The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread
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wrote on 8 Nov 2021, 00:29 last edited by Horace 11 Aug 2021, 00:29
I'd probably have some money invested in bitcoin if my brokerage transacted it. But they don't, and I'm not motivated enough to open a robinhood account.
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wrote on 8 Nov 2021, 18:08 last edited by
Woohoo! I got a $5.00 Bitcoin balance yesterday for signing up. It’s already up to $5.36!
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wrote on 8 Nov 2021, 18:25 last edited by
Okay, I put the money I had set aside for one of Karla’s Christmas Gifts on Solana. Let’s see if she is getting new EarPods, a diamond necklace, or a lovely card for Christmas…
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Okay, I put the money I had set aside for one of Karla’s Christmas Gifts on Solana. Let’s see if she is getting new EarPods, a diamond necklace, or a lovely card for Christmas…
wrote on 8 Nov 2021, 19:32 last edited by@lufins-dad said in The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread:
Okay, I put the money I had set aside for one of Karla’s Christmas Gifts on Solana. Let’s see if she is getting new EarPods, a diamond necklace, or a lovely card for Christmas…
What made you select Solana?
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@lufins-dad said in The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread:
Okay, I put the money I had set aside for one of Karla’s Christmas Gifts on Solana. Let’s see if she is getting new EarPods, a diamond necklace, or a lovely card for Christmas…
What made you select Solana?
wrote on 8 Nov 2021, 20:14 last edited by@mark said in The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread:
@lufins-dad said in The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread:
Okay, I put the money I had set aside for one of Karla’s Christmas Gifts on Solana. Let’s see if she is getting new EarPods, a diamond necklace, or a lovely card for Christmas…
What made you select Solana?
It’s probably Ethereum’s biggest competitor and can handle more transactions than Ethereum. It’s been listed in many of the top 10 lists and has shown pretty consistent growth. This is going to be a trial run for me, so I wanted a currency that would have a little bit of volatility but should at least maintain a pretty safe return. I actually got it somewhat on the cheap today, but it’s still dropped since then, lol. Ethereum is having a good day!
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wrote on 8 Nov 2021, 20:17 last edited by Klaus 11 Aug 2021, 20:19
How about we deploy a TNCR smart contract on a blockchain, such that we can all participate?
The contract can involve external data (like: what is the weather on Feb 7, 2023, what is the price of AAPL two weeks after a particular sports event happened), randomness, money, ... . Could be some sort of lottery. We could play with toy money, just for fun, and for education. Or we could see whether people put their money where their mouth is by setting up bets on election results etc.
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wrote on 8 Nov 2021, 20:24 last edited by
Reading this thread makes me understand how my grandparents felt when they tried to program the VCR.
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wrote on 9 Nov 2021, 00:20 last edited by
Just reached my first $1.00… 1% in 6 hours….
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Reading this thread makes me understand how my grandparents felt when they tried to program the VCR.
wrote on 9 Nov 2021, 00:35 last edited by@doctor-phibes said in The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread:
Reading this thread makes me understand how my grandparents felt when they tried to program the VCR.
Exactly.
What the actual hell are you guys talking about?
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@doctor-phibes said in The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread:
Reading this thread makes me understand how my grandparents felt when they tried to program the VCR.
Exactly.
What the actual hell are you guys talking about?
wrote on 9 Nov 2021, 00:51 last edited by@george-k said in The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread:
@doctor-phibes said in The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread:
Reading this thread makes me understand how my grandparents felt when they tried to program the VCR.
Exactly.
What the actual hell are you guys talking about?
I’m not totally convinced they know, either
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Just reached my first $1.00… 1% in 6 hours….
wrote on 9 Nov 2021, 01:22 last edited by@lufins-dad said in The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread:
Just reached my first $1.00… 1% in 6 hours
That's 4% per day.
28% per week
Nice
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@mark said in The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread:
@lufins-dad said in The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread:
Okay, I put the money I had set aside for one of Karla’s Christmas Gifts on Solana. Let’s see if she is getting new EarPods, a diamond necklace, or a lovely card for Christmas…
What made you select Solana?
It’s probably Ethereum’s biggest competitor and can handle more transactions than Ethereum. It’s been listed in many of the top 10 lists and has shown pretty consistent growth. This is going to be a trial run for me, so I wanted a currency that would have a little bit of volatility but should at least maintain a pretty safe return. I actually got it somewhat on the cheap today, but it’s still dropped since then, lol. Ethereum is having a good day!
wrote on 9 Nov 2021, 03:54 last edited by@lufins-dad said in The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread:
@mark said in The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread:
@lufins-dad said in The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread:
Okay, I put the money I had set aside for one of Karla’s Christmas Gifts on Solana. Let’s see if she is getting new EarPods, a diamond necklace, or a lovely card for Christmas…
What made you select Solana?
It’s probably Ethereum’s biggest competitor and can handle more transactions than Ethereum. It’s been listed in many of the top 10 lists and has shown pretty consistent growth. This is going to be a trial run for me, so I wanted a currency that would have a little bit of volatility but should at least maintain a pretty safe return. I actually got it somewhat on the cheap today, but it’s still dropped since then, lol. Ethereum is having a good day!
Just bought a little Solana. I am limiting my purchases by not linking any payment methods that permit large transactions. We will see where these little gambles go for a while.
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@george-k said in The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread:
@doctor-phibes said in The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread:
Reading this thread makes me understand how my grandparents felt when they tried to program the VCR.
Exactly.
What the actual hell are you guys talking about?
I’m not totally convinced they know, either
wrote on 9 Nov 2021, 04:01 last edited by@doctor-phibes said in The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread:
@george-k said in The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread:
@doctor-phibes said in The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread:
Reading this thread makes me understand how my grandparents felt when they tried to program the VCR.
Exactly.
What the actual hell are you guys talking about?
I’m not totally convinced they know, either
My theory is that "bitcoin" and "cryptocurrency" is, at the end of the day, just Chinese MMO gold farming.
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@lufins-dad said in The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread:
@mark said in The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread:
@lufins-dad said in The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread:
Okay, I put the money I had set aside for one of Karla’s Christmas Gifts on Solana. Let’s see if she is getting new EarPods, a diamond necklace, or a lovely card for Christmas…
What made you select Solana?
It’s probably Ethereum’s biggest competitor and can handle more transactions than Ethereum. It’s been listed in many of the top 10 lists and has shown pretty consistent growth. This is going to be a trial run for me, so I wanted a currency that would have a little bit of volatility but should at least maintain a pretty safe return. I actually got it somewhat on the cheap today, but it’s still dropped since then, lol. Ethereum is having a good day!
Just bought a little Solana. I am limiting my purchases by not linking any payment methods that permit large transactions. We will see where these little gambles go for a while.
wrote on 9 Nov 2021, 04:16 last edited by@mark I have mine set that I have to authorize every transaction. This feels like the Wild West or the very first days of the Dow Jones…
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wrote on 9 Nov 2021, 09:40 last edited by Klaus 11 Sept 2021, 10:35
Now that I've learned more about the whole thing and have programmed a few smart contracts myself, I've also bought some Ethereum. This whole distributed finance thing looks really cool, I must say. Time to buy some non-fungible tokens!
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wrote on 9 Nov 2021, 12:53 last edited by
Bitcoin hit an all-time high of $68,530.34 early Tuesday, according to CoinMarketCap.
More: https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/08/business/bitcoin-ethereum-price-new-record/index.html
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@mark I have mine set that I have to authorize every transaction. This feels like the Wild West or the very first days of the Dow Jones…
wrote on 10 Nov 2021, 12:08 last edited by@lufins-dad said in The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread:
@mark I have mine set that I have to authorize every transaction. This feels like the Wild West or the very first days of the Dow Jones…
I do a lot of things based on gut.
My gut says crypto is absolutely here to stay, in one form or another. BTC and ETH are "too big to fail" (kinda) and will be here indefinitely. I think NFTs have a massive future, too. At least conceptually, the first way to really provide "unique ownership of a digital asset"... I think will grow in importance considering we'll forever be in a digital world going forward.
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wrote on 10 Nov 2021, 12:41 last edited by Klaus 11 Oct 2021, 13:26
My impression is that Blockchain technology will really take off when "security tokens" become a thing on a large scale, that is, if things like stock, bonds and Fiat currencies can also be treated just like ETH or BTC and integrated into smart contracts and dApps. That works to some degree with US dollar already, and from what I understand, a full-scale integration of securities is in the making.
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wrote on 10 Nov 2021, 12:50 last edited by
Yeah, but at some point you do need to see some regulatory policies come into play. You can’t have Shiba Inu types of stunts occurring all of the time.
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Now that I've learned more about the whole thing and have programmed a few smart contracts myself, I've also bought some Ethereum. This whole distributed finance thing looks really cool, I must say. Time to buy some non-fungible tokens!
wrote on 10 Nov 2021, 13:20 last edited by@klaus said in The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread:
Now that I've learned more about the whole thing and have programmed a few smart contracts myself, I've also bought some Ethereum. This whole distributed finance thing looks really cool, I must say. Time to buy some non-fungible tokens!
Is there a particular website or tool you use to write these “smart contracts”?