billymg[asciilifeform]: $ticker btc usd
busybot: Current BTC price in USD: $16939.94
signpost[asciilifeform]: billymg: I recently told my buddy that works at an exchange that they've been running discounts for long enough
billymg[asciilifeform]: not sure where others have their lines drawn but the same line i originally drew back in ~june is at $16960 now
bitbot[asciilifeform]: Logged on 2022-11-10 11:20:49 billymg: according to my chart lines it needs to go above $18.6k and stay there to be out of the woods
billymg[asciilifeform]: amazing how much the chart respects this line, it could've been drawn back at the beginning of march
billymg[asciilifeform]: which i guess could be seen as bad, if it means those that 'paint the chart' are still in full control
signpost[asciilifeform]: curious where we'd be if the demand on FTX had flowed into actual BTC
signpost[asciilifeform]: not solely FTX but especially them
signpost[asciilifeform] has no price prediction, just an intent to hold across many more halvings
signpost[asciilifeform]: ate at around $16.5k most recently
billymg[asciilifeform]: nice
signpost[asciilifeform]: even that was just a dumb "eh buy under my cost basis" thing
billymg[asciilifeform] remembers his stacking days "i bought the dip!" "oh look, another dip!"
billymg[asciilifeform]: now just in 'never sell' mode (only spending small quantities)
signpost[asciilifeform]: for sure; write-only btc til 2028
signpost[asciilifeform]: or *write-mostly
signpost[asciilifeform]: how's CR atm?
billymg[asciilifeform]: all good over here, just doing some diy projects around the farm, which seem to be endless
billymg[asciilifeform]: but it's also nice to be doing work away from the computer
billymg[asciilifeform]: http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2022-12-06#1017670 << err, 'paint the tape*', obviously
bitbot[asciilifeform]: Logged on 2022-12-06 13:38:03 billymg: which i guess could be seen as bad, if it means those that 'paint the chart' are still in full control
signpost[asciilifeform] back after a bike ride.
billymg[asciilifeform]: bet it's perfect crisp weather for that right now in austin, enjoy
phf[asciilifeform]: oh man i'm rereading 2016 -2017 logs, and they are just beautiful. such information, such infrastructure. the good old days.
asciilifeform: phf: link to nostalgi-favourites ?
phf[asciilifeform]: asciilifeform, i was looking "sexp from:phf" search results, and just picked up random day http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-07#1579309. it's got everything!
phf[asciilifeform]: … quotes from vera inber and nekrasov, banking world discussions, technical conversations, newbs, ratings, building projects, quotes from things
phf[asciilifeform]: like some kind of futuristic "cantina" scene. "so i told her, pay up, or i'll gut ya" "ibners, fresh raw ibners, 20 shatoshis" "and the WIFE was actually THE UNCLE *hearty laughter*" "check my new nakomo cyberdeck, man, it's flowing"
phf[asciilifeform]: asciilifeform, which reminded me, you ever made an archive of http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/?
phf[asciilifeform]: this thread from the end of the page is neat, http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-07#1579465
phf[asciilifeform]: i guess because mp was one of the frequent log re-readers, the idea of "archive a link at the time it's posted" in retrospect makes a lot of sense. alas
signpost[asciilifeform]: http://logs.bitdash.io/trilema/2016-12-07#1579629 << christ these rants were comedic gold, too.
bitbot[asciilifeform]: (trilema) 2016-12-07 mircea_popescu: he's solved the problems other people might have, on the basis of what he imagines a biologist might do, which is so pointedly not what any biologist ever does you can scarcely begin to wonder what fucking highschool the author frequented, because his mental furniture seems to have dive
signpost[asciilifeform]: "... diverged from the common trunk somewhere around the age of NEGATIVE THIRTEEN,"
signpost[asciilifeform]: there was an entirely other world in there. glad it happened, though next time 1kyr reich.
signpost[asciilifeform]: http://logs.bitdash.io/trilema/2016-12-08#1579935 << kinda looks like who is greater-ccp at this point.
bitbot[asciilifeform]: (trilema) 2016-12-08 mircea_popescu: the WHO is the major consideration ; the what is relatively equivalent.
signpost[asciilifeform]: but who knows how ww3 shakes out.
signpost[asciilifeform]: africans finally left to their time. can't imagine there are enough nukes aimed there to make a permanent dent.
phf[asciilifeform]: i've woken up at 5am to go freeze my ass off in a deer stand, i can't comprehend this kind of heady threads at this point. will read tomorrow
asciilifeform: http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2022-12-06#1017693 << al.tar.gz + iirc archive.org/is have ~all the moar recent material
bitbot[asciilifeform]: Logged on 2022-12-06 20:15:11 phf[awt]: asciilifeform, which reminded me, you ever made an archive of http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/?
asciilifeform: sadly his usenet posts (mostly) lost with google's dynamiting of dejanews archive
asciilifeform still has buncha unsorted on own box, sitting for 20+y...
asciilifeform: http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2022-12-06#1017694 << can't speak for otherfolx, but when rereading these asciilifeform barfs evenmoar nao, than today, at mp's 'aristocratic' narcissism
bitbot[asciilifeform]: Logged on 2022-12-06 20:18:28 phf[awt]: this thread from the end of the page is neat, http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-07#1579465
asciilifeform: *evenmoar today than then
asciilifeform: grr
asciilifeform: i.e. the condescending 'listen, lowly npcs, to what the player character has to say' tone. at the time, desensed to allergen, nao -- often drowns whatever interesting points, when rereading