The 2017 bull run was fueled by retail investors wanting to get into a hot new asset, Bitcoin. It was also driven by the ICOs on ethereum. But the post 2020 market is entirely different. Here we have investors who see Bitcoin as a store of value and institutions piling in money to hedge against the uncertainty over the unprecedented printing of US dollar and the rise of a new class of crypto investors that are interested in making yield from their crypto holdings by staking it, rather than sell it. The entire outlook of the crypto markets have changed over the span of three years.

“There’s absolutely no comparison in terms of market maturity between this year and 2017,” said Ryan Selkis, CEO of crypto data firm Messari. “Back then derivatives and credit markets barely existed (and) institutional custody didn’t exist.”

What is the key difference in price surges in price surges between 2017 and now? Its to do with who is buying. There is more institutional money flowing to crypto more than ever.

While we can’t know if prices will continue to rise, the current Bitcoin surge portends good things for cryptocurrency — not just because prices are rising, but because of why they’re rising. A comparison of this bull run to that of 2017 suggests that investors have become savvier and more strategic, buying Bitcoin to fulfill a specific use case rather than to speculate on the new hot asset. Now Bitcoin is seen as a store of value rather than just a speculative asset.

Also with the advent of DeFi and staking rewards more and more people wants to stake their crypto to get yields on their crypto rather than sell it or just hold it. They have more confidence in the asset and is more likely to hold crypto for years to come.

While these things make the crypto markets look a lot stonger than in 2017 that doesn't mean the prices won't dip. Crypto is still a risky asset and the regulations around it is still minimal. But one thing is sure, the confidence in crypto is higher than ever and even if the traders take the prices down for some time, its most likely will bounce back faster than ever.

I swear I've looked everywhere, used to have vol2 and 3 on dvd but no longer.

I remember staying up every friday night watching this show. It was the only show I watched on TV as well because the other shows were just plain stale. Even to this day I miss it dearly. How about you guys?

Bonus Internet Cookies for writing it from the alien perspective.

Edit: Day 2 and still on Hot? I can now die in peace! My Karma is skyrocketing! ....well, sort of... Okay, there is one very special internet cookie waiting for the writer who describes the bloody human pantheon of Ram'Bo, Schwarzenegger, and Chuck Norris (optional other choices) from the alien perspective... Said cookie actually is a chocolate chip cookie

Had 7 series and can only stream 5 and 7 in crap quality

Much appreciated

Really liked that show when it was on. Having a hard time finding anything on it though. Can anyone help?

It's around 0.24-28. It just sounds so familiar... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeCnYrCp0ks

Hello r/AskHistorians, I’m Nancy Reagin, a European historian of gender and popular culture, and my most recent book is Re-living the American Frontier: Western Fandoms, Reenactment, and Historical Hobbyists in Germany and America Since 1900. Related to that, I’ve also edited a series of historical readers’ companions for a variety of fantasy and science fiction series.

Fandoms emerged alongside the rise of pulp fiction and mass commercial entertainments during the late 19th and early twentieth centuries; the word “fandom” was first used in print in 1903. Although fan communities emerged around sports teams, film and music celebrities, and other commercial entertainments, I am most interested in the development of literary fandoms and (sometimes linked to or overlapping) historically-focused fandoms during the 20th century, and their transition to online communities after the 1980s. Early literary fandoms grew around pulp fiction genres, including detective fiction (especially the Sherlock Holmes stories), science fiction, and Westerns. In these groups, fans participated in many ways; parsing and analyzing their “canon”; recreating scenes and artifacts from the stories; publishing essays and stories that reframed and retold the original stories; creating fan art in a wide variety of media. In each case, their communities used new media formats that emerged in later decades, but also altered and adapted in ways that reflected broader social and political changes. In writing my book, I narrowed my focus to the fandoms rooted in one type of genre literature (Westerns), but these communities show many parallels to other literary fandoms.

Re-Living the American Frontier asks: why have the historic and mythic elements of the Old West exerted a global fascination for more than 200 years; how have fans used, understood, and repurposed stories and artifacts set in that historic world; and how did their fandoms alter over time, reflecting political and social change? My book discusses the differences and similarities in how white Americans and Europeans saw the West and Indigenous cultures, and the fan communities that they built around Western stories, particularly those of best-selling German author Karl May and Laura Ingalls Wilder. In both Germany and the U.S., Western historical narratives based on what was seen as the “inevit

Spending time staring at the wall with nothing put pen, paper and thoughts was how I was able to explore a concept such as this.

Everyone is looking for the answer. 80% of you reading will either do too much or too little. You do too much because you want to get out of your unfulfilled life, or you'll do too little because you have made too many excuses through your limiting self beliefs.

This post here is my absolute best attempt at a perfect life philosophy That a lot of people can pick up, no matter what they do, how much they make etc etc. (in which perfection does not mean perfect, yet a threshold of which you can pass with ease)

This is NOT another post for "oh do a 24/7 hustle and grind routine"

This is NOT a "oh just be you and do what you like" coz that's shit too.

this is certainly a WIP, but if I'm confident you'll see where I am going with this.

Improve everything just a little bit over a lifetime

This first header is the overall encompassment of the principles talked about here. You have a very long life. You might be 15 and reading this now, or 20, or 30, or 50. It does not matter. What matters is that you simply build a routine that tackles as much as possible to improve every aspect of your life. This is a lot easier than people think. The difficult part is committing to the time it takes to reach that line in the sand. But I will show you how and the mindset towards it.

Your Ideal Life

You need to spend the next few weeks detailing your perfect life. Do not talk about routines. do not be weird and go "Well I'd be doing x for 6.54 hours and then I would be doing Y for 3.54 hours, then I'd never do XY and Z coz those things are bad."

Talk and write as if looking at yourself from the third person. Write a story. What does the ideal you get up to in a day? What are you like? how do you act? How do you think? who's around you? where do you live? - if you can write a novel, then wonderful! the more detail, the better.

why? You need an ideal to strive for. This is where all the numpties start to freak out on me and say "OH why are you trying to be perfect?" "why are you telling me what to do? I can do whatever I enjoy."... man...

Who ever said the journey was bad? Which bastard told the world that just because you are not living your ideal life yet, just because you are still years away from it, that life was all of a sudden bad and that you had to beat yourself up for it? I will tell you. It is the majority of media ou

Hello everyone, I’m Cosmonaut Porge

I have been doing a deep dive into NFTs and wanted to share my learning with you in hopes you will better understand this exciting new technology.

As many know, NFT stands for non-fungible token and represents ownership of a unique and scarce digital item. Unlike normal crypto currency where one person's bitcoin is equal to another’s bitcoin, NFTs are all unique. One person’s NFT is not equal to any other person's NFT, and their value is not interchangeable.

Fungible vs non-Fungible

When talking about NFT’s it is important to understand what fungibility is. Fungibility implies two things are identical in specification and easily divisible. A real-world example of this would be a 1$ bill being divided into 4 quarters. You are indifferent to either option because they both contain the same amount of value. I like to think about fungible things being like water. I don’t want specific water molecules when I’m thirsty, I just want a full glass to drink. If my friend wants some water too, I can pour half of my glass of water in my friend’s cup. Both glasses are equal in value as there is very little differentiating the contents of the two. Crypto blockchains are like a complex fluid system and tokens pool and stream to and from individual’s wallets. If I got Cosmos Atom from someone, I don’t care which token I got I just want my custodial wallet to say I have 1 atom.

Now that fungibility is understood let’s outline what makes something non fungible. Something is non fungible if it contains a characteristic that allows you to differentiate it from other things. Physical appearance or even a unique serial number are examples. The line between an item being fungible and not fungible is a thin one, but I will hopefully clear this up in an example.

Example

Imagine you and your friend both went to Ikea to buy the cheapest table they had. The two of you buy the “LACK” table and though they both look the same they have different serial numbers and are therefore different from each other and non-fungible. You can compare this to a NFT creator who has a 10 of 10 art project with identical images for each piece. The 10 pictures are all the same visually, but they all have different id numbers which makes each item unique.

A side note: You could think of the black paint that was used to cover the “Lack” table during manufacturing as fungible because you can not differentiate black paint from itself.

Now let's say you have