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@Blugolds11 @Pelagic - The caliber of contestants rises with every season in my opinion. My favorite 2 seasons so far were the Arctic. While the people there struggled it wasn't a full on starve fest. This past season (8) was hard to watch since no one was getting any food. Just watching people waste away is frustrating. This first episode of season 9 was awesome we have some real high caliber contestants. Also, people are already getting game which could set us up for a long run of contestants. I would love to go out and do a 2 week version of the show by myself. Worst comes to worst im confident I can starve for 2 weeks. My wife has asked If I would ever want to go on Alone and while I have most of the skills that I think would allow me to be a very strong contestant even as an introvert I enjoy the occasional social interaction... Anyway I love alone. About the only show I get crazy stoked to watch. Also been watching stranger things 4. - Every season just gets darker...

Alone Season 9. Let the hunger games begin!

Your statement just made me more bullish. I havent sold any BTC. Net buyer here.

Or supply demand will continue to play out as demand grows from adoption of small countries like Venezuela who made it their national currency. Fixed supply and lots of people who can benefit from a commodity like BTC.

I still think BTC is the winner for digital currency (gold). All the other cryptos in the ETH world slash proof of stake are up in the air. I think that whole world serves a different purpose (smart contract land) that has lots to be proven. I like to play in this space because i find it crazy fascinating but 99.9% of that space is shitcoins.

I cant take my gold to overstock.com and buy something. But I can buy stuff on overstock.com with BTC. Moving my gold from my saftey deposit box to another location is risky and expensive. Sending my BTC to any other wallet anywhere in the world is quick and safe. If the government tries to seize my assets (god forbid) they may find my gold unless its buried somewhere. Only I know the key to my BTC wallet. While there are only a few places i can spend BTC right now this is expanding. Think of how many small vendors use SQ. Eventually Dorsey will roll out BTC transactions on the lightning network to SQ vendors. Youll be able to spend your BTC at every SQ vendor. Facebook is building it into Venmo. The old days we traded gold because we needed money. Eventually we went to paper currency backed by gold because it was a pain to carry gold. now we carry digital bank balances backed by gold. but is it really backed by gold anymore? when we print trillions of dollars overnight we expand the disconnect. IMO bitcoin has the potential to become global online currency. Its hard to mine, there is a finite amount of it, and it functions as a digital currency across borders. EDIT: The reason im a buyer of BTC is not because i believe BTC to be producing value but because we are so early in the BTC adoption and spread. The amount of people with bitcoin wallets is a fraction of the population. So as BTC adoption spreads and more people start buying demand will drive price up. BTC is a digital commodity there will only ever be 21M bitcoin and we got a lot of people who own no bitcoin. As the younger generation and world wide populations realize that BTC is a better store of value than rubles, yaun, euros, pesos, dollars. The influx of people will drive its prices up. To note i still believe equities are better from the sense of income producing assets. But shit I would rather have bitcoin than dollars if I could spend my bitcoin everywhere I can spend a dollar. Because then its mine, and not the banks promise that its there.

I am still a bitcoin bull. Ive been buying weekly under the 30K mark and feeling great about it. Id rather own BTC than gold.

MU 2024 Leaps $60 strike

Yea hes been concentrated and in tech i'd bet he got hammered. I really like looking through his 13F's as I like to look at anyone who runs concentrated conviction bets. But im more of a value guy at heart so I always only nibble at tech stuff.

I've been enjoying Moon Knight on Disney+. Reminds me of the old mummy movies a little bit. Also, Not sure if anyone here has read the Jason Bourne books. But in the books Jason Bourne more as like a multiple personality disorder between David Webb, Jason Bourne, & Delta. When I watch Moon Knight and seeing the way they portray the multiple personalities this is how I wish the Bourne movies had been. Since I enjoyed the books so much.

I have been slowly adding to my BTC position. I have a side project where Ive been exploring using crypto as a rewards program for small brands that dont / cant invest in the infrastructure to support an inhouse rewards program. While I was doing that I went to Overstock since they have been accepting payments in BTC for years now. It was kind of cool to toy with purchasing real products and services with BTC. I was reading some articles about SQ - Block as they are starting to invest very heavily in BTC. There was a statement about BTC becoming the currency of the internet. To me this makes more and more sense. The more layer2 networks that get developed to support and reduce frictional costs BTC's ease will be incredible. Lots of ecommerce will gravitate as they get tired of paying 3% to Visa/MC. BTC is virtual gold. Personally, I find the Ethereum based smart contract stuff more interesting. But BTC is becoming a clear winner from adoption, security, and infrastructure when it comes to something that could be considered a currency or asset.

I am such a sucker for Kevin Spacey. He's by far one of my favorite actors. I love his popular stuff like American Beauty, 21, and Usual Suspects But I really love some of his lesser knowns. Like K-PAX , Pay it forward, Moon, & Shrink Also a big fan of Ryan Gosling and Sigourney Weaver.

Good luck! I love backpacking and do a few trips each year. 6 years ago I took 2 months and did 500 miles of the Appalachian trail. (bottom of GSM National Park - north about half way through VA)

Added some MU this AM.

Thank you for this. I'm gonna do a little more digging.

What kind of equipment do you need to start this / where is a good starting point for education?

BTC isn't efficient for payments without usage of the lightning network. On that note, the lightning network is being built out aggressively and will enable small instantaneous (nearly free, fractions of cents) transactions. ETH is still expensive as F to do transactions on. There are several other chains that have been trying to infringe on ETH's dominancy addressing the transaction times and costs of transactions (AVAX, SOL, MATIC, & several others). ETH based cryptos are stronger suited in the world of smart contracts that payment systems.

Games, I see ticket to ride and Catan in there. We play those at my house too. Settler Sundays... @adesigarNice collection

I haven't run valuation comparisons on any of them in quite some time (few years). I know personally I think TJX is the most well managed and strongest pick of any of the B&M liquidators. I have always been a big fan of TJX as a business and their store/brand umbrella. Made some money on TJX during the COVID rebound. TJX is well known for being recession resistant so it usually doesn't take huge haircuts on valuation.

No, But ill happily send you my metamask address and you can send me any ETH based currencies you want

I have 3 under 3... Life is literally a shit show right now... diapers.... I garden every year and do the bees. This year I plan on taking the bees to some property we have in the mountains and get wildflower honey. Happy to be a resource if you ever take the bee keeping dive. Though usually its best to just join a local bee club.

Very Nice!!! There's something tangible when you do any kind of manual work. Remodels are so rewarding when your done. Sounds like a stellar location. How much do you think you'll have to put into the place for the remodel? If you airBnB it I may have to come stay and fish. I am also an avid fly fisherman. Never fished any of the Northern Cali rivers. But I would love to.

My father used to work for Overstock. Patrick Burns former CEO was a nut over crypto/blockchain. He was reinvesting all of Overstocks profits into crypto/blockchain side projects. He was absolutely convinced that crypto technology was going to unlock the potential of 3rd world countries. The more I use it the more I am convinced as well and situations like Canada and Russia may provide catalysts for change. The real value of crypto's is ownership. While the citizen in Russia cant trade his BTC for groceries today. The Grocer will have a hard time paying his suppliers. What's to stop them all from saying here's my BTC wallet address send me your funds here? BTC definitely has a worldwide value. I firmly believe that BTC will lay the foundation of currency/finance and ETH based tokens will lay the foundation of smart contracts. The ability to own my tokens in my wallet and transfer them to anyone I choose without an intermediary will be life changing especially to countries that don't have the stability that we enjoy in North America.

Just started reading it. As a chess nerd I also loved that they titled the book sections with chess terms. So far its a great read.