Quote from: ImThour on Today at 01:14:53 PM

JJG is the life of Wall Observer. His thought process is way different than normal human beings (Not calling him a mad man).
He loves to keep his opinions clear and vocal, that's how I do with mine. Great guy overall.

No one asked, just sharing what I noticed.

Thanks and Merry Christmas to you too.

Of course, the WO is a product of those participating.. so there are ups and downs along the way...and for sure many of us (or would it be all of us?) have our various faults, too..

Quote from: heslo on Today at 01:16:15 PM

Well in my part of the world it's about to roll over to Christmas day so to all of you, all the fucking best and have a Merry Christmas! Look forward to yet another year ahead with all of you and hopefully Santa brings us all a gift Cheesy

There seems to be a kind of window period in terms of the seasons greetings.. and surely some folks start to get into the spirit of Christmas right around Thanksgiving.. but even the Happy New Years greetings might roll over into the Chinese New Year.. ... and maybe in the northern hemisphere there is a need for these kinds of over-the-top attempts at cheeriness.. otherwise we might become overly depressed.. lack of natural light and freezing our asses off...

Oh? And speaking of bitcoin.. it can be kind of stressful.. Russia seems to be expanding permission to use bitcoin.. but Jesus fucking Christ (appropriate Christmas expression), they are opening bitcoin up for international transactions but not for normies within the country. What a weird kind of balancing (or is it transition?), yet all and all my lil precious will quite likely make it through these weird times - including becoming stronger and stronger.. even though it is expanded at the same time that it is battled against.

Quote from: shahzadafzal on Today at 01:53:35 PM

Quote from: Gachapin on December 22, 2022, 11:26:08 PM

Quote from: shahzadafzal on December 22, 2022, 11:51:04 AM

Quote from: Gachapin on December 22, 2022, 07:48:13 AM

However since shahzadafzal didn't answer my proposal for a bet yet, I was hesitant to poke the next guy with a bet, as I'm by no means a betting person and I didn't want to come off as one...

That was a bet? I mean that was just a sarcastic smiley.. look..

Quote from: Gachapin on December 18, 2022, 08:22:50 PM

Quote from: shahzadafzal on December 18, 2022, 07:49:59 PM

Quote from: BitcoinBunny on December 18, 2022, 06:14:34 PM

Regardless of who you support, I think we can all agree (except for the odd alpaca) that BTC should have made a new ATH by the latter.

First Quarter of 2023

wanna bet some BTC ?

I mean I could take it like you meant... it will be ATH even before first quarter of 2023.

Btw since BitcoinBunny mentioned alpaca aka llama, I was poking this singing llama with that comment Cheesy

No the smiley was meant as a nice smiley... like a nice invitation Cheesy

For clarification: I'm a hardcore hodler and I would love to see an ATH soon. It would give me so much joy that I would happily part with some of my BTC when I lose this bet.

As I understand it you mean before end of 1st quarter 2023 (31st March 2023) we will see another ATH on Bitstamp? (last ATH was exactly at 69,000 USD)

I would say no, and bet against it. However, I love my BTC and I'm no gambler so I wouldn't bet much. Just some "change" (maybe up to 0.1 BTC or so) in a 1 : 1 bet.

I'm also very happy without betting, so please feel free to join or not.

As per JJG calculations Im still at my accumulation stage so I'm not opening my BTC wallet unless its for WO $100k Yacht party or for my pen-is enlargement surgery.[/size]
Btw Im against betting or gambling.

It seems to me that we need to be careful when we make really strong assertions in regards to what BTC is going to do, and betting is a way to clarify if we are standing behind our words.. and it does not need to be for a very large amount in order to make the point.. .. even 50k satoshis could be a reasonable bet (even though maybe a bit more difficult on an administrative level when the amounts are so small... unless transactions were sent by lightning).. and even if we are in BTC accumulation phases of our BTC journey, it seems relatively easy to spend and replace the potentially smaller bet amounts.

I am not sure that we would need escrow for the relatively smaller bet amounts, even though I tend to be less trusting in that regard, and I believe that some members I do consider that escrow would be required.... even though sometimes even the previously thought to be questionable members have ended up coming through with honoring their bets.. once the member had actually committed to the bet terms... so there is that.. .. the most difficult aspect seems to be clarifying the terms.. and clarifying if members really meant what they said or they were just making some statement of certainty but not really ready, willing or able to stand behind such seemingly strongly assertive statement(s).