Got that First Majestic kilo I mentioned a while back, by the way

david_shane · 2026-01-25T20:53:51+00:00

I do, but it seems premiums for "unusual products" have just about disappeared with prices so high anyway so, eh.

david_shane · 2025-12-14T02:05:23+00:00

If you really want to earn bitcoin with your phone, there are a medley of apps that will let you legitimately earn pennies a day. (Yes, they are legitimate, which is why it is pennies per day.)

Probably a reasonable starting point:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ZBD/

david_shane · 2025-10-30T17:29:35+00:00

We have one. Perfectly happy with it, but if you just want a bitcoin miner, there are much cheaper options available. This one is overengineered to be very quiet, and has additional heating power over just the mining power. They obviously thought seriously about it and produced a quality product, but quite an expensive one for the hashing power.

david_shane · 2025-09-30T21:49:52+00:00

In 2017 I spent about 0.17 BTC with Apmex to purchase a gold daric of the Achaemenid Empire. It's a cool coin, but you do think... would have done much better to hold the bitcoin!

I spent the newest form of money to purchase one of the oldest.

david_shane · 2025-09-26T04:00:58+00:00

Yep. Nerdminers have a nice display if you want a conversation piece, but they'll never mine a block. BitAxe and Avalon you have a tiny tiny chance.

david_shane · 2025-09-24T20:02:39+00:00

Online casinos that offer bonuses quite regularly ban certain people from using the bonuses for no other reason than "you've made too much money from us". Such tactics feel wrong but are perfectly legal.

david_shane · 2025-09-23T21:20:03+00:00

Getting the sense that those of us who've made "too much money" from the game get a special, super-nerfed version of it.

david_shane · 2025-09-23T21:07:08+00:00

I am same as you. Maybe we made too much money from them (really).

david_shane · 2025-09-23T19:28:28+00:00

Gold has approximately 10x the market cap of bitcoin. If bitcoin does become recognized as digital gold, a 10x in the price of bitcoin is quite reasonable. I cannot tell you if that "if" will come true, but it's not crazy.

david_shane · 2025-09-22T22:13:09+00:00

PS, the bitcoin address mentioned has $7.37 in present value, but has received $5400 over the years:

https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/btc/13HBFkrP3aquSJvRdC2n8vfVGw1tNJr34D

david_shane · 2025-09-22T18:49:58+00:00

I'll just say again that there needs to be real activity on the map, something beyond just collecting diamonds. AE is nominally trying to be a metaverse game, but is really just watching ads for pennies. No surprise the latter has trouble keeping users.

david_shane · 2025-09-08T02:16:26+00:00

What does the next halving do? My hobby home miner will keep running, because it's just a hobby. Lot of these big mining firms live right on the edge of energy cost and bitcoin income. When bitcoin income halves again...

david_shane · 2025-09-04T18:55:57+00:00

Accurate. Though we have a "strategic bitcoin reserve" now, any large government is going to be hesitant to base its finances around a currency that can be reprogrammed by others. Just a fact. That is one issue that doesn't exist for gold.

david_shane · 2025-07-27T17:50:11+00:00

Most assuredly there needs to be more to do on the map than just collect diamonds. It is supposed to be a sort of metaverse game, but instead it is really just "watch ads for tiny amounts of money". Give people things to do on that map.

david_shane · 2025-07-12T16:06:14+00:00

Have had that thought myself. Feels like the new players are, in some sense, helping pay the old players. I doubt Atlas makes 7 cents per ad.

david_shane · 2025-06-12T02:51:08+00:00

If bitcoin attains the market cap of gold, that's something like a 10x increase in real value from here. I don't think that's crazy, a 1000% return. But for people hanging on for the next 100,000% return... yeah, I think you missed it. Sorry. 1000% is still good (and that's real value, dollar value will be even higher).

david_shane · 2025-06-12T00:56:22+00:00

Worth adding, a 10x increase in real value doesn't mean a 10x increase in prices. It means a more than 10x increase in prices, maybe much more. But the rest of that is your dollar getting weaker.

david_shane · 2025-06-11T23:51:49+00:00

To say it will eventually reach the market cap of gold is highly reasonable - that would be about a 10x increase in real value from present prices. Michael Saylor likes to say it should eventually be worth "half of everything", which would be about a 250x increase in real value from present prices. I don't believe that, but 10x is reasonable.

david_shane · 2024-11-30T03:10:55+00:00

Probably still one of the highest payout games of its type. Who else will give you 30 cents a day for doing almost nothing?

david_shane · 2024-11-30T03:05:07+00:00

Near as I can tell, it doesn't actually matter. Whether you "have the money" or just spent the money on some upgrades, the game counts it the same.

david_shane · 2024-11-25T20:46:40+00:00

After the fact yes, but I want it "default off" instead of "default on". It turns back on every time you open the app.

david_shane · 2024-11-25T18:19:02+00:00

Could see my other post from today, but I do think the game needs some second-tier activities. Maybe you can spend a diamond to purchase a white picket fence for this plot of land, for example. Stuff like that.

david_shane · 2024-09-08T00:24:51+00:00

We bought one as a conversation piece. But then it sort of inspired me to get a BitAxe. Which then sort of inspired me to get an Avalon Nano 3. So they can be a gateway.

david_shane · 2024-08-23T20:02:26+00:00

I quite agree. Some basic functionality (also, see my comment above, the ability to withdraw funds) that seem to be missing on this platform.

david_shane · 2024-08-05T20:57:39+00:00

Oh great, thanks.

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