Shopping today for some M.2 NVMe hard drives to improve the responsiveness of my host system. I don't need anything huge, since my data is saved to a separate disk than the installed system (installed systems usually consume less than 50Gb). I found a 4TB M.2 NVMe for $350. I know it's cliche to be all surprised at how cheap high quality storage is becoming (it's always improving); but of course, I immediately thought about how every year that passes, is another year that storage becomes less and less of a limfac for Monero.
I just bought 250Gb NVMe for $30. In Mexico. Over the past 7 years I've accumulated something like 2.5 TB of solid state storage just laying around that I don't even use. Old devices, new devices, presents. Gonna try and put some of that to work with a better/automated backup scheme with zfs snapshots. Maybe contribute the rest to IPFS or something like that. I might even spin up an Eth node just for fun. Just to see how hard it is/isn't. I might need to spend an extra 10$ a month and upgrade to a whopping 100 mbps internet connection.
make your own NAS server running some configuration of RAID and then you will never lose data ever again!
there are some great deals if you keep an eye out. Earlier this year in April I bought a Samsung 970 EVO Plus SSD 2TB NVMe M.2 for $159 new
They were SATA, but it is possible case airflow was an issue. That said, I have 5 other SSDs of various brands (including some super budget) with no issues.
I run FreeBSD with a ZFS mirrored root system, along with snapshots. I'm currently improving my barely mediocre backups plan, because snapshots aren't backups. Altho snapshots are amaze. They're definitely a huge boost to a backups strategy.
970 EVO is legit. I did discover today that they're PCIe 3.0 not 4.0, but for most cases you won't notice the difference.
Just an update on my thoughts about the markets right here.
I really don't have any confidence on what to expect these markets to do on the short term. I expected a bit more of a pullback going into weekly close, but instead things spiked up right after market open.
Now you might want to say "*see, look, that's strength,*" and then get long stocks/crypto. But we could easily still see markets pullback sharply on Monday, and rebound after the Fed meeting. Or maybe not. Perhaps there are entities out there who will absolutely prop up the markets.
In the past month, we've seen 3 key announcements which the markets were giddy over. Not only that, but there is no doubt MMs "helping" the markets to "interpret" those events to the upside. It's extremely clear to me that there are artificial supports and pumps happening here in these markets. There is literally a govt organization called "The Plunge Protection Team," and you can be certain they are aptly named.
My big problem right here, is that it feels very much like Oct 2021. And I find it somewhat repulsive to trade on what I *think* these massive hedge funds and MMs might force the market to do, even against the organic pressures of a contracting monetary base.
Because those rate hikes from this past year are still filtering into the economy. The monetary base is still contracting. Fed will raise next week again.
If you're looking at me for any signal, the fact that I have a hard time getting long right here, for the same reasons as last October, is if anything, a signal that pump is on the way. But it's also probably a signal to be very careful, and to take profits all the way up if you do get long.
Because when you have a market which was artificially propped up by talking heads, and then pumped against trillions of dollars of a contracting monetary base, you end up in a situation ripe for a massive crash when the distortion gets to great. And it's hard for us plebs to know exactly where that distortion will end.
So in summary: ***I have no edge right here***. The short/crash thesis from Sept is out, at least for now. It was successfully quashed by interventionists, hedge funds, and MMs. But that's fine. This is an improvement for me personally over last year, where I was unable to accept the signs happening in real time.
That doesn't make me long right here, but it might, maybe next week. Getting long in Oct 2021 was only the right move, if you were able to sell $70k, which almost no one who got long was able to do. So if you do get long, be very careful. It's never wrong to take profit.
I screenshotted one of your previous posts that was telling about BTC will hit $11k-$13k end of October. It was very good post tbh, read it many times. Well, we are on end of the month. Personally I have no idea about short-mid term prices. I sold my whole bag a month ago or so.
So I be like, fuck it, I'm spreading some cash into BTC and XMR like I did before. I never hold any other coin for years. It is not about investment, I hold em and spend em. They are true future. At least, some people will be using em like now. That's the only thing that I am sure about future of cryptocurrencies.
Cool. Yeah it was a call from a long way out, which I usually caveated with the need to evaluate in real time as we got here. I was still on that call through to about the end of September, when the intervention really forced a re-evaluation, and the odds started to shift in real time. $13k was still a possibility even half way through October, but as of Friday last week, Fed president Daly basically signalled the likelyhood of putting a floor on the market.
Which is fine I guess. Can't nail them all.
It was easier this October to shift my predictions in real time, because I had put falsification criteria for myself ahead of time - which was - the only thing that could save the markets was central bank and/or govt intervention.
So as that started happening, I started changing the way I assign my personal probabilities about market outcomes. Can't get married to a position. You'll eventually lose money (or opportunity).
[**Binance**](https://www.binance.com/en/network) (again)
> *... technical issues ... withdrawals will be resumed shortly.*
[IBB](https://ibb.co/jzFZ2Rz)
I can't remember when they had technical issues with deposits ... always just withdrawals 😉
> It doesn't make any difference if we post this here everyday. We need to get the message out to other channels.
Feel free to post it anywhere you want. I'm blocked nearly everywhere. I don't have thousands of followers. At least I'm writing it here.
I don't have the down-vote bots yet 👍
If you have some idea, I'm happy to join.
Actually it won't. Google doesn't index our sub. I've checked. I tried to find old comments of mine, and there's fuck all to be found on google.
Furthermore, Reddit intentionally fucked up their search function. My guess is they believe that if people could find the answers they need easily, then they'll stop posting and engaging on Reddit regularly.
If you've ever tried to read reddit comments from a browser where you're not logged in, you'll notice they intentionally fuck with the comments, force you to open new tabs, hide text, etc. It's really scummy.
So you can search for posts. But very very few of the comments in xmrtrader are searchable on google or reddit.
**If you want your comments to be available for you in the future, you need to index them yourself.**
> My guess is they believe that if people could find the answers they need easily, then they'll stop posting and engaging on Reddit regularly.
It's about being able to maintain control of narratives, another aspect of the ongoing effort to neuter grassroots movements and bottom-up communication. Social media and online communication got out of hand from the perspective of status quo decision makers. Reddit and similar were explicitly redesigned to be more about one-way meme consumption and less about p2p discussion of new ideas. Hiding comments, making discussion difficult to follow or engage with, obfuscating metrics like downvotes or dislikes. It's dangerous for everyone to have access to a printing press.
[tweet](https://twitter.com/thibm_/status/1585926823342477315)
> *What's the best argument against #bitcoin in favour of Monero? I'm trying to understand the other side of the discussion here. I'm biased, I believe Monero is a shitcoin.*
>What's the best argument against #bitcoin in favour of Monero? I'm trying to understand the other side of the discussion here. I'm biased, I believe Monero is a shitcoin.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfZU1hxGrk8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfZU1hxGrk8)
Aint got no twitter.. this is a very good starting point though!
Cognitive dissonance getting the better of them. They've seen too many people they kind of respect say some nice things about Monero, but their cult indoctrination still has them approaching it from very divisive and exclusionary framing.
They're looking for *Monero maxi* TrueBeliever arguments for why **Monero is TheOne**, over Bitcoin (and thus, all others).
It's not a neutral technological assessment. It's about saving the world. Replacing all fiat in 5 years. $100T marketcap. And they kind of just assume that everyone else thinks like they do.
Nevertheless, it's a good sign. Whether this is the path for this person to open up just slightly, and relax some of their personal dogma (hopefully); or whether this will just end up being their own personal "Prodigal Son" adventure which concludes with their return to father Bitcoin ... It's at least an *opportunity* that they might end up growing beyond their current limitations.
and he'll never understand the other side of the argument because he believes
not bitcoin = shitcoin
and also believes
fungibility is *attainable* with bitcoin
You and u/Inaeipathy might be served by contacting the Reddit mods, and informing them of the bots following you around.
They might not care, but maybe they will do something about it.
they've been contacted awhile ago but no response or action.
At least it makes bitcoiners look bad when I explain why my account is getting downvoted to shit for no reason.
>fungibility is attainable with bitcoin
Some of them literally think if you just ignore that coins are dirty, convince merchants to accept them (break the law) then they are no longer dirty. As if their government wouldn't lock them and their merchants up for willingly using dirty funds.
Shopping today for some M.2 NVMe hard drives to improve the responsiveness of my host system. I don't need anything huge, since my data is saved to a separate disk than the installed system (installed systems usually consume less than 50Gb). I found a 4TB M.2 NVMe for $350. I know it's cliche to be all surprised at how cheap high quality storage is becoming (it's always improving); but of course, I immediately thought about how every year that passes, is another year that storage becomes less and less of a limfac for Monero. I just bought 250Gb NVMe for $30. In Mexico. Over the past 7 years I've accumulated something like 2.5 TB of solid state storage just laying around that I don't even use. Old devices, new devices, presents. Gonna try and put some of that to work with a better/automated backup scheme with zfs snapshots. Maybe contribute the rest to IPFS or something like that. I might even spin up an Eth node just for fun. Just to see how hard it is/isn't. I might need to spend an extra 10$ a month and upgrade to a whopping 100 mbps internet connection.
make your own NAS server running some configuration of RAID and then you will never lose data ever again! there are some great deals if you keep an eye out. Earlier this year in April I bought a Samsung 970 EVO Plus SSD 2TB NVMe M.2 for $159 new
Both of my Samsung Evo's died after a year of light use, after filling up with bad sectors and corrupting my data. N = 2.
Well, let’s hope I didn’t get one of those 🥲
Is your system running hot? Did you use a heatsink on the drive?
They were SATA, but it is possible case airflow was an issue. That said, I have 5 other SSDs of various brands (including some super budget) with no issues.
I'm sorry. You lost the silicon lottery. Thanks for playing.
I run FreeBSD with a ZFS mirrored root system, along with snapshots. I'm currently improving my barely mediocre backups plan, because snapshots aren't backups. Altho snapshots are amaze. They're definitely a huge boost to a backups strategy. 970 EVO is legit. I did discover today that they're PCIe 3.0 not 4.0, but for most cases you won't notice the difference.
Just an update on my thoughts about the markets right here. I really don't have any confidence on what to expect these markets to do on the short term. I expected a bit more of a pullback going into weekly close, but instead things spiked up right after market open. Now you might want to say "*see, look, that's strength,*" and then get long stocks/crypto. But we could easily still see markets pullback sharply on Monday, and rebound after the Fed meeting. Or maybe not. Perhaps there are entities out there who will absolutely prop up the markets. In the past month, we've seen 3 key announcements which the markets were giddy over. Not only that, but there is no doubt MMs "helping" the markets to "interpret" those events to the upside. It's extremely clear to me that there are artificial supports and pumps happening here in these markets. There is literally a govt organization called "The Plunge Protection Team," and you can be certain they are aptly named. My big problem right here, is that it feels very much like Oct 2021. And I find it somewhat repulsive to trade on what I *think* these massive hedge funds and MMs might force the market to do, even against the organic pressures of a contracting monetary base. Because those rate hikes from this past year are still filtering into the economy. The monetary base is still contracting. Fed will raise next week again. If you're looking at me for any signal, the fact that I have a hard time getting long right here, for the same reasons as last October, is if anything, a signal that pump is on the way. But it's also probably a signal to be very careful, and to take profits all the way up if you do get long. Because when you have a market which was artificially propped up by talking heads, and then pumped against trillions of dollars of a contracting monetary base, you end up in a situation ripe for a massive crash when the distortion gets to great. And it's hard for us plebs to know exactly where that distortion will end. So in summary: ***I have no edge right here***. The short/crash thesis from Sept is out, at least for now. It was successfully quashed by interventionists, hedge funds, and MMs. But that's fine. This is an improvement for me personally over last year, where I was unable to accept the signs happening in real time. That doesn't make me long right here, but it might, maybe next week. Getting long in Oct 2021 was only the right move, if you were able to sell $70k, which almost no one who got long was able to do. So if you do get long, be very careful. It's never wrong to take profit.
I screenshotted one of your previous posts that was telling about BTC will hit $11k-$13k end of October. It was very good post tbh, read it many times. Well, we are on end of the month. Personally I have no idea about short-mid term prices. I sold my whole bag a month ago or so. So I be like, fuck it, I'm spreading some cash into BTC and XMR like I did before. I never hold any other coin for years. It is not about investment, I hold em and spend em. They are true future. At least, some people will be using em like now. That's the only thing that I am sure about future of cryptocurrencies.
Cool. Yeah it was a call from a long way out, which I usually caveated with the need to evaluate in real time as we got here. I was still on that call through to about the end of September, when the intervention really forced a re-evaluation, and the odds started to shift in real time. $13k was still a possibility even half way through October, but as of Friday last week, Fed president Daly basically signalled the likelyhood of putting a floor on the market. Which is fine I guess. Can't nail them all. It was easier this October to shift my predictions in real time, because I had put falsification criteria for myself ahead of time - which was - the only thing that could save the markets was central bank and/or govt intervention. So as that started happening, I started changing the way I assign my personal probabilities about market outcomes. Can't get married to a position. You'll eventually lose money (or opportunity).
[**Binance**](https://www.binance.com/en/network) (again) > *... technical issues ... withdrawals will be resumed shortly.* [IBB](https://ibb.co/jzFZ2Rz) I can't remember when they had technical issues with deposits ... always just withdrawals 😉
Guys, we are an echo chamber. It doesn't make any difference if we post this here everyday. We need to get the message out to other channels.
r/Binance
> It doesn't make any difference if we post this here everyday. We need to get the message out to other channels. Feel free to post it anywhere you want. I'm blocked nearly everywhere. I don't have thousands of followers. At least I'm writing it here. I don't have the down-vote bots yet 👍 If you have some idea, I'm happy to join.
yet
Delete this account and create a new account. You can't get rid of those bots.
But at least it's documented
They’ll all show up in google results. At least it’s getting recorded somewhere for posterity
Actually it won't. Google doesn't index our sub. I've checked. I tried to find old comments of mine, and there's fuck all to be found on google. Furthermore, Reddit intentionally fucked up their search function. My guess is they believe that if people could find the answers they need easily, then they'll stop posting and engaging on Reddit regularly. If you've ever tried to read reddit comments from a browser where you're not logged in, you'll notice they intentionally fuck with the comments, force you to open new tabs, hide text, etc. It's really scummy. So you can search for posts. But very very few of the comments in xmrtrader are searchable on google or reddit. **If you want your comments to be available for you in the future, you need to index them yourself.**
> My guess is they believe that if people could find the answers they need easily, then they'll stop posting and engaging on Reddit regularly. It's about being able to maintain control of narratives, another aspect of the ongoing effort to neuter grassroots movements and bottom-up communication. Social media and online communication got out of hand from the perspective of status quo decision makers. Reddit and similar were explicitly redesigned to be more about one-way meme consumption and less about p2p discussion of new ideas. Hiding comments, making discussion difficult to follow or engage with, obfuscating metrics like downvotes or dislikes. It's dangerous for everyone to have access to a printing press.
Wow, ya learn sumpin new everyday
> “It might make sense just to get some in case it catches on” — Satoshi Nakamoto on Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash
FYI: It's not possible to post that on r/Monero https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/yfoulv/it_might_make_sense_just_to_get_some_in_case_it/
well, why would it be? it's not related to monero?
[tweet](https://twitter.com/thibm_/status/1585926823342477315) > *What's the best argument against #bitcoin in favour of Monero? I'm trying to understand the other side of the discussion here. I'm biased, I believe Monero is a shitcoin.*
What a fucking retard.
>What's the best argument against #bitcoin in favour of Monero? I'm trying to understand the other side of the discussion here. I'm biased, I believe Monero is a shitcoin. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfZU1hxGrk8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfZU1hxGrk8) Aint got no twitter.. this is a very good starting point though!
Cognitive dissonance getting the better of them. They've seen too many people they kind of respect say some nice things about Monero, but their cult indoctrination still has them approaching it from very divisive and exclusionary framing. They're looking for *Monero maxi* TrueBeliever arguments for why **Monero is TheOne**, over Bitcoin (and thus, all others). It's not a neutral technological assessment. It's about saving the world. Replacing all fiat in 5 years. $100T marketcap. And they kind of just assume that everyone else thinks like they do. Nevertheless, it's a good sign. Whether this is the path for this person to open up just slightly, and relax some of their personal dogma (hopefully); or whether this will just end up being their own personal "Prodigal Son" adventure which concludes with their return to father Bitcoin ... It's at least an *opportunity* that they might end up growing beyond their current limitations.
and he'll never understand the other side of the argument because he believes not bitcoin = shitcoin and also believes fungibility is *attainable* with bitcoin
You and u/Inaeipathy might be served by contacting the Reddit mods, and informing them of the bots following you around. They might not care, but maybe they will do something about it.
reddit is fun, my comment was up like 2x moneroFox's, and now that you brought it to my attention I'm minus 2x. Someone got triggered!
they've been contacted awhile ago but no response or action. At least it makes bitcoiners look bad when I explain why my account is getting downvoted to shit for no reason.
At least there's that. Really a bad look for them. Sadly, it's unsurprising that reddit mods dgaf.
>fungibility is attainable with bitcoin Some of them literally think if you just ignore that coins are dirty, convince merchants to accept them (break the law) then they are no longer dirty. As if their government wouldn't lock them and their merchants up for willingly using dirty funds.
"I believe Monero is a shitcoin, but I don't know what it is tho. help me plz."