Wow, so sad to see Naomi Watts embracing this type of perversion. She was so beautiful and a great actress too. I’m starting to think if you want to make it big in Hollywood, you have to at least give lip service to vile degeneracy. But to mutilate and indoctrinate your own kid? I don’t even like kids and empathy isn’t exactly my strong suit, but dang…. that’s cold-hearted AF.
Nice, so are you actually beating your electricity cost with BTC earned?
Agree with most of these, with the exception of rejecting birth control, but I’ve gotta ask, why the wired headphones? Do they even still make them? As an aside… I’m actually old enough to remember the wired mouse.
What makes me think there will be another wave of monkey spam? Bitcoin Core devs are literally pushing through a source code update as we speak, against the wishes of many, that lifts the cap on the amount of spam that can be crammed into a transaction and, if I’m reading the proposal correctly, makes it more difficult to filter it out at the node level. They’re literally welcoming this type of activity with open arms. It’s championed by a fellow who promotes and profits from these schemes.
No, altcoin scams are most certainly NOT “one and done.” There’s a sucker born every minute. People will not learn. Even the lion’s share of prior victims will not learn.
Now, if your point is that people won’t be fooled by that *exact* same monkey promotion, then ok, I concede. Maybe they won’t. Maybe next time it’ll be a rhino. Or a Trump-themed cat. Or some other harebrained meme. One of them will catch on and fees will spike as monetary transactions get crowded out in favor of these garbage transactions. Then the fee bubble will pop and the cycle repeats.
As an aside, one of the things I absolutely love about Ethereum (as a Bitcoin maxi) is that historically, it’s acted as a magnet 🧲 for this type of garbage, keeping it out of the Bitcoin ecosystem. And how does the Bitcoin developer community respond? By inviting that exact same garbage into our own house.
Your point that hypothetically L1 backspace competition would heat up anyway, even in the absence of all monkeys 🐒, due to the sheer quantity of legitimate monetary transactions, is well taken. You’re absolutely right. And if it happens before the general masses get acclimated to L2 solutions then yeah, that’s a problem. But whatever time window you imagine we have before that happens shrinks dramatically with monkeys (and other chicanery) crowding out legit transactions.
Yes, but only for brief periods of time. As I recall, the last time the monkeys outbid the monetary guys, it lasted maybe 8-9 hours. Fees were over 1,000. Eventually the monkey folks are paying more in fees than they’re earning on the monkeys and fee rates return to normal. But I can tell you firsthand, if you have urgent non-monkey-business to do on-chain during one of those monkey-heavy periods, you’re in for a world of hurt. 🐵
Well, let’s see how all the smugsters and mockers feel about it when fees spike back up to 1,000 sats/vbyte, making everything from opening and closing lightning channels, executing coin joins, consolidating UTXOs, and making routine on-chain transfers darned near impossible. All so we can record monkey pictures and other non-monetary transactions in perpetuity.
I guess one could, although I personally am not a fan of KYC services like Strike. At that point, may as well sell BTC on a KYC exchange and pay the rent in fiat.
My personal experience: I have two landlords. One is a large investment company who manages my apartment complex in San Diego. There’s no way to pay them in Bitcoin. I’ve asked. They admit that there’s a demand for it from a few tenants, but not enough for them to invest the time and money to incorporate a Bitcoin payment gateway into their site.
My second landlord is a twenty-six year old dude who owns my condo on the Vegas strip. He’s more than happy to accept Bitcoin for rent payments.
I’ve found people most likely to accept Bitcoin are individuals who are self employed or own their own little corps. The hair stylist, the Uber driver who offers private driving services, the bar owner, and in some cases doctors and dentists who own their own practice.
But landlords? Never with large corps, but you’ll occasionally get lucky with private owners who know and trust you and happen to be Bitcoin enthusiasts.
It’s worth noting that a lot of those slimy little suckers have dreams of turning into a butterfly but then turn into a moth. I wonder if they’re disappointed.
Between the AI, the censorship, and the hostility toward ad blockers, YouTube is pretty much dead to me now.
This chart is getting passed around a lot in Bitcoin circles. Turns out it’s not accurate. Here’s a quick video recap of why:
https://youtu.be/nO6pL9FAtcM?feature=shared
Not to say Bitcoin won’t march higher as M2 increases. It’s just that the M2 spike-chart everyone is posting isn’t correct.
Oh wow! I’m not sure what to make of it but the sorcery bit makes me think it might be Dungeons and Dragons related. Some kind of weird roleplaying cult maybe?🤔
If you're thinking about going to the Vegas Bitcoin conference, remember that the real Bitcoin connections do not happen in stadiums.
They happen in the small moments.
A few months after my first ever bitcoin conference in Miami, there was a Beef Initiative event twenty minutes from my town.
People kept telling me excitedly that nostr:nprofile1qyv8wumn8ghj7urjv4kkjatd9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wsq3vamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwpexjmtpdshxuet5qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgqgzx3h was gonna be there. I didn't really know who this dude was, but the next day we were drinking wine at my house and he seemed like a good dude. Figured I might as well check out this dude's podcast.
The Meat Mafia guys were there too.
If you don't know them, they educate about diet and lifestyle.
After meeting them, I decided to change how I ate.
A decade-long gut issue disappeared.
Even smaller moments mattered just as much.
I was standing in line for lunch, feeling awkward, when a guy next to me started talking about his company, a Bitcoin marketplace called Oshi.
One random conversation turned into a friendship that helped me start accepting Bitcoin for my wine in a more serious way and opened my eyes to the burgeoning Bitcoin circular economy.
None of it was planned.
None of it was forced.
Beautiful things just happen when you just show up in the bitcoin world.
What dietary change did you make to eliminate the decade-long gut issue?
This chart is getting passed around a lot in Bitcoin circles. Turns out it’s not accurate. Here’s a quick video recap of why:
https://youtu.be/nO6pL9FAtcM?feature=shared
Not to say Bitcoin won’t march higher as M2 increases. It’s just that the M2 spike-chart everyone is posting isn’t correct.
I don’t quite understand the strategy. If the Fed prints a ton of money and uses it to buy bonds, I guess that extra demand would pump his bond holdings. But if the US is issuing new debt like crazy, wouldn’t that cause yields to rise and bond values to decrease? What’s his play here?
Nice. Bartering is hard to pull off but so cool when you get a match.
I haven’t seen a single post with the word buzzbot, unless it’s someone complaining about it. I’m using Damus. I don’t get it. Why not just unfollow or mute the “buzzbot” bot?
Those are some weird ass dreams, my man.