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Thanks (and @Well_is_it & @Muppetteer). Basically the confirmation bias I was hoping for.
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I need sharper text display and have had my head turned by retina. Decent camera / speakers also a plus due to increasing amount of time spent on calls. Appreciate similar specs available, but ECOSYSTEM init.
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Anyone got a Studio Display? Currently on a shitty Dell screen with my Macbook Pro that's doing my head / eyes in, and feeling tempted. Seems to be very few second-hand options out there, too – which I'm sort of seeing as a good sign...
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We left London and settled in Kendal about two years ago. Long-standing Lib Dem area that's super friendly. Punches well above its weight for arts / beers / coffee, although glaringly lacking in cultural diversity... We got a detached two-bed with a nice garden and a detached garage for about 60k under your budget, so imagine you'd find something.
It's 30 minutes to the depths of Langdale in the Lake District for (I think) some of the most beautiful countryside this poisoned isle has to offer. Bike riding obvz goes without saying, and buses are surprisingly decent – but you might miss a car if you didn't have one. Very easy to get elsewhere, too (direct train from Oxenholme to LDN in about 2 hours 45 minutes, or 10 minute drive to the M6).
*edited overly optimistic train time
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Good one for starting it. I posted in the Tory thread this morning in the absence of anywhere else fitting for my rage / sadness / total fucking desperation at the state of our nation.
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It's just all so dark, init.
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what a fucking shitshow of a heartless government, in an ill conceived attempt at points scoring with a minority of right wing biggots.
fucking fuck the fucking tories.Amen to that. What blows my mind is how much hatred is being whipped up for what's actually a fairly insignificant number of arrivals. Only 116,000 people have crossed the channel since 2018... barely more than the capacity of Wembley in 6 years. 5x that number emigrated from the UK last year alone. Imagine if we concentrated these wasted Rwanda funds on welcoming these desperate individuals and helping them get set up to contribute to our society?
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It still has to get royal assent... but a quick google reveals the last time those stuffy tax-funded squatters actually stopped a bill was 1707. And that was only to protect themselves against the pesky Scots. We're such a sham. Embarrassed to call myself British today.
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So the bill passed. Surely this has to be the final nail in their bigoted coffin? The news really crushed me this morning. Kind of want to go sit on some runway tarmac when the time comes... fuck the tories.
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Just another $623m purchase today by microstrategy
And it's taken them to over 1% of the total supply of BTC. The guy's a madman.
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Exactly. It's already the biggest publicly traded business intelligence company – independent of its holdings. And that's why some people are so worried. They're gaming the system, and if others realise, it could kick off a major cascade of corporate treasuries adopting the same strategy (and indirectly shorting the dollar).
EDIT: This is a bit tinfoil-hatty, but Saylor's been hanging out with Bezos... another company making more profit than they can preserve through traditional methods.
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But this is where it gets weirder / even more interesting. Saylor has said publicly many times that the goal is only ever to accumulate more. Plus their cost basis is down at about $30k per coin, and their margin call is even lower at about $3k per coin.
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^ This. The guy is a genius, and was a former bitcoin sceptic, so you know he's done the numbers. Interestingly, this article was part of the board of directors' education materials, and definitely helped change my opinion.
Lots of folk think what Microstrategy are doing could have some pretty dire consequences, too (or fortune-making, whichever side you're on). These guys reckon a short squeeze scenario similar to GME could play out, given the share price is so closely correlated to a (potentially) runaway asset:
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You guys make this so boring.
Back to drugs and yachts and supermodels and losing USB sticks in the trash and that kind of shit please.
Shall we plan a $100k BTC party on your yacht? Would be a shame if we all lost our wallets in a boating accident, tho...
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If you say so.
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They've turned themselves into a proxy for bitcoin, not a Ponzi. Plus, proponents of Ponzi schemes don't keep buying in...
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The fundamentals of what?
But yes –their share price is up 350% in 6 months, and will undoubtedly have caught the attention of many other companies. Could be a totally new paradigm if others follow suit. Not to mention the unprecedented success of the US ETF launch.
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Yeah, the MIT rocket scientist really fell for this one...
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There's a fascinating corporate treasury experiment playing out in the US [LINK]. Michael Saylor (Microstrategy) has been acquiring bitcoin for the company's balance sheet at a ridiculous pace. He / they bought all the way through the bear market to the tune of about $5billion, which is now worth around $14billion. It's a strategy that's taken them from a top 2000 company to being on the cusp of entering the S&P 500. Once in, there's a shit ton of unmanaged investment about to flow their way... increasing the stock price, which increases their bitcoin purchase rate, which increases the bitcoin price... and so on and so on.
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I sold most of my eth at $11 as it rarely seemed to be going above $10, and a profits a profit. Hilariously I bought it as I thought I may have been able to reap some of those sick early btc gains but as it wasn't going anywhere....
Read so many similar posts / tweets / reddit threads when I first got interested in bitcoin in 2020. Gave me a thick skin for all the volatility and convinced me to just sit on it for at least 5-10 years.
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It does keep happening though. Presumably there will be another crash soon and again it won't go back down to where it was and rinse repeat.
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Hiked the snowboards up Skiddaw yesterday. Rewarded with some astonishing snow drifts off the north side. Bootpacked three big runs then gave in to save the legs for the descent back to the van. Such a surreal day!
https://www.instagram.com/stories/georgert/3315907157267922017?igsh=Ym5qdzBqcXk1dTYx
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The orange coin has now reached all-time highs in some major currencies (including the yen), and the US ETF trade volume passed 2.4 billy $ yesterday... Feels like stuff's about to get a little bit daft again.
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Am I being stupid to miss the point in requesting this? Like, genuinely – wtf?! Why go to so much expense and effort from a CS perspective? It's a PR nightmare waiting to happen (please tweet it).