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  1. Arden

    Investing General Discussion

    Obligatory
  2. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Update: sold all my Bitcoin for KAS
  3. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    This is pretty much exactly where I am. But the ETFs are new enough and significant enough to make me feel not so confident. I will absolutely sink some funds if we get down to 50K but I'll probably take some bites before then too honestly. I rarely try to catch the absolute bottom because I'm...
  4. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    The current drawdown is the shallowest on record relative to prior cycles, roughly 41% off the all-time high, compared to 84% after 2017 and 77% after 2021. If the institutional absorption thesis is correct, the floor keeps rising. But Id be surprised if it is as high as 41%. Could be wrong tho...
  5. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Lot of whales buying. So funny. Saylor sells 32 BTC and causes a huge panic, the price crashes, and then he scoops up 1550 BTC at a huge discount a week later. Sheep will be sheep and wolves will be wolves, I guess. Fwiw, I don't think we've seen the bottom yet. We are still tracking the 4...
  6. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Crypto has never really left speculative asset territory. There's a huge pivot to AI right now, and that's acting like a huge vacuum, sucking up all the speculative money- a lot of which was previously going to crypto. Add to that the inflation/interest rate issues, which have dried up a lot...
  7. Arden

    Everquest Legends

    I guess I'll be the contrarian here and say I don't mind paying a subscription at all. I didn't stop playing EQ live and start playing the emulators back in 2004 because of the subscription cost. It was simply that Live no longer offered what I was looking for. My gaming budget these days is...
  8. Arden

    Everquest Legends

    I don't give a shit about any of that tbh. All I care about is the game they are making. I don't expect them to be "spotless" or "saints." I have no expectations at all, honestly. I'll check out the game when it's available and if it's fun I'll play it. If it's not, I won't.
  9. Arden

    Everquest Legends

    You just invented Samdaman.
  10. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Yeah banks basically won that battle. And it was a big battle. Doesn't matter, tradfi's days are numbered. Their intransigence will only hasten their demise.
  11. Arden

    Everquest Legends

    Him, then. Wasn't intentional
  12. Arden

    Everquest Legends

    Personally wasn't interested until I saw that both Rogean and Secrets were collaborating on it. Rogean obviously has a really good grasp of what made classic EQ great. And after playing Project Quarm, I personally have a ton of respect for Secrets and her ability to balance common sense...
  13. Arden

    Everquest Legends

    Didn't see a thread for this. This actually looks... really interesting. AI summary: This just dropped today — announced at GDC 2026. Here's the rundown: What it is: EverQuest Legends takes players back to the early days of the MMORPG with restored sound and visuals and all-new...
  14. Arden

    Investing General Discussion

    Was mostly joking- but I'm not sure anyone other than Waymo knows how much control actual humans have or how often they exercise it. Honestly my personal experience with Waymo has been meh. For example, I usually walk the 10 blocks or so from the train station to work when I go in but I wanted...
  15. Arden

    Investing General Discussion

    Waymo isn't self driving, it's just dudes from the Philippines. https://www.techspot.com/news/111233-waymo-admits-autopilot-often-guys-philippines.html
  16. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Jane Street lol
  17. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    We are about to see so much cool shit happen. Right up until AI wipes us off the face of the planet.
  18. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Basically a pow source of friction instead of a monetary one.
  19. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    I know you're joking, but the idea is that all that shit will be automated. You'll keep a baseline small amount of money in an account tied to your persona. Deductions will be automatic, but so will the refund at the end of the month (or whatever time frame) that refunds all your deductions, up...
  20. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    That would help, but it doesn’t solve the whole problem. A one-time registration fee is a fixed cost. Spammers amortize fixed costs easily. If I pay $5 to register an account and then send 5 million messages, that fee becomes irrelevant. The spam problem isn’t account creation anymore- it’s...
  21. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    TLDR: End of the Internet as we know it is coming soon. Blockchain tech is a potential (and the best) fix.
  22. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Openclaw going to bring crypto roaring back in a big way.
  23. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Not a TA wiz by any means, but just looking at the 4 year cycle: 2013 peak: ~$1,132 (Nov 2013) Bear low: roughly $150–$165 area in early 2015 Drawdown: ~-85% to -87% 2017 peak: ~$19.7k (mid-Dec 2017) Bear low: ~$3,122 Drawdown: ~-84% 2021 peak: ~$68,982 (Nov 10, 2021) Bear low / base: ~$15.8k...
  24. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    So far BTC is following the cycle to the letter. No guarantee it will continue to do so, but if it does, we have at least one to two more legs down, then it needs to wallow in the doldrums for a while. Then a climb to a new ath. Macroeconomic conditions are very different this time around from...
  25. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Be careful out there, boys.
  26. Arden

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Bro, that's already on S04.
  27. Arden

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Guess what game is getting a live action TV show on HBO?
  28. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Land is great- unless it gets seized by the Government. There is literally no scenario where an investment can't go to zero. It's just a question of risk/reward.
  29. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    True for any investment!
  30. Arden

    Investing General Discussion

    I've got it hitting the bottom at around 50k give or take- but I'm not waiting for that to buy.
  31. Arden

    A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight

    I know, I'm just indirectly complaining about the trend of streaming sites to drag shit out as long as humanly possible to keep those subs going. It's obnoxious and it fucks with things like pacing, momentum, etc. Especially if you need half hour episodes to pull it off. It feels like blueballs...
  32. Arden

    A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight

    Make it a long movie then 🤷‍♂️
  33. Arden

    A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight

    Show is great 👍 👍. Six half hour episodes for the entire season is bullshit 👎👎.
  34. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Satoshi was actually Epstein is pretty good. Agree we are getting close, but I need to see more "Bitcoin is dead" buzz before I call true bottom
  35. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    It ain't the bottom for BTC until a bunch of people declare it dead and start writing post-mortems. Only then have we hit the bottom. It's the same every cycle.
  36. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Did a quantum deep dive a few months ago. Here's a pretty succinct (as succinct as a complicated topic can be) explanation: Really important distinction: BTC addresses aren’t public keys. They’re hashes of public keys. Your public key only gets revealed when you spend from an address. So...
  37. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Looked at another way, our entire current financial system is fraudulent
  38. Arden

    Investing General Discussion

    It's going to bounce back. Bigly.
  39. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Don't disagree. The quantum issue itself is a little different than most FUD btc has lived through though, in that the danger here is very real and the consequences of failing to address it would be catastrophically serious. Like you said though, there is a relatively easy solution (from a...
  40. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Quantum fears putting downward pressure on BTC. BTC community has been slow to address the concerns. Add to that the market apparently doesn't like Trump's most likely pick for Fed.