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Hahaha

well eth still needs to go under 2k this month cause mr v sucks.

I am not excited about shitcoins, but there is some pleasure in seeing them dumping... and I tend to look at shitcoins in terms of their BTC price, so for the past 5 years, I kept thinking that it would be best if ETH would return to going below 0.02 BTC, and even better if it goes below 0.01 BTC. Of course, shitcoins are not going to die completely, but that scam of a shitcoin really did get quite a bit of traction in terms of shamming a lot of folks into believing that it had value beyond a bunch of convoluted mumbo jumbo platform upon which other shitcoins could be built. I am not technical enough to know the extent to which some of their technology might have ended up being ported over to bitcoin in order that there might have been some value beyond just fleecing retail in a variety of ways.

It had some value as a pow it is now essentially worthless with the switch it made to pos. Basically all pos are next to worthless as they are clonable. POW IS OKAY IF THE ALGORITHM has a ton of gear mining . Meaning Sha256 and scrypt the rest are meh.

There are not a lot of coins with any value. As eth is showing. YOU can simply make a knock off like solana which essentially can do what eth can better.

I still don’t know what Vitalik was thinking going to PoS. Solana really does everything Ethereum does but better now. It’s almost scary how younger users are almost exclusively being onboarded to Solana. It was a chain I wanted to see die, but now I’m mad I didn’t grab a bag at $8. If Bitcoin is the store of value, it seems Solana is setting up to be the peer to peer currency.

let's talk about that after the next two cycles again...

I'm not trying to come across as pro-Solana or anything. I have like 0.005% of my crypto portfolio invested in it and mostly because I actually use it in person with friends who don't like Bitcoin and don't want to try and use it as a currency due to high fees (which aren't so high anymore but it isn't like they watch the mempool).

You sound like you are just making shit up - not that any of should want to talk about how it might be so much easier to transact peer to peer on Solana.. supposedly and that supposedly people want to do that. Sounds like nonsense to me, not that I am even interested in your potentially retarded friends, which would include you if you are talking to them about transacting on Solana rather than figuring out some bitcoin ways to transact.

Quote from: OgNasty on February 11, 2025, 05:31:36 PM

It's something I've observed. When in my own personal life I have people who want Solana, but aren't interested in Bitcoin, it feels like a shift has happened. Will it last? Who knows.

That sounds like bullshit, to the extent any of us care in this thread... You make some stupid ass statement about Solana trying to be a transaction layer, and then now you want to double down on your bullshit fantasy as if it were something that actually is happening in the real world.

Quote from: OgNasty on February 11, 2025, 05:31:36 PM

This isn't a new development either. Last cycle was the same way. Solana may die and I wouldn't shed a tear. However, I think with ETFs being launched these days and newbies being onboarded onto things like SOL & XRP,

Oh gawd..

now you are going to tell us about XRP..? Horey sheit.. .Bawb.. do you have any more of those pipe thingies? Where has bawb been when "we" (royal perhaps?) need him?

Quote from: OgNasty on February 11, 2025, 05:31:36 PM

we may see alts stick around longer than in the past. I guess we'll see in 2 more cycles, but honestly, I don't care either way.

Of course, there are always going to be shitcoins, and yeah if you choose to get distracted by them and/or talk about them as if they were meaningful (or on topic) in this thread, then you are the one making the choice to go down that dumbass road.

Quote from: OgNasty on February 11, 2025, 05:31:36 PM

I'd prefer new users were being onboarded onto Bitcoin,

At least you are not completely lost (perhaps?)

Quote from: OgNasty on February 11, 2025, 05:31:36 PM

but outside of store of value, it can't really compete to those who only see the end user experience and don't care how the sausage is made.

In other words, you love bitcoin, but how about these shitcoins, aren't they really something to consider? Roll Eyes

Maybe I take my statement back about your not being completely lost?

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Quote from: Paashaas on February 11, 2025, 07:36:12 AM

I don't care what people think about Trump, tariffs, Greenland, Panama canal ore turning Gaza into a lavish riviera of the Middle-East.

Only thing i want is that Trump keeps his word and start a Bitcoin reserve that will pump the coin to $300,000 within 8 months.

Once it's done, bitcoin would always be at a risk that next admin will sell it all, hence a large risk premium.
Albeit, I still like to "taste" that sweet 300K this cycle and not the next one Grin

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Fair enough. Why not $300k today? rather than tomorrow?.. not a bad point

Quote from: OgNasty on February 11, 2025, 09:07:50 PM

Quote from: Gachapin on February 11, 2025, 06:51:15 PM

All you get from shitcoins is already available, or in the making, on Bitcoin (Lightning, Taproot etc ).. there will be no need for more base ledgers than one in the coming future..
Most noobs don't understand that... I have seen many learn it the hard way by loosing money.

I hate that I’m forced to take the anti-Bitcoin position on this thread at times, but the Lightning network is absolute garbage that nobody wants to use. Especially not people who are new to crypto. Maybe that will change in the future but I’ve been more active than most people in this hobby of ours and I have yet to ever encounter a situation when I needed to use the Lightning network,

You might have to actually use it rather than just proclaiming it to be "absolute garbage." I doubt you have as much experiences as you are claiming, if you consider lightning network to be "absolute garbage."

Quote from: OgNasty on February 11, 2025, 09:07:50 PM

whereas I’ve come across many situations where my only option was to use ETH, SOL, or POL. I don’t acquire these coins to speculate.

To the extent that you might not be just making shit up, are you transacting on a custodian with those shitcoins? or directly on their layer 1? Did you consider or look into means to transact with bitcoin with those same people? or you just getting distracted into shitcoins?

I will admit that I have had some transactions with folks who wanted to transact using Tether and/or to use litecoin, even though I have been trying to push for preferences to transact directly on bitcoin, yet sure I understand that sometimes bitcoin's fees have been high, but they have not been lately, and lighting tends to be pretty good, but there were some forced channel closings at times along the way too.

Quote from: OgNasty on February 11, 2025, 09:07:50 PM

I have been forced to acquire these coins in order to complete a task because no other options were available to complete said task. That being said, Bitcoin is still my number 1 choice for everything and if it is ever possible to use it, I do.

I have found that there have ONLY been narrow windows in which bitcoin have been difficult, and some transactions might not need to go through right away. Other times with lighting network there has to be some situations in which the person need to already be set up, since sometimes there may be more difficulties and expenses to set up channels, but then once the channels are set up then it will tend to be easier, and surely there can be some fall back of using lightning on Cash App which is less preferable. I have Cash App, Breez and Phoenix, and I am pretty sure there could be some other ways (apps) to transact on lighting too, but those are the only ones that I recall using in recent times...even though there are some others.,.like I had used it on Bluewallet too, but then they took away their node, so I have to set up my own node, which I am not opposed to doing if i can figure it out on a device that I have.... but I have not gotten around to it.. and surely none of us should have to run a node to have to be able to use lightning.... yet there are options out there with lightning wallets, and I surely don't know all of them (or maybe I don't even know very many of them besides what I listed)..

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Quote from: JayJuanGee on February 11, 2025, 11:56:19 PM

Is there anybody out there, besides Buddy and yours truly?

is it fuck you JJG thursday yet?

Probably not yet, since days of the week are somewhat universal around the world, yet I am so glad that you are proposing a remembrance of such an oft-missed occasion.. It is almost like a long lost holiday..

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11	pushups	40	bitcointalk
12	stairs	4	random stairwells all over the world

American Football has not even made the top 10. Bery bery interesting.

Very generous of you, vapourminer, to do some further looking into the matter and to include pushups in the extended list.
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Bery, bery interesting indeed which is why I did more digging as I had heard that the NFL had the most lucrative sports franchises in the world and how could that be if it wasn't in the top 10?! ......

Yeah, but pushups? Where is the pushups?

You come off as biased.