Quote from: death_wish on Today at 04:58:21 AM

So, Jay: I am a betting man! I don’t have any money to bet right now; let’s call this a gentleman’s wager.

Do you want to bet with me on whether or not ImThour will quit while he’s ahead? I think he won’t. (You can insert your own analogies about drug addicts.)

I could not really have any kind of strong opinion, especially if we are trying to lock people into future behavior. I have already had several battles with ImThour, and many times they had to do with his making outrageous claims, so I had offered to bet him a few times after he had made some outrageous statement or another.. which would mostly result in silence (or me getting ghosted).

I am really not into betting with anyone in the forum unless they make an outrageous statement and then I will offer to bet to get them to stand behind their statement... so in that regard, so far I have never gotten any takers... except maybe if they try to reframe the bet to something other than the outrageous statement that they had made .. but so far ImThour has not engaged in me in those kinds of discussions.. but he still does make some outrageous statements from time to time.. yet at the same time.. he seems to be getting a bit better too.. so he might be learning.. I cannot really know for sure... because it is a bit outrageous that he believes that he called the BTC spot price hitting the 200 Week moving average.. but whatever. it did likely pay off quite well for him.. so I cannot really hate on matters lke that working out.

Sure, I made some strong statement about you and your seeming gambling tendencies, and I am not even locked into any kind of proclamation that you are doomed forever to be a degen gambler, but you can be kind of stubborn in various regards.. .. and I suppose if we get on some kind of topic that seems bettable, then I would not mind betting.. but we probably would need to put some money at stake.. even if it is just a few hundred or a few thousand satoshis... if the statement from either you or me is really outrageous, then there would likely be odds that we would need to establish.. and we might not even agree on the terms of the bet, even if we might run across some topic that might be bettable.. so I would not mind doing something like that, and it seems to me that you tend to make more outrageous statements more frequently than me... but I cannot recall if any of those statements were really bettable. One thing that could be bettable would relate to the price or something that is verifiable... but our opinions might not differ sufficiently enough in regards to the price to be bettable, either.

Quote from: death_wish on Today at 04:58:21 AM

Now, ImThour has orders of magnitude more BTC than I do. Life ain’t fair. C’est la vie !

That's true. Life can be kind of unfair like that. We have talked about these kinds of related matters many times before in the thread, so let's say for example a lot of your peers and you can only have about $10 per week to stack sats.. some of them take advantage of stacking sats and others do not. You may or may not over perform the DCA into BTC technique.... but I have my doubts, especially when we are looking at longer term performance going back 5-8 years or more. I have gotten into a quite a few battles against forum members over the years in regards to whether or not dumb shit they were doing trying to time the market and fucking around with various shitcoins would have been able to beat a DCA into BTC technique.. . whether we are talking about a $10 per week budget or a more aggressive budget of $100 per week or just working with whatever the budget of the other person might happen to be.

Even with you, D_W, if you want to go fuck around with various shitcoins, or trading or margin and the other non-bitcoinprojects, then go do it, but keep your DCA on the side into bitcoin that maybe you just put aside into cold storage.. and maybe or maybe not you will catchup to some other members (or even your peers or any of your various nemeses that you might have) who currently have a BTC stacking lead on you.

Quote from: death_wish on Today at 04:58:21 AM

How’s that for a gambling addiction? Wink

No problem, if you are ready, willing and able to carry it out.

Quote from: death_wish on Today at 04:58:21 AM

Always keeping at least 1 BTC in cold storage is a great idea.

Of course, you gotta get there first, and with our latest BTC price drop in the last 6 weeks or so, 1 BTC may well have become attainable again.. but still it is a bit of a stretch for most newbie normies to have such expectations and to just go from 0 to 1.

Don't get me wrong, when I first came to bitcoin in late 2013, there were still quite a few normies batting around ideas to get three digits.. at least after the crash from $1,1163 down to the mid $200s, through most of 2015, 100 BTC became reachable again, even though in 2015 - a lot of members were still depressed and not really even talking about accumulating BTC.. but just hoping the BTC price goes UP with whatever quantity of BTC that they then had...

but anyhow the main point that I was trying to make is that it was somewhat realistic for newbie normies to create an initial BTC accumulation goals that shoots for 100+ BTC in 2015

But by the time we got into late 2016, the more realistic goal for newbie normies became 21 BTC, then it went down to 10 BTC (around mindrust's active time in this thread) and then 1 or 2 BTC by the time we got to our pre 2020 to 2021 price runs.. so at this time we might be barely getting back down into BTC price territories where for a short period of time initial BTC accumulation goals can reasonably get put back to 1 BTC (while supplies last) - and sure of course, we do not just get from 0 BTC to 1BTC.. so if you are starting from zero.. then maybe your initial BTc accumulation goal should be to get to 0.1 BTC then 0.21 BTC and then 0.5 BTC and then after that start working towards 1 BTC..

Sure ..maybe you have some abilities to stack BTC more rapidly.. but even if you get up to 1 BTC, there should be no reason to stop there.. so you just keep adding to it.. and maybe if you get up to 2 BTC or 3 BTC, you might start to tell yourself various quantities of BTC that you will never go below, even if you reach a new thresholds of BTC holdings that you mostly keep in your cold storage.. and if you draw upon them, you do so in a very reserved way because those funds are segregated from your play money and your working money.

Quote from: Biodom on Today at 05:25:58 AM

Gawd...AI training facility, formerly known as WO.
Get to the f-n point (in you have one) in a few phrases, please.
Chop-chop.

You sound like my ex-supervisor.

Angry

Emphasizing ex...

Cheesy

Quote from: death_wish on Today at 06:12:14 AM

On the one end, Jay, you want to batslap anyone who says “crypto” to steal branding from Bitcoin...

Yes!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for the invitation...

Batslapping uie-pooie would be a very good start, and emotional relief (an emotional releasening) too..

Quote from: death_wish on Today at 06:12:14 AM

Oh, did someone want to talk about cryptocurrency?

No.

fuck that shit.

Let's talk about bitcoin... Have you heard of bitcoin? It goes by other names as well, such as my lil precious and a few other descriptives.. Shitcoiners, scammers and false equivalency creators use the terms "crypto" but they tend to not specify what the fuck they are talking about .. hopefully you are not inviting those kinds of twats to our otherwise lovely and mostly on topic discussions in these here parts.....and we do not want to be devolving into comparing which shitcoin or which feature happens to be less shitty.. and largely irrelevant distracting and frequently hidden-agenda bullshit like that.

someone batslap that shitcoiner wannabe aka D_W if he wants to talk about which shitcoins happen to be less shitty in their false equivalency implications or other kinds of divergencies to our talking about what crappy food Arriemoller is planning to eat.

Quote from: death_wish on Today at 06:12:14 AM

(Does that sound bitter to you, Jay?

kind of.

Quote from: death_wish on Today at 06:12:14 AM

Maybe even “smart and bitter”?)

To me, it just sounds bitter without the smart part.

Quote from: death_wish on Today at 06:12:14 AM

I now await a pedantic correction on how crypto means hidden.

Crypto means.. fuck off with that vague-ass nonsense. Are you talking about king daddy or not? specify with ur wordiness por favor. you wordy fuck Cheesy