Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion - page 992.

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Quote from: OutOfMemory on March 24, 2024, 03:08:09 PM

OT:

using paid software to process my astrophotography images made me elevate the quality of results by a good amount.
After taking the learning curve, i decided to process and post an older image of the orion nebula, from last december.
I have to admit that i'm quite impressed by the difference of the results. Less noise, more sharpness, more dynamics, finer detail.
Take a look (click to view original size):

Aaaaand it's sunday, so:

I'm kept quite busy
while Bitcoin doing it's thing
not really watching

will resume later
maybe after days, or weeks?
king daddy won't care

#haiku

wow this is beautiful 🥺. Clicking it got me lost in the moment gazing this beautiful work of art.

Quote from: JayJuanGee on March 24, 2024, 03:21:52 PM

Quoted for view of your image. Sure. A new poll would be nice.

For example:

Which one will happen first:

$82k?

or

sub $55k?

Maybe that is not an adventurous enough question?

that would nice changing the poll, not quite long bitcoin rose with 4.08% , price range of $67282.2 , bitcoin still have the potential of hitting $80k before the halving. But let's see how things goes from here.

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So we're poor again.
The filthy rich kind of poor.
Better call Saylor!

From sardines to whales,
The rich get richer again.
Go sell some more, fools!

Grayscale dumping coins.
BlackRock buys them like hot cakes.
Tissue sales will peak!

Jay don't like Ledgers.
I agree, and so should you,
Or you'll get Bat-slapped!

Rusty rings or bulls?
Bulls for sure, but with a catch:
They've got to have balls!

Halving's coming soon.
Less than one month remaining.
Countdown GIF says so.

The vastness of space...
Thank you, OutOfMemory,
For letting us see!

#7wodigestsundayhaikus

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Quote from: OutOfMemory on March 24, 2024, 04:35:05 PM

I used a free AI based beta version for reucing noise on this image too, which gave me slightly better results than the manual, masked approach offered by the commercial software suite, which is already quite powerful. There's a popular commercial noise reduction software, which seems to deliver on-par results when compated to the free AI software, which runs in a command window (no clickable controls or previews).

I am not that skilled in image processing, but from my knowledge the manual tools, even professional, need quite a big amount of work to get to a good result.
With some AI tools you can even select regions where there's a bigger problem, and regions to be left alone at a certain step, and, with some trial and error approach you can do wonders in reasonably short time.
I'm glad you've found the right tool for you; the result is impressive.

Quote from: OutOfMemory on March 24, 2024, 04:35:05 PM

The source image stack was captured on a lucky night near new moon with perfectly clear sky, no wind and about -8° C temperature outside.

Wow!

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Quote from: NeuroticFish on March 24, 2024, 04:17:42 PM

Quote from: OutOfMemory on March 24, 2024, 03:08:09 PM

using paid software to process my astrophotography images made me elevate the quality of results by a good amount.

I've used free AI software to enhance some pictures and and I've got impressive results.
I can just imagine that with paid ones... sky is the limit.
Great picture! But I expect the source was pretty nice too Wink

I used a free AI based beta version for reucing noise on this image too, which gave me slightly better results than the manual, masked approach offered by the commercial software suite, which is already quite powerful. There's a popular commercial noise reduction software, which seems to deliver on-par results when compated to the free AI software, which runs in a command window (no clickable controls or previews).

The source image stack was captured on a lucky night near new moon with perfectly clear sky, no wind and about -8° C temperature outside.

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Quote from: OutOfMemory on March 24, 2024, 03:08:09 PM

using paid software to process my astrophotography images made me elevate the quality of results by a good amount.

I've used free AI software to enhance some pictures and and I've got impressive results.
I can just imagine that with paid ones... sky is the limit.
Great picture! But I expect the source was pretty nice too Wink

Quote from: LFC_Bitcoin on March 24, 2024, 04:11:06 PM

26 days until the halving

Somehow the people are still following the noise of (rather small overall) price variations, forgetting the (this) actual important news.
...and from what I've read even the ETF is not yet fully priced in, so the next year+ will be interesting.

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26 days until the halving, BTC doing well at $66,3xx as I type this.

I hope the Grayscale selling is getting close to exhaustion.

These 4 year cycles are long and tiring but we’re about the enter, what some might say the good bit. 50 - 75% of the four year cycle is spent either going down or sideways. We’re finally close to peak bull time, boys.

Strap on your big boy pants, the next 18 months are going to be a wild ride, $250,000 in play!

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Quote from: BitcoinBunny on March 24, 2024, 06:40:07 AM

See Late Night With The Devil (2023) if it's playing near you. More fun, more unsettling, simpler.

The trailer looks promising. Thanks for the tip! IOU 1 merit.

Quote from: OutOfMemory on March 24, 2024, 03:08:09 PM

OT:

using paid software to process my astrophotography images made me elevate the quality of results by a good amount.
After taking the learning curve, i decided to process and post an older image of the orion nebula, from last december.
I have to admit that i'm quite impressed by the difference of the results. Less noise, more sharpness, more dynamics, finer detail.
Take a look (click to view original size):

I can feel myself floating in this picture. Thats how clear it is. Very noice.

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Quote from: As-Soon-As on March 24, 2024, 03:56:55 AM

poll is long out of date so I think it needs to be updated.
Since the price of Bitcoin has crossed $65k and touched $73.6k, let's re-vote it again.
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Quoted for view of your image. Sure. A new poll would be nice.

For example:

Which one will happen first:

$82k?

or

sub $55k?

Maybe that is not an adventurous enough question?

But notice my self-serving nature of picking what I had previously proclaimed to be No man's land, which I will point out so far has not been breached since we entered into it - right around midnight - the start of February 27, 2023 - a bit less than a month ago... but who is counting? besides me?

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Quote from: OutOfMemory on March 24, 2024, 03:08:09 PM

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Wow! Breathtaking!

+1 WOsMerit.

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OT:

using paid software to process my astrophotography images made me elevate the quality of results by a good amount.
After taking the learning curve, i decided to process and post an older image of the orion nebula, from last december.
I have to admit that i'm quite impressed by the difference of the results. Less noise, more sharpness, more dynamics, finer detail.
Take a look (click to view original size):

Aaaaand it's sunday, so:

I'm kept quite busy
while Bitcoin doing it's thing
not really watching

will resume later
maybe after days, or weeks?
king daddy won't care

#haiku

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WTF is wrong with people… they could have bought 25.72289614 BTC but no they want to buy this!!!

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Remember this guy?

Last time he made more than $1M+ by selling his NFTs.

Today, he just made a presale out of his selfie and made 500ETH+ in less than 30 minutes!🤯

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Quote from: BitcoinBunny on March 24, 2024, 06:40:07 AM

O/T

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)

Clusterfuck.
Afterlife is better.

Don't bother. See Late Night With The Devil (2023) if it's playing near you. More fun, more unsettling, simpler.

5/10

Road house was a joke as well

Bad acting for 2 hours

I liked the opening scene with Post Malone and thought it showed a lot of promise, but Conor McGregor sort of ruined the movie with his cartoon character acting style. I’d rather watch the original…

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Quote from: bitebits on March 24, 2024, 12:44:15 PM

Quote from: fillippone on March 24, 2024, 08:00:45 AM

Quote from: bitebits on March 19, 2024, 06:12:54 AM

The guy you are quoting is an idiot. Saylor is selling MSTR options that he got 10 years ago that will otherwise expire. 5000 shares per day in Q1. Saylor has been fully transparent about this in their Q3 financial results. He buys bitcoin privately with the proceeds.

Nice to hear that.
Do you have a source for this information?

I was blaming MS because he was selling shares, instead of Bitcoin he was telling everyone that shares would perform better than Bitcoin. Of course, if these shares are the result of options exercise this changes the framework a little bit, even if he can exercise the option and remain long the stocks without selling those.

I did provide the source. But to be more specific @49:18:

https://www.microstrategy.com/investor-relations

More details in the 10Q on page 77 (Nov 1, 2023):

Quote

Rule 10b5-1 Information

On September 19, 2023, Michael J. Saylor, the Chairman of our Board of Directors and our Executive Chairman, entered into a 10b5-1
trading plan that is intended to satisfy the affirmative defense conditions of Rule 10b5-1(c) of the Exchange Act with respect to the sale
of up to 400,000 shares of our Class A common stock underlying a vested stock option, which expires if unexercised on April 30, 2024.

Under this trading plan, on each trading day from January 2, 2024 to April 25, 2024, Mr. Saylor plans to exercise and sell 5,000 shares
with respect to the stock option, subject to a minimum price condition. To the extent less than 5,000 shares are exercised and sold on a
given trading day, the balance can be added to the number of shares exercised and sold on any future trading day up to and including
April 26, 2024, which is the last date on which shares may be exercised and sold under the plan.

https://assets.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltb564490bc5201f31/blt4bfd39c423aa82dc/6544de43a6f13604076c86e4/form-10-q_11-01-2023.pdf

So...since Jan 2 and until April 25 (80trading days) he could have been selling 5000 sh/trading day.
However, there were no sales until March 1 (MSTR went from 695 to 1079 before he started selling).
His sales are also not always at a max:
so far 33 sales, total number of shares sold 77575, average price ($1481.88...wow!), total $110,652,495
https://www.secform4.com/insider-trading/1050446.htm

Conclusions: he could have started selling at $600, waited two mo until the price went above a thou and has been selling less than he could, but the conditions of his sales are such that he could sell more as long as total number does not exceed 400K shares. Btw, he structured it in such a way to finish sales by the halving.

So far, he has executed these sells very well, getting $1.48K/share while the average since Jan 2 was no more than a thou.
The guy is obviously brilliant, the only question is whether he will be using his prowess at our expense and so far, he has been quite modest, taking off just 110 mil off of 14.22 bil stock appreciation in 2024, which is about 0.77%.

I can definitely live with a CEO that causes almost 3X appreciation in 3 mo and only takes home less than one percent of accrued shareholder value.

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Quote from: fillippone on March 24, 2024, 08:00:45 AM

Quote from: bitebits on March 19, 2024, 06:12:54 AM

The guy you are quoting is an idiot. Saylor is selling MSTR options that he got 10 years ago that will otherwise expire. 5000 shares per day in Q1. Saylor has been fully transparent about this in their Q3 financial results. He buys bitcoin privately with the proceeds.

Nice to hear that.
Do you have a source for this information?

I was blaming MS because he was selling shares, instead of Bitcoin he was telling everyone that shares would perform better than Bitcoin. Of course, if these shares are the result of options exercise this changes the framework a little bit, even if he can exercise the option and remain long the stocks without selling those.

I did provide the source. But to be more specific @49:18:

https://www.microstrategy.com/investor-relations

More details in the 10Q on page 77 (Nov 1, 2023):

Quote

Rule 10b5-1 Information

On September 19, 2023, Michael J. Saylor, the Chairman of our Board of Directors and our Executive Chairman, entered into a 10b5-1
trading plan that is intended to satisfy the affirmative defense conditions of Rule 10b5-1(c) of the Exchange Act with respect to the sale
of up to 400,000 shares of our Class A common stock underlying a vested stock option, which expires if unexercised on April 30, 2024.

Under this trading plan, on each trading day from January 2, 2024 to April 25, 2024, Mr. Saylor plans to exercise and sell 5,000 shares
with respect to the stock option, subject to a minimum price condition. To the extent less than 5,000 shares are exercised and sold on a
given trading day, the balance can be added to the number of shares exercised and sold on any future trading day up to and including
April 26, 2024, which is the last date on which shares may be exercised and sold under the plan.

https://assets.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltb564490bc5201f31/blt4bfd39c423aa82dc/6544de43a6f13604076c86e4/form-10-q_11-01-2023.pdf

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Quote from: Roggeredek on March 24, 2024, 10:17:55 AM

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Quote from: Gachapin on March 23, 2024, 07:17:09 PM

From the polished parts, you can tell that a large number of superstitious wall street bankers rub those bull balls for luck, before starting their day of robbing people blindly in new and creative ways.

~snip

I'm wondering what they're rubbing the balls with when the two hind legs also seem to be polished at the same level - handholds?

that would mean they are tea bagging the bull Wink

Source unknown.

It has been surgically opened and is now ready for frying. Cheesy

Eat and ready for the next bull. Grin

Oh God. I hope those aren't the result of a workplace tragedy.

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Ok time to get back to talking about the Bitcoin price. Enough balls.

Seems that BTC has found a steady footing and is going up again.

Edit: Don't @ me with balls.

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Quote from: philipma1957 on March 24, 2024, 09:03:29 AM

Quote from: xhomerx10 on March 24, 2024, 08:30:22 AM

Quote from: goldkingcoiner on March 23, 2024, 09:23:27 PM

Quote from: Gachapin on March 23, 2024, 07:17:09 PM

From the polished parts, you can tell that a large number of superstitious wall street bankers rub those bull balls for luck, before starting their day of robbing people blindly in new and creative ways.

~snip

I'm wondering what they're rubbing the balls with when the two hind legs also seem to be polished at the same level - handholds?

that would mean they are tea bagging the bull Wink

Source unknown.

It has been surgically opened and is now ready for frying. Cheesy

Eat and ready for the next bull. Grin

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Quote from: xhomerx10 on March 24, 2024, 08:30:22 AM

Quote from: goldkingcoiner on March 23, 2024, 09:23:27 PM

Quote from: Gachapin on March 23, 2024, 07:17:09 PM

From the polished parts, you can tell that a large number of superstitious wall street bankers rub those bull balls for luck, before starting their day of robbing people blindly in new and creative ways.

~snip

I'm wondering what they're rubbing the balls with when the two hind legs also seem to be polished at the same level - handholds?

that would mean they are tea bagging the bull Wink

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Quote from: xhomerx10 on March 24, 2024, 08:30:22 AM

Quote from: goldkingcoiner on March 23, 2024, 09:23:27 PM

Quote from: Gachapin on March 23, 2024, 07:17:09 PM

From the polished parts, you can tell that a large number of superstitious wall street bankers rub those bull balls for luck, before starting their day of robbing people blindly in new and creative ways.

~snip

I'm wondering what they're rubbing the balls with when the two hind legs also seem to be polished at the same level - handholds?

I agree. While kneeling, they need to hold on to something with their other hand to give themselves support while fondling the bulls balls.

Quote from: Gachapin on March 23, 2024, 09:29:33 PM

btw I like your 420 img width

Thank you for noticing Cheesy

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Quote from: goldkingcoiner on March 23, 2024, 09:23:27 PM

Quote from: Gachapin on March 23, 2024, 07:17:09 PM

From the polished parts, you can tell that a large number of superstitious wall street bankers rub those bull balls for luck, before starting their day of robbing people blindly in new and creative ways.

~snip

I'm wondering what they're rubbing the balls with when the two hind legs also seem to be polished at the same level - handholds?

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