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  On 5/15/2022 at 3:50 AM, Biff Tannen said:

This is what i just don't get.  They are paintings/pictures.  But in digital form. Why?  Why is that a cool thing?  If this were like 1981, ok maybe.  But...I just don't.

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It's for today's version of guys back in the 70s who wore TI calculators on their belts like phasers. Done right, it brings joy to some buyer, a possibility of profit for the hopeful artist, and definite 100% income for the guys minting the thing.

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Good news, Nigerians: BTC is now your official currency! And at the current rate of 7 transactions per second worldwide, up to 0.3% of you will have the opportunity to engage in a financial transaction each day.

 

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  On 5/16/2022 at 3:47 PM, BrickHorn said:

Good news, Nigerians: BTC is now your official currency! And at the current rate of 7 transactions per second worldwide, up to 0.3% of you will have the opportunity to engage in a financial transaction each day.

 

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It looks more like a list of places where Presidents and President's Brothers-in-Law are trying to fiddle with whatever they skim off of foreign aid.

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  On 5/16/2022 at 8:33 PM, 956 Worldwide said:

This is a hit parade of all the sound fiscal policy stars!

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It is 100% the functional equivalent of the mass of rubes (e.g., folks who do all their shopping at Dollar General and the like) telling us all to invest in Beanie Babies, it's a can't-lose investment, and the only reason you don't support it is because you're in league with Big Finance and don't like seeing the little guy get rich!

I have nothing against the little guy, or historically underfunded and governmentally challenged nations.  I wish them ALL success, and I think we'd all be better off if they found success.  But I've seen this show before.  Many times.  I know how it ends.

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  On 5/16/2022 at 9:38 PM, Brisketexan said:

It is 100% the functional equivalent of the mass of rubes (e.g., folks who do all their shopping at Dollar General and the like) telling us all to invest in Beanie Babies, it's a can't-lose investment, and the only reason you don't support it is because you're in league with Big Finance and don't like seeing the little guy get rich!

I have nothing against the little guy, or historically underfunded and governmentally challenged nations.  I wish them ALL success, and I think we'd all be better off if they found success.  But I've seen this show before.  Many timesI know how it ends.

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With Bitcoin doing another 10x and its influence spreading significantly? We have seen that many times after smart people such as yourself declare it over. One day you’ll learn and you’ll get bitcoin at the price you deserve. 
 

  On 5/16/2022 at 3:47 PM, BrickHorn said:

Good news, Nigerians: BTC is now your official currency! And at the current rate of 7 transactions per second worldwide, up to 0.3% of you will have the opportunity to engage in a financial transaction each day.

 

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I admire your commitment to so boldly displaying your ignorance on this thread. 

 

 

  On 5/16/2022 at 6:06 PM, RDCanecutter said:

It looks more like a list of places where Presidents and President's Brothers-in-Law are trying to fiddle with whatever they skim off of foreign aid.

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Probably so. These politicians are getting into it because of self interest. 
 

Here they are. 
 

We’ll see how many get orange pilled. 
 

 

 

Posted
  On 5/16/2022 at 11:21 PM, jimmyjazz said:

How is crypto any different than a tradeable stock?  What's the point of holding through a 50% crash?

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Crypto doesn't represent any real-world value or utility, for one lol. A stock is a measurable percentage of a business, a bitcoin is a number on a ledger that holds zero intrinsic utility. Hell, even the most novel and evolutionary parts of cryptocurrency like DAO's and smart contracts are just horrifically inefficient replacements for current systems like voting shares or an actual contract on the public record.

  On 5/17/2022 at 1:59 AM, Immaculate Vibes said:

Because several times it has crashed that much and gone up multiples from there. 

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[Ponzi intensifies]

The only thing fueling your line going up is the influx of new stupid money with the advent of NFT's and shitcoins and pump and dumps which are all just mechanisms to drive demand for ETH and ultimately, BTC.

There's just not much to spend your crypto on in the real world. If you wanna buy a thousand dollar booster pack for your new age baseball cards, then it's the best thing since sliced bread. 

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  On 5/16/2022 at 11:21 PM, jimmyjazz said:

How is crypto any different than a tradeable stock?  What's the point of holding through a 50% crash?

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Stock prices are based on earnings or expected earnings, the demand for this stock drives prices up.

Crypto -- to my untrained eye -- rises in price because of demand in the same way, BUT there is no company to own, no earnings, no product, no nothing.  All smoke and mirrors. Nor is there a sovereign country with economic power (US) or a coalition (Euro) that is a safe place to store value.  Crypto is untethered, so it's only as good as your marketing and as safe as your computer stuff/power supply. 

Crypto is hot because it can't be traced (good for drug dealers and 3rd world despots looking to hide aid money) and dumbass boys think it's cool.  

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  On 5/16/2022 at 11:21 PM, jimmyjazz said:

How is crypto any different than a tradeable stock?  What's the point of holding through a 50% crash?

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I’ll answer a little better here. First of all, you need to separate bitcoin from “crypto”. Bitcoin is the original cryptocurrency. It’s by far the most decentralized and most secure.
 

“Crypto” is a catch all term for other cryptocurrencies. These are almost universally very centralized, scammy speculative assets.

 

Bitcoin is a verifiably scarce bearer asset in this time of monetary debasement. When held properly it is both censorship and confiscation resistant. You can transact with it however you please. You can personally possess it, meaning outside of a bank. It’s no one else’s liability. 
 

Its value goes up as more people find the above characteristics attractive for either monetary/financial or political reasons. Because it has a fixed supply, surges and falls in demand can cause exaggerated swings in the price, although it has muted slightly over time. 
 

Not really sure if you were serious but thought I’d put it out there in case you were being genuine. Now others will chime in and we’ll have the same nocoiner vs bitcoiner arguments. I can expand however you’d like. 

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  On 5/16/2022 at 11:21 PM, jimmyjazz said:

How is crypto any different than a tradeable stock?  What's the point of holding through a 50% crash?

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A stock represents the ownership of a fraction of a corporation, let’s say that makes beanie babies. By owning said stock, you are entitled to that same corporations profits and assets from making beanie babies. If they sell more, you get more. If they sell less, you get less. 

Crypto denotes a unit of currency. It doesn’t represent anything of real use or utility other than that unit of currency. Unlike the dollar or the pound that are backed by the full faith and trust of the government that issued the currency, Cyrpto is backed by nothing. It is decentralized. That makes Crypto not a good medium of exchange, unit of account, or store of value because the whole point of fiat currency is stability. Crypto is not stable.

For example, if you and your friends collected hundred of beanie babies. You all loved beanie babies so much, you just decided to pay each other in beanie babies for good and services. Let’s say you’re a pretty sweet deck builder, so you build your friend John a deck for 85 beanie babies. Now between your friends, that’s awesome. But there’s only so many beanie babies, and there isn’t anyone to guarantee a certain amount of beanie babies for your group of friend. So if your collection gets wiped out, that could makes the other beanie babies more valuable. Of if someone lost their the keys to their lockbox that contained thousands of beanie babies. Same issue. Wild swings of beanie baby supplies means you don’t know what to charge the next guy for the new deck. John doesn’t know what to charge for the hamburger he makes. With increased uncertainty, it means less exchange of goods and services, which means less GDP, which means you little Johnny won’t be getting that GI Joe with the Kung Fu grip. 

 

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Disregarding the fact that crypto doesn't represent corporate ownership, and disregarding the fact that it isn't backed by the full faith of . . . anyone . . . it seems to me that people are mostly purchasing crypto to "make money".  Buy low, sell high, except I see people riding crashes all the way down, akin to a "buy and hold" stock investing scheme.  I've never seen the value in that.  It's a strategy, one of an infinite number of strategies, in a vehicle that is unproven and poorly understood.

Consider this ETF (BITO) that allegedly correlates to BitCoin.  It opened last fall at $40/sh, and is currently trading at $18.73/sh, which represents a 53% loss.  Were someone to trade it with a simple 10/20 day moving average crossover strategy, they would currently be on the sidelines at an 18% loss.  Sounds better to me.  It's a snapshot, it's not investment advice, and it could underperform buy and hold in certain crypto environments, but to me those who buy into crypto seem to have a pretty strong fanboi vibe, and capital preservation is an afterthought.  Without any intent to launch a sidebar about the wisdom of trading higher frequency than buy and hold, I'll lay out the 3 round trip trades (initial investment 100 shares at $40/sh, fractional shares allowed):

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Besides these cryptobro types spamming this and other sites, that it has no intrinsic value like currency/stock, that it’s caused a GPU crunch, etc…the model itself requires a huge amount of energy that I consider wasted, environmentally damaging and yet another avenue for a gambling-inclined people to lose their shirt over.  

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  On 5/17/2022 at 3:10 PM, Homercles said:

Besides these cryptobro types spamming this and other sites, that it has no intrinsic value like currency/stock, that it’s caused a GPU crunch, etc…the model itself requires a huge amount of energy that I consider wasted, environmentally damaging and yet another avenue for a gambling-inclined people to lose their shirt over.  

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Is there an estimate of the % grid power consumed by mining algorithms?

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  On 5/17/2022 at 3:19 PM, Homercles said:
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I literally just hung up on a call with someone who is working with an electric liability group in Texas, and is preparing a speech for an industry group on the state of our grid.  And he was provided stats straight from the horse's mouth.  

At peak load usage, bitcoin mining makes up 20% of the load in Texas.   And no, not all of those are interruptible contracts (in fact, he doesn't have the data on how many might be, as it's not a requirement that they be interruptible -- it's a choice).

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  On 5/16/2022 at 11:21 PM, jimmyjazz said:

How is crypto any different than a tradeable stock?  What's the point of holding through a 50% crash?

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i don't view it as that differently, but I am not a buy and hold crypto person.  Buy and hold people, in general, are not keeping their BTC/ETH in a CEX, but in their own wallet.  So setting up a stop loss sale is difficult from that perspective (or maybe i just don't know how to do it).  Whales are highly manipulative (sometimes seemingly in conjunction with the CEXs) so it's hard to read the tea leaves and guess the direction of the market.  Easier to buy and hold, but must have stomach for huge swings and you are counting on entire market going on a sustained run to lift a long period of DCA buys from the ATH. 

Whales want to make money too.  they still need to buy low and then move the market higher to sell.  You cannot time the bottom and top, but lots try to draft the whales moving the market up.  If you set areas to take profit and set SL to limit losses, it comes to resemble stock trading whether one sees any intrinsic value or not.

  On 5/17/2022 at 2:26 AM, Bullneck said:

Crypto is hot because it can't be traced (good for drug dealers and 3rd world despots looking to hide aid money) and dumbass boys think it's cool.  

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crypto can be easily traced.  that's the point.  if a gov agency wants to find out where money is going and who it is, they likely can.  amateurs find and dox crypto scammers all the time by tracking how wallets interact to follow the crypto.  tracking is not recovering though and obviously freezing like with a traditional bank is not happening, but they can keep an eye on suspect wallets and pounce when it's moved to fiat.

 

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  On 5/17/2022 at 3:10 PM, Homercles said:

Besides these cryptobro types spamming this and other sites, that it has no intrinsic value like currency/stock, that it’s caused a GPU crunch, etc…the model itself requires a huge amount of energy that I consider wasted, environmentally damaging and yet another avenue for a gambling-inclined people to lose their shirt over.  

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It's just an objective fact that bitcoin mining wastes electricity. That's the entire point of it. 

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  On 5/17/2022 at 3:10 PM, Homercles said:

Besides these cryptobro types spamming this and other sites, that it has no intrinsic value like currency/stock, that it’s caused a GPU crunch, etc…the model itself requires a huge amount of energy that I consider wasted, environmentally damaging and yet another avenue for a gambling-inclined people to lose their shirt over.  

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That pretty much sums it up.

I've read that all the renewable energy ever put in service is less than the power needed to run cyrpto mining farms.  So, when it's 120 degrees next summer you can thank these assholes.

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I'm skeptical that, once electricity costs are accounted for, combined with the clear volatility of the instrument itself, that it's a big winner, but that's pure conjecture. 

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  On 5/17/2022 at 3:10 PM, Homercles said:

Besides these cryptobro types spamming this and other sites, that it has no intrinsic value like currency/stock, that it’s caused a GPU crunch, etc…the model itself requires a huge amount of energy that I consider wasted, environmentally damaging and yet another avenue for a gambling-inclined people to lose their shirt over.  

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  On 5/17/2022 at 3:32 PM, wildcat09 said:

It's just an objective fact that bitcoin mining wastes electricity. That's the entire point of it. 

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It's literally the underpinning of any proof of work system. It's HARD to mine a bitcoin and takes trillions and trillions of random inputs to a complex calculation, that's designed to only be guessable once every 10 minutes.

So that means that when the network hashrate is about 220 million TH/s, that means 220,000,000,000,000,000,000 calculations are wasted per second. Given a 10 minute target block time, that means you're wasting approximately 

132,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

calculations before a single correct block is hashed ("mined"), yielding net new BTC and granting the gas fees to the lucky miner.

 

The fact that it's so difficult to do an consumes so much electricity is a feature, not a bug of cryptocurrency. It's what makes the proof of work valuable. Because of the incredible opportunity cost you're paying computationally and energy-wise to achieve it.

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  On 5/17/2022 at 3:19 PM, Homercles said:
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Sorry. Was going off the top of my head. It’s a substantial amount, but in the grand scheme of things not really, given that a good percentage is based off renewables, using stranded energy etc. 


 

  On 5/17/2022 at 3:32 PM, wildcat09 said:

It's just an objective fact that bitcoin mining wastes electricity. That's the entire point of it. 

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Using stranded electricity from renewables is wasteful? What about from flares natural gas? Wrong. 
 

Honestly we’ve gone around and round with energy FUD. 

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Posted
  On 5/17/2022 at 4:07 PM, Immaculate Vibes said:

Using stranded electricity from renewables is wasteful? What about from flares natural gas? Wrong. 
 

Honestly we’ve gone around and round with energy FUD. 

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As discussed in the other thread - this sort of set up of a small mining rig or a single rack at a site is NOT going to be representative of the majority of the hashrate in the state. The vast majority are going to be ran like data centers because it's a pain in the ass to your profit margins and breakeven on your specialized ASICs to have the lights go out.

You are being dishonest with yourself if you think that it's going to be all "stranded electricity". Plus, we should be exploring better electricity storage techniques - NOT capitalizing your ponzi scheme.

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  On 5/17/2022 at 3:32 PM, gyroprotagonist said:

If you set areas to take profit and set SL to limit losses, it comes to resemble stock trading whether one sees any intrinsic value or not.

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It resembles stock trading in the sense that if you take away all the underlying financial reasons why stocks move up and down, and replace that with tweets and vibes, then yes, it comes to resemble stock trading. 

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  On 5/17/2022 at 4:16 PM, Captainant said:

As discussed in the other thread - this sort of set up of a small mining rig or a single rack at a site is NOT going to be representative of the majority of the hashrate in the state. The vast majority are going to be ran like data centers because it's a pain in the ass to your profit margins and breakeven on your specialized ASICs to have the lights go out.

You are being dishonest with yourself if you think that it's going to be all "stranded electricity". Plus, we should be exploring better electricity storage techniques - NOT capitalizing your ponzi scheme.

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Where did I say it was all stranded electricity? Just was pointing out instances where it’s literally impossible for it to be considered “waste”.

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  On 5/17/2022 at 4:05 PM, Captainant said:

The fact that it's so difficult to do an consumes so much electricity is a feature, not a bug of cryptocurrency. It's what makes the proof of work valuable. Because of the incredible opportunity cost you're paying computationally and energy-wise to achieve it.

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You could write the exact same thing about someone who hides Beanie Babies in nooks and crannies near the peak of Mt. Everest.  It would be very hard to gather those Beanie Babies.  The Mt. Everest Limited Edition Beanie Babies would be relatively rare.  Yet they would still have no value beyond the people who find the very concept of scarcity a value-adder.  Once gathered, they are no different than a stuffed animal you can buy at CVS.  In terms of actual utility and function (cuddly, makes your kid happy when you bring one home), the scarcity makes no difference compared to any other alternative.

Bitcoin is valuable because bitcoin bros think it's valuable.  Every logical construct comes back to that answer.

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  On 5/17/2022 at 4:19 PM, Immaculate Vibes said:

Where did I say it was all stranded electricity? Just was pointing out instances where it’s literally impossible for it to be considered “waste”.

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You're implying that the majority of its energy usage would be from stranded electricity. 

You're doing the jordan peterson-style shithousery where you make a ton of implications in your posts and then when someone states the thing you've been dancing around actually saying, you retort with "WeLL i DiDnT sAy ThAt!!!"

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Setting up Cyrpto mining at pad sites to use flared gas is a great use of a wasted energy. No one is arguing against that. No one is stopping that from happening.
 

The other thread debated the idea of building additional capacity that crypto could use and then power down quickly when that additional capacity is needed by the grid by consumers. If you read the fine print of the article, the crypto companies said the government could just pay them the same amount they would make had they not powered down. Aka a subsidy. Not only would power companies have to fund the additional capacity construction (with I bet some pubic funded tax credits or subsidies), the public would also have to pay the crypto bros for powering down when the energy is needed. To which non crypto bros have suggested….no.

 

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  On 5/17/2022 at 4:24 PM, Captainant said:

You're implying that the majority of its energy usage would be from stranded electricity. 

You're doing the jordan peterson-style shithousery where you make a ton of implications in your posts and then when someone states the thing you've been dancing around actually saying, you retort with "WeLL i DiDnT sAy ThAt!!!"

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20% of the load in Texas is attributable to bitcoin mining.  That isn't "stranded electricity."  There's very, very little generation that could be characterized as "stranded electricity."  Like literally every sales-pitch about Bitcoin, when you drill down to it, all the excuses about energy usage are bullshit/a scam.

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  On 5/17/2022 at 4:24 PM, Captainant said:

You're implying that the majority of its energy usage would be from stranded electricity. 

You're doing the jordan peterson-style shithousery where you make a ton of implications in your posts and then when someone states the thing you've been dancing around actually saying, you retort with "WeLL i DiDnT sAy ThAt!!!"

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I didn’t imply anything of the sort. Again, I was merely pointing out that Wildcat’s absolute was objectively false. 
 

You’re doing that thing where you read more into what I’m saying than what is actually there.  

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  On 5/17/2022 at 4:45 PM, Immaculate Vibes said:

I didn’t imply anything of the sort. Again, I was merely pointing out that Wildcat’s absolute was objectively false. 
 

You’re doing that thing where you read more into what I’m saying than what is actually there.  

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You don't get to talk up the glories of stranded electricity in multiple posts and then run like a scalded dog when shown that your thesis is bullshit.  Own it.

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  On 5/17/2022 at 4:05 PM, Captainant said:

 

It's literally the underpinning of any proof of work system. It's HARD to mine a bitcoin and takes trillions and trillions of random inputs to a complex calculation, that's designed to only be guessable once every 10 minutes.

So that means that when the network hashrate is about 220 million TH/s, that means 220,000,000,000,000,000,000 calculations are wasted per second. Given a 10 minute target block time, that means you're wasting approximately 

132,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

calculations before a single correct block is hashed ("mined"), yielding net new BTC and granting the gas fees to the lucky miner.

 

The fact that it's so difficult to do an consumes so much electricity is a feature, not a bug of cryptocurrency. It's what makes the proof of work valuable. Because of the incredible opportunity cost you're paying computationally and energy-wise to achieve it.

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So, good for a small group and fuck everyone else.  Got it.

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  On 5/17/2022 at 4:47 PM, Brisketexan said:

You don't get to talk up the glories of stranded electricity in multiple posts and then run like a scalded dog when shown that your thesis is bullshit.  Own it.

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Simply mentioning stranded electricity=Talking up its glories.

My God y’all have trouble with basic reading comprehension. Own it. 
 

  On 5/17/2022 at 4:39 PM, Brisketexan said:

20% of the load in Texas is attributable to bitcoin mining.  That isn't "stranded electricity."  There's very, very little generation that could be characterized as "stranded electricity."  Like literally every sales-pitch about Bitcoin, when you drill down to it, all the excuses about energy usage are bullshit/a scam.

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Central banking/fiat currency is the real scam we’re dealing with here.

 

  On 5/17/2022 at 4:52 PM, Bullneck said:

So, good for a small group and fuck everyone else.  Got it.

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You can go buy some right now. Bitcoin is quite egalitarian. 

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  On 5/17/2022 at 4:52 PM, Bullneck said:

So, good for a small group and fuck everyone else.  Got it.

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A small group of ultra-rich can "mine" this new "resource," and thus reap all the benefit from it.  BUT, due to their magnanimity, they will spread the wealth, and this will be the key to prosperity for the common folks.  I mean, after all, they will put it in the stream of commerce, and all that new wealth will.....there has to be a phrase for it.....oh yeah, it will "trickle down" to benefit everyone.

There's not a single piece of reasoning involved with crypto that isn't overwhelmingly flavored with bullshit/scam.

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  On 5/17/2022 at 4:55 PM, Immaculate Vibes said:

Central banking/fiat currency is the real scam we’re dealing with here.

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There it is.

Money backed by the full faith and credit of actual nations?  100% garbage.

Money backed by......crypto bro sales-pitches?  IT'S OUR SALVATION!

I know that some people believe you and fall for this bullshit.  But most of us don't.  And never will.

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  On 5/17/2022 at 4:56 PM, Brisketexan said:

A small group of ultra-rich can "mine" this new "resource," and thus reap all the benefit from it.  BUT, due to their magnanimity, they will spread the wealth, and this will be the key to prosperity for the common folks.  I mean, after all, they will put it in the stream of commerce, and all that new wealth will.....there has to be a phrase for it.....oh yeah, it will "trickle down" to benefit everyone.

There's not a single piece of reasoning involved with crypto that isn't overwhelmingly flavored with bullshit/scam.

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Dude. You really have no clue about bitcoin as a whole. Mining isn’t wildly profitable. It is profitable but is quite competitive. Its profitability is limited by price volatility, electricity costs and ever increasing competition as Jimmy Jazz suggested. Most miners that have been in the field are in because they are long term bulls. 

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  On 5/17/2022 at 5:01 PM, Immaculate Vibes said:

Dude. You really have no clue about bitcoin as a whole. Mining isn’t wildly profitable. It is profitable but is quite competitive. Its profitability is limited by price volatility, electricity costs and ever increasing competition as Jimmy Jazz suggested. Most miners that have been in the field are in because they are long term bulls. 

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You think you're helping your argument with these points.

You're doing the exact opposite.  Every post you make further demonstrates the utter fantastical bullshit that is crypto.

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  On 5/17/2022 at 4:57 PM, Brisketexan said:

There it is.

Money backed by the full faith and credit of actual nations?  100% garbage.

Money backed by......crypto bro sales-pitches?  IT'S OUR SALVATION!

I know that some people believe you and fall for this bullshit.  But most of us don't.  And never will.

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It’s backed by cryptography/math and a set of defined rules. It’s not controlled by a small group of unaccountable individuals. How has J Powell been doing? Really nailed that inflation call. 

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  On 5/17/2022 at 5:06 PM, Immaculate Vibes said:

It’s backed by cryptography/math and a set of defined rules. It’s not controlled by a small group of unaccountable individuals. How has J Powell been doing? Really nailed that inflation call. 

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Fill in these blanks:

Over the last year or so, the dollar has declined by ____% in value.

Over the last year or so, bitcoin has declined by _____% in value.

And "backed by cryptography/math and a set of defined rules" is just.....gobbledeygook bullshit.  That's not "backing" at all.  You just made an argument for the value of filled in coloring book pages -- they are backed by defined rules (color inside the lines) and a hurdle to complete them (instead of math, it's the human time it takes to color them).  IT'S.  ALL.  BULLSHIT.  You can tell me that it's "backed" by the bovine digestive system, and the risks/rewards of hay crops on an annualized basis, and having adequate infrastructure available to warehouse the means of production.......but you just described how we get actual bullshit, which is functionally little different than the metaphorical bullshit you're peddling.

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