The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread
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Woohoo! I got a $5.00 Bitcoin balance yesterday for signing up. It’s already up to $5.36!
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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…
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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?
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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!
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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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Reading this thread makes me understand how my grandparents felt when they tried to program the VCR.
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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Just reached my first $1.00… 1% in 6 hours….
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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?
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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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
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@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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@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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@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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@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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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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@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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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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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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@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”?
