Made It
Daily Ramble
My hats off to the single parents out there. I made it through the first work week being a single parent of one, 1, uno, um, 2.5-year-old and the weekend couldn’t come soon enough. Naia’s godmother has offered to watch Naia for a few hours Saturday — a few hours outside of work, household duties, and childcare is boldly marked on my mental calendar.
Listen, I’ve got zero to complain about — a great daughter, childcare in our house for 8 hours/day, and I work from home. But the absence of my partner in crime means that a lot of the things that I take for granted being done aren’t. The trick I’ve learned is to leave them that way. Unless it really matters. My internal dialogue goes something like this:
Me: “Will it survive until Ana returns?”
Me too: “Yes”
Me: “Ok, let’s skip it.”
It looks a bit schizo when typed out, but please don’t commit me. The point being, raising a family is a minimum of a partnership sport but really does take a village, for the health of all involved. So for those single parents out there, I bow down with the deepest respect at how you keep the juggling act going day after day. You’re better people than I.
“When does Ana come back to water me?” ask the houseplants.
Favorite Thing on the Interwebs Today
A touch difficult to read but the handle @BTCvsFED takes you to this incredible Twitter thread:
Bitcoin Price Prediction
Yesterday: $35.5k - $40k
Today: $36.6k - $45k
Tomorrow: $36.6k - $50k
The air is getting thin up here, but Bitcoin is having no problem breathing it. It scaled right past my predicted peak of $40k today already pushing to $41.8k. By the looks of it, it could stretch further yet though anything past $45k seems unlikely. We’re in the phase where pullbacks are short and sweet (we had an almost imperceptible 10% pullback within an hour yesterday) while all engines are engaged in finding a local top. At the accelerating rate of price expansion, it’s very difficult to tell where that top will be. For the first time today, I noticed that there was more inflow of bitcoin to exchanges than outflow — a potential changing of the tide. Time will tell if that’s an early indicator or an anomaly. TL;DR: the price is more likely to continue up than down.
Bitcoin Ed Bite
Why do I capitalize Bitcoin sometimes and write bitcoin lowercase other times? Glad you asked.
Bitcoin refers to the network itself. The protocol that defines how value is transacted. When referring to the protocol, the proper noun Bitcoin is used. But! When sending, receiving, or storing bitcoin, the lowercase version is used. The common noun bitcoin is used for referencing that which is transacted on the Bitcoin network.
Thanks for reading,
Kent
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