nothing can beat 8 tracks switching tracks in the middle of a song

*ka-chunk*

I can correlate this with my country aka Pakistan. Pay increase by government is 30% this year while inflation rate is crossing 38%. Still people happy because increase in pay nobody cares about inflation.
Actually government is giving money from one hand and taking it back from the other. But we are happy for what we are receiving. We think pay increase can solve our problems.

Excuse my late reply...

you made very rational and valid points.  But the (different kind of) bear markets are an emotional thing to me. No matter how many times I tell myself to go through them in a rational manner they always tend to drag on to my emotions.  

So when in doubt I often anticipate the worse case which is down. And most of the time when I say something like "we will (probably) go down", it's a sort of despair and an attempt to soothe my before mentioned emotions, not a prediction.  

.... in your description of the various coiners that can't wait for them corns to go up again you seem to have forgotten one kind:
the one ho hasn't sold shit *again*, and who faces another barren run for several years *again*  

A very interesting thought to me is that in order to live (almost) forever, your natural life span doesn't need to reach until the holey grail of longevity is found.  You just have to live long enough until they come up with something that extends your life let's say 25 years.  And within these 25 years they may find something that gives you another 30 ...and so on.

That means there might already be people on the planet today that will live (almost) indefinitely...

What to do with bitcoin halving if you don't have bitcoins.

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The issue of ETFs is important both for the current year and for the next 2-3 years. If there is a possible rejection this summer, it is very likely that this year's bull market will end and we will return to the bear market until the effect of the halving is felt in 1 year. If accepted, it is possible to approach ATH already this year, i.e. to witness a unique bull cycle starting 1 year before the halving. It's clear that this is exactly why Blackrock wants to get in now, not when Bitcoin goes past 100K after the halving.

  It is still not clear, whether the SEC is ready to change its mind. The news from yesterday (or the other day) is that Cboe Refiles Spot Bitcoin ETFs Following Surveillance Agreement with Coinbase, i.e. the text "Expected to enter into an SSA" is replaced by such an agreement already entered into. Of course, Blackrock were the first with a ready SSA.

https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/cboe-refiles-spot-bitcoin-etfs-following-surveillance-agreement-with-coinbase/

Henceforth, the SEC has 2 sensible answers and 1 completely illogical one - the result of personal intrigues, political and financial influence, etc.:

1. Direct approval of all spot ETFs. The SEC can now feel victorious that they have brought Coinbase into some form of regulation, so this option is quite likely.
2. Indirect approval, subject to extending the scope of SSA. This means a requirement for the so-called  pull actions i.e. the information-sharing agreement, under which the SEC will be able to request the personal data of those suspected of manipulations. I can only speculate here that Blackrock and the others would immediately enter into one, as long as Coinbase didn't object. Given that this will bode well for the stocks and help their future cooperation with the SEC, I believe that Coinbase has no basis for such a refusal. This topic is discussed in one article, but there is no comment from Blackrock et al.:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/blackrock-bitcoin-etf-application-takes-160452048.html
3. Denial on grounds of manipulation and that most of the volume is in non-US exchanges. This, of course, is just a front behind which are the nefarious interests of certain high-ranking bankers, feds and politicians who are pulling clown Gary's strings. However, this behavior is becoming increasingly unlikely, especially if the Grayscale wins the case and is joined by Blackrock in the event of a refusal. As Jay Clayton said recently, it is becoming very difficult to sustain the SEC denial.

So, the chances for an ETF approval are much higher now, than 2 months ago. And with a possible information-sharing agreement, IMO they would be over 90%.

This is not the decoupling I asked for.  

Friendly advice,
Zoom out your chart,
There is no false Green Dildo.
Bitcoin has never been bearish, It's always bullish.
Everything depends on your perspective! change it and you're bullish again! Join me  

That's the thing. They don't fucking know better. Even though they should.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: its not so much about limiting spam but teaching the valuable lesson that being a lazy kiss-ass spammer doesn't pay in life.

If you want the idiotic twitter posts to stop, stop meriting merit farmers. If you want it to continue, by all means, keep meriting these asshats.

Its not some poor soul from a third-world country who needs a few shekels to buy grain for their family: it's a full fledged fucking enterprise and you're fucking enabling it.

Yes and it's also on Spotify; I've asked all the pertinent questions but apparently I'm missing the point and I've decided it's easier simply to defer to her superior intelligence.  She's doing waaaaaay better in school than I ever did - I don't want to mess with that

Indeed. 

S&P 500, https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/CME_MINI-ES1!/

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