DOG "E", the mailman's most hated coin.

Am I the only one who pronounces DOGE as DOG "E"?

If you think America is a democracy, think again. It's not. America is a Constitutional Republic. The people do not directly elect the president and members of the federal government; the representatives of the people in each state elect them.  The danger of democracy is the tyranny of the majority which leads to oppression and despotism of the minority groups.

How often do the mining pools win the POW challenge nowadays?  Who are the major competitors to contend against?  Can there be a back-to-back winner or do winners for the POW challenge get excluded from the next challenge round?

Yea like many have said the only way this could work is if you didn't have to pay for electricity.  The only way you're going to get zero cost for electricity is if you build your own power source... IE solar, window farm, or if you somehow find a way to tap into the zero point energy field (not likely). 

If you CAN find a way to offset the cost of electricity or even turn the deficit into a profit by putting more energy back on the grid than you consume, then the BTC mining venture would become the side hustle, as the incentives from utilities paying you would almost certainly be more profitable.

have you taken a look at the recommendations regarding wallets?  Never keep your wallet on your laptop or your phone.  Get an offline crypto wallet that is not directly attached to the internet.  Laptops and phones have hard drives that can die, or even worse can be hacked. 

TikTok is owned by its parent company, ByteDance. And though the Chinese government doesn't directly own the social media platform, it may indirectly influence its operations.  So keep that in mind.  You almost certainly have the CCP intruding into your personal device and all of your affairs.

These bank failures seem to be very nicely timed for the rollout of CBDCs.  https://youtu.be/-yPcZ_vuFgo

Joe Biden should have set fire to his testicles long before he fathered his ill-begotten son.  If the right people are in charge of his funeral they will launch his casket into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean.  He is a swine of a man and jabbering dodder of a president. He is so crooked he needs servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.  Till he is dead he should be beaten like a mad dog with mange at every opportunity. Nobody trusts him -- except maybe the Stalinist Chinese and honest historians will remember him mainly as a rat who kept scrambling to get back on the ship.

From the Loose Cannon 1st Edition

The Book of Midgets/Midgits (a history)

Chapter 1 verses 4 through 8

"Send forth my beloved subjects! Be they small and capable of head butting tall people in the
groin. Let them be capable of acting as mobile beer holders. Let them be cute and cuddly,
and let them be capable of riding many a good winner at the races. "

I want to believe prices will return to normal.

I want to Believe

I wouldn't try it.  If you have an account on the original finance (I do) you would know they collect your ID and verify your country in order to upgrade your account.   So they already know the country you live in and would probably flag you as suspicious for trying to circumvent the regional security.

What the hell are you talking about ... ETH is at $1700+ as of this post.

I wouldn't follow this advice as it's insane to make the investment on the required hardware (which is fucking ridiculous in price due to scalpers right now) when ETH is moving to Proof of Stake.  Sure there are mining pools but the point of crypto is decentralization not pooling everyone together.

These guys just piss me off.  Another fake on Reddit

https://www.reddit.com/user/SAT0SHl/

This guy is the Crypto equivalent of a Stolen Valor poser.

I seriously hope I pissed him off.
https://imgur.com/gallery/pDUB8uo

I'm delighted to see that my 1.334 ETH is now rising in price again.  I bought $100 when it was down to ~$85 a coin with the intent of using it to fund more coins.   Now I'm reluctant to let go of it.  I recently took $300 and bought XRP while it was at 29 cents.  I have coins in ETH, XRP, XLM, TRX (as well as a trove of various ERC20 tokens).

I feel like I'm just playing the FOMO game with just altcoins in my Ledger NANO.  I have never felt more like salao old Santiago adrift in the bitcoin sea,  hoping that a shark doesn't come along and eat me but at the same time hoping a big whale passes me by long enough for me to gaze into its great big eye.

As of this moment, it's at $247.  Glad I held on to the 1.333 I picked up when it dropped to $84 a coin a year or two back.  Hindsight would suggest i should have picked up a $10000 worth instead of $100. But isn't that what we face/regret from the moment we got into this game.

+1 for cointracker.io. The site will help you generate the needed Schedule One (Additional Income and Adjustments to Income) as well as a form 8949 and Schedule D (Capital Gains and Losses). Also, make sure to report the Capital Gains/Losses in question 6 on the form 1040. On the 8949, you need to put a check in the box next to option (C) Short-term transactions not reported to you on Form 1099-B (unless of course it was a large enouph transaction to be reported by the exchange and they sent you a 1099)