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Bump. Everything's available for rent.
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I agree with fillippone. When you're in a trip with the kids, enjoy it. Going offline is a privilege nowadays.
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In other words as far as Bitcoin is concerned, he'll be like Elon Musk on steroids! People struggle to accept that nobody controls Bitcoin because, frankly, very few truly understand it. Unless Bitcoin is attacked at the protocol level, everything else is just temporary noise. Over time, Bitcoin's inherent principles will silence this noise, much like gravity eventually pulls everything back down. |
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Update- You can find users' statistics at stats.php, in real time. - Donation page has been added: https://bitcointalk.rocks/donations.php. Donating 50 BTC still makes you a VIP in here! - Year of the post, next to the person's username is being added automatically. - New quotes added. Total quotes: 105. The text displayed at xtraelv's signature: We are surrounded by legends on this forum. Phenomenal successes and catastrophic failures. Then there are the scams. This forum is a digital museum.This is a good one. Added it! And, if funny quotes are also accepted, I'd make some research inside the foxhole, as there is an incredible material there If you find any text in there which is funny without context (i.e., without knowing what's a foxhole), then don't hesitate to post it.  Although I understand that it has been very difficult to do this, but you will have one more request to customize the site and publish it more beautifully.
This minimalist style, or lack thereof, is a deliberate choice. Nowadays, every webpage on the Internet is filled with JavaScript and CSS. I don't think this modernity reflects the essence of Bitcointalk. Here's another list of some good quotes for your site. Thanks, I just added everything except theymos' post regarding the 1 MB block size limit, as I find it inaccurate and confusing. The block size limit is 4 MB after Segwit. so are you going to maintain this website and pay for the domain name renewals? it seems like it might cost about $15 per year. It's $25 per year (domain name + web hosting), but donations are accepted! I will continue operating it, yes. I think it can become quite a neat project. Some old posts from young theymos are nice to put things into perspective, like: 5) Generating is still profitable, even on my ancient computers. Bitcoin uses $0.25 per day in electricity, but I will make on average $0.60 in Bitcoins per day (and I actually value Bitcoins more than the market price). Even if it wasn't profitable, I need a running bitcoind, and I might as well have it helping the network. Wow. Imagine being able to mine that cheap. Quote added. Let's say I wanted to see all quotes from your website with a specific keyword or multiple words, would you be able to make that happen? I enter "third party", or "fork", etc., and all quotes that include that/those word(s) would pop up on screen. Noted. To-do: Make a small search engine.
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I need to find a way for users to humbly select their own posts. It'll speed up the process. All a matter of incentives.  |
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Clearly fiat is your best bet in this case - any fiat... even Venezuelan Bolivar.
There is no 5th option. I'd hold fiat as well. |
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If only people would stop competing to pay the maximum fee, fees wouldn't be so high!
While I agree with the points made in that post, I dislike the quote when presented without additional context. High fees due to competition are a natural result of the fixed supply of block space and fluctuating demand. |
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Nice one! I was just going through the quotes and felt tired at some point, and there are only around 40 of them There are 94 quotes right now. Is there a way to set it to "auto skip" for a specific X time, and it changes every X time? I just added an "Autorefresh" link. Check it out. It updates every 10 seconds. |
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I moved the website to a Tor-friendly shared hosting. Currently, it's accessible from Tor, but please confirm. To do that, I changed the nameservers, therefore it might not load to your clearnet browsers right now. It soon will. Here are some quotes that you might add to your site. Nice quotes. I just added them. ribuck's post was already added. hey can the year the post was made be included? it would add context to some early references that newer folks may not get.
Which from the following do you prefer? |
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Yes, I guess that's it. I define value in the way... most people define value: a thing you can use to obtain what you want or need in an open market. Uncensorable, unstoppable, verifiable, globally accessible, permissionless, transparent, scarce, peer-to-peer cash is, apparently, a "thing" people want or need in these markets. It's just that, to you, it seems like these properties don't fit the needs or desires of people. |
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I appreciate that you keep things civil, but I am foreseeing that this conversation will not lead anywhere, as we disagree on fundamental levels. I have clarified what's valuable about Bitcoin. It's exhausting repeating it over and over again. You simply don't agree with my definition of value. That's completely respectable, and we can end it right here. In the end, the free market defines the true value. However, I cannot leave some of your absurdness unchallenged. What do you mean by "devalued"? You listed some statistics about certain currency supplies and so forth, but the actual reality of prices is not connected to that at all. In other words, prices have not gone up, on a dollar basis, by 40% in the last two years. Not even close. Here's the U.S. National Home Price index: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/csushpinsa. It rose by ~42% between 2020 and 2022, and it's at an all time high right now. Here's the 30-Year Fixed Rate Mortgage Average in the United States: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MORTGAGE30US. When COVID started, it was around 3. Now, it's 6.77, that's 125% increase. Groceries, gas, energy, education and other services increased in price as well, but not only due to bad monetary policies (e.g., due to supply chain disruptions). I mean, honestly, where do you live? In every place on the Earth, since this money printing, prices have gone up significantly. You know what isn't rising at the same pace? Wages. |
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Sure, but it's more susceptible to manipulation by the US government than the US dollar is. But above you said that a primary benefit (which I would still say is not unique to either Bitcoin nor blockchain, but that's another subject) is it's stability as compared to sovereign currencies like the US dollar. Nowhere did I mention that it's "stable". I said that it cannot be corrupted. It cannot be arbitrarily inflated. Monetary policy is set in stone in 2009, and we know precisely what the inflation rate will be in every year into the future. So you are predicting the US dollar falling by 40%? When do you predict this will happen? And if it doesn't happen, will you re-examine your understanding of how macroeconomics works? You have completely missed my point. I provided an example where the US dollar devalued by 40% in a short period, to emphasize why I would never trust it for saving. And if you're wondering, then yes, I do expect it to devalue even more. And if the wrong candidate gets elected in November and Bitcoin drops in half, are you still going to think Bitcoin is better? If the "wrong candidate" (lol) gets elected, and Bitcoin drops by half, then I'll buy cheap Bitcoin, because I cannot imagine a scenario where Bitcoin will be declining and the USD rising over the long term.
As I said, we're viewing it from an entirely different angle. I don't think that it's immune to manipulation, I just think it will be the future of money. It's partly speculating and partly a plausible replacement for broken money with incorruptible, honest and pure money. A matter of life and death. |
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Bitcoin is already being bloated by bug exploitation which ordinals use and developers are still discussing if they should fix it  There is nothing to be fixed. Spam can only be discouraged at a transaction fee level. Remember that Monero has a dynamical block size limit, and there are no UTXO. Every time you create an output, it is indexed forever. |
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Many people are concerned about the government executing a 51% attack on Monero. I think a more urgent problem is bloating the chain with spam, as it'd greatly hurt scalability. It'd be much more efficient and inexpensive to attack Monero like that, even though I haven't researched on the exact numbers.
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Well, Bitcoin is a network that is run by... humans. You didn't read the Github link I posted, did you? So in fact, Bitcoin is more susceptible to governments and politics and sovereign currencies are. Bitcoin is just worth $1T. It's obvious that with this valuation, it's really easy to manipulate the price, at least comparably to the global reserve currency, which is USD, currently. And against all odds, it's still have been a shrewd investment. Overall, it's been rising by more than 150% every year, on average, in the last few years. While the US Dollar as seen inflation, the overall inflation rate of the US dollar has been something like 2% over the last 40 years. Here's the data that show M2 money supply of FRED: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WM2NS. The M2 money supply increased from about $15.4 trillion in February 2020 to about $19.5 trillion by February 2021. That's more than 26% increase of the money supply in a year. And, by February 2022, another $2 trillion were printed. That's around 40% increase in money supply within just two years. I'm OK with Bitcoin, thanks. |
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