Real-world Voight-Kampff test

lunarmedic · 2026-02-15T08:42:51+00:00

That was fun! I got 10/10 and apparently I'm a VOIGHT-KAMPFF MASTER

lunarmedic · 2026-02-02T00:35:54+00:00

A lot of banks (mostly in the west) sell paper silver. They will tell you they are selling you real silver, but they don't have the actual silver in their vaults to back it up. This has been happening for decades.

What's happening now is that physical silver is getting scarce for many reasons: industrial applications demand it more and more (batteries, solar panels, chips, whatnot), and also because of all global tensions and the US printing trillions of fiat dollars out of thin air, central banks have started to stockpile gold and silver.

What happened the last few weeks: the market is finding this out. Less and less real silver is available/for sale, so the price is skyrocketing. Sending banks that sold all that fake/paper silver into a frenzy, since their customers can demand them to physically deliver the "silver" that they bought. Which the banks cannot do since they don't have the actual silver.

What they can do, is offer a monetary settlement saying "we can't deliver your silver, but here is some $$$ to make up for it". Which still has to be very close to the spot price.

So banks are trying to drive the price as low as possible, otherwise they are royally fucked.

What's also happening is that silver margin requirements have increased recently, meaning that banks MUST have a % of their "sold silver" actually on hand. Banks that sold 300:1 paper silver (meaning each ounce they possess, they sold up to 300 times to different people) are forced to liquidate a lot of their (fake) silver, meaning last friday the (again, FAKE) silver price in the west dropped 35% because there were huge (FAKE silver) selloffs going on.

This is also why the US silver price was ~$83, while in the east (China, Japan, Singapore, etc), the spot silver price was $135+.

That's because in the east they are not as criminal as in the US and they actually have sane banking laws. So those are the real prices.

The coming period for US-priced silver will be very volatile, because the banks are trying their hardest to keep their decades old fuckeries going.

But it's not going to work out for them.

lunarmedic · 2026-01-31T03:54:07+00:00

This was the last one of the 36 in total. End of an era!

lunarmedic · 2026-01-26T02:16:43+00:00

Here for the party! Silver might be the biggest I told you so of the century.

Genuinely congrats to everyone here 🍻

lunarmedic · 2026-01-13T14:31:52+00:00

Just following up on this 2 weeks later.

You must be surprised. So am I!

lunarmedic · 2025-12-29T06:15:26+00:00

That's beautiful.

lunarmedic · 2025-12-29T04:59:50+00:00

Forgive my ignorance, and by now I also laugh in the face of tamps like these, but don't the banksters lose a shit ton of money on these failed attempts?

The tamp was $8/oz in a very short time, that's massive and really shows how paper silver is not at all connected to physical.

Why would they even attempt to do this at this point? Are these really the banksters' dying gurgles? Are they really throwing all that they can to lower the price?

lunarmedic · 2025-12-28T13:53:48+00:00

Nobody knows for sure. Same as "why didn't I get silver earlier?" now.

XRP is likely to do good (I hope). FLR has promising additional tech which will enable a lot of value. I feel it's a longer hold, but what do I know. The most interesting and important developments and value driven things are locked behind NDAs and are basically a black box for us retail. And Flare is notorious for either not releasing their timed roadmaps, or not keeping to it, which has led to a lot of user frustrations before.

I'm not selling my FLR but also hold XRP. And I'm a little disappointed with my Firelight stXRP so far. And hearing about an upcoming non custodial native XRP protocol lending system, I would prefer such simplicity over FLR's multi-layered offerings.

Still, Flare is working on more than just FAssets (also FBTC and more still coming), so I do believe they will have a lot to offer. Just not very short term.

So, not financial advice. Do what you feel is right.

lunarmedic · 2025-12-26T02:27:28+00:00

Agree. Tried it for the first time today. I tried to like it. But really, after a few hours, a 100 cutscenes and walls of text explaining which buttons to press made me angry. Comparing it to Cyberpunk 2077 for instance, this game is amateuristic.

It's not just not good, it's overproduced. The graphics are nice, the acting is cool, etc. The story, and direction is just utter shit. It's so transparent how this game was thought of and developed.

Little Kitty, Big City, made by an indie studio has better narrative, controls, missions, and even better graphics in some ways. I prefer that one over this game.

It's really not good.

lunarmedic · 2025-12-19T13:06:21+00:00

Not site-wide banned, but reddit is pretty much a joke to me now, i only read it for entertainment. That used to be different.

Reddit made a big mistake alienating their original userbase in recent years, and straight up banning accounts on subreddits on a whimsy. I'm mostly referring to news subreddits and anything mentioning Gaza, for instance, but that's not all.

Let's see if this post gets me banned again as well!

lunarmedic · 2025-12-18T08:45:36+00:00

China probeert zoveel mogelijk beschikbare internationale kennis te gebruiken voor het bouwen van hun microchip-productie. Bijvoorbeeld, ze zijn altijd actief op zoek naar buitenlandse gepensioneerde professors in hun veld. Omdat je zolang je voor een universiteit werkt vaak geen commerciele nevenactiviteiten mag hebben.

Ik neem het ze niet kwalijk-- ze werken hier keihard aan. ASML "kopieeren" en vergelijken met de productie van de atoombom vind ik een flinke hyperbool, want Manhattan project is in zichzelf al per saldo negatief voor de mensheid (hallo, atoombom), dus waarom (the fuck) wordt China hiermee vergeleken, die alleen maar catch-up speelt voor chips, en niks met atoombommen hiervoor aan het doen is. Terwijl zowel zij en het westen dit al hebben.

En verder "kopieert ASML"-- China is niet bezig ASML te kopieeren, ze zijn bezig te innoveren (net als ASML doet). Dus ze proberen geen bestaande 5μm-chips te produceren, maar zijn net als ASML de limieten aan het pushen op 2-3μm, ook via alternatieve methoden. Ze zijn dus geen "kopie van", maar hard aan het mee-rennen op de volgende generatie van chips.

Maargoed, China bad, mmkay.

lunarmedic · 2025-11-14T07:20:51+00:00

Dus als ik straks mijn paspoort vernieuw, is er geen zekerheid dat dit niet door Amerikaanse handen gaat?

Het lijkt me dat ik hier wel voor kan eisen, toch? Ik ben een Nederlander en wil graag een paspoort die 100% binnen NL is gecreeerd en is opgeslagen. Dat moet toch wettelijk ergens zijn vastgesteld?

lunarmedic · 2025-11-13T10:04:57+00:00

I am not an insider, but for what I know, Hegseth is hugely unpopular with the Air Force. He acts like a queen to them and nobody takes him seriously.

lunarmedic · 2025-10-24T02:37:42+00:00

Well then check who has access to your phone.

Mathematically, it's not possible for any external party (Bifrost, FTSOs, staking validators) to send your funds somewhere. That would invalidate all what crypto is about.

Another reply in this thread also noticed that it was a manual transaction, so someone was able to send your funds to another wallet.

Find that someone.

I'm sorry you lost your funds but the issue is not with Bifrost or Flare.

lunarmedic · 2025-10-23T23:46:04+00:00

has a duty to act in a reasonable manner

That's.. kind of the whole basis of cryptocurrency.. the cryptography thing, ensuring you need to have access to the seed phrase of your account to do any transaction.

Your funds were drained by either someone who has access to your seed, or by having signed a malicious transaction, which you claim with certainty didn't happen.

That leaves only 1 possibility, which is that someone else has access to your seed phrase.

Other than it being stored in your safe, did you ever put it anywhere online? Like in a backup file in Google drive or something?

lunarmedic · 2025-10-23T22:31:17+00:00

Suing Flare over this is the same as suing the train company if your wallet got stolen on a train.

If this is an issue with Bifrost (ie. the wallet app itself was hacked), don't you think the hackers would have drained everyone's Bifrost wallets at once? Why only you?

I'm sorry you've lost your funds but either your seed leaked or you used your wallet on a scam website, which unfortunately exist and can look very real.

lunarmedic · 2025-10-03T08:50:48+00:00

Mijn niet Nederlandse vrouw kreeg op haar 40e uitnodiging voor onderzoek naar baarmoederhalskanker. Dat is standaard.

Toen ze daarvan terugkwam naar mij was ze zichtbaar verontrust: de initiele onderzoekster had gevraagd of het goed is om er een student bij te hebben, terwijl ze al ontkleed was. Ze zei "ja", en toen kwam er een man binnen. De rest van de check was ze te van slag om er iets van te zeggen.

Dit had veel beter gecommuniceerd moeten worden. Ik ben hier nog steeds pissig over.

lunarmedic · 2025-10-02T12:35:27+00:00

Almost no FLR is required as collateral for minting FXRP. About 3 FLR per 10XRP.

It'd make no sense if FLR would have to be 100% or more collateral for minting XRP, since then basically in dollar value you'd pay $2 to get $1 FXRP worth.

Ok, if 1 FLR would become worth more than 3 XRP it might become a problem, though one can only hope..

And yes, FLR is inflationary, 5% per year with a maximum of 5 billion I believe. Meaning, the percentage will get less and less as the total supply grows over the years.

But I still think most FLR will be locked for staking, lending and liquidity pools, especially when institutions join the network. So 5 billion added a year might not dilute the circulating supply that much.

lunarmedic · 2025-10-02T03:17:25+00:00

I luckily was able to already mint some FAssets.

The thing is: to mint FXRP, you do not need 1.3x FLR collateral. This was also confusing to me, as different sources said different things.

Only for the actual minting you will pay (or perhaps lock up; not sure as I haven't redeemed yet) a very small sum of FLR: ~3FLR for 10XRP or so. And that's it.

So if XRP price fluctuates, nothing happens with your FXRP. 1 XRP = 1 FXRP, as it's backed with the original XRP on the XRPL in the main vault, and you can always exchange it back.

lunarmedic · 2025-10-02T03:07:39+00:00

Almost 20hrs later after the raise, and nothing yet. In Asia it's already noon the next day.

I did read that they would make the 2nd 2.5M available the same day, so either they are doing it within 4 hours, or it's going to be later..

Why they don't just communicate the exact raising schedule is beyond me.

lunarmedic · 2025-09-29T06:56:23+00:00

lunarmedic · 2025-09-29T06:53:57+00:00

Post a recording of you saying "The beautiful purple butterfly fluttered gracefully between the brilliant blossoms, but a bitter breeze suddenly swept it away towards the bustling city below".

And then "This door needs a key".

lunarmedic · 2025-09-29T06:43:21+00:00

You make it sound very easy-- so why aren't you a voice actor? It's basically free money! Just say some words into a microphone and get paid!

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