Comment · Sat, June 18, 2022 · ND Owner
Lab Testing Results Of Turkesterone, Beta Ecdysterone, and Gorilla Mind Sigma
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MisterYouAreSoDumb · 866 points
Okay, so I am finally getting around to make a post about the results of some of the lab testing we have been doing. I've had the results for a bit, but I've been holding off on officially releasing them because frankly it stresses me out these days. It's the same song and dance every time, and it is one I have been doing for a decade now. I release results showing other products are not what they claim, then people attack me and claim I am lying to sell more product. Sometimes the attacks are relatively harmless, and just raise my blood pressure a bit for a day or two. Other times they are death threats to me, my family, and my team. It's not fun sometimes. You'll notice I don't do this nearly as much as I did back in the day on /r/Nootropics. I was younger and more gung-ho then, and had a lot less on my plate. Plus, my family and team kind of pleaded with me to stop doing it so much because of all the attacks and threats. This is why I have not been releasing things like this as much these days. It's not because product quality magically got better in the industry, I can tell you that much! Anyway, let's just get into it.
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RarageInTheGarage · 1 points
I'm convinced ETH will pretty handily surpass BTC in a matter of time. I really don't think BTC can scale practically anymore at this point. BTC was interesting historically as a prototype that paved the way for everything else, but IMO its value/market cap currently being way higher than everything else is largely just due to a) coasting on its reputation from being the first mover and b) by virtue of the vast majority of altcoins being shit.
Have you tried making a self-hosted BTC wallet lately via the fully "manual" route, meaning using a thick client, having to download the whole blockchain yourself to not involve any third party services? Even on a 1gbps fiber connection, it took over 6 hours to download the ~450GB blockchain, as it's sent via a slow distributed P2P connection! Then to create the new wallet and transfer BTC from CoinBase, it took well over an hour to get the 6 node confirmations to finalize the transaction! Here's a graph showing the wide time variance to get 6 confirmations - you only have a ~57% chance of it completing within 60 minutes. Responsiveness is at least as important of a metric as uptime, especially when you're talking about filling in the role of market ledgering, and BTC really seems to be hitting a wall there.
With ETH on the other hand, the killer bottleneck is t…
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
I disagree, but I would love that. I own waaaay more ETH than BTC. If it truly surpasses BTC, well then nothing will really matter ever again for me. I'll go buy an island and fill it with spider monkeys.
BTC was interesting historically as a prototype that paved the way for everything else, but IMO its value/market cap currently being way higher than everything else is largely just due to a) coasting on its reputation from being the first mover and b) by virtue of the vast majority of altcoins being shit.
I can see why you might think that, but BTC is way more secure and immutable than ETH. The DAO hack showed that. Also, BTC not being controlled by one person who is still alive makes it super unique. It truly is a decentralized self-sustaining thing. For a while Chinese miners controlled the hashrate. Now they don't. For a while a few big whales were pushing the price to their whims. Now it has shifted to futures and other orgs. It's constantly evolving, and that is super cool. ETH has smart contracts and other shit you can do with the network, which is why I am on the ETH train, too. However, lots of people have mentally moved on from BTC prematurely. BTC's Lightning network has doubled in volume in BTC in one year, and quadrupled in USD volume. The Taproot upgrade is significant, and nobody is talking about it. I saw people talking about SegWit a lot back when that happened, but crickets on Taproot. It just seems silly that everyone has moved on to all these stupid shitcoins when the OG has a lot more to offer.
Have you tried making a self-hosted BTC wallet lately via the fully "manual" route, meaning using a thick client, having to download the whole blockchain yourself to not involve any third party services? Even on a 1gbps fiber connection, it took over 6 hours to download the ~450GB blockchain, as it's sent via a slow distributed P2P connection!
Yeah, the blockchain is big now. However, who is running full nodes? Only people fully invested in the BTC network are, and they can handle the traffic and size. Plus, you have Lightning network, which will solve a lot of the scaling issues. Is it perfect? No, but what is? I tried to send an ETH transaction months ago, and it was impossible. The gas fees were more than the transaction. So there are issues to all the networks that need to be worked out still.
With ETH on the other hand, the killer bottleneck is the gas fees, which have been insane since the start of this boom cycle, not to mention very volatile, and when it's both expensive and volatile that tends to be taken as a sign of market inefficiency. There's some interesting stuff in the pipeline to deal with that problem though, mainly proof of stake (if it ever stops getting pushed back...) and layer 2/3. Those should take gas fees down several orders of magnitude. It'll be interesting to see how that pans out.
There are interesting things in the pipeline to fix BTC's shortcomings, too. Listen, I am on both trains. I decided to not try to pick a winner years ago. I decide to go all in on BTC and ETH, and let the world decide which one would "win." I honestly think there is a place for both, and one doesn't have to lose for the other to win. I think fucking DOGE and SHIB need to lose, that's for sure. They make a joke of the crypto space, and the only silver lining to bear markets is that I get to watch all the shitcoins die again. It's like groundhog day. Crypto is not a joke, and putting more fuel on the fire for everyone out there to make it so pisses me off. Then you get all the jabronis coming out of the woodwork again talking about tulips, Ponzi schemes, and no intrinsic value. Sure Bruce, Bitcoin is a Ponzi. It's tulip mania again. It's going to zero. Ha ha ha, I've lost so much money. I got into it TWELVE FUCKING YEARS AGO. It was 81 cents when I mined my first BTC. I've been telling everyone I know to get into crypto for over a decade. The one guy that listened to me used some of it to buy a house. Ohh no, we've crashed to $20K! What ever will I do? I guess I should just pack up shop and admit it's a failure. $0.81 to $20,000 was a big failure, because it was $69,000 recently...
Sorry, I had to rant. All these clear scam shitcoins and actual Ponzi stablecoins are making it harder for real crypto to move forward productively. I am curious to see how proof of stake works. Part of me thinks it will be a massive failure, but I hold out hope. I will lose a lot of money if it fails, so I hope it succeeds. I really am in it for the technology. Take it from someone that has lost more bank accounts and card processing accounts than you can possibly imagine. You have always been able to pay for your order with crypto. It's never been frozen. It's never been stopped. It's always been up since I started my company. That's fucking nuts, and to have that uptime while being completely decentralized... It's truly a technological marvel. This is why I get upset when it is trivialized as a tulip mania Ponzi by people that don't even know what it is.