Quote from: MrSpasybo on December 21, 2023, 05:30:09 PM

Each person has a unique risk/return appetite, so they often make different Hold and Sell decisions. Similar to potential stocks of Amazon, Apple or Meta, Bitcoin has increased in price a lot in the past 10 years and made many investors regret it. The same thing may happen again in 10 years when we will think about the present moment.

If we could go back in time, many people would want to buy BTC when it didn't have value,

ah yes hindsight is 20/20 vision. without that perfect vision alot of people were very skeptical of Bitcoins future back in the early days, even people who were hodlers, at those key prices at the times $10, €100 et-cetra there were alot of people who could t see it reaching those marks but there were a few who believed in Bitcoins future, we just have to believe too.

finally after all the speculation, hype and false positives its real. the big boys have entered the bitcoin market.

should we be afraid or should we celebrate?

no doubt there will be bureaucratic stubbornness and making changes by executive order might end up happening but it would be great to see if he can achieve his goals by diplomacy and winning a majority approval.

Quote from: bitmover on December 20, 2023, 06:07:05 PM

Ordinals become something impossible to ignore. We are hitting avg fees over 500 sat/vbytes in some blocks.

On one side, people are saying they are just spamming the network.

On the other hand , freedom is important.

Personally, I would say that bitcoin transactions are more important than storing jpeg in the blockchain

What do byou think?

Bitcoin was built to be censorship resistant to any jurisdiction or a person or any government and that was in part of Satoshi's vision to build any form of JPEG spam on the blockchain but as an open source for development where it is needed. If not for NFTs that brought this crazy disaster, no one in the Bitcoin community would have accepted this idea but it is making money for miners who control the security, they will call it development which I see as nothing because if JPEG couldn't survive in any other chains, what is that special thing will they offer here than spamming the mempool. To say that NFTs are not even trending much like before in alternative chains says how quickly this will die but let them continue to burn their money for transactions, everything will soon unfold and clear.

I believe if all mempool chose to ban any inscribed transactions, half of our problems with transactions will be solved but I think many are focused on the upcoming halving and what new price bitcoin will bring to the market. Perhaps they will raise a motion to remove it after the halving or after the bull run to stop these fanzines of JPEG

censorship resistant is very important on the bitcoin blockchain so "censoring" ordinals goes against this fundamental created by Satoshi.

personally i dont get the whole ordinals thing, same for the NFT craze which imo seems to have petered out. i think in time the ordinals thing will run its course and some people will have done quite =well out of the craze while others manty will be left with a bunch of silly JPEGs

so i say leave things as they are - they are actually part of the bitcoin blockchain and hopefully they will be a thing of the past - - - - soon

i dont know anyone who makes new year resolutions anymore and i dont know anyone who has ever stuck to their resolution once made in January 1st.

i made resolutions in the past but never qas able to stick to them, i think i am with the majority of people!

Quote from: defy on December 31, 2023, 11:12:06 PM

maybe the incoming bitcoin halving is floating all boats as the saying goes.

there is more interest now in bitcoin and crypto because of the expectation of big prices so people hopefully will want to talk, discuss and learn more about what is going on.

also what about the new signature campaigns for the mixing services, could they be attracting more activity?

Talk about crypto is getting more and more widespread also in more popular news (at least that is the case in my country) because of the increase in price. Besides that, having more and more signature campagins will definitely ramp up the activity on this forum

for sure but there might come a time where people are only signing up to get rewarded and maybe not too interested or sincere about whats going on in the forum, idk maybe that wont be the case at all and the chances are more people + more bounties = a livelier community

getting rewarded is fine imo but its healthier for the forum if there is decent content and discussion then it balances out

Quote from: defy on December 31, 2023, 08:44:31 AM

the bitcoin courses at saylor.org are not necessarily narrated by Michael himself. the courses are not anything like his interviews where he is expected to give the investor and FIAT v bitcoin analogies and ideas which we have become so used to seeing.

This seems good. Frankly, I did not read the contents of the site, but I bookmarketed it and will read it later. I attended some events that Michael was at and I did not like his way of introducing Bitcoin, so I hoped that saylor.org topics would be a little away from his ideas.
Thank you.

ah, not a problem!

i would say there is a love/hate relationship with Michael Saylor, you either love him or hate him. he uses alot of analogies to describe bitcoin and its mechanisms and applications.

personally i have a love/hate opinion of him

i love how he has been able to communicate what bitcoin can offer
but
i hate what he represents for our space buy attracting big institutional investors

The securities regulator reportedly told them to update their filings by Friday to be included in the first wave of spot bitcoin ETF decisions in early January.

so in a week or two we will finally know the outcome on the SEC's decision.

i'm trying not to read too much into the fact that the SEC are actually discussing the various applications with the respective asset managers and allowing them to make amendments to them and resubmit but this can only be a positive thing ?

and that multiple spot ETF's will be approved?

but yea I dont want to think too much about it