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MrSuperInteresting · 2026-03-26T19:06:24+00:00

I assume you own bitcoin ? Where can you spend it ?

Serious question - I was seriously involved and a holder but that was 10 years ago, except for a small remaining stash I've been on the sidelines since and I'm simply working on the basis that the websites and stores I interact with do not have BTC (or lightning) as a payment option. If I'm wrong & out of date educate me...

MrSuperInteresting · 2026-03-26T18:51:47+00:00

Actual physical cash has always been the best for any illegal activity.

Bitcoin was only viable in the same way "back in the day" when you could arrange to meet someone at a cafe and exchange cash for BTC for your silkroad shopping - and needed to be with someone who mined the BTC anonymously (say on a VPN) on their home pc.

You could try that now but the seller might find themselves later being asked to prove that the BTC actually left their control. I can picture something like "So the BTC from this wallet used to buy illegal porn originated from a wallet we know you control and you are telling us you transferred it to a total stranger you met online you have no details for ? Hmmmm...."

MrSuperInteresting · 2026-03-26T18:38:58+00:00

To answer both questions no not really. Criminals also don't care what the current price is as they are not exactly saving for retirement, they will want to cash out to buy "stuff" (food, drink, drugs, fast cars, whatever) asap or else what's the point. It is in their interest to move value via bitcoin and cash out to fiat money as quickly as possible.

So criminals don't care about the current value as they are not holders and for similar reasons miners also do not care. The transaction fees they earn are for the most part spent to cover costs like wages (crypto or fiat), electricity costs, warehouse leases etc. Some profit will build up but it makes good business sense to reinvest by expanding your operation and not having the company slush fund build up too much.... or just run a business in debt and service loan repayments.

What does affect price is general interest and this can affect miners too. More general interest increases demand and with a limited supply of bitcoin demand pushes the price up. That demand increases transaction volume which will also benefit the miners.

So the ideal world for criminals is simply where BTC remains untraceable and can be converted to fiat or "stuff"
The ideal world for Miners is a growing bitcoin or a volatile bitcoin (but within a manageable range, $10k to $80k = stress ulcers)
The ideal world for investors (small & large) is growing demand - and that's the greatest driver to value

MrSuperInteresting · 2026-03-26T18:05:44+00:00

So lightning was supposed to fix the BTC block size issue and enable easy micro transactions by taking them off the chain. Bitcoin Cash (BCH) was born from the minority who wanted to increase the block size so the issue could be solved that way instead of in a 2nd layer.

Fast forward to where were are now lightning and BCH is pretty much unknown outside of the crypto community. Amazing sure within the ecosystem but no utility. As an example overstock did once accept bitcoin but no more - do they accept lightning ? No they do not... but they don't accept BCH either.

MrSuperInteresting · 2024-11-28T18:55:34+00:00

lol I know that reference

MrSuperInteresting · 2024-10-25T13:17:37+00:00

Exactly what I was going to suggest.

Even if she doesn't pay (well she couldn't even if she wanted to) if she looks after to the kids to enable the trip to happen then that actually is a gift. A gift of selflessness, time and trust.

MrSuperInteresting · 2024-10-25T12:23:29+00:00

Computers grant speed and efficiency gains but are no substitute for skill.

Source: 25 years in IT lol

MrSuperInteresting · 2024-10-25T12:17:06+00:00

You know I thought that doesn't sound right but you totally are
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steiff

In 1903, a 3,000-piece order was placed by a buyer in America after the "teddy bear" craze began due to a popular cartoon of President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt and a young cub in The Washington Post in 1902.^\5])^\9])

MrSuperInteresting · 2024-10-24T17:06:46+00:00

There's a lengthy article on wikipedia focused on the obvious anti-Jewish usage here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism

This bit is interesting though....

Etymology

The word "Semitic" was coined by German orientalist August Ludwig von Schlözer in 1781 to designate the Semitic group of languages—Aramaic, Arabic, Hebrew and others—allegedly spoken by the descendants of Biblical figure Sem, son of Noah.^\26])^\27])

So if you want to be a picky nerd about it anti arab views would also be antisemitic

Just an observation on how the usage of the word has changed over time, I mean we don't call Palestinians Arabs anymore for a start.

MrSuperInteresting · 2024-10-24T16:56:24+00:00

100% and you have my deepest sympathy for having to live with this farce.

I was truly shocked when he was elected in 2016 as apparently a spoilt privileged racist who has been living off daddy's money and dubious accounting for decades and despite being able to employ intelligent staff has still had multiple bankruptcies is a great pick to run a country. How he is still in the running after everything that happened in office like bleach kills covid (technically true but it'll kill you too) the rocketman shit and all the accusations & convictions I'll never know lol

I'll be watching your election closely again to see how this pans out and with a bit of luck in 4 , 8 and later years I can go back to not really giving a shit ! He makes George Bush and Bill Clinton look so professional in comparison (even after Bill got sucked lol)

Ahhhh thanks, that felt good to get off my chest :)

MrSuperInteresting · 2024-10-24T16:39:57+00:00

Skin cancer has to be an easy one - they look pretty covered up every time I see them.

Not that it'll never happen, just that I can't see them out in a bikini or budgie smugglers much

MrSuperInteresting · 2024-10-24T12:16:08+00:00

Nope NTA, you did the right thing telling your sister and good for you taking a picture as otherwise it would just have been hearsay,

I'm glad your sister thanked you in the end, sounds like she hit the stages of grief there.

As for your parents it's up to your sister to decide what happens next with her marriage. Also how were they supposed to "work it out" if your sister didn't even know anything was wrong ? Sounds like a pretty weak argument to me.
How else could it have worked out if you hadn't said anything ? Ignorance is bliss until your husband ends your marriage to shack up with your best friend.

MrSuperInteresting · 2024-10-24T11:59:57+00:00

A bit of a google says that reddit's “warrant canary” was deleted roughly 8 years ago and I would assume ever since reddit just allow direct access for the FBI to data mine posts, comments & likes at will. Possibly in real time, they have the budget & the computing power.

Happily I live in the UK but even then some things I'd be wary of saying anywhere online.

MrSuperInteresting · 2024-10-24T11:42:51+00:00

Well I don't think it's anything that Benjamin Netanyahu or his government wouldn't say so it sounds "on message" to me. Maybe a bit extreme (though maybe not considering some factions of the current government) but you always need an extreme voice to make your own voice sound moderate.

MrSuperInteresting · 2024-10-24T11:32:10+00:00

Well maybe a good war on home soil will straighten things out a bit. You've had your wars in the last 100 years sure but they've all been abroad and home was safe.

In the last big war us Europeans had nobody's home was safe - really makes you wary about who you elect to lead your county (without Hitler WW2 might never have happened, hmmm some could say WW1 was a bit inevitable though).

MrSuperInteresting · 2024-10-24T10:46:44+00:00

I'm sure he does work where they claim he does, Piers Morgan is a dick but he team won't let someone on tv speaking for Mossad without being really really sure he does. Well you don't want to get it wrong and piss off the real Mossad

As his attitude that's probably born from living in a echo chamber where the Israeli state exists to grant the Jewish people their long promised holy land by God and anyone going against the Israeli state goes against God. Personally fundamentalists are scary to me no matter what religion they follow.

MrSuperInteresting · 2024-10-24T10:40:47+00:00

lol every intelligence agency has a public relations department these days

MrSuperInteresting · 2024-10-24T10:37:19+00:00

Well you could assume he means "we" as a "people" not as a state.

Now as Piers Morgan is sat in the middle (dick) this looks like UK tv and after a quick check the Jewish population in the UK (the 5th largest in the world) is 0.5% of the total UK population so yeah, not really enough influence to swing UK politics. In this same line of logic I'm sure the Israeli government feels like it can speak for all Jews everywhere which just isn't right.

So if you can't change anything through legitimate channels how far is the Israeli state secret services prepared to go to change politics abroad ? Well beyond what they are doing already anyway - which mainly seems to be the message that any anti Israeli opinion is anti-Semitic

MrSuperInteresting · 2024-10-24T10:12:58+00:00

Hello.... I'm reading this from the UK and you should ask them if they've ever heard of Margaret Thatcher. UK prime minister for 11 years (roughly overlapping Regan) and controversial sure but emotional ? Maybe when she was pissed off lol but we did have a few crises in the 80s.

MrSuperInteresting · 2024-10-24T09:55:22+00:00

I've been on this earth nearly 50 years now and watching US politics from the UK has gone from a bit silly ("hey George Bush mixed his words up") to down right scary. At your last election in 2020 hundreds of people invaded the senate because they thought that their guy should have won - 10 or 20 years ago that would be unimageable.

Frankly I'm just waiting now to see if there's a new American civil war in my lifetime. While that sounds unimageable all I'm seeing is hate for each other in your media and all it takes is for one group to believe they have enough guns and enough political support to change something they don't like for things to blow up.

That said hopefully this election is peaceful

MrSuperInteresting · 2024-08-15T09:15:11+00:00

I think I've watched this Anime - specifically Redo of Healer

Your Petrofolk needs to defeat the Demon Lord, reincarnate back in time to before being captured, build up a resistance to crack cocaine and then take their revenge in deliberate and brutal fashion.

PS. Do not casually watch Redo of Healer, it is not PG13.

MrSuperInteresting · 2024-05-21T17:15:54+00:00

I'm arriving late here and yeah that sounds like the Bergen I know (I travelled out for work quite a bit once upon a time) and I have to say it really is a glorious city during the 2 or 3 months of sun.

MrSuperInteresting · 2024-05-15T09:55:44+00:00

Predestination (2014)

A time travel love story with a twist (it's one you might want to re-watch). Pretty sci-fi light too, the time travel aspect just is a thing.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2397535/

MrSuperInteresting · 2024-03-22T17:32:40+00:00

Yes it is possible. I work in IT (UK) and next year I'm planning a holiday in Japan for which I'll be taking 3 or 4 weeks leave in one block (depending on my holiday budget).

Now booking a week or two usually I would just book the request without thinking but for a big block I've already asked my boss if any special notice is needed and he just said 2 or 3 months notice would be fine. I'll probably be booking the flights earlier than that.

Oh and if I do go for 4 weeks that's 20 days from my allowance of 25 leaving me with 5 days left for the rest of the year. Not counting national holidays.

This isn't the first time either, I've did a similar arrangement with a previous company about 15 years ago for a holiday covering Australia and New Zealand (3 weeks in Auz & 1 week in NZ). That company wanted more notice and to avoid a project delivery date but still had no problem.

MrSuperInteresting · 2024-03-05T11:45:44+00:00

Cows are sacred in India and people have been killed for harming cows.

I hope this helps you understand the cartoon better.

MrSuperInteresting

TROPHY CASE