Post archived in multiple places (
archive.ph,
Wayback), because it is
drastically changed from the original (
LoyceV,
backup,
more backup):
Just refreshed my neurons with my passphrase on my Trezor. Everything is as I left it, except for some dust amounts of BTC that some unknown entity has been regularly depositing to my wallet. I guess this is done to "mark" my wallet and track any future movement of my coins. Well, FUCK YOU, whoever you are, your dust will never be moved from there, so feel free to send more...
My advice to cold storage HoDLers: refresh your neurons with your passphrase/PIN/whatever you use to protect your wallet, by viewing your cold storage balance every 6 months or so. You never know when your memory may fail and you end up not being able to remember the key(s) to your precious coins.
Everything's in order, waiting for the dip to end, and for a slow, organic, healthy UPpity movement to commence.
GTCTTWW.
This is fine.
HoDL.
You could
donate it to Dabs if you don't want it. As he told me, he is in
an uncomfortable financial situation and could use
any and all help. Maybe
WO should help him out?
Is this now acceptable behaviour? Asking “because reasons” I have been evasively not replying to Jay’s advice that I should DCA $10/week. Same reasons I had earlier flipped out when bitebits told me to use my fiat to save my BTC (sorry, bitebits... you didn’t know me). “Uncomfortable financial situation” does not even begin to describe it. I lack food security going forward. It is not the first time for me. I rebuilt my life from scratch around assets that are now gone, when I am in poor health with other difficult circumstances that are nobody’s business but my own. It was a hell of a struggle. And the decisive (un)reason why I started getting stupid a few months ago was time pressure.
It was not greediness: It was neediness. Young, spry folks can afford to have patience. I cannot afford to scrimp, save, and build up assets for another five years to be “set for life”—I do not have it in me! I ran out of time long ago. I am supposed to be bloody retired, with zero pressure... write code when I can, or read some books... otherwise, just rest. I need it right now—
right now.
Dabs has PM-begged in the past. He has history about that, so this is not even a one-off problem caused by the market crash which affects us all. It is habitual for him. I am concerned if he is asking around for money now—while showering merit blindly (including on
a merit-abusing bounty spammer account!).
If taking up personal donations for “uncomfortable financial situations” is now acceptable behaviour in WO (or
anywhere on this forum!), then this is another example of me getting burned for being too principled. I would have real money now, if not for principles. It is not only my saying that; I have sometimes had friends yell at me for it. Now, hey, I am a privacy expert. I have no qualms about coins from any source—I don’t care if a coin comes straight from the CEO of Chainalysis—no one would ever find where the money goes, LOL. Oh, no...
I say to burn the precious money in OP_RETURN, or donate it to miners just to get rid of it. Then, I get to watch someone incite someone else to pass the hat around WO, due to whatever sob story of needy needy needs.
Fuck me, I’m stupid. I like to eat, too.
I must emphasize that I have been at pains to avoid any implication whatsoever of seeking money from people when I am clearly in financial desperation. I am not here for that! When I made Jr. rank and set a signature, I did not even put in a tip address—as you have in your otherwise unpaid signature, Jay, and as you are entitled to. I am likewise so entitled; I often spend an absurd amount of time and effort writing posts that people value, on topics unrelated to the state of my personal finances. I may put up a tip address sometime, but I am especially reluctant to because of my current financial situation. I do not want for anyone to get the wrong idea about me. I mercilessly report beggars for violation of forum rules.
I am
0% jealous of people who did it right, who now have cash on the orderbooks as their wallets swell with cheap bitcoins. Congratulations. But if anyone starts getting free money thrown at him because please sir I have needs, I will be... understandably not amused. Just to see that is a slap in the face to me.
For the record, I am not asking for money. I will proudly take my reputation to my grave. But I think my point is clear.