Voyager
Daily Ramble
After the last couple of days acting as peeping Toms on the future, I thought I’d reign in the brain-busting and talk about something happening now that fascinates me: humanity’s first push into interstellar space.
The Voyager Mission pushed off from Earth in 1977, carrying a golden record, a phonographic record encapsulating the highlights of planet earth and humans, in an attempt to make it outside the solar system. In 2012, it finished crossing the Heliosphere and became the first human-made object to have left the solar system. Along the way, it captured the first images of Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune. At 43 years on, it’s the longest collective effort humanity has made to understand life outside planet earth.
The effort at discovery, to see over the next physical or metaphorical horizon, keeps me constantly moving forward in life. It took other similarly motivated folks to push Voyager off the planet. Whether you believe there’s a divine hand behind it all or the universe is simply a cause-and-effect perpetual machine, it’s difficult not to find it awesome — a word I use sparingly in its official capacity but liberally as a surfer.
If you’ve got the itch to make some discovery, I’ll leave you with a few links to start your journey down the Voyager wormhole:
Favorite Thing on the Interwebs Today
Hollywood is jealous! Click the picture to watch the 3-minute video.
Thanks to Timothy B for Favorite Thing on the Interwebs Today
Bitcoin Price Prediction
Yesterday: $57k - $62k
Today: $55k - $62k
Weekend: $52k - $62k
Welp, nothing out of sorts here with the price movement on Bitcoin in the last 24 hours. We did get our pullback, coming into the $56k region, but not before being rejected at $60k. Currently, we’re toying with a push back into the $60k zone again with price dancing in the low $58ks. All in, the indecision I spoke about yesterday still is apparent in the charts today. In a bull market like this, the odds are that we break up rather than down, but there are some signs that momentum is cooling, and there has been an uptick of Bitcoin flowing into exchanges. I’m going to be totally useless here by saying it could go either way at the moment. This means it’s a good time to be flat on the market and/or continue to hold long-term positions.
Bitcoin Q & A
Q: How does Bitcoin work?
A: Are you really trying to assess if it’s safe to use? It is.
Today’s question is the most frequent one I’ve historically received. It took me many years before I realized that just as most folks don’t care how the internet, their car, or their toasters work, they also didn’t care how Bitcoin worked. Asking how it worked was actually an effort to assess the safety of putting their hard-earned money into Bitcoin instead of their local currency.
If you really do want to know how Bitcoin worked, I’ll answer that over the next couple of weeks, bit by bit. But if you’re list most, then here are a few assurances of its safety:
Bitcoin is the most valuable asset on the internet. It has never been hacked.
Bitcoin is the most powerful network in the world. The amount of energy necessary to hack it would cripple most nations.
Bitcoin runs on code that is freely available and visible to everyone in the world. It means that there is a very, very, very, very small chance of exploitable errors after 12 years of running without a hiccup.
Thanks for reading,
Kent
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