(12-29-2015 08:59 AM)BBinger Wrote:(12-27-2015 08:25 PM)JayJuanGee Wrote: At this point, it is becoming less clear about whether to treat you seriously or to treat you as a troll.
I believe that I made it sufficiently clear regarding my understanding 3rd party risk with spreading my bitcoins through the already listed entities, but you continue in an apparently repetitive patronizing and lecturing tone.
Regarding your choice of the term gambling, that term is fairly laden with baggage and imprecision.
In that regard, you should hopefully acknowledge that there is a difference between gambling and various other kinds of informed risk-taking.. Accordingly, your choice of the expression " 'double' gambling" seems imprecise at best or a purposeful attempt to interject judgmental patronizing in a worse interpretation.
He's not trolling. He likely just perceives the informed risk you are taking as being several orders of magnitude greater than you do. For the record I lean towards his interpretation of the risk.
It's like the two of you are at a bar and he's really concerned about the thing on the lip of that girl you're planning to stick it in.

(12-29-2015 12:03 PM)JayJuanGee Wrote: If we are adults, we should be able to freely make informed choices, even when others do not agree.
(12-30-2015 05:29 PM)SunW Wrote: I think we need to start a RooshVCoin. Let's download the source code, start one, and have an official currency of Neomasculinity/RP.
See, Roosh agrees.
(12-30-2015 05:29 PM)SunW Wrote:(12-29-2015 12:03 PM)JayJuanGee Wrote: If we are adults, we should be able to freely make informed choices, even when others do not agree.
Exactly; we're not butt-hurt Yale graduates who get our feelings hurt when someone disagrees. Bitcoin is in for an interesting year!
(12-28-2015 10:28 PM)JayJuanGee Wrote: As SunW mentioned, I think that you are employing a similar method as I had been employing, since the beginning of my BTC investment. Surely, it sounds as if you have a lot of decent ideas already, and as you may have read earlier, I have never really gotten into private storage avenues, but it is not necessarily a bad idea and can be good in various ways to really store your coins privately and securely. One of the problems with long term solutions like those, though is that you do have to be responsible for remembering your access 5 or 10 years down the road, which could be a problem if you do not take some safeguarding methods.
Regarding low fees, circle is a pretty decent mechanism, but sometimes you may find other avenues with lower fees, for example sending funds to some exchange, and then once you buy the bitcoins, you can transfer them to where ever you like.
I think bitcoin is in a much better position as compared with when I got started, but when I got started, I first allocated $30 k for over 6 months, and then I reconsidered my investment at the end of that period, and allocated more at the end, and I kept investing for the past 2 years with reconsideration every few months about how to proceed.
Accordingly, you may want to consider for a bit further out. Of course, $5 per day can work, but you may want to consider some other lump sum methods.
So for example if you dedicated $150 for the month, then you may want to time it a bit better. Maybe divide the month into three? if you are at first not sure about the price movement, then you invest $50 and wait... then if the price drops you invest the other $50 and if it goes up you wait... and maybe it will come back down and you invest the last portion of the $50.
You could do both. Have one part of the money that you invest no matter what... $5 every other day, and then the other half of the investment fund, you attempt to be strategic about it and to invest on dips (dividing it how you like). Your budget is what it is, and if you feel comfortable with $150 a month, there are still a variety of ways to be strategic about it while you are building up your bitcoin holdings.
I personally, recall that I wanted to purposefully frontload my BTC investment, so I dedicated about 1/4 of my total 6month investment allocation towards the 1st month, and after that I spread the remaining over the remaining 5 months. Here it sounds as if you are working with a smaller amount than I was.. maybe $900 to $1000 over 6 months... that is not a lot, but it is something... and maybe you could consider $250 over each of the first two months and then spread the remaining $500 out over the remaining 4 months.....
Don't take anything that I say as investment advice, just a bit of brainstorming in order that you may want to think about other possible ways of dividing up your investment and maybe getting a bit more stake in the game... but ultimately it is up to you and your budget and your financial situation and overall comfort level.
(12-31-2015 09:24 PM)Isaac Jordan Wrote:(12-28-2015 10:28 PM)JayJuanGee Wrote: As SunW mentioned, I think that you are employing a similar method as I had been employing, since the beginning of my BTC investment. Surely, it sounds as if you have a lot of decent ideas already, and as you may have read earlier, I have never really gotten into private storage avenues, but it is not necessarily a bad idea and can be good in various ways to really store your coins privately and securely. One of the problems with long term solutions like those, though is that you do have to be responsible for remembering your access 5 or 10 years down the road, which could be a problem if you do not take some safeguarding methods.
Regarding low fees, circle is a pretty decent mechanism, but sometimes you may find other avenues with lower fees, for example sending funds to some exchange, and then once you buy the bitcoins, you can transfer them to where ever you like.
I think bitcoin is in a much better position as compared with when I got started, but when I got started, I first allocated $30 k for over 6 months, and then I reconsidered my investment at the end of that period, and allocated more at the end, and I kept investing for the past 2 years with reconsideration every few months about how to proceed.
Accordingly, you may want to consider for a bit further out. Of course, $5 per day can work, but you may want to consider some other lump sum methods.
So for example if you dedicated $150 for the month, then you may want to time it a bit better. Maybe divide the month into three? if you are at first not sure about the price movement, then you invest $50 and wait... then if the price drops you invest the other $50 and if it goes up you wait... and maybe it will come back down and you invest the last portion of the $50.
You could do both. Have one part of the money that you invest no matter what... $5 every other day, and then the other half of the investment fund, you attempt to be strategic about it and to invest on dips (dividing it how you like). Your budget is what it is, and if you feel comfortable with $150 a month, there are still a variety of ways to be strategic about it while you are building up your bitcoin holdings.
I personally, recall that I wanted to purposefully frontload my BTC investment, so I dedicated about 1/4 of my total 6month investment allocation towards the 1st month, and after that I spread the remaining over the remaining 5 months. Here it sounds as if you are working with a smaller amount than I was.. maybe $900 to $1000 over 6 months... that is not a lot, but it is something... and maybe you could consider $250 over each of the first two months and then spread the remaining $500 out over the remaining 4 months.....
Don't take anything that I say as investment advice, just a bit of brainstorming in order that you may want to think about other possible ways of dividing up your investment and maybe getting a bit more stake in the game... but ultimately it is up to you and your budget and your financial situation and overall comfort level.
Thanks for the advice. I may do something along those lines, of DCAing a few bucks a day no matter what, and then throwing a couple hundred down if there's a big price drop on a particular day.
I'm convinced Bitcoin is beginning to hit the steep part of the exponential curve, and that it'll explode over the next few years, so front-loading my investment is probably a good idea. It's tough looking a few months back at when Bitcoin was trading at ~$250, but if prices progress over the next few years like I expect it'll be worth getting in even at ~$450.
(01-01-2016 09:18 AM)SunW Wrote: The S&P 500 and Dow ended red for the year and the Nasdaq was up a little, while I beat all of them for the eighth year (out of nine).
Two of my most surprising "beats" of the year were the US Dollar (up from 90 at the beginning of the year) and bitcoin, which I was able to get multiple times at lows this year (even less than $200!). I did not expect those positions to perform as well as they did, I even thought that toward the end of the year, bitcoin would be falling if there was an interest rate increase, which would give me some time to buy more. The interest rate increase told me a lot about who uses bitcoin though, and if we see four of them this year, that will strengthen my theory. With BLC, I've grown my bitcoins as well.
(01-01-2016 09:18 AM)SunW Wrote: The funniest part of this year was when oil dropped 30-40% and newbies piled in quickly, thinking it was going to rise again. The bear market in oil is doing exactly what it needs to and may continue. If GS' predictions about $20 oil are right, I will absolutely fall over laughing because there will be some buyers who get crushed.
Great 2015. Happy New Year and happy hunting in 2016!
(01-01-2016 09:18 AM)SunW Wrote: Forgot http://www.coindesk.com/5-bitcoin-blockc...tch-2016/. A bitcoin eBay!
(12-31-2015 09:24 PM)Isaac Jordan Wrote: .......
I'm convinced Bitcoin is beginning to hit the steep part of the exponential curve, and that it'll explode over the next few years, .........
(01-01-2016 09:18 AM)SunW Wrote: The S&P 500 and Dow ended red for the year and the Nasdaq was up a little, while I beat all of them for the eighth year (out of nine).
Two of my most surprising "beats" of the year were the US Dollar (up from 90 at the beginning of the year) and bitcoin, which I was able to get multiple times at lows this year (even less than $200!). I did not expect those positions to perform as well as they did, I even thought that toward the end of the year, bitcoin would be falling if there was an interest rate increase, which would give me some time to buy more. The interest rate increase told me a lot about who uses bitcoin though, and if we see four of them this year, that will strengthen my theory. With BLC, I've grown my bitcoins as well.
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(01-02-2016 08:20 AM)SunW Wrote: [http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2016/01/20160101_ABCT1_0.jpg[/img]
Bitcoin vs. printed currencies. Which can Mr. Krugman use?
"Why is low inflation a problem? One answer is that it discourages borrowing and spending and encourages sitting on cash. Since our biggest economic problem is an overall lack of demand, falling inflation makes that problem worse." At the end of the day, capitalism (as Malthus admits in the image) doesn't lead to consumption. It is the Keynesian doctrine that wants consumption for the sake of demand.
(01-07-2016 07:57 AM)SunW Wrote: HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.
China halts markets and bitcoin soars. I love how many markets are down while bitcoin is giving all of them the middle finger.
(01-07-2016 03:41 PM)JayJuanGee Wrote: Probably, bitcoin's movement will more closely appear parallel to gold; however, one of the problems with gold is that there seems to have developed a considerable financialization and fakery of gold through paper instruments... accordingly , there could develop some differences between prices of real gold and paper gold.
(01-10-2016 07:28 PM)el mechanico Wrote: Kinda BTC related..
What if you want to spend some?
I have a " friend" that wants to buy a cabin in the mountains and this cabin is not finance able buy banks cause it's off the grid etc.
How could you get a loan with 50% down ?
(01-10-2016 08:01 PM)el mechanico Wrote: It's not a riddle who loans on off grid property with a huge downstroke?
(01-10-2016 08:11 PM)JayJuanGee Wrote:(01-10-2016 08:01 PM)el mechanico Wrote: It's not a riddle who loans on off grid property with a huge downstroke?
Well, maybe someone knows better than me?, but I doubt that anyone loans with property as collateral for more than about 80% of what they believe they would be able to get for the property, if they were forced to have to liquidate it.
I am thinking that the only thing would be if you either are able to find someone or entity that values the property at a higher amount or that they are willing to use some other property as collateral or to use your own personal credit as a way to cover any of the difference in value.
What else is there? No one loans money without some expectation of getting paid back? Do they? Maybe could find someone who is dumb, and scam them into loaning the money without any intention to pay them back? that's another possibility?
(01-10-2016 08:45 PM)Cattle Rustler Wrote: So is bitcoin down or up?Look at the chart on bitcoinity
If so, a lot or just a little?
(01-10-2016 08:57 PM)el mechanico Wrote:(01-10-2016 08:45 PM)Cattle Rustler Wrote: So is bitcoin down or up?Look at the chart on bitcoinity
If so, a lot or just a little?
Jay if you don't know then you don't know. I know how to move my money just need the other half. Banks don't want to hear it so I'm not even bothering with them and the nonsense they need to write a note.
I'm trying to buy before the election
(01-10-2016 08:57 PM)el mechanico Wrote:(01-10-2016 08:45 PM)Cattle Rustler Wrote: So is bitcoin down or up?Look at the chart on bitcoinity
If so, a lot or just a little?
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