Happy Friday, everyone! I hope you all are enjoying the warm weather.

He lost all the details in an unfortunate boating accident.

Also, when it comes to the topic of something coming along and replacing Bitcoin, the proposition seems unlikely. You can see the beginning's of Bitcoin's position being set in stone already. As of 2025, Bitcoin is the only crypto that is officially deemed to be a commodity by the SEC. Why? Because ...

Well, I understand people's contention that they have missed the boat on Bitcoin. The return path does seem to be decelerating over time. This is sensible as the market is probably in the latter stages of the price discovery process now. However, if it's true that Bitcoin's growth is slowing, it's a...

It's not too late to invest in Bitcoin.

It's too late to not invest in Bitcoin.

Today I learned that I'm chaotic evil.

It seems likely that you forgot to write down one of the 12 words?

Do you have an intuition as to what position the forgotten word was in? If you know that then brute forcing the seed phrase should be pretty easy. The BIP 39 dictionary has 2048 words.

In the crypto community it's frequently referred to as a "5 dollar wrench attack". Crypto is becoming valuable enough to the point in which a global game theory is starting to kick in. It reminds of the Dark Forest cosmological hypothesis, too. As Bitcoin and other tokens start to grow in ...

Yeah, I remember... there were suicides reported in the news over their citizens' feelings of economic hopelessness.

Has anyone here made a trip to China in recent years? Apparently Ray Dalio was less struck by the economic data coming out of China and more by what he actually saw in person (work ethic, drive, manufacturing robustness, etc.).

I'm starting to get used to the 14" display of the Pro versus the 15" display of the Air I had previously. The superior performance is definitely a boon, while the smaller footprint actually makes this guy more portable in certain respects than the Air. Smithers, Why did you choose the 14...

Grinch wrote: ↑Sun May 25, 2025 4:54 am

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Sat May 24, 2025 3:44 pm - 30% bonds

What Kind of Bonds do you aim?

I opted to keep it simple: global aggregate bond.

I'm starting to get used to the 14" display of the Pro versus the 15" display of the Air I had previously. The superior performance is definitely a boon, while the smaller footprint actually makes this guy more portable in certain respects than the Air.

No doubt that China is a rising power in the world, and may very well overtake the US as the top dog. One important thing to note of course is that geopolitical and economic dominance doesn't necessarily translate to superior investment returns. It may even translate to subpar performance. Even the ...

Hey Frugal. It's a very interesting coincidence that I have toyed with a similar idea in the past. I think it's a very sensible allocation. I like to think of it as putting 1/3rd of your risk capital into each of the main asset classes: stocks, bonds, monetary alternatives. And then rounding out the...

dualstow wrote: ↑Thu May 22, 2025 5:42 am That’s a lotta Trump books.

They're serving their best possible purpose as a monitor stand.

I don't think I have enough monitors, guys.

Just got a new 14" MacBook Pro today! M4 Max, 36GB RAM, 1TB SSD. Damn sweet machine. Smithers, I'd appreciate your views on the similarities and differences with older MacBook Pro models. I'm still using a mid-2018 MBP - 2.6GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7 with 32 GB 2400 MHz DDR4 and a 2 TB SSD. Seem...

Just got a new 14" MacBook Pro today! M4 Max, 36GB RAM, 1TB SSD. Damn sweet machine. Did I disclose I bought a refurbished? Under $1,000. M3, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD, 15". The last spec is most important to me since I'm used to many 27" monitors on this desktop. A great machine!

dualstow wrote: ↑Fri May 16, 2025 6:05 am Nice! Wow, they’re up to M4 already? I am out of the loop.

Yeah, and the M4 platform is from 2024, so the M5 is due out later this year!

Just got a new 14" MacBook Pro today!

M4 Max, 36GB RAM, 1TB SSD.

Damn sweet machine.

Okay, I've determined that we've been under a distributed "Slow Loris" attack. Having deployed specific countermeasures to that, I should no longer need to be playing whack-a-mole with IP addresses. No idea why anybody would want to shut down this forum, though. My money is on a salty bog...

dualstow wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 3:11 pmIMG_9774.jpeg

Has this been fact checked?

I'm skeptical that Palpatine would do something like that out of the goodness of his heart. I expect it's quid pro quo behind closed doors.

Black smoke again today. Will Ewan McGregor be the next Pope?

I personally find LTTs perfectly fine to hold when their losses are buried within the NAV of a total bond market fund. What was the phrase someone on this forum used? I think it was "comfortable opaqueness". Either way, I also think long TIPS still have their place as part of a liability m...