Almost completely off-topic, but Steel Panther put on a damned fine show when they tour.
Seen them a few times.
They don't get much radio play because I think there is only one song they have ever written which is clean enough for that (and even then, only just).
I had previously (wrongly) thought that bitcoin was meant to be traceable as the blockchain contained an audit trail of all the transactions. Obviously this is wrong as people are stealing it everywhere.
I know some people who years ago “invested” and lost everything they put it, so wouldn’t touch it with a barge pole myself. But nobody wants to hear the truth they just want to make money… I would prefer to put money in the stock market, at least you are buying shares in a real company and there is slightly more regulation out there.
Back in the dot com boom, a colleague apparently bought a bunch of shares on their credit card. Just before the share price crashed. Oops. Moral of the story, if it looks too good to be true, it probably isn’t!
But yes to this day I’m still confused by bitcoin. What if all those people who spent time and money flogging their computers to generate, er, what, special numbers?
b.t.w. Alistair, I would be happy to 'Pledge my support' but there is no way I am going to trust substack with my card details. Perhaps you can find an alternate method to funnel you some green drinking vouchers.
"Encryption ensures the tenners are real tenners; it does nothing to secure your back pocket." This, my friend, is why they (who?) pay you the big bucks. I'm afraid I'm obliged to steal this to explain things to otherwise nice (I'm sure) people who are about to fall into the vortex.
Emperor Napoleon III had many faults and sins, but surely the one that really led to his downfall was being captured by the Imperial German army at Sedan. Check, mate.
Almost completely off-topic, but Steel Panther put on a damned fine show when they tour.
Seen them a few times.
They don't get much radio play because I think there is only one song they have ever written which is clean enough for that (and even then, only just).
I had previously (wrongly) thought that bitcoin was meant to be traceable as the blockchain contained an audit trail of all the transactions. Obviously this is wrong as people are stealing it everywhere.
I know some people who years ago “invested” and lost everything they put it, so wouldn’t touch it with a barge pole myself. But nobody wants to hear the truth they just want to make money… I would prefer to put money in the stock market, at least you are buying shares in a real company and there is slightly more regulation out there.
Back in the dot com boom, a colleague apparently bought a bunch of shares on their credit card. Just before the share price crashed. Oops. Moral of the story, if it looks too good to be true, it probably isn’t!
But yes to this day I’m still confused by bitcoin. What if all those people who spent time and money flogging their computers to generate, er, what, special numbers?
Banks are crap.
Pension funds are crap.
Cash is crap.
Invisible digi coins are crap.
Stocks are crap.
Shares are crap.
Bonds are crap.
It's back to gold and diamonds under the mattress for me!
b.t.w. Alistair, I would be happy to 'Pledge my support' but there is no way I am going to trust substack with my card details. Perhaps you can find an alternate method to funnel you some green drinking vouchers.
Ed Grant? Isn't that supposed to be Lou Grant, played by Ed Asner?
A wardrobe office? Sounds like something out of Narnia. Which is appropriate for work associated with crypto?
"Encryption ensures the tenners are real tenners; it does nothing to secure your back pocket." This, my friend, is why they (who?) pay you the big bucks. I'm afraid I'm obliged to steal this to explain things to otherwise nice (I'm sure) people who are about to fall into the vortex.
Emperor Napoleon III had many faults and sins, but surely the one that really led to his downfall was being captured by the Imperial German army at Sedan. Check, mate.
I hate it when I learn History of France from an Englishman
Perfidious Albion, which burnt Joan of Arc on the rock of Saint Helena!