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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.

I've previously looked at QIWI and YNDX. I will be keeping an eye on them. YNDX could become quite compelling. Even current price is worth a look. YNDX is the search engine of choice in Russia and people wont stop surfing the internet because of a war. I don't know how it will impact their profits and the currency risks around everything. But at the right price this YNDX has good prospects -the ADR risks. I wont bet the farm on it, but I may take a small nibble at some point.

Just listened to this. I laughed out loud at work when you started talking about Starcraft. Gotta get that cannon up before the zerglings. hahaha. Was a pretty casual conversation felt more philosophical about the process of writing the book and what he learned from writing the book than a book report. Interesting none the less. Thanks for putting it out there.

Someone started the movies threads and the music threads a little while back. I figured I would start a hobbies thread to see what other people are doing when you aren't face deep in a 10-K. What are your hobbies? I am also a bee keeper. Last fall I came across a group on FB for making bee hives out of refrigerators. So through the winter I decided to give it a go and built a refrigerator hive. I have some property in the mountains and I intend to take this fridge up to the mountains to leave it for the summer around the end of April.

I preordered the book at the beginning of Feb. Looking forward to reading it.

Closed these and bought more 11$ and 12$ strikes - Small position.

Wouldn't this also prove or at least argue the opposite that its more secure than gold or cash because it cant be laundered? why attempt to steal something you cant use or sell? I believe the stolen cell phone market is quite small these days as well because the carriers have made it so hard to sell or repurpose a stolen phone.

Anyone read this book about the founders of Paypal? Listened to a podcast about it today and it sounded very facinating. If you've read it what are your thoughts? If you haven't read it what are your thoughts on the founders of Paypal? Most have gone on to create other unicorn businesses. Edit: just went to buy the book and discovered it is not released yet. It releases on Feb 22. So I preorded.

https://www.valuewalk.com/books/seth-klarmans-recommended-books/ "The book is out of print,is one of the most stolen books from libraries, and sells for thousands of dollars online." Someone mentioned in one of the earlier comments that you can find pdf's of the book online if you look hard enough. I read it years ago. My opinion was its a simpler easier to digest version of Graham's "The Intelligent Investor". To a new learner its likely quite valuable. To someone who understands markets already its not gonna blow your mind.

Welcome to the club

@JAKMoving the Bezzle Crypto conversation to this thread. There are more than 10K cryptos out there. When I started exploring crypto I took the exercise to create my own coin/token so that I could understand the back end of them. I've now created a few all with what I would describe 0 value. I did provide a small amount of liquidity to one and listed it on an decentralized exchange just for the exercise of it. Now i just use them as proof of friendship tokens for some of my IRL friends who are exploring crypto. I send them a token after setting them up with a wallet just for fun. I believe other people in the other Bezzle thread highlighted that its more what you do with the tokens that creates value. I would not be surprised to see a new evolution of business using crypto tokens as stocks. Instead of IPO ing via the stock exchange you could create a token and say your going to put the earnings of the business into the liquidity pool of the token. Or each token entitles you to a portion of the business dividend. Currently this would all be built on a trust relationship. But its not impossible.

I do remember voting for ads. over more/higher fees.

You would need some medium of bank or exchange. in the example your getting paid in USD or Saudi currency (whatever it is). You would need to exchange a % of your income to a stablecoin via an exchange. US example: exchange my USD via coinbase into BTC Need to assume parents have a crypto wallet (either web based or mobile based) Need to assume parents have a a local crypto exchange (https://www.bitrawr.com/bangladesh) *Binance Send BTC to parents crypto wallet. Parents exchange BTC to their local currency (likely requires local banking system) Very doable and if done on the right network very nominal fees. ** if I were doing this regularly I would pick a network like AVAX or SOL to and maybe even use those tokens as the transaction fees are less than $0.15 USD per transaction. And if your passing currency through the system pretty quickly you shouldn't be subject to too much AVAX or SOL token volatility.