Topic: The stupidest thread on bitcointalk. (Read 3574 times)

Further to the investigations in another thread, I have seen that there are two alts who happen to report in the push ups thread.

One is AirtelBuzz, who coincidentally joined the challenge and reported doing exactly 10 sessions of 100 push-ups, and the other is cryptoWODL who since joining reports having done an average of about 130.

That thread is a mockery of this forum where not even 10% of the people who post on it are doing the push-ups and all this talk of changing the world and driving up the price would be over in a moment if the thread was where it needs to be.

I get it when I see someone from the staff of this forum like yourself expresses that we should keep opening threads in the speculation section to talk about doing push-ups at home. Not to mention the amounts of 150/200k pushups. (crossed out due to conversation by PM)


You haven't read this thread where there are people expressing that there is an effect or relationship between pushups and price.


I have put in bold the things I agree with, which are common knowledge and which I have repeated ad nauseam. Doing 100 push-ups is very limited (you only burn about 40 calories, you only work one body part, you don't increase the workload, and you don't do cardio). If you're going to do them because you have a sedentary lifestyle you'd better take it as a start to improve your overall health and then move on to full body training, more intensity and cardio (walking being the easiest, cheapest and most accessible to everyone).

The issue here is that the people who participate in that thread don't want it to be moved to off topic because they wear paid signatures and in off topic they wouldn't get paid for what they write there, starting with the liar OP, who says he doesn't care but if he didn't care he wouldn't have created it in that section in the first place, or at least he would have moved it afterwards.

Since many of us likely realize BTC prices are set on the margins, and it always cannot be clear what might pushup up the price, even a bit more than it otherwise would have had been pushed by various "other factors," yet I would like consider the possibility that on the margins, our doing pushups, contributing the pushup thread discussion and the contribution of pushup reports may well have had helped BTC prices on the margins.        


We could use another pusher.. might help with BTC prices and it also might help to get us to 100 pushers prior to the BTC price reaching $100k.  Perhaps you start out by doing 3 sets of somewhere between 8-12 pushups per day, and then work your way up to higher numbers.  Several of the pushers started out at pushup amounts lower than 100 per day prior to working their way up to higher numbers of pushups in a day... You might even be able to get in 100 pushups or more prior to the BTC price reaching $100k.. Perhaps? perhaps?  Not easy to know with any kinds of high levels of certainty, even though there currently seems to be quite a bit of ongoing upwards pressures on the cornz price.

Perhaps you’ll just give OG time to take profit and after that, OG would by some chance dump price to enable the rest of us find an entry point and not just get sats that would be little away from nothing but, sats that comes with values and promises when dude decides to pump again.
It’s incredible but, dude with the push-up had pushed price of Bitcoin to $99k+ and it’s still pushing.

We are welcoming a new week and from how it’s carrying, we might be hitting that $100k price in this week, maybe get a little farther too.

Have no idea where you get the trolling part from, but I'm danm serious, we're not kids and everyone knows those activities doesn't affect BTC price in anyway - just fun.


Back in the days I used to go straight set 50-60 and 160-200 total push-ups at home before going to the gym for light weights ( still have my videos somewhere on the Internet) but it's best to always skip a day or two to rest the muscles. Today I can't even go more than 20/set - became friend to burger and pizza. 

OGnasty made bitcoin expensive again. Daym you OGnastii! Vod come fast OG is driving bitcoin prices up newbies can’t afford to buy because of him. Do something Vod! Save us from OG

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Of course, we owe the price increase to OgNasty.

I find your post sort of trolling but nice style, it made me laugh.


The way things are going I think the next challenge is going to be 1 million push-ups a day until the price reaches 1 million dollars and so we, every forum member, will owe OgNasty 1 million dollars for achieving such a feat. But you'll have to do it with a loincloth and a wizard casting spells, eh? Otherwise the price will go down.


And you are in the other thread talking to me as a ‘friend’? I can see you're pretty pissed off that I'm exposing your bollocks. 150 push-ups a day as a ‘challenge’ is rubbish and anyone who knows anything about fitness knows that.

...away from this disgusting opportunistic troll thread, and their vices, someone could create this record if it's not been created already... (...and yes, for as long as it'll take)
150 pushups a day is just a regular target for a keep-fit buff, sooo...

If someone can make a video of Bitcoin hitting that milestone, it's going to be great content. It's not easy, though, because the market can always take a U-turn, and someone trying to capture the moment will not be able to get it so quickly. It's only possible if someone dedicates a whole PC or any other device for this, opening the chart in a browser tab and keeping the screen capture on until it hits $100k. The capture can be stopped if it drops to $90k or below and then restarted again when it reaches the current price.

i think ill  just watch a video of the chart tick to over $100k USD instead.

no offense

I want to see a video of those 150,000 push-ups

We're almost at $100k, it's seems OgNatsy push-up till BTC hit 100k is finally working out as planned, please tag me to the next $150/200k challenge I want to participate. You become what you believe  what's life without fun?

I am having some difficulties appreciating why you (Don Pedro) are continuously imposing goals for why guys would want to do daily pushups, whether they are doing 100 pushups per day or some other quantity and/or pushup duration.

Guys can have whatever the fuck goal(s) that they like including being interested in framing their pushup goals in terms of movements in the BTC price, BTC cultural participation or whatever reason that they join into the pushups thread. 

By the way, I recall one of the participants, OgNasty, specifically proclaiming that he believes that his doing daily pushups has been contributing to his burning of more calories and even his desire to try to keep on weight rather than shedding weight - whether he is correct in his assessment or not, he has been proclaiming some potential relationship to his doing pushups and his wanting to try to maintain his weight rather than his weight seeming to go down, at least in the past 8-ish months.

My own personal experience is that in the first several months of my doing pushups, I perceived that various aspect of my body was toning more, and so in that regard, I had been speculating that I had been experiencing some loss of weight; however, in more recent times (perhaps the past 3-4 months), I have not really been perceiving additional loss of weight or even I am not sure about measurable differences in my body, such as my muscle mass, so it surely could be that my aging my be contributing to a kind of stagnation where I might not really be getting much if any muscle growth, improvements in strength and/or even any kind of additional calorie burning might end up being in a kind of category that is not really making any meaningful difference in the whole scheme of my own physical strength and/or body composition (in terms of appearance).

It seems to me that one fallacy in your attempt to analyze marginal levels of calorie burning during the act of doing pushups is the ignoring of questions about whether a guy's body muscle mass might either be improved or at least maintained in a better way from doing pushups as compared with if he had not done pushups.  Surely, it seems that there is a lot of uncontroversial evidence (studies) that exist that tend to show that folks who have and/or maintain higher levels of muscle mass tend to burn calories at a higher rate (aka increasing of metabolism) than similarly situated folks who have lower levels of muscle mass, and so in that regard, if there are ways that daily (or otherwise periodic) doing of pushups is contributing to either a maintenance and/or a growth of muscle mass, then just from the mere maintenance/increase of muscle mass, then it is likely that at all times calories would be being burned at a faster rate.  Sure, we could question the veracity or even the persuasiveness of such studies, yet I would still imagine that some guys might consider that there is likely evidence that their own well physical well being is likely to be improved by their ongoingly doing pushups.. whether daily or whatever periodic basis they have been choosing to do their pushups in the context of their participation in the pushups' thread.


Again, sure you can work on other kinds of exercises, and even use the 100 pushups challenge as a gateway to those other activities, even though the extent to which you might be contemplating and/or including those other activity considerations would go beyond the main focuses of the thread, namely the context of the 100 pushups' challenge in connection with our getting to $100k BTC prices... so then it could even be for some guys, that their focusing on pushups and/or other physical fitness and/or health-related focuses may well ONLY end up being during this time period in which they (we) are bonding with each other during this period of time that many of us are remaining anxious about the BTC price getting to $100k..

Question:  the memory of what were you doing while bitcoin was in its pre-$100k days?

Answer: (doing daily pushups)...

Further response:  fucking legend

There can be a certain kind of subtlety in terms of what we are doing and what are bitcoin-related legacy might play out from what we chose to do during seminal bitcoin periods.




Now you are an expert on comparative benefits in regards to which exercise(s) are better for which purposes?  And you want to suggest which exercise might be better for guys who are participating in the pushups' thread, such as we should have had a thread that related to walking in order to bring the BTC price to $100k?  I do know that there are various kinds of activities that BTCers do, such as the running related to Hal Finney, and there are walking groups too.. since I heard about some folks who are promoting walking and bitcoin.. yet the pushups thread is still NOT really focusing on discussions of comparing different kinds of activities that guys might do, even though surely there could be some guys who might mention other activities that they are doing or even say that they prefer other activities to pushups, and so if they are coming from the perspective that there are better activities than pushups, they are free to have those views, even though pursuit of such other topics within the thread would not be on topic and would most likely rise to the level of being considered as trolling of the thread.


You seem unable to resist imposing your own values and/or views onto others, even while they seem to be marginally relevant, at best.


It is not a joke, so you are wrong about that, even though you keep making that proclamation. Doing pushups, talking about pushups and relating daily (Or other periods) pushups to bitcoin prices is surely not a joke, and members of the pushup thread are not even the ONLY ones in bitcoinlandia engaged in such 100 pushups per day until $100k kinds of ideas and/or practices.


If we had a Venn diagram, surely there might be some guys who are interested in burning calories, doing daily pushups, participating in the pushup's thread and watching the BTC price, yet they are still just a part of those who might fall into the overlap of being interested in pushups, participating in the pushup thread and watching the BTC price.  In other words, who gives any shits, besides ur lil selfie, about your personal preferences to walk in natural surroundings, look at scenery and/or even your desires to burn calories in purported efficient ways during such?  Comes off as mostly uninteresting and not even overlapping with what guys in the pushup thread might be seeking in their participation therein.

False. Yes you can, you can put a range, even if you don't know the exact calories a person burns. And by knowing that range you can realise that doing 100 push-ups burns very few calories, just as it has a very limited effect on the strength you can gain, mostly in sedentary people and at the beginning.
For me the good thing about trying to do 100 push-ups as a challenge would be to take it as the start of more physical activity. Start with 100 push-ups but work your way up to other parts of the body, and walk, especially walk. If you are at risk of heart disease because of your lifestyle, doing 100 push-ups won't change anything, but walking 10,000 steps at least 5 days a week will reduce your risk of heart disease, burn far more calories than push-ups and have many other benefits.


If you were interested in the principles of fitness instead of the bullshit you would realise that once you get past 25 push-ups in one go the best thing to do is to get more intense, slap push-ups, incline push-ups, one-handed push-ups, etc. But you do your own thing.


Yes, it's that nonsense that has attracted you all. It's still a joke.


See, you burn more calories reading for an hour than doing push-ups. Try going for a walk and reading if you like, and you'll burn more (although I prefer walking in natural surroundings and looking at the scenery).

Like was stated by chatGPT in boils down to the intensity and wright
So you can't put a score, it varies
Checking the thread you can find many doing way more than a 100
I could do more than a 100 per sitting before I fell ill
So 100 Push-up feels like its in correlation with $100K
You can do more or lesser.


And what I posted was how reading certain post burns calories was just on a lighter note
Research shows that reading burns around 50-80 calories in an hour
And around 90-150Cal/hr while reading such that requires deep concentration.
Depending on the persons weight and metabolism

Me, you, don pedro and ognasty should hug it out.

 

It was a response to you saying that I should post in the thread and/or whether I'm interested in the topic. No need to get all defensive. Some people like to brag about their big manly man things, some don't.


Finally something I can agree with

It is difficult to understand why you seem to be so worked up about such issue.  i am worked up about it, since I have been participating in the thread, and for me, perhaps it would not have been a very BIG deal to move the thread in the beginning, if such a determination would have had been made,  yet it seems a bit problematic to move the thread 8.5 months later.


Exactly.  You are not very interested in the speculation on BTC topic, and you have probably posted fewer than 100 times in the WO thread in your past nearly 11 years of being registered on the forum. I am guessing...

In other words, you are not hanging out in the WO thread very much, relatively speaking... which means that you are not very interested in that particular topic, relatively speaking.  Accordingly, you are not interested in speculation as a topic, and you are not very interested in pushups, so how are you going to really be able to get into something like a pushups' thread that combines the two topics, inclusively in ways that you might not be within your abilities to relate to such framings due to your lack of interest?.. and did you realize that there are guys all over the bitcoin space doing pushups (not just on bitcoin talk forum) in anticipation of the BTC price going to $100k - and did you realize that such a cultural phenomena (potentially also complemented by the pushup's thread on this here forum) had started right around the time that the pushups' thread started?  Of course, you probably don't even know these kinds of factual matters, because you hardly give any shits about either of the topics in any kind of heartfelt way, (and you find such topics uninteresting), yet you still want to chime your feelings into the administration of such thread to assert that it needs to be moved when you likely cannot even relate to such topics in any kind of personal and/or meaningful way.


Yes.. you are petty, especially if you consider what we are doing boils down to mere bragging...  And, even if it does amount to bragging, then so what?  I like to think about a competition against myself, but also a kind of competition to do the pushups every single day and without stopping.. and I surely try not to impose my own standard onto others, since some of the members have a kind of weekly schedule that allows them days off in the week, and others are less flexible about how many and when to do their pushups.   They can choose to get their name included in the pushups' table or not.... The pushups' table created a lot of incentive for members to report their results, and the pushup table seems to have had helped to get more guys doing actual pushups, which maybe you might be able to thank us later, to the extent that you own any bitcoin and you benefit from the BTC price going up. .. whether it reaches $100k or not.  


For sure my pushups hurt today, but they feel more productive than farting...and more socially productive, and worthy of sharing... and worthy to talk about when we have a thread specifically on the topic.  There are likely several of us who would not have had gotten into pushups, except that it was theoretically and practically connected to the BTC price in such a way that we are able to create commonality with others who are also bitcoiners speculating about the BTC price.. .. and yah, maybe I am too old for pushups too.. since frequently I am questioning about whether I am plateauing and/or getting benefits from doing pushups every day for 268 days straight.

 

It's up to you to attempt to make such a topic and to relate it to bitcoin price speculation, and sure some of us could make arguments in regards to how closely your topic is either related to the BTC price or to some aspect of bitcoin culture or you just making shit up and/or trolling the forum like Don Pedro seems to have had done with his admitted parody thread. If you are not serious and you are not able to get other forum members behind you and you are not able to present the topic in ways that relate to bitcoin, then you might be less likely to be successful as the pushups' thread seems to have had been in regards to being allowed to stay within bitcoin speculation.. or maybe the pushups' thread stayed in speculation due to dumb luck, including that no one made any timely objection and/or report of the thread.

I thought I'd ask ChatGPT how many calories you burn in 100 push-ups, assuming you do 5 sets of 20.


I thought JJG was a serious guy, with all the explanations he gives about how to accumulate bitcoin at different prices and the amount of time he has been on the forum, but since this thread I can't take him seriously anymore, and, in fact, I have put him on ignore. What does he care if the thread is moved to off-topic? He doesn't wear a paid signature.

The first one who should have moved the thread himself to OT, or created it there, is the lying OP.

I don't hate the pushups thread. Being on the wrong board and being hated is not the same thing.


I'm sure you've seen me in WO but honestly there is only so much "speculation" that can be done without it becoming boring and repetitive. It will either go up and down, and two months later I can claim having predicted it very accurately.

As for pushups... or exercising in general, I can't fathom a reason to brag about it online. Too old for that "every fart must be published on social media" nonsense I guess. Every minute spent posting about it is 10 less pushups done.

Neither of the above has any bearing on whether something is on-or-off-topic however. Time and place for everything. I would say the same thing about a "I eat 100 cookies every day until Bitcoin hits $100k" thread but it appears that you would invoke "special" and "subtle" arguments to justify one but not the other.