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[lonewolf1899]

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[selfshipstorm]

introducing... morrigan osborne

BASICS Full Name : Morrigan Osborne Nicknames : Mo, Wolfie Age : 22 as of her arrival in Santa Carla ( 1987 ) Appearance : Morrigan stands at 5'6" with a leaner frame. She's got dark brown hair which comes down to just below her shoulders. She always keeps a stripe of a bright color dyed into the front of her hair, and prefers a bright teal. Her eyes are green. Her fashion sense is rather tomboyish, consisting of jeans and various old rock band tee shirts. She tends to have scratches and bruises on her hands and forearms from working on her car. Her most noticeable feature is that her canines seem somewhat sharper and more obvious than a normal human's would.  Occupation : part time hobbyist mechanic full time vampire boyfriend babysitter Backstory : Morrigan was born into a happy family of werewolves. Their pack may have been small, but they were close knit. Morrigan's mother disappeared one night when she was 14. Neither her not her father knows where she is, or her condition. Eventually, Morrigan and her father move past that interruption in their lives, adjusting accordingly. After that, everything was alright, until Morrigan turned 21. Her birthday passing meant it was nearing time for her to begin preparing to take the role of alpha from her father. Maybe it was an outsider, maybe it was hunters, maybe it was someone within the pack angry that leadership would go to Morrigan. Whoever it was decimated their entire pack. Morrigan and her father were out of town, and returned to a horrible sight. Whoever hadn't been killed had apparently fled, and responded to none of Damien's attempts at contact. They had to start over. And apparently, Damien decided that the perfect place for him and his daughter to start over was an old beach resort, all the way across the country.

RELATIONSHIPS Love Interest : The Lost Boys Friend Group : Star, Laddie Pack : initially her and her father, eventually adding 25 more people on who decide to stay at the resort once it's fixed up. 

ABILITIES Stereotypical werewolf-y nonsense. Shifting forms, heightened strength, durability, senses. She can shift between three forms. Her human form, her 'beast' form ( bipedal, wolfman style monster ), and her wolf form. 

banner photos from her pinterest board! : carrd page : her tag : ship tag : pack tag :

[usegolf]

Real Golf Stores Are Passionate About the Game - Are You?

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Dale R Smith - retired teacher... Civilian and Military Environs Art Director for Industrial Magazines Partner of Aircraft Design team Taught Public seminar and College Ham Radio Operator W5OCR Light Plane Private Pilot Commercial Artist and Illustrator Practicing Internet Web Designer Twitter obsessed w/nine accounts Other interests include motorcycles, merit cars, sailing, SCUBA, camping, pottery, sculpting, mold configuration and photography.

[thecoroutfitters]

I have learned, earlier than most, that you cannot convince sheep.

Young people will continue to pay for over-priced worthless liberal arts degrees. Suburbanites will buy brand new cars they neither need, nor can afford, just to impress the neighbors.

Americans will spend thousands just to see The Super Bowl (which will not be any tangibly different than any other football game). And the sheeple will always and religiously stand in lines for hours during “Black Friday.”

But every once in a while I think I find a new insight, a new viewpoint that is so clear, so simple that even your rank and file American sheeple might be convinced of it. That this insight is so cunning, and so simple it could revolutionize the way people think for the better.

And so I hope (though am not hopeful) to convince many of you why investing in the stock market today is fundamentally stupid and on par with standing in line on Black Friday.

Let us understand what the stock market ORIGINALLY and TRULY was at its core – it was a place for companies to raise money.

Entrepreneurs, innovators, and businesses wanted to start or expand their business and did not have the funds readily or personally available to finance these ventures. Investors who had said funds, but did not necessarily want to start their own business, were looking for returns on their money.

And just like we meet today in a “farmers market” to exchange money for goods, these people met in the “financial market” where these entrepreneurs and investors would exchange money for an investment in a company.

THAT IS IT!!! THAT IS ALL!!! THAT IS ALL THE POINT AND PURPOSE OF A STOCK MARKET THERE IS!

Businesses, entrepreneurs and innovators were looking for funding. Investors were looking for investments. They met in the middle and businesses were created, launched, or expanded. Business is thus concluded. End of story.

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But an interesting twist occurred after the sale of some stocks, the issuance of some bonds, or perhaps the sale of some preferred shares. Though the primary purpose of these transactions was accomplished (financing businesses) the shares (be they stocks or bonds) still remained.

And the original owners of these shares could and did start selling them to each other. This “secondary trading” or any trading done AFTER the original investment that was made was done so on what is called the “secondary market.” These trades were done NOT to finance new businesses or launch new companies, but was merely speculatory in nature.

The owner of some original shares of GE decided he wanted to buy a house. So he sold them on the secondary market (aka “the stock market”) to somebody who thought perhaps GE’s shares were a bit underpriced. The owner of some original shares of Ford wanted to raise funds to invest in a new company being launched by Thomas Edison.

So he would go to the secondary market and unload his Ford shares on some pension fund manager who thought Ford shares were trading a bit under par. Or perhaps some astute young go-getter had some insight into the telephonic industry that nobody, not even the telephonic industry itself had. He realized that under new legislation coming through congress telephone companies’ profits would triple, and thus he runs out to the secondary market and offers a premium to buy Bell Communication shares.

Notice ALL of these trades do not bring about a single penny in new businesses, new profits, or new production. They merely are swapping out money for shares that have long existed, the original productive investment of which happened long ago when they were first sold to raise funds for the original company.

In other words, the billions of trades that happen every day on the stock, bond, mutual fund, option, derivatives, and other financial markets are NOT investing, but rather mere speculation.

And that means ALL of your 401k’s, IRA’s, 457, 403b’s, RRSP’s, and pension “investments” are not investments at all, but mere speculation.

This MASSIVE misunderstanding of what investing truly is has resulted in an illogical creature called today’s modern stock market. It’s illogical because in theory those “super duper smart” Ivy League graduates at Wall Street should have priced the original shares at their “true value.” And what I mean by “true value” is the value of all the future profits the company would have generated condensed into a single price at that time the original shares were sold. Sure, they would have to discount it a bit to leave some meat on the bone for the original investors to part with their money.

And yes, the changing outlook and fortunes of a company would change the price of those shares on into the future in the secondary market. But over the past several hundred years and the hundreds of thousands of companies that had been launched during that time, in theory on average the lions’ share of any profits and gains would have gone to the original investors leaving little to no room for the perpetual, let alone exponential price increases that magically are funding all your retirement plans today.

The Question is “Why?”

So then why has the stock market perpetually and exponentially gone up, meaning the original investors should NEVER had sold their original shares and/or the entrepreneurs WOEFULLY underpriced theirs?

There are certainly some logical (and real) explanations.

One is that in the past investors and entrepreneurs underestimated the population growth their businesses would inevitably sell to. Not just domestically, but internationally as well. Bob’s Farm Buggy Corporation probably didn’t think they’d sell farm buggies beyond the agricultural prairies of the United States in 1890. But John Deere sells a good third of its tractors overseas in 2017.

Two, they lacked the vision to see all the practical applications their product would lead to. This isn’t necessarily their fault because often it is not until a product is created is its full potential realized. The PC was largely a hobbyist toy for nerds and proto-computer geeks in the 1970’s. Now you have 2 of them for every person, 4 if you consider tablets and smart phones.

But while these are possible and legitimate reasons for investors to underpay (and companies to underprice) their shares, in reality it is the changing behavior of the NON-INVESTOR class that is driving up prices beyond what they’re worth. It is the secondary market where not a penny of actual investment is occurring, but pure and mere speculation (and hope) that “the stock market just keeps going up.”

First, despite what your professors and teachers tell you, capitalism has brought about an amazing increase in the wealth, leisure, incomes and lifestyle for the average sheep. You’re not dying of diphtheria. You’re living nearly 80 years.

You have vehicles that can (for an insanely cheap price compared to horses) drive you across the country in a mere few days. And if that’s not good enough for you, for even cheaper you can FLY across the country in a mere few hours. Oh, and then there’s that “world’s complete knowledge available to you at your fingertips” device you’re likely holding right now.

Regardless, the point is billions of people now have trillions of dollars more to spend on nick nacks, clothes, grills, rims, sushi, and overpriced iPhone X’s. But some of that also finds its way into the stock market.

Second, the government effectively has paid people for the past 40 years to invest in the stock market through its various retirement programs. 401k’s, IRA’s, 403b’s, you name it, there’s a program that incentivizes you with tax breaks to invest speculate on stocks you know ABSOLUTELY nothing about.

“Tee hee, I just give it to my HR department and they do the investing for me. I don’t know what I really invest in. I just, you know, buy and hold.”

Third, technology has advanced that trading stocks is no longer relegated to the rich or upper middle class. Instead of needing $10,000 minimum and being willing to pay $90 in commission per trade, a poor college student can open up a brokerage account for $500 and trade for $7.95 in commission. Now I have my barista with her Masters in English telling me about how she’s buying Apple and Google as I get served my morning coffee.

And then there’s monetary policy. Though not the fault of the sheeple, nearly every central bank in the world has kept rates very low, not to mention tripled their money supplies. These monies have to go somewhere and inevitably because of the fungible nature of money, finds its way into the stock market. Be it freshly printed money or artificially low interest rates people and corporations are awash in cash and have to invest it somewhere. So people throw it into the stock market and corporations borrow trillions in leveraged corporate buy backs.

All of these variables have flooded the stock market with trillions of dollars that would have otherwise not been there, driving the PE ratio of the stock market to nose bleed levels and dividend returns on stocks to a pathetic 2%.

To any normal thinking person, a rate of return of 2% on ANY investment would simply not be worth it. Heck, some months that doesn’t even beat inflation. But remember, the world is no longer populated by normal-thinking people. It’s populated by sheep. And the sheep just line up like their HR counselors told them to and invest away speculate away with the brilliant strategy of “well I just hope the stock market goes up.” And lucky for them it has because it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy where we print off money and people keep piling into the market.

The problem, however, is what happens when economic and demographic trends change or simply stop?

For example, when the baby boomers start selling out of stocks to pay for their retirement, do you think the debt-laden millennials or the mortgage-and-children-burdened Gen X’ers are going to pick up the slack?

What if a non-Keynesians head up the world’s central banks, stop printing money and stop keeping interest rates artificially low? Where will all the new money come from to keep “the stock market going up?”

And have you noticed the slow-down in population growth in the 1st world? What growth there is, is largely coming from immigrant classes, and whatever your opinion may be about immigrants, they do not have the disposable income to invest in their 401k’s that the native population does.

I personally don’t think any of these things will happen. The government will continue to print money and keep interest rates low to keep the party going. Baby boomers so woefully saved, they’ll continue to work and contribute to 401k’s until they’re dead.

But let there be no doubt, there is no genuine NEW investment going on. There are no actual rates of return. There is (bar that whopping 2% dividend yield or .0003% you get on your savings account) no underlying profit being returned to you as an investor.

Ergo,

Just like Beanie Babies. Just like baseball cards. Just like Dotcoms in 1999. Just like tulip bulbs in the 1600’s.

The vast majority of people are speculating, NOT investing.

The question then is where does one invest if nearly every stock, bond, and mutual fund is overpriced and over-flooded with non-investor-sheep money?

Where do you find a rate of return that not only holds the promise of providing an adequate retirement, but ensures your investment is not some overvalued bubble about to burst.

And while a glut of central bank money has made nearly every asset class a bit too pricey for the discerning investor, there are some places you can still get a good return on your investment.

This article has been written by Chris Mills for Survivopedia.

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[rjhamster]

One Shot at a Time

Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.  — Philippians 3:12

One Shot at a Time

Dr. Morris Pickens,

The Winning Way in Golf and Life

Editor’s Note: The Masters — golf’s biggest tournament — begins tomorrow. To be a champion golfer, you have to train your mind for the challenge. The same is true in our spiritual life as we “press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called [us].” Sports psychologist Dr. Morris Pickens shows us a productive process for improving focus on the golf course… and in our spiritual walk. Enjoy today’s selection from The Winning Way in Golf and Life.

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If your head is in the wrong place, you can expect everything else to follow. — Dr. Mo

From the New York Times, April 8, 2007: Augusta, Ga. — The wind had finally eased at Augusta National Golf Club, and Zach Johnson, the son of a chiropractor from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, stood behind the 18th green not exactly sure what to do. Tiger Woods, the last golfer with a chance to catch him, was still playing in the gloaming of the 71st Masters, so Johnson leaned in to hug his wife, Kim, and planted a kiss on the forehead of his 14-week-old son, Will, refusing to let go for several seconds. “I was an emotional wreck,” Johnson said. “I was a slob. I knew there were still chances for guys to make birdie.” When Woods stalled with three closing pars, though, Johnson had completed a task where 95 other golfers failed, claiming a Masters title after one of the most difficult weeks in the history of the tournament. Johnson, 31, fired a closing three-under-par 69 on Sunday to defeat Woods (72), Rory Sabbatini (69), and Retief Goosen (69) by two strokes for his first major championship and second PGA Tour victory.1

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Zach Johnson’s head was in the “right place” almost the entire day on Sunday, April 8, 2007. And for the brief period that his mind wasn’t in the right place, he paid the consequence on hole 17 with his only back-nine bogey. Back in focus again on hole 18, he stayed in his process the rest of the way, winning the Masters and one of the most coveted prizes in the golf universe: the Green Jacket. If it was a delirious moment for Zach and Kim Johnson, it was almost as much for me, Zach’s coach and golf psychologist. Over the last nineteen years I have seen this pattern repeated countless times. Isn’t it amazing how a little, white, dimpled ball will go wherever a skull-encased, two-hemisphere, gray-matter ball tells it to go? When you are thinking your best, you focus on one shot at a time. There is no looking back or projecting forward. Thoughts of your score or what you might shoot do not exist. The implications of winning a tournament become as irrelevant as snowshoes in South Georgia. Mistakes from earlier in the round are completely forgotten. Your focus is entirely on the shot before you, and nothing else. When not playing your shot, your mind is consumed with the simple joys around you: the smell of the grass, the beauty of the clouds, a conversation with your playing partners. You’re not thinking about the next hole or how the match stands or why your last shot landed between a willow and a pine. You are in control of your mind, and your focus is clear and concise. The million-dollar question is (and for my students, that million dollars may be literal), “How do you keep your mind this focused every time you play?”

In golf I believe your best chance of achieving this focus is to have a thinking process that occupies your mind. This process gives you the best chance of playing at a higher level more often.

It’s strange how some high-achieving businesspeople closely follow tried-and-true processes in sales, marketing, and medicine but step onto the golf course with only a hope and a prayer and a vague plan to “try to do better today.” And maybe they’d best forget about the prayer part too. Even Billy Graham once said, “The only times my prayers are never answered are on the golf course.” If a process helps to sell cars, market soda, or treat illness, it will also have value for your day on the golf course. The key is to make your thinking process (1) effective and (2) a habit of mind. Make it as much a part of your game as your swing off the tee or a blast out of the bunker.

In my opinion, all great players utilize a consistent thinking process. And even average golfers — weekend golfers — use such a thinking process when they’re playing their best.

What is this productive process for improving your golf game? I call it the 4-Rs. And when consistently applied, the 4-Rs produce the fifth R, results. For my students, that may mean joining an elite company of those who conquer a major tournament on the tour. In fact, my students have twenty-three PGA tour wins since 2005, and three have won majors. For golf hobbyists who simply love the game, it will mean the sweetness and satisfaction of playing at a level they had only dreamed of. And that is no small thing. It’s like when you meet your retired neighbor on the way to the mailbox and something in the brief conversation reminds him of a golf game long ago and far away on a day when he couldn’t seem to miss. “I tell you,” he says, waving a stack of bills and junk mail in the air, “everything I hit went into the hole. It was windy as anything that day, and the rain was in my face. But I forgot all about the weather and played the best game of my life. I think I must have shot 77. Now that was a day!” That’s how we remember those golden days when we maintained our focus through eighteen holes — or most of them — and found ourselves more into our game than ever before. The 4-Rs, in order, are: 1. REFOCUS. This is your golf decision making and involves shot selection, club selection, lie, wind, obstacles, and the best place to advance the ball. This is when you should be doing the vast majority of your thinking on the course, and it occurs behind the ball before you walk into the shot. 2. ROUTINE. The pre-shot routine is your golf preparation and includes how you walk in, get set up, and take practice swings if desired. This happens only after the decision has been finalized, and it occurs walking into and beside the ball but before you actually swing. 3. REACT. This is your golf execution — making the actual swing or stroke. This happens immediately after the routine is done and can best be described as the player’s “trusting and going.” 4. RELAX. This is your relaxation on the course and speaks of how you spend time between shots, when you release your focus on golf. During this time you can think about architecture, wildlife, clouds, hobbies, anything — just not golf. Surprisingly, the overwhelming majority of your time on a golf course is spent on the fourth R, or at least it should be! For this process to improve your score, it must become a consistent part of your game, not an “add-on” when you feel it is needed. It is always needed. The fact that golf happens to be an excellent metaphor for life shouldn’t surprise us. If the sport had been around in the first century, no doubt the apostle Paul would have used it in his New Testament letters. Instead, he used the sport that did occupy the minds of sports fans two thousand years ago: running races in the Olympics. Israelite and Pharisee that he was, can there be any doubt that Paul was a sports fan? To the Corinthians he wrote:

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. Therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly. — 1 Corinthians 9:24-26 Paul even got the sport of boxing in the mix, adding, “I fight to win. I’m not just shadowboxing or playing around.” — 1 Corinthians 9:26 TLB

But it was to the church at Philippi that Paul gave the best advice for golf — and life. After explaining his goal of experiencing the power and presence of Jesus Christ in a fresh and life-transforming way, he went on to say:

Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. — Philippians 3:12-14

That’s it. That’s one of the irreplaceable keys to golf — and life: “Forgetting the past… looking forward to what lies ahead… press on… to win the prize.” The key to golf is playing one shot at a time. The key to life is living in the moment.

Golf is life. If you can’t take golf, you can’t take life. —Author unknown

As Stewart Cink says, “Glorifying God on the golf course doesn’t mean playing the greatest golf you’ve ever played; it just means being every bit of the golfer you can be on any given day.”2 Likewise, Zach Johnson says, “Golf is a game of staying in the now.” When you think about it, what’s the alternative? You can’t play Friday’s round on Thursday, and you can’t tee off on the 18th if you’re in the bunker on the 16th. But you can grasp the incomparable privilege of stepping behind the ball for this one solitary shot and, using every bit of the talent God gave you, maximize the investment of all those who believed in you, helped you, taught you, and encouraged you along the way. This you can do. Jim Elliot, a young missionary martyr who was slain by Auca warriors on the banks of Ecuador’s Curaray River in 1956, once expressed it like this: “Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.”3 We can’t do anything to change the past, and the future doesn’t even exist yet. What does exist is this day, this hour, this moment. And how you live in the right now — the focus, energy, discipline, perspective, and wisdom you bring to this day, this solitary square on the calendar — will determine your future, your legacy, and your destiny. I call this the 4-Rs. Paul called it “press[ing] on toward the goal” (Philippians 3:14). Jim Elliot called it living life to the hilt. Whatever you call it, it’s a beautiful way to do golf — and just about everything else you have ever valued. 1. Damon Hack, “Zach Johnson Wins the Masters,” New York Times, April 8, 2007, http://www .nytimes.com/2007/04/09/sports/09iht-web-0409masters.5195529.html?_r=0. 2. Interview with the collaborator. All subsequent quotes are taken from personal interviews with the collaborators unless otherwise noted. 3. Goodreads, http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/12747-wherever-you-are-be-all-there-live- to-the-hilt. Excerpted with permission from The Winning Way in Golf and Life by Dr. Morris Pickens, copyright Dr. Morris Pickens.

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Your Turn Don’t look back! Don’t look ahead! Just press on today towards the goal with your eyes on Jesus. Come share your thoughts with us on our blog. We want to hear from you!

[eddiejpoplar]

33rd Annual Concorso Italiano Tees Off Next Month

Love rare and exotic Italian cars? Don’t miss this year’s Concorso Italiano car show at the Black Horse Golf Course just northeast of Monterey, California next month.

This year’s show, now in its 33rd year, will celebrate everything Italian with some amazing automobiles and motorcycles in a beautiful setting.

Nearly 1,000 rare and exotic Italian vehicles will be on display including a 2017 Ferrari F-12 TDF, 1951 Siata Gran Sport Spyder, 1952 O.S.C.A. MT4, 1966 Bizzarrini P538, and a 1985 Ferrari 288 GTO to name but a few.

“We are thrilled to be in our 33rd year as part of Monterey Car Week and cherish the fact that we are the biggest luxury and exotic Italian car show in the country. Numerous Italophiles, enthusiasts, collectors, celebrities, and hobbyists will come together to share their passion for these automotive works of art,” said Tom McDowell, chairman, Concorso Italiano in a statement.

“We are looking forward to the incredible vehicles and programming we have in store for this year and can’t wait to welcome our amazing guests.”

This year’s extravaganza will be held on on Saturday, August, 25. VIP tickets are $495 and general admission tickets are $180 and include general admission parking. We’ll see you on the green.

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[bitcoinegoldrush]

The Obvious Bitcoin Christmas Gift Guide 2017

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It’s that time of year again when thoughts turn to all the cool swag you’ll receive on Christmas Day, and hand out of course, cos’ let’s not forget that Xmas is also about giving. Whether you’re an experienced bitcoiner seeking gift ideas for one of your own, or a complete novice cursed with a crypto crazy nephew, the following guide covers all bases, price brackets, and payment types. Hand your loved one a bitcoin-branded gift this Christmas and watch their face light up like a green trading candle breaking out.

Also read: More Bitcoin Fork Clones on the Way: Bitcoin God Will Be Born Xmas Day

Take a Little, Give a Lot

Should any of the entries on this list prove too darn irresistible, by all means treat yourself. You’re entitled to a reward for all the hodling you did this year while your mates were rinsing their hard-earned on holidays, designer threads, and vice. Just remember that there’s more happiness in giving than receiving.

To get the ball rolling, we’ll start with a practical selection of gifts for bitcoiners. The decadent and downright silly stuff comes later. If the following suggestions don’t sate your thirst for gift ideas, incidentally, our Christmas guide from last year is also rocking.

Practical Bitcoin Christmas Gifts

If your favorite bitcoin obsessive doesn’t already have one, give them a hardware wallet for safely storing their cryptocurrency. We’re wallet agnostic, but market leaders Trezor and Ledger are both excellent choices. There’s also Keepkey.

Gift-Wrapped Computer Tech

Pretty much any piece of computer gear can be branded as bitcoin-ready, but the following suggestions all have specific applications. If you’re tech-savvy enough to pick out the right product for your beloved bitcoiner, try these for size:

“Coming mom. Just checking my doge.”

Computer monitor: A second screen for watching cryptocurrencies pumping and dumping in realtime is sure to go down well.

Hard drive: Cryptocurrency hobbyists interested in running a node or downloading a full wallet client are gonna need somewhere to store the blockchain. A few extra GB – or even TB – will be welcomed.

Cellphone: Another practical (if unexciting) gift is a cheap cellphone that can be stashed in a safe place and used for 2FA access and email verification when signing into exchanges. If their Twitter bio says “crypto trader” – regardless of the reality – a second cell will secure their bags by reducing the risk of SMS porting, among other things.

Gifts for Cryptocurrency Lovers Who’ve Strayed to the Dark Side

At news.Bitcoin.com we’re all about bitcoin – the clue’s in the name. If your relative has strayed to the dark side, however, and developed an affinity for ethereum, you could load their wallet with a pick and mix of ERC20 tokens (the good ones, not the vaporware) or even splurge on, dare we say it, a Crypto Kitty. Better still, buy them bitcoin and tell them to come to their senses.

Which leads us onto our most practical suggestion. If there’s one thing that all bitcoiners would dearly love for Christmas, it’s more bitcoin. One bitcoin doesn’t come cheap, but with each coin divisible into a million units, you can purchase as modest an amount as your means will permit. If you’re gifting them a hardware wallet, load some BTC on it if you’re feeling generous. Alternatively, a paper wallet provides a tangible gift they can unwrap. This option is ideal for bitcoin virgins: just tell them to stash it in a safe place and dig it out a few years later.

Novelty Bitcoin Gifts

We covered most of these in our recent Black Friday roundup, so we’ll just state that there are some excellent tees, mugs, posters, and games to be had at sites such as Decentraland and Red Bubble which would make great stocking fillers. Naturally, these vendors stock hordes of pun-tastic Xmas crypto sweaters. Do a search for “bitcoin” on Etsy and you’ll also come up with a treasure trove of themed crafts, kitsch, and bric-a-brac.

Naughty Bitcoin Gifts

We hear there are some fine wares to be found on the deep web and its P2P counterpart Openbazaar. You know: ebooks and badges and suchlike. Least, that’s the word on the street.

Luxury Bitcoin Gifts

From the ridiculous to the sublime, there’s a wide selection of extravagant gifts that can be bought with bitcoin. If you’re a bitcoin maximalist who refuses to dabble in fiat currency, drop a few coins on the following items and you’ll be flavor of the week and uncle of the year come Christmas morning.

The White Company, “purveyors of luxury to the cryptocurrency world”, will hook you up with everything from sports cars to Rolexes, all of which can be paid for anonymously in cryptocurrency and delivered anywhere in the world. There’s also the option of a year’s unlimited flights courtesy of Surf Air and some extremely chic bitcoin watches from Cryptomatic including “The HODLER”.

Experiential Bitcoin Gifts

According to behavioral science, experiences make people happier than stuff. Instead of treating your bitcoin beloved to yet another gadget or gizmo, why not purchase them an experience they’ll remember fondly for a long time? The White Company will furnish you with a luxury trip to the Monaco Grand Prix, where you can watch the race from a VIP yacht, while Crypto Cribs is Airbnb for the bitcoin generation. Gift your partner a week in a city they’ve always dreamed of visiting, all paid for in the digital currency of the present and future.

Will you be spending or gifting any bitcoin this Christmas? Let us know in the comments section below.

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