All posts made by Equus in Bitcointalk.org's Wall Observer thread
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Post 3300485 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.16h):
As I said, That's almost a full time obsession and your family feels totally annihilated so I kind of returned to normal family father and don't really have that edge any more.
If I've said it once I've said it a thousand times:
Don't annihilate your family for the sake of bitcoins.
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Post 3617206 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.24h):
I think the total bid depth on Gox is more surprising than the price. Why is so much money flowing into Gox? Not only are coin prices significantly higher on Gox, but it's practically impossible to get money back out. I really don't get it.
People are in a panic to buy coins, and Mt Gox is easy to find. Selling or even moving the coins is a problem for another day's panic.
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Post 3664194 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.27h):
* wakes up *
Ho hum. Back to nice steady sustainable growth I see.
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Post 3668145 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.27h):
Mortgage the house and buy some back. Or get a second loan and buy some back. You will eventually be able to pay of the second loan and still have some coins in case (which there is a decent chance) we get to $100,000 and beyond.
Only on bitcointalk can you find this sort of advice. My goodness.
Debt is so deeply rooted in US folks mentality that it hurts. I really have a simpathy for Bitchick, I'm a long-term bull myself, but came on... To advise someone to get in debt (even worse, to mortgage his house) to buy a high-risk experimental currency is so fucked up it blows my mind. We where speaking about "opportunities you cannot afford to lose"... Well, being in debt or losing your house to gamble is something NOBODY should afford to do.
And that type of mentality leads me to think that eventually BTC will implode sooner than later, people tends to auto-destruction and greed is one of the main mind-fuckers.
Mortgage debt might as well be free right now, and having your entire net worth in a house is even stupider than having your entire net worth in bitcoins.
Bitchick is right.
If he owns nothing but a house he should take out a small enough mortgage that his salary could cover it if need be. The money should be invested in a diversified portfolio that should include some bitcoins. His net worth doesn't change, and he isn't relying on his local real estate market to maintain it.
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Post 3678947 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.27h):
Wait, to the moon only means 1200?
I am so disappointed.
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Post 3737144 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.29h):
Sure, I watched MtGox CAD hit $1000 yesterday, but this is way more fun.
Yehaw!
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Post 3737291 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.29h):
C'mon Bitstamp. Join the party.
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Post 3758755 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.30h):
I told my wife about the party, but she seemed a little too interested in a room full of rich single men.
We won't be attending.
edit: I also figure that if you have to choose between attending a party on the other side of the world and continuing to get rich off bitcoin, you weren't in early enough to deserve to attend.
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Post 3822872 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.31h):
Enough with this mili, pico, nano denomination story please!
The more you talk about it the more people will consider shorting.
I am also getting kind of tired of this debate. Who cares how somebody advertises the price of a cup of coffee as long as it's clear? If I see a car for sale for 25.5K, or if my rent is thirteen hundred dollars, I don't wonder for even a second what that means. Let the users of bitcoin settle on terminology themselves.
I will just add that I think of my investments roughly in increments of $1000, so it is nice to see exchanges denominated in bitcoins rather than mB. I don't think that the default bitcoin unit needs to be on the same order of magnitude as $1. That seems arbitrary to me.
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Post 3845846 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.32h):
Has anyone gone back and read the OP for the hell of ot? I did. It's kind of funny
Do not post random comments on this thread, unless it is directly related to the last wall update
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just don't be posting about your "FEELINGS" and you won't get delete.
You have all been warned. Keep it on topic, guys and gals.
Also: TO THE MOON!!!!!!!! (Next Tuesday, back to low orbit next Wednesday.)
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Post 3846013 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.32h):
Actually, I was wondering about a thread called Economics/Speculation/b.
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Post 3860418 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.33h):
This was funny the first time I saw it, and for the last couple of days it has been mildly annoying.
Now, I cling to it. Every time I consider selling, I check the price on Bitcoinity, and I am reassured.
Douglas Adams was onto something. I am now going to cultivate an NMP field around bitcoin until Monday. Goodnight.
edit: Oops. I meant SEP field.
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Post 3860486 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.33h):
I have a new homepage, thanks.
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Post 3873469 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.34h):
This thread can't go fifteen minutes without a post or bitcoin will fail.
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Post 3873586 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.34h):
This thread can't go fifteen minutes without a post or bitcoin will fail.
Don't sweat it. Once an hour from ChartBuddy is good enough for life support.
This thread can't go fifteen minutes without a post or I will have to get some work done.
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Post 4272390 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.49h):
Orders are sorted by price and then if the price is the same then they are sorted by time and the oldest orders at any particular price are filled first.
I didn't know that. Thanks.
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Post 5058125 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.06h):
Can somebody explain this bears and bulls talk? I´m here for a few months now but never understood what it meant.
Here is a handy glossary:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=126798.0
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Post 5063618 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.06h):
anybody else is unable to withdraw BTC from btc-e?
Is this real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide, No escape from reality.
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see........GOX turned everyone over
I'm just a poor boy ... again now that Gox has my coins.
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Post 5063822 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.06h):
anybody else is unable to withdraw BTC from btc-e?
Is this real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide, No escape from reality.
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see........GOX turned everyone over
I'm just a poor boy ... again now that Gox has my coins.
Easy come, easy go
Bought high, sodl low
Anyway the wall falls, doesn't really matter to me.
Bitcoiners need no sympathy.
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Post 5239816 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.13h):
In other meta news: with the change to the newbie policy, we've seen a great increase in genuinely trollish/FUD threads and a decrease in high-quality posts. I hope that the forum administrators will revisit their policies, perhaps even disallowing members below a certain activity level from starting threads.
+1 Newbie purgatory wasn't much fun, but it didn't last long and it didn't stop me from lurking the rest of the forum. This forum was a better read when there were fewer disposable accounts.
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Post 5246713 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.13h):
So how long has CaVirtex been offering LTC?
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Post 5756827 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.27h):
Phew, my 0.00340434 BTC are still there.
Phew, I still remember my Mt Gox password.
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Post 6045105 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.32h):
I'll play the ignorant n00b card again... could you please explain what trading on a margin means?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=126798.0also:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=177133.0
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Post 6283452 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.39h):
As a "holder" I still totally care about the day to day price!
why?
So we can decide when to buy more!
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Post 6644986 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.43h):
alright, it's official. dogecoin can go to the moon, litecoin too, but bitcoin is going to the sun!
I am strapping on new wax wings as we speak. Unfortunately they keep melting every time bitcoin flies too high.
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Post 6645107 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.44h):
alright, it's official. dogecoin can go to the moon, litecoin too, but bitcoin is going to the sun!
I am strapping on new wax wings as we speak. Unfortunately they keep melting every time bitcoin flies too high.
just because the wax melts, do you throw away the design of the wing?
If it is good enough for Icarus it's good enough for me. It is way more fun to shoot at the sun with fresh wax wings every six months than it would be to slowly climb the long term trend.
Not sure that flying too close to the sun is the best metaphor to sell an emerging technology though.
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Post 6979642 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.47h):
Mini cup and handle
I was curious when somebody would say this because I have been thinking it.
Do teacups like this count?
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Post 7326502 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.53h):
I got a weird PM asking me why are all of my posts really short... Am I doing something wrong?
You are concise because you think before you type.
That saves me from editing your post for you in my head. Thanks.
tl-dr: tl == dr
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Post 8851943 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.13h):
6 weeks ago? Wow. I am blonde I guess.
I think it's spelled "blind."
Actually, it has been fun to watch several of my favourite posters become heros this summer. I think you all joined during the fun last spring and are finally coming of age. The class of 2013.
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Post 9107069 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.21h):
just a beartrap, i'm super cerial
The whales are going to eat you for breakfast.
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Post 9154769 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.22h):
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anyone reading this, there is nothing more important than your family, try balancing your life, because looking at that screen or discussing Bitcoin all day long is simply not going to change the output of things, at the end if the price will go up, it will, and if it will go down, it will... and you have nothing to do about that (except if you hold 100K BTC or 100 million dollars).
Yes.
Your team will win or lose whether or not you watch the game. Bitcoin will go up or down whether or not you are watching it.
You Canadians, get out there and spend some Thanksgiving with your families this weekend.
Get your act together, Adam. We will be here when you get back. Plus, we'll all be rich.
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Post 9332152 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.26h):
Fear not, friends. I just gave up waiting and spent some bitcoin at Newegg.
We will go to the moon now.
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Post 9669286 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.35h):
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--snip--
Sorry about the wall of text.
TL; DR = WTF?
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Also,
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Post 10283370 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.54h):
is this not the mother of all bull flags?
That's the smallest flagpole I've ever seen! Amazing!
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Post 10428705 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.57h):
on-topic
I can't believe that I missed you and I am glad you are back.
You are the Coke Classic of btctrolls.
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Post 12872250 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.31h):
Here is that nice steady 1% per hour growth that I remember so fondly.
Steady as she goes, boys.
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Post 12898903 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.32h):
I remember this from a couple of years ago.
Two days of excitement and suddenly I am bored by 5% daily growth.
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Post 14031169 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.46h):
. . .
even if some engine can convert heat into electricity maybe by peltier, i dont think its economically feasible to do .
Nitinol springs that operate with heat difference, would probably be veeeery economically feasible.
It doesn't matter what technology you use. Unless your miner operates at 500 C, the amount of electricity you can generate is very small.
Even boiling coolant water could at best give you 25% energy recovery, even with a perfect system.
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Post 14619554 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.49h):
You Canadians even got a president? A crew boss? Some sort of a druid lumber king?
What are you guys supposed to be, anyhow, some sort of a British protectorate?
Because I notice whenever you Canadians talk politics, it's always about US.
Our PM looks like Prince Charming and just explained quantum computing like a 5-year-old.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZBLSjF56S8
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Post 14619876 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.49h):
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You can use SEPA, OKpay, etc. The exchange is just starting, but it has lots of potential. At least, it is impossible to take down.
ELI5 who I wire actual irl money to, and why it won't get stolen immediately.
1) The bitcoins are programmed to be released only when two of three people agree that the money has been received.
2) When the money gets to your bank account you and the buyer release your coins.
3) If you lie about it, the buyer and a random aribitrator release your coins.
Not sure that I would trust it... but seems legit.
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Post 14620302 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.49h):
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You can use SEPA, OKpay, etc. The exchange is just starting, but it has lots of potential. At least, it is impossible to take down.
ELI5 who I wire actual irl money to, and why it won't get stolen immediately.
1) The bitcoins are programmed to be released only when two of three people agree that the money has been received.
2) When the money gets to your bank account you and the buyer release your coins.
3) If you lie about it, the buyer and a random aribitrator release your coins.
Not sure that I would trust it... but seems legit.
Did this with a SEPA transfer on bitquick once. The guy sent me 180 euro. I saw the transfer go through to my account. I released the bitcoins.
2 days later my bank calls me and says the person's account that sent me the money was hacked and that they needed to refund the 180 euro. Nothing I could do at that point.
Reading through their whitepaper this morning I see things like "transaction limit of 1 bitcoin" listed as security features, so I am pretty skeptical. Still, chargebacks are possible with e-Bay and yet things work. Perhaps a reputation system will make it all work in the end, or maybe a bunch of people will be scammed for a ton of money. How exciting to find out!
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Post 14622500 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.49h):
Chart porn..
Even though i just drew some lines on a chart
I just can't stop staring at this one.
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Post 14674222 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.49h):
How do you guys store your coins in cold storage btw?
Wallet import format transcribed in pencil from Vanitygen, in a safety deposit box.
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Post 17399010 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.01h):
Handle Handle Handle
I can barely hodl it
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Post 18039261 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.04h):
To be fair, llamas and Brazilian academics see the charts upside down because they are in the southern hemisphere.
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Post 18140609 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.05h):
Remember when Silk Road was busted, and nobody thought that bitcoin had legitimate value?
Today feels a little like that day.
I think this is going to be a good month.
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Post 26272271 (copy this link) (by Equus) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.32h):
My favorite thing about bitcoin is how quickly $16,000 feels cheap.
My least favorite thing is when it won't even hit my highest buy orders.
