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Which one though? 996,997,991,992 and then Carrera S, 4S, GTS, GT3, Turbo, RS So much choice but I’d be too scared of IMS and bore score with 996/7 so I’d take 991 turbo
Shit the IMS gonna come after me?
I, too, love the book The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous... there're some other books as well, such as The Internet of Money, and a cute book called 21 Things I Learned From the Bitcoin Rabbithole (or something like that... can't remember exact title). But, it sounds like you're looking more for ways to onboard into BTC.... well, there are many exchanges etc but in my opinion Swan Bitcoin is the simplest and most straightforward. You can use my membership link here [https://swanbitcoin.com/wsdmrtst](https://swanbitcoin.com/wsdmrtst) or if you don't trust my link just go to [swanbitcoin.com](https://swanbitcoin.com). My link is just for me to get a little credit for referring people (it takes you to the same site), but honestly, since I know how crazy things can get with trust and scammers, etc., no hard feelings if you don't use it. Swan Bitcoin is NOT an exchange... the site/company is strictly for onboarding and (I think) offboarding BTC only. No leverage, trading, gambling, stablecoins or any of that nonsensence... just Bitcoin. There's also an educational component that will explain the ins & outs of bitcoin. BTW... don't respond to any direct messages (DMS), instant messages (IMS) or private messages (PMS) on this platform... they're basically all scammers and hackers. You'll probably notice on every single Reddit page there's a warning about SCAMMERS somewhere. After you get your first bit of BTC, just study study study.... you can spend lots of time learning how to offboard. BTW... the bitcoin price (in US$) will most likely be going down more over the next 6 months... don't panic or be surprised, it will go back up in the future.
So, former fintech worker here. There are two things you need to be aware of for this discussion. First, it takes a pretty long time for new tech to find its way into the industry and mature. AI and Machine-Learning sound fancy, but they've actually been around since at least the 80s - and the bar for making something technically 'artificially intelligent' isn't very high. "Cloud computing" has existed conceptually for several decades and has had implementations at least as early as the 90s, usually under the moniker of "distributed computing" or something similar. Databases have existed, conceptually, since at least the 50s, and we had decently well-known database solutions such as IMS starting in the 60s. But databases were clunky, hard-to-work with, painful to license, and computationally expensive until around the 80s. The tech world has had nearly 80 years - nearly a *century* \- to figure databases and integrate them into everything. Smartphones. Ooooh, what about those? Those are new. No, actually, they're not. A modern smartphone is a PDA with the ability to make phone calls. Guess what; PDAs have existed since the 80s. Here's the dirty secret about the tech world: nothing's new. All the "bleeding edge" technology out there is actually at least ten to twenty years old in concept, often more. Early implementations tend to suck, and it's only with iteration that things get better. And there's often no reason to go bleeding edge when contemporary solutions will work just as fine. That last bit is important for the second part to this: the entire cryptocurrency ecosystem, as it exists today, sucks. It sucks hard. Rampant insecurity, consistently inconsistent network conditions, high cost of use, slow speeds (relative to mainstream solutions), shady and unprofessional development teams, et cetera ad nauseam. To adopt anything in the crypto space right now, not only do you have to justify not going with existing technology that will work just fine, you have to take on *excessive* amounts of risk for debatable gain. And even if you individually really, truly believe it's worth the risk... You have to convince other people that it is. It's a *very* hard sell to anyone in management who isn't already a crypto fanatic. Enterprises do not just replace their entire infrastructure with experimental technologies because it *might* get them a head start - especially when you consider that early implementations are often completely inferior to later ones, and you don't want to have to go through the very expensive process of restructuring everything not once but twice when all the kinks are worked out. ​ The reason big tech hasn't adopted blockchain in a big way is because we're so early technologically that we're basically in its infancy - and despite common belief otherwise, *that isn't a good thing*. The reason companies are adopting cryptocurrency right now is to cash in on the current hype. Real embracement of the technology on a deep level that isn't just a quick cash-in will, like everything else that's come before, take ***decades***. And that comes with an entire array of hefty assumptions about the roles crypto can fill.
I'm allergic to hyperlinks. Can anyone TLDR the derangement syndrome proposed? Usually, when I'm talking to the rabbit outside, I reassure him of this fact. The similarities between Bitcoin's P2P network, and most existing IMS or CICS transactional programs and systems configured in a sysplex, are like advanced peer-to-peer networks between financial institutions and governments. Which means derangement syndrome might just be a default setting I need to change.
You think the US is gonna use updated standards? It’s an IMS database or VSAM file on an IBM mainframe.
There's no such thing as a COBOL database. There might still be legacy banking systems coded in COBOL. Where they need a database, they're likely to be VSAM, IMS/DB or DB2, each of which is still 10 times more reliable than MySQL Money is not printed. It is borrowed. The USA Federal Reserve issues bonds, sells them to investors for USD. There's no "printing", only debt
We are getting really off-topic here. The employees in FC's have very little practical knowledge of macro-level decision-making. You might get some insights from crossdock facilities, but IMS engineers are ultimately the ones deciding how things get binned.
Yeah... Risk for IMS’s fucking with people
IMS has been pure fiat since the 70s. Most countries effectively rely on the stability of the US dollar.
I worked in IMS, hire me as your intern