Just a couple cool shares from this past week. I was on vacation in Maui the past week and I saw this cool Bitcoin Bull in the window of a fine art metal shop.  Also went on a snorkeling boat tour and after it was over the guys running it asked for tips and named several ways they take tips including Bitcoin! First time I've ever personally experienced someone saying they take Bitcoin for payment (it was just for the tip, but still cool). Ironically, there's an Apple Pay sticker on the window but no Bitcoin Accepted Here sign. As to the bull, it reminds me of a similar (but somewhat bigger) statue at the Bitcoin conference 2022 in Miami.  |
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Nice win by Karatsev against Medvedev. 7-6 / 6-4. Despite he was not the favorite of the day he performed really well, he has made a great match today with just few errors. Medvedev again not in a perfect shape (probably he has some cold?) and not able to perform at highest level as usual. By the way it seems he will be present in Roma ! https://www.internazionalibnlditalia.com/players/daniil-medvedev/ Medvedev has still a good bit to go to be consistent on clay even though he was seeded number 2 for this tournament. Alcaraz v Zverev ended in a massive anti-climax for anyone hoping Zverev was going to be a worthy challenger - 6-1 & 6-2. In these rounds of 16 the only top seeds left to play are Tsitsipas 2, Fritz 8and Khachanov 10, I cant see any of them beating Alcarav and taking the title. This should be a repeat of the last final with Alcaraz and Tsitsipas getting there. Draw was a bit weak from the start and nobody really with the form and game good enough to seriously threaten them. Maybe Khachanov on his best day but clay isn't really his favorite surface. I hope you guys made some money on Medvedev, he isn't even top 20 player when clay is the surface and I am taking handicaps against him in every round and then ML as soon as he has proper opponent. I think I just lost one bet ever in this way and that was when he won against Zverev recently. Yes, Barcelona Alcaraz beat Tsitsipas 6-3 and 6-4, What can Tsitsipas do this time around to overcome Alcaraz? Re Medvedev, no I havent been betting either way on him and eventhough I have been watching bits and bobs of certain matches I actually havent bet that much on the Madrid tournament. My last bet was Friday on Musetti but he got beaten by Hanfmann which was disappointing after his decent run at Barcelona to get to the semi final there. We have the first quarter finals to be played between Khachanov and Alcaraz. Will this going to be hard fighting, because Khachanov played hard against Rublev to secure his position on the quarter finals. Based on the players in the quarter finals I believe Alcaraz, Zhang, Coric and Tsitsipas to reach the semifinals. Well, Alcaraz won 6:4, 7:5 but Khachanov also played really well. The Russian was leading 4:1 and 5:3 in the second set but still somehow managed to lose the set and the match. Khachanov didn't manage to use the opportunities his opponent offered him. He had several break points he didn't convert and was even serving for the set. I have to add that my (winning) bet was on Alcaraz. |
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So anyone willing to help be aware.  Help with what exactly? It's a bought fake wallet with no actual private keys, I just don't understand why people keep such large amounts on a single exposed public key. When you want to be your own bank, you should also do what bankers do, doing some work to keep the money safe, in bitcoin is as simple as holding the coins on a fresh address with no exposed public key. But we don't really know what has happened to some of these wallets and their owners. With recovering the funds. Read the thread, there are people actually volunteering to help.  As to keeping huge amounts in a single wallet, if it was created back in 2010 it's possible because 8k BTC was peanuts back then and there was no reason to split or somehow protect it additionally. |
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A lot of people made thousands, milions using the decentralized blockchain currency for over 10 years now.
Obviously Bitcoin was a big impact on the internet and has helped lots of people.
But, it has also been used, still being used, for all sorts of criminal activity, providing a payment and wealth storage solution to armed conflicts, organized crime, narcotic trades etc..
What would be your take on curbing this issue?
I bet if we compare BTC to FIAT, we'll find out that BTC is only responsible for a tiny part of all crimes. So what now? Ban FIAT? Drug dealers, hookers, child p*rn lovers, arms trade tycoons - all of them are using FIAT and I bet most of them don't even know how to use Bitcoin. The issue is not the technology, people are the real issue. As long as there will be criminals, BTC will be used along with other currencies. |
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wtf... Block reward is 6.25BTC and i saw a block that almost got 2BTC just from fees...
Can anyone explain what's going on? Whats that high insanely demand on the Bitcoin Network??
Who is causing this? A lot of people are selling BTC??
This might be a cause for a crash
I wonder where have you spent the last several months? On another planet? Have you heard about ordinals? Google it. And stop spreading FUD, nobody is selling Bitcoin. It's amazing when people see something they can explain and panic starts immediately ("we're all gonna die" mode kicks in) without even doing research first... |
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^^^ I don't know from where you get this story of Russia selling it's crude at $35 per barrel. At this point, the Indian refiners are purchasing Urals at very close to the market rate. The FOB price is around $65, and another $20 per barrel gets added to it in the form of freight and insurance. So in total we are paying around $85 per barrel for the Urals crude. The crude from Saudi costs around $92 per barrel, including freight and insurance. So the difference is now very minimal. And although some of the banks are refusing to make the payments, there are plenty of alternate options available.
That's exactly what I'm talking about! A naive layman in India is told "yes, we buy at 100+ dollars per barrel, but there is a crisis in the world and a wild shortage of oil, because all the world's oil depends on Russia, you UNDERSTAND!". After that, they make such smart and tense faces, and go into their offices to laugh at gullible citizens, and count their excess profits. And there is something to consider: 70 dollars of the declared price minus 35 dollars of the real = 35 dollars per barrel into your pocket. In invented you are only 35 dollars deceived? No !  And then plus $ 35 per barrel in the form of final gasoline or diesel fuel that you fill your vehicles with. Well, because oil is expensive! And of course - there is no price of 30-35 dollars, no )))) PS By the way, your opinion is of interest - why has Rosstat classified oil production statistics in Russia since April 2023? And again, no source mentioned and you keep operating with those laughable numbers "$30-35". Where do those numbers come from? Straight outta your ass? Why not $3? Man, it's even funnier shit than "Putin is dying of cancer", "Russia ran out of rockets", "Russia is going to split into 5 independent states" etc... |
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Check the mempool and see the fee rate that can make your transaction confirmed. Mempool is very congested, the fee rate is 98 sat/vbyte.
98 sat/vbyte! I hope all of you ordinals fans will burn in hell for this! Yeah I know the miners are earning some extra buck but isn't it time to finally close this loophole, devs? Puuuleeeeeaaaaazzz! Or are we not getting enough freedom yet? |
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Looks pretty suspicious or a joke. Having a hard drive with 400 million dollars, instead of finding the best masters in reality, he goes to the forum to ask... Are you the author? gkelly 15Z5YJaaNSxeynvr6uW6jQZLwq3n1Hu6RX https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=24346.0 Make a complete copy of the hard disk (image) and upload it here and we'll see what you can do Indeed, very suspicious. I've seen posts before by scammers trying to hack inactive wallets with huge amounts of BTC inside (probably owner died or missing). If you manage to persuade forum users to hack this wallet with huge balance which doesn't belong to you, you can afford a 100BTC bounty right? So anyone willing to help be aware. |
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Look at this Transaction[1]. It paid 15x more than it was necessary to get confirmation. It paid $38.77 in fees for transaction that worth $180. If you have a look at old transactions of this wallet, it was always paying optimal fees. I don't really know what happened there, while it paid 5x more than recommended, actually $10.56 was spent in fees while transacted amount was $1.41, check: Transaction[2]And here - Transaction[3], someone even paid 56x more. Is this done on purpose by some miners to increase the overall transaction fees and collect more fees? Edit: I had to open this thread on Bitcoin Technical Support board, sorry  . I guess the reason is time. Some need their transaction to process faster and they just click "Include in the next block" button in their wallet without checking the fee. And with the mempool we witness today that can get expensive. But then again, time is money and if you have to transfer funds today you don''t care how much you'll have to pay in fees. Ordinals: people are paying huge fees because of some assholes and their monkey pics.... |
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The design is ok, I'd say 6 or 7. Domain name is 10, really nice one and probably costed you a fortune. Most headlines are from May 1st have you just launched it recently? Do you have a team or it's a one man show? Contents/news 7 out of 10. Do you use a bot/AI scraping news websites or you do it manually? Would be nice to introduce Opinions section and hire some reputable/popular Bitcoin bloggers to write for you. Just my 2c. |
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Watching Swiatek v Alexandrova right now. Interesting match, this one. Swiatek took the first set relatively easy 6:4 and was ahead 5:2 in the second. Then something happened and she started losing game after game and got to 5:5. Swiatek took her serve 6:5 but Alexandrova won her's and took it to the tie break. She was leading 3:0 and finally managed to win it 7:3. Now can't wait for the deciding set - this will be entertaining!  |
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I only know 3 of them Binance, Nicehash, and miningrigrentals are currently trusted sites who offer renting hashrate/Cloud mining.
Other sites are most likely scams and even they are trusted all sites that I mention above it is still risky to invest and rent some hash rate compared to buying your own miner.
IMO all cloud mining sites are scam. Either you get scammed right away or the "legitimate and trusted" sites come up with their rules making it impossible to earn anything by mining with them. So, in any case only the person/company owning the physical miners gets the money and "cloud miners" get scammed. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but that's the sad truth. |
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Either your wallet was hacked or someone had access to your seed phrase.
Whatever happened, bitcoin transactions are irreversible and there's nothing you can do.
But how, I need to insert a password for each time I send? Itīs not like I have my seed phrase on my sticky notes, itīs not easily accessible, and it looks like this was sent automatically. It says "self-transfer" when I run a privacy analysis on blockstream.info Most probably, the hacker gained access to your wallet's seed phrase and he was able to create a new wallet using your seed and so he didn't need to enter your password to do that. Password is only necessary if your .dat file is stolen and the hacker has two options: steal your password or brute-force it. |
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I apologize if this is a dumb question but the fact is that I don't know why.
My question is, why is Bitcoin market always affected by all economics news, example is the issues with US bank like the SVB. Thank you
This statement is not 100% correct. Strangely, during bullruns Bitcoin is mostly not affected by bullish news. On the other hand it's super sensitive to bearish news during bear times. Just an observation. |
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I have been silently reading and watching people's post.. It's mostly filled with worries and lack of faith, bitcoin is here to exist and there are no alternatives. The technology has been recorded already so I don't think anything else would come break the efforts they puts in building bitcoin and blockchain Technology. It's just as computer is being built which includes;
1. The first Generation of computer which was built with a vacuum tubes ( At then I believe there were Thomas who didn't believe on that technology but today where are those people)? calm down bitcoin still have a long way to go..
2. The Second Generation of computer which is solely built with transistors or discrete transistors was then and upgrade of Vacuum tubes.( Yet there were Thomas that kept saying for how long will this last), I believe so..
3. Third Generation of computer was then an upgrade of second Gen, that is being built with Integrated Circuits which was far more better than 1 & 2 generation computer. So why killing your self just know bitcoin haven't reached up to 20 years or 30 years.
4. Fourth Generation which was then know for microprocessors also better than 1, 2, and 3.
5. Fifth was also the upgrade of 1 to 4 generations so it is to come till whatever generation to come..
Inclusion and summary, Why don't we have this mentality towards bitcoin and know its the latest Generation that has came to stay which through bitcoin we had a blockchain that featured all forms of technologies in the world, and yet you think one day bitcoin price will fail you? My dear this is No to my answer because those who witnessed those 1 to 3 Generations of computer aren't there again so in essence why not buy bitcoin and hold and think of 20 years to come and more, if only we can centered our heart with the progression of computer then we would patient enough not to talk about price of bitcoin at this present moments.
So please bring down your tension and feel free with bitcoin since there are more things to explore with this current Technology.
NB. Some of the information are being highlighted and source from google
So, you're trying to say that Bitcoin right now is not good enough and should be improved? IMO that's nonsense. Bitcoin can't be compared to PCs, it can be compared to gold. Gold hasn't experienced much change in it's history. It was born perfect, same with Bitcoin. Let's not over-complicate things. |
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Usage of technology is appreciated, but replacing the technology with human beings is not that good. In my opinion human beings make mistakes and the decision of the player to challenge and get the correct result makes the game interesting. It also shows how high is the player and his concentration. Having technology instead will reduce errors and helps to avoid disappointment in match results, as we were able to see more matches turning in favour of the opponent after a wrong decision from referee.
But the big question is - has a match ever been wrongly decided on a wrong call by a line judge? I doubt it, especially in the modern era. TBH I think its nonsense, Its probably about cost saving in the end. The idea of it speeding up the game is also nonsense, there are other areas they could target to speed it up, take away the warm up after the coin toss for example. We have been warned about the implications of introducing AI, its going to replace peoples jobs, and really, do we actually need it? line judges are fairly accurate. Will top executive ATP positions be replaced by AI, surely their decisions can be made by machine? of course that wont happen first, its the lower levels of the ATP organisation to be affected first. Well, my daughter is a tennis player competing on junior tour atm and I can assure you that officiating is a disaster now! Most of the umpires and line judges are either old or blind and the best thing they can do is take the side of the player who makes the call. I realize that this technology is not coming to the junior tour anytime soon but at least at pro level we need this tech ASAP! Meanwhile in Madrid, Mirra Andreeva has breezed past Magda Linette in straight sets 6:3, 6:3 and will be facing Sabalenka herself in the next round. The Tigress had defeated Osorio previously 6-4, 7-5 and also progressed into the Round of 16. I won't be betting but I'll also won't be surprised if the Russian teen prodigy wins! Sabalenka conceded too many unforced errors in Madrid so far. |
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You should probably change the title from [Apr 2023] Fees quite low! Use this opportunity to Consolidate your small inputs to something else before some poor sap decides to consolidate their inputs  . That poor sap will learn the cheapest lesson possible: don't act on headlines but actually read and understand before doing If he learns this lesson here instead of in "invest your pension in cloud mining", I call that a win. It's rare for fees to go up in the weekend though. It looks like many people started consolidating after mempool was empty for the first time in months. In fact, I suspect mempool grows at the end of each month and today is the last day of the month. Maybe just a coincidence, but I send coins on 30th or 31th of each month on a regular basis and mempool is almost always congested. Need to check the graphs to make sure though. |
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Is there a possibility of the Bitcoin community splitting and two different Bitcoins existing at the same time? I know how crazy the question sounds but it needed to be asked after reading this opinion piece 1.Think about it for a moment, the author argues that we are yet to see any evidence that Bitcoin comes to a unanimous agreement on improving the entire transaction capacity/payment system. According to them, because of the decentralized nature of the Bitcoin community there needs to be 95% consensus inorder to upgrade the protocol in any way. And it seems unachievable to have a consensus as everyone has their own opinion coupled with the fact that the Bitcoin community is so large.This situation could lead to a dilemma where we'd have to choose an improving system update, but if a decision is made without full consensus two different Bitcoins could exist at the same time. *Please note that this doesn't in any way reflect any opinion of mine. 1. https://www.sec.gov/comments/sr-batsbzx-2016-30/batsbzx201630-1617162-136918.pdfI guess you were not into Bitcoin back in 2017 when some hard forks happened (most notable being BCH or Bitcoin Cash). So, it's not a crazy scenario, similar events already happened in Bitcoin history before and therefore there are multiple "Bitcoins" existing at the same time. |
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World war 3 start about 2024-2025 safest locations during the the world war 3 Will be USA UK and some part of Europe Baltics Nation Will be safer then scandinavian Nations.
WW3 start automatically means the end of bull run of everything. Bitcoin is almost guaranteed to go well under $10k again. USA, UK and the Baltic States will in fact be the most certain targets of Russia's nukes so these locations are in fact least safe. And yes, almost forgot: WW3 is going to be a nuclear war so that will mean the end for our civilization. I guarantee you Bitcoin price will be the last thing you will be worried about. Bull run Will end year about 2026-2027 middle of the 2026 the start of the bear Market.
Can't happen, as the WW3 will be under way for 2-3 years already per your own prediction. It's unclear to me what your predictions are based on? Just purely SOME kind of predictions? Or you can see the future? Some kind of precognition? Please enlighten us. |
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Fees are super high today. I've sent a tx with ~10sat/byte fee but had to bump it to ~80sat/byte eventually (about $10 for my amount/tx) absolutely highest fee I paid EVER! Just wondering what is the reason for this madness again? Ordinals?  |
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