Bitcoin payment tutorial for first-timers — November 2025

The figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason. In three months the reason is what you will have forgotten, and the reason is what makes the record worth having.

That is the short version; the long version is somebody else's post.

One thing that is still open after Dr.LipidDallas’s answer:

How long did you give it before you decided it was working?

SleepDoc_PDX said:

Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason.

Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either. Those three things can all be true at once, and most arguments here are two people holding different parts of that.

Closing the loop on my own question.

Late follow-up. I did not do what was suggested, I did something adjacent, and it worked; posting the difference in case it matters to somebody.

Dr.RaviCardio said:

The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.

That holds where the measurement is reliable. Where it is noisy — and a lot of what gets tracked here is noisy — the same reasoning produces confident nonsense.