Topic: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion - page 4011. (Read 26713607 times)

Can you provide some overview of your backstory?  I cannot recall it.  Did you start by mining or buying or some other way? Of course, no need to jeopardize Opsec.. so feel free to include a bit of creativity to the extent you feel helpful.  

Your timeline is similar to mine.. so with me, I had some spark under my butt starting in July/August/September 2013 in terms of researching into some various kinds of ways of investing.. and so I had tabbed bitcoin somewhere in that process as "something to look at later," so in late 2013, I had already taken some actions regarding some other investments - which caused me even greater relief that I had gotten that part off of my plate.. so bitcoin remained "tabbed" as something to get to.. but not really thinking too much about it..


..... until around the middle of November 2013.. this very young chap online (not in this forum) was bragging how smart he was because he was largely becoming rich from his bitcoin investment.. and I thought that he does not know what the fuck he is talking about.. but it triggered me to look into my bitcoin related bookmarks that were still sitting there... so several hours of initially looking into some of the overview information that I had and then I ended up spending several days reading more and then engaged in a kind of reconsideration of what I had invested into in the previous couple of months.. and my research/investigation started me to think:
.. "hm?  I should have put that just invested money into bitcoin.. bitcoin would serve as a better investment hedge than some of the various low-fee funds that I had chosen.".. ..

which thereby triggered me into coming up with a 6-month BTC investment plan.. and I already posted quite a bit about those various aspects of my early execution of my bitcoin investment plan... so I don't want to trigger too much repetition backlash at this moment... unless anyone asks any specific questions of me..


and I guess part of my compare/contrast attempt with you hisslyness seems to be that I had never really been much into any of the technical aspects such as getting into mining or running nodes and things like that.. but I surely cannot fault anyone from either taking those kinds of routes (and especially the running node does seem like something that a lot of us should be considering whether bitcoin/lightning network or both) or even exploring some of the frustrating parts of maintaining lighting channels.. which for sure would have taken off more as a practice (topic) in recent times - even though the earliest of the brave lighting folks would have been involved in lightning network testnet in 2017 and maybe even getting involved in lightning going live (against the recommendation of a lot of BTC developers) in early 2018- which a lot of that I have so far been exploring from quite a distance even though I find it interesting that guys like you are here and spending some time to share information and experiences with others in this thread about some of those intricacies.. and sometimes even frustrations around learning about those angles of bitcoin..

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Morons, should have used Bitcoin.

Come to think of it, perhaps the smart ones are using it, and the dumb ones send money to Switzerland.

I suspect there are quite a lot of us here who were/are in the same boat. First they laughed, then they said "sell" and then they regretted. And that's just their position with regard to their missed opportunity to increase their financial wealth. It looks like they'll still have to go through a similar cycle with regard to understanding the real disruptive purpose of bitcoin.

How long can they say
"invasion is imminent"?
Feb 16 has passed

Oh, now I see it:
Defence spending needs a boost
So let's start a war

Not just any war
That might be bad for us here
But one far from home

Then they'll tell us all
Depression was caused by war
Not their own fuck ups

Sheeple not bothered
As long as Facebook, Netflix
Are not affected

Sunday haiku

Thanks everyone! Really appreciate it, i am just happy to be able to contribute!!

I started going down this Bitcoin path alone back in late 2013, as everyone i knew thought i was nuts!!... and i am still somewhat alone...

However, I am glad i found this place!

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It's always good to know that we are at a point in our world when peaceful protests have an expiration date. A week or two at most, before the establishment comes in and says "Ok wrap it up, time to arrest you now without cause or provocation. Or beat you. Or pepper spray you. Or both. Whatever it takes. But your sorry little protest is over now because we say so." And nothing ever changes.

But we're still a democracy though. /s

Ah, the warm feels. Hope you guys can sleep soundly knowing that protests will achieve fuck all from now on. Just like voting.

Put a well known politician's name on the article and this piece of news will get buried as quickly as all the other news about billions and trillions and gazillions of dirty dollars freely moving from bank to bank with no taxes, no legitimate justification and so on and so forth.  Did we not have the .. Pandora papers leaked last year if I got the name correct?  Nobody gave a damn about them.  They can get away with all of it.  We can not.  And what is worse is, they get voted for by the countries with all the money they launder and rob and we pay for their salaries with money we legitimately earn.  But if you earn $100 and do not declare it, you are condemned by the entire society instead and are now worth rotting in prison for what you 'have done'.

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Regards,
PrivacyG

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Credit Suisse massive leak unmasks criminals, fraudsters and corrupt politicians.


https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/feb/20/credit-suisse-secrets-leak-unmasks-criminals-fraudsters-corrupt-politicians

I remember when they did this outside the white house just so Trump could take a stroll down the road and hold up a bible outside a church, good memories indeed 

UN police ?  what are you smoking? green guys are usually the SQ (Quebec provincial police), in that video just seems like the fully kitted out Ottawa police judging by the accent.  They didnt even used tear gas.
They pepper sprayed some people and said "sorry we had to use pepperspray".
They seperated protesters with the cavalry slowly and people just stood there, like yeah good luck holding the line against a horse.

This was the nicest and most patient protest busting action i've seen, ever.

For reference, this is what they usually do in Canada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8lB9ThlZLg or https://youtu.be/YVU4lt5xk1A?t=69
oh and tons of tear gas and rubber bullets.  good memories.

anyways, riot busting is lots of fun on both sides I guess.  38k bitcoin ?  good time to buy

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It will be interesting to witness the extent to which some "work-arounds" may develop in response to aspects of the somewhat surprising draconian measures that Canada has chosen to take.

Several of us can likely recognize various ways to employ work-arounds that make it much more difficult for individuals to end up getting identified - but surely, any time that these matters start to appear completely "decentralized," there are worries about rug pulls (lack of legitimacy)... and then if targets (individuals) of distribution are recognized, then that can be difficult too.

It's almost as if there are disadvantages in publicizing either the means of distribution or the targets of the beneficiaries.. so that each person almost has to give directly to some individual that they want to benefit, whether a truck driver, or some one who is supporting the truck drivers (the one giving out free sandwiches and discounted fuel.. or paying for lawyers). 

Not easy.. and then if you start talking about it or supporting it, then maybe you become a target for that (deplatformed or even gone after by authorities).... words can lead to action, and then surely governments engage in behaviors to attempt to make words illegal too.

Apparently these idiots don't learn.


They paid over 50% in fees last time with this shitcoin!

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These guys (preparing the USA convoy from California to DC in the next few days) have a way to contribute by BTC (some BTC 0.29 raised so far):

thepeoplesconvoy.org

Seems to be a good cause, it would be helpful to know if this is legit. 

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