Stive Pesley

we're on episode 4, but don't think I could binge it. Every 30 minute episode is mentally exhausting!

My missus is taking our lad instead of me - no point him missing out! The thing is that it's a small bowel MRI so you have to drink a litre of stuff that swells your gut for the scan and then an hour later you're urgently on and off the khazi for the rest of the day. I didn't fancy my chances with that at Pride Park even if the scan is finished in time. All the cubicles are full of the stone island lads doing coke these days anyway 😂

Bustler also has a record fair on at the same time... Annoyingly I've had tickets for the game since they came out but now can't make it as I have an MRI scan appointment come through for Saturday morning and I can't really cancel it. Some things are more important than some overpaid prats kicking a ball around 😞

Indeed - remember the much vaunted "Derby Way" that MM espoused? He said he would rather we play the entertaining "Derby Way" than grind out the type of sh*thousery 1-0 wins that we saw under Billy Davies. Easy for him to say while he was bankrolling the club but in retrospect, makes you want to weep.

Pretty sure that when I saw him in the nordic tent on the Market Place at xmas he was playing Derby songs and getting a good singalong going (may have been a match day - I can't remember)

The mini and the Fiat 500 maybe, but all those others look big to me. Probably just because generally cars seem to be trending towards the ugly big blocky thing, and no longer compact and sleek. Even hatchbacks seem designed to look like 4x4 these days As I said - I'm not a fan of cars anyway 😂

Does this give you your own local wallet or are you holding it with a broker like coinbase? (And therefore at risk of losing it all when they over leverage and go bankrupt)

Correct. Until they figure out a net zero way to mine. Which is essential if bitcoin is to have a future. If nothing changes in terms of energy generation prices then after the next couple of halvings mining will likely stop as uneconomical

Both of them They have averaged less than one goal per game this season, and we've conceded the fewest goals in the league (even less than Pompey) Not to be complacent, as stranger things have happened, but as long as we stay focussed at the back we will be fine

Yeah - my point was really that the last 100 years of mining is going to look nothing like the first 35 years of mining, as the halving becomes an ever smaller multi digit 0.000n per block and the number of remaining coins dwindles down to virtually nothing. It's not going to be the gradual change that you might imagine when you think of it being "120 years until the last coin is mined". It's an exponential shrinking of the supply. By 2040 - BTC as we know it is largely done and it will become a very different beast Which is probably a good thing - as once the supply stabilises to hardly anything, then so might the price and it may become a useful asset rather than just a speculative one. I wouldn't bank on it though! (pun intended)

Great! They have added a feature that literally every other app has had for years... Who is going to switch to using Twitter for this, when they've embedded the use of other apps for it? What is his market differentiator here that will convince people to change apps? Stuff like this really just underlines how much of a dead duck the app is. What will he add next? A calendar function, or maybe Snake

on what planet is it a "news app" and which 161 countries?? The lack of a source makes it ripe for some serious community notes! I assume that this one of his shadow accounts? This is a far more interesting tweet. I'm wondering if the one you posted was a honey trap, as the vast majority of replies are engagement farmers

Interesting - but does anyone actually use Twitter because they think "oh I hope that I get some ads targeted at me that will make me want to buy something"? Most users will block the accounts of advertisers anyway. It's not what they want from the app The fact that they now have some sort of smoke and mirrors AI which allows "algorithms to reach people beyond your targeted audience" sounds good for the advertisers, but bad for the users and will turn them away. Which in the long run is bad for the advertisers. All feels like a death spiral to me

Definitely going to be interesting to see if the halving follows previous patterns. My gut instinct says it won't, but I don't know if it will be better or worse! It's the first halving event since the ETFs got involved, and I suspect that will be influential in a way that we can't predict yet The next 16 years should be an eye-opener. By the halving in 2040, the reward will be down to 0.09 blocks and there will probably only be a couple of hundred coins mined per year. From there on in - the last 100 years (till the predicted final BTC in 2140), the supply of new coins is going to be so close to zero that we reach the end game. When there is no more supply, and no mining to be done. What do we do with these bitcoins? 🤔

Thanks for confirming I've not missed the point Although I understand the technical concept of the halving and the reasons for it - it's a weird one that doesn't translate at all to human behaviour and our concepts of money/work and reward If you said to a worker - on this set date you will do the same amount of work but we will only pay you 50% of your current wages, or alternatively you can all do twice as much work but for the same wages - they would all quit immediately I know that BTC miners are computers and not people, but they still have fixed costs in terms of energy. It's not been practical to mine BTC on a home set up for years due to it costing more in energy that you would ever be able to mine I know someone who was sys admin at mid-sized IT company and he set up a mining rig on some unused servers (this was about 10 years ago). He managed to mine some coin but had to switch it off when someone noticed the electricity bill had shot up!

Sometimes yeah, maybe but this is not an example at all. She deleted the tweet herself once it became clear that she was 100% wrong, and left totally exposed as having said something hugely prejudiced. She wasn't "shut down" or "cancelled". And this is from someone who is very vocal about perceived anti-semitism (to the point of also shooting herself in the foot when she said that she "didn't look like a typical jew"!). You'd think she might be a bit more aware of religious stereotyping There are certain topics where we really need to all learn to think about what we are about to say before we say it. Sadly some people seem determined to say controversial stuff just for the publicity

I dunno - it feels kinda racist when, the moment there is an attack where someone goes loco and kills a bunch of people, before the motive or the identity of the killer is known, for someone to state on a public forum that it was an islamic terrorist

I assume that BTC price will also be to some degree be driven by oil prices/energy costs? Unless I have my thinking wrong, after halving it requires twice as much energy consumption to mine the same amount of coins, so therefore mining costs will double. If BTC value goes lower than the cost of the energy required to mine the coins, then miners will stop mining, increasing scarcity and driving the BTC price up until it becomes profitable to mine again

Watched the first episode last night and it was really wince-inducing in parts (intentional - not in a bad way!) looking forward to seeing how it pans out I like that it's a true story and therefore won't just be some glitzed up version of stalking (like the ridiculously daft 'You' on Netflix) and already you are starting to find yourself flipping between sympathy and blame for both characters, so that's quite a feat to pull off

But now she has, she's on it (like a car bonnet)

It will certainly be very interesting if they roll this out globally. I have no interest in paying $1 a year to post on Twitter when I only ever read it. I suspect that outside of the blue tick w**kers there will be a considerable proportion of users in the same boat as me Take out those AND take out the bots and who do you have left? The danger is that it will clearly expose how few real users the site actually has

One for the Metallica fans amongst us

About as diverse as the Reform Party in the UK - what is it with these factions run by angry old blokes? 😂

At least with the football is just harmless entertainment, but search for the phrase "Who are you supporting in this war?" and there are hundreds of thousands of bots/blue ticks posting this over and over again. RT for Iran LIKE for Israel It's not the bloody X Factor or the Merseyside derby...it's real life and people are being killed - but the so-called "saviour of humanity" is just racking up the $$$ by monetising war like it's a 21st century parlour game 😞