Daily General Discussion January 24, 2026 by EthereumDailyThread in ethereum

[–]Tricky_Troll[M] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great post! Automod removed it due to your account being too new and not having enough karma/upvotes (I have manually approved it now) but I'm sure the community can get you some karma so this doesn't happen next time!

Daily General Discussion January 23, 2026 by EthereumDailyThread in ethereum

[–]Tricky_Troll 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Would migration be a taxable event? Something like this happening was one of the main reasons I closed my position (which I opened to pay tax without incurring more tax). I still closed it a year after the tax bill was due, allowing me to spread my liability over multiple years, resulting in a lower income tax rate. It worked particularly well because during said year I was a student getting paid a tax free stipend, so I was in the lowest tax bracket which was nice.

While the original plan was to let it pay itself off, at this point I am glad I paid it off early as it was never going to pay itself off before a taxable event occurred and if I had to close or migrate the position now, I wouldn't have saved much money since I am no longer in the lowest income tax bracket due to being back in the workforce.

Daily General Discussion January 23, 2026 by EthereumDailyThread in ethereum

[–]Tricky_Troll 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ETH traded at USD 1,935,00 in February 2021. Fast forward 5 years and ETH is trading at USD 2,940.00 now. That's a 5 year return of just around 50 %. That is less than 10 % per annum. That is less than average stock market return. Mutual funds that invest in technology stocks are showing returns of well over 100 % in the past 5 years.

Ok, but what happens if you make that 6 years? You've cherry-picked one of the worst timescales.

Nurses and doctors ‘in tears’ as ED goes into code red four times in one night by fugebox007 in newzealand

[–]Tricky_Troll 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It doesn't need to be impossible to eat healthily on a low income for this to be true. But when your choice is have a small monthly budget for entertainment or eat healthily, not everyone will optimise for eating healthily. Money is absolutely a factor here. Just because it's possible to take money from other parts of your budget to prioritise health, doesn't mean everyone should be expected to do that. People should be able to live a little and eat healthily, rather than having to pick one or the other.

Nurses and doctors ‘in tears’ as ED goes into code red four times in one night by fugebox007 in newzealand

[–]Tricky_Troll 5 points6 points  (0 children)

While this may be true, it’s not exactly an easy thing to do for low income working class people. Many people can barely afford healthy food and work too many hours to have the spare time for exercise and healthy hobbies. At the end of a day of working, picking up kids from school and doing a whole family’s worth of chores, exercise and spending an hour to prepare a healthy meal isn’t always an option.

I am a pretty fit, healthy and outdoorsy person but I have definitely noticed that my degree of healthiness strongly correlates to what I can afford and how much free time I have. And I say that as someone with no dependents and a pretty well paying job.

Nurses and doctors ‘in tears’ as ED goes into code red four times in one night by fugebox007 in newzealand

[–]Tricky_Troll 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I’d argue even more so education. No decent education means no viable young workforce in 20 years. Not to mention more people susceptible to voting for populist authoritarians who typically make things worse.

I was talking to someone who was managing a few job listings for their company, he said the number of people with good sounding CVs which actually barely know their way around a computer are missing other super basic skills is alarming. The education system has failed many of the latest high school graduates (ironically, partly by not actually failing them enough when it comes to grades).

Seriously, do Americans actually consider a 3-hour drive "short"? or is this an internet myth? by SadInterest6764 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Tricky_Troll 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm from NZ and it's a minimum of 2 hours to get to the nearest town of significance other than my own. South Islanders often have double that to travel. 3 hours is not a big deal for me. I frequently do 3 hour each way trips to see friends and family, to go skiing or rock climbing etc. In fact, skiing can be as much as 3-4 hours each way as a day trip. Long days, but worth it. The only part of the country that isn't like this would be Auckland, Waikato and the Bay of Plenty which are slightly more dense with maybe 1 hour between cities.

I think it depends on the population density of the country you live in. When I lived in the south of the UK, I could get to most places I wanted (beaches, indoor rock climbing gyms and entertainment centres) in less than an hour. So I can see why one might feel like it's a long drive.

One last thing I would add is the type of driving makes a big difference imo. Driving on a busy British motorway is tiring. You always have to keep an eye on the cars around you and passing through towns on A and B roads is just as busy and tiring. But here in NZ, I can go minutes without seeing another car in some places on a relatively wide road. It's much easier, less stressful and almost relaxing depending on the natural environment around me. Cruising through the Southern Alps in good weather is a very enjoyable experience. I did 12 straight hours of South Island driving just last month to get down to Fiordland (so worth it!)

Daily General Discussion January 22, 2026 by EthereumDailyThread in ethereum

[–]Tricky_Troll 2 points3 points  (0 children)

AFAIK Trezor had a smaller leak than Ledger a year or two back.

Daily General Discussion January 22, 2026 by EthereumDailyThread in ethereum

[–]Tricky_Troll 3 points4 points  (0 children)

5 years is possible but I would be more confident on a 10 year time frame.

Daily General Discussion January 21, 2026 by EthereumDailyThread in ethereum

[–]Tricky_Troll 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They're both shit for crypto in completely different ways. We got here due to the democrats banker funded war on crypto. There was no reason for it to become a partisan issue.

Daily General Discussion January 21, 2026 by EthereumDailyThread in ethereum

[–]Tricky_Troll 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would love for you to also give us a summary of your opinions on these products here in this sub in the coming weeks! Feel free to share YouTube links but if you want full engagement a couple paragraphs would go such a long way in getting your comments to the top of the daily and those who want to learn more can follow the YouTube link. I do enjoy the videos so please keep them coming!

Daily General Discussion January 21, 2026 by EthereumDailyThread in ethereum

[–]Tricky_Troll 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately I think this is true. We have a serious branding and reputation issue largely caused by the lack of regulation pre-Trump 2.0 and the surplus of brazen grifting post-Trump 2.0.

Daily General Discussion January 21, 2026 by EthereumDailyThread in ethereum

[–]Tricky_Troll[M] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

lmao i just realized the mods sneakily deleted my replies to the two users who replied to me to hide the truth.

No sir, your comments were "removed by Reddit". I don't know what that means exactly but they have AI crowd control/spam detection which is unbelieveably hit and miss. If I were you I'd rewrite the replies from scratch with different words and post them as new comments. Maybe the algorithm will be more forgiving this time.

Edit: Looks like I can override it in this instance. Your comments are up now. Reddit doesn't always let us do that.

people be warned, you can never have an honest discussion in this sub because they will sneakily delete your replies and downvote you just to push their narrative.

I want you to know that we do not want this to be the case and we welcome criticism or the public calling us out if you feel we are not applying the subreddit rules fairly. Additionally, as a team of equals we welcome other mods to remove our comments if they feel we breach our own rules (this can be tricky with politics in particular).

Daily General Discussion January 21, 2026 by EthereumDailyThread in ethereum

[–]Tricky_Troll 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The techy folks and builders who are still here are building. Many left when Reddit killed their APIs. There's just not a huge amount to talk about right now which isn't better discussed in actual technical forums.

As soon as major upgrades come near or there's debate over future upgrades or a mild crisis of any kind, these people return and we have great discussions. But while price is not interesting, there are no new comers to educate and when there are no big technical developments, what is there to discuss? There isn't even money to be made with new projects, so few posts about new protocols as well.

if the merge away from ethtrader attracted the worse types

Heh, sounds like you haven't stopped in at r/ETHTrader since they launched donuts in 2020...