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I'd be down. Could set up a bracket for everyone who wanted to participate. Would just have to settle on time control. Bitz or Rapid, Could do them as dailys. But then it may take weeks to complete.

I play blitz and bullet on chess.com almost every day. been stagnant with my rating for years. just accepted this is where i am as i dont put extra effort in. 1300-1400 blitz and 1100-1300 bullet. Love playing! Also watch periodically I like Chessbrahs, John Bartholomew, and Hikaru Queens gambit as white, Scandinavian as black.

Nice! I just got back from visiting singapore & thailand last week. Was an awesome trip Singapore is stellar hope you have a great time.. After spending a few weeks in SE Asia and using Grab quite a bit it sparked my interest and I needa do a deeper dive on GRAB. Anyone else use / do any research on GRAB as an idea? while still not profitable and looks like its had quite the sell off since going public it does appear like it has a very long runway in front of it. We used it a lot in both Thailand and Singapore. They have a presence and visibility far above and beyond their competitors on the streets in SE Asia. Curious anyone elses thoughts.

While Im all for autonomous cars. I have a family ranch and love driving the 45 mins of dirt roads into the mountains. No autonomous car will take me where I want to go off road.

Love backpacking

Glad you enjoyed it. It really was a very fascinating view on BTC that i had never heard or considered before.

As a biology nerd and a crypto fan. I found this discussion much more entertaining than I expected.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/03/16/introducing-microsoft-365-copilot-your-copilot-for-work/

My wife gets hangry (aka fungry). When she starts getting in a mood. I start thinking in my head. OK she needs to eat where do we go lol.

Yes, I use TIKRs screener on OTC stuff.

TIKR and brain

Turned this post into a rap via ChatGPT. seemed appropriate....

Summer: Fishing, Hiking, backpacking, canyoneering, bees, working at the ranch. Winter: backcountry splitboarding, snowmobiling, hiking.

Ive been using it quite a bit recently. Its great for the creative process. Like a rough out in wood working. You still gotta be a carpenter to get something quality out of it. But it sure as hell can make some strong rough outs when your trying to generate ideas. Its far from perfect but often I am not looking to google something and get an answer from one source. Most time i just want more info and more opinions and I can go do more research to determine truth. One more tool in the quiver. Also to ValueArbs point. Ive been playing with it for simple script writing and its very powerful for that stuff. still gotta tweak the code but hell im very impressed with what it can spit out quickly. Also, its more about how good are you at directing it to what you want it to generate.

This is where I am at now in regards to this topic. Edit: not calling anyone on this forum fools. Lots smarter than me. I just see substantial value in crypto and its not worth my energy to convince anyone that doesn't want to have a productive discussion.

this thread went to shit lol

Shit man... that show left me epic depressed.

Not knowing how to value something and does not mean it does not have intrinsic value. Yes, BTC does not produce cash flow. But there are 7.8B people on the planet and only 976K wallets with greater than 1 BTC. With 21M BTC that will ever be produced and growing adoption. The inflows will continue to exceed the outflows for a long runway. We have a lot of inflow Still to come into this commodity and the ease of trade and accessibility to everyone is a tailwind.

Merry Christmas to this great community!!

I thought this was refering to Bill Ackman lol was like wtf when did bill go to jail? realized it was about FTX guy.

I agree that its all about adoption. I recognize that most people in the western world will be slow to adopt. Hence most people only want to trade it. Change happens slowly. BTC will not overcome fiat in a short window. But over the next generation or two? 20-50 years its feasible. BTC adoption has only continued to grow. The current young generation may end up interacting and transacting in it then they grow up and say WTF do i need a bank account for? I've been exchanging BTC with my friends at school for 10 years via my wallet. Eventually he grows up and needs a bank account to transact with us older generational businesses but he creates a new business that just wants to cater to his friends and decides BTC transactions only. no banking fees no middle men. peer to peer transactions with instant settlement. And to the last point on central bank digital currency(CBDC). The best part of BTC is i still don't need a CBDC where they can print money and change the rules of the game. I can transact with the rest of the world in a currency thats not impacted by some central bank manipulating the system. If i need to transact in the CBDC currency i can swap out a little bit here or there to make that work. Im not gonna argue much more here. I've stated my stance. Its always the same old back and forth with the same people back and forth.

Use it and youll see the value. people who buy BTC on an exchange for trading dont understand what BTC or any other crypto truly is. Most people just think its something to be traded.

Its about adoption and the rules. You can recreate BTC but who is going to use it? BTC adoption is growing and security is extremely strong. Another differentiator of BTC vs other crypto's even ETH is that the creator of BTC (satoshi nakamoto) didn't mint any BTC to himself. Many alt coins are pump and dump schemes where the creators gave themselves a bunch out the gate. With BTC every participant has to work to get more BTC. Every BTC minted need to show Proof of Work to get mined. The network only gets more secure as more people use it. For less than $200 you can run a raspberry pi in your basement and add to the security of the BTC block chain by being a full node validator. Your node contributes to the block chain validates the transactions. The more nodes that validate the more secure the network gets. @rkbabang is right on the money with ETH and BTC being different. BTC will be the basis for new currency. ETH and other cryptos will be the basis for smart contracts. I am still a big believer that in the next 20 - 50 years you'll see a new wave a businesses that will be built on blockchains (ETH, SOL, AVAX, and others) that will run more efficiently and leaner giving them a competitive advantage over their peers. It has the potential to eliminate opex and increase data accuracy across businesses and internal departments. To the question of "Why is it so hard for another cryptocurrency/chain to have security as good as Bitcoin?" The answer is: its not hard. Problem is that most people wanting to replicate it are replicating it with a twist (usually a twist that is less secure or more self serving). The rules of BTC are not self serving and are very unbiased. (they are public and you can read them).

Watched Avatar 2: Way of the Water over the weekend. Absolutely visually stunning. Worth seeing in IMAX 3D.

Friend of mine who is an Attorney recently started working for a new firm that is in the crypto space. The firm only pays in USD-C or BTC you can choose which you want deposited into your wallet. The space for people who will accept your BTC is only growing. I paid for something on overstock.com in BTC once just to say i did it. Overstock will happily accept your BTC. If world goes to shitter I want farm land too... you can keep your BRK-A shares and your USD's Money is only used for exchange of promises. Personally I think BTC is better money than USD. Ill continue to HODL mine.