Last cycle I took out a personal loan to buy the $69k top then 0% interest rate credit cards to buy the dip, and the next dip all the way down to $16k. If you're thinking about taking out a loan to stack sats, here's perspective from someone who timed it exactly wrong

If the Trump admin were even half as supportive of Bitcoin as they claim to be, this would not be happening

Remember when you stopped accepting bitcoin payments because miners didn’t use enough “renewable energy”

Léo Every one of Floppy 💾 suggestions are marked "abusive" because he's pointing out how this proposed change makes it cheaper to attack the p2p network and Core are trying to push through *yet another* loosening of a spam filter before the Core 30 feature freeze.

This video is a litmus test: are you fucking retarded, or do you have a modicum of knowledge about guns? If it's the former, you'll assume pointing out that a Glock will do this is shilling for SIG. If it's the latter, you'll have always known this "test" is fucking dumb.

Something happened in the past 24 months that makes syncing on typical hard drives impossibly slow. These are enterprise disks with big caches too.

Setting dbcache to something absurd like 12GB has improved it some. Needless to say the default 450MB is not enough now sadly. Strange that bitcoind alone hammers two enterprise HDDs like this now. Safe to say the bloat is having a negative effect on this class of hardware

Everyone has their eyes on treasury companies and price charts while big tech and big government are attacking the ability to use bitcoin in a sovereign fashion. Hope you’re enjoying your paper bitcoin summer.

Can "valid transactions" be abusive?

We're not going to buy bitcoin. We're going to steal it.

Become ungovernable.

Pays bouncer $20 door fee. Immediately shits in the punch bowl. Refuses to elaborate. Leaves.

They didn't realize they were being recorded. Regardless of what side you're on, I hope we can all agree that attacking home user nodes is disgraceful.

I like to think so.

Let's check in on bitchat... Might need some filters.

Ah there's the take we were missing. It's actually the victims' fault their nodes got attacked by malicious actors!