That's not the way of a P2P currency?
When a professional is flexing or trying to railroad me into a decision and they tell me they have 20 years experience, therefore... my grandfather advised me to ask a simple question.
Is that 1 x 20 or 20 x 1 year?
"Creatives and makers are the happiest workers."
"Work the same for a penny as a pound"
"Set expectations before you start a project."
That's the beginning middle and end of my book based on 40 years work where I looked forward to getting on with a job most days.. :) The only job I dreaded was working on a govt benefits scheme, go figure, where there was no end to the workload.
A €100 worth of gold and a €100 in cash. Which one will you spend first?
When the cash is gone, will you spend the gold as if it were cash, or would you br a lot more thoughtful? Especially if you know it theoretically increases it's value in euros over time.
That's how I'm trying to explain how digital gold, bitcoin, solves so much.
It is so valuable, so hard to produce, you just aren't going to be a frivolous spender if you think in bitcoin. You will try to get your money's worth, buy smart, buy well, buy less crap.
You should eventually spend less time working to buy what you need to maintain a viable, decent standard of living.
That thinking would apply from individual to state level.
I have had a bitcoin mindset my whole adult life. Nowadays with bitcoin a thing, I don't feel like a crazy person not chasing the buck for fulfillment.
The fiat euro or dollar has never been able to, and by design cannot underpin what is necessary to be happy and fulfilled. They are just a control tool to keep us headlessly working or headlessly accumulating more and more to keep the system going. For what? For the people printing that money, giving false promises that they have your back.
I'm not here on this planet to keep a fiat system functioning, any more than my cat is, or the trees in the forest or the fish in the sea. I'm just born on a certain rock at a time when the fiat experiment was in full swing and most people around me from the cradle onwards were hooked in and unquestioning.
There was once a time when stuff on sale was made with love or an eye to longevity. Stuff was repairable, inheritable. And there wasn't much of it. There was no abundance of riches for most. You might have one precious thing.
Despite advances, and supposed abundance, almost everything we do now and make is less efficient, less elegant, less useful than we know it could or should be. Stuff is thrown away unrepairable and short lived by design. What were treats are now part of the daily grind.
As a countryside dweller, it is so clear to me that mankind tries to dominate nature for the same reason a bully picks on their victim - an attempt to cover for our own inadequacy.
We can't replicate let alone improve on 1m2 of Amazon rainforest, so we cut it down and burn it and put a cow in it's place. Nothing against cows, but talk about dumbing down and de-riching a marvellous resource gifted by this planet.
It seems there is nothing man made either digital or tangible that can match bitcoin for power and elegance. It is maths, which seems to explain much of the natural world, personified. It is more precious than we thought gold was, and with way more features on the spec sheet. And it's for everyone in that noone can change it without massive consensus.
If you have a pot of digital gold or a pot of currency backed by a hard asset, you will spend it wisely. If you have a pot of currency backed by the goodwill of a person who can print some more at will, see it for what it is and stop banking on it bringing peace of mind and peace on earth. It does the opposite.
Ramble over.
Which came first, the pound or the penny, the cent or the dollar? #asknostr
Sats are the 21 quadrillion units of the protocol known as Bitcoin. Every 100 million sats are called a bitcoin which is represented on exchanges as 1 BTC.
Maths says the max supply of bitcoins is 21 million. The protocol enforces that policy.
Just thinking aloud after the TFTC podcast with John Carvalho.
A bottle a day is about right to slowly then suddenly fuck you up :)
Not preaching, but experience says, if you can cut alcohol out of your routine, you should find that much falls back into place.
Going through my blood readings last year, my doc was raving about my kidneys being super healthy , which, knowing my taste for wine, seemed a bit freaky. Thinking I was some freak of nature, she then asked if I ate meat and I said no. Clever so and so told me to cut down on the booze. I asked how she knew I drank a lot. Simple. Alcohol was the most likely source of excess sugar in my blood. Bollocks.
Natural wine doesn't induce hang overs and is about as healthy as an alcoholic beverage can get, but even a bottle of that every day erodes your constitution.
That's all I know! Good luck
I can remember buying in extra work materials for January. And a programming mate was earning a fortune on "vital work".
Was it a complete fraud? Years ago some douche told me the software community saved the world with their tireless efforts. I don't recall them coming to our house to reformat the microwave.
14 years later the thesis of the 4 Horsemen still holds up, as does the badge
This documentary opened my eyes to the burgeoning shit show baked into post 2008. Stupidly I didn't pick up on bitcoin that was proposed as the future of money.
Clever quote on all levels
You'd be a mess if you didn't have your artistic safety valve. Thanks for suffering, the end results are very calming for us onlookers too.
Years, it can take years. It's horrible, but... If it's any consolation I have probably talked more to my dad since he died than when he was alive. And he has come up with some great answers :) Peace
The destructions as a carpenter friend says, every damn time!
Found myself defending gold when talking to a trader. Ouch.
I did it on behalf of the hard asset community! And a reaction to the charge that convicted Bitcoiners are too conservative.
For them everything is a dollar accumulation trade, even bitcoin. They say gold is a lame duck. No returns worth a dime.
I suggested that gold is the enemy of fiat, the asset that traditionally would reveal the failings of fiat. Suppress the dollar price of gold, hide the fiat fraud. If hyperinflation kicks in, gold's past performance will have nothing to do with future returns. Not heard back. Have I got it wrong?
Bitcoin is the fastest horse etc etc, but holders of gold surely sleep well too.
Don't fret, the TSA have got you covered. I recently watched Carry On, showing one of the TSAs finest hours.
Good advice for certain lifestyles, but reading this from rural Spain, every hour of lifting weights and machines sounds like a productive hour lost. I have tons of stone from fallen walls to help keep folks moving, sweating for free, in the fresh air... Callouses and future back problems included :)
Felices fiestas
Good mate is taking a punt on DOG(bitcoin). Hard to acquire, poor liquidity, air dropped to 75000 degens since when it has done nothing but crash. The to the moon thesis built on being listed on Kraken...He is going through all that to acquire more bitcoin than he can "afford" now.
Funniest part of his defence is that he says bitcoiners are too conservative and scared of risk!
It's his call.
I didn't bother. The salty fiat crust is too thick to penetrate.
The only one who understands the debt system takes out loans to buy houses so he can earn more fiat. In a way he is accelerating the inevitability of bitcoin, but at the expense of others who just want a roof over their head.
