge market for KYC payments, but it's already filled by credit cards etc. I see zero market for Facebook's KYC cryptocurrency: it's the worst of all worlds.
I cannot send Money from my credit Card to my young son, or I cannot send to an unbanked person.
...
I don't understand how libra will help the unbanked if they have to go to a bank or money exchange to buy it with cash. Surely all banks and money exchanges will want to see ID like a passport. How can the unbanked get a passport with some earning less than $2USD per day?
Even if money exchanges will do business without a passport facebook is demanding a passport scan for KYC.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/18/tech/facebook-libra-cryptocurrency/index.htmlOne of the aims of the project is to help the 1.7 billion people around the world who don't have bank accounts access a stable currency and financial services.
But Libra will still face a hurdle to get widely adopted.
To get Libra, users will need to go to their local bank or money exchange to trade local currency for it.
I don't want to sound blasphemous, but: 1 Libra= 1 Libra
If I am unbanked somewhere in the world, and I am able to receive and spend Libra without touching FIAT, because everyone can send and receive Libra, why should I convert it to my Local even shittier FIAT currency? I can stay inside libra forever.
Yes: this is premature, but this is the final outcome od 2.7 Billions users.
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Post 51512504 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
www.calibra.comEnforced KYC and insured against hacks.
Thats the Libra website if someone is wondering.
What do I need to get started?
When Calibra is available, you will need a government-issued ID to sign up for an account. Identity verification is important to comply with laws and prevent fraud, so you know people are who they say they are.
Is Calibra available in my country? What countries is Calibra available in?
Our goal is to make Calibra available to everyone, anywhere in the world. We are working to bring Calibra to as many countries as possible, as soon as we can.
LOL. This shitcoin is DOA.
A payment method with the ''privacy'' of Facebook, customer-friendly policy of Paypal, Uber terms of employment with the interest rate from visa.
This is fun, until you realise it is actually true.
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Post 51512640 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
And the fees that "Alice" and "Bob" will pay in transactions round out Mr.FB business.
Zuckerberg is laughing all the way to the bank (the only person to truly benefit from this farce will be him).
Vinklevii bros. this time are going to laugh louder at the end.
Sweet revenge.
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Post 51512746 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
And the fees that "Alice" and "Bob" will pay in transactions round out Mr.FB business.
Zuckerberg is laughing all the way to the bank (the only person to truly benefit from this farce will be him).
Vinklevii bros. this time are going to laugh louder at the end.
Sweet revenge.
You really think their "Spedn" app will win the race against a facebook coin? You're serious?
No, I mean they are massively long BTC: so I have no doubt who's going to win in 10 years time between BTC and Libra.
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Post 51512864 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
Interesting, but I even don't have FB
My only social media tool (where i'm very active on) is the WO thread ... It out-plays FB at every level!
If you have any of the following you already are FB-eligible:
*Facebook
*Messenger
*Instagram
*Whatsapp
Even if you don't onboard on any of those social media, no problem, Libra can be used stand alone, wallet only.
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Post 51513029 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
Thats why it isnt a cryptocurrency not being on a blockchain and should be just another digital currency by definition as I mentioned earlier to theymos post about it being a "shitcoin".
Libra is surely a shitcoin.
Libra cannot compete with BTC where BTC has a presence.
Libra will push competition to BTC to gain traction where BTC still hasn't market share (might be via Layer2 or Layer3 solutions).
In 10 years Libra will be worthless, as any present day shitcoins.
In hte meanwhile, I see myself using Libra for very specific and non critical instances.
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Post 51513425 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
below $9100
Buy the rumor, sell the news.
Nothing to worry about.
<Insert Please disperse, nothing to see here gif>
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Post 51516336 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
I believe this facebook coin will fail. Only boomers uses facebook these days and they dont have a clue how cryptocurrencies work. They will treat it as some generic digital coin, like those you use inside MMOs for example. It will be restricted to facebook, which is a dying platform, practically an icon of nocoinery and technological backwardness.
Just a reminder that Facebook means also Instagram +Messenger+ WhatsApp, this widens user base quite a lot, not only Dads on the internet then.
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Post 51520444 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
Don't mess with Bank of England.
Coin Desk: Facebook’s Libra Could Meet ‘Highest Standards’ in Regulation: BoE GovernorCarney added the U.K. central bank would scrutinize Facebook’s crypto payments plan “very closely” and will collaborate with global forces including G7 countries, the Bank of International Settlements, the International Monetary Fund as well as the Financial Stability Board, for which Carney served as a former chair.
Based on the report, Carney also raised questions on how Facebook would be able to ensure anti-money laundering measures while protecting users’ data privacy.
Frogs are upset:
Facebook’s Crypto Libra Shouldn’t Become Sovereign Currency, Blasts French Finance MinisterLa Marie has also stated his intention to find out more about the project at the G7 with the central bankers in the coming months.
“I asked the central bank governors of the G7 to report to us in mid-July, when the G7 Finance Ministers will be meeting, to tell us what guarantees are to be obtained from Facebook,” added the minister.
Le Marie’s concerns not only circulate the financial implications of a privately distributed currency. The minister has also raised his concerns about Facebook and its data scandals in the past. He added that this digital currency would allow the social media platform to accumulate masses of private data once again again.
According to
Kübler-Ross model we definetly are in this stage:
- Denial – The first reaction is denial. In this stage, individuals believe the diagnosis is somehow mistaken, and cling to a false, preferable reality.
- Anger – When the individual recognizes that denial cannot continue, they become frustrated, especially at proximate individuals. Certain psychological responses of a person undergoing this phase would be: "Why me? It's not fair!"; "How can this happen to me?"; "Who is to blame?"; "Why would this happen?".
- Bargaining – The third stage involves the hope that the individual can avoid a cause of grief. Usually, the negotiation for an extended life is made in exchange for a reformed lifestyle. People facing less serious trauma can bargain or seek compromise. Examples include the terminally ill person who "negotiates with God" to attend a daughter's wedding or an attempt to bargain for more time to live in exchange for a reformed lifestyle.
- Depression – "I'm so sad, why bother with anything?"; "I'm going to die soon, so what's the point?"; "I miss my loved one; why go on?"
During the fourth stage, the individual despairs at the recognition of their mortality. In this state, the individual may become silent, refuse visitors and spend much of the time mournful and sullen. - Acceptance – "It's going to be okay."; "I can't fight it; I may as well prepare for it."
In this last stage, individuals embrace mortality or inevitable future, or that of a loved one, or other tragic event. People dying may precede the survivors in this state, which typically comes with a calm, retrospective view for the individual, and a stable condition of emotions.
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Post 51523028 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
I’m predicting a breakout towards the end of this week, calling high $9,000’s. Let’s see what happens. Clear support & no willingness to go & stay below 9k indicates a bullish sentiment.
Next hours are critical.
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Post 51523521 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
Next hours are critical.
Will we go upward or downward?
Observing $9,077 right now.
Let me rephrase:
<sarcasm>
Next hours are critical.
</sarcasm>
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Post 51524182 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
When I have these many pages to catch up, I really need JSRAW 🤪
Here you go Bhai
Ladies and gentlemen, please don't take this seriously, its just my biased point of view.
[snip]
14. Fillippone -Ego Blowing post- (again this guy is smart but dude -Plz change your text- "it doesn't suit you IMHO) Intelligence doesn't need any approval."
That was sarcasm!
Damn, I fell to
Poe's Law yet another time!
9. One dude jumps in and post -him riding bike- show off
Ouch!
This recap is is gold.
I would sent sMerits, if I had any, or I would send WO merits if I were sure not to be mentioned like Toxic in he next recap because I genuinely forget!
27. Toxic says +1 and never sends one
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Post 51525109 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.51h):
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Post 51527391 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.52h):
In the Meantime the FED is preparing to cut rates.
Another step in the right direction for Bitcoin.
Fed Scraps ‘Patient’ Rate Approach in Prelude to Potential Cut The rate cut race with ECB has just started.
Bullish for bitcoin
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Post 51533252 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.52h):
THX for the NEW HAT XhomerX
If someone wanna co-wear into 5-Dig
Lets goooooooo!!!!!!
Lets goooooooo!!!!!!
Thant you xhomerx for another great piece of art!
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Post 51534730 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.52h):
I might be late on this.
What's wrong with the poll?
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Post 51534842 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.52h):
I might be late on this.
What's wrong with the poll?
In your absence, a decision was made by the higher-ups that the polls should only now be for Hero members and above.
DAMN! I am a big boy! I want to take off the arm bands and swim in the high pool!
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Post 51535048 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.52h):
I might be late on this.
What's wrong with the poll?
In your absence, a decision was made by the higher-ups that the polls should only now be for Hero members and above.
:-)
Sshhh... only four months are left for jokes of this kind on fillippone - more or less. Don't spoil it.
@fillippone You're swimming with the heavyweights already, didn't you notice?
I am ready for the poll in the big pool!
WHEN this decision was talken?
OMG I am putting so much effort into this forum but it's not enough!
Sleep is a waste of time! where are my pills??
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Post 51536916 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.52h):
I might be late on this.
What's wrong with the poll?
In your absence, a decision was made by the higher-ups that the polls should only now be for Hero members and above.
:-)
Sshhh... only four months are left for jokes of this kind on fillippone - more or less. Don't spoil it.
@fillippone You're swimming with the heavyweights already, didn't you notice?
Now we do not swim, we're just diving.
I would dive there, not to re-emerge for a long time.
Tan-lines trigger fillippone.
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Post 51546228 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.52h):
Wearing this Golden 5 digits hat!
Oh no, there's a Traitor here:
Any guess?
We are pumping hard now, and yesterday at dinner 2 people asked me how to buy Bitcoin.
It's FOMO season again?
I need your help! Help me to point new Bitcoiners in the right Direction!
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Post 51548126 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.52h):
Great hats, I will wear this one
Did you ask for permission? Or are you going to ask for forgiveness? (It's a 10k hat, maybe he can wear it.)
Hats are not bitcoin.
Doublespend 5-digit hats it’s not a bug, it’s a feature!
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Post 51548387 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.52h):
9858 on Bitstamp. Not a bad way to wake up in the morning....
Only $142 from $10k.
Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
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Post 51560180 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.52h):
OBSERVING 11,000 BTCUSD @stamp
Late to the party because taking screenshot!
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Post 51561750 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.52h):
Observing IKEA
Damn!
Fillippone life isn’t glamourous as Mic, LFC, Kenzawak or other fellow WO family members!
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Post 51561904 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.52h):
Observing IKEA
...
Damn!
Fillippone life isn’t glamourous as Mic, LFC, Kenzawak or other fellow WO family members!
Well I'm observing my feet in my hammock right now. The flip-flops don't make it any more glamorous.
Not too glamorous for me right now - Sitting in the car for 20 minutes waiting for the girl to buy make up.
I took a call, didn’t want to go in
At least it’s a glamorous German car and not a shitty Italian FIAT car!
FIAT cars even shittier than fiat currencies!
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Post 51564031 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.52h):
This are definitely decent size Gin Tonic!
Just back from a dreadful visti pit to IKEA, and when I mentioned you in that post Mic, I was sure you won’t take long to satisfy me with a pic from a random Michelin star resto!!
Living the life, Mic, drink a Barolo for you Italian friend!
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Post 51568566 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.52h):
GOOD MORNING!
Rise and shine family!
Observing 10745!
Or 18.45 BTC per Lambo!
Lamboindex.com
Where is Gyrsur?
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Post 51581932 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.52h):
GOOD MORNING WO GANG!
Observing 10,839 and lazy Italian Riviera:
Definitely not the place to hold a post parity party.
Might stretch to a page parity one (provides it happens in a not so distant future).
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Post 51582054 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.52h):
GOOD MORNING WO GANG!
Observing 10,839 and lazy Italian Riviera:
Definitely not the place to hold a post parity party.
Might stretch to a page parity one (provides it happens in a not so distant future).
You wake up late .....
Waking up late on the beachfront with corn posting solid gains.
What else?
Fillippone loves simple things.
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Post 51582361 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.52h):
While many see the absence of industrial demand as a bug, or something negative for bitcoin, I see it as a positive feature.
Market price of bitcoin is the result of free market forces debating on bitcoin only utility: personal financial sovereignty.
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Post 51582503 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.52h):
GOOD MORNING WO GANG!
Observing 10,839 and lazy Italian Riviera:
Definitely not the place to hold a post parity party.
Might stretch to a page parity one (provides it happens in a not so distant future).
You wake up late .....
Waking up late on the beachfront with corn posting solid gains.
What else?
Fillippone loves simple things.
What Italian city is that coming from? And you live close to the beach? (No need for answer) But sweet if so
cheers
Without giving up too much in my OPSec I can tell you that:
1. In Italy there are only a few (three) riviera (properly defined) on the seaside.
2. This pic has been taken a few minutes before the post
3. I was straight out of my hotel.
There is a dinstinct feature that could help you identify the exact location.
4. You have only a few hours before I disappear from this location.
5. This picture was deliberately posted because after my last ikea post and mic’s terrible picture the wall needed some more visually pleasing landscape.
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Post 51582557 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.52h):
Meh, me also late Fillipp... breakfast and forum as we speak
That’s what I call a “civilised person breakfast”.
Only thing missing for me i a cappuccino.
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Post 51592233 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.52h):
Good morning WO!
OBSERVING 11,300 BTCUSD
@stamp
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Post 51595079 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.52h):
Read this:
GRAYSCALE BITCOIN TRUST (GBTC) TRADING AT 40 PERCENT PREMIUM; ‘BIG MONEY COMING IN’Data from Grayscale’s recent performance placed it trading at $14.64 as of June 24. At these levels, investors are working with a Bitcoin price of $14,640.
The premium, which amounts to around 30 percent, is not new but has increased significantly as Bitcoin cements its position in the latest three-month-long bull run.
At one point, GBTC traded above $15 at a 40 percent premium, leading to suggestions that substantial upward market moves were still on the horizon.
Institutional money is coming in.
Bitcoin is an asymmetrical bet any portfolio manager around the world cannot manage not to take in a negative interest rates environment.
They cannot even afford to wait for the ETF.
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Post 51599361 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.53h):
This is a great news.
Main difference with BAKKT is tha being BAKTT part of ICE, BAKKT's Bitcoin futures can seamlessly integrate in the already active workflow (trading/post trading) every bank in the world has already setup with ICE, while with LedgerX in the vast majority of cases it's a totally new one requiring a certain effort to onboard on the new exchange and setup all the regulatory/technological stuff.
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Post 51602208 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.53h):
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Post 51604963 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.53h):
Good morning WO!
OBSERVING 12,700 BTCUSD @stamp
Waking up with an AYH and 8 pages to catch up.
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Post 51605208 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.53h):
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Post 51615971 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.53h):
Merited because is the second best laugh of the day (after
the one I posted first this am).
And today has been quite a good and happy day.
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Post 51618653 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.53h):
GOOD MORNING WO!
Observing 12,761!
Maybe we shouldn’t call Bitcoin Corn 🌽, But Avocado 🥑!
https://twitter.com/thestalwart/status/1143947871127035904?s=21
I know @tracyalloway has a patent on this chart, but the Avocadoes vs. Bitcoin chart really is outstanding
I know correlation is not causation, as proved in
spuriouscorrelations.com
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Post 51618794 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.53h):
Did we just lose 1k in 5 minutes ?
More
Is this the typical "someone sold a lot because it went up"? Or is this the typical "someone sold a lot to trigger stop-losses and buy it back later"? Or is this going to trigger my (wife's) Q2 prediction of $7800?
Hahahahahaha
Blame your inner bear on your wife...
Well, to be fair, she predicted $7800 for Q1. I'm the one who movedo it over to Q2.
About 6 weeks into Q2 she was right for quite a long time. So with some calibration, she should be able to make a perfect prediction for Q3 if I ask her to make a prediction for mid November
Having a wife able to predict quarterly price target for Bitcoin is an invaluable ingredient for a long lasting relationship!
Well done LoyceV!
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Post 51619386 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.53h):
If any of you is still in doubt why this Bitcoin Ramp:
https://www.ccn.com/crypto/grayscale-hits-3-billion-assets-bitcoin-price-rages-on/2019/06/27/Grayscale reported in May that hedge funds went on a bitcoin buying spree. In the first quarter of 2019, hedge fund inflows into Grayscale’s products shot up to $24 million as compared to just $1 million in Q4 2018. The firm also added that 56% of its total investments during the quarter were driven by hedge fund inflows, leading to a 42% quarter-over-quarter jump in the firm’s total inflows.
Grayscale’s publicly-quoted Bitcoin Investment Trust (GBTC) seems to be the biggest beneficiary of the hedge fund inflows. The product accounted for nearly $2.85 billion of the firm’s total assets under management according to the latest report.
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Post 51620705 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.53h):
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Post 51621643 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.53h):
THX for a15KHAT XhomerX on to the next one and as you see the HAT was needed When? Where did you get that Hat! Mic! You must have a secret communication channel with the master of hats!
I want an italian version of that hat xomerx!
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Post 51621991 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.53h):
THX for a15KHAT XhomerX on to the next one and as you see the HAT was needed When? Where did you get that Hat! Mic! You must have a secret communication channel with the master of hats!
I want an italian version of that hat x
Homerx!
FTFY
Thanks Mic,
my typing capabilities are as broken as a shitcoin bagholder
ass Wallet!
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Post 51622505 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.53h):
THX for a15KHAT XhomerX on to the next one and as you see the HAT was needed When? Where did you get that Hat! Mic! You must have a secret communication channel with the master of hats!
I want an italian version of that hat xomerx!
Well, this is more than EPIC!
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Post 51622670 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.53h):
THX for a15KHAT XhomerX on to the next one and as you see the HAT was needed When? Where did you get that Hat! Mic! You must have a secret communication channel with the master of hats!
I want an italian version of that hat xomerx!
Well, this is more than EPIC!
Enjoy the Italia version of the hat fillippone! You will see $15,000 as soon as you put it on cause Micgoossens says the weekend pump is approaching and
the dude is never wrong about these things.
So we just might see it break to this price by sunday morning.
I already wore that hat!
I blame internet caching!
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Post 51623356 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.53h):
Well done!
Just plant the knowledge seed, something will sprout!
And, in the meanwhile, suggest them my
5 Resources to teach Average Joe about Bitcoin.
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Post 51624502 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.53h):
Too soon?
This is a beautiful landscape I would stare at for hours.
Perfection.
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Post 51624596 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.53h):
Too soon?
This is a beautiful landscape I would stare at for hours.
Perfection.
Beautiful beach, the palm trees look lovely too.
Which beach?
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Post 51624899 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.53h):
Too soon?
This is a beautiful landscape I would stare at for hours.
Perfection.
Beautiful beach, the palm trees look lovely too.
Which beach?
Well try to understand.
His girlfriend is around 🤪
This must be the only explanation!
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Post 51625020 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.53h):
Too soon?
This is a beautiful landscape I would stare at for hours.
Perfection.
Beautiful beach, the palm trees look lovely too.
Which beach?
Well try to understand.
His girlfriend is around 🤪
This must be the only explanation!
By the way, did anyone notice that each bottom comes with different shape and it's own beauty? 😜
Yes, of course, what are we talking about?
Also Fillippone says 2,3,1
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Post 51626460 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.53h):
Too soon?
This is a beautiful landscape I would stare at for hours.
Perfection.
Beautiful beach, the palm trees look lovely too.
Which beach?
Well try to understand.
His girlfriend is around 🤪
This must be the only explanation!
By the way, did anyone notice that each bottom comes with different shape and it's own beauty? 😜
Yes, of course, what are we talking about?
Also Fillippone says 2,3,1
Actually the girl in the middle is taking a step and therefore we can't judge objectively, but the girl's on the left butt is partially under water so again very hard to evaluate...
btw I'm on vacation in Italy right now so I'm surrounded by nice thick juicy Italian butts
Take care mate.
In some part of Italy blokes having rights on those butts don't like Butt Observers.
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Post 51631539 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.53h):
GOOD MORNING WO!
Observing 10,977
Glad we passed the night without too much damage!
Pretty cool. I just spent the last 8 minutes looking at this.
- There's a dark hole in the U.S. around South Dakota
- Tibet must be boring AF
- The entirety of Japan is bright yellow
- Europeans also take entirely too many photos
Always relevant XKCD strip:
https://xkcd.com/1138/
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Post 51632668 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.53h):
It's time for a Wall Observer Meta Post!
What if WO were Bitcointalk?
So basically what happens considering only the merits awarded on WO thread?
How many Legendary Users? How many Heros?
Thanks to my very basic Data management Skill and LoyceV data, I manage to pull out the following very unuseful statistic:
OF course The heatwave over Europe prevented me on smartly compute WO activity, so I am basing on Merits only.
| WO Legendary | 4 |
| WO Hero | 6 |
| WO Sr. Member | 13 |
| WO Member | 34 |
Who's who on WO?
Here the first 100 WO family members.
| 1 | micgoossens | 1648 |
| 2 | Last of the V8s | 1547 |
| 3 | HairyMaclairy | 1112 |
| 4 | xhomerx10 | 1076 |
| 5 | BobLawblaw | 882 |
| 6 | Toxic2040 | 872 |
| 7 | jojo69 | 750 |
| 8 | infofront | 663 |
| 9 | JayJuanGee | 612 |
| 10 | LFC_Bitcoin | 516 |
| 11 | Torque | 488 |
| 12 | d_eddie | 477 |
| 13 | bitserve | 462 |
| 14 | VB1001 | 359 |
| 15 | Paashaas | 355 |
| 16 | gentlemand | 331 |
| 17 | kenzawak | 320 |
| 18 | Elwar | 291 |
| 19 | cAPSLOCK | 286 |
| 20 | Globb0 | 284 |
| 21 | mfort312 | 270 |
| 22 | mindrust | 269 |
| 23 | JimboToronto | 251 |
| 24 | goldkingcoiner | 247 |
| 25 | Rosewater Foundation | 244 |
| 26 | BTCMILLIONAIRE | 243 |
| 27 | Raja_MBZ | 240 |
| 28 | jbreher | 216 |
| 29 | ivomm | 201 |
| 30 | Lambie Slayer | 201 |
| 31 | TERA2 | 194 |
| 32 | kurious | 192 |
| 33 | realr0ach | 192 |
| 34 | Biodom | 189 |
| 35 | Ibian | 179 |
| 36 | bones261 | 176 |
| 37 | Kylapoiss | 169 |
| 38 | 600watt | 160 |
| 39 | vroom | 156 |
| 40 | Phil_S | 155 |
| 41 | Icygreen | 151 |
| 42 | kingcolex | 147 |
| 43 | yefi | 146 |
| 44 | marcus_of_augustus | 142 |
| 45 | Wekkel | 135 |
| 46 | Hueristic | 134 |
| 47 | toknormal | 129 |
| 48 | StartupAnalyst | 128 |
| 49 | nutildah | 126 |
| 50 | Anon136 | 121 |
| 51 | Arriemoller | 120 |
| 52 | JSRAW | 119 |
| 53 | Spaceman_Spiff_Original | 116 |
| 54 | Pamoldar | 114 |
| 55 | kirreev070 | 107 |
| 56 | BinaryReign | 105 |
| 57 | Cryptotourist | 105 |
| 58 | explorer | 97 |
| 59 | Dabs | 97 |
| 60 | fillippone | 96 |
| 61 | bitcoinPsycho | 96 |
| 62 | Bitcoinaire | 93 |
| 63 | vapourminer | 93 |
| 64 | Cryptoqueeen | 81 |
| 65 | serveria.com | 76 |
| 66 | STT | 71 |
| 67 | pacman7331 | 66 |
| 68 | somac. | 66 |
| 69 | lightfoot | 66 |
| 70 | sirazimuth | 65 |
| 71 | Gyrsur | 65 |
| 72 | cannycassiopeia | 64 |
| 73 | BlindMayorBitcorn | 64 |
| 74 | Totscha | 64 |
| 75 | conspirosphere.tk | 63 |
| 76 | HI-TEC99 | 63 |
| 77 | AlcoHoDL | 61 |
| 78 | Searing | 59 |
| 79 | Majormax | 59 |
| 80 | crypmike | 58 |
| 81 | Karartma1 | 56 |
| 82 | nanobtc | 55 |
| 83 | suchmoon | 55 |
| 84 | bitebits | 55 |
| 85 | strawbs | 54 |
| 86 | Samarkand | 54 |
| 87 | FractalUniverse | 53 |
| 88 | theymos | 53 |
| 89 | DeathAngel | 52 |
| 90 | rolling | 51 |
| 91 | RayX12 | 50 |
| 92 | fluidjax | 48 |
| 93 | RoomBot | 48 |
| 94 | encycrypto | 48 |
| 95 | ErisDiscordia | 47 |
| 96 | Speculatoross | 47 |
| 97 | PoolMinor | 46 |
| 98 | thisisntbic | 45 |
| 99 | fabiorem | 45 |
| 100 | gembitz | 45 |
I am too shy to post it on meta, also not relevant, as it is not forum-meta, but WO-meta!.
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Post 51633071 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.53h):
Here the first 100 WO family members.
| 33 | realr0ach | 192 |
| 49 | nutildah | 126 |
Jesus, only 126 merits from this effing thread?? Thanks for making me feel like a loser, fillipone!
Can you make a graph of the total number of WO merits by month? I didn't start posting here until the big decline last December, so I think I missed out on a lot of the merit orgies. Here's 2 merits in advance.
Well, i cannot even get a table right, doing grapgh proved very difficult!
There you go
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Post 51633194 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.53h):
Who's who on WO?
Here the first 100 WO family members.
Would anyone be interested in seeing a full list of all the users who ever posted in this topic, sorted by post count (highest first)? I can scrape 24000 pages if there is a demand for it
Here comes the pro!
I want to have a proper activity index being calculated for WO member, so to understand if anyone could rank to legendary not only for merits, but also for activity on WO only!
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Post 51633443 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.53h):
Best scrape the old WO threads as well then.
Can you provide links?
I'll start scraping probably this weekend, after completing my weekly Merit and Trust scraping. You can expect my list early next week.
Only found 1 other one, this current thread went back further than I thought.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=85687.20Man,
BTC@5.25 hurts.
Missed opportunities for a lot of us (me, for sure).
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Post 51633637 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.53h):
This would guarantee DeBeers building a Death Star to destroy it before ruining the carefully managed supply chain to producer an artificially managed scarcity of diamonds.
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Post 51633891 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.53h):
nice merit scrapery fillippone - can you do a 'loyalty coefficient' for all members that LoyceV finds please: proportion of merits earned itt vs in other threads, please?
nice offer from LoyceV
I thinky LoyceV, master of data manipulation, is way more qualified than me doing so.
My main purpouse with this was getting the wheel rolling on the subject, and now the Pro are chewing on the matter.
I am satisfied with this.
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Post 51636178 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.53h):
Sorry for the OT
I am working.
Modern open space office.
AC is on. I am sweating.
3 liters of waters drunk at the desk.
In the spare time I am writing my monthly report.
It is proving more difficult than usual.
We are melting.
Literally, walking on the street you can feel the tarmac melting under your shoes:
https://twitter.com/WMO/status/1143795243168477185
WMO regional climate centre for Europe @DWD_presse issued Climate Watch for #heatwave for the next week. Temperatures 3°C-6°C above average over central Europe and 1°C to 3°C elsewhere. Widespread daily maximum above 30°C. Follow advice from national met services. Map @eu_Echo
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Post 51636452 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.53h):
It's time for a Wall Observer Meta Post!
What if WO were Bitcointalk?
So basically what happens considering only the merits awarded on WO thread?
How many Legendary Users? How many Heros?
[snip]
[/table]
I am too shy to post it on meta, also not relevant, as it is not forum-meta, but WO-meta!.
Good job however I think the numbers are not up to date. My earned merit is 268 so far. 114 was long ago.
You earned 114 merits here on the WO thread on the total of your 268 total merits!
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Post 51636528 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.53h):
You earned 114 merits here on the WO thread on the total of your 268 total merits!
Okay now it make sense. I never thought it was counted thread wise. Very well done!
This is what I tried to explain in the first lines of the post!
Maybe I couldn't make myself clear enough...
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Post 51636660 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.53h):
just look at that white hot epicenter of Mic's breakfasts...wow
Best LOL of the day.
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Post 51637397 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.53h):
New Hat:
- MrFreeRoMan
#StrongHats
MrFreeRoMan is Banned now sadly
Thx, JSRAW for the information.
Good job fillippone will soon top the list.
I think I just made into the Full Member Club.
Someone is running too fast!
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Post 51638524 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.53h):
This works for me:
go to the share (speaker button bottom right corner of the chart) button, copy image link and then paste here, with usual [img] tags (just higlight the link and press the IMG button).
EDIT: Shrinking Graph so Biodom can get attention to his
original post.
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Post 51644911 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.53h):
You think the present day power consumption of Bitcoin can increase by two orders of magnitude? HAHAHAHAHA.
Over time the block rewards will decline and miners will also actually use less power but the cost for the hardware will probably be more of a factor than the cost of power at some point. However when it comes to the amount of power that can be used ... considering that current world's power requirements could be handled with less than 120,000 sq km of solar panels ... at growth of 100x power use for bitcoin over the next 100 years won't be an issue. Like metals, energy is actually in abundance, we just haven't had the technology in place to use it. (120k sq km is about 0.024% of the earth's surface area, I just showing how little of our available power we actually use. Solar is only one technology, fusion based power plants could exist 100 years from now.)
A few years ago I really thought power would be a problem, but then I started doing some computations. Energy isn't the issue, technology and politics are the issues. However since bitcoin depends more on networks than location, politics can be bypassed.
Ok but I think nobody cares about the price in one century or even 2 or 3 decades. We are talking about the price in few years/months here.
I am planning to be dead in about 3-5 decades (and that is being very charitable regarding my longevity)...
So, yeah, starting to cash out some in a few years might be a good plan.. .that way can enjoy some of it.. and spread it to some others.
I saw a few studies of demographics of people entering bitcoin: young people in their 20’ s looking at crypto’s to invest their little savings: crypto can be to generation alpha (post 2000) what stock market has been to baby boomers.
Well your point is also interesting: early bitcoin adopters probably were in their 30’s. So their hodl won’t be indefinite, but they will start cashing out sooner or later. Also because they DO HODL massive amounts of Coins.
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Post 51645929 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.53h):
It's time for a Wall Observer Meta Post!
Sorry to repeat the post, I didn't think I posted only hours before LoyceV updating his merit files.
I just wanted to do so because.. YES! I'm now Full Member on WO Thread!
What if WO were Bitcointalk?
So basically what happens considering only the merits awarded on WO thread?
How many Legendary Users? How many Heroes?
Thanks to my very basic Data management Skill and LoyceV data, I manage to pull out the following very unuseful statistic:
OF course the heatwave over Europe prevented me on smartly compute WO activity, so I am basing on Merits only.
| WO | Legendary | 4 |
| WO | Hero | 6 |
| WO | Sr. Member | 13 |
| WO | Member | 35 |
Who's who on WO?
MERIT RECEIVERS:
Here the first 100 WO family members.
| 1 | micgoossens | 1660 |
| 2 | Last of the V8s | 1556 |
| 3 | HairyMaclairy | 1113 |
| 4 | xhomerx10 | 1097 |
| 5 | Toxic2040 | 891 |
| 6 | BobLawblaw | 847 |
| 7 | jojo69 | 747 |
| 8 | infofront | 690 |
| 9 | JayJuanGee | 620 |
| 10 | LFC_Bitcoin | 545 |
| 11 | Torque | 490 |
| 12 | d_eddie | 480 |
| 13 | bitserve | 470 |
| 14 | VB1001 | 377 |
| 15 | Paashaas | 358 |
| 16 | gentlemand | 343 |
| 17 | kenzawak | 330 |
| 18 | Globb0 | 298 |
| 19 | Elwar | 293 |
| 20 | cAPSLOCK | 285 |
| 21 | mindrust | 276 |
| 22 | mfort312 | 276 |
| 23 | JimboToronto | 263 |
| 24 | BTCMILLIONAIRE | 247 |
| 25 | goldkingcoiner | 247 |
| 26 | Raja_MBZ | 241 |
| 27 | Rosewater Foundation | 231 |
| 28 | jbreher | 220 |
| 29 | kurious | 219 |
| 30 | ivomm | 213 |
| 31 | Biodom | 211 |
| 32 | Lambie Slayer | 205 |
| 33 | TERA2 | 194 |
| 34 | realr0ach | 192 |
| 35 | Ibian | 180 |
| 36 | bones261 | 175 |
| 37 | Phil_S | 172 |
| 38 | Kylapoiss | 169 |
| 39 | 600watt | 161 |
| 40 | Icygreen | 158 |
| 41 | vroom | 156 |
| 42 | marcus_of_augustus | 152 |
| 43 | kingcolex | 152 |
| 44 | yefi | 146 |
| 45 | Hueristic | 138 |
| 46 | Wekkel | 136 |
| 47 | nutildah | 130 |
| 48 | toknormal | 129 |
| 49 | StartupAnalyst | 128 |
| 50 | JSRAW | 123 |
| 51 | Arriemoller | 122 |
| 52 | Anon136 | 121 |
| 53 | Spaceman_Spiff_Original | 116 |
| 54 | Pamoldar | 116 |
| 55 | kirreev070 | 107 |
| 56 | fillippone | 106 |
| 57 | Cryptotourist | 105 |
| 58 | BinaryReign | 105 |
| 59 | vapourminer | 97 |
| 60 | bitcoinPsycho | 97 |
| 61 | explorer | 95 |
| 62 | Bitcoinaire | 93 |
| 63 | AlcoHoDL | 84 |
| 64 | Cryptoqueeen | 81 |
| 65 | Searing | 80 |
| 66 | serveria.com | 78 |
| 67 | lightfoot | 76 |
| 68 | STT | 71 |
| 69 | cryptjh | 68 |
| 70 | Gyrsur | 68 |
| 71 | somac. | 67 |
| 72 | pacman7331 | 66 |
| 73 | HI-TEC99 | 66 |
| 74 | sirazimuth | 65 |
| 75 | Totscha | 64 |
| 76 | cannycassiopeia | 64 |
| 77 | BlindMayorBitcorn | 64 |
| 78 | conspirosphere.tk | 63 |
| 79 | Majormax | 59 |
| 80 | bitebits | 58 |
| 81 | crypmike | 58 |
| 82 | DeathAngel | 58 |
| 83 | nanobtc | 57 |
| 84 | Karartma1 | 56 |
| 85 | suchmoon | 55 |
| 86 | strawbs | 54 |
| 87 | Samarkand | 54 |
| 88 | theymos | 53 |
| 89 | FractalUniverse | 53 |
| 90 | rolling | 51 |
| 91 | RayX12 | 50 |
| 92 | RoomBot | 48 |
| 93 | encycrypto | 48 |
| 94 | fluidjax | 48 |
| 95 | Speculatoross | 47 |
| 96 | ErisDiscordia | 47 |
| 97 | fabiorem | 46 |
| 98 | BitcoinNewsMagazine | 46 |
| 99 | gembitz | 46 |
| 100 | thisisntbic | 44 |
EDIT:
TOP MERIT SENDERS:
| 1 | JayJuanGee | 2129 |
| 2 | BobLawblaw | 1813 |
| 3 | micgoossens | 1136 |
| 4 | bones261 | 995 |
| 5 | LFC_Bitcoin | 990 |
| 6 | infofront | 952 |
| 7 | Last of the V8s | 760 |
| 8 | Globb0 | 680 |
| 9 | xhomerx10 | 673 |
| 10 | jbreher | 667 |
| 11 | vapourminer | 575 |
| 12 | mindrust | 567 |
| 13 | HairyMaclairy | 544 |
| 14 | cAPSLOCK | 537 |
| 15 | marcus_of_augustus | 502 |
| 16 | 600watt | 481 |
| 17 | Toxic2040 | 407 |
| 18 | jojo69 | 366 |
| 19 | Torque | 339 |
| 20 | Paashaas | 315 |
| 21 | QuestionAuthority | 311 |
| 22 | Hueristic | 259 |
| 23 | d_eddie | 254 |
| 24 | bitserve | 245 |
| 25 | yefi | 240 |
| 26 | BlindMayorBitcorn | 209 |
| 27 | Ibian | 204 |
| 28 | Wekkel | 204 |
| 29 | kurious | 202 |
| 30 | gentlemand | 201 |
| 31 | ErisDiscordia | 198 |
| 32 | bitebits | 186 |
| 33 | VB1001 | 183 |
| 34 | RoomBot | 180 |
| 35 | kenzawak | 179 |
| 36 | Karartma1 | 174 |
| 37 | Dabs | 173 |
| 38 | suchmoon | 162 |
| 39 | explorer | 152 |
| 40 | Raja_MBZ | 147 |
| 41 | Gyrsur | 142 |
| 42 | Dunkelheit667 | 137 |
| 43 | mfort312 | 137 |
| 44 | JimboToronto | 137 |
| 45 | BTCMILLIONAIRE | 116 |
| 46 | edgar | 115 |
| 47 | Pamoldar | 114 |
| 48 | Searing | 111 |
| 49 | goldkingcoiner | 110 |
| 50 | Rosewater Foundation | 109 |
| 51 | kingcolex | 104 |
| 52 | Lambie Slayer | 101 |
| 53 | ssmc2 | 100 |
| 54 | Arriemoller | 100 |
| 55 | PoolMinor | 99 |
| 56 | Majormax | 99 |
| 57 | xyzzy099 | 97 |
| 58 | ivomm | 97 |
| 59 | nutildah | 92 |
| 60 | tonyq | 87 |
| 61 | julian071 | 86 |
| 62 | Biodom | 83 |
| 63 | P_Shep | 82 |
| 64 | conspirosphere.tk | 82 |
| 65 | Kylapoiss | 80 |
| 66 | Icygreen | 76 |
| 67 | RayX12 | 73 |
| 68 | sirazimuth | 73 |
| 69 | fillippone | 73 |
| 70 | lightfoot | 72 |
| 71 | Elwar | 71 |
| 72 | criptix | 71 |
| 73 | Phil_S | 69 |
| 74 | vroom | 68 |
| 75 | DeathAngel | 63 |
| 76 | StartupAnalyst | 58 |
| 77 | JSRAW | 56 |
| 78 | Anon136 | 56 |
| 79 | empowering | 55 |
| 80 | Cryptotourist | 55 |
| 81 | rolling | 52 |
| 82 | bitcoinPsycho | 52 |
| 83 | sammy007 | 50 |
| 84 | Jayjay04 | 50 |
| 85 | soullyG | 49 |
| 86 | FractalUniverse | 48 |
| 87 | STT | 47 |
| 88 | mymenace | 46 |
| 89 | MrFreeRoMan | 45 |
| 90 | AlexGR | 43 |
| 91 | Bitcoinaire | 42 |
| 92 | afbitcoins | 40 |
| 93 | Totscha | 39 |
| 94 | nanobtc | 38 |
| 95 | fabiorem | 37 |
| 96 | MirkoIta | 36 |
| 97 | crypmike | 36 |
| 98 | serveria.com | 36 |
| 99 | somac. | 35 |
| 100 | AlcoHoDL | 34 |
Summing up the TWO charts: Merit Balance calculated as Received Merits/2- Sent merits.
I think top20 and bottom 20 are relevant
TOP20
| POS | Username | TO | FROM | BALANCE |
| 1 | TERA2 | 194 | 10 | 87 |
| 2 | realr0ach | 192 | 12 | 84 |
| 3 | Elwar | 293 | 71 | 75.5 |
| 4 | Spaceman_Spiff_Original | 116 | 13 | 45 |
| 5 | Toxic2040 | 891 | 407 | 38.5 |
| 6 | cannycassiopeia | 64 | 1 | 31 |
| 7 | pacman7331 | 66 | 6 | 27 |
| 8 | kirreev070 | 107 | 28 | 25.5 |
| 9 | cryptjh | 68 | 9 | 25 |
| 10 | BinaryReign | 105 | 29 | 23.5 |
| 11 | Biodom | 211 | 83 | 22.5 |
| 12 | D. Lerk | 39 | 1 | 18.5 |
| 13 | Last of the V8s | 1556 | 760 | 18 |
| 14 | Phil_S | 172 | 69 | 17 |
| 15 | Cryptoqueeen | 81 | 24 | 16.5 |
| 16 | goldkingcoiner | 247 | 110 | 13.5 |
| 17 | Samarkand | 54 | 14 | 13 |
| 18 | YourMother | 36 | 5 | 13 |
| 19 | HairyMaclairy | 1113 | 544 | 12.5 |
| 20 | hisslyness | 26 | 1 | 12 |
BOTTOM 20:
| POS | Username | TO | FROM | BALANCE |
| 294 | Dabs | 44 | 173 | -151 |
| 295 | RoomBot | 48 | 180 | -156 |
| 296 | bitebits | 58 | 186 | -157 |
| 297 | yefi | 146 | 240 | -167 |
| 298 | ErisDiscordia | 47 | 198 | -174.5 |
| 299 | BlindMayorBitcorn | 64 | 209 | -177 |
| 300 | Hueristic | 138 | 259 | -190 |
| 301 | QuestionAuthority | 27 | 311 | -297.5 |
| 302 | micgoossens | 1660 | 1136 | -306 |
| 303 | cAPSLOCK | 285 | 537 | -394.5 |
| 304 | 600watt | 161 | 481 | -400.5 |
| 305 | marcus_of_augustus | 152 | 502 | -426 |
| 306 | mindrust | 276 | 567 | -429 |
| 307 | vapourminer | 97 | 575 | -526.5 |
| 308 | Globb0 | 298 | 680 | -531 |
| 309 | jbreher | 220 | 667 | -557 |
| 310 | infofront | 690 | 952 | -607 |
| 311 | LFC_Bitcoin | 545 | 990 | -717.5 |
| 312 | bones261 | 175 | 995 | -907.5 |
| 313 | BobLawblaw | 847 | 1813 | -1389.5 |
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Post 51650219 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.53h):
I want LN to work but setting up a wallet is not as simple as downloading a bitcoin wallet and adding some funds.
Last time I tried it I either had to have a node running that I attach to, or use some service that runs a node for me. And even then, I had a hard time with it.
It's a similar problem with OpenBazaar. To buy or sell you need to download the software and run a node or pay for a service.
It reminds me of when I was trying to use gold as a currency. You could pay for a service to hold your gold and secure it and then pay a percentage to spend it via a debit card. The whole point of why I like Bitcoin is that you don't have to pay a monthly fee for someone to secure it for you.
Is there technology down the pipe that will make LN more user friendly? Is it possible?
Bitcoin is in competition with physical gold as a store of value. It has to prove his reliability over the centuries as gold did, Bitcoin is ingot 10 years old, still can fail, but I see good chance can achieve constant real purchasing power over very long time arc as gold did.
LN is in competition for MoP, mean of payments, with credit cards, until the user experience is not at par with credit cards, you can basically use without even taking it out your wallet , or integrated in your mobile (Apple Pay) Lightning Network will face tough competition.
In addition to that credit card have some advantages: for example censurability for small payments could be a nice feature ( what if the merchant charges an erroneous amount and I don’t immediately realise it?)
We are bitcoiner, but we don’ Need to be zealots.
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Post 51655706 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
GOOD MORNING WO!
Observing BTC@11,770
Observing shorts battling for 12k
Observing shirts of WO:
That shirt is so ugly it's gone full circle and become cool.
This shirt is some kind of Van Gogh’starry night on steroids+drugs!
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Post 51655824 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
Morning fillippone, if you stare long at the shirt or the picture you will get a hallucinogenic trip.
Scrolling the thread on my mobile with my post going up and down has a similar effect!
I think it’s going to be banned in a few countries!
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Post 51659882 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
Shaved candle let's go. Pump it back.
What’s this red dildo?!
It’s the weekend!
It’s supposed to be weekend pump!
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Post 51663028 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
Here’s a beautiful gif for absolutely no reason other than me being a pervert.
I am caught in a loop.
Been observing this gif since it was posted.
Productivity dived again.
The day started with Mic shirt, definitely ended better.
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Post 51668039 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
It's time for a Wall Observer Meta Post!
As LoyceV didn't dig on Merit statistics, I dared to update my previous post with top merit senders, so that Globbo can see how he performs on this category:
TOP 20 here, full table on the original linked post:
EDIT:
TOP MERIT SENDERS:
| 1 | JayJuanGee | 2129 |
| 2 | BobLawblaw | 1813 |
| 3 | micgoossens | 1136 |
| 4 | bones261 | 995 |
| 5 | LFC_Bitcoin | 990 |
| 6 | infofront | 952 |
| 7 | Last of the V8s | 760 |
| 8 | Globb0 | 680 |
| 9 | xhomerx10 | 673 |
| 10 | jbreher | 667 |
| 11 | vapourminer | 575 |
| 12 | mindrust | 567 |
| 13 | HairyMaclairy | 544 |
| 14 | cAPSLOCK | 537 |
| 15 | marcus_of_augustus | 502 |
| 16 | 600watt | 481 |
| 17 | Toxic2040 | 407 |
| 18 | jojo69 | 366 |
| 19 | Torque | 339 |
| 20 | Paashaas | 315 |
Edit:
I'm on fire!Summing up the TWO charts: Merit Balance calculated as Received Merits/2- Sent merits.
I think top20 and bottom 20 are relevant
TOP20
(net merit takers)
| POS | Username | TO | FROM | BALANCE |
| 1 | TERA2 | 194 | 10 | 87 |
| 2 | realr0ach | 192 | 12 | 84 |
| 3 | Elwar | 293 | 71 | 75.5 |
| 4 | Spaceman_Spiff_Original | 116 | 13 | 45 |
| 5 | Toxic2040 | 891 | 407 | 38.5 |
| 6 | cannycassiopeia | 64 | 1 | 31 |
| 7 | pacman7331 | 66 | 6 | 27 |
| 8 | kirreev070 | 107 | 28 | 25.5 |
| 9 | cryptjh | 68 | 9 | 25 |
| 10 | BinaryReign | 105 | 29 | 23.5 |
| 11 | Biodom | 211 | 83 | 22.5 |
| 12 | D. Lerk | 39 | 1 | 18.5 |
| 13 | Last of the V8s | 1556 | 760 | 18 |
| 14 | Phil_S | 172 | 69 | 17 |
| 15 | Cryptoqueeen | 81 | 24 | 16.5 |
| 16 | goldkingcoiner | 247 | 110 | 13.5 |
| 17 | Samarkand | 54 | 14 | 13 |
| 18 | YourMother | 36 | 5 | 13 |
| 19 | HairyMaclairy | 1113 | 544 | 12.5 |
| 20 | hisslyness | 26 | 1 | 12 |
BOTTOM 20:
(net merit givers)
| POS | Username | TO | FROM | BALANCE |
| 294 | Dabs | 44 | 173 | -151 |
| 295 | RoomBot | 48 | 180 | -156 |
| 296 | bitebits | 58 | 186 | -157 |
| 297 | yefi | 146 | 240 | -167 |
| 298 | ErisDiscordia | 47 | 198 | -174.5 |
| 299 | BlindMayorBitcorn | 64 | 209 | -177 |
| 300 | Hueristic | 138 | 259 | -190 |
| 301 | QuestionAuthority | 27 | 311 | -297.5 |
| 302 | micgoossens | 1660 | 1136 | -306 |
| 303 | cAPSLOCK | 285 | 537 | -394.5 |
| 304 | 600watt | 161 | 481 | -400.5 |
| 305 | marcus_of_augustus | 152 | 502 | -426 |
| 306 | mindrust | 276 | 567 | -429 |
| 307 | vapourminer | 97 | 575 | -526.5 |
| 308 | Globb0 | 298 | 680 | -531 |
| 309 | jbreher | 220 | 667 | -557 |
| 310 | infofront | 690 | 952 | -607 |
| 311 | LFC_Bitcoin | 545 | 990 | -717.5 |
| 312 | bones261 | 175 | 995 | -907.5 |
| 313 | BobLawblaw | 847 | 1813 | -1389.5 |
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Post 51668697 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
As LoyceV didn't dig on Merit statistics
My script is still running, you'll get a WO-only version of
my full Merit data analysis including graphs
I bend the knee to the kind of Data Crunching/Merit Munching.
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Post 51668861 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
For sure someone is already doing that.
Just a matter to fees attached to the exit transaction to determine who claim the funds.
474.
Post 51669992 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
Looks like Bullshit to me.
A couple of guys want to
SELL Bitcoin for 75,000 USD.
So what? I could sell 1 BTC for 1,000,000 USD, but this don't make BTC trading at those level.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
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Post 51670614 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
Next year today the newly generated daily supply will be half of what it is now.
Would I go all in now? No.
But I didn't do it even when it was 5k or 4k.
Keep DCA'ing its on fire sale. %50 down from the ATH. Screams like "DCA me!"
aand 10590
where is this website? can you share the link please? war clock is
amazing for this scope
thank you in advance
Babo asks, Fillippone provides:
https://www.bitcoinblockhalf.com/
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Post 51671323 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
Looks like Bullshit to me.
A couple of guys want to
SELL Bitcoin for 75,000 USD.
So what? I could sell 1 BTC for 1,000,000 USD, but this don't make BTC trading at those level.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
Do you think you could get out of the country will all them Dollah's?
Unlikely
I am saying there is plenty of people selling bitcoins for around 11,000 USD, so why pay 75,000 if you can buy BTC from them?
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Post 51671416 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
Because they are in Zimbabwe how will they send you 11k$
I am looking at market in Zimbawe, Localbitcoin in Zimbawe: sellers in zimbawe for buyers in Zimbawe.
https://localbitcoins.com/country/ZW
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Post 51671457 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
As LoyceV didn't dig on Merit statistics
My script is still running, you'll get a WO-only version of
my full Merit data analysis including graphs
Thanks for your efforts Loyce
Should give us a bit of fun discussion for a few days.
/G0
Globbo fight for the top on the chart for net merit Givers!
BobLawblaw out of scale!
BOTTOM 20:
(net merit givers)
| 308 | Globb0 | 298 | 680 | -531 |
| 309 | jbreher | 220 | 667 | -557 |
| 310 | infofront | 690 | 952 | -607 |
| 311 | LFC_Bitcoin | 545 | 990 | -717.5 |
| 312 | bones261 | 175 | 995 | -907.5 |
| 313 | BobLawblaw | 847 | 1813 | -1389.5 |
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Post 51676090 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
Because they are in Zimbabwe how will they send you 11k$
I am looking at market in Zimbawe, Localbitcoin in Zimbawe: sellers in zimbawe for buyers in Zimbawe.
https://localbitcoins.com/country/ZWI read more carefully the offer on Localbitcoin (sorry I cannot find the link any more).
The offer was about RTGS, the local currency officially pegged to USD 1:1, but apparently with an higher exchange. So probably the guy was trying to sell bitcoin and cash in a fiat shitcoin at a more convenient rate of around 6.6.
So to recap:
In Zimbabwe you can buy bitcoin selling USD@11,400
Or
You can buy bitcoins selling RTRS officially worth 1:1 with bitcoin, but in reality a way more convenient 6.6 (convenient firstly the seller, of course, I don’t have any clue which is the real exchange rate).
Primer on RTGS:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-47361572
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Post 51678324 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
the deeper and longer the better really
Fancy another 18m@3300?
481.
Post 51680937 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
Good Afternoon WO gang.
Observing BTCUSD@9798.
Observing my belated June Post:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5106432.msg51680720#msg51680720Real life and Heatwave over Europe took a toll on Fillippone's punctuality.
As always, feedback and discussion much appreciated.
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Post 51681605 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
Hi Fillippone.
It is very hot everywhere in the world for the beginning of the month.
Havent seen Jimbo Toronto on yet so here is a pic of what is going on in his neck of the woods with the price falling below $10,000. They are just BTFD in canuck land for their national holiday July 1st!
I think they are having some problems too with hot weather:
Italy is like NZ, only more brutal.
483.
Post 51681711 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
Hi Fillippone.
It is very hot everywhere in the world for the beginning of the month.
Havent seen Jimbo Toronto on yet so here is a pic of what is going on in his neck of the woods with the price falling below $10,000. They are just BTFD in canuck land for their national holiday July 1st!
I think they are having some problems too with hot weather:
Italy is like NZ, only more brutal.
Spend hours crafting a lengthy ans serious report on Bitcoin Status: zero fucks given.
Post a meme I just found on the Internet about Canadians and Hot Weather: DENG! Merit!
I love WO!
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Post 51681796 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
Because they are in Zimbabwe how will they send you 11k$
I am looking at market in Zimbawe, Localbitcoin in Zimbawe: sellers in zimbawe for buyers in Zimbawe.
https://localbitcoins.com/country/ZWI read more carefully the offer on Localbitcoin (sorry I cannot find the link any more).
The offer was about RTGS, the local currency officially pegged to USD 1:1, but apparently with an higher exchange. So probably the guy was trying to sell bitcoin and cash in a fiat shitcoin at a more convenient rate of around 6.6.
So to recap:
In Zimbabwe you can buy bitcoin selling USD@11,400
Or
You can buy bitcoins selling RTRS officially worth 1:1 with bitcoin, but in reality a way more convenient 6.6 (convenient firstly the seller, of course, I don’t have any clue which is the real exchange rate).
Primer on RTGS:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-47361572Apparently someone is reading my post and this thread!
https://cointelegraph.com/news/is-bitcoin-really-selling-for-76-000-in-zimbabwe“Some crypto sites are reporting a 600% bitcoin premium in Zimbabwe.
This massive markup is actually just a reflection of the black market rate for USD held in EcoCash which have just been rendered virtually worthless by the government.”
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Post 51683272 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
Good afternoon WO!
Observing @ $10,440
We were below 4 figure for few hours but now are back to 45 figure again.
FTFY
486.
Post 51683792 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
Request for merit stats:
Most merited individual posts in WO thread!
Top 10!
Here you GO:
Take That LoyceV!
Self promotion for a labour intensive post under a not labour intensive post:
Bitcoin Bearish or Bullish? Here my thoughts: JUNE UPDATE
487.
Post 51684034 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
Hmm would it be easy to get the next 10 most highly merited? Those results are a bit skewed !
*50 merits transaction have been arbitrary censored and converted to 2 merits transactions.
Self promotion for a labour intensive post under a not labour intensive post:
Bitcoin Bearish or Bullish? Here my thoughts: JUNE UPDATE
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Post 51684364 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
Hmm would it be easy to get the next 10 most highly merited? Those results are a bit skewed !
I could see two very extremely worthy posts... both had 50 merit and both where to the same whore
Still waiting for my big day!
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Post 51690791 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
Looks completely fake. "Would you mind suspending your little project ?"
I don't know if it's fake or not. But isn't the reason they run it from Switzerland to stop Congress from having a say in it?
THIS IS BTCITCOIN
She's cute, sure... but this looks more like bcash to me...
Beautiful outside, nothing inside - BCash
A cute girl promoting Bitcoin: I can only encourage that
This a post I wouldn't have expected from you.
I checked "Updated Topics" and saw last message in the WO thread by LoyceV.
"Good! Some weird data stuff being pushed by sir LoyceV"
Instead this.
But as I already realised
ddmrddmr is human, it might be the case you too are human.
It's like when you casually bump in a teacher of yours outside school! Hey, they are real people too!
490.
Post 51690996 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
THIS IS BTCITCOIN I am happy to disagree here.
This picture is everything that bitcoin is NOT.
Bitcoin doesn't need marketing
Bitcoin doesn't need sexy attire to draw attention
Bitcoin doesn't need anyone being put on show for money
Bitcoin respect your privacy and discretion
Bitcoin is about freedom, not slavery
Yes, I am fun at parties.
491.
Post 51691116 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
This a post I wouldn't have expected from you.
I checked "Updated Topics" and saw last message in the WO thread by LoyceV.
"Good! Some weird data stuff being pushed by sir LoyceV"
Instead this.
But as I already realised
ddmrddmr is human, it might be the case you too are human.
Oh noes, LoyceV likes cute girls
Wait, let me add some useful data to this thread:
I see autocorrelation in data from Gyrsur, from dataset #3 and dataset #5.
EDIT: reduced post footprint for ecological reasons.
492.
Post 51692768 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
Here I am.
Good memories from that song, but Daft Punk are way superior, and Giorgio Moroder sits on another planet.
I really cannot pick one:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/mar/28/giorgio-moroder-his-20-greatest-songs-rankedI think only, I repeat ONLY, reason to miss the '80s is the music.
Anyway.
I am always here, lurking in the shadow, waiting to be summoned.
Trying to dray attention to my
monthly blurb, but apparently I am way more successful as meme provider than deep toughs source.
493.
Post 51694166 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
World’s First Zero-Fiat ‘Bitcoin Bond’ Now Available on Bloomberg TerminalTwo European companies have launched what they describe as the world’s first genuine bitcoin (BTC) bond, they confirmed in a joint press release on July 3.
Luxembourg-based Argento, a securitization firm, joined forces with London Block Exchange (LBX) to issue the bitcoin-denominated bond, which is regulated under the United Kingdom’s regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
Various durations are available, Argento conspicuously naming them after crypto-specific phenomena such as ‘FOMO,’ ‘HODL’ and ‘MOON.’
HODLers, LBX says, form one of the bond’s major target markets.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/worlds-first-zero-fiat-bitcoin-bond-now-available-on-bloomberg-terminal This news doesn't pass Fillippone bullshit test:
- LBX is an empty box according to Bloomberg Terminal
- Argento doesn't exists according to Bloomberg
- No securities are issued/related to Argento
- HODL, FOMO or MOON are not related to specific ISIN codes on BBG
Someone I fully trust checked those infos for me on a BBG terminal.
This is second time Cointelegraph posted bullshit in a couple of days.
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Post 51694904 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
World’s First Zero-Fiat ‘Bitcoin Bond’ Now Available on Bloomberg TerminalTwo European companies have launched what they describe as the world’s first genuine bitcoin (BTC) bond, they confirmed in a joint press release on July 3.
Luxembourg-based Argento, a securitization firm, joined forces with London Block Exchange (LBX) to issue the bitcoin-denominated bond, which is regulated under the United Kingdom’s regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
Various durations are available, Argento conspicuously naming them after crypto-specific phenomena such as ‘FOMO,’ ‘HODL’ and ‘MOON.’
HODLers, LBX says, form one of the bond’s major target markets.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/worlds-first-zero-fiat-bitcoin-bond-now-available-on-bloomberg-terminal This news doesn't pass Fillippone bullshit test:
- LBX is an empty box according to Bloomberg Terminal
- Argento doesn't exists according to Bloomberg
- No securities are issued/related to Argento
- HODL, FOMO or MOON are not related to specific ISIN codes on BBG
Someone I fully trust checked those infos for me on a BBG terminal.
This is second time Cointelegraph posted bullshit in a couple of days.
Check it in a few days, it will possibly be available soon.
‘World’s first institutional grade Bitcoin-denominated bond,’ goes live in Europehttps://www.fxstreet.com/cryptocurrencies/news/worlds-first-institutional-grade-bitcoin-denominated-bond-goes-live-in-europe-201907030904Same press release being reworded by different websites.
Adding to the list:
- Phil Millo doesn't exist in BBG.
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Post 51696047 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
In my real life interactions, I continue to come across a decent number of people who make some superficial inquiries into my bitcoin views and strategies, and when they seem to be inquiring about whether I make any recommendations, I continue to have a kind of stock response, which is to say that no matter what the most recent price performance of bitcoin, it remains a good idea for no coiners to begin by attempting to set up various bitcoin accounts at the soonest point that they can, and then to get their own finances in order so that they can begin to dollar cost average into bitcoin. Of course, once they begin to dollar cost average into bitcoin, they can also begin to consider the extent to which they might tweak their approach beyond dollar cost averaging, but the beginning steps remain to set up various accounts and to get their own finances into a sufficient kind of order so that they can begin to do the bare minimum in taking initial staking steps into BTC in the form of dollar cost averaging. So far, and on an ongoing basis, it appears to me that very few people with whom I had discuss these "getting started" bitcoin related matters, in real life, actually take the next initial steps, which is at least setting up some kind of BTC account(s) to put them in a place to actually take a kind of concrete action to make a purchase, even if it ends up only being a small amount of BTC.
I have been asked so many time my views on ho to approach Bitcoin, that
I setup a thread to be copied and pasted in an email to be sent them.
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Post 51697580 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
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Post 51697635 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
EDIT:
This news has already been published by VB1001:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg51694827#msg51694827Sorry for double post!
Wow.
This is a great improvement.
LN has beegn lagging behing as per UX experience, Particularly on mobile devices .
This might be a "closed" and not cheap solution, but it's going on the right direction!
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Post 51697768 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
So that shitcoin Bitcoin has made 70% vs bitcoin during 1y.
Bitcoin is measured against USD shitcoin.
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Post 51699773 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
The important thing is observing rising minimums.
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Post 51700120 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
Bad news WO, bad news:
Roaches Are Getting Harder and Harder to Kill.
The cockroaches that plague our homes are even more indestructible than we thought, according to a recent study by researchers at the University of Purdue in Indiana. The bug scientists used a variety of strategies and different insecticides to root out real-life infestations of the German cockroach (Blattella germanica), but found that the roaches were able to survive nearly all of their efforts.
https://gizmodo.com/roaches-are-getting-harder-and-harder-to-kill-1836082010
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Post 51700195 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
Well just sold a little of my lovely btc for some filthy fiat, because, alas, my mortgage lender does not accept btc...
just filthy fiat... <sigh>
There is no shame in selling BTC to pay for important thing.
A mortgage is one of those things.
Well done indeed.
And the fact you had to spend BTC to pay for the mortgage made me think you made me take the guess you had balls to spend your fiat before spending BTC (Gresham’s Law).
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Post 51704907 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
There is also a highly likely scenario that Fort Knox and the Federal Reserve have a lot less gold in stock than is advertised.
And way more Tungsten than required.
Just ask the Germans (Gyrsur, are you around?) how long it took to take THEIR gold back to motherland.
EDIT:
Yes, tungsten filled Bullion is a real thing, even for expereinced traders:
How A Manhattan Jeweler Wound Up With Gold Bars Filled With TungstenEDIT2:
Intreesting read on the topic:
How Germany got its gold back
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Post 51706868 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
Being 75% Confident Bitcoin Price is $100,000 by End of 2021 equals being 100% Confident Bitcoin Price is $75,000 by End of 2021?
Serious question.
Asking for a friend.
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Post 51707290 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
So these are not just futures but it will allow them to settle in physical bitcoin?
This would mean it is no longer just a bet on the price of bitcoin but it is actually a buy and sell of it.
https://www.coindesk.com/td-ameritrade-backed-erisx-gets-green-light-to-settle-futures-in-bitcoinSome have a difficult time trying to grasp the concept of what they are trying to do.
Until now a physical settlement has not been allowed because the cftc was not convinced any wall street firm could hold on to bitcoin safely within these so called custodial services. Hence this is another move forward on the development of the bitcoin infrastructure and ecosystem.Indeed if settling in bitcoin, it is necessary that both parts hold as much physical bitcoin as necessary. Otherwise, with sufficient volatility, insolvency will ensue. That's one of the reasons I think in-kind ETFs and derivatives are medium term bullish AF.
Not necessary the case.
The future can be settled in bitcoin.
Daily margining can be done with cash.
In case of Bakkt futures are only 1 day forward, so marining or variation not a problem.
Not sure about Erisx, couldn't find product specifications.
Not so bearish on EFT or other BTC-related Derivatives then.
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Post 51707430 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
So these are not just futures but it will allow them to settle in physical bitcoin?
This would mean it is no longer just a bet on the price of bitcoin but it is actually a buy and sell of it.
https://www.coindesk.com/td-ameritrade-backed-erisx-gets-green-light-to-settle-futures-in-bitcoinSome have a difficult time trying to grasp the concept of what they are trying to do.
Until now a physical settlement has not been allowed because the cftc was not convinced any wall street firm could hold on to bitcoin safely within these so called custodial services. Hence this is another move forward on the development of the bitcoin infrastructure and ecosystem.Indeed if settling in bitcoin, it is necessary that both parts hold as much physical bitcoin as necessary. Otherwise, with sufficient volatility, insolvency will ensue. That's one of the reasons I think in-kind ETFs and derivatives are medium term bullish AF.
Not necessary the case.
The future can be settled in bitcoin.
Daily margining can be done with cash.
In case of Bakkt futures are only 1 day forward, so marining or variation not a problem.
Not sure about Erisx, couldn't find product specifications.
Not so bearish on EFT or other BTC-related Derivatives then.
All right, then edit my previous response: maybe not "hold as much physical btc", but "be ready to buy, and actually buy if necessary, as much physical btc as necessary, at whatever price it takes (market buy)", which is nearly the same thing even if collateral is posted as fiat (which I doubt anyway).
Does this sound right?
Yes, but it's like any other future.
No difference.
So the difference might be or in the liquidity of the underlying or in an unfair bias of the regulators (see above message about CXBTF)
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Post 51707639 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
Indeed if settling in bitcoin, it is necessary that both parts hold as much physical bitcoin as necessary. Otherwise, with sufficient volatility, insolvency will ensue. That's one of the reasons I think in-kind ETFs and derivatives are medium term bullish AF.
Not necessary the case.
The future can be settled in bitcoin.
Daily margining can be done with cash.
In case of Bakkt futures are only 1 day forward, so marining or variation not a problem.
Not sure about Erisx, couldn't find product specifications.
Not so bearish on EFT or other BTC-related Derivatives then.
All right, then edit my previous response: maybe not "hold as much physical btc", but "be ready to buy, and actually buy if necessary, as much physical btc as necessary, at whatever price it takes (market buy)", which is nearly the same thing even if collateral is posted as fiat (which I doubt anyway).
Does this sound right?
Yes, but it's like any other future.
No difference.
Like any other future
settled in kind, which is uncommon for most futures. This would lead to actual btc changing hands. I thinks it matters and does make a definite difference.
Commodity future (closest to BTC future, I think) are physically settled futures.
So the difference might be or in the liquidity of the underlying or in an unfair bias of the regulators (see above message about CXBTF)
Ah! You speak from a regulatory standpoint? I was looking more at the possible effects on the btc market.
Oh , sorry, Yes, this clarifies misunderstandings. Yes.
I guess futures are net positive on BTC market as gates for institutional money, not because futures
per se.
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Post 51708313 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
5. fillippone's ikea post and lambo wish (+1 to Italian stallion
)
1. Loyce -fillippone - data = love triangle
Being called twice on WO report, albeit for low effort posts.
Thank you JSRAW, my life is one step closer to complete!
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Post 51710990 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
^ try page number 24366
Thanks JSRAW. You're the WOT archivist to me, more or less
I thought there had been a post I missed with a few 15k hats to choose from, but it's not like that. So I had to borrow one of the two available hats, and I picked micg's. I hope The Goose won't mind.
I politely asked for a personalised version of the hat, and I got what I wanted.
I suggest you to try the same, you might be surprised by XHomerX10 generosity.
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Post 51711044 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
Off topic but wondering if any of you guys who run a node have this in your debug logs?
"warning='## of last 100 blocks have unexpected version'’
My latest batch of seeing it is from height=583656 to the latest block.
I just want to know if everybody else is seeing this?
I get it every couple of days lately.
TL; DR:Nothing to worry about
Executive summary:
This message pops out because of a depleted BIP9 options.
The real problem is that if you get this error message you are not running latest bitcoin core version.
From version 0.18 this error message (basically a warning message coming out every block cannot be considered a warning anymore, so basically better to shut it off.
So:
please LFC: upgrade to latest version as there are many other improvements.FULL Story:
- https://twitter.com/lukedashjr/status/1100102743556063232?s=21
“51 of last 100 blocks have unexpected version"
This warning is visible recently as a result of miners violating the #Bitcoin protocol, typically in their overt usage of the ASICBoost exploit (CVE-2017-9230).
- https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.18.0
#15471 rpc/gui: Remove ‘Unknown block versions being mined’ warning (laanwj)
- Github discussion
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/15471
Due to miners inserting garbage into the version numbers causing false positives, the current version signalling has become completely useless. This removes the "unknown block versions" warning which has the tendency to scare users unnecessarily (and might get them to "update" to something bad).
It preserves the warning in the logs. Whether this is desirable can be a point of discussion.
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Post 51711200 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
Off topic but wondering if any of you guys who run a node have this in your debug logs?
"warning='## of last 100 blocks have unexpected version'’
My latest batch of seeing it is from height=583656 to the latest block.
I just want to know if everybody else is seeing this?
I get it every couple of days lately.
TL; DR:Nothing to worry about
Executive summary:
This message pops out because of a depleted BIP9 options.
The real problem is that if you get this error message you are not running latest bitcoin core version.
From version 0.18 this error message (basically a warning message coming out every block cannot be considered a warning anymore, so basically better to shut it off.
So:
please LFC: upgrade to latest version as there are many other improvements.FULL Story:
-snip- technical material (several relevant links)I don't think it's an old version of the client.
% bitcoin-cli getnetworkinfo
{
"version": 180000,
"subversion": "/Satoshi:0.18.0/",
"protocolversion": 70015,
...
Weird, my node is running on 0.18 and I got rid of that error.
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Post 51711535 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
@fillipone
There are/were two warnings. One has gone on 0.18.0 but the other still exists. I’ve asked a few people & they’re still getting the error I listed above.
"warning='## of last 100 blocks have unexpected version'" is still shown in v0.18.0.
I'm seeing it since height=582383.
Oh, the warning that was removed was the
Warning: Unknown block versions being mined! It's possible unknown rules are in effect warning, not the unexpected version one. Whoops.
Ouch!
you caught me off guard.
Yes, probably related to same NONCE fiddling caused by ASICBOOST.
I will doublecheck with my node asaifwST.
asaifwST= as soon as I finish watching Stanger Things
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Post 51715410 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
@fillipone
There are/were two warnings. One has gone on 0.18.0 but the other still exists. I’ve asked a few people & they’re still getting the error I listed above.
"warning='## of last 100 blocks have unexpected version'" is still shown in v0.18.0.
I'm seeing it since height=582383.
Oh, the warning that was removed was the
Warning: Unknown block versions being mined! It's possible unknown rules are in effect warning, not the unexpected version one. Whoops.
Ouch!
you caught me off guard.
Yes, probably related to same NONCE fiddling caused by ASICBOOST.
I will double check with my node asaifwST.
asaifwST= as soon as I finish watching Stanger Things
Mhh Stranger Things after Stranger Things.
I actually have this error message too.
I feel confident enough to label it as "WRONG" to open an issue on the official Bitcoin GitHub.
You can track it here:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/16343If something get answered properly, I will notify here.
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Post 51716815 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
Little OFF topic.
Do you know what is it?
A ROM.
Exactly the ROM helped the SATURN V to land astronauts on the Moon.
The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) had very little memory by modern standards: 2048 words of RAM in erasable core memory and 36,864 words of ROM in core rope memory. In the 1960s, most computers (including the AGC) used magnetic core memory for RAM storage, but core ropes were unusual and operated differently. Erasable core memory and core rope both used magnetic cores, small magnetizable rings. But while erasable core memory used one core for each bit, core rope stored an incredible 192 bits per core, achieving much higher density.2 The trick was to put many wires through each core (as shown above), hardwiring the data: a 1 bit was stored by threading a wire through a core, while the wire bypassed the core for a 0 bit. Thus, once a core rope was carefully manufactured, using a half-mile of wire, data was permanently stored in the core rope.
http://www.righto.com/2019/07/software-woven-into-wire-core-rope-and.htmlAnyone willing to hardwire Bitcoin Core code in such a device?
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Post 51720562 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
Vintage gear pr0n. Well found
Well, the link was just below the image...
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Post 51720650 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
You feeling a little safer Elwar?
Getting better. Nadia and I got married and we're moving on with our lives.
Congratulations Elwar and Nadia!
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Post 51721405 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
Indeed.
LN is cumbersome and horrible to use and operate.
It is just moving forward from the reckless state.
Integrated service as this one might be inferior to privacy and security, but I think that User experience will be way better, helping LN to spread further adoption.
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Post 51722112 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
Anyone interested in Magic the Gathering?, A Black lotus card sold for $166,000 and $141,000 recently. Figured a lot of bitcoin guys would be into MTG. From 1993
I could draw a Venn diagram of people loving Bitcoin, Magic the Gathering and exchanging things via internet and also be very accurate predicting where their funds are...
518.
Post 51722714 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
Yesterday I went to a Local Bitcoin event.
I knew the speaker, so I went to this very basic conference about Bitcoin at an university venue to catch up with him, mainly.
“You have to register, we have to many requests...”
“Are you kidding me?”
Nobody showed up at those events during the cryptowinter, but they now went sold out (well, it was free..) in a few hours only.
The conference was in a 100 people room: full.
AC broke in the morning, nobody fixed it (we are in Italy after all).
Probably 30°C in the room, nobody dared to leave.
2 HOURS Q&A from the public+ another hour of aperitivo after the conference.
My dinner table conversations are again all about Bitcoin.
I never start conversation about Bitcoin, not to piss off other people.
They now started again asking very basic questions about buying, trading and storing bitcoins.
I had so many questions from friends I had to prepare two thread/resources (both in
English and in
Italian) to be modified into email ready to be sent out as requests.
A friend of mine bought “The bitcoin Standard” and came to me to discuss his ideas about the book.
Boy, this post is from Jun 2019, not Dec 2107, but the feeling are the same: we are going to see another FOMO season.
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Post 51725358 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
VB1001, you are the master of reporting very important news without being noticed!
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Post 51725462 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
Yesterday I went to a Local Bitcoin event.
Yesterday I went to a Local Bitcoin event.
Must have been a busy day.
There’s a glitch in the matrix!
Thanks, didn’t even realise I have been annoying you at 2x the usual rate!
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Post 51728446 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
Serious news:
Rising Institutional Investment Setting Pace For Future Crypto GrowthOliver von Landsberg-Sadie, CEO of BCB – a financial services group with digital asset specialism, drew comparisons on the various bull runs experienced over bitcoin’s (BTC) lifecycle, with the exception given to this year’s fundamental growth.
“The 2013 bubble was driven by technocrats and dark web trawlers and the 2017 rally was led by the whims of speculative retail traders, 2019’s growth belongs to financial institutions who are diversifying stale portfolios and finally have the professional machinery to do so.”
Appropriate meme for good humor:
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Post 51732397 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
via Imgflip Meme GeneratorDammit, lives are changing..... one of my true best friends 4,5 months year old in my semi-drunk arms.....
Better be carefull Micg
Boys be drunk be Saturday
Be careful, if cryptoqueeen gets her hands on the baby she might start getting ideas
It’s a trap!
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Post 51733058 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
Ouch.
Baby picture on WO=> It’s a trap => Bull trap =>Red dildo.
It’s all written!
524.
Post 51739219 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
11. Checking a certain thread on a certain forum multiple times on the day
12. Pretending having been involved on a strange boat accident.
525.
Post 51742061 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
I don’t Know if this has already been posted,
But in case:
https://www.cbeci.org/comparisons/When someone tells you “Bitcoin network is su a waste of energy it could be spent doing something useful, or at least could save tonnes of C0
2 if turned down, just answer with this:
526.
Post 51746306 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
It's time (again) for a Wall Observer Meta Post!
Merit analysis based on LoyceV merit file:
http://loyce.club/Merit/merit.all.txtTotal merits sent on WO: 26399
Weekly Merits sent on WO: 337
TOP 100 MERIT RECEIVERS:
1.micgoossens 1677
2.Last of the V8s 1569
3.HairyMaclairy 1136
4.xhomerx10 1111
5.Toxic2040 899
6.BobLawblaw 899
7.jojo69 776
8.infofront 698
9.JayJuanGee 639
10.LFC_Bitcoin 570
11.d_eddie 491
12.Torque 490
13.bitserve 470
14.VB1001 381
15.Paashaas 361
16.gentlemand 353
17.kenzawak 333
18.Globb0 300
19.Elwar 294
20.cAPSLOCK 287
21.mindrust 278
22.mfort312 278
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24.goldkingcoiner 247
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26.Rosewater Foundation 244
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28.jbreher 222
29.kurious 219
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32.Lambie Slayer 206
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34.realr0ach 192
35.bones261 183
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37.Phil_S 174
38.Kylapoiss 169
39.600watt 161
40.vroom 158
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43.yefi 153
44.kingcolex 153
45.nutildah 142
46.Hueristic 139
47.fillippone 137
48.Wekkel 136
49.StartupAnalyst 130
50.JSRAW 130
51.toknormal 129
52.Arriemoller 128
53.Anon136 121
54.Pamoldar 120
55.Spaceman_Spiff_Original118
56.kirreev070 107
57.BinaryReign 105
58.Cryptotourist 105
59.Dabs 103
60.vapourminer 102
61.bitcoinPsycho 100
62.explorer 97
63.Bitcoinaire 94
64.AlcoHoDL 86
65.Searing 83
66.Cryptoqueeen 81
67.serveria.com 78
68.lightfoot 76
69.BlindMayorBitcorn 72
70.STT 71
71.HI-TEC99 71
72.Gyrsur 69
73.cryptjh 68
74.somac. 67
75.pacman7331 66
76.sirazimuth 65
77.Totscha 64
78.cannycassiopeia 64
79.conspirosphere.tk 63
80.Majormax 60
81.DeathAngel 60
82.crypmike 58
83.bitebits 58
84.nanobtc 57
85.Karartma1 56
86.suchmoon 55
87.strawbs 54
88.Samarkand 54
89.theymos 53
90.FractalUniverse 53
91.rolling 51
92.RayX12 50
93.fluidjax 50
94.RoomBot 48
95.encycrypto 48
96.Speculatoross 47
97.BitcoinNewsMagazine 47
98.ErisDiscordia 47
99.PoolMinor 46
100.gembitz 46
TOP 100 MERIT SENDERS:
1.JayJuanGee 2183
2.BobLawblaw 1881
3.micgoossens 1182
4.LFC_Bitcoin 1016
5.bones261 1013
6.infofront 959
7.Last of the V8s 786
8.Globb0 704
9.xhomerx10 676
10.jbreher 669
11.vapourminer 583
12.mindrust 573
13.HairyMaclairy 554
14.cAPSLOCK 546
15.marcus_of_augustus 502
16.600watt 482
17.Toxic2040 411
18.jojo69 373
19.Torque 339
20.Paashaas 318
21.QuestionAuthority 311
22.Hueristic 262
23.d_eddie 260
24.yefi 256
25.bitserve 245
26.Dabs 224
27.BlindMayorBitcorn 209
28.Ibian 205
29.Wekkel 204
30.kurious 203
31.gentlemand 202
32.ErisDiscordia 200
33.VB1001 189
34.bitebits 186
35.kenzawak 185
36.RoomBot 180
37.Karartma1 179
38.suchmoon 166
39.explorer 155
40.Raja_MBZ 147
41.Gyrsur 144
42.JimboToronto 140
43.mfort312 138
44.Dunkelheit667 138
45.BTCMILLIONAIRE 118
46.Rosewater Foundation116
47.Pamoldar 116
48.edgar 115
49.Searing 111
50.goldkingcoiner 110
51.nutildah 105
52.kingcolex 104
53.ssmc2 104
54.Lambie Slayer 103
55.Arriemoller 102
56.PoolMinor 101
57.Majormax 100
58.xyzzy099 99
59.ivomm 99
60.Biodom 87
61.tonyq 87
62.julian071 86
63.fillippone 85
64.P_Shep 84
65.conspirosphere.tk 82
66.Kylapoiss 81
67.Icygreen 77
68.sirazimuth 75
69.RayX12 73
70.criptix 72
71.lightfoot 72
72.Elwar 71
73.Phil_S 71
74.vroom 68
75.DeathAngel 65
76.StartupAnalyst 58
77.JSRAW 58
78.Anon136 56
79.empowering 55
80.Cryptotourist 55
81.bitcoinPsycho 53
82.rolling 52
83.sammy007 50
84.Jayjay04 50
85.soullyG 49
86.FractalUniverse 48
87.STT 47
88.mymenace 46
89.MrFreeRoMan 45
90.Bitcoinaire 43
91.AlexGR 43
92.afbitcoins 40
93.Totscha 39
94.nanobtc 38
95.flynn 37
96.serveria.com 37
97.fabiorem 37
98.crypmike 36
99.MirkoIta 36
100.somac. 35
TOP 100 WEEKLY RECEIVERS:
1.fillippone 31
2.LFC_Bitcoin 25
3.LoyceV 17
4.xhomerx10 13
5.nutildah 12
6.HairyMaclairy 11
7.gentlemand 10
8.micgoossens 9
9.BlindMayorBitcorn 8
10.d_eddie 7
11.bones261 7
12.JSRAW 7
13.JayJuanGee 5
14.HI-TEC99 5
15.DireWolfM14 5
16.VB1001 4
17.ivomm 4
18.Biodom 4
19.Pamoldar 4
20.rdbase 4
21.BobLawblaw 3
22.kenzawak 3
23.Arriemoller 3
24.vapourminer 3
25.bitcoinPsycho 3
26.Searing 3
27.eddie13 3
28.Xian01 3
29.Last of the V8s 2
30.Globb0 2
31.mindrust 2
32.Phil_S 2
33.vroom 2
34.StartupAnalyst 2
35.AlcoHoDL 2
36.DeathAngel 2
37.criptix 2
38.Dunkelheit667 2
39.Cassius 2
40.afbitcoins 2
41.WinslowIII 2
42.TomCrypto 2
43.bkbirge 2
44.mfort312 1
45.JimboToronto 1
46.Raja_MBZ 1
47.jbreher 1
48.Lambie Slayer 1
49.kingcolex 1
50.yefi 1
51.Hueristic 1
52.Spaceman_Spiff_Original1
53.Bitcoinaire 1
54.Majormax 1
55.BitcoinNewsMagazine 1
56.soxxx 1
57.Neo_Coin 1
58.ProfTP 1
59.cmacwuz 1
60.Krubster 1
61.stadus 1
62.FrodoBagHolder 1
63.adamstgBit 1
64.gallianooo 1
65.infofront 0
66.bitserve 0
67.Paashaas 0
68.Elwar 0
69.cAPSLOCK 0
70.BTCMILLIONAIRE 0
71.goldkingcoiner 0
72.Rosewater Foundation 0
73.kurious 0
74.TERA2 0
75.realr0ach 0
76.Kylapoiss 0
77.600watt 0
78.Icygreen 0
79.toknormal 0
80.Anon136 0
81.kirreev070 0
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85.serveria.com 0
86.lightfoot 0
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88.cryptjh 0
89.Gyrsur 0
90.somac. 0
91.pacman7331 0
92.Totscha 0
93.cannycassiopeia 0
94.crypmike 0
95.nanobtc 0
96.suchmoon 0
97.strawbs 0
98.Samarkand 0
99.theymos 0
100.FractalUniverse 0
TOP 100 WEEKLY SENDERS
1.micgoossens 46
2.JayJuanGee 35
3.LFC_Bitcoin 26
4.Globb0 24
5.nutildah 13
6.fillippone 12
7.bones261 10
8.infofront 7
9.mindrust 6
10.VB1001 6
11.kenzawak 6
12.rdbase 5
13.suchmoon 4
14.ssmc2 4
15.Biodom 4
16.LoyceV 4
17.BobLawblaw 3
18.xhomerx10 3
19.vapourminer 3
20.Paashaas 3
21.Hueristic 3
22.JimboToronto 3
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24.jbreher 2
25.HairyMaclairy 2
26.Toxic2040 2
27.jojo69 2
28.Gyrsur 2
29.BTCMILLIONAIRE 2
30.Pamoldar 2
31.Lambie Slayer 2
32.ivomm 2
33.xyzzy099 2
34.P_Shep 2
35.sirazimuth 2
36.Phil_S 2
37.DeathAngel 2
38.JSRAW 2
39.Halab 2
40.bkbirge 2
41.kurious 1
42.gentlemand 1
43.Arriemoller 1
44.Majormax 1
45.Kylapoiss 1
46.Icygreen 1
47.criptix 1
48.bitcoinPsycho 1
49.Bitcoinaire 1
50.serveria.com 1
51.AlcoHoDL 1
52.machasm 1
53.DireWolfM14 1
54.gappie 1
55.deepcolderwallet 1
56.Woodie 1
57.o_e_l_e_o 1
58.marcus_of_augustus 0
59.QuestionAuthority 0
60.d_eddie 0
61.BlindMayorBitcorn 0
62.Ibian 0
63.ErisDiscordia 0
64.bitebits 0
65.Karartma1 0
66.Raja_MBZ 0
67.edgar 0
68.Searing 0
69.goldkingcoiner 0
70.Rosewater Foundation0
71.kingcolex 0
72.tonyq 0
73.conspirosphere.tk 0
74.RayX12 0
75.lightfoot 0
76.Elwar 0
77.vroom 0
78.StartupAnalyst 0
79.Anon136 0
80.Cryptotourist 0
81.empowering 0
82.sammy007 0
83.Jayjay04 0
84.FractalUniverse 0
85.STT 0
86.mymenace 0
87.MrFreeRoMan 0
88.AlexGR 0
89.afbitcoins 0
90.Totscha 0
91.nanobtc 0
92.fabiorem 0
93.crypmike 0
94.MirkoIta 0
95.somac. 0
96.ChinkyEyes 0
97.samson 0
98.oblox 0
99.Dakustaking76 0
100.AZwarel 0
Well,
I can provide those stats for fun, If you think they are, otherwise...
EDIT: Fixed some glitches. Historical data were affected, so probably weekly data still not very reliable.
Thanks JoJo69 for pointing out.
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Post 51746457 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
It's time (again) for a Wall Observer Meta Post!
Merit analysis based on LoyceV merit file:
http://loyce.club/Merit/merit.all.txtTotal merits sent on WO: 26260
Weekly Merits sent on WO: 198
TOP 100 WEEKLY RECEIVERS:
1.fillippone 31
2.LFC_Bitcoin 25
3.LoyceV 17
4.xhomerx10 13
5.nutildah 12
6.HairyMaclairy 11
7.gentlemand 10
8.micgoossens 9
9.BlindMayorBitcorn 8
10.d_eddie 7
11.bones261 7
12.JSRAW 7
Well,
I can provide those stats for fun, If you think they are, otherwise...
hmmmm, not that it matters, but something is wonky
Received in the last 120 days
July 07, 2019, 01:43:27 PM: 1 from jbreher for Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
July 04, 2019, 03:59:23 PM: 1 from Hueristic for Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
July 03, 2019, 11:48:01 PM: 1 from infofront for Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
July 02, 2019, 12:53:45 PM: 1 from JimboToronto for Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
June 30, 2019, 09:49:51 AM: 1 from BTCMILLIONAIRE for Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
June 30, 2019, 01:31:04 AM: 1 from infofront for Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
From LoyceV files last week you had 747 merits on this thread.
This week only 745.
Yes, something strange.
Might be merited on deleted posts?
Some glitch in my table?
Hopefully this is enough to summon sir LoyceV explaining this wonkiness in my data.
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Post 51748770 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.54h):
hmmmm, not that it matters, but something is wonky
Received in the last 120 days
July 07, 2019, 01:43:27 PM: 1 from jbreher for Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
July 04, 2019, 03:59:23 PM: 1 from Hueristic for Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
July 03, 2019, 11:48:01 PM: 1 from infofront for Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
July 02, 2019, 12:53:45 PM: 1 from JimboToronto for Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
June 30, 2019, 09:49:51 AM: 1 from BTCMILLIONAIRE for Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
June 30, 2019, 01:31:04 AM: 1 from infofront for Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
From LoyceV files last week you had 747 merits on this thread.
This week only 745.
Yes, something strange.
Might be merited on deleted posts?
Some glitch in my table?
Hopefully this is enough to summon sir LoyceV explaining this wonkiness in my data.
Merited deleted posts are still mentioned in
merit.all.txt.
Last week:
Merit distribution if Bitcointalk had nothing else than Wall Observer Total number of users who received 1 or more Merit: 566Sample 7. 768 Merit received by jojo69 (#49008) from 102 unique users in 532 transactions
I have to leave soon, so can't look into it further now.
Wow, Fillippone just a pawn in the game of data.
DUe to a glitch on my sheets I gott horrible numbers.
Fixed.
Now I get even more horrible numbers:
7. 776 Merit received by jojo69 (#49008) from ??? unique users in 540 transactions
Source is of course your Meritall.txt file.
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Post 51751874 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
Bitstamp setup a LN node.
https://twitter.com/Bitstamp/status/1148217311532343297?s=20ELECTRIFIED: We believe the Lightning Network has the potential to unlock a whole new level of utility for Bitcoin. We’ve set up our own #LN node to help grow the network and encourage other companies to get on board. Learn more or connect to our node: (link:
http://bit.ly/BitstampLightningNetworkTW) bit.ly/BitstampLightn…⚡️
First a LN node, quite trivial.
Then crypto exchange trough LN.
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Post 51752894 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
First reaction:
Alex Bosworth ☇
(Lightning Infrastructure Lead at @lightning- CEO of yalls.org)
https://twitter.com/alexbosworth/status/1148245578691829762?s=20Exchanges respond to market shifts. With the recent Bitstamp Lightning node announcement and support from CashApp of sending to bech32, pendulums are swinging to modernize BTC exchange infrastructure. Also on my radar: BitGo exchanges, Kraken, Bitfinex, Bitmex, Gemini, and others
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Post 51755811 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
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Post 51756847 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
https://twitter.com/100trillionUSD/status/1109168697250377728?s=20#bitcoin RSI crossed 70 hurdle!
Stars are aligning for a very interesting halving season
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Post 51759093 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
Is Bitcoin dead again?
It's all over. He's kaput.
On a serious note, at what price point can hats be replaced for crowns? 50K?
Yes. At 50k we all get crowns.
I can get the crown, but I will be hodling on wearing the hat avatar!
I want to wear for a little bit.
Anyway xhomerx10 better take advantage and start working!
50K crowns
100K Lambo driving Helmets
1000K Astronaut Helmets
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Post 51760426 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
Yet another iteration of: not your Kews, not your Bitcoins.
Polish cryptocurrency exchange Bitmarket has just shut down without warning.
https://www.coindesk.com/polish-crypto-exchange-bitmarket-suddenly-shuts-downAccording to a brief message posted late on July 8 on its website, Bitmarket – said to have been Poland’s second-largest crypto exchange – stated:
“We regret to inform you that due to the loss of liquidity, [from] 08/07/2019, Bitmarket.pl/net was forced to cease its operations. We will inform you about further steps.”
While it’s not clear exactly what caused the “loss of liquidity” a Reddit post suggested that the exchange had been exhibiting odd behavior n the weeks prior to the closure.
How do you say "Sorry for your loss" in Polish?
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Post 51760830 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
New Mining difficulty period!
Fellow Btc Block Bot signaled new difficulty adjustment:
https://twitter.com/BtcBlockBot/status/1148522210870669312?s=20The 291st Bitcoin mining period has started with block 584,640. ⛏ New difficulty: 9,064,159,826,491 (+14.23%)
Difficulty now at ATH.
Huge upward adjustment. (Highest upward adj. since Aug 2018)
I guess that even if price raised a lot, also a lot of miners will be pushed out of the market.
Some more insight from Coindesk:
Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Posts Biggest Jump in 12 MonthsSimilarly, the amount of computing power devoted to securing the bitcoin network has also logged the biggest growth of any two-week difficulty adjustment cycle since August 2018, based on BTC.com data and CoinDesk’s calculations.
That said, the increases in bitcoin’s hash rate and mining difficulty have not yet caught up with the pace of bitcoin’s price jump, at least not as much as they did in the bull run during the second half of 2017.
According to CoinDesk’s Bitcoin Price Index data, bitcoin’s price surged by 400 percent from around $4,000 to nearly $20,000 between June and December 2017. During the same period, the network’s computing power grew by at least 200 percent.
However, while bitcoin’s price has shot up to as much as $12,000 in June – a 300-percent jump since it fell to $3,000 early this year – the network hash rate has only increased by 100 percent over the same period.
The reason for this lag is an insufficient supply of new bitcoin mining equipment to meet the market’s demand since major miner makers are hitting a bottleneck of production capacity resulting from a limited supply of chips from semiconductor vendors.
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Post 51761699 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
d_eddie : yeah he and fillippone both.
Infofront : make sure Mrs info not reading your post.
Kenzawak : just pointing out
What? I am lost on this one, what d_eddie asked about me?
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Post 51764708 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
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Post 51767153 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
Bitcoin crosses 64% dominance on cmc
The relentless Agony of the Alts...
Very nice to see on cmc a sea of red except for
BTC.
And speaking of alts, (yeah, sorry bout that)....
....the winner of pop and flop shitcoin-of-the-day is....
Egretia <prolonged
whoopee cushion sound>
I am so badly disillusioned by shitcoins I don’t think I am capable of taking any blockchain project seriously. And that’s probably not a good thing, because if something genuinely good does come along I will probably just reject it out of hand.
The time, the energies and the intellectual honesty you preserve not indulging in shitcoins project, will abundantly repay you for any (very unlikely) potential monetary gain you could face getting in the winning altcoin. If ever one will exist.
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Post 51767538 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
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Post 51767603 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
Where else but the WO for proper analysis?
Indeed.
In addition our analysis are for the sake of s better enlightenment of world minds, not driven out of filthy lucre.
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Post 51767626 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
If you happen to read this thread (sarcasm intended), you would notice that consensus, to the extent that there is such a thing or that it matters, seems to be more in the early 2021 time frame....
Lets find out. New poll time!
Old poll results:
Weren’t an idea of next minimum positioning (price/time) getting traction?
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Post 51770446 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
Good morning guys !
It seems like it's really a good one since we're over 13k again.
An AYH by the end of the day ?
Define "end of day"
He might refer to UTC time, as used by the forum.
But I am sure that BTC will move in a way to avoid any debate.
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Post 51771224 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
Good morning guys !
It seems like it's really a good one since we're over 13k again.
An AYH by the end of the day ?
Define "end of day"
He might refer to UTC time, as used by the forum.
But I am sure that BTC will move in a way to avoid any debate.
Personally, I believe that it is a bit optimistic to expect a new AYH within the next 24 hours, but hey, the world of bitcoin is full of surprises... and you won't find me complaining about happening to become more rich if it does happen to happen.
I do agree.
We live in a rational world.
I was just waking up and discovering the long green candle while sleeping.
I briefly suspended my rational thinking and let me go into a wishful thinking.
I promise a lot of rational analysis during the day (defined as time before 0:00:00 UTC).
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Post 51773438 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
Well,
that must have been an hell of a corporate event!
^
Is this real ? $1,000,000,000 wooow how would that looks like
Here you go:
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-coast-guard-bust-1-billion-worth-cocaine-2017-3?IR=T
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Post 51773539 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
Wonderful.
Still faster than paper and pen hashing.
https://www.techspot.com/news/58224-learn-how-to-mine-bitcoin-with-just-a-pencil-and-paper.html0.67 hashes per day
it took Shiriff 16 minutes, 45 seconds to complete the first round of hashing to mine a block manually. At this rate, hashing a full Bitcoin block (128 rounds) would take 1.49 days, for a hash rate of 0.67 hashes per day. Conversely, current Bitcoin mining hardware does several terahashes per second which is roughly aquintillion times faster than my manual hashing.
EDIT:
Din't relealised the two articles actually are from the same blog!
http://www.righto.com/2014/09/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and-paper.html
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Post 51773909 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
More of the same:
Shitcoins' price over the last six months suggests reality is beginning to yield to reason.
https://twitter.com/saifedean/status/1148923118150402048?s=20
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Post 51775282 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
P
uompiliano pumping the market!
Bitcoin Price Will Smash $100,000 by 2021 Thanks to Facebook, Says Fund Manager“I think by the end of 2021 we’ll see it eclipse $100,000,” Pompliano said. “The important thing to remember about bitcoin is that it’s a fixed supply asset and so supply and demand economics apply. If there are increases in demand, you’re going to see the price move up.”
“It’s really bullish for the digital currency in the sense that the more important part of the announcement is not Libra, it’s Calibra, which is the digital wallet that Facebook is reportedly going to give to hundreds of millions of people, if not billions of people.”
“That wallet I think will eventually support bitcoin, ethereum (ETC-USD), tokenized securities and even data, so you can imagine something like your medical health records being tokenized and held in that wallet. I think it’s really important moment where we give hundreds of millions of people the capacity to hold crypto currencies.”
That's' part of the story on why bitcoin is performing versus shitcoin. The money is flooding into crypto, main gateways into crypto is of course bitcoins, but contrary to what happened in last retail-led rallies, money is staying into bitcoin.
Bitcoin is the only market where the liquidity (i am referring to bid/offer, market depth and reduced slippage) is guaranteed for this kind of investors.
I can't see any reason why a fund manager would keep any shitcoin where value proposition is basically non-existent and liquidity is scarce.
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Post 51775833 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
That's' part of the story on why bitcoin is performing versus shitcoin. The money is flooding into crypto, main gateways into crypto is of course bitcoins, but contrary to what happened in last retail-led rallies, money is staying into bitcoin.
Bitcoin is the only market where the liquidity (i am referring to bid/offer, market depth and reduced slippage) is guaranteed for this kind of investors.
I can't see any reason why a fund manager would keep any shitcoin where value proposition is basically non-existent and liquidity is scarce.
I agree, most of the alts are indeed having their lunch eaten by the
BTCiggest fish.
There are scenarios which might plausibly be positive for alts:
• Some alts could be included in 'baskets' of crypto once ETFs do finally appear. Top 20 Mcap ones, maybe? Everything else will be in the penny stocks section. Those out of the cut may not all end up dead, but the majority will be close to it.
• The only other possible hope is retail FOMO with new punters of the 'I can't afford a whole bitcoin' ilk buying up potential 'next bitcoin' things and shiny alts. A rising tide raises all ships after all. Many alts can still boast healthy (recent) gains in USD terms.
I see the chances of an ETF with alts slimming considerably with the bloodbath we are seeing. Consider also that consequences of alts down performing BTC are bad because:
- Alts downperforming reduces liquidity from markets, getting difficult to have reliable prices, and depth, that are fundamental for an ETF
- Akts downperforming means reduced hashing power, thus lower security on the alts, again, this is bad for institutional investors
Regarding the FOMO, this can always happen, but the case of getting long because of this is getting more and more ridiculous.
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Post 51776441 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
OMG I go for a nice soak in the bathtub and get out to see we had an $1100 correction/retrace.
We're still over $12k though so I'm still calling a new AYH by the end of July.
industrious little buggers , beavers. done a lot of flooding via their dams. natures engineers at work.
Aren't beaver dams the reason Alfred Nobel invented dynamite? Half a stick does wonders.
Nah,
he did because he was in the construction business.
Because of... drumrolls...money.
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Post 51776852 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
Aren't beaver dams the reason Alfred Nobel invented dynamite? Half a stick does wonders.
Nah,
he did because he was in the construction business.
Because of... drumrolls...money.
And the weapons industry (military-industrial complex). Even more money.
That came later, I think his father moved to russia to work for the zars building naval mines.
Why I know that? Because helped someone in his 5th grade doing a research on a chemistry genius.
I made him add the following paragraph: (actual quote)
On 27 December 1895, Nobel’s will allocated 94% of his total assets, 31,225,000 Swedish Kronor, to establish the Five Nobel Prizes. (This converted at the time to £1,687,837, but in 2012 it was equal to 3.1 billions of SEK or £ 284,890,00).
I just wanted to plant in this 8yo child mind that fiat money is actually a shitcoin as fiat money is deemed to lose value over time.
"It's called inflation"
The rest will follow.
EDIT: So nice we ended an OT started with Drones and beavers dams talking about planting the idea of Bitcoin in an innocent children.
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Post 51777454 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
Great one, out of sMerits.
I owe you some.
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Post 51778561 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
Scallops uh? And white wine. Looks yummy. But cryptoqueeen?? A salad with fizzy red wine? Oh noes. I'll go out on a limb and guess it's sweet, even
The Good: Cryptoqueen
The Bad: all that salad on Cryptoqueen lobster
The Ugly: that fizzy wine in that glass.
This was below your standard Mic!
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Post 51778686 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
Scallops uh? And white wine. Looks yummy. But cryptoqueeen?? A salad with fizzy red wine? Oh noes. I'll go out on a limb and guess it's sweet, even
The Good: Cryptoqueen
The Bad: all that salad on Cryptoqueen lobster
The Ugly: that fizzy wine in that glass.
This was below your standard Mic!
Yeah its still Wednesday
so rosé and a Lambrusco are still ok (normal no alcohols during the week) 😬
Now today probably tomorrow few rosé’s before the movies (ANNA) ...
But I Will try to meet better standards on Saturday Maybe 🤪
Dear Lord, Lambrusco...
That is usually sold in bricks in Italy.
This post is worst than the pee one.
But I still like you, don’t worry.
Being family mean you still care to people even when they are doing something wrong.
Next time you order an Italian wine, ask Fillippone.
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Post 51779274 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
Scallops uh? And white wine. Looks yummy. But cryptoqueeen?? A salad with fizzy red wine? Oh noes. I'll go out on a limb and guess it's sweet, even
The Good: Cryptoqueen
The Bad: all that salad on Cryptoqueen lobster
The Ugly: that fizzy wine in that glass.
This was below your standard Mic!
I am going to stand up here and defend sparkling rose. She can drink whatever the hell she likes.
Wine is whatever tastes good and makes you happy. Don’t be sucked in by the bullshit marketing in the wine industry.
Of course she can drink whatever she likes.
Just a friendly reminder that probably that lambrusco is exactly the result of bullshit marketing in the wine industry because, to use Mic words, its the "Cheap BBQ wine" in italy, and it is sold in brick on the lower shelves of the italian supermarkets.
556.
Post 51783114 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
Oh shit, Tone Vays is officially Bullish now. All is lost
What does CNCB says about corn?
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Post 51783223 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
See? They are always 100% wrong.
A trader 100% wrong is as precious as a trader 100% right: you can copy home doing the opposite.
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Post 51784403 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
I am a big fan of Woobull Chart.
If you read my monthly recap you know i have a whole section dedicated to those metrics.
I was looking at Realized market capitalization (provided by WooBull, but originally proposed by Coinometrics):
it breaking new ATH.
Realised Cap is moving north, breaking new ATH. But it is happening at a very slow pace, way slower than Market Capitalisation (that, by construction has an higher volatility).
This means HODLER are still Holding strong despite greediness moving north:
Index is stil neutral, just about entering the greed zone. (Greed is good?)
Definitely space to move up then.
Bullishness confirmed.
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Post 51784997 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
Arnie life in chronological order:
World Class Bodybuilder : Check
USD Millionaire: Check
World Class Actor: Check
World Class Politician: Check
World Class Activist and Influencer: Check
I guess topping in just one of this category would be a lifetime achievement.
He did all of this.
Total Respect for Arnie.
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Post 51786614 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
Dear Lord, Lambrusco...
That is usually sold in bricks in Italy.
This post is worst than the pee one.
Drinking Lambrusco is pretty much on par with drinking urine, isn't it? Take pee, dilute it, add sugar and carbonate it. Yuck.
What's next? Sparkling rose?
It's an offense to even call it wine.
I didn’t check personally, but I would prefer Lambrusco, for sure.
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Post 51788514 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
666 Merits..
I can summon the devil and sell my soul for one of those scenario (when the scenario is realised, I don’t Know what happens, like everybody else):
- new ATH this month, then 80% correction;
- slow, grinding, boring appreciation for 3y to 100k;
- ops to late, I already sold my soul to the devil as I knew the path of bitcoin until today
Which one would you pick?
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Post 51788683 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
666 Merits..
I can summon the devil and sell my soul for one of those scenario (when the scenario is realised, I don’t Know what happens, like everybody else):
- new ATH this month, then 80% correction;
- slow, grinding, boring appreciation for 3y to 100k;
- ops to late, I already sold my soul to the devil as I knew the path of bitcoin until today
Which one would you pick?
thank me later, I'm have a doctorate in exorcism
Damn!
You merited me too early and i didn’t pick anything!
The plan would have been to get the knowledge, write it down, then get an exorcism from vroom.
Living the live with knowledge and the soul.
What could have possibly gone wrong?
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Post 51789162 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
Ops of the day:
Bitmain lost $150,000 because it mined an invalid Bitcoin block
Bitmain lost $150,000 because it mined an invalid Bitcoin block
Bitmain-owned mining pool Antpool appears to have squandered at least $150,000 worth of Bitcoin mining rewards, reports BitMEX Research, the analytic arm of cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX. … (link:
https://ift.tt/2G8BEjp) ift.tt/2G8BEjp
According to BitMEX Research, the Bitcoin network denied Antpool’s block as it featured an erroneous coinbase transaction.
Instead of 12.5 BTC, whoever mined the block seems to have requested a reward of 13.26 BTC ($154,700). This appears to equal the correct coinbase transaction (12.5 BTC) plus the sum of the associated transaction fees.
“The coinbase value was too high, presumably because this included the transaction fees, but due to some error the transactions themselves were not included,” tweeted BitMEX Research.
Well, this is an invalid block, so a block that was rejected by bitcoin nodes and then not appearing on the blockchain. That's a different mishap than mining a VALID block, but forgetting to claim the coinbase! (true sotry:
Will there be 21 million bitcoins eventually?)
As seen by my node:
bitcoin-cli getblock 0000000000000000000b47042b90c6a893e6e5cdef70c92beefb88f4c5fa5a69
{
"hash": "0000000000000000000b47042b90c6a893e6e5cdef70c92beefb88f4c5fa5a69",
"confirmations": -1,
"strippedsize": 298,
"size": 334,
"weight": 1228,
"height": 584802,
"version": 541065216,
"versionHex": "20400000",
"merkleroot": "7a4a31da4258dd1b00728ce0cdd766500fe2ea2ee378316945c904bc949b5a7f",
"tx": [
{
"txid": "7a4a31da4258dd1b00728ce0cdd766500fe2ea2ee378316945c904bc949b5a7f",
"hash": "5844edb95fa58eeb6e2c292fa1d3811afb797d62e35905bfd35f029068c37127",
"version": 1,
"size": 253,
"vsize": 226,
"weight": 904,
"locktime": 0,
"vin": [
{
"coinbase": "0362ec081c4d696e656420627920416e74506f6f6c313132ee003300200f0c9c50fabe6d6dc0ba0
d6922d0606afa6321ef35c91f070cb29a0425d4ffef18f70658908db8b604000000000000003306
0000b43f0000",
"sequence": 4294967295
}
],
"vout": [
{
"value": 13.26546691,
"n": 0,
"scriptPubKey": {
"asm": "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 edf10a7fac6b32e24daa5305c723f3de58db1bc8 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG",
"hex": "76a914edf10a7fac6b32e24daa5305c723f3de58db1bc888ac",
"reqSigs": 1,
"type": "pubkeyhash",
"addresses": [
"1Nh7uHdvY6fNwtQtM1G5EZAFPLC33B59rB"
]
}
},
{
"value": 0.00000000,
"n": 1,
"scriptPubKey": {
"asm": "OP_RETURN aa21a9ede2f61c3f71d1defd3fa999dfa36953755c690689799962b48bebd836974e8cf9",
"hex": "6a24aa21a9ede2f61c3f71d1defd3fa999dfa36953755c690689799962b48bebd836974e8cf9",
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Post 51789973 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
^ So when does the Federal Reserve start holding BTC in addition to gold?
LOL, can you imagine? As long as they don't suddenly decide it is illegal for citizens to hold BTC like gold used to be.
I have been told it's highly unlikely.
Mainly because when they confiscated BTC from crimes, the U.S. Marshals auctioned it.
If they confiscate cocaine, they don't auction it, but they destroy it.
This is something that prevents banning possession of Bitcoin in the US: this would require getting to the Supreme Court.
Very unlikely.
565.
Post 51791186 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
Hodlllllll...
Moooooonnn . . .
566.
Post 51791805 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
Reverse image search of printed dominos with bandaged fingers on yandex and tin eye yielded no results
567.
Post 51794786 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
Bitpoint Exchange Hacked for $32 Million in CryptocurrencyBitpoint, a licensed cryptocurrency exchange based in Japan, has been hacked for $32 million in crypto assets.
According to a CoinDesk Japan report on Friday, Bitpoint halted all services including trading, deposit and withdrawal of all crypto assets on Friday morning after it noticed irregular withdrawal from its hot wallet on Thursday.
https://www.coindesk.com/japanese-exchange-bitpoint-hacked-by-32-million-worth-in-cryptocurrenciesAnother exchange hacked.
Some people never learn...
Not your keys, not your bitcoin.Don't hold funds on exchangesIf you really have to hold fund on an exchange, do so only for the time strictly requiredHODL, don't tradeUse only big, reliable exchanges............
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Post 51795819 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
Or maybe it's just a derpish sound, as in "Hur hur, fresh pussy, munch many, hur hur!".
FTFY
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Post 51796651 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
I think it's inevitable:
Trump Hates Bitcoin but Nations May Hold Crypto Reserves in 10 YearsTen years after the launch of Bitcoin, the President of the United States and the Chair of the Federal Reserve are both discussing it on the same day. The tone almost doesn't matter. Ten years hence, this will be routine. Every nation state may have to hold crypto,”
We have seen it after Libra announcements. Panic reactions from Central Banksters and regulators all over the world, but Bank Of England, amongst other things, said they are open to holding reserves of crypto-issuers (
Bank of England intends to open its vaults to tech companies ).
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Post 51797173 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
Guys, I think it’s probably time to stop engaging with the troll now. Put it on ignore because interaction is what it thrives on, if we ignore it then it’ll probably go away.
That's what I did. I do not like toxic users.
Done that. Good advice.
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Post 51797744 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
Wow you are one of those disbelievers to the core aren't you?
I am smart in certain areas where i fall out as a dumb cave man in others..
Am glad you are getting a chuckle out of this
The price for bringing countless new people to the Crypto Community is still 100
BTC so do not get butt hurt because i can do it and you can not
Have a little faith will ya, because it is my dream to do it just not for free
50% now and 50% after we are done
Specualtion after we are done : Price over $40k
I believe in
BTC.
I don't believe in you in the slightest.
You are so dumb in all areas. Proof? You are still here ffs.
You do ? Wow i am impressed !
That might change when we get to work ! You just hold your precious
BTC and wait for our Rogue Wave.
You have the right to your unique opinion, should i care about it? No
We need some proof. The domino YouTube thingy would have been the easiest way, but I respect your dominophobic, domino-hater position.
So we could ask you to make a little demo pump, just to show off, and bring her to, say, 21k-22k - just above the previous ATH. If you succeed, that would be sufficient proof and we could muster the 75 BTC you're asking.
However, I understand that this would mean a free ride for many of us. In other words, if your demo pump succeeds, some of us would reap the benefits without paying a penny of the honest 65 BTC required for your services.
To get rid of the freeloader issue, there's another option. You could set up a small dump. A demo punishment, so to say. You bring her down to 6k-6.5k and we will be scared shitless! I'm sure you would collect more than the fair 50 BTC price you're asking for your pump.
Deal?
Naah, many could freeride profit also from a downward movement.
He should claim: I'm going to move the market 10K USD in either direction on Tue Jul 16th at 14.00 UTC.
That would be the proof.
The ball is in your court, dude.
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Post 51797965 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
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Fillipo, the problem is.. why are you playing ball with him?
dont feed the trolls..
The troll is on ignore... I was answering to Mic.
But yeah, I got the point, I must ignore everything related to him!
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Post 51798743 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
Totally irrelevant news, but I like the flow from the Trump tweet, to bitcoin bulls raging free and Steve saying that...
White House pushes Congress to strike deal as Treasury could run out of cash fasterThe White House is pushing congressional leaders to strike a spending deal and increase the debt limit in the next two or three weeks, jolted by a recent report that found the Treasury Department was running out of cash much faster than previously forecasted.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin consulted with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) this week and met Wednesday with GOP leaders, alongside acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, trying to forge a solution. Pelosi has made clear that any increase in the federal debt limit should come as part of a broader, two-year budget deal — an approach also favored by leading Senate Republicans — but it’s far from clear whether lawmakers and the administration will be able to reach such an agreement before Congress leaves town for its annual summer recess in August.
Don't worry anyway, a little bit of tug-of-war, then, magically, the debt ceiling will be raised.
Debt ceiling is appropriate wording.
You are living in your house.
Shits starts flooding in...
You are filling your house with shit...
Shit is continuously flooding in and keeps raising level...
Solution?
You raise the ceiling.
Genius.
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Post 51804593 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
It's time (again) for a Wall Observer Meta Post!
Merit analysis based on LoyceV merit file:
http://loyce.club/Merit/merit.all.txtMerit updated to July 12 2:51 AM UTC
Total merits sent on WO: 26897
Weekly Merits sent on WO: 498
TOP 100 MERIT RECEIVERS:
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2.Last of the V8s 1569
3.HairyMaclairy 1144
4.xhomerx10 1121
5.BobLawblaw 901
6.Toxic2040 899
7.jojo69 781
8.infofront 702
9.JayJuanGee 650
10.LFC_Bitcoin 583
11.d_eddie 503
12.Torque 490
13.bitserve 472
14.VB1001 393
15.gentlemand 362
16.Paashaas 361
17.kenzawak 339
18.Elwar 329
19.Globb0 302
20.mindrust 288
21.cAPSLOCK 287
22.mfort312 278
23.JimboToronto 266
24.BTCMILLIONAIRE 247
25.goldkingcoiner 247
26.Raja_MBZ 246
27.Rosewater Foundation 244
28.jbreher 226
29.ivomm 223
30.kurious 223
31.Biodom 216
32.Lambie Slayer 215
33.TERA2 194
34.realr0ach 192
35.bones261 183
36.Ibian 180
37.Phil_S 177
38.Kylapoiss 169
39.600watt 163
40.vroom 159
41.Icygreen 158
42.marcus_of_augustus 156
43.kingcolex 154
44.yefi 153
45.fillippone 151
46.nutildah 147
47.Hueristic 140
48.JSRAW 138
49.Wekkel 136
50.Arriemoller 131
51.StartupAnalyst 130
52.toknormal 129
53.Pamoldar 121
54.Anon136 121
55.Spaceman_Spiff_Original 118
56.Cryptotourist 107
57.kirreev070 107
58.BinaryReign 105
59.vapourminer 103
60.Dabs 103
61.bitcoinPsycho 102
62.explorer 97
63.Bitcoinaire 95
64.AlcoHoDL 86
65.Searing 83
66.Cryptoqueeen 81
67.serveria.com 80
68.lightfoot 77
69.STT 72
70.BlindMayorBitcorn 72
71.HI-TEC99 71
72.sirazimuth 69
73.Gyrsur 69
74.cryptjh 68
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76.pacman7331 66
77.Totscha 65
78.cannycassiopeia 64
79.conspirosphere.tk 63
80.DeathAngel 61
81.Majormax 60
82.bitebits 58
83.crypmike 58
84.nanobtc 57
85.Karartma1 56
86.suchmoon 55
87.strawbs 54
88.Samarkand 54
89.theymos 53
90.FractalUniverse 53
91.rolling 51
92.RayX12 50
93.fluidjax 50
94.RoomBot 48
95.encycrypto 48
96.Speculatoross 47
97.BitcoinNewsMagazine 47
98.ErisDiscordia 47
99.PoolMinor 46
100.gembitz 46
TOP 100 MERIT SENDERS:
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2.BobLawblaw 1889
3.micgoossens 1194
4.LFC_Bitcoin 1026
5.bones261 1025
6.infofront 966
7.Last of the V8s 786
8.Globb0 710
9.jbreher 683
10.xhomerx10 681
11.vapourminer 586
12.mindrust 575
13.HairyMaclairy 557
14.cAPSLOCK 546
15.marcus_of_augustus 502
16.600watt 494
17.Toxic2040 411
18.jojo69 377
19.Torque 339
20.Paashaas 318
21.QuestionAuthority 311
22.d_eddie 267
23.Hueristic 266
24.yefi 256
25.bitserve 245
26.Dabs 224
27.kurious 221
28.BlindMayorBitcorn 209
29.Ibian 205
30.Wekkel 204
31.gentlemand 203
32.ErisDiscordia 200
33.VB1001 189
34.kenzawak 189
35.bitebits 186
36.RoomBot 180
37.Karartma1 179
38.suchmoon 178
39.explorer 155
40.Raja_MBZ 147
41.JimboToronto 145
42.Gyrsur 144
43.Dunkelheit667 141
44.mfort312 138
45.BTCMILLIONAIRE 118
46.Rosewater Foundation 116
47.Pamoldar 116
48.edgar 115
49.nutildah 111
50.kingcolex 111
51.Searing 111
52.goldkingcoiner 110
53.ssmc2 105
54.Lambie Slayer 105
55.ivomm 104
56.Arriemoller 104
57.Majormax 102
58.PoolMinor 101
59.xyzzy099 99
60.Biodom 91
61.fillippone 90
62.tonyq 87
63.P_Shep 86
64.julian071 86
65.lightfoot 84
66.conspirosphere.tk 82
67.Kylapoiss 81
68.sirazimuth 79
69.Icygreen 78
70.RayX12 73
71.Phil_S 73
72.Elwar 72
73.criptix 72
74.vroom 69
75.DeathAngel 65
76.JSRAW 61
77.StartupAnalyst 60
78.Cryptotourist 56
79.Anon136 56
80.empowering 55
81.bitcoinPsycho 54
82.rolling 52
83.Jayjay04 50
84.sammy007 50
85.soullyG 49
86.FractalUniverse 48
87.STT 47
88.mymenace 46
89.MrFreeRoMan 45
90.Bitcoinaire 44
91.AlexGR 43
92.Totscha 42
93.afbitcoins 40
94.AlcoHoDL 40
95.serveria.com 40
96.nanobtc 38
97.fabiorem 37
98.flynn 37
99.MirkoIta 36
100.crypmike 36
TOP 100 WEEKLY RECEIVERS:
1.Dabs 53
2.BobLawblaw 46
3.Elwar 35
4.jojo69 25
5.micgoossens 23
6.JayJuanGee 19
7.HairyMaclairy 16
8.fillippone 14
9.LFC_Bitcoin 13
10.d_eddie 13
11.Rosewater Foundation 13
12.VB1001 12
13.xhomerx10 11
14.Ludwig Von 11
15.mindrust 10
16.gentlemand 9
17.Lambie Slayer 9
18.JSRAW 8
19.Biro Bob 8
20.infofront 7
21.wwzsocki 7
22.kenzawak 6
23.ivomm 6
24.yefi 6
25.Arriemoller 6
26.Toxic2040 5
27.jbreher 5
28.nutildah 5
29.Raja_MBZ 4
30.kurious 4
31.sirazimuth 4
32.PoolMinor 4
33.vanobe 4
34.makrospex 4
35.Last of the V8s 3
36.Phil_S 3
37.marcus_of_augustus 3
38.vapourminer 3
39.adaseb 3
40.bitserve 2
41.Paashaas 2
42.Globb0 2
43.JimboToronto 2
44.600watt 2
45.Cryptotourist 2
46.bitcoinPsycho 2
47.explorer 2
48.serveria.com 2
49.fluidjax 2
50.Syke 2
51.proudhon 2
52.OWZ1337 2
53.bkbirge 2
54.cAPSLOCK 1
55.Biodom 1
56.bones261 1
57.vroom 1
58.kingcolex 1
59.Hueristic 1
60.Pamoldar 1
61.Bitcoinaire 1
62.lightfoot 1
63.STT 1
64.Totscha 1
65.DeathAngel 1
66.thisisntbic 1
67.P_Shep 1
68.ChinkyEyes 1
69.AlexGR 1
70.hisslyness 1
71.Nosk 1
72.itod 1
73.Deeyoh 1
74.WinslowIII 1
75._javi_ 1
76.rebal15 1
77.FrodoBagHolder 1
78.adamstgBit 1
79.shit poster 1
80.theymos_away 1
81.TheOtherCryptoball 1
82.babo 1
83.boumalo 1
TOP 100 WEEKLY SENDERS
1.BobLawblaw 67
2.Dabs 51
3.JayJuanGee 43
4.Last of the V8s 24
5.bones261 19
6.kurious 18
7.yefi 15
8.jbreher 14
9.micgoossens 12
10.600watt 12
11.suchmoon 12
12.lightfoot 12
13.HairyMaclairy 11
14.LFC_Bitcoin 10
15.jojo69 9
16.d_eddie 9
17.flynn 8
18.infofront 7
19.Rosewater Foundation 7
20.kingcolex 7
21.wwzsocki 7
22.Globb0 6
23.nutildah 6
24.Biro Bob 6
25.xhomerx10 5
26.vapourminer 5
27.JimboToronto 5
28.ivomm 5
29.fillippone 5
30.AlcoHoDL 5
31.Hueristic 4
32.kenzawak 4
33.Biodom 4
34.sirazimuth 4
35.explorer 3
36.Dunkelheit667 3
37.Arriemoller 3
38.JSRAW 3
39.Totscha 3
40.serveria.com 3
41.mindrust 2
42.Toxic2040 2
43.ErisDiscordia 2
44.Lambie Slayer 2
45.Majormax 2
46.PoolMinor 2
47.P_Shep 2
48.Phil_S 2
49.StartupAnalyst 2
50.jonoiv 2
51.bkbirge 2
52._javi_ 2
53.gentlemand 1
54.ssmc2 1
55.Icygreen 1
56.Elwar 1
57.vroom 1
58.Cryptotourist 1
59.bitcoinPsycho 1
60.Bitcoinaire 1
61.Heater 1
62.smartcomet 1
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64.True Myth 1
65.NeuroticFish 1
66.megadeth 1
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Still fixing glitches here and there, I am using this to getting better at data management.
I can provide those stats for fun, If you think they are, otherwise...I can stop here
575.
Post 51805460 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
EDIT: Started a thread dedicated to this topic:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5165037.msg51816698#msg51816698so we don't get drowned in the tens of WO pages!
Market dominance is a shitty indicator, we all know why, and after Bitwise report we cannot ignore anymore his limitation, but, can still point in the right directions to intresting thoughts about market.
Market dominance just broke the peak during Dec '17 (price) ATH, and at 65,2% it is now at the highest levels since April 2017.
Another way of looking at the same phenomenon is the following: relative price movements of shitcoins versus BTC over the last 3M
1BTC=1BTC
Elsewhere: red, red everywhere.
Some obscure random shitcoin in the green, but just a statistical error, I guess.
This is truly remarkable.
In the past we saw BTC having a beta<1 (if you think at a CAPM middle), during bulls run alt rose more than bitcoin (volatility weighted) while in bear market alts downperformed BTC (alt lose more in bear market than BTC).
This time is different and in this market BTC is growing more than alts.
I propose three reasons why market dominance is going north, I ask you your toughs.
I list there in the order of market relevance, in my opinion:
- Technology has progressed, people studied and has understood better how cryptos work, so they came to the right conclusion shitcoins are indeed...shitcoins. Shitcoins value proposition has since faced and now they are clearly revealed for what they have always been: (kind of elaborate) exit scams by fraudster to transfer your bitcoin in their wallets.
- We are on the verge of an epochal bull run caused by institutional money on the brink on entering cryptocurrencies. Of course the main gateways for this to happen is Bitcoin. I can't see them diversifying their investment into other bitcoins in the near future both because lack of regulations, lack of liquidity and above all security and scrutiny on this coins.
- The more Bitcoin performs versus shitcoins, the more the random investors will be keen on buying bitcoins and abstain to shift to shitcoins, because Bitcoin IS the asset performing. SO kind of self-fulfilling mechanism/shelling point where you don't want to convert your bitcoin into other assets
What are your toughs?
576.
Post 51810196 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
It's time (again) for a Wall Observer Meta Post!
We have our LoyceV here 🤪
Easy tiger,
If Loyce is the Ronaldo of the data, Fillippone is maybe the Quagliarella.
577.
Post 51810527 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
The fake foreign accent typing had started to drop in the last few posts at the final insult line.
I don’t even know what are you talking about. Maybe I put him on ignore list too early.
578.
Post 51816620 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
Very nice thread VB1001.
Merited and commented the original.
579.
Post 51817529 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
Very nice thread VB1001.
Merited and commented the original.
Thx, fillippone, I think the same as you, more adoption = more regulation = disappearance of small and problematic exchanges.
Yeah, regulation is a double hedged sword anyway: it can speed up disposal of subpar exchanges, this is a good thing, but also poses high barrier to new entrants in the market, this is bad, of course.
I would prefer a market-regulated (as opposed to legislation-regulated) Darwinist race!
EDIT: just realised we observed the Fillippone/VB1001 flippening!
580.
Post 51824381 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
Very nice thread VB1001.
Merited and commented the original.
Thx, fillippone, I think the same as you, more adoption = more regulation = disappearance of small and problematic exchanges.
Yeah, regulation is a double hedged sword anyway: it can speed up disposal of subpar exchanges, this is a good thing, but also poses high barrier to new entrants in the market, this is bad, of course.
I would prefer a market-regulated (as opposed to legislation-regulated) Darwinist race!
EDIT: just realised we observed the Fillippone/VB1001 flippening!
No problem, you do a good job.
I would send a merit if I had one!
EDIT: Gained a merit, sent.
581.
Post 51824769 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
Last bit of meta stats I forgot to add on the original post.
Next week I am going to add in the same post, promise:
WEEKLY sMERITS BALANCE
SMerits Balance=Received Merits/2-Sent Merits
Positive Balance means an user has been increasing sMerits on the WO thread, while negative numbers means the users has sent more merits on WO than received.
Negative numbers are possible or because he has been generous this week because he has been greedy past weeks (so only temporary imbalance), or because he has hoarded smerits on other threads spending them on WO thread, or because he's a merit source.
1.Elwar 16.5
2.VB1001 6
3.Ludwig Von 5.5
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5.gentlemand 3.5
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48.bkbirge -1
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98.AlcoHoDL -5
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105.suchmoon -12
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Post 51824967 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
This is been one of the first thing I tough when everybody was excited because 1 BTC=1 ounce of gold.
Flippening on 1 ounce of gold is pointless
Flippening on total market cap is both inevitable and sign we built something great.
Usual back of the envelope calculation:
Total Gold Capitalisation: 7.3 USD Trillion (with Spot price @$1416.39/OZ
according to this website)
There will be 21 millions Bitcoins
To get a market cap of 7.3 USD Trillion each bitcoin will have to be valued at 350,000 USD each.
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Post 51825422 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
This is been one of the first thing I tough when everybody was excited because 1 BTC=1 ounce of gold.
Flippening on 1 ounce of gold is pointless
Flippening on total market cap is both inevitable and sign we built something great.
Usual back of the envelope calculation:
Total Gold Capitalisation: 7.3 USD Trillion (with Spot price @$1416.39/OZ
according to this website)
There will be 21 millions Bitcoins
To get a market cap of 7.3 USD Trillion each bitcoin will have to be valued at 350,000 USD each.
remember the lost coins
Market cap is not taking account lost gold, lost coin etc.
Taking in account lost coins would raise further the valuation of BTC. I prefer having a lower bound for Bitcoin prices.
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Post 51825549 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.55h):
of course this is a bad period for bitcoin:
Mercury retrograde brings communication and technology breakdowns, nervous anxiety, travel delays, and lost items. There is a feel of a difficult Mercury–Saturn aspect about Mercury retrograde. You can also expect to dwell on things, reminisce about the past, or unexpectedly meet up with people from your past. While the Mercury retrograde period might be good for flicking through old photo albums, it is generally considered more of a nuisance than a benefit.
Mercury retrograde can play havoc with your thoughts, communications, travels, and electronics. Take extra care with your words and try not to react too quickly in any arguments or if provoked. Take some time out if you start to feel overwhelmed by the hectic pace. Double-check all of your emails and posts on Facebook before hitting the send button.
Business negotiations will be in a state of flux during Mercury retrograde so avoid signing contracts. Some important details will not yet b available, and others may be unreliable or dishonest. If going on a road trip then make sure you get your car serviced beforehand. The riskiest times for decision-making, negotiations, communication, and transport are the few days either side of the exact retrograde and direct stations. However, care should still be taken during the retrograde period.
Source
https://astrologyking.com/mercury-retrograde-july-2019/Dear Lord, such a load of shit.
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Post 51829907 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
Let’s stop this environmental disaster!
This waste of precious electricity is an ecological bomb ticking to the end of this world!
The Shift Project’s ‘Climate crisis: The unsustainable use of online video’ report found that a third of all videos viewed online are porn, and that watching online adult entertainment emits just under 100 million tons of CO2 emissions. The emissions generated in 2018 were of the same “magnitude as that of the residential sector in France,” the report found.
https://www.rt.com/news/464109-porn-co2-emissions-report/Said no one ever.
586.
Post 51836287 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
Steven Mnuchin Speaks on Crypto Regulation
Boy, Steve is so scared.
I can understand him, but boy, he's going to drown under this wave.
Most recurring words:
KYC/AML
Terrorists
Money Laundering
Illicit
Regulators/Regulation
Crime
Fraud
Notable Quotes:
"We don't want bad actors (money launderers, terrorists, tax evasion) using cryptocurrencies"
"Cryptocurrencies pose a national security issue"
"I am not comfortable with Facebook launching a cryptocurrency"
"I am not comfortable today. They and others have a lot of work to do before I am comfortable"
"Treasury takes very seriously the role US dollar as world reserve currency"Recap made by a pro:
https://www.ccn.com/news/steven-mnuchin-crypto-regulation/2019/07/15/
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Post 51837012 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
Steven Mnuchin Speaks on Crypto Regulation
Boy, Steve is so scared.
I can understand him, but boy, he's going to drown under this wave.
Most recurring words:
KYC/AML
Terrorists
Money Laundering
Illicit
Regulators/Regulation
Crime
Fraud
Notable Quotes:
"We don't want bad actors (money launderers, terrorists, tax evasion) using cryptocurrencies"
"Cryptocurrencies pose a national security issue"
"I am not comfortable with Facebook launching a cryptocurrency"
"I am not comfortable today. They and others have a lot of work to do before I am comfortable"
"Treasury takes very seriously the role US dollar as world reserve currency"Recap made by a pro:
https://www.ccn.com/news/steven-mnuchin-crypto-regulation/2019/07/15/To me, this is the main focus of the conference:
"Treasury takes very seriously the role US dollar as world reserve currency"
Actually this is the main focus of the main thing.
The FED, the government or the US themselves cannot afford to lose the leadership role played by the dollar. If they lose the dollar, they are going to be irrelevant.
That's all, in the big scheme of things, terrorists, fraudster and tax evasion can be dealt with.
But once you lose power, this is difficult to be gained back.
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Post 51837821 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
I think the "Cryptocurrencies pose a national security issue" should be noted here.
The very first article in Thailand that came out about me and the seastead was just a jumbled mess of quoting 3 different news stories about the seastead but they made sure to throw into a random sentence "threat to national security". It made no sense and was counter to the rest of the article but we knew at that point that it was the military telling them to add that in. We knew that they were setting the stage for how the narrative would play out.
Our initial response was to try to hit back with our own PR before the narrative was set but the next day a more bold article came out with a clear message of us being a "threat". That's when we bugged out.
Fortunately for Bitcoin it does not need to flee a crazed military bent on extortion. But I can see it as setting the stage for a narrative of crypto being dangerous and a threat to America (and thus, the world). Then cue the nationalists who will "save America" from this "threat" without even considering if the threat is real or not. They will follow the narrative due to their "love of country".
I do agree.
"Cryptocurrencies pose a national security issue", yes, of course. But it is not the taxes being at risk, or the literal security of the country, being at risk, but it is the US Dollar being at risk, with all the corollaries in terms of established powers.
This is at risks and the only one risk the government care about.
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Post 51838315 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
11k...
Shh
We are bitcoin believers,
as we believe in Bitcoin we don't need to check price and we don't celebrate trivial thresholds of appreciation
wait
WOT?
Observing 11K?
CCMF!
Too many serious discussions about trolls and about Libra and endangered power systems make me willing to post memes.
Just because.
590.
Post 51838491 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
Observing 11K?
It's just 11... I think this one is more appropriate:
Willing to merit because of genius twist.
But as usual...
I bet there are criteria where you can guide someone providing merits so I can send (Italian users, posting on WO, not merit sources, with generosity index always maxxed: this should work).
591.
Post 51838564 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
^^^
Thanks mate, this surely worked for me.
Regarding the posts..
It's 2:00AM and I am browsing locomotive pictures, and the closest I got is this one:
Little bit premature, might be useful later.
Hope it clarifies.
592.
Post 51840194 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
..... and "regulars" tend to merit rockets and mic's dinner etc. Nothing wrong with that, just a different type of environment.
Well apparently they merit choo choo trains too.... hey, where's your hat?!?.. mic will be advising you to get one soon, no doubt.
(along with his latest dinner spread)
Thank you for pointing out this answer that was actually a reply to a question of mine.
I somehow lost it.
I think I am ok, I put s decent effort on my regular post, I can indulge in memes from time to time.
593.
Post 51843574 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
Coin Desk: Traditional Money Could Be ‘Surpassed’ By E-Money, Stablecoins: IMF PaperA new paper from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) suggests that cash and bank deposits could be left behind as digital money and fiat-pegged cryptocurrencies see greater adoption.
Banks should be able to stage a fightback against such payment upstarts, offering better services or similar electronic money products, the note continues, but policymakers are warned that some disruption is likely within the banking industry. Even so, banks are likely here to stay, as firms offering these new payment methods may move to become banks themselves and use their data advantage to offer targeted credit.
The original paper can be found here:
The Rise of Digital Money
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Post 51843765 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
But indeed Where tha HAT ??
Funny story, I was pedaling so fast the wind just blew it off... that's my excuse and I'm sticking with it.
I thought you lost it in a boat accident.
595.
Post 51845928 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
Coin Desk: Traditional Money Could Be ‘Surpassed’ By E-Money, Stablecoins: IMF PaperA new paper from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) suggests that cash and bank deposits could be left behind as digital money and fiat-pegged cryptocurrencies see greater adoption.
Banks should be able to stage a fightback against such payment upstarts, offering better services or similar electronic money products, the note continues, but policymakers are warned that some disruption is likely within the banking industry. Even so, banks are likely here to stay, as firms offering these new payment methods may move to become banks themselves and use their data advantage to offer targeted credit.
The original paper can be found here:
The Rise of Digital Money
Interesting.
There is no real opposition between cryptocurrencies and banks in a conceptual level. This opposition only appears in a political level, because the "old guard" of bankers cant adapt to the new technologies. As I already said before, politics is a bad thing, and bitcoin should stay above it.
More interesting when you think that Ms Christine Lagarde is going to land at ECB later this year. I mean, some of these idea will be ferried in Frankfurt too.
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Post 51845958 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
Having a BBQ, checked price for the first time in a few hours, sees dump - **shrugs shoulders** & goes to get some jerk sauce ribs.
I didn't check price today, your post made me go and check it!
OBSERVING 9930@STAMP!
Damn, I hate 4 digits prices!
But I am a believer, so I happy for the ones can afford to buy more at those levels!
At least i found a (almost exactly price) matching CCMF image!
Not really powerful, but slowly this metro train can transform in a MF double decker heavy duty train!
597.
Post 51848046 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
aaaand we're under 50-day SMA...
what does it mean?
Bitcoin is dead
again, twice today.
https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-obituaries/
598.
Post 51852785 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
Kenzy got hacked again!! already tagged the account, you guys should do the same if you want.
[snip]
I am sharing here an horror story, hopefully can be useful to someone.
The Most Expensive Lesson Of My Life: Details of SIM port hackI lost north of $100,000 last Wednesday. It evaporated over a 24-hour time span in a “SIM port attack” that drained my Coinbase account. It has been four days since the incident and I’m gutted. I have zero appetite; my sleep is restless; I am awash in feelings of anxiety, remorse, and embarrassment.
This was the single most expensive lesson of my life and I want to share my experience + lessons learned with as many people as possible. My goal is to increase awareness about these types of attacks and to motivate you to increase the security of your online identity.
EDIT: Just to clarify this didn't happen to me, I am just reporting this story because I think reading this can be useful to many.
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Post 51854224 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
I find it quite irritating that today, in the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Apollo 11 toward the first moon landing, one of the greatest achievements of human history, BTC isn’t following moving south instead.
It would be spectacular if on July 20th, on anniversary of the Moon landing, Bitcoin, another achievement granting for the first time in human history financial sovereignty to individuals, would celebrate with an
ATHAYH!
Come on bitcoin! You can do that!
Picture: Neil Armstrong's Family observing Apollo 11 leaving Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 39A
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Post 51854451 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
With the way things are moving, its anyones guess on which route bitcoin might take and depending on what stimulates the market I foresee BTC taking any one of these routes.
My blockchain based, distributed AI algorithm produced the following graph:
On the left part of the graph is the fit of the model to actual BTC price (this is why there's only one flashy line), while on the right part future price path based on deep learning path probability density (the brighter the more probable):
what do you think?
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Post 51854566 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
fillippone I feel your pain
. Lucky for me I've not lost that much and have made good for the previous losses. Hope the losses were minor based on the money you invested.
Just for the record: this story is NOT MY story, I am no way involved, I just read it on medium.
I wanted to share because when I read I learnt something useful and I think the more read it the better.
602.
Post 51854623 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
Most of the time, I am paid to post, I get messages from the darkweb, then once posted I receive a few sat from a LN chan... not much but always MoAr
.
the rest of the time I select letter in the dictionnary, and I try to make words then sentence with them, that's why my post have no meaning what so ever, they are just pixels on a screen that you give sense too...
only ledger space isn't pixel !!!
I don't get it. What are you trying to say here?
603.
Post 51858124 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
@jjg I can imagine your passwords are 1000+ characters long lol
My op sec sucks, because in order to remember my passwords, I write them out in WO posts on a regular basis.. just so that I can remember them...
woops... .. did I say too much...
Fuck.
this reminds me of the infinite monkey theorem. wiki quote:
The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type any given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare JJG's passwords.
so a monkey would eventually hit Satoshis keys huh? Let's get a monkey and some software!
You don't even need a monkey... or a software:
www.keys.lolJust don't hold your breath:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5147514.msg51224295#msg51224295
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Post 51858773 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
With the way things are moving, its anyones guess on which route bitcoin might take and depending on what stimulates the market I foresee BTC taking any one of these routes.
really good work your TA. but as a professional TA I see room for some improvements. I added my recommendations to your chart, please see below.
Bitcoin ONLY goes forward in time, it does not go back.
So get that notion out of your head. The toothpaste is already out of the tube.... the cat is already out of the bag... the genie is already out of the bottle, etc. etc. etc.
Wrong, my system go back in time too!
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg51854451#msg51854451My blockchain based, distributed AI algorithm produced the following graph:
On the left part of the graph is the fit of the model to actual BTC price (this is why there's only one flashy line), while on the right part future price path based on deep learning path probability density (the brighter the more probable):
what do you think?
605.
Post 51858817 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
@jjg I can imagine your passwords are 1000+ characters long lol
My op sec sucks, because in order to remember my passwords, I write them out in WO posts on a regular basis.. just so that I can remember them...
woops... .. did I say too much...
Fuck.
You guys are funny
Indeed.
Meriting for the LOLs, so wrong in the rest of the BitcoinTalk, but here, how couldn't you reward such gems?
606.
Post 51858838 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
Observing 9977
But can anyone guess what i’m gonna observe later this evening
Observing CCMF@9977
I'm getting better and better at this game.
(On meme mode, after a few good posts today, don't blame me)
607.
Post 51862882 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
With the way things are moving, its anyones guess on which route bitcoin might take and depending on what stimulates the market I foresee BTC taking any one of these routes.
My blockchain based, distributed AI algorithm produced the following graph:
: )))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
^ that was my reaction. And I had food & ale & chewing & stuff.
Thx for the meme of the day!
Meme of the day!
Thnks,
That’s an achievement for someone that came to the WO for the Knowledge,but ends up being recognised for the LOLS.
This is not sarcasm (Poe’s Law), but true appreciation!
608.
Post 51862897 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
Are we gonna crush the 10K again soon-ish ?
And be on our way to the 15K-ish zone?
Come on BTC and goodmorning WO’s
Maybe we should get a $10k hat?
Oh wait.
Once you wear an higher price cap, the old one get disposed and it is not wearable anymore.
609.
Post 51864756 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
Long post, but interesting read.
Read as a very informative lesson, using bitcoin lenses everything has a different twist.
Paradigm Shiftsby Ray Dalio
Identify the paradigm you’re in, examine if and how it is unsustainable, and visualize how the paradigm shift will transpire when that which is unsustainable stops.
Conlusion of the post.
Most people now believe the best “risky investments” will continue to be equity and equity-like investments, such as leveraged private equity, leveraged real estate, and venture capital, and this is especially true when central banks are reflating. As a result, the world is leveraged long, holding assets that have low real and nominal expected returns that are also providing historically low returns relative to cash returns (because of the enormous amount of money that has been pumped into the hands of investors by central banks and because of other economic forces that are making companies flush with cash). I think these are unlikely to be good real returning investments and that those that will most likely do best will be those that do well when the value of money is being depreciated and domestic and international conflicts are significant, such as gold. Additionally, for reasons I will explain in the near future, most investors are underweighted in such assets, meaning that if they just wanted to have a better balanced portfolio to reduce risk, they would have more of this sort of asset. For this reason, I believe that it would be both risk-reducing and return-enhancing to consider adding gold to one’s portfolio. I will soon send out an explanation of why I believe that gold is an effective portfolio diversifier.
Dalio is speaking of physical gold.
Roach will have an erection fot that.
But we all know BTC is the new gold.
Don't worrk, memes will follow this post.
610.
Post 51867310 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
Observing
USD@10077.39
CCMF!
611.
Post 51867457 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
Not excately powerful but you have to accept it, as it is already outdated!
612.
Post 51868042 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
+1 WO smerit!
Always out of smerits.
Not to self: send one asap for best laugh of the day.
613.
Post 51871528 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
What a day.
We had a long green dildo.
I had the
meme posts, I had the
serious posts (I re read this evening, and I suggest you to take your time and read it).
Time to call it a day guys.
614.
Post 51875285 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
Ouch:
*U.S. REGULATOR PROBING CRYPTO EXCHANGE BITMEX ON CLIENT TRADESJust rewind a few days ago:
WAS BITMEX ‘AGAIN’ BEHIND THE LATEST BITCOIN FLASH CRASH?And yesterday opposite move, a huge jump in minutes.
Exchanges under fire after suspicious ETH crash and today’s BTC spikeApparently nobody cares about market manipulation, as Bitcoin isn't even a financial instrument. The point is KYC/AML.
https://twitter.com/HASHCIB/status/1152137255936503808?s=202/“The months-long #CFTC probe is focused on whether BitMEX broke rules by allowing Americans to trade on the platform, which isn’t registered with the agency, said one of the people who asked not to be named discussing the investigation, which hasn’t been made public.”
Back to memes and usual posts, then. Boring news.
615.
Post 51875728 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
#bitcoin 2012 Stock-to-flow model still works!
From what I see this graph shows only 8000$ at the end of 2017 when there was already a 20000$ price. Today if I can see correctly this should be already around 25 - 30K USD for single BTC.
Still, it could be a good prediction in a very long term, which is a million $$$ for single BTC in the 2025 year and if one doesn't look too much into details.
This is a model based on the SF/price BEFORE the first halving.
It's a loose indication, with market price being driven by more "short term" forces.
Nice thing is that historically model undervalued the price by 300% (market price was triple the model value) but never overestimated market price by 100% (market price was never below 50% of model value).
So, basically, model value is sort of, conservative estimate of market price.
616.
Post 51875889 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
They pulled an article from my post!
617.
Post 51878749 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
Interesting post that is, nutildah. Actually had my brain working for once!
+2
Thanks, I think! That made me want to re-read it, and I found a typo.
Sure is quiet around the WO house tonight...
Luckily, not everyne is resting this weekend:
278 profiles merited (by me) in 30 minutes – What’s got over me? (v 2.0)
618.
Post 51878813 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
Price action of the last few hours is interesting, I wonder if it is a few whales playing against one another.
It seems wanna go under 10k - 9.5..
I would find it quite disappointing if in the 50th anniversary of Moon Landing Bitcoin would post a red candle.
“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too,”
This is related to Bitcoin.
To the Moon!
619.
Post 51879521 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
Any of you guys run a full node?
Do you still have this in your debug log?
"warning='## of last 100 blocks have unexpected version'"
Yes,
since last time you asked I opened an issue on the Bitcoin core github.
Here it is:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/16343It is still related with AsicsBoost, and it is due to the fact that:
Bitcoin Core does not expect that miners are setting those versions, which is why it is logged.
Still, something you shouldn't really care about.
620.
Post 51879706 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
"Unknown version" is different from "unexpected version".
I learnt from my errors!
621.
Post 51879964 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
@fillipone - Awesome, I was just keen to see it wasn’t just me seeing it.
Hopefully they get rid of it in an imminent update, seems pointless having the warning.
When I suggested this to the devs , I got a stiff lip answer, that it is clearly not necessary to remove the warning.
This puzzles me how "unexpected" is different from "unknown".
But I am not bitcoin core devs...
Fillippone just pawn in the game of life
622.
Post 51881764 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
A bit harsh really
I don't see it like a smart plan.
Cutting homeless people in half is just going to double the number of homeless people.
623.
Post 51885627 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
It's time (again) for a Wall Observer Meta Post!
Merit analysis based on LoyceV merit file:
http://loyce.club/Merit/merit.all.txtMerit updated to July 19 2:49 AM UTC
Total merits sent on WO: 27178
Weekly Merits sent on WO: 281 (-217)
Merited Users: 578 (+5)
TOP 100 MERIT RECEIVERS:
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2.Last of the V8s 1569
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88.Samarkand 54
89.theymos 53
90.FractalUniverse 53
91.rolling 51
92.BitcoinNewsMagazine 51
93.RayX12 50
94.fluidjax 50
95.RoomBot 48
96.encycrypto 48
97.Speculatoross 47
98.ErisDiscordia 47
99.PoolMinor 46
100.gembitz 46
TOP 100 MERIT SENDERS:
1.JayJuanGee 2262
2.BobLawblaw 1921
3.micgoossens 1220
4.LFC_Bitcoin 1041
5.bones261 1033
6.infofront 970
7.Last of the V8s 786
8.Globb0 712
9.jbreher 685
10.xhomerx10 682
11.vapourminer 598
12.mindrust 578
13.HairyMaclairy 562
14.cAPSLOCK 546
15.600watt 502
16.marcus_of_augustus 502
17.Toxic2040 411
18.jojo69 379
19.Torque 339
20.Paashaas 318
21.QuestionAuthority 311
22.Hueristic 268
23.d_eddie 267
24.yefi 256
25.bitserve 245
26.Dabs 224
27.kurious 223
28.BlindMayorBitcorn 209
29.gentlemand 205
30.Wekkel 205
31.Ibian 205
32.ErisDiscordia 200
33.VB1001 197
34.kenzawak 191
35.bitebits 186
36.suchmoon 182
37.RoomBot 180
38.Karartma1 179
39.explorer 155
40.JimboToronto 150
41.Raja_MBZ 147
42.Gyrsur 144
43.Dunkelheit667 143
44.mfort312 141
45.BTCMILLIONAIRE 118
46.nutildah 118
47.Pamoldar 117
48.Rosewater Foundation 116
49.edgar 115
50.kingcolex 114
51.Searing 112
52.goldkingcoiner 110
53.ivomm 107
54.Lambie Slayer 106
55.ssmc2 105
56.Majormax 105
57.Arriemoller 105
58.PoolMinor 101
59.xyzzy099 99
60.fillippone 98
61.Biodom 92
62.P_Shep 91
63.lightfoot 89
64.tonyq 87
65.julian071 86
66.conspirosphere.tk 82
67.Kylapoiss 81
68.sirazimuth 79
69.Icygreen 79
70.Phil_S 74
71.RayX12 73
72.Elwar 72
73.criptix 72
74.vroom 71
75.JSRAW 67
76.DeathAngel 66
77.StartupAnalyst 60
78.Cryptotourist 57
79.Anon136 56
80.bitcoinPsycho 56
81.empowering 55
82.rolling 52
83.Jayjay04 50
84.sammy007 50
85.soullyG 49
86.FractalUniverse 48
87.STT 47
88.mymenace 46
89.MrFreeRoMan 45
90.Bitcoinaire 44
91.AlexGR 43
92.Totscha 42
93.serveria.com 40
94.AlcoHoDL 40
95.afbitcoins 40
96.nanobtc 38
97.fabiorem 37
98.flynn 37
99.MirkoIta 36
100.crypmike 36
TOP 100 WEEKLY RECEIVERS:
1.fillippone 25
2.gentlemand 18
3.Elwar 14
4.micgoossens 13
5.VB1001 13
6.Toxic2040 11
7.JayJuanGee 11
8.LFC_Bitcoin 10
9.JSRAW 10
10.Phil_S 8
11.kingcolex 8
12.lightfoot 8
13.mindrust 7
14.HairyMaclairy 5
15.infofront 5
16.JimboToronto 5
17.makrospex 5
18.CoinClarity 5
19.BobLawblaw 4
20.Globb0 4
21.mfort312 4
22.nutildah 4
23.BitcoinNewsMagazine 4
24.Woodie 4
25.d_eddie 3
26.kenzawak 3
27.kurious 3
28.ivomm 3
29.Lambie Slayer 3
30.Dabs 3
31.bitcoinPsycho 3
32.sirazimuth 3
33.erre 3
34.xhomerx10 2
35.jojo69 2
36.Paashaas 2
37.jbreher 2
38.Biodom 2
39.600watt 2
40.vroom 2
41.Cryptotourist 2
42.Majormax 2
43.ChinkyEyes 2
44.Saint-loup 2
45.wwzsocki 2
46._javi_ 2
47.bkbirge 2
48.Stevenirving 2
49.Negotiation 2
50.CristiTCM 2
51.Raja_MBZ 1
52.Wekkel 1
53.Arriemoller 1
54.Spaceman_Spiff_Original 1
55.vapourminer 1
56.DeathAngel 1
57.bitebits 1
58.suchmoon 1
59.smartcomet 1
60.Krubster 1
61.Wilhelm 1
62.willope 1
63.Royse777 1
64.RapTarX 1
65.NeuroticFish 1
66.epilido 1
TOP 100 WEEKLY SENDERS
1.JayJuanGee 48
2.BobLawblaw 32
3.micgoossens 26
4.LFC_Bitcoin 15
5.vapourminer 12
6.bones261 8
7.600watt 8
8.VB1001 8
9.fillippone 8
10.nutildah 7
11.JSRAW 6
12.HairyMaclairy 5
13.JimboToronto 5
14.P_Shep 5
15.lightfoot 5
16.infofront 4
17.suchmoon 4
18.bkbirge 4
19.mindrust 3
20.mfort312 3
21.kingcolex 3
22.ivomm 3
23.Majormax 3
24.shasan 3
25.makrospex 3
26.Globb0 2
27.jbreher 2
28.jojo69 2
29.Hueristic 2
30.kurious 2
31.gentlemand 2
32.kenzawak 2
33.Dunkelheit667 2
34.vroom 2
35.bitcoinPsycho 2
36.ChinkyEyes 2
37.LoyceV 2
38.redsn0w 2
39.o_e_l_e_o 2
40.RapTarX 2
41.xhomerx10 1
42.Wekkel 1
43.Pamoldar 1
44.Searing 1
45.Lambie Slayer 1
46.Arriemoller 1
47.Biodom 1
48.Icygreen 1
49.Phil_S 1
50.DeathAngel 1
51.Cryptotourist 1
52.BitcoinNewsMagazine 1
53.Stevenirving 1
54.gappie 1
55.willope 1
56.NeuroticFish 1
57._javi_ 1
58.actmyname 1
59.BitcoinNewbie15 1
60.Theoak* 1
61.Last of the V8s 0
62.cAPSLOCK 0
63.marcus_of_augustus 0
64.Toxic2040 0
65.Torque 0
66.Paashaas 0
67.QuestionAuthority 0
WEEKLY sMERITS BALANCE
SMerits Balance=Received Merits/2-Sent Merits
Positive Balance means an user has been increasing sMerits on the WO thread, while negative numbers means the users has sent more merits on WO than received.
Negative numbers are possible or because he has been generous this week because he has been greedy past weeks (so only temporary imbalance), or because he has hoarded smerits on other threads spending them on WO thread, or because he's a merit source.
TOP 10 WEEKLY RECEIVERS
1.gentlemand 7
2.Elwar 7
3.Toxic2040 5.5
4.fillippone 4.5
5.Phil_S 3
6.CoinClarity 2.5
7.Woodie 2
8.d_eddie 1.5
9.Dabs 1.5
10.sirazimuth 1.5
TOP 10 WEEKLY SENDERS
1. JayJuanGee -42,5
2. BobLawblaw -30
3. micgoossens -19,5
4. vapourminer -11,5
5. LFC_Bitcoin -10
6. bones261 -8
7. 600watt -7
8. nutildah -5
9. P_Shep -5
10. suchmoon -3,5
Huge drop in merit circulation this week, compared to last week. Maybe price movements improved contingent price observing posts and meme instead of thoughtful post? Or is that our fellow WO MS drained their monthly allowance?
Still fixing glitches here and there, I am using this to getting better at data management.
I can provide those stats for fun, If you think they are, otherwise...I can stop here
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Post 51885886 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
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Post 51886977 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
^ Mic is that sarcasm
or you didn't get the LFC's joke
I don’t blame Mic.
It’s difficult to grasp sarcasm over the internet according to
Poe’s LawPoe's law is an adage of Internet culture stating that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, it is impossible to create a parody of extreme views so obviously exaggerated that it cannot be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of the parodied views.
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Post 51888579 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
That was a great read. Nothing has changed since 1929. (And nothing will) Everytime just before the big crash there are optimists saying: "Everything will be fine."
Everything will be fine indeed, but not before it becomes shit first.
If you found interesting that article, you should read also this one.
That broadens the view on the current paradigm and how it’s going to change:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg51864756#msg51864756
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Post 51888756 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
Ray’s newest article was in my reading list; nice write up while carefully avoiding the Bitcoin phenomenon.
It’s the kind of an article I would forward to a nocoiner trying to smuggle the idea of bitcoin as digital gold (r0ach I hear you typing furiously).
Spread the virus!
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Post 51890550 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
I will believe it when I see it.
I am sure it can be dragged out a little longer.
My worst nightmare: Bakkt is the GOT last season of crypto.
A lot of waiting, hype, high expectation and then delusional implementation.
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Post 51892624 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
BAKKT is a load of shit, waste of time. A bit like very early in the last bull run we were pinning our hopes on Gemini to make the price moon but it did literally nothing for the price.
More importantly we are beginning a weekend pump?
Yeah,
I know, we have been waiting for something magical to happen in the past.
Gemini, CBOe Futures, Gemini, Liquid etc...
In one of my previous posts I said I fear Bakkt will be like last season of GoT: a very big disappointment.
In the other side, Bakkt is a physical 1-day future: institutional money cannot get closer to actual bitcoin trading than that for the foreseeable future.
So I put 20% chance of bullishness once is active (third quarter this year).
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Post 51896995 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
Long post, but interesting read.
Read as a very informative lesson, using bitcoin lenses everything has a different twist.
Paradigm Shiftsby Ray Dalio
Identify the paradigm you’re in, examine if and how it is unsustainable, and visualize how the paradigm shift will transpire when that which is unsustainable stops.
Conlusion of the post.
Most people now believe the best “risky investments” will continue to be equity and equity-like investments, such as leveraged private equity, leveraged real estate, and venture capital, and this is especially true when central banks are reflating. As a result, the world is leveraged long, holding assets that have low real and nominal expected returns that are also providing historically low returns relative to cash returns (because of the enormous amount of money that has been pumped into the hands of investors by central banks and because of other economic forces that are making companies flush with cash). I think these are unlikely to be good real returning investments and that those that will most likely do best will be those that do well when the value of money is being depreciated and domestic and international conflicts are significant, such as gold. Additionally, for reasons I will explain in the near future, most investors are underweighted in such assets, meaning that if they just wanted to have a better balanced portfolio to reduce risk, they would have more of this sort of asset. For this reason, I believe that it would be both risk-reducing and return-enhancing to consider adding gold to one’s portfolio. I will soon send out an explanation of why I believe that gold is an effective portfolio diversifier.
Dalio is speaking of physical gold.
Roach will have an erection fot that.
But we all know BTC is the new gold.
Don't worrk, memes will follow this post.
I never saw so many article suggesting Gold as an investment.
Ray Dalio in the quoted message, but then also others like:
The Gold Rush Heats Up as Sub-Zero Yields Spread Central Banks’ Gold-Buying Spree Is Far From Over, Poll Shows We all know that some potential gold investors are going to #dropgold, if all the regulatory hurdles get removed( someone said ETF, or Bakkt?)
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Post 51898088 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
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Post 51901124 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
Btw who knows this spazio i’m talking about??
We have a few of them to cruise with on sunny days and for lulz...
Most ugly old scooters but the best to cruise with
Spazio:
Well quite a different ride from the first picture...you posted her a few weeks ago...
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Post 51901316 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
Btw who knows this spazio i’m talking about??
We have a few of them to cruise with on sunny days and for lulz...
Most ugly old scooters but the best to cruise with
Spazio:
Well quite a different ride from the first picture...you posted her a few weeks ago...
I know but I Will never ever sell my spazio .... its a vehicle a have already my whole life ....
I do have a few things to ride on, but on a sunny day.... Then F*** I do love this one to cruise on...
I know its not the most beautiful but yeah thats not the thing that matters most imo
Most funny thing... I have one in the same colour as well
When you have class, you can ride anything and make it classy.
At least this is what I used to think when I rode some horrible looking scooter myself:
Actually quite similar looking Mic...
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Post 51904708 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
Nothing better than a PlanB tweet to close the lazy Sunday:
https://twitter.com/100trillionusd/status/1153023408072011776?s=21
#bitcoin looks undervalued compared to Gold & Silver
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Post 51909736 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
So, today is the day!
Godot has arrived.
Bakkt’s 'Moonshot' Bitcoin Platform to Begin Testing Today“There appears to be a critical mass of adopters ready to come on board on Day 1 of the Bakkt launch… The launch could be a huge accelerator for market growth.”
Going slowly, apparently:
https://www.coindesk.com/bakkt-is-supposed-to-start-testing-its-bitcoin-futures-contracts-todayIt is unclear what specifically will be involved in the testing process. Bakkt did not reply to multiple requests for comment.
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Post 51911043 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
Jesus Christ roach, you truly know nothing about anything. The guy on the right is clearly a Sikh, not a muslim, and they sure as hell don't live in the sand, you crusty ignoranus.
No wonder you never leave whatever Podunk, backwards hillbilly town you live in, you'd get your malformed ass beat down the moment you opened your mouth.
You like wasting your breath and time on this, don't you? Its full-time job if you want to educate some ignorant on the internet. It's better to laugh on their comment and move on.
I actually never laughed at any r0ach comment.
(maybe the one depicting Mic on a Segway, but that's totally another story).
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Post 51913447 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
What to do when the WO tread is slow and mostly filled with pests posts while having some time to spare?
Dust off an old laptop, connect an external hdd and start running a full node again. Amazed how quickly it does a sync from scratch in less than 24 hours, that is 10+ years of transaction history! When fully synced I will open port 8333 and share the blockchain with my fellow WO participants in case they are bored too. Boredom is a good thing, I usually don't have the luxury while it helps having new ideas and plans.
Simultaneously running a full Monero node as well.Your internet connection is really good. That % per hour is incredible. I live quite rural & get max 1.50%, sometimes I have less than 0.1% for long periods
The shortest time I could sync was 6 hours, but that was a VM on Google clouds.
24h is standard for a well ram equipped PC to download (this is Bandwidth intensive) and verify (this is CPU/RAM intensive) whole transaction history.
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Post 51913695 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
Well,
this is sort of bullish:
Trillions of Dollars Could Flow into Bitcoin Over Next 25 Years, Grayscale
Speaking during the 2019 Mid-Year Review Webinar, Barry Silbert, CEO of Grayscale highlighted that there is an imminent generational wealth transfer that could change the dynamics of store of value (SoV) investing in the United States.
“Over next couple of decades, there is $68 trillion of wealth that’s held by baby boomers and the older generation, in the US alone, that’s going to be handed down to Generation X and millennials… My theory is that whatever of that 68 trillion that is currently in gold, I don’t think it’s going to stay all in gold.”
Of course Barry, why would you say otherwise?
I'm not saying I doubt this analysis, but of course there is at least a conflict of interests.
Btw I think demographic of Bitcoin investors is going to play a massive role for bitcoin adoption, and , ultimately, bitcoin price.
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Post 51916170 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
Somebody pulled the flush
I am very tired
Bitcoin quickly flushing down
Hodl the 5 digits, please
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Post 51920333 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
Lol of the day (we need that today, on hte brink of 4 digits):
Warren Buffett's charity lunch with cryptocurrency entrepreneur postponed“TRON Foundation announces postponement of Warren Buffett lunch, press conferences after founder Justin Sun falls ill with kidney stones,” said a tweet from the foundation on Monday evening in the United States.
The parties agreed to reschedule at a later date, the tweet added.
Tronix, the foundation’s token, dropped 12.3 percent following the news, price data from Coinbase showed.
So, a shitcoins drops 12.3 percent because of the kindey stones of the CEO.
Glad to know Satoshi is so
whealthy then!
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Post 51920592 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
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Post 51921908 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
We have an ATH, not the kind of we all have been waiting for, but still...
Bitcoin Network Now 8 Times More Powerful Than It Was at $20K Price
The figure subsided over the weekend after hitting the 79 trillion mark. On Sunday, the most recent day for which data is available, the hash rate total was recorded at 67.1 trillion TH/s, regularly fluctuating while still setting a general upward trend. In other words, the Bitcoin network now has almost eight times the computing power it had when the price of Bitcoin was around $20,000 in late 2017.
Of course Bitcoin dominance we have been observing on price, is realising also on the HAshrate space.
Bitcoin is getting more and more secure than every shitcoin:
source: howmanyconfs.com
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Post 51922090 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
^^^
I guess putting the actual title of the thread would be more eye catching than an anonymous link.
There, FTFY
My personal point of view as a beginner ....^
Hey if some of you guys maybe have
A personal point of view to share please do so
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Post 51923644 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
is bitcoin WO dead?
I am trying my best to keep it alive.
But with little news and lateral price, all my ideas are blunt.
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Post 51924312 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
Lol of the day: part II
Shitcoin index Launched!
Shitcoin Index Perpetual Futures - a basket of low-market-cap coins.
SHIT-PERP tracks the price of a basket of low-market-cap coins, using a weighed average of their prices. Get diversified exposure to 58 different coins with one future!
In the index description you get an overview of such shitcoins...
https://ftx.com/trade/SHIT-PERPEDIT:
Here hte list:
https://help.ftx.com/hc/en-us/articles/360027668812-Index-CalculationHow many ticker do you recognise?
Fillippone heard of 9 shitcoins.
SHIT: The Shitcoin Index contains the following coins and quantities:
Coin Quantity Market 1 Market 2 Market 3
ABT 59.86818702 okex USDT huobi BTC okex BTC
AE 55.38011136 okex USDT huobi USDT binance BTC
AION 192.4604763 binance BTC bitfinex USD bitfinex BTC
ARDR 230.4997234 binance BTC bittrex BTC huobi BTC
ARK 46.99588222 binance BTC bittrex BTC okex BTC
BCD 20.80252133 okex USDT binance BTC okex BTC
BNT 35.26702676 binance BTC okex USDT okex BTC
BTM 146.2112712 okex USDT okex BTC huobi USDT
BTS 381.4633238 huobi USDT binance BTC huobi BTC
CTXC 120.0845491 huobi USDT huobi BTC okex USDT
CVC 315.7067917 okex USDT coinbase USDC huobi USDT
DENT 24147.59007 binance BTC binance ETH bittrex BTC
DGB 1547.283434 bittrex BTC huobi BTC bittrex USD
DGD 0.9071545465 binance BTC huobi BTC okex BTC
ELF 124.1280008 okex USDT huobi USDT binance BTC
ENG 38.04784136 binance BTC huobi BTC bittrex BTC
ENJ 188.8969401 binance BTC binance USDT bittrex BTC
FTM 779.5532536 binance BTC binance USDT okex USDT
GAS 7.336816472 binance BTC okex BTC huobi BTC
GNT 262.7818401 binance BTC huobi USDT bittrex BTC
GRIN 5.79281631 poloniex BTC bittrex BTC poloniex USDC
GRS 60.16064577 binance BTC bittrex BTC huobi BTC
GXC 11.40156575 huobi USDT binance BTC huobi BTC
ICX 62.832786 binance BTC binance USDT okex USDT
IOST 1988.85446 huobi USDT binance BTC binance USDT
KMD 14.53288545 binance BTC bittrex BTC huobi BTC
KNC* 91.50066768 binance BTC okex USDT huobi BTC
LAMB 83.62862601 huobi USDT huobi BTC bittrex BTC
LOOM 372.7785196 binance BTC huobi BTC bittrex BTC
LRC 436.2697194 okex USDT binance BTC okex BTC
LSK 11.39598153 binance BTC huobi BTC bittrex BTC
MANA 366.5804714 okex USDT okex BTC binance BTC
MCO 3.821668972 binance BTC okex USDT okex BTC
NANO 14.22826057 binance BTC binance USDT huobi USDT
NAS 18.56386936 okex USDT huobi USDT binance BTC
NPXS 27151.77844 binance ETH binance BTC huobi BTC
NULS 29.43455571 binance USDT binance BTC huobi USDT
PIVX 34.9539377 binance BTC bittrex BTC kucoin BTC
POLY 284.6568263 binance BTC huobi BTC bittrex BTC
POWR 210.9501702 binance BTC bittrex BTC huobi BTC
PPT 24.83704415 binance BTC okex USDT binance ETH
QKC 1149.655218 binance BTC binance ETH kucoin BTC
REN 141.7888248 binance BTC huobi BTC huobi ETH
REP 1.40313102 coinbase USD kraken USD binance BTC
RVN 346.8322768 binance BTC bittrex BTC bittrex USDT
SC 5920.803335 binance BTC poloniex BTC bittrex BTC
SNT 777.4792258 huobi USDT binance BTC okex USDT
STEEM 67.41734532 binance BTC bittrex BTC huobi USDT
STORJ 89.56141952 binance BTC huobi USDT okex USDT
STRAT 28.84394118 binance BTC bittrex BTC poloniex BTC
THETA 132.9747978 binance BTC huobi USDT binance USDT
WAVES 12.0146473 binance BTC binance USDT okex USDT
WTC 9.730002359 binance BTC huobi usdt okex USDT
XVG 2900.635819 binance BTC bittrex BTC huobi BTC
XZC 1.774915604 binance BTC bittrex BTC huobi BTC
ZEN 2.750464353 binance BTC bittrex USD okex USDT
ZIL 1516.125511 okex USDT binance USDT huobi USDT
ZRX 72.82587101 coinbase USD binance USDT okex USDT
Fillippone heard of 10 shitcoins.
BCD DGB DENT GRIN IOST (is that IOTA?) MANA NANO RVN STEEM WAVES
Value of those? Zero.
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Post 51924620 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
Lol of the day: part II
[snip]
Lol of the day, part III
Q:Where does an Eskimo keep his Bitcoins?
A: In a cold wallet.
34° hot in Italy
Fillippone suffers, too hot
BTC goes down, go WO, HODL!
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Post 51924647 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
Lol of the day (we need that today, on hte brink of 4 digits):
Warren Buffett's charity lunch with cryptocurrency entrepreneur postponed“TRON Foundation announces postponement of Warren Buffett lunch, press conferences after founder Justin Sun falls ill with kidney stones,” said a tweet from the foundation on Monday evening in the United States.
The parties agreed to reschedule at a later date, the tweet added.
Tronix, the foundation’s token, dropped 12.3 percent following the news, price data from Coinbase showed.
So, a shitcoins drops 12.3 percent because of the kindey stones of the CEO.
Glad to know Satoshi is so
wealthy anonymous then!
FTFY
Thanks, I wrote wealthy , but I meant
healthy!
Too hot here...
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Post 51926493 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
And why are the transaction fees up again??
Because BTC devs have imposed an economically-ignorant centrally-planned production quota upon transaction throughput capacity, which is insufficient to meet current natural demand.
I don't know if you are trolling, (I think you are
)
but I'll ignore and just answer the question, which I think is interesting in the first place.
Are fees actually going up?
See? I did spare you all the annoying lessons about Segwit, the respect for a scarce resource (Space in block) leading to technical development instad of relaxed and lazy (ab)use of abundant resoures, the necessity to scale on the second layer instead of scalin on-chain, the possibility for the average Joe to synchronise a node etc, etc...
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Post 51926705 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
I Know, now WO is empty because everyone is checking that twitter account.
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Post 51931465 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
Good morning WO!
Observing BTC@9695.
Bitcoin is dead!
Bitcoin is dead and wants to kill us!
A catastrphic study by IEA:
Bitcoin energy use - mined the gapAs the price of bitcoin skyrocketed in 2017, attention turned to the cryptocurrency’s energy and environmental footprint. High-profile news articles reported that electricity use of the bitcoin network had equalled that of medium-sized countries and was on track to consume as much electricity as the United States in 2019 and all of the world’s energy by 2020. A widely reported article in Nature Climate Change warned that Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°C.
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Post 51932397 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
source: howmanyconfs.com
FYI, this is a worthless metric.
Could you elaborate more on this?
I strongly disagree as the security implied in Bitcoin (ledger costliness) is one of the main value proposition for bitcoin imho.
Who would Store Value on an insecure blockchain?
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Post 51935756 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
This is 2° hotter than my current very secret italian location.
FFFF****ck, 37° for a Belgian must be like 45° for an Italian!
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Post 51936571 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
Senate Banking Committee to Hold Hearing on Crypto Regulation
Me and Mnuchin are gonna drop the hammer on this bitch.
Mnuchin is not going to touch/be touched by any bitch, I am afraid.
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Post 51936840 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
Challenge accepted!
Mnuchin Says He Won’t Be Talking About Bitcoin in 10 YearsI won’t be talking about bitcoin in 10 years, I can assure you that. I would bet even in five or six years [that] I won’t be talking about bitcoin as Treasury Secretary, I’ll have other priorities. I can assure you I’ll personally not be loaded up on bitcoin.
To me SM is this image:
Nice sentence on the article:
Secretary Mnuchin has even gone as far as to liken bitcoin with Swiss-numbered accounts. One wonders how money launderers got by before Satoshi Nakamoto created BTC.
The likes of Wells Fargo and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) have helped launder billions of dollars via fiat.
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Post 51938260 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
No problem.
Pantera Capital CEO Expects Bitcoin Price to Reach $356,000 by 2022Morehead's comments about the price of Bitcoin were brought on when he was asked by Shin where we currently are in the development of blockchain technology.
Morehead said that people should realize that we are only 10 years into a two-decade long project, and that for the people who use Bitcoin as a "proxy" for the crypto space, they should note that if we zoom out a bit and look at the price chart for Bitcoin over a period that is longer than year, the Bitcoin price is always going up. AT his own firm, Morehead pointed out that they do not worry about short term fluctuations in the price of Bitcoin and they have more of a 3-5 year timeframe in mind.
https://www.cryptoglobe.com/latest/2019/07/pantera-capital-ceo-expects-bitcoin-price-to-reach-356000-by-2022/You don’t need to be an head of a multi billion hedge fund to understand that.
I start anyway to believe that next halving is crucial.
I don’t know if it’s priced in or not (my gut feeling tells me it’s not), but if price don’t move seriously upward as PlanB suggests, maybe even lagging SF model for up to one year after May 2020, then we could have a proper test of bitcoin value proposition as an experiment of Store of Value/digital gold.
All the institutional money that is supposedly flowing into Bitcoin is surely looking into that.
I believe in bitcoin, but it's not a religious approach, it's not faith based on dogmas.It's a rational expectation of the market pricing correctly all the feature of the protocol.
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Post 51938516 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
No problem.
Pantera Capital CEO Expects Bitcoin Price to Reach $356,000 by 2022Morehead's comments about the price of Bitcoin were brought on when he was asked by Shin where we currently are in the development of blockchain technology.
Morehead said that people should realize that we are only 10 years into a two-decade long project, and that for the people who use Bitcoin as a "proxy" for the crypto space, they should note that if we zoom out a bit and look at the price chart for Bitcoin over a period that is longer than year, the Bitcoin price is always going up. AT his own firm, Morehead pointed out that they do not worry about short term fluctuations in the price of Bitcoin and they have more of a 3-5 year timeframe in mind.
https://www.cryptoglobe.com/latest/2019/07/pantera-capital-ceo-expects-bitcoin-price-to-reach-356000-by-2022/You don’t need to be an head of a multi billion hedge fund to understand that.
I start anyway to believe that next halving is crucial.
I don’t know if it’s priced in or not (my gut feeling tells me it’s not), but if price don’t move seriously upward as PlanB suggests, maybe even lagging SF model for up to one year after May 2020, then we could have a proper test of bitcoin value proposition as an experiment of Store of Value/digital gold.
All the institutional money that is supposedly flowing into Bitcoin is surely looking into that.
I believe in bitcoin, but it's not a religious approach, it's not faith based on dogmas.It's a rational expectation of the market pricing correctly all the feature of the protocol.
I mean, that Bitcoin will take the path that it pleases, as always, in 2017, at the end of November, the BTC price was +/- 10,000 in mid-December was ATH in just 15 days.
The articles are interesting to take the pulse of the market from different angles.
This does not mean that I agree with them.
But, yes, I recognize that I am more
BTCull than bear.
VB1001, I am number one fan of PlanB.
When I am down I listen to his podcast at
Stephen Livera and I immediately forget my worrings and RL problems.
I do believe in his models and I find those very innovative and hard to dismiss, given the test he made to prevent spurious correlations.
I am only pointing out that this if the first halving event put into test by "general public" and "institutional money", and if the effect on the price that we all here hope to see.. well then we could even fall back into a perma-cryptowinter.
Hopefully I am wrong, but all the bullishness we have seen around this event must be tested, in the end.
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Post 51940083 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
My question to those who predict 100K within less than two years or so.
Why the discounting mechanism is not working?
If it is highly likely that 100K would be there by 2021, we should have mad buying of btc and its options right now.
That's my biggest beef with the S/F models.
Either the model is wrong/irrelevant OR the market is incapable of correctly pricing future expectations now.
Then you should address your question to the person who put this model together:
https://stephanlivera.com/episode/86/Go to minute 29:00 onward, PlanB is going to answer to your question.
jbreher is right: People is simply not aware of the model and the halving effect on the stock to flow.
In my
monthly blurb of Jun I also commented on the fact that, apparently, a good percentage of Greyscale investors ( i.e. "institutional money", people that should be professional investors and know every minute details of their investments) don't even know about the halving!
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Post 51944457 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
Events to celebrate:
1. WO page parity
2. 100K BTCUSD
3. WO Post parity
4. Gold Parity (BTC capitalisation equals Gold Capitalisation).
This is more or less in inverse order of relevance to me!
Hopefully 1 comes before 2 and 3 before 4!
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Post 51945341 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
Gentle reminder:
Tomorrow is Future expiry date @ CME
https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/equity-index/us-index/bitcoin_quotes_volume_voi.html#tradeDate=20190724
Expect some fixing induced volatility.
Well, if bitcoin were a traditional financial asset, you could expect some volatility... but we know BTC is on his own league as financial asset!
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Post 51946764 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.56h):
Bitcoin Works!
Venezuelan Airports Using Bitcoin to Evade US Sanctions, Local ReportThe application called ‘Jetman Pay’ collects aeronautical taxes, before converting them into BTC through crypto wallets, and then sending them to other countries such as Russia, China and Bulgaria. The bitcoin is then sent back to Venezuela in USD to close the circle.
So, rather than collecting taxes in their own shitty fiat coin, Venezuelans collect in hard money, then convert them again in other different little bit less shitty fiat scamcoins.
Definitely: lesson not learnt!
Different part of the industry has learnt the lesson and want their customers give them their precious hard money, instead of definelty less shitt fiatcoins:
Norwegian Air to accept bitcoin, opening crypto exchangeNorwegian plans to allow customers living in Norway to start purchasing plane tickets for flights in cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin. Its new Norwegian Block Exchange (NBX) will be available to them from August. And, according to DN, Norwegian will roll out exchanges in neighboring countries over the coming months.
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Post 51946962 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
I see Trollgoossens is telling lies about Hirohito and Adolf again. Why are the exact same stories in the news about Trump? Do the Jews just claim everyone they don't like has a micropenis?
What did I just lie about adolf ?? can't follow.........
Nobody can, don't worry mate.
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Post 51947357 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
sorry changing HAT for a few hours..... GOOD REASONs
Observing again 4 digits.
Hope change in HAT is for a good reason, because mkt didn't like that!
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Post 51948027 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
Greyscale just published an intresting report:
Bitcoin 2019 Investor StudySince its introduction in 2009, Bitcoin has steadily grown in popularity and today has expanded its reach to a broad mainstream audience. Now, a new joint survey from Grayscale Investments and Q8 Research provides a deeper level of insight into investors’ interests, perceptions, and misconceptions about investing in Bitcoin.
Our Bitcoin: 2019 Investor Study findings cover:
The profile of potential Bitcoin investors
The messages that drive Bitcoin’s appeal
Investor sentiment around Bitcoin vs. gold
Highlights:
- More Than a Third of U.S. Investors Are Interested in Bitcoin:
Contrary to the belief that Bitcoin is a niche investment only attractive to a small
portion of the investment community, the survey found that more than a third (36%)
of U.S. investors would consider an investment in Bitcoin, representing a potential
market of more than 21 million investors in the general population.
- Bitcoin Extends Beyond the Crypto Community:
The research study showed that those interested in investing in Bitcoin largely
fit the profile of the average U.S. investor. While Bitcoin-interested investors are
slightly more experienced and risk-tolerant than average investors, they otherwise
have similar political views, income levels, and careers as the broader pool of
surveyed investors.
- Multiple Aspects of Bitcoin Are Driving Investor Interest:
A large majority of investors (83%) were strongly motivated by the idea that they
could invest small amounts in Bitcoin today, see how their investments performed,
and add to their positions later. The idea that Bitcoin has significant potential
for growth and that Bitcoin is scarce also resonated with investors interested in
investing in Bitcoin
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Post 51948846 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
We should have some games. Dunno what, just something to pass the time.
OK then.
Here's the game: guess WHEN, win 5 merits.
2001
West 42 St. and eighth Ave
EDIT: It's OCt 2001
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Post 51950016 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
One of the guesses is pretty close!
Nov 2001?
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Post 51950024 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
One of the guesses is pretty close!
October 25, 2001
Stop chasing me
Are we required to state the exact date?
We all googled the Launch party in Oct 2001, with all the fuss about the slogan ("Prepare to fly" ) that was changed after the 9/11 attacks. Bill Gates even proposed Giuliani to cancel the party.....
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Post 51950201 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
Nov 2001?
We have a winner! Congrats!
Exact date Nov 18, 2001.
Thanks to you,
Now I know everything about that particular NY location, Win XP Launch, BroadWay Legends...
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Post 51950375 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
Nov 2001?
We have a winner! Congrats!
Exact date Nov 18, 2001.
Thanks to you,
Now I know everything about that particular NY location, Win XP Launch, BroadWay Legends...
Phil_S :The picture was taken early afternoon, maybe at 3:00 PM or so...
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Post 51951648 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
Events to celebrate:
1. WO page parity
2. 100K BTCUSD
3. WO Post parity
4. Gold Parity (BTC capitalisation equals Gold Capitalisation).
If we are to assume that appreciation in Bitcoin price comes in large part from cannibalization of gold market, you have 3. & 4. reversed.
Early musings:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=152944.0$800K assumes static gold valuation. If bitcoin purchases are funded by gold sales, the napkinback figures say $400K crossover.
Funny thing, i did the exact same "back of the envelope" calculations years ago, even before joining the forum, but i got quite differnet numbers.
Copying and pasting from vbery old spreasheet:
Circulating Bitcoin 21,000,000
GOLD CAPTIALISATION 7,311,002,497,490.22
http://onlygold.com/Info/All-The-Gold-In-The-World.asp Bitcoin share 50.00%
Equal Share 174,071
So, if Bitcoin Equals Gold to 50% of current Gold Capitalisation, I get the value of a single bitcoin at 175,000 USD.
For Bitcoin to match gold capitalisation it need to get to 350K USD.
All computation made with 21 mios BTC supply (resulting in conservative estimates)
So basically I get half your valuation, with the same method!
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Post 51951655 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
Nov 2001?
We have a winner! Congrats!
Exact date Nov 18, 2001.
Thanks to you,
Now I know everything about that particular NY location, Win XP Launch, BroadWay Legends...
Phil_S :The picture was taken early afternoon, maybe at 3:00 PM or so...
EXIF says 3:38 PM, so... pretty good!
WOW! pretty accurate indeed!
Any guess on how I did that?
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Post 51951744 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
WOW! pretty accurate indeed!
Any guess on how I did that?
something something shadows?
Exactly: with this website:
https://www.suncalc.org/#/40.7572,-73.9898,19/2001.11.18/15:01/1/3EDIT: Just realised you have a NASA hat, it must mean something.
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Post 51952302 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
Events to celebrate:
1. WO page parity
2. 100K BTCUSD
3. WO Post parity
4. Gold Parity (BTC capitalisation equals Gold Capitalisation).
If we are to assume that appreciation in Bitcoin price comes in large part from cannibalization of gold market, you have 3. & 4. reversed.
Early musings:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=152944.0$800K assumes static gold valuation. If bitcoin purchases are funded by gold sales, the napkinback figures say $400K crossover.
Funny thing, i did the exact same "back of the envelope" calculations years ago, even before joining the forum, but i got quite differnet numbers.
Copying and pasting from vbery old spreasheet:
Circulating Bitcoin 21,000,000
GOLD CAPTIALISATION 7,311,002,497,490.22
http://onlygold.com/Info/All-The-Gold-In-The-World.asp Bitcoin share 50.00%
Equal Share 174,071
So, if Bitcoin Equals Gold to 50% of current Gold Capitalisation, I get the value of a single bitcoin at 175,000 USD.
For Bitcoin to match gold capitalisation it need to get to 350K USD.
All computation made with 21 mios BTC supply (resulting in conservative estimates)
So basically I get half your valuation, with the same method!
Easy to see. The figure I found for above-ground gold was approx 10 Billion oz. I just 'rounded' it to 10.5B in order to divide neater into Bitcoin's 21M eventual count. So there's item 1. I don't know whether your 7.3B is any closer to the truth than is my 10.5B. And for the purposes of this sort of blue-sky figuring, I posit that it really doesn't matter.
I assume the rest of the discrepancy is in the $/oz for gold. When I ran the figures, gold was enjoying a local peak of $1600. I don't see the value you used.
The website I used is quite old and don't contains the info anymore, but this more recent article seems to support my evidences:
https://www.newsbtc.com/2019/03/25/bitcoin-price-gold-market-cap/
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Post 51955344 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
WO brothers .... I have been busy this evening....
Went after poker to Amsterdam and have met with 5 forum members (more collectible section guys)
Have been with mitchell, yogg, minifrij, micromen, chronicsky ..... awesome Guys
We drunk and played Some drinking games.... pity I was late and most fly out tomorrow, calling the night little early.... but still i’m drunk
Pretty cool mic, but could you explain the significance of your zero bitcoin note there? I think it has to do with an inside joke we're not privvy to.
Worthless fiat ?
It's a worthless crypto/fiat entanglement.
But alas, beautiful.
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Post 51957045 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
A message of hope from @100TrillionUSd:
https://twitter.com/100trillionUSD/status/1154712314995781634?s=20#bitcoin bull markets seem to start at difficulty bottoms.
We saw difficulty bottoms (miner capitulation) in Dec 2011 ($4.6), May 2015 ($230) and Dec 2018 ($3691). Price continues to rise from these bottoms until ATH around 100x .. implying a continuing uptrend until $370K ATH.
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Post 51961044 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
Now I go to a pub to have a GinTonic (hendricks) of course, after celebrating with my wife the 29 anniversary of married, a good white wine, fish and seafood.
Tomorrow hangover.
If you see a big green dildo tonight, it's me who will be pushing hard, If it’s a red candle, I’ve fallen asleep.
Good weekend to everyone.
Out of sMerits. Have fun mate!
I hope for the green dildo too!
(no homo)
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Post 51961207 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
Now I go to a pub to have a GinTonic (hendricks) of course, after celebrating with my wife the 29 anniversary of married, a good white wine, fish and seafood.
Wow! that's a great achievement brother. Being together for this long is truly amazing. Me and my wife celebrated our third anniversary few days ago. Embrace your evening. Say HI to your wife for me.
I would also like to see a green dildo to take the price to $13k+ 🤪
Wait! What?
He mentioned he’s going to the pub drinking and the possibility of pumping..
He said AFTER celebrating his anniversary.
But he didn’t say he’s taking wife with him?? 🤣🤣
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Post 51961271 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
<snip>
I got you!
Thank you!
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Post 51961929 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
You are taking NASA language LOL
The question is not "when moon".
The question is
what moon.
Events to celebrate:
1. WO page parity
2. 100,000 BTCUSD
3. WO Post parity
4. Gold Parity (BTC capitalisation equals Gold Capitalisation) circa 350,000 USD
5. MOON 385,000 BTC USD
6. PHOBOS 56,000,000 BTC USD
This is more or less in inverse order of relevance to me!
Hopefully
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Post 51963298 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
Come on everyone!
2021,
World bank IMF announces addition of BTC to the basket of currencies underpinning the SDR.
FTFY jojo.
SDR (and C. Lagarde) are from IMF.
I definitely see that coming. Maybe not 2021, but it’s going to happen.
Did you see this news?
ECB’s gold sales deal with European central banks lapsesThe European Central Bank will not renew an agreement with 21 European central banks that limited sales of gold, highlighting how attitudes toward the metal have changed since the global financial crisis.
No later than six months ago Italian government tried to sell their gold and got stopped by ECB. Now they will force Bank of Italy (fourth gold stock holder) to dump their gold.
No good for Italy,
No good for gold
No good for bitcoin in the short term, bullish log term (EUR will be shittier than before).
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Post 51967551 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
I hope for the green dildo too!
(no homo)
The dildo arrived.
Aaaaaand it’s gone!
But, still
1 BTC= 1BTC
Hodlers are safu!
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Post 51982674 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
What do you make of his $1million btc prediction? I don't think it will happen
Overly ambitious. But I wouldn’t definitively rule it out.
Specifically, McAfee predicted $1M by the end of 2020.
A raging bull market may
peak at $1M in q4 2020, but assuredly a major bear market will follow in the event.
McAfee prediction is based on his own “mathematics”. But he never disclosed why and how BTC will get to this level.
PlanB also predict multi millions values for bitcoin, he clearly states how we will get to that valuations. Part of the story is als o the fact that USD will lose much of his value (BTCUSD going up not because BTC going up, but because USD going down).
Still, difficult, not impossible.
2020?hardly doubt so, even if halvening effect fully takes place.
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Post 51984350 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
What do you make of his $1million btc prediction? I don't think it will happen
Overly ambitious. But I wouldn’t definitively rule it out.
Specifically, McAfee predicted $1M by the end of 2020.
A raging bull market may
peak at $1M in q4 2020, but assuredly a major bear market will follow in the event.
McAfee prediction is based on his own “mathematics”. But he never disclosed why and how BTC will get to this level.
PlanB also predict multi millions values for bitcoin, he clearly states how we will get to that valuations. Part of the story is als o the fact that USD will lose much of his value (BTCUSD going up not because BTC going up, but because USD going down).
Still, difficult, not impossible.
2020?hardly doubt so, even if halvening effect fully takes place.
Hilarious that these clowns like McAfee make these outrageous Bitcoin price predictions, like the price will just magically "rise" to these astronomical levels on its own, in a supposed vacuum.
They never talk about people. As in, price rises
when people fucking buy Bitcoin. As in public demand outstripping supply. So what is going to spur this amazing and sudden demand? Everyone I've talked to has no plans to create an account and buy any Bitcoin, no matter what the price does.
tldr; Bitcoin price doesn't just magically rise on its own. /rant
Well, I don’t know if you referred clown also to Plan B, but he’s actually truth to model how supply and demand impact bitcoin price. Halvening is actually important in this context as soupy will be.. halved.
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Post 51988365 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
Blocks are nice and empty at the moment if anyone wants to consolidate. Just had a 20 sat transaction clear in first block I think.
20 sat/b is way too high for next block inclusion.
Thinking about a post on how to calculate optimal fees and stuff.
Every sat count!
Keeping stacking Satoshi!
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Post 51990461 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
Blocks are nice and empty at the moment if anyone wants to consolidate. Just had a 20 sat transaction clear in first block I think.
here you go:
Bitcoin Transaction Fees - Everything in oneI went with the suggested regular fee at two of my wallets, fees are very low (paid approx. 3 sats/byte). Let's see how long it takes them clear.
You can consolidate your bitcoin at 1 satoshi/byte.
Once again, you have good time to move your bitcoin with cheapest fees, at 1 satoshi/ byte.
Currently, it seems that transaction fees fluctuated around
1 sat/byte. Fees for transaction with 1 input (148 bytes), 3 outputs (102 bytes) costs only
260 satoshis, which is double than yesterday fee.
It is a best time to consolidate your bitcoin leftovers, but it doesn't last for too long. Hurry up.
Please check more there:
https://tradeblock.com/bitcoin/historical/6h-f-tfee_blk_avg-01051https://coinb.in/#feesDear Lord,
This is almost exactly what I meant to write, with only a few variations. (I would have used some different websites and stuff)... but yes, it has already been written.
Damn... that wasn’t too original anyway.... but alas just speaking about fees saved someone using way too high fees... so nice!
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Post 51990508 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
Blocks are nice and empty at the moment if anyone wants to consolidate. Just had a 20 sat transaction clear in first block I think.
20 sat/b is way too high for next block inclusion.
Thinking about a post on how to calculate optimal fees and stuff.
Every sat count!
Keeping stacking Satoshi!
I think he meant 20 sat total fee. Mempool is being nearly cleared each block recently.
There is no thing like a 20 sat total fee. Transactions are at least 226 bytes long: at 1 sat/byte this means 226 Satoshi.
EDIT FOR CLARITY: This is not a protocol level limit. 0 sat/tx fees are protocol level valid so actually possible. But as there's no incentive for miners to mine them, I hardly doubt it will be ever mined. Sub 1 sat/byte are also possible, but i THINK many miners set lower bound at 1 sat/byte (coincidentally equal to minimum relay fee): this is to avoid inserting "dust transactions" on their blocks.
So yes, sub 226 satoshi transactions are valid and possible, but very likely not to be mined even with almost empty mempool.
Happy to be proved wrong.
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Post 51992929 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
Blocks are nice and empty at the moment if anyone wants to consolidate. Just had a 20 sat transaction clear in first block I think.
20 sat/b is way too high for next block inclusion.
Thinking about a post on how to calculate optimal fees and stuff.
Every sat count!
Keeping stacking Satoshi!
I think he meant 20 sat total fee. Mempool is being nearly cleared each block recently.
There is no thing like a 20 sat total fee. Transactions are at least 226 bytes long: at 1 sat/byte this means 226 Satoshi.
EDIT FOR CLARITY: This is not a protocol level limit. 0 sat/tx fees are protocol level valid so actually possible. But as there's no incentive for miners to mine them, I hardly doubt it will be ever mined. Sub 1 sat/byte are also possible, but i THINK many miners set lower bound at 1 sat/byte (coincidentally equal to minimum relay fee): this is to avoid inserting "dust transactions" on their blocks.
So yes, sub 226 satoshi transactions are valid and possible, but very likely not to be mined even with almost empty mempool.
Happy to be proved wrong.
Oh goodness. I am being shamed for spending $2.65 to send $9,500 half way around the world
Yes I meant 20/sat per byte. However I failed to realise that my transaction was 1,400 bytes.... Apparently I have been doing some sweeping of my own. Still a good deal, but perhaps not as good as it could have been.
When bitcoin will be in the millions, you'll deeply regret not optimising your fees.
Every sat counts!
Anyway, not shaming, just making sure everyone is doing conscious choices!
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Post 51993030 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
Anyway, not shaming, just making sure everyone is doing conscious choices!
Thank you. You have made me reconsider my fee practices.
If you want to make that post about how to choose fees, please go ahead because I am obviously not following best practice.
I found this post:
Bitcoin Transaction Fees - Everything in oneThis is pretty good,actually very similar to what I had in mind.
So probably not worth the effort to write a completely new one only to cross some t's and dot some i's.
So, spreading it here as it might be useful to someone!
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Post 51999379 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
TrueCrypt is a very powerful encryption s/w. I use it every day at work (I'm handling highly classified data and I rely on it for their protection). However, if the passphrase is poorly chosen (say, something like "iLOVEbitcointalkBECAUSEitMAKESmeHAPPY"), then it can be very easily cracked using a $200 PC. Just because you're using TrueCrypt doesn't necessarily mean your data is secure. It's how you use it that matters. It's like choosing "1234" as your credit card PIN. It's not the algorithm that's weak, it's the user that's dumb.
So, the fact that the wallet is protected by TrueCrypt doesn't guarantee anything...
But... We're talking about Satoshi here, so I'm sure he has used a cryptographically strong passphrase.
IMO iLOVEbitcointalkBECAUSEitMAKESmeHAPPY is a strong password and can not be cracked easily with a $200 PC. But I would add at least one number and a special character.
A +30 character PW Will always be strong.....
Of-course to add a special character and number probably make it more strong
When i see this kind of discussion there only one things that comes into mind.
the always relevant XKCD:
https://xkcd.com/936/If you check your password into this site, well, they are pretty secure apparently
https://howsecureismypassword.net/(no, CorrectHorseBatteryStaple is not secure, actually)
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Post 51999416 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
TrueCrypt is a very powerful encryption s/w. I use it every day at work (I'm handling highly classified data and I rely on it for their protection). However, if the passphrase is poorly chosen (say, something like "iLOVEbitcointalkBECAUSEitMAKESmeHAPPY"), then it can be very easily cracked using a $200 PC. Just because you're using TrueCrypt doesn't necessarily mean your data is secure. It's how you use it that matters. It's like choosing "1234" as your credit card PIN. It's not the algorithm that's weak, it's the user that's dumb.
So, the fact that the wallet is protected by TrueCrypt doesn't guarantee anything...
But... We're talking about Satoshi here, so I'm sure he has used a cryptographically strong passphrase.
IMO iLOVEbitcointalkBECAUSEitMAKESmeHAPPY is a strong password and can not be cracked easily with a $200 PC. But I would add at least one number and a special character.
A +30 character PW Will always be strong.....
Of-course to add a special character and number probably make it more strong
When i see this kind of discussion there only one things that comes into mind.
the always relevant XKCD:
https://xkcd.com/936/If you check your password into this site, well, they are pretty secure apparently
https://howsecureismypassword.net/(no, CorrectHorseBatteryStaple is not secure, actually)
via Imgflip Meme GeneratorThx good to know
I am sure we will have other problems to solve by then.
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Post 51999523 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
TrueCrypt is a very powerful encryption s/w. I use it every day at work (I'm handling highly classified data and I rely on it for their protection). However, if the passphrase is poorly chosen (say, something like "iLOVEbitcointalkBECAUSEitMAKESmeHAPPY"), then it can be very easily cracked using a $200 PC. Just because you're using TrueCrypt doesn't necessarily mean your data is secure. It's how you use it that matters. It's like choosing "1234" as your credit card PIN. It's not the algorithm that's weak, it's the user that's dumb.
So, the fact that the wallet is protected by TrueCrypt doesn't guarantee anything...
But... We're talking about Satoshi here, so I'm sure he has used a cryptographically strong passphrase.
IMO iLOVEbitcointalkBECAUSEitMAKESmeHAPPY is a strong password and can not be cracked easily with a $200 PC. But I would add at least one number and a special character.
A +30 character PW Will always be strong.....
Of-course to add a special character and number probably make it more strong
When i see this kind of discussion there only one things that comes into mind.
the always relevant XKCD:
https://xkcd.com/936/If you check your password into this site, well, they are pretty secure apparently
https://howsecureismypassword.net/(no, CorrectHorseBatteryStaple is not secure, actually)
Thx good to know
They just got your password lewl
DAMN!
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Post 51999749 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
(no, CorrectHorseBatteryStaple is not secure, actually)
15 octillion years is not secure??
You might have mistiped.
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Post 52005791 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
Libra: much ado about nothing?
https://www.coindesk.com/facebook-libra-might-not-ever-launch-concedes-firmIn a frank disclosure in the firm’s latest quarterly report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the firm said that the many barriers it will face regarding regulating a new technology with unclear rules in the U.S. and other nations of the world, mean “there can be no assurance that Libra or our associated products and services will be made available in a timely manner, or at all.”
“Our participation in the Libra Association will subject us to significant regulatory scrutiny and other risks that could adversely affect our business, reputation, or financial results,” Facebook says.
“These laws and regulations, as well as any associated inquiries or investigations, may delay or impede the launch of the Libra currency as well as the development of our products and services, increase our operating costs, require significant management time and attention, or otherwise harm our business.”
Waiting for Godot?
Compulsory meme:
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Post 52008032 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
Well,
I do share the enthusiasm in a dull day like today.
But if I want to dream I prefer doing so with Plan B article who gives a sort of rationality and substance to the past prices.
PlanB is actually more bullish after 2028 halvening with a multimillion dollar valuation based on SF model!
Yeas, we do have a lot to dream about.
The important thing is to keep hodling!
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Post 52016109 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
Wooo...
Beating Bakkt, LedgerX Is First to Launch ‘Physical’ Bitcoin Futures in USThe Takeaway
Bitcoin derivatives provider LedgerX announced it has launched the first physically-settled bitcoin futures contracts in the U.S. Wednesday.
The contracts, which pay traders out in bitcoin, rather than U.S. dollars, will be available to both institutional and retail investors.
Customers can deposit bitcoin, rather than dollars, when buying a contract.
LedgerX has beaten the Intercontinental Exchange’s Bakkt and TD Ameritrade-backed ErisX to the punch with its new offering.
Apparently:
Any U.S. resident with a government-issued I.D. can now trade futures contracts for real bitcoin.
I couldn't check, but apparently this goes through their
OMNI platform.
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Post 52016765 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
Go Go Go etcetera
Observing 10,001@Bitstamp!
CCMF!
Wondering if a powerful train picture exists for any given observed price!
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Post 52018100 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
Sitting at the car dealership for a couple hours, waiting on an oil/filter change and State Inspection.
Observing $10,072 USD @ Gemini.
Grow corn, grow.
What's Gemini?
I think this is treason to WO, observing @Stamp!
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Post 52018184 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
What's Gemini?
I think this is treason to WO, observing @Stamp!
Meh. It’s the exchange I use. Bite my shiny metal ass, brother.
Futurama reference spotted!
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Post 52019343 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
Guys,
I just updated my monthly recap!
Bitcoin Bearish or Bullish? Here my thoughts: JUNE UPDATE (+POLL)Feedback from the Wo Family more than welcome!
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Post 52019698 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
Gold reacted badly to the news, selling off with rates. Now it's bouncing back to day High.
Bitcoin doesn't give a f.ck.
Anybody noticed it is the first (and first one of a series) FED cut since 2008?
This means it's the first FED easing cycle since Bitcoin came into existence, challenging low interest rates world.
Good luck central Banksters!
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Post 52026600 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
The monthly update:
Spring is finally over, the summer has arrived and is already far too hot (at least for my liking).
So here we go with a red month of July. That's fine, let's cool down a bit to enjoy new, fresh green in the future.
China teaches its people what real money looks like, a chairmans saw the light, fresh fiat will be printed, responsibly minded investors can finally buy the real thing - you know the drill, my accumulation phase is not finished.
Gentlemen, enjoy the month of August!
Thank you for your traditional much awaited monthly update.
First red candle in 6 months. ok
I do love monthly Updates too!
Everybody let's love monthly updates!
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Post 52027797 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
Last night with my babe to celebrate the 10K$ again
I zoomed your pic and, apart from the radishes, I noticed something overlooked: you appear to have a MacBook: would you reccomend it? I heard some horror stories about keyboards and screens getting tainted.
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Post 52028048 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
Last night with my babe to celebrate the 10K$ again
I zoomed your pic and, apart from the radishes, I noticed something overlooked: you appear to have a MacBook: would you reccomend it? I heard some horror stories about keyboards and screens getting tainted.
You obviously acted like a forensic expert. I only paid my attention on that beautiful babe.
Which babe?
I all I see are radishes, a mac laptop, a bottle of some undetected Dom Pérignon (might be 2009?)....
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Post 52028109 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
^^^ Meriting yet another monthly update!
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Post 52028285 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
Wooo...
Beating Bakkt, LedgerX Is First to Launch ‘Physical’ Bitcoin Futures in USThe Takeaway
Bitcoin derivatives provider LedgerX announced it has launched the first physically-settled bitcoin futures contracts in the U.S. Wednesday.
The contracts, which pay traders out in bitcoin, rather than U.S. dollars, will be available to both institutional and retail investors.
Customers can deposit bitcoin, rather than dollars, when buying a contract.
LedgerX has beaten the Intercontinental Exchange’s Bakkt and TD Ameritrade-backed ErisX to the punch with its new offering.
Apparently:
Any U.S. resident with a government-issued I.D. can now trade futures contracts for real bitcoin.
I couldn't check, but apparently this goes through their
OMNI platform.
Breaking: U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has not yet approved LedgerX to offer physically settled bitcoin futures. Developing story.
Earlier today:
LedgerX launches physically delivered bitcoin options and custodyAfter obtaining a so-called designated contract market license (DCM) from the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in June, LedgerX has now launched physically delivered bitcoin options and custody for retail investors. According to a statement from the company, the company's OMNI platform soft-launched last week and is now fully operational and serving both retail and institutional players.
Someone is very wrong here.
EDIT: apparently LegderX rushed a little bit on their product offering.
CFTC: LedgerX ‘Not Approved’ to Launch ‘Physical’ Bitcoin FuturesIn a statement received by CoinDesk Thursday, the U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) says LedgerX has “not yet been approved by the Commission” to offer physically settled bitcoin futures, contradicting the company’s claims.
LAtest Development:
Very US solution: SUE
https://messari.io/article/ledgerx-clashes-with-cftc-over-planned-launch-of-bitcoin-futures-platformFollowing yesterdays announcement that LedgerX had launched a retail platform allowing for the first physically settled bitcoin ($BTC) futures in the U.S. it remains unclear if contracts are live for trading or will be live any time soon. Earlier today The Block reported that there was no sign of approved contracts on the CFTC website and no listed market volumes.
The CFTC later stated that LedgerX does not have a designated contract maker (DCM) license required to trade futures, only one from 2017 that allows for the trading of swaps. This statement clashes with the fact that the CFTC had reportedly approved LedgerX's DCM license last month. Following these events Paul Chou, CEO of LedgerX, took to Twitter to announce that he would take action against the CFTC stating:
I've decided to sue the CFTC for anti competitive behavior, breach of duty, going against the regs, etc.
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/2019/08/01/actually-ledgerx-might-not-have-launched-physically-settled-bitcoin-futures-contracts-after-all/
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Post 52028322 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
Which babe?
I all I see are radishes, a mac laptop, a bottle of some undetected Dom Pérignon (might be 2009?)....
You're disappointing me, if you've only seen radishes, mac and champagne...
Oh yes.
I also observed it is was maybe a good thing to raise the room AC of a couple of C° as room temperature appears to be a little bit cold...
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Post 52028571 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
I've tried to zoom this picture, and could find any air conditioner, but according to this picture it is getting a little bit chilly out there...
I also observed it is was maybe a good thing to raise the room AC of a couple of C° as room temperature appears to be a little bit cold...
Great minds thinks alike.....
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Post 52031788 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
source: howmanyconfs.com
FYI, this is a worthless metric.
Could you elaborate more on this?
I strongly disagree as the security implied in Bitcoin (ledger costliness) is one of the main value proposition for bitcoin imho.
Who would Store Value on an insecure blockchain?
This does not correctly represent the relative relationship of the security chains.
I'll try to find a link for you later after I catch up a bit.
Thank you.
This is how I discovered this website.
https://twitter.com/lopp/status/1122850107685310464
I don't want to fall into the "
appeal to authority" (one of the most common
logical fallacy), but I think Jameson Lopp knows how these things work.
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Post 52031812 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
This is impressive.
I mean: what will happen after May 2020 when the supply of Bitcoin will be halved overnight?
Back of the envelope Calculations:
Average Bitcoin price during lat 90 days = 7,500 USD
Mined Bitcoin during last 90 days= 12.5*90*24*6=162,000
Cashapp Sales = 150,000,000 USD
so, Cashapp Sales in BTC = 150,000,000/ 7,500 = 20,000
Basically Cashapp bought more than 12% of total Bitcoin supply.
CashApp only.
After the halving 6% will turn into 24% because of the supply reduction.
This with a flat growth in the next 4 quarters.
Not bad, really not bad.
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Post 52031889 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
what will happen after May 2020 when the supply of Bitcoin will be halved overnight?
It's almost as if you're describing a Ponzi scheme.
This is a cheap objection and you are too smart not to understand why.
I won't indulge in this anymore.
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Post 52032041 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
A little development on the LedgerX saga:
<SNIP all the previous updates>
Latest Development:
Very US solution: SUE
https://messari.io/article/ledgerx-clashes-with-cftc-over-planned-launch-of-bitcoin-futures-platformFollowing yesterdays announcement that LedgerX had launched a retail platform allowing for the first physically settled bitcoin ($BTC) futures in the U.S. it remains unclear if contracts are live for trading or will be live any time soon. Earlier today The Block reported that there was no sign of approved contracts on the CFTC website and no listed market volumes.
The CFTC later stated that LedgerX does not have a designated contract maker (DCM) license required to trade futures, only one from 2017 that allows for the trading of swaps. This statement clashes with the fact that the CFTC had reportedly approved LedgerX's DCM license last month. Following these events Paul Chou, CEO of LedgerX, took to Twitter to announce that he would take action against the CFTC stating:
I've decided to sue the CFTC for anti competitive behavior, breach of duty, going against the regs, etc.
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/2019/08/01/actually-ledgerx-might-not-have-launched-physically-settled-bitcoin-futures-contracts-after-all/Time to call it a day folks.
Now Alita the Battle Angel.
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Post 52036934 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
Bitcoin, halvening and Plan B appear on the Sun!
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/9634852/bitcoin-price-rise-85-all-coins-mined/Funny picture caption thou:
They put hard disk mining bitcoin? Really?
WO CONTEST: Best dialogue between the two blokes in front of the "hard disk" wall wins 2 merits!
I just decided two additional rules:
1. Contest will end when no additional (funny) entries for 12 hours: it is potentially infinte contest! Just don’t let it die!
2. I reserve the right to merit as many posts with as many merits I want, with the minimum of 2 for the winner (capped by my tiny allowance)
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Post 52037280 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
It's time (again) for a Wall Observer Meta Post!
I am going to switch to monthly schedule soon!
Merit analysis based on LoyceV merit file:
http://loyce.club/Merit/merit.all.txtMerit updated to Friday,26, Jul, 2019 02:51:39 UTC
Total merits sent on WO: 27402
Weekly Merits sent on WO: 224 (-57)
Merited Users: 581 (+3)
TOP 100 MERIT RECEIVERS:
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66.Searing 83
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70.STT 72
71.BlindMayorBitcorn 72
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95.fluidjax 50
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99.ErisDiscordia 47
100.PoolMinor 46
TOP 100 MERIT SENDERS:
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2.BobLawblaw 1927
3.micgoossens 1278
4.LFC_Bitcoin 1059
5.bones261 1033
6.infofront 973
7.Last of the V8s 786
8.Globb0 718
9.jbreher 690
10.xhomerx10 682
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15.600watt 504
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17.Toxic2040 411
18.jojo69 381
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23.d_eddie 268
24.yefi 256
25.bitserve 245
26.kurious 224
27.Dabs 224
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29.VB1001 207
30.gentlemand 207
31.Wekkel 205
32.Ibian 205
33.ErisDiscordia 200
34.kenzawak 191
35.bitebits 187
36.suchmoon 186
37.RoomBot 180
38.Karartma1 179
39.explorer 155
40.JimboToronto 150
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56.ssmc2 105
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94.serveria.com 40
95.afbitcoins 40
96.nanobtc 38
97.fabiorem 37
98.flynn 37
99.MirkoIta 36
100.crypmike 36
TOP 100 WEEKLY RECEIVERS:
1.fillippone 24
2.LFC_Bitcoin 17
3.VB1001 13
4.JayJuanGee 11
5.HairyMaclairy 10
6.JSRAW 10
7.nikauforest 10
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11.micgoossens 7
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13.mindrust 6
14.Biodom 6
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16.Ludwig Von 5
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20.bkbirge 4
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22.RoomBot 3
23.xhomerx10 2
24.d_eddie 2
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30.vapourminer 2
31.lightfoot 2
32.serveria.com 2
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34.dyask 2
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37.Cryptotourist 1
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WEEKLY sMERITS BALANCE
SMerits Balance=Received Merits/2-Sent Merits
Positive Balance means an user has been increasing sMerits on the WO thread, while negative numbers means the users has sent more merits on WO than received.
Negative numbers are possible or because he has been generous this week because he has been greedy past weeks (so only temporary imbalance), or because he has hoarded smerits on other threads spending them on WO thread, or because he's a merit source.
TOP 10 WEEKLY RECEIVERS
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2.nikauforest 5
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4.JimboToronto 2.5
5.Ludwig Von 2.5
6.Biodom 2
7.RoomBot 1.5
8.xhomerx10 1
9.realr0ach 1
10.Arriemoller 1
TOP 10 WEEKLY SENDERS
1.micgoossens -54.5
2.JayJuanGee -18.5
3.HairyMaclairy -10
4.LFC_Bitcoin -9.5
5.vapourminer -8
6.nutildah -5.5
7.BobLawblaw -4
8.jbreher -4
9.suchmoon -4
10.VB1001 -3.5
Merit circulation decreased again this week. Crickets and tumbleweeds everywhere and holiday didn't help merit circulation.
Still fixing glitches here and there, I am using this to getting better at data management.
This data are to LAST Friday, I will update another time next weekend, then
I will make this post monthly, updated after the first merit release of the month.
713.
Post 52037916 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
Ok I start the contest.
"What the hell, we have thousand of Hard disk and still didn't find a single Bitcoin"
"Told you not to trust those chinese stuff".
Not very funny, I bet you can do better!
(funny HaiKu dialogue gests 4 merits)
714.
Post 52040603 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
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Post 52040884 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
I should fucking hope so
Didn’t realise buddy, thanks!
I think theymos only planned for there to be 100 DT members (max). More than 100 qualify now so once a month now however many over 100 there is, rotate out (randomly picked). It was my turn to be out last month
Well, apparently you were lucky enough: I just discovered You can be randomly picked twice out of DT1!
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5095156.msg52040676#msg52040676
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Post 52046707 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
"Shh, don't turn around. The dude with the camera just did an interview with me..."
"OK, why do you whisper?"
"I told him all the miners are harddrives. He bought it!"
"lol"
We have a winner here!
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Post 52046719 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
There you go your 1024 hard drive ready for your new miner.
Oh Dave you fucked up again!
Special mention for Globbo!
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Post 52063300 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
Need some train posts here....
Observing 11,001@stamp
This is the better I can do for the moment:
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Post 52064086 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
It's time (again) for a Wall Observer Meta Post!
Last Week LoyceV updated merit file late, that's why we are having two updates in a short amount of time.
This is the last weekly update, from now on I will update only on the first release of every new month, typically on the first Friday of the month!
Merit analysis based on LoyceV merit file:
http://loyce.club/Merit/merit.all.txtMerit updated to Friday, 2, Aug, 2019 02:48:42 UTC
Total merits sent on WO: 27615
Weekly Merits sent on WO: 213 (-11)
Merited Users: 588 (+7)
Users sending merits : 459 (+2)
TOP 100 MERIT RECEIVERS:
1.micgoossens 1736
2.Last of the V8s 1570
3.HairyMaclairy 1167
4.xhomerx10 1125
5.BobLawblaw 911
6.Toxic2040 910
7.jojo69 789
8.infofront 711
9.JayJuanGee 675
10.LFC_Bitcoin 621
11.d_eddie 508
12.Torque 496
13.bitserve 473
14.VB1001 432
15.gentlemand 381
16.Paashaas 363
17.Elwar 343
18.kenzawak 342
19.Globb0 315
20.mindrust 311
21.cAPSLOCK 288
22.mfort312 282
23.JimboToronto 278
24.Raja_MBZ 251
25.BTCMILLIONAIRE 247
26.goldkingcoiner 247
27.Rosewater Foundation 244
28.jbreher 241
29.kurious 235
30.Lambie Slayer 234
31.Biodom 229
32.ivomm 227
33.fillippone 208
34.realr0ach 194
35.Phil_S 194
36.TERA2 194
37.bones261 183
38.Ibian 180
39.nutildah 172
40.kingcolex 172
41.Kylapoiss 169
42.600watt 169
43.vroom 167
44.JSRAW 162
45.Icygreen 159
46.marcus_of_augustus 156
47.yefi 153
48.Hueristic 141
49.Wekkel 137
50.Arriemoller 134
51.StartupAnalyst 130
52.toknormal 129
53.Pamoldar 129
54.Anon136 121
55.Spaceman_Spiff_Original 119
56.Dabs 113
57.Cryptotourist 113
58.kirreev070 107
59.vapourminer 106
60.bitcoinPsycho 106
61.BinaryReign 105
62.explorer 97
63.Bitcoinaire 95
64.AlcoHoDL 89
65.lightfoot 88
66.serveria.com 84
67.Searing 83
68.Cryptoqueeen 81
69.STT 72
70.sirazimuth 72
71.BlindMayorBitcorn 72
72.HI-TEC99 71
73.Gyrsur 69
74.cryptjh 68
75.somac. 67
76.pacman7331 66
77.Totscha 65
78.cannycassiopeia 64
79.conspirosphere.tk 63
80.bitebits 63
81.Majormax 62
82.DeathAngel 62
83.crypmike 58
84.nanobtc 57
85.suchmoon 56
86.Karartma1 56
87.strawbs 54
88.Samarkand 54
89.theymos 53
90.FractalUniverse 53
91.rolling 51
92.RoomBot 51
93.BitcoinNewsMagazine 51
94.RayX12 50
95.fluidjax 50
96.encycrypto 48
97.Speculatoross 47
98.Ludwig Von 47
99.ErisDiscordia 47
100.PoolMinor 46
TOP 100 MERIT SENDERS:
1.JayJuanGee 2327
2.BobLawblaw 1939
3.micgoossens 1315
4.LFC_Bitcoin 1073
5.bones261 1033
6.infofront 975
7.Last of the V8s 786
8.Globb0 723
9.jbreher 698
10.xhomerx10 683
11.vapourminer 618
12.mindrust 587
13.HairyMaclairy 583
14.cAPSLOCK 548
15.600watt 504
16.marcus_of_augustus 502
17.Toxic2040 411
18.jojo69 383
19.Torque 340
20.Paashaas 318
21.QuestionAuthority 311
22.Hueristic 272
23.d_eddie 270
24.yefi 256
25.bitserve 245
26.kurious 225
27.Dabs 224
28.VB1001 212
29.BlindMayorBitcorn 209
30.gentlemand 207
31.Wekkel 205
32.Ibian 205
33.ErisDiscordia 200
34.kenzawak 191
35.bitebits 187
36.suchmoon 186
37.RoomBot 180
38.Karartma1 179
39.explorer 155
40.JimboToronto 152
41.Raja_MBZ 148
42.Gyrsur 144
43.Dunkelheit667 143
44.mfort312 142
45.nutildah 136
46.BTCMILLIONAIRE 118
47.Pamoldar 118
48.Rosewater Foundation 116
49.edgar 115
50.kingcolex 115
51.Searing 113
52.ivomm 111
53.Lambie Slayer 110
54.goldkingcoiner 110
55.fillippone 108
56.Majormax 106
57.ssmc2 106
58.Arriemoller 105
59.PoolMinor 101
60.xyzzy099 99
61.Biodom 93
62.P_Shep 91
63.lightfoot 89
64.tonyq 87
65.julian071 86
66.conspirosphere.tk 82
67.Kylapoiss 81
68.sirazimuth 80
69.Phil_S 80
70.Icygreen 79
71.JSRAW 73
72.criptix 73
73.RayX12 73
74.Elwar 72
75.vroom 72
76.DeathAngel 67
77.StartupAnalyst 60
78.Cryptotourist 59
79.bitcoinPsycho 57
80.Anon136 56
81.empowering 55
82.rolling 52
83.sammy007 50
84.Jayjay04 50
85.soullyG 49
86.FractalUniverse 48
87.STT 47
88.mymenace 46
89.AlcoHoDL 46
90.MrFreeRoMan 45
91.Bitcoinaire 44
92.AlexGR 43
93.Totscha 42
94.serveria.com 41
95.afbitcoins 40
96.nanobtc 38
97.fabiorem 37
98.flynn 37
99.MirkoIta 36
100.crypmike 36
TOP 100 WEEKLY RECEIVERS:
1.micgoossens 22
2.Lambie Slayer 14
3.VB1001 13
4.nutildah 12
5.LFC_Bitcoin 11
6.jbreher 11
7.mindrust 10
8.HairyMaclairy 8
9.fillippone 8
10.kurious 7
11.Dabs 7
12.Torque 6
13.gallianooo 6
14.jojo69 5
15.Biodom 5
16.vroom 5
17.Pamoldar 5
18.600watt 4
19.JSRAW 4
20.Dunkelheit667 4
21.Saint-loup 4
22.JayJuanGee 3
23.Raja_MBZ 3
24.Cryptotourist 3
25.AlcoHoDL 3
26.BobLawblaw 2
27.Globb0 2
28.JimboToronto 2
29.serveria.com 2
30.ChinkyEyes 2
31.bkbirge 2
32.Last of the V8s 1
33.cAPSLOCK 1
34.ivomm 1
35.kingcolex 1
36.bitcoinPsycho 1
37.lightfoot 1
38.criptix 1
39.Syke 1
40.GrosWesh 1
41.makrospex 1
42.Millionero 1
43.≡║▐µ 1
44._javi_ 1
45.bakasabo 1
46.slocker 1
47.tranthidung 1
48.Lucius 1
49.degxtra1 1
TOP 100 WEEKLY SENDERS
1.JayJuanGee 41
2.micgoossens 37
3.LFC_Bitcoin 14
4.BobLawblaw 12
5.vapourminer 11
6.hv_ 10
7.jbreher 8
8.nutildah 8
9.HairyMaclairy 6
10.Globb0 5
11.mindrust 5
12.VB1001 5
13.fillippone 4
14.AlcoHoDL 4
15.ivomm 3
16.Lambie Slayer 3
17.infofront 2
18.jojo69 2
19.d_eddie 2
20.JimboToronto 2
21.BinaryReign 2
22.Ludwig Von 2
23.≡║▐µ 2
24.pereira4 2
25.xhomerx10 1
26.cAPSLOCK 1
27.Torque 1
28.Hueristic 1
29.kurious 1
30.Raja_MBZ 1
31.Searing 1
32.Majormax 1
33.ssmc2 1
34.Phil_S 1
35.JSRAW 1
36.criptix 1
37.vroom 1
38.Cryptotourist 1
39.bitcoinPsycho 1
40.serveria.com 1
41.BitcoinNewsMagazine 1
42.bkbirge 1
43.smartcomet 1
44._javi_ 1
45.rattle_rattle 1
WEEKLY sMERITS BALANCE
SMerits Balance=Received Merits/2-Sent Merits
Positive Balance means an user has been increasing sMerits on the WO thread, while negative numbers means the users has sent more merits on WO than received.
Negative numbers are possible or because he has been generous this week because he has been greedy past weeks (so only temporary imbalance), or because he has hoarded smerits on other threads spending them on WO thread, or because he's a merit source.
TOP 10 WEEKLY BALANCE RECEIVERS
1.Lambie Slayer 4
2.Dabs 3.5
3.kurious 2.5
4.Biodom 2.5
5.Pamoldar 2.5
6.Torque 2
7.600watt 2
8.Dunkelheit667 2
9.Saint-loup 2
10.VB1001 1.5
TOP 10 WEEKLY SENDERS
1.JayJuanGee -39.5
2.micgoossens -26
3.BobLawblaw -11
4.vapourminer -11
5.hv_ -10
6.LFC_Bitcoin -8.5
7.Globb0 -4
8.jbreher -2.5
9.ivomm -2.5
10.AlcoHoDL -2.5
Merit circulation decreased again this week. Crickets and tumbleweeds everywhere and holiday didn't help merit circulation.
Still fixing glitches here and there, I am using this to getting better at data management. JayJuanGee is back with a great sending spree!
I will make this post monthly, updated after the first merit release of the month.
720.
Post 52066307 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
Bitcoin - best sponsor for poster artists
This is so oald.
Full size Bitcoin Website:
https://www.phneep.com/projects/bitcoin-propaganda/
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Post 52066460 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
It's time (again) for a Wall Observer Meta Post!
Last Week LoyceV updated merit file late, that's why we are having two updates in a short amount of time.
This is the last weekly update, from now on I will update only on the first release of every new month, typically on the first Friday of the month!
Merit analysis based on LoyceV merit file:
http://loyce.club/Merit/merit.all.txtMerit updated to Friday, 2, Aug, 2019 02:48:42 UTC
Merit circulation decreased again this week. Crickets and tumbleweeds everywhere and holiday didn't help merit circulation.
Still fixing glitches here and there, I am using this to getting better at data management. JayJuanGee is back with a great sending spree!
I will make this post monthly, updated after the first merit release of the month. Currently out srry
Probably 14 days till replenish
I will put a yellow post-it here on my monitor.
Here, done.
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Post 52066466 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
@fillippone, did you open this resto??
LOL! If you see me into that, please one shot in the head.
After a quick look at this place webpage
https://www.instagram.com/cafecryptoria/I can confirm: THIS IS NOT ITALIAN CUISINE.
Anyone serving this shit in Italy would be banned.
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Post 52067435 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
In the meantime:
LITECOIN JUST HALVEDLTC Block 1,680,000 Just mined.
https://blockchair.com/litecoin/block/1680000LTC 3rd Reward era has just started!
LTC block mining reward halves every 840,000 blocks.
LTC reward just halved from 25 coins to 12.5 coins per block.
First Halved Coinbase:
https://blockchair.com/litecoin/transaction/36137977Total Litecoins in circulation: 63,000,000
Total Litecoins to ever be produced: 84,000,000
Percentage of total Litecoins mined: 75.00%
Total Litecoins left to mine: 21,000,000
After the Halving:
Litecoins generated per day: 7,200
Litecoin inflation rate per annum: 4.17%
I personally strongly doubt any indication about upcoming Bitcoin halving can be drawn from this. Just be aware a lot of scammby price pump and dump scheme could be initiated in the next days.
EDIT:
Well, that excalated quickly:
The Litecoin halving has concluded and LTC is up 9 percent
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Post 52069398 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.57h):
^ Who-what is Carolina
Carloina wears cow boy hat and plays the banjo!
Even in Italy we know that!
725.
Post 52073951 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
A few hours ago PlanB tweeted:
China / Hong Kong situation is Cyprus ^ 2: mass capital exodus (think trillions $). China devaluating CNH > 7$ #bitcoin 🚀🚀🚀
https://twitter.com/100trillionUSD/status/1158226096325705728?s=20Well, things are going south:
USD CNH:
https://www.fxstreet.com/news/usd-cnh-rallies-to-fresh-highs-as-us-treasury-calls-china-as-currency-manipulator-201908052232USD HKD
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2019-08-05/currency-manipulatorCrypto Calm
Investors looking for a place to hide are finding an unlikely safe haven: Bitcoin. Securities such as sovereign bonds and gold rose as China fired back in the trade war, but so too did major cryptocurrencies. They're increasingly seen as a refuge during distressed times, with Bitcoin gaining more than 14% and smaller peers including XRP and Litecoin each rising more than 5%. The Swiss franc led G-10 currencies on traditional haven buying, which also sent gold higher.
I think this is the main reason behind this green move.
Trump said China is Devaluing FX and playing unfair..
WOW
Who was the first to play with currency starting QE?
Go bitcoin GO!
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Post 52077619 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
News form the Fiat ShitCoins:
Fed to develop real-time payments system for launch in 2023 or 2024The new service, dubbed FedNow, would compete with a private real-time payments system established by a group of large banks in 2017.
In a statement, the U.S. central bank said it was seeking public comment on the project, saying near-instantaneous transfer of funds 24 hours a day could yield economic benefits for individuals and businesses. Randal Quarles, the Fed’s vice chair for supervision, voted against the decision.
This is caused by bitcoin.
Competition pushed every market participant to put all her best effort in improving their product.
a true Hayekian dream: private actors challenge States in the money business, ultimately benefiting citizen.
Today, when I can (potentially) send GB to the other side of the world in a matter of minutes so everyone can appreciate how cute my puppy is,while I cannot transfer a few kb to move my wealth on the same extent.
I can do only in business hours NY.
I have to pay huge commissions.
GB of data of meme of useless value vs a few kb (a row on a database) worth my life savings.
So, bitcoin put competitive pressure on traditional bank to improve their products.
Conclusion:
If anyone is worried how traditional finance/governments can "kill bitcoin" is not trough laws and prohibitions, but instead they can improve their product (FIAT money) so much that anyone needs to use bitcoin in the first place.
I guess it won't happen.
727.
Post 52078690 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
Most people are woefully uneducated about Bitcoin.
It appears that everyone who can explain it is extremely bullish.
https://twitter.com/bitcoindeezy/status/1158053269874196480?s=20@r0ach, educate yourself, fight the inner bitterness, jump on the train, forget your Nazi sh*t thinking, forget trolling the WO, become a brother its not yet to late
This is why we are here.
Spread the word.
Spread the knowledge.
Bitcoin is a difficult topic, at the crossroad of different fields of human knowledge (monetary theory, cryptography, game theory, distributed calculation, network engineering...).
Also as a paradigm shift challenges us on many aspect of our life we are used to think about as "certainties". This is why also adoption is coming slowly: a lot of people prefer to "close the eyes" and stay in their comfortable habits of ignorance (no negative term here, only ignorance as "not knowledge").
Bitcoin is difficult, but the stake is too high not to be educated about it.
But once you see bitcoin, it cannot be unseen.
728.
Post 52078899 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
Today I made 2 posts on WO and twice triggered a certain user.
I am doing a good job!
729.
Post 52079027 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
...$600k with a cost of production of $6k post-halving. ...
How do you know future mining difficult to infere cost of production? Maybe you dont know what is it or how does it work.. No surprise, coming from a gold bug
Because it already uses an enormous amount of power and it's not even really possible for mining to go up like 10x anymore or it would probably use more power than the entire United States. It's a finite planet. Do bit-tards really believe mining can expand infinitely or that it would be shocking for Bitcoin to reach peak mining an entire 10 years after release? And don't even try the lame "hurrr Bitcoin is powered by 70% renewable energy" lie. That's due to mining centralizing around two ghost city hydro power dams in China, and China does not have infinite ghost city dams to expand to.
False.
With the power consumption of IDLE devices on the US only , you could power the bitcoin mining industry for 3.6 years
Source:
https://insight.jbs.cam.ac.uk/2019/cambridge-bitcoin-electricity-consumption-index-cbeci/This is a fact, not a mexican scammer bitcoin shilling statement.
It's plenty of energy out there.
730.
Post 52079267 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
Speaking of education.
Bitcoin is often labeled as a Ponzi scheme.
Well: what can you say about a negative yielding bond?
why should you buy a negative yielding bond if it not to sell it later at an higher price?
here you go: total nominal velue of negative yield bonds: 15 TRLN of USD.
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Post 52085868 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
I'm twelve pages behind and I'm leaving in a few hours. It feels bad to leave with a backlog to start
I will be out for a month more or less, and my access to this forum will be very limited.
I hope she behaves while I'm not here. I will be checking on her anyway
Maybe I'll be able to able to post before I leave. If not, see you in a few weeks.
Have a nice time out Eddie!
Don’t worry, JSRAW will do a wonderful recap post for you when you are back.
Price preciction when you are back:
1 BTC=1 BTC
732.
Post 52087934 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
I'm pleased to see so many fellow observers acknowledged my checkout post. Thanks guys!
At the moment I'm in a bit of a dilemma. I've got a double position as I often do. A long, in the green, and a much smaller short (size is about 20% of the long), in the red. Overall at the moment I'm profiting about 1% of the play stash. The dilemma is: close everything or just let it run?
I'm not afraid of the long being liquidated: that would take an apocalypse (under 4k as it is now). The short is so underleveraged it can't actually be liquidated. I've set stops to close the short in profit if it dips, even a slight correction would do. So the long is safe even if she goes lower than my conservative estimate, since closing the short would boost my margin. If she goes UP UP UP, I will keep profiting with a slight 20% handicap because of the short.
What would you do if you were in my shoes?
Since you are going on holiday for a considerable amount of trading time, I can't see any advantage having positions open.
1. You are a sitting duck. You are going to leave orders that are waiting to be triggered at the worst possible time.
2. You are on holiday. Open positions force you to constantly check market. And constantly checking market sadly worsens the enjoyment of such holidays.
Close everything.
733.
Post 52088410 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
You're right fillippone, that's the rational thing to do.
Pity because I'm decently set up if a big run up happens.
I've left similar situations open for one month already a couple of times, and it paid out both times.
But this time... uh, I must be getting old and wimpy.
Long already closed, waiting for a $2 dip to trigger closing the short too.
Every old trader I have known I’m my life was wimpy.
So if you want to be an old trader, yes, you have to be a little bit wimpy.
Maybe it’s a necessary attitude to be successful as a trader in the long run...
Thanks for your advice, Hairy. The conservative choice has less glitter but more peace of mind while I'm out. But the entry point on that long was sweet indeed...
Peace of mind is highly underrated quality of every position
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Post 52089856 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
Observing BTC @12,070 USD. whoops 11,690
Observing GOLD @1,502 USD. (highest point since April 2013)
Donald Trump sent Gold overshooting criticizing FED being too shy cutting rates (like 15 trln of negative yield bonds worldwide are not enough)
Some user would be celebrating for this move in Gold.
All other user know what bullish gold implies for their favourite asset and are celebrating too!
735.
Post 52090732 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
Savage red dildo.
736.
Post 52091771 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
Observing BTC @12,070 USD. whoops 11,690
Observing GOLD @1,502 USD. (highest point since April 2013)
Donald Trump sent Gold overshooting criticizing FED being too shy cutting rates (like 15 trln of negative yield bonds worldwide are not enough)
Some user would be celebrating for this move in Gold.
All other user know what bullish gold implies for their favourite asset and are celebrating too!
News of simultaneous pump in Bitcoin and in Gold is likely to cement the 'digital gold' narrative in the minds of the many.
Well, actually Gold continued drifting upwards, while bitcoin reversed back.
But really, we are observing blips in short term price that are really insignificant in the long run.
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Post 52094364 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
Been busy this evening but good to see These price movements when I check now and Then....
Btw
BTC short explained “Ferrell” style....no one knows what it means, but its provocative it gets the people going
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Post 52099578 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
Observing $11,940.
On route to Amsterdam for a few days & a meet up with mic & cryptoqueeen. Hopefully $12,000 soon whilst I wait to get my flight in a few hours.
Cheers WO’s!
Have Fun catch you soon, looking forward to it !!!!!
Maak er een mooie dag van!
Zowizo, wij zullen wrs ook niet ver van elkaar komen denk ik....
Bedankt !
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Post 52100754 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
more than 1 hour to get a block, I hate when this happens when I need to transfer some corn around within a reasonable time frame.
Wow.
Considering hashrate is at historical maximun this is quite weird.
Bitcoin Network Hash Rate Hits 80 Quintillion for the First Time
Data from monitoring resource Bitinfocharts confirmed Bitcoin’s hash rate exceeded 80 quintillion SHA256 hashes per second Aug. 8, the first time such a level has been reached.
EDIT: Sorry, shall we read your quote as:
more than 1 hour to get IN a block, I hate when this happens when I need to transfer some corn around within a reasonable time frame.
This is quite different and has probably to do with a wrong fee estimation.
Yes because despite high price fees haven't never been so low:
Despite Criticisms It Can't, Bitcoin Is Scaling[...] transaction fees are the lowest they’ve ever been when Bitcoin is trading above $10,000. On August 4th, the median Bitcoin transaction fee was $0.15 per transaction. Typically the fees associated with Bitcoin transactions follow prices. With higher prices, higher fees tend to follow.
This is a peculiar situation. Never before in Bitcoin history have we seen fees as low as $0.15 when prices were above $10,000. The next closest day of transaction fees was February 21, 2018, when Bitcoin transaction fees were $0.19 during one of the final days above $10,000 in the 2017/2018 bubble. Most days with Bitcoin prices above $10,000 had transaction fees well above $1 per transaction — sometimes as high as $30.
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Post 52100812 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
Observing $11,940.
On route to Amsterdam for a few days & a meet up with mic & cryptoqueeen. Hopefully $12,000 soon whilst I wait to get my flight in a few hours.
Cheers WO’s!
Have Fun catch you soon, looking forward to it !!!!!
Maak er een mooie dag van!
Zowizo, wij zullen wrs ook niet ver van elkaar komen denk ik....
Bedankt !
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Yeh kya drama macha rakha hai!!!
Xo'sh, bu tezda kuchayib ketdi
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Post 52103842 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
At which price Will we have page parity ??
25124
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Post 52103912 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
Follow up article
FedNow — US Federal Reserve Payment Tool a Threat to Banks, Not Crypto
Banks, not cryptos?
Notably, the Fed’s announcement starts with an emphasis on “the rapid evolution of technology,'' which enables the Federal Reserve and the payment industry “to modernize the nation's payment system and establish a safe and efficient foundation for the future.” However, neither the press release nor the enclosed FAQs make a single mention of Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, Libra, blockchain or even digital currencies at large.
Indeed, it seems that FedNow wants to topple large banking institutions rather than cryptocurrencies. In fact, banking giants Citigroup, Bancorp and JPMorgan Chase have already started fighting the government’s new effort, as it seems to overlap with their own real-time payments system, the Clearing House, which the banks launched in 2017, following a cumulative $1 billion investment injection from those participating.
There's no point for the FED to posa a "threat to banks" or "topple large banking institutions".
FED is overwatching the whole payments system and must guarantee, as opposed to toppling banks, that banks can stand right and in place (do you remember 2008?)
So this article is fascinating, but it is ultimately non sense.
The FED understood the better way to contrast cryptocurrencies and private money, is not by banning them or by overruling, but making the shitty fiat money a little bit less shitty.
This is a true Hayeckian dream: not State run monopoly over the payments and money, but a competition in the consumer final benefit.
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Post 52103928 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
At which price Will we have page parity ??
25124
If that is correct I ow you 0.25124
If it would be exactly that page would be hilarious
counts only for this page ..... If we enter a bull run am I allowed to spam WO?
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Post 52107729 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
[snip]
Sorry it took me soo long, I've been under alot of pressure lately and when I have a little time I just didn't feel like doing the search.
These metrics are measuring "work done", not security.
More "work done" doesn't necessarily mean "more security".
For example take the following two blockchains:
Bitcoin Cash (SHA-256 @ 2 PH/s) or ($5/s)
Zcash (Equihash @ 4 GH/s) or ($3/s)
https://github.com/lukechilds/howmanyconfs.comThank you very much.
Appreciated and digging into that.
I would send more merits, but I am running sooo low atm.
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Post 52108917 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
It's an old news, but I didn't see it mentioned here.
The ‘Vault’ Is Back: Coder Revives Plan to Shield Bitcoin Wallets from Theft
“Vaults are particularly interesting as a bitcoin cold storage security mechanism because they enable a publicly observable delay period during which time a user could be alerted by a “watchtower” that a thief might be in the process of stealing their coins.”
“The idea is to have a sequence of pre-generated pre-signed transactions that are generated in a certain way. The basic components are a vaulting transaction that locks coins into a vault, a delayed-spend transaction which is the only way to spend from a vault, and a re-vaulting transaction which can recover/clawback coins from the delayed-spend transaction.”
So, it's something like a multisig, n-block timed transaction if i understnd it right.
Intresting as it it a very effective increased security for HODLERS.
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Post 52109587 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
LFC_Bitcoin & micgoossens - Amsterdam
Having a good time, first thing we see after 5 minutes walking
A bitcoin shop
How comes there's anyone from the forum running that shop?
I would expect a reverse angle form behind the shop counter :"Look who's taking a picture outside my shop!!"
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Post 52110411 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
This is big.
Blockstream Reveals Massive Bitcoin Mining Facilities, Fidelity An Early CustomerOn Thursday, blockchain technology company Blockstream revealed details related to their massive Bitcoin mining data centers in Quebec, Canada and Adel, Georgia. The facilities account for a combined 300 megawatts worth of energy capacity, and they’re currently available for hosting enterprise-level mining activities, in addition to Blockstream’s own mining operations.
The size of Blockstream’s mining facilities cannot be overstated. According to Blockstream CSO Samson Mow, the facilities would account for roughly 6 exahashes of Bitcoin mining power if used at full capacity with the latest ASIC mining hardware
This is 7.5% of mining hashpower (conservative hypotesis the miners are are all already turned on now).
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Post 52111213 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
[snip]
Sorry it took me soo long, I've been under alot of pressure lately and when I have a little time I just didn't feel like doing the search.
These metrics are measuring "work done", not security.
More "work done" doesn't necessarily mean "more security".
For example take the following two blockchains:
Bitcoin Cash (SHA-256 @ 2 PH/s) or ($5/s)
Zcash (Equihash @ 4 GH/s) or ($3/s)
https://github.com/lukechilds/howmanyconfs.comThank you very much.
Appreciated and digging into that.
I would send more merits, but I am running sooo low atm.
Never a problem buddy, and never worry about merits I don't care about them.
I am the kind of guy that gives merit when learn something new.
This was very interesting.
and when I laugh, of course....
and rightly timed train pictures...
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Post 52111499 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
LFC_Bitcoin & micgoossens - Amsterdam
Let me guess. Left LFC and right Mic
Can someone find a tape measure to find the size of those butts? 🤪
How did you tell??
Obviously the tatoos (bitcoin carriage)
A little bit of inference from mean height of dutch people vs english people.
And of course.. the butts!
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Post 52112539 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
Ah, this is called Bitcoin Dominance!
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Post 52113220 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
Kyle Torpey at least knows how to edit.
Yeah, I dunno. What do the last three paragraphs have to do with Blockstream having large mining power?
I think it's a PR stunt for BetterHash.
I think the rhetoric here is: you mine, you profit but also you can decide not to follow the Chinese pools in taking directions you don't like.
You can mine the transactions you want.
Here a brief description of what bettterHAsh is:
BetterHash Protocol Lets Pool Miners Regain Control Over Their Hash Power
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Post 52114000 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
Kind of a funny way to conclude an article on Blockstream's mining activities, no?
I'm not sure how Blockstream even attempts to justify their existence. Bitcoin is supposed to be open source, then a CORPORATION - corporations are private, for profit entities not based on open source - attempts to hijack the protocol as the only possible valid way to send transactions LOL. So it's not really open source at all if Bitcoin is entirely controlled by a corporation and their proprietary, vendor lock-in solution. It's as bad of a scam as crisis actor Donald Trump pretending to be a patriot while attempting to ban the 2nd amendment.
Linux is open source and it’s plenty of CORPORATIONS legitimately trying to profit from it.
The logic of your statement is pretty weak.
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Post 52114747 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
69.9 on CMC
i will empty the other half of this great bottle of rum if we hit 70% tonight.
I am going to buy some corn to get the dominance there so you won’t feel guilty when emptying that bottle.
You can thank me later.
Now I am going to buy that 0.1% world bitcoin...
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Post 52117187 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
I discovered interesting fact. Wall Observer is the biggest thread in the forum, and many users visited to read, or joined discussion here (from Newbies to Legendary members). However, the vote (last round) shows only 113 voters. Where are others? Why did you not join the vote?
Am I wrong or the fact that any of the answers in the poll is highlighted in bold means you didn’t vote in the poll?
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Post 52117190 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
Well done Nutildah!
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4850225.msg52117047#msg52117047I don’t know if You subscribed to Maggiordomo, in case you didn’t, Fillippone is here to help!
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Post 52117933 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
Am I wrong or the fact that any of the answers in the poll is highlighted in bold means you didn’t vote in the poll?
Did you see that the poll was locked already?
So I was wrong!
I swear I checked my poll and my answer was still highlighted...
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Post 52119283 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
feels pumpy
I'm calling defcon 2 and moving to 5 minute candles
Reverse pumpy?
Getting used to this.
The battle for 12k make the “Battle of Winterfell” look like a little playground skirmish...
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Post 52121330 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
Is there any worst possible idea?
A new IBM patent describes a peer-to-peer network for managing and storing browsing session data on a blockchain.
The browser collects pre-specified information from web browsing sessions, according to the patent. The information is then transferred to a network of peer-to-peer nodes for collection and storage.
I am wearing one of those and someone want to save my browsing history on the blockchain...
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Post 52129935 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
I am not an AT guy, this graph looks like a spaghetti soup to me, but the guy is quite knowledgeable:
Two blue circles are buy the dip areas of interest for me with the higher one being more likely imo
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EBpATaiWwAAp2Fc.jpg
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Post 52137164 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
I know it's scary, but the %age of user that actually haven't used a floppy disk is quite embarassing.
We are old.
One of the fondest memories is playing Monkey Island II with only 14 (fourteen) floppy disk to swap bask and forth, with that ba*stard faulty 7th disk that crashed every time.
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Post 52137416 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
One of the fondest memories is playing Monkey Island II with only 14 (fourteen) floppy disk to swap bask and forth, with that ba*stard faulty 7th disk that crashed every time.
I remember I've asked all friends' floppy disks to transfer NetQ Rally from somewhere. Iirc it was about 100MB. Of course, some of the disks have failed, but I was careful enough and I asked the guy I got it from to keep the archives for a couple of days until I am sure.
Last time I've had a 1.44 floppy in hand was a few years ago, somebody gave it to me to look at the sun for a (partial) eclipse (!).
AH!
This is actually really dangerous, the floppy disk are really inadequate for the scope.
Glad you didn't lost your sight.
For sure you saw a shitty eclipse...
Floppy disk media have a marginally safe infrared transmission, and produce poor quality images of the solar disk. The magnetic media scatters visible light to the extent that one sees a dull red disk surrounded by a broad halo of red light. I would not recommend using this material for a solar filter.
http://www.mreclipse.com/Special/filters.html#table1
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Post 52137581 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
I wonder what they should change the "Save" icon to...
True, floppy disks are just completely irrelevant.
Can't change it to a CD because they are nearing irrelevance.
The "Save" icon is iconic, but antiquated.
What would be a decent replacement?
No replacement.
Documents are continuously saved, as in Google drive.
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Post 52137624 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
WO gang.
BTC is so lazy in these days, but I think this news is really important:
LITECOIN WALLETS HIT BY LARGE-SCALE DUSTING ATTACK, SO WHAT IS IT?Reports are emerging that Litecoin wallets have been hit by a new kind of cyber-attack called dusting. It has not affected LTC markets but is something that crypto traders and holders should be aware of. Binance Academy offered an explanation.
In short, a dusting attack is when scammers attempt to break the privacy of a cryptocurrency, Litecoin in this case, by sending tiny amounts of it to private wallets. The attackers then attempt to trace the transactional activity of these wallets in an attempt to discover the identity of the person that owns them.
The term ‘dust’ refers to the tiny fractions of crypto coins that most users ignore. A couple of hundred satoshis may be referred to as ‘dust’ as the sum is so tiny that most people would not even notice it. It is also prevalent on crypto exchanges as the remnants of transactions that remain in wallets and can no longer be user or transferred.
Here a description of the attack on Binance academy.
https://www.binance.vision/security/what-is-a-dusting-attackThis technique is used on Bitcoin too, so be alert WO gang: when someone send you some sats, be safe!
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Post 52138323 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
Oooooh, I probably shouldn't have investigated where that 500 or so sats came from that appeared in my cold storage stash.
But wouldn't that mean these attacks would have to come from the block explorer sites? That where one would go to trace transactions after all.I see, so it's in collecting the dust with a transaction. OK, haven't done that. Will make sure it stays where it is.
WO gang.
BTC is so lazy in these days, but I think this news is really important:
LITECOIN WALLETS HIT BY LARGE-SCALE DUSTING ATTACK, SO WHAT IS IT?Reports are emerging that Litecoin wallets have been hit by a new kind of cyber-attack called dusting. It has not affected LTC markets but is something that crypto traders and holders should be aware of. Binance Academy offered an explanation.
In short, a dusting attack is when scammers attempt to break the privacy of a cryptocurrency, Litecoin in this case, by sending tiny amounts of it to private wallets. The attackers then attempt to trace the transactional activity of these wallets in an attempt to discover the identity of the person that owns them.
The term ‘dust’ refers to the tiny fractions of crypto coins that most users ignore. A couple of hundred satoshis may be referred to as ‘dust’ as the sum is so tiny that most people would not even notice it. It is also prevalent on crypto exchanges as the remnants of transactions that remain in wallets and can no longer be user or transferred.
Here a description of the attack on Binance academy.
https://www.binance.vision/security/what-is-a-dusting-attackThis technique is used on Bitcoin to, so be alert WO gang: when someone send you some sats, be safe!
Exactly. The point is consolidating this transaction in your wallet is really dangerous for your privacy.
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Post 52139232 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
<SNIP>
Maybe I am dumb but I don’t really get this. How does dusting an address make any difference ? You can trace the flow of funds either with or without the dust ? All transactions are public data.
I think here the point is which address dust transactions are sent to: used BTC address with 0 balance.
So the attacker knows he's sending sats to and address in control of someone. Let's call this address A.
When you want to spend you join the A stats to your B address.
This is new information for attacker. He otherwise couldn't have linked the two different A and B addresses.
Another technique is sending sats to a "gift address" or deliberately ask for a "new address for a donation" and then send a few sats to that address (again address A). when you consolidate to your main wallet B to spend, there, the attackers knows you own also B address (without sending sats you wouldn't have used that very address).
Typical use case:
1. internet bitcoin faucet, where you have to register with email (address B controlled by email XXX@yyy).
2. Bitcoin.com giving out 50 dollars in crypto so they can track your addresses for free.
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Post 52140161 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
Boring afternoon session on BTC,
so fellow Fillippone providing you a time sink:
https://graph.lndexplorer.com/
a way to look at how far LND network has grown lately, with full data on each node.
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Post 52143287 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
WO gang.
BTC is so lazy in these days, but I think this news is really important:
LITECOIN WALLETS HIT BY LARGE-SCALE DUSTING ATTACK, SO WHAT IS IT?Reports are emerging that Litecoin wallets have been hit by a new kind of cyber-attack called dusting. It has not affected LTC markets but is something that crypto traders and holders should be aware of. Binance Academy offered an explanation.
In short, a dusting attack is when scammers attempt to break the privacy of a cryptocurrency, Litecoin in this case, by sending tiny amounts of it to private wallets. The attackers then attempt to trace the transactional activity of these wallets in an attempt to discover the identity of the person that owns them.
The term ‘dust’ refers to the tiny fractions of crypto coins that most users ignore. A couple of hundred satoshis may be referred to as ‘dust’ as the sum is so tiny that most people would not even notice it. It is also prevalent on crypto exchanges as the remnants of transactions that remain in wallets and can no longer be user or transferred.
Here a description of the attack on Binance academy.
https://www.binance.vision/it/security/what-is-a-dusting-attackThis technique is used on Bitcoin too, so be alert WO gang: when someone send you some sats, be safe!
Maybe I am dumb but I don’t really get this. How does dusting an address make any difference ? You can trace the flow of funds either with or without the dust ? All transactions are public data.
I didn't understand this before either, but it is a way to link different adresses in the same wallet, it can not do more than that. Maybe you used an old address once and it is empty. However, you still have some funds on a newer address in the same wallet. You spend funds from that wallet. You were not aware the old wallet received some dust, and the dust was included in the transaction, showing both the old and new address as inputs to the same tx, and therefore probably part of the same wallet, belonging to the same person. If there was identity info attached to any of the 2 addresses, that identity info is now linked to the other address.
TLDR: basically assume al addresses in the same wallet are known to be linked, and make separate wallets if you don't want it to be linked.
Ok I get it now. It is a way of forcing address reuse, where an address known to be linked to X can be forcibly reused to link new addresses to X.
Exactly. This.
I don’t know how effective it is, but the risk is that one.
To me, honestly, you really want to be separated to your coins if you get caught in this kind of attack.
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Post 52146997 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
The average Joe is not financially savvy.
The average Joe has credit card debt.
The average Joe buys things that they can’t afford.
The average Joe does not save.
The average Joe does not invest in themselves.
Bitcoin is just way out of their league.
https://twitter.com/psychedelicbart/status/1161086418665529349?s=21And I was lucky to been introduced properly into BTC
If ever the average Joe wants to learn Bitcoin he get his own thread on bitcointalk!
5 Resources to teach Average Joe about Bitcoin
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Post 52147934 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
OK Wall Observers!
Time for some free shitcoins that we can dump
en masse to pump up this puppy!
I've already earned $80 in free lumens, EOS, BAT & other shitcoins, although I admit some of them are actually very innovative, sophisticated & interesting, but I will probably wait for the next dip and then trade them all for BTC
Maybe I'll stake some EOS since that's fun.
With my reflinks, I can earn even more coins and tokens.
Do this, then you can invite your friends to do the same and you double your free tokens and coins.
If anyone wants to log in to the free coin giveaway with my reflink, I'd be grateful.
Just PM me for the link
NEW OR Existing customers can use any of these links.
Hurry, 2 of 7 coins have been all claimed.
Do a dump
en masse at the next big dip and we can mini-pump up BTC - WIN-WIN!
It's worth having an account at Coinbase for all the freebies that keep coming, IMO, keeping just a little trading money &
BTC in my wallets.
80% of my
BTC is in my Trezor wallet.
https://www.coinbase.com/earnhow long did it take for your shitcoins to appear in your account? I'm not seeing my goddamn free lumens goddammit
Immediately upon passing each quiz.
Very nice way to earn some free BTC. I've referred some of my friends and got about $100 worth of free BTC.
1 Do a shitcoin quiz
2 Receive shitcoins
3 Immediately sell for BTC
4
5 PROFITZ
Use coin control. Every modern wallet allows you to control every UTXO ("coin") in your wallet. You can select and mark every coin not to be spent or mixed with other coin.
Otherwise the sequence goes on like that:
6.You get your coins in your KYC account,
7.You retrieve your coins to your private wallet
8.You spend your coins mixing them with your OLD coins
9.Coinbase knows you control also all the other funds.
10.US Government knows you control also all the other funds.
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Post 52148836 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
According to
Coin Metrics' State of the Network, Bitcoin and Gold are becoming more and more correlated:
Prices are moving north in both cases:
Correlation is hedging higher toward historical maximums:
Looking at a plot of the prices of Bitcoin and gold can easily lead to the conclusion that there is some positive relationship. Correlation coefficients, a summary statistic that is simple to interpret and calculate, is commonly used to provide an objective measure of the linear relationship between two timeseries. Despite the widespread use of correlation and its ease of interpretation, it is prone to misuse. Some analysts mistakenly calculate correlation using the prices (or level) and not the returns (or changes) of the two timeseries. Such an analysis can lead to misleading conclusions. Our analysis uses daily returns to calculate an economically-meaningful correlation coefficient.
The actual data provides only moderate support for the safe haven narrative. An analysis of a 90-day rolling correlation indicates that the Bitcoin and gold return has historically been uncorrelated with values oscillating around zero. Interestingly, the correlation has been steadily increasing since the beginning of this year as theory would expect. Current correlation is +0.20 – high relative to its historical range and increasing, but still low on an absolute scale where correlation coefficients can range from -1.0 to + 1.0.
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Post 52151444 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
Just returned from travelling with Rick, and WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING WITH CORN, DUDES ?!
Just... absolute... sheeeit.
Otherwise the sequence goes on like that:
6.You get your coins in your KYC account,
7.You retrieve your coins to your private wallet
8.You spend your coins mixing them with your OLD coins
9.Coinbase knows you control also all the other funds.
10.US Government knows you control also all the other funds.
I make sure to explicitly use Coin Control in the QT client, to have absolute control of what inputs go towards any transactions.
Learn to use Coin Control. It's your friend. I try to spend oldest inputs first, and try not to mix inputs - if possible - depending on the size of the transaction.
Editing my original message to make this point more clear.
EDIT: I actually started a new thread about this in Beginners and help. Hopefully it will be useful to someone!
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5175238.msg52152021#msg52152021
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Post 52157368 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
As usual traders are the biggest factor dictating where the price will move, always been like that as long as there is bad news or good news. Well been like that since 2018 at least.
Well I saw this news about SEC delaying decisions on Bitcoin ETF proposals but don't think the market still cares about that. Unless it gets approved, will be bad for BTC but good short term for the price IMO.
I think ETF approval or disapproval will make any difference in the long run.
I really can't see the EFT not to be approved in the long run.
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Post 52157791 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
Bitcoin works as Satoshi meant to:
60 Latin American Banks Can Now Use Bitcoin for Cross-Border PaymentsA leading bank technology provider in Latin America is partnering with cryptocurrency exchange Bitex to facilitate cross-border payments over the bitcoin blockchain.
“The integration of Bitex into Bantotal program represents a major step in the breakthrough of blockchain technology in banking,” said Bitex Chief Marketing Officer Manuel Beaudroit.
Bantotal is a core banking service provider based in Uruguay that services over 60 different financial institutions across 14 different countries. According to a Bantotal spokesperson, an estimated 20 million people use Bantotal’s money management services.
This is a good news on the day when Barclays cut his services to Coinbase.
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Post 52157967 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
"Shit runs downhill", 2019 bull season edition.
I don't get it. Why do all lines converge at 1.00 on the "performance" axis? As was pointed out in a twitter comment beneath this tweet, "Shouldn’t this be normalized where all alts start at the same point to the left?"
Though its clear the majority of the coins are above the axis, meaning they have fallen relative to BTC, it gives a weird impression.
I think this is the worst graph I ever saw.
Ever, not only bitcoin related.
Textbook example of how NOT to draw a graph.
Probably the author (and VB001) wanted to troll us.
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Post 52158724 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
I really can't see the EFT not to be approved in the long run.
My question is that does bitcoins really need it? I mean bitcoins strength is in it's hashpower not in the approval of any agency or powerful group.
OF course not.
It's not bitcoin that need Wall Street. It is Wall Street that needs Bitcoin.
WS needs bitcoin because in the NIRP environment we are lving in, an high volatility, uncorrelated, positive alpha asset is badly needed in any diversified portfolio.
Bitcoin don't need WS, but WS can act as an adoption accelerator, shrinking the timeline of bitcoin main acceptance.
That's it.
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Post 52158746 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
<SNIP>
Well done mate!
Not that grinding activity to become Legendary is meaning anything, when you already demonstrated to be a legendary member of this forum because all that you managed to do over the years!
On a side note: I can't believe you just had a 4 days no-merit streak!
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Post 52160333 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
Probably the author (and VB001) wanted to troll us.
Exactly, I am a troll disguised as WO.
Congrats, Mic, special celebration tonight...
WO Gang,
brace yourself.
Wall of food pics are coming.
Hopefully, only food and drink pics...
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Post 52160659 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
<snip>
I’ve been trying to get to 1000 (earned) Merit’s for a long time too & today I finally achieved it. I know you have lots more but it took me ages to get to 1000 earned (2000).
Congrats once again brother.
Whoa! Totally missed that mate!
Great achievement.
Not that you were in need to demonstrate anything (not your fault if you were already here when merits airdropped!) but getting 1000 merits means you kept up with the good work!
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Post 52161190 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
Gravity force shows its effects on price again. I still don't find reasons of recent drop. Are there any news released minutes ago?
Sellers more aggressive than buyers.
Financial Markets are in disarray
Gold is healthy + 17 USD atm
1 BTC= 1 BTC
No reasons to worry.
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Post 52161850 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
Fillippone just pawn in the Game of Bitcointalk...
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Post 52165366 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
Found this gem by Dan Held
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dheld_the-game-monopoly-sold-for-2-in-1935-activity-6567389687764398081-9bAHThe game “Monopoly” sold for $2 in 1935. In the box, you get monopoly money.
That original stack of monopoly money from 1935 is worth $50 as a collectors item.
Monopoly money literally holds more value than your fiat currency.
I need a good laugh on this 4 digits again day.
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Post 52165659 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
I need a good laugh on this 4 digits again day.
Hi, fillippone,
I hope that bear wants only to hug me, and not to maul me.
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Post 52166906 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
Time to hit F9, Gabor: negative yielding bonds just hit 16 Trillions USD.
‘Time for Plan ₿,’ Says VanEck Exec as Negative Yield Bonds Hit 27% According to Deutsche Bank, 27% of global bonds traded are now negative yield, so expected to pay out less than their initial cost.
Negative yield bonds dwarf Bitcoin market cap
This represents $15 trillion worth of debt. Or as VanEck digital asset director, Gabor Gurbacs, commented Aug. 14, this is 75 times the total Bitcoin market cap.
“It’s time for Plan ₿!” he adds.
Whilst currently this phenomenon is limited to certain European countries and Japan, all eyes are on the U.S. Federal Reserve to see if it follows the trend.
Meanwhile, ex-chairman of the Fed, Alan Greenspan, told Bloomberg on Tuesday that there is no barrier to Treasury yields falling below zero. This prompted Bitcoin perma-bull, Max Keiser to tweet that “Bitcoin has no top because fiat has no bottom.”
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Post 52167034 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
On August 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon closed the gold window to foreign countries, meaning they no longer could exchange dollars for gold.
The Federal Reserve had printed so much money that there was
a run on gold at the Treasury by foreign central banks. (Americans at the time couldn't own gold thanks to a ban by Franklin Delano Rosevelt.)
The printing of money also caused accelerating price inflation in the United States that Nixon tried to battle. But instead of putting pressure on the Federal Reserve to stop printing money, on the same day he closed the gold window, he also imposed a wage and price freeze.
https://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2018/08/this-week-in-economic-history-nixon.htmlAugust 15, 1971 /
Aug-15-2019 Lets go 10,000
BTCitcoin
The day America Defaulted his obligations to the world.
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Post 52167452 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
This.
This is the most convincing reason for the Bitcoin dump, that looked totally asynchronous to all other things happening in the world (Gold and China, in the first place). I saw this am via Twitter, but here there's a good recap.
Did Chinese Ponzi Scam Cause Bitcoin To Tank 10%?One possible factor floating around the crypto sphere this morning is a Chinese Ponzi scam that resulted in the loss of a substantial sum of Bitcoin. Founding partner at Primitive Crypto, Dovey Wan, has been busy on twitter today with news that PLUS Token team members have been arrested.
The likelihood of this having any impact on wider Bitcoin and crypto markets is still being debated. The story is not even being reported outside of China at the moment and Wan appears to be the only source of information aside from a from a six week old SCMP story.
Founding partner at Adamant Capital, Tuur Demeester, has hinted that the sums involved could have wider implications on markets;
“If true, we’re talking about a 200,000 BTC heist here… +1% of circulating supply, worth over $2 billion today.”
This am I also saw this Twitter thread, where someone stated some gang members, stil at large, are trying to cash out sending clips of 100 BTC to binance:
https://twitter.com/DoveyWan/status/1161703702270365696?s=20I couldn’t find the chat but starting a few days ago, Chinese traders are saying someone has been dumping 100BTC non-stop on Binance, will post here once I find the chat detail.
Which i suspected related to PlusToken as well
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Post 52167780 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
This am I also saw this Twitter thread, where someone stated some gang members, stil at large, are trying to cash out sending clips of 100 BTC to binance:
https://twitter.com/DoveyWan/status/1161703702270365696?s=20I couldn’t find the chat but starting a few days ago, Chinese traders are saying someone has been dumping 100BTC non-stop on Binance, will post here once I find the chat detail.
Which i suspected related to PlusToken as well
Binance was offline during the crash under $10 000 as you can read in my
post above (and now Binance has reopened, BTC is back above $10 000) so it's unlikely to be the right explanation.
The fact they were referring to is several days old...
Might be binance had enough liquidity to absorb the sales, while with binance closed, selling 100 btc elsewhere was enough to move the market.
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Post 52168313 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
so every time binance make maintenance, price changes a lot. I really think that binance is a big player and have a connection with this dump
If binance is the biggest exchange, probably attracts a lot of liquidity and market depth.
Liquidity means the bid-ask spread (difference between the price where you can buy and the price you can sell).
Market depths is way more difficult to attain and means how many orders are sitting on the books. If book are well populated, this means a single order cannot move the market by much, finding a lot of orders to be filled before emptying the books and then allowing for market swings.
This is why when Binance is closed, huge movements happen. Of course everybody knows when it happens, so it's easy to profit form that.
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Post 52169878 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
Given how China has captured the core group behind the scheme, and China's law enforcement history I'm expecting they'll get death.
Is there a tool that can generate those sorts of wallet address graphs?
Not publicly available, I am afraid.
every decent chain-analytic firm has their own private tool to graph those dependency of course, but they are really careful not to make those available.
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Post 52171772 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
This thread is awesome, some gems in it.
Mining by hand? Really? Or with a NES?
Worth a visit when not observing price...
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Post 52173836 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
It's only a matter of time. Big time money is flowing in, under the radar!Whether institutions were going to adopt crypto or not was an open question about 12 months ago. I think it's safe to say we now know the answer. We're seeing $200-400M a week in new crypto deposits come in from institutional customers.
https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1162185049699057664 I would love this to be true but Brian Armstrong is completely full of shit
As bad as novogratz?
There are 1800 Bitcoins mined per day. 1800 x 7 x 10,000 = US$126 million per week in supply.
That means for the Bitcoin price to stabilize around US$10k, global net inflows have to be around US$126 million in all categories, for both institutional and retail in every market around the world.
There just isn’t room for US based institutional investors to spend US$200 - $400 million per week without significantly pushing up the price, unless whales are dumping. Whales aren’t stupid - they know the halvening is coming. And we know Bitmain’s pockets are empty.
So Brian is probably exaggerating by a factor of ten. In fact, they may not have any institutional investment at all given their cowboy history of insider trading.
He might be exaggerating for sure but:
1.Cash app is buying bitcoin like crazy, look my last monthly recap for this. It is already a good percentage of newly mined bitcoins.
2. Grayscale is buying too: quote premium over NAV is embarrassing. Institutional money is desperate to get exposure to bitcoin.
3.Yes halvening is coming and those buying stats are going to double overnight as a %age of mined bitcoins.
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Post 52174483 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
The next hours are still extremely critical or I can breathe again?
Next hours are critical, confirmed.
HODL Breath.
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Post 52175775 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
<SNIP>
Some nice development on the Chinese PONZI SCHEME linked to PlusToken.
Seems to confirm the dump in 100 BTC clips into the market, adding to the Binance maintenance period, this could help explaining the recent slip in BTC:
https://twitter.com/danlevine/status/1162060798354546688It looks like funds from one of these wallets (1Dd5VTCkRtMG8bpuHZrjkLf1TeZ8cwZGDe) were funneled through intermediary wallets, and are dumping to
@Binance
in blocks of 100 during this recent dump. One sample address 19msUPsm7cHG8pGTavUr2AeZJsoRTNju1P. cc
@cz_binance
@loomdart
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Post 52178418 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
YOU CANNOT CALL IT A DAY WITHOUT A BAKKT NEWS!
Bakkt Says It’s ‘Cleared to Launch’ Bitcoin Futures Next MonthThe Intercontinental Exchange’s young subsidiary announced Friday that it had acquired a New York state trust charter through the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS). The approval clears the way for the company to begin offering its highly-anticipated physically-settled bitcoin futures contracts. The company intends to launch its products on Sept. 23.
Orginal Bakkt Blog Post:
Cleared to LaunchOne year ago, we announced our ambitious vision to bring institutional infrastructure to digital assets with an end-to-end regulated marketplace. That vision will be realized on September 23 when Bakkt launches custody and physically-delivered daily and monthly bitcoin futures contracts in partnership with ICE Futures U.S. and ICE Clear US.
Our contracts have already received the green light from the CFTC through the self-certification process and user acceptance testing has begun. With approval by the New York State Department of Financial Services to create Bakkt Trust Company, a qualified custodian, the Bakkt Warehouse will custody bitcoin for physically delivered futures. This offers customers unprecedented regulatory clarity and security alongside a regulated, globally accessible exchange in a market underserved by institutional-grade infrastructure.
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Post 52178647 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.58h):
Bakkt will ignite Bitcoin's rocket to the moon.
If you squint your eyes you can see Bitcoin leaving the 4 digits zone:
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Post 52180733 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
I start to think that 2020 halving is going to be really important for Bitcoin.
If the SF model is right predicting the price then we will see a spectacular adoption and price acceleration (more people upfronting the following 8x 2024 halving price improvement).
Otherwise, well, last cryptowinter will be remembered like a small selloff.
https://twitter.com/100trillionUSD/status/1162430634872233986#bitcoin price is above AND below stock to flow model value every single year. 2020-2021 will be the ultimate test for the S2F hypothesis 🚀
Of course , Fillippone knows which of the two scenario will be realised....
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Post 52182915 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
Good morning WO
Observing BTC @10,380
Observing above picture Too
Speaking of dreams:
If you want to dream, dream it bigger:
https://twitter.com/digitaliknet/status/1162367526279491585?s=21Something for fun
It shows how would next 1458 days (full cycle) look like if price change history would repeat last 1458 days. As with all other graphs this one is live so it is interesting to see how estimated ATH is changing over time.
digitalik.net/btc/cycle_repe…
#bitcoin #btc
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Post 52183044 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
Yeah. That would be quite a lot of money. So many moneys.
Remember to HODL.
Don’t get lured into selling 400K!
Ah! I want to see this post to age well and be found again around WO page 53,834!
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Post 52183368 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
#deletecoinbase
#neverforget
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Post 52192129 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
Brokers are selling the bear market story to retail
If you really wanted to censor the name of your broker you did quite a poor job.
I put my drone controlled-blockchain based-3D printed-AI Smart-drone to improve the job:
You are welcome HairyMaclairy
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Post 52193020 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
Thanks guys but not my letter. Taken from Twitster.
Oh, such a waste of electriciy then.
My AI burned so many Gw to perfection that censorship.
Greta is going to drown herself in the Atlantic for this...
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Post 52194277 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
^
Referring to the graph of gold vs Bitcoin, it is created by Coinmetrics, in my opinion their presentations are always interesting, but there is an Italian saying that says:
"se non è vero, è ben trovato" > If it's not true, it's well invented.
Chi va piano va sano
The exact saying is:
“Chi va piano va sano e va lontano”
(“He who goes slowly goes healthy and far”/slow and steady wins the race).
Not a big fan of popular saying anyway. You can find also the opposite:
“Chi prima arriva meglio alloggia”
(First comes, best served/ early birds get the worm)
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Post 52194908 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
If you really wanted to censor the name of your broker you did quite a poor job.
I put my drone controlled-blockchain based-3D printed-AI Smart-drone to improve the job:
With some funky color curves in Gimp I can still read 95% of the address in your version :-)
Damn!
I must my my drone controlled-blockchain based-3D printed-AI Smart-drone
Into a 3D printed-drone controlled-Smart contract-blockchain based-POS- autonomous-driverless-algo based- neural net-genetically evolved-AI- Turing complete-self conscious- Smart to be able to censor that image.
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Post 52194942 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
LOL
Nonsense of the day.
In 10 years ETH will be worthless.
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Post 52200598 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
Good morning WO
Observing BTC @10,380
Observing above picture Too
Speaking of dreams:
If you want to dream, dream it bigger:
https://twitter.com/digitaliknet/status/1162367526279491585?s=21Something for fun
It shows how would next 1458 days (full cycle) look like if price change history would repeat last 1458 days. As with all other graphs this one is live so it is interesting to see how estimated ATH is changing over time.
digitalik.net/btc/cycle_repe…
#bitcoin #btc
Maybe this is the simulation McCoffee has been using. The golden cross has the exact same start as the previous one so far.
The only bad news here is, $100k party is at least 2 years away. No party in 2020 according to that chart.
Even if we speed things up, it is still hard to break 100k in 2020 anyway. At least filbfilb says so.
https://www.tradingview.com/chart/BLX/W5wwj74c-Bitcoin-Long-Term-Trend-Analysis-A-near-term-clue-BLX-Update/I am quite away from advanced technical equipment arm, but it would be nice to see how this graph compares to SF model by PlanB
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Post 52202461 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
I guess this is basically what happens in every bitcoin institutions a around the world.
I bet many users here work on OTC desks and then when some whale moves the markets come here to have a laugh!
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Post 52211785 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
Good Morning WO!
Observing BTC 10,760.
More importantly observing BTC protocol getting better and better:
Just announced our Miniscript project website on the bitcoin-dev mailinglist: bitcoin.sipa.be/miniscript/
https://twitter.com/pwuille/status/1163592166062473217In the thread Peter Wuille details some use of this:
In short, it's a way to write (some) Bitcoin scripts in a structured, composable way that allows various kinds of static analysis, generic signing, and compilation of policies.
Imagine a company wants to protect its cold storage funds using a 2-of-3 multisig policy with 3 executives. One of the executives however has a nice 2FA/multisig/timelock based setup on his own. Why can't that entire setup be one of the multisig "participants"?
A lot of work is focused on extensions to the functionality of the blockchain itself to support more complex application, but I feel we're forgetting that using these features in an accessible, composable, analyzable way is basically impossible today.
Bitcoin protocol is getting better.
Better bitcoin protocol means bitcoin is more valuable
Better bitcoin protocol means shitcoins are less valauable!
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Post 52215871 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
Hello WO!
Observing BTC@10,5888
Observing BTC while trekking remote regions:
Spotty internet service cannot keep me away from WO!
Surely not as glamorous location as Mic’s, way colder and way more difficult to get to!
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Post 52216508 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
Hello WO!
Observing BTC@10,5888
Observing BTC while trekking remote regions:
Spotty internet service cannot keep me away from WO!
Oh yeah, and this picture is nice too. That's a good camera you have. I can't believe you get Wifi at all over there.
That picture is from my phone.
We usually haven’t internet service, or even service at all during the treks. When I have I go and check the forum, first.
Not the price, that one is always 1 BTC=1BTC.
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Post 52218246 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
do we really want smart contracts and dapps on the bitcoin blockchain? the ethereum blockchain for example is full of shit, think about dapps like cryptokitties.
I don't think this script will enable full Smart Contract features.
to write up “smart contracts” or conditions for spending bitcoins
It'll probably be a feature to lock and release/send bitcoins when certain conditions met. I don't see dApps here. (they have no real world use anyway)
Guys,
I put the news JSRAW posted and started this discussion
this am in WO, put got almost unnoticed.
I also
opened a thread in technical discussion, If you want to discuss it there i think we can go in deeper details.
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Post 52218557 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
I am Sorry brother, i remember reading your post in the morning, But completely forgot and end up reposting. My apologies to you and our patrolling guru.
No offense, really.
This is a wall thread where news flow and get multiple repost. I’d be stupid to be offended by a repost, or pretend something because I posted earlier.
No, I just wanted to draw attention on the other thread: it is maybe a better place discuss this new feature!
Oh I cannot wait for your next recap:
Xx. Fillippone get mad at me because of a repost!
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Post 52218678 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
Hello WO!
Observing BTC@10,5888
Observing BTC while trekking remote regions:
Spotty internet service cannot keep me away from WO!
Oh yeah, and this picture is nice too. That's a good camera you have. I can't believe you get Wifi at all over there.
That picture is from my phone.
We usually haven’t internet service, or even service at all during the treks. When I have I go and check the forum, first.
Not the price, that one is always 1 BTC=1BTC.
To rocky to be Kalatungan I think... Maybe Apo?
Amazingly beautiful. This is my new background.
Fillippone does it local.
Alps. Italian Alps.
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Post 52221672 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
Hello WO!
Observing BTC@10,5888
Observing BTC while trekking remote regions:
Spotty internet service cannot keep me away from WO!
Oh yeah, and this picture is nice too. That's a good camera you have. I can't believe you get Wifi at all over there.
That picture is from my phone.
We usually haven’t internet service, or even service at all during the treks. When I have I go and check the forum, first.
Not the price, that one is always 1 BTC=1BTC.
To rocky to be Kalatungan I think... Maybe Apo?
Amazingly beautiful. This is my new background.
Fillippone does it local.
Alps. Italian Alps.
Aosta Valley?
Nope, but you’re right:landscape is very similar.
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Post 52221800 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
Aosta Valley?
Nope, but you’re right:landscape is very similar.
Cervinia
Cervinia is in Valle d’Aosta... so no!
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Post 52221891 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
Aosta Valley?
Nope, but you’re right:landscape is very similar.
Cervinia
Cervinia is in Valle d’Aosta... so no!
lol, Sestriere !!!
Lol. You are even going in the wrong direction!
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Post 52222349 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
^
Dolomites.
Finally!
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Post 52224716 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
Hello WO!
Observing BTC@10,5888
Observing BTC while trekking remote regions:
Spotty internet service cannot keep me away from WO!
Surely not as glamorous location as Mic’s, way colder and way more difficult to get to!
That is beautiful!
Yes, Dolomites are very beautiful. I visited dolomites 2 years ago.
Here are some photos
2 years ago.
Last picture: do you see the middle one? I was on top of that. Looks more difficult than what really is.
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Post 52240465 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
someone has to post this on /r/btc
What happened?
This is a Ver-controlled account isn’t it? Why are they posting this?
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Post 52248180 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
Carney's libra-like ideas are meaningless without multiple major countries backing it and I don't see anyone even acknowledging it (so far).
Libra-like ideas already exist: they are called SDR and are backed by IMF.
As SDR aren’t backed by any countries, actually they are opposed by many countries (because, you know, controlling world reserve money means power), they are pretty much unused.
This is the point: Libra doesn’t need the backing of countries to succeed.
Libra could succeed where IMF failed.
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Post 52249948 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
Hello WO!
Observing BTC@10,5888
Observing BTC while trekking remote regions:
Spotty internet service cannot keep me away from WO!
Surely not as glamorous location as Mic’s, way colder and way more difficult to get to!
Hey WO
Finally exiting from land of nowhere:
This is my 4 digits tent:
Leaving it, and hopefully never see it again!
As I hope to never see another group of nocoiner I met and were disruptive on me:
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Post 52250145 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
Morning guys,
@fillipone - I went camping about 2 years ago, I used one of those pop up tents, I couldn’t fold it back down so I just left it there
This is not a pop up tent: it’s a proper poles tent. A pop up tent couldn’t have survived the amount of rain poured the nights... and yes, folding back usually is double the time to mount it!
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Post 52250484 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
Nice
"WO" logo in stone format.
Well spotted my friend!
Pls check your messages!
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Post 52258680 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
Hello WO!
Observing PlanB back from his month long holidays and posting good bullish charts:
https://twitter.com/100trillionusd/status/1165350490198237184?s=21
#bitcoin halving chart update: 9 months to go!
2012 halving: t-9 BTC $5 -> t=0 $12
2016 halving: t-9 BTC $314 -> t=0 $627
2020 halving: t-9 BTC $10,100 -> t=0 $...
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Post 52265678 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
It’s a good read actually.
That’s why I have included that long time ago in my post:
5 Resources to teach Average Joe about BitcoinI might give it a little bit more emphasis using
your Bitcoin words.
Edit: I totally missed you were quoting a Twitter, Mic
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Post 52268377 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
GM WO
Observing 10,295 after a good wings while sleeping
Observing a plane to catch
Observing nice, refreshing tweets:
https://twitter.com/nic__carter/status/1165763937100599297Sometimes it is nice to go back to the basics.
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Post 52273339 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
~Snip~
what's the probability for bitcoin to reach 1 million in December 2019? ^ IMHO
0
English : Zero
French : zéro
German : Null
Russian : нyль
Spanish : cero
Chinese T : 零
Sanskrit-Hindi : शून्य
Arabic : صفر
Korean : 제로
Japanese : ゼロ
Italian: quattordici.
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Post 52279837 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
Very nice read Mic.
Thank you once again.
Adding this to my list!
5 Resources to teach Average Joe about Bitcoin
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Post 52280060 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
Very nice read Mic.
Thank you once again.
Adding this to my list!
My friend send it to me, and i'm reading it only now
(I know if he send me it ain't no garbage)
But Kurious also told me few things like this yesterday ....
edit: sorry man i'm the one that wanna give you the magic Nr... you deserved it, I saved a few to do so
(your an positive asset for the WO)
Thank you Mic!
I was really looking for this number!
Now I am
Legendary! Hero! Senior Member still!
Nothing changes to me, this is not a finish line, only another reason to do better!
Thank to the woke WO gang for support and push for the better!
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Post 52281371 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
Next 5 days are critical
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Post 52288780 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
Who i'd prefer to have BTC1MM:
3-Hal, Andreas, some core devs... (people who deserve it)
...
Hal is long time dead, sadly.
Know more about him: everyone should:
https://101blockchains.com/who-is-hal-finney-bitcoin/
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Post 52288794 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
A little, yet very important for bitcoin, history lesson:
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
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Post 52294223 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
Bitcoin can't be faked, I'm fine with this.
But there are some fake coins with bitcoin name on it.
- Bitcoin gold
- Bitcoin cash
- Bitcoin Diamond
- Bitcoin SV
- Lightning Bitcoin
Still there are some people who can't differentiate bitcoin from these shitcoins.
I also remember getting rid of:
Bitcoin Pizza
Bitcoin Gold
Bitcoin World
Bitcoin God (one of the most incredible sells, yet irrelevant)
Bitcoin Unlimited (openly a scam and a privacy attack by government like agency led by Jeff Garkzy.
I still own Bitcoin Private because I am stupid.
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Post 52294229 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
WOgame. Right now. Where am I?
If you don't get it post haste, I'll add pixels.
Listening to Andres Antonopoulos.
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Post 52294294 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
I saw LFC online. So I wanted to be super quick!
My answer is technically correct even if more vague than LFC one...let’s see what happens!
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Post 52294739 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.59h):
I saw LFC online. So I wanted to be super quick!
My answer is technically correct even if more vague than LFC one...let’s see what happens!
You piece of shit, I recognised his hairline & was desperately searching for the exact spot
His hairline is now his trademark. Look at his twitter profile image!
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Post 52299016 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
Good morning from PlanB:
#bitcoin still looking strong ... feels like mid 2016
https://twitter.com/100trillionusd/status/1166960965486882816?s=21
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Post 52308629 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
Meanwhile in the fiat realm: Argentina on the brink of yet another default
S&P slashes Argentina's long-term debt three notches on maturity extension plan- Standard & Poors announced on Thursday that it was slashing Argentina’s long-term credit rating another three notches into the deepest area of junk debt, saying the government’s plan to “unilaterally” extend maturities had triggered a brief default.
The infamous 100 years Argentinian Bond (not yet touched by this default) taking a hit:
Bitcoin as a hard money is badly needed here.
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Post 52310815 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
From 2016 to the end of the bull market in 2018 bitcoin never closed the daily candle bellow the 137 daily moving average.
Guess what.
edit 137 MA, currently around 9000/9100
Never close below, but need to test it several time to avoid irrational exuberance and keep the bull run well grounded.
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Post 52313670 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
Brexit
Frexit
Grexit
Italeave Quitaly
Spadios
Italeave is so 2014.
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Post 52313772 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
This is big:
Billionaire Alan Howard eyes 1 billion crypto fund management ventureElwood Asset Management — owned by British billionaire and Brevan Howard founder Alan Howard — is planning a $1 billion venture into the crypto hedge fund space.
Alan Howard is one of the most successful investor in the street with a track record of several decades trading.
This is real institutional money flowing into bitcoin.
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Post 52314433 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
^Is it just me or did someone mess up quotes again?
LOL
It happens when you are using it from phone. I believe Mic use his phone most of the time.
Mic is old, drunk and has a fat finger... messing with buttons is standard for him.
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Post 52314696 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
Same here bro.
Opsec prevent me posting live pic of the bottles and the seaview from the beach restaurant.
So you only get to take a pic from today:
Secret location in Italy.
Wo symbol in hand.
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Post 52314888 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
Same here bro.
Opsec prevent me posting live pic of the bottles and the seaview from the beach restaurant.
So you only get to take a pic from today:
Secret location in Italy.
Wo symbol in hand.
Where you At bro? Its holiday? Then you can say... If its your residence Then I understand.....
Stintino if I am not mistaken (it's a holiday location).
Spot on!
Holiday indeed before coming back to the Fillippone-cave on Sunday.
But now Fillippone is on the move and churned kilometres...which direction I won’t tell...
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Post 52315411 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
I just read in a german online news article that sweden is about to quit providing/accepting cash. Means to stop the retail.
Almost all businesses accept digital payment via card or app, some companies/facilities even stopped to accept cash.
They will start a 2-year project to test an e-currency, named "E-krona", which may become the future standard in sweden.
Fuck me. if that won't bring up some questions...
The source article is in german language and that's why i don't link to it - yet. If there's some interest in it, please lemme know.
[Edit: appended and corrected some details]
Cashless society is a Chinese wet dream/dystopian future.
RememberBitcoin is digital cash.
Digital cash means there is anonymous non censurabile decentralised cash. Total opposite of cashless society.
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Post 52315478 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
UP down UP down UP UP UP UP UUUUUUUUUP doooooown
UP down UP down UP UP UP UP UUUUUUUUUP doooooown
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP
Rinse repeat!!!!
Can we live with that ??
I know I can
Now into HODLsleep
Good night bro,
May the HODLsleep give you inspiration for your next
Haiku
845.
Post 52315528 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
I just read in a german online news article that sweden is about to quit providing/accepting cash. Means to stop the retail.
Almost all businesses accept digital payment via card or app, some companies/facilities even stopped to accept cash.
They will start a 2-year project to test an e-currency, named "E-krona", which may become the future standard in sweden.
Fuck me. if that won't bring up some questions...
The source article is in german language and that's why i don't link to it - yet. If there's some interest in it, please lemme know.
[Edit: appended and corrected some details]
Cashless society is a Chinese wet dream/dystopian future.
RememberBitcoin is digital cash.
Digital cash means there is anonymous non censurabile decentralised cash. Total opposite of cashless society.
True, but the most of the public users won't get the difference. They all know shit, excluding some exceptions like current hodlers/users.
We are here for the meme,
We are here for the haikus,
We are here for price observations,
But we are here also to spread the knowledge.
The more the people understand what’s happening, the better is for bitcoin.
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Post 52315592 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
This is big:
Billionaire Alan Howard eyes 1 billion crypto fund management ventureElwood Asset Management — owned by British billionaire and Brevan Howard founder Alan Howard — is planning a $1 billion venture into the crypto hedge fund space.
Alan Howard is one of the most successful investor in the street with a track record of several decades trading.
This is real institutional money flowing into bitcoin.
The article indicates that they have identified "50 cryptos" to satisfy their "due diligence." Seems reasonable depending upon how one defines "due diligence".
Holy fuck!!!!!! Another shitshow, unless they narrow down the number of their coins; perhaps to one coin? Not one coin, I mean bitcoin. I mean corn.
They are smart enough to invest the appropriate %age of their funds in bitcoin, without us forumers advertising to keep that percentage at the correct level of... 100%
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Post 52316361 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
Not 50 cryptos
50 crypto hedge funds. Huge difference.
That's true. I wonder if some of them are going to be diluted with various cryptos, so I wonder how much they would be weighted in favor of BTC. Devil might be in the details in terms of what ultimately ends up being the product(s) that is (are) being offered.
More information on a CoinDesk article:
https://www.coindesk.com/billionaire-investor-eyes-1-billion-crypto-hedge-fundElwood Asset Management, the firm that manages Howard’s personal digital assets, will oversee the launch, construction and direction of the new fund. The aim is to find firms that satisfy Elwood’s due diligence in order to avoid so-called blow ups.
“Losing traditional assets in the real world is hard. In the digital world, it’s very easy to lose assets — put in the wrong address for a bitcoin transfer and it’s gone forever,” said Bin Ren, CEO, blockchain funds specialist at Elwood.
Ideally, Howard’s venture will identify enough firms to invest in to offer their own clients portfolio options that satisfy their risk profiles, liquidity needs and diversity requirements.
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Post 52323065 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
Now they don't know if they have Gold or Tungsten.
Italy is rich. They just keep complaining how much problems they have, but never even think of selling gold to fix those problems.
That gold is not Italian, as Italian Government. Is Italian as per Bank of Italy. An independent public institution held by major Italian Banks.
So yes, quite difficult for the Italian government to be back on possession of that gold. Not that is a big issue on the grand scheme of things : Only 100 billions (tops) versus the 2,400 billions of the Italian debt: peanuts. And of course when you are in posssession of that Gold I cannot see them dumping it on the market ( destroying price) to buy bitcoin. They would spend it. So better to keep things as now are.
Edit: this graph has no sense in my opinion
Italy has 2,450 tons of gold (71458330 Troy oz) this equates to 100 billions @1,500 usd oz (various sources confirm this calculations).
This should be roughly 10,000,000 bitcoins @10,000 btc usd.
Am I missing something?
849.
Post 52326884 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
GM WO Gang!
Observing BTC@9,610.
After the gold reserve-bitcoin fuck.p I started following this account on twitter, and came with a definitely better one today:
When is the best time to buy bitcoin? The time when you still have a choice.
https://twitter.com/rhythmtrader/status/1167964490941390848?s=21
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Post 52327090 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
8 months to the halving:
All looks good!
#Bitcoin Halving .. 8 months to go
https://twitter.com/100trillionusd/status/1168101598712795141?s=21
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Post 52327622 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
WO / Aug update - 2019
The holidays are over, now the battle is coming until the end of the year.
It does feel a little quiet in here these days. It looks like the summer vacation trend supersedes the price-comment correlation.
Observing Price
Observing WO
Observing desert beaches because a little of overcast:
Fillippone does commits to the BTC!
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Post 52328513 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
Probably 30 C° now.
A little bit humid because such overcast. But now it’s sunny and windy (couple of kytesurf riding up and down).
Ready to take a bath now!
(I am a grown up Italian and I won’t wait the compulsory 3h and half after lunch that every Italian mum requires to wait).
Search party if I don’t update the post in one hour!
EDIT: safely back on the shore. Battery was dead...
853.
Post 52330547 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
Wow! I can't believe the beach was deserted. Only one day in July we hit 30°C where I live! Maybe I should move...
Not sure about that mandatory 3.5 hour wait after eating though... but is the reason the food or the the effect of the wine you wash it down with?
Ah!
It’s the last day of my holiday.
I am at the airport ready to flight back home.
Italy has many problems, but at least you can fly from any point to any point in less than 2 hours.
And no.
It’s not alcohol related: in Italy every mom consider the sea as lava before 210 minutes after lunch. Any lunch. Even only a sandwich. That’s not because of science, but because Italian mums.
854.
Post 52332213 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
Good evening WO!
Observing BTC@9,633.
Observing an article about Libra on the flight magazine.
I took a pic of it with compulsory WO sign (didn’t want to vandalise the paper as I am a civilised person):
Not bad for a totally casual article: it even stated there’s nothing in common with bitcoin as it is a permissioned blockchain!
855.
Post 52332624 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
Yeah,
Of course that sign meant WO to me.
If has any meaning for other persons, I won’t use it anymore any I will scribble or I will get more creative!
856.
Post 52332683 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
Page 24
888..... let the Chinese go c
lazy
#HODLsleep!!!!I only look at page number only when wondering at page parity!
Good HODLsleep!
Hope one day Theymos will listen to your praises and put an end to your perennial smerit drought!
You deserve it!
857.
Post 52338703 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
ATTENTION!
WO special report!
The volume is so low right now on the daily bitcoin chart. The lowest volume since november last year and january 2019 when the major moves happened!!!
It's very possible that we get a major move in the next days! Maybe 1-3 days.
CRITICAL ALERT
Next 1-3 Days are critical.
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Post 52340089 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
Very easy answer.
A lot of inverstors simply cannot buy bitcoins, to many difficulties.
Technological (how to store them?)
Legal/Fiscal (how to pay taxes on them?)
Compliance (am I allowed to buy bitcoin? Is it within my management mandate?)
Regulatory pressure NOT to be involved in crypto’s
Reputational risk
Etc
Etc
This is why an integrated product like the one Bakkt wants to launch is so important from an institutional money adoption perspective.
859.
Post 52343457 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
Good morning WO!
Observing corn @10,420.
Corn is getting beautiful!
https://twitter.com/watermicrobe/status/1168131732580814849?s=21
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Post 52343611 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
Welcome.
what is the name of species Corn?
Follow the twitter link, a long corn related informations!
861.
Post 52345881 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
News was picked up by Coindesk:
Van Eck, SolidX to Offer Bitcoin ETF to Institutions via SEC Exemption: ReportAccording to a report by the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, VanEck Securities and SolidX Management – which have previously had a decision on their proposed bitcoin ETF postponed by the SEC – are taking an unusual route to bypass the regulatory hurdles. They will use an SEC exemption that will allow shares in their VanEck SolidX Bitcoin Trust to be offered to institutions such as hedge funds and banks, but not to retail investors.
WSJ Article:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/van-eck-solidx-to-offer-limited-version-of-bitcoin-exchange-traded-fund-11567503003Van Eck, SolidX to Offer Limited Version of Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund
Crypto enthusiasts have been trying with little success to get regulatory approval for bitcoin funds
By Paul Vigna
Sept. 3, 2019 5:30 am ET
Crypto enthusiasts have been trying without much success to get regulatory approval for funds to bring bitcoin to investors. Two firms plan to use a workaround.
Van Eck Securities Corp. and SolidX Management LLC on Thursday plan to start selling shares in a limited version of a crypto exchange-traded fund. The companies are employing a rule that will exempt the shares from securities registration, but the shares can be sold only to certain institutional buyers.
The move is the latest attempt by players within the cryptocurrency sector to create a bitcoin-based investment asset in hopes of attracting money from mainstream investors. Though bitcoin has become part of pop culture in the nearly 11 years since it was created, the markets for trading it remain immature and largely unregulated, which has kept many potential investors out. The Securities and Exchange Commission has so far rejected every attempt to sell a bitcoin ETF.
The SEC declined to comment. The agency has previously raised concerns that there aren’t enough protections against fraud and market manipulations in the crypto market.
The VanEck SolidX Bitcoin Trust shares would be sold under the SEC’s Rule 144A, which allows for the sale of privately placed securities to “qualified institutional buyers.”
That means they would be available only to institutions such as hedge funds, brokers and banks. They wouldn’t be open to retail investors or individual buyers.
The firms first jointly applied for a bitcoin ETF in 2018 and said they still expect eventual approval. Van Eck and SolidX said they hope this limited version will act as a proof that a bitcoin ETF can work.
It is an unusual arrangement.Anna Pinedo,a partner at Mayer Brown’s New York office, who isn’t involved in the fund, said she had never heard of a firm offering shares under Rule 144A and then seeking SEC approval for a retail offering.
ETFs have grown into a $3.9 trillion market, according to research firm XTF. They give investors easy access to stocks and bonds, but also some exotic markets, such as commodities and derivatives, and high-risk strategies, in which retail investors may not understand the dangers.
It isn’t clear how much demand there would be for a bitcoin ETF, after the brutal selloff in 2018 appeared to wipe out both retail and institutional interest. Still, there is a potentially large first-mover advantage for the firm that can get a bitcoin ETF approved.
While any investor can buy cryptocurrency, it can be daunting for people not familiar with it. Crypto enthusiasts believe that an ETF would make it simpler for investors to get exposure to the sector.
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Post 52347958 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
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Post 52350583 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
^^
The more people start feeling the FOMO, the most powerful the FOMO gets for a bigger circle of people, getting even more people e into FOMO, making FOMO stronger to get more people...
And then r0ach buys.
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Post 52351950 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
A last planB to Then have a peacefull HODLsleep
Goodnight bro’s
This graph is a mess.
1. Difficulty ATL means difficulty trough before the bull run
2. Color overlay is wrong. You should read: “blocks mined after difficulty ATL”.
You know how much I love the guy, but this is the worst graph he posted.
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Post 52353472 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
^^
Out of smerits, sorry mate. Me gusta tambien el Twittery!
Possibility that $BTC has entered fourth parabolic phase
https://twitter.com/peterlbrandt/status/1168141519737491461
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Post 52356491 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
New addition to the list!
A satoshi is now worth more than national currencies.
0.00000001 BTC is worth more than 1:
🇮🇷 Iranian Rial
🇻🇳 Vietnamese Dong
🇮🇩 Indonesian Rupiah
🇬🇳 Guinean Franc
🇸🇱 Sierra Leonean Leone
🇱🇦 Laotian Kip
🇺🇿 Uzbekistani Som
🇻🇪 Venezuelan Bolivar
https://twitter.com/rhythmtrader/status/1168986032030855169?s=21
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Post 52356567 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
Very interesting Coinmetric Newsletter:
One point impressed me:
The number of addresses holding at least 10 Bitcoins recently hit an all-time high. As of September 1st, there are 157,216 addresses holding at least 10 BTC.
I thought we were going on the opposite direction!
You can read them all here:
https://coinmetrics.substack.com/archive
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Post 52356888 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
Add this to your list:
via Imgflip Meme GeneratorWith all due respect, I am not a big TA believer. For sure is it not useful in my typical trading time horizon.
As you can see from my link in signature I do care about different things.
Anyway, I like your posts here on the WO and you are a good addition to the gang.
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Post 52358096 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
@LFC
Thanks for the merit finally I reached my activity/merit parity.
Perfectly balanced.
[img width=150]http://shrani.si/f/6/bq/4c7U6q31/ba10.jpg[/img]
What a perfect day for a perfectly balanced numbers (1540 and 154). Congratulations!
I also got 154/154 number today but i don't have that zero number added like you have.
Thank you Wilhelm!
Mindtrust, SuperTA
you both can try your luck here:
Save your nice merit records, here.As you can see from my link in signature I do care about different things.
Signatures don’t show in the WO thread
Thank you Wekkel for reminding me I am dumb:
I was referring to this link:
BTC Bearish or Bullish?Here my thoughts: JULY UPDATE (+POLL)
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Post 52361932 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
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Post 52362014 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
Mmmmmm must be the HODLnest and the actions that just took place in there that are making me dizzy atm
Ahaha!
That why.
My HODLnest is so boring!
872.
Post 52364459 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
Is this bullish enough?
https://medium.com/@hcburger1/bitcoins-natural-long-term-power-law-corridor-of-growth-649d0e9b3c94This model allows us to make broad predictions concerning the long-term future price of bitcoin, e.g.
the price will reach $100 000 per bitcoin no earlier than 2021 and no later than 2028. After 2028, the price will never drop below $100 000.
the price will reach $1 000 000 per bitcoin no earlier than 2028 and no later than 2037. After 2037, the price will never drop below $1 000 000.
Well.
This is sorcery I think.
I would like to overimpose PlanB graph on that one...
Not adding much value, but it’s nice to see those numbers!
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Post 52374278 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
Porsche type 597 Jagdwagen, mid 50s during Swedish tests. We decided not to buy.
But it would be a cool Porsche to own.
Why there are chains in the wheels?
You obviously do not live in a country with snow and ice
It gives you better grip on snow and ice, there are parts of Europe where you have to have snow chains with you in your car in the winter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc1WLvTrjSQThis kind of question makes me realise how different is Bitcoin community.
I own tire chains, but also winter tires and I know how and when use both of them.
Someone else lives in places where the sun always shine and there is no winter.
We both love bitcoin.
EDIT:
Note to self: save this image when observing 846,347
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Post 52374728 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
Porsche type 597 Jagdwagen, mid 50s during Swedish tests. We decided not to buy.
But it would be a cool Porsche to own.
Why there are chains in the wheels?
You obviously do not live in a country with snow and ice
It gives you better grip on snow and ice, there are parts of Europe where you have to have snow chains with you in your car in the winter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc1WLvTrjSQThis kind of question makes me realise how different is Bitcoin community.
I own tire chains, but also winter tires and I know how and when use both of them.
Someone else lives in places where the sun always shine and there is no winter.
We both love bitcoin.
EDIT:
Note to self: save this image when observing 846,347
Personally I prefer snow socks/auto socks, easier to put on and works just as well, although they wear out fast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvPXqLoWaHYNever used snow socks.
I always use winter tyres (M+S) during winter months and on snow. Put on chains on serious ice on the road or steep climbs.
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Post 52376465 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
@SuperTA: I bet you can not make such a trade another 3 times. breakout is imminient, this weekend is critical
Next 48 hours are critical!
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Post 52376539 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
Apparently there is more:
$1 Billion+ $BTC was transferred in one transaction yesterday. Where did that come from? 🤔
We took a look and saw that a large percentage of it could be traced to @HuobiGlobal addresses
https://twitter.com/thetokenanalyst/status/1169929738607124482?s=21More info on twitter feed.
Apart obvious consideration two things strike me:
1.they sent al the funds straight away... I would have tested the setup sending 1 bitcoin to the recipient address.
2. They paid a very elevated fees: nothing changes, but fees are low, why burning cash?
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Post 52376678 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
<snip>
Apart obvious consideration two things strike me:
1.they sent al the funds straight away... I would have tested the setup sending 1 bitcoin to the recipient address.
2. They paid a very elevated fees: nothing changes, but fees are low, why burning cash?
Once you send 1 BTC then your Public Key is known (in the transaction) and you are more hackable...
But yes I wouldn't go YOLO with a billion too unless you consider it pocket change
Very true.
But that particular address would have been emptied after a few minutes, so a reasonable risk to be taken vs the YOLO approach as you appropriately called it!
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Post 52376759 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
I just tried google trends myself, and everything is pretty quiet and stable, no spikes.
Are you sure you used btc instead of bitcoin? What timeframe did you use?
I was able to reproduce the graph.
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Post 52377169 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
They tested it. They sent 0.1 BTC first.
Well spotted my friend.
I don’t know how I missed that.
880.
Post 52377201 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
PlanB hits the news again.
His article has been put to scientific test:
Alea iacta est!
2nd* analysis by @BurgerCryptoAM proves Stock-to-Flow model is valid, using cointegration: S2F and btc price are cointegrated, therefor the relationship is not spurious.
* 1st analysis by @phraudsta validating SF model with cointegration: medium.com/altcoin-magazi…
https://twitter.com/100trillionusd/status/1169953458356723712?s=21
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Post 52378269 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
Looks like a railway station? Or a mausoleum?
Not a station. The second guess is close. I've provided a few honest hints already... next, a few more pixels.
It must be a square/monument somewhere in Hong Kong.
I am depleting my real life to find it...
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Post 52378535 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
National Palace Museum Taiwan
Legends will legend.
I'd like to know how you (and fillippone, who's got to have kicked the major assist) did it.
I'm always clueless with WOW games and always eager to learn a neat trick.
Clue for me was "chinese not yet"
this called to HK or Taiwan.
So I checked various wikipedia articles like the following:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declared_monuments_of_Hong_Konghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Monuments_and_memorials_in_TaiwanTrign to find the floor pattern (or the yellow walls after) but I failed.
I knew saying HK would have been an assist for someone else on the race, but, who cares! We all won because we had fun!
Good work Wilhelm!
883.
Post 52379186 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.00h):
Your boy LFC_Bitcoin relaxing like a true OG - With fillipone WO hand sign!
You should use the left hand, as the three fingers, appropriately spread, are the "W" and the thumb and pointing finger are the "O".
come on!
Take another picture!
(don't forget the background!)
884.
Post 52384537 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
Hello WO gang
Observing 10,403, I hope we don’t fall in 4 digits again...
I found this very interesting thread on Twitter.
This is the kind of analysis I like the most!
I'll answer the question I'm getting a lot recently... If the on-chain volume is looking very bearish, how can we be in a bull season? We would expect this BNM chart to be heading upwards right?
https://twitter.com/woonomic/status/1170042705868705793?s=21
885.
Post 52388132 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
It's time (again) for a Wall Observer Meta Post!
I made this post Monthly, so it will consider the merits sent during the month of August.
So I had to wait for the last merit dum, that included the last day of the month.
Merit analysis based on LoyceV merit file:
http://loyce.club/Merit/merit.all.txtMerit updated to August,31th, 2019 23:59:59 UTC
Total merits sent on WO: 28720
Monthly Merits sent on WO: 1127 (-)
Merited Users: 599 (+16)
TOP 100 WO MERIT RECEIVERS:
1.micgoossens 1833
2.Last of the V8s 1574
3.HairyMaclairy 1225
4.xhomerx10 1138
5.Toxic2040 934
6.BobLawblaw 921
7.jojo69 812
8.infofront 713
9.JayJuanGee 700
10.LFC_Bitcoin 671
11.VB1001 513
12.d_eddie 513
13.Torque 498
14.bitserve 474
15.gentlemand 391
16.Paashaas 375
17.mindrust 352
18.Elwar 352
19.kenzawak 342
20.Globb0 328
21.cAPSLOCK 294
22.JimboToronto 291
23.mfort312 282
24.fillippone 275
25.jbreher 263
26.Raja_MBZ 258
27.Lambie Slayer 255
28.ivomm 253
29.kurious 251
30.BTCMILLIONAIRE 247
31.goldkingcoiner 247
32.Rosewater Foundation 244
33.Biodom 237
34.nutildah 212
35.Phil_S 197
36.realr0ach 196
37.TERA2 194
38.JSRAW 192
39.bones261 184
40.600watt 182
41.Ibian 180
42.vroom 177
43.kingcolex 172
44.Kylapoiss 169
45.Icygreen 162
46.marcus_of_augustus 156
47.yefi 153
48.Hueristic 149
49.Wekkel 138
50.Pamoldar 138
51.Arriemoller 135
52.StartupAnalyst 130
53.Cryptotourist 130
54.toknormal 129
55.Spaceman_Spiff_Original 123
56.bitcoinPsycho 122
57.Anon136 121
58.Dabs 114
59.vapourminer 113
60.kirreev070 107
61.BinaryReign 105
62.AlcoHoDL 102
63.lightfoot 98
64.explorer 97
65.Bitcoinaire 95
66.Searing 88
67.serveria.com 86
68.sirazimuth 82
69.Cryptoqueeen 81
70.STT 77
71.somac. 72
72.BlindMayorBitcorn 72
73.HI-TEC99 71
74.Gyrsur 69
75.cryptjh 68
76.Majormax 67
77.Totscha 66
78.pacman7331 66
79.cannycassiopeia 64
80.DeathAngel 64
81.bitebits 63
82.conspirosphere.tk 63
83.nanobtc 59
84.Karartma1 59
85.crypmike 58
86.suchmoon 56
87.strawbs 54
88.Samarkand 54
89.BitcoinNewsMagazine 54
90.theymos 53
91.FractalUniverse 53
92.RoomBot 52
93.bkbirge 52
94.rolling 51
95.RayX12 50
96.fluidjax 50
97.Ludwig Von 48
98.gembitz 48
99.encycrypto 48
100.Speculatoross 47
TOP 100 WO MERIT SENDERS:
1.JayJuanGee 2478
2.BobLawblaw 1965
3.micgoossens 1462
4.LFC_Bitcoin 1129
5.bones261 1057
6.infofront 994
7.Last of the V8s 786
8.Globb0 758
9.jbreher 728
10.xhomerx10 691
11.vapourminer 662
12.mindrust 628
13.HairyMaclairy 602
14.cAPSLOCK 554
15.600watt 539
16.marcus_of_augustus 502
17.Toxic2040 429
18.jojo69 393
19.Torque 345
20.Paashaas 329
21.QuestionAuthority 311
22.Hueristic 284
23.d_eddie 273
24.yefi 256
25.Dabs 254
26.VB1001 248
27.bitserve 245
28.kurious 229
29.BlindMayorBitcorn 209
30.gentlemand 208
31.Ibian 207
32.Wekkel 205
33.ErisDiscordia 202
34.kenzawak 191
35.bitebits 188
36.suchmoon 186
37.RoomBot 180
38.Karartma1 179
39.JimboToronto 157
40.explorer 155
41.Raja_MBZ 154
42.nutildah 152
43.fillippone 151
44.Dunkelheit667 146
45.mfort312 145
46.Gyrsur 144
47.Lambie Slayer 128
48.Pamoldar 126
49.ivomm 124
50.kingcolex 123
51.ssmc2 120
52.BTCMILLIONAIRE 118
53.Rosewater Foundation 116
54.edgar 115
55.Searing 113
56.goldkingcoiner 110
57.Majormax 108
58.Arriemoller 105
59.PoolMinor 101
60.xyzzy099 99
61.Biodom 97
62.lightfoot 95
63.P_Shep 91
64.tonyq 87
65.julian071 86
66.Phil_S 85
67.sirazimuth 84
68.Icygreen 83
69.conspirosphere.tk 82
70.JSRAW 82
71.Kylapoiss 81
72.vroom 76
73.RayX12 73
74.criptix 73
75.Elwar 72
76.DeathAngel 71
77.bitcoinPsycho 65
78.Cryptotourist 65
79.StartupAnalyst 60
80.Anon136 56
81.empowering 55
82.rolling 52
83.AlcoHoDL 51
84.Jayjay04 50
85.sammy007 50
86.soullyG 49
87.STT 48
88.FractalUniverse 48
89.mymenace 46
90.MrFreeRoMan 45
91.Bitcoinaire 44
92.AlexGR 43
93.Totscha 42
94.serveria.com 42
95.afbitcoins 40
96.nanobtc 38
97.flynn 37
98.somac. 37
99.fabiorem 37
100.MirkoIta 36
TOP 100 MONTHLY WO RECEIVERS:
1.micgoossens 100
2.VB1001 82
3.fillippone 68
4.HairyMaclairy 58
5.LFC_Bitcoin 52
6.SuperTA 45
7.mindrust 41
8.nutildah 40
9.bkbirge 38
10.JSRAW 31
11.ivomm 26
12.JayJuanGee 25
13.Toxic2040 24
14.Lambie Slayer 24
15.jojo69 23
16.jbreher 22
17.makrospex 18
18.Cryptotourist 17
19.kurious 16
20.bitcoinPsycho 16
21.xhomerx10 13
22.Globb0 13
23.JimboToronto 13
24.600watt 13
25.AlcoHoDL 13
26.Wilhelm 13
27.Paashaas 12
28.BobLawblaw 10
29.gentlemand 10
30.vroom 10
31.Pamoldar 10
32.lightfoot 10
33.sirazimuth 10
34.Elwar 9
35.Biodom 8
36.Hueristic 8
37.Krubster 8
38.Raja_MBZ 7
39.vapourminer 7
40.GeoRW 7
41.cAPSLOCK 6
42.slocker 6
43.d_eddie 5
44.Searing 5
45.STT 5
46.somac. 5
47.Majormax 5
48.GreatArkansas 5
49._javi_ 5
50.jupiter9 5
51.Last of the V8s 4
52.Spaceman_Spiff_Original 4
53.Dunkelheit667 4
54.Saint-loup 4
55.Negotiation 4
56.hd49728 4
57.Torque 3
58.Phil_S 3
59.Icygreen 3
60.Karartma1 3
61.BitcoinNewsMagazine 3
62.hodl_2015 3
63.Millionero 3
64.infofront 2
65.realr0ach 2
66.serveria.com 2
67.DeathAngel 2
68.nanobtc 2
69.gembitz 2
70.DaRude 2
71.windjc 2
72.soxxx 2
73.gallianooo 2
74.btcbeliever 2
75.degxtra1 2
76.aesma 2
77.Bossian 2
78.bitserve 1
79.bones261 1
80.Wekkel 1
81.Arriemoller 1
82.Dabs 1
83.Totscha 1
84.RoomBot 1
85.Ludwig Von 1
86.fabiorem 1
87.criptix 1
88.Syke 1
89.P_Shep 1
90.erre 1
91.smartcomet 1
92.GrosWesh 1
93.rdbase 1
94.Febo 1
95.dyask 1
96.g-uid 1
97.kronos123 1
98.Lucius 1
99.NeuroticFish 1
TOP 100 MONTHLY WO SENDERS
1.JayJuanGee 155
2.micgoossens 151
3.LFC_Bitcoin 60
4.fillippone 46
5.vapourminer 44
6.mindrust 41
7.VB1001 37
8.Globb0 35
9.600watt 35
10.jbreher 30
11.Dabs 30
12.BobLawblaw 26
13.bones261 24
14.SuperTA 24
15.Wilhelm 20
16.infofront 19
17.HairyMaclairy 19
18.Lambie Slayer 19
19.Toxic2040 18
20.nutildah 16
21.ssmc2 14
22.bkbirge 14
23.Hueristic 13
24.ivomm 13
25.Paashaas 11
26.jojo69 10
27.JSRAW 9
28.xhomerx10 8
29.Pamoldar 8
30.kingcolex 8
31.bitcoinPsycho 8
32.Negotiation 8
33.Cryptotourist 7
34.makrospex 7
35.cAPSLOCK 6
36.Raja_MBZ 6
37.lightfoot 6
38.Torque 5
39.JimboToronto 5
40.Phil_S 5
41.AlcoHoDL 5
42.GreatArkansas 5
43.kurious 4
44.Biodom 4
45.sirazimuth 4
46.Icygreen 4
47.vroom 4
48.DeathAngel 4
49.d_eddie 3
50.Dunkelheit667 3
51.mfort312 3
52.Ludwig Von 3
53._javi_ 3
54.Krubster 3
55.Ibian 2
56.ErisDiscordia 2
57.Majormax 2
58.somac. 2
59.BinaryReign 2
60.Syke 2
61.rdbase 2
62.BitcoinNewsMagazine 2
63.GrosWesh 2
64.o_e_l_e_o 2
65.NeuroticFish 2
66.Woodie 2
67.WastedLTC 2
68.Dux2K 2
69.g-uid 2
70.wildduck 2
71.gentlemand 1
72.bitebits 1
73.STT 1
74.serveria.com 1
75.ChinkyEyes 1
76.HI-TEC99 1
77.fluidjax 1
78.Saint-loup 1
79.tmfp 1
80.actmyname 1
81.degxtra1 1
82.rebal15 1
83.BayAreaCoins 1
84.blink 1
85.Daniel91 1
86.Dotto 1
87.dkbit98 1
88.chimk 1
89.tranthidung 1
90.hd49728 1
91.Rikafip 1
92.bakasabo 1
93.mr_random 1
MONTHLY sMERITS BALANCE
SMerits Balance=Received Merits/2-Sent Merits
Positive Balance means an user has been increasing sMerits on the WO thread, while negative numbers means the users has sent more merits on WO than received.
Negative numbers are possible or because he has been generous this week because he has been greedy past weeks (so only temporary imbalance), or because he has hoarded sMerits on other threads spending them on WO thread, or because he's a merit source.
TOP 20 MONTHLY NET RECEIVERS
1.HairyMaclairy 10
2.JSRAW 6.5
3.bkbirge 5
4.Elwar 4.5
5.gentlemand 4
6.kurious 4
7.nutildah 4
8.VB1001 4
9.Searing 2.5
10.Last of the V8s 2
11.makrospex 2
12.Spaceman_Spiff_Original 2
13.AlcoHoDL 1.5
14.Cryptotourist 1.5
15.hodl_2015 1.5
16.JimboToronto 1.5
17.jojo69 1.5
18.Karartma1 1.5
19.STT 1.5
20.aesma 1
TOP 20 MONTHLY WO NET SENDERS
1.JayJuanGee -142.5
2.micgoossens -101
3.vapourminer -40.5
4.LFC_Bitcoin -34
5.Dabs -29.5
6.600watt -28.5
7.Globb0 -28.5
8.bones261 -23.5
9.BobLawblaw -21
10.mindrust -20.5
11.jbreher -19
12.infofront -18
13.ssmc2 -14
14.Wilhelm -13.5
15.fillippone -12
16.Hueristic -9
17.kingcolex -8
18.Lambie Slayer -7
19.Negotiation -6
20.Toxic2040 -6
Nice update, I think monthly cadence is more insightful, as less prone to weekly imbalances due to MS drought (mic, I do hear you).
Sadly, It a little bit delayed update, but I commit doing those as soon as sir LoyceV releases data dumps.
Still fixing glitches here and there, I am using this to getting better at data management (errors are mine).
886.
Post 52388351 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
<snip>
There mate,
Here you got my last Merit.
Put that half sMerit at good use!
887.
Post 52388703 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
TOP 100 WO MERIT SENDERS:
25.Dabs 254
I guess someone got this stats as a challenge to improve his rating: Dabs just entered a meriting spree!
888.
Post 52390450 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
It’s WO statistics night?
Corn must be so boring...
I have an ace up my sleeve...
889.
Post 52393173 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
I just tried google trends myself, and everything is pretty quiet and stable, no spikes.
Are you sure you used btc instead of bitcoin? What timeframe did you use?
I was able to reproduce the graph.
Ehi!
Something fishy going out with the BTC search term!
https://www.trustnodes.com/2019/09/02/google-searches-for-btc-suddenly-spike-to-huge-all-time-high
890.
Post 52395748 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
Hello WO gang!
As we were caught on aWO statistics spree yesterday, I decided to give my contibution:
WHo's the most committed user to WO?
Who has the most percentage of merits gained on WO?
here are the results.
Users with more than 10 Merits gained on WO sorted for WO merits/total merits.
1.Rosewater Foundation 100.00% 244
2.vroom 100.00% 177
3.Arriemoller 100.00% 135
4.Spaceman_Spiff_Original 100.00% 123
5.serveria.com 100.00% 86
6.Cryptoqueeen 100.00% 81
7.BlindMayorBitcorn 100.00% 72
8.pacman7331 100.00% 66
9.rolling 100.00% 51
10.Ludwig Von 100.00% 48
11.ErisDiscordia 100.00% 47
12.thisisntbic 100.00% 45
13.empowering 100.00% 44
14.flynn 100.00% 40
15.DaRude 100.00% 40
16.D. Lerk 100.00% 39
17.buyandhold 100.00% 33
18.P_Shep 100.00% 32
19.AZwarel 100.00% 30
20.John Abraham 100.00% 30
21.becoin 100.00% 29
22.smartcomet 100.00% 28
23.hodl_2015 100.00% 26
24.Colonel Panic 100.00% 26
25.jonoiv 100.00% 26
26.gappie 100.00% 24
27.k453345 100.00% 24
28.SidETH 100.00% 19
29.Ivor Biggun 100.00% 19
30.cmacwuz 100.00% 17
31.scum 100.00% 14
32.savetherainforest 100.00% 14
33.slowlyslowly 100.00% 14
34.orpington 100.00% 11
35.True Myth 100.00% 11
36.xyzzy099 100.00% 11
37.cofefeGandalf 100.00% 11
38.BlackSpidy 100.00% 11
39.BotanicKilt 100.00% 11
40.Dakustaking76 100.00% 11
41.fragout 100.00% 11
42.mike4001 100.00% 10
43.Resumean 100.00% 10
44.TheCactus 100.00% 10
45.babanana 100.00% 10
46.bluebits 100.00% 10
47.BinaryReign 99.06% 105
48.Paashaas 98.94% 375
49.Ibian 98.9% 180
50.Lambie Slayer 98.84% 255
51.Icygreen 98.78% 162
52.jojo69 98.54% 812
53.ivomm 98.44% 253
54.conspirosphere.tk 98.44% 63
55.AlcoHoDL 98.08% 102
56.realr0ach 98% 196
57.Torque 97.84% 498
58.Toxic2040 97.6% 934
59.Phil_S 97.52% 197
60.Biro Bob 97.37% 37
61.Syke 97.22% 35
62.strawbs 96.43% 54
63.AlexGR 96.43% 27
64.JimboToronto 96.36% 291
65.FractalUniverse 96.36% 53
66.RayX12 96.15% 50
67.fluidjax 96.15% 50
68.Kylapoiss 96.02% 169
69.HairyMaclairy 96% 1225
70.machasm 96% 24
71.Bitcoinaire 95.96% 95
72.Krubster 95.45% 21
73.julian071 95.35% 41
74.Enjel 95.24% 20
75._javier_ 95.24% 20
76.yefi 95.03% 153
77.marcus_of_augustus 94.55% 156
78.nikauforest 94.29% 33
79.d_eddie 94.13% 513
80.BobLawblaw 93.88% 921
81.Wekkel 93.88% 138
82.Majormax 93.06% 67
83.windjc 92.86% 39
84.Gab0 92.59% 25
85.infofront 92.36% 713
86.somac. 92.31% 72
87.YourMother 92.31% 36
88.bitserve 91.68% 474
89.Agapios 91.67% 11
90.TERA2 91.51% 194
91.bitebits 91.3% 63
92.siggy_77 91.3% 21
93.BTCMILLIONAIRE 91.14% 247
94.Realerre 90.91% 10
95.xhomerx10 90.68% 1138
96.wachtwoord 90.63% 29
97.encycrypto 90.57% 48
98.hisslyness 90% 27
99.HI-TEC99 89.87% 71
100.Last of the V8s 89.79% 1574
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Post 52395819 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
Damn, how is it possible that there is a WO statistic whiteout me in it
You have to improve a little bit, Mic!
133.micgoossens 76.41% 1833
892.
Post 52396030 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
Damn, how is it possible that there is a WO statistic whiteout me in it
You have to improve a little bit, Mic!
133.micgoossens 76.41% 1833
Yeah Mr. MicG. Time to pull up yer socks!
Nastily beaten by Crytoqueen #6!!
893.
Post 52401771 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
It's December. Year 2022. Shitcoiners still waiting for altseason. Their porfolios are down 99.9998%. Altseason finally comes. Their portfolios make a huge 10% recovery. Bitcoin is $250,000. Trump got re-elected. Schiff converted all his gold to #Bitcoin. Vitalik disappeared. 😐
Source:
https://twitter.com/ArminVanBitcoin/status/1170855637078695936You always have a tab open on CoinMarketCap.comYou always have a tab open on WO thread.
Check all of them.
894.
Post 52402270 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
A good opsec security is just a part of the equation trying to avoiding crimes involving crypto’s happens to you:
Norwegian bitcoin millionaire jumped down 2 stories from his balcony after man with shotgun broke in to his house. This is why you never tell anyone you own BTC
https://twitter.com/redditbtc/status/1170809574607249409?s=21This is my suggestion.
Fillippone, your fellow Mexican WO pal.
Going to a trekking in Yucatàn trying to forget the fact I just lost my private keys in a boating accident!
EDIT: for the few of you who do not speak norvegian:
https://cointelegraph.com/news/norweigan-bitcoin-millionaire-jumps-from-balcony-to-flee-armed-burglar
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Post 52402589 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
<snip>
You always have a tab open on CoinMarketCap.comYou always have a tab open on WO thread.
Check all of them.
+1
And I open bitcoinwisdom.io
+1 (real Merit)
Because there are never too many Bitcoin related tabs on my Browser.
896.
Post 52402643 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
<snip>
+1
And I open bitcoinwisdom.io
+1 (real Merit)
Because there are never too many Bitcoin related tabs on my Browser.
Thank you kindly
Still 1 merit ahead of you!
897.
Post 52402765 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
^^^
left or right hand doesn't matter!
WO sign is keeping traction!
I like it!
Care the opsec mate!
Norwegian bitcoin millionaire jumped down 2 stories from his balcony after man with shotgun broke in to his house. This is why you never tell anyone you own BTC
https://twitter.com/redditbtc/status/1170809574607249409?s=21
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Post 52402793 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
^ Lambie we are supposed to concentrate on WO sign?
Dear Lord!
I hadn't noticed!
Something is wrong with me, if I care more about WO sign instead of natural (or not natural, I don't care) beauties!
899.
Post 52403413 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
y r shitcoins, kleptocurrencies and monero all goingup?
r they not pointless anymore?
Dead cat rebound.
Don't get lured in shitcoins.
900.
Post 52403772 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
Wow BTC hasrate is skyrocketing!
Bitcoin Hash Rate Nearing 100,000,000 TH/s In Historic FirstData from monitoring resource Blockchain.com confirms an exciting new trend for Bitcoin’s 00 hashrate, which at press time stood at an all-time high of 94 quintillion hashes per second (h/s).
The figure has spent most of the past few months on a rapid path upwards, but progress has accelerated in recent weeks.
Fillippone is happy, then, in a
totally unrelated news:
Bitmain Launches Two New S17 Bitcoin ASIC Miners Today Leading mining Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) producer Bitmain announced two new S17 miners in a press release shared with Cointelegraph.
The two new mining ASICs, namely the S17e and the T17e, will both be launched on Sept. 9. The company claims that both the new models feature improvements, which should translate to higher efficiency, more stable operation and more longevity.
ASIC specifications released
Bitmain also released the specifications of both the newly announced mining machines. The S17e has a hash rate of 64 TH/s and operates with a power efficiency of 45 J/TH, while the T17e offers a hash rate of 53 TH/s and a power efficiency of 55 J/TH.
Both the S17e and the T17e feature a dual tube heat dissipation system, which reportedly improves how efficiently the machines can dissipate heat. This should enhance the longevity of the hardware and its stability.
Furthermore, Bitmain also claims that the software embedded into the two new ASICs has higher cybersecurity standards to prevent malicious attacks.
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Post 52406289 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
This is nonsense.
No evidence, no rationale.
It's like driving straight on a road because on the the rear mirror it has always been a straight road.
902.
Post 52406910 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
Brace Yourself: Institutional Investors are coming:
Bitcoin Futures Trading on CME Hints at Influx of Institutional MoneyDuring the month of August, over $5 billion worth of Bitcoin futures contracts have been traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. With each contract representing the right but not the obligation to purchase 5 BTC at a given price, over 100,000 futures contracts were traded on the platform.
The year-to-date numbers are apparently even more impressive. CME managing director Tim McCourt told Forbes contributor Benjamin Pirus that so far this year, Bitcoin futures are averaging more than 7,000 contracts per day on the platform.
This is meaningful because retail investors don’t have easy access to CME futures trading, so this growth doesn’t represent the participation of the average crypto user. Most futures trading on the CME platform comes from institutional investors and wealthy accredited investors, audiences that Bitcoiners have long been trying to win over.
Another two news are worth noting today on the same topic:
https://www.coindesk.com/uk-fund-that-aims-to-capitalize-on-crypto-volatity-raises-50-millionU.K.-licensed Nickel Asset Management says it has raised $50 million for a fund aimed to make profits off the volatility of cryptocurrencies.
“Our vision is that it’s simply a matter of time until digital assets become part of institutional portfolio allocation for forward-looking investors around the world, and we aim to build an institutional-quality gateway to this high-octane world of digital assets.”
The Bakkt Warehouse is active for futures
Bitcoin deposited at our Warehouse is protected by a $125 million insurance policy
https://twitter.com/Bakkt/status/1171040208105758720These are two very important news: Ecosystem for institutional investor is slowly being built up.
It's very different from 2016, when CME futures gave the easy way to short the BITCOIN.
Now that selling pressure is already discounted on the market: the buying pressure on the market because of QE, Negative Rates, Geopolitical Risks, Inflation risks, Halving etc... is instead looming on the side, just waiting for the doors to open.
903.
Post 52411719 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
Wow.
That website is a goldmine if good material:
Stock to flow chart with new color scheme.
digitalik.net/btc/
#bitcoin #btc #stocktoflow
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EEDoihRXYAAWiVZ?format=jpg&name=large
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Post 52412568 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
Regarding the price following the halving -
@newsbtc
Bitcoin price rose over 13,000% following the first halving and 12,000% after the second.
If $BTC was to rally by similar percentages from its current ~$10,000 price point, the eventual top may be between $385,000 and $425,000.
https://twitter.com/newsbtc/status/1171300417998712832?s=20I need to start looking at yachts
You said Yacht
s, not yacht.
Noted.
Well done bro!
I can be rich the fuck I want, I will never buy a yacht.
This is the three top reasons:
- These animals are thirsty. I do spare you the amount of cash you have to spend to fill the tank. I can be richest person in the world, I'm not going to literally burn my money.
- These animals are a money sucking machines. Just letting them sit at the pier they drain your finances.
- There will always be a longer,sleeker, faster yachts than yours.
If you want to buy a yacht for the girls, well, I see your point, but there are better ways to do that.
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Post 52412760 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
Regarding the price following the halving -
<SNIP>
I once worked out that it cost Greg Norman US$550,000 to fill up his boat
You are Greg Norman, you just spent US$550,000 to fill up the tank of your 69.5meters long yacht.
Theny next to you arrives a boat called "Leander G".
It is longer than yours. Bigger.
Nobody cares about your boats.
You buy a bigger boat, lon 75.5 meters this time to beat that one.
The "Bella Vita" Yacht arrives.
It is longer than yours. Bigger.
Nobody cares about your boats.
Rinse and repeat another 100 time....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_yachts_by_length
906.
Post 52413329 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
Beautiful nature, where are you?
Looks nice there...Looks like Asian nature??
Thanks for appreciating.
This is from Philippines, south area of Philippines.
Sumalsag Cave, Bukidnon. What do I win?
(j/k)
Hahaha. nope. This is south area of Mindanao, province of Sultan Kudarat.
Columbio Falls !
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g3458964-d3458840-Reviews-Columbio_Falls-Columbio_Sultan_Kudarat_Province_Mindanao.htmlI just googled the hints...
907.
Post 52416686 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
908.
Post 52418022 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
Straight from my very own node: 100 exahashes!
909.
Post 52419291 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
OK, just PM'd him as well.
Thanks alot man, First thing I did was look to see if it was April 1st!!
You deserve my last Merit.
Also was weird it didn't get any google hits when i checked as this site is usually cached right away.
I had the exact same thought: I was ready to be KYC’d again!
910.
Post 52421353 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
I have seen some comments of yachts.
When you have a boat there are only two happy days:
- The day you buy it and the day you sell it.
Exact same saying in Italian too: it must be true then!
<snip>
I think the way VB1001 is reporting that saying is actually how I always been told that sentences, nevertheless the one saying that to me kept buying boats! So yes, a little bit of irony is involved!
Edit: I actually lost all my private keys in a boating accident.
911.
Post 52423679 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
I mumbled a little bit on various themes we discussed on the WO thread lately.
I posted this on a new thread:
Extracting stable positive return from high-volatile asset.HF recipe made simpleHope you might find it useful.
It also gives hints on how to manage a selling program to exit bitcoin (for the degenerate WO members who aren't permaholders
...)
912.
Post 52423857 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
Good and simple read. Merit-worthy, but I'm dry.
+1 WOsMerit
(Sorry: valid in the WOT only, as per instructions from management.)
Thanks,
appreciate WO merits also.
913.
Post 52425903 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
Straight from my very own node: 100 exahashes!
On a separate note:
Litecoin (LTC) Bleeds Hashes as Miners Abandon ShipThe cutoff date for Litecoin mining arrived exactly on August 5, when the block reward fell from 25 LTC to 12.5 LTC. The event, repeating every four years, also caused the price to shortly boom to $140, only to unravel later. LTC currently trades at $71.28.
The hashrate dropped off from 523 terashes per second to a recent low of 295 hashes per second. Only in August, the network lost 30% of its mining power.
LTC keeps its spot among leading altcoins, with high liquidity and a relatively good performance this year. But the drop in hash rate may be a bad sign for the future of the bitcoin network as well.
914.
Post 52427542 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
Merit of the Beast.
Now don't spoil this number by randomly awarding me dozens. Or do if you're really itching.
I'm dry so you will be stuck at 666 for a while
Pity. My advanced psychology trick didn't work...
Related: A few days ago someone posted a link to a thread where members can upload screenshots of interesting merit/activity/etc figures. I haven't been able to find it by searching - either bitcointalk or google. The link was in this thread, of course. Can anyone help?
Here you go, Your fellow Fillippone posted the weird merit number thread link:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5171113.msg52024235#msg52024235Of course the merit of the beast has already been covered, but you can try!
915.
Post 52427594 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
Good and simple read. Merit-worthy, but I'm dry.
+1 WOsMerit
(Sorry: valid in the WOT only, as per instructions from management.)
Thanks,
appreciate WO merits also.
O.k. You asked for it.
I am going to deliver to you my first WO merit. +1 to you, fillippone.
(did you get it? Can you feel the love of it? no homo)Thanks JJI really appreciate and I do feel the love.
no homoWO merits are great, real merits are better!
916.
Post 52429030 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
Yeah, and my answer was an embarrassment to myself (I am running a node too) and all the deeply technical community of that board.
I’d better stick to posting train memes on WO!
917.
Post 52429198 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
Come on don't be so hard on yourself man, you're a legendary poster at heart already.
I’m only good at this:
Observing @10,148
Relevant train :
918.
Post 52430955 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
Good Morning WO,
After yesterday evening technical debacle (see past post with d_eddie), I am in the philosophical observing mood:
Bitcoin isn't a get rich quick scheme, it's a don't get poor slowly scheme.
https://twitter.com/lopp/status/1171847107243859968?s=21
919.
Post 52432224 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
I’m here to tell you that there is an upcoming <a href="
http://ee-stone.com">Social Media</a> website and mobile app. You can create an account and Earn via your Skills… So Don’t be late and Create your account.
I can lick my elbow.
I guess I do qualify for huge prizes.
920.
Post 52433587 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
In the meantime in the shitcoin world, ECB restarted EURO printers:
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2019/html/ecb.mp190912~08de50b4d2.en.html20 BLNS of new euro per months. They will print the entire BTC market capitalisation in 10 months.
921.
Post 52433797 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
They do!
Praet: As a central bank, we can create money to buy assets #AskECB
Where did you get the money for the QE? #AskECB
922.
Post 52433880 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
AH, yes that you meant.
"PRINT" is universally acknowledged as the act of augmenting money aggregate, not only banknotes.
No,So my reference of printers was actually irony/sarcasm.
Victim of Poe's Law.
923.
Post 52436433 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
Argentia and Austria already have 100 year bonds. And apparently Argentina is on the break of default... .
Question: If Aregentina defaults does that mean your 100-year bond is also toast? Or will that maybe still exist and come back after such a default?
(unlikely it will come back from such, but asking)
brad
The 100 year argentinian bond is denominated in USD, not in ARS.
This means that, in normal circumstances (think a bond issued Denmark in EUR) this bond is more likely to default because the central bank cannot "print" the money to pay the interests (Cfr: Greenspan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck3FuTzZvhI).
But this bond is different, as this bond was sold maily abroad,the investors wanted very specific warranties and fund being segregated specifically to pay that bond.
Nevertheless, this bond paying an annual coupon of 7.125 is trading at 44 (off the recent lows of 37). I.e. you can go flat receiving 7 coupons. Out of 100.
In case of domestic default (not paying debt in ARS) of course that bond would suffer, but you have to consider that usually the most hit debt is the shorter, the one they have to actually repay.
This is meant to be repaid in 2117, so plenty of time to think about it (and to default again multiple times).
This is something more toxic than Bitcoin... for the man of the street.
Think only about hte equivalent Austrian bond: same maturity, annual coupon of 2.10 in EUR... it can be your for only 180...
924.
Post 52437254 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
Good afternoon WO!
Observing @ $ 10,210
And I have 40 pages in the queue to look for.
May be I can take help from JSRAW 😉
Here you go bro
1. .................................
-snip-Great summary as usual! Merited.
I have a suggestion. How about tagging your summaries with some unique identifier like #JSRAWdigest or something like that? It would make it a lot easier when catching up
I have another suggestion: hyperlink to the message: when you say “A lot of commentaries about babes climbing rocks” I would like to click on that entry and being taken to the appropriate posts (please break the rule in case of another infamous Mic toilet pic)
925.
Post 52441353 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
Found this interesting read:
Protect your bitcoin through privacy:
I’m writing this non-technical explainer, because many people don’t know:
That regular bitcoin transactions do not have enough privacy.
What measures you can take today as a non-technical user to have more privacy when using Bitcoin.
If you’re already convinced about the need for privacy and want a few actions, check the steps below:
A few practical steps to improve your privacy in Bitcoin:
Don’t tell people how much bitcoin you own.
Don’t publicly post your bitcoin addresses.
Don’t re-use bitcoin addresses, most services will automatically take care of this for you.
Run your own full node and don’t request information about your transactions from anywhere else.
Keep your bitcoin addresses private through a tool like Wasabi wallet.
Mandatory reading.
Added to my thread:
5 Resources to teach Average Joe about Bitcoin.
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Post 52442460 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
<snip>
Despite being Italian, fillippone is not a total cunt.
<snip>
Oh thanks,
Not 100% cunt then.
Ok, that’s a start...I have room to improve (toward 0%)
927.
Post 52443526 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
A very creepy story made me open a new thread:
Privacy at risk using mobile phones. Not only Bitcoin-related.Security researchers have disclosed today an SMS-based attack method being abused in the real world by a surveillance vendor to track and monitor individuals.
"We are quite confident that this exploit has been developed by a specific private company that works with governments to monitor individuals," security researchers from AdaptiveMobile Security said in a report released today.
"We believe this vulnerability has been exploited for at least the last 2 years by a highly sophisticated threat actor in multiple countries, primarily for the purposes of surveillance."
Tinfoilmode: ON.
928.
Post 52443598 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
A very creepy story made me open a new thread:
Privacy at risk using mobile phones. Not only Bitcoin-related.Security researchers have disclosed today an SMS-based attack method being abused in the real world by a surveillance vendor to track and monitor individuals.
"We are quite confident that this exploit has been developed by a specific private company that works with governments to monitor individuals," security researchers from AdaptiveMobile Security said in a report released today.
"We believe this vulnerability has been exploited for at least the last 2 years by a highly sophisticated threat actor in multiple countries, primarily for the purposes of surveillance."
Tinfoilmode: ON.
Well sms has no encryption right? It's middle man attacks of some sort I'd guess?
This is a centralised, government induced, industrialised man in the middle attack: scale of operation scares me.
929.
Post 52450170 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
Bank's views on bitcoin:
2010: laughs
2011: laughs
2012: laughs
2013: laughs
2014: laughs
2015: laughs
2016: laughs
2017: laughs
2018: laughs
2019: PBOC, Fed, ECB, BoE, and the IFM announce the support/development/launch of digital currencies.
That escalated quickly.
https://twitter.com/Rhythmtrader/status/1172528846094176256Banks are the hyenas of the economy, they are hypocrites, scammers and greedy, never trust a banker, even if it's from your family.
Apart from the banks too many people laugh at Bitcoin but very soon they will cry.
Yeah,
Not only CB’s are developing their crypto/digital version of their own shitcoin (whatever that mean, as today shitcoins weren’t digital enough), but they are actually U-turning from declarations on the Past: I saw a good they, so I am using his words:
https://twitter.com/ferdinando1970/status/1172602320686919681From the same twitter Thread
July 2014: @EBA_News invited financial institutions not to buy, hold, or sell virtual currencies [sic] that did not develop a reliable governance process. 5 years later: @Libra_ proposes an accountable reliable governance process to regulators and the answer is "you cannot do it"
They are definitely panicking.
930.
Post 52450883 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
Give it some time and you'll learn who's a cunt and who's not. Read your local board on bitcointalk, but don't trust them till you're sure.
Despite being Italian, fillippone is not a total cunt. Read his beginner's guide. No short cuts, read it all
these 3 are honest social media types
https://twitter.com/lopphttps://twitter.com/brian_trollzhttps://twitter.com/MrHodlthey have enough knowledge and acumen to keep newbies going for a long time.
Thanks @Last of the V8s carefully read and follow everything all over help for learn.
Don’t forget my “not total cunt beginner thread”!
5 Resources to teach Average Joe about Bitcoin
931.
Post 52451782 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
Good afternoon
gentlemen!Observing sideways price action from my favourite place (fillipone - look, the correct WO sign).
Practice makes perfect!
932.
Post 52468477 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
I think I posted that link on Aug 15th...
EDIT: Wrong, on Aug 15th I posted this :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg52167034#msg52167034Ther above link was posted on Aug 28!
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg52288794#msg52288794Anyway: repost of important things is always welcome!
933.
Post 52469972 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
A very interesting conference. Baltic HoneyBadger 2019
a very interesting presentation:
How to really kill bitcoin Saifedean AmmousCould governments threaten Bitcoin by adopting a responsible monetary policy?
Would Satoshi even have created Bitcoin if we were still under an international gold standard? 🤔
https://twitter.com/sthenc/status/1173222084518002689?s=20Other very thought inducing presentations on the two days.
You can find the whole conference on youtube.
934.
Post 52470453 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
Yet another chart by Plan B:
heading to the green Zone: all is good!
#bitcoin, stock-to-flow model, and miner capitulation in one chart
https://twitter.com/100trillionUSD/status/1173575832318763013?s=20
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Post 52470718 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
I wonder to what extent this chart that has been so widely shared is already priced in? I mean if everyone truly thinks 100k is a year or less away then they'd be buying right now hand over fist and the price would already be up, at least I would (and that's what I'm doing as I'm able). Or do you all think the big front loading wouldn't start yet?
The answer is in the prices, my friend.
Either the model is wrong, or people are not discounting the first halving.
The interesting point is the following.
Why should people discount only the first halving? They should discount all of them if they have faith in the model!
So, if the first halving effect get eventually fully discounted, I think we'll have a snowballing appreciating force in the discount of every following halving. In that case: fasten your seatbelts.
936.
Post 52471019 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
I wonder to what extent this chart that has been so widely shared is already priced in? I mean if everyone truly thinks 100k is a year or less away then they'd be buying right now hand over fist and the price would already be up, at least I would (and that's what I'm doing as I'm able). Or do you all think the big front loading wouldn't start yet?
I'm sure alot of us are already over exposed after the last year and a half and have already taken advantage of the dips and have our positions already set. Now its just DCA with generated income as we are in a holding pattern. I doubt waiting for lower is a viable strategy that many here are playing for.
I think here the game changer is institutional money. DCA from individuals is not going to drive the price up so massively, now that market cap has grown so big.
Wall street needs bitcoin, because is a volatile AND decorrelated asset that is much needed in a low volatility, negative interest world.
See the other thread:
Extracting stable positive return from high-volatile asset.HF recipe made simple
937.
Post 52471866 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
Well played mate, well played..
938.
Post 52472000 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
We are going to be stuck here at 499,9XX post for a while, aren't we?
939.
Post 52472148 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
In the following link WO user when post count is 499,999:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwdypLFy8PkYou can recognise Fillippone, VB1001 and JimboToronto.
940.
Post 52472240 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
Damn!
Real life got me in the wrong moment!
EDIT:
I swear I saw serveria.com message as the winner.
Oops I still have another relevant tab open!
Not going to analyze who cheated, not really interested!
941.
Post 52473076 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
Page parity will be long gone when we hit 1,000,000 pages.
942.
Post 52474991 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
I don’t know exactly in which part of the world you are living, but unless very specific legislation, there’s nothing illegal about dealing with bitcoin stuff.
The resistance many banks are applying to crypto related business is not by law, but abiding to stupid internal compliance IKEA or moral susino by central authorities.
There are many banks out there, it will not take long before you find a new, better one!
943.
Post 52479578 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
For you all Plan B fans,
here you get your daily SF ration:
https://public.tableau.com/profile/hansolar#!/vizhome/BitcoinSFAnalysis/BTCValueSFModel
There, you can play, clicking stuff and trying to visualise how digital gold SF relates to physical Gold SF.
944.
Post 52480644 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
I am also banned there. After the bullshit they were pulling, I couldn't stand anymore and went on berserk mode.
I'm glad I did. Now I can't post even if I wanted to. Let them suffocate to death.
Reddit is great shit - useless
except for r/nextfuckinglevel.
That's a great reddit.
945.
Post 52482295 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
Anyhow, I had done a decent amount of accumulating of BTC in 2014 and brought my average BTC price down from $1k to below $400, and I also made some mistakes including getting hacked through sim porting, which moved my average price per BTC up to $750-ish. I have also lost some BTC on exchanges such as WEX (used to be BTC-E), so I consider those to be risks of the practice and probably, I should have taken more value off of that exchange while the getting was good.... but these days, I probably would consider my average cost per BTC to be somewhere above $750 but still in the three digits.
+WO merit since I'm out of the regular, thanks for sharing your story. I had a coworker that introduced me to it maybe in 2014 or so but I didn't understand the draw, at the time it seemed overly complicated for no benefit and I wasn't looking at it as an investment vehicle just as an interesting technology. Mid 2017 I got in, shortly before the big run and that made me think I'm a genius rather than just lucky and I evangelized to my family and friends. Some of my family bought in then of course at the high. They are still holding though they haven't added to their positions, whereas I've been faithfully DCA'ing ever since. My amounts and entry point mean I probably won't become personally life-changing wealthy but I'm hopeful it will accent my retirement and provide some easing through life's ups and downs for my kid. I tend to look at it as an inter generational wealth opportunity. Though I'm a confirmed hodler I have several dream benchmark levels to encourage myself...
1. mortgage payoff
2. retirement at 80% of current lifestyle level
3. retirement at 120% of current lifestyle level
4. kid's entire college tuition
5. kid's entire college tuition at a top tier school through grad school
6. retirement at 120% level before I hit actual retirement age
7. medical emergency care fund equivalent to 2x mortgage payoff
8. being able to do the same for my family
9. own first hotel on the lunar surface
+1WO. (because I am in smerit drought)
Very nicely put.
Something is good to fix exit points. Having target means you have an opportunity to re-evaluate your investments and decide how to proceed.
Something you should constantly do, but human nature is complicated so we are not adapt to reason in the continuum of the financial markets: we need steps.
946.
Post 52484069 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
Speaking of diversification:
A "crypto" charlatan will tell you to diversify, and have an ideal allocation of ~70% in Bitcoin and the rest in shitcoins.
The correct allocation for a "crypto" portfolio is 100% Bitcoin.
Diversify at your own risk #bitcoin
Here, I feel I can disclose my very own portfolio allocation:
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Post 52484116 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
^^
This is going to be bank money, or Libra. Libra can easily be a sort of shitcoin (worse than Bitcoin,. better than FIAT) backed by Bitcoin.
We have to say that when this post was written even Hal couldn't imagine the development of second Layer solutions.
Now we don't even need banks: we can use Bitcoin as a SoV running Layer 2 solution, think of LN, for example, for quick settlement or MoE.
948.
Post 52484162 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
Iceland!
949.
Post 52486479 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
So apparently no BTC ETF for the moment:
VanEck, SolidX Withdraw Bitcoin ETF Proposal From SEC ReviewTuesday’s filing marks the second time VanEck and SolidX withdrew the proposed ETF. The companies withdrew the same ETF proposal in January, after a prolonged government shutdown threatened to force a rejection.
The SEC is still reviewing two other bitcoin ETF proposals. One, filed by Wilshire Phoenix, would include both bitcoin and U.S. Treasury bonds in the Trust, and faces an initial deadline at the end of September, while the other, filed by Bitwise Asset Management with NYSE Arca, will be approved or rejected on Oct. 13.
Observing 10,227 honey badger doesn’t care.
They probably withdrew the application because they say another reject coming.
I expect other pursuant doing the same on the next weeks.
Imho institutional money is badly needed to get bitcoin where it is meant to, think about PlanB SF model. In case of disappointment of this model to realise the loss of positive momentum could be very heavy, resulting in a very long cryptowinter II.
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Post 52489921 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.01h):
^^^
Sorry. those things don't add up as they are Overnight Repos: so the FED prints money in the evening, and destroys it the morning after.
So now they printed only 75 until tomorrow morning.
Explainer: The Fed has a repo problem. What's that?In a repo trade, Wall Street firms and banks offer U.S. Treasuries and other high-quality securities as collateral to raise cash, often overnight, to finance their trading and lending activities. The next day, borrowers repay their loans plus what is typically a nominal rate of interest and get their bonds back. In other words, they repurchase, or repo, the bonds.
951.
Post 52492078 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.02h):
Usual überbullish tweet by PlanB!
Lot of questions about stock-to-flow going to infinity.
People don't realize that after 2020 halving #bitcoin market value will be $1T+ and after 2024 $10T, while USD monetary base is $3T .. so then people just stop accepting USD, like nobody accepts Zimbabwe $ for bitcoin now.
https://twitter.com/100trillionusd/status/1174372878055280641?s=21
952.
Post 52492336 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.02h):
Indeed: if you are measuring yourself with a shorter and shorter meter you ain’t getting taller!
Same concept applies to money: bread isn’t getting more value in Venezuela because price is soaring...
953.
Post 52492459 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.02h):
There is no way for BTC to get to value in the millions without dollar losing value. As simple as that.
954.
Post 52504244 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.02h):
C'mon y'all - ya ain't even tryin'
Moar pixels. And apply brain. You really do already have all you need to figure it out.
US House Hearing of some committee of some sort...
EDIT: You are here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/18/it-was-chaos-then-real-lawyer-showed-up/
955.
Post 52509878 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.02h):
WO Game:
Last bit my of summer for Fillippone.
Where I am? Hints of form of clues, not pixel (due to the low information in surrounding pixels), but it’s really easy.
956.
Post 52510397 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.02h):
WO Game:
Last bit my of summer for Fillippone.
Where I am? Hints of form of clues, not pixel (due to the low information in surrounding pixels), but it’s really easy.
Sorry but i am done and i want my 20 mins back from you, hairy and jbreher....
Nice Hand writing tho..
Three things I want to say about the pics, some of those ace actual clue:
- I didn’t use my hand to write it. I am called Italian stallion for a reason
- It is not Mars. How can be Mars if there is no mobile coverage on Mars?
- There are two continents in this picture. One of them barely visible
957.
Post 52510653 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.02h):
WO Game:
Last bit my of summer for Fillippone.
Where I am? Hints of form of clues, not pixel (due to the low information in surrounding pixels), but it’s really easy.
Gibraltar, or the opposite side... .
Close, but no cigar.
Another hint: Come on VB1001!
958.
Post 52510739 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.02h):
Easy, Tarifa
Cigar, but no wind.
@V8, pretty accurate.
A caña on me if you find me real time.
959.
Post 52513230 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.02h):
WO Game:
Last bit my of summer for Fillippone.
Where I am? Hints of form of clues, not pixel (due to the low information in surrounding pixels), but it’s really easy.
Gibraltar, or the opposite side... .
Close, but no cigar.
Another hint: Come on VB1001!
Port of Spain?
Ok I found it... (I hope)
Playa de Los Lances Norte north-west of Tarifa
The lighthouse is called Punta de Tarifa
Very good and very precise, but vb1001 answered correctly a few pages back!
960.
Post 52523830 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.02h):
I wish I hand an hand in this picture.
Brother in arms.
I would call it.
961.
Post 52524829 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.02h):
Big news for LN, whose security has always been a concern:
The Specs Behind Bitcoin’s Lightning Pass Their First ‘Formal’ Security Test
The results are positive, showing that the underlying cryptography piled together to make the payment system work is sound, the researchers argue.
“All the security-critical parts of the system are rock-solid. This was the expected result – many smart people have collaborated to converge to the current incarnation of lightning network,” Litos told CoinDesk
“The main result is that lightning network is as secure as bitcoin.”
Bitcoin needs a proper layer 2 solution not only to destroy the value proposition of many altcoins, but also to progress to other, more evolute d later 3 solution: the more you build bitcoin, the more become the standard for the internet of money.
962.
Post 52531741 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.02h):
It’s the BAKKT day:
Bakkt Bitcoin Futures are now actively trading on ICE Futures U.S., while the Bakkt Warehouse continues to onboard bitcoin
We take our customers’ trust seriously, and are excited to serve this market
https://twitter.com/bakkt/status/1175945114671337472?s=21I doubt BAKKT is more excited to serve the market than the market to use BAKKT!
Product description and details on ICE website:
https://www.theice.com/products/72035464/Bakkt-Bitcoin-USD-Monthly-Futures-Contract/data?marketId=6137541Edit: volume 18 BTC so far!
963.
Post 52542736 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.02h):
well, i got to admit that i expected some more buys during the launch of bakkt. this is pathetic.
Of course this is too early to try to figure out anything from this values, but of course one can try to compare to what happened on similar occasions:
Bakkt Bitcoin futures launch volumes 75 times smaller than CME’s first dayBy the close of Monday, a total of 72 BTC had been traded on Bakkt—75 times less volume seen than December 2017 launch of CME’s cash-settled futures offering, which saw the equivalent of 5,298 BTC traded on its first day, as noted by Alex Kruger.
964.
Post 52548148 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.02h):
BAKKT OCT 19 is now at 159 BTC:
https://www.theice.com/products/72035464/Bakkt-Bitcoin-USD-Monthly-Futures-Contract/data?marketId=6137541What would have happened if its launch were as successful as CME futures? (75x volumes on first day?)
Don't worry guys, a little bit of price manipulations trying to squeeze some weakhand out of the game.
EDIT:161 and counting, more than double yesterday volumes. CME launch was 500ish BTC.
EDIT2: longs getting rekkt on Bitmex: 500 mios getting stopped:
965.
Post 52548249 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.02h):
Quote me and put the data:
Fillippone
Registration date: February 18, 2018, 08:53:54 PM
Bitcointalk Profile:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1852120Bpip Profile:
https://bpip.org/profile.aspx?p=fillipponeDescription of your avatar: I am italian, and I run a Bitcoin node + Lightning. So my hat has italian flag colours, with Lightnings casting Bitcoin symbol's shadows on the hat itself!
Long time Bitcoin investors, now broke as I lost my private keys on a boating accident. Came on the forum for a shitcoin airdrop, stayed for the technology.
966.
Post 52550897 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.02h):
Daily contracts are not tradable yet. Only monthly contacts for the moment.
967.
Post 52551261 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.02h):
Daily contracts are not tradable yet. Only monthly contacts for the moment.
Oops, thanks.
I was never interested in anything futures, but why these up&downs in volume then?
There must be a deadline to cancel a contract, right?
We are speaking of daily volumes.
If i sell a contract to you we have 1 daily volume. Open interest is 1.
If the following day I sell a contract to you we have 1 daily volume. Open interest is 2.
If the same day I buy a contract from you we have 2 daily volume. Open interest is 1 again.
968.
Post 52551732 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.02h):
Don't panic.
S2F model still in play.
Graph from :
https://digitalik.net/btc/Market is still following SF model, all in place for Halving rally.
Of course one could argue that with the market knowing this model the halving rally should be rationally anticipating actual halving, not following it like in 2016.
But still, let's try to see the glass half full glass.
969.
Post 52552047 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.02h):
has anyone an overview of the different Bitcoin derivatives on CME, CBOE, NYSE etc.
and open and close times of the exchanges?
thank you!
BAKKT:
https://www.theice.com/products/72035464/Bakkt-Bitcoin-USD-Monthly-Futures-Contract/data?marketId=6137541CITY TRADING PRE-OPEN
NEW YORK 8:00 PM - 6:00 PM*
20:00 - 18:00 7:55 PM
19:55
LONDON 1:00 AM - 11:00 PM*
01:00 - 23:00 12:55 AM
00:55
SINGAPORE 8:00 AM - 6:00 AM*
08:00 - 06:00 7:55 AM
07:55
CME:
https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/equity-index/us-index/bitcoin.htmlTrading Hours:
Sunday - Friday 6:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m/ CT) with a 60-minute break each day beginning at 5:00 p.m. (4:00 p.m. CT)
CT is Central time:
Currently Central Daylight Time (CDT), UTC -5
Standard time (Central Standard Time (CST), UTC -6) starts November 3, 2019
CBOE:
Out of Business.
Wondering to write a post (or a thread ) recapping differences between futures, future terminology, and a little bit of theory (what is a future , in the first place, what does words such as volume, contango,backwardation, settlement price etc means) Do you think it is useful?
970.
Post 52556151 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.02h):
Thanks, also fillippone cleared that up for me.
You know any further bakkt statistics resources, btw?
As far as I know that is the only source.
I am sure there will be more in the near future (pun intended).
971.
Post 52560350 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.02h):
Meanwhile, outside the realm of the darknet/ illicit financing/ terrorism funding cryptocurrencies:
ABN Amro CoCos Drop Amid Probe Under Money-Laundering Law
By Alice Gledhill
(Bloomberg) -- The Dutch bank’s Additional Tier 1 bonds fall the most in six months as prosecutors investigate lender for failing to report suspicious transactions (see story).
The bank said it’s facing a probe under anti-money laundering law, without elaboration
Its EU1b 4.75% AT1 dropped ~1 cent on euro to ~105, the biggest decline since March
Yeah.
Yesterday Danske BANK ex CEO was found dead. He tried, but failed, to recycle 220 BILLIONS for russians. They didn't like him failing, apparently.
But , yes, cryptocurrencies poses a risk to money-laundering.
Yes.
Right.
972.
Post 52560817 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.02h):
Today BAKKT traded BTC217, in 5yrs that'd take up almost 50% of the supply. Silly traders with their dinosaur charts and triangles.
Not today, maybe UNTIL Today.
I think a summary of a future contract work is badly needed here. I am working on it., but it's a long effort.
As I am writing this post, TODAY BAKKT future traded 1 lot:
https://www.theice.com/products/72035464/Bakkt-Bitcoin-USD-Monthly-Futures-Contract/data?marketId=6137541That's ridiculous.
Related to this news, I can tell you that so far, the best explanation for the BTC price dump is the following:
1.Big swinging dicks got ready for a successful BAKKT launch, comparable to CME/CBOT futures, with 5000x Bitcoin volumes in the first days. This would have sent the BTCUSD Price skyrocketing.
2.Big swinging dicks loaded guns leveraging long position on Bitmex.
3. BAKKT launch was a disappointment, with ridiculous volumers.
4. Big swinging dicks understood BAKKT was not meant to be an immediate success they had to close their long, because VaR constraints.
5. This forced liquidation, than moved the price lower, forcing slower money to force their own liquidations, like a snowball effect.
6. Unfortunate coincidence (no tinfoil mode here) Hashrate dipped spurring a lot of concern (again, no conspiracies theories about a 51% attack against BAKKT, it might have been only a cloud services outage in inner China that temporarily stopped some mining pool).
These my 2 cents.
973.
Post 52562043 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.02h):
Little variation on the classical WO game: where am I?
This is depressing...
974.
Post 52562188 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.02h):
Little variation on the classical WO game: where am I?
This is depressing...
Yeah, almost.
975.
Post 52562608 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.02h):
Little variation on the classical WO game: where am I?
This is depressing...
Italie
moar pixels:
976.
Post 52562660 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.02h):
I told you it was depressing...
977.
Post 52562795 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.02h):
Now we see the real reason why Bakkt got delayed...
I owe one merit.
That’s the point.
And to me this is exactly what caused the price dump the other day, as I explained in one of my last messages..
EDIT: merited, thanks to Dabs.
978.
Post 52564131 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.02h):
edit: Who gives me the merit No. 1001, has a prize.
The winner is:
fillippone, quote the post and I will give you the prize, 10 sM for you.
VB1001 this was my goal > 1001I no longer need merits, I have what it takes to become a legendary when the time comes, use the merits to help other WO members with excellent publications.
Thank you all.
Ahah well done my friend!
Check your PM!
979.
Post 52567367 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.03h):
Next hours are critical
980.
Post 52572384 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.03h):
has anyone an overview of the different Bitcoin derivatives on CME, CBOE, NYSE etc.
and open and close times of the exchanges?
thank you!
BAKKT:
https://www.theice.com/products/72035464/Bakkt-Bitcoin-USD-Monthly-Futures-Contract/data?marketId=6137541CITY TRADING PRE-OPEN
NEW YORK 8:00 PM - 6:00 PM*
20:00 - 18:00 7:55 PM
19:55
LONDON 1:00 AM - 11:00 PM*
01:00 - 23:00 12:55 AM
00:55
SINGAPORE 8:00 AM - 6:00 AM*
08:00 - 06:00 7:55 AM
07:55
CME:
https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/equity-index/us-index/bitcoin.htmlTrading Hours:
Sunday - Friday 6:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m/ CT) with a 60-minute break each day beginning at 5:00 p.m. (4:00 p.m. CT)
CT is Central time:
Currently Central Daylight Time (CDT), UTC -5
Standard time (Central Standard Time (CST), UTC -6) starts November 3, 2019
CBOE:
Out of Business.
Wondering to write a post (or a thread ) recapping differences between futures, future terminology, and a little bit of theory (what is a future , in the first place, what does words such as volume, contango,backwardation, settlement price etc means) Do you think it is useful?
Here you go.
I wrote this thread on the future definition, usage, contract detail, lingo etc.
Everything you wanted to know about BTC futures but were afraid to ask!Please let me know if you like and how to improve it!
I am going to add details on the next days. This work was more time draining than expected!
981.
Post 52572391 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.03h):
-... / .. / - / -.-. / --- / .. / -. // .-- / .. / .-.. / .-.. // .-- / .. / -. //
--. --- -... .. - -.-. --- .. -. --. ---!
Not this again!
-. --- - - .... .. ... .- --. .- .. -.!
982.
Post 52580026 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.03h):
Yeah that’s me I think.
It was me posting a pic without the traditional signed piece of paper, so I had to improvise, adapt and overcome.
It was totally unintentional, as I translated to WO.
But the sarcasm is great on this sign, so I might like it.
983.
Post 52597095 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.03h):
My explanation for price pump and following dump is the following:
Related to this news, I can tell you that so far, the best explanation for the BTC price dump is the following:
1.Big swinging dicks got ready for a successful BAKKT launch, comparable to CME/CBOT futures, with 5000x Bitcoin volumes in the first days. This would have sent the BTCUSD Price skyrocketing.
2.Big swinging dicks loaded guns leveraging long position on Bitmex and buying bitcoin outright. This happened in the past months.
3. BAKKT launch was a disappointment, with ridiculous volumers.
4. Big swinging dicks understood BAKKT was not meant to be an immediate success they had to close their long, because VaR constraints.
5. This forced liquidation, than moved the price lower, forcing slower money to force their own liquidations, like a snowball effect.
6. Unfortunate coincidence (no tinfoil mode here) Hashrate dipped spurring a lot of concern (again, no conspiracies theories about a 51% attack against BAKKT, it might have been only a cloud services outage in inner China that temporarily stopped some mining pool).
Speaking of futures, I wrote this thread on the future definition, usage, contract detail, lingo etc.
Everything you wanted to know about BTC futures but were afraid to ask!Please let me know if you like and how to improve it!
I am going to add details on the next days. This work was more time draining than expected!
984.
Post 52597342 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.03h):
Nobody was talking about BAKKT when the price was rising....
I don’t think BAKKT have had anything to do with any pump yet from this year....
For sure we spoke about Bakkt being a positive catalyst on the exiting from the crypto winter.
There was a lot of theories about bakkt launch, with mini-dump each time it got delayed..
985.
Post 52607437 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.03h):
Hey where did all the bears go?
Back in the shitcaves where they belong to.
986.
Post 52614503 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.03h):
Wo Gang,
I havew been absent from the WO thread because I took a deep dive on the future thread I am tring to write:
Everything you wanted to know about BTC futures but were afraid to ask!I just added a paragraph on the meaning of terms like
contango and
backwardation, added the contract expiry rules and I am shorlt going to add a few links.
987.
Post 52615431 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.03h):
At
NeuroticFish's request, I made this:
All posts in the Wall Observer thread in the past 1h, 24h and 7dAll posts in the past 1 hour: WallObserver.tk/1h.html (updated every 3 minutes).
All posts in the past 24 hours: WallObserver.tk (updated every 30 minutes).
All posts in the past 7 days: WallObserver.tk/7d.html (updated every 2 hours).
Domain WallObserver.tk expires a year from now, I'll see by then if anyone uses it.
All times are set to Amsterdam time.
Limitations:
Images still go through Bitcointalk's image proxy, and they don't load when there are too many on one page. In Firefox a fix is to go to the URL-bar a few times, and press Enter. Just "Reload" doesn't help.
I'm just leaving it here in case anyone things this is useful
If not, please ignore it.
Meriting you because of the effort and as someone is finding it useful.
I struggle to understand how browsing an external site is more convenient than browsing the actual thread... but still...
988.
Post 52617359 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.03h):
This is the 6th fresco crowdfunded by the crypto community with a #Bitcoin QR code 🎨, located in Paris (Ivry sur Seine), on the roof of the old gold fundry of the Bank of France.
Could you find what's the link to Bitcoin in the painting (besides the location and the QR)?
https://twitter.com/pascalboyart/status/1178753617597276160People on the raft are dressed in modern way: there's a mobile on the floor: they are banksters! they're trying to be save with the printed money... but the're going to fail. massively.
989.
Post 52624491 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.03h):
Given the hugely successful launch of Bakkt this news is almost no news:
CME Exec: No Plans for Physically Settled BTC Contracts CurrentlyThe Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group has no current plans to launch physically settled Bitcoin (BTC) contracts, a senior executive said.
Tim McCourt, global head of equity index and alternative investment products at CME Group, told MarketsMedia on Oct. 1 that all new contracts or products are driven by customer demand.
This makes sense from a business perspective.
They have a fully functional cash -settle product. There's no demand for the moment for a physically settled one, for the moment. They have the technology to be close followers in case demand builds up.
990.
Post 52624694 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.03h):
Good morning gentlemen!
$50 worth of
BTC for the first person to successfully post a Vegeta meme when we cross $9,000 again
(Bitstamp)I’m bored, thought it’d be cool to keep people on their toes and play a game
Shall the winner post also a snip from Bitstamp as an evidence of 9,000 trespassing?
991.
Post 52624912 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.03h):
Good morning gentlemen!
$50 worth of
BTC for the first person to successfully post a Vegeta meme when we cross $9,000 again
(Bitstamp)I’m bored, thought it’d be cool to keep people on their toes and play a game
Edit - Please post screenshot of Bitstamp price to prove as my good friend fillippone says ‘trespassing of $9,000’
are fakes allowed too?
I will check on the Bitstamp time of crossing against time of post
need the money! do pics of my shaved boobs (without face) counts too.
EDIT: s**t, now i must sit 24/7 in front of my computer like the Filipinos do.
That is the price for the eternal glory.
992.
Post 52625068 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.03h):
Fillippone is Italian for everyone.
Except for R0ach, who calls me mexican because he's very funny and knows italian and mexican flags are very similar.
Yeah, so funny bloke.
993.
Post 52625145 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.03h):
Before getting to legendary i need to be Hero.
This will happen sometime on Oct. 9.
Legendary..... that's a waiting game.
It has been pointed however that I hang out too much here... and I should get some merit elsewhere as WO merits apparently are worth less than one merit.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5098333.msg52615840#msg52615840The world is strange.
994.
Post 52626957 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.03h):
Let's get it done - Boris McAfee
{Inserts man eating own dick gif}
He's desperate to save his sausage!
McAfee: Bitcoin’s Scarcity Will Trigger Its Price to Hit $1M in 2020McAfee, known for his brave prediction that the biggest cryptocurrency will hit $500,000 in 2020, has defended his recently doubled down bet that Bitcoin will cost $1 million per coin in 2020 in a Forbes interview on Sept. 30.
In the interview, McAfee argues that the main trigger for Bitcoin’s surging price will be its scarcity, which means that BTC supply is limited by 21 million coins, adding that a significant fraction was apparently lost forever. McAfee said:
“Let’s get real, there are only 21 million bitcoins, seven million of which have been lost forever, and then, if Satoshi is dead, add a few more million.”
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Post 52627361 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.03h):
The real trigger is after 2 or 3 more halvings. By then we'd have more than 99% of the supply mined, 8 million lost forever, so that leaves about 12 million corns in circulation. I don't know how much adoption is by then, but whatever it is, it will have hit or exceeded all price predictions.
Unfortunately, that's still at least a decade away.
It’s very likely we reach at least $50,000 after May 2020 halving.
I think I already said this many times, also here on the WO.
I have a feeling a lot of people, institutional investors included, are looking at PlanB models, and probably sometimes between here and the halving we'll start seeing some kind of front running. I do agree with LFC scenario of easy 50K after halving in May20.
If the halving rally fails to materialise before or after the halving, say one year after, we still are around today's level, then we will experience a very long and cold cryptowinter II.
Institutional money, who is ready to dump a LOT of money into cryptos, see Bitcoin as an uncorrelated, high volatility asset. Something that is very precious in low volatility/negative interest rate financial environment.
If bitcoins then fails to provide those investors with a positive return, then we we'll have a serious adoption problem posing a threat to further growth.
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Post 52627563 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.03h):
Lot of Germans coming to Bitcoin, shouldn't surprise as German yield curve is entirely negative up to 30y!
Saving at negative rates is the biggest push for BTC to the moon!
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Post 52629020 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.03h):
The real trigger is after 2 or 3 more halvings. By then we'd have more than 99% of the supply mined, 8 million lost forever, so that leaves about 12 million corns in circulation. I don't know how much adoption is by then, but whatever it is, it will have hit or exceeded all price predictions.
Unfortunately, that's still at least a decade away.
It’s very likely we reach at least $50,000 after May 2020 halving.
I think I already said this many times, also here on the WO.
I have a feeling a lot of people, institutional investors included, are looking at PlanB models, and probably sometimes between here and the halving we'll start seeing some kind of front running. I do agree with LFC scenario of easy 50K after halving in May20.
If the halving rally fails to materialise before or after the halving, say one year after, we still are around today's level, then we will experience a very long and cold cryptowinter II.
Institutional money, who is ready to dump a LOT of money into cryptos, see Bitcoin as an uncorrelated, high volatility asset. Something that is very precious in low volatility/negative interest rate financial environment.
If bitcoins then fails to provide those investors with a positive return, then we we'll have a serious adoption problem posing a threat to further growth.
The rallying USD is concerning in the medium term. If much of Bitcoin's appeal lies, like gold, as a hedge against inflation, the USD could be seen as a safer bet over the next couple of years as the global economy collapses.
when you come to FIAT.
But an hedge against inflation and market collapse must be found outside the FIAT realm. so Gold or his digital equivalent. There's no way to to avoid this, and institutional investors know that. That's why they're scratch the front door of BTC investments.
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Post 52629468 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.03h):
My friend Shelby, who many of you may know
<snip>
Yeah,
Carrol Shelby: Matt Damon is filming a movie on this incredible BTC predicting abilities.
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Post 52639175 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.03h):
Vaguely referring to Bitcoin but I think its worth a read, as food for though.
Bitcoin is a disruptive technology. The genius is outside the lamp and the "disintermediation" and "peer to peer" winds are too strong to be stopped.
TL, DR:
Vanguard is trying to cut out bank in FX trading, by far the most efficient market with supertight margins, where the banks literally fight for every penny. If this can be done in superliquid markets, guess what kind of damage disintermediation can do in more opaque and illiquid ones.
Vanguard to Challenge Banks’ Grip on $6 Trillion Currency Market
Indexing giant testing peer-to-peer FX via blockchain
Firm aims to ‘lower the cost of investing for all investors’By Alastair Marsh
(Bloomberg) -- Having revolutionized the business of buying stocks, Vanguard Group is now coming for currencies.
The investing pioneer obsessed with lowering costs is testing a new way for asset managers to trade currencies and avoid big investment banks, according to a person familiar with the matter. The platform, based on the blockchain technology that powers Bitcoin, has been operational for two months and has handled some trades, said the person, asking not to be named because the project is private.
If successful, the venture could shift power in the $6 trillion a day currency market that banks such as JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Deutsche Bank AG have ruled for decades. While skeptics say it will be challenging to get enough investment firms on board, the cost savings of peer-to-peer trading could prove appealing in a world where profits are being squeezed by a race to the bottom on fees and mounting regulatory burdens.
“Direct trading really is the Holy Grail for the buy-side,” said Campbell Adams, a former senior currency trader at Deutsche Bank who founded a platform called ParFX in partnership with banks including Citigroup Inc. and JPMorgan. “In theory, it sounds great because you can reduce your costs if you can match directly with someone else who has a countervailing interest,” he said. Yet “it will require a critical mass of users.”
Breaking From Banks
Vanguard, with more than $5 trillion in total assets, trades about $2.5 trillion of currencies a year, Andy Maack, its global head of FX trading, told an industry publication this year. There’s a “tremendous amount of interest in the potential for disintermediation,” he said in an interview last month with The Trade, describing a system that would be “decoupled from banks” and price discovery would move to outside platforms able to match peers.
“Vanguard is currently piloting a project focused on improving the efficiency and reducing risk of FX hedging,” company spokeswoman Carolyn Wegemann said, declining to elaborate. It’s part of the firm’s commitment to “lower the cost of investing for all investors,” she said.
Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News, operates an FX trading platform for banks.
Asset managers face a historic shakeout
The project would be among the most significant applications of blockchain in finance. While nearly all major banks and money managers are experimenting with the technology to do everything from issuing bonds to processing payments -- JPMorgan has developed its own digital token and Banco Santander SA has issued tokenized debt -- few have used it in large-scale commercial operations.
The project’s success would also mark a leap in the evolution of the FX market, which has been inching toward a peer-to-peer model over at least two decades, said Adams, who has more than 30 years experience trading currencies and now runs Pure Digital, a venue for cryptocurrencies.
When Adams worked on the FX trading desks of Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank in the 1990s, asset managers made currency trades almost exclusively through banks. In the mid-2000s, buy-side firms could match trades with other investors on electronic trading platforms but still had to go through a bank to execute them, said Adams. Vanguard’s initiative would bypass that, too.
Success isn’t guaranteed. It remains to be seen how the venture will operate, whether there’ll be sufficient liquidity, who will be allowed to participate and who will be willing to sign up, Adams said.
Swaps, Forwards
A blockchain-based peer-to-peer platform would have greatest impact on swaps and forward markets rather than in spot trading because on a day-to-day basis opposite interests among investment firms may be limited in spot, said Adams. Banks are also more dominant in these derivatives trades because investors may rely on them for credit lines, said Jay Moore, the founder of FX HedgePool, a currency platform that matches buy-side customers.
Vanguard, based in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, is no stranger to challenging convention. Founded in 1975, the investor-owned firm made its name with the first index mutual fund. It later was among the biggest proponents of ditching a long-held market practice that let currency dealers back out of losing trades.
Why proponents see the promise of blockchain
“Vanguard has proven to be pioneering and very forward thinking in many ways, so it makes sense for them to take the lead,” said Moore, who’s based in New York and previously worked for Brown Brothers Harriman. “The market won’t change on its own, it takes someone to push the envelope.”
The Vanguard FX platform uses blockchain technology developed by Symbiont, a New York-based company that’s applying the technology behind Bitcoin to capital markets, said the person familiar with the matter.
This also isn’t the first time Vanguard has partnered with Symbiont: The firms previously teamed up to explore applying blockchain to the investment giant’s process for updating the index data behind its mutual funds. A spokeswoman for Symbiont, which is backed by Citigroup and Nasdaq Inc., declined to comment.
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Post 52640637 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.03h):
Hey guys, have you ever done some trading on both sides? That is, if you enter Long, do you protect your position in Short with some leverage? This Spanish-speaking Trader did it, the video is from 2018, but it seems to me that the adrenaline he feels is a lot! more when you do it with 100k!
https://i.imgur.com/Xv1Vx5v.pngSource:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7p5UTPNPIs&t=14sAs Jesse Livermore did, it is a way to always be in the market, no matter which direction you are going.
Do you think it is convenient to do it right now in the market? Since the price is expected to increase, but if it falls, protect your position.
Obviously, to do this you have to have a lot of experience and try to suppress emotions to the fullest.
it do not make sense to me. if I buy I expect the price to increase and if I short with leverage I expect the price to decrease.
if I buy one BTC and the same time I short BTC with leverage then if the price will increase my short will get liquidated soon depending on my leverage. if the price decreases my short will get in profit but then it was useless to buy BTC because better buy after the short was closed in profit.
Indeed that strategy has no meaning.
If I buy a bitcoin and then I short a bitcoin I am flat.
If I buy a bitcoin and then I short 2 bitcoin I am short 1 bitcoin (so why getting long a bitcoin in the first place?)
If I buy a bitcoin and then I shott 10 bitcoin I am short 9 bitcoin.... (again..)
This reasoning could be very different if there were options available to trade. But this is not the case.
I dismiss that video as bullshit.
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Post 52640678 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.03h):
I'm not a huge fan of the system but then I'm no expert.
I'm no expert either, but the system does pay off with a little caution.
really? may you care to explain, please?
This system can and does pay off. A couple ways it can:
- No need to close both positions at the same time! You could taper the losing one or close it abruptly if you're sure of the trend.
- Different size/different leverage for the two positions.
Only way to decide to keep open a position is current Mark to Market, not inception or initial trade level.
So I humbly disagree on this specific approach.
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Post 52640702 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.03h):
Again, I don't do it but I understand how it works and what the draw is.
Believe me I know how it works and having long and short positions doesn't help you with this, as the only way at looking it is doing all the sums and think like you have only one position.
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Post 52640939 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.03h):
So, because of dickering around with shorts, there is NOT as much profits from when BTC's price finally does go up, but at the same time, profits are made when BTC's price goes down in a much greater way than merely selling a few BTC on the way up and buying back at lower prices.
So your reasoning is the following.
You are long 10 BTC. You short sell 1.
1)If BTC goes up, you are happy, because you lost on the short bitcoin, but actually you gained.
2) If BTC goes down, you are sad, but at least you can buy back your bitcoin, profit from it and alleviate your suffering.
THe reality is.
a)You are long 10 BTC.
b)You decide to sell 1 bitcoin.
c)You are long 9 bitcoin and some cash.
If BTC goes up, you are happy, because you gained. on those 9 bitcoin. Cash is the same.
If BTC goes down, you are sad, because you are losing on those 9 bitcoin. Then you decide to buy another bitcoin and you are long 10 bitcoin and some (less) cash. You are in a very similar position than point c. but with less cash to spend on more bitcoin buying.
If you are trading with linear assets there's no other other way to sum all of your positions and think about only as a SUM. the worst think yopu can think is where you bought some corn and you have to sell it above that level to gain.
I strongly disagree with d_eddie.
Even in highly volatile environment Mark To market is the best way to think of your trading position, because MtM has to do with the current price, so it has to do with the future movements.
If you think on yor P&L, you think where you traded the corn in the Past. Very dangerous.
When you trade you have to think only where you are headed to, not where you have been: is't like driving looking into the rearview mirror to decide where the road is headed....
- I let my long live because she will get back up there eventually! This might not be 100% rational, all right
This is actually 100% rational. HODLing is the best strategy to gain from Bitcoin!
EDIT: I just realised I replied to JJG. I don't know if I am ready for a wall of text!
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Post 52641265 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.03h):
So, because of dickering around with shorts, there is NOT as much profits from when BTC's price finally does go up, but at the same time, profits are made when BTC's price goes down in a much greater way than merely selling a few BTC on the way up and buying back at lower prices.
So your reasoning is the following.
You are long 10 BTC. You short sell 1.
1)If BTC goes up, you are happy, because you lost on the short bitcoin, but actually you gained.
2) If BTC goes down, you are sad, but at least you can buy back your bitcoin, profit from it and alleviate your suffering.
THe reality is.
a)You are long 10 BTC.
b)You decide to sell 1 bitcoin.
c)You are long 9 bitcoin and some cash.
If BTC goes up, you are happy, because you gained. on those 9 bitcoin. Cash is the same.
If BTC goes down, you are sad, because you are losing on those 9 bitcoin. Then you decide to buy another bitcoin and you are long 10 bitcoin and some (less) cash. You are in a very similar position than point c. but with less cash to spend on more bitcoin buying.
Try to look at it another way:
You are long 10 BTC. You short sell 1.
BTC goes down. You close the short and 10% of your
virtual losses on the long are recovered.
Then, EITHER
- BTC goes back up. When it gets back where you started, you still have the
(real) profit made on the short.
OR
- BTC goes down some more. You're losing, but you're losing somewhat less. You have more margin - whether you want to risk some more, or you're just glad your liquidation is that little bit further away.
That's how I have used my contrarian positions until today, and I am glad I did.
The only think that is important is that you are long 9 BTC.
That's it, you can look as 10-1 11-2 100-91 or whatever.
All the profits and all the losses are real, it doesn't matter if they are realised or unrealised, they are real.
If you bought ATH in Dec 2018, your losses are real, even if you are still hodling.
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Post 52641539 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.03h):
I see now. If you count unrealized P&L as real, then it's just as you say. I still think it's called UNreal - ized for a reason.
Very funny.
Merited.
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Post 52642732 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.03h):
If you have 15 spare minutes, very interesting yet entertaining speech by Saif:
https://twitter.com/stephanlivera/status/1179660970840379392
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Post 52646596 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.03h):
Ah! Good Morning WO gang.
Observing BTC@8125.
This tweet put a smile on my face:
Did you know?
# of Web Servers
1991: 1
1992: 10
1993: 50
1994: 623
1995: 10,022
1996: 100,000
1997: 603,367
1998: ~1.6 million
1999: ~3.7 million
2000: ~9.5 million
2001: ~26 million
2002: ~36 million
2003: ~35 million
2004: more than ~46 million
2019: more than 1,717,077,725
https://twitter.com/w3c/status/1179909748147343361?s=20Because it immediately remembered me this statement made in 1998:
and this:
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Post 52646799 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.03h):
Fuck you Fatty
Also look who made the top of the list Gratz man - well deserved.
What's that sorcery?
I didn't even know that part of the forum exists as I always relied on external efforts like tables and datas from ddmrddmr or LoyceV.
Anyway, I take no pride in that, It your merit (pun intended). I only try to contribute to the forum in the best way I can and try to stimulate most interesting (and entertaining) discussions.
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Post 52648486 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.03h):
Hey guys, have you ever done some trading on both sides? That is, if you enter Long, do you protect your position in Short with some leverage? This Spanish-speaking Trader did it, the video is from 2018, but it seems to me that the adrenaline he feels is a lot! more when you do it with 100k!
https://i.imgur.com/Xv1Vx5v.pngSource:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7p5UTPNPIs&t=14sAs Jesse Livermore did, it is a way to always be in the market, no matter which direction you are going.
Do you think it is convenient to do it right now in the market? Since the price is expected to increase, but if it falls, protect your position.
Obviously, to do this you have to have a lot of experience and try to suppress emotions to the fullest.
let's play it simple without leverage just 1 BTC positions in USD.
bid price is 8200
ask price is 8250
spread is 50
you sell (sl -250) at 8250 - from start it equals to -50 in profit
you buy (sl -250) at 8200 - from start it equals to -50 in profit
price goes to 8400 - sell liquidated with -250 profit - buy with +150 in profit
price must go to 8500 to be break-even (w/o fees for both positions)
or
price goes to 8000 - buy liquidated with -250 profit - sell with +150 in profit
price must go to 7900 to be break-even (w/o fees for both positions)
it's kind of break-out system with a range of
500 600 (w/o fees for both positions). there MUST be a range break-out > 300 to be profitable and ranging withing the range will increase the losses every time a sl is hit.
*correct me please if I did a calculation error
EDIT: in my eyes it's a poor system. better you have a range defined and buy above the range and sell below the range because then you will not add several losses if there is no break-out of the range for a specific time.
Sorry, I don't undertand your example.
first of all, if bitcoin quotes like you stated:
bid price is 8200
ask price is 8250
spread is 50
You cannot buy at 8,200 and sell at 8,250.
You can sell at 8,200 and buy at 8,250. So you lock a 50 USD negative spread (the so called bid/ask spread).
You can potentially place an order to buy at 8,200 and place an order to sell at 8,250. But it is not granted you get both of them executed. You are taking some risk here, that eventually will allow you to lock a 50 USD gain.
But let's think you are good enough, or lucky, to buy and sell locking a 50 dollar profit
you bought a bitcoin at 8,200 and sold a bitcoin at 8,2500.
So you situation is:
+1 BTC @8,200
-1 BTC @8,250
What happens if BTC goes to 8,300?
Your buy is in the money of 100 usd: P&L (unrealised): +100
Your sell is out the money of 50 usd: P&L (unrealised): -50
Total P&L (unrealised):+ 50
What happens if BTC goes to 8,400?
Your buy is in the money of 200 usd: P&L (unrealised): +200
Your sell is out the money of 150 usd: P&L (unrealised): -150
Total P&L (unrealised):+ 50
What happens if BTC goes to 8,050?
Your buy is out the money of 150 usd: P&L (unrealised): -150
Your sell is out the money of 200 usd: P&L (unrealised): +200
Total P&L (unrealised):+ 50
See?
Your p&l is always 50: this leads to me to think that you are not long a bitcoin and short a bitcoin: you are flat, you have NO bitcoin, and you just gained 50 dollar from your market making 1 bitcoin at the start (buying and selling the initial bitcoin- also in the opposite order- at the start of this trade).
I don't event think (but i am not expert specifically on those platform) to get long and short on the same account. If a platform is allowing to go short and long at the same time they're actually stealing you money.
Your example go on with liquidations,
those don't change the thing dramatically, but I can't go on , because i lost your calculations as they appear all wrong to me:
you sell (sl -250) at 8250 - from start it equals to -50 in profit
price goes to 8400 - sell liquidated with -250 profit - buy with +150 in profit
If you sell at 8,250, and price goes to 8,400 your sell is liquidated with 150 loss.
Even in highly volatile environment Mark To market is the best way to think of your trading position, because MtM has to do with the current price, so it has to do with the future movements.
You assume P&L is instantly real, since current price is the best possible estimate of future price. Which it could be
if there were a universal way to price risk and opportunity cost. Which I assume there isn't.
My own assumptions? "I'll never hit that wall because I keep my gameplay far from the sidelines." Taken to extremes: if I had infinite capital, I would not worry a bit. In other words: my bankroll is finite so I do worry of course, but I have low (negative?) opportunity cost for my play stash - it's better for me to use it to get moar btc at good odds than to collect dust in the freezer. As for the risk, I can't quantify it precisely, but it's bounded by the play stash amount if I stick to my rules.
If we had infinite capital, infinite time we would all be rich.
Capital is finite and time is finite. I don't know if it is better this way, but it surely so much more funny.
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Post 52649529 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.03h):
I am not a WO citizen, but this is my first time I saw my name in top of most merited users. In reality, I rarely check that statistic page. Thank you for saving it.
I don't event know where this page is...
I just discovered today the statistics page!
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Post 52649709 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.03h):
Somebody please explain how much the number leet is??
Leet (or "1337"), also known as eleet or leetspeak, is a system of modified spellings used primarily on the Internet.
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Post 52653997 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.03h):
New dt1 is out:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5117330.msg50036133#msg50036133Here the changes:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5095156.msg52653855#msg52653855Lots of WO regulars involved in the spinning doors!
Filippone ego was already under pressure, but now got definitely a beating being excluded in this “member of the random 100”
Luckily Mic just made me smile!
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Post 52654292 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.03h):
If only that guy put some on cold storage and forgot about it. Losing 800 even back in 2010, he should have gotten it back or bought back even.
Oh, I'm back in DT. Awesome.. I didn't even realize I was kicked out.
You would have still been DT2. theymos only wants 100 DT1 at any time so I think there’s around 111 who qualify for it atm which means 11 (atm) rotate out & 11 rotate back in.
I got booted out for a month & then got rotated back in.
It’s something like the above any way.
Just because I am sad and I want to nitpick a little bit:
if you are out one month, you are not guaranteed to be back in next following month.
You can be out for two consecutive months (it already happened to poor Babo).
But yeah, that is the idea
EDIT: Thanks for the merit LFC! Oh MIC, 80 again! micgoossens edit that message!
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Post 52657355 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.03h):
According to the 2015 fractal, we could run sideways from here to May 2020. It would be a bit boring but I wouldn’t consider it disastrous.
I find this fractal likeness fascinating, but I doubt we will follow the same path again.
PlanB article, for example, spoiled halving effect on prices: now investors know that after, the halving, price will eventually rise, and being rational, are front-running this effect.
This is why we are a few months in “advance” compared to last cycle. I guess we will maintain this “shift” compared to last cycle, as markets are more mature and better incorporate public informations.
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Post 52664614 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.03h):
NNT Nails once again.
Paul Krugman: what happened to you?
Dangerous sophistry.
Debt has destroyed societies.
By his reasoning crime is an injury WE inflict to ourselves.
Debt is money SOME groups or individuals owe to OTHER groups and individuals, who may be not born yet.
The bundling of all agents as "WE" is a naive fallacy.
Paul Krugman
@paulkrugman
DEBT IS MONEY WE OWE TO OURSELVES
DEBT IS MONEY WE OWE TO OURSELVES
DEBT IS MONEY WE OWE TO OURSELVES
DEBT IS MONEY ....
It only make us poorer in aggregate if it crowds out investment — which is isn't doing
Bitcoin Fixes that.
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Post 52665211 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.03h):
It's time (again) for a Wall Observer Meta Post!
I made this post Monthly, so it will consider the merits sent during the month of September.
So I had to wait for the last merit dump, that included the last day of the month.
Merit analysis based on LoyceV merit file:
http://loyce.club/Merit/merit.all.txtMerit updated to September, 30th, 2019 23:59:59 UTC
Total merits sent on WO: 29748
Monthly Merits sent on WO: 1853 (+726)
Merited Users: 606 (+7)
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86.nanobtc 59
87.Karartma1 59
88.crypmike 58
89.suchmoon 56
90.strawbs 54
91.Ludwig Von 54
92.Samarkand 54
93.BitcoinNewsMagazine 54
94.theymos 53
95.FractalUniverse 53
96.RoomBot 52
97.rolling 51
98.RayX12 50
99.fluidjax 50
100.Dunkelheit667 50
TOP 100 WO MERIT SENDERS:
1.JayJuanGee 2651
2.BobLawblaw 2013
3.micgoossens 1672
4.LFC_Bitcoin 1232
5.bones261 1071
6.infofront 1002
7.Last of the V8s 824
8.Globb0 819
9.jbreher 753
10.vapourminer 719
11.xhomerx10 708
12.mindrust 697
13.HairyMaclairy 655
14.600watt 598
15.cAPSLOCK 555
16.marcus_of_augustus 502
17.Dabs 448
18.Toxic2040 442
19.jojo69 412
20.Torque 352
21.Paashaas 338
22.QuestionAuthority 311
23.VB1001 310
24.Hueristic 305
25.d_eddie 302
26.yefi 256
27.bitserve 245
28.kurious 235
29.gentlemand 222
30.Ibian 211
31.suchmoon 210
32.BlindMayorBitcorn 209
33.Wekkel 206
34.ErisDiscordia 202
35.fillippone 191
36.kenzawak 191
37.bitebits 188
38.RoomBot 180
39.Karartma1 179
40.nutildah 170
41.Raja_MBZ 169
42.JimboToronto 166
43.Dunkelheit667 157
44.explorer 155
45.Lambie Slayer 152
46.Gyrsur 147
47.mfort312 145
48.ssmc2 137
49.Pamoldar 131
50.ivomm 131
51.kingcolex 129
52.BTCMILLIONAIRE 118
53.Rosewater Foundation 116
54.edgar 115
55.Searing 114
56.Arriemoller 114
57.Majormax 112
58.Biodom 112
59.goldkingcoiner 110
60.PoolMinor 101
61.xyzzy099 99
62.P_Shep 96
63.Phil_S 96
64.lightfoot 96
65.JSRAW 95
66.Icygreen 95
67.sirazimuth 93
68.tonyq 87
69.julian071 86
70.Kylapoiss 82
71.conspirosphere.tk 82
72.vroom 81
73.DeathAngel 74
74.criptix 73
75.RayX12 73
76.Elwar 72
77.bitcoinPsycho 68
78.Cryptotourist 67
79.StartupAnalyst 60
80.Wilhelm 59
81.SuperTA 59
82.Anon136 56
83.serveria.com 56
84.empowering 55
85.AlcoHoDL 52
86.rolling 52
87.sammy007 50
88.Jayjay04 50
89.soullyG 49
90.STT 48
91.FractalUniverse 48
92.Bitcoinaire 47
93.Totscha 46
94.mymenace 46
95.MrFreeRoMan 45
96.AlexGR 43
97.bkbirge 41
98.afbitcoins 40
99.nanobtc 38
100.flynn 37
TOP 100 MONTHLY WO RECEIVERS:
1.micgoossens 104
2.JayJuanGee 95
3.LFC_Bitcoin 94
4.VB1001 91
5.HairyMaclairy 90
6.Last of the V8s 79
7.SuperTA 78
8.fillippone 76
9.d_eddie 57
10.jojo69 47
11.Lambie Slayer 47
12.mindrust 45
13.xhomerx10 39
14.makrospex 38
15.nutildah 33
16.Dabs 30
17.Biodom 29
18.BobLawblaw 28
19.serveria.com 28
20.Toxic2040 27
21.JSRAW 27
22.vroom 27
23.Wilhelm 27
24.gentlemand 25
25.Icygreen 24
26.Globb0 23
27.Paashaas 22
28.Phil_S 21
29.bkbirge 21
30.Raja_MBZ 20
31.Arriemoller 20
32.ivomm 19
33.kurious 18
34.Cryptoqueeen 16
35.BlindMayorBitcorn 15
36.Dunkelheit667 15
37.600watt 14
38.jbreher 13
39.Hueristic 13
40.LUCKMCFLY 13
41.Bitcoinaire 12
42.JimboToronto 11
43.Elwar 10
44.P_Shep 10
45.DaRude 9
46.lightfoot 8
47.becoin 8
48.GreatArkansas 8
49.Ibian 7
50.bitcoinPsycho 7
51.Gyrsur 7
52.Totscha 7
53.nikauforest 7
54.Krubster 7
55._javi_ 7
56.Negotiation 7
57.arewethereyet? 7
58.akhjob 7
59.DeathAngel 6
60.Ludwig Von 6
61.heslo 6
62.psycodad 6
63.Torque 5
64.bitserve 5
65.cAPSLOCK 5
66.marcus_of_augustus 5
67.Pamoldar 5
68.Spaceman_Spiff_Original 5
69.vapourminer 5
70.erre 5
71.Lauda 5
72.soxxx 5
73.ssmc2 5
74.goldkingcoiner 4
75.sirazimuth 4
76.DireWolfM14 4
77.tranthidung 4
78.dragonvslinux 4
79.HI-TEC99 3
80.Majormax 3
81.Saint-loup 3
82.Findingnemo 3
83.mersal 3
84.realr0ach 2
85.kingcolex 2
86.Kylapoiss 2
87.Cryptotourist 2
88.STT 2
89.somac. 2
90.rdbase 2
91.Cassius 2
92.btcbeliever 2
93.rebal15 2
94.Fatman3001 2
95.OROBTC 2
96.bucciarati 2
97.legendster 2
98.Wekkel 1
99.toknormal 1
100.Searing 1
TOP 100 MONTHLY WO SENDERS
1.micgoossens 210
2.Dabs 194
3.JayJuanGee 173
4.LFC_Bitcoin 103
5.mindrust 69
6.VB1001 62
7.Globb0 61
8.600watt 59
9.vapourminer 57
10.HairyMaclairy 53
11.BobLawblaw 48
12.fillippone 40
13.Last of the V8s 38
14.SuperTA 35
15.d_eddie 29
16.Wilhelm 29
17.jbreher 26
18.suchmoon 24
19.Lambie Slayer 24
20.makrospex 24
21.Hueristic 21
22.jojo69 19
23.nutildah 18
24.xhomerx10 17
25.ssmc2 17
26.AT101ET 17
27.Raja_MBZ 15
28.Biodom 15
29.bones261 14
30.gentlemand 14
31.serveria.com 14
32.Toxic2040 13
33.JSRAW 13
34.bkbirge 13
35.Icygreen 12
36.psycodad 12
37.Dunkelheit667 11
38.Phil_S 11
39.BayAreaCoins 10
40.Paashaas 9
41.JimboToronto 9
42.Arriemoller 9
43.sirazimuth 9
44.Ludwig Von 9
45.LUCKMCFLY 9
46.infofront 8
47.Torque 7
48.ivomm 7
49.DaRude 7
50.kurious 6
51.kingcolex 6
52.LoyceV 6
53.Pamoldar 5
54.P_Shep 5
55.vroom 5
56.Cryptoqueeen 5
57.Fatman3001 5
58.Ibian 4
59.Majormax 4
60.Totscha 4
61.Negotiation 4
62.Dotto 4
63.akhjob 4
64.Bossian 4
65.Gyrsur 3
66.DeathAngel 3
67.bitcoinPsycho 3
68.Bitcoinaire 3
69._javi_ 3
70.malevolent 3
71.mersal 3
72.Cryptotourist 2
73.rdbase 2
74.The Pharmacist 2
75.GreatArkansas 2
76.OROBTC 2
77.≡║▐µ 2
78.NeuroticFish 2
79.Krubster 2
80.UNOE 2
81.rs1x 2
82.cAPSLOCK 1
83.Wekkel 1
84.Searing 1
85.lightfoot 1
86.Kylapoiss 1
87.AlcoHoDL 1
88.ChinkyEyes 1
89.Spaceman_Spiff_Original 1
90.smartcomet 1
91.DireWolfM14 1
92.bitcoincidence 1
93.Saint-loup 1
94.nikauforest 1
95.WastedLTC 1
96.Patel 1
97.Dux2K 1
98.btcbeliever 1
99.cabalism13 1
100.Scheede 1
MONTHLY sMERITS BALANCE
SMerits Balance=Received Merits/2-Sent Merits
Positive Balance means an user has been increasing sMerits on the WO thread, while negative numbers means the users has sent more merits on WO than received.
Negative numbers are possible or because he has been generous this week because he has been greedy past weeks (so only temporary imbalance), or because he has hoarded sMerits on other threads spending them on WO thread, or because he's a merit source.
TOP 20 MONTHLY NET RECEIVERS
1.vroom 8.5
2.BlindMayorBitcorn 7.5
3.Elwar 5
4.jojo69 4.5
5.SuperTA 4
6.kurious 3
7.Bitcoinaire 3
8.lightfoot 3
9.Cryptoqueeen 3
10.xhomerx10 2.5
11.bitserve 2.5
12.ivomm 2.5
13.marcus_of_augustus 2.5
14.nikauforest 2.5
15.erre 2.5
16.Lauda 2.5
17.Paashaas 2
18.goldkingcoiner 2
19.GreatArkansas 2
20.heslo 2
TOP 20 MONTHLY WO NET SENDERS
1.Dabs -179
2.micgoossens -158
3.JayJuanGee -125.5
4.LFC_Bitcoin -56
5.vapourminer -54.5
6.600watt -52
7.Globb0 -49.5
8.mindrust -46.5
9.BobLawblaw -34
10.suchmoon -24
11.jbreher -19.5
12.VB1001 -16.5
13.Wilhelm -15.5
14.Hueristic -14.5
15.ssmc2 -14.5
16.bones261 -14
17.BayAreaCoins -9.5
18.psycodad -9
19.HairyMaclairy -8
20.infofront -8
Nice update, I think monthly cadence is more insightful, as less prone to weekly imbalances due to MS drought.
Sadly, It a little bit delayed update, but I commit doing those as soon as sir LoyceV releases data dumps.
Well we saw a little bit of merit circulation improvement in September, apparently the end of holiday season had more impact than the sideways action in September.
We see our Mic topping a number of charts here.
Hail to the King of WO!
Still fixing glitches here and there, I am using this to getting better at data management (errors are mine).
1017.
Post 52668014 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.04h):
It's time (again) for a Wall Observer Meta Post!
I made this post Monthly, so it will consider the merits sent during the month of September.
So I had to wait for the last merit dump, that included the last day of the month.
Merit analysis based on LoyceV merit file:
http://loyce.club/Merit/merit.all.txtMerit updated to September, 30th, 2019 23:59:59 UTC
Total merits sent on WO: 29748
Monthly Merits sent on WO: 1853 (+726)
Merited Users: 606 (+7)
TOP 100 WO MERIT RECEIVERS:
1.micgoossens 1937
2.Last of the V8s 1653
3.HairyMaclairy 1315
4.xhomerx10 1177
5.Toxic2040 961
6.BobLawblaw 949
7.jojo69 859
8.JayJuanGee 795
9.LFC_Bitcoin 765
10.infofront 713
11.VB1001 604
12.d_eddie 570
13.Torque 503
14.bitserve 479
15.gentlemand 416
16.mindrust 397
17.Paashaas 397
18.Elwar 362
19.Globb0 351
20.fillippone 351
21.kenzawak 342
22.JimboToronto 302
23.Lambie Slayer 302
24.cAPSLOCK 299
25.mfort312 282
26.Raja_MBZ 278
27.jbreher 276
28.ivomm 272
29.kurious 269
30.Biodom 266
31.goldkingcoiner 251
32.BTCMILLIONAIRE 247
33.nutildah 245
34.Rosewater Foundation 244
35.JSRAW 219
36.Phil_S 218
37.vroom 204
38.realr0ach 198
39.600watt 196
40.TERA2 194
41.Ibian 187
42.Icygreen 186
43.bones261 184
44.kingcolex 174
45.Kylapoiss 171
46.Hueristic 162
47.marcus_of_augustus 161
48.Arriemoller 155
49.yefi 153
50.Dabs 144
51.Pamoldar 143
52.Wekkel 139
53.Cryptotourist 132
54.StartupAnalyst 130
55.toknormal 130
56.bitcoinPsycho 129
57.Spaceman_Spiff_Original 128
58.SuperTA 123
59.Anon136 121
60.vapourminer 118
61.serveria.com 114
62.Bitcoinaire 107
63.kirreev070 107
64.lightfoot 106
65.BinaryReign 105
66.AlcoHoDL 102
67.Cryptoqueeen 97
68.explorer 97
69.Searing 89
70.BlindMayorBitcorn 87
71.sirazimuth 86
72.STT 79
73.Gyrsur 76
74.somac. 74
75.HI-TEC99 74
76.Totscha 73
77.bkbirge 73
78.makrospex 71
79.Majormax 70
80.DeathAngel 70
81.cryptjh 68
82.pacman7331 66
83.bitebits 64
84.cannycassiopeia 64
85.conspirosphere.tk 63
86.nanobtc 59
87.Karartma1 59
88.crypmike 58
89.suchmoon 56
90.strawbs 54
91.Ludwig Von 54
92.Samarkand 54
93.BitcoinNewsMagazine 54
94.theymos 53
95.FractalUniverse 53
96.RoomBot 52
97.rolling 51
98.RayX12 50
99.fluidjax 50
100.Dunkelheit667 50
TOP 100 WO MERIT SENDERS:
1.JayJuanGee 2651
2.BobLawblaw 2013
3.micgoossens 1672
4.LFC_Bitcoin 1232
5.bones261 1071
6.infofront 1002
7.Last of the V8s 824
8.Globb0 819
9.jbreher 753
10.vapourminer 719
11.xhomerx10 708
12.mindrust 697
13.HairyMaclairy 655
14.600watt 598
15.cAPSLOCK 555
16.marcus_of_augustus 502
17.Dabs 448
18.Toxic2040 442
19.jojo69 412
20.Torque 352
21.Paashaas 338
22.QuestionAuthority 311
23.VB1001 310
24.Hueristic 305
25.d_eddie 302
26.yefi 256
27.bitserve 245
28.kurious 235
29.gentlemand 222
30.Ibian 211
31.suchmoon 210
32.BlindMayorBitcorn 209
33.Wekkel 206
34.ErisDiscordia 202
35.fillippone 191
36.kenzawak 191
37.bitebits 188
38.RoomBot 180
39.Karartma1 179
40.nutildah 170
41.Raja_MBZ 169
42.JimboToronto 166
43.Dunkelheit667 157
44.explorer 155
45.Lambie Slayer 152
46.Gyrsur 147
47.mfort312 145
48.ssmc2 137
49.Pamoldar 131
50.ivomm 131
51.kingcolex 129
52.BTCMILLIONAIRE 118
53.Rosewater Foundation 116
54.edgar 115
55.Searing 114
56.Arriemoller 114
57.Majormax 112
58.Biodom 112
59.goldkingcoiner 110
60.PoolMinor 101
61.xyzzy099 99
62.P_Shep 96
63.Phil_S 96
64.lightfoot 96
65.JSRAW 95
66.Icygreen 95
67.sirazimuth 93
68.tonyq 87
69.julian071 86
70.Kylapoiss 82
71.conspirosphere.tk 82
72.vroom 81
73.DeathAngel 74
74.criptix 73
75.RayX12 73
76.Elwar 72
77.bitcoinPsycho 68
78.Cryptotourist 67
79.StartupAnalyst 60
80.Wilhelm 59
81.SuperTA 59
82.Anon136 56
83.serveria.com 56
84.empowering 55
85.AlcoHoDL 52
86.rolling 52
87.sammy007 50
88.Jayjay04 50
89.soullyG 49
90.STT 48
91.FractalUniverse 48
92.Bitcoinaire 47
93.Totscha 46
94.mymenace 46
95.MrFreeRoMan 45
96.AlexGR 43
97.bkbirge 41
98.afbitcoins 40
99.nanobtc 38
100.flynn 37
TOP 100 MONTHLY WO RECEIVERS:
1.micgoossens 104
2.JayJuanGee 95
3.LFC_Bitcoin 94
4.VB1001 91
5.HairyMaclairy 90
6.Last of the V8s 79
7.SuperTA 78
8.fillippone 76
9.d_eddie 57
10.jojo69 47
11.Lambie Slayer 47
12.mindrust 45
13.xhomerx10 39
14.makrospex 38
15.nutildah 33
16.Dabs 30
17.Biodom 29
18.BobLawblaw 28
19.serveria.com 28
20.Toxic2040 27
21.JSRAW 27
22.vroom 27
23.Wilhelm 27
24.gentlemand 25
25.Icygreen 24
26.Globb0 23
27.Paashaas 22
28.Phil_S 21
29.bkbirge 21
30.Raja_MBZ 20
31.Arriemoller 20
32.ivomm 19
33.kurious 18
34.Cryptoqueeen 16
35.BlindMayorBitcorn 15
36.Dunkelheit667 15
37.600watt 14
38.jbreher 13
39.Hueristic 13
40.LUCKMCFLY 13
41.Bitcoinaire 12
42.JimboToronto 11
43.Elwar 10
44.P_Shep 10
45.DaRude 9
46.lightfoot 8
47.becoin 8
48.GreatArkansas 8
49.Ibian 7
50.bitcoinPsycho 7
51.Gyrsur 7
52.Totscha 7
53.nikauforest 7
54.Krubster 7
55._javi_ 7
56.Negotiation 7
57.arewethereyet? 7
58.akhjob 7
59.DeathAngel 6
60.Ludwig Von 6
61.heslo 6
62.psycodad 6
63.Torque 5
64.bitserve 5
65.cAPSLOCK 5
66.marcus_of_augustus 5
67.Pamoldar 5
68.Spaceman_Spiff_Original 5
69.vapourminer 5
70.erre 5
71.Lauda 5
72.soxxx 5
73.ssmc2 5
74.goldkingcoiner 4
75.sirazimuth 4
76.DireWolfM14 4
77.tranthidung 4
78.dragonvslinux 4
79.HI-TEC99 3
80.Majormax 3
81.Saint-loup 3
82.Findingnemo 3
83.mersal 3
84.realr0ach 2
85.kingcolex 2
86.Kylapoiss 2
87.Cryptotourist 2
88.STT 2
89.somac. 2
90.rdbase 2
91.Cassius 2
92.btcbeliever 2
93.rebal15 2
94.Fatman3001 2
95.OROBTC 2
96.bucciarati 2
97.legendster 2
98.Wekkel 1
99.toknormal 1
100.Searing 1
TOP 100 MONTHLY WO SENDERS
1.micgoossens 210
2.Dabs 194
3.JayJuanGee 173
4.LFC_Bitcoin 103
5.mindrust 69
6.VB1001 62
7.Globb0 61
8.600watt 59
9.vapourminer 57
10.HairyMaclairy 53
11.BobLawblaw 48
12.fillippone 40
13.Last of the V8s 38
14.SuperTA 35
15.d_eddie 29
16.Wilhelm 29
17.jbreher 26
18.suchmoon 24
19.Lambie Slayer 24
20.makrospex 24
21.Hueristic 21
22.jojo69 19
23.nutildah 18
24.xhomerx10 17
25.ssmc2 17
26.AT101ET 17
27.Raja_MBZ 15
28.Biodom 15
29.bones261 14
30.gentlemand 14
31.serveria.com 14
32.Toxic2040 13
33.JSRAW 13
34.bkbirge 13
35.Icygreen 12
36.psycodad 12
37.Dunkelheit667 11
38.Phil_S 11
39.BayAreaCoins 10
40.Paashaas 9
41.JimboToronto 9
42.Arriemoller 9
43.sirazimuth 9
44.Ludwig Von 9
45.LUCKMCFLY 9
46.infofront 8
47.Torque 7
48.ivomm 7
49.DaRude 7
50.kurious 6
51.kingcolex 6
52.LoyceV 6
53.Pamoldar 5
54.P_Shep 5
55.vroom 5
56.Cryptoqueeen 5
57.Fatman3001 5
58.Ibian 4
59.Majormax 4
60.Totscha 4
61.Negotiation 4
62.Dotto 4
63.akhjob 4
64.Bossian 4
65.Gyrsur 3
66.DeathAngel 3
67.bitcoinPsycho 3
68.Bitcoinaire 3
69._javi_ 3
70.malevolent 3
71.mersal 3
72.Cryptotourist 2
73.rdbase 2
74.The Pharmacist 2
75.GreatArkansas 2
76.OROBTC 2
77.≡║▐µ 2
78.NeuroticFish 2
79.Krubster 2
80.UNOE 2
81.rs1x 2
82.cAPSLOCK 1
83.Wekkel 1
84.Searing 1
85.lightfoot 1
86.Kylapoiss 1
87.AlcoHoDL 1
88.ChinkyEyes 1
89.Spaceman_Spiff_Original 1
90.smartcomet 1
91.DireWolfM14 1
92.bitcoincidence 1
93.Saint-loup 1
94.nikauforest 1
95.WastedLTC 1
96.Patel 1
97.Dux2K 1
98.btcbeliever 1
99.cabalism13 1
100.Scheede 1
MONTHLY sMERITS BALANCE
SMerits Balance=Received Merits/2-Sent Merits
Positive Balance means an user has been increasing sMerits on the WO thread, while negative numbers means the users has sent more merits on WO than received.
Negative numbers are possible or because he has been generous this week because he has been greedy past weeks (so only temporary imbalance), or because he has hoarded sMerits on other threads spending them on WO thread, or because he's a merit source.
TOP 20 MONTHLY NET RECEIVERS
1.vroom 8.5
2.BlindMayorBitcorn 7.5
3.Elwar 5
4.jojo69 4.5
5.SuperTA 4
6.kurious 3
7.Bitcoinaire 3
8.lightfoot 3
9.Cryptoqueeen 3
10.xhomerx10 2.5
11.bitserve 2.5
12.ivomm 2.5
13.marcus_of_augustus 2.5
14.nikauforest 2.5
15.erre 2.5
16.Lauda 2.5
17.Paashaas 2
18.goldkingcoiner 2
19.GreatArkansas 2
20.heslo 2
TOP 20 MONTHLY WO NET SENDERS
1.Dabs -179
2.micgoossens -158
3.JayJuanGee -125.5
4.LFC_Bitcoin -56
5.vapourminer -54.5
6.600watt -52
7.Globb0 -49.5
8.mindrust -46.5
9.BobLawblaw -34
10.suchmoon -24
11.jbreher -19.5
12.VB1001 -16.5
13.Wilhelm -15.5
14.Hueristic -14.5
15.ssmc2 -14.5
16.bones261 -14
17.BayAreaCoins -9.5
18.psycodad -9
19.HairyMaclairy -8
20.infofront -8
Nice update, I think monthly cadence is more insightful, as less prone to weekly imbalances due to MS drought.
Sadly, It a little bit delayed update, but I commit doing those as soon as sir LoyceV releases data dumps.
Well we saw a little bit of merit circulation improvement in September, apparently the end of holiday season had more impact than the sideways action in September.
We see our Mic topping a number of charts here.
Hail to the King of WO!
Still fixing glitches here and there, I am using this to getting better at data management (errors are mine).
Bump, because I posted this in the middle of the night!
1018.
Post 52671570 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.04h):
I literally cannot wait for it.
It’s uncharted territory.
#bitcoin: first SF100 / $20T asset?
Platinum, Palladium, Silver have higher value than btc at same SF, they have industrial use / utility value. Gold will probably be valued higher than btc after next halving, it also has utility value (jewelry). At SF100 ... pure monetary value
https://twitter.com/100trillionusd/status/1180834422960087041?s=21This thing is too important.
Does any threads on SF already exists here on BitcoinTalk forum?
Shall I write one?
1019.
Post 52680252 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.04h):
Financial masturbation at his best:
Facebook Skeptics Now Have Derivatives to Bet on Libra Delays
CoinFLEX is offering physically-settled futures that will deliver Libra tokens if the so-called stablecoin is live by Dec. 30, 2020, or the settlement date. If Libra is not operational by then, investors will receive nothing and will have lost their initial investment.
You can bet on the successful launch of Libra Token by 2020.
This is not a future, actually it is an option on a Libra Token with strike price equal to 0 and expiry on 31.12.20.
This remind me on the futures on Segwit2x coins: these were massively important rejecting the fork, I doubt those future will have any significative impact on a centralised decision.
1020.
Post 52680530 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.04h):
Good memories!
If only I had those too...Those would make my wankbank pretty useless!
1021.
Post 52680580 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.04h):
This is big.
We are on the brink of a massive awakening on the dire status of many pensions funds.
GE Freezes Pension Benefits to Cut Deficit By Up to $8 Billion
General Electric Co. said it would freeze pension plan benefits for about 20,000 U.S. employees as it takes steps to slash its pension deficit and improve its financial position.
1022.
Post 52685816 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.04h):
I wander out of this thread for a little bit, then I get crucified. Back to Observing the Wall. Much nicer in here.
WO is a family: what you give returns to you 10x.
Give respect, have respect in return.
Give a laughter, return laughter.
Need support, receive support.
Actually, better than a family.
1023.
Post 52686491 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.04h):
I wander out of this thread for a little bit, then I get crucified. Back to Observing the Wall. Much nicer in here.
WO is a family: what you give returns to you 10x.
Give respect, have respect in return.
Give a laughter, return laughter.
Need support, receive support.
Actually, better than a family.
Another that did not say "no homo" so for sure I am starting to wonder.
No homo!
1024.
Post 52686506 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.04h):
I wander out of this thread for a little bit, then I get crucified. Back to Observing the Wall. Much nicer in here.
WO is a family: what you give returns to you 10x.
Give respect, have respect in return.
Give a laughter, return laughter.
Need support, receive support.
Actually, better than a family.
Another that did not say "no homo" so for sure I am starting to wonder.
No homo!
Better late than never, I suppose.
And spontaneously!
Thank you for the gentle reminder JJG!
No homo
1025.
Post 52690236 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.04h):
I literally cannot wait for it.
It’s uncharted territory.
#bitcoin: first SF100 / $20T asset?
Platinum, Palladium, Silver have higher value than btc at same SF, they have industrial use / utility value. Gold will probably be valued higher than btc after next halving, it also has utility value (jewelry). At SF100 ... pure monetary value
https://twitter.com/100trillionusd/status/1180834422960087041?s=21This thing is too important.
Does any threads on SF already exists here on BitcoinTalk forum?
Shall I write one?
I did it!
Stock To Flow Model: Modeling Bitcoin's Value with Scarcity
1026.
Post 52694858 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.04h):
This might be the most important thread I ever opened and I put a wrong link to the original article: I am an embarrassment to myself.
Thank you to the person that made me aware of this!
1027.
Post 52700684 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.04h):
The clock is ticking
activity is growing
I am now hero(*)
(*)Haiku
1028.
Post 52707376 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.04h):
Nothing new here
High volatility and low correlation is a magical recipe for any portfolio manager.
Fillippone told you so a while ago:
Extracting stable positive return from high-volatile asset.HF recipe made simple
1029.
Post 52717882 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.04h):
BAKKT won’t do much for the price in the short term but I guess the hope is that institutional money flows in once the avalanche of adoption comes in 2021?
I guess nobody wants to plough their money in now until/unless it’s a sure thing which only becomes apparent once a proper bull run starts.
Another thing to think about when speaking of Bakkt is that actually not all the institutional money willing to trade BAKKT is able to do so.
To buy Bakkt smaller institutions, that are not exchange members (all smaller institutions, basically) must go trough a clearer.
A clearer is someone rolling your positions from your trading account to the exchange trough their own accounts, and eventually taking care of delivery procedures.
Well, while clearing a cash future is quite trivial, clearing a physical Bitcoin is totally another story.
When CME/CBOT launched a lot of clearer were late in allowing their own clients clear the cash settled bitcoin, even if it was virtually indistinguishable from any other future from clearer’s perspective (being only a sum of cash flows).
As far as I know the story is repeating this time, only in a bigger scale, as available clearer are even less prone to allow clients trade for the moment, I think mainly for technical reasons handling clients bitcoin with good enough security and accountability.
1030.
Post 52717922 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.04h):
Another reason to keep an eye on Bakkt volumes.
Best way I found to do so is the twitter bot @bakktbot tweeting updates on the volumes.
1031.
Post 52728999 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.04h):
I had a college (been and left) who saw the writing on the wall over 2 years ago.
Was originally head-hunted by Dyson to work on the project. After less than a year saw it was going nowhere and left.
Pretty far-sighted. Dyson was taking on high-flyers as recently as the summer, bit weird.
He knows the business (hence head-hunted).
I mean, even from the outside think about it... Think about what it takes for a company with zero automotive history to get a high-volume production car on the road. The design, development and particularly the safety testing.
Look at Tesla. The only startup in automotive in the last... 60 years? They have pretty shitty build quality when compared to auto on the same class.
Manufacturing cars is an supply chain/organisational hell.
1032.
Post 52732133 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.04h):
Other two graphs I find very interesting, and also a little bit scary.
Fist one is the total amount of negative yielding debt: it’s down from the highs well above 16 trillions dollar, but still at an astounding 14 trillions.
Bear in mind that you can find negative yielding junk bonds: you have to pay to buy a junk bond=nonsense.
Second graph is the percentage of central bank assets expressed as a percentage of the gross domestic product (GDP) of the respective reference monetary areas.
It ranges from 120% (!!!) of the SNB (National Bank of Switzerland) to 102% of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), to almost 40% of the ECB (They have just resumed buying 20 Billions of Government Securities per month). Good last the FED with 18 %, which has just announced a 60 Billions per month T-Bills purchase program, trying to fix the short term repo mess they have created.
1033.
Post 52749884 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.04h):
What do you expect? Dyson sucks.
It took me two days and a WO review to get the joke, well played.
1034.
Post 52762990 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.04h):
Interesting article on BAKKT:
Why Crypto Insiders Are Bullish on BakktThe pseudonymous quantitative analyst PlanB, who has quickly become a leading crypto commentator, told LongHash that Bakkt provides liquidity to this market in that "it gives investors an additional way to sell their investment, another exit."
He added that this extra exit “could be a reason to buy in the first place. I never buy if I am not sure that I can sell at a reasonable market price."
In this sense, Bakkt could create an ever-growing positive feedback loop for market liquidity. institutions delve into Bitcoin futures due to a robust custody offering and increased market liquidity, liquidity grows as new players enter the fray, and then more institutions are drawn in by the expansions in liquidity.
Bakkt CEO Kelly Loeffler has said Bakkt’s mission is to become a “scalable on-ramp for institutional, merchant, and consumer participation in digital assets by promoting greater efficiency, security, and utility.” Despite a slow start, there are signs that Bakkt may still achieve this goal.
If they manage to enter that feedback loop, solving for example the
clearing problems they are still currently experiencing: Bullish.
1035.
Post 52763594 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.04h):
I would like to post another PlanB tweet comment:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5191012.msg52761964#msg52761964I guess if the usual critics of this model even bother to read the whole post.EDIT: I guess if the usual critics of this model even bother to read the whole post. Instead of typing the usual lazy question over and over again?
1036.
Post 52765831 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.04h):
LOL!
@ToneVays
definetely wint the panel t-shirt contest today. 😂😂😂
#IfYouSeeFraudAndDontShoutFraudYouAreAFraud
https://twitter.com/giacomozucco/status/1184065374184235013Detail:
Detail2:
1037.
Post 52766932 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.04h):
Good relative time of your timezone WO,
whats new? Brexit soon?? Watching GBP all the time.
Is Brexit still a thing? I thought that got swept under the rug.
*EU, U.K. NEGOTIATORS CLOSING IN ON DRAFT BREXIT DEAL
Now Brexit IS a thing.
Personally, I thought impossible to get here.
I was bracing myself for a No Deal, or rather an indefinite loop of Postponements.
1038.
Post 52775784 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.04h):
the things is that given the fact that PlanB published his work, a lot more people is looking at halvening.
Lot of more professional investors are now in the arena, compared to 4 years ago.
So I would expect more people actually buying
before the halvening, hence the post halvening bull run should be front run with a pre halvening bull run.
So, next months are critical!
1039.
Post 52776470 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.04h):
the things is that given the fact that PlanB published his work, a lot more people is looking at halvening.
Lot of more professional investors are now in the arena, compared to 4 years ago.
So I would expect more people actually buying
before the halvening, hence the post halvening bull run should be front run with a pre halvening bull run.
So, next months are critical!
You know that is what I would be thinking too.
But the price seems to be going down?
WTF are all these buyers??
Positive way of thinking: halving is not priced in yet: you can bargain BTC now!
Negative way of thinking: halving is priced in and there won’t be any rally for four years. Model has failed.
Going to add this to my thread on SF model:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5191012.msg52690215#msg52690215
1040.
Post 52789502 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.05h):
Meh,
this time halvening will be different: PlanB gave a detailed, theoretical explanaition Halvening impact on prices, modelling the impact in a sound theroetical and mathematical model.
I hence expect this time the halvening will be front run, so the cycle will be anticipated.
The other day I commented a tweet by PlanB here reported by LFC_Bitcoin, and I just wrote an additional post about it
here.
1041.
Post 52790632 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.05h):
Meh,
this time halvening will be different: PlanB gave a detailed, theoretical explanaition Halvening impact on prices, modelling the impact in a sound theroetical and mathematical model.
I hance expect this time the halvenging will be front run, so the cycle will be anticpiated.
The other day I commented a tweet by PlanB here reported by LFC_Bitcoin, and I just wrote an additional post about it
here.
I really doubt that it's possible to front run decreasing supply.
I mean that this time, we all have read the PlanB artcile saying that model value is 50,000 after the halvening. So it makes sense to buy before that date instead of just waiting this price to realise , if we think the model will hold.
1042.
Post 52792770 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.05h):
The idea behind this graph is, again, stock to flow.
1043.
Post 52805558 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.05h):
Best art so far!
I wasn’t able to find my hat, but who cares!
Great job!
1044.
Post 52807567 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.05h):
Best art so far!
I wasn’t able to find my hat, but who cares!
Great job!
You're joking right??
I was not joking, but that was literally the first thing I did this morning!
I might have been still half sleeping!
Great work anyway!
I liked it!
1045.
Post 52811606 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.05h):
Best art so far!
I wasn’t able to find my hat, but who cares!
Great job!
You're joking right??
I was not joking, but that was literally the first thing I did this morning!
I might have been still half sleeping!
Great work anyway!
I liked it!
Found your HAT?
LOL!
Hidden in plain sight!
I rise early, but I wake up late!
1046.
Post 52823063 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.05h):
An when someone tells you this model is flawed because there are tons on worthless Shitcoins, show him (my
thread on the SF model and) this tweet:
How #altcoins work
https://twitter.com/knutsvanholm/status/1185820129336201216?s=21
1047.
Post 52823354 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.05h):
You can actually shuffle a deck of 52 cards into 53 cards. It's called Banach Tarski's Paradox.
Assuming your cards are null sets that is.Spot on.
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2217:_53_Cards
1048.
Post 52826860 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.05h):
Someone just summoned me, but I can’t see anything.
Hearing nonsense chatter on the background.
Must be some imaginary friend of mine or a bug in the mention bot.
1049.
Post 52826994 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.05h):
I like this graph.
I don't know why, but I now feel the urge to post another one:
Source:
Bitcoin’s natural long-term power-law corridor of growthThis is an uberbullish log-log graph (log axis on values, log axis on time):
It predicts that the price will not reach $100 000 before 2021, but it also predicts that the price will not be lower than $100 000 by 2028. It predicts that the price will not reach $1 000 000 before 2028, but also that the price will not be lower than that after 2037. The model predicts ever increasing prices, although at a slower and slower rate.
Hope you like, Mic
1050.
Post 52848076 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.05h):
Offline payments for Lightning Network.
I thought we decided long ago that we didn't much care for custodial solutions?
As I understand this is something more like a payment with a terrible lag on one of the intermediate hop, delaying final hop until destination node is online. Is that a this a definition of custodial? There are triggers for “failed” payments I guess. I don’t know, but
we discussed it here.
1051.
Post 52854012 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.05h):
I used to be a permabull and I still am, but I need some fellow holder to reassure me.
I didn't struggle too much when btc was 3k-ish, because i was only waiting for the final capitulation, which i tought finally happened when we jumped to 14k and then, after correction, we were going sideways10k-ish.
From here, I thought, it can only go up.
But now we are experiencing a significant further correction, and today's red dildo is really tought for me, not financially but emotionally.
Worst than all, during the last year or so I saw too little development: lighting network is cool and I even used it with my android, but there are almost no merchants. And we still dosen't have an open market or a p2p exchanger. And I am really afraid that if we dosen't manage to get a working ecosystem BEFORE regulation, regulation will kill most of the coming projects.
Today I need someone to hodl my hand and say that everything is still ok.
I do feel you.
But we are 203 ahead of halving.
https://www.bitcoinblockhalf.com/You don't want to be caught short.
Not now.
I struggle emotionally, too, but then
I look at the robustness of the SF model and I start dreaming again!
Still, 1
BTC=1
BTC
1052.
Post 52859893 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.05h):
Bakkt Hits New All-Time High, With Over 450 Bitcoin Futures Contracts Traded..
Per historical data from Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) — the operator of Bakkt — today the platform has traded 441 Bitcoin futures contracts for November 2019, with the last recorded trading price settling at $7,400 per Bitcoin. 11 futures contracts for December have been sold, with the last recorded trading price at $7,407.
Source:
https://www.theice.com/products/72035464/Bakkt-Bitcoin-USD-Monthly-Futures-Contract/data?marketId=6137542
via:
@BakkBotXBTO:
“Last week, we bought the first Bakkt Bitcoin Daily Futures contract and took the first physical delivery of a digital asset under existing commodity futures laws and regulations. This week, we executed the first block trade. We’re pleased to report that the launch was successful and can accommodate large trades.”
Source:
CointelegraphConspirancy theories come to me!
I repeat that in my opinion the crucial point of Bakkt is the fact that it's allowing the availability of financial instruments integrated in the "traditional" workflow facilitating more "regulated" and therefore less "agile" institutions to operate on bitcoins.
And then maybe these people decide to use this possibility to sell bitcoin, but it's in their power, I'm happy from a certain point of view for everything that facilitates price discovery, adding liquidity to the market.
As I said, I think it's better not to be on the short side of the market with little more than 200 days to the halving!
1053.
Post 52860895 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.05h):
Hello WO Gang.
Observing 7473@STAMP.
1
BTC=1
BTC and all is good.
Little more than 200 days to halving, and feeling confident.
We have been on this emotional roller-coaster many times, and just another one wild ride won’t hurt too much.
To help you distract from irrelevant short term market fluctuations, I suggest you to read a very important topic to me:
fillippone Merit Source Application.I do encourage you to share your thought about it in that thread, of course you can support it (I hope so), but feel free to disagree (I hope not).
1054.
Post 52863972 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.05h):
if you are scared from BAKKT impact on market, then brace for more:
Bakkt to Launch Options on Its Bitcoin Futures Dec. 9Bakkt announced Thursday that it would “launch the first regulated options contract for bitcoin futures,” adding a new product to its current slate of physically-settled bitcoin futures contracts. CEO Kelly Loeffler said in a Medium post that the contracts were built in response to customer feedback, and that ICE Futures US self-certified the contract through the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
I am afraid time has come to write the option equivalen to my
Everything you wanted to know about BTC futures but were afraid to ask! post.
Gigantic work, but has to be done.
1055.
Post 52864112 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.05h):
I was just reading about that on Twitter fillippone.
What do you think it will mean/do for the price in the short to medium term or anybody else who wants to add an opinion?
I am skeptic on conspiracy theories about impact of futures on price.
I even doubt the price dump we observed in the occasion of launch of futures (both CME/CBOT and, in a smaller extent, BAKKT) were actually connected.
I do think the more instrument we have, the better.
More instrument allows better liquidity and better price discovery.
Bakkt futures were important because, as I wrote a few post back, allowed “slower” institutions to get long bitcoin with less organisational stress.
I sincerely don’t know how options will impact on the situation. I think also Bakkt is simply reacting to a similar announcement by CME, as their are still struggling with future volumes, so I think they are rushing a little with this new launch.
So in a word: impact on price is very limited. I won’t read too much into that.
1056.
Post 52867116 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.05h):
if you are scared from BAKKT impact on market, then brace for more:
Bakkt to Launch Options on Its Bitcoin Futures Dec. 9Bakkt announced Thursday that it would “launch the first regulated options contract for bitcoin futures,” adding a new product to its current slate of physically-settled bitcoin futures contracts. CEO Kelly Loeffler said in a Medium post that the contracts were built in response to customer feedback, and that ICE Futures US self-certified the contract through the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
I am afraid time has come to write the option equivalen to my
Everything you wanted to know about BTC futures but were afraid to ask! post.
Gigantic work, but has to be done.
Options for bitcoin FUTURES, again. How about plain old options? I wonder why they're approaching it this way.
Option on a physically settled future on bitcoin are basically the same thing of an option on the bitcoin itself. I really can’t see any difference.
They are doing so to “recycle” a few items legally I think. But nothing real for the user.
Edit: I saw the message from Javi on the choice between physical or cash settlement of the options. I don’t know his source, but it looks very odd to me, but everything is possible.
If I know more, I will let you know.
1057.
Post 52867654 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.05h):
if you are scared from BAKKT impact on market, then brace for more:
Bakkt to Launch Options on Its Bitcoin Futures Dec. 9Bakkt announced Thursday that it would “launch the first regulated options contract for bitcoin futures,” adding a new product to its current slate of physically-settled bitcoin futures contracts. CEO Kelly Loeffler said in a Medium post that the contracts were built in response to customer feedback, and that ICE Futures US self-certified the contract through the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
I am afraid time has come to write the option equivalen to my
Everything you wanted to know about BTC futures but were afraid to ask! post.
Gigantic work, but has to be done.
Options for bitcoin FUTURES, again. How about plain old options? I wonder why they're approaching it this way.
Option on a physically settled future on bitcoin are basically the same thing of an option on the bitcoin itself. I really can’t see any difference.
They are doing so to “recycle” a few items legally I think. But nothing real for the user.
Edit: I saw the message from Javi on the choice between physical or cash settlement of the options. I don’t know his source, but it looks very odd to me, but everything is possible.
If I know more, I will let you know.
The source is the link you provided:
https://www.coindesk.com/bakkt-to-launch-options-on-its-bitcoin-futures-dec-9"Notably, customers will have the choice of options contracts settled with cash, meaning customers receive the fiat equivalent to the contract’s value at expiration, or physically, meaning they receive the actual bitcoin."
Ahah funny!
Either I accidentally skipped that paragraph (maybe) or they edited the information after I read it (possible, as I posted quite straight away after publication).
Anyway I think it is a very weird characteristic for a listed option contract. It could even potentially lead to price discrepancies depending on the settlement price. For this reason I guess the choice is on the option to trade, not the option on the settlement itself: I.e. we will have “twin options” to be traded, one for the cash settlement and one for the physically settled.
Again, it’s very strange choice for an exchange. Also because cash settlement option will be directly competing against the CME options CME will launch in January.
We know how it ends when you compete with CME (CBOT future?)
1058.
Post 52876374 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.05h):
Little bump.
Hopefully WO Gang is happy for the green dildo so in good mood to support Fillippone MS application!
1059.
Post 52876643 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.05h):
They're almost the same thing - but only if settlement date of the options coincides with that of the underlying future.
Absolutely correct!
I had this expiry equivalence baseline assumption. Having montlhy future expiry, I tought these are dense enlough (do we really need weekly expiry options?)
I agree on the "recycling" bit, but but... they must have hard btc because of physical settlement... so where does the need to recycle come from?
I mean they wanted to "recycle" something on the regulatory/pospects/ authorisation material. Not the bitcoin themselves. Easier to have the oiption end up in an already authorised product to get them faster on the market. I guess.
Edit: I saw the message from Javi on the choice between physical or cash settlement of the options. I don’t know his source, but it looks very odd to me, but everything is possible.
If I know more, I will let you know.
This choice is a bit fishy. Fractional reserves maybe? Tu quoque, Bakkt?
I really don't know.
I unleashed my spies in the financial system to have thios mistery solved for you, fellow mates.
1060.
Post 52878303 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.05h):
<snip>
Well done.
You were way more effective than my spies.
I will dig into those secret documents.
Never saw an option on a future expiring 4 days earlier.
1061.
Post 52881120 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.05h):
Hello WO!
Observing 9,638.
Asleep at the wrong time!
I missed a lot of fun!
1062.
Post 52903806 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
The shining.
Opening sequence.
Only movie I saw after reading the book didn't left me disappointed.
1063.
Post 52921970 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
A very nice read on two concurrent proposal aiming at improving bitcoin privacy and fungibility
An Upcoming Protocol Improvement Could Massively Improve Bitcoin Privacy
The Schnorr proposal for Bitcoin is able to increase privacy and decrease costs for users who are taking advantage of multisignature security. Taproot is an improvement that enables greater smart contract functionality for Bitcoin without creating additional privacy issues.
Ok, what does it means?
“With this,” he said, “we break the biggest privacy problem in Bitcoin, that is that inputs can be linked to outputs. And when we have that, and we will very soon (hopefully), then I would say we have pretty damn good privacy in Bitcoin.”
1064.
Post 52925870 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
I do.
Not only for obvious Stock to Flow reasoning, but als for this:
A Random Walk Down Wall Street + #bitcoin
https://twitter.com/100trillionUSD/status/1138457543741714432?s=20Even in a very conservative portfolio, Bitcoin has the capacity to create allocation with more yield and less risk (stochastic dominance) over SPX investing (pls note that Equity returns have been quaite spectacular lately).
EDIT:
Another way of looking at the same phenomenon:
5% #Bitcoin + 95% cash beats S&P500: more return and less risk .. every year, 6 years in a row. Note that max yearly loss (risk) of 5% Bitcoin + 95% cash is -5% .. S&P did -6% in 2018 (and -38% in 2008!!).
https://twitter.com/100trillionUSD/status/1135848796091506688?s=20
1065.
Post 52927025 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
because we already know that Litecoin moved earlier than in previous cycles when it had its halving.
Stock to flow is irrelevant for LTC.
Whatever made LTC moving north around the halving time, it wasn't the SF, or halving itself.
Per request and despite the fact that I think that alts theoretically don't have 'unforgeable costliness' .. I decided to make a #Litecoin #LTC stock-to-flow model (data from Sep 2013). R2 is low .. 25%. Current S2F value is $27 (after 2019 halving $65). Can somebody pls verify?!
https://twitter.com/100trillionUSD/status/1137352369321234432?s=20Two posts, two PlanB tweet. I like that!
1066.
Post 52927363 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
Stock to flow is irrelevant for LTC.
You people are the most dishonest, retarded, fucking scammers I've ever seen in my entire life.
<...>
Forced to reply as you are calling me in a way I don't like.
If only you would use some of your time to actually read about the model (plenty of places to do that, one of those being
here), instead of repeating the same old story, you would understand
why this model is not applicable to Litecoin.
1067.
Post 52931088 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
There has been a flush of news about BAKKT this week:
It tried to do a good summary
here.
Bumping that thread where all the Bakkt chit chatter is!
1068.
Post 52935244 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
Stock to flow is irrelevant for LTC.
You people are the most dishonest, retarded, fucking scammers I've ever seen in my entire life.
<...>
Forced to reply as you are calling me in a way I don't like.
If only you would use some of your time to actually read about the model (plenty of places to do that, one of those being
here), instead of repeating the same old story, you would understand
why this model is not applicable to Litecoin.
1) looks like roach found a way to hook you.
2) you think that roach actually even wants to understand what he is supposedly rebutting? Usually, to the extent that he is not totally out there in left field, he wants to spout out his nonsense while making it appear that he is somehow somewhat on topic.
Actually I knew that replying to that message I was signaling how to trigger me. But yeah, I found it too insulting.
Regarding the second point, yeah, the plan is too obvious. Usually better not to be entangled in his "logic" and stay well away from any discussion because he'll invevitably drag you in the dirt, where he's supposed to be better than us.
First and last time I will engage in such a conversation with that user.
1069.
Post 52935957 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
q. e. d.
How could we have missed such an obvious, robust evidence!
Thanks, Quant!
1070.
Post 52939578 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
Must be nice to live in a country where you can use bitcoin to pay for things online.
The US is stuck with BitPay where you can't pay with bitcoins without installing some obscure wallet and paying BitPay extra fees while they advertise bcash with zero fees.
I have read that report.
Many have observed that the source is unknown and not available, it' s only a long ciruclar reference of articles.
That statistics also looks very suspicious to me: no way BTC payments in italy are 20% of whole PayPal payments.
I know only a couple of people who actually use Bitcoin, while pretty everyone use PayPal (and bear in mind that I think my survey is pretty skewed towards Bitcoin users, for obvious reasons).
1071.
Post 52951139 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
Hello WO Gang.
Bear with me and allow me to bump up here (for the last time, promise) my Merit Source application thread.
This is my Merit Source application thread:
I hope you can support it with a merit, a comment or whatever you think it is appropriate.
Even if you oppose (I hope that it is not the case) you can comment.
I will try to answer to everyone!
Thank you guys.
1072.
Post 52953504 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
WO gang!
Time for a more pixel game!
A very easy one!
1073.
Post 52953567 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
Palazzo Vecchio, Florence
WO gang!
Time for a more pixel game!
A very easy one!
Dear lord!
That was quick!
Maybe it was a too easy one!
Here it is:the WO sign and n the background Palazzo Vecchio in Florence
It’s also a Bitcoin related story.
(Bear with me with that, I am walking)Florence shares with Genoa, both Italian cities, the first gold coins, widely accepted and used as MoE and Sov at the times.
You can read this good post in the Italian board
here or on
Wikipedia.
Florence prospered in the Renaissance because based its commercial power on hard money, while almost every other city was inflating their money printing with weaker and weaker gold content.
Hard money proved a good strategy for the centuries.
Bitcoin has been around since a little more of 10 years.
1074.
Post 52956176 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
Some things change. Some stay the same.
I love this overlay HM, it certainly makes one begin to dream.
We all like to dream.
This time I have a feeling the rise will be earlier than last cycle as the importance and relevance of the halvening for price is so much more disclosed and analysed (thanks to PlanB).
1075.
Post 52958208 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
Palazzo Vecchio, Florence
WO gang!
Time for a more pixel game!
A very easy one!
Dear lord!
That was quick!
Maybe it was a too easy one!
Here it is:the WO sign and n the background Palazzo Vecchio in Florence
It’s also a Bitcoin related story.
(Bear with me with that, I am walking)Florence shares with Genoa, both Italian cities, the first gold coins in the Middle Ages, after the disrgregstion of the Roman Empire, widely accepted and used as MoE and Sov at the times.
You can read this good post in the Italian board
here or on
Wikipedia.
Florence prospered in the Renaissance because based its commercial power on hard money, while almost every other city was inflating their money printing with weaker and weaker gold content.
Hard money proved a good strategy for the centuries.
Bitcoin has been around since a little more of 10 years.
Bitcoin Reference: David Bitcoin is fighting Fiat Goliath
Again bitcoin reference: this is not a statue of a Fillippone.
Details...
1076.
Post 52958566 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
Florence shares with Genoa, both Italian cities, the first gold coins, widely accepted and used as MoE and Sov at the times.
Hold on, what about the Roman Solidus? That bad boy was minted nearly a thousand years before the Florin and remained unadulterated for longer than the Republic existed.
Yes you are correct, edited for better clarity. I was thinking of European Renaissance, when trade was at the base of the success of the cities, not war.
1077.
Post 52958709 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
Again bitcoin reference:
this is not a statue of a Fillippone. Details...
Did you say this because of the small penis?
I am the Italian stallion for a reason.
1078.
Post 52959584 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
Again bitcoin reference: this is not a statue of a Fillippone.
Details...
David ready to fight Goliath = Bitcoin ready to fight Fiat
Well done.
Edited the message.
1079.
Post 52961226 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
1080.
Post 52962787 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
I looked at the bunch of charts this afternoon and PlanB/digitalik one's continue to impress.
The question is: if this is basically a co-integrated chart where btc is almost pre-destined to go to about 55-100K after this halving, then when to expect the rally?
Last time we were lagging in June/July 2016 at $500-700/btc when "theoretical" value jumped to about $4K.
It probably represented the best entry point as far as short term risk/reward ratio looking backwards a few years.
However, since now these charts were wildly circulated, one can expect a run that might peak actually at the halving or shortly thereafter, like in Nov-Dec 2020 instead of Nov-Dec 2021?
Hoping that price stays flat and there would be some instrument to buy btc in the retirement account. Don't want to "invest" in anything else there at the moment.
Very legitimate questions.
This means halving is pretty much still not priced. This contrast the fact that PlanB article is quite known, so markets should instead front run the halvening effect and actually make the price surge i na a positive feedback loop. This is why I expect the post halvening rally being quite anticipated this time.
On the opposite side, a failure for the SF to realise, would push BTC in a a very long crypto winter II.
Anyway every piece of information about the SF model can be found in my thread
Stock To Flow Model: Modeling Bitcoin's Value with Scarcity
1081.
Post 52962894 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
Rejoice!
Ms Lagarde wants to push the ECB in uncharted territory.
Mr. Draghi used monetary policy pushing to the extremes, but always wishing and respectful of the ECB mandate.
Ms Lagarde instead loves the mixture of monetary policy from the banks and fiscal policy from the states (IMF+ARGENTINA, recipe for disaster).
New head of ECB makes clear what's coming. “We should be happier to have a job than to have our savings protected,” said Lagarde. Make sure your savings are in #gold & not the #euro to protect your purchasing power from central bank currency debasement.
https://twitter.com/fgmr/status/1190338706080747520?s=21Bullish Bitcoin
Today the president of the European Central Bank said that:
“We should be happier to have a job than to have our savings protected,” said Ms Lagarde. “I think that it is in this spirit that monetary policy has been decided by my predecessors and I think they made quite a beneficial choice.”
https://www.ft.com/content/eb8dae8c-fb14-11e9-a354-36acbbb0d9b6
1082.
Post 52965630 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
She’s part of the WO gang.
She’s breaking the system from inside to send Fiat to collapse and gain on her true BTC investments.
I would say she already did a pretty good job in Argentina, let’s see what she’s going to do in Europe now.
Did you see the interview on the FT I posted about earlier? She’s going to send BTC to the moon
1083.
Post 52973253 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
Market is quiet
Sunday, Bitcoin goes nowhere
WO gang is holding
*Haiku
1084.
Post 52976782 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
It's time (again) for a Wall Observer Meta Post!
I made this post Monthly, so it will consider the merits sent during the month of October.
So I had to wait for the last merit dump, that included the last day of the month.
Also delaying a few day for my
vaguely-bitcoin related Florence offsite.
Merit analysis based on LoyceV merit file:
http://loyce.club/Merit/merit.all.txtMerit updated to October, 31th, 2019 23:59:59 UTC
Total merits sent on WO: 31899
Monthly Merits sent on WO: 1326 (-527)
Merited Users: 621 (+15)
TOP 100 WO MERIT RECEIVERS:
1.micgoossens 2010
2.Last of the V8s 1695
3.HairyMaclairy 1337
4.xhomerx10 1200
5.BobLawblaw 995
6.Toxic2040 961
7.jojo69 894
8.LFC_Bitcoin 838
9.JayJuanGee 824
10.infofront 794
11.VB1001 627
12.d_eddie 607
13.Torque 507
14.bitserve 485
15.gentlemand 422
16.Paashaas 408
17.mindrust 401
18.fillippone 388
19.Elwar 385
20.Globb0 356
21.kenzawak 342
22.Lambie Slayer 326
23.cAPSLOCK 311
24.JimboToronto 305
25.Raja_MBZ 296
26.jbreher 287
27.ivomm 285
28.Icygreen 283
29.mfort312 282
30.kurious 282
31.goldkingcoiner 278
32.Biodom 270
33.nutildah 252
34.BTCMILLIONAIRE 247
35.Rosewater Foundation 244
36.JSRAW 236
37.Phil_S 222
38.vroom 208
39.Dabs 200
40.realr0ach 199
41.600watt 197
42.TERA2 194
43.Ibian 188
44.bones261 184
45.kingcolex 175
46.Hueristic 174
47.Kylapoiss 173
48.Arriemoller 173
49.marcus_of_augustus 164
50.yefi 155
51.Pamoldar 150
52.Wekkel 139
53.Cryptotourist 137
54.SuperTA 135
55.bitcoinPsycho 134
56.StartupAnalyst 130
57.toknormal 130
58.Spaceman_Spiff_Original 128
59.vapourminer 125
60.Anon136 121
61.serveria.com 116
62.AlcoHoDL 115
63.Bitcoinaire 114
64.lightfoot 112
65.BlindMayorBitcorn 107
66.BinaryReign 107
67.kirreev070 107
68.makrospex 105
69.Searing 98
70.Cryptoqueeen 97
71.explorer 97
72.Gyrsur 93
73.sirazimuth 86
74.STT 82
75.bkbirge 78
76.somac. 77
77.HI-TEC99 77
78.DeathAngel 76
79.Majormax 74
80.Totscha 73
81.cryptjh 68
82.pacman7331 66
83.bitebits 64
84.cannycassiopeia 64
85.conspirosphere.tk 63
86.nanobtc 59
87.theymos 59
88.Karartma1 59
89.crypmike 58
90.Olegya199 57
91.suchmoon 56
92.strawbs 54
93.Ludwig Von 54
94.rolling 54
95.Samarkand 54
96.BitcoinNewsMagazine 54
97.Dunkelheit667 54
98.FractalUniverse 53
99.RoomBot 52
100.RayX12 50
TOP 100 WO MERIT SENDERS:
1.JayJuanGee 2779
2.BobLawblaw 2098
3.micgoossens 1798
4.LFC_Bitcoin 1314
5.bones261 1071
6.infofront 1062
7.Globb0 853
8.Last of the V8s 853
9.vapourminer 779
10.jbreher 759
11.xhomerx10 734
12.mindrust 715
13.HairyMaclairy 668
14.600watt 622
15.marcus_of_augustus 602
16.cAPSLOCK 587
17.Dabs 476
18.Toxic2040 442
19.jojo69 434
20.Paashaas 361
21.Torque 356
22.Hueristic 321
23.d_eddie 321
24.VB1001 314
25.QuestionAuthority 311
26.yefi 258
27.bitserve 248
28.kurious 241
29.suchmoon 241
30.gentlemand 225
31.fillippone 223
32.Ibian 211
33.BlindMayorBitcorn 209
34.Wekkel 206
35.ErisDiscordia 202
36.kenzawak 191
37.bitebits 190
38.RoomBot 180
39.nutildah 180
40.Karartma1 179
41.JimboToronto 172
42.Raja_MBZ 171
43.Dunkelheit667 164
44.Lambie Slayer 162
45.explorer 155
46.Gyrsur 153
47.mfort312 145
48.ssmc2 140
49.Pamoldar 136
50.ivomm 133
51.kingcolex 130
52.Arriemoller 122
53.Searing 118
54.BTCMILLIONAIRE 118
55.Biodom 117
56.Majormax 117
57.Rosewater Foundation 116
58.goldkingcoiner 116
59.edgar 115
60.Icygreen 112
61.JSRAW 107
62.lightfoot 103
63.PoolMinor 101
64.xyzzy099 99
65.P_Shep 98
66.Phil_S 97
67.sirazimuth 95
68.vroom 88
69.tonyq 87
70.julian071 86
71.conspirosphere.tk 82
72.Kylapoiss 82
73.DeathAngel 79
74.Elwar 75
75.RayX12 73
76.criptix 73
77.bitcoinPsycho 70
78.Cryptotourist 68
79.SuperTA 61
80.StartupAnalyst 60
81.Wilhelm 59
82.serveria.com 57
83.Anon136 56
84.empowering 55
85.Bitcoinaire 53
86.AlcoHoDL 53
87.rolling 53
88.makrospex 52
89.sammy007 50
90.Jayjay04 50
91.soullyG 49
92.STT 48
93.FractalUniverse 48
94.Totscha 46
95.mymenace 46
96.DaRude 45
97.MrFreeRoMan 45
98.Ludwig Von 44
99.AlexGR 43
100.bkbirge 42
TOP 100 MONTHLY WO RECEIVERS:
1.Icygreen 97
2.infofront 81
3.micgoossens 73
4.LFC_Bitcoin 73
5.Dabs 56
6.BobLawblaw 46
7.Last of the V8s 42
8.d_eddie 37
9.fillippone 37
10.jojo69 35
11.makrospex 34
12.JayJuanGee 29
13.LUCKMCFLY 28
14.goldkingcoiner 27
15.Lambie Slayer 24
16.xhomerx10 23
17.VB1001 23
18.Elwar 23
19.HairyMaclairy 22
20.BlindMayorBitcorn 20
21.Raja_MBZ 18
22.Arriemoller 18
23.JSRAW 17
24.Gyrsur 17
25.Olegya199 14
26.ivomm 13
27.kurious 13
28.AlcoHoDL 13
29.cAPSLOCK 12
30.Hueristic 12
31.SuperTA 12
32.jackbauercsgo 12
33.MichaelX 12
34.Paashaas 11
35.jbreher 11
36.adamstgBit 11
37.rdbase 10
38.Searing 9
39.katrinmi 8
40.nutildah 7
41.Pamoldar 7
42.vapourminer 7
43.Bitcoinaire 7
44._javi_ 7
45.bitserve 6
46.gentlemand 6
47.lightfoot 6
48.DeathAngel 6
49.theymos 6
50.gwaur 6
51.Globb0 5
52.Cryptotourist 5
53.bitcoinPsycho 5
54.bkbirge 5
55.P_Shep 5
56.soxxx 5
57.btcbeliever 5
58.Torque 4
59.mindrust 4
60.Biodom 4
61.Phil_S 4
62.vroom 4
63.Majormax 4
64.Dunkelheit667 4
65.erre 4
66.Krubster 4
67.akhjob 4
68.psycodad 4
69.dragonvslinux 4
70.JL0 4
71.JimboToronto 3
72.marcus_of_augustus 3
73.STT 3
74.somac. 3
75.HI-TEC99 3
76.rolling 3
77.Lauda 3
78.smartcomet 3
79.LoyceV 3
80.whiteboy420 3
81.Richy_T 3
82.teosanru 3
83.btcanonymous666 3
84.Alai19 3
85.Kylapoiss 2
86.yefi 2
87.serveria.com 2
88.BinaryReign 2
89.Syke 2
90.Saint-loup 2
91.Millionero 2
92.plasticAiredale 2
93.qwizzie 2
94.heslo 2
95.Fatman3001 2
96.NeuroticFish 2
97.ataArt 2
98.realr0ach 1
99.600watt 1
100.Ibian 1
TOP 100 MONTHLY WO SENDERS:
1.micgoossens 210
2.Dabs 194
3.JayJuanGee 173
4.LFC_Bitcoin 103
5.mindrust 69
6.VB1001 62
7.Globb0 61
8.600watt 59
9.vapourminer 57
10.HairyMaclairy 53
11.BobLawblaw 48
12.fillippone 40
13.Last of the V8s 38
14.SuperTA 35
15.d_eddie 29
16.Wilhelm 29
17.jbreher 26
18.suchmoon 24
19.Lambie Slayer 24
20.makrospex 24
21.Hueristic 21
22.jojo69 19
23.nutildah 18
24.xhomerx10 17
25.ssmc2 17
26.AT101ET 17
27.Raja_MBZ 15
28.Biodom 15
29.bones261 14
30.gentlemand 14
31.serveria.com 14
32.Toxic2040 13
33.JSRAW 13
34.bkbirge 13
35.Icygreen 12
36.psycodad 12
37.Dunkelheit667 11
38.Phil_S 11
39.BayAreaCoins 10
40.Paashaas 9
41.JimboToronto 9
42.Arriemoller 9
43.sirazimuth 9
44.Ludwig Von 9
45.LUCKMCFLY 9
46.infofront 8
47.Torque 7
48.ivomm 7
49.DaRude 7
50.kurious 6
51.kingcolex 6
52.LoyceV 6
53.Pamoldar 5
54.P_Shep 5
55.vroom 5
56.Cryptoqueeen 5
57.Fatman3001 5
58.Ibian 4
59.Majormax 4
60.Totscha 4
61.Negotiation 4
62.Dotto 4
63.akhjob 4
64.Bossian 4
65.Gyrsur 3
66.DeathAngel 3
67.bitcoinPsycho 3
68.Bitcoinaire 3
69._javi_ 3
70.malevolent 3
71.mersal 3
72.Cryptotourist 2
73.rdbase 2
74.The Pharmacist 2
75.GreatArkansas 2
76.OROBTC 2
77.≡║▐µ 2
78.NeuroticFish 2
79.Krubster 2
80.UNOE 2
81.rs1x 2
82.cAPSLOCK 1
83.Wekkel 1
84.Searing 1
85.lightfoot 1
86.Kylapoiss 1
87.AlcoHoDL 1
88.ChinkyEyes 1
89.Spaceman_Spiff_Original 1
90.smartcomet 1
91.DireWolfM14 1
92.bitcoincidence 1
93.Saint-loup 1
94.nikauforest 1
95.WastedLTC 1
96.Patel 1
97.Dux2K 1
98.btcbeliever 1
99.cabalism13 1
100.Scheede 1
MONTHLY sMERITS BALANCE
SMerits Balance=Received Merits/2-Sent Merits
Positive Balance means an user has been increasing sMerits on the WO thread, while negative numbers means the users has sent more merits on WO than received.
Negative numbers are possible or because he has been generous this week because he has been greedy past weeks (so only temporary imbalance), or because he has hoarded sMerits on other threads spending them on WO thread, or because he's a merit source.
TOP 20 MONTHLY NET RECEIVERS
1.Icygreen 31.5
2.LUCKMCFLY 11
3.BlindMayorBitcorn 10
4.Elwar 8.5
5.VB1001 7.5
6.goldkingcoiner 7.5
7.Raja_MBZ 7
8.Olegya199 7
9.AlcoHoDL 5.5
10.MichaelX 5
11.ivomm 4.5
12.SuperTA 4
13.theymos 3
14.gwaur 3
15.Gyrsur 2.5
16.Lambie Slayer 2
17.Cryptotourist 1.5
18.STT 1.5
19.bkbirge 1.5
20.Lauda 1.5
TOP 20 MONTHLY WO NET SENDERS
1.JayJuanGee -113.5
2.marcus_of_augustus -98.5
3.micgoossens -89.5
4.BobLawblaw -62
5.vapourminer -56.5
6.LFC_Bitcoin -45.5
7.Globb0 -31.5
8.suchmoon -31
9.cAPSLOCK -26
10.600watt -23.5
11.DaRude -22
12.Fatman3001 -20
13.infofront -19.5
14.Paashaas -17.5
15.mindrust -16
16.xhomerx10 -14.5
17.fillippone -13.5
18.BinaryReign -10
19.Hueristic -10
20.Ludwig Von -9
Well we saw a little bit of merit circulation crunch in October. Some new air in the top positions. Nice to see a few "new" names rotation in the top receivers and top senders for this month! WO Gang is alive!
Also nice to see a solid increase of new merited members!
Still fixing glitches here and there, I am using this to getting better at data management (errors are mine).
1085.
Post 52991948 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
Hi guys,
do you know how much I like PlanB.
He just appeared for the third time in Liviera Stephen Podcast:
SLP122
@100trillionUSD
- Responses to the S2F Model
PlanB's work is blowing up! We talk:
- Responses to S2F
- Cointegration and what it is
- Cash and carry trade
- Where to from here
Enjoy, and don't forget to share!
https://stephanlivera.com/episode/122/
It's a grat podcast.
If you don't want/can't hear to that on the above link there's a full transcript!
I do reccoment listenting to/reading it: it's a goldmine of insightful thinking about bitcoin valuation.
1086.
Post 52994073 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
Another day going sideways with several upward attempts. And another day with good bakkt volume - so far 920
BTC. After the slow start, the volume increased dramatically in the last 10 days and hopefully it will increase even more henceforth. Notice that the volume chart is very similar to the price chart.
My explanation is that the price formation on the major exchanges is in a delicate balance and such volume is commensurate with half of the daily mined bitcoins. Considering that these bitcoins are bought from these exchanges and deposited into bakkt, this is breaking the balance in the right direction. The effect is like the halving already happened and nobody knows it. Short positions are vulnerable because of the scarsity and their liquidations are making the domino effect on the price. And after 6 months, when the halving happens and real FOMO starts, nobody will be able to stop the new ATH storm! (With regard to the poll, I have the feeling that the first ATH will come around the halving.) Good times are coming for the HODLERS!
I think the answer is a little bit less poetic and a little bit more technical. BAKKT finally onboarded a few more clearer (I think there are four right now)on the warehouse allowing more clients to access their product (clearer are the institutions that can actually move the bitcoin into and out of the warehouse).
So basically more clearers means more end users being able to trade then more volumes!
1087.
Post 52994536 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
So ... I only need 5 corns to be a millionaire in 2021? Gotta go get 10 then.
The point is: we will be millionaire, ok, but in monetary terms only.
How much is a liter of milk (or a gallon, it depend where you live- I have no idea what a gallon is) is when bitcoin is 3,000,000 after 2028 halving? 20,000 USD maybe?
Bitcoin will surely go into the millions, but we are measuring stuff with a shorter and shorter meter: in the 2028 USD will be rotting like the VES today.
1088.
Post 53000052 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
^^^
R^2=99%
I think i never saw such an inclredibly high R2.
Impressive, but also reassuring, if you think of that.
1089.
Post 53003878 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
This post needs to be reported. But the question is, what the hell am I gonna put in the Comment section of the report?
No it's cool. That's the way Italians tell time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21mLECfpv3M
Dear Lord.
That is an Italian actor...
I never saw that movie.
How on earth you know it??
1090.
Post 53003937 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
Then I take pride in NOT knowing it!
1091.
Post 53004199 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
Shuure. Iffa aye lifta da donkey ballz jus so
(ee-aw ee-aw)
aye seeya the timea the church clock ova theya jus so
Double merit because I am dumb...and still didn’t understand how a back button works.
Good for you!
Any comment from you experts on this?
If you are wondering if it is a scam, then it is a scam.
1092.
Post 53004797 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
Never saw that HAT.....
It’s a counterfeit, shipped in from China. That is not a homer patented, special edition WO hat.
we should track all WO hats with blockchain technology from Homer to the specific WO dude, shouldn't we?
I trust VB1001 list.
https://wohats.blogspot.com/
1093.
Post 53005976 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
Good Night WO Gang.
All is fine, observing 9350 and an incredible contango in BAKKT futures (I’m going to write about it).
I got 2 merits today, roach I’ve got 2 as well.
Not a good day for the user formerly known as the Italian stallion.
1094.
Post 53005998 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
Just think what that means after the halving.
In case the growth flats at this levels means they are buying 18.6% of the total bitcoin.
SF in all his power!
1095.
Post 53007323 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
Good Night WO Gang.
All is fine, observing 9350 and an incredible contango in BAKKT futures (I’m going to write about it).
I got 2 merits today, roach I’ve got 2 as well.
Not a good day for the user formerly known as the Italian stallion.
I'm not afraid to say I had to google wtf a "contango" is!
And i really like what it means as well.
Ah!
Hope that Google brought you to that post! 😉
Everything you wanted to know about BTC futures but were afraid to ask!
1096.
Post 53007765 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
This post needs to be reported. But the question is, what the hell am I gonna put in the Comment section of the report?
No it's cool. That's the way Italians tell time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21mLECfpv3M
Dear Lord.
That is an Italian actor...
I never saw that movie.
How on earth you know it??
I don't speak Italian but I've watched a lot of "Domenica In" - it's good entertainment
Gigi Proietti on Domenica In -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR7P_KwdSEkI barely know that actor.
The other day, when the 18 millionth bitcoin was mined, this surfaced in the Italian board:
https://youtu.be/_IXfPxe7j6oHint: “diciotto” means “eighteen”.
Xhomerx10 will provide the rest of the translation.
Why I am doing this.
I am trying to build a reputation as serious, useful user for my merit source application!
1097.
Post 53009554 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
Good Night WO Gang.
All is fine, observing 9350 and an incredible contango in BAKKT futures (I’m going to write about it).
I got 2 merits today, roach I’ve got 2 as well.
Not a good day for the user formerly known as the Italian stallion.
I'm not afraid to say I had to google wtf a "contango" is!
And i really like what it means as well.
Ah!
Hope that Google brought you to that post! 😉
Everything you wanted to know about BTC futures but were afraid to ask!I just added a nice post on what contango is in practice and how you can do money out of it:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5188060.msg53009523#msg53009523
1098.
Post 53010537 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
City traders have urged UK and European exchanges to cut trading hours to improve work-life balance.
They say the long hours are bad for mental health and are not exactly female-friendly.
"It's hard to find childcare at five o'clock in the morning," said April Day, head of equities at the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME).
The idea is for exchanges to open 09:00 to 16:00, instead of 08:00 to 16:30.
The AFME is pushing for the change alongside fellow trader body the Investment Association.
Shorter trading hours would cut pressure on traders and attract a more diverse range of workers, it said.
The absolute state of this world smh.
Traders are an endangered species.
They are going to be replaced by machines in a short time.
A machine can run 24/7 without need for childcare.
It’s not taking long, already the majority of trades on stock exchanges are machine2machine.
1099.
Post 53011562 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
caption thread ?
You are welcome, Sir:
https://bitcointalk.org/captions.php
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Post 53012670 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
Hey!
This is a plagiarism of my Post!
Just think what that means after the halving.
In case the growth flats at this levels means they are buying 18.6% of the total bitcoin.
SF in all his power!
1101.
Post 53012754 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
I was actually complaining about their tweet! Not your repost...easy to get lost in the tenths of pages
Yes I do follow both of them.
@Pomp: good marketing guy.
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Post 53013829 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
1103.
Post 53014318 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
This post needs to be reported. But the question is, what the hell am I gonna put in the Comment section of the report?
No it's cool. That's the way Italians tell time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21mLECfpv3M
Dear Lord.
That is an Italian actor...
I never saw that movie.
How on earth you know it??
I don't speak Italian but I've watched a lot of "Domenica In" - it's good entertainment
Gigi Proietti on Domenica In -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR7P_KwdSEkI barely know that actor.
The other day, when the 18 millionth bitcoin was mined, this surfaced in the Italian board:
https://youtu.be/_IXfPxe7j6oHint: “diciotto” means “eighteen”.
Xhomerx10 will provide the rest of the translation.
Why I am doing this.
I am trying to build a reputation as serious, useful user for my merit source application!
I honestly cant understand but it ends with him singing "nineteen". I dont think he's counting Bitcoin though.
No, he isn't counting Bitcoin !
ah ! lol
basically it goes
"Eighteen!"
"Eighteen!"
"Eighteen!"
"Eighteen!"
"Eighteen!"
..
....
"Eighteen!"
There the other man asks:
"Excuse me sir, why are you repeating "Eighteen"?"
And he answers:
"Here another one who doesn't mind his fucking businesses!"
"Nineteen!"
"Nineteen!"
"Nineteen!"
EDIT:
This is my best post today: please have a look and let me know if I am better at writing jokes or serious stuff.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5188060.msg53009523#msg53009523
1104.
Post 53015002 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
Are there non-physical metals? Because I keep wondering why you call them physical metals, when you can call them just metals.
What is physical metal?
I only know Digital Gold.
1105.
Post 53018267 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
Nice read.
A longform about Bitcoin by Tuur Demeester written for Adamant Capital.
THE BITCOIN REFORMATION
At the end of the 16th century, a rag tag group of rebel intellectuals and entrepreneurs founded a country on some of the least desirable land in Europe—so often flooded that it needed hundreds of miles of moats - while fighting an eighty year long war against the largest empire in the world.
From this struggle and melting pot of ideas emerged the Dutch and British golden ages, innovative economic institutions that changed the world, as well as one of America’s most successful socio-economic experiments: New York City.
This report makes the case that the 21st century emergence of bitcoin, encryption, the internet, and millennials are more than just trends; they herald a wave of change that exhibits similar dynamics as the 16-17th century revolution that took place in Europe.
Some of the conclusions our report suggests:
• Bitcoin tolerance versus intolerance to become a major political faultline
• Bitcoin’s primary drivers will be in saving, lending and underwriting
• Collaborative custody to become an industry standard
• Offshore banking may transform into bitcoin banking
• Bitcoin to mature quickly: bonds, annuities, loans, insurance
• Initial exchange offerings (IEOs) expected to stay and grow larger
• Bitcoin savers could accelerate a revolution in the history of thought
Thre is also some nice historic digression which might also be a very intresting OT read. At least to know more about a land in the heart of some WO gang member.
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Post 53028519 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
<...>
Will he catch up with the real professionals like fillipponne with his cheeky same page repost from last night of raja news, or his not one but two reposts of V8 stock2flow related blablah over the past couple weeks,
<...>
Yeah, apologies, that post was totally a duplicate of a post I missed a few rows above.
Removed.
Double post of S2F, not sure what you are speaking of.
This thread moving so fast, of my head is moving so fast, I often cannot accurately monitor what's has been posted yet or If I already posted: more than one time I had to check several time because a post I though it was days back, it was only hours earlier.
Sorry for that.
thanks for pointing out.
f.
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Post 53028884 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
Not to be a wet blanket here, but that stunt is quite actually pretty standard. Every trainee exercices multiple times on this even before getting their flight license.
So quite dramatic, yes. Dangerous, no.
1108.
Post 53031992 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
Last, cheeky bump:
This is my Merit Source application thread:
I do hope you can support it with a comment, a merit, both. Whatever you think is appropriate is ok also for me!
1109.
Post 53032063 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
Oh no! Not Bakkt again! This is going to trigger V8!
1110.
Post 53032172 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
Loved ones, you mean the drinks?
1111.
Post 53037721 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
<...>... why would these banks want access to legitimate BTC?
<...>
Money.
It's not BTC needs Wall Street. It's actually the opposite: Wall Street needs Bitcoin because it's a decorrelated asset with huge volatility.
In a world of low/negative yields, banks are desperate getting a positive yielding asset class, where they can source their commissions.
Get an idea here:
Re: Extracting stable positive return from high-volatile asset.HF recipe made simple.
Not only that particular message, but also the OP can give you an insight about that.
1112.
Post 53048838 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.06h):
Random wisdom of the day via random tweet:
Buying 40 different alts doesn’t make you “diversified”. It makes you an idiot.
https://twitter.com/charlestheeth/status/1193757888382025730?s=21When you unexpectedly find the truth scrolling Twitter.
1113.
Post 53055051 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.07h):
Warning WO Gang:
Binance is going under scheduled maintenance in the next hours:
Binance will perform a scheduled system upgrade starting at 2019/11/13 02:00 AM (UTC). The upgrade will take approximately 4-6 hours.
Full infos here:
https://www.binance.com/en/support/articles/360036133111I have seen in the past huge swings (which direction, hard to tell) when liquidity from Binance was forced our of the books.
3. Italian Stallion have big hard on for Plan B
#nohomo
1114.
Post 53057484 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.07h):
More details about Bitcoin Options@CME!
CME Group Announces Jan. 13, 2020 Launch for Bitcoin Options
CHICAGO, Nov. 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced options on its Bitcoin futures contracts will be available for trading starting Jan. 13, 2020, pending regulatory review.
"Since the launch of our Bitcoin futures nearly two years ago, clients have expressed a growing interest in options as another way to hedge and trade in these markets," said Tim McCourt, CME Group Global Head of Equity Index and Alternative Investment Products. "We have worked closely with clients and the industry to establish a robust and increasingly liquid underlying futures market here at CME Group, and we believe Bitcoin options will now offer our customers greater precision and flexibility to manage their risk."
Market users have rapidly adopted Bitcoin futures since their December 2017 launch. Key highlights of how this market has grown include:
Average daily volume of 6,500+ contracts in 2019, equivalent to about 32,500 bitcoin
22 successful futures expiration settlements since launch
3,500+ individual accounts trading
47 percent of trading volume is from outside the U.S.
CME Group is the only derivatives marketplace where customers can hedge or trade benchmark options on futures across every investable asset class, with average daily options volume of 4.3 million contracts in 2019 to date.
Bitcoin options will be listed on and subject to the rules of CME. For more information, please visit
http://www.cmegroup.com/bitcoinoptions.
BAKKT is launching physical bitcoin options on Dec 9th.
The rush is on.
EDIT: devil is in the details:
Pending regulatory review
1115.
Post 53058030 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.07h):
Latest thing I started playing with is Spectrum and RGB...colored coins for the Lightning Network. I have been trying to figure out how this can be done for quite a while, it appears someone has figured it out. So I will be delving deeply into the guts to figure it all out.
<...>
Is this the project you are referring to?
RGB and Lightning NetworkAs far as I know the project is officially on hold as the repo maintainer and PM (Aleikos Filini) is busy doing other stuff @Blockstream.
1116.
Post 53060241 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.07h):
It's not too hard to figure out. BAKKT customers need not be Bitcoiners. Look at the last day. You could sell a future contract for 9500 or so, by the chart. Well, you could buy BTC at that day's price (as low as 8775), and sell a contract, your assets and liabilities balance, you pocket money. A fair amount. With the only downside being the counterparty risk of the parent company mudderfukkin' New York Stock Exchange.
It's a pretty simple calculus. The only miracle is that the volume isn't higher.
Nothing magical,
It’s called cash and carry.
It’s explained here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5188060.msg53009523#msg53009523You can lock in more if you sell back months future.
1117.
Post 53060567 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.07h):
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Post 53070137 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.07h):
I know some guys here who have some of these Zim multi trillion dollar things
I do!
I have that note hanging on my wall!
I bought it a couple of years ago on eBay.
I spent a multiple of 20 EUR for that, but it was mint conditions, never circulated.
And I bought exactly for that reason!
Memento for the inevitable end of every Fiat shitcoin.
1119.
Post 53079319 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.07h):
Theymos boosted my merit power source by %175
I wish he boosted the price of btc by %175 too.
Me too!
I’ll be looking for some impressive posting to spray my big load over boys. Tired now though, going to bed.
#nohomo
For some reason, I am feeling tired today, too. So many different things happening, even though the bitcoin price has been a little boring in the last few days, and yeah boring is if the BTC price is trending down or flat rather than up. So, at least, we have a little time for resting, if the BTC price is not doing too much.
Regarding recent source merit jugglings, I did find it a little strange that more or less theymos has effectuated a sweeping increase of the issuance of source merits that is largely based on averaging how much source merits have been using their smerit supply in the past six months.
Use it or lose it potential in the way that the change was decided, which also resulted in a strange statistical outcome of a reduction of the number of merit sources from 128 to 98 (not withstanding at least one new merit source,
congrats to fillippone) and also a bit of a reduction in the total monthly smerits from a bit under 30k per month to a bit over 20k per month. There still may be some tweaking going on, perhaps?
You can see the number of source merits and quantity of monthly smerits here.
As long as I see from this thread:
(LIST)Open Merit Source Applications,waiting list.At least three new MS were named today.
Other might reveal themselves later on.
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Post 53085623 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.07h):
@ziggamon
On the mempool today. Someone is cleaning up 100 MB of bitcoin transactions in their wallet. These are all at low fee and not causing any disruptions anywhere. Business as usual, just someone somewhere doing much needed a fall cleaning, nothing to worry about.
https://twitter.com/ziggamon/status/1195273781918543872?s=21
Consolitation time!
Probably the guy is willing to give up a little bit of privacy to be able to actually spend those UTXO's when things will get hotter!
1121.
Post 53086890 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.07h):
The year is 2021, it’s November & the cold, dark nights are starting to close in & 1
BTC is $154,000. Most of the WO’s have cashed in a significant % of their
BTC. It’s been a crazy roller coaster since the end of 2020.
Boblawblaw is chilling on his ranch, wiping his ass with $100 bills.
micgoossens married cryptoqueeen in the Maldives, he owns 50 Michelin Star Restaurants across the world.
JJG regularly drives his Lambo around LA, banging chicks & doing blow.
V8 lives in a $12,000,000 countryside estate.
......................
Fill in the rest
Fillippone is the one still posting on the WO when can sneak away from RL, as even with corn @154,000 he is still binded to real work.
Sorry to be lame guys.
1122.
Post 53098474 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.07h):
Hello WO gang!
Observing 8,471@stamp
All is good, 1BTC =1BTC
Look who entered the art contest!
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5193860.msg53096814#msg53096814
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Post 53103911 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.07h):
Bitcoin miners don't "solve complicated math problems."
They make 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 guesses per second @ permutations of an 80 byte block header until they find one with a hash that has enough leading zeroes.
Not complicated.
Not a math problem.
Just a lot of hard work.
Source:
https://twitter.com/lopp/status/1196061031979765761any one explain me '80 byte block' means?
The block header is made of 80 bytes.
The miner can change a few things in that header (version, time, nonce and a few other things) so they can get the hash with enough leading zeroes.
https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-reference
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Post 53108178 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.07h):
The only things that are in a bubble right now are stocks and garbage silver/gold.
I been sailing the Bitcoin seas for many a year, spending me days spreading terror and fear. Now it's time to acquire tons of gold and silver galore, and disregard posts from Lauda the whore.
I feel dirty for what I have just done.
But this was actually funny.
(Merit doesn’t mean I endorse any view of the above user)
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Post 53109287 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.07h):
Nice arts mate!
Only 1% space of my art is going to consist of caps, so don't worry, your caps won't be challenged by another work of caps.
I'm not worried and I would cheer for improvement that would honour the HATs way more as my piece of whatever it was
My art has many hats:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5193860.msg53096814#msg53096814HATS+ART=HARTS?
1126.
Post 53109776 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.07h):
I saw this tweet, and I bet I saw that graph here on the forum too...
1127.
Post 53112764 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.07h):
Ah!
I genuinely tought it was your work!
1128.
Post 53117097 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.07h):
Can’t disagree with this witty tweet:
If you think the Bitcoin halving is priced in, think about this:
Every year, without fail, people in their 50’s are surprised by how early it gets dark in Nov.
“OMG, can you believe it’s dark out already?!?”
“Yes Karen, I can. It’s Nov. 18. It’s been happening my entire life.”
https://twitter.com/ceterispar1bus/status/1196553122413514752?s=21
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Post 53131336 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.07h):
Hello Team.
I discovered Someone made me aware of this little tool:
I usually know what i do care about Bitcoin (halving date, meetup in local area etc.), and I don't usually indulge in shitcoins.
But you might find it useful for research puroposes. ("When is Bitcoin Gold halvening again?")
Have fun.
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Post 53132263 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.07h):
Curious gonna watch Le Mans now... so 2h and 30min no price watching
Those cars were not lambos, but drivers surely were....hodlers.
EDIT: Maybe in 2021 Lamborghini will return to Le Mans, a very different one, tough.
https://www.motor1.com/news/364193/lamborghini-2021-le-mans-entry/
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Post 53132616 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.07h):
Look who's back
back again
printing money
like there's no end. Straight from ZH.
Fed Reveals When The Next Repo Crisis May Strike
1132.
Post 53133308 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.07h):
How much this market can improve based on Bitcoin having the ability to rescue German savers from negative interest rates...
German banks had agreed not to levy negative rates on depositors with less than 100,000 euros in their savings account. But, Germany is not alone. Interest rates are set below zero in Switzerland, Denmark, and even Sweden. The idea behind negative interest rates is to encourage depositors to ditch their savings and move into an investment mode. This is where some could consider Bitcoin.
It is important to consider:
Once the economy suffers inflation and consumer’s spending power drops, they will look for a hedge of protection. This is where Bitcoin can provide stability and protection for investors whose spending power is continually being eroded by the cluelessness of the banks.
@pierre_rochardSource:
https://beincrypto.com/bitcoin-can-rescue-german-savers-from-negative-interest-rates/There are 12 Trillions of USD of debt out there with negative yields.
Some of those are even junk bonds (you actually pay to own a Junk Bond, can you believe this?)
Still, people spend money to owns them.
Bitcoin is going to fix this.
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Post 53133331 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.07h):
There are many threads at Meta that calculate merit and stats and whatsoever....
Also you have bpip.org to follow numerous stats of merit, recognition,
most posts, trust etc
Now please can someone make one very useful graph of stats of something we don't have (
I already know the outcome whiteout and stats but still....)
What I want is to know not who made the most posts but who has written the most
letters, characters on Bitcointalk??
Is there a way someone can provide this?
It must be merit worthy if someone makes this ....
?? Not possible ??
#HODLsleep
Only other tool I know is did red red merit dashboard.
https://public.tableau.com/profile/ddmrddmr#!/vizhome/BitcointalkMeritDashboard/PersonalSummary
If you ask him he might include this metric, even if I question the utility.
We all know JJG is going to top the typed word or character chart.
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Post 53147541 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.07h):
PlanB says: nothing to see here, please dispserse
Some people panicking about this -17% week.
It's just normal #bitcoin behavior. Note we are still up 2x YTD. And yes, S2F model is just fine, nothing out of the ordinary. s2f.hamal.nl/s2fcharts.html
https://twitter.com/100trillionusd/status/1197847212358819840?s=21
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Post 53148073 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.07h):
There is a paywall on that article, so I am posting another link here:
Bridgewater bets more than 1 billion on global equity pullback by MarchThe key takeaway is the following:
Bridgewater paid roughly $1.5 billion for the options contracts, or just about 1% of the Westport, Conn., firm’s $150 billion in assets under management, according to people familiar with the matter.
This means they bought a lottery ticket, paying 1.5 Billion, to hedge their long exposure of 150 Billions with a short one of around 100 billion (this is something I read elsewhere behind other paywalls, so you have to trust me). This 100 billion short insurance will be effective at lower market level.
So, probably, it is only a way to avoid too heavy losses in case of a significant drop in the market.
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Post 53148784 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.07h):
wee splatter of blood in the alley there
This is fine
<...>
Too bad the hat inside the image in the hat in the image is not of the "this is fine" hat, like a droste effect...
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Post 53149308 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.07h):
Do you see? It never reached the curve! It had to be lowered and adjusted!
Stability in the parameters of a model is a good things.
This is why I am bullish on the Stock to Flow model: his parameters have been very stable since 2009-2012 era, hence even before the first halvening.
Given the fact the price has done probably 100x since then, this is a very reassuring quality of the model.
More info here:
Stock To Flow Model: Modeling Bitcoin's Value with Scarcity
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Post 53152323 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.07h):
Today bakkt has a record volume 2120BTC+. Congrats to all who bought bitcoins today! Several hundred thousands were traded on the major exchanges, probably way more on all exchanges worldwide, ATM's, etc. Woe to those who sold! The next bull run is about to start!
I am trying to revive a thread about BAKKT.
But looks like nobody like it.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5180571.msg53152317#msg53152317
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Post 53168238 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.07h):
New bitcoin version is out:
Bitcoin Core version 0.19.0.1
Release notes here:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.19.0.1.mdNotable changes (my personal selection):
New user documentation
Reduce memory suggests configuration tweaks for running Bitcoin Core on systems with limited memory. (#16339)
The GUI wallet now provides bech32 addresses by default. The user may change the address type during invoice generation using a GUI toggle, or the default address type may be changed with the -addresstype configuration option. (#15711, #16497)
A new wallet flag avoid_reuse has been added (default off). When enabled, a wallet will distinguish between used and unused addresses, and default to not use the former in coin selection. When setting this flag on an existing wallet, rescanning the blockchain is required to correctly mark previously used destinations. Together with "avoid partial spends" (added in Bitcoin Core v0.17.0), this can eliminate a serious privacy issue where a malicious user can track spends by sending small payments to a previously-paid address that would then be included with unrelated inputs in future payments. (#13756)
This is an important security measure against a
dust-attack.
Users setting custom dbcache values can increase their setting slightly without using any more real memory. Recent changes reduced the memory use by about 9% and made chainstate accounting more accurate (it was underestimating the use of memory before). For example, if you set a value of "450" before, you may now set a value of "500" to use about the same real amount of memory. (#16957)
This last settings is important when running bitcoind from a Raspberry: it would be important to set it properly then.
What happened to Bitcoin core 0.19.0?
0.19.0 note
Due to a last-minute issue (#17449), 0.19.0, although it was tagged, was never released.
See the release notes for 0.19.0.1 instead.
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Post 53168984 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.07h):
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Saw this earlier today, I’ll wait to upgrade.
Have they got rid of that annoying false warning about block sizes? I think you’ll remember I was moaning about it ages ago.
I think it was unexpected block version, not sizes, but I am afraid not. They don't give a shit about that.
This is how I was dismissed:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/16343#issue-464475255
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Post 53179865 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.08h):
Coincidentally, mempool is exploding:
Zoom on the last 48 hours:
Never been so clogged since mid July:
https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#0,3m6 blocks found in the last 180 minutes.
Edit:
As LFC_bitcoin says, someone is loading their bag:
24h Exchange Volume
via @COIN360com
coin360.com/exchanges
https://twitter.com/cryptounfolded/status/1199072678461820928?s=21
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Post 53201449 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.08h):
Someone betting on GOLD going to $4,000:
Bold Bets That Gold Could Triple to $4,000 Trade in New YorkAround noon in New York Wednesday, 5,000 lots of a gold option giving the holder the right to buy the precious metal at $4,000 an ounce in June 2021 changed hands. The bets were sold at $3.50 an ounce.
First thoughts:
- If gold goes to $ 4,000, what happens to digital gold?
- Might be something hedging their short positions on gold (like, but opposite to, Ray Dalio buying puts on the S&P?)
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Post 53203098 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.08h):
Hi WO!!
Bakkt update ..
Daily summary of Wednesday's Bakkt Bitcoin Monthly Futures:
📈 Traded contracts: 5671 ($42.52 million, +148%) (New ATH 🚀)
🚀 All time high: 5671 (11/27/2019)
💰 Open interest: $4.16 million (+6%)
Follow
@BakktBot
for updates - Sats welcome @
https://tippin.me/@BakktBot
Source:
@BakktBotWe are discussing this news here on this semi-neglected thread:
BakktHalving either won't have an impact, or it will but certainly not before 2 or 3 years. If only it was that simple, everyone would be making money with the halving coming soon. That's extremely simplistic to think this way.
Exactly. It probably will have an impact, but not like the previous two halvings.
I disagree. HAlving impact has been constant (in log terms)
I follow this model:
Stock To Flow Model: Modeling Bitcoin's Value with Scarcity
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Post 53204368 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.08h):
Thanks for the link, I know about the model, but not in detail. Its main problem, from my point of view, is that there have been only two halving events, too few for more or less solid statistics.
The model has been working even BEFORE the first halving. So the number of halving is pretty irrelevant.
Model parameters considering 2009-2012 data points (before first halving) are very similar to ones obtained considering the whole BTC price history.
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Post 53206138 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.08h):
Guys,
I have heard the most bullish news since a long time:
From 2020, the sale and custody of Bitcoin will be allowed to all German banksSo far, there was a clear legal separation between the normal regulated banking and crypto transactions. The custody and trading of Bitcoin and Kryptos has until now always been outsourced to specialized partners or subsidiaries with appropriate licenses. By 2020 all German banks should be redeemed.
If all German banks can suddenly sell bitcoin to their customers with a few clicks from 2020, that is a big digital transformation of the traditional banks. It could finally enable the bitcoin and blockchain industry in Germany to compete on equal terms with other states. Although the Federal Council still has to approve the new law, the approval is considered certain.
I opened a thread about that here:
From 2020, the sale and custody of Bitcoin will be allowed to all German banks
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Post 53219710 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.08h):
Tower of Belém
Lisbon, Portugal
Dang. Solved in five whole minutes. Respect, Pamoldar.
Appreciate the use of the now international WO hand sign!
Yeah, difficult to achieve a good fun/challenge balance.
I have tons of unselected pictures for WO in my phone, with friends of mine accostumerà seeing me taking strange pictures with weird hand covering the subject!
Edit:
picture not showing up. Must be the destiny they are hidden forever in my mobile Picture was too big, had to resize.
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Post 53225405 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.08h):
Group F...
yeah haha A is the lol
I am sure we can fuc*up also that one.
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Post 53225735 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.08h):
I remember being able to dump, amongst the others, Bitcoin Pizza BPA and Bitcoin God GOD
I still own (my fault) Bitcoin Private BTCP): I still own it as a memento of my own stupidity.
The fork I hated the most Bitcoin unlimited.
Ah, ymgve, I Miss you.
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Post 53240194 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.08h):
Very intresting Tweet by @planB:
Pitched bitcoin to institutional investors last week. Presentation started with these 3 charts: Sharpe ratio (@woonomic), zero correlation with other assets (@PanteraCapital), correlation and cointegration with stock-to-flow (@100trillionUSD).
Amazing response!
https://twitter.com/100trillionUSD/status/1201477183815999489?s=20I discuss it here:
Extracting stable positive return from high-volatile asset.HF recipe made simple
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Post 53249441 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.08h):
Another Coinmetric Newsletter is out:
Coin Metrics' State of the Network: Issue 28
Just only a quote:
After reaching all-time highs in May, the amount of Bitcoin that has not moved in over one year has since been declining. As of Nov. 31st, 3,174,760 Bitcoin had not been moved in at least one year. Comparatively, there was 4,500,526 Bitcoin that had not been moved for at least a year on May 18th, 2019.
The below chart shows the amount of Bitcoin not moved in over X years, where X ranges from one month to 5 years.
Funny thing: Digitalik noticed a very similar thing.
In last three months there was more coins that became >10 years dormant than generated ones.
#bitcoin #btc
https://twitter.com/digitalikNet/status/1201848172773093377?s=20
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Post 53252176 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.08h):
Did one each for you, fillippone, MPOE-PR and Elwar; marcus_of_a, miaviator and OG threads didn't get picked up oddly enough.
Ah!
Thank you very much for the support in the contest, it I think the most voted ones were actually epic threads!
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Post 53253613 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.08h):
Straight from GS Elevator
Struggling to understand why caption are in Italian thou...
https://twitter.com/gselevator/status/1201880916643241991
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Post 53253646 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.08h):
I like the look of that graph, yet I am wondering whether it is behind a paywall or within an application?
In other words, I was trying to find a way to quickly link to such graph on a live basis - presumably through the
https://coinmetrics.io/cm-network-data-pro/ website.. or maybe somewhere else? Anyone?
There is a very similar graph I used in my monthly commentaries:
HodlWaves
The colored bands show the relative fraction of Bitcoin in existence that was last transacted within the time window indicated in the legend. The bottom, warmer colors (reds, oranges) represent Bitcoin transacting very recently while the top, cooler colors (greens, blues) represent Bitcoin that hasn’t transacted in a long time. Bitcoin’s money supply grew from 50 BTC to ~17M BTC over this time period, so the chart has been normalized by the BTC in existence at each date (left y-axis). The black line shows the USD/BTC price (logarithmically, right y-axis). Chart lovingly made by Nelson Morrow based on prior work by @jratcliff [Direct Link]
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Post 53253801 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.08h):
I like the look of that graph, yet I am wondering whether it is behind a paywall or within an application?
In other words, I was trying to find a way to quickly link to such graph on a live basis - presumably through the
https://coinmetrics.io/cm-network-data-pro/ website.. or maybe somewhere else? Anyone?
There is a very similar graph I used in my monthly commentaries:
HodlWaves
The colored bands show the relative fraction of Bitcoin in existence that was last transacted within the time window indicated in the legend. The bottom, warmer colors (reds, oranges) represent Bitcoin transacting very recently while the top, cooler colors (greens, blues) represent Bitcoin that hasn’t transacted in a long time. Bitcoin’s money supply grew from 50 BTC to ~17M BTC over this time period, so the chart has been normalized by the BTC in existence at each date (left y-axis). The black line shows the USD/BTC price (logarithmically, right y-axis). Chart lovingly made by Nelson Morrow based on prior work by @jratcliff [Direct Link]
Is it just me, or is the second one less intuitive than the one posted by Globb0? I am having some trouble getting the information from the second one, by you fillippone, to really sink in for me.
I think the second one is less intuitive and “easy” to immediately get, but when understood, being scaled to %age values, more informative.
Basically when lines point down, this means that the %age of hodl coins rises, because, basically transacted % goes down too. Viceversa, when lines point up! This means that trading is surging,as the moved coins are a bigger part of the total.
Ultimately it’s down to personal preferences, and I think both graphs are very nice!
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Post 53262502 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.08h):
Bitcoin wins.
Bitcoin works as Satoshi meant to: uncensorable, trustless cash.
$8.9 billion in #Bitcoin were moved on–chain in a single hour this afternoon.
It's the highest hourly USD transaction volume in Bitcoin's history 🔥
https://twitter.com/n3ocortex/status/1202354579217797120
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Post 53264541 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.08h):
https://twitter.com/digitalikNet/status/1202383513552609280?s=20Very intresting indicator:
BEAM stands for "Bitcoin Economics Adaptive Multiple" and is the result of experimenting with various indicator types and formulas for almost 2 years. Various other designs were dropped or improved until reaching a satisfying result.
BEAM may look like a typical indicator, but can also be used as a basis for an anti-cyclical investment plan for Bitcoin as well as other crypto assets whose cycle is tied to that of Bitcoin. Roughly speaking, BEAM divides the price of bitcoin at any given moment to a moving average of past prices. This makes price trends more clearly visible.
This indicator is also available in tradingview to play with:
BEAM on TradingView
I developed BEAM in Pine Script on Tradingview.com. Recently I published “BEAM” and “BEAM Bands” there. So at Tradingview.com you can apply them to charts by clicking the Indicators button and searching for them. To apply them to Bitcoin I recommend that you enter “BNC:BLX” for displaying the “BreaveNewCoin Liquid Index for Bitcoin” chart and set the time frame to 1 day. The BLX chart shows all historical Bitcoin prices since mid 2010.
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Post 53266510 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.08h):
Huh, I imagine the Silicon Valley is full of such corps.
... I mean, now there is
literally shit on the streets and sidewalks.
It's downright biblical.
And a now a very intertainging read:
Mapping San Francisco's Human Waste Challenge - 132,562 Cases Reported In The Public Way Since 2008
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Post 53266632 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.08h):
Good morning WO!
Observing @ $7,433
Nothing has changed since the last 24 hours however Liverpool got another 3 points 😂
Person I sit next to, at work, was at the Brighton game in hospitality he was sat next to Ian Rush. Thought some of you guys would be jealous.
other times, other game, other players
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Post 53267140 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.08h):
Hey WO gang
I found something for the HODLsleep:
https://www.bitlisten.com/
Realtime Bitcoin transaction visualiser.
See and hear new transactions, trades and blocks as they arrive.
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Post 53267533 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.08h):
This is effect ot the QE.
Easy money tide lift every boat.
Bitcoin hopelly will fix that.
Read Saifedean Ammous chapter on how hard money in the italian renaissance called for hard worked art (think about Michelangelo's frescoes on the Cappella Sistina).
Easy money calls for this .... i don't know how to define it.
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Post 53274964 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.09h):
Innovation in
BTCRelatively new initiatives and show a more complete picture of Bitcoin stack technology.
Users when using Lightning can make transactions privately on the use of additional techniques and network layers, such as Tor, from here the percentage of private use of the lightning network can be estimated by analyzing the number of channel opening transactions in the chain compared to the number of public channels outside the chain.
Bitcoin, in its totality, is a constantly evolving suite of protocols.
Source:
https://medium.com/@LucasNuzzi/a-look-at-innovation-in-bitcoins-technology-stack-7edf877eab14I opened a thread in the technical section referencing every boxes with their respective thread here on the forum!
A Look at Innovation in Bitcoin’s Technology Stack [complete with references]<...>
Thanks for bringing back old memories.
You are welcome!
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Post 53276399 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.09h):
Panic mode activated
Another way of visualising it, with all the other CB's included:
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Post 53284966 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.09h):
Wow! A Model S and a Cybertruck in the same pic just outside a Tesla Store!
What the chance!?
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Post 53286672 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.09h):
Is a interesting chart...
Last 7 days BTC netflows across 11 exchanges. Data by
@thetokenanalyst
(I've used our enterprise websocket feed to generate this chart) #btc #onchain
Source:
https://twitter.com/madewithtea/status/1203255944009961473Average monthly spreads, expressed as a percentage of the price, range from 0.045 percent on Coinbase in March, to 0.304 percent on itBit in July. For comparison, bid-ask spreads on Vanguard ETF products right now range from 0.01 percent to 0.09 percent.
Exchanges' activities on the bitcoin network tend to follow predictable patterns, indicating net inflows. However, large balances often move in unpredictable ways and it can be difficult to distinguish the flow of capital from a change in custodial practice
Source:
https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-volatility-is-up-liquidity-stagnant?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitterOnce again good work, LUCKMCFLY, even if I think 2 of 3 graphs need more analysis.
Please tell me what should I read in the first chart: I see an horizontal line of dots without any meaning, to me at least. Also: what is an inflow? Fiat inflow? Or everything inflow? In any case: how do you measure it? If I weren’t a polite person I would say that graph is garbage.
Second chart is very interesting: 10 BTC is quite an institutional size, I see many guys willing to trade 10 BTC at once. I am quite surprised seeing Coinbase topped ho that list. Also surprises me seeing Gemini so in the back seats.
Third graph, again it would be interesting, but we know too little about storage management from exchanges to infer really useful informations.
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Post 53292124 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.09h):
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This is gold.
I though genuinely that the hat mania had to do with the “corn” nickname so common in the thread.
Being those hat very like the one used by the corn farmer in the Midwest I thought that those were the one most interested in nurturing the different, digital “corn”.
But I was wrong apparently.
But hey!
I take the pride in inventing the official “WO hand sign”!
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Post 53294452 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.09h):
By the way, I am still on the lookout for a reliable dead man switch arrangement. I'm afraid if anything happens to me, my family won't be able to collect. Any tips? Should I open yet another thread "out there"?
I read a nice thread on the topic.
A lot of ideas to feed from:
Dead man's switch: better approach proposal
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Post 53298603 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.09h):
It's time (again) for a Wall Observer Meta Post!
I made this post Monthly, so it will consider the merits sent during the month of November.
Consequently I had to wait for the last merit dump, that included the last day of the month.
Merit analysis based on LoyceV merit file:
http://loyce.club/Merit/merit.all.txtMerit updated to November, 30th, 2019 23:59:59 UTC
Total merits sent on WO: 33384
Monthly Merits sent on WO: 1485 (+159 vs previous month)
Merited Users: 632 (+11 vs previous month)
TOP 100 WO MERIT RECEIVERS:
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2.Last of the V8s 1788
3.HairyMaclairy 1363
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2.BobLawblaw 2231
3.micgoossens 1978
4.LFC_Bitcoin 1406
5.infofront 1112
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TOP 100 MONTHLY WO RECEIVERS:
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3.xhomerx10 92
4.Pamoldar 91
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57.Lauda 5
58.DireWolfM14 5
59.Elwar 4
60.SuperTA 4
61.bkbirge 4
62.DeathAngel 4
63.Negotiation 4
64.plasticAiredale 4
65.Torque 3
66.Arriemoller 3
67.lightfoot 3
68.Ludwig Von 3
69.FractalUniverse 3
70.rdbase 3
71.pereira4 3
72.OgNasty 3
73.th3nolo 3
74.~Money~ 3
75.cAPSLOCK 2
76.vapourminer 2
77.HI-TEC99 2
78.DaRude 2
79.soxxx 2
80.LoyceV 2
81.Fatman3001 2
82.Dotto 2
83.Alexander_Z 2
84.suspiciously square 2
85.golden-dragon 2
86.jbreher 1
87.yefi 1
88.toknormal 1
89.serveria.com 1
90.STT 1
91.bitebits 1
92.Dunkelheit667 1
93.RoomBot 1
94.gembitz 1
95.D. Lerk 1
96.smartcomet 1
97.Saint-loup 1
98.wachtwoord 1
99._javi_ 1
100.SidETH 1
TOP 100 MONTHLY WO SENDERS:
1.micgoossens 180
2.BobLawblaw 133
3.JayJuanGee 131
4.LFC_Bitcoin 92
5.Globb0 68
6.suchmoon 63
7.fillippone 58
8.infofront 50
9.marcus_of_augustus 49
10.Last of the V8s 44
11.VB1001 36
12.vapourminer 34
13.mindrust 31
14.xhomerx10 29
15.Paashaas 27
16.Hueristic 25
17.Icygreen 23
18.kurious 22
19.jbreher 19
20.LUCKMCFLY 19
21.OROBTC 18
22.jojo69 15
23.Lambie Slayer 15
24.nutildah 14
25.makrospex 14
26.Olegya199 14
27.Lauda 12
28.Findingnemo 12
29.Pamoldar 11
30.ivomm 10
31.Majormax 10
32.JSRAW 10
33.Torque 9
34.vroom 9
35.Dabs 8
36.Raja_MBZ 8
37.P_Shep 8
38.bones261 7
39.bitcoinPsycho 7
40.somac. 7
41.Gyrsur 6
42.DeathAngel 6
43.600watt 5
44.cAPSLOCK 5
45.Biodom 5
46.AlcoHoDL 5
47.psycodad 5
48.HairyMaclairy 4
49.bitserve 4
50.goldkingcoiner 4
51.Phil_S 4
52.Bitcoinaire 4
53.Wekkel 3
54.Arriemoller 3
55.sirazimuth 3
56.Cryptotourist 3
57.bitmover 3
58.DireWolfM14 3
59.tmfp 3
60.Bossian 3
61.JimboToronto 2
62.ssmc2 2
63.Searing 2
64.lightfoot 2
65.SuperTA 2
66.Totscha 2
67.bkbirge 2
68.LoyceV 2
69.HI-TEC99 2
70.kaicrypzen 2
71.chimk 2
72.th3nolo 2
73.whiteboy420 2
74.gentlemand 1
75.bitebits 1
76.Dunkelheit667 1
77.Elwar 1
78.serveria.com 1
79.fabiorem 1
80.rdbase 1
81.smartcomet 1
82.Negotiation 1
83.BayAreaCoins 1
84.Traxo 1
85.akhjob 1
86.btcbeliever 1
87.plasticAiredale 1
88.WastedLTC 1
89.gwaur 1
90.Alexander_Z 1
91.nc50lc 1
92.Hyperjacked 1
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95.irsykes 1
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98.Dalmar 1
99.Fci_2 1
100.pressnegl 1
MONTHLY sMERITS BALANCE
SMerits Balance=Received Merits/2-Sent Merits
Positive Balance means an user has been increasing sMerits on the WO thread, while negative numbers means the users has sent more merits on WO than received.
Negative numbers are possible or because he has been generous this week because he has been greedy past weeks (so only temporary imbalance), or because he has hoarded sMerits on other threads spending them on WO thread, or because he's a merit source.
TOP 20 MONTHLY NET RECEIVERS
1.Pamoldar 34.5
2.xhomerx10 17
3.Raja_MBZ 11
4.akhjob 10.5
5.HairyMaclairy 9
6.sirazimuth 6.5
7.JSRAW 6.5
8.realr0ach 4
9.Icygreen 4
10.AlcoHoDL 4
11.mfort312 3.5
12.Kylapoiss 3.5
13.BTCMILLIONAIRE 3.5
14.hnbdgr 3
15.Last of the V8s 2.5
16.Gyrsur 2.5
17.d_eddie 2.5
18.Bossian 2
19.pereira4 1.5
20.OgNasty 1.5
TOP 20 MONTHLY WO NET SENDERS
1.micgoossens -121
2.BobLawblaw -115.5
3.JayJuanGee -99.5
4.LFC_Bitcoin -68.5
5.suchmoon -63
6.Globb0 -59
7.fillippone -47
8.marcus_of_augustus -45
9.vapourminer -33
10.mindrust -27
11.infofront -26
12.jbreher -18.5
13.Hueristic -16.5
14.kurious -14.5
15.OROBTC -12.5
16.VB1001 -11.5
17.Paashaas -11.5
18.Olegya199 -10.5
19.Lauda -9.5
20.Findingnemo -9
Well the merit circulation pump we saw all over the forum had not so big impact here on the WO thread.
Mic is back at the top of the charts, and his name is all over the Place!
Also nice to see a continuing increase of new merited members!
Still fixing glitches here and there, I am using this to getting better at data management (errors are mine).
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Post 53323400 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.09h):
I have been away basically away from the forum since my last monthly post on WO merits.
Quick mission, 24 hours, on the land where they drive on the wrong side of the road.
Saw a guy with an hat with the same symbol used in xhomer10 hats (what symbol is it btw?) on his hats.
Briefly checked VB1001 website, but didn’t recognise it.
I wanted to find that hat, but I couldn’t find a bigger version of the image on the top right corner...
VB1001: you should add a picture with all the hat on your wohats.com, ideally clicking on a certain hat would take you to the decimated page.
Now I am 15 pages behind...
Time to catch up, as I already emptied my sMerits allowance I have more time...
1169.
Post 53324993 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.09h):
Is this what you saw?
Yes exactly this one.
The patch on the hat was a “lone wolf”: tell me you didn’t make one like this!
I dream of wearing my physical hat, breaching all my opsec rules...
1170.
Post 53328475 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.09h):
Cristine Lagarde in her first conference as President of the ECB is discussing Bitcoins and Blockchain for CBDC.
She says that they are looking into that, on the Stablecoins above all, to cut costs and middlemen’s.
Times are changing.
1171.
Post 53329624 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.09h):
It is interesting, based on the prediction model. Although in my opinion making predictions is somewhat complicated.
4 years multiple shows difference between current price and price 4 years before. It never went below 6x and if it keeps above that number in next two years next ATH would be $120K minimum.
Source:
https://twitter.com/digitalikNet/status/1204928433651879941But, According to Tim Draper:
While explaining the different financial investment options investors have, Tim said Bitcoin provides the best option for long term investors. Tim who is an investor himself predicted that bitcoin price would reach as high as $250,000 within the next few years. He said Bitcoin is constantly improving and gaining more applications.
Source:
https://cryptonewmedia.press/2019/12/12/bitcoin-is-the-currency-of-the-future-says-billionaire-tim-draper/Yes this is fascinating, but this is not a model: he's drawing lines and noticing that somehow the price never got below that line.
Not a word
WHY this happened.
That would be a model.
So, fascinating, but dismissed as a predicition worth for investing.
1172.
Post 53331710 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.09h):
Cristine Lagarde in her first conference as President of the ECB is discussing Bitcoins and Blockchain for CBDC.
She says that they are looking into that, on the Stablecoins above all, to cut costs and middlemen’s.
Times are changing.
Do you have a specific article that attempts to describe the significance of this?
I don't exactly grasp any kind of meaningful significance based on your summary, except just a kind of implication that bitcoin, blockchain (various cryptos) and stable coins are just becoming more broadly accepted within financial BIG WIG circles.
For some reason I was watching on TV her first q&a session as President of the ECB (she’s in charge from the first of November and this is her first public speaking after a rate decision).
She just started talking about Bitcoin, CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currencies), blockchain, stablecoins etcetera.
Just having a Central Banker speaking about Bitcoin is exciting.
No, I haven’t any article about that, because I was reporting it as it was happening. If I find something I will edit the message.
1173.
Post 53348026 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.09h):
Shinoda
He's a genius at making beats and sound, but the rap is meh and the music is even weaker than linkin park's last album.
I'm a big fan of shinodas remixes and LP in the older days, tho.
The video is just
sooo 80's, but digital.
Thanks for sharing, Bitcoin is ded.
EDIT: Wait?!
One of the Kryptonians, again?
This is almost like bitcointalk-herpes.
To me, this is one of the best remixes ever (easy, when the original material is so good):
https://youtu.be/ofrB6OCSsgkThis is how I got to know Shinoda.
1174.
Post 53348126 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.09h):
Bitfinex long / short ratio now over double previous ATH. Was about 3.5 to 1, now 7.6 to 1.
Bitmex funding costs haven't moved. Something is fucky.
Why funding cost didn’t spike this time in your opinion?
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Post 53349906 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.09h):
Hashrate derivatives coming to Bitcoin.London-based DAG Global, which pitches itself as a cryptocurrency merchant bank, said miners were showing strong interest in the firm’s products for hedging hashrates.
“As the hashrate changes, you can go from being profitable to losing money very quickly,” said Robert Andersen, who leads DAG’s digital asset sales. “The contract insures you against that. It’s like insurance, and for that you pay a premium.”
I don’t want to be too technical here, but pricing a derivatives means you can buy and sell the underlying asset (the deriverive’s “object”).
Can you buy and sell “hashrate”?
No.
Hence I figure how these “derivatives” will be priced.
Badly I suppose. Hence “overpriced”.
1176.
Post 53367907 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.09h):
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He tried throwing sticks and more yelling to no avail and ended up sitting on a rock some ways off until the badger got bored or had some other important badger stuff to do and wandered off.
Anyway, I shit you not, that's how he told it, I thought that fit here somehow.
Now, the phrase "Honey Badger don't care" has a meaning to me, living in the heavily hurbanised old Europe.
1177.
Post 53371008 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.09h):
This is too out of scale to be a "candid" long position building.
Noticing it started when BAKKT started. Maybe a coincidence?
This is something I will try to look into.
Very intresting.
1178.
Post 53371784 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.09h):
This is too out of scale to be a "candid" long position building.
Noticing it started when BAKKT started. Maybe a coincidence?
This is something I will try to look into.
Very intresting.
Opened a thread: this thing is too interesting IMHO:
LONGS on BITFINEX going PARABOLIC
1179.
Post 53372608 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.09h):
This is too out of scale to be a "candid" long position building.
Noticing it started when BAKKT started. Maybe a coincidence?
This is something I will try to look into.
Very intresting.
Opened a thread: this thing is too interesting IMHO:
LONGS on BITFINEX going PARABOLIC If enough of these longs get liquidated, all the hell will brake loose.
They have been building this longs since one months.
Whoever did that has
deep pockets
1180.
Post 53376954 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.09h):
Mmmmm some good old PlanB
I find it hard to deal with the dude.
I like his model so much, but appear too good to be true.
Trying to get rational and calm every tweet I read.
Gettin'an erection instead.
If S2F fails to materialise, would be the biggest delusion ever (orders of magnitude bigger than every "partenr related" stories), not for the money per se, but for the amount of faith and commitment I put into it.
1181.
Post 53377352 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.09h):
Mmmmm some good old PlanB
I find it hard to deal with the dude.
I like his model so much, but appear too good to be true.
Trying to get rational and calm every tweet I read.
Gettin'an erection instead.
If S2F fails to materialise, would be the biggest delusion ever (orders of magnitude bigger than every "partenr related" stories), not for the money per se, but for the amount of faith and commitment I put into it.
If you think about how many people died for crazy religions based on zero evidence with almost no chance of being true, the Bitcoin dream looks pretty sane.
Yes,
i thinked about this in the past.
Being a bitcoin zealot has some advantages compared to traditional religion.
It is faith in mathematics and rationality of the humans.
Still faith, but a lesser one.
1182.
Post 53377784 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.09h):
Nah mate, you don't need faith in mathematics, that's an oxymoron. Faith is a belief in something you cannot prove, like religion as you said, but very much unlike math(s).
I know mathematicians.
To many of them mathematic is a faith.
Or at least it is a religion, with rituals, priests and sects.
In this sense you have to read my previous comment.
1183.
Post 53380829 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.10h):
What is ownership rate?
9% of the population? What are we talking about? US? World?
No source data... looks like bullshit to me.
1184.
Post 53382378 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.10h):
I love you Emily.
Is Emily #2? I thought I recognised her.
1185.
Post 53383003 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.10h):
Bakkt is going to set a new record today:
∙ Today's volume so far: 6162 BTC ($44.44 million)
∙ Last traded price: $7,213
∙ Trading day progress: 67%
∙ Current daily Bakktarget™: 7106 BTC ($51.25 million)
https://twitter.com/bakktbot/status/1207438396332883970Previous record was 5671 BTC on Nov 27th
1186.
Post 53383032 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.10h):
Bakkt is going to set a new record today:
∙ Today's volume so far: 6162 BTC ($44.44 million)
∙ Last traded price: $7,213
∙ Trading day progress: 67%
∙ Current daily Bakktarget™: 7106 BTC ($51.25 million)
https://twitter.com/bakktbot/status/1207438396332883970Previous record was 5671 BTC on Nov 27th
Going to smash the previous record. Halving approaching, big players starting to move?
Volume at historical max
Open interest at historical max
Options trading
Longs on Bitfinex at historical max
5 months to halving
Miners near capitulation
News of adoption everywhere.
No reason not to stack every sats.
See you in 9 months.
1187.
Post 53391783 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.10h):
Italy 0% because regulator still didn’t figure out how to tax bitcoins or other cryptos.
As soon they discover how to tax it: 23%.
1188.
Post 53393024 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.10h):
Italy 0% because regulator still didn’t figure out how to tax bitcoins or other cryptos.
As soon they discover how to tax it: 23%.
It's easy, capital gains such as any other asset/stock/currency/PM/wood or whatever that result in a... yes, capital gain at the moment of selling.
Or have they specifically made an exception for crypto?
The Italian IRS doesn’t speak with Kraken Coinbase or other exchanges. They don’t know if you made any trade with crypto. They speak to banks: they only know if you made bank transfers from/to exchanges.
In Italy you have to pay taxes only if there is a law that explicitly tells you to do so.
There is no law including capital gains on crypto’s on taxable gains.
Hence no taxes on crypto capital gains.
It is not even perfectly clear if you have to declare you have crypto’s (you have to declare, for example, the money you hold in foreign bank accounts- legal and not taxed).
Before you start thinking weird things: I strongly advise against entering Italian taxes jurisdiction.
1189.
Post 53393123 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.10h):
^
Quiet, if you want weird things you can come to Spain and you will be surprised how prepared we are on these issues.
Today another day of endless food with customers awaits me.
Damn job
Go
BTC Go
As you remember I am used to visit Spain.
Spanish food I like: all of that.
Spanish Bureaucracy I like: none of that.
Italy and Spain are very similar countries, little but noticeable differences.
1190.
Post 53395651 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.10h):
I will come with some ideas:
A physical good that's going to deplete very quickly (ladies love those kind of things, not sure why)
Bunch of roses and liliums
A physical good that's going to deplete quickly:
https://www.chanel.com/us/fragrance/women/c/7x1x1x30/n5/An experience with you she will remeber forever:
Kitchen classes
togheterA phisical good that's going to appreciate in time:
https://www.ledger.com/(change of 110 stashed inside).
Something that's going to enlight her forver:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/cryptocurrency#about(or similar courses)
1191.
Post 53395794 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.10h):
A RANT.
I really, really hate it when peeps post small print like this. My browser can't keep a line centered while zooming, so I have to zoom/scroll/zoom/scroll.
Are you using windows?
Just highlight the small prints and click right mouse button.
You are welcome.
1192.
Post 53396076 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.10h):
Very good ideas. Thank you.
Don't tell her I said so but she could use the cooking classes.
My relevant person cannot boil an egg.
We took kitchen classes.
Now I can cook a world class risotto and I can fillet a fish.
She still cannot boil an egg.
If i remember some detaily you mentioned me long ago, she could take this an offense, but smuggle it as something to do togheter, they love thi kind of things.
1193.
Post 53404639 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.10h):
Bah.
Don't worry, m8. Micgoossens is at his synagogue right now praying to his god Satan to make the Bitcoin price go up.
This reminds me of a classic:
1194.
Post 53411307 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.10h):
I found superman's meteor's landing spot while flying.
Can you guess where this is?
That is Vesuvio.
Dormant Vulcano in southern Italy, near Naples.
1195.
Post 53427787 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.10h):
New State of the Network newsletter is available.
a nice and interesting read about halving:
The upcoming block reward halving for Bitcoin, anticipated in May 2020, has already given rise to intense discussion about its potential impact. Several theories have been advanced to study supply-side dynamics surrounding halvings and its eventual impact (or lack thereof) on cryptoasset prices. But up to this point, the short history and infrequent nature of block reward halvings have prevented us from drawing strong conclusions
Read the whole newsletter here:
Coin Metrics’ State of the Network: Issue 31
1196.
Post 53431343 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.10h):
Just made an absolute whale move that will shake the market.
0.0339BTC buy - Feel the tremor.
Edit - Hey guys, I had a thought for the new poll. WO poster of the year?
Could be fun?
Like the idea, lots of contestant too! I guess selecting the nominees will be as fun as voting and picking the right one!
1197.
Post 53433620 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.10h):
Merry Chistmas from Italy.
I will recycle @mir_btc Traditional BTC song!
My fav Christmas tradition, singing WhalePanda's lyrics.
This year with subtitles, if somebody doesn't get my clearly perfect English.
https://twitter.com/mir_btc/status/1209448908868460544?s=21
1198.
Post 53435382 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.10h):
Merry Christmas everyone!
I like the image very much, but there is a typo: “hold” is actually spelt “hodl”
1199.
Post 53441921 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.10h):
Difference is not irrelevant:
1200.
Post 53442749 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.10h):
Call me naive, but I don't think Elon Musk is in it for the money. He's just having the time of his life, making his dreams come true and all that... I think his motivation is not so much wealth/profit, but more to innovate and make something new. I believe the world would benefit if there were more people like him out there...
I think this is exactly what drives him.
I am ashamed to admit if I had the money he had when 24, I would have retired to some exotic places or relentlessly travelling the world.
He’s instead running two of the most disruptive firm in the world working 80 hours week.
1201.
Post 53455443 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.10h):
Here you go WO gang. Fillippone is being generous and fast depleting his merits stash:
[Merits Giveaway]2019 in review. A big thanks to many forum usersOf course also appreciated merits donations to the thread to be redistributed to the posters!
1202.
Post 53463324 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.10h):
Almost 200 merits later still getting entries on this thread... sadly not many incoming merits (they might have spent all of them in the twin post by Hhampuz thread).
Running low on merits, it has been a while!
Come on WO gang! Show love to the Italian Stallion and give example to the other forum members!
1203.
Post 53467906 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.10h):
Slowly, but steadily.
#bitcoin 200 week moving average has never gone down, currently increasing at $150 (3%) per month
https://twitter.com/100trillionusd/status/1210984765739941888?s=21
1204.
Post 53482795 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.10h):
I think Plan B answered this paradox many times
In my thread
Stock To Flow Model: Modeling Bitcoin's Value with Scarcity there are a few hints about this:
Q2.
“Oh, is the halving priced in?” and I think this does speak on where you stand on other debates; for example, the efficient market hypothesis. So, as an Austrian, and even Saifedean himself I think has made a similar comment on this saying, “Look, knowledge is not given to everyone equally, and so we should not anticipate that what might be called the strong form of the EMH, or even perhaps the weak form of the EMH, is not a good way to think about things,” but then there are others from the Chicago School and other schools of thought that may believe in that more. Where do you side on that?
PlanB: That’s a very interesting point. Actually, that’s one of my first charts, the halving chart with the color overlay; it shows the Bitcoin price with the months until the next halving; and you can clearly see from that chart that the halving is not priced in, or at least was not priced in the last two times. So, my best guess would be it is not priced in now, next halving May 2020, but the efficient market hypothesis. It’s kind of weird. It should be priced in, of course. In fact, I’m a big believer of the efficient market hypothesis, or at least it should be used as a first starting point for most people that don’t have inside information, or specialized knowledge, or a big trading room available. The efficient market price is the best price there is, they can rely on that, and that’s especially true if markets are really big and liquid and efficient, and I think that’s true for the Bitcoin, in a sense. It’s like an $80 billion market.
SLP67
Q4
Stephan Livera: Yeah, it’s fascinating stuff. And this table that you’ve got, so you think, so just for the listeners, it’s showing the year, the halving, and the model predicted price. So as you said 50,000, 400,000, and then 3.2 million for the 2028 halving. Now, to the extent that stock-to-flow modeling works, so again caveat, this is not economic law, it’s some sort of modeling, but to the extent that the modeling works. Do you have any reflections on how many cycles we could anticipate this working for?
PlanB: Yeah, that’s also a discussion on Twitter, lots of questions about exactly this infinite value if you wish. If you follow the table, we could go all the way to 2140 when the flow is zero, when there’s no more new bitcoins, only fees. And the theoretical value how to stock to flow model would be infinite. So how can that be? And basically I think this is a very theoretical argument. And I’m a very practical guy. So if I look at the next three halvings alone. So we’re now at, say, 100, $200 billion market. Every halving this market goes 10X. So after 2020, we go to one trillion, after ‘24 we go to 10 trillion. And after ’28, so the third halving we go to a 100 trillion US dollars, hence my name, my Twitter handle.
PlanB: I think that we don’t have to wait until 2140 before the model breaks or before something breaks. I think we’ll be there sooner than we think. I think we’ll be there well, maybe 24. Somewhere between 24 and 2028 because 10 to $100 trillion Bitcoin market that’s enormous if you compare it to the US dollar for example. It has a monetary base of three trillion, and I think an M2 of about 12 or 14 trillion. So then that means that somewhere between 2024 and 2028, bitcoin is bigger than the US dollar. It basically means the US dollar will die, and we’ll be measuring things in Bitcoin.
Stephan Livera: Very bullish.
Here the image detailing what they were referring to:
Twitter linkSo there’s no such thing as 25th halving pricing in. Something is going to break before than that: either BTC or USD.
1205.
Post 53482922 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.10h):
It is interesting that he admits that the model would break sometime in the next three cycles, yet it cannot be priced in, I agree.
I am a bit confused about numbers, as what you attributed to planB is 50K, followed by 400K, followed by a VERY large number that is probably meaningless.
However, lately I saw 100K, followed by 1000K. I think that he tweaked his model later on.
also, what is interesting is the fact that we always exceed theoretical value both going up and down during oscillations, so, I guess, it is entirely possible to go to, say, 150-160K on the upside and back down to 30K on the back slope of that "mountain" in 2022-2023.
Yeah, he admits that having a bitcoin worth multi millions USD is meaningless: probably this means USD has broken as an unit of measure, losing too much value, transferring this function to bitcoin (if a bitcoin is 3 millions USD, how much is a l’iter of milk, btw?)
Yes, he tweaked the models and numbers a few times, so you might have seen slightly different numbers. Those you posted are not dramatically different. Keep in mind S2F don’t provide trading targets, but some model value around which market price can swing widely. Well, I might add the marked moved up from model 300%, but down only 50%: the model then can be considered underestimating the actual market price.
1206.
Post 53488844 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.10h):
Happy Preemptive New Years WOers !
A small competition to celebrate the ending of 2019 (and the bear season with it) and a welcome to 2020.
As always, name this landmark. It is a major global landmark. Usual rules apply: 10 merits to first person to name location. V8 is only allowed two guesses per day. More pixels added at random intervals. The full picture is identifiable as the landmark.
Rome.
1207.
Post 53488921 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.10h):
I have some merits of this last month:
In the publications on page 25711, I will grant 1 merit (1 post/user) to all who answer the question:
What will you have for dinner tonight?(I'm talking about food)
VB1 + Ms. VB1
1st Gin Tonic
After:
Iberian Ham, Raclette (Cheese) and we will finish with Seafood.
Drink:
A wine from Rioja Alavesa and Champagne to celebrate the New Year
Desserts typical of these holidays.
I wish you all a Happy New Year.
FILLIPPONE
Salmon appetizer
Tapas
Freshly baked lasagne
Very traditional Italian pork meat (typical for New Year’s Eve) + lentils (traditional also. Means money-I would be millionaire by now if true)
To drink.
Prosecco Jejo Bisol
Italian Spumante Francia corta Satin 2011 - Magnum
1208.
Post 53488930 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.10h):
I have some merits of this last month:
In the publications on page 25711, I will grant 1 merit (1 post/user) to all who answer the question:
What will you have for dinner tonight?(I'm talking about food)
VB1 + Ms. VB1
1st Gin Tonic
After:
Iberian Ham, Raclette (Cheese) and we will finish with Seafood.
Drink:
A wine from Rioja Alavesa and Champagne to celebrate the New Year
Desserts typical of these holidays.
I wish you all a Happy New Year.
Salmon appetizer
Tapas
Freshly baked lasagne
Very traditional Italian pork meat (typical for New Year’s Eve) + lentils (traditional also. Means money-I would be millionaire by now if true)
Panettone
To drink.
Prosecco Jejo Bisol
Italian Spumante Francia corta Satin 2011 - Magnum
1209.
Post 53493860 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.11h):
WO gang,
I think PlanB read the WO and thought we were confused, so he clarified:
#Bitcoin halving .. 4 months to go 🚀
IMO halving is priced in correctly and markets are efficient, in the sense that few people (10%) know, understand and believe S2F model, and most people (90%) don't know S2F, don't understand stats&math behind it, think demand is missing etc
https://twitter.com/100trillionusd/status/1212373777927081984?s=21
1210.
Post 53494814 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.11h):
Guys BPIP is back, for those of you who don’t know what it is, it was created by Vod to see where you stand in bitcointalk.org history in various categories such as -
- Most Merited
- Most Recognized
- Most Trusted
- Most Activity
It’s a fun tool any way, check it out here -
https://bpip.org/We need a WObip.org. As if the forum were WO only.
This is what I am poorly trying to do with my monthly statistic post.
1211.
Post 53497442 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.11h):
First Bitcoin 2020 record!
New ATH in Mining Difficulty!
The 304th Bitcoin mining period has started with block 610,848. ⛏ New difficulty: 13,798,783,827,516 (+6.57%)
https://twitter.com/BtcBlockBot/status/1212492491527729152?s=20New Year, new Bitcoin all time high difficulty of 13.8T.#bitcoin $btc
https://twitter.com/cryptochaindata/status/1212494467858493440?s=20
1212.
Post 53498743 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.11h):
Does it mean "justice requires weapons"? If so, it should be "armas".
It has been checked with a professor in latin at the university of Lund.
So I'm pretty sure it's correct.
EDIT: Yes it means "justice requires arms".
EDIT again: I'm starting to second guess my English, should it be "checked
by a professor?
Is it "professor
of latin?
Arma, armorum.
It’s neutral, second declension (new English word for me),
pluralia tantum (only plural form)
So yes, accusative is “arma”.
I think it is correct.
Source: myself, being forced to study this shit for 5 years.
Checked with or checked by?
If you have the sentence to the professor and he checked the thing it was checked “by” bit of you did check yourself, though it was correct and gave this sentence to a professor explaining why you think it is correct, then it is checked with.
1213.
Post 53512506 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.11h):
To anyone interested I posted a new thread, similar ot this one, about Bitcoin Options.
Everything you wanted to know about BTC options but were afraid to ask!I tried to explain Options In the most simple, yet correct terms.
Hope you enjoy it!
1214.
Post 53513940 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.11h):
It's time (again) for a Wall Observer Meta Post!
I made this post Monthly, so it will consider the merits sent during the month of December.
Consequently I had to wait for the last merit dump, that included the last day of the month.
Merit analysis based on LoyceV merit file:
http://loyce.club/Merit/merit.all.txtMerit updated to December, 31th, 2019 23:59:59 UTC
Total merits sent on WO: 35171
Monthly Merits sent on WO: 1787 (+302vs previous month)
Merited Users: 639 (+7 vs previous month)
NEW HIGH!TOP 100 WO MERIT RECEIVERS:
1.micgoossens 2208
2.Last of the V8s 1873
3.HairyMaclairy 1421
4.xhomerx10 1402
5.BobLawblaw 1058
6.JayJuanGee 965
7.Toxic2040 961
8.jojo69 959
9.LFC_Bitcoin 957
10.VB1001 857
11.infofront 848
12.d_eddie 655
13.bitserve 545
14.Torque 513
15.Paashaas 501
16.fillippone 455
17.mindrust 454
18.gentlemand 442
19.Elwar 404
20.Globb0 397
21.Lambie Slayer 381
22.Raja_MBZ 366
23.Icygreen 360
24.ivomm 345
25.kenzawak 342
26.cAPSLOCK 330
27.JimboToronto 322
28.Biodom 304
29.nutildah 302
30.kurious 301
31.goldkingcoiner 299
32.JSRAW 295
33.jbreher 294
34.mfort312 289
35.BTCMILLIONAIRE 255
36.Pamoldar 253
37.Phil_S 244
38.Rosewater Foundation 244
39.vroom 224
40.Arriemoller 218
41.Hueristic 214
42.realr0ach 207
43.Dabs 201
44.600watt 197
45.TERA2 194
46.Ibian 188
47.bones261 184
48.Kylapoiss 180
49.marcus_of_augustus 177
50.kingcolex 175
51.AlcoHoDL 174
52.Cryptotourist 168
53.LUCKMCFLY 157
54.yefi 156
55.makrospex 152
56.Wekkel 151
57.bitcoinPsycho 151
58.SuperTA 139
59.StartupAnalyst 134
60.toknormal 131
61.vapourminer 131
62.Spaceman_Spiff_Original 128
63.Bitcoinaire 126
64.serveria.com 122
65.Anon136 121
66.lightfoot 117
67.Gyrsur 111
68.sirazimuth 110
69.BinaryReign 107
70.kirreev070 107
71.BlindMayorBitcorn 107
72.Searing 106
73.STT 98
74.somac. 97
75.Cryptoqueeen 97
76.explorer 97
77.HI-TEC99 87
78.bkbirge 86
79.Majormax 84
80.DeathAngel 84
81.Totscha 75
82.P_Shep 75
83.cryptjh 68
84.pacman7331 66
85.Dunkelheit667 66
86.bitebits 65
87.Olegya199 64
88.cannycassiopeia 64
89.suchmoon 63
90.conspirosphere.tk 63
91.nanobtc 59
92.theymos 59
93.Karartma1 59
94.DaRude 58
95.crypmike 58
96.Ludwig Von 57
97.FractalUniverse 56
98.Samarkand 54
99.rolling 54
100.strawbs 54
TOP 100 WO MERIT SENDERS:
1.JayJuanGee 3125
2.BobLawblaw 2350
3.micgoossens 2291
4.LFC_Bitcoin 1500
5.infofront 1128
6.bones261 1078
7.Globb0 961
8.Last of the V8s 946
9.vapourminer 883
10.xhomerx10 816
11.jbreher 789
12.mindrust 783
13.HairyMaclairy 705
14.marcus_of_augustus 651
15.600watt 628
16.cAPSLOCK 606
17.Dabs 491
18.jojo69 471
19.Toxic2040 442
20.VB1001 442
21.Paashaas 420
22.Hueristic 372
23.Torque 365
24.fillippone 362
25.d_eddie 348
26.suchmoon 339
27.QuestionAuthority 311
28.bitserve 279
29.kurious 265
30.yefi 258
31.gentlemand 229
32.nutildah 220
33.Wekkel 212
34.Ibian 211
35.BlindMayorBitcorn 209
36.ErisDiscordia 202
37.bitebits 191
38.kenzawak 191
39.Lambie Slayer 187
40.Raja_MBZ 183
41.JimboToronto 181
42.RoomBot 180
43.Karartma1 179
44.Dunkelheit667 168
45.Gyrsur 160
46.ivomm 160
47.Pamoldar 159
48.Icygreen 159
49.explorer 155
50.Arriemoller 146
51.mfort312 145
52.ssmc2 143
53.Biodom 134
54.Majormax 132
55.kingcolex 130
56.JSRAW 127
57.goldkingcoiner 127
58.Searing 122
59.BTCMILLIONAIRE 118
60.Rosewater Foundation 116
61.edgar 115
62.P_Shep 110
63.sirazimuth 108
64.lightfoot 107
65.Phil_S 104
66.vroom 103
67.PoolMinor 101
68.xyzzy099 99
69.tonyq 87
70.DeathAngel 87
71.makrospex 86
72.julian071 86
73.Cryptotourist 86
74.Kylapoiss 82
75.conspirosphere.tk 82
76.AlcoHoDL 79
77.bitcoinPsycho 79
78.LUCKMCFLY 77
79.Elwar 77
80.criptix 74
81.RayX12 73
82.SuperTA 63
83.StartupAnalyst 61
84.Bitcoinaire 61
85.Wilhelm 59
86.serveria.com 58
87.Anon136 56
88.empowering 55
89.rolling 53
90.sammy007 50
91.Jayjay04 50
92.soullyG 49
93.Totscha 48
94.STT 48
95.somac. 48
96.FractalUniverse 48
97.mymenace 46
98.bkbirge 46
99.DaRude 46
100.MrFreeRoMan 45
TOP 100 MONTHLY WO RECEIVERS:
1.VB1001 181
2.xhomerx10 110
3.Last of the V8s 85
4.micgoossens 80
5.JayJuanGee 78
6.LUCKMCFLY 77
7.LFC_Bitcoin 72
8.Paashaas 62
9.HairyMaclairy 58
10.bitserve 52
11.fillippone 45
12.mindrust 45
13.d_eddie 43
14.Arriemoller 42
15.AlcoHoDL 41
16.ivomm 39
17.jojo69 36
18.Raja_MBZ 32
19.BobLawblaw 28
20.JSRAW 26
21.Cryptotourist 26
22.Lambie Slayer 24
23.Globb0 23
24.Icygreen 23
25.Hueristic 23
26.nutildah 22
27.P_Shep 22
28.Biodom 21
29.makrospex 21
30.dragonvslinux 21
31.gentlemand 20
32.cAPSLOCK 17
33.Elwar 15
34.Phil_S 15
35.STT 15
36.JimboToronto 12
37.Pamoldar 12
38.goldkingcoiner 11
39.Dunkelheit667 11
40.efialtis 11
41.HI-TEC99 8
42.suchmoon 7
43.DaRude 7
44.Saint-loup 7
45.infofront 6
46.jbreher 6
47.vroom 6
48.Bitcoinaire 6
49.pereira4 6
50.MERlT 6
51.marcus_of_augustus 5
52.serveria.com 5
53.sirazimuth 5
54.psycodad 5
55.kurious 4
56.Wekkel 4
57.bitcoinPsycho 4
58.StartupAnalyst 4
59.vapourminer 4
60.somac. 4
61.bkbirge 4
62.Majormax 4
63.DeathAngel 4
64.ChinkyEyes 4
65.wachtwoord 4
66.Torque 3
67.akhjob 3
68.Millionero 3
69.OROBTC 3
70.NeuroticFish 3
71.Wexlike 3
72.~Money~ 3
73.lightfoot 2
74.Searing 2
75.Totscha 2
76.Lauda 2
77._javi_ 2
78.ssmc2 2
79.Negotiation 2
80.heslo 2
81.jupiter9 2
82.BayAreaCoins 2
83.thinkbtc 2
84.BTCMILLIONAIRE 1
85.Dabs 1
86.Gyrsur 1
87.Speculatoross 1
88.Syke 1
89.smartcomet 1
90.DireWolfM14 1
91.Findingnemo 1
92.Bossian 1
93.≡║▐µ 1
94.xyzzy099 1
95.Hyperjacked 1
96.willope 1
97.CoinClarity 1
98.JL0 1
99.StephenJH 1
100.suzanne5223 1
TOP 100 MONTHLY WO SENDERS:
1.micgoossens 313
2.JayJuanGee 215
3.BobLawblaw 119
4.LFC_Bitcoin 94
5.VB1001 92
6.fillippone 81
7.vapourminer 70
8.xhomerx10 53
9.Last of the V8s 49
10.LUCKMCFLY 46
11.Globb0 40
12.mindrust 37
13.suchmoon 35
14.HairyMaclairy 33
15.Paashaas 32
16.d_eddie 27
17.bitserve 27
18.Hueristic 26
19.nutildah 26
20.Icygreen 24
21.jojo69 22
22.Arriemoller 21
23.AlcoHoDL 21
24.makrospex 20
25.ivomm 17
26.infofront 16
27.Cryptotourist 15
28.cAPSLOCK 14
29.OROBTC 13
30.Pamoldar 12
31.Biodom 12
32.jbreher 11
33.Lambie Slayer 10
34.JSRAW 10
35.sirazimuth 10
36.Dabs 7
37.JimboToronto 7
38.goldkingcoiner 7
39.vroom 6
40.Majormax 5
41.WastedLTC 5
42.Raja_MBZ 4
43.P_Shep 4
44.Bitcoinaire 4
45.HI-TEC99 4
46.BayAreaCoins 4
47.akhjob 4
48.hnbdgr 4
49.gentlemand 3
50.Wekkel 3
51.Dunkelheit667 3
52.Phil_S 3
53.DireWolfM14 3
54.efialtis 3
55.friends1980 3
56.kurious 2
57.Searing 2
58.lightfoot 2
59.DeathAngel 2
60.bitcoinPsycho 2
61.somac. 2
62.bkbirge 2
63.psycodad 2
64.Hyperjacked 2
65.jupiter9 2
66.600watt 1
67.Gyrsur 1
68.ssmc2 1
69.Elwar 1
70.criptix 1
71.StartupAnalyst 1
72.DaRude 1
73.kaicrypzen 1
74.Findingnemo 1
75._javi_ 1
76.NeuroticFish 1
77.Saint-loup 1
78.Bossian 1
79.HeRetiK 1
80.PuertoLibre 1
81.degxtra1 1
82.dragonvslinux 1
83.equipoise 1
MONTHLY sMERITS BALANCE
SMerits Balance=Received Merits/2-Sent Merits
Positive Balance means an user has been increasing sMerits on the WO thread, while negative numbers means the users has sent more merits on WO than received.
Negative numbers are possible or because he has been generous this week because he has been greedy past weeks (so only temporary imbalance), or because he has hoarded sMerits on other threads spending them on WO thread, or because he's a merit source.
TOP 20 MONTHLY NET RECEIVERS
1.Raja_MBZ 12
2.dragonvslinux 9.5
3.STT 7.5
4.gentlemand 7
5.P_Shep 7
6.Elwar 6.5
7.Phil_S 4.5
8.JSRAW 3
9.pereira4 3
10.ivomm 2.5
11.marcus_of_augustus 2.5
12.serveria.com 2.5
13.Dunkelheit667 2.5
14.DaRude 2.5
15.Saint-loup 2.5
16.efialtis 2.5
17.xhomerx10 2
18.Lambie Slayer 2
19.ChinkyEyes 2
20.wachtwoord 2
TOP 20 MONTHLY WO NET SENDERS
1.micgoossens -273
2.JayJuanGee -176
3.BobLawblaw -105
4.vapourminer -68
5.fillippone -58.5
6.LFC_Bitcoin -58
7.suchmoon -31.5
8.Globb0 -28.5
9.nutildah -15
10.mindrust -14.5
11.Hueristic -14.5
12.infofront -13
13.Icygreen -12.5
14.OROBTC -11.5
15.makrospex -9.5
16.jbreher -8
17.LUCKMCFLY -7.5
18.sirazimuth -7.5
19.Last of the V8s -6.5
20.Dabs -6.5
Well, back to normal merit circulation in the forum, and consequently here on the WO thread.
Monthly receiver chart has been topped this month by two real member of the WO gang, two true HAT's advocates.
Mic has instead dominated the monthly sender chart!
Nice to see a continuing increase of new merited members, this month posting a net (AT?)High!
TOP Merited Posts on WO:
EDIT: Next post by mic made me realise there were other posts at 50. So I had to include them.
Still fixing glitches here and there, I am using this to getting better at data management (errors are mine).
1215.
Post 53514204 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.11h):
Hi Wall Observers,
Better late than never: ****** Happy new year, the best wishes and good health in 2020!! ******
xoxo Cryptoqueeen
Time to rank up, Cryptoqueen!
1216.
Post 53514243 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.11h):
^
Lack of activity with that woman
You know how to fix that!
1217.
Post 53515718 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.11h):
<...>
I am sorry, but this one has unreliable data:
from 12/31/2014 closing at 320.19 to 12/31/2015 closing at 430.57 is ONLY 34.47% vs indicated (88.1%).
I did not bother to check other numbers.
“Don’t trust, verify”
1218.
Post 53517356 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.11h):
I slipped a place down the overall sending merit list.
Been struggling to find merit worthy stuff, or maybe lost the taste a little for the forum? I don't know.
Here, on the left, click “fillippone”, then see the posts in my signature, or click “ Show the last topics started by this person”.
You are welcome.
1219.
Post 53519782 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.11h):
#human activity#
I'm thinking about how to split 1 BTC for future use. if the price will go somewhere to the 1m level I will however be under the radar of large fiat tx monitoring (<10k EUR) by authorities if I have to transfer it to a marketplace.
I'm uncertain about to spilt 1 BTC to 1,000 (0.001) or 10,000 (0.0001) adresses and hold them on a TREZOR.
any thoughts on that from you guys?
EDIT: but I think split 1 BTC to 1,000 adresses (1,000 x 0.001) should be enough.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Address_reuse The cost is pretty low @ 1 sat per byte if you don't mind a few hours wait
courtesy of https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/fee-calculator/The cost per transaction is indeed very low now.
I am not that concerned about splitting my bitcoin stash into smaller amounts.
Coinjoin, Taproot, Dandelion and other privacy enhancing features will surely be widely available by the time I will spend my BTC.
(To the IRS guy reading this chat: this is highly hypothetical. I had bitcoins, but I lost my private keys on a boating accident).
1220.
Post 53533347 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.11h):
What's this $1k bs I'm reading this morning?
Get a grip guys, you're scaring the noobs.
<...>
Geopolitical news made investors going to buy safe investments.
Today Goldman Sachs told his client that: "Gold is a better Geopolitical hedge than Oil" and "Gold is the geopolitical hedge of last resort"
We found that spikes in geopolitical tensions lead to higher gold prices when they are severe enough to cause currency debasement (see “the geopolitical hedge of last resort”). This most often happens during wars or military escalations. Accordingly, we found that gold performed well, even controlling for real rates and dollar weakness, during the beginning of both Gulf wars and during the events of September 11, 2001. Therefore, additional escalation in US-Iranian tensions could further boost gold prices. All in all, we stick with our 3, 6 and 12m forecast of $1,600/toz but see upside risks if geopolitical tensions worsen.
We find that gold can effectively hedge against geopolitical risk if the geopolitical
event is extreme enough that it leads to some sort of currency debasement, and
especially if the gold price move is much sharper than the move in real rates or
the dollar.
So Gold is rising more than oil.
Digital Gold is raising more than physical gold.
1221.
Post 53534462 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.11h):
Nice find Mr. MicG
Wait for it...
1222.
Post 53535246 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.11h):
Yaeh,
I learnt the lessons back in 1919 when I accepted a counterfeit checque.
1223.
Post 53535327 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.11h):
What's this $1k bs I'm reading this morning?
Get a grip guys, you're scaring the noobs.
<...>
Geopolitical news made investors going to buy safe investments.
Today Goldman Sachs told his client that: "Gold is a better Geopolitical hedge than Oil" and "Gold is the geopolitical hedge of last resort"
We found that spikes in geopolitical tensions lead to higher gold prices when they are severe enough to cause currency debasement (see “the geopolitical hedge of last resort”). This most often happens during wars or military escalations. Accordingly, we found that gold performed well, even controlling for real rates and dollar weakness, during the beginning of both Gulf wars and during the events of September 11, 2001. Therefore, additional escalation in US-Iranian tensions could further boost gold prices. All in all, we stick with our 3, 6 and 12m forecast of $1,600/toz but see upside risks if geopolitical tensions worsen.
We find that gold can effectively hedge against geopolitical risk if the geopolitical
event is extreme enough that it leads to some sort of currency debasement, and
especially if the gold price move is much sharper than the move in real rates or
the dollar.
So Gold is rising more than oil.
Digital Gold is raising more than physical gold.
a few hours later:
Fresh all time highs for gold in euros.
€45,266 a kilo
https://twitter.com/JanGold_/status/1214089342626541573?s=20Also on Bloomberg:
Gold Nears Six-Year High as Mideast Tensions Spur Haven DemandGold neared a six-year high after a U.S. airstrike killed one of Iran’s most powerful generals, ratcheting up tensions in the Middle East and driving demand for havens.
Bullion rallied as much as 1.6% to $1,553.52 an ounce in the spot market, reaching the highest since September. Platinum futures briefly topped $1,000 an ounce to touch the highest since early 2018 in New York, while silver and other haven assets rose.
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Post 53536355 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.11h):
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Post 53536810 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.11h):
Hi WO Thread
Maybe somebody can help. Is there an reliable online Service where i can enter my precious/obsolete privkeys to claim BTG & BSV and withdraw for a fee? Once there was freebitcoin.com that worked reliably for BTG, but does look to not work anymore...
Would help
Thanks
Not recommending anything, but that was cryptosnake's cup of tea.
https://www.reddit.com/user/cryptosnake
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Post 53547483 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.11h):
My native language is Spanish, although I understand some English.
No problem, we have a very high respected-established member in the WO.... VB1001, probably some more but from him I’m sure ...
Also to many Dutch people
Game closes Friday, so still possible...
micgoossens, exaggerates
#nohomo
Welcome, FullNode, there are several WO members who understand Spanish, but here only english is used, you will not have problems with this.
Few rules required to participate;
-Must have at least 25 EARNED merits.
-Must have at least 50 activity
LIST CLOSES 10 JANUARY AT 12.00 CET
micgoossens tells you that
Game closes Friday, so still possible...,, this depends on your activity and the merits you get.
Rank Required activity Required merit
Brand new 0 0
Newbie 1 0
Jr Member 30 1
Member 60 10
Full Member 120 100
Sr. Member 240 250
Hero Member 480 500
Legendary Random in the range 775-1030 1000
Read these links for the activity and the merits:
Merit & new rank requirementshttps://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.0FAQ: Everything you need to know about forum 'activity, account ranks and merit https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2766177.0Sorry to be a wet blanket here, but by the Game close deadline FullNode will be still 11 activity, and he will rank to maximum 35 activity next Jan 15th.
The game requires 50 activity.
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Post 53551284 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.11h):
<snip>
Are you the owner of the halving game thread? don't worry thanks
Before your name was different?
Welcome to WO.
Yeah that was our Mic 😀
El duderino_
underscore (lowercase 'd')
was once micgoossens.
BitcoinGirl dot Club
is the handle formerly
known as Pamoldar.
Am I missing something?
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Post 53552953 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.11h):
True, but what is important is the total number of searches.
i.e. the white area below the blue line.
I think it is already bigger than 2016, luckily.
Coincidentally it has been steadily growing since March 2019, when PlanB published his article.
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Post 53554321 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.11h):
CL (Oil), XAU (Physical gold) and BTC (Digital gold)=> dumping all togheter.
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Post 53559204 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.11h):
Thanks Yoda
There, my last merit goes to Globb0, well deserved for his comic time.
Dry again.
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Post 53563042 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.11h):
I wonder which of those orange dots was Trump's guess. I did laugh at the guess that puts Iran in Hawaii or Greenland.
How many are troll answers?
To be perfectly honest, while I consider myself pretty well informed, and I could 100% identify all mainline Middle East nations, you get up into the former Soviet "inistan"s or into central Africa and I'm going to start guessing.
I wonder which of those orange dots was Trump's guess. I did laugh at the guess that puts Iran in Hawaii or Greenland.
Have a go:
http://geoscents.net/(warning: time sink)
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Post 53567835 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.11h):
Hello Wo gang.
I found a couple of nice graphs and opened a thread to discuss them:
A couple of interesting charts about ExchangesSneak peek:
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Post 53580661 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.12h):
Most of you are legends, I don't know if I fit very well here, I feel a little weird among so many veterans, being such a rookie disappoints a little.
Will I ever get over this feeling?
VB1001 was a rookie not so very long ago...Look what he accomplished now as being one of the very more respected WO-members
Everyone of us found their way into the forum and possibly in the WO thread.
Be yourself, and you’ll eventually find your unique way to be part of the game.
Long time ago I wrote something about that:
Ranking up is possible! 2000 Merits earned in less than 12 months!My 11 Hints!
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Post 53582359 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.12h):
Most of you are legends, I don't know if I fit very well here, I feel a little weird among so many veterans, being such a rookie disappoints a little.
Will I ever get over this feeling?
VB1001 was a rookie not so very long ago...Look what he accomplished now as being one of the very more respected WO-members
Everyone of us found their way into the forum and possibly in the WO thread.
Be yourself, and you’ll eventually find your unique way to be part of the game.
Long time ago I wrote something about that:
Ranking up is possible! 2000 Merits earned in less than 12 months!My 11 Hints!lol, Soon you will change the thread title again.
Ranking up is possible! 3000LOL! Well spotted my friend!
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Post 53591710 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.12h):
Gentle reminder: today Options are starting to trade at CME.
Recently they saw a surge in Open Interest on Bitcoin future, maybe something is cooking?
Bitcoin futures open interest (OI) started the first four trading days with 5.4K contracts on January 7, up 69% from year-end OI.
http://spr.ly/60181bKYp
https://twitter.com/CMEGroup/status/1215358814746300416?s=20Read more here:
Re: Everything you wanted to know about BTC options but were afraid to ask!
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Post 53593563 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.12h):
<...>
Deathcross forming again like before
Deathcross just before the halving.
Which effect will prevail?
Graph paper technique from the 80's or sound mathematic modelling?
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Post 53595213 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.12h):
Same old story.
Those graphs are very funny, but they need to be adjusted or redrawn every time.
Stock to flow model has been stable since 2012. Predicting correctly Bitcoin prices even before the first halving, without need to parameters tuning.
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Post 53596001 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.12h):
While looking at CME website hunting for informations on Bitcoin Options launch I stumbled into this:
Block Cheese futures and options are now available for trade! Learn more about the latest Dairy contract from CME Group.
http://spr.ly/60101bhJn
https://twitter.com/CMEGroup/status/1216745991484985344/photo/1Hodling cheddar is way more difficult than hodling corn!
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Post 53596420 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.12h):
Everything eatable is more difficult to HODL cause it’s going to rotten or something also I don’t waste foods so yeah indeed I will eat instead of HODL cheddar
Technically, it's called cost of carry!
Btw: I found something on the
CME website
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Post 53601435 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.12h):
CME did more BTC Options volume on Day 1 than Bakkt did today.
RIP Bakkt
Hardly knew you
Tiny bit early to judge, nonetheless gutting for
Rekkt Bakkt
Bakkt trades options eventually settling into real Bitcoins.
CME trades options eventually settling into
shitcoin US Dollars.
Difference is not trivial.
Usual self-promoting ad:
Everything you wanted to know about BTC options but were afraid to ask!
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Post 53602871 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.12h):
Interesting piece, but this "analyist" is only reminding us that volumes (number of future traded" is different from Open Interest "the number of futurs that would go into delivery, if nothing change".
I explained all here:
Everything you wanted to know about BTC futures but were afraid to ask!
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Post 53602962 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.12h):
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Post 53604312 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.12h):
There is something I love about bitcoin.
You never stop learning.
I saw the PlanB tweet, I saw it here again so i visited the website:
https://diff.cryptothis.com/I found this gem:
FUN FACT: Due to a longstanding bug in the Bitcoin source code, the time spent mining the first block in each difficulty epoch actually has no effect on the next difficulty calculation. Even if this block somehow took an entire year to mine, it would not cause the next difficulty to drop, believe it or not! The calculations on this site take this bug into account to help produce the most accurate difficulty estimate possible. For more information on this bug, please refer to this section of Andreas Antonopolous's book, Mastering Bitcoin.
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Post 53604413 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.12h):
Going the other way round: observing 8,540!
(-200 $ in two minutes!)
All is fine again.
but , still:
1 BTC=1 BTC
#thisisfine
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Post 53604794 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.12h):
Well that was fun whilst it lasted
Yeah, maybe we dip down to $82XX, but it still looks like tomorrow you'll have to pay the lucky winner.
$9000 = $50 ———> Vegeta Winner
$9000 = $xxx,xxx unrealised HODL stash gains ——-> Me
I’m happy with this
Is the number of x actually representing your BTC stash?
I recommend OPSEC here, internet is not going to forget it when corn will be in the millions.
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Post 53604945 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.12h):
/adds LFC to wrench list/
11.1 to 111.1 BTC.
Not bad for a 5$ steel chunck.
https://xkcd.com/538/
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Post 53605527 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.12h):
Wow, insane numbers! Thats like 3.33 billion per day to prop up markets while very few understand or care. This ends poorly.
Run for the exit while its still possible. BTC
Not sustainable, in the long run.
Not sustainable at all. It's like a drug for them; they use it once and just can't stop after that
This 'free' money (sometimes referred to as helicopter money) is manufacturing consent to continue the deep dive into debt from basically anyone who has an investment in anything. Their greed may result in economic enslavement for generations. The collapse of the US dollar and abandonment of it as world reserve currency is imminent, no?
No.
Someone hacked JJG account, apparently.
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Post 53606203 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.12h):
CME did more BTC Options volume on Day 1 than Bakkt did today.
RIP Bakkt
Hardly knew you
Tiny bit early to judge, nonetheless gutting for
Rekkt Bakkt
Bakkt trades options eventually settling into real Bitcoins.
CME trades options eventually settling into
shitcoin US Dollars.
Difference is not trivial.
Usual self-promoting ad:
Everything you wanted to know about BTC options but were afraid to ask!Yeah, but in practice, is it really true? Are we making a distinction without a difference?
Does BAKKT really have the bitcoins that they proclaim to have?
This is a naive question, bringing me some interesting other question, I will later try to answer.
Go for the naive part: Bakkt has the Bitcoin? YES.
How do I know? Contract specification.
When you own a future, you are constantly (well, at COB) called to margin your positions. This means that when you open a position in a future you are required to post a certain amount of cash along your position. You cannot open a position if you haven’t a big enough amount of cash in a collateral cash balance at the exchange. This amount is set by the exchange to cover the daily variation of the underlying (BTC, in this case, but this mechanism is valid for any underlying). At the end of the trading day this cash balance is adjusted to reflect the P&L of the future position: money is poured in if your future position has gone in the right direction, otherwise the exchange take from this account the daily loss (and transfer it to your counterpart). In case the residual cash balance is lower than the initial margin, you are called to refill your margins (the infamous “margin call”, or to close forced into closing the position). This means two things: firstly the exchange has no credit risk: every counterpart has a daily margining so their exposure is not too big, second the P&L is actually credited daily in the exchange, so frauds are very limited.
So, can BAKKT exit scam you? Very unlikely, as this is the opposite way this business works (also: BAKKT and maybe CME would suffer a tremendous reputation as risk putting their own existence at risk in case of a default).
The hard part in all this reasoning: is this margining all done in BTC? As per my explanation it should. But I don’t remember anything like that in the product specification. I will check later, when real life settles a little bit.
I am going also to put this answer in
my futures related thread, as it is a point I would have liked to cover, but I actually didn’t.
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Post 53607230 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.12h):
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Post 53612821 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.12h):
VEGETA GAME !!!!!!$50 worth of BTC to one winnerRight, we’ve been under $9,000 for quite a while now. I think it’s time to
PLAY ANOTHER GAME !!!!!!!!Ok, this time I’m going to be clear on two rules -
1.) When the price crosses $9,000 on
BITSTAMP you must post a Vegeta meme
2.) I also want a screenshot of the
BTC price from
BITSTAMP to prove it’s over $9,000
**If you post a meme but no screenshot - No win**
**You must post a Vegeta meme & the Bitstamp screenshot so I can verify the time of your post against when the price went over $9,000**
Thanks & good luck!
Will we finally see this guy today?
Observing $8,800
Edit -$8,857
Only traded price above 9,000 counts. I will screenshot that.
Asking confirmation from gamekeeper LFC_Bitcoin.
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Post 53613522 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.12h):
5 Merit’s available for the first poster to help me confirm 100% the exact time the price crosses $9,000 on Bitstamp.
I want to be precise & exact on who the winner is.
Thanks.
Easy.
The screenshot must included traded price.
Like this one (not that I have been training for this).
In any case this also prevent image photoshopping.
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Post 53616724 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.12h):
https://twitter.com/apompliano?lang=enRumors are circulating that the Fed is going to announce an effort to digitize the dollar this week.
This would be similar to China's effort to digitize the yuan.
IF true, bullish or bearish short term?
Meh.
The dollar looks pretty digitised to me.
The FED can print billions of dollars by a single mouse click.
The point is not “digitised”, the point is “decentralised”.
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Post 53618499 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.12h):
I'm ready.
Warning - while you were typing 293 new replies have been posted. You may wish to review your post.Sorry, no cake this time.
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Post 53621728 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.12h):
This is big:
A new Bitcoin boom?Grayscale reports record crypto investments for 2019Digital currency manager Grayscale took in $607 million of investments in 2019, an amount that outstripped its collective inflows of the previous five years.
From their report:
Most significant asset raising year in Grayscale’s history: Investment for FY19, totaled $607.7 million, surpassed combined investment into all Grayscale’s products from 2013 through 2018.
Largest quarterly investment to Grayscale® Bitcoin Trust ever: With $193.8 in 4Q19, investment into Grayscale Bitcoin Trust exceeded the $171.7 million in investment raised in 3Q19.
The current situation is this one:
Please note the relative size of Bitcoin Investments comparet to shitcoins.
So back of the envelope calculations:
USD 607 millions@BTCUSD8,000 means roughly 75,000 bitcoins were bought this year.
After the halving each year 6.25*24*365 Bitcoins will be mined.
This means Greyscale alone will buy more than 20% of Bitcoins.
How cannot be bullish?
This is Stock to Flow in full power!
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Post 53622609 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.12h):
Roachy your Nazi graffiti still needs some work bro
London, Tower Hill Tube station!
District Line Train.
Sorry, I miss the WO misterious location game.
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Post 53623418 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.12h):
<...>
So back of the envelope calculations:
USD 607 millions@BTCUSD8,000 means roughly 75,000 bitcoins were bought this year.
After the halving each year 6.25*24*365 Bitcoins will be mined.
This means Greyscale alone more than 20% of Bitcoins.
How cannot be bullish?
This is Stock to Flow in full power!
<...>
Maths are hard
6.25*6*24*365
but yeah the point stands. Can't wait till ETF
Maths are hard, typing harder: the calculations are right, the typing is wrong.
6.25*6*24*365=328,500
75,000/328,500=23%
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Post 53624574 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.12h):
Pretty accurate indeed.
Actually more accurate if not only banks could print notes out of thin air, but also tax players to finance herself.
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Post 53624668 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.12h):
Pretty accurate indeed.
Actually more accurate if not only banks could print notes out of thin air, but also tax players to finance herself.
Hahahaha, it's actually A THING too! Square four if I remember correctly, used to mess me up quite badly because you sometimes step on it straight after passing GO square and have to give back the money you made for going full circle lol
I wish I were taxed 10% on my income. I would actually pay money to be taxed 10%!
Even if that looks like more to a wealth tax rather than income tax. In case 10% is yuge!
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Post 53627242 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.12h):
Close, but not cigars.
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Post 53628281 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.12h):
It I was running mic’s game there would be ONE winner
When it's split of a second then it's hard to decide but I am blown away with your move of making both of them winners. This is next level.
Nobody won!
- ivomm's
original post had no price, and when he added it, the price said $8983.93
- Alcohodl's price reads exactly $9000.00
Nobody actually posted while the price was
above $9000.
The gun has been jumped IMHO.
You are in denial.
LFC clearly stated who the winners are.
It's a pity for me, as IF I were in front of the screen at that time I wouldn't have screenshotted the thing.
But I wasn't there in those crucial moments.
I have been actively training to capture the screen, post in imugur, paste in a draft well prepared and post it. Fine tuning workstream and muscle memory got me under 15 second for all the process.
BUT I wasn't there at the moment. DAMN REAL LIFE!
Thanks to LFC for the good moments I had, for the fun, and I sincerely hope this is the last Vegeta contest. No further chance to buy below 9,000 (well, we are below right now, but you know what I mean).
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Post 53631346 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.12h):
Bitcoin Halving — Everything You Need to Know.The first Bitcoin Halving spurred 13,378% growth in Bitcoin’s price whereas the second Bitcoin Halving spurred a 12,160% rally.
A 12,160% rally from Bitcoin’s mid-December 2018 bear market bottom of $3,150 would result in a ~$385,000 Bitcoin.
By the same token a 13,378% rally would lead to a ~$425,000 Bitcoin.
A $385,000 Bitcoin is very interesting because that would mean that Bitcoin’s Market Cap (i.e. $189 billion as of this writing) will have eclipsed the current Market Cap of Gold (i.e. $7.8 trillion).
This occurrence would truly cement Bitcoin’s status as a “Digital Gold.”
This medium article is crap.
Iy does explain
how something happened, but not
why this happened.
As it don't explain why it happened I don't know anything if it is going to happen again.
It's like driving on a mountain road and saying: mhh I had a 180 turn 4 km ago, and a 150 turn 2 km ago, so probably I am going to turn 120 degrees now.
(Yes, I like comparing AT to driving looking at the rearview mirror).
I prefer a sound model.
A sound model in my opinion is the S2M model (
Stock To Flow Model: Modeling Bitcoin's Value with Scarcity) (warning Roachie triggered here)
A model tries to explain the reality, not only describe it.
Of course it is a model, and you have to take care: models abide to reality, not the other way round. So take care when trading on models.
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Post 53633683 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.12h):
Another hit from PlanB!
Very interesting. And answering one of the most common question: why Bitcoin is still at Vegeta level if it is going to be worth in the million in a few years?
Efficient Market Hypothesis and Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow Model
Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow (S2F) model was published in March 2019 [1]. The model has been well received by bitcoiners and investors. Many analysts have verified the cointegrated S2F model and confirmed bitcoin price predictions [2][3][4].
The S2F model also received critique. The best steel man argument against the model comes from the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH). The argument states that the model is based on publicly available information (S2F, bitcoin's supply trajectory) and therefore the analysis and conclusion must be already priced in.
In this article I share my point of view on S2F model and EMH. I analyze arbitrage opportunities, risk & return model and derivatives markets.
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Post 53650305 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.12h):
Lol of the day:
Ridiculous: Peter Schiff Lost Access To His Bitcoin Holdings
The popular economist and well-known nocoiner, Peter Schiff, has said that he’s lost all of his bitcoins because of a forgotten software. He took his rant to Twitter, outlining that the lost bitcoin has no market value, on top of having no intrinsic value as well.
From Twitter:
I just lost all the #Bitcoin I have ever owned. My wallet got corrupted somehow and my password is no longer valid. So now not only is my Bitcoin intrinsically worthless; it has no market value either. I knew owning Bitcoin was a bad idea, I just never realized it was this bad!
https://twitter.com/peterschiff/status/1218911797626847234?s=21I had a boating accident, someone else had a kebab incident... he had a software accident!
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Post 53651294 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.12h):
Serves that douchebag fiat paper shill right..
I agree with description, but wallet management is tough, especially if you did not use the wallet for a few years.
We think that we remember/record everything right, but sometimes we make mistakes (especially if trying to memorize something).
Memory plays games from time to time.
Anyone who is interested in getting into BTC should get a hardware wallet and follow the instructions. Schiff wouldn't have had to tweet that if he had.
I dunno. If he can't retain a single password, how is he going to retain a 24-word recovery phrase?
exactly. 24 words written on the enclosed paper...someone was recently checking the wallet, left it on desktop....cleaning lady was vacuuming, piece of paper flew down on the floor, she puts it in trash. Several days later.."where is that very important piece of paper that I left right here?
"I dunno, mister, I clean".
After the boatin’ accident and the kebab incident, we now have the vacuum incident
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Post 53657529 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.13h):
Bitcoin Price Matches Stock-to-Flow Forecast as $100K Halving NearsBitcoin (BTC) now almost perfectly aligns with the historically accurate price chart, which has charted its growth from pennies to digital gold.
According to data from Digitalik, a resource that monitors Bitcoin's position relative to the Stock-to-Flow model, as of Jan. 20, BTC/USD is exactly where it should be.
$8.6K Bitcoin sticks rigidly to forecasts
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-price-matches-stock-to-flow-forecast-as-100k-halving-nearsThis is pure coincidence.
Stock to flow model has never been meant to be used like this.
So, good to write a nice 200 word article, but not for trading.
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Post 53659596 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.13h):
I have been to a local Bitcoin meet-up this evening.
Host/Valet: Giacomo Zucco
Special Guest: Saifedean Ammous.
I think you know the guy.
Best quote of the night:
“The most subversive thing you can to with bitcoin is saving”
❤️
#nohomoThat was great!
Edit: the concept has been told a few times:
"The only crime you should do with Bitcoin is saving and that's the most powerful of the crimes"
@saifedean
https://twitter.com/mir_btc/status/1219341317500821505?s=21
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Post 53661840 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.13h):
Good morning WO's, Indeed it is over $9000 looking at 9155 and climbing. This is fine.
Tet is coming soon and the karaoke parties are starting. I'm expecting prices to follow the celebrations of the next 10 days.
Friends and atmosphere all in place. Here's a shot of our back yard currently. Any sleuths out there find this? Shouldn't be terribly difficult.
My guess is Vietnam too.
Tossing at Phantom Rang (no clue why... just hinting because of kites in the background and googled kite destinations in Vietnam and liked the name).
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Post 53662250 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.13h):
Damn real life pulling me away from WO thread!
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Post 53662766 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.13h):
I have been to a local Bitcoin meet-up this evening.
Host/Valet: Giacomo Zucco
Special Guest: Saifedean Ammous.
I think you know the guy.
Best quote of the night:
“The most subsersive thing you can to with bitcoin is saving”
❤️
#nohomoThat was great!
Edit: the concept has been told a few times:
"The only crime you should do with Bitcoin is saving and that's the most powerful of the crimes"
@saifedean
https://twitter.com/mir_btc/status/1219341317500821505?s=21
via Imgflip Meme GeneratorI hope you learned the importance of always having a stash of those at home.... to share with newbs who are interested
One must always contribute
I
posted on the italian board my long owned copy being autographed... like the usual girl having her tit autographer by a random rockstar....
(sorry, no WO sign there).
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Post 53675815 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.13h):
I have been to a local Bitcoin meet-up this evening.
Host/Valet: Giacomo Zucco
Special Guest: Saifedean Ammous.
I think you know the guy.
Best quote of the night:
“The most subversive thing you can to with bitcoin is saving”
❤️
#nohomoThat was great!
Edit: the concept has been told a few times:
"The only crime you should do with Bitcoin is saving and that's the most powerful of the crimes"
@saifedean
https://twitter.com/mir_btc/status/1219341317500821505?s=21In case you are interested:
here you can find the slides:
The Fiat Standard - Saifedean AmmousAnd the video:
https://www.facebook.com/BlockchainEduIT/videos/867427720365144/(fast forward after Mir and other introductory talks if you don't speak Italian.Saif presentation is in English and starting around 14:00 mark)
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Post 53677291 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.13h):
Damn! 20 sat/b... deep pocket!
He really wanted next block!
/s
3 USD to move 50 millions dollars.
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Post 53682945 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.13h):
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Post 53709887 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.13h):
Dear Basketball,
From the moment
I started rolling my dad’s tube socks
And shooting imaginary
Game-winning shots
In the Great Western Forum
I knew one thing was real:
I fell in love with you.
A love so deep I gave you my all —
From my mind & body
To my spirit & soul.
As a six-year-old boy
Deeply in love with you
I never saw the end of the tunnel.
I only saw myself
Running out of one.
And so I ran.
I ran up and down every court
After every loose ball for you.
You asked for my hustle
I gave you my heart
Because it came with so much more.
I played through the sweat and hurt
Not because challenge called me
But because YOU called me.
I did everything for YOU
Because that’s what you do
When someone makes you feel as
Alive as you’ve made me feel.
You gave a six-year-old boy his Laker dream
And I’ll always love you for it.
But I can’t love you obsessively for much longer.
This season is all I have left to give.
My heart can take the pounding
My mind can handle the grind
But my body knows it’s time to say goodbye.
And that’s OK.
I’m ready to let you go.
I want you to know now
So we both can savor every moment we have left together.
The good and the bad.
We have given each other
All that we have.
And we both know, no matter what I do next
I’ll always be that kid
With the rolled up socks
Garbage can in the corner
:05 seconds on the clock
Ball in my hands.
5 … 4 … 3 … 2 … 1
Love you always,
Kobe
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Post 53710672 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.13h):
Markets just opened on the US.
Yields down 6bps.
Hk futures down 1000 points:
https://twitter.com/russian_market/status/1221581273166176256?s=21Rumour mill at full steam:
Some interstg insight on Coronavirus from local sources :
-Strong presumption that Numbers of dead/infected is underestimated by a huge factor (talk of 150k cases!)
-Talks that the disease actually started a few mths ago
-People are using roads instead of public transportation so contagion/spreadg won t stop. And if u leave in Wuhan you have to leave to buy essential items (so the measure is act counterprod) !
China tweaking/hiding data is a known fact! Beware of a “freakout” moment on mkts if the above starts to be a worry
Goodnight
This is clearly someone willing to spread some random rumor, but markets might get caught off guard.
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Post 53718765 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.13h):
this is gentlemen. love it. Clark Moody
I already knew I would die before the last Satoshi being mined.
I didn’t realise I will probably die before the last whole Bitcoin is mined.
Bitcoin will survive me.
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Post 53718921 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.13h):
Mein Got!
First Case of Coronavirus Confirmed in Germany: DPA
Tuesday, January 28, 2020 12:28 AM
By Melissa Cheok
(Bloomberg) --The first case of the coronavirus has been confirmed in Germany, according to DPA.
NOTE: U.S. Advises Citizens to Reconsider China Travel Over Virus
Source: Bloomberg
Ze Germanz!
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Post 53727074 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.13h):
Observing 9,407 on Stamp
Where else Would a WOer Observe?
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Post 53731344 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.13h):
Dear Wo'ers.
I stumbled on a very intresting thread on Twitter.
My italian friend Giacomo Zucco was triggered, so I decided to share:
[PAXOS+COINJOIN]Your privacy is a threat to exchange business?#deletepaxosTL,DR: Exchange punishing users because they do CoinJoin Rounds AFTER they withdraw their funds.
Basically you have to be really careful: everyone want to put their greasy hands on your precious coins.
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Post 53732999 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.13h):
Do we really want to send them to coinbase? I understood they've been naughty in assisting agressive nutrino chainalyasis/analytic tactics.
Genuinely curious. What _exactly_ do you think they are doing to aid chainalysis? Divulging private customer data?
First things come out of my mind:
#deletecoinbase
#deletepaxos
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Post 53733163 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.13h):
I don't deny you have some scattered facts upon which to start to build such a case. But from what I have seen your evidence, it falls woefully short of being convincing that they are involved in any nefarious activity. Got anything more conclusive?
This is more than enough for
me to use more user/privacy respectful exchanges.
I have nothing to gain from this (well, technically, if everyone do coinjoin, also my coinjoins are more secure, but this is a little bit too indirect for the immediate reasoning), I am just advocating user security.
There are not downside not using them, only upsides: hence choice is trivial.
Want to use them anyway? I do disagree, but hey, we are all grown up adults.
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Post 53734250 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.13h):
Dear Wo'ers.
I stumbled on a very intresting thread on Twitter.
My italian friend Giacomo Zucco was triggered, so I decided to share:
[PAXOS+COINJOIN]Your privacy is a threat to exchange business?#deletepaxosTL,DR: Exchange punishing users because they do CoinJoin Rounds AFTER they withdraw their funds.
Basically you have to be really careful: everyone want to put their greasy hands on your precious coins.
Well this is just
another highlight of the fact there is a fungability issue.
I think that no one can deny fungibility is the main/only issue in bitcoin protocol (forget scaling, that is bullshit).
This is why there is so much research in that direction.
Edit: fixed horrible quoting
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Post 53741645 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.13h):
pretty good
This is beautiful.
Of course you are using bitcoin on a KYC’d environment and mainstream adoption is not strictly necessary for bitcoin to succeed, but this is the answer to many arguments I had when talking about buying bitcoin with so many people.
Great!
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Post 53742858 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.14h):
Ehi!
One of us fellow WOer has just been interviewed!
https://twitter.com/staciewaleyko/status/1222940338442113024?s=12“This is called “Ogliarcy!O...G...L...I...C...H...Ogligarcy!...Something like that!”
Bitcoin fixes that, by the way.
https://twitter.com/staciewaleyko/status/1222940338442113024?s=12
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Post 53743401 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.14h):
Oh hell yeah, a bitcoin expert, oo the credibility, the exposure here we go.
Goes on to proclaim on subjects such as alien abduction and Jesus
Groan
Suspect's List:
FllipponeGlobb0P_Shep
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Post 53746829 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.14h):
*NYC HAS FIRST CORONAVIRUS CASE IN QUEENS: NY DAILY NEWS
(you read it here first)
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Post 53746897 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.14h):
Who the hell google "porn" in 2020?
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Post 53748115 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.14h):
Who the hell google "porn" in 2020?
Stallions
Stallions don't research what they are able to create.
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Post 53749718 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.14h):
So guys, this is cool;
sirazimuth just merited my Neil Peart eulogy from a couple weeks ago pushing me to
2112
merit. I'm not even sure if he planned it that way...
Whatever dude, I’m planning different
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Post 53752058 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.14h):
I am ready.
I literally can't wait.
I feel like a pupa inside her cocoon ready spring out and spread wings.
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Post 53765828 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.14h):
US Marshals Will Auction $40M in Bitcoin This MonthThe U.S. Marshals Service is auctioning nearly $40 million in bitcoin, the first such auction since the end of 2018.
The Marshals will auction "approximately" 4,040 bitcoin, worth $37.7 million at press time, according to CoinDesk's Bitcoin Price Index, to registered bidders on Feb. 18, the press release said. Potential bidders must register by Feb. 12.
"The auction will take place during a six-hour period Feb. 18. Bids will be accepted by email from pre-registered bidders only," the release said.
Bidders will also be required to make a $200,000 deposit before being able to bid. Participants who do not win their bids will receive these back.
The bitcoin will be sold in four lots, with 2,500, 1,000, 500 and 40.54069820 bitcoin each. The first three lots are further split into blocks, each with their own set number of bitcoin.
https://www.coindesk.com/us-marshals-will-auction-40m-in-bitcoin-this-monthThis is something very important because every time they auction Bitcoin is incrementally more difficult to declare it illegal.
If it were illegal they would “burn it”, like they do with seized drugs.
This is something very important regarding this aspect una common law system, way more important than any price-related issue.
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Post 53765850 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.14h):
A very nice interview to Saifedean Ammous by Mir Liponi.
https://youtu.be/75v6zaZjhGY
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Post 53766032 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.14h):
ha they want the monies
Sure they want the money.
They would like to collect the money from the drug too, but they cannot sell it.
The point is: every time they sell BTC for the money they plan amo the nail in the “Bitcoin is illegal” coffin as a law deeming bitcoin illegal would require basicall a Supreme Court pronunciation, that would be very difficult after many auctions.
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Post 53766409 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.14h):
btc slowly dropping is probably because everyone buying TSLA. I'm hodling both
Blimey!
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Post 53766448 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.14h):
btc slowly dropping is probably because everyone buying TSLA. I'm hodling both
Blimey!
what's the rumor behind, this time?
Panasonic, TSLA battery partner is making money from their partnership.
This is crucial because mean they significantly lowered their costs per Kw.
This means TSLA has a HYGE advantage over competitor.
(Bloomberg) --Tesla Inc.’s shares rallied for a fifth day Monday, adding more than $100 per share, as a torrent of good news further boosted investor sentiment.
The stock rose as much as 21% to $786.14, its highest price ever, and the stock’s best intraday gain since May 2013.
Earlier today, Panasonic Corp., which makes batteries for Tesla at its jointly operated battery plant in Nevada, said the business turned profitable in the quarter ended Dec. 31. The rapid increase in Tesla’s output helped push that business into the black, Panasonic Chief Financial Officer Hirokazu Umeda told reporters in Tokyo on Monday, declining to give specific figures.
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Post 53771677 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.14h):
btc slowly dropping is probably because everyone buying TSLA. I'm hodling both
Blimey!
what's the rumor behind, this time?
Panasonic, TSLA battery partner is making money from their partnership.
This is crucial because mean they significantly lowered their costs per Kw.
This means TSLA has a HYGE advantage over competitor.
(Bloomberg) --Tesla Inc.’s shares rallied for a fifth day Monday, adding more than $100 per share, as a torrent of good news further boosted investor sentiment.
The stock rose as much as 21% to $786.14, its highest price ever, and the stock’s best intraday gain since May 2013.
Earlier today, Panasonic Corp., which makes batteries for Tesla at its jointly operated battery plant in Nevada, said the business turned profitable in the quarter ended Dec. 31. The rapid increase in Tesla’s output helped push that business into the black, Panasonic Chief Financial Officer Hirokazu Umeda told reporters in Tokyo on Monday, declining to give specific figures.
TSLA reaches Bitcoin parity!
Tesla Reaches Bitcoin Parity, Overtakes PayPalTesla has been bitcoining, up and up since late October when its price of $250 slowly rose to $500 to then nearly double since the 30th of January to now $900.
This has given the electronic car manufacturer a market cap of circa $165 billion, around the same as that of bitcoin, and quite a bit higher than PayPal’s $140 billion and higher than that of Netflix’s $160 billion in addition to it being higher than any other car manufacturer.
Looks like it's a short squeeze.
Same thing happened to Porsche (why always aut osector stocks?) a couple of years ago.
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Post 53774283 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.14h):
Wondering how can Iowa vote for a gay?
Pressing a button, baby.
How could you have missed that detail?
The Irish PM likes his fellas too and no one there seems to mind. That traditionally hasn't been a bastion of inclusiveness until recent times.
Mhh.
I think it is different,
In Iowa it isn't technically a primary election, but a
caucus, you have to actually
stand in a designated area to support your candidate:
Each precinct divides its delegate seats among the candidates in proportion to caucus goers' votes. Participants indicate their support for a particular candidate by standing in a designated area of the caucus site (forming a preference group). An area may also be designated for undecided participants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_caucuses#Democratic_Party
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Post 53776137 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.14h):
<...>
Consensus!
Not sure this is the
corect ethimology correct etymology(*) of consensus. I think consensus is from latin cōnsēnsus, past of verb cōnsēntīre, "feel together".
Latin is a bitch.
Source: I
studied have been forced to study this nonsense for 5 years.
(*) thanks, Globb0
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Post 53776696 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.14h):
Thx for the info, nice graph....
Merit will follow after replenish
Got you covered.
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Post 53776805 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.14h):
<...>
CCMF!
Yeah, I used to play this game. Incredible how many numbered (powerful) trains are ot there!
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Post 53776933 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.14h):
Yeah, I know the thread,.....
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg52265437#msg52265437But even something like this is to complex, just something very easy ... talked through as your article just provided.... you know written a bit bigger, highlighted few lines etc a drawing here and there instead of difficult charts
I don’t have time to now open all the links in that thread and read them
A few extracts from my thread:
Bitcoin Q&A: Explain Bitcoin to my mother?Bitcoin for beginners
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Post 53783807 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.14h):
AYH now 9845... 9849.... 9853
Which one is the exchange?
Bitmex-9869
We go by Bitstamp prices here, boyo!
Really?
You mean there are other exchanges out there?
I didn't even know that! You never stop learning in the WO!
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Post 53784607 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.14h):
Billionaires Lick Their Lips As U.S. Marshals Auction Off Over 4,000 Bitcoin
- U.S. Marshals will auction off approximately $37 million worth of bitcoin on February the 18th.
- Officials could have made ten times their money if they had HODL’d the leading cryptocurrency.
- Billionaire bitcoin investor Tim Draper is likely lining up once again to bid on the auction.
This is what I would do if I were Tim Draper (who's already sitting on 40,000 BTC
- I would buy all the bitcoin
- I would declare a
boating, hacking, kebab accident - I would send all the money to a mixing service
- In your face g-men! Bitcoin fixes that!
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Post 53785404 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.14h):
This is what I would do if I were Tim Draper (who's already sitting on 40,000 BTC
- I would buy all the bitcoin
- I would declare a
boating, hacking, kebab accident - I would send all the money to a mixing service
- In your face g-men! Bitcoin fixes that!
Mixers don't work. Chain analysis companies have been able to track bitcoin through mixers for some time now.
Chain analyisis is baser do very weak heuristics.
They are applying hypotesis based on something that would never hold in a trial.
BAtching/coinjoin are best practices in using bitcoin protocol
I doubt the logic behind those analysis could really hold on a trial.
Read more here:
[PAXOS+COINJOIN]Your privacy is a threat to exchange business?#deletepaxos
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Post 53788369 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.14h):
GM WO!
Observing 9,783 USD@ stamp (are there other venues?)
Observing the first bullish chart of the day!
Mayer multiple bands about to cross to bullish range (>1,1).
LIVE: digitalik.net/btc/mayer_band…
@Bitcoin #btc BTC #crypto
https://twitter.com/digitaliknet/status/1225548392824176642See the graph in real time here:
https://digitalik.net/btc/mayer_bandsWaiting for El duderino_ Stifler gif....
Wow, my rank has just upgraded - a new hero is born
<...>
Congrats ivomm! An Hero Already fo WO gang.
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Post 53788946 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.14h):
one little question here, while everyone is expecting the pump on btc and reaching around 15k-20k why dominance is decreasing lately
doesnt it means that the promised AltSeason might be much closer than we expect
i think we are waiting for that season for around 3 years
Alt season is a good thing.
Where do you think all the huge altcoin profits end up?
Waiting alt season to dump all my residual shitcoins (very residual) and stack the last satoshis before the halvening.
When I will buy a lambo with those satoshi airdropped to me, It will be nice.
My body is ready
EDIT:
Sorry, what are we talking about?
Where is this supposed alt season? Bitcoin dominance down from 69% to 64%? Are we serious?
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Post 53789339 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.14h):
Nice site with all the metrics, thanks for sharing!
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One of the best if you like S2F and stuff.
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Post 53791106 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.14h):
nice graph,
it will be interesting how these machine will cope with new AML5 regulation in Europe.
In Italy I tested an ATM (without KYC, other installation avaliable over Europe, also in Spain) but I bet they have only weeks left before they shut down.
Comprare Bitcoin senza KYC: Bitcoin Bancomat a Milano rispettoso della Privacy
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Post 53791555 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.14h):
Total restructuring and regulation will occur when bitcoin is integrated into existing traditional ATMs installed in or owned by banks.
Reading your posts makes me wonder if we are going to be able to cash out / use our BTC when we reach $100+k / BTC, without banks and governments giving us the third degree...
No, of course the g-men will always try to put their greasy hands on your precious
But the point is: what if you won't ever need to cash out?
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Post 53802076 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.14h):
Someone is getting ready for this epic bull run:
Open interest is at historical maximum at bitfinex:
Difficulty accessing the forum as AYH: hordes of nocoiners are registering on Bitcointalk? First sign of FOMO bull run?
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Post 53805712 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.14h):
Another good one from digitalis.net
Does this chart make any sense?
It shows for every day (X axis) how many days before it closed with higher price.
https://twitter.com/digitaliknet/status/1226584183008616450?s=21Yes, it makes sense to me.
My body is ready.
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Post 53805715 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.14h):
https://www.bitcoinblockhalf.com/Reward-Drop ETA date: 12 May 2020 06:07:14
92 days to go gentlemen.
The Bitcoin block mining reward halves every 210,000 blocks, the coin reward will decrease from 12.5 to 6.25 coins.
Gentle reminder, in case anyone forgot...
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Post 53805783 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.14h):
https://www.bitcoinblockhalf.com/Reward-Drop ETA date: 12 May 2020 06:07:14
92 days to go gentlemen.
The Bitcoin block mining reward halves every 210,000 blocks, the coin reward will decrease from 12.5 to 6.25 coins.
Gentle reminder, in case anyone forgot...
You never know, some clueless NOCOINERS drop in to annoy us from time to time
Be ready for hordes of nocoiners flooding the gates of Bitcointalk.org when halving and ATH come.
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Post 53807004 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.15h):
Be ready for hordes of nocoiners flooding the gates of Bitcointalk.org when halving and ATH come.
What's the best defence against a nocoiner: burning oil, flaming arrows, a good ol' pitchfork?
(I know some nancy-boy will respond with knowledge and fine argument!)Dragonstone.
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Post 53811444 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.15h):
PlanB plays it cool:
*** Update: my 2 sats on #bitcoin price:
- 2020: btc stays above $8200 (so we are NOT dropping to $6k or $4k levels that others are predicting now)
- May 2020 halving: will be above $10k
- 2021: bull run starts after the halving and tops $100k before Dec 2021
#NotFinancialAdvice
https://twitter.com/100trillionusd/status/1226918629213499392?s=21Could have been way more bullish than that.
Probably is better to underestimate and overachieve, than the other way round.
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Post 53811586 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.15h):
Pretty much what we’ve discussed here ourselves, including the numbers there.
What do you think buddy, what’s your estimated top of this coming bull run?
I feel a little bit more bullish than that.
In mic's contest I voted for 25,000 by halving. This means ATH before halving, this is going to be a little bit stretchted seeing where are we stand right now.
However, we know how it happens: slowly at start, then all of a sudden.
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Post 53811608 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.15h):
Wait! What's the name of this coin??
Trump Could Be About To Unveil A U.S. Answer To Bitcoin To Rival China’s Digital Yuanhe U.S. has said it will do whatever it takes to keep up with China on technology—and with China poised to unveil its digital yuan project, the U.S. could be on the verge of announcing a similar answer to bitcoin.
Last week, it was reported by newswire Reuters the Trump administration will today announce a huge bump in spending for artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum research, amongst other technologies in order to keep pace with China.
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Post 53811638 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.15h):
Pretty much what we’ve discussed here ourselves, including the numbers there.
What do you think buddy, what’s your estimated top of this coming bull run?
I feel a little bit more bullish than that.
In mic's contest I voted for 25,000 by halving. This means ATH before halving, this is going to be a little bit stretchted seeing where are we stand right now.
However, we know how it happens: slowly at start, then all of a sudden.
I think I went for $10,xxx by the halving. I’m thinking $150,000 (give or take $10,000 either way) as the top of the next epic rise.
Let’s see how it plays out.
My body is ready.
(I know the Trademark is yours, but I like this catchphrase so much!)
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Post 53813061 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.15h):
I got the idea for this graph in
Investing 1$ every day in bitcoin over the last five years, but the graph I created doesn't only include the last 5 years until today. It includes
every consecutive period of 5 years in which Bitcoin had a dollar value, until yesterday.
I don't know if anyone ever made a graph like this before, but I think it adds a nice perspective.
Results:
Data source:
https://coinmetrics.io/newdata/btc.csvNote: I had to use a logarithmic scale to make the graph readable.
Details:The first 5 year period starts on July 18, 2010, when Bitcoin is valued at $0.08584. On this day, $1 buys 11.64958062
BTC.
After spending $1 on Bitcoin every day for 5 years (I used 1826 days), it's July 17 2015.
July 17, 2015 is the very first data point in the graph: the most left red and blue dots.
The last data point (the most right red and blue dots) represent the investment period that ended on February 9, 2020, and started 5 years before that date.
The obviousEarly adopters had the best bet. Nothing new here!
Investing a total of $1826 in Bitcoin, for 5 years, with a dollar per day, would have gotten you $10,000 or more at the end of your 5 years, no matter when you started!
The amount of Bitcoin you can buy using "dollar cost averaging" for 5 years in a row has continuously been declining. No exceptions!
The dollar equivalent seems to have touched a bottom at $10,000.
Investment adviceI don't do that! This graph is based on historic data, if I'd know the future, I'd be rich!
When someone asks me why I hang out in the WO, I answer with this kind of posts: a true knwoledge pearl.
In the WO thread you can find everything: from the most cheeky memes or the most obnoxious rants to competent news reporting or thoughtful analysis like this one.
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Post 53813157 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.15h):
On the bright side, with two nodes a 51% attack is not possible.
How would having 2 nodes make an attack impossible?
I think he’s jokingly referring to the impossibility of having a 51% share of 2.
Funny.
The reality is you can easily add 3 nodes and have a 60% attack.
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Post 53815553 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.15h):
More greater than the graph would be the person to offer this as a service. A 1$ a day sweep, oh boy how that could snowball
That's something you can arrange when a brick and mortar bank starts offering crypto services. Paying a dollar (okay a euro for me) per day is easy to automate, I can do it for stock, it would be great to do it for Bitcoin.
There's no point in withdrawing a dollar worth of Bitcoin per day, but twice a year would work.
When banks will start offering crypto services (
German banks will start with custody this year, but I am referring to something more sphisticated), we will be ready to o a numeraire shift from fiat to crypto.
You won't be investing fiat in BTC, you'll be disinvesting BTC from fiat.
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Post 53816575 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.15h):
New mining difficulty adjustment: another ATH!
The 307th Bitcoin mining period has started with block 616,896.
⛏ New difficulty: 15,546,745,765,529 (+0.52%)
https://twitter.com/btcblockbot/status/1227127910991060992?s=21The new high is barely noticeable on the following chart, after a couple of massive difficulty adjustments.
I think it is a remarkable feat having a positive difficulty adjustment after the closure of many mining farm due to the coronavirus desease.
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Post 53818508 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.15h):
I know guys that the price action is good, and everybody likes green dildo's (#nohomo), but Jay "do nothing" Powell is testifying at the House , and he's saying a lot of intresting things.
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Post 53818736 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.15h):
I know guys that the price action is good, and everybody likes green dildo's (#nohomo), but Jay "do nothing" Powell is testifying at the House , and he's saying a lot of intresting things.
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/yields-rise-after-powell-says-economy-is-resilient-2020-02-11"Powell's remarks had nothing new and toed the party line," said Jon Hill, U.S. rates strategist at BMO Capital Markets. "Rates are in accommodative territory. They're on hold for the foreseeable future."
If Powell said nothing new, why rates are falling off?
This technicality apart I was referring mainly to FED REPO operation,
discussed here and the advent of FED in the realm of Crytpocurrencies, the so called CBDC.
A few sentences were of utter importance:
Powell: preserving the centrality of a widely accepted currency is an enormously important thing. Whether a digital currency moves us along that path is an open question.
Powell: It’s incumbent on central banks to understand the costs, benefits and trade-offs associated with digital currencies.
Asked about a digital currency, Powell says:
“Having a single government currency at the heart of the financial system is something that has served us well.”
So the real problem with digital currencies is: USD is a World Reserve, they fear that opening to CBDC could ease the transition to Bitcoin in the main adoption.
Once BTC has gained traction on the general public, the effectiveness of their monetary policies will be greatly reduced. They will lose then one of the main leverage for the governments, and, in the end, will lose powers.
They built supercarriers and nuclear missiles to preserve their power, for sure they don't want to lose it because of a nerdish decentralized, trustless system.
They realized it and now you can smell their fear.
However, the genius is outside the lamp since 2009, the future is inevitable.
Powell: Northern European economies have moved away from cash to a remarkable degree, more so than the U.S.
Powell said many questions need to be answered before adopting digital currencies in the U.S., including cybersecurity.
This is dystopian future he's depicting. Once again is not cybersecurity what they fear, but the lack of control.
Not because it's right, but because they can.
Cashless society is dystopian slavery.
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Post 53823746 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.15h):
Ladies and gentleman,
We have an ATH!
not only in difficulty, but also on realised price:
BTC Realised price ATH@6096.37.
https://digitalik.net/btc/realized_price#Realized price is the realized market cap divided by total amount of generated coins (corrected 1Mil for "Satoshi coins").
The realised Capitalisation is the total bitcoin capitalisation using as valuation price of each coin the value at the time of his last transaction, instead of valuing them all at the last traded price like Market capitalisation.
The realized cap attempts to improve on the market cap by trying to discount coins that might be lost. Its crux is to value different part of the supplies at different prices, instead of using the daily close as market cap does.
For UXTO coins, this consists in valuing outputs at the price at the time of their creation. For example, for a UTXO currency of supply 10 and market price of $10, its market cap would be $100. But if the UTXO set is as follows:
Value
Time of creation
Price at time of creation
USD Value at time of creation
8.3 2009-02-01 $0.00 $0.00
1.2 2011-03-17 $1.00 $1.20
0.5 2018-11-15 $10.00 $5.00
Its realized cap would be $0.00 + $1.20 + $5.00 = $6.20 or 6.2% of its market cap as 83% of the supply hasn’t moved for years.
Find more about Realised Capitalisation here:
https://coinmetrics.io/realized-capitalization/
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Post 53828445 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.15h):
Good morning WO,
I just observed 10,500@Stamp,
But then some weak hands dumped and we are going the other way round.
Please disperse,
Nothing to see here.
1BTC=1BTC
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Post 53833775 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.15h):
Back from a mission on another country.
Observing 10,228 after two 10,500 rejections (10,500 and 10,500.50!)
Observing badd news from China
Hubei Adds 4,823 Cases; China Death Toll at 1,483: Virus Update
I have been scanned for temperature when landing in Italy, by two blokes wearing masks and anti contaminations suits.
On a very shitty Italian newspaper one “epidemiologist” states that 2/3 human population has concrete death risk.
I don’t know if this makes sense. I think not.
1BTC=1BTC.
My funds are safu.
I dreamt of citadels, but not like this.
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Post 53838698 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.15h):
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Post 53839118 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.15h):
<...>
Omg this thread is full of nice sweet Valentine's day memes...
#nohomo
BTC is my only true love.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
BTC the only one I hodl is you
I am going to post some insightful post and analysis later, to offset this meme posting.
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Post 53844124 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.15h):
There was an Italian that has been evacuated earlier today, just landed in Rome.
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Post 53857463 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.15h):
Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Freeeeeeee faaaaaaaaalliiiiiiiiiiiin!
Someone on the italian board made the following statement:
Mentre scrivo c'è un leggero recupero, molto "telefonato" come si dice in gergo, ovvero molto scontato... a cui potrebbe far seguito un altrettanto scalino - due... - al ribasso a partire dalle 10:00 / 13:00 ora di Roma, per accentuarsi intorno alle 15:00.
Loose translation provided by Google translate:
As I write there is a slight recovery, "well anticipated" as they say in jargon, that is very obvious ... which could be followed by an equally step - two ... - downwards starting from 10:00/13:00 Rome time, to accentuate around 15:00.
What is this sorcery?
I am sure he's not the bloke responsible for this:
Our bot just picked this up. Volatility incoming 📈📉
💵 A $5,753,286 (600.0000 BTC) deposit into #BitMEX has been confirmed at block 617782.
https://twitter.com/thetokenanalyst/status/1229406027189227523?s=20
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Post 53860402 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.15h):
One of the best video in a long time:
It seems that a bank license is a license to engage in money laundering. Is there a major US bank that has not been convicted of a felony?
Long #Bitcoin; short the banksters.
https://twitter.com/Bitcoin/status/1229499206676701184?s=20Steve Mnuchin... I must have heard this name somewhere:
Steven Mnuchin, President-elect Trump's pick for treasury secretary, failed to disclose $95 million in real estate assets to the committee tasked with reviewing his nomination, according to reports about a Democratic committee staff memo.
Mnuchin, a former banker and investor who is estimated by Bloomberg to have a net worth of more than $600 million, left properties in New York City, Southampton, N.Y., Los Angeles and Mexico out of his ethics disclosure that was initially submitted to the committee, according to the Washington Post. Mnuchin explained those omissions as a mistake due to a misunderstanding of the disclosures, which he updated.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/mnuchin-failed-to-disclose-95-million-in-assets-democratic-memo-shows
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Post 53865703 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.15h):
Godl is trading above 1,600$/oz for the first time since march 2013:
(Kitco News) - Gold prices are solidly up, hit a five-week high and are trading at session highs above $1,600.00 an ounce in late-morning action Tuesday. The yellow metal is catching a good safe-haven bid as the U.S. stock market is selling off and is at daily lows amid increasing concerns regarding the coronavirus outbreak significantly denting global economic growth. April gold was last up $19.40 at $1,605.90.
https://www.kitco.com/news/2020-02-18/Gold-sharply-up-at-daily-highs-above-1-600-as-U-S-stock-market-sells-off.htmlJust remember it is not the Gold going up, is the USD going down.
Like it it has been consinstently doing since 1930.
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Post 53867317 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.15h):
A nice tweet from PlanB, based on difficulty dip.
#bitcoin BTC $10k ... it's getting really interesting now
https://twitter.com/100trillionusd/status/1229828709097594881?s=21Which investment strategy would you implement?
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Post 53869816 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.15h):
Always feels good being over 10k.
82 days till the Halvening and all is well.
Imho, hashpower will likely drop, though.
As soon as difficulty catches up, halvening could be delayed a couple of days.
Difficulty is actually seen a little bit softer next adjustment.
Next difficulty
Current difficulty: 15,546,745,765,529
Next difficulty estimate: 15,398,946,448,254 -0.95%
Estimated change time: March 04, 2020 15:07
Estimated time left: 14 days
https://data.bitcoinity.org/bitcoin/difficulty/30d?t=lI think it could be related to coronavirus lockdowns forcing a few mining farm to shut down their operatios.
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Post 53871517 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.15h):
Gentle reminder of the #deletecoinbase campaign.
Coinbase is just the Governemnt arm into crypto.
Take your own precautions while dealing with them.
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Post 53871822 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.15h):
Good morning, being above 10,000 looks good.
They say the same as us, but they go into more details.
ergo, JJG is female.
Ha, ha, ha,
"touched"jjg is another level:
via Imgflip Meme Generator
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Post 53875792 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.15h):
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Post 53878367 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.15h):
I know somebody who has used Kraken to cash out large sums & he’s had no problems.
We should get ready for the glorious cashout day which is coming soonish so any hints on where to do it safe, fast and efficient are welcome! Exchanges? OTC? Anything else?
OTC is supposed to be the best, speak to gentlemand.
I guess that any exchange who has been in the business for many years cannot completely suck. (thinking about bitstamp/kraken/the rock trading).
All the suckers have already been hacked/spoiled/gone bust in the past years.
Chinese are used to refuse to take insurances from companies younger than 200 years. Guess why: survivorship bias.
I think 7 years in crypto is the equialent of 200 years on fiat.
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Post 53881726 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.15h):
Good Morning WO gang!
Observing corn @9647
Observing people around you going bonkers because of first COVID-19 contagion at 60km from where they (we) live.
A few of details of this story are actually scary:
- The infected person never travelled to China
- The invected person ate a pizza one month ago (forget 14 days incubation period then) with a colleague of his who was back from China
- That particular person has no symptoms and tested negative to every check.
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Post 53882012 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.16h):
Good Morning WO gang!
Observing corn @9647
Observing people around you going bonkers because of first COVID-19 contagion at 60km from where they (we) live.
A few of details of this story are actually scary:
- The infected person never travelled to China
- The invected person ate a pizza one month ago (forget 14 days incubation period then) with a colleague of his who was back from China
- That particular person has no symptoms and tested negative to every check.
Uhhhh or there is undetected community spread of the virus. How does he know he has it if he has no symptoms?
The facts are not clear actually.
Italian press is all over the case: of course now all the focus is n the virus spread.
There is the guy is infected
The pregnant wife is infected
The third infected is...
...drumroll...
a friend of the couple (not better specificed whose of the two members of the couple he's closer to....)
EDIT:
SixSixteen infections right now.
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Post 53886617 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.16h):
Good Morning WO gang!
Observing corn @9647
Observing people around you going bonkers because of first COVID-19 contagion at 60km from where they (we) live.
A few of details of this story are actually scary:
- The infected person never travelled to China
- The invected person ate a pizza one month ago (forget 14 days incubation period then) with a colleague of his who was back from China
- That particular person has no symptoms and tested negative to every check.
Uhhhh or there is undetected community spread of the virus. How does he know he has it if he has no symptoms?
The facts are not clear actually.
Italian press is all over the case: of course now all the focus is n the virus spread.
There is the guy is infected
The pregnant wife is infected
The third infected is...
...drumroll...
a friend of the couple (not better specificed whose of the two members of the couple he's closer to....)
EDIT:
SixSixteen infections right now.
Well, that escalated quickly: first COVID-19 death in Italy (78 yo man)
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Post 53888666 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.16h):
A 20-year-old Chinese woman from Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, traveled 400 miles(675 km) north to Anyang where she infected five relatives, without ever showing signs of infection, Chinese scientists reported on Friday, offering new evidence that the virus can be spread asymptomatically.
[...]
All five of her relatives developed COVID-19 pneumonia, but as of Feb. 11, the young woman still had not developed any symptoms, her chest CT remained normal and she had no fever, stomach or respiratory symptoms, such as cough or sore throat.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-study/wuhan-woman-with-no-symptoms-infects-five-relatives-with-coronavirus-study-idUSKBN20G00JItaly has now two deaths.
Apparently the first infected had no symptoms. And now is negative to every test.
People here are panicking.
This means people are over reacting to rational risks.
Of course this has layered implication, even on the economic side of the story.
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Post 53888762 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.16h):
A 20-year-old Chinese woman from Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, traveled 400 miles(675 km) north to Anyang where she infected five relatives, without ever showing signs of infection, Chinese scientists reported on Friday, offering new evidence that the virus can be spread asymptomatically.
[...]
All five of her relatives developed COVID-19 pneumonia, but as of Feb. 11, the young woman still had not developed any symptoms, her chest CT remained normal and she had no fever, stomach or respiratory symptoms, such as cough or sore throat.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-study/wuhan-woman-with-no-symptoms-infects-five-relatives-with-coronavirus-study-idUSKBN20G00JItaly has now two deaths.
Apparently the first infected had no symptoms. And now is negative to every test.
People here are panicking.
This means people are over reacting to rational risks.
Of course this has layered implication, even on the economic side of the story.
Have been reading it this morning about Italy and some villages/cities on lockdown... Is that for real?
Yes.
Forget the lockdown you saw in China, but yes, some villages are on “limited lockdown”.
I think it is a more “strong moral suasion” to stay at home rather than a true ban (in Italy we have laws, contrary to China).
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Post 53889111 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.16h):
Have been reading it this morning about Italy and some villages/cities on lockdown... Is that for real?
Yes.
Forget the lockdown you saw in China, but yes, some villages are on “limited lockdown”.
I think it is a more “strong moral suasion” to stay at home rather than a true ban (in Italy we have laws, contrary to China).
BREAKING: Italy orders mass closures after #coronavirus cases quadruple. Officials ordered schools, public buildings, restaurants and coffee shops to close. The emergency measures come as a cluster of new COVID19 infections emerged, including some who had not been to China (DW)
https://twitter.com/howroute/status/1230970101828071430?s=20True. But limited to
some of the villages.
I don’t know if it happened also elsewhere, but situation is quickly escalating and I see (read) panick in the streets.
Trains being blocked, Chinese people being attacked and beaten on the streets.
Link in Italian:
https://www.quotidiano.net/cronaca/coronavirus-psicosi-torino-1.5041421
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Post 53891972 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.16h):
Have been reading it this morning about Italy and some villages/cities on lockdown... Is that for real?
Yes.
Forget the lockdown you saw in China, but yes, some villages are on “limited lockdown”.
I think it is a more “strong moral suasion” to stay at home rather than a true ban (in Italy we have laws, contrary to China).
BREAKING: Italy orders mass closures after #coronavirus cases quadruple. Officials ordered schools, public buildings, restaurants and coffee shops to close. The emergency measures come as a cluster of new COVID19 infections emerged, including some who had not been to China (DW)
https://twitter.com/howroute/status/1230970101828071430?s=20True. But limited to
some of the villages.
I don’t know if it happened also elsewhere, but situation is quickly escalating and I see (read) panick in the streets.
Trains being blocked, Chinese people being attacked and beaten on the streets.
Link in Italian:
https://www.quotidiano.net/cronaca/coronavirus-psicosi-torino-1.5041421Covid19 at the gates?
Venetia is not far from my home, and there are carneval events until mid next week with many north-italian visitors taking place.
Mankind is still too dumb to control an outbreak this big. I bet this will shake the economies quite intensively in the near future.
Covid19 inside the gate.
Government is actually locking down 50,000 people in the infection cluster.
They are issuing special restrictive laws.
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Post 53906211 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.16h):
Hello guys.
Been very busy IRL.
Observing 1BTC=1 BTC
Observing 1BTC=9,600?USD
Observing 7th COVID death in Italy.
I think I am not loosening my opsec too much if I say I live in one of the affected areas (not the military locked down “red zones”, luckily).
This is a picture from a local supermarket:
(Yellow things is due to poor white balancing post processing).
Very little time for the forum, WO is merciless and I am lagging behind more and more pages.
Posting here one of the few positive tweets from today:
The fact that #bitcoin price and stock-to-flow are co-integrated is IMO an indication that btc is a Veblen good (i.e. a good for which demand increases as price increases).
https://twitter.com/100trillionusd/status/1231990186353012738?s=21
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Post 53907019 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.16h):
Wow! It looks like it was a violent affair as well. Is that blood on the shelving?
Yes.
But
[plot twist]
Those shelves are for fresh meat, so probably nothing too violent, but a broken wrapping that let a few steak out...
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Post 53912652 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.16h):
Not sure if this was shared here before, but even if it was, it deserves to be shared again:
Not willing to defend anyone here, but 1,000 points when Dow Joans is at 20,000 (feb ‘15) are equal to 1,500 points when Dow Joans is at 30,000 (feb ‘20).
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Post 53914940 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.16h):
I am travelling right now
(Yes, travelling in CoronaVirus land, trying to avoid contagion).
I cannot get hold of the whole report, but looks interesting to me:
The team a @jpmorgan released a monster 74-page cryptocurrency report a few days ago.
Too long?
Here's a thread summarizing the best parts 👇
https://twitter.com/mjdibb/status/1232505570508201984
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Post 53915255 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.16h):
edit: what does that mean, that the document is watermarked? should I expect the Spanich Inquisition?
No, but you exposed the fact that the user written in that document broke the content licensing with J.P. Morgan and sent the document to people not entitled to receive it. I don’t know and I don’t care if you are that particular user. I just want you to be sure you actually saw that.
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Post 53915288 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.16h):
edit: what does that mean, that the document is watermarked? should I expect the Spanich Inquisition?
No, but you exposed the fact that the user written in that document broke the content licensing with J.P. Morgan and sent the document to people not entitled to receive it. I don’t know and I don’t care if you are that particular user. I just want you to be sure you actually saw that.
well Dibb dobbed @dliedtka in the doodoo so I guess the info is out there now
Damn I must have missed that one!
Good catch.
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Post 53915479 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.16h):
Regarding the CoronaVirus outbreak in Italy.
Why Italy?
I have a guess.
According to a
Bloomberg survey, Italy has the fourth most efficient Heath service in the world.
This Service is basically free, or prepaid via taxes if you want.
Cost control has been tightened, but still the vast burden of it is on the central state (trough local governments) who can then spend how much they want.
I think in Italy a little bit less than 9,000 people have been tested for corona virus.
Other countries haven’t disclosed this information but apparently we are in the ballpark of 7,000 for UK and less than 500 (five hundreds) for France.
So this explains why Italy had so many cases. Other countries have the same percentages with CoronaVirus, yet they don’t know, yet.
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Post 53916240 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.16h):
The table of contents doesn't contain a single instance of the word "bitcoin".
Mentioned twice in the “executive summary”.
You are an executive of WO inc., aren’t you?
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Post 53916923 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.16h):
Regarding the CoronaVirus outbreak in Italy.
Why Italy?
I have a guess.
According to a
Bloomberg survey, Italy has the fourth most efficient Heath service in the world.
This Service is basically free, or prepaid via taxes if you want.
Cost control has been tightened, but still the vast burden of it is on the central state (trough local governments) who can then spend how much they want.
I think in Italy a little bit less than 9,000 people have been tested for corona virus.
Other countries haven’t disclosed this information but apparently we are in the ballpark of 7,000 for UK and less than 500 (five hundreds) for France.
So this explains why Italy had so many cases. Other countries have the same percentages with CoronaVirus, yet they don’t know, yet.
Maybe, but maybe it is just because the textile industry in the north or Italy relies heavily on illegal Chinese workers. Rumours are one of these brought a gift from his/her trip home for CNY back to Italy.
Never heard of this theory.
The lockdown villages are quite far from those zones (northern Tuscany in particular), where a lot of Chinese workforce is utilised in the fashion (rather than textile) industry.
If that where true the virus would have spread from airports and or those zones.
So I am afraid I can dismiss that.
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Post 53917379 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.16h):
WO brothers,
I feel dirty, and traitor of the Gang.
I dismissed my hat for a mere 45 USD/week.
Sorry, something changed in Fillippone life and I need to keep staking sats!
I will wear back the hat on every possible occasion.
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Post 53917591 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.16h):
Buying more Bitcoin is more important than a hat. Carry on.
Money is money brah!
You’re a great addition to the community & life needs money. Don’t feel any shake, stack sats & enjoy
Thank you guys!
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Post 53917798 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.16h):
1BTC=1BTC
PlanB reassure all of us!
Please disperse, nothing to see here:
Drunk and dog seem to stay very close to eachother approaching May 2020 #bitcoin halving.
s2f.hamal.nl/s2fcharts.html
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Post 53919321 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.16h):
Just sent some Sats for consolidation to an exchange via SegWit from Electrum with slider set at lowest fee (5.1 sat/b) and i got notified by the exchange about the deposit almost instantly.
NICE!!!
Glad you had a successful confirmation of your transaction.
Just be aware Electrum is not optimal at estimating the fees.
Better to use tools like
whatthefee.io or
https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/ to determine the right fees level for you.
Check here if you don’t know how to manually set the fees:
Topic: Bitcoin Transaction Fees - Everything in one
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Post 53920310 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.16h):
Square earning call underway.
This is a nice roundup:
Square sold over half a billion dollars worth of bitcoin in 2019, outpacing broader crypto exchange volume growth in Q4One piece of information is really important:
Square 4Q earnings saw $178 million worth of bitcoin sold in the quarter, up ~20% from last quarter and 240% year over year
They are buying more and more bitcoins.
Couple it with bitcoin halving, and the outcome is bullish af.
Bitcoin 90 days moving average: 8,400
Number of bitcoin bought: 178,000,000/8,400= 21,200
Bitcoin mined every quarter= 12.5*6*24*90=162,000
So Square bought the equivalent of 13% of total mined bitcoins.
If growth is flat over the next 2 quarters, this is going to be 26% of total mined bitcoins after the halving.
Of course this is not meaning that Square is going too buy freshly minted bitcoin only, but that there will be a massive force in the buy side. Squre is probably going to buy these coins OTC from whales, helping a redistribution of UTXO from early investors to latest investors.
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Post 53927760 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.17h):
Coronavirus update:
<…>
Italy and Iran looking scary..
Iran looking scary to me: higher than 10% mortality rate.
Either the virus has mutated in Iran, and now it is more deadly than ever or Iranian authorities are downmarking infected numbers.
Scary on both ways
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Post 53929109 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.17h):
Gentle reminder: today is CME future expiry with record high open interest.
Brace yourself for conspiracy theories.
CME Bitcoin futures (BTC) open interest reached a record high of over 6.6K contracts on February 19 and nearly 300 new trading accounts were added this year, as of February 24. spr.ly/60111mlhf
https://twitter.com/cmegroup/status/1232695237245620225?s=21
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Post 53930107 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.17h):
Good point.
Bitcoin has been UNCORRELATED to other asset classes.
If stocks drop, this does not mean Bitcoin has to pump. If gold prices climb, this does not mean Bitcoin will rise with it everytime.
Not negative or positive. UNcorrelated.
Narratives will come & go.
Source:
https://twitter.com/VentureCoinist/status/1232671637130088449Totally agree with the above tweet.
Digital gold, or “anti-fragile” asset class are still narrative, not corroborated by numbers.
Positive fact:
We are still early in the adoption cycle: staking sats is still a good idea!
Fun fact.
If digital gold narrative gets traction, actually the correlation with gold would be negative. If bitcoin would prove a reliable store of value, then price of gold would drop to the “intrinsic” or industrial value, being the price stripped of the financial value. I suspect this would also happen also to other asset classes (like real estate, I guess)
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Post 53935422 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.17h):
Those WO’s get everywhere.....
Fleeing from Coronavirus led me here:
But I am ready to to go back to Coronavirus-land tomorrow.
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Post 53937775 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.17h):
Very interesting.
I think I can play bingo reading any random Italian newspaper.
Any hint of this in the WO?
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Post 53939622 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.17h):
There are 6 confirmed cases of covid-19 in my neck of the woods now - all imported - 3 from China and 3 from Iran.
Don’t worry, you are going to start local production very soon.
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Post 53939919 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.17h):
How much of this metal is gold?
Gold stock to flow is going to be revised down!
Probably US (or anyone else) are smart enough not to bring this Gold to Earth...
<…>
Don’t worry, you are going to start local production very soon.
Could be that we all have to accept
SARS-CoV-2 Covid19 as seasonal addition
al to the flu.
This is a very distinct possibility according to some epidemiologist heard on Italian media.
Of course no one knows a fuck of this virus, this is for sure, every day is something new (latest one: dog can be infected from humans).
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Post 53940104 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.17h):
Lol this maps looks suspicious:
Italy’s number looks low to my own anecdotical experience. Might be 1 in 10 (don’t know about women anyway).
What’s wrong with Netherlands btw??
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Post 53940860 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.17h):
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Post 53943718 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.17h):
Going back to the base.
Bye bye mountain hut.
Hello COVID infected city:
Italy Cases Surge 50%; U.S., Japan Warn on Travel: Virus Update
Sunday, March 1, 2020 06:24 PM
By Bloomberg News
WHO says no pandemic; Rhode Island reports first infection
U.S., Australia, Thailand report deaths; Mideast markets slide
(Bloomberg) --Italy reported a 50% surge in new coronavirus cases as deaths reached 34 while the U.S. and Japan issued “do-not-travel” warnings for affected regions of Italy and South Korea.
Iran reported a jump in infections and 11 deaths as the World Health Organization prepared to send a larger team and the government planned a crackdown. The U.S., Australia and Thailand had fatalities.
The U.S. will speed distribution of tests to help states diagnose the illness. Middle East markets slumped as more cases were announced.
Key Developments
Iran infections almost double; cases in Spain jump
South Korea added 586 cases, taking total to 3,736 with 18 deaths
First U.S. death in Washington State as governor declares emergency
China reported 35 new deaths -- the lowest in three days
Czech Republic reports first cases
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Post 53945742 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.17h):
I am bored, more than scared, by the news on CoronaVirus.
I am in the middle of a region where this is going hyperbolic.
I have contingency plans for the most relevant persons in case things start rolling South.
I needed something a little bit light hearted.
So this is to let you knwo I wrote a little guide on how to setup a "notification machine" for the forum:
#meritislife: how to be notified on a smartband of merits and mentions Basically a guide on how to forward Giammangiato's bot notification to a smartband, so to be immediately notified of merits and mentions.
Shall I activate also for #Coronavirus twitter handle? Constant Notification nightmare?
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Post 53946771 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.17h):
I am not an expert here, but Antminer launched for general public availability a new miner recently.
They might have been using it undercover and now that's available the difficulty is deemed to rise further.
Bitmain Announces Specs for Next-gen Antminer S19 and S19 Pro Coming Soon
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Post 53956318 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.17h):
*FED CUTS BENCHMARK RATE 50 BPS, SAYS VIRUS POSES EVOLVING RISKS
wow!
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Post 53956441 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.17h):
*FED CUTS BENCHMARK RATE 50 BPS, SAYS VIRUS POSES EVOLVING RISKS
wow!
It is quite obvious now that every central bank and financial regulator will use this virus to justify their failed policies on the eve of the global financial collapse.
Yep. Time to start printing free money. For the "rich".
Ignore, trade it in for bitcoins, will be like reichmarks soon enough.
Helicopter money already deployed in HK.
AU CONTRAIRE.DO NOT IGNORE THIS.
You will be rich in FIAT money, but poor in real value.
Do you knwo any Billionaire in Bolivia? plenty of them.
Can they buy a car? Nope.
BITCOIN FIXES THAT.
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Post 53957703 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.17h):
*FED CUTS BENCHMARK RATE 50 BPS, SAYS VIRUS POSES EVOLVING RISKS
wow!
Feels sad man. Isn't btc supposed to follow gold? Gold is +3% while btc is -1%.
Honey badger doesn't give a fuck.
Good point.
Bitcoin has been UNCORRELATED to other asset classes.
If stocks drop, this does not mean Bitcoin has to pump. If gold prices climb, this does not mean Bitcoin will rise with it everytime.
Not negative or positive. UNcorrelated.
Narratives will come & go.
Source:
https://twitter.com/VentureCoinist/status/1232671637130088449Totally agree with the above tweet.
Digital gold, or “anti-fragile” asset class are still narrative, not corroborated by numbers.
Positive fact:
We are still early in the adoption cycle: staking sats is still a good idea!
Fun fact.
If digital gold narrative gets traction, actually the correlation with gold would be negative. If bitcoin would prove a reliable store of value, then price of gold would drop to the “intrinsic” or industrial value, being the price stripped of the financial value. I suspect this would also happen also to other asset classes (like real estate, I guess)
This decision is the final nail on the FED's coffin. QE and low/negative interest rates forever.
it's not by chance that it's Called "QE4Ever".
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Post 53957787 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.17h):
You are in trouble when you were supposed to go out for your usual futsal match with your friends....
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Post 53963628 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.17h):
TLDR: Its just the Flu x 4 bro, and its hella bullish bc money printers are in hysteria right now.
Nah,
just explain quickly why.
Talking about positive cases.
50% are asyntomatic or low symptoms, cure at home, quarantine.
50% need hospitalisation.
25% (50% of previous 50%) need intensive care.
more or less 3% of total infected eventually die (5% of previous intensive care patient).
Now, think what happens if the positive cases skyrocket to a certain number, let's say HALF of the number of people normally infected by a regular flu.
What is the supply of intensive care beds?
What happens when we will be at full capacity?
Mortality rate will rise. Also because people need intensive care also for other reasons than Coronavirus.
Also, hospital procedures are slowed donw by quarantine/extra security needed whil dealing for CoVid19 profilax.
This is the dangerous aspect of COVID19, not the mortality rate per se.
SOURCE:
It is already happening, here in Italy.
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Post 53963852 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.17h):
SOURCE:
It is already happening, here in Italy.
Italy closing all schools and universities across the country and is set to close cinemas and theatres and ban public events across the whole country.
Decision will be decided in the next few hours.
Guys I am not kidding, the city where I live (does opsec means anything at this stage?) is looking like a big "28 Days Later" set.
No school
Work from home
Empty Restaurats
Empty Bars (unbelievable for an italian not to be able to drink a coffe standing at the bar counter)
No cinema
No gyms
Serie A matches being played with closed doors.
Do you watch Basketball? Armani Milano played vs Barcelona in an empty stadium, surreal.
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Post 53966268 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.17h):
Not to put too fine a point on it, but if you don’t have medical insurance in the US, the cost of a Coronavirus test is $3,200.
Poor people who can’t afford health insurance aren’t going to get tested in the USA.
Healthcare in italy is free for everyone (actually it is not free, it's prepaid via general taxation).
One of those times that make me understand how it's difficult to understand US citizen when we live in such different environment.
On a lighter note:
Do you remember my picture of emptied shelves? It's now thing of the past.
Here a pic of my local supermarket store.
No one is around
Shelves stuffed as usual.
The girl told me: "They came and they raided us. Nothing happened, we resupplied and not now one is around because they have tons of food to eat."
Fillippone bought his pasta with no one around.
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Post 53976527 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.17h):
If Bloomberg bought bitcoin instead of spending money on his campaign he could have given everyone in the world 21 million bitcoins.
I would have definetly voted him with 1 million upfront payment. Sorry, COVID19 is actually eating my brain.
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Post 53976814 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.17h):
Sorry, COVID19 is actually eating my brain.
Bro?
I meant the fact that I genuinely bouth the message in the tweet, without realising the very basic math error.
Also, I long time ago broke my opsec specifing I live in the middle of the italia COVID19 outbreak (not really in the red zone (military shooting to everyone trspassing), but quite close).
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Post 53977279 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.17h):
So we are officially over 100k now. Which means the real number is likely a million. And each infected infects another 6 people on average, so we are looking at an additional 6 million who will get sick in the near future. And airports are still open.
No way around it. Everyone will get infected by years end. 2020 is turning out to be a VERY interesting year in a lot of ways.
Looking forward to this being a statement about bitcoin price.
I actually read as a Bitcoin statement.
This is Bitcoin we are talking about, aren't we?
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Post 53977288 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.17h):
edit geocities lol
edit 2 @lightfoot you mentioned internet, im talking www. just puting in my recollection of the web part for others reading this..
I think I will never forget my Geocities address.
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Post 53981629 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.17h):
<...>
Dont worry GayJG, Covbull-19 is mostly hype. Just stay healthy and keep that immune system strong. Watch out for the really big text walls and arguing with anyone who speculates on a speculation thread an you'll be fine.
Good to have you back now that you have learned your lesson. Im always here to help.
I was discussing this exact point via PM with @tranthidung.
Take Italy for example:
These are the official data:
(Google Translate translation,sorry)
The situation in Italy: March 6, 2020, 6.00 p.m.
POSITIVE 3916
DECEASED 197
HEALED 523
Press conference of the Head of Civil Protection Angelo Borrelli at 6 pm on 6 March:
4636 people who contracted the virus, currently positive 3916, 197 died and 523 recovered.
Among the 3916 positives:
1060 are found in home isolation
2394 hospitalized with symptoms
462 in intensive care
SOURCE: Italian Health MinisterI am not scared by mortality rate.
I am, as my relevant persons are, well below the age where mortality rate rises significantly.
I am worried by two things:
- The impact of getting ill, specifically the fact I could be quarantined, and how this could impact my life and my closest persons' too, as they could potentially be quarantined too.
- The impact on Italian Health system. Italy has a public
free prepaid via general taxation health system (according to a Bloomberg survey it is the 4th most efficient system in the world).
Contrary to other infections, COVID develops in severe pneumonia very quickly, putting health systems at strain all of a sudden.
Now there are 462 hospitalised in ICU units, mostly in the region where I live. What happens if I get sick and there aren't ICU left? OR what happens if I have a car accident (touch wood) and I need an ICU , but there are non left because the COVID19?
This is why I am, at least a bit, scared.
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Post 53981893 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.17h):
Italy is no different than all the other countries in that they are not testing everyone they know who was in contact with the virus.
There is only one difference: in Italy there is an high percentage of elderly people: Italian has the second life expectancy in the world.
So we are vulnerable to elderly-affecting disease.
Regarding car crashes (taken as example of what can bring you to an ICU) is not sitting with an elderly in the hospital that bothers me: it that there is the concrete possibility that every ICU is already taken by them leaving none for me!
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Post 53983686 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.17h):
The situation in Italy: March 6, 2020, 6.00 p.m.
POSITIVE 3916
DECEASED 197
HEALED 523
Press conference of the Head of Civil Protection Angelo Borrelli at 6 pm on 6 March:
4636 people who contracted the virus, currently positive 3916, 197 died and 523 recovered.
Among the 3916 positives:
1060 are found in home isolation
2394 hospitalized with symptoms
462 in intensive care
SOURCE: Italian Health MinisterUPDATE:
The situation in Italy: March 7, 2020, 6.00 p.m.
POSITIVE 5061
DECEASED 233
HEALED 589
Press conference of the Head of Civil Protection Angelo Borrelli at 6 pm on 7 March:
5883 people who contracted the virus, currently positive 5061, 233 died and 589 recovered.
Among the 5061 positives:
1843 are found in home isolation
2651 hospitalized with symptoms
567 in intensive care
SOURCE: Italian Health Minister
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Post 53984010 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.17h):
It's time (again) for a Wall Observer Meta Post!
This is a Monhtly post, so it will consider the merits sent during the month of February.
Consequently I had to wait for the last merit dump, that included the last day of the month.
Merit analysis based on LoyceV merit file:
http://loyce.club/Merit/merit.all.txtMerit updated to February, 29th, 2019 23:59:59 UTC
Total merits sent on WO: 39878
Monthly Merits sent on WO: 2418 (+129 vs previous month)
Merited Users: 671 (+7 vs previous month)
TOP 100 WO MERIT RECEIVERS:
1. El duderino_ 2407
2. Last of the V8s 2070
3. xhomerx10 1583
4. HairyMaclairy 1511
5. LFC_Bitcoin 1154
6. BobLawblaw 1139
7. JayJuanGee 1120
8. jojo69 1083
9. VB1001 1002
10. Toxic2040 961
11. infofront 864
12. d_eddie 712
13. bitserve 710
14. Paashaas 659
15. mindrust 559
16. fillippone 551
17. gentlemand 527
18. Torque 526
19. Lambie Slayer 510
20. Globb0 473
21. Elwar 454
22. Icygreen 451
23. JimboToronto 414
24. Raja_MBZ 409
25. ivomm 407
26. JSRAW 366
27. cAPSLOCK 358
28. nutildah 352
29. Biodom 352
30. kurious 350
31. kenzawak 342
32. jbreher 324
33. goldkingcoiner 308
34. AlcoHoDL 298
35. LUCKMCFLY 293
36. Phil_S 291
37. mfort312 289
38. marcus_of_augustus 279
39. Pamoldar 265
40. BTCMILLIONAIRE 255
41. Cryptotourist 254
42. Hueristic 254
43. Rosewater Foundation 244
44. Arriemoller 243
45. vroom 232
46. Dabs 208
47. realr0ach 207
48. Ibian 198
49. 600watt 197
50. bones261 197
51. TERA2 194
52. bitcoinPsycho 183
53. vapourminer 181
54. Kylapoiss 180
55. kingcolex 175
56. makrospex 171
57. lightfoot 169
58. Wekkel 165
59. Gyrsur 165
60. yefi 161
61. serveria.com 148
62. bkbirge 143
63. SuperTA 139
64. Searing 137
65. StartupAnalyst 135
66. bitebits 133
67. toknormal 131
68. Bitcoinaire 129
69. Spaceman_Spiff_Original 128
70. Anon136 121
71. DaRude 116
72. sirazimuth 112
73. somac. 111
74. STT 109
75. Cryptoqueeen 109
76. BlindMayorBitcorn 107
77. kirreev070 107
78. BinaryReign 107
79. HI-TEC99 107
80. explorer 97
81. P_Shep 93
82. Majormax 93
83. DeathAngel 90
84. Olegya199 81
85. rdbase 79
86. Totscha 76
87. BitcoinNewsMagazine 75
88. dragonvslinux 73
89. Dunkelheit667 70
90. cryptjh 68
91. pacman7331 66
92. cannycassiopeia 64
93. suchmoon 63
94. conspirosphere.tk 63
95. becoin 62
96. Karartma1 61
97. theymos 59
98. nanobtc 59
99. crypmike 58
100. Ludwig Von 57
TOP 100 WO MERIT SENDERS:
1. JayJuanGee 3659
2. El duderino_ 3035
3. BobLawblaw 2523
4. LFC_Bitcoin 1781
5. infofront 1168
6. bones261 1159
7. Globb0 1155
8. vapourminer 1110
9. Last of the V8s 1034
10. marcus_of_augustus 990
11. xhomerx10 895
12. mindrust 892
13. jbreher 824
14. HairyMaclairy 730
15. 600watt 628
16. cAPSLOCK 621
17. jojo69 529
18. Dabs 501
19. VB1001 500
20. Paashaas 495
21. suchmoon 465
22. fillippone 460
23. Toxic2040 442
24. Hueristic 422
25. d_eddie 377
26. Torque 371
27. bitserve 362
28. QuestionAuthority 311
29. kurious 297
30. nutildah 286
31. yefi 260
32. Lambie Slayer 253
33. gentlemand 252
34. JimboToronto 219
35. Wekkel 217
36. Ibian 216
37. Icygreen 214
38. BlindMayorBitcorn 209
39. Raja_MBZ 208
40. ErisDiscordia 206
41. bitebits 201
42. kenzawak 191
43. ivomm 191
44. Gyrsur 186
45. RoomBot 180
46. Karartma1 180
47. Dunkelheit667 176
48. Pamoldar 168
49. Biodom 163
50. Arriemoller 158
51. explorer 155
52. JSRAW 150
53. ssmc2 148
54. mfort312 146
55. AlcoHoDL 139
56. Majormax 137
57. P_Shep 136
58. Cryptotourist 136
59. goldkingcoiner 131
60. kingcolex 130
61. lightfoot 127
62. Searing 126
63. LUCKMCFLY 124
64. makrospex 122
65. sirazimuth 122
66. BTCMILLIONAIRE 118
67. Phil_S 117
68. Rosewater Foundation 116
69. edgar 115
70. vroom 112
71. PoolMinor 101
72. DeathAngel 101
73. xyzzy099 99
74. bitcoinPsycho 93
75. julian071 90
76. tonyq 87
77. Kylapoiss 82
78. conspirosphere.tk 82
79. DaRude 81
80. Elwar 77
81. criptix 74
82. RayX12 73
83. bkbirge 73
84. serveria.com 70
85. rdbase 64
86. Bitcoinaire 64
87. SuperTA 63
88. StartupAnalyst 62
89. Wilhelm 59
90. OROBTC 57
91. Anon136 56
92. empowering 55
93. Totscha 54
94. rolling 53
95. somac. 52
96. soullyG 51
97. sammy007 50
98. Jayjay04 50
99. STT 49
100. psycodad 49
TOP 100 MONTHLY WO RECEIVERS:
1. xhomerx10 126
2. Paashaas 117
3. Last of the V8s 103
4. Lambie Slayer 95
5. marcus_of_augustus 80
6. LFC_Bitcoin 78
7. El duderino_ 74
8. jojo69 71
9. LUCKMCFLY 69
10. mindrust 66
11. AlcoHoDL 65
12. HairyMaclairy 64
13. JayJuanGee 63
14. VB1001 56
15. OutOfMemory 50
16. Icygreen 48
17. BobLawblaw 47
18. bitserve 45
19. fillippone 44
20. Cryptotourist 43
21. bitebits 43
22. bkbirge 42
23. Phil_S 41
24. gentlemand 40
25. Gyrsur 40
26. ivomm 35
27. d_eddie 32
28. JSRAW 31
29. eddie13 31
30. nutildah 29
31. Globb0 28
32. vapourminer 27
33. Raja_MBZ 26
34. lightfoot 26
35. JimboToronto 25
36. kurious 23
37. Biodom 22
38. serveria.com 21
39. BitcoinNewsMagazine 21
40. Hueristic 20
41. Searing 19
42. LoyceV 19
43. bitcoinPsycho 18
44. Olegya199 17
45. rdbase 17
46. dragonvslinux 17
47. psycodad 17
48. bones261 13
49. Torque 12
50. jbreher 12
51. Elwar 11
52. Wekkel 11
53. Ibian 10
54. goldkingcoiner 9
55. somac. 9
56. STT 9
57. DaRude 8
58. HI-TEC99 8
59. Lucius 8
60. cAPSLOCK 7
61. Majormax 7
62. Arriemoller 6
63. vroom 6
64. fluidjax 6
65. soxxx 6
66. akhjob 6
67. windjc 6
68. yslyv 6
69. Tash 6
70. rpietila 6
71. P_Shep 4
72. heslo 4
73. FullNode 4
74. Xavofat 4
75. Dabs 3
76. Dunkelheit667 3
77. becoin 3
78. julian071 3
79. smartcomet 3
80. hodl_2015 3
81. Millionero 3
82. OROBTC 3
83. ataArt 3
84. ChuckBuck 3
85. kellrobinson 3
86. ~Money~ 3
87. kro55 3
88. Pamoldar 2
89. DeathAngel 2
90. Biro Bob 2
91. NeuroticFish 2
92. plasticAiredale 2
93. manchester93 2
94. Swordsoffreedom 2
95. Jeremy Franklin 2
96. yefi 1
97. Bitcoinaire 1
98. sirazimuth 1
99. Totscha 1
100. strawbs 1
TOP 100 MONTHLY WO SENDERS:
1.El duderino_ 382
2.marcus_of_augustus 290
3.JayJuanGee 248
4.LFC_Bitcoin 120
5.vapourminer 102
6.bones261 81
7.BobLawblaw 80
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MONTHLY sMERITS BALANCE
SMerits Balance=Received Merits/2-Sent Merits
Positive Balance means an user has been increasing sMerits on the WO thread, while negative numbers means the users has sent more merits on WO than received.
Negative numbers are possible or because he has been generous this week because he has been greedy past weeks (so only temporary imbalance), or because he has hoarded sMerits on other threads spending them on WO thread, or because he's a merit source.
TOP 20 MONTHLY NET RECEIVERS
1. LUCKMCFLY 15.5
2. bitebits 15.5
3. gentlemand 13
4. jojo69 12.5
5. HairyMaclairy 11
6. Paashaas 9.5
7. Phil_S 9.5
8. LoyceV 9.5
9. dragonvslinux 8.5
10. Searing 7.5
11. Last of the V8s 6.5
12. BitcoinNewsMagazine 6.5
13. xhomerx10 6
14. Elwar 5.5
15. ivomm 5.5
16. JSRAW 5.5
17. eddie13 5.5
18. bkbirge 5
19. STT 4.5
20. Olegya199 4.5
TOP 20 MONTHLY WO NET SENDERS
1. El duderino_ -345
2. marcus_of_augustus -250
3. JayJuanGee -216.5
4. vapourminer -88.5
5. LFC_Bitcoin -81
6. suchmoon -77
7. bones261 -74.5
8. BobLawblaw -56.5
9. Globb0 -35
10. fillippone -23
11. nutildah -19.5
12. rdbase -13.5
13. kurious -11.5
14. infofront -11
15. makrospex -11
16. sirazimuth -9.5
17. Hueristic -9
18. bitserve -8.5
19. Dabs -8.5
20. DaRude -7
Solid increase in merit circulation this month on the WO thread.
Despite the the "short" month we made a record month for merits and merited users!
Definitely looking for more action in the coming months with halving approaching.
WO gang, the hat gang, still continue to top the chart of monthly received and sent merits.
Nice to see a continuing increase of merits sent to new merited members.
TOP Merited Posts on WO this month:
Still fixing glitches here and there, I am using this to getting better at data management (errors are mine).
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Post 53984139 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.17h):
LOCKDOWN IN ITALY
Rumor mill:
UPCOMING DECREE IN ITALY
The Italian government is set to impose a virtual ban on entry into the region of Lombardy and several other northern areas to contain the spread of the coronavirus, according to newspaper Corriere della Sera, citing a forthcoming decree.
The measures will also include a so-called “security zone” with provisions including suspending skiing and public events, and closing museums, swimming pools and theaters, the newspaper said.
All this until April 3rd to say the least.
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Post 53984738 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.17h):
I'm not a specialist in discussing US politics, but someone from the US please correct me if I'm getting it wrong:
Will the spreading of the coronavirus in the US benefit Sanders against Biden?
<...>
I guess they are both at risk of an high impact:
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Post 53987635 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.18h):
Saddest fact: it's like a civil war in Italy, with people living in other parts of Italy barring entry of these people fleeing from lockdown zones to be (this is actually happened just BEFORE the total lockdown of such places).
As there were a magic wall protecting them.
UPDATE:
Live update!
STREAMING FROM THE STATION WHERE TRAIN PASSENGERS FROM NORTHERN ITALY ARE TRYING TO EXIT THE TRAINS!
sad!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRU9MIdsrDQ
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Post 53990255 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.18h):
<...>
UPDATE:
The situation in Italy: March 8, 2020, 6.00 p.m.
POSITIVE 6387
DECEASED 366
HEALED 622
Press conference of the Head of Civil Protection Angelo Borrelli at 6 pm on 8 March:
7375 people who contracted the virus, currently positive 6387, 366 died and 622 recovered.
Among the 5061 positives:
2180 are found in home isolation
3557 hospitalized with symptoms
650 in intensive care
A couple of graphs I made myself on the Johns Hopkins University Database
https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19Each graph plots the number of occurrence of the appropriate case, starting from the first day when such occurrence was registered on each region.
Please note the logarithmic scale.
Now someone explain me:
- What's wrong with Italy? (More death than any other countries, considering Positives: i.e. fatality rate?
- What's wrong with Germany (Positives in line with other countries, no deaths)
- What's wrong with US/UK (Very few death considering the positives)
Fatality Rate computed for your convenience:
Region Positives Death P/D
China 80652 3070 3.81%
Italy 7375 366 4.96%
Germany 799 0 0
Spain 500 10 0.02%
US 2584 16 0.62%
UK 206 2 0.97%
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Post 53993032 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.18h):
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Post 53993967 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.18h):
All of us in January when we learned about corona virus...
https://twitter.com/panama_tj/status/1236793863127347200?s=21VIDEO ATTACHED
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Post 53994120 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.18h):
<...>
UPDATE:
The situation in Italy: March 8, 2020, 6.00 p.m.
POSITIVE 6387
DECEASED 366
HEALED 622
Press conference of the Head of Civil Protection Angelo Borrelli at 6 pm on 8 March:
7375 people who contracted the virus, currently positive 6387, 366 died and 622 recovered.
Among the 5061 positives:
2180 are found in home isolation
3557 hospitalized with symptoms
650 in intensive care
A couple of graphs I made myself on the Johns Hopkins University Database
https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19Each graph plots the number of occurrence of the appropriate case, starting from the first day when such occurrence was registered on each region.
Please note the logarithmic scale.
Now someone explain me:
- What's wrong with Italy? (More death than any other countries, considering Positives: i.e. fatality rate?
- What's wrong with Germany (Positives in line with other countries, no deaths)
- What's wrong with US/UK (Very few death considering the positives)
Fatality Rate computed for your convenience:
Region Positives Death P/D
China 80652 3070 3.81%
Italy 7375 366 4.96%
Germany 799 0 0
Spain 500 10 0.02%
US 2584 16 0.62%
UK 206 2 0.97%
*SPANISH CORONAVIRUS CASES JUMP TO 999: HEALTH MINISTRY
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Spanish Coronavirus Cases Jump to 999 from 589: Health Ministry
By Rodrigo Orihuela
(Bloomberg) -- Reported cases of coronavirus jumped to 999 as of Monday, up from 589 on March 8, according to the health ministry.
The main epicenters of the outbreak in Spain are the capital Madrid and the northern region of the Basque country, according to health ministry official Fernando Simon
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Post 53995232 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.18h):
Best part is when daddy finally runs and abandons his family.
Instant divorce reason, imho.
I read some opinion on titter today, that the dumps are caused by miners to buy rigs in advance to the halvening.
Would make quite some sense.
Can you provide a reference for this?
Would be nice to confirm honey badger doesn’t give a fuck and follows his own logic while the rest of the world routs.
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Post 53995572 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.18h):
<...>
Please note the logarithmic scale.
Now someone explain me:
- What's wrong with Italy? (More death than any other countries, considering Positives: i.e. fatality rate?
- What's wrong with Germany (Positives in line with other countries, no deaths)
- What's wrong with US/UK (Very few death considering the positives)
Fatality Rate computed for your convenience:
Region Positives Death P/D
China 80652 3070 3.81%
Italy 7375 366 4.96%
Germany 799 0 0
Spain 500 10 0.02%
US 2584 16 0.62%
UK 206 2 0.97%
*SPANISH CORONAVIRUS CASES JUMP TO 999: HEALTH MINISTR
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Spanish Coronavirus Cases Jump to 999 from 589: Health Ministry
By Rodrigo Orihuela
(Bloomberg) -- Reported cases of coronavirus jumped to 999 as of Monday, up from 589 on March 8, according to the health ministry.
The main epicenters of the outbreak in Spain are the capital Madrid and the northern region of the Basque country, according to health ministry official Fernando Simon
*GERMANY CONFIRMS FIRST DEATH FROM CORONAVIRUS: DPA
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Post 53996271 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.18h):
<...>
Please note the logarithmic scale.
Now someone explain me:
- What's wrong with Italy? (More death than any other countries, considering Positives: i.e. fatality rate?
- What's wrong with Germany (Positives in line with other countries, no deaths)
- What's wrong with US/UK (Very few death considering the positives)
Fatality Rate computed for your convenience:
Region Positives Death P/D
China 80652 3070 3.81%
Italy 7375 366 4.96%
Germany 799 0 0
Spain 500 10 0.02%
US 2584 16 0.62%
UK 206 2 0.97%
*SPANISH CORONAVIRUS CASES JUMP TO 999: HEALTH MINISTR
[/color]
Spanish Coronavirus Cases Jump to 999 from 589: Health Ministry
By Rodrigo Orihuela
(Bloomberg) -- Reported cases of coronavirus jumped to 999 as of Monday, up from 589 on March 8, according to the health ministry.
The main epicenters of the outbreak in Spain are the capital Madrid and the northern region of the Basque country, according to health ministry official Fernando Simon
*GERMANY CONFIRMS FIRST DEATH FROM CORONAVIRUS: DPA
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*ITALY REPORTS 7,985 CORONAVIRUS CASES, 463 DEATHS AS OF MONDAY
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Post 53997249 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.18h):
Report from lockdown.
Pretty accurate report form fellow Bitcoiner Giacomo Zucco and Mir.
https://twitter.com/mir_btc/status/1237038826842972161?s=20First tweets from the thread.
Not many updates today but I have a guest!
Video 1/2 here:
Summary of the first working day:
- more people around
- you can move inside your area and even out but you have to fill a self-declaration form (!) You risk 200 euro or 3 months of jail (!)
Video 2/2 here:
- I tried to buy some online groceries but deliveries are all taken. Shops situation should be better
- I received the mail but everything will very slow in the next days
- Perception of the people especially online changed: many are asking for stricter measures
EDIT: WHOLE ITALY TO BE PUT IN LOCKDOWN
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Post 53997863 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.18h):
Best part is when daddy finally runs and abandons his family.
Instant divorce reason, imho.
I read some opinion on titter today, that the dumps are caused by miners to buy rigs in advance to the halvening.
Would make quite some sense.
Can you provide a reference for this?
Would be nice to confirm honey badger doesn’t give a fuck and follows his own logic while the rest of the world routs.
First comment on this tweet, from "LogD".
So the idea is the following:
- Difficulty is increasing steadily over the last adjustments according to https://btc.com/stats/diff. Hash rate has already grown more than 20% YtD.
- Next expected difficulty adjustment is still expected upwards. It is too early to call for a reliable estimante , but according to https://diff.cryptothis.com/ will be between+0.5% and + 7.50%
- Bitmain has just introduced the S19 and S19 PRO miners, which are going to destroy the s9 miners.
- Halving is exactly two months time (according to https://www.bitcoinblockhalf.com/). This will put a lot of pressure on less efficient miners, pushing their mining profitability below the survivor ship minimum threshold.
- Market is thin and nervous around critical supports, a whale selling could trigger lower levels to profit from.
So yes, this is a reasonable explanation in my opinion, why miners could have been actually selling this market.
I doubt however they had the firing power, or the interest, to start this movement.
1403.
Post 54000676 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.18h):
Let me just elaborate a little bit more on this idea for explaining the dump.
So the idea is the following:
- Difficulty is increasing steadily over the last adjustments according to https://btc.com/stats/diff. Hash rate has already grown more than 20% YtD.
- Next expected difficulty adjustment is still expected upwards. It is too early to call for a reliable estimante , but according to https://diff.cryptothis.com/ will be between+0.5% and + 7.50%
- Bitmain has just introduced the S19 and S19 PRO miners, which are going to destroy the s9 miners.
- Halving is exactly two months time (according to https://www.bitcoinblockhalf.com/). This will put a lot of pressure on less efficient miners, pushing their mining profitability below the survivor ship minimum threshold.
- Market is thin and nervous around critical supports, a whale selling could trigger lower levels to profit from
- As brillantly pointed out by @plutosky in the italian board, the move didn't start from the bad fincancial world. True, BTC derivatives experienced record volumes during the past hours, but Open interest actually declined. This is a strong hint that the volumes were caused by longs being stopped out. Of course it could also meaning shorts taking profits, but in the end this means derivatives didn't originate the move, as they are now with reduced positions.
As you can see volumes were steady before the movement:
Suddenly there were a lot of liquidations:
That led to a reduced open interest:
So yes, this is a reasonable explanation in my opinion, why miners could have been actually selling this market.
I doubt however they had the firing power, or the interest, to start this movement.
1404.
Post 54000859 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.18h):
<...>
UPDATE:
The situation in Italy: March 8, 2020, 6.00 p.m.
POSITIVE 6387
DECEASED 366
HEALED 622
Press conference of the Head of Civil Protection Angelo Borrelli at 6 pm on 8 March:
7375 people who contracted the virus, currently positive 6387, 366 died and 622 recovered.
Among the 5061 positives:
2180 are found in home isolation
3557 hospitalized with symptoms
650 in intensive care
A couple of graphs I made myself on the Johns Hopkins University Database
https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19Each graph plots the number of occurrence of the appropriate case, starting from the first day when such occurrence was registered on each region.
Please note the logarithmic scale.
Now someone explain me:
- What's wrong with Italy? (More death than any other countries, considering Positives: i.e. fatality rate?
- What's wrong with Germany (Positives in line with other countries, no deaths)
- What's wrong with US/UK (Very few death considering the positives)
Fatality Rate computed for your convenience:
Region Positives Death P/D
China 80652 3070 3.81%
Italy 7375 366 4.96%
Germany 799 0 0
Spain 500 10 0.02%
US 2584 16 0.62%
UK 206 2 0.97%
Someone, smarter than me, had my onw idea and polotted some similar (albeit better) graphs:
Here's the coronavirus data, overlayed with the dates offset by the amounts shown. One of these countries is not like the rest. Everyone else will be Italy in 9-14 days time.
https://twitter.com/markjhandley/status/1237119688578138112?s=21There are a lot of useful information on that thread: like this one
US, 5 tampons per million?
Really?
Of course if the tampon is going to cost me in the thousands dollars to be taken, I will live with my cough for the moment, only to die for other reasons later, this is driving the numebr down. but Really: how can expect the coronavirus outbreak in the US stay low for long? WHat will happen when the number will inevitably rise?
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Post 54001687 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.18h):
In Italy he wouldn't have been cured.
We are short of ICU, so the "first come, first serve" criterium is not used anymore.
Like in wartime.
Doctors choose to maximise survivorship retio, taking in ICU's only who has good chance of being successfully cured.
The others must wait (whatever the consequences).
1406.
Post 54013386 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.18h):
Hello WO Gang.
Observing corn @6,700
All is good.
1BTC=1BTC
Fillippone still not COVID positive (this is a success for the moment)
I re read my post, and I am still convinced this is the true reason of the fall.
Some miners are capitulating, as difficulty is now going to be revised down to -5%!
Interesting times ahead
Let me just elaborate a little bit more on this idea for explaining the dump.
So the idea is the following:
- Difficulty is increasing steadily over the last adjustments according to https://btc.com/stats/diff. Hash rate has already grown more than 20% YtD.
- Next expected difficulty adjustment is still expected upwards. It is too early to call for a reliable estimante , but according to https://diff.cryptothis.com/ will be between+0.5% and + 7.50%
- Bitmain has just introduced the S19 and S19 PRO miners, which are going to destroy the s9 miners.
- Halving is exactly two months time (according to https://www.bitcoinblockhalf.com/). This will put a lot of pressure on less efficient miners, pushing their mining profitability below the survivor ship minimum threshold.
- Market is thin and nervous around critical supports, a whale selling could trigger lower levels to profit from
- As brillantly pointed out by @plutosky in the italian board, the move didn't start from the bad fincancial world. True, BTC derivatives experienced record volumes during the past hours, but Open interest actually declined. This is a strong hint that the volumes were caused by longs being stopped out. Of course it could also meaning shorts taking profits, but in the end this means derivatives didn't originate the move, as they are now with reduced positions.
As you can see volumes were steady before the movement:
Suddenly there were a lot of liquidations:
That led to a reduced open interest:
So yes, this is a reasonable explanation in my opinion, why miners could have been actually selling this market.
I doubt however they had the firing power, or the interest, to start this movement.
1407.
Post 54013513 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.18h):
Buying the dip $1000. Observing 7080USD
This didn't age well, bro.
Writing this so you can quote again this message in two years time and we both will have a good laugh.
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Post 54017458 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.19h):
Miners are going to be fucked!
Isn’t break even on production at about $7,000 on average?
$ 3,500 I have been told by some insider. But consider they are already battling because of the difficulty skyrocketing.
According to
https://diff.cryptothis.com/ next diff adjustment will be lower.
This mean many miners already capitulated!
This is
my last message about it.
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Post 54017525 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.19h):
Miners are going to be fucked!
Isn’t break even on production at about $7,000 on average?
$ 3,500 I have been told by some insider. But consider they are already battling because of the difficulty skyrocketing.
According to
https://diff.cryptothis.com/ next diff adjustment will be lower.
This mean many miners already capitulated!
This is
my last message about it. you're still alive in Italy? respect!
Dude.
He just said it was his last message. Have some respect for the dead.
Do not worry, he drinks wine , he will be fine, Corona virus is just a Black swan to crash the financial system and replace paper money for digital money
Sorry, my Englis is broken,
my last message about it. , but
my latest message about it..
Yes,
still living in Italy. Well in the mid of the COVID-LAND.
Starting to feel the hit on the lockdown.
It is worse than expected.
Hope to get out of it as soon as possible (not earlier than three weeks I am afraid).
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Post 54020587 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.19h):
Panic wave seems over
Bitcoin is climbing back to it's true value
Bitcoin survived a pandemic and proves itself again
Anyone who bought the dip *congrats*
Up to $100k
5-dig would be it’s normal valuation for theses period of time.... gogogogo
Also like with the bcash fork and precious halving, didn’t we have had a drop as well.... a huge one?
Those periods 2500 to 1600 ish kinda similar all just looks bigger at higher prices....
I am little bit confused.
I tought halving had to do with the miner reward.
Instead I got an halving in price!
I am a little bit puzzled!
/j
All is fine.
1BTC=1BTC
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Post 54023084 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.19h):
Haiku Friday now
Instead of Bitcoin Sunday?
Or 13th only?
Weak hands RIP
Hope you don't become bitter
Like Kwuck or Roach.
Don't worry hodlers
Bitcoin will rise up again
As it always does.
+1 WOsMerit
Haikus just come out
never believed in Sundays
you deserve Merit.
Got you covered.
1412.
Post 54023651 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.19h):
Just trying to raise awareness.
This shit is serious. I didn't care about it much tbh till yesterday. Now the more I read about it makes me even more sicker than selling the bottom.
No you are not.
You are just having a really bad day.
Your judgement is off by orders of magnitude.
Oh, and grow a set, will ya?
Guys I have been telling you since weeks, but I will reiterate again.
I will use Italian numbers, adjust downwards by the percentage you think it is correct because Italian population is old, Italians are not good at hospital or whatever reason you think it is correct, but the final reasoning do not change much:
As of today:
TOTAL INFECTED 17660
DEATHS 1266 7.17%
RECOVERED 1439
TOTAL POSITIVE 14955
HOSPITALISED 7426 50%
ICU 1328 9%
RECOVERED 1439
Basically,
if you are infected, you will need hospitalisation in the 50% of times.
If you are in hospital, you will end up in ICU one time in 5.
So think about how many ICU your local has available.
In northern Italy we are way above the national average concerning hospital.
Yo give you context, this is the number of hospital bed per 1000 persons around the world:
Hospital are now running at full capacity.
May regions have no more ICU available.
First comes, first serve, is not a valid criteria to be cured, but they apply a sort of "survival probability assessment to determine to let you utilise a precious ICU bed.
Like in war times.
Bear in mind also that hospital usually are used by the whole community, so they are not used for COVID only, and there other things to care about.
COVID and related security procedures are slowing down every other hospital function (regular medic assessment, dialysis, transplant etc).
Basically: you don't want to be around an hospital to avoid infection
You don't want to be in an hospital, for a totally random reason (car accident/stroke/whatever reason) and in need of an ICU as they are all taken by COVID patient).
This is also why I you must be very careful selecting what to do in your free time (no bike rides, no paragliding, no DIY etc).
Also bear in mind it will take longer for emergency teams to rescue you, as they are already at full capacity for COVID patient.
Of course if an hospital has to select who cure, they will give priority to younger subject, where survival probability is higher, so the other subject is probably not going to survive (this is already happening here in Italy).
Wherever you live, act as the disease were already there.
Incubation period is 14 days and most countries are 10 days behind Italy.
This means probably the disease is actually ALREADY there.
I know I already wrote a very similar message, but this is my experience.
I think it is wise to share it with as many people as possible.
Don't wait for government to act in your place.
Act now by yourself.
EDIT:
Found an Image, it is in Italian but shows the difference between ICU hospitalised patient of the regular FLU plotted against the ones of COVID-19.
Do you understand why it is so dangerous?
EDIT2:
Exponential growth and epidemics by 3Brown1Blue
https://youtu.be/Kas0tIxDvrg
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Post 54023877 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.19h):
Guys I have been telling you since weeks, but I will reiterate again.
I will use Italian numbers, adjust downwards by the percentage you think it is correct because Italian population is old, Italians are not good at hospital or whatever reason you think it is correct, but the final reasoning do not change much:
As of today:
TOTAL INFECTED 17660
DEATHS 1266 7.17%
RECOVERED 1439
TOTAL POSITIVE 14955
HOSPITALISED 7426 50%
ICU 1328 9%
RECOVERED 1439
Here's the estimated worldwide numbers for the
regular flu virus from October to today:
So you agree with me:
Flu has a way lower mortality rate and hospitalisation rate.
Do the math with 35,000,000 million people infected.
Angela Merkel said two days ago they estimate 70% potential infection rate in Germany without taking countnermeasures.
Italian hospital are NOW at full capacity.
Never heard of any hospital being at full capacity for the flu.
EDIT:
Found an Image, it is in Italian but shows the difference between ICU hospitalised patient of the regular FLU plotted against the ones of COVID-19.
Do you understand why it is so dangerous?
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Post 54024103 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.19h):
Don't you have a nice house? I guess you have. Invite your friend and order make the best mexican food available.
ftfy
Isn't Bawb a Gen Xer? While he may not be an ambitious Boomer, neither is he an Uber-lazy Millennial incapable of cooking for himself.
He could try making some real carnitas, the basis of the best tacos.
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Cut 4-5 lbs good fatty skin-on bone-in pork shoulder into 3" pieces after removing and reserving the skin. Salt liberally, and fry in enough lard to cover. Don't skimp on the lard.
After it's a nice brown add about a cup of orange juice (preferably fresh-squeezed, 3/4 cup of Coca Cola (preferably non-HFCS Mexi-Coke) and 1/2 cup evaporated milk along with a whole large onion, a few cloves of garlic, the juice of a couple of limes and a herb bundle. Oregano and bay leaves are standard. No cilantro though. That goes on later with chopped raw onions as a condiment. Likewise no chilies. Place skin on top and cover.
After it is back up to a boil, reduce the heat to a low boil (just over a simmer), and cook for at least a few hours (or overnight) until the juices are reduced to a thick gravy, enough to keep the meat moist while basically frying in the lard again. The meat should be super tender and moist, similar to what Americans call pulled pork.
Serve by cutting the pork, a chunk at a time, and some of the skin, into small pieces across the grain and piling on freshly made (or at least reheated)
corn tortillas garnished with chopped raw onions, cilantro, pico de gallo, salsa verde (mmm, chili de arbol), etc.
Leftovers can be frozen and reheated by frying in a little of the lard and moistening with a little of the juice. The bulk of the lard can be reserved, frozen and used for your next batch.
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These are not to be confused with TV-cooking-show/foodie website/Youtube bullshit. These are real Mexican carnitas, cooked the way experienced Mexican mamas and vendors make them.
They're best made in a heavy cast iron pot but a good stainless steel stockpot with a thick enough embedded aluminum bottom will do. Ideally they should be made over an open fire.
This is also called pulled pork, isn’t it?
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Post 54024242 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.19h):
...carnitas...
This is also called pulled pork, isn’t it?
Close but no cigar.
That's like calling risotto Minute Rice.
Blasphemy!
Sorry for that!
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Post 54024372 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.19h):
Keep calm and where's your hat?
Sorry about this issue, I just didn't wear my hat for a while because I was in a trial signature campaign, I will bring it as soon as this campaign ends, it will take about 4 weeks (this is first week). Sorry if I let you down
I was just trying to be funny. I fully understand why people would rather make
money Bitcoin than wear a silly hat.
I felt so dirty when I had to, feel so relieved now!
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Post 54024478 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.19h):
Some day I will buy a baseball bat and start punching everyone that repeats that same old shit about one BTC being still one BTC.
C'on, Bitcoin dumped, it fucking sucks... just accept it like a man and don't invent silly excuses that mean fucking nothing!
Look how the same idiots start going full party when Bitcoin moons... wasn't it already 1BTC = 1BTC? C'on....
I "lost" a shitton of paper profits. There's no need to sugarcoat it. All this will pass when Bitcoin really moons.
The true meaning of this sentence is that if you are a true believer of Bitcoin you start thinking in Bitcoin and not in fiat.
When Bitcoin will be fully victorious over the FIAT Shitcoin, you won't change it back to Fiat.
So yes, fiat went up recently, don't worry. It is a rare occasion.
Fiat has been going down consistently over the last decade, so I can't understand how a very short lived fiat bull run can undermine the downtrend that started 10 years ago.
I strongly advise you to sell all your remaining Fiat as soon as possible!
***NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE*** Do not invest in fiat more than you can allow yourself to lose.
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Post 54024674 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.19h):
1 BTC being still equal to 1 BTC? I can give two shits about that.
Really I never understood what's the point of repeating that all the time.
Btw, 1 USD = 1 USD. So what?
1 USD= 1USD
sure.
Do you know the meme of the emptying cart, this well explain that even if 1 USD has always been equal to 1 USD, the true value (something similar to purchasing power) has been going down since inception (or 1971 at least).
So once again,
saying 1BTC=1BTC you are implying your numera ire, your basic unit of account, is the BTC, not the dollar.
Your numeraire, your store of wealth, is the BTC, not the USD.
You are not investing USD in BTC (and price is going up).
You are investing BTC in USD (and price is going down, hence, don't hold in USD more than you are willing to lose).
When you increase your Bitcoin account you are not buying BTC! You are selling USD!
This is, to me, the true meaning of this sentence.
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Post 54024708 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.19h):
Anyways... wake me up when 1BTC != 1BTC. That will be really interesting.
Slightly off topic:
A math meme that is funny rather than stupid:
Solve carefully!
230 - 220 x 0.5 =
You probably won't believe it, but the answer is 5!
Source:
*SPOILER ALERT*
https://twitter.com/3j0hn/status/913447235534315520
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Post 54024740 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.19h):
Anyways... wake me up when 1BTC != 1BTC. That will be really interesting.
Slightly off topic:
A math meme that is funny rather than stupid:
Solve carefully!
230 - 220 x 0.5 =
You probably won't believe it, but the answer is 5!
Source:
*SPOILER ALERT*
https://twitter.com/3j0hn/status/913447235534315520It is 120 for me
<...>
Correct!
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Post 54028216 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.19h):
I would like to add a few detail to my
miner capitulation hypothesis on recent market crash
A very interesting graph is the one found on
https://hodl.camp/:
(the version on the site is totally interactive)
It represents the time after which the HODL stays in profit (green) or loss (red).
As you can see in the previous cycle, even after buying on the highs, after 3 and a half years HODER buying at the ATH turned into profit.
Having been the ATH in December 2017, it would mean that to match this record, the brakeven on an ATH buy would be into profit in June 2021.
Three and a half years is a number that reminds us of the halving cycle, every 4 years.
In my humble opinion, we will not have to wait fo too long, given that, thanks to @PlanB, many more people are aware of the halving mechanics, and therefore the cycle will be "anticipated" as more people will try to profit from increased SF after thye halving.
Clearly, this scenario was particularly challenged by the recent price dynamics.
@PlanB a couple of days ago noticed the large increase in bitcoins traded on the exchanges.
On chain BTCmoved per block (last 10 days /1440 blocks).
Red boxes today:
- block 621259: 600k + btc moved
- block 621358: 200k + btc moved
- since price drop (11:00 GMT + 1) 10k-100k btc per block (that is 10x normal volume)
Who has more info & insight on this?
https://twitter.com/100trillionUSD/status/1238203443015270402?s=20A graphic that comes to your rescue is that of the hodlwaves:
Each band represents an age of UTXOSs. From the blue ones, which are almost stable (they are the "Satoshi bitcoins" never moved since the beginning), and gradually they go towards the red, that is the ones moved more recently.
So let's say that when the graph becomes more "blue" the hodlers hold on and the age of the coins "increases", while when the graph becomes more "red" it means that the trading activity is increasing.
If we zoom in to last week, we see that in fact the red UTXO increase:
And we see that in fact the situation returns to be "stable" in the 6/12M range, so those who sold had bought for less than 6 months.
So it was #weakhands liquidation, because by crossing with the previous graph we see that they were at a loss.
In my opinion they were longs strategically placed who had focused on halving, going into stop loss with the collapse of the market (triggered by other reasons in my opinion).
EDIT: As
pointed out by Yefi the graphs are not updated yet to fully show the crash. We will have a better picture onmce all the data has been processed.
Well, the plan didn't came togheter:
This is the impressive amounts of liquidations.
One reassuring fact is the drop in OI in futures: this means the drop caused liquidation in long positions, rather that opening of short positions:
Summarising, my
miner capitulation hypothesis still hold tue, in my opinion.
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Post 54029238 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.19h):
If we zoom in to last week, we see that in fact the red UTXO increase:
And we see that in fact the situation returns to be "stable" in the 6/12M range, so those who sold had bought for less than 6 months.
So it was #weakhands liquidation, because by crossing with the previous graph we see that they were at a loss.
In my opinion they were longs strategically placed who had focused on halving, going into stop loss with the collapse of the market (triggered by other reasons in my opinion).
The
UTXO chart is still showing bitcoin at ~$8K. Need to wait for the feed to update before analysing the crash.
Very well spotted.
Let's say we saw the start of the crash.
We will see as they update.
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Post 54029695 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.19h):
Ture story.
I am not even that grateful to China, because the virus actually spread because their poor hygienic conditions in their food markets over there.
And apparently that material was already due to italy, but wasn't delivered for the virus outbreak over there , so they retained it the leaving orders.
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Post 54029809 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.19h):
What's it like under lockdown? Are there shortages of things in the shops when you go out to buy food?
First define lockdown.
You are not allowed to exit apart for going to work and groceries (supermarkets are open).
You have to carry a piece of paper to exibit to the police in case they stop you (typical italian: more laws, more piece of paper, no substantial controls).
Shops, restaurants, museums, basically everything but supermarkets is closed.
You stay at home.
Many can work from home, many firm closed and layed staff on vacation, of course many already lost the job or are close to.
How to spend day at home is basically your choice, but I know perople with kids who are losing their minds.
Main practical problem is going to the shops.
Of course we shop online, but the infrastructure is of course not ready to absorb such a demand: every major store provide online shopping and front door delivery, but where I live the available windows (two weeks) are already fully booked. For every different shop (I tried, everyone has).
Bear in mind that if an infected person is found on a logistical center, they have to shut it down, sanitise it and then reopen. Only to close it a few hour later when another one is tested positive. A logistical nightmare.
So you go shopping to the brick and mortar shop: it's a mess because you cannot simply go in: as a security measure only one few person can enter, so access is reduced, hence big queues. Also while queuing you must stay distant. Result are very long queues outside food supermarkets (in a sense , now I understand those who raided shelves a few weeks back).
This is easy, I do feel not confrotable queuing with other people, but I can do and it's a minor hassle.
Who is quarantined (cannot go outside the house because exposed to the virus), well that's a totally different situation. I don't know how they can survive if there is not anyoen providing them food from the shop as also this is forbid to them .
In the italian board there is a guy whose mother is in the hospital, so he's quarantined and he's describing the whole situation,
he's keeping a little diary.
You can read if you want, no scary or gruesome details.
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Post 54033052 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.20h):
So you go shopping to the brick and mortar shop: it's a mess because you cannot simply go in: as a security measure only one few person can enter, so access is reduced, hence big queues. Also while queuing you must stay distant. Result are very long queues outside food supermarkets (in a sense , now I understand those who raided shelves a few weeks back).
Something like this:
https://vm.tiktok.com/pa7gpD/No idea where it is taken.
I live in a city, similar queues, little bit less daunting scenario.
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Post 54035799 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.20h):
The Federal Reserve on Sunday cut its benchmark rate by a full percentage point to near zero and will boost its bond holdings by $700 billion to cushion the U.S. economy from the coronavirus outbreak.
The central bank also announced several other actions, including letting banks borrow from the discount window for as long as 90 days and reducing reserve requirement ratios to zero percent. The Fed, along with other major central banks, also lowered the rate on standing U.S. dollar liquidity swap arrangements by 25 basis points.
The Fed will keep interest rates near zero “until it is confident that the economy has weathered recent events and is on track to achieve its maximum employment and price stability goals,” the Federal Open Market Committee said in a statement. “This action will help support economic activity, strong labor market conditions, and inflation returning to the Committee’s symmetric 2% objective.”
More QE
More USD
1BTC=1BTC (bite me!)
BTCUSD bullish.
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Post 54035848 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.20h):
1.) When the price hits $9,000 on BITSTAMP you must post a Vegeta meme
2.) I also want a screenshot of the BTC price on TRADEVIEW from BITSTAMP to prove it’s hit $9,000
Just because my English is broken:
this means 9,000 isenoug to consider it "hit"?
if BTCUSD@STAMP>=9,000
then
screen grab and attachittothecarefullyprecraftedmessageandpostitimmediatelyontheWO
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Post 54037567 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.20h):
@APompilano
The Fed just announced historic actions of emergency rate cut to zero and $700 billion in quantitative easing.
If the Fed had to do THAT a few weeks into the crisis then obviously everyone's thinking "how much worse do they expect this situation to become".
All those money-printing bandaids won't help until the underlying reason is cured. I appreciate cheap dollars though, might come in handy for taking some cash out of the house before real estate prices collapse.
Yeah, please go and explain that to Ms Cristine Lagarde who did exactly the OPPOSITE last week effectively doing nothing for the EURO zone and effectively raising rates for Italy.
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Post 54042076 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.20h):
IMO, COVID19 is probably deadlier than most people think. Let's compare the recovery/death percentage of the most-affected nations where actual democracy exists:
Top 5: China, Italy, Iran, Spain, and S. Korea.
Ignoring China, Iran, and S. Korea:
ITALY:
Total recoveries: 2749
Total deaths: 2158
Percentages:
Recovery: 56%
Death: 44%
SPAIN:
Total recoveries: 530
Total deaths: 342
Percentages:
Recovery: 60%
Death: 40%
Bear in mind that today a few Italian regions didn't returned the data, so probably tomorrow is going to be a worse day.
Regarding why italian numbers are so bad:
Why it’s so deadly in ItalyThis question relates both to the absolute number of deaths , which is currently exceeded only in China, and to the case fatality rate, which has risen to 6.6% and exceeds any other country in the world.
To make sure we are all on the same page: The case fatality rate of COVID-19 is the number of confirmed deaths due to COVID-19 divided by the total number of confirmed cases of infections with the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. The case fatality rate (CFR) should not be confused with the mortality rate or death rate (while it often is confused with them), which is simply the total number of deaths that occur during a specific time frame divided by the number of the total population at approximately the same time. Currently, we are more interested in the CFR because we see the number of cases growing and we want to know how many of these diagnosed cases will result in the death of the patients. The CFR is currently at 0.066 or 6.6% in Italy, 2.1% in France, 0.8% in South Korea, and 0.2% in Germany, according to the latest data collected by worldometer. What explains these immense differences?
Main Bitcointalk Thread on CoronaVirus:
Coronavirus Outbreak
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Post 54046721 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.20h):
*TRUMP SEEKING OVER $1,000 IN DIRECT PAYMENTS FOR AMERICANS
*MNUCHIN SAYS DIRECT PAYMENTS COULD COME IN TWO WEEKS
*MNUCHIN SAYS ENTIRE PACKAGE TO BE LAID OUT LATER TODAY
*MNUCHIN: INCREASING TAX PAYMENT DEFERRAL BY USD300 BILLION
*TRUMP SAYS MNUCHIN, SENATE WORKING ON ‘BIG, BOLD PACKAGE’
*TRUMP SAYS ‘WE’RE GOING BIG’ ON VIRUS RELIEF MONEY
Trump Wants To Send Americans More Than $1,000 in Two Weeks
Mnuchin says ‘Americans need cash now’ to weather shut downs
Tax payments can be delayed and stock market will stay openBy Josh Wingrove, Laura Davison and Saleha Mohsin
(Bloomberg) -- Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the administration is pushing to send direct payments to Americans within two weeks, and the White House wants the checks to be larger than $1,000, according to people familiar with the matter.
“Americans need cash now, and the president wants to give cash now. And I mean now, in the next two weeks,” Mnuchin said Tuesday at a White House briefing alongside President Donald Trump.
The cash payments would be part of an $850 billion stimulus plan Mnuchin is negotiating with lawmakers to deal with the coronavirus outbreak. The administration has not decided on how much to send Americans, but wants the checks to exceed $1,000, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Mnuchin said the administration will aim not to send checks to millionaires but stressed the need for urgency. He was due to meet Republican lawmakers after the briefing.
“I think we’re going to do something that gets money to them as quickly as possible,” Trump said.
Mnuchin also said the government intends to keep stock markets open.
‘Practical Limitations’
It may not be practical to get money to Americans as fast as Trump desires. When Congress sent stimulus checks in 2009 to combat the financial crisis it took more than two months from the signing of the bill to checks hitting the mail.
It’s quickest and simplest for Congress to send the same amount to every individual person, but still will take months to happen, Marc Gerson, a former tax counsel for the House Ways and Means Committee, said. If lawmakers decide to give more money to lower-income workers, it becomes even more complicated.
“There are practical limitations with cutting checks,” he said.
In a further move to relieve financial stress on average Americans, Mnuchin said that individual taxpayers can get a deadline extension on paying taxes of up to $1 million and corporations can defer tax payments of up to $10 million. The deferments can total as much as $300 billion, Mnuchin said, up from $200 billion he proposed last week.
The 90-day delay gives taxpayers additional time to pay their outstanding tax liabilities without interest or penalties. The White House is encouraging taxpayers to still file by April 15 if they don’t owe the IRS any money.
‘Substantial Reduction’
Trump on Monday advised Americans not to meet in groups larger than 10, avoid restaurants and bars and to educate their children at home if practicable. Vice President Mike Pence said that if those social-distancing guidelines are followed, the U.S. may see “a substantial reduction in the spread of the coronavirus.”
There have been more than 5,000 cases of the virus in the U.S. and 91 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Pence also said Tuesday the White House is asking construction companies to donate their supplies of N95 air-filtering masks to hospitals and to “forego making additional orders” in order to ensure health-care workers have sufficient access to the gear.
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Post 54047752 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.20h):
car.bo.hy.drates
Low income, cheap food.
When you live of mainly fat and protein you actually get skinny af. Not as skinny as vegans, but almost only muscle tissue instead of body fat.
You are making me feel guilty as I am baking my own pizza.
Quarantine doesn't rhyme with
Carbohydrates
But hey, we need some fun here!
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Post 54048316 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.20h):
In case you are wondering, @planB just clarified Stock to flow model is Safe!
More info here! (no crossposting)
Stock To Flow Model: Modeling Bitcoin's Value with Scarcity
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Post 54048633 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.20h):
<...>
There was a popular dude who proved that nutrition doesn't matter as much. He only ate pizza each day (not fillippone!) but had a daily exercise routine and didn't gain weight.
The thing with the pizza is that the olive oil and yeast is good for your colon and digestion, so if you don't flood the hot disc with salami, all is well.
*There was a lab experiment with mice, a few years ago. They took obese and skinny mice, exchanged their gut bacteria (stool transplant) and guess what: The flabby mice got skinny and vice versa. In severe cases of inflamed colon, gut bacteria is exchanged via flush and stool transplant, symptoms go away almost immediately. Even a high correlation to depression was found, based on gut bacterial flora analysis.
You are making me feel guilty as I am baking my own pizza.
Quarantine doesn't rhyme with
Carbohydrates
But hey, we need some fun here!
Nooo
I also bake my own pizza, including kneading and rolling dough. More than often.
It's just that i can't eat a lot of it because of fructose malabsorption. My wife and kids are loving selfmade pizza.
Tomato and wheat, as well as onion, garlic (all the good stuff) and also wine (almost crying) don't do good to me, including bloating, muscle pains and sleep attacks. I spare you the toilet part...
Also, without pizza, you wouldn't be a real italian guy!
Here,
My quarantine was a little bit better tonight:
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Post 54048754 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.20h):
Are there shortages of anything in the supermarkets when you go shopping?
Context:
I have 3 big supermarket in a 800 radius.
One of them is open 24/7.
So pretty big choice.
As of now they are pretty furnished.
Something is actually missing:
- Alchool (not wine, the one used to clean surfaces)
- Hand sanitizers
- latex gloves
This is the items I actively looked for, but couldn’t find.
Logistic is pretty intact for the moment, so I could find everything I needed for my shopping list.
(Something is missing in that pizza, but it’s my fault, not shop’s).
So I would say that FOR NOW, there are no shortages.
I reckon i undervalued the importance of stuffing, but I live una a big city, I guess I am plenty of options, for the moment.
The true inconvenience is the long queues for the shop: I felt like a communist era Russian waiting for my turn.
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Post 54048800 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.20h):
The true inconvenience is the long queues for the shop: I felt like a communist era Russian waiting for my turn.
How long do you have to wait to get in?
Wanted to try one of the three.
Wanted to buy stuff for my pizza.
Shop opens at 8:00 arrived there at 7:45. Might have been 60th in queue.
Shop opens, 10 people enter, shop, exit: one out, one in. I entered at 8:45, exited at 9:10.
I have been told there is a lot of people in the morning (queue builds up before shops open, because people are weird and go there very early. Every day is different. That particular shop closes at 10:00PM, being told no one is there in late evening (I was afraid of finding less things-have been reassured on this- and less clean -also saw LOT of people cleaning everywhere).
Online shopping not feasible di to very high demand and delivery all booked for two weeks.
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Post 54051472 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.20h):
Breaking news.
For the first time in Europe, an italian bank offers direct real bitcoin wallet on their services.
Italian Bank offers Bitcoin Wallet Integration in their Online Platform.Think about square, but integrated on a traditional bank approach.
I know, not your keys, not your bitcoin.
But a lot of people simply cannot understand how to hodl.
This is a state of the art- secure framework to hodling your funds.
Even if you don't like it (fully legitimate to think so), this is an option for more people to jump in.
the Pound is tanking.
GBP/USD ATL from 2016 is broken.
Cable going down is good for UK exports.
They export a lot of things, like....
like...
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Post 54053776 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.20h):
Still, 10year and 30 year notes/treasuries are going in the WRONG direction.
I talked about it before, and here is planB on twitter with graphs:
https://twitter.com/100trillionUSDThis inhibits potential re-fi activities.
This is the symprom of the malfuctioning plumbing of financial system.
Whatever the FED can possibly do, there are currently too many reasons to be long cash, and then liquidating assets.
Cash is king, every quasi-cash instument (like short end US bonds, is noted as very different.
Everybody need cash to stick up against outbreak in lockdown cities, and pension funds longs asset need cash to post that as collateral against assets losses.
Edit:
Banks are running out of cash, literally:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8113389/NYC-bank-temporarily-runs-100-bills-customers-withdraw-cash-amid-Wall-Street-crash.html
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Post 54054615 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.20h):
These are stats of the people who were actually diagnosed though which obviously involves going to hospital & getting tested. The people who are suffering & need to rush to hospital are the weak/already ill/elderly.
There will be thousands & thousands who have mild symptoms who don’t seek any testing or treatment & recover totally 100%. These people will not be included in those stats.
The stats above make it look much worse than the reality is.
Well, the point it that those with mild symptoms or totally asymptomatic could still be contagious and spread the disease, eventually making things even worse in the future.
In Italy there are for sure a LOT of asymptomatic cases, and we are debating to test basically everyone or not.
In the meantime elderly people are dying at an unnatural rate in certain regions.
https://twitter.com/QuickTake/status/1239045482665525259?s=20
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Post 54054793 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.20h):
Lots of economic havoc. Everything is down; it's like the opposite of the "everything bubble" which has been happening for the last several years. Stocks are down, which is expected, but GLD, Bitcoin, and even TLT (=long-term treasuries) are also down. Where is the money disappearing off to? Are institutional investors really selling everything and then putting the cash "under their mattresses"?
I was especially surprised by long-term treasury yields. People are saying that the high yields are because the US is about to spend trillions of dollars on the coronavirus response, but I always thought (based on past behavior) that the treasury markets didn't really care about US debt. It'd be interesting if yields went way up -- to several percent --, which would turn this recession into a full-blown debt crisis as well. I don't think the Fed would let it happen, though, and I suspect that their intervention would not be enough to cause hyperinflation or any other short-term disaster, either, this time.
The Fed was already propping up the economy, and now they've turned it up to 11. At some point this is going to cause so much mal-investment & disconnection between the real economy and the financial system that everything really just collapses. It could happen this time, though maybe not: the USD being the global reserve currency strengthens it a lot. I've previously predicted that the collapse would come in a few decades. Regardless, the Fed's actions here very much reinforce my skepticism of the fiat economy in general. I'd much rather own a lot of BTC than participate fully in the Fed's/US's crazy game of Monopoly.
I think that the recession is good for BTC medium-term. People are selling now because people are selling everything now. But 2008 was what motivated the creation of Bitcoin, and the same things are happening now. I could see ATHs this year.
Long end treasuries have fallen off together with stocks because of a series of reasons.
The fundamental one is the necessity of FUNDING.
Essentially, the plumbing in the liquidity system managed by the FED is broken.
No matter how much liquidity you inject into one END: liquidity will ever be poor on some end, even if the major player near the FED end up sucking almost all that liquidity.
So, nothing new: equity and yield move in the same direction, not on the healthy way (QE flattens the curve, thus inducing lower yield and favours higher stock valuation because of the reduced discount of future earning), but on the un-healthy way. When liquidity was abundant you ended up buying everything with positive yield, rising everything valuation (even bitcoin, some nocoiners said, or a duct taped banana).
But now liquidity is a scarce resource, so many actor in the market reverted to cash ("CASH IS KING" motto is cool again).
Cash, not even very much cash-like securities like short term US bills.
This was for a variety of reasons: I think I sorted them in an increasing relevance order
- Banks had to sit on increased cash reserves because of people stocking up for coronavirus related panic. Do you think I am exaggerating? Look here
- Asset Managers need to sell bond because of poor equity performances are a call for investors to exit from their investments.
- Pension funds and liability managers came out of years of low yields. They were deeply under capitalised versus the liabilities to be paid out in the future. So they took higher risks bets trough derivatives. Now these bets are turning negatives for them, hence forcing them to post collateral (cash) to counter parties to offset those losses. Getting this cash, of course, involves selling assets.
- Credit: those war-like times (we are at war, after all) require a stress on both civil rights (lockdowns) and economic rights (the possibility to participate in the workforce, wages etc.). Government are called to extreme expenditures (US in primis), with the possibility of greater expenditures and impact in the future (What if there is a NY lockdown?). Corporates have been using cash in the "wrong" way, instead of investing that cash in productive things, they used it to finance buybacks (someone said "airlines"?). AS a consequence of QE -induced low rates (Another distortion in the free market), they are also much more indebted than they were used to be in the past. So markets sold corporate (both equity and bonds) and credit spreads started widening everywhere (with bond selling off), from US to Europe (guess why Italian bonds were amongst the worst performer during the last weeks (Lagarde aside): because Italy record DEBT/GDP, who has dramatic effect on economy when the GDP denominator start shrinking.
Of course this is making things worse and worse, as everyone is running toward the exit in the system market become more illiquid and correlations brake down causing liquidity not flowing into the system as everyone is scared to be on the wrong side of the trade.
Of course gold didn't benefited by this credit crisis because was sold (in the form of certificates) by the BOJ, who was instead busy buying stocks as per their program.
Regarding Bitcoin, once again showed that honey badger doesn't give a fuck.
I hoped the Digital Gold rhetoric were true, but instead low correlation with other asset classes showed it is.. a rhetoric only, without any data to support Bitcoin is used as a store of value.
Still the vast majority of players in the BTC markets see it as an highly speculative asset, hence the selling, also fuelled by some technical fact probably caused by the halving driving up the difficulty.
Here my
toughs about this story.
Belgium corona lockdown is great, just went for one of my nicest ever 50km cycle rides. Traffic lights become irrelevant after 9pm it's liberating! Ironically, not many less people out on the streets this evening compared to previous evenings, much notably less cars... lots of people also having a walk for "exercise". Don't know what it's like in other cities... but not much has changed here apart from more restaurants are shut now. Night shops still open though, so enough people going out "shopping" it seems
Take care mate when riding in lockdowns.
(
touch wood now)
In case of an accident they would take you to an hospital, the exact place where you DO NOT want to be during a pandemia.
Additionally, during a lockdown firstly nobody can assist you on the road, secondly the rescue team might be busy doing other stuff, so you might be lacking the proper support in a timely manner.
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Post 54054984 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.20h):
Why worse? Asymptomatic cases will for sure not need hospital. Main problem that we have is that there is/will not be enough hospital beds/medical stuff/medical equipment for all. If 70% of population is immediately taken out, then we are operating with much smaller numbers. For me this is a very good news.
The problem is asyntomatic is that they don’t know they are spreading the virus around. Hence they are actually infecting people a lot more than syntomatic people that eventually quarantine themselves reducing contagion risks.
This is why lockdowns are important even early on the infection cycle.
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Post 54057939 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.20h):
Underrated post.
+1 WOsmerit
Agree, got you covered.
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Post 54060558 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.20h):
The European Central Bank has launched a 'bazooka' $820 billion pandemic fund to aid markets. 'There are no limits.'The European Central Bank (ECB) has unveiled a new €750 billion ($820 billion) response to the coronavirus in a bid to calm financial markets.
The so-called Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (PEPP) comes less than a week after the central bank announced policies which did little to provide comfort to traders.
It follows similar plans by the Federal Reserve and numerous major economies to stem the damage from Covid-19.
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/coronavirus-lagarde-announces-ecb-pandemic-fund-to-calm-markets-2020-3-1029011851People would be happy if the money was distributed to families.
$1.5T in Repo
$1.1T Commercial paper relief
$1T in US fiscal stimulus
$750B QE from ECB
$600B QE from the Fed
$600B bank loan guarantee (France/UK)
$500B in loans (Germany)
$300B in Japanese stimulus (proposed)
$100B in fiscal stimulus across Europe
Craziest week ever!
Dear diary:
what have I one today?
- I stayed put inside my quarantine in Covid- Land
- I progressed in my online Pyton Course
- I ate a full box of trofie al pesto (complete of potatoes and green beans)
- I posted a little on bitcointalk.org
- I used my thread 5 Resources to teach Average Joe about Bitcoin and the facts reported above to finally get a friend of mine to fund his account on Stamp and buy some Bitcoins.
It was a good day, after all.
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Post 54061035 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.20h):
Does anyone remember the name of the TV show that came out about a decade or so ago where the US is attacked (China?) by something where everyone has to wear a wristband that kills you if you try to take it off or do something bad. In order to get food or leave your home you need to wear it.
Also...Hong Kong is making all travelers wear a wristband that helps assure you are self quarantined.
What color wristband do you want?
I am f*ked then. I have a Chinese wristband.
#meritislife: how to be notified on a smartband of merits and mentions
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Post 54062956 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
This is a celebrity named Olga.
...
Here is a long list of famous people w Covbull-19. Almost all are feeling fine, one has some body aches, and one is doing fine in a hospital.
Covbull-19 seems to have its strongest effects on money printers and T.P. lovers.
https://www.vulture.com/2020/03/famous-people-celebrities-with-coronavirus.htmlBased on testing numbers about 11 percent of the NBA has Covbull. About half of a percent of the U.S. House of Representatives has tested positive.
They all are feeling fine.
I'm starting to wonder if somewhere between .5 and 11 percent of the U.S. has it and its actually extremely rare to get any symptoms stronger than the flu.
Germany has been doing a lot of testing. They have a .2 percent mortality rate. The new drugs should get it under flu death rates soon.
Prognosis: Covbull healthwise is a nothing burger and never comes close to killing as many as the 80k deaths caused by snake bites each year. Febrile money printers can't undo what they have done. Helicopter money is upon us. Bernanke prophecy fulfilled.
Dude, you are not getting it, do you?
It's not the fucking Ebola, yeah, and it may be even softer than the flu for most persons but:
1) Unlike the flu, no one is inmune
2) It is highly contagious... probably more than the flu.
3) Some of the very few people that have bad symptoms usually develop a very bad pneumonia.
4) Patients with a bad pneumonia usually need ventilators to have a chance to survive.
5) We don't have more than a few thousands ventilators and it is very hard to obtain more right now because every fucking country needs them and manufacturers are overwhelmed.
6) There is also a complete scarcity of masks and other personal protection items.. Which makes anyone going anywhere near an hospital or a doctor, for whatever reason, to have all the chances to be infected.
In Italy the number of people needing ventilators to survive have already exceeded the number of available ventilators. Which, btw, are also needed for some things other than this covid thingy. In Spain we are quickly reaching that critical ceiling in some regions like Madrid.
This is not about number of deaths but about the medical services being overwhelmed and unable to keep giving proper treatment to the patients that need it. So every effort it is being focused in slowing the spreading of the virus trying to maintain the figure of people needing ICU/ventilators below the number of available ones... until everyone have already been exposed to it... or a vaccine is ready.
Get it now?
I confirm Bitserve analysis.
It’s not the COVID per se, but the snowball effect it has on the health system.
Bear in mind that it happens hospital are needed also for ohter activities than curing COVID19 patients...
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Post 54063148 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
Welcome US to the Negative Interest Rate World.
Negative interest rates have arrived in the US! 6mo t-bill at -2bps. Means you need to PAY US govt for 6mo cash deposit. Rates to go much more negative to weaken dollar. This is confiscation and it is bad but it needed for now to stabilize system. Mega bullish for #Bitcoin
https://twitter.com/dtapcap/status/1240700538825494532?s=21Guess who bought those:
FED BALANCE SHEET: (shiiiiiit!)
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Post 54063214 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
My dad sent me this, I thought it was kind of interesting:
This is the typical "gold nuggest post" you can find only on WO!
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Post 54066047 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
Breaking news.
For the first time in Europe, an italian bank offers direct real bitcoin wallet on their services.
Italian Bank offers Bitcoin Wallet Integration in their Online Platform.Think about square, but integrated on a traditional bank approach.
I know, not your keys, not your bitcoin.
But a lot of people simply cannot understand how to hodl.
This is a state of the art- secure framework to hodling your funds.
Even if you don't like it (fully legitimate to think so), this is an option for more people to jump in.
<...>
A nice article from
Italian bank releases Bitcoin wallet despite coronavirusItalian bank releases Bitcoin wallet despite coronavirus
Challenger bank Hype’s integration of crypto wallet service, Conio, lets customers buy, sell, and transfer Bitcoin.
In brief
- Italian challenger Hype has released a Bitcoin wallet.
- The wallet uses multiple keys for security.
- Bitcoin offers an alternative to traditional cash, which can spread coronavirus.
A good reason to focus to Italy, for a change.
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Post 54069720 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
Hello gang,
I don't usually do this kind of thing, but I'd like to point out a valuable bitcoin related initiative.
Helperbit is an Italian company that deals with Peer to Peer donations, with maximum transparency:
Helperbit: the most innovative way to raise funds
TRANSPARENT - We use Blockchain technology to offer full transparency of economic flows
FREE - No registration fees or hidden costs
SAFE - You have full control of your funds thanks to Helperbit's Multifirma Bitcoin Wallet
POWERFUL - Bitcoin and altcoin supported
They are organizing a fundraiser for an advanced medical post for pre-triage:
COVID-19 Advanced Medical Post For Pre-TriageCOVID-19 Advanced Medical Post For Pre-Triage In Italy
CREATED BY:Croce Rossa Italiana | Comitato Colli Albani
BITCOIN ADDRESS:3NpNJfgpYVyZSa8YCfUufC3idVtF3iSX6d
UPDATE March 15th
The project has reached the target goal of € 10,000 to purchase the AMP: we did it thank to your generosity!
But we don't stop here, we reopen the fundraising campaign with a new goal: to complete the AMP core structure with the accessories necessary for emergency operations, such as a DefiMonitor (a defibrillator with vital signs monitor).
Regarding the second level Advanced Medical Post for COVID-19 pre-triage, we are proceeding with the purchase of the material to be ready for its deployment in the local area.
Your support is greatly appreciated!
Thank You!
———————————————————————————————
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The Coronavirus disease in Italy has created a national health emergency. At the time of writing we have had more than 31.5 thousand confirmed cases and 2503 deaths. It is already difficult to locate the intensive care beds when needed and we are still a long way from peak infection.
See the latest officially confirmed data at:
http://tiny.cc/07s7kzThe Italian Red Cross | Colli Albani Committee is asking for Bitcoin donations (and other cryptocurrencies) to purchase and set-up a Second Level Advanced Medical Post for pre-triage of COVID-19 cases.
Our target of 10.000 € will be used to purchase the core infrastructure and medical equipment for the project. Any surplus will be used to provide medical staff with the personal protection they need.
Here the original thread where they presented their project on BitcoinTalk in 2015:
Helperbit P2P Aid - natural disaster and bitcoin
Disclaimer:
- I am not in any way related to Helperbit (I only attended the presentation of their project by their founder Guido Baroncini Turrichia years ago at a Bitcoin Meetup in Milan)
- I also place it above all to give an example of how the blockchain can be used to add transparency to a project
- It is not an obligation to donate funds, everyone makes their own assessments, based on their possibilities, inclinations and preferences.
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Post 54070643 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
This made me giggle.
This is the time to do a *massive* upgrade to US infrastructure. Seriously, there should be a billion men rebuilding those railroad tracks to last 100 years.
The only thing massive about the US, is that cunt marcus_of_the_elite.
I know you like your things big, so there you have it.
Soooo r0achie of him, to display tactics that ultimately brought him down.
Right on time also.
Just sayin.
Yeah,
r0achie, what happened to him?
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Post 54071527 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
Banknote printing always leads to announced inflation, in this case Bitcoin stands out for having a clearly deflationary economy.
Chart update. Weimar Germany solved their unbearable WW1 war debt by printing gigantic amounts of money, BRRRRRRRR. Usually it takes 5-10 years to add the first 4 zero's ... until something triggers 8 zero's in 1 year. Not robust statistical analysis, for historical context only.
Source:
https://twitter.com/100trillionUSD/status/1241407144089583616Slowly at start, then all of a sudden.
The point is here we are going in the opposite direction: US T-Bill are now negative interest bearing instruments!
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Post 54072865 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
If things get really bad and they start shutting down centralized messaging services, what are our decentralized options?
LoRaWan and/or Mesh Networks.
[Total privacy Bitcoin]: off grid Transactions LoRaWan/goTenna
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Post 54076969 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
Nice feel good article...
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-was-designed-for-a-financial-crisis-so-far-its-working-wellThere are many who argue that Bitcoin cannot be a store-of-value based on its whipsaw volatility but valuable insight can be drawn from gold’s price action during the 2008 financial crisis.
Gold certainly doesn’t look like a safe haven after a 24% plunge in less than 2 months, even more worrisome is the fact that the S&P 500 remained flat during that period. Therefore, is it really fair to analyze any correlation over such a short period? Does that sharp movement in price invalidate gold’s resilience during market uncertainties?
The fact is that Bitcoin has zero correlation with other asset classes.
Said in laymen terms: Honey Badger doesn't give a fuck.
I won't comment again my
own theory about "mining capitulation" induced dump in bitcoin, only to be reinforced by general asset classes crash. So Bitcoin capitulation started for reasons all inside the bitcoin "ecosystem" only to be later reinforced by general market crash.
Bitcoin going down because other asset classes crash (Equity, Debt and Gold) going down could lead you to think that bitcoin is still used as a gambling tools by many.
Trading bitcoin has low correlation to other asset classes and high volatility, this is a wonderful instrument for scalping (beware: this doesn't mean in any way it is a profitable strategy to scalp on bitcoin).
So, despite the digital gold is the best narrative I can think of while dealing with bitcoin, this proved to still be a narrative, not supported by data and market evidences.
Actually, if you want to have a ray of light, you can think that bitcoin is not the one you observe on the exchanges.
As
beautifully pointed out by @Plutosky on the Italian board, bitcoins used for trading are only a minuscule part of the whole bitcoin used out there.
If bitcoin would have been a pure gambling tool, given the enormous swings during the last days we would have seen a great surge in bitcoin transactions and a subsequent rise in transaction fees. Ok, we observed a rise in both metrics, but nothing comparable to what would have happened if we had observed a "rush" to the exchanges to trade bitcoins. We observed a few weak hands running to convert into Fiat, a few buying) but the vast majority of hodlers kept on...hodling.
If we look at LN statistics we see that the allocated bitcoins in LN are almost unchanged. Sign that no one thought their precious coins were at risk committed to a LN channel.
Number of allocated BTC coins actually slightly increased over the market dump: sign that the LN user didn't think their coins were at risk being committed to a channel instead of rushing to a fiat exchange.
So, don't infer anything about bitcoin only looking at the price: the price is one of the many aspects of bitcoin, but there is much more to deal with than price.
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Post 54077255 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
The fact is that Bitcoin has zero correlation with other asset classes.
Not a fact. Even @aantop recognizes the correlation:
There's other more mathematically sound ways of identifying increasing correlation but they are too cumbersome and boring to reproduce at the moment.
Correlation cannot be observed over a brief crash. If bitcoin and stocks market crash at the same time, this has no (levy little) impact on correlation, that must be observed on long period to be meant significative.
Today's swings are due to more investors using different high leverage options that weren't available in 2017, thus there is no need to move huge amounts of coins around on-chain. BitMEX was around back then but not nearly as many people were using it as today. And now it has several competitors that weren't around back then, as well.
Correct, good point, maybe you are right, but I think volumes of this kind of leveraged trading is not so prominent in total trading amounts.
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Post 54077408 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
A new Day, a new restriction in Italy.
Now it is forbid to move out or your local municipality.
Coronavirus, ban on the movement of people from the municipality where they are "except for proven needs"
https://www.corriere.it/cronache/20_marzo_22/coronavirus-divieto-spostamento-le-persone-comune-cui-si-trovano-af7a9136-6c51-11ea-8403-94d97cb6fb9f.shtmlItaly has now closed every non-essential activity.
You can exit from home only in a 200 m radius, for whatever reason, but work and food shopping.
Many supermarkets have now restricted opening hours, in addition only one person per family can enter the shop.
The only last step to be exactly like China is welders on the house doors.
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Post 54078037 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
<...>
Hey, could you please share the source where that graph comes from? Thanks.
Easy!
https://bitcoinvisuals.com/lightning
1456.
Post 54078509 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
Hello gang,
I don't usually do this kind of thing, but I'd like to point out a valuable bitcoin related initiative.
Helperbit is an Italian company that deals with Peer to Peer donations, with maximum transparency:
Helperbit: the most innovative way to raise funds
TRANSPARENT - We use Blockchain technology to offer full transparency of economic flows
FREE - No registration fees or hidden costs
SAFE - You have full control of your funds thanks to Helperbit's Multifirma Bitcoin Wallet
POWERFUL - Bitcoin and altcoin supported
They are organizing a fundraiser for an advanced medical post for pre-triage:
COVID-19 Advanced Medical Post For Pre-TriageCOVID-19 Advanced Medical Post For Pre-Triage In Italy
CREATED BY:Croce Rossa Italiana | Comitato Colli Albani
BITCOIN ADDRESS:3NpNJfgpYVyZSa8YCfUufC3idVtF3iSX6d
UPDATE March 15th
The project has reached the target goal of € 10,000 to purchase the AMP: we did it thank to your generosity!
But we don't stop here, we reopen the fundraising campaign with a new goal: to complete the AMP core structure with the accessories necessary for emergency operations, such as a DefiMonitor (a defibrillator with vital signs monitor).
Regarding the second level Advanced Medical Post for COVID-19 pre-triage, we are proceeding with the purchase of the material to be ready for its deployment in the local area.
Your support is greatly appreciated!
Thank You!
———————————————————————————————
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The Coronavirus disease in Italy has created a national health emergency. At the time of writing we have had more than 31.5 thousand confirmed cases and 2503 deaths. It is already difficult to locate the intensive care beds when needed and we are still a long way from peak infection.
See the latest officially confirmed data at:
http://tiny.cc/07s7kzThe Italian Red Cross | Colli Albani Committee is asking for Bitcoin donations (and other cryptocurrencies) to purchase and set-up a Second Level Advanced Medical Post for pre-triage of COVID-19 cases.
Our target of 10.000 € will be used to purchase the core infrastructure and medical equipment for the project. Any surplus will be used to provide medical staff with the personal protection they need.
Here the original thread where they presented their project on BitcoinTalk in 2015:
Helperbit P2P Aid - natural disaster and bitcoin
Disclaimer:
- I am not in any way related to Helperbit (I only attended the presentation of their project by their founder Guido Baroncini Turrichia years ago at a Bitcoin Meetup in Milan)
- I also place it above all to give an example of how the blockchain can be used to add transparency to a project
- It is not an obligation to donate funds, everyone makes their own assessments, based on their possibilities, inclinations and preferences.
Hey guys,
notificing a few donations arrived since I published this post.
https://app.helperbit.com/project/5e6a64ee84cb8662d901a29cOf course I dream some of us WOers donated a few (more than a few) sats to this cause.
Even if it was other people, it doesn't matter.
Faith in humanity restored.
1457.
Post 54081903 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
Incredible times we are living in:
So the FED just went full Zimbabwe .. less than 50 days until the halving?!!! Chart updated @ BTC $6300Rocket
https://twitter.com/100trillionUSD/status/1242068166454456322?s=20
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Post 54082853 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
BREAKING: Diagnosed coronavirus cases in New York state soar to more than 20,000.
NEW YORK HAS 20,875 CORONAVIRUS CASES, UP 5,707: CUOMO
Gov. Cuomo reports 20,000+ coronavirus cases in New York state, orders all hospitals to increase capacity by 50%.
N.Y. now accounts for 5% of all cases worldwide
12,305 of state cases are in NYC
N.Y. officially in a stay-at-home decree
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says testing is also on the rise, with 16,000 tests now conducted per day.
Coronavirus live updates: More than 20,000 diagnosed in New York stateInsane.
Prepare for a nice months-long lockdown in NY
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Post 54084055 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
Rumor mill.
Friend from the UK; welcome to China
HEARING FROM A NORMALLY RELIABLE JOURNALIST SOURCE : (let s see)
Here’s what’s coming from BJ @ 8.30pm
*UK-wide lockdown from midnight
*All non-essential shops closed
*No gatherings of more than 2 people except for households
*Police will have emergency powers from Thursday to fight non compliance
You read it on WO first.
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Post 54090085 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
I had troubles with my trezor in Thailand, I had the trezor but the backup codes were on the seastead. That's part of it, you need backups but what to do with the backups?
Fortunately I had a backup that I split among family members because all of my cryptosteel was on the seastead.
Elwar, are you talking about your seed key still on the seastead? If so, what happened to it? If the seastead has been confiscated by authorities, I hope you moved your coins to a new trezor.
Boating accident is so 2013.
Seastead accident is 2020!
Everything is fine....
Look who's back!
Hopefully YOU do not need a recap of what happened in your brief vacation!
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Post 54090126 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
I'm still going to the office.
Pretty accurate:
https://youtu.be/Wmo2mkezSJ0
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Post 54090500 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
Oh I totally missed this news, sorry is someone already posted it here.
Digital Asset Hedge Fund Adaptive Capital to Close Down Operations, Following Crypto Market CrashDigital asset hedge fund Adaptive Capital is reportedly closing down its operations.
Adaptive Capital was a self-described “multi-strategy cryptocurrency hedge fund with a deep focus on on-chain analytics.” The hedge fund predicted that crypto-assets would become a major macro asset class and on-chain analysis of capital flows and network health would enhance crypto-asset portfolio management significantly. The company’s website is currently live but completely wiped of any information.
As mentioned in a letter to investors, Adaptive’s management noted that it intends to return remaining funds to its Limited Partners, after a sharp decline in the Bitcoin (BTC) price between March 12-13, 2020.
The company wrote:
“Adaptive has made the decision to close operations and return the remaining funds to investors. We are convinced that the risks of continuing operations in such an unstable environment outweigh the potential benefits.”
I am really sorry about this.
Not only because, unpopular opinion, I think Wall Street Adoption could be beneficial for bitcoin.
But also because CIO was Murad Mahmudov
https://twitter.com/muststopmurad?lang=enOnce again, proof that trading guts and smartness is not always overlapping set of skills.
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Post 54092820 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
Since the FED went bonkers on brrrr the quality of my Twitter feed is at ATH:
This morning only I read those two pearls:
$6 Trillion:
* USD M2 money supply in 2004
* GDP of the US in 1990
* Down payment to buy all the real estate in the US
* Enough to buy 68.9% of all the gold in the world at spot
* 1.6 years of tax revenue for the US
Seriously, why are we paying taxes again?
#Bitcoin BTC fixes this
https://twitter.com/jimmysong/status/1242622631934930945?s=20Perspective: the United States just announced the creation of nearly 50 Bitcoins worth of dollars out of thin air. Not 50 BTC, but 50 Bitcoin networks
https://twitter.com/lopp/status/1242604834227970049?s=20
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Post 54093015 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
Great news, now the atmosphere in WO should turn more towards positive again
Made you rank up as soon as you post to solve the mystery.
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Post 54093293 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
Coronavirus latest news: Prince Charles tests positive for Covid-19The Prince of Wales has tested positive for coronavirus and is working from home with mild symptoms.
A Clarence House spokesman said he was "displaying mild symptoms but otherwise remains in good health and has been working from home throughout the last few days as usual".
Part of an elaborate plan to infect his mother and finally get the Job.
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Post 54094850 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
Wjy you keep reading CNBC when you read WO?
Everything has been already said in the WO!
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg54063148#msg54063148
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Post 54095031 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
wjy indeed?
wjy indeed?
Tell me wjy I don't like Mondays.
Thanks Gang,
first good laugh of the day.
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Post 54096411 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
I'm no conspiracy theorist, I tend to want to see evidence before I even consider anything a possibility, but I tend to be open to see the evidence and make a decision for myself.
I believe there is a Corona virus out there. I believe people are getting sick from it. I believe people have died from it.
My question:
With all of the people that record video of every boring part of their day (planting flowers, eating dinner, walking the dog, etc.), why are there no videos of people in their hospital beds dealing with this virus?
A quick search of Youtube shows that there are several media videos of people talking about how they are sick, but no "Joe blow" sitting in his hospital bed talking about how much it sucks on his Youtube channel.
And on Facebook I see plenty of people talking about how "my friend's dad died from it" or "my friend is a doctor and he's overwhelmed", etc.
But where are the videos? If you know of any, please let me know to ease my confusion. This should be a common thing on Youtube.
Elwar,
with all due respect.
This is a nonsense.
Mobile are not allowed for patients in ICU.
A couple of video to tell you it's real:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgPZtTeEG5khttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_gjf3p-cf8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y39Y6ANewMEWant more? I have plenty of those
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Post 54096447 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
Great news, now the atmosphere in WO should turn more towards positive again
Made you rank up as soon as you post to solve the mystery.
Err, while the bros were in "jail", the atmosphere got a lil more agressive and negative than usual, imo.
EDIT: Just recognized the sM++ THANKS
Activity has to go up a bit more and my hat will be on again!
Ah!
I can make you crank merits but not activity!
We will have to wait then!
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Post 54098592 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
Morgan Stanley predict jobless claims to 3.4m tomorrow. That is not an axis.
Stink bids.
Not correct.
I am going to explain wjy (/inside joke).
Those are for the data of the week ending on MARCH 21.
Today data is for the week ending MARCH 14.
So those projections refer to NEXT WEEK data release.
Today data is going to be (hopefully) much lower (albeit on probably record high), as they account the week before the lockdown.
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Post 54099246 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
Morgan Stanley predict jobless claims to 3.4m tomorrow. That is not an axis.
Stink bids.
Not correct.
I am going to explain wjy (/inside joke).
Those are for the data of the week ending on MARCH 21.
Today data is for the week ending MARCH 14.
So those projections refer to NEXT WEEK data release.
Today data is going to be (hopefully) much lower (albeit on probably record high), as they account the week before the lockdown.
Gjood fjind.
So this time next week this massively telegraphed news breaks. Should coincide with nasty death figures. Maybe. idk. sadface
Personally not too bothered nowadays about the wjen or the wjy of price changes but still keen on .....
Stink bids at all times. Because times are weird.
This is only the start, I am afraid.
Also, I don't know exactly how it works over there, but millions out of job means also millions outside insurance, so millions not being able to afford of being hospitalised and cured.
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Post 54099595 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
Morgan Stanley predict jobless claims to 3.4m tomorrow. That is not an axis.
Stink bids.
Not correct.
I am going to explain wjy (/inside joke).
Those are for the data of the week ending on MARCH 21.
Today data is for the week ending MARCH 14.
So those projections refer to NEXT WEEK data release.
Today data is going to be (hopefully) much lower (albeit on probably record high), as they account the week before the lockdown.
Gjood fjind.
So this time next week this massively telegraphed news breaks. Should coincide with nasty death figures. Maybe. idk. sadface
Personally not too bothered nowadays about the wjen or the wjy of price changes but still keen on .....
Stink bids at all times. Because times are weird.
This is only the start, I am afraid.
Also, I don't know exactly how it works over there, but millions out of job means also millions outside insurance, so millions not being able to afford of being hospitalised and cured.
APPARENTLY THINGS ARE WORSE THAN EXPECTED!
U.S. Jobless Claims Surged Last Week to Record 3.283 Mln This is the week ending March 14, before the lockdown started...
EDIT: Financial markets don't give a fuck.
SPX up 2%....
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Post 54100412 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
APPARENTLY THINGS ARE WORSE THAN EXPECTED!
U.S. Jobless Claims Surged Last Week to Record 3.283 Mln
This is the week ending March 1421, before the lockdown started...
EDIT: Financial markets don't give a fuck.
SPX up 2%....
Not that surprising. Companies immediately fire people at the first sign of problems, then beg for bailouts to "protect jobs".
Normal.
Wondering what happens next week. 7 millions?
EDIT: Bloomberg fucked up big time this morning with these numbers. Correct date: 21. So numbers for first week of lockdown already included.
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Post 54100475 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
Wondering what happens next week. 7 millions?
Probably. Then companies can use the federal dollars for stock buybacks at these low low prices.
*munching popcorn*
Of course they are.
What you want to do with all that money?
Warning: also in Zimbawe while inflation was at 100% daily the stock market was going up!
Means only real assets are depreciating little slower than money used to price them.
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Post 54102727 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
Numbers are out!
We Havew an ATH!
FED Asset Balance sheet:
5,254,278,000,000 USD
It's a record! ATH!
Layman: "Nice, but you'll end up with inflation with this!"
"Even better! Government debt, corporate debt, everyone's debt is wiped away!"
What is the magic?
WjY? (/inside joke)
Printing money is free.
You can hand out Money to everyone without creating new debt.
Brrr, money to everyone.
Desperately seeking inflation since 2008, In the HOPE to create hyperinflation.
The problem of inflation in reality is another one:
slowly at start,then all of a sudden.
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Post 54105376 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
BOJO POSITIVE!
Boris Johnson has coronavirus: PM tests positive for disease as crisis grips the UKBoris Johnson has been confirmed as suffering from coronavirus, it was revealed today.
The Prime Minister is understood to have tested positive for the disease, as the outbreak spreads across the country.
Mr Johnson is thought to have relatively mild symptoms, but the bombshell news underlines fears that the crisis is escalating.
A Downing Street spokesman said: 'After experiencing mild symptoms yesterday, the Prime Minister was tested for coronavirus on the personal advice of England's Chief Medical Officer, Professor Chris Whitty.
'The test was carried out in No 10 by NHS staff and the result of the test was positive.
'In keeping with the guidance, the Prime Minister is self-isolating in Downing Street.
'He is continuing to lead the government's response to coronavirus.'
LOL!
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Post 54107730 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
A good read.
In these difficult times, lateral Bitcoins, brrrr and CoronaVirus scare, nothing better than a nice read from my fellow italian Bitcoiner @giacomozucco about Bitcoin Privacy.
Two part article.
I bet you have time in your quarantine:
A Treatise On Bitcoin And Privacy Part 1: A Match Made In The Whitepaper
Introduction
How one’s focus can shift in just two weeks! While today everybody in the Bitcoin space seems more concerned with price fluctuations in response to the global financial panic (understandably so), it’s important to remember perennial issues that never go away, like the importance of maintaining your privacy when you transact in bitcoin. Throughout this month especially, we’ve been hearing reports of KYC/AML-compliant exchanges freezing user accounts due to suspected use of CoinJoin software (more on that later), followed by yet another case of a famous and respected early Bitcoin proponent promoting his new illiquid altcoin as something that “will replace Bitcoin, which isn’t private enough!”
If you want to take a short break from global pandemics, financial meltdowns and price volatility, here’s an attempt at analyzing claims, facts and context of this latest “Bitcoin drama.” To begin with, in Part 1 of this two-part series, we’ll start by looking at the fundamental relationship between Bitcoin and privacy by going back to the beginning with the whitepaper. Then, in Part 2, we’ll focus on some the ways that Bitcoin privacy is being maintained and improved upon — and strike down a few “red herrings.”
A Treatise On Bitcoin And Privacy Part 2: Don’t Be Misled By Red HerringsFiat Gateways Lead to Privacy Graveyards
Bitcoin is an effective system to transfer and store wealth, but that wealth has first to “enter” the system somehow, very often coming from fiat money. (Of course, you can also earn satoshis directly in exchange for goods and services you provide, instead of buying them with fiat.)
Fiat-enabled bitcoin on-ramps (often known as “cryptocurrency exchanges”), acting as liquidity bridges, created huge privacy problems in Bitcoin. In order to manage fiat, exchanges will have to use traditional bank accounts. In order to get those, they have to meekly accept all the rules, conditions and limitations banks require. Traditional fiat banks, in turn, will pass over the extremely complex and heavy “compliance” burden they received from governments and regulatory agencies, including that concentration of economic illiteracy called “KYC/AML regulation.”
So, fiat-to-bitcoin bridges will almost always end up demanding a scary amount of personal information from their user, linking that information to a few deposit and withdrawal addresses (often incentivizing continuous reuse) and then even hiring “chain-analysis” companies in order to follow, trace, tail and stalk all the previous and following economic activity on-chain.
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Post 54108373 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
If @erre and @fillippone and whoever else of an Italian sensitivity could now close their ears
I just found an opened packet of wholewheat farfalle with a 2014 best before date at the back of the larder. It too k around 30 mins to soften up and then was perfectly delish with some shop pesto of the same era. /
Dear Lord.
This is so wrong on so many multiple ways.
- Wholewheat Farfalle
- Farfalle
- long opened pack
- long overdue best before date
- 30 minute cooking time
- shop pesto
- pesto from 2014
- pesto with farfalle
Note to self: post a picture of my trofie al pesto with potatoes and green beans.
I would rather buy Ethereum than eating that.
Please be my guest next time you are in Italy.
EDIT:
you think I am kidding about farfalle?
Do you remember Italian get crazy and raiding supermarkets to get the pasta:
here, look what's left:
https://www.sempionenews.it/cronaca/coronavirus-supermercati-del-territorio-presi-dassalto/Supermercato a Milano, la foto dimostra di ue cose: che la gente è scema e che le farfalle fanno schifo a tutti, peggio delle penne lisce!! #coronarvirusitalia #amuchina
https://twitter.com/dafiumicino/status/1231642945318793218?s=20EDIT2:
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Not so sure about pesto because of the oil. Fat can get real ugly when addled (is that the correct word?)
Improperly conserved pesto can be quite dangerous actually.
Read this horror story.
A Botulism Tale: Two Young Women and One Jar of Pesto SauceNote, this is an horror story not because the guys got botulism, but because the ate industrial pesto with basil coming from California(really? are you f**king serious? - I can tell the difference of Pesto grown outside a specific zone in Italy and you think California pesto is edible??)
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Post 54110980 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
Coronavirus Cases: 602,049. Deaths: 27,532. Recovered: 138,594.
- Italy reports 919 deaths in a singel day, raising death toll to 9,134.
There were delays the previous day in collecting the data from some regions, that's why yesterday's numebr were so bad, because the previous day's one were better!
Using log axis better shows we still are in the exponential gegion of growth (growth rate>1)
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Post 54111211 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
Yeah, didn’t shares this one in the open yet I think.... but I broke up with my GF after a 6.5 years..... few months ago somewhere around my Brazil trip.... and strangely my path lead me to someone new as well... the dude is happy, and willing to make a coiner of this one as well, she smart and interested so when she sees and learns the fundamentals then she will be a coiner as well, I’m sure of that.
Actually to have met someone before this quarantine situation is a blessing as well, the Dude don’t cook very well and sh*t so lucky me ☺️
Oh,
so you moved on with new nickname and new life.
Glad you managed to keep good relationship with Cryptoqueen (we are
all almost everyone polite persons here, after all), but also you were able to turn the page and go on with your life. This is not an easy things after 6.5 years.
Don't worry If you had less time for the WO Gang.
We know you had to deal with first things first, and we are waiting for you as long as you need!.
compulsory #nohomo disclaimer
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Post 54111715 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
United States 101,508 Coronavirus Cases
150K by Monday night GMT
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Post 54111888 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
United States 101,508 Coronavirus Cases
150K by Monday night GMT
300K+ by next weekend.
low.
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Post 54112076 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
How long you people think we will be under quarantine ?
one full month now!
Damn I am losing my mind.
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Post 54112261 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
How long you people think we will be under quarantine ?
one full month now!
Damn I am losing my mind.
count me in
And for how long this will continue? until May? Until June?
Really depends on data.
Rule of thumb, when growth rate is less than exponential (growth rate lass than 1, this means you are halfway trough cycle).
Italy is almost there, so at least one more month.
At least.
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Post 54112703 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
Printing the money is THE plan.
Please tell me I am wrong ...
1) Christine Lagarde was chief IMF in 2013 when ECB did Cyprus BAIL-IN (confiscation of depositor savings)
2) She is now chief ECB managing corona crisis
3) IMF's SDR (special Drawing Rights) mentioned as first global currency
https://twitter.com/100trillionUSD/status/1243624726297227264?s=20He's linking this article:
Cyprus bailout deal with EU closes bank and seizes large depositsBasically the idea is that Cyprus (bail in taxing large deposits and locking banks) is a trial run for Europe's next banking crisis.
Well, I don't get it.
Who need to seize money from private citizen when you could just print it out of thin air as the FED is doing?
Who believe in taxes in these days?
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Post 54112971 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
Dear Lord.
TRUMP SAYS IS THINKING ABOUT IMPOSING A QUARANTINE ON NEW YORK
- It‘s happening
https://twitter.com/russian_market/status/1243937014203977731?s=20
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Post 54114047 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
3th bottle of wine..... 21h.... just being informative and checking in
Cheers
This is El duderino_ we all missed and we all love!
Compulsory #nohomo disclaimer
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Post 54114772 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
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Post 54118241 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.21h):
Boring Quarantine Sunday afternoon.
Let's cheer up with a PlanB tweet:
Chart update. #bitcoin time series model got more attention, but I also like cross asset model. It shows low SF1 assets with utility value, and high SF10+ assets with monetary value. Update has latest prices and updated silver stock numbers. h/t
@VoimaGold
https://voimagold.com/insight/how-much-silver-is-above-ground
https://twitter.com/100trillionUSD/status/1244252914908004357?s=20
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Post 54125556 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.22h):
United States 101,508 Coronavirus Cases
150K by Monday night GMT
152K already...
SAD!
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Post 54126032 (copy this link) (by fillippone) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_17.22h):
Well.
Being quarantined sucks.
But do you know what sucks the most?
Fascism.
First example: Orban getting full powers to "fight Coronavirus".
Who is going to strip him from those powers if/when crisis is solved?
The nationalist government in Hungary passed a law Monday granting sweeping emergency powers that Prime Minister Viktor Orban says are necessary to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
Those powers include sidelining parliament and giving Orban the power to rule by decree indefinitely. The law would punish those who spread false information about the pandemic with up to five years in prison.
"Changing our lives is now unavoidable," Orban told lawmakers last week. "Everyone has to leave their comfort zone. This law gives the government the power and means to defend Hungary."
During Monday's vote, he said: "When this emergency ends, we will give back all powers, without exception."
But critics insist that Orban is using the pandemic to grab power. "An indefinite and uncontrolled state of emergency cannot guarantee that the basic principles of democracy will be observed," Council of Europe Secretary General Marija Pejcinovic Buric wrote to Orban on March 24.
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/03/30/823778208/new-law-gives-sweeping-powers-to-hungarys-orban-alarming-rights-advocates?t=1585593271940Second, subtler example: we are slowly sliding toward China.
Mass control smuggled as a required Health Prevention Feature.
"We could extend the tracking through apps that have been talked about a lot in the last few weeks, and we could ask for them in these mass situations." Purpose? Understand the risk of a person who must attend the event, in order to evaluate what to do. For example, on the ticket purchased, the words ?The organization reserves the right to deny entry to those who have had risky behavior regarding the virus or dangerous symptoms?.
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=it&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.corriere.it%2Feconomia%2Fconsumi%2F20_marzo_30%2Fbar-ascensori-metro-concerti-cinema-come-cambiera-nostra-vita-il-coronavirus-e7a980b0-727f-11ea-bc49-338bb9c7b205.shtmlFUCK YOU!
<-- MicG's 10k hat
They always ruin everything. Im just praying Tyler Jenks stays bearish.
