I've been getting these e-mail, too, or at least very similar ones.  I posted a screenshot of one last month, and I'm still receiving them nonstop. 

The weird thing is that they've come to at least two different e-mail accounts that I have, and I don't remember providing Ledger with even one .  The other weird thing is that people still trust this defrocked joke of a HW wallet company and still buy their wallets....but that's another story.

This is a question that's going to get answers depending on the culture of the people responding to it, no?  If I'm not mistaken, it's far more acceptable for young adults to live with their parents rent-free in Asian countries than it is in the Americas (for example).

Since I can't answer for any geographic region than my own, I'd say it's more than fair for parents to expect that their child/children pay some sort of rent if they're over the age of, say eighteen.  But even then it would depend on whether the "child" has the ability to pay rent and how generous the parents are.  Times have changed, and I'm not of the current generation; what I hear from other people is that their kids are living with them for periods of time far longer than what would have been acceptable about 30 years ago.

I've got no issues with that, since I know how brutal the job market is and how much a college education has been devalued over the past few decades.  But even if a young adult is staying in their parents' home and has an income that's non-zero, they should be chipping in for expenses if only out of respect to the parents who raised them.

I'm not nearly as emotionally fired up at those posts because, well....it's reddit, and most redditors are either straight-up trollin' for masturbatory gratification or are snot-dripping morons.

Aside from the stupidity of using Coinbase or any other exchange as a wallet, I'd just like to say fuck Coinbase and that moron is absolutely wrong about them closing accounts at the drop of a hat without regard for whatever massive profits he thinks Coinbase would reap by not pulling that BS.  They are bent over a conference room desk in an alphabet agency gangbang, i.e., they'll do whatever anti-money laundering or counter-terrorism actions those government agencies want them to do, and then they say "Yessir, massa' sir!!". 

If you know what I mean.  That top 1% commenter with the anime avatar telling the other user all of that nonsense would probably be the type of person to make the argument that "if you didn't do anything wrong, then you've got nothing to hide".  Plus if he truly believes what he's saying, he's going to have to learn things the hard way about doing things related to crypto.  I hope he gets a very expensive education.

Glad I at least read one post here, and it happened to be yours, else I would have repeated the same sentiment.

I've got mixed feelings on this one, because part of me thinks just having a high school diploma (or its equivalent in other countries) is still an impediment to getting a decent job even if it's not in whatever field you studied in college had you gone to college.  The other part sympathizes with people wrestling with this very question because of sheer economics, i.e., it's too damn expensive these days to take out loans for a higher education--especially if you don't know what it is you want to do for a career.

And the thing is that there are so many subjects one can major in--really interesting, fascinating ones, too--but they're never going to do anything for anyone aside from proving they attended university.  In particular, I'm talking about liberal arts majors.  That includes everything from psychology to physics.  Unless you go on to graduate school (which is more money and more time out of your life), forget about actually doing something in your major that's anything more than being a technician bringing home a lousy paycheck.

As mindrust pointed out, there are majors that pay off right after graduation.  Nursing, engineering, physical therapy, pharmacy, and a bunch of others that are worth taking out loans for.  Everything else?  Well, if you can afford it I'd say go for it.  If not, I'd say not everyone needs to go to college.

In keeping with my attempt to wean myself off of Google services, I haven't been watching YT videos nearly as much as I used to and probably won't check any of these out (but I haven't decided yet).  Nevertheless I appreciate the links, OP.

From what I've seen over the years, the quality of content when it comes to videos having anything crypto-related as their theme has dropped to the bottom of the cesspool that is Youtube; right now it seems like there's a lot of misinformation or simply lazy video creators making at best mediocre videos for the sake of making money through ad revenue and/or sponsorships--kind of like shitposting here on bitcointalk, you know?

On a related note, whatever became of this forum's own YT channel?  It never reached the popularity many of us were probably expecting, but I always liked it when a new video came out.

1. Why does anyone involved with crypto who gives a whit about their privacy use discord for anything?

2. I'm looking at how to mine this on Windows, and seriously....you had to make it 5x more complicated than any other CPU-mineable coin out there?

3. Emphasis on point (2) because from looking at Rincoin's website, what I see is a combinatorial reassembly of BS that's been the playbook for shitcoins ever since the first one was shat into the bowl.  See here:



That's been written in many different ways for many different coins--but none of this techno-jigaloo-word-salad says a damn thing about why this coins should hold any more value or have more utility than the next coin or the next one or the next one....you get my meaning.  Reminds me of these:




Bet you newbies who definitely aren't being paid to post here don't even remember those two graveyard zombies.

And your roadmap looks like you haven't figured out what a roadmap is, because it reads like 1) Start driving.  2) Start the engine, put gas in the car.  3) We're going somewhere, right?:



HARD PASS

Whatever AI program that was used to assist you in writing this insipid nonsense, OP, it sucks.  I'm not buying that these are your words for a single minute--this pseudo-blog style of writing is exactly what the output would be after a shitposter input a load of flyblown horse dung.

BTW, there's no way in fuck I'm clicking on an X link OR one from the US government.

Waitasec....weren't you an ardent supporter of BTCATMs not too long ago?

You might still be, or I might have you confused with someone else (though I don't think so), but either way you're right about fees.  I get this is an old thread, but I was going through your post history and wanted to write something about OP's question and your response. 

There might be great ways to buy bitcoin anonymously, but I've never found a method that's safe in that regard and convenient.  But jumping back to BTCATMs, some of them don't require a lot of information from customers buying small amounts....although there's always a camera, always.  For those out there who've never used one, it can be a cool experience but unless you buy, hold, and the price of bitcoin should happen to skyrocket past what you bought your bitcoin at the ATM at (fees included), it's not viable for buying long-term.

Then again, there was a time a few years ago when you could have bought bitcoin using one of those machines and you'd be into some serious profit right now--I'm talking about before the price shot up past $100k.  Anyway.

That means nothing.  Actually, worse than nothing because swapping out underperforming companies for high-flyers is a way to keep the stock market looking healthy, perhaps healthier than the economy itself.  I don't know who MSTR is going to replace since I have not looked into it, but didn't ya kind of wonder why a big index would want that particular company included in the index's data all of a sudden?

All of that shit is manipulated as much as it can be.  The S&P 500 is not a country club; it's supposed to be a barometer of the market (I have to suppress a giggle) and many small investors buy index funds, as do 401k plans, and god knows who all else.  Better hope Saylor knows how to keep the line going up for a lot of folks' sake.  Me?  I don't have faith in that feat, his proselytizing, his sucking up to politicians or his business model of get $-->buy BTC, make an announcement. 

If bitcoin does happen to keep rising for a long time, people are going to think he was prescient--but nobody is.

And let's see, there are a lot of small coffee shops that mimic Starbucks; anyone think it's possible to just imitate MSTR's current business plan of buying and holding bitcoin, maybe out of a downtown office building in a small US city?  The more I think about all of this, the more bizarre and inverted the world appears.  Go bitcoin, go, but we all know that ever since bitcoin was created every sort of charlatan, crook, reprobate, robber, pederast, and in general the worst people have emerged from the rocks under which they'd been hiding, waiting for a juicy opportunity to...let's say 'redistribute wealth'.  Y'all can disagree with me, but I would not trust a very loud voice from the billionaire cheering section nor even think for a second that they have any of our best interests in mind. 

I'm guessing you're relatively young, probably mid-20s or younger (I could be wrong, yes) because those words I put in bold just do not compute.  What in the world constitutes a corporation being historical with respect to bitcoin?  Compared to gold, cash, bonds, Berkshire Hathaway stock, and even my grandmother bitcoin is still a baby.

Also....is MSTR actually a "bitcoin company" or does it still contain remnants of its original business (whatever the fuck that was, software?  Nobody knows or even cares anymore).  I'm so done cheering on Michael Saylor.  Any CEO of a company who's buying and stockpiling an asset with corporate funds and then hyping that asset up from the mountain tops is acting unethically.  If another CEO happened to do that with a stock or something else, I bet the SEC might have a problem with it.


Did you know Evel Knievel gained enormous recognition by performing so many motorcycle stunts that he broke nearly every bone in his body?  Or that Brandon Vedas made his internet name known by overdosing on drugs while chatting about it on IRC?

My point is, what's your point?

You missed the point of my post entirely, for one thing.  You can compare bitcoin to a Lambo, a safe with key attached, or a 10" gold-plated phallus made for pleasuring those with too much money to blow--it's all the same, they're all assets. 

Lot of newbies posting in this thread in English that's very atypical of the type most newcomers have used for years now, and it's making my spider sense tingle.  I think there's a lot of merit-seeking and probably AI usage, but I'm not going to stray that far off-topic.  This is a shit topic anyway, but I would not want to violate the rules we must all abide by.

A seed is very different than a will. I would also consider it something like a safe and the key to the safe in one. 
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Well thanks, newbie.  I appreciate you quoting my post and then stating exactly what I said in it.  I do hope you improve with time.


Memorizing 12 words is insane if you've got a lot of bitcoin.  Anyone who uses their own brain to store their seed phrase in is severely overestimating their own memory and underestimating how easy it is to get run over by a truck, hit with a baseball bat, etc.

But neither brain wallets nor using the same wallet for 'a very long time' go against the idea behind bitcoin as you say.  Care to elaborate on that?  Maybe I missed something Satoshi or the Bitcoin Core devs delivered from the mountain.

Mmm hmm, except that a seed phrase isn't a will; that's like saying the Lambo parked in [pick a whale]'s garage is as good as a will.  They're both considered assets, though of different kinds of course.

Imagine 5 kids and 20 grandchildren in 2040 discovering a seed phrase plate that ol' grampa crypto left behind.  That's when those relatives start looking for the real will.

And hopefully people here have sense enough not to use some random web address to send crypto to, unless it's not a random address and is an exchange that has a positive, established reputation.  Despite all of the scam accusations I've seen through the years, I've got faith that not even the newbiest of noobs nor the greediest of the greedy would fall for this crap.

Why is it that so many exchanges (mainly the 'instant' kind) have .io as their URL suffix?  I might not be stating that right, but you know what I mean.

Not likely, because that's sort of where bitcoin began and over time it morphed into what it is now (or at least what many people consider it), digital gold.  I'm not saying I disagree with you, but when big money players are buying up bitcoin by the truckload and never intend to use it to finance anything, it isn't likely anybody else will.

Seriously, who here uses bitcoin to buy anything anymore?  I barely even see it being discussed on the forum like it used to--whenever there used to be a big merchant who started accepting it, it was a huge deal.  Now?  Nobody seems to be pushing for that, nor are merchants announcing anything of the sort.  Things can and do change over time, but I didn't think I'd ever see people stop celebrating the adoption of bitcoin for anything other than a tool for making money (though it's always been that, it was never exclusively that if you know what I'm saying).

There's that word again, even if it's appropriate in the context of video games, it's still way overused.

Is this even a real question, OP?  Video games are programmed to be easy to level up in the beginning and much harder as the game progresses.  Life is not a video game, though sometimes I wish it were--preferably one of the fun ones where you get infinite lives and such, you know?

Probably the best answer I can think of is that human beings are all playing the same game, competing for the same resources, etc.  On top of that, humans don't act like your typical video game opponents.  The deck is stacked against most people right from the start, and there are more super bosses around each corner than the hardest game you could imagine.

Ugh.  What a world.

Bulk the fuck up and stick Theymos's neck with a syringe filled with Draino?

I've got no problem with OP's experiment, because at the very least some of us who care about bitcointalk are discussing what a nightmare AI can turn this forum into (and yeah yeah yeah I know there have been and still are threads dealing with this).  I seriously fear for the future of this beloved hangout--not only could AI turn it into a wasteland of nonsense posts, but discussion forums seem to be headed toward dinosaur land.  A lot of shitcoins don't  even use Reddit much as a place to go for information, help, to talk with the community or whatever, and if you look at some of the coins that have their own discussion forum they're absolutely dead.

Sig campaigns are keeping bitcointalk alive, whether you like it or not.  The goddamn irony is that they're also what bitcointalk is plagued with, and combined with tools to make it easier to write a literal no-brainer post, it's what's going to burn this house to the ground.  Maybe.  Hopefully not.

Don't give me shit about being in a campaign myself.  Some members aren't here for just that, but I'd say 99.7% are.

Do you all even understand what dopamine is, what its functions are in the human body, and perhaps even where it acts in the brain?  I see idiotic Youtubers throwing this word around as if they've graduated with a Ph.D. in neuroscience.

No.  You don't.  99% of you I can guarantee couldn't give me three facts about dopamine off the top of their heads without stopping by Google U first.  Just say "reward system" or some other thing, but I'm telling you when you use a very technical, scientific term so flippantly it loses its meaning and you look goddamn ignorant to those in the know.

Just saying.

Well now, I just have to laugh.  I checked one of my addresses and it was compromised right here on bitcointalk two months after I registered.  Gotta love it.

But all that's off-topic.  On the same e-mail address I took the screenshots from in my last post, I keep getting those dumb ass phishing attempts; I checked the most recent and it differs from the one I showed earlier by just a bit and the sender's address is different every time.  I can definitely see how something like this might cause panic in a newbie's body, but if you know how the basics work and read the messages closely, it's fucking laughable.