To: TobagoJack who wrote (172486 ) 5/29/2021 4:35:24 AM From: maceng2 Respond to of 218776 <<crytpos >> I like to keep a balance on everything if practible and possible. For me and brother, buying crypto is not FOLO (fear of losing out) it's more FOLE (fear of losing everything) as capital position gets whacked by inflation. My brother was a little shaken and stirred by the dip in Etherium but a review of the situation has shown that we are on the right course. If crypos go to zero tomorrow, savings remain safer. The threat of inflation remains. If UK pound goes to zero, and crypos go to the moon, we at least have a little of savings left in the form of cryptos. It means we will be able to afford a bus ticket to the nearest soup kitchen on a regular basis. A luxury in older age. Walking while very hungry is a harder task as we get older. My brother does not have pm's I have an appropriate balance which I deem to be above 60% in favour of pm's. We don't discuss much as we have a tendency to argue over everything. He has taken the vaccine as just one example of fundamental differences in opinion. Bought some POLYGON (MATIC) yesterday and already have a spectrum of popular crypos. My brother has an even larger spectrum of crypos, but no CSPR or other new tokens from Coinlist site. Very few in the UK have as far as I know. He is considering. Lightweight on DOGE, still have not picked up more as price seems to have gone stable. There is news on DOGE, not sure whats going on but hoping to accumulate some more as I regard the joke coin as seriously as any of the others. tradingview.com "Meanwhile, DOGE’s average transaction value fell sharply from $1.16 million on Sunday to under $240,000 three days later on Wednesday — a drop of almost 80%. The coin’s oversized average transaction value has persisted for much of the past month despite arriving via a much smaller sample size — a sign that Dogecoin was primarily being used by large account holders." Dogecoin whale activity slows down as billions of dollars depart blockchain (fxstreet.com) ERC20 versions of Bitcoin, Dogecoin, and others get a ‘bridge’ to Polygon | Headlines | News | CoinMarketCap & Never mind the whales, no idea what they are up too, I am more interested if Doge is being used for transactions. That is where future will be established, or it falls by the wayside as a fad. This is where eye needs to be kept on the ball imho. Billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Cuban Bullish On Dogecoin as DOGE Dominates Traditional Retail Market Billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Cuban Bullish On Dogecoin as DOGE Dominates Traditional Retail Market ? ZyCrypto Ref: The plain evil Opium Trade. There was some blowback as well, where young people from wealthy backgrounds fell as victims. and where are we today in Afghanistan ? The Taliban look to hold the high ethical ground with exports of Heroin from just 8000 hectares of poppy production in 2001, Hi tech military intervention doesn't look to be the solution. Opium poppy production in Afghanistan (arcgis.com) I am sure, given China's success over the last 20+ years, it will continue to encourage innovation. It's at a cross roads with Cryptos and I guess we will just have to see how it develops. As it holds a lot of dollars, I guess it would be listening to what the USA Fed says. 10 Countries with the Biggest Forex Reserves (investopedia.com) In 10 years from now will Oil etc be quoted in USD's or in something else ? -g- Caspers? yeah keep those. GTC's at $0.25 and below? hmmm. Might do that in the future but have other items I have to focus on first.