28 Mar 2021 - BTC @ $56,194
It’s bean 4,467 days since Bitcoin went live (3 Jan 2009)
On average it’s been rising $12.58 daily.
Goes to show a kind of imprecision and potential misleading angle when we are attempt to assess what is going on in terms of absolute values, rather than percentages.
Sure the absolute values can work to give a kind of ballpark idea over short periods of time, but if you are really attempting to assess the situation over a longer period of time, either percentages work much better or attempts to capture the absolute values in shorter time frames, such as quarterly or yearly or something that might be somewhat manageable and coherent.
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Ironically I was just listening to that podcast today whilst playing a game.
Whoaza!!!! You are like two months behind.. hahahahaha
You know that I have had periods that I add new podcasts to my list of podcasts "to listen to" and of course, if there are a lot of prior episodes, at the time that I add such podcasts, then I try to figure out a system to go back and listen to the back episodes, and listening to back episodes can take a lot of time.. but I do like to get some ideas of the podcaster's historical presentations and sometimes evolutions as a podcaster, too.
Laura never seemed convinced or simply doesn't understand Bitcoin.
I read her a bit differently in terms of just attempting to ask a question that involves attempting to figure out why some people might prefer to HODL through cycles rather than trying to increase their stash or at least preserve some of their stash value by trading some or all of it.
She eventually stopped with the confrontation but her fake sort of laugh going along with whatever Saylor said even if she does not believe it got a bit irritating. I did think "what a dumbo" at times.
Overall, I think that Laura is pretty smart, but sure of course, she has a different perspective from some of us (especially BTC HODLers), and sure maybe it could be boiled down to her "not getting" certain aspects of bitcoin. I really would not consider her laugh to be fake or disingenuous, even though it could be a kind of uncomfortable laugh that partially relates to some nervousness .. but people sometimes will laugh to be polite too.
There are also some competing principles in journalism that are meant to be attempts to let your interviewee do the talking and NOT imposing your own ideas/opinions on the interview, so sometimes interviewers might come off as dumber than they are because they are trying to get the interviewed person to do the talking about the topic.
Laura is also a more traditionally trained journalist as compared to some of the other bitcoiner podcasters who may NOT hardly have any journalistic training and are learning some of the mere basic journalistic skills "on the job." I am not suggesting that Laura is an expert in terms of journalism, but she has come to the bitcoin interviewing space from a more traditional journalism approach that may well limit her in some ways, but it does bring a different perspective and angle to the way that she interviews, which surely might not be helpful to some people who might NOT be looking for whatever value add that she might be bringing to the space (if any).
There were a few interesting questions having said that.
I am just going by memory, but I recall that interview from a couple of months ago, and the whole kind of agitation of Saylor in that interview did come out, and I don't even believe that Laura was trolling that kind of angle, the podcast just ended up coming out that way.
By the way, Laura is not even close to being eliminated from my list of podcasts that I listen to, yet. I did remove one recently, and sometimes it can just get way too fucking irritating to listen to people who are lacking in any kind of objectivity and then devolve into either pumping bullshit or just framing their questions/interactions in such a way that they seem to be unable to appreciate what the fuck bitcoin is as compared with various other projects.. or recently getting distracted into the NFT hype.. which also seems to be dragging some actual previously thought to be knowledgeable bitcoiners in that direction... but Laura does not seem to easily get caught up in koolaide drinking thinking, even when she is interviewing some shitcoiners or some nonsense pumpeners (which she does from time to time).
