Topic: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion - page 3462. (Read 26712695 times)

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If you are doing exactly this you are creating a reason for your government to search you out.

But I will tell you I live in NJ I visit NY a lot very late at night. I wear a bulletproof vest for safety and I am now committing a crime if I do wear the vest. No gun no weapon just a vest. I have to decide if I will wear the vest next time I go late at night or comply with this new "gun safety law" So I do hear you about f'd up laws and resisting them.

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hisslyness, I suspect that you are being intentionally obtuse.  Nonetheless, this needs emphasis for the sake of others:


So what?


I chose my words carefully.  You did not read them carefully.


No, I am not:  I am in the boat where I am free to decide whether or not I choose voluntarily to comply with this hypothetical law that I believe I have an ethical obligation to resist.  Resistance would, in this case, be quite simple for me:  Ignore the bad law.

>99% of WO hatters are not in that boat:  They are known Bitcoiners.  KYC records link them to some or all of their coins; mass-surveillance would link them to anything they believe they can get away with.  Anything that they try to hide can most likely be caught—I say that as an expert on anonymity and, thus perforce, deanonymization; disagree with me at your own risk.  “They” here most likely includes you.

At this juncture, I must remind the intelligent reader:  My point was not to put on some show of bravado, but to the contrary!

I am worried about laws adverse to Bitcoin, even though such laws are personally irrelevant to me.

The fools who brag that governments can’t stop Bitcoin are the types who would easily be stopped from using Bitcoin.  Easily.

I have a high degree of financial privacy, because I have an activist streak.  All of my money originates from legal sources.  Regardless, I decided long ago that my money is nobody’s business but my own.  I decided to live the cypherpunk dream.  Accordingly, I am actually in a position where I can say:  Your law is not law.

Now, I am trying to shake people out of their complacency—because I have an activist streak.  And I am horrified to see people boasting that governments can’t stop Bitcoin.  It is childish, stupid, and irresponsible.  Stop it.  Not for my sake—it does not directly affect me.  For Bitcoin’s sake.  It’s bad for Bitcoin.

For those who need a reminder of the context, this is bad for Bitcoin:

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Oh, that made you mad?  Is “hatters” politically incorrect in some way of which I was unaware?

“Mad Hatters” sounds like a good nickname for denizens of the Wall.

(h/t to my Evil Hat(TM) for the idea.)

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Btc Bad news
 

This stung out to me.
From the geek perspective, a society is implicitly defined and founded by its normality. What goes the most, is valid (== minorities aren't).
So, if most of societies members are large groups with shared mentality, their members can only define themselves on a bigger-faster-better-stronger basis, which leads to all sorts of competition. All kind of negative effects on environment and, at least parts of society, are triggered by this, as well in local as in global societies. There's no real individuailty, because the system, based on normality, doesn't freely allow it. What is outside of social boundaries has to integrate to be a vital part of society.
And, let's be honest, wasting of food is a 1st world problem, because "we" produce about twice as much food as we'd need to feed the world, but most of it gets thrown away.
No tomatoes with spots, no "rusty" bananas, only beautiful food in the shelves, while the (optical) low quality food gets thrown away. Bigger-better-faster-stronger?
Better for the society that is manipulated by advertising media to accept only healthy, perfectly shiny looking raw food.

There's that.

And good faith...
For example, the world sells grain to 3rd world countries in "good faith", while nobody involved seems to be interested to enable them to grow their own.
Good faith does much harm more often than not. Look closely.


#nohomo?  

Have a good day y'all!

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I’m not trying to find out…

https://twitter.com/therationalroot/status/1534509161635106816

Mate you might be legend in your own lunchbox, maybe it's just me, but i get the impression you are a know-it-all pub trivia champion or fuckwit!

Just because there's apparently no trace of you owning Bitcoin, interacting with Bitcoin, doesn't make it any less illegal (not the right choice of word, but keeping in the theme of less vulnerable), if the above scenario was to come true. You are in the same boat as everyone else! Your Bitcoin is as illegal as my Bitcoin is!...

But hey, spin any which way you want with your gracefulness and intelligent discourse... just don't assume you know everything about everyone here! likewise i wont assume you are a know-it-all pub trivia champion!

BTW aren't you the same guy who lost most of his bitcoins in margin trading? or was that just another one of your misdirection, Harry Houdini trickery... to through off the hounds trying to find out who you are...

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@death_wish   We get it, you've been here. Please turn it down, lest you challenge wordy-man on words per inch.

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  Because I'm only concerned about your use of the term "hatters"

Why you gotta rip that out of context?

In the context, I was pointing out that on an individual level, I am much less vulnerable to any sort of government action than >99% of people here.  Not invincible—nobody is!—but much less vulnerable.

Although I have never specifically concealed my Bitcoinism, my general privacy practices are so tight that there is no record anywhere that I even know what Bitcoin is.  Thus if, hypothetically, my local government were to ban Bitcoin tomorrow with a penalty of 10 years in prison for HODLing BTC, then I could afford to ignore that if I so choose.

How many people here can say that without being fantastically foolish?  A few, but certainly less than 1%.

How many of the types who brag that “governments can’t stop Bitcoin” can say that?  Probably none:  Fools usually have poor opsec.

How many have never done KYC on a cryptocurrency exchange?
Never done a Google search on Bitcoin-related terms that could be traced to them?  Never discussed Bitcoin on social media accounts that could be traced to them?  Never even browsed a Bitcoin-related webpage (or for many years, any webpage) without strong privacy protections?

I emphasize again that I am not invulnerable.  Nobody is.  But I am much, much less vulnerable than >99% of WO hatters.

I care so much about what governments do to Bitcoin, because I care about Bitcoin.

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If public lurkers judge me by the gracefulness, intelligent discourse, and flowing eloquence of my critics, then I am doing great here.

 Phew!.. Thank fuck for that!...

Many thanks for taking the time to convert the video to an animated GIF. It does help in providing an instant view of the animated spiral compression, albeit of much lower quality than the full video.

I've already edited my original post, and provided the MATLAB source code, as you requested. I considered including it when I first made the post, but thought that no one would care to see it. I'm glad that someone does! You can port it to another language, but you'll need to write (or find libraries of) appropriate functions for the polar plot generation, vector/matrix manipulation, and video capture/recording. With MATLAB, all of this is provided.

As for the spiral compression algorithm I'm using, it's rather straightforward, I'm just mapping the entire spiral's linear time to an angular vector, and varying (increasing) the days/cycle amount at each frame, thus compressing the spiral. All this is done in just a single line:

th = 2*pi*(i-1)/c+pi/2;

where th is the angular vector, i is the linear time vector, c is the days/cycle amount (the cycle period), and the π/2 term is just to rotate the spiral by 90° counterclockwise, so that its end lies at the 12 o'clock position in the polar plot. The rest of the code is just for the visualization and video capture.

Edit: Improved clarity by rephrasing sentence.