Humidity is high during the summer months and the humidity extends through September, hence why it is known as "sweatember". But here we are in October and the humidity right now is super high. When I open my balcony door the entire door fogs up from the humidity and it is so sticky outside.
So when does the humidity end and when does the nice mild weather of winter begin?
In the bangla rd gogo bars like harem, suzie wong etc the expectations are insane. They all have "special" lady drinks starting at 3k baht consisting of 12 shots and if you aren't buying those for the ladies you basically get ignored or treated like a broke loser. Even if you do buy those special lady drinks the girls plow through the shots in 15 minutes before pushing you to buy another one.
In the bangla rd russian strip clubs like moulin rouge etc the ladies expect you to buy them a 1,200 baht drink just for talking to you for 10 minutes. Then they offer you a 2 song length lap dance for 5,000 baht. Thats $150 usd for a lap dance that lasts 5 minutes.
The reason its so insane is because in places like the US a 2 song lap dance would cost something like $50.
How can russian girls in shitty thailand clubs that cant dance think they can charge 3x as much for a lap dance than professional strippers in high end clubs in places like las vegas.
The phuket economy is wildly twisted. You pay so much more for so much less value.
Meanwhile in pattaya everything is as it should be. The lady drink hussle is not as greedy as phuket and there are so many more choices.
Patong beach is such a waste of time when pattaya offers so much more value for such a better price.
I tried alternate day fasting a while back and lost some weight but I noticed all the symptoms that apparently come from a protein deficiency.
In hindsight I was not eating anywhere near enough protein on eating days.
What do people here do to ensure they are getting enough protein while fasting?
For as long as I can remember the in-seat 330ml size water bottles in Emirates business class were always Evian, but now it looks like they are giving business class passengers mai dubai water bottles in their seats.
A quick search online shows one 330ml Evian bottle is around 6 AED while one 330ml mai dubai bottle is around 0.6 AED (60 fils).
Are Emirates implementing extreme cost cutting measures in their premium cabins these days?
It seems offensive to charge thousands of dollars for a business class seat but then give out the cheapest, most budget oriented water bottles. How can Emirates justify charging thousands for a flight but then refuse to spend 6 AED on a water bottle for their premium cabin passengers?
Evian is natural mineral water from the french alps. Mai dubai is desalinated chemically processed ocean water.
Is Emirates business class turning into a low quality product?
Seemingly every gogo bar and beer bar i went into in patong phuket it felt like a stunning girl became obsessed with me. She knew how to act, how to tease me, how to get me infatuated, how to remember my name, how to make me feel high with love.
However in pattaya every gogo bar or beer bar I went into it felt like she was only interested in drinks, or only interested in money. Every girl would feel rushed or transactional. There was zero emotion left inside these girls.
Why does this dynamic exist?
For the life of me I cannot decide between my next holiday being spent in pattaya or patong.
Pattaya has hundreds of gogo bars between walking st and LK, patong only has 4 or 5 on soi seadragon.
Patong has a great tropical beach while pattaya has an unswimable bay beach.
Drive from airport to pattaya is 2 hours while its only 1 hour to patong.
There are just so many variables.
I feel like the energy and vibe and friendliness of the girls is so much higher in patong, but at the same time patong is so small with so few gogo bars.
In this sub what makes people think pattaya is the better choice for a holiday?
Ejaculation used to leave me feeling hyper drained, that is what led me to discover this subreddit.
My diet was never great, lots of junk food and no fruit or vegetables.
A couple of weeks ago I went strict healthy. Only fruit and vegetable soup with high omega-3 atlantic mackerel (no mercury like king mackerel).
I am currently not practicing SR and I was surprised to see ejaculation no longer leaves me feeling drained at all. I feel constantly good to go and like my sex drive is unending.
Is it possible so called POIS happens when your diet is horrible, and a super healthy diet can fix it?
I saw a post recently asking why some men seem to have sex all the time yet still have extremely high energy and still possess the benefits that usually come from SR. I think it might be because their diet is insanely healthy.
In other words foods like junk pizza and junk burgers with fries leaves you so low on the nutrients needed to replenish after ejaculation that the body just gives up.
Im thinking all the high omega-3 mackerel im eating also plays a big part because apparently omega-3 is insanely good for hormone health and testosterone.
Thoughts?
The French cryptocurrency tax platform Waltio suffered a data breach affecting approximately 50,000 users. Perpetrated by the Shiny Hunters hacking group, the January 2026 incident involved an extortion attempt after hackers exfiltrated user email addresses, payment details, and tax report data.
A crypto tax software data breach is so much worse than an exchange or hardware wallet data breach because it ties your identity and home address directly to your self-custody public addresses and total crypto net worth.
If a crypto tax platform only accepts card payments the payment gateway requires your full name and billing address to process the payment. That identity data is then tied directly to your profile. If a data breach occurs all of that information is then exposed to the dark web making you a target for physical attacks.
You can use crypto tax software without a name and while using an anonymous email, but never use crypto tax software that only accepts card payments because that card payment ties your identity and home address directly to your public addresses and net worth data.
If a crypto tax platform only accepts card payments consider this a massive red flag.
Crypto tax platforms have a responsibility to protect your identity, and the only way to guarantee this is to allow completely anonymous accounts. They have an obligation to accept anonymous payment methods and if they do not do this then do not use them.
The French cryptocurrency tax platform Waltio suffered a data breach affecting approximately 50,000 users. Perpetrated by the Shiny Hunters hacking group, the January 2026 incident involved an extortion attempt after hackers exfiltrated user email addresses, payment details, and tax report data.
A crypto tax software data breach is so much worse than an exchange or hardware wallet data breach because it ties your identity and home address directly to your self-custody public addresses and total crypto net worth.
If a crypto tax platform only accepts card payments the payment gateway requires your full name and billing address to process the payment. That identity data is then tied directly to your profile. If a data breach occurs all of that information is then exposed to the dark web making you a target for physical attacks.
You can use crypto tax software without a name and while using an anonymous email, but never use crypto tax software that only accepts card payments because that card payment ties your identity and home address directly to your public addresses and net worth data.
If a crypto tax platform only accepts card payments consider this a massive red flag.
Crypto tax platforms have a responsibility to protect your identity, and the only way to guarantee this is to allow completely anonymous accounts. They have an obligation to accept anonymous payment methods and if they do not do this then do not use them.
10 years ago bitcoin was the only relevant cryptocurrency. It had a strong ideology and strong purpose, everything else was essentially unknown.
Then the rise of alts in 2017 caused bitcoin to get lumped into the whole scammy crypto universe. Today when anyone says bitcoin all the uninformed masses think of is scammy pump and dumps.
10 years ago when you went down the bitcoin rabbit hole you discovered things like what money should be, how the fiat system is broken, and the technical genius behind bitcoin. Now that same rabbit hole leads to the scammy side of crypto.
Because of this even lawyers and accountants have no idea what bitcoin really is. They dont understand it at all, they have no idea how to account for it or fit it into legal structures because they still think it works like a stock because the scammy crypto universe prevented them from discovering what they needed to learn.
How will this resolve itself? Will it take a global bond market crisis and bitcoin being talked about on the news as a serious solution for the masses to finally learn what they need to learn about about bitcoin?
In the crypto community people are generally wary of telling others their blockchain addresses as this data can be used to see every single transaction ever made and tie your identity to your crypto net worth. This is bad opsec because if the wrong people know about your blockchain data this can make you a target for hacking and even physical attacks.
When it comes to crypto tax software you are literally signing up using personally identifiable markers like your email and payment method, and then uploading all of your blockchain addresses.
How do crypto tax software platforms handle this massive breach of privacy? Giving all this info to your tax accountant is one thing because they are bound by strict client confidentiality agreements, but uploading all this data to an online software service with none of the same confidentiality agreements in place is entirely different!
A hardware wallet data breach only shows your identity plus the fact you own a HWW but it does not expose how much crypto you own or your public addresses. An exchange data breach shows your identity and your account balance but the exchange has strong mechanisms in place to prevent unauthorised withdrawals. However, a crypto tax platform data breach reveals your identity plus it shows your entire public address history and total crypto net worth position. This is a far worse scenario as it would allow attackers to target you personally knowing your identity, your total crypto net worth, your public addresses, and proof you use self custody.
Are employees prevented from seeing your data? Are there ways to use the software where your identity is not attached?
It seems like a massive security issue to just upload all of your identity and public address information to an online software service.
What mechanisms are put in place to protect the data of users?
After this coinkite coldcard situation we cant trust code that is open source, we cant trust code that is closed source, and we definitely cant trust a statement saying "we use a TRNG so your seed is secure".
Every hardware wallet manufacturer needs to release hard proof that their TRNG works, their code is complete and robust, and their entropy generation actually meets a minimum 128/256 bit standard.
Even if their code is closed source a reputable 3rd party auditor can run tests on seed entropy generation to statistically prove 256 bits of entropy is being used.
Every wallet manufacturer should have this 3rd party audited proof of entropy document available to view on their website, and if they do not do this by the end of this month we as a community should boycott that manufacturer to help ensure safety for all bitcoiners.
I saw an interview where Matt Damon asked Tom Holland why he held his hands to his chest in one scene, and Tom said his armour was choking him.
Then I watched the movie and I could see Tom and so many other characters wearing the same style armour all holding their armour around their necks in almost all of the scenes. Now I know it was because their suits were literally choking them while they were trying to act.
Once I saw this I couldn't unsee it.
Every time you see a character holding their chest or gripping their armour around the neck know it is because their costumes were literally choking them while they were trying to act.
Once wealthy citizens from one country start moving to or visiting another country people start to stereotype that entire nationalities citizens as "wealthy".
The wealthy americans, the wealthy chinese, the wealthy koreans, the wealthy singaporeans, the wealthy dubai residents etc etc.
This is generally due to a fast and dramatic rise in living standards driven by a strong economy, strong currency, and an environment of opportunity.
This same phenomenon will happen with bitcoiners with bitcoiners being their own demographic. At some point as fiat continues to lose value and remote work along with AI unleashes opportunity for everyone everywhere, the only measure that will make a certain demographic appear wealthy won't be the country they come from, it will be the currency they denominate their life in.
People will stop stereotyping a certain countries citizens as wealthy, and they will start stereotyping bitcoiners as wealthy.
In the same way as today when people view a certain countries citizens as wealthy they want to move to or visit that country, and they start to respect and almost idolise their wealth, it will be this same dynamic that drives the masses to want to become bitcoiners.
It will be a very stereotype driven dynamic where if people start discovering all of the wealthiest tourists in their country are bitcoiners they will finally understand the power of sound money and a strong currency because they will be seeing it with their own eyes in their own businesses and workplaces, and that will drive them to want to start earning and saving in bitcoin.
In the future we won't stereotype a persons relative wealth by the country the come from, we will stereotype a persons wealth by the currency they denominate their life in.
Every bitcoin commentator on the internet seems to look at their own local news events and claim these events are somehow good or bad for bitcoins price. From western countries and their local tax policy moves, to conflict in eastern europe or the middle east, to local policy decisions in asia.
But bitcoin is so much larger than any localised narratives, bitcoin is not a local stock market. All that news is nothing but noise.
Bitcoin only cares about aggregate liquidty, and when it comes to aggregate liquidity only one question matters, when the next global "event" hits will global central banks keep rates high and allow a recession to take hold or will they drop rates and stimulate the global economy with money printing?
The answer is simple, since 2008 the worlds central banks and governments have proven unequivocally that their only response to any macro event or crisis will be to cut rates and stimulate because the alternative would smash the global financial system.
The next time central banks and governments face a global crisis they will cut rates and stimulate, and thats all we need to know because easy money policy is what fuels bitcoins adoption and exponential price growth.
So many commentators are expecting a business cycle recession that will crash markets but since 2008 global central bank policy has been stimulus at all costs to protect the traditional financial system.
Central banks wont allow a global recession, at the first sign of any recession or crisis they will stimulate and that means scarce assets will be the best protection from easy money policy.
So forget the local news headlines, ignore any talk of a recession, and just understand that bitcoin will benefit from easy money policy during any potential global crisis.
Hypothetically let's say you are able to sell a chunk of bitcoin through your exchange but then when you try to withdraw it to your bank your bank blocks the transaction and doesn't allow it because they consider it a large amount or they just dont like crypto. How would you be able to pay the CGT owed to the ATO if you cant first get your fiat profits into a bank account.
Can you transfer fiat directly from your crypto exchange to the ATO?
Given paying the ATO is mandatory shouldnt there be rules and protections in place that stop banks from denying customers service just because they touch crypto?
I have seen many posts here about people having their bank accounts suspended just for sending money to a bitcoin exchange, but what about the other way around.
Say you have some ethereum staked and need to cash out every month even if only to have the money to pay the taxes you owe on that staking income.
Do Australian banks flag you and suspend your bank account for cashing out from an exchange consistently on a monthly basis? And if so how can you prevent this from happening?
Im specifically talking about accounting firms that understand the deep nuances of blockchain, transaction reconciliation, staking, generating historical crypto source of funds and source of wealth reports for banks, etc etc.
Please only name firms you have actually used and have experience with.
We first reached $100k in late 2024, a year and a half ago. Since then we spent a total of 260 days above $100k which is close to 9 months.
Now we are back below $100k and have been below $100k for around 7 months.
Humans love round numbers and now that we have spent time both above and below $100k it is starting to feel like a magnet. Almost like $100k is not expensive but its also not cheap, it is just about right in terms of fair value.
Who knows, maybe we bounce above and below $100k for a long time to come given that the higher bitcoins market cap gets the slower it moves.
I currently do not live in my home country, however I may move back to my home country in the future.
Disregarding all the record keeping requirements for my current country how do I reset my cost basis when moving back to my home country?
My cost basis will become the fair market value on the date I permanently return to my home country. Looking at software like summ, is it an easy process to change the cost basis using a specific date? What is that process?
If I set up summ now while in my current country, can I change the country when I move? And will that reset my cost basis to the price on that date?
Any help regarding this would be appreciated.