And what will you say to them Marty because I wonder what I will say if I am asked. "You didn't want to buy it when I said you should buy it at $5k so why are you asking me when it's $125k?" Thing is if they do buy at $125k (or higher) they absolutely won't be buying it when it drops and goes through the inevitable bear market or as it climbs back up again, they'll wait til the next bull run is in full swing & they'll tell me I was "lucky" to buy when I did. That's how the scenario goes in my head 🤷♂️
Agreed. So much BS with his little anecdotes and words of advice for his followers, it feels very pretentious as if he thinks he's some kind of wise sage.
So you wouldn't be nervous being filmed by a HBO crew while being framed as the person who owns over a million bitcoin? Can you imagine what a target that would make you. It's a lot harder for Peter to prove he isn't Satoshi that it is for some hack film maker to say he is Satoshi.
I had to go into my phone settings & disable background data for Amethyst because it plays videos in the background, even videos I haven't clicked on. It used 857mb in two days and I barely use it. That's ridiculous.
I'm English but live in the US. My family are in England & I often think I should move back at some point but apart from family & friends (which obvs are very important) there's little reason to live there. It does seem like a depressed run down place. I was a Remainer but came around to supporting Brexit after the fact. I think in the long run it will be positive that we left the EU. It won't be for a while yet though & I see myself staying in the US for now.
I do fine without meat. I haven't eaten meat, or lard, meat broth etc since 1985, almost 40 years. I do eat dairy & pretty much anything healthy, loads of fresh vegetables & fruits, nuts, legumes, whole grains etc. Never been overweight, blood tests always good. Eating a variety of healthy foods is the best thing you can do for yourself (& exercise of course), just go to places like Italy and see how they eat. Food fads like the current carnivore stuff aren't going to work out long term for good health & will die out like all other diets/fads.
Anyone eating a balanced diet of *healthy* foods is going to be fine. A traditional Italian diet is great. As with a lot of countries highly processed garbage is pushed on the, American junk, and people fall for it unfortunately. It's sad
Interesting. So do people fear more the potential of being made fun of by friends/family than the risk of losing money? Or is it equal? I guess if you have to consider both of them then it does become more difficult.
In three months these numbers will be downgraded by a LOT. No-one with any sense takes these numbers seriously. That's not to say a recession is coming, I'm not a doomer, but they keep changing these numbers & it's always negatively months after the fact when people don't care.
This is so true. Organic seed oils are fine, they are completely different from the oils that the anti seed-oil freaks go on about but they never even consider it. The process to make them doesn't involve any chemicals but they have never taken the time to look into it. I've noticed in the 7+yrs of being in bitcoin that there is a strong tendency among some bitcoiners to latch onto things like the carnivore diet, anti-seed oils & more recently population collapse (its not going to happen) without really doing any critical thinking, it's kinda cultish behaviour.
Jfc where are you getting your nutritional information from? TikTok? Where is the scientific research that shows quitting seed oils will prevent sunburn? Honestly, the utter lack of critical thinking by some people is unreal.
Are you talking about Powell's in Portland? The staff demanded that some books could not be sold by the company a couple of years ago during the height of the DEI bullshit. The owner caved a little and removed them from the store but allowed them to be sold online. The hypocrisy of the Left is unreal at times.
Ha! We all are. I listened to Preston's podcast today & heard your prediction for next year. I like it but my sense is that it's too optimistic but I hope you are right. Hodl, Jack Mallers, Arthur Hayes, Samson have all predicted even higher price targets so it should be an interesting year.
It's really not that much different except that Nostr is about 99.5% bitcoiners so if you want to narrow down your engagement to just bitcoiners this is the place for you.
I deleted my Twitter account before Elon made the decision to buy it. I still go on there to look at a few accounts but do it with a Nitter instance that still functions so am not a victim to algo's or ads.
It's my opinion that Nostr will never become widely adopted & will remain used almost entirely by bitcoiners & that X will continue to be the primary social media space on the internet (unless the government starts to clamp down on it). Normies are not going to start sorting through relays in order to use Nostr just as they are not going to set up hardware wallets and generate seeds so they can self-custody bitcoin. I imagine that social media will change significantly and that aspects of Nostr such as decentralization will be adopted in the future but Nostr is and will remain a place primarily for bitcoiners. I've been on Nostr almost two years & there has been no noticeable growth outside of bitcoiners.
She is the same person that she hates. She can criticize and mock those that don't vote the way she does but all her insults & putdowns of people who don't vote Democrat can be fairly used against her too. She's a liar,& a peddler in misinformation and a fascist.
I've not listened to it. I am subscribed to Coin Stories so it showed up in my podcast feed but the last interview I listened to with him was typical politician BS. He won't say a single word that might come across as critical of any Democrat in office or the party itself. I listened to a Thomas Massie interview recently & he comes across as far more honest. I don't care for Ro Khanna at all even if he says he is pro bitcoin.
I hate that plastic bags of food now have zip locks on them them and are so shitty that they don't even work. Who tf comes up with these dumb ideas? 🤦♂️
You might want to Google Jealousy vs Envy. Not sure why you would think jealousy is always healthy which is what you are saying. A more true statement if you think it can be positive would be jealousy *can* be healthy. To say jealousy is healthy is just obviously wrong.
Regardless of changing definitions the idea that jealousy is healthy is ridiculous. Not sure what Hodl is thinking, this is some pseudo-intellectualism that really is poor.
It's tough being an introvert in an extrovert world. I read Steven Levy's book Crypto earlier this year, Phil Z is a good man. That's really cool you got to meet him.
A lot of peeps that align with it probably don't realize the reasons for the mass immigration. The media will constantly push the idea that anyone saying it's a Dem tactic to stay in power is a far-right conspiracy theorist. It's going to backfire rather badly at some point & it's an even worse problem in Europe.
I used to be on the Left. I never liked the Democrats but I voted for them because I felt they were the better choice. I fucking hate them more than I've ever disliked the Republicans. The big problem is that Dems essentially controll big media which is extremely effective & unfortunately I think will help them stay in power. Really hope I'm wrong though 🙏
With regards to "bitcoin or bitcoins", which term did Satoshi use when he wrote about more than a single bitcoin? Surely whatever he used is the term we should all use. Personally I use bitcoin, I think bitcoins sounds so wrong.
Followers of diets always justify their diet, that's how it stays popular, until it dies out. It wasn't long ago that being gluten-free was the craze. The Adkins diet came & went, same as the fat-free diet. Same will happen with the carnivore diet. I don't care what you eat, go ahead & eat loads of farm raised animals & feel like you are eating like a caveman, makes no difference to me.
That can be true. It's also true that many people say drugs saved their lives. What I'm saying is that it can take a lot more than just exercise & not just the use of anti-depressants either.
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