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I looked into staking my etherium and this is what Coinbase said: "After staking, you’ll be unable to trade, send, or sell the ETH you’ve staked until the Ethereum 2.0 upgrade is complete. However, later this year we expect to offer a way for you to trade your staked ETH." So I guess if I suddenly wanted out, I couldn't until Coinbase told me I could, and who knows how long that might be.

Crypto actually doesn't track with inflation.

Seems like that would be a particularly enjoyable day, grilling out and sitting there listening to the river crack.

I know of a couple who rented out a room in House on the Rock for their wedding. Was something like $30k. And I don't think they were particularly wealthy. Adding to it you've probably still got student loans at that point, gotta buy furniture and all that. And then save up for a baby in a year or three. I like what a cousin of mine did. Have a super-super-small wedding that basically only parents are invited to, do your honeymoon, and then invite everyone you want for a big picnic gathering. Plus since it was after the honeymoon the couple isn't exhausted from the day and more able to spend time with everyone else. ---- Meanwhile in crypto-land, I wonder if this is the start of that bigger gain everyone had been predicting. A cousin of mine called me yesterday looking to start with some play-around money but I had a hard time telling him that now is the right time, but rather suggested waiting for the next dip. I'm up 49% in crypto since 4/1, but weirdly I think this is going to turn out to be a bad lesson for me in expecting returns like that to be the norm. I made 1.4% in the real market for April and for a second I thought that was kinda bad, but it's actually not really that bad for a month.

The Astros hire a lot of computer hackers, don't they? Make sure to tell your son to tell off Attanasio when he goes in for the interview. "You've reduced this team to a laughing stock all for the glorification of your massive ego!"

I was/am 1-4 on finding a commissary (commercial kitchen) to start my hot dog business. The one that would take me is far away and I decided that would be too much work for a secondary income. Finally got a hold of the one I wanted and they're in the middle of remodeling and opening a second location, and they should have room for me in about two months. I won't have a full season of it, but that's no big deal at all. It'll give me more time to practice, scout a good location and get everything ready. I thought I could vend at a state park, but some very high ups sent a mass email saying I definitely can not.

They don't have dividends, but a few pay interest at varying rates. I'm holding Algorand through Coinbase right now and it pays 6%, so it's been automatically re-investing $0.41 for me every day. But considering how much crypto goes up and down, I certainly wouldn't use interest as any factor to invest or not. Plus I'd wait for prices to tank again before holding long-term. I hear a lot of folks expecting a tank sometime around Q3, so once they do and everybody says crypto is worthless I'll buy back and hold more long-term. Bitcoin has a set amount that will ever be mined to fight inflation and others don't have that limit. So it's my understanding that some like Algorand will do a controlled release of more to current owners as their way of adjusting things.

Coinbase has outrageous fees. A new broker or the SEC allowing crypto ETFs would really cut into Coinbase's market share. Only competitive advantage they seem to have right now is they're WAY easier to use, but that's not a particularly big barrier for someone else to cross. I won't be buying their IPO.

Can't say I've ever done a three-day proof, so what do you mean by "proper flour"? Do you mean a higher-end brand like King Arthur, or more the type of flour like a 00?

I do. More of a Roman style if you want to look up a recipe. I'll use bread flour instead of AP, and you definitely want a pizza stone (or better yet a pizza steel) if you want a crispy bottom, which you'll want to pre-heat for at least a half hour at whatever the hottest setting your oven will go. And if you get a pizza peel (or the back side of a big cookie sheet), some cornmeal will help prevent it from sticking to it. And jiggle the dough on the peel before you add toppings to make sure it slides around. And then get the toppings on in a hurry. Also a pretty good difference in taste and texture if you're able to proof the dough in the fridge overnight. Strangely I've yet to try a sourdough pizza crust, but I need to.

At least the advantage of meetings being virtual now is they can't see I'm on brewerfan and not paying attention to them.

There was a point I was close to buying an old fridge to rig up a curing room to make charcuterie, but then I realized nobody else but me would be eating it. The charcuterie fridge bags are great if you want to experiment and just try it, but too expensive if you want to make it more of a hobby. They're really not for dry-aging, though, or at least overkill.

Weird binance took a test deposit I made a few days ago (which still doesn't show up in my bank account), but now bigger deposits of $1000 are all failing. Despite the higher fees I'm tempted to go back to Coinbase. It's WAY more user-friendly, anyway.

Clearly you're going to have to buy a wine fridge and convert it to age your own steaks. It's really not much of a process.

Coinbase fees are a little higher than Binance, mostly.

Just pulled everything out of Coinbase and will be switching to Binance, but will need a lot of Youtube videos to figure out how Binance works. It also double-deposited, so I'm glad I started with test money. Really hesitate to move things around on Fidelity for my real stocks. I'm really just selling low, as they've mostly all lost the big gains they made from January. But with two more money giveaways along with a likely increase to the corporate tax, I'd like to move into something more recession-resilient or betting on the downward trend. Just what that'll be, I don't know yet.

Grayscale has halted the sale of their bitcoin ETF because their shares are tracking at 15% below the value of actual Bitcoin. They haven't stopped their Ethereum yet but it's been about the same.

$500 for the box and $100/mo for the service. Definitely higher than your average service. It was $100 just to get my name on the first-served list when it does come here.

Since I mentioned "The Detectorists," "Black Books" is another short-run British series that's worth watching.

Sounds like we're talking about the same basic thing. This is the video which refers to it and that similar past correction: Though I'm kinda souring on that channel as it's a lot of "100x gains!" and "parabolic" and such. And I think largely he pushes whatever new crypto daily because he's already purchased it and his viewers will give it that little bump. I've considered buying whatever he says, taking that little bump and then selling the next day, but it requires buying stuff not for sale on Coinbase and storage gets more complicated off that site. I have a blockchain ETF that I bought at the exact wrong time, and have the Grayscale etherium ETF, but I'll have to compare Grayscale to the regular Coinbase version, as I suspect some of crypto's gains are depressed a little in the Grayscale ETF. Planning on holding onto Vale, a big nickel miner out of Brazil. Mostly waiting on them getting some big contract with an EV company. Despite them recently allowing a dam to break and kill people, they've also been putting a lot of money into environmental standards, and compared to other nickel miners they seem to be the most environmentally friendly miner to capture contracts from EV companies which also want to promote the environmental nature of their product. But crypto otherwise seems to be a good choice if one buys into the idea of coming inflation and a market correction. That or buy the dip in Apple, I guess.

I thought that was more just a British thing, that they liked to do a lot of short-run shows. Of course the downside is shows like "The Detectorists," which you wish could run a lot more years. Great little series.

Sure glad I at least took some money out a few weeks ago to pay bills. Because yikes. Pro-crypto folks are racing to point out that this drop is identical the the one that happened four years ago before it all really raced up in value. For whatever reason crypto is supposed to be on a four-year cycle, but still, all I could think watching those videos is "So you're telling me that past performance is indicative of future results?"

That's a great show and an even better movie. Speaking of most-all-improvised, The League is still on Hulu, which I recently re-watched. Another great one and really makes you want to play fantasy football. Having a Shiva and Saco trophy for the winner and loser is a great idea. And the way they handled the Pete character at the end was a really nice touch. Paul Scheer is one of the best improvisers out there.

Superstore is an odd show. When it sticks to what it does it can be really funny. But particularly this season some of the episodes can be sooooooo preachy to be unwatchable. It's flipped the script to where Jonah has become the reasonable, grounded character and everyone else is Jonah.

Friend of mine had the Wii with his three young kids. I asked him why he chose that console and he said there's handicaps built into the games and so he can still try as hard as he can yet the final result is always close. I would presume that feature is built into the Switch, too.