Transactions on the blockchain are capped. We effectively hit capacity in 2016. Segwit provided a small amount of relief by moving a small part of the transaction from the main part of the block.
Shake it off Richy_T...
Shake it off.
Just to let you know (in case you have been under a rock), the blocksize wars have ended, and boo whoo whoo, guess who-ie pooie wonnie?
Hint, hint: Not the BIG blockers... cry away all you like, it's already over.. and dee cornz not be broken.. .. believe it or no..gotta let buddy know: we are watching you
a watched pot never boils!
I stopped checking the price daily so long ago now I forget (hourly years ago) and only look now when the posts in here tell me there is significant movement.
Does anyone actually keep a live chart on a screen anymore?
I have been keeping a live chart on various screens for years and years and years, even though through the years, some of my computer set ups have changed, including that I got some old computers ipods and iphones to work again, and then some of them stopped working or got repurposed for some family member that seemed to need a computer but was not really able to buy their own, so the various devices that I have sitting around, I try to put to work so they might not be doing too much besides just hanging out in one spot in my area to show the BTC price at various locations in the house or other (inside) places that I might be able to see when passing by and some of them might be viewable from outside locations or even from hallways or pass-by ways.
Perhaps, I cannot really help myself, and maybe I should buy a block clock for such additional purpose of showing other aspects of the BTC price.. or other bitcoin block processing activities?
In recent years, I tend to not really expect (or to be anxious) about too many surprises with the BTC price, yet I still may well want to be there if something kind of outrageous ends up happening in the short period of time, and surely sometimes we witness such great moves in short periods of time in bitcoinlandia.
Still, most of the time I am not really expecting anything too dramatic with the BTC price, so even 5% to 10% changes might not cause any kind of uptick in my level of alertness, yet at the same time, I have another motive is that I do tend to maintain (ever since 2015-ish) buy and sell orders always active too.... yet prior to about mid-2015 all of my buy orders were manual... and they were ONLY buy orders.. nothing to sell, except maybe a few instances of spend and replace that might have had happened in 2014 or early 2015.. .
In any event, in recent times, many times throughout my kind of ongoing watching of the BTC price (running accross it perhaps on an hourly basis at least.. but yeah, the exception might be that I go several hours and I don't come across the BTC price) so a kind of bouncing around and non-eventful range of NOT hitting either side of my orders or otherwise arousing me, and even sometimes no arousal for weeks and weeks, sometimes...
and then right now in this price range, I had sell orders hitting every $2k all the way up to $72.5k-ish and then they were supposed to be transitioning into every $3k increments (on the way up), and so there was an upper $74k transitory sell order that did not get hit (since the highest that we reached so far in this go around had been $73,600 (around 30 hours ago as I type this post, right?), and then my current BTC buy orders are still every $2k, and the first one at around $69k just got hit, so the buy orders go every $2k on the way down.. but then they were going to end up transitioning to every $3k, yet we have to have one or two more sell orders fill on the way in the upper $74ks and then in the upper $77ks, and then that would trigger such every $3k transition to become the new acceptable increment in my everyday (severl hours and several locations) watching of the BTC price.. for fun....
So my transitory period from $2k to $3k.. seems to have had not played out.. yet... and geez how many times have we been
almost there (almost to the upper $74ks)?
I am not really complaining.. even though I am.. by not transitioning into BIGGER increments and then at the same time that my ranges get BIGGER, I also tend to adjust my BTC price spreads too... so in theory the higher and higher BTC prices go, the larger the BTC price moves that are needed before any preset sales and/or preset buys are triggered... and so also in theory, the higher and higher the BTC price, then the easier I should be able to (in theory) just sit back and relax and not even pay attention to the price except perhaps from time to time to just shave off some random amounts of extra BTC (to the extent to which cash might be needed beyond what cash is already just there and available in my coffers) to just buy this, that or another good or service in normie-landia.. .......perhaps a wee bit like the Jimbo BTC balance managing perspective???
... yet having given all of that above explanation, I cannot really see myself diminishing the various live screen charts that seem to be growing rather than shrinking in my day to day existence, and sometimes, I just consider buying this or another new electronic gadget and then repurposing some of the old electronic gadgets (the one being replaced) to then cause the old electronic gadget to serve as a bitcoin price live screen at some possibly new and/perhaps even somewhat random location... the garage or the basement or in a shed or perhaps in a closet that I go to once a month... hahahahaha
Who wants to pull out a smartphone and click on Bitcoin Ticker when it could well be possible and it is possible and even a reality to just have the BTC price in almost all locations and even while cooking steaks and lobsters? (not even the flavored Ramens this time.. )... not that I cook too many steaks and lobsters. .but it is making me hungry to just think about it.. .. .
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