Hey! If the donor believed it and a worthwhile cause is over £18K better off, who’s complaining?
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No one is complaining - at least I don’t think they are - about the worthwhile cause having benefited. Personally, I’m delighted, while continuing with me general fear and loathing stance re the phenomenon as a whole.
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Wot Gus said
Young Thai doctor of graceful moves and great beauty is trying to tell the Covid +be nun that bhudda was a caring soul who would have patience and love for her fellow men to endure a few days of incarceration with buns at frequent intervals
Interesting to watch the differing faith approaches
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Actually if you learn what it is and know what you aredoing it can make money. Not now with bitcoin. That does use lots of energy and the time to buy it was 10 years ago and to sell it a couple of years ago. The people that did that did make a fortune.
There are useful currencies that are already underpinning paypal and most bit finance institutions and there are experimental ones that will make money, as well as ones that won’t. You need to know what you are doing but Rory could find out and could easily have had advice from someone who did know and could have made enough to buy Alice a holiday.
We landscaped our garden last year and furnished it too with the profits from crypto, after taking out our initial stake and are still in the game. We bought quite a lot of household stuff too and I set up accounts about 3 years ago for my grandkids, one of whom is old enough to manage his and has enjoyed learning how to do so. I’m just about grasping what is happening but get help.
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Hello Vickya, & welcome.
I haven’t had the brain power to manage day to day life very well for the last 4 years, so wouldn’t touch it with a bargepole, but can see that with concentration, & knowledge & summat with which to gamble, that it could work.
Carinthia.xx
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Welcome Vickya
I can barely manage myself so managing any more than I have in my purse is beyond me
It’s interesting to see that you have made a success of your investments - I just have not the brain for money management
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Tsk.
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At that point it’s merely an environmental crime.
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Thank you 3Wells for the welcome. I did wonder if making my first post one contradicting the trend here would be wise 
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In the early 90s I had a Demon Internet account and knew some of their staff. I’d previously had Prestel in the late 80s and they had travel operators selling their products there, and there was early banking, Midland Bank, too. There was no WWW then, just basic command line access.
I asked about being able in some way to order my weekly supermarket shop online and have it delivered. They said the logistics would never be possible to do things like that. Shopping online? Never! Who knows what we might be able to do in another 30 years?
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Vickya
I met my other half who is a software engineer in 1994
My first idea about computers and connected household appliances was that I could call home and have the oven ready for use when I got home from work
I am still waiting for that because the internet of things is apparently not secure
However I don’t work now so I don’t need to be able to work my things from afar
Memories of Windows 3.1 and dial up modem to keep in touch while he worked abroad
And now my smarter than me phone can do loads more than that laptop could
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I can’t begin to understand cryptocurrencies and don’t feel the need. I’m risk-averse regarding money but will spend out on stuff that others may feel unnecessary - like a new roof, for example. The old gold standard seemed fine, but I am ignorant and shouldn’t be trusted
Soo xx
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Or to put it another way, “I have sufficient self-awareness to know that I may possibly be wrong and any comment, opinion or advice that I offer comes with that implicit caveat. I am therefore considerably more trustworthy than those who cannot even conceive of the possibility that they might be wrong.”
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Ta, joe
Soo xx
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I’m with joe on that one!
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I got the first modem and account to stay in touch with Merchant Navy husband by telex. Then the daughters, 11 and 13, after playing computer games found chatlines. We all made friends and I got hooked on some games too. It cost a fortune to play in those days and husband was not amused at the phone bills.
Ouch for the reminder about phone bills
I still wince when I think of 4 figure bills for just me in the house
I guess “NFTs” are sort of related: someone in work just posted this link on our internal chat:
https://twitter.com/SeanBurkeShow/status/1487048290277408770
[Edited to add: I am NOT a fan of NFTs, and consider them little more than a scam]
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NFTs are money laundering for people who are too stupid to do money laundering, plus bonus environmental crime.
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Have to laugh about Melania Trump’s hat auction: she has been disposing of one of her hats and hoped for cryptocurrency bids in excess of $250,000 – for a hat, good god, a rather dull one at that, you could probably buy a small country for that amount if you shopped around a bit – and was doing quite nicely until the particular currency she’d chosen to accept nosedived and lost 68% of its “value” in a week.
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Recruiter: Come and work in this exciting blockchain firm!
Feral’s Mate: No. I don’t want anything cryptocurrency related on my CV.
Recruiter: Hmm, a lot of people are saying that. Can you explain why?
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