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..   


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.


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).