'Landmine' vis a vis Goldmine

[gooner]

Looking back 18250 days past 50 years albeit a long time vis a vis evolution a individual human’s existence
In a time when in mostly our weekly wage came in cash in a brown paper envelope.. Cash was king and necessary for your weekly shop and a weekend treat to the flicks.
A home-made ledger for totting up your income and spending being a must then and likely Blue Peter having likely covered it (1st broadcast in 1958)
Or early adopters were paid monthly into your bank account. Then joining the long Friday lunch-time queue at your local bank to get your hands ur cash!
With Credit cards just only starting to appear and debit cards
Foreign holidays were almost unimaginable.' oh,The circle of time
Stopping of at the the local ‘rub a dub’ for a pint of beer @ two shillings
Heading back home for some black & white TV on a screen no bigger than a laptop magic roundabout for the kids with
Coronation Street top of the bill for adults
With very little daytime telly the transistor radio filled rooms with pop music from a pirate radio station (Radio Caroline launched 1964).
Families had no internet to search for information, no mobile phones, no online banking or ATMs
In the Sixties, the humble fridge, then an appliance intended to replace the larder.
For your rainy day savings 50 years ago, you chose between the Post Office Savings Bank (now National Savings) or one of the many high street building societies.
Before plastic became king, you used cash to pay for groceries, keeping your cheque book for more expensive buys.
2021 and life appears equally as bizarre as with 1966 and now in 2021. And while Central Banks speculate the endgame, and fiat currencies forecasted to disappear by 2040 making Digital Currencies King . Methinks an overly exaggerated vision minus 10 years+.
Along with Banking Institutions & Governments scrambling to regain control over our existence and potential prosperity Bitcoin is the 'spoke' in the wheel

As of now scientists having shown and have figured out a way to encode music from the popular Super Mario Brothers game into 12 synthetics strands of DNA and play it back on the computer and Lost in Space seems like a children show albeit cutting edge TV then.
(American science fiction television series, created and produced by Irwin Allen, which originally aired between 1965 and 1968)

At some point in the future when your grand kids visit you, you can either tell them
1 You missed the boat on cryptocurrencies.
2 You were an early adopter and made money out of trading cryptos!
But, before you choose option 2 and join the crypto world, you need to join https://www.cryptocompare.com/

Satoshi Nakamoto
Never forget the true meaning of Bitcoin:
Ending the control of Banks and Governments over your Money

There are risks associated with investing in cryptocurrencies. Investing in cryptocurrencies involves risk

[gooner]

Small steps and a ‘snapshot to boot’ 44 days £70 outlay minus a fee 0 .90 on 10 1.40 on 20 roughly speaking and the graph showing satoshi to pound at a given time.. As with many post-given-dated appliances, as with say' the humble alarm clock or the Piggy bank “which in theory did get fatter when the grand –parents visited”. Clearly the profits shown are modest if not minuscule in their very nature and noting that when I stepped up and wedged a oner (100) back in 2018 now worth 750. It’s there I own it albeit as Bryan’s bitcoin bytes stated CoinBase are my custodians. As financial providers get up to speed with a 21st century realities and my Satoshi -digital piggy bank gets fatter. Big institutions will want your bits of bits (satoshi) and moving forward your piggy bank will become accessible in spending power as demanded and a alternative to CBDC

[gooner]

‘You owe your soul to the company store’ or own nothing! With products becoming services and possibly a monetary system when each piece of money comes with a expiration day A system fueled by big business governments Banks institutions controlled by AI IOT digitisation a prerequisite to such a system. Governments creating money on spec (21st century helicopter money).
The onslaught of hyperinflation being a threat so by adding a ‘sell by date’ goes a long way for them 21st century reset is underway albeit in its infancy and utopia is just that as with you still got to pay ‘the piper’
What if money expired when we go off to meet the maker and the family can inherit all possessions but only a portion of your money or none Redistributing the world’s wealth 2000 plus billionaires might show some resistance to the concept how much of enough is enough
All Hail Nakamoto Satoshi

At some point in the future when your grand kids visit you, you can either tell them
1 You missed the boat on cryptocurrencies.
2 You were an early adopter and made money out of trading cryptos!
But, before you choose option 2 and join the crypto world, you need to join https://www.cryptocompare.com/

Satoshi Nakamoto
Never forget the true meaning of Bitcoin:
Ending the control of Banks and Governments over your Money

There are risks associated with investing in cryptocurrencies. Investing in cryptocurrencies involves risk

[gooner]

Elon Musk cattle prods BTC post the announcement you could buy yourself a sleek Tesla motor car with bitcoin.but not as of now The way this is playing out and all but a stain on Tesla’s reputation. And yes stating the environmental theme, a 'prick' of conscience. Best not throw stones from your glass tower by over simplifying a bigger issue.
According to the University of Cambridge's bitcoin electricity consumption index, bitcoin miners are expected to consume roughly 130 Terawatt-hours of energy (TWh), which is roughly 0.6% of global electricity consumption.21 (Mar 2021 google)
Then roughly 20 percent of electricity s wasted in commercial and residential buildings, as well as 20 percent being wasted in industry or manufacturing.
Plus

//www.electricchoice.com/blog/7-biggest-electricity-wasters/
What’s the best way to sell the latest, cutting edge high definition LCD and LED TV’s at a department store? Apparently, you just have to put all of them out on the shelves surrounding the entire electronics department, turn them on and leave them on all day (or if you’re wal-mart, leave them on 24/7). For sure the revenue from selling TV’s this way will offset the absurdly wasteful consumption of all that electricity, or do they even think about it?
Doing the math ? Picking on Wal-Mart as an example. The average TV costs about 2.5 cents per hour to operate. Your typical wally world will have anywhere from 60-100 TV’s (or more) on display, flickering fervently for all to see. Let’s assume on average, there are about 75 display TV’s turned on throughout the day. Going by average electricity prices, that equates to about $45 per store, per day in electricity waste.
Doesn’t sound like that much, but let’s go ahead and scale it out for the whole year, multiply by Wal-Mart’s 8,970 stores, and carry the one…. That’s $147,332,250 worth of completely wasted electricity each year – and that’s just one company (although presumably the largest). Best Buy, Sears and the other big guys are just as guilty, albeit to hopefully lesser extents.
And the Number One Biggest Electricity Waster is…….
…Your Toilet
Wait a minute – this article is about wasting electricity, right? Right. Don’t worry, you’re not crazy, and yes we’re talking about electricity waste, not water waste. Still, your commode is an equally guilty culprit in the matter. Why? Because there’s a new way to convert human waste into electricity, and everyone just keeps flushing the potentially power-perpetuating poo right down the toilet! So basically ‘number 2’ takes the number one spot on our list, as pretty much everyone on the entire planet is completely wasting all that electricity on a daily basis.
The new technology, leveraged by some healthy investments from Bill Gates (the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to be exact), works by using microwaves to transform human solid wastes into a gas which can then be piped to a fuel stack for electricity generation. If successful on the large scale, this breakthrough would not only create a viable renewable energy source but also bring desperately-needed sanitation to developing countries where 2.6 million people literally have no place to “go”.
Extracts from http://www.electricchoice.com/blog/7-bi ... y-wasters/

[gooner]

Bitcoin mining is incredibly energy intensive—so much so, per headlines, that the computer network for the cryptocurrency uses as much electricity as Denmark. But to put it in perspective, one needs to compare bitcoin mining to the cost of creating its physical rival—coins. And what better comparison than with the least-efficient coin, the $ penny, which costs roughly 1.5 cents each to make

more reading bitcoin-comes-out-environmentally-friendlier

[gooner]

Looking back to April when BTC reached a high in excess of 45k falling then roughly by 20k as of now £25125.
October2020 we were looking at a Bitcoin being 8.2k then the following 6 months an increase to a all time high. In the past four weeks fluctuating within a couple of thou
As pushing and shoving continues about energy consumption and noting Bitcoin mining is a competitive business the industry pushes towards a greener option Environmental self governance (ESG) this along with Exchange Traded funds issues of money laundering, power consumption. Resulting none other than an interesting point of discussion
Regardless the Oner invested back in April 2018 roughly halving from the £700 high to approximately £400. Recent satoshi buys (as posted) all in the red! My thoughts are to invest another £100 while BTC price is relatively stable and believe that BTC will return to 45k by the year’s end (not intended as advice) or possibly more moving forward.
While the missus gives me it in the neck over my gambling habit
Minefield or goldmine a 21st century wild west
More reading bitcoins-trillion-dollar-issue

[gooner]

Moving forward from the chaotic to more a sublime year in all things crypto. Acceptance ' satoshi piggy bank notion' and not to keep banging on that 200 squids invested in satoshi back in 2018 is worth more than double At some point I'll want to spend my satoshi stash with spending power BTC, in its infancy (as shown in the graph) the next phase has begun moving forward. I use coinbase but crypto.com is another good starting

[gooner]

Times are changing big time as the world and all it contains stumbles blindly into the 21st century. As a Orwellian vision of society evolves, drip-drip drip, moving forward to a new reality. The likes of Boris Johnson, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Trump et alia shaping the future along with billionaire money moguls mega-corporations such as Amazon, Samsung, Tesla, Microsoft , Apple, Coca Cola, Mc Donald’s.... compound wealth. Where does this leave the general factotum? Us! At some point in the future ordering a Pizza and Cola 4 delivery might have implications and fallouts
“Hello quick food would you like to place an order”
“hello yes I’ll have a pizza, cheese on heavy with processed meat and relish pickle and cheese”.
“OK sir can I have your central bank code” .......”
I have to notify you sir that this order could invalidate your health and medical insurance”
“Oh!”
“May I suggest a a wheat free pizza base with chopped tomato, Greek olives pimento and feta, and a bottle of water. Alternately would you consider a salad with vinegar dressing and bottle of water, keeping you within Global order digital health guidelines obligations.” (GOD) ‘I jest you not’!
...if you’re adverse to change for sure change it will!

[gooner]

Bryan's Bitcoin Bytes...

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[quote="gooner"]Moving forward from the chaotic to more a sublime year in all things crypto. Acceptance ' satoshi piggy bank notion' and not to keep banging on that 200 squids invested in satoshi back in 2018 is worth more than double At some point I'll want to spend my satoshi stash with spending power BTC, in its infancy (as shown in the graph) the next phase has begun moving forward. I use coinbase but crypto.com is another good starting
[/quote] The graph defo shows (if u believe in stats)2022/2023 going to be a good year for bitcoin. doge is one to watch [attachment=0]line.png[/attachment]