It's kind of sad that the EU does not follow suit and is still very anti-Bitcoin, but the US is bound to affect EU policy sooner or later.

I really like seeing US policy turning more and more pro-Bitcoin. If the plan to establish a Strategic Bitcoin (BTC, not crypto) Reserve really goes through, we should expect to see a huge, possibly order-of-magnitude (10x) price increase in the coming year or two. It looks like 2025 will be a very interesting year for Bitcoin HoDLers, different from (and better than) past cycles. It could even mean that the "rinse and repeat" cycle strategy of some of us should, perhaps, be revised to something like "never rinse, buy when you can, sell when you must". I, for one, am very hesitant to sell large chunks at the supposed peak of this cycle ($200k? More?)... Will it really be the peak, or the beginning of a major long-term uptrend? Will there ever be a "Bitcoin winter"? Perhaps I'm too bullish and will miss the chance to multiply my stash by "selling high, buying low", but I just can't bear the thought of selling and not being able to buy back.

It's kind of sad that the EU does not follow suit and is still very anti-Bitcoin, but the US is bound to affect EU policy sooner or later.

Onwards and upwards. What a time to be alive!

 I'm just being obtuse.  I also had a small steel tackle box as a basic kit which got "upgraded" to a stamped aluminum box with 2 plastic collapsing trays - a birthday gift from my grampa.  That one had all the basics in it plus a few favourite lures and the tools (knife - a Rapala fish 'n filet naturally - needle nose pliers, scale) I used to keep that box and a fishing rod in my car all the time just behind the driver's seat.  Back then, I never locked my vehicle... there was no need; people just didn't mess with your stuff.  I went to my car early one morning which I had parked out behind my apartment building and saw that the doors were ajar and also the glovebox was open.  My first thought was that my younger brother had come by to borrow something and I was pissed off that he would have left the doors ajar like that - could have killed my battery!  I looked in the glovebox, didn't notice anything missing, closed it up and pulled closed the passenger door as well.  I had to get to work so I didn't have time to give my brother shit.  Then I reached for the seatbelt and realized something wasn't right.  I turned to look in the back seat and my fishing rod was missing.  "Ah!  He came by to borrow my fishing gear", I thought, "Sweet!  Fresh pickerel fillets for dinner tonight!"  Then I wasn't so angry about the doors.  I didn't even have time to go fishing at that time anyway.  I had a 7:30 to 4  steady day job and a part-time job where I worked some weekdays from 4:30 to 11 and weekends... as much as they needed me - sometimes from 9am until 11pm.  So if my little brother could get some use out of my gear, that was great; I was on a mission to pay off my student loan and save the down payment for a house.  Anyway, sadly, there were no pickerel filets forthcoming because my brother hadn't come by to borrow my fishing gear.  Somebody else had "borrowed" it.  I would occasionally wander along the local creek checking out the fishermen's gear to see if I couldn't find my box.  It was pretty distinctive because I had sprayed a mottled finish on it with some leftover 1974 Chevy midnight metallic blue touch up paint and some leftover candy apple red I had used when I refinished a neighbour's bicycle frame.  It looked pretty cool imo

 Sorry, I got a little nostalgic for the simpler times when cars didn't need to be locked let alone outfitted with proximity and intrusion alarms and kept in a locked garage with a surveillance system and then a GPS tracking device and remote shut off just in case all else fails; insert old an yelling at clouds.gif  

  Gentlemen, I see US$108,364?  Nice.  Maybe I'll sell 10,000 sats and see if I can find a couple pizzas that same box and some of that touch up paint so I can recreate my old tackle box.

Remarkable result, given the 0.63BTC you may or may not have.