Poor again.
Come on show us your new buy orders?
Au contraire, I just fired off a transaction to load some coin onto the exchange. Not sure when I'm going to pull the trigger, but going to take another low 7 digits in profit to calm me down. Shouldn't need to sell any more until the ranch gets nearer to completion; at least a year away.
Heard back from our accountant, and quarterly reporting is pushed out for another month, so I have more time for a price recovery. Would like to go at least a full quarter before I consider selling again, and even then, that'll likely be a big *IF* depending on circumstances.
everyone buys and sells when they must...that's all.
You can create your own "must" situations. just saying that bitcoin should really give many folks a lot of options, at least for those who had taken a decent position that is somewhat tailored to their situation and also had allowed the passage of time to help to ensure that their position is in profits (and may well be quite considerable profits, which merely provides more options as compared with positions that are in less profits or not in profits).
When your brain is in it's prime (maybe between 10 years old and 35 - just guessing), you could memorize 24 words in an hour or so.. As you get older, or if you might start to suffer deteriorations, you might need a day or even up to a week... so a week at most for memorizing 24 words - absent some cognitive impairment.
Building the words into a story would probably be the way to go. Rote memorization of arbitrary things is difficult.
Ok... fair enough... so yeah maybe quadruple the times that I previously allotted.. and sure maybe we are getting to the point that was previously made that it could take some folks a month to memorize 24 words.. perhaps.
I understand with some hoop jumping that lightning network could have been built without Segwit, but isn't Segwit a foundational layer to lightning network being practically developed? - so in other words, there might not be any need to tout the underlying technology of lightning network (Segwit) even though it is a kind of necessary condition that makes lightning network way more practical... and of course, other second layer solutions that are likely to continue to develop in the years to come are also built upon Segwit - again without having to tout Segwit because Segwit is just a done deal.. so over that.. from August 2017 (even though some folks whined for months and months and months about Segwit, but their whining is kind of (absent little digs from some continuing bitter ones who cannot really seem to get over it.. no names.. Richy_T.. cough cough..) drying up after 3.5 years when they are kind of figuring out that the whining is not really doing much, if any, good..(absent little digs from some continuing bitter ones who cannot really seem to get over it.. no names.. Richy_T.. cough cough..) because Segwit is just so much a part of our current little fiend, aka bitcoin and the transition to Segwit is so over, done and kuput. and no need to really talk about it(absent little digs from some continuing bitter ones who cannot really seem to get over it.. no names.. Richy_T.. cough cough..).
Segwit absolutely was being touted as a capacity increase, being as how, theoretically, it allows around 4 times the data. The truth is, however, with segwit, block sizes have plateaued at 1.3MB, a trivial 30% increase and it must be remembered that segwit transactions are bigger than traditional bitcoin transactions too.
Segwit also came about as a compromise solution in regards to some of the phoney baloney that was being touted around in late 2015...and then yeah it took several months to code and to test so it did not go into the code until late 2016.. and then the various shenanigans in 2017 that ultimately got it passed in August 2017... I doubt it is either a simple story and also your desire to want to but marketing labels on it seems a bit disingenuous, and we also know that once it passed (overwhelmingly by the way) then it was a done deal so I have some difficulties understanding value in continuing to whine about something that is already live... and suggesting that it is not helpful blah blah blah.. as if you are going to persuade people to retract it by suggesting that it is not living up to the hype or whatever, and it does seem to have more than just the narrow purposes that you are proclaiming that it was marketed for.
I don't think it's pertinent to not mention the issue because, simply, it hasn't gone away, as much as it may make some uncomfortable and want to stick their fingers in their ears and shout "la la la", it's an ongoing problem.
I doubt that is what is happening. You seem to be presuming problems that do not exist...
I regularly see old principles of Bitcoin touted here, fungibility, low friction, security and so on, but the truth is that the capacity issue restricts that and other potential advantages, just as the 56k modems we are currently flinging around images of would have crippled streaming if we hadn't moved beyond them. I'll also add that I'm not throwing this out there randomly but only mentioning it when it is relevant (in this case, in reference as to why alts have stolen so much of the market share).
Seems to be a bit random to me.. and I don't really consider the supposed problem to be as much as you are wanting to make it out.. including the bullshit loss of market share that you are suggesting to be supposedly relevant.
Now, although I don't buy into it, the argument that increased block size would damage decentralization could be made but that doesn't mean that you get to ignore those other very real effects of limiting it.
These are old discussion points and seems that the overwhelming evidence remains that small blocks good.. big blocks bad.. so why do we need to discuss further on something that had been resolved around 3.5 years ago, and then we got various bcasher nutjober coins that actually implemented the bigblock nonsense.. and they surely have not been proving any BIG block good thesis.. in fact the opposite seems to be the case with the factual evidence related to those scam coins that pursue your big blocker desires.
Listing pros and cons doesn't involve just throwing away things that don't go your way and pretending that very real things that are happening aren't is not a good way to have a good handle on reality. $20+ fees do not provide a good on-ramp to Bitcoin. Where do you think people are going to go?
Well if people are interested in their long term security they are mostly going to keep their value on bitcoin, and sure maybe they might use some scam shitcoins for transacting or even for getting involved in various other scam coins.. I don't know.. the evidence seems to be that people are going to bitcoin rather than the various other coins that you are proclaiming to be taking away market share.. and yeah.., get the fuck out of here and go to those coins if you believe that there is anything that is even close to bitcoin for your purposes or whatever, and let's see what happens... each of us is free to make our choices regarding how much to allocate towards bitcoin as compared to other projects and to tweak along the way.. seems to me that bitcoin remains the best overall without anything that is even close, but sure, you can come to your own conclusions and either partially or fully reallocate to those various shitcoins.. By the way, there were quite a few folks that got fucked pretty badly by historically selling their bitcoins and then getting into other coins in the belief that bitcoin was broken or that the various shitcoin(s) were reasonable alternative bets.. maybe they (you) will get lucky this time? Perhaps? Perhaps? I doubt it, but perhaps.