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divabot posted:the editor apparently loved my book and had wanted to get me to write something for ages, evidently I just hadn't been whoring myself out hard enough previously for him to realise I'm on twitter 16hr/day I was actually thinking about this the other day. Is there any money in writing about Bitcoin? I know authors who write on a variety of topics, and (especially the ones who go traditional print routes) the $/hour return they end up with is abysmal. Only two of them manage to earn their entire livings by writing, and even that’s a stretch, because they also do speaking engagements, and other writing-adjacent things. I’m not sure if Bitcoin being a niche product means it’s harder to earn money writing about it because the audience is small, or easier because the supply of writers is also small. It would be awesome if your book earned you half a million dollars or pounds or whatever, but the authors I know end up earning more like a few thousand dollars total for an entire book. On the plus side, a book might continue earning them $50/month until the end of time.
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Norton the First posted:I seriously cannot wait for the next market crash. Too blockchain to fail
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:I was actually thinking about this the other day. Is there any money in writing about Bitcoin? I know authors who write on a variety of topics, and (especially the ones who go traditional print routes) the $/hour return they end up with is abysmal. Only two of them manage to earn their entire livings by writing, and even that’s a stretch, because they also do speaking engagements, and other writing-adjacent things. I’m not sure if Bitcoin being a niche product means it’s harder to earn money writing about it because the audience is small, or easier because the supply of writers is also small. divabot has made more money off bitcoin that the vast majority of coiners, with a stupid little ebook he wrote that costs like five bucks. What's the count up to now Diva? Like, 25k?
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:I was actually thinking about this the other day. Is there any money in writing about Bitcoin? I know authors who write on a variety of topics, and (especially the ones who go traditional print routes) the $/hour return they end up with is abysmal. Only two of them manage to earn their entire livings by writing, and even that’s a stretch, because they also do speaking engagements, and other writing-adjacent things. I’m not sure if Bitcoin being a niche product means it’s harder to earn money writing about it because the audience is small, or easier because the supply of writers is also small. Tashilicious posted:divabot has made more money off bitcoin that the vast majority of coiners, with a stupid little ebook he wrote that costs like five bucks. so I did my taxes for 2017-2018, and I made £51k in my day job as an overpaid computer toucher, and £23k from book and talks (including £2.5k from telling bankers why blockchain is pants - I will usually ask for £500, freebies for suitably charitable events, the thing Spiked Online ran where they couldn't afford to pay panelists but were charging £90/ticket can go gently caress itself beyond even my ability to express concisely). that's, like, a seriously successful self-published book that was released at precisely the right time, and being self-published I keep the publisher share too 2018-2019 should be lower. but yeah, sales are now at that sorta low steady pace. basically the path to Kindle success is releasing an okay book every few months, and building up a comet tail of small earners. total sales by now are around 9,000 paid sales which is numbers even a proper publisher would be delighted with, so I'm actually surprised I've had 0 approaches
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Tashilicious posted:When's your sequel coming out? "Son of the 50 foot Blockchain : the ICO that shagged me" ?
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pounded in the butt by various exchanges going insolvent by chuck tingle
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A guy I know has been Facebook posting about the Jp Morgan bitcoin thing. Talking about how they were condemning crypto up until the point that they’ve released their own. Seems like a strange move on their part honestly, bit late to the game.
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Abongination posted:A guy I know has been Facebook posting about the Jp Morgan bitcoin thing. Talking about how they were condemning crypto up until the point that they’ve released their own. What, are you trying to say major american banks tend to be way behind the times on technology? I mean it only took them like a decade to bring chip and pin to America, and they only started instituting well after the rest of the world had learned to hack chip and pin negating almost all the possible benefits.
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It's: 1.Backed by a major financial institution. 2.Not available to the general public. 3.Tied to the US dollar. 4.Not mine-able. How is it like bitcoin at all?
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But without the drug dealing and insolvency and instability it's just not fun!
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Tashilicious posted:When's your sequel coming out? when i finish it, which will probably be one day maybe in other news i missed my plane to greece this morning, so i just dropped a painful amount on EasyJet return tickets - a fitting punishment - and will be going tomorrow. greece2.txt shall happen!!
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Lmao the banks launder more drug money in a year than bitcoin ever will. Wasn't there a Hong Kong bank a few years ago that was knowingly and deliberately washing literaly billions of usd in drug money for the cartels in exchange for a cut, and no one was put to death for it? Drug dealing, insolvency, instability? Who needs bitcoin when these features are already built into the banks without needing to launch their own altcoin.
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McGiggins posted:Lmao the banks launder more drug money in a year than bitcoin ever will. Wasn't there a Hong Kong bank a few years ago that was knowingly and deliberately washing literaly billions of usd in drug money for the cartels in exchange for a cut, and no one was put to death for it? bitcoin is a lot faster and safer than stuffing a flat rate box full of 20s
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSBC#Controversies they got fined ~1.9B, but pretty sure they didn't actually pay anything and the criminal charges were dropped. Like nothing happened.
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poverty goat posted:bitcoin is a lot faster and safer than stuffing a flat rate box full of 20s
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McGiggins posted:Lmao the banks launder more drug money in a year than bitcoin ever will. Wasn't there a Hong Kong bank a few years ago that was knowingly and deliberately washing literaly billions of usd in drug money for the cartels in exchange for a cut, and no one was put to death for it? Despite the name, HSBC is not 'a Hong Kong bank'. Think more British Wells Fargo or Bank of America.
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McGiggins posted:Lmao the banks launder more drug money in a year than bitcoin ever will. Wasn't there a Hong Kong bank a few years ago that was knowingly and deliberately washing literaly billions of usd in drug money for the cartels in exchange for a cut, and no one was put to death for it? my car had a flat tire instead of fixing it, I threw that poo poo out and got a reliant robin
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Klyith posted:my car had a flat tire That's the loving story of bitcoin right there
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:Faster? Maybe. Safer? Cards with money in them get stolen all the time and an uninsured box of undeclared uninsured cash is early christmas for that rear end in a top hat. Bitcoin has delivered on all its promises in spades when it comes to illegal e-commerce. Buying drugs on the internet is now safer and more reliable than buying drugs from a sketchy guy you met at a bar, the drugs are better, and the scene is booming. Energy control did a study a while back and found that the worst dark web cocaine was better than the best street cocaine, because all the vendors are now in competition and cannot murder each other. Established vendors have years of customer feedback now and bend over backwards to provide excellent customer service. This is all possible through the magic of butts and the free market. Hallelujah
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revwinnebago posted:What, are you trying to say major american banks tend to be way behind the times on technology? I mean it only took them like a decade to bring chip and pin to America, and they only started instituting well after the rest of the world had learned to hack chip and pin negating almost all the possible benefits. No no we got chip and signature, providing all the transistion costs with none of the benefits and a 500% slower transaction at the point of sale.
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poverty goat posted:Cards with money in them get stolen all the time and an uninsured box of undeclared uninsured cash is early christmas for that rear end in a top hat. Bitcoin has delivered on all its promises in spades when it comes to illegal e-commerce. Buying drugs on the internet is now safer and more reliable than buying drugs from a sketchy guy you met at a bar, the drugs are better, and the scene is booming. Energy control did a study a while back and found that the worst dark web cocaine was better than the best street cocaine, because all the vendors are now in competition and cannot murder each other. Established vendors have years of customer feedback now and bend over backwards to provide excellent customer service. This is all possible through the magic of butts and the free market. Hallelujah Isn't getting drugs delivered through the mail to your house super dangerous though? Also giving your details to a burtcon exchange
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divabot posted:so I did my taxes for 2017-2018, and I made £51k in my day job as an overpaid computer toucher, and £23k from book and talks (including £2.5k from telling bankers why blockchain is pants - I will usually ask for £500, freebies for suitably charitable events, the thing Spiked Online ran where they couldn't afford to pay panelists but were charging £90/ticket can go gently caress itself beyond even my ability to express concisely). That's pretty good. $26,000 from a single book for anyone not named Stephen King or JK Rowling is no joke. Popping 40% on top of your day job is nice.
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poverty goat posted:Buying drugs on the internet is now safer and more reliable than buying drugs from a sketchy guy you met at a bar yeah just gonna break international drug laws with this transaction on a public ledger and hope the cops never seize this server for as long as my name and shipping address remains on it. way safer than just meeting some festival hippies edit- who buy on the darknet for you.
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feedmegin posted:Despite the name, HSBC is not 'a Hong Kong bank'. Think more British Wells Fargo or Bank of America. This said, HSBC was pretty much founded as an opium profiteer, so, you know, they're just keeping in touch with their roots.
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poverty goat posted:all the vendors are now in competition and cannot murder each other.
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Pochoclo posted:Isn't getting drugs delivered through the mail to your house super dangerous though? It's far safer from a search and seizure perspective to have the post office deliver your drugs than to walk or drive with them (especially if you are not white), and the postal inspectors are federal and don't even bother following up small quantities of drugs. Traffic stops are the primary wellspring of drug busts in America and should be avoided at all costs
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poverty goat posted:It's far safer from a search and seizure perspective to have the post office deliver your drugs than to walk or drive with them (especially if you are not white), and the postal inspectors are federal and don't even bother following up small quantities of drugs. Traffic stops are the primary wellspring of drug busts in America and should be avoided at all costs You sound very knowledgeable and correct but goons will Dunning-Kruger themselves all over you because the unpopular thing that goons hate must be unequivocally bad in every single way
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But what if kids steal it and cost me thousands of dollars of profit 
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EorayMel posted:But what if kids steal it and cost me thousands of dollars of profit Then those kids are gonna have a great fukn night and realize that they need to get in on this. Verdict: good for Bitcoin
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EorayMel posted:But what if kids steal it and cost me thousands of dollars of profit I saw a post on reddit where some guy said some local kids stole his package of research chemicals that would likely kill them. Probably bullshit because reddit, but hey.
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Someone posted that in here (or maybe the amber thread) and iirc it was a gram of pure fentanyl or something that he was planning on cutting with dextrose down to dime bags or some poo poo. I think he said he told their parents and threw out all his drug paraphernalia
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https://twitter.com/hongkonghermit/status/1097165343586320386?s=21 Nothing says innovative digital currency like a broken “buy only” ATM located down a side road that is bypassed by 99% of all local pedestrian traffic and requires a 10 minute detour to reach.
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Pochoclo posted:Isn't getting drugs delivered through the mail to your house super dangerous though? Also giving your details to a burtcon exchange I always used to get it delivered to the house under a false name so if they were being tracked I could say I get their mail all the time and threw it out / it's not mine. I did wonder how well that would've held up but I never had to find out. Used to get drugs delivered regularly, like once a month for a few years. It was never huge amounts, 10g was the biggest, usually 2-3g worth.
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divabot posted:so I did my taxes for 2017-2018, and I made £51k in my day job as an overpaid computer toucher, and £23k from book and talks (including £2.5k from telling bankers why blockchain is pants - I will usually ask for £500, freebies for suitably charitable events, the thing Spiked Online ran where they couldn't afford to pay panelists but were charging £90/ticket can go gently caress itself beyond even my ability to express concisely). I spent more money on your book than I will ever spend on bitcoin. Glad I made your taxes complicated
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The real danger is the drug seller getting busted and selling out his customers, not the post office checking your packages. Also, winners don't do drugs. Buy some beers or something, jfc.
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"The majority of drug busts are traffic stops. So my Bitcoin scheme is way safer." *Drives away from the post office with 5 "birthday cards" every week*
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