Probably a better investment than crypto or NFTs, but that's not saying much.

Bitcoin has been through some pretty big dips. I’m not worried, and not selling.

Please.. it was around 5000 in 2020 remember and that is the last projection I read.

Current thought is market is headed back to pre fed stimulus numbers which makes sense if you think about it.

Dow should end up under 20k also.

Buying the dip would mean under 5k.

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These Silicon Valley babies can play with someone else's money.

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Crypto is a sham. Good luck with it.

Video definitely has "pharma bro buys Wu-Tang album" energy.

This joke gets posted every time someone wants to ridicule a theme, but if we're talking Lauren Faust's Friendship is Magic era of MLP, that show is stellar! I watched a bunch of it with my kids when they were little and it's better than any cartoon I grew up on.

In the Pinside top 100, I count 62 licensed themes, and IMO only 15 or so come from source material that's as good or better than the theme that we use as our mane go-to joke.

So, yes, I 100% unironically agree, My Little Pony would be better

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I‘d be in. (Cornerstone+)

It's not a sham but it's in desperate need of structure and some regulation.

So you pay in Bitcoin not quarters to play, right?

I was buying Hot Sauce, Ghost Pepper chips and Cat 5 cables with Bitcoin back in 2011 with bitcoin. I got in very early I had a lot of coin and fortunately had managed to hold onto a few. None of my friends ever dreamed that it would be what it is today. It was novelty to some extent with some early adapter believers who gambled big.. The reason it succeeded was because of lack of regulation and structure and dark web. Government cracked down on dark web but still lots of grey money in it and big money for now.. It is worth 20k only because of belief and marketing.

Kind of like Pinball it's only worth what people will pay for it.

Is this game just a Theme and shallow as the NFTs it is marketing.

As Bloomberg mentioned today...

the smart money is already out, everyone else will likely just keep riding it to the bottom as support collapses.

Same shit happened in the .com market and history always repeats itself.

Like any form of gambling the house always wins and the people who can least afford to get plowed usually do.

Like the .com market I would take 19 pets.com for 1 eBay or Amazon.

This quote from Bloomberg

"The seeds that spawned the meltdown — greed, overuse of leverage, a dogmatic belief in “number go up” — aren’t anything new. They’ve been present when virtually every other asset bubble popped"

Of course for most of the Pinball community - Pinball is Mad Money and who gives a F

If pinball prices would crash down back to zero I'd still have my games to enjoy.

Bitcoin was not intended to become a speculative trading tool though, it was billed as a digital currency.

If it and other coins ever want to be taken seriously there has to be more structure and oversight or it's just gambling. Even worse if the trading app you're using freezes your account. Like you say, just worth any amount people are willing to pay.

Honestly for any crypto you care about you should be using a Ledger or other offline storage device. Thats one of the beautiful things about crypto, nobody can ever freeze your account or shut you down. Don't think that can and will happen with your bank accounts? Its already happening and not just because of "criminal" activity.

Or get into crypto and get completely wiped out in one day pick your poison I guess.

Bank accounts don't get frozen because the bank can't pay out. Criminal activity is a whole other ball game, I'm not into that so no worries!

I don't think the Canadian truckers were into criminal activity either, but too bad for them.

I think that was a tiny handful of people and who knows what they were up to.

I only downvoted you because one person is too many and you don't just freeze bank accounts like that. No trial no nothing, just take your money put you homeless on the streets. I don't think so that is a horrendous way to think and to accept it.

I have seen nothing that indicates anyone was left homeless or never got back into their bank accounts. There were several illegitimate "go fund me" campaigns going on at the time also.

I work in the banking and investment industry. Things don't happen for no reason.

Not only that, but a very bad precedent to set and the slipperiest of slopes. Also, while I agree the term "tiny handful" is subjective, 206 people seems like an awful lot to me. You are exactly right though, 1 person is 1 person too many.

"illegitimate" gofundmes don't lead to frozen bank accounts and the vast majority, if not all, were legit. It was just a political statement by gofundme. Then they went to alternate funding sites which those sites actually got their merchant services revoked and the owners can probably never do online commerce again (without crypto). Also these peoples information all got leaked. Publicly doxed. Again something you wouldn't have to worry about with crypto (for the most part). You might think you're immune to such a thing happening, but you don't know what could change in the future. Is "you said something deemed too naughty on the internet 15 years ago and now your accounts are locked" really that much of a stretch? I personally don't think so, but I sure hope it never comes to that, although we're already seeing it a bit.

Also yes, they did eventually get their accounts back. I'm sure you know most people don't just have enough cash laying around their house to just live life for months while their bank accounts are locked.

Is there a Canadian Trucker NFT now?

Don't get me wrong - I don't agree with locking of accounts but if there is suspected criminal activity or money laundering, good luck. Regulation in the banking industry is tight.

For the record I always keep substantial cash in the house for pinball and/or emergencies. More for pinball though.

Cash is king.

I apologize if I got us of tangent.. Guess there is not much info about this title.

I know a dude who sold a couple pins via Bitcoin and lost 20% of that payment due to market fluctuations.
Think he's going come out owing taxes after all is said and done thanks Uncle Scam.

Fun Fun.

Yeah you're absolutely right. The money laundering thing is an excuse that actually gets used a lot when they want to close down somebodies merchant services, even if its beyond clear that isn't whats happening. Ask Dick Masterson and his New Project 2 patreon alternative about that.

Most ordinary people don't just keep 10s of thousands of dollars around their house. I keep a little "petty cash" fund locked away in my safe too but it ain't much. If I was locked out of my bank account I'd be screwwwwwed

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