Quote from: bitebits on Today at 06:53:33 AM

Had been going through my old posts for the original but couldn't find it, so admittedly I stopped searching a bit prematurely and asked whether you had better storage management.. Did not expect you to create a brand new one especially during these days. Thank you Homer, best Christmas gift. Exactly as my avatar but more pixels Cool

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At the time I requested the laser eyes because of expecting $100k soon. But then SBF and his cronies ruined the party, back to flippin' burgers it was. But the laser eyes are still focussed today on that magic number (even though it should probably be $125k today at a minimum due to inflation). Involuntary thinking about it for some years I decided I am keeping the laser eyes no matter the price. Bitcoin, with a capital B, is worth focussing on beyond the financial freedom it provides. So no need for a third edition, wearing it until it has holes in it!

I never bought into the lazer eyes meaning focused on $100k, because I hardly could give too many shits about those kinds of short-term and/or seemingly arbitrary price thresholds... .. and so my interpretation of the lazer eyes has been just a means of keeping our eyes on the prize... and many of us likely know what the prize happens to be... even if we might not completely agree upon how much diversification that we might need, if any.

Quote from: Zaharai on Today at 07:10:18 AM

Quote from: zaap on December 25, 2023, 05:15:50 PM

Bought my first bitcoins around Christmas 10 years ago. I have many of you guys to thank for helping me hodl through all this time - sorry for not contributing.

Anyway - Merry Christmas and thanks once again!

/ Longtime lurker

Merry Christmas.
all my friends.

10 years ago I didn't know what is bitcoin, you are maybe a billionaire.

Yes..

When in doubt, assume that Longtime lurker, aka zaap is a billionaire.. perhaps a satoshis billionaire.. It may or may not be true, but probably does not hurt to ask.. in order to test the OpSec of longtime lurker..

Quote from: zaap on Today at 08:53:46 AM

Quote from: Zaharai on Today at 07:10:18 AM

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Unfortunately not. Just because someone knew about bitcoin 10 years ago does not guarantee that someone was able to acquire enough bitcoins and hold them through all ups and downs. It does require quite huge balls of steel to not sell or be influenced by people around you.

I have more than most people around me, but that is quite easy.
We are still early.

Gosh. There are a lot of possibilities, there, and yeah in 10 years a lot can happen, including selling too many too soon, or getting distracted by shitcoiner and/or bitcoin naysaying talking points.

There's also some questions of security and/or good practices if you had engaged in any kinds of attempts to experiment and use bitcoin, and I will admit that it took me a bit of time to secure my own bitcoin, even though I had thought that I had some decent security for reasons that I am even a bit too embarrassed to admit, and even now, I know that there are some vulnerabilities in some of my current practices, and there is both reluctance to talk about such things, but also some reluctance to fix some of the vulnerabilities.

There were some transactions that I did recently too, and I was kind of wondering if I did them in a very secure and/or private kind of a way, and I am also having some dilemmas regarding what to tell people who are bitcoin newbies in regards to how to manage some of their coins, and how much obligations do we have to tell people things that we feel that we know, but then they also have obligations to do some of their own research too.

Quote from: AlcoHoDL on Today at 10:57:19 AM

Quote from: OutOfMemory on December 25, 2023, 06:16:49 PM

Quote from: AlcoHoDL on December 24, 2023, 09:57:58 PM

Thanks guys!

OOM, I thought about this too. Symptoms came very quickly, and soon after a couple of dinners with friends, so I also think it probably isn't COVID. I had an old COVID test kit at home, which had already expired (about 1 year past expiration). I did it nonetheless, and it came out negative.

Quite harsh indeed, high fever, shivers, cycling on/off between painkillers. Came in the most unfortunate of times... Sad

Sounds like classic flu, yep. Shit can be tedious, but you can speed recovery up with NAC (2x500mg/d) and Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C, works as NAC metabolism catalyzer).
I gave my last capsules of NAC to a friend of my father in law (60+ yo) after a two week flu episode, which had a holiday booked nine days later. He fully recovered before packing his suitcase. I only had NAC/AA once, after Covid (Omicron B1) and it helped much with shortbreathedness. Athletes are using it to increase O2 absorption of the lungs before training for events. One can take it for a month safely, but i never read of problems from those who took it longer.

EDIT: Sorry, forgot why i came online today Roll Eyes

Merry Christmas!
(delayed, because of christmas eve offline challenge in my family)

Thanks for the comments, I appreciate it. Never heard of NAC, had to Google it, interesting, will keep that in mind. Was already taking vitamin C (1000 mg) daily as a precaution.

I had kind of glossed over the NAC part too, but then it looks like it could be a good supplement to keep in mind.. .and with supplements, sometimes it can be difficult to know if they are doing anything (such as helping with anything), but I did like the idea of mucus clearing in one of the descriptions that I read.

>>>>"NAC can help prevent side effects caused by drug reactions and toxic chemicals, and helps break down mucus in the body. It seems to have benefits in treating some respiratory conditions, such as bronchitis and COPD."<<<<<