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philip964 wrote:Read Texas author Cormac McCarthy's Road. Won the 2007 Pullitzer for fiction for it's gritty dark portrayal of global cooling in a nuclear winter. Yeah bullets and food in the right containers. Takes place maybe 10 years after the apocalypse. Yes, we all have enough to last us 3 months, but what then.

He also wrote No Country for Old Men.

Both made into movies.

Off-topic but one of my favorite authors. Have read everything he's written and highly recommend the "Border Trilogy" which is 3 separate books which cover many years in the lives of a number of related characters. It is also available in a combined edition with all three in one (very long) edition. One of the trilogy--"All the Pretty Horses" was made into a movie also and worth watching.

AndyC wrote:I'm vested mostly in Ethereum myself, with a few different tokens which have actual services running already. I'm interested in throwing a couple hundred dollars here and there into others, too.

ETH has continued to climb steadily over this last week. Was at $250 last night and at $262 earlier this morning. The total market cap for all crypto has gone from $30 billion 60 days ago to over $100 billion yesterday. Putting a little bit into some of the lesser known cryptos is pure speculation but can payoff big-- Ripple was selling at .006 cents 3 months ago and is about .28 now--$100 would have bought 16,000 @ .006 and would be worth $4500.00 now. My concern now is the sudden proliferation of unproven block chain cryptos trying to jump into the market before they have any proof of concept or legitimacy. I think a lot of them will fail to gain any traction.

AndyC wrote:This has nothing to do with doomsday scenarios, guys - it's investing

Been a nice run for Etherium the last 2 weeks, and having major corporate entities such as Microsoft and Apple signing onto the block chain platform gives it additional legitimacy. Chinese and other Eurasian markets poised to allow trading could keep pushing it up. It's still extremely volatile as traders move in and out causing big swings on a daily basis but keeps moving back up after each round of selling.