Hive Talk

06:16 PM - Ecency

In other words, will inflation affect Hive someday or will things be able to adjust, adapt? But I am not interested in catching up with the most powerful whales. Instead, I believe in cultivating what I do have in life instead.

Multigenerational Value Over Monogenerational Wealth

07:39 PM - Ecency

I disagree with you if you are saying people should be equal financially or with the amount of power they may have, I love the free market and I seek after tons of money, power, influence. However, I do encourage people away from monogenerational wealth, lust, manipulative-power, micromanaged-stress, and debt, and towards an acceleration and momentum commitment at long-term multigenerational family respect, reputation, integrity, honor, position, earned-leadership, land, trade, business, natural resources, value, worth, progress, history, heritage, tradition, culture, charm and perpetual whale-like inheritance.

Bitcoin Talk

07:49 PM - Ecency

People in America could be approached by the IRS or others if they sold Bitcoin to dollars, if they bought a bunch of houses with those dollars. I did buy a plane ticket using Bitcoin in 2017 but the website I used probably took some of the Bitcoin to pay for their service and the rest of the Bitcoin amount was probably exchanged for digital dollars meaning the airlines themselves probably didn't take the Bitcoin directly. Some coffee shops in Vietnam said they were accepting Bitcoin but I decided not to buy any coffee with Bitcoin.

Someday, I hope airlines, real estate agents and others eventually do in fact accept Bitcoin directly if they aren't already. But until then, people should buy Bitcoin and hold onto it for many years or many decades, for as long as it takes kind of thing, people got to think long-term and be super crazy patient with investments and everything, especially in this transitional time in human world history which is going crazy right now like never before.

I'm against the IRS but I'm not going to go out of my way to try to get their attention to like sue me, arrest me, fine me, or whatever. My dream would be to someday wake up and find out the IRS was ended. I say as bad as Steem and Hive whales have been, some of the worse whales are in fact the Internal Revenue System or Service (IRS). People probably should NOT spend too much Bitcoin until maybe many years from now depending on what ends up happening these next few years in the 2020s in world history.

07:59 PM
Pizza is really good and you probably made the right choice as pizza for the family means great memories and I still remember the times when my dad bought us pizza when I was a kid and I enjoyed those moments.

08:12 PM
The rumor is the IRS tends not to always focus too much on transactions and/or other things which may be under $10,000 USD, generally speaking, and I am not saying that is absolute, that might be relating mostly to debt-relating things with loans, banks, etc. But if that is an accurate number, that might also be a way to stay under the "RADAR" or whatever and not to say people are invisible as the NSA and others can spy on a lot of people and figure out a lot of what people are doing. But for the most part, if people are using dollars or other fiat currencies, pay your taxes.

But not that taxes are right. I don't know what the current laws are in different countries relating to an attempt to tax or penalize or whatever Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. First of all in America, many things can and should violate the 4th amendment meaning it is actually not the business of the IRS or others to know. On the airplane, I got a questionnaire asking how much Bitcoin I have. I said none. It is true that I have no Bitcoin because Bitcoin lives on the blockchain. You technically can only obtain access to Bitcoin using a 12-worded passphrase seed or a key password of random digits and numbers or something. John McAfee gave a good summary of what Bitcoin is and is not.

The IRS may seek after knowing how much money you might have. But some have argued to say that something like Bitcoin is not technically money or anything else that the IRS might be going after. But nonetheless, right or wrong, the IRS and others do try very hard to go after people for all kinds of things and many times tyrannical government are in fact wrong but that doesn't mean we should be say excessively reckless about it.

Talking About Voting & Whales

11:13 PM - Ecency

I use Hive Vote to upvote automatically. I vote and sometimes larger whales can vote after I do. When whales upvote after me, then I am rewarded for voting before the total price of a post goes up high enough. I have no idea what high enough means and I guess it depends on how many people vote on a post, when they vote, the weight, the total payout after 7 days, the details of the rewards pool in contrast with all the other posts and payouts and everything.

Hive Vote Boost

But what I do know is since I started using Hive Vote back in like May or June of 2021, my HP went from around like 700 or 800 HP to 960 HP. And REP went from like 63.1 to 63.5 REP in these past several months too. I know when compared to the largest whales, these numbers are very small perhaps. But in my little mind, I am at least a little excited about perceived or alleged progress. I cannot say or prove that what I am saying is a very big deal but I do know the numbers are going up a bit faster.

On Hive, I'm 63.5 REP, and 60 REP on Steemit where I still copy and paste my blog to. But I am not doing auto-voting or any other voting on Steemit as I only use it to mirror my blog. But this contrast shows me Hive Vote is helping me a little and that is better than nothing I guess and so I am content about that to say the least and will take whatever I can get and take it a day at a time.