Quote from: JayJuanGee on Today at 03:56:39 PM

Quote from: OutOfMemory on Today at 03:24:15 PM

Quote from: xhomerx10 on Today at 03:02:05 PM

Nice! A little hopium to go with my morning coffee routine. Something to energize my spirit... my body needs a second cup though.

No need for hopium when you trust in Bitcoin.
I see that many are put off of the "endless sideways" of BTC, but if you zoom out, it's sideways in steps.
The next step is imminent, and cycles are changing, in an absolute and relative manner.
Everybody whose mindset is like "i will sell the top and buy the bottom, like every cycle" should be careful. Of course, it will likely work this way again, but it gravitates towards less efficiently each cycle. I recently read an opinion here which went like "i set this exact day to sell" (EDIT: Which would most likely be a horrible decision, when you are looking at what is going to happen, imo), but if one looks closely, repetitive analysis based on past cycles don't work as they used to. It's a slow change, but over time, the differences in time, price and deltas become bigger.
If there are absolute truths, then "this time it's different" is one of them, but only when used in the right context. As one can spot those differences only in retrospect, it should better be "last time it was different" (which is kind of the same, but still different).
Am i probably repeating myself?
But y'all get the point, somehow, right?

You are confusing, even though you make sense at the same time. Wink

Even if cycles look different, they still are likely to exist, even if they are harder to identify and don't lock into exact time frames (until we look back historically, we are likely going to continue to see cycles for a while - which surely the schedule for the issuance of the new supply of bitcoin likely continues to be a factor, even if coins likely are moving around from other places (an perhaps some paper bitcoin are trying to fill in with some possible danger in regards to playing with fire.. and sure some secret bailouts could be promised if the manipulation does not end up working out... perhaps?

In any event, every time is a bit different until we can look back at it and see that it was not as different as we had hypothesized it to be while we were in the midst of it.

Man, i actually am confused. I was suffering from vertigo half of the day, now it's a bit better.
Seems like i am on the way to burn out again. I already stopped working compulsively against the clock two weeks ago, but stepped in for a co-worker (and friend) who dropped out because he has to support his (very old and beloved) mother.

No problem.

No problem?

No, problem!

His current customer is pretty stupid when it comes to planning project timelines, and i currently have two or three emergencies every day, when i have to drive an hour long to the manufacturing facility, to solve things in a hurry, drive back an hour long - and so on. The rooms/halls are lit so bright, i feel the urge to put on dark sunglasses, but then i'm working on tiny, tiny parts - and sunglasses don't help with that. I have earplugs (with voices coming through ok-ish, the rest ist filtered out), but they don't seem to help in the noisy environment, when nearby people are chatting in one of four different foreign languages and my brain constantly tries to translate.

So, tomorrow i'll hit the brakes, take Friday off and decide over the weekend how and if i will continue.
My friends mother may pass soon, and then it will be 1 month of absence, i guess, so my boss (and friend) has to look for a skilled contract worker. Not that there are too many, but that's not my problem anymore.

Sorry for the OT, by the way.
I'll try to shed a little more detail on my cycles-opinion, soon.

Quote from: psycodad on Today at 04:22:31 PM

Quote from: OutOfMemory on Today at 03:24:15 PM

..that i miss the sound of 56k modems..

Hah, 56k, the sound of the future at lightspeed.
I miss my 300 baud acoustic coupler, strapping the the telephone handset in time for a successful connection to your coupler was a true challenge (manually dialing the long oversea number while using your corn-flakes whistle was too - 2600 anybody, SS9 maybe? *lol*).
I still have that thing and I very well remember the only point in time when I was faster than the transmission line with typing Grin

At that time i was too young.
Did you also "knock" phone numbers in public phone booths for free national calls?
Reminds me a little bit of Morsing.
Actually my first "hack" when i was schoolboy below teen age.