The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread
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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”?
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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”?
wrote on 10 Nov 2021, 13:23 last edited by Klaus 11 Oct 2021, 13:29@axtremus said in The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread:
@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”?
The simplest way to get started is Remix. When it gets more serious, there's a big set of (mostly) Python-based tools and libraries such as Brownie as well as Blockchain simulators such as Ganache.
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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.
wrote on 10 Nov 2021, 14:34 last edited by@lufins-dad said in The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread:
You can’t have Shiba Inu types of stunts occurring all of the time.
Woah woah woah.... let it get to the moon (or at least $1) before you kill that coin. That's my ticket to early retirement. I have 4 million coins! Yes, I like saying that.
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@lufins-dad said in The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread:
You can’t have Shiba Inu types of stunts occurring all of the time.
Woah woah woah.... let it get to the moon (or at least $1) before you kill that coin. That's my ticket to early retirement. I have 4 million coins! Yes, I like saying that.
wrote on 10 Nov 2021, 14:44 last edited by@89th said in The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread:
@lufins-dad said in The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread:
You can’t have Shiba Inu types of stunts occurring all of the time.
Woah woah woah.... let it get to the moon (or at least $1) before you kill that coin. That's my ticket to early retirement. I have 4 million coins! Yes, I like saying that.
When did you buy?
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@89th said in The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread:
@lufins-dad said in The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread:
You can’t have Shiba Inu types of stunts occurring all of the time.
Woah woah woah.... let it get to the moon (or at least $1) before you kill that coin. That's my ticket to early retirement. I have 4 million coins! Yes, I like saying that.
When did you buy?
wrote on 10 Nov 2021, 14:49 last edited by@lufins-dad Oh like back in May after the first spike. I think I bought $200 worth and now have $300 worth. It's stupid, but figured it would be fun to get lucky with a viral meme coin.
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wrote on 10 Nov 2021, 16:10 last edited by
I was planning on adding some of my weekly spending cash every week, just trying to figure out whether I want to keep putting it into SOL or diversify…
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@lufins-dad said in The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread:
You can’t have Shiba Inu types of stunts occurring all of the time.
Woah woah woah.... let it get to the moon (or at least $1) before you kill that coin. That's my ticket to early retirement. I have 4 million coins! Yes, I like saying that.
wrote on 10 Nov 2021, 16:13 last edited by@89th said in The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread:
@lufins-dad said in The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread:
You can’t have Shiba Inu types of stunts occurring all of the time.
Woah woah woah.... let it get to the moon (or at least $1) before you kill that coin. That's my ticket to early retirement. I have 4 million coins! Yes, I like saying that.
I plan on buying some Shiba Inu next week when my limit is reset. lol
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I was planning on adding some of my weekly spending cash every week, just trying to figure out whether I want to keep putting it into SOL or diversify…
wrote on 10 Nov 2021, 17:15 last edited by@lufins-dad said in The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread:
I was planning on adding some of my weekly spending cash every week, just trying to figure out whether I want to keep putting it into SOL or diversify…
I would suggest throwing cash on the brand new coins and trying to catch one that does a massive spike. Otherwise SOL and ETH and most of the top-10 coins will give you modest % gains. But if you're looking for the rare 100x or even 10,000x return...
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@lufins-dad said in The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread:
I was planning on adding some of my weekly spending cash every week, just trying to figure out whether I want to keep putting it into SOL or diversify…
I would suggest throwing cash on the brand new coins and trying to catch one that does a massive spike. Otherwise SOL and ETH and most of the top-10 coins will give you modest % gains. But if you're looking for the rare 100x or even 10,000x return...