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Josquius

Oh. It's thanksgiving today. Some great advice I read - tying the legs together keeps it moist on the inside :perv:

Quote from: PJL on November 28, 2024, 08:09:54 AM
Quote from: Josquius on November 28, 2024, 03:09:35 AMAmazon's crappy interface really boils my piss. With all that money why cant they do it.
Currently trying to figure out how to put parental restrictions in place beyond a broad u/pg/ages thing. Or even to block individual shows. So hard.

I suspect that is actually WAD.

Getting kids to watch crap dredged from YouTube rather than the decent shows they've actually paid to license? - baring in mind the parents are the ones who decide whether to subscribe or not.
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Tamas

DGuller and Habbaku, should I wait for XRP to reach $3 and take my 600% profit or should I wait more/less?

DGuller

Why would I be an authority on crypto?  :huh:

crazy canuck

Bitcoin is now at about 100k US.

So when my son was in high school and he told me I should just buy 100 dollars worth, back when it was worth less than a buck, I probably should have listed to him.




Tamas


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mongers

"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

HVC

Quote from: DGuller on November 29, 2024, 02:32:52 PM
Quote from: Tamas on November 29, 2024, 02:09:57 PM
Quote from: DGuller on November 29, 2024, 12:46:51 PMWhy would I be an authority on crypto?  :huh:

You are not?  :huh:
No?  Can't stand the crypto cult.

You could never be a Canadian PM. Could I perhaps, though, interest you in some tulip bulbs? 
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

Grey Fox

My fake money investment are up 50% life time. Downside, is it's only 50$ and 25 of it is pegged to the US dollar.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

crazy canuck

My play money investments are all down.  I am glad I leave investing to the professionals.

But if one of my long shots with a shot ever make it, I will feel better.

Barrister

Quote from: Grey Fox on November 29, 2024, 04:35:22 PMMy fake money investment are up 50% life time. Downside, is it's only 50$ and 25 of it is pegged to the US dollar.

I think I shared this story once before, but a long, long time ago.

Summer of 1996 I worked for a mining company - HBM&S (now HudBay Minerals) in FLon Flon, Manitoba.  I lived in staff housing.  I knew one guy who was all excited at the new job  - at this new up and coming mining company Bre-X.

YOu might be too young to remember, but Bre-X was a total fraud.  It went from a penny stock to its shares being worth hundreds of dollars - right up until it went back to zero.  The company was salting its mining cores.  One geologist was found dead in highly suspicious circumstances.

But Bre-X was going up and up for several years.  Even if you thought the story was too good to be true, you still could have made a ton of money on Bre-X stock - right up until it crashed.

That's still the way I think about crypto.
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

Grey Fox

Yeah, I agree with that. Crypto is in the find the sucker stage of market creation. Will it evolve to the next stage?
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

mongers

Quote from: Barrister on November 29, 2024, 05:20:19 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on November 29, 2024, 04:35:22 PMMy fake money investment are up 50% life time. Downside, is it's only 50$ and 25 of it is pegged to the US dollar.

I think I shared this story once before, but a long, long time ago.

Summer of 1996 I worked for a mining company - HBM&S (now HudBay Minerals) in FLon Flon, Manitoba.  I lived in staff housing.  I knew one guy who was all excited at the new job  - at this new up and coming mining company Bre-X.

YOu might be too young to remember, but Bre-X was a total fraud.  It went from a penny stock to its shares being worth hundreds of dollars - right up until it went back to zero.  The company was salting its mining cores.  One geologist was found dead in highly suspicious circumstances.

But Bre-X was going up and up for several years.  Even if you thought the story was too good to be true, you still could have made a ton of money on Bre-X stock - right up until it crashed.

That's still the way I think about crypto.

The film is worth a viewing.
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Josquius

That there is a town named Flon Flon pleases me.
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Admiral Yi

Crypto has real value for money launderers, drug smugglers, and black market arms dealers.