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If it's our family, there's another 2-3 grandma's and grandpa's you don't see.

It'll go to zero but that's pretty much true of anything man made, so I'll hang on to these last few just in case. It's the sweet spot between something and nothing that we're all working with. 5 days to ski season.

Maybe. Or Bitcoin may go the way of Bitcoin cash. It works fine, but it isn't worth much.

Ambivalent. Whether it's paper or nfc.... all I care about is getting my wampum and beaver(s).

This is the way. It's amazing how some people just put a whole sofa or table set right next to the trash cans assuming they'll somehow be able to get compact it on site.

We're all guessing. What I like though is how many BTC are naturally/inherently lost forever and its effect on the supply side. Just from my own experience, how many people simply leave small amounts of btc in wallets they abandon or forget about? From Mt. Gox to Xapo, to BTC-e, to that wallet you helped set up for Grandma or your kids and put $10 in it and then they lost interest or deleted the app or threw away their paper wallet.... And then pile on all of the illegal stuff people are using it for and how much of it is either seized or lost because the owner dies. What I don't like is that again, it's just tech. It seems and has been unhackable until now, but I can't help but think about how fast everything progresses and becomes obsolete. Makes me think of the final sequence self destruct code from Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan.... Code zero zero zero. Destruct. Zero. Seemed like secure enough code to me when I was seven years old. ????

Not model specific and YMMV, but I've had the same 2000-2500 Baht grade dash cams (no name Fortune IT city type) in all my cars and they've been working fine for 5-8+ years while many of my friends seem to have to replace theirs (same models, purchased around the same time) yearly, many with the rubber parts melted. Covered parking seems to make a big difference with these off brand gadgets.

Of course it's a part of the underground economy (like gold bars and bricks of USD). That's quite an accomplishment in itself.

Regretted cashing a small portion out in early 2021 at $43k or so (after watching it slide down from the $69k high) to buy a condo/dorm room for the kids in the middle of town. Feels like a pretty good decision now though. Still holding onto a bit for possibly brighter days a few to several years from now. ????

I'm so angry at Paypal for following local laws. ???? That said, for money laundering, Paypal is the present day equivalent of using gold bar smuggling vests when people were moving towards wire transfers for everything.

Keeping holdings steady. Not selling or buying. Have already kept a particular 'don't touch' amount since the pre McAfee days just in case any of these crazy predictions come true (in which case a few btc won't make a big difference to my lifestyle). Don't need (or want) a boat or Lambo. Happy flying premium economy with J occasionally thrown in once in awhile.

I like a little bit of everything.

Just from my experience, as a landlord, I've yet to take anyone to court or even file a police report for tenants skipping out on the last month leaving me with only the deposit (as rent). It's just something I file under a lack of manners, not something worth pursuing in practical terms.

No issues holding BTC, but that's about it.

Wish I could have learned to ski in my teens instead of my early 40s.

Nope. The 1% problem is human nature. You already see crypto wealth being concentrated in the hands of a small group of folks. The main upside IMO is that more of the traditionally unbanked have access to digital transfer of value mechanisms (with immediate global reach).

Pretty happy with the Lazada app. Glad many things here only 'kind of' work (like the 'kind of' revenue department????). Things are 'getting better' though, put in a complaint on the electric company (MEA) website a few weeks ago -not really expecting any results- that a repair team had left (presumably non live) wires brushing up against my house... 8am the next day there was a team out there fixing it, I was like WTH, this might have taken months or a year back in the good ol' day.

They definitely have been taking educational junkets to Japan for decades and have surely seen JR in action, maybe they aren't taking notes? Um, SWIM heard that anyway.

I assume you're referring to the Verified Plus level. I'm just level one verified and I don't remember if they wanted to see my electric bill or not. Might just have been Thai ID only which gives you Level 1 verification and that's $50k USD in/out fiat limits daily and something like $8 million in crypto withdrawal as a limit.... more than enough for now. ????

Binance P2P... Payments to whatever local bank I specify. From there it's just a normal atm withdrawal or bank app transaction for goods and services. Wish Binance would issue cards here.

47 now and still having a pretty good time. But now that I'm more than halfway through (if you count the days left it really feels limited... I barely have 11,000 days left if you go by the averages) I do feel like I could have accomplished more. Will likely die without having contributed much to the world other than amassing a small bit of wealth for 5-6 family members.

Party time (still).

It's wonderful periods such as these that makes 'not selling your home/condo(s)' back home a prudent decision. It's a nice safety net and 'poor man's' forex hedge in rental income.

It's a nice balance to have ETH+POS to BTC's likely permanent POW.

As for who checks, on my recent trips to the US, as well as the other way to Denmark, Iceland, Austria.... it's been the counter staff and then NO one asked again during the whole trip. On the way back, it was just a glance at the Thailand Pass (when that was a thing), and sometimes not even that.