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I feel a little bit of anti doom coming on ...

sigh

Cruel tricks  

(Currently $3867)

actually my extending that analogy doesn't work
the meme is perfect of course
but miners are scum and will always be. it's their job. maybe they're the saruman of that hobbits thing?
a necessary evil? 

That's a lot of BTC you're holding.

lol yes, cycles of good v evil, but one time the hobbit comes along and saves the day/world

Mate, posting these will make me break my sober cycle But one joint doesn't do any harm, does it.. and I've been sober for a full month already.

That is how they start.... then it got hold of them, and then Sméagol

clearly
no actually i think jihan did capture the large scale production part of the biz very well back in the day. prolly the new companies need time to ramp up production. depends on their abilities and connections. whether they mine a bit on them beforehand, well bitmain are being sued for that, but the new guys could just structure their biz differently.

thanks mate  

now am in the hat  

green suits my pink

It is super easy, just hit the "increase limit" bit, it asks you to how much and asks you for your reason, I simply put "want to trade higher amounts"  and both times when I tried it it took only a day or two at most to get confirmation of raised limits, no fuss no fanfare.

They clearly have something big in the making and are just lowering the hashrate by not supplying enough good miners so that they can come in with a big boom and pop all the corn themselves. Mega bullish?

If you're worried over smoking you can always switch to eating or drinking the stuff. No reason to swear it off for good if you enjoy it.

can't remember why or if it could be known. he went on to some new company which yes is producing miners, but clearly not efuckingnough.
sorry no links but they're out there. can't be arsed with anything today. bullish?

Great. As long as it is easy. I have bad memories from the days of Polo and their $2K bollocks.

Is it known why he left? Not perhaps because he got a better deal? Bullish?

Caol Ila is pretty tame on the peat and has nice smoky fruit flavours to it. But by your recommendations it sounds like the Signet is a perfect match for you (as well as the Japanese whiskies). Your drinking seems mostly the way mine is beyond the time I powered through the tasting experiments.

Unfortunately no more sMerit to throw around, but thanks a lot for the suggestions! I've added Russel's and Woodford to my list, already had Wild Turkey and quite like it, so looking forward to the other two.

keep the tesla and the m4.. give me a Rimac C2

Here's what I've learned and what worked for me, YMMV.

I could only taste alcohol, nothing else. Which is why I was so suspect over all the tasting notes and wanted to dig deeper.

What I did was buy a few bottles (at the end of which I would've concluded the experiment) and drink a dram or two every other day or so.
Before drinking I would smell it a few times and really pay attention to the sensation of smell, while drinking I forced attention into the taste even though I dreaded it as it was literally just harsh alcohol (or in the case of Islay whiskies just ashtray and alcohol).
Whether smelling or tasting, I tried to derive any sort of information that I could distill from the experience (which was nothing but alcohol and ash initially). A little over a week or so in, I'd eventually get a split-second glimpse of what should be going on, and that kept me going for longer.
Some 3-4 weeks in I started smelling and testing feeble notes, which gradually kept opening up as time went by.

It's also worth noting that once I stopped drinking for a while my palette and sense of smell would decline and I would have to start over (albeit at a slightly higher level than before). So if you had large gaps between your experiments Bob, you might want to consider this.


I recommend a Glencairn glass, they're cheap and funnel the fumes in a way that is supposedly ideal for whiskies. Don't use those cool looking glasses from movies, as they let all the aromas and flavours escape.

Cover the sides of the glass with your drink by gently swirling it, don't go too violent or it did something with the alcohol that made it stand out. Smash your nose in, smell it, focus real hard on it, put it away. Repeat a few times. Then drink.

between just drinking a sip and keeping it in for 10 seconds or longer. In the latter case move it around in your mouth to cover all your taste buds. Keeping it in your mouth for a good 10 seconds also shifts the alcohol burn from your throat to your mouth, which lets it go down very smoothly regardless of proof.

Focus on the sensation and try to figure out what is happening with laser focus. This was very hard for me for a while.

As far as ice is concerned, do not use it. Do not chill your whisky. Keep it room temperature. Chilling it dulls the flavours and brings the alcohol to the front (unless that's your jam).

Water. Experiment with this. But don't dilute it. Just put in a small drop or two of water. That will do some crap where differently soluble parts of the whisky move up/down in the glass, which also changes the aroma and flavour profiles leading to a different drinking experience.
Very fun and a good way to make the learning experience more exciting, especially as your palette begins opening up. Blind tasting, especially with help of your partner is also a great way to accelerate your learning experience.


Now, with all this said. If you don't like whisky by default this is quite a challenge. I enjoyed it, but had to really power through unpleasant drink after unpleasant drink before my brain and taste buds adapted and learned to pick out increasingly refined details.

If you still want to go ahead, do some reading on different whisky types and pick a few of each that sound interesting to you. There are many different scotches which vary by region. Islay very peaty and smokey. Speysides are much more tame and sweet but no less interesting. Then there's a lot in between. Bourbons from what I can tell are more on the sweet and tame side as well, as are most Japanese whiskies.

If you don't mind paying upwards of $100 for a bottle and want to avoid bitter I can highly recommend Glenmorangie's Signet. It's almost a dessert wine. Fucking love that shit. My go to whisky for celebrating with friends who aren't into peat or heavy drinks.

Also, don't drink to a point where you get shitfaced, at least not repeatedly. It helped me to treat this challenge with discipline. Again, YMMV.

I wonder where BTC would have been today if Wu and Ver had not started all the Bcash shit and had, instead, focussed their efforts on BTC. Would we have been this low or would real adoption begun to take hold?
Who knows where the price might be by now?
Wankers

Historians will study where that great V8s said 'American automobiles are not a thing'
And they will shake their heads in wonder and awe at the veracity of such a prognostication.

Now go to bed SpeedyMcFuckface. You clearly need rest to keep up with teh greatness.

Still i prefer the real engine more as well.......