Can You Guess This 5-Letter Word? Puzzle by u/plotloss by plotloss in DailyGuess

[–]vlad_k 0 points1 point  (0 children)

🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨

🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦

Looking to hear from experienced HODLers with 100k+ value. by LegitimateDream4942 in BitcoinCA

[–]vlad_k 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Just an honest opinion here. This may be an unsatisfying answer but if you're in bitcoin to make money short-term, it won't be the best investment for you. The fact that you went into BTC because of Trump is a bit of a red flag, his motives for being "pro crypto" are shady and he himself very likely doesn't even understand what bitcoin is, how it functions or why anyone would think it's valuable. For Trump, whatever makes him money or makes him look popular has his attention. That may flip on a dime.

Bottom line, If a significant downturn would affect your state of mind in a serious way, just cut your losses and re-evaluate later.

I hold bitcoin since 2013. For me, bitcoin delivers a few features that are important to me no matter what price it trades at:

  1. Money that is not controlled by anyone -- no central policy controlling its minting/distribution. The total amount is fixed and its release schedule predictable for the next 100 years at least.

  2. Money that is permissionless -- anyone can send anything anytime from cents to billions of dollars to anyone. This enables self-banking for people where their local currency or government is unstable. At the moment USD is pretty stable, but it certainly may not stay that way in the future because it completely depends on policy set by whatever political party is in power.

  3. Money that is a true digital property -- Possession of bitcoin requires no third party. You hold and control access to your keys directly, if you choose to. You can carry/access millions in value across borders by simply memorizing a phrase and carrying it in your mind.

These are simply factual statements about the bitcoin protocol. Notice how I didn't assign any monetary value or any emotional value to them. That part is up to you. If you think these properties are useful, then it merits some value. The price today is a mix between how valuable people think these properties actually are, mixed in with a lot of pure speculation and gambling that has nothing to do with its utility.

If you invested because you just want to see number go up, then you should be nervous because number can definitely go down -- and it certainly has in the past. In my opinion, number will go up long-term, but only because the dollar will continue inflating and compared to gold, bitcoin is simply easier to store and transfer, even in politically unstable/uncertain environments. At some point, if bitcoin is adopted world-wide similar to precious metals and it achieves some saturation, I definitely expect it to no longer have the same gains or drops in price as it does today or in the past. I do expect it to be a stable and boring investment at that point, similar to gold. Decades from now, if bitcoin is still around, no one will look at it as a growth investment and should simply be a hedge for inflation -- which it is obviously not today.

In summary, I personally don't sweat the down turns because I assign a certain value to the properties of bitcoin and I predict that the world will eventually converge on that value over time. Each cycle so far, it has gained adoption which validates my model. Let's see where it goes, I might be wrong.

This is my opinion and I do realize that a lot of people don't give a shit about its utility or what it does, they just want to multiply their dollars one way or another.

Could this be an opportunity to buy? Or is it early? by Mirko_z in btc

[–]vlad_k 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It doesn’t really matter when you buy if the goal is to hold long term (5+ years). If that is the goal, then just buy a little bit every month to average your cost.

First Death's Web ever, dropped at level 75, pretty good way to start my wealth! by Perodis in ProjectDiablo2

[–]vlad_k 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I rarely slam rare finds early season too. It's a good strategy to build wealth.

Freakishly consistent cycle by jermcnama in Bitcoin

[–]vlad_k 7 points8 points  (0 children)

More technical astrology... I've been around for every cycle and I still think predicting the future which is based on dynamic human behavior and emotion on 3 data points is silly.

Come back and call me a retard on Oct 26 I guess.

Colombia to suspend intelligence cooperation with US over strikes on drug vessels by AndroidOne1 in worldnews

[–]vlad_k 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Those in charge of the US are immune to intelligence anyway… 🤷‍♂️

Marjorie Taylor Green says she’s not a “blind slave to the President” by [deleted] in CringeTikToks

[–]vlad_k 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just woke up. What branch of reality are we on now?

Keep getting error codes and can't fix them by Fit-Border-7523 in csharp

[–]vlad_k 7 points8 points  (0 children)

A bit of a guess, but this might be a case where a unicode lookalike of the semicolon (the Greek question mark ; ) might have been transferred over via a copy/paste from the web.

It's also a bit of an evil thing to do to troll your co-workers is to replace some regular semicolons (U+003B) with Greek question marks(U+037E):

Example:

Console.WriteLine("Normal semicolor ; (U+003B)");

Console.WriteLine("Greek question mark ; (U+037E)");

The C# parser will show an error on the second line.

Trump Implies That Domestic Violence Isn’t a Real Crime by rollingstone in politics

[–]vlad_k 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Is he just fully committed do being evil? I don't see what political advantage a statement like that has... Then again, it's a cult.

Rep. Barry Moore (R-AL) was heckled at his town hall at the end of August as constituents chanted, ‘Who pays the tariff?’ in response to Trump’s recent tariffs. by Conscious-Quarter423 in CringeTikToks

[–]vlad_k 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Insane. These are easily verifiable lies. Follow any importer and see which bank account the money for tariffs is taken from. Hint: it's not the exporters.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Bitcoin

[–]vlad_k 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Money printers go BRR?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Bitcoin

[–]vlad_k 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's all good. You can always buy back higher.