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Re: ⭐⚽⭐ Sportsbet's Bitcointalk Sports Fanatics League (BSFL) – 14000$ rewards ⭐⚽⭐
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buwaytress
on 25/07/2025, 16:08:51 UTC
I'm on the ropes now, need a minor miracle to draw level with vd309: Shubman Gil no century, 4-5 goals in the friendly-named-Premier-League-Summer-Series, and need Norris to win. Miss one of those and I lose. Should be a decent 5/1 at worst if that goes on an acca.

slaman29 - the duel is yours to lose now. You can probably hedge this one quite nicely.

You sure? You're very, very likely to win the cricket H2H because no way this match ends tomorrow the way England are holding strong. I also need Norris to win, and if he does, this round's yours Wink

Tell us how things are with the general league defender against the mafia, what are the odds in his favor now ? Thank you.

Hhampuz is... actually leading both Cro2 halves! Go, go, power Hhampuz.
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Re: 100 Push-Ups Per Day Until Bitcoin Is £100K Challenge
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buwaytress
on 25/07/2025, 14:58:41 UTC
100k,buwaytress,4,40,2025-07-25
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Re: US Americans can now donate towards reducing national debt via Venmo
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buwaytress
on 25/07/2025, 14:50:11 UTC
What I don't understand is how USA will be the biggest donor to poor countries that needs aids and fund wars for their allies then depend on their citizens to help pay their dept.

So let me get this straight, the US government first prints more dollars and creates roughly $1 trillion national debt every 2-3 months, which as we all know printing fiat is pretty much the same as stealing from every single American. Then they ask the very same people they stole from to pay them more money to cover up the debt they created in the first place! LOL?

The amazing virtuous cycle of how to cause that need for aid, then maintain that reliance on aid, and have the cheek to ask citizens to staunch that debt. I suppose if you have to run a scam, better run the biggest one...

P.S. Depending on technicality, it isn't actually the US government that prints this money but yeah, they're still responsible for all that printing and rising debt. Use to remember being taught that central banks (or whichever entity in the Fed Reserve in this case) are there to advise and prevent governments from excessive spending so hey maybe the Fed Reserve knows something I don't.
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Re: Rollbit.com 🦁 Fantasy Premier League ⚽ Discussion Thread
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buwaytress
on 25/07/2025, 10:37:41 UTC
I'm definitely not having Haaland or Isak, too expensive. Salah is staple for me though, as long as he retains MF. I've always gone for cheap backline anyway (after the first season shit of VVD and Trent eating up my budget).

Cutting down the backline is difficult when we literally have every DEF from a decent team at £6.0m - for the first time VD, Cucurella, Gvardiol and Gabriel are £6.0m so how do you navigate this? We used to have a decent 5.0-5.5m DEF, now we don't.

Now it's either you have a decent MID or a decent FWD now way to have both luxury MID and FWD this season.

I can't even tell who's going to lead our FWD this season between Delap and Pedro.

Oh hell, I didn't realise those guys Gab and Gvard have gone up in price, they were crucial to my backline. Guess I'm going to have to go for newer Chelsea/City picks, but again, playing time not guaranteed. Horrible pricings, I'm definitely going to need to just really nail down the guys I want badly, and then fill up with Brentford, Villa,... maybe even Fulham for a start.

Tried to be exclusive and make picks to certain aspects of the pitch from my FWD, MID, DEF and GK but before I knew it, there was nothing left in my bankroll to settle my bench. Prices was just over it and one really needs to cut down a lot to accommodate. Still don’t know how to fill in certain positions on the pitch yet but, there are certain players I’m sure to start the season with not to come by same mistakes of exclusions due to price over the course of last season.

I wonder if this is where we can try and smack down some price changes profit for first couple of gameweeks? And then buy underperforming expensive players who are probably getting dropped? Is this how you play price game? Haha.
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Re: Sportsbet.io's English Premier League Football Pool Discussion Thread
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buwaytress
on 24/07/2025, 14:00:18 UTC
Damn, even I needed a double take. I remember putting him in my FPL 2 seasons ago... and ignoring him last. He's now played three seasons with us and even arrived earlier than Diaz. Feels the opposite in my head, but that's what game time does to memory.
Diaz feels like he is part of the furniture at Anfield to me, like he has always been there.
Nunez has had more than his time to prove himself at the club with little competition for his spot. He could yet explode at Liverpool for a season or so, but I really cannot see him as a dependable, long term option, too raw of a player.

- Jay -

Yeah, he certainly does. Might not be the most popular guy with fans but I like him a lot, which makes me wonder if I'm liking all the wrong things, but he feels definitely like someone I'd miss if he goes to Bayern (increasingly likely). It is a shame Nunez is 26 and still considered raw. But given the trajectories of many Liver players, maybe he is yet to peak..?

He’s a very likeable guy but he’s just not good enough to be the main striker at a big club.

I wish him all the best in his career but this Liverpool means business and there’s no room for sentiment.

This is true, he's had more than his fair share of chances (even if it hardly helped he was used as a sub half of the appearances). Sentiment's a hard thing to juggle at a club like Liverpool, I guess. Especially if we want to be taken seriously as a constant title challenger. I think that's why Dalglish's second coming was always meant to fail.

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Re: ⭐⚽⭐ Sportsbet's Bitcointalk Sports Fanatics League (BSFL) – 14000$ rewards ⭐⚽⭐
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buwaytress
on 24/07/2025, 12:37:43 UTC
When I saw that Shubman Gill failed to score a century, I thought it was a typo. I mean, how can you score a century? Is there also a decade? I hope that no cricket fan will be mad at me for saying that, but it really sound funny Grin

Heh, just means a hundred runs. 50 and 100 are milestone runs for batters. No less funny than a football hattrick (what's that, a trick of hats?) or a tennis bagel (really, zero looks like a bagel? Zero looks like a zero).

I'm honestly surprised that almost everybody picked Salzburg to win, and also that I'm the only one from the LMS crew that had Spain to win with a handicap. That point will be tough to get back in a round like this.

I thought that was obvious, but I don't know much about the home team. Also Spain played really well, as they typically do, but I guess their failure to score against Switzerland should have been a warning sign they can't really score well against tall defensive players. I'm definitely not doing well against vd309.

Waterpolo: if Hungary don't beat Spain today, I probably should concede the round. Hopefully their tougher draws mean they're on form... I'm not sure I like the odds now though... almost 3/1 heh. I'm actually watching HRT now (HT Montenegro leading 6-5), testing a stream before the game starts. What an awful spectacle if I'm honest, though, so not sure I'm watching much of Spain-Hungary! Oversized guys in undersized... pants... Also, didn't know this was in Singapore!
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Re: Sportsbet.io - Its Official - Sportsbet Discord is LIVE!
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buwaytress
on 24/07/2025, 12:19:36 UTC
Ah, I won't be repeating last season's Liverpool outright bet, unfortunately. Not when they're the favourites but Igebotz Chelsea 9/1 (9.56 boosted) represents an easy 10x win for a season's investment. Seems like something right down your alley, padi. Still needs getting used to, this Liverpool being title favourites. And the transfer window doesn't even look like it's shutting for us any time soon.

Wouldn’t surprise me if he signed for Chelsea, let’s face it, they’re always in the running to sign everybody Cheesy

Making pretty decent profits from sales too. This club isn't playing football, it's a crypto trader in disguise...
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Re: 100 Push-Ups Per Day Until Bitcoin Is £100K Challenge
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buwaytress
on 24/07/2025, 10:53:44 UTC
Nothing fancy, just keeping count. Oh and I've started padel every Thursday now. Not ordinarily what I'd play but it's quite light exercise for shoulder mobility. 10% the strength of tennis and 10% the mobile stress of badminton I feel.

100k,buwaytress,3,30,2025-07-24

still sick suffering from severe allergies. on some asthma meds.

Take it easy. Remember to breathe deliberately!
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Re: Rollbit.com 🦁 Fantasy Premier League ⚽ Discussion Thread
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buwaytress
on 24/07/2025, 10:22:09 UTC
Prices are locked until the game starts so you are good on that front. Only way you can profit by making a squad early is to target a player that will make a move to the team that you want to have a lot of players from. Let's say in your case you already have 3 LFC players and you hear Palmer is coming to red side. You take him before the transfer is official and you have 4 Liverpool players until the moment you transfer one of them out.

Thanks! Yeah wondered if I should lock in my players as they come in case price goes up but now I know they won't change until season starts, I won't rush. Thanks for the tip too. I did mention earlier that price is probably the next aspect I need to level up my game in FPL but I will only experiment with it a little (unless my FPL dies early then I'll definitely go crazy).

Another rant about how shitty this FPL update is, it logs you out automatically every now and despite being force to used a different browser solely for it, and it's an eyesore making transfer, you'll have to keep switching in between pages, you can even view the entire player list in a position in the transfer page without selecting a player to transfer out, the list goes on and on... @buwaytress's UCL website is more user friendly
than this  Angry Angry

I somehow managed to put together my first draft, and Haaland, Salah nor Isak made the list, looks crazy but that might be my play before my first wildcard.

I'm using the app and no problem for me..

It's extremely difficult to field Palmer/Saka, Salah, and Halaand in the same draft right now without reducing the backline to the cheapest available.  The fees are too high for my liking, and I honestly don't know what they (FPL) hope to achieve with a price hike.

The only good explanation I can think of is that this price increase will destroy the regular same lineup templates but still sucks.

It actually logs me out even on browser, and I don't clear cookies on FPL. Slightly annoying but not to the point I hate it. I do find that I'm still getting used to the layout even after 3 seasons (and I blame it for making my AssMan chip mistake last season as I got confused).

I'm definitely not having Haaland or Isak, too expensive. Salah is staple for me though, as long as he retains MF. I've always gone for cheap backline anyway (after the first season shit of VVD and Trent eating up my budget).
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Re: ⭐⚽⭐ Sportsbet's Bitcointalk Sports Fanatics League (BSFL) – 14000$ rewards ⭐⚽⭐
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buwaytress
on 23/07/2025, 16:24:20 UTC
vd309, why couldn't you have gone with England? Need Spain to smack Germany good tonight, otherwise you're 2 up... and then tomorrow need Spain to do the opposite otherwise it's game over for me.

Hhampuz what... did you do? Gave one of the mafia a free point with water polo =p You're either a marvelous bastard or you don't like to win easy... I see you went all guns blazing on the questions to... Yes to all the European qual games and Yes on Bublik. Sort of feel proud of you.

Thats wild and both mafia had Hungary and Spain so either one of them gonna have 1 point advantage over him. As for Bublik with a yes, I mean technically he has chances to win, so far he is pretty good though

so I split them between Germany and Italy. No point doing anything less than 5x on $10 freebets.

Go get em tiger !

If Hhampuz beats both Mafia this round, and I lose my round, I will copy his all-out strategy for next round.

And damn Italy. I watched the second half of the game and the 8 minutes (of regular injury time) and they were completely unable to manage the game. I've always said women's football has become technically good enough to watch but this match was lacking even in that. Other than the flashes of good control for the first goal, passing was terrible, crossing was slow, corners look like mine... I guess it's club football where the game isn't so unwatchable.

Going to try and watch Spain tonight though, they got two Ballon D'or winners (who are the women's versions of Ronaldo/Messi, as they both won the last 4) playing so...
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Re: Sportsbet.io's English Premier League Football Pool Discussion Thread
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buwaytress
on 23/07/2025, 14:07:05 UTC
That is true, you need to be exceptionally good like Haaland at Dortmund to cost that much at that age and Haaland did not even cost that much. Nunex has been at Liverpool 4 years? Seems like he was signed 2 seasons ago.

Damn, even I needed a double take. I remember putting him in my FPL 2 seasons ago... and ignoring him last. He's now played three seasons with us and even arrived earlier than Diaz. Feels the opposite in my head, but that's what game time does to memory.

Not a fain of Eki either, but I want to be proven wrong on everyone we get.

Every day, I'm delighted we left the deal and found a better deal in Pedro; Ekitike isn't worth that much after one good season.  I won't judge him until he kicks the ball, but has any Liverpool big-money striker ever worked out?  Carroll and Nunez both failed to meet expectations.

Arsenal's getting Gyokeres for €73m in a market where Liverpool paid €92m for Ekitike is a steal.  I know who got a better deal here.

@Un_rank now that a proper striker is here what are your expectations for Arteta this season? No excuses now?

Damn, yes, I forgot about Pedro too, another of my FPL staples that I can no longer pick (only because I'm never sure in Chelsea's plan who plays). And no, we have a great track record in value buys, and in modern times with GKs and CBs, but you're right, we've not done well when splashing on a forward. Signed super strikers for 20m++ in Suarez and Torres, but think we signed both Caroll (I loved Dalglish but at least he more than made up for this with Suarez) and Benteke for double that (Hodgson was shit but don't know why Brendan did that haha) and since then yeah, we just don't seem to remember that we're good at creating expensive forwards, not importing them.

Nth time lucky maybe?

P.S. I still think Nunez will explode elsewhere. Just perhaps not at Liverpool, sadly for me.
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Re: How to Secure Your Finances in a Devaluing Economy
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buwaytress
on 23/07/2025, 12:40:47 UTC
With this era you must need to become a financial literate saving money in the bank is not the best way option right now because with the rapid increase of the inflation the value of the money you keep storing will become limited once you take it out in the bank, having an investment is a must so we are here in the crypto space and one of the best way to put a risk management with the possible token to soar high but again not all the time its a win its a volatile movement.

Financial literacy probably implies you know the value of spreading your risk, and the benefits of insured savings though, wouldn't you say? Depends a lot on the currency and the state insuring it, of course, but I think for the majority of people, who don't have savings, that would be a really great starting point. Literacy simply means knowing your options and being able to make sound decisions with your money/wealth/income. All-in crypto bros tend to be... on another spectrum of financial illiteracy. But that's my semi-literate opinion Wink
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Re: 100 Push-Ups Per Day Until Bitcoin Is £100K Challenge
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buwaytress
on 23/07/2025, 11:35:12 UTC
⭐ Merited by JayJuanGee (1)
Appreciate all the love shown, thank you fellas. Just going to stick to the same amount until they feel comfortable. Today's sets felt weirdly more difficult to do.

100k,buwaytress,2,20,2025-07-23

Try not to push beyond what you can bear and regularly go for checkups to be sure you're not loosing your shoulders any further.

Been doing physio for 2 years now, I'm actually sick with it -- recovery's rather peaked for months now, but focusing on strength/muscle rehab now that it seems flexibility/mobility has plateaud.

Do not worry about the numbers what truly matters is that your showing up and listening to your body.

10 a day better than 9 a day, right? =)

You are highly welcome to this push-ups thread, and there is something i want you to understand about this push-ups thread, is that we don't discriminate any members that start with a low number of push-ups because push-ups exercise is something will need to grow gradually by gradually in your total number of push-ups daily, and i believe that with time you will surely improve your number of push-ups daily
~

Thanks! I've never had much upper body strength but I will be looking for incremental comfort, rather than incremental push-ups, nice to know there's no pressure, happy to join this crowd!

Welcome. If you have injuries, it may be helpful to your own building yourself up but not overly stressing your injury to figure some kind of a modification so that you can attempt to get to being able to accomplish at least 10 pushups for each set and then maybe try to do 3 sets each day - perhaps spread through the day - if that is possible.

Appreciate the support! From the end of last year I actually did them on the knees, but since strength wasn't part of my rehab regime until recently, I waited until I could do it "properly" before coming in here. I am doing for now 2 sets, in the morning and evening. The rest of the day still doing injury-related exercises and those tax my joints. Happy to be here )
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Re: Rollbit.com 🦁 Fantasy Premier League ⚽ Discussion Thread
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on 23/07/2025, 09:47:12 UTC
Eh, so it seems teams are in early. Price won't change until after GW1, right?

Definitely need to rethink a lot of things with Mbeumo in United (and actually now he's a striker?) Didn't dig too deep in it yet but I hope they keep things as much as possible similar. Hard to get over the learning curve in the first place, never mind tweaks and changes etc. Leeds has to be where the value is, is my initial thought.
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Re: ⭐⚽⭐ Sportsbet's Bitcointalk Sports Fanatics League (BSFL) – 14000$ rewards ⭐⚽⭐
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buwaytress
on 22/07/2025, 17:05:56 UTC
Hhampuz what... did you do? Gave one of the mafia a free point with water polo =p You're either a marvelous bastard or you don't like to win easy... I see you went all guns blazing on the questions to... Yes to all the European qual games and Yes on Bublik. Sort of feel proud of you.

Phew, I cut this one dangerously close to the deadline. I had luck that I researched some of those questions, so I already knew what I wanted to go with in the first place. Came home 9 minutes before the deadline.

I won't do this again, if my PC restarted I would have lost the round - and I still have all the VAR's and rarely use them.

I had that one unlucky streak waiting and my Google acted up on me. Curses upon your luck.
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Re: 🚀 Sportsbet.io 🚀 UFC on ABC 9 🚀 Multi Master Challenge 🚀 26 July
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buwaytress
on 22/07/2025, 16:59:33 UTC
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Re: ⭐⚽⭐ Sportsbet's Bitcointalk Sports Fanatics League (BSFL) – 14000$ rewards ⭐⚽⭐
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buwaytress
on 22/07/2025, 16:53:21 UTC
Articles are also getting better Trofo (they were always good, they feel slicker now). Nice one.

Nothing much to add for BSFL today except that I felt instant regret the moment I submitted my picks, actually. Mainly because of cricket where I knew initially what I wanted, but then went for something highly unlikely. We'll see.

A freebet! Of course I'll put it on Germany, nice odds Wink

Over 5x on Germany to win over Spain, goodluck with that but you know everything is possible on women football because they sucks  Kiss. Double chance + BTTS actually seems more likely to hit

Precisely, it's football anyway and I've hit any 5xs... I tend to believe upset probabilitiess are even more volatile in KO women's football. I ended up getting the $40 in freebets in $10s so I split them between Germany and Italy. No point doing anything less than 5x on $10 freebets.
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Re: Sportsbet.io's English Premier League Football Pool Discussion Thread
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buwaytress
on 22/07/2025, 15:23:18 UTC
@buwaytress - A club without a sugar daddy cannot intimidate everyone in the market; I have no problem with that, but I hope Liverpool fans stop complaining about other teams buying the league when they are doing the same thing right now. And cryptofrka has suddenly gone mute.

Nope, did not Grin

Yeah, I don't recall LFC being this aggressive.. well.. ever.

There's even talk of going for Rodrygo in case the Diaz deal goes through, on paper that team would be the most serious title contender.
Would feel quite weird to start the season as the title favorites, that hasn't happened even under Klopp. But yeah - LFC mudding the waters. Happy to see it to be honest - although I really don't rate Ekitike that much.

We're spending like challengers, meaning that the pressure is now on us to deliver. As many said already, I don't mind it that much.

When LFC dominated the 80's, they were the team that outspent the others. Usually money wins, so it has been frustrating to have to rely on others having bad seasons so we could sneak around and try to poke a trophy.
I like us on even standing ground, let us spend and let us have that pressure. Bring it on Cool

Frka doesn't go quiet. He sits in his corner and plans his words. I think you can safely say that us Liverpool supporters are quietly surprised, but positive about what's going on. Like you said, frka, Rodrygo? When was the last time we went for a solid Real starter?  I recall Morientes but he'd left Real already and was fading when we got him, if I remember.

Definitely will take getting used to, starting the season as favourites. Hasn't happened in my lifetime.

Not a fain of Eki either, but I want to be proven wrong on everyone we get.
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Re: Discretionary Income vs Emergency Funds: Why It Matters for Bitcoin Investing
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buwaytress
on 22/07/2025, 13:07:50 UTC
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Why always assume the worst and lose gains because of it. You are saying two negative things needs to happen all at the same time.

First, the price of everything should fall, so we are in a bear market, AND then we are going to lose our job at the same time. Isn't that really weird that you want to lose possible gains for a back to back possible bad things?

I do not agree that it's being "prepared", it is being paranoid after a point. If you really want to, 10% of your portfolio could be USDT, and that way you could have some emergency fund.

But, I believe AT LEAST 10x of your emergency fund should be in BTCitcoin.

I think this comes from experience, social class, political/econonomic location. I wasn't even ten when I first saw my parents worrying about money, and this wasn't even close to what happened a decade later in the late 1990s when Asia was thrown into full-blown crisis. I was 17 when that happened. Saw what happened to those who didn't have savings, those who didn't have enough, and my own parents who prepared for the worst.

In societies where the support system is fully reliant on the nuclear family, and then on the extended, you are brought up to prepare for the worst not just for yourself but those within that system. There is no state welfare net to fall into.

So while I'm actually leaning towards your view, I say so having extracted myself from the situation, class and location of my birth. It is easier to take those risks for me, but I comprehend his viewpoint, it having been mine not too long ago.
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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buwaytress
on 22/07/2025, 11:01:46 UTC
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Well, expensive relative to worthless fiat? Or expensive relative to the entertainment value you derive from them? Wink I have expensive chores... relative to the joy I gain from them (almost negative!).

I have both. Expensive chores, but i am a maniac at keeping the cost as low as possible, and expensive hobbies, while "entertainment" is not quite the thing i gain from them (compared to a round of Players Unknown Battleground, for example), but they keep my interest high (on intervals, though), for various reasons (don't ask).

I'm a money-grubbing maniac with my already-comparatively low costs of living for a family of 5 (compared to a typical local single person, and I base that off national numbers). But they still seem expensive to me because of the time I sink into them (can't be helped). As you say, the end game, whether we realise it or not, is to keep our interest in going on.

Won't ask, if you won't Wink

Well, expensive relative to worthless fiat? Or expensive relative to the entertainment value you derive from them? Wink I have expensive chores... relative to the joy I gain from them (almost negative!).

It is amazing how much those of us who had done most of our bitcoin accumulating prior to 2021 were greatly saved by our having had mostly accumulated our bitcoin prior to then (if we might even use $8k-ish as our average cost per BTC).. and if we had accumulated any kind of bitcoin stash, that bitcoin has largely 15x'd in value in the past 5-ish years, even though fiat based prices might have doubled or maybe a bit more than doubled in some cases in the same time period.. Sure there are some items that might have had tripled in price during that time, but our trusty cornz have more than held their own in the whole scheme of things during the past 5-ish years (again presuming that we had mostly done a large majority of our stashing prior to 2021). 

Indeed. I've probably spoken a bit about how I had to liquidate roughly just prior in that 2021 ATH but I had already 10x and up whatever I'd DCA'd in the few short years I started freelancing for BTC. And, as you say, even if you accumulated post-2021, today's situation still helps defeat fiat inflation. My kids' stash has tripled in averaged value (I stopped adding to it in early 2024 as I think they're old enough now to do something for it on their own). More than held their own, I'd say!