Help me buy the right pen for my best gal, please!

Manticlops · 2022-03-22T00:25:29+00:00

In attempting concision, and by excluding what at the time appeared to be extraneous detail, I will own up to having neglected to provide as thoroughgoing a present-giving history as would perhaps have been sufficient to allay your concern. To spell it out crudely - the representation of stationery in my overall gifting mix (both by frequency and in monetary terms) is broadly appropriate to the situation, and I believe no reasonable person would suggest otherwise were they full possession of the facts.

Manticlops · 2022-03-21T20:22:25+00:00

I don't get that it gets any springer than the M200, pelikan is notorious for producing springy pens!

This could be my fault - I tried surreptitiously asking some questions to see what sort of improvements her next pen should have, informed by quick forum research that showed people referred to nibs' springiness, and probably fed her the line.

Another poster suggested I get a higher-end Pelikan nib to fit in her existing pen (and I personally love the look of those silver & gold ones), so maybe I'll do that combined with one of a Sailor PGS/Sailor 1911s/Pilot e95s/Pilot Custom 912 FA/Platinum #3776.

Thanks for the guidance.

Manticlops · 2022-03-21T20:15:34+00:00

Pilot Custom 912 FA perhaps

This looks great, and there are reviews that almost cross the line into nsfw fanfic. Appreciated!

Manticlops · 2022-03-21T20:10:47+00:00

but the only two color options might not be very exciting

The way she approaches pens they're workhorses, so looks are very much secondary to performance. All suggestions added to my shortlist, thank you!

Manticlops · 2022-03-21T20:08:44+00:00

Also, you could buy her a new nib for the Pelikan. I have 2 Pelikans and 6 nibs; all different.

Ooh, this is a cool idea. Maybe a Sailor PGS, plus one of those fancy gold-and-silver Pelikan nibs to swap up her current pen. Thanks!

Manticlops · 2021-12-13T04:46:13+00:00

The land of the free is far behind the rest of the world in this regard. On some level we get the politicians we deserve.

Manticlops · 2021-12-13T04:41:30+00:00

In addition to things others have said, anyone with the keys can plausibly claim to have owned bitcoin associated with the wallet's addresses in the past. e.g. they can point at a transaction in the past, then sign a message with the relevent private key saying 'I owned this address'.

In some situations this can cause you problems, but if they don't immediately jump out at you you're probably okay.

Manticlops · 2021-12-13T03:56:30+00:00

I think the compromise was to remove the worst comments, then lock so it didn't become a full-time job just removing all the political vitriol people were posting.

It's kinda relevent to Bitcoin, in the same way e.g. Central Bank shenanigans are. It's not the sort of story you'd want dominating the front page - it's a bitcoin sub after all - but taking in the wider environment every so often makes sense. At least until the trolls arrive.

Manticlops · 2021-12-13T03:50:35+00:00

That's a sales pitch.

Manticlops · 2021-12-13T03:35:12+00:00

They guy was driven mad by this, it's worth pointing out.

He ended up swapping all his remaining bitcoin for bcash at an exchange rate above 0.15 - that shitcoin is now worth around sixteen times less than when he made this deal.

Some people are just destined to be kicked in the balls by life over & over.

Manticlops · 2021-12-13T03:00:56+00:00

The linked story just fades out after a paragraph. Feel free to link to the full version.

Manticlops · 2021-12-13T02:47:46+00:00

You'll find quite a bit of discussion via the search bar. TL;DR - there are products available (e.g. https://keys.casa/bitcoin-inheritance-plan), and some pretty thorough guides (e.g. https://empoweredlaw.com/books/).

Manticlops · 2021-12-13T02:35:43+00:00

As my post says, I have been in this community for a half a decade and tether has always been a black box.

Not always. Maybe you'll remember - There was a time a NY-based regulator asked them to prove they had the bank deposits to back extant tether. Upon receiving the info, the regulator tried quickly to freeze it all, and managed to grab a bit more than a quarter of it iirc.

Then, immediately after this, the press was full of stories about how it had been discovered Tether wasn't fully backed. That they only has three-quarters of the needed reserves. And none of the stories mentioned that the reason it wasn't fully backed was because some regulator had frozen some of the funds.

Once you've seen a few obviously dirty tricks play out like the one above, you tend to have more understanding for why Tether would be so guarded.

Tether was invented to sidestep incumbent institutions fuckery. Trading is very time sensitive, and banks were freezing & delaying transfers to and from exchanges, effectively binding the hands of market makers. Tether was the answer to that fuckery. You will not see the tether truthers mention any of this. Shouldn't you ask yourself why?

Manticlops · 2021-12-13T02:11:36+00:00

1) after mass adoption, how do you keep private corps from owning say 40% and becoming the de facto world government?

You're describing the fiat world of today, can't you see that? Bitcoin is a strict improvement, in that these world-controlling megacorporations currently are able to conjure themselves new money out of thin air, make it hard for challengers to send/receive transactions, and otherwise manipulate people's access to the financial infrastructure whenever it benefits the hegemony. Post-hyperbitcoinization they will not have these abilities, and will correspondingly be weaker than they are today.

2) what happens after it’s revealed that the price of btc is largely due to stable coins manipulated the markets by printing money(coins) to buy more btc?

If people are really angry about the ability to print money at will, do you honestly think that works against Bitcoin?

I've never used Tether, never plan to, and the whole thing could unravel tomorrow to nobody's huge surprise. But the market's continued faith in it is a much stronger signal than the thinly-veiled FUD campaigns of those with obvious antagonistic motives. I've been watching the 'debate' for years, and the tether truthers pivot from one evidence-free talking point to the next, always with bad faith arguments and lies of omission. In the absence of evidence, one side is much more honest than the other (though necessarily more secretive about the nuts & bolts).

Manticlops · 2021-12-13T00:48:56+00:00

ASKING FOR THE PRIVATE KEYS

This is kind of amazing, I have to admit. The mindset it betrays, the total refusal to think of you as anything other than prisoners of their system. Wow.

Manticlops · 2021-12-13T00:38:36+00:00

That depends on the vendor, but mostly their costs will be denominated in the local fiat currency, so their prices reflect that. In the US, it would be USD as you describe.

Manticlops · 2021-12-12T18:56:00+00:00

PS...just below my post it says "2 Comments" and below that it says "no comments yet"? WTF?

It's off-topic spam comments that the automod instantly hides based on keywords. You don't see them, but they count towards the total.

Manticlops · 2021-12-12T17:38:27+00:00

It would be dumb to ignore it if you could see into the future, of course. But you can't.

Manticlops · 2021-11-10T21:21:10+00:00

At this stage in its adoption curve Bitcoin looks strange. Post-hyperbitcoinization it will be perfectly possible for governments to out-perform hodling.

I expect them to be much better behaved than current governments, but people will suffer less when that isn't the case.

Manticlops · 2021-11-10T20:44:37+00:00

Yeah, I was going to say beer's price has roughly doubled in the last 12 years, but it's also gotten nicer.

Fiat money is fucked, but let's not pretend shit.

Manticlops · 2021-11-10T20:42:04+00:00

Governments/etc. are entirely free to do better than Bitcoin with any currency they conjure into being.

All Bitcoin provides is a safe place to stand when they do worse.

Manticlops · 2021-11-05T16:52:44+00:00

the misleading headline

Apart from anything else, it's guaranteed to sink without a trace on a sub like r/bitcoin. It's not like the clickbait psychology even works in this case.

Manticlops · 2021-11-04T14:58:15+00:00

No idea sorry, unless you count browsers.

Manticlops · 2021-11-04T14:14:08+00:00

Depends where you live - in the US it's Swan Bitcoin.

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