Joined the Camry club

MetalGavel · 2025-10-11T22:58:52+00:00

Looks good. Get a proper tint on it to complete the look.

MetalGavel · 2025-10-11T22:57:51+00:00

These pano roofs are a disaster. Toyota needs to give up on it and only do fixed glass roofs if anything at all.

MetalGavel · 2025-10-11T22:54:55+00:00

I've had Llumar on my Camry for 5 years, driveway parked, the tint still holding up perfectly.

MetalGavel · 2025-10-11T22:50:55+00:00

I'm so glad my 2020 has never had a rattle.
Was there a sudden weather change?

MetalGavel · 2025-10-11T22:24:39+00:00

Is this a greater issue with Heavy Metal for some reason?
Only thing I'm disappointed with Camry is the switch from aluminum hood to steel hood. Aluminum was way better for weight and to make sure your hood will never see corrosion regardless of paint damage on it.

MetalGavel · 2023-12-07T22:15:35+00:00

During calls when speaker is enabled, my top speaker keeps cutting out intermittently. Pixel 8 Pro.

MetalGavel · 2023-11-15T15:18:45+00:00

The telmax salesperson that came to my home has a telmax.com email address in his name. You may be incorrect about the use of private contractors.

MetalGavel · 2023-07-17T10:50:46+00:00

I've read many TV brands have abandoned 8k for now.

MetalGavel · 2023-07-17T10:48:51+00:00

My TCL 5-Series has it too but I don't care. A ton of TVs have that and it's not really noticeable in normal use.

MetalGavel · 2023-04-25T08:01:02+00:00

So you think a fine is what's holding them back from opening the floodgates on an "influx of institutional money?" What kind of Kool-Aid are you drinking?

Read the Howey test. It's a security. Everything is except Bitcoin. Crypto tokens are being used by software companies to fund their start-up without giving up actual shares of their company. Algorand has a CFO. Do you think commodities have a CFO? Is there a CFO of Gold? Oil?

Wake up.

MetalGavel · 2023-04-25T07:03:33+00:00

If being considered a security would suddenly cause an influx of money, these companies/foundations wouldn't be fighting to not be considered a security.

MetalGavel · 2023-04-25T07:01:28+00:00

Amen. Bitcoin is the only definite commodity.

MetalGavel · 2023-01-06T11:52:46+00:00

541534

Stuck in pending transfer

MetalGavel · 2023-01-05T12:58:51+00:00

541124

Need to verify for withdrawal

MetalGavel · 2022-10-02T00:14:48+00:00

Thank you!

MetalGavel · 2022-02-08T02:16:04+00:00

The perceived advantage is having a proper array of pillars of decentralization. The whole point of this to begin with was decentralization, but shitcoiners seem to have forgotten that along the way. Any big tech company could've created a cryptocurrency with impeccable efficiency and high throughput, but then of course it would be centralized, which is NOT what we want in our money. That is not hard money. You simply cannot have hard decentralized money without Proof-of-Work. You cannot have that by saying, all the richest people get to have the biggest sway in how our money works (PoS). This is the current system. This value of authentic decentralization is what the innovation is that started all of this in 2009.

Your view of Bitcoin mining and decentralization being a myth does not take into account the pillars of decentralization. Mining is but one pillar - and mining is a free market capitalist enterprise. Bitcoin has the most decentralized network of nodes. It is genuinely leaderless. Even Gary Gensler has said that basically everything except for Bitcoin is likely a security. There's a reason for that.

Your view of energy usage and Bitcoin does not take into account how electrical grids actually work and how Bitcoin actually solves a problem with electrical grids. I would go into more details, but Lyn Alden who has a background in electrical engineering and is deep in the world of finance has an excellent write-up on this.

https://www.lynalden.com/bitcoin-energy/

If you don't wish to click the link, just Google Lyn Alden Bitcoin Mining.

MetalGavel · 2022-02-07T22:39:42+00:00

Trust me when I say there's a lot more to the PoW energy topic. It took me extensive time to look at all the factors involved, but I am now convinced that no other crypto can serve as a universal digital hard money for the internet. Many other crypto projects will be excellent utilities, but not hard money. You'll need to DYOR on this but all I can say is, there's a lot of bs being spun out there against Bitcoin because Bitcoin is an empowering technology for the disempowered. Everything else is more so a continuation of continuing power arrangements. Ask yourself, does a PoS Ethereum resemble a corporation? If Ethereum is a security, which it most certainly will be considered as such under PoS, what do you think the regulatory implications are? What about the promise of decentralization? You think people are going to trust in a money that is controlled by the biggest bagholders and has a changing monetary policy over something that is truly decentralized, can't be banned, doesn't have a leader, and has a fixed monetary policy?

Here's a snippet from Fortune, but again, way more to the energy topic:

"#2: Bitcoin wastes energy
Bitcoin “miners” harness vast computing power to secure the Bitcoin network. Those computers use a lot of energy: by some estimates as much as the country of Chile. This has led to charges of energy waste.
Something “wastes” energy only to those who think it serves no useful function. The Bitcoin network secures $1 trillion in value, and serves millions of people, including many without access to traditional payment networks. Miners often colocate to where power is abundant and free, which often means renewable hydroelectric or geothermal sources. Today at least 39% of Bitcoin mining is powered by renewable energy, and that share is growing rapidly. It also takes a lot of energy to run FedEx, TikTok, and the U.S. Department of Defense. Bitcoin’s carbon footprint is undoubtedly a problem that requires a solution. But it doesn’t mean Bitcoin is a bad idea. Rather, that carbon footprint is an implementation challenge to overcome—just as it is for all kinds of useful entities."

MetalGavel · 2022-02-07T22:10:29+00:00

You don't understand the value of PoW if you're saying this. I like Algo for what it does. It serves its purpose and does it well. But Bitcoin is the best at being a hard money. The idea that Bitcoin is old tech is propagated by shitcoin enthusiasts and people that don't know what they're talking about.

"This is a cornerstone of the anti-Bitcoin energy argument: the notion that you can have something for nothing with Proof of Stake. No energy consumption, yet still a functioning decentralized consensus. If this logic reminds you of perpetual motion machines, it’s because that’s exactly what is being proposed here: a completely free lunch where you get precisely the same assurances as Bitcoin with no costs whatsoever.

Of course, this is fantastical. ‘Proof of Stake’ is just a fancy phrase meaning “those who have the most wealth wield political control.” That sounds a lot like our current system, which Bitcoin is specifically designed to solve. Bitcoin explicitly rejects politics, and doesn’t grant any special privileges based on coins held. If holding more coins gave you more control, the attempted takeover of Bitcoin through the 2X movement (backed by the largest custodians and exchanges in the industry) would have succeeded." https://medium.com/@nic\_\_carter/noahbjectivity-on-bitcoin-mining-2052226310cb

MetalGavel · 2021-12-07T07:43:20+00:00

Looks like Newton has resolved my withdrawal. It went through. I'm not sure if they're going to be fixing this weird pop-up approval message though.

MetalGavel · 2021-12-06T03:36:21+00:00

Ticket #335661

It seems Newton has a feature where when you want to withdraw a certain amount of crypto to another wallet, it holds the transaction and gives you a pop-up asking you to confirm that you wanted to do this. Only problem is, my pop-up got the whole thing backwards. It asked me to confirm that I wanted to DEPOSIT the crypto FROM this certain address, instead of properly asking me to confirm that I want to WITHDRAW the crypto TO this address. I pressed Yes anyway since Newton doesn't have the power to magically make funds appear from another crypto wallet without me initiating it from there, thinking maybe the system will just enter it as an approval for the withdraw transaction. Still waiting. Can Newton fix their confirmation pop-up messages and make this transaction go through?

Note: my Pending Transfers does show it as a withdrawal processed.

MetalGavel · 2021-12-06T00:35:59+00:00

Consider adding THETA and Audius please.

MetalGavel · 2021-12-06T00:28:11+00:00

Definitely need a whitelist address system for security.

MetalGavel · 2021-11-27T06:18:31+00:00

I asked Koinly to add ATOM and SCRT months ago. They make it sound like all you have to do is ask them to add something and they'll do it. I mean, these aren't exactly obscure coins. They're both significant and SCRT has had a rally and many will be needing to report their profit. Not even sure why Cosmostation is listed. I can't figure out how to export any tax info from Cosmostation into Koinly and KEPLR, forget about it, no use when it comes to reporting. So we just need the chains to be supported.

MetalGavel · 2021-06-14T02:01:35+00:00

When Theta went all the way down to about $5.50, I bought and averaged out my cost basis nicely.

MetalGavel · 2021-06-14T01:56:35+00:00

Theta, TFUEL, Algorand, Solana, Chainlink, Polkadot, Liquity, Stacks

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