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Comment From gold speculation to Bitcoin (Score 1) 190

A 150-years and while the means has changed, from gold to crypto currency, the speculation bubble hasn't. Bitcoin speculation and its fantastic rise is reminiscent of the gold bubble in the late 1860's in the United States. A "Black Friday" from gold speculation and manipulation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Of course well before that there was the "Tulip Mania" in Holland. Yet a reminder of human nature, the "how" changes but not the "what" or "why" in history. Still, for fun back in 2019 I virtually bought $200 worth of bitcoin, or at the time 0.029% of a bitcoin. Now it'd be worth on paper $719.09.

Comment Video game with Chuck Yeager (Score 1) 48

I remember playing a video game "Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... where Chuck Yeager would offer pithy sarcastic remarks when you crashed or collided with an object, aircraft. I did kamikaze runs just to cycle through all the remarks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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