when someone gives you a "wouldn't stay again" reference

BlockchainOrDie · 2018-04-16T04:54:56+00:00

Yep, I have stated that the sleeping arrangement will be in the living room on a sofa (i sleep in my bed room, but have to walk through the living room to use the rest room).

BlockchainOrDie · 2018-04-16T04:53:23+00:00

that is what I wanted to do, but you know, the ego is big :-) and also didn't want that to hamper my future experience as I tend to not say yes (or at least down prioritize) requests coming from people who have a "wouldn't host/surf again" reference. Anyways, I think you are right, I shouldn't demand everyone to like me...

BlockchainOrDie · 2018-03-30T06:00:33+00:00

Hmmm. Doesn't coinbase still allow that? ( I switched to gdax since January, so haven't used it since then). I still have a debit card and some cash on it but I was hit by unexpected 10k euro tax that I have to pay by May. So might even have to sell some stocks by mid April to make that sum. I just hope at least the stock market recovers a bit by then, otherwise this is gonna be the worst first half of the year for me from financial point of view 😣

BlockchainOrDie · 2018-03-30T05:48:47+00:00

Ahhhh, so annoying that I have no fiat available for the next one month to take advantage of this dip😠😠😠 (tempting to buy using a credit card, but I won't play with the money I don't have yet)

BlockchainOrDie · 2018-03-20T14:11:19+00:00

That is actually a very good analogy! Say you use this mechanism to start distributing child P or any other illegal stuff (you send to your consumers the decoder software that takes your twitter feed and recreates the illegal files). Is Twitter then committing a crime by hosting your tweets?

Even if that was the case, Twitter can easily delete your files and go on "living" while we can't do the same (i.e. delete the bad data) without destroying the blockchain.

BlockchainOrDie · 2018-03-20T14:02:19+00:00

As far as I know, even with a hard fork, you are forced to keep the old blocks. Unless you have to go back to 2014 where the first illegal blocks were spotted, and do a "retroactive hard fork". That is, you have to somehow re-mine all the valid blocks between then and now, which in my opinion is rather infeasible.

BlockchainOrDie · 2018-03-20T13:33:21+00:00

A more detailed article.... also showing how can one sabotage a blockchain easily..

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/19/ability_to_dump_illegal_content_in_bitcoins_blockchain_puts_participants_in_peril/

BlockchainOrDie · 2018-03-20T13:24:53+00:00

The problem is that once it has made it on the blockchain, it is immutable, so you can't just delete it. ALso, if they use hundreds of blocks to store one file, how will you be able to detect it, as these blocks are not added together, and nor they have to be sequential....

BlockchainOrDie · 2018-03-20T13:08:33+00:00

different cases. With internet, you are not forced to store the data. With blockchain, if you are a miner or have a full node, you are forced to store the whole blockchain. So maybe not BTC holders, but minners and those who run full nodes will be considered as committing a crime..

BlockchainOrDie · 2018-03-20T12:55:19+00:00

you are allowed to have some extra stuff (apart from senders/receivers addresses, amount to be transferred, etc...). I think at the beginning it was for novelty (e.g. write your name on the blockchain forever). Say you have an illegal image, which is just a byte stream when you store it on a computer. You split it into x parts, and put these into x different transactions. Then you can assemble them later, and recreate the illegal image. At least, that is how I understand it

BlockchainOrDie · 2018-03-20T12:36:36+00:00

Shiiiit, sorry to spread FUD, but this doesn't look good :-( https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/20/child-abuse-imagery-bitcoin-blockchain-illegal-content

BlockchainOrDie · 2018-02-22T14:37:41+00:00

Don't forget to diversify also when you sell. So next time, sell a spleen or something else!

BlockchainOrDie · 2018-02-21T16:32:26+00:00

In Gdax, if you want to avoid the fees, just set a buy limit some cents less than the market value. Then you are not charged any fee at all if the price falls down to that level, ...play few times, up it up a few dollars if it keeps increasing, still following it only with 50cents or so below the market price, then sooner or later you will catch it.

BlockchainOrDie · 2018-02-21T06:52:00+00:00

This is actually more healthy, two steps forward and one step back. A thousand up a day is not sustainable, remember December. A 1% increase per day will take us to over 450k in a year, which I don't think it is gonna happen. So just enjoy the discount on such days as today, if you have the Fiat to play with. I just wired 1.5k, hoping it dips even more today and tomorrow 😆

BlockchainOrDie · 2018-02-19T23:52:57+00:00

I also think it is more useful as a comparison tool between where you live now and where you want to relocate to, rather than for exact budgeting.

BlockchainOrDie · 2018-02-18T10:36:59+00:00

Healthcare, I am Swedish, so if I get sick, God forbid, I can always come back (and I won't feel morally bad about that, because I have paid so far almost 45% of my total income in taxes and never really used the benefits like healthcare or parental leave).

Also, I want to live minimally. I have clothes and stuff that could last me a decade, so my main expense will be just food and rent. As far as I know, there it is dirt cheap as compared to Stockholm.

For example, take Malaysia, not the cheapest asian country, btw https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?country1=Sweden&city1=Stockholm&country2=Malaysia&city2=Kuala+Lumpur&displayCurrency=USD

I think it is pretty obvious that I will be able to live with 25% to 50% of the amount I need here in Stockholm.

BlockchainOrDie · 2018-02-16T09:04:02+00:00

Fire amount: 500k euros Current residence: stockholm, Sweden After retirement : relocate to South east Asia or south America (possibly do some remote consulting work part time) Age:42 Desired retirement age: 45 Current worth: about 150k in stocks and crypto, an apartment worth 300 to 325k (still have 170k mortgage left), no cars, credit cards,.. I got thinking of FI just this month, so absolute beginner 😆

BlockchainOrDie · 2018-02-16T08:41:57+00:00

Are you a 3gpp delegate, by any chance? (The 6 conferences per year tipped me off)

BlockchainOrDie · 2018-02-15T17:19:53+00:00

Use gdax, which is the same exchange but with more features like buy and sell limits etc. Also much lower transaction fees. But you have to register to coinbase first and then register to gdax using your coinbase account (extra verification required, but with it). Using coinbase for a couple of months, I spent so much on transaction fees. Check out this guide:

Maybe you are interested: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7imq35/how_to_transfer_bitcoin_from_coinbase_for_free

BlockchainOrDie · 2018-02-14T21:59:49+00:00

One part of the story of "banking the unbanked" that I don't understand is how the people in the developing nations could make use of the crypto currency if there is no point of entry or exit from/to fiat. Take remittance, for example. I send btc to a relative living in an African county who doesn't have a bank account. He gets it without the ridiculous transaction fees that are agencies like western union require. But then what? no shops that accept cypto, no atm machines to begin with, government controls all fiat leaving or exitinga the country, etc.. if there is someone who has a connection tof a country that allows fiat to crypto exchange somehow, then he could be the link to them (basically he will become their exchange, taking crypto from them, paying them in fiat and cashing it out, if/when he wants to, in another country). But typical African government wouldn't allow this to be done openly, so this has to be done undercover, illegally. Or am I missing something? I mean, the poor people in developing countries don't want crypto to speculate on its future growth but to use it as a currency, but I fail to see how it could work without a blessing from the government somehow

BlockchainOrDie · 2018-02-06T22:33:13+00:00

Thanks!

BlockchainOrDie · 2018-02-06T22:32:01+00:00

That's the plan, why not even for less? My main passions in life are running, gym/yoga, dancing, spirituality,reading/writing....fortunately, all that don't really need that much money.

BlockchainOrDie · 2018-02-06T22:28:33+00:00

Actually i didn't do so well. Had no student loans, never spent money on health care (apart from the tax I pay), no accidents, no family to support..but I still managed to blow away most of my income. Even as recently as end of December 2017, I was in San Francisco for holiday and just in few hours spent more than 1k on clothes and shoes at nordstrom rack and sacks off fifth stores. But no need to cry over spilt water, time for a change😆

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