/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>49261816
>using a screw to fasten a hotdog to a tree and not just nailing it
ngmi

>>29189412
I'm actually around 130 IQ (professionally tested) but yeah agreed. I started buying BTC at $80, but too poor and risk averse to make big gains. My portfolio was around 15 BTC last bullrun.

>>23994887

>>23892705
>>23892717
I bought my first two BTC for $80 each using christmas/birthday money from grammy. Not even joking. Then the rest was mostly after the 2014 bullrun DCAing with college part-time job. I had like 16 BTC worth of crypto at the top of the last bubble and this is what I've been widdled down to since.

>>17988870
The reasons have been stated so many times, that it's too passe for /biz/.

>>17975290
The Citadel century

>>17134688
>The most popular coin uses enormous amounts of electricity solving some useless cryptographic function to maintain itself.
It's not useless, its BTFOing normies.

>>17066055
A practical problem is that once you become that rich, you or your wider professional/tribal network begins to exert enough power where you can make demands of the government. The government is then competing for your business and is in the weaker position.

The world is going through a major megapolitical cycle, there's not much that can be done besides positioning yourself well in the new regime (which is not going to be nationalist nor globalist exactly). I think Citadels are going to actually be a thing. At some point the rich are going to have to begin using their private wealth for more ostensibly communitarian purposes and at that point the constitutional structure of national governments is merely formal.

>>16747972
bump

It's probably combination of genetics and environment and maybe a little bit of luck. If you have what it takes, over time you'll find a way to make things better. Of course, if there is a really big setback, some might not get back on the track, even though they might have done very well if everything went normally or there wasn't this black swan type event. Then there are those that might not be so genetically smart, but are raised well and have the right fundamentals engraved in them. How to manage money, interact with people etc.

This all leads me to doubt there is any free will. I mean if you are born, your genetics will influence you and then your environment will influence you. The thought you got into your mind came from something. It can't just come out of nothing, can it? When you are young start playing football because you saw it on tv when your parents(environment) turned it to that channel, you have good enough genetics to play it well enough to enjoy it. Like I doubt anything is random in the world. Every particle might be calculated and will act the same way if all the particles positions and movements etc are the same. For example if you could make another big bang where every atom every particle is exactly at the same place, and you fast forward it to the year of christ 2019, 22th of September, you would get the same exact earth with the same exact people with the same exact thoughts and the same fucking post that I'm almost finished writing.

>>13915315
I entered Spring 2013 when I bought my first BTC for $80. I was 22.

I was a libertarian back then and it was easy to convince me to buy cyber-money with game theory ideas behind it.

>>13214014
Redpilled. It'll be like pic-related, but mixed with the future predicted by pol. Both the good and the bad.

>>12470266
>>12472761
I still have hope for biz.

>>11808597
>Started buying at $80
>CBA is $450
>capitulation price: $ColdDeadHands

>Imagine actually giving a shit what the physical representations of your digital fiat currency look like

Anyone else here read The Sovereign Individual? What did you think about it?

>>11359857
>non sequitur

>>11221895
Nothing matters but BTC

>>11067223
Unironically read this book.

>>11055150
~11.5

>>10824795
...bit Adam is an OG cyberpunk libertarian. He very likely agrees with Nick.

>>10748422
Crypto is REALLY about le cheap txn fees!

>>10722752
>This is why the internet will never be mainstream.

>>10707589
Oh anon... You have so much to learn.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinehoward/2014/09/10/peter-thiel-dont-wait-to-start-something-new/#26b771af1e69

>Amit Aujla: What's the most important or influential book you've read?

>The Sovereign Individual (Touchstone, 1997), by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg, is an unusual book that I read at a singular moment, just before starting PayPal. A lot of thinking about technology oscillates between two extremes: It's either a big historical force acting over the long term or it's a matter of short-term trends to bet on. The Sovereign Individual is different because it takes foresight seriously: If you think hard, you can understand and make plans for a future lasting 10, 20 years or more--and that's how you have to think to be successful.

https://techcrunch.com/2013/11/22/geeks-for-monarchy/

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/behind-the-internets-dark-anti-democracy-movement/516243/

>Yarvin’s blog has been mostly inactive since 2014. He now is focusing on a startup, Urbit, whose investors reportedly include Paypal co-founder and Trump backer Peter Thiel. (Thiel has himself questioned some of the fundamentals of American politics, writing in 2009, “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.”)

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism

>Curtis Yarvin, the blogger who advocates the return of feudalism. In an email exchange shortly after the election, Yarvin told Yiannopoulos that he had been “coaching Thiel.”

>“Peter needs guidance on politics for sure,” Yiannopoulos responded.

>“Less than you might think!” Yarvin wrote back. “I watched the election at his house, I think my hangover lasted into Tuesday. He’s fully enlightened, just plays it very carefully.”