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It's Christmas season! Just a couple things we have to bring out that spirit. :D:D

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I have a flu of some sort. 103 fever, body aches, nasty chills, dry cough and sore throat... puked Sunday afternoon. Fever comes down with ibuprofen so I've been doing that every 8 hours.

Think I picked up something on the airplane Thursday.

This sucks I want to get outside and play in the woods. I've been getting sick a lot lately.
 
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Anyone else seeing all the drones out in Morris county on a nightly basis the past 2 weeks?

www.nbcnews.com

FBI investigates mysterious drones filling night sky in New Jersey that have 'unnerved' residents

“There is no advisable immediate danger to the public at this time,” Morris County Sheriff James Gannon said.
www.nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com


I've heard about them and the past couple nights my Ring Neighborhood alerts have been going off about drone sightings nearby. Saw a few myself on Sunday night, but didn't notice any last night despite a bunch of reports of them being in the area. Just odd that there's so many of them every single night and still no explanation. Initial reports were that they were flying around Picatinny Arsenal and that a Blackhawk helicopter was dispatched to look into it.
 
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I have a flu of some sort. 103 fever, body aches, nasty chills, dry cough and sore throat... puked Sunday afternoon. Fever comes down with ibuprofen so I've been doing that every 8 hours.

Think I picked up something on the airplane Thursday.

This sucks I want to get outside and play in the woods. I've been getting sick a lot lately.
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Is it that whooping flu or whatever its called? Heard its a bad one
 
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TheBeerNerd said:
It's been over a decade since the dawn of Bitcoin and I'm still at a loss over whether it has an actual use.
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Presumably there is some way to convert it to actual cash. I'm not sure what the transaction fee would be but if you can turn $1 million of bitcoin into $999k in cash that's all you need to make it real. At one point you could buy a Tesla or a pizza directly with bitcoins but I haven't followed it.
 
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NjDevsRR said:
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I have 10,000 Dogecoin

I hope it can hit $10 in the next decade. Bought it for like, $500 four years ago.


$500 to $100,000 would be something

That’s my entire crypto experience
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I seem to remember the entire point of cryptocurrency when it came out was for it to be its own form of digital currency, separate from the dollar. It seemed to attract those kinds of weirdos that get angry about the concept of fiat currency. Some places took it like those sketchy Dark Web sites where you could buy illegal stuff. But now it's just another way to make money- or, for most people, a way to get screwed out of money. It didn't have much charm in the first place, but it lost what little it had when it attracted the con artists.

By the way, the supposed inventor of Bitcoin has a name that translates from Japanese as roughly "Central Intelligence." Do with that info what you will.
 
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TheBeerNerd said:
I seem to remember the entire point of cryptocurrency when it came out was for it to be its own form of digital currency, separate from the dollar. It seemed to attract those kinds of weirdos that get angry about the concept of fiat currency. Some places took it like those sketchy Dark Web sites where you could buy illegal stuff. But now it's just another way to make money- or, for most people, a way to get screwed out of money. It didn't have much charm in the first place, but it lost what little it had when it attracted the con artists.

By the way, the supposed inventor of Bitcoin has a name that translates from Japanese as roughly "Central Intelligence." Do with that info what you will.
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I have no idea haha, all I know is my 10,000 doge that I bought for $500 is now worth around $4000. So im doing good!
 
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TheBeerNerd said:
I seem to remember the entire point of cryptocurrency when it came out was for it to be its own form of digital currency, separate from the dollar. It seemed to attract those kinds of weirdos that get angry about the concept of fiat currency. Some places took it like those sketchy Dark Web sites where you could buy illegal stuff. But now it's just another way to make money- or, for most people, a way to get screwed out of money. It didn't have much charm in the first place, but it lost what little it had when it attracted the con artists.

By the way, the supposed inventor of Bitcoin has a name that translates from Japanese as roughly "Central Intelligence." Do with that info what you will.
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My friend was trying to get me into it years before the boom. I didn't do it because 1) I didn't believe in it and 2) I didn't want my money going into "Taken" situations
 
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f***ing crypto, man.

Back when Bitcoin was first created, the vision was really neat. Decentralized internet money, verifiable by a publicly available ledger, real cyberpunk type shit. Awesome. I'm a nerd. I'm in.

Set up an old computer to mine some back then. Left it on for 24 hours. Mined 2/3 of a bitcoin. That was like 30 cents of actual money back then, so I was like forget this, I want to play video games on this computer instead. Now that'd be worth at least $66,000. I've gotta get a little bit more forensic on that old computer, see if anything is salvageable. Who knows.

Then, you could use crypto to buy drugs online. Probably still can, but I'm out of that game. One package of (admittedly pretty good) acid sent by UPS stuffed inside a teddy bear was enough for me.

Now crypto is just some financial system that would be illegal if geriatric lawmakers weren't so baffled by concepts like "a computer". You turn actual money into it or sell it to someone else for actual money. If you're smart you make up your own cryptocoin, shill it to rubes on Twitter, and then pull the rug out beneath them, a la that little bl**j** bumpkin. Nobody with any sort of power cares, apparently.

At least stock shares imply I own an (incredibly small) amount of a company, and that the value is determined by the company's value (In theory; in practice, line goes up, line goes down, all due to memes and butterfly wings flapping on the other side of the ocean).

What I'm saying is that at some point in history, some real asshole learned you could turn sand into something called silicon, yada yada yada, now I work in cybersecurity and I hate it here.
 
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The stupidest thing about crypto is all the criminals who use it for illegal shit thinking it makes them untraceable. While apparently not realizing that the blockchain ledger makes evidence gathering trivially easy for law enforcement. All they have to do is tie you to the wallet that was used to do crimes. Unless you’re in a nonextraditable location, you’re screwed.

If you told me that bitcoin was really a long-running FBI sting to catch stupid criminals, I’d believe you.
 
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I bought some Stellar Lumens (XLM) for like $200 back in June when they were around 9 cents a pop. the last few weeks they skyrocketed up to 50 cents, so I cashed out with a nice little ~$800 profit to do something nice for myself before the holidays.

More than covers for the ~$250 I've lost from Draft Kings over the past few years. I'm happy with my tiny little victory and probably won't be engaging with this stuff ever again.
 
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AfroThunder396 said:
I bought some Stellar Lumens (XLM) for like $200 back in June when they were around 9 cents a pop. the last few weeks they skyrocketed up to 50 cents, so I cashed out with a nice little ~$800 profit to do something nice for myself before the holidays.

More than covers for the ~$250 I've lost from Draft Kings over the past few years. I'm happy with my tiny little victory and probably won't be engaging with this stuff ever again.
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I think the question for most folks is how do you cash out? That's the key part of it as I see it.
 
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My3Sons said:
I think the question for most folks is how do you cash out? That's the key part of it as I see it.
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At least for sports betting, I see it as an automatic loss for entertainment. I don't expect to get money back. If I do, great, btu I see it as a one time purchase for fun. No different than if I were to go to the movies or buy a video game.

It certainly makes for a different viewing experience when you have specific props on the line. I don't really care about Cleveland, but if them covering is in my parlay then I'm suddenly invested and watching a team I would never otherwise care about.

With stocks, I talked to some friends who are a bit more serious about this stuff and the one thing they kept bringing up is that there's no such thing as a perfect trade. Don't get greedy and hold out for the perfect deal, a gain is a gain. If you're refusing to sell at +200% because you're convinced it will go up to 250%, you're asking for trouble. This isn't a contest, take the money. A bird in the hand, etc. All gains are good gains, whether big or small.

I just looked at my balance and thought "could I use $800 right now?" and then pulled the trigger. If someone out there makes more money, good for them, it's not a competition and I'm happy with what I got.

At least with silly fun normie trading. Obviously this is not financial advice, and if you're making serious long-term investments then you should do your research and have a plan. But for me, I see anything I get back as house money and I don't put anything in unless I'm comfortable losing it.

Now obviously if XLM goes thermonuclear like Bitcoin and I miss out on millions then I'll be pissed. But I can't imagine that's something that will happen in the current market. It took like 15 years of building infrastructure for Bitcoin to be viable, I don't think anything else will come close to it. At least not in the near term.
 
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AfroThunder396 said:
At least for sports betting, I see it as an automatic loss for entertainment. I don't expect to get money back. If I do, great, btu I see it as a one time purchase for fun. No different than if I were to go to the movies or buy a video game.

It certainly makes for a different viewing experience when you have specific props on the line. I don't really care about Cleveland, but if them covering is in my parlay then I'm suddenly invested and watching a team I would never otherwise care about.

With stocks, I talked to some friends who are a bit more serious about this stuff and the one thing they kept bringing up is that there's no such thing as a perfect trade. Don't get greedy and hold out for the perfect deal, a gain is a gain. If you're refusing to sell at +200% because you're convinced it will go up to 250%, you're asking for trouble. This isn't a contest, take the money. A bird in the hand, etc. All gains are good gains, whether big or small.

I just looked at my balance and thought "could I use $800 right now?" and then pulled the trigger. If someone out there makes more money, good for them, it's not a competition and I'm happy with what I got.

At least with silly fun normie trading. Obviously this is not financial advice, and if you're making serious long-term investments then you should do your research and have a plan. But for me, I see anything I get back as house money and I don't put anything in unless I'm comfortable losing it.

Now obviously if XLM goes thermonuclear like Bitcoin and I miss out on millions then I'll be pissed. But I can't imagine that's something that will happen in the current market. It took like 15 years of building infrastructure for Bitcoin to be viable, I don't think anything else will come close to it. At least not in the near term.
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Stocks are simple though. You establish an account with any reputable brokerage. You buy your stocks and wait 50 years. Then you tell them you want to sell and they sell your stocks and take a couple of percentage points for their efforts and then the rest is sitting in an account you can do what you want with. They will write you a check or wire it to your bank account. I still have no idea how you convert bitcoin or similar cryptocurrency to money in an account you can freely access.
 
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My3Sons said:
Stocks are simple though. You establish an account with any reputable brokerage. You buy your stocks and wait 50 years. Then you tell them you want to sell and they sell your stocks and take a couple of percentage points for their efforts and then the rest is sitting in an account you can do what you want with. They will write you a check or wire it to your bank account. I still have no idea how you convert bitcoin or similar cryptocurrency to money in an account you can freely access.
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Wait 50 years :laugh:

I laugh cause it's true.

This upcoming year I turn 55...seems like I've been waiting for this year since I was 22 years old.
 
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