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If I was you I would install fuse circuit breakers and let it buck. The circuit breaker pops saving the dead short from melting the wiring harness, resets and off you go again. Fuse circuit breakers are available in every fuse type and size...

Clicking "expand all" at the link below to Fidelity Crypto's availability by state clearly shows the "cat herding" problem brokerages like Fidelity are having within the USA to offer crypto to their customers. The variety of State laws lead to inconsistent services across state lines even after...

Alternatively, get into the trades and become more successful. My local welder neighbor flies in with his float plane. I just sold a second lake home to a local well driller. If I had a kid I'd send them to sparky or HVAC school—definitely not diesel or auto tech.

Does anybody know where or how to enter in Wunderground's weather station ID and Key into an Ambient Weather Ws2000? My old WS1000 was super easy to set up and this new one is baffling because I see nowhere to set it up on the weather station. EDIT: One must first go to...

To ask is one thing, to press the issue is another. My assumption is the buyers were represented by a "friend" who is new agent who just got out of real estate school or somebody who ONLY has represented sales on newly constructed homes (which can happen in special circumstances with a person...

I use standard 5-pin relays in a variety of things other than Kioti tractors and at $2.80 each plus tax, shipping and tariff, the price was right.

With Congress passing a motion to advance the Clarity, Genius, and anti Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) act in 215 to 211 vote this afternoon, I felt very confident having purchased more more Bitcoin, Cardano, XRP, and for fun, Dogecoin over the summer. In an IRA, more IBIT (Blackrock's...

JIT manufacturing fail. Meh, who needs that pesky retaining spring that we're out of stock on?

$900? sweet! Here is my contribution to this thread: how to tip the cab up on a 753.

The OEM T4180-69941 relays that were manufactured by OMRON are 25.7mm square, so I called Digikey to find an equivalent. Talking with a tech, I powered the OEM T4180-69941 relay switching hot and ground on pins 85 and 86 thereby confirming that the OEM relay does not have a diode, and the...

Looks like it will be a fun week.

Back in the day, I dropped my Mercedes SL55 off at the Merc dealer for an oil change. When I got the car back, it had wrinkled up under the front end, seemingly from somebody parking it over the curb (the car sits so low, it would crash into a curb). Turns out a salesperson had a client that...

As I suspected, it turns out that Kioti uses standard relays. The only weird things are: 1) Under the hood the tab is on the opposite side of the relays I have so a guy will need to twist the harness to plug in the socket. 2) While using standard relay sockets for a automotive 5-pin and...

Every agent and broker should tell their sellers to have any inquires directed to them. You're hiring a pro for a reason.

Confirmation of worky, worky.

Yesterday, anticipating the passing of the Genius and Clarity acts, the entire crypto sector started to front run bidding up just about every token in the sector. Of course, if the market is disappointed, either through a failure to pass the legislation or a delay in passing the legislation, I...

A few years ago I was showing a Polaris engineer a land that was for sale and brought my RZR out so he and his family could drive around the 40 acre parcel to see it. I shared that I'd just put new clutches in my RZR and he said, "Sorry about that." I laughed.

I'm more into the go-fast side by sides, but living next to a popular state forest with spare belts, tie rod ends and clutches for the broken, my suggestion is this: 1) Get the quietest machine because it is more fun to be able to jibber-jabber with your passengers, 2) and get one without a...

My old Ambient Weather WS1001 after a decade of getting beat up by wind, tree debris, and cold temperatures and cost $399 in 2015, finally died when one of the batteries soiled its battery box. I had to silicon spray its wind speed thingy occasionally to keep it freely spinning, as wells glue...

Back before the dead internet when a guy could readily find things, this was easier to puzzle out. Now with the truncated search results I'm having trouble identifying less expensive alternatives for the 4-pin 70A T4180-69951 and 5-pin T4180-69961 which hang out under the hood, as well as the...

It would, but I don't have a local dealer to speak to about this.

Here is a follow-up response to pushbacks against the assumptions made in the video in the first post of this thread. It too is worth consideration. https://blog.ai-futures.org/p/why-america-wins

Thanks, I had forgotten about this. The password protection is what prevents communication. Not being a programmer, the password protection has stopped me from pursuing getting the FT4Scan software and the adaptor cable needed to communication with a PC laptop. All to say, you just reminded me...

While we wait for stablecoin legislation here in the USA, let's think about what stablecoins are used for these days. Stablecoins are primarily used by countries with unstable fiat currencies and companies doing international business for quick transactions and lower processing fees. For...

You're talking about the covers that are on the two cables that cannot fall off until the pins on the spool valves are removed? FWIW, while it will not help you get a replacement cover, here is my tip for keeping those two-piece covers on the cable and up and out of the way.

A what? Are you talking about valves in the joystick valve body, the remotes SCV (select control valve) in the back of the tractor, a third or fourth function on the loader, or something else?

In an unpublished video from back in 2018, I tried to shoehorn in a proper Sears air seat into my NX that is used in piles of different Case and JD et el tractors. I made new brackets to make the seat level and to sit as low as possible. Unfortunately, when I test fit the seat, it became obvious...

NOS is a problem with every auto manufacturer which started in 2023 when interest rates started going up and inflation started getting priced into manufacturing from higher input costs. So rather than eat margin compression, pretty much everybody priced inflation into their products, which in...

This takes a S DIN (swivel metric). If I had to guess, a 10mm tube.

Buy a Harbor Freight multi process, start out with 75/25 gas mig welding, learn how to stick weld with 6013 then 6010 rods. Make sure you have 220V power.

The FHFA has been ordered to count crypto as assets for mortgages. This will be remembered as a defining moment for institutional adoption of Bitcoin in particular, but crypto in general as crypto recognized as both a reserve asset and collateral by the U.S. housing system. Why? Because...

From the stepping on rakes files... I bought a Chinese knock-off of a Racor 900FG water separator for less that $50 since my 30L sonic tank loosened up the inside varnish/paint/whatever it is on my real Racor 900FG filter/water separator and a real Racor costs hundreds and I needed a new sight...

Is it too heavy for your tractor? Yes. It is too heavy for your tractor. Not only that you're being hard on the front axle's support because it is now supporting the weight of your tractor AND your load.

Take out an inland marine insurance on your equipment through CNH Industrial 866-559-6814

So it is a no-go for having the correct adaptor. It would be nice if somebody could identify the diagnostic plug Kioti uses. I suspect it is a Delphi engine management system since it uses Delphi injectors.

We've got Sand Cranes (just saw one today). More eagles (I have an eagle's nest atop the hill on my lake house). Less loons (the eagles pick the babies off of the lake). We have Turkey Vultures (we never had those when i was a kid). And for some reason, tick bites now start to itch (I never...

This thread is a gift that keeps giving. I just ordered a couple of the Hi-Fi fuel filters since they are less money than the Donaldson filters (and since my sister no longer works at Donaldson as an Engineer, heh). https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DYK9CL2S?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title Also...

Alternatively, a guy could pull the plug to the switch and jumper the plug.

This is the dye I use. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008PKWH6C?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_2&th=1 It looks like this with a UV light.

I'm a real estate Broker. When I suggested that real estate is a trap, I meant that real estate keeps getting cheaper in bitcoin but more expensive in dollars. Now if you've been turning debt into cashflow through RE, good for you. Bitcoin is held for generational wealth. Meanwhile, we...

I have not puzzled out the no start. With the key it will not crank. Randomly, with the key on it will crank but not start using a remote starter. Today, since I needed it to start so I could get my Cat2 quick attach off, I ended up putzing through the relays, and while I have an entire box of...

Since my tractor has not been wanting to start, it has taken me a bit to get around to the lift cylinder. So things to know: 1) the three-point lift cylinder is mounted RAM up and so with the plastic guard in the way, you will not see crap collecting on top of the dust seal. Thankfully, one...

Nobody has dipsticks anymore. We all have fun, silly-looking tools to fill transmissions with a variety of J-j-hook adaptors.

Ouch. The six-speed that originally had some programming problems (violent downshifting) eventually was resolved through software updates and now mainly messed up because of the torque converters shelling from contamination so I suggest servicing them at 120K and every 60K after. The 10R80 trans...

Here is the video:

Funny you ask as I just got a new Launch 431 with every adaptor possible but everything came to a grinding halt because I need to first set up an account to fire it up. The short answer is not yet.

Sitting on a tailgate taking a break, I've seen ticks walking up my pant legs and then fall off. I liberally coat my pants with this stuff and have been using it for going on for over 10 years now. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001ANQVYU?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_1&th=1 For the...

Where I'm at homes have robust HVAC systems. In fact, the first thing I look at in any home—whether I'm listing it or showing it—is how the how the home is heated and cooled, if there are redundant HVAV systems (for example my own home has a super efficient boiler system that I flip on when...

With my buy-side clients (among other things, I'm a real estate broker here in MN), if there is a problem with an R22 system, we ask for a new replacement system. Part of the problem is the HVAC guys don't want to touch R22 systems anymore and for punch lists and inspections, we need...

R22 is expensive these days https://duckduckgo.com/?q=r22&t=osx&ia=shopping&iax=shopping But even R410A is getting expensive.

Source material: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A20NtOmk9zMVhoMAthrxaGB_usnmkBPFdmeFjoRKNz4/edit?tab=t.0 https://situational-awareness.ai/from-gpt-4-to-agi/

We've heard about AI becoming so powerful that it leads to an extinction-level event, but such a threat seems very distant and abstract for those of us not in the industry. Three days ago the Documenting AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) YouTube channel dropped a video explaining the danger...

I use a 30" air horn with a remote ball valve to get the red squirrels out of my garage.

I've had very good experience with the Mitsubishi Hyper Heat series. My single bit of advice is to always install silicon gaskets in the flare junctions as doing so greatly reduces the chances of leaks. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07M81F1BD?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_10&th=1

It is.

I like my Ferris with an airseat.

After fixing two major hy-tran leaks last fall and only using my tractor once over an unseasonally no-snow winter, it wasn't until this spring while making slash piles that I noticed that I was going through a few quarts of hy-tran every day and I couldn't find the leak. Well, it turns out that...

Drive the truck into a garage, lift the tiller up from the rafters with a chain come along (or whatever), drive the truck away and lower the tiller. That or make friends with a neighbor with a skiddy or loader.

After my opening post, I pressure-washed my tractor to make sure everything was oil-free and dry, and then the weather turned cold and windy and if it wasn't cold and windy, it was cold, raining, and windy. So roll forward two weeks... Yesterday, I idled the tractor for an hour hoping to...

This real estate thing is a trap as well! Maybe it is time to learn about money? Think about it: Do you think the purchasing power of the dollar is going to increase or decrease in the future? Do you think that indebted nations will print more money or less money in the future? Do you...

Bitcoin will not reduce deficit spending. As I stated in post 312, deficit spending is here to stay. But deficit spending continually reduces the value of fiat currency. And storing fiat currency means losing wealth. So the question is how to maintain or grow existing wealth? One...

Or we're realists and recognize that Bitcoin is monetary armor. The U.S. is locked into perpetual deficits. What’s your escape plan?

You missed something: the world is shifting under our feet. The old world was ruled by interest rates and investors who watched the Fed interest rate like hawks. For decades investors watched the Fed's rate changes and quantitative easing was the game. But today, it’s the U.S. Treasury and...

Insofar as I know nothing has been decided or implemented and so I asked Grok3 (X.com's AI) to aggregate by asking, "How will the USA raise money for a sovereign wealth fund?" Grok then spit out a lengthy summary. I then asked Grok to do a deeper search and it surveyed 26 sources including...

Quicksand, there are all kinds of ways to be net short. For example the most basic way is if you're managing a generally diversified portfolio, then not having any Bitcoin exposure right now in that portfolio means that you're net short without even having a position. You've got to think like a...

Oh, I forget to remind everybody that the third largest oil producer (behind the USA and Russia) who is in good terms with the West has begun accepting payment in Bitcoin rather than the traditional US “petrol” dollar. For their part, Russia has been trading oil with China (thereby bypassing...

Meanwhile, with this morning’s Strategy announcement of purchasing 13,390 Bitcoin over the last week, it dawned on investors that Strategy alone, as in the single company, is buying more Bitcoin than all the miners in the world are producing and that this has been going on for a few months. And...

Okay, you have me: how could the machine be burning hy-tran?

My HST tractor is consuming 3-4 quarts of hy-tran every few hours of doing loader work. The hy-tran is shared for the steering, hydraulics, and HST. The skid plate is off so nothing is pooling on top of it. First, the dye I used last fall to find two hydraulic leaks off of the pump has been...

If you find crypto to be "creepy" (sorta like looking up your own FICO score?), then you're in luck as it is expected that both Android and Apple will soon start allowing people to use their phones as crypto wallets with a judgement against Apple who has forced all venders to pay a 30% "Apple...

Perhaps you could cut an access plate out? Weld tabs on it and drill corresponding holes through the tabs and the underlying top of your rotary cutter, and then either use nut plates or weld on nuts so that you can bolt on and off your access plate.

I thought Mississippi and similar places were the Benanna Belt, No?

The oil sensor is what turns on the oil light.

Go to your fleet store or Amazon and buy some weldable 3/8" hooks. Then find the wettest welding rods you've got along with the oldest and lightest welder you've got and weld them onto your bucket like so.

The problem I have making YouTube videos is making a video makes the job take 3 times longer. Then a guy spends hours editing footage from three cameras only to get 300 views because YouTube doesn't promote old, fat guys.

Put a block under it to support it and have at it. I have a video of what I did on my Woods BB720X rotary cutter.

Prove Strategy is a ponzi. You've asserted, but no facts. If it is a ponzi short the common and buy a put-spread while presenting the gospel of $MSTR's ponzi (i.e., talking your book). Meanwhile, the same Bitcoin treasury reserve strategy as Strategy (formerly known as Microstrategy) is being...

Grease everything. Grease is what prevents metal from banging on metal and peening out pins and joints. The axle pivot center support should have two zerks: one in front of the axle and one behind the front axle.

Like 34Willys, the only thing not moving as a "unit" with the machine is the front axle center pivot and steering. You're greasing both sides of the axle pivot every 50 or so hours, right?

A common problem with tar-packed coils is they warm up and internally short much more frequently than oil-packed ignition coils (wow, now you know I'm old school if I know that, smile). That said, this thing doesn't have a pickup coil or electronic ignition, does it? They too can work fine...

Vent clogged in the carb? It needs atmospheric pressure on the bowl.

Read the title, and instantly wondered if your gas cap's vent is clogged.

My sister, a Senior Manufacturing Engineer, joked with me 25 years ago that in China R&D means Replicate and Duplicate.

Fundamentally, Safemoon commingled trust money with their own money which has been described as a pump and dump scheme, but the charges are commingling customer money with their own money—all of which has nothing to do with Bitcoin. Strategy held a 2-hour earnings call yesterday that is was...

Will it just steer opposite? If the pump is set up as I believe it to be, yes, your machine will steer opposite or not steer and you'll end up switching the lines around.

1) Bitcoin that the courts have seized was done so only through the cooperation of criminals through plea-deals. 2) Bitcoin that has been stolen was only through access of passwords and seed phrases. 3) Hard forks are normally done to fix deficiencies and add functionally. If some group makes...

That happened to me. My Kioti came with a single lever that worked both sides of the SSQA and brush knocked it loose, and I dropped my grapple into a fire. At the time because of my accident Everything Attachments modified their wicked root grapple with bars to help "defend" the SSQA from...

Sadly, making the rounds to the Fargo IRS office means talking to Federal security guys. They check the DL (I have Minnesota's verified type, which I believe satisfies the real ID thingy). I believe one of the guards scans the ID for a database while another security officer watches the metal...

Do you deny that over time more and more traditional assets have been poured into Bitcoin? Do you think that trend will reverse and not continue to increase? If so, why? Do you really think that Bitcoin has no utility or value when Bitcoin can be verified globally, can be moved at the speed of...

First Principles Bitcoin is the only fixed supply of any commodity that you can own. Commodities prices fluctuate with demand. Aggregate demand for Bitcoin continues to increase faster than any other commodity over time. The increase in buying interest is generally coming from institutions...

Claims on the future are faith based. PE ratios and bond yields can not only rise but also fall as future earnings predictions fall and bond yield rates rise against inflation. Acquisition costs and carrying costs for Real Estate are definitely rising with increases in property tax, insurance...

You’re trying to poison the well. How about interacting personally and situationally? Perhaps you could start by sharing what you believe is a superior asset and why to set an example?

Meanwhile, Bitcoin has maintained its place as the 7th largest ASSET CLASS in the WORLD, but those who haven't studied it believe Bitcoin is a ponzi-scheme because they think they know something about tulips but have never read for themselves, the Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness...

I'm starting to think the "lurching" may just just be from foaming hydro fluid getting air getting stuck somewhere in the transmission and not the speed solenoid (or whatever Kioti calls it) but I need more running time. The idea (and this may not pan out to be true) is that after I replaced my...

I just learned something. In MN our property taxes are due on May 15th and October 15th.

Keep hoping. Taxes are paid to the county. The county then at a later date dolls out to your township the levy for that year. The township's treasurer, at the bidding of the township's board, moves rainy day funds in whatever investments the State allows townships to invest in.

Normally 10-15%. That said, there shouldn't be any need for using anti-seize on lug nuts unless it is working in the salt belt in the salt.

While I expect traditional markets to continue bed-wetting over headline risk, a methodical survey published last January highlights that Crypto in general is in the process of going mainstream with Americans. Key findings are an interesting mix of "yeah, yeah, go, baby, go!" and "Is this...

When you cannot get parts.

I'd like our municipality to be able to have exposure to Bitcoin through our normal money market manager so that our ROI exceeds inflation rates and we wouldn't need to increase our local levy to cover expenses. Today we see Bitcoin decoupling from risk assets before our very eyes.

The bottom of my dump trailer has two unused 3/8" open holes for drainage. Every year mice make a next in the battery box.

The issue with fractional reserve currency systems is that they inflate the volume of money, ultimately decreasing each unit of the money's system's buying power. With that said, my personal view is this: The Federal Reserve is not part of our government. The Federal Reserve is considered to...

Even as the reoccurring poisoning of the well conversation continues (see above), we're continuing to have telegraphed where an entire market segment is heading. To wit, when we get domestic stablecoin and market structure legislation, you'll begin to see the ground shift under your feet when...

I agree, but it is still a mess to unwind. The ChatGPD image thingy gave a quick overview (but uses ETH for its smart contracts example, sigh). That said, compared to an investment account needed to buy real estate investment trusts, a free wallet is a MUCH lower barrier to entry. Also RE is a...

Unfortunately, You're right. The idea behind placing titles on the blockchain is we would have a clear record from where the title was transferred. Nowadays it is so easy to falsify an ID and title scams work against the entire real estate industry's "ease of access" (for lack of a better way...

I was just arguing with a buddy about getting rid of his stupid software wallet. I mean what social security or brokerage HASN'T been hacked by now? I mean after 200,000,000 Americans socials had been hacked from Experain in 2015, I thought, finally Congress will fix the Fair Isaac and social...

Self custody is the way to go. And you're right, all brokerages play games. Why can't I have free level 3? I want to see what is going on in your "dark pool" so I can see the level and volume of buy and sell orders stacking up in real time! Whadda mean I need a Series 7? Some time ago I...

Quicksandfarmer offered a very good description. The price bouncing around is a live spot price. Every time there is a transaction the price of the transaction is published as a "print" (going back to when records of transactions were literally printed on a ticker tape). The price bouncing up...

The same thing happens with equity prices, bonds, options, commodities. Again, learning about the types of orders matters. In equity trading, common order types include market orders for immediate execution at the best price, limit orders to buy or sell at a specific price, and stop orders to...

Yes, if you sell Bitcoin at a higher price than you purchased it, your gain is reflected in your account balance.

I really do not RFM much because I'll forget what it said, anyway.

I have a 1/2" Milwaukee impact driver that if I forget about leaving a M18 battery on it, it'll flatline the battery and then none of the Milwaukee chargers will charge it up. So I use two razer blades to jump two M18 batteries together to boost the flat battery up to enough for the charger to...

First, before doing anything, take some time, as much time as you need to take and learn until you have reached a level of familiarity that you're comfortable with. Don't do anything until you have learned. That said, If you go onto an exchange where you can buy Bitcoin (example: Fidelity in...

Anybody with a plasma table can cut out a brush guard for you. Easy.

Meanwhile, over on X... A framed copy of the original Bitcoin white paper now hangs in the Whitehouse (although I don't get Laura's gushing). Again, I don't think you guys understand what a big deal Bitcoin is going to become in all of our lives and here all of us all have an opportunity...

I have 2 Opimate chargers (which I think are the best smart chargers), and at least 10 of cheaper smart chargers, 1 LifePo1 chargers for lithium batteries, one 60A booster (old style, not smart) and one 200A booster (old style not smart). Experience tells me that a guy needs at least one old...

No links for this but some in the Bitcoin community are talking about the US Treasury offering lower interest convertible Bonds backed by Bitcoin as a way to manage interest payments on our national debt as well as offer investors Bitcoin exposure. From companies offering convertible bonds like...

Are the "issues" in the room with us now? The NX series suffered from too cold of thermostats when first sold but so did all Teir IV machines which often clogged up the DPF and put them into a limp-home mode. The field solution was to put in warmer t-stat. I run a 180°F T-stat in my NX and the...

My doggie, Buddy turned 14-years-old on the 11th. I went to the store and got Buddy Sweet and Sour Chicken as a treat to dole out to him throughout the day!

Normal. You're thinking it should retract to the paint line and it does not.

I've got a old H80B wheel loader and on woodsy trails, it is a bit like a bull in a China shop when not sitting in a pit doing what payloaders do (the top of the cab is 12' high), but it is good at knocking over trees, and popping stumps. It is obviously great at shifting material and loading...

I've got an eagle nest at the top of my northern hill on my lake property about 200ish feet away from my bedroom window. It's always very exciting to be a young eagle every morning during the summer. They're like roosters. Eagles were rare when I was a kid now they are super common and our loon...

The pennies act as a sacrificial anode.

White pines are my favorite tree. Over decades white pines will make the soil so acidic around themselves that even norway pines cannot survive in a white pine forest. That said, yes, during winter white pines are prone to damage from wind, snow or ice load. Whites tend to grow in groups, but...

While the market has been risking off (selling) over fears of M2 money supply expansion in order to service ballooning sovereign debt, we know that the risk of holding Bitcoin has been largely stripped away: 1) Because Wall Street is embracing it. 2) Because our Federal government is embracing...

I'm suddenly reminded that spaying weed control, we have an outfit that wants to charge the township $150 an hour for SPOT spraying weeds plus materials in the township ditches. I'm half temped to get the license myself and weld up an electric boom arm on my RZR.

Bitcoin adaption will happen slowly at first, then all at once. It has been a few days since the last bitcoin legislation map. Here is the update. Hyperbitcoinization is coming and by now, you should all be starting to see a pattern.

Most of these mini-split systems ship with the 410A refrigerant already in them for a given amount of line held within the condenser (the part that sits outside). The amount of refrigerant is normally enough for up to 25' of line (1/4" high side and 3/8" low side lines). Anyway, once the system...

That's where corrosion comes from. I grease up the battery posts on led-acid batteries for that reason with every oil change. That's or spray them with white lithium grease in a can.

Ironically, now that we're back in the 20ish°F, I'm using my 18K Mitsubishi Hyper Heat, heat-pump to heat my house (only the upstairs, not my walk-out basement facing the lake) because it costs only about $40-45 a month compared to using my boiler's operating cost with propane and the taco...

You want a small one for carbs and a larger one for bigger stuff. Never put rusty stuff in the small one. I have a 5L and a 30L and you want to make certain they are filled up 3/4 full or they can burn themselves out. Yesterday I just had my 30L up to 170°F derustifying and cleaning up a Datson...

Meanwhile, I live in a forest and trees keep getting blown over by wind. I just lost the top of a 2-300 year old norway pine this winter. What a mess that tree will be to clean up but I guess that's another reason I got a Payloader... I'm still cleaning up trees from prior years storms and then...

Goldman Sachs who has reportedly been buying crypto with both hands mentioned crypto for the first time in its Annual Shareholder Letter today. The letter states that the rise of crypto products offered by competitors may put the firm at a disadvantage. In street parlance this means the bulge...

Maybe but it sure would be easier to make an adaptor.

Fun things from today while we spin our wheels. First, the SEC clarified the Reserve Statement. And we're all laughing because Solana breaks when under pressure and we're all giggling about it being used to secure voting. Oh my. Second thing, we're now at 3% global Bitcoin adaption. Keep in...

Discuss this with your local machine shop.

I presumed our OP doesn't have tools. FWIW, getting stuck PTO shaft off is its own subcategory of videos on YouTube. If the "black" is paint, then there is an interference-fit problem that will require force. If the "black" is anodizing, then it is just new PTO shaft issues, and "rattling"...

Leash a chain around what should be the detent of the diveshare where it meets your tractor's PTO. The chain may not be able to collapse the spring-loaded driveshaft detent to release the driveshaft from your PTO, so pay attention. Attention is named "the hammer of your choice," should the chain...

Yesterday Michael Saylor presented a Keynote Speech at the Bitcoin Conference explaining what it means for The USA to become a "Bitcoin Superpower" through a Bitcoin Reserve by the year 2045, the implications on cyber security, global trade, banking, AI, sovereign debt, the dollar remaining the...

I'm surprized that there isn't an existing thread talking about nothing but shop improvements, but seemingly there isn't and so I'm starting a shop improvement thread! Keeping in mind that there is a plesiosaur sculpture in my swamp that people in my area talk about, I installed a new gag for...

Some coins are up much, much more. $DOGE, for example, was up over 15% from its bottom once the second rally settled in by early afternoon. Meanwhile, the broader equities market, while still down, has cut its losses in half as Ontario's Ford and the Commerce Secretary, Lutnick, have started...

I tend to agree with you but the introduction of a zillion meme sh*tcoins using Pump.Fun on Solana and the rug-pulls that followed also halted alt-season through dilution and bad experiences. That said, the memes are still fun!

Meanwhile, toward the end of yesterday, there was talk that our newest President was purposely crashing the market in order to give a reason for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates and the market opened slightly up, but that turned into a dead cat an hour into today's session only to...

The selector is broken. This likely fits...

The egg man, Heh! Sounds like a Beatles song. Crypto-wise, there isn't as much leverage in the system as there once was just a few years ago but with every nation pledging spending, money supply is going to expand. That said, a limit order of mine for Bitcoin tripped today below $78K. I have...

I've got a spare selector thingy sitting (somewhere) on a shelf because it is the wear item on the style of joysticks our tractors all use.

I use AGM batteries in my truck and tractor.

Edit: Apparently when posting from an iPhone, the forum software thinks numbers are emojis. Fixing that issue from my desktop. Interpretive Letter 1183 from the Comptroller allows banks to custody crypto. AltcoinDaily explains what this means. Also, Altcoin doesn’t understand that...

Loose fiscal policy killed bond yields for years by the time the yield and M2 money supply were factored in because Treasuries around the world issued more debt and then ran off and bought other currencies as a way to try to bolster the value of their own currency. This gets back to my earlier...

Meanwhile, yesterday's 2025 Crypto Summit was pretty much a nothing-burger, back-slapping event that did not present any new policy. However, according to Keven O'Leary, the Thursday night parties were much more interesting with Kevin tweeting, "Everyone’s talking about Trump’s Bitcoin reserve...

It takes energy to "mine" Bitcoin and to maintain the network. As such, in a basic form, Bitcoin is viewed as a store of energy.

Yup, you're right. There is something of a correlation between a fixed supply of say Bitcoin and anything else that is rare, but not unique. We see the boom and bust cycle to this day where cheap money lending (low interest) expands the velocity of commerce, where the expansion is thought to be...

I did. I suggested getting a mini version of the machine that wasn't working.

Make your own mineral water. I have one of these. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DNZ3X1NK?th=1

I hear what you are saying. In my mind our discussion about intangibles circles right back around to what we call money. Hear me out. Historically money has been represented by something relatively scarce. In a simple sense, the scarcity of the thing represented a store of "power" or "effort."...

Here is a specific use. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/spacex-uses-stablecoins-collect-payments-170027463.html

There are many discussions on X about your very point. Today in an interview with Bloomberg, David Sacks, our AI and Crypto Czar, said we need to have a Reserve because we already own Crypto and we need a better way to manage it.

Here is a live feed for the 2025 Crypto Summit. The 12 Apostles picture format is not lost on much of the audience. LOL

I'm into HiFi stuff. In my house, I've got vintage MacIntosh kit driving Alon IV reference loudspeakers which are the same type that were used to mix the original Star Wars movies. They sound terrific, with a wide, tight soundstage while the MacIntosh amp and preamp deliver a nice warm, analog...

Are we done with Paul Krugman? I ask because the focus of my response was on the question that there isn't a viable use for crypto. Your response highlights the missteps that have been taken in the development of crypto or the motivation to avoid merchant fees through Visa and Master Card but...

On the very day that the Cardano Foundation announced that it is securing the Brazilian government on the blockchain? How could I ever suggest a real-world use of crypto? Read about it: Zug, Switzerland, 6 March, 2025 – Cardano Foundation, an independent, Swiss-based not-for-profit...

Are we to surround ourselves with people who are wrong? In business and investing our views change as fast as we receive new information. I’ll happily agree with Krugman when he says something correct and admit after the fact when he was correct and I was wrong. Meanwhile, since we now just...

Can anybody build an argument WHEN Krugman has ever been right? I'll start.

Been a dull week, but things are progressing.

Rumor control has XRP and Dogecoin ETF approvals are coming sooner rather than later. Wanchain announced Solana is now bridged with Cardano (since the Strategic Reserve announcement on Sunday, wow, good timing!) giving Cardano the liquidity from the Solana market and Solana the reliability...

Meanwhile... A couple of years ago Musk publicly envisioned X growing to become a huge chunk of global financial services and has been working on getting money transmitter licenses with each US State as well as around the world. Then today Charles Hoskinson, one of the founders of ETH and...

Generally stay away from meme coins. Exchanges list them largely to collect fees from transactions and most meme coins offer no utility whatsoever. That said, meme coins have tended to draw people into crypto in the first place which was fine when there was only a few of them, but with the...

People are fading (selling) Mr. Market's enthusiasm and taking profits, that's true. The amusing thing is when Asia woke up and found out that the USA's Strategic Reserve would consist of BTC, ETH, XRP, ADA and SOL. The jokes started flying about Solana's (SOL) inclusion as a strategic reserve...

Correct. Rewards are not paid in Bitcoin. Perhaps this article will add clarity. https://thecryptobasic.com/2024/12/12/babylon-btc-staking-3-simple-ways-to-get-involved/ The Bitcoin OS link with Cardano is supposed to have a demonstration ready to go this coming May. Bitcoin OS's own X feed...

Currently, BTC can be staked through Babylon. The forthcoming bridge with Cardano with the integration of Bitcoin OS will allow Bitcoin holders to use DeFi contracts directly through their Bitcoin wallet without requiring an intermediate party like Babylon to interact with those smart contracts...

Banks and institutional investors have been wanting to get into Bitcoin but either their local regulations, investing discipline, or both prohibited them from doing so. When Bitcoin ETFs launched, those ETFs became the fastest-growing ETF segment, ever. The reason for this is banks and...

Meanwhile, pullbacks are a feature that allows people to buy at a lower cost average. Especially so when price appreciation has been telegraphed through institutional interest, coming regulatory clarity (contrary to the opening statement of the video California posted, we're getting more...

The scalability problem Bitcoin has is getting solved through the forthcoming Cardano bridge since both use UTXO. The demo is supposed to be delivered in May of this year. Likening BTC to real estate is that both RE and Bitcoin are asset classes. As soon as a guy wraps their mind around that...

The relatively common pullbacks are a feature that allows people to buy more while over time we see price appreciation. This is from Dec. 2022 to today. But let's go back further.

You have a knack for expressing opinion as though it is a fact. Let's consider a FACT. If you save in dollars, over time everything gets more expensive because of the dollar's ever-reducing value. If you save in Bitcoin, over time everything gets less expensive because Bitcoin is appreciating...

Moving on there is a good article published back in December of last year about changing the way Bitcoin is recorded to make it easier for people to use in commerce. Each Bitcoin is comprised of 100,000,000 satoshis (sats). In Bitcoin, a transaction of 100,000 satoshis is expressed as 0.00100000...

Can you explain how Sam Bankman Fried who took customer money and used it as though it was his own is the same as or at least similar to the discussion about Bitcoin in particular and crypto in general? I ask because trying to tie in Sam Bankman Fried's crimes of comingling funds as the basis...

The pushback is that ponzis are hidden and with Strategy (the new name for Microstrategy) everything is being done out in the open. The convertible debt being issued is being bought by sophisticated investors who want the volatility and to date, those assets have outperformed Bitcoin. While...

It took me a while to jump on the bandwagon as crypto cannot hurt if it was dropped on your foot. At the same time, I was often explaining currencies to others as "faith-based" means of trade. When faith is high in any given currency, that currency can buy more goods and services relative to...

If a guy cannot laugh at themselves first, they have no right to laugh at others. Besides we're going into a lull in Crypto. The short-attention-span people who thought we'd have instant legislation changes are fed up that crypto legislation is taking too long to get moving and so the entire...

The term you're looking for is called "Talking Your Book" which is the Wall Street parlance for chatting up the companies or positions you own. That said, I do not need any of you to participate in Bitcoin or any other crypto but I cannot resist posting a dogecoin meme.

Not knowing about Pi, I had to go look it up. Pi Network - Home Page https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/pi/ $14B market cap with $2B moving around in the last 24 hours according to coinmarketcap.com.

You've got it: Grok is the X AI. On my end before taking screenshots, a guy can click on and see from where the AI pulled and aggregated the data so Grok provides the source data which is a nice feature in my mind. That said, The high estimates come from data miners who are looking at blockchain...

Crimes, huh? Quoting a single Reddit user. Okay. Meanwhile, just today Brian Moynihan, CEO of Bank of America, said he that expects USD-backed stablecoins to become legal in the U.S. and when it does become legal for banks to custody, BofA is getting into that business. Unimaginable amounts of...

And since I'm playing with the Beta of Grok 3, here is more fun....

My sister still drives a stick. In fact, she goes way, way, way out of her way to buy cars that offer stick shift. We just picked up a Mini-Cooper S model with a stick as a buy, fix, sell project. It has BMW disease, but we'll fix it.

A pile of USA citizens own crypto right now. Here is what Grok 3 spit out after it surveyed recent articles on the subject.

Meanwhile, Cardano's founder, Charles Hoskinson, is apparently meeting with the President. The speculation for over a month is that somehow our Nation's expenditures are going to be put on a blockchain but also Charles has a seat at the table for shaping the forthcoming Crypto regulation. Last...

As I understand it, the people calling for rolling back Ethereum are Bitcoin maxis trying to wreck Ethereum. That said, I agree with you: rolling back is stupid and funny all at the same time. This makes a good case for not-Ethereum cryptos for decentralized development. I'm on the Cardano...

Regulation is expected to 1) Provide a clear framework framework for launching coins. What is allowed, not allowed, and how they should be treated. 2) Regulations to manage staking as a way of creating yield for stakeholders and this to include crypto ETFs. 3) Regulations allowing domestic...

Again, nothing failed in the security, what failed was not checking the actual address on the hardware wallet since only the hardware wallet showed where the ETH was being sent. How the hack worked was by spoofing the address on the software side. The software user front end was compromised...

That hack wasn't against the Ledger wallet, it was conning the users. That said, I rest my case: you're in the hater category while it is being telegraphed that the ground is going to shift under our feet.

Utility coins let alone meme coins aren't in publicly in the loop about regulation other than at least Charles Hoskinson (one of the founders of Cardano and Ethereum) talking about having a seat at the table to suggest good regulation. New meme coin launches happen dozens of times every day and...

In so far as I know, Brown makes the heaviest rotary cutters.

Good news for the USA. The unwarranted witch hunt SEC lawsuit against Coinbase is getting dropped with Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, a Crypto exchange, posting a lengthy post on X that the SEC is dropping their lawsuit against Coinbase with no fines or judgements against Coinbase.

I will place you into the hater section. And especially so since Bitcoin has outperformed any other asset in the world since it was launched and you're telling me about early "bag holders." Tulips as fas as the eye can see and turtles all the way down, I'm sure. That said, I am surprised you...

And they should fail if they don't provide a function. Just like NFTs failed because they serve no purpose.

Your skeptical sentiment explains why any investor entering into Bitcoin or crypto right now is still early. Meanwhile, we suddenly have the most pro crypto administration in our nation's history, Bitcoin adoption throughout the world is taking place faster than the internet was adopted, Bitcoin...

Over on X, the newest version of Grok and Chat pro version place Cardano at the top for being decentralized but also speak positively about Bitcoin. The saying goes that Bitcoin adoption will be slow at first and then all at once. Supposedly, the governing rules that we need for the Crypto...