Guys, enough of this shitcoin talk here in this thread. There's a nice altcoin forum part where you can share opinions on your beloved shitcoins and discuss all the news, including NFTs on your blockchain etc. This thread is for Bitcoin and ordinals.  |
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I just bought my 1st miner (brand new S19j Pro 100th). I am earning about 30,000 satoshi's on NiceHash daily and that is not exactly life changing money. Especially when you factor in my cost of electricity ($0.10/kw) I was thinking about solo mining and taking my chances to potentially finding a block (6.25 btc reward). Where can I calculate my chances of that happening? Would be similar odds to winning the lottery?  Yeah, that sounds more like a lottery. You should also take into account the halvings, so for example in just a year you'll earn only 3.125BTC and in 4 years only 1.56BTC for finding a block so the longer you mine the smaller is the reward. And yes, there is a chance of not finding a block at all...  |
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Talking about the issue is the first step. It's important! Discussion helps to clarify the issue and generate ideas. What you're saying now is: shut up and do something but real quiet so nobody would find out. No! We're going to talk about this nasty issue and we're going to do it LOUD! That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying actually doing something to attempt to rectify what you consider to be a problem will go miles further than just sitting around here basically spamming the same complaints about it over and over. And you're not even loud. Almost nobody will read this except for some sig campaigners and franky1. This place is a collapsing thought bubble, from which a little more air escapes each year. i wouldn't call 10,000 bytes "super tiny". you can store alot of data in 10,000 bytes. that might be a good way to backup important data - encrypted of course. wonder how much it costs.  Its tiny for image data. 10k is the theoretical maximum although I'm not sure anybody has actually done that yet. Most of them have a max size of 1.5k and look like this full-sized:  https://doginals.com/shibescription/9ca704a862eb1fea235212804e5dd951409a91dd93a62b4888788788b1625e76i01-10 persons is not loud, 100-1000 is louder, 1000-1000000 is loud enough. Everyone was having fun ridiculing Satoshi and his ideas in 2009-2010 but it's not funny anymore now? I guess size isn't significant for retarded NFT buyers. Cryptodickbutts are also quite small. It's all about the hype.  |
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When some people ask questions about gambling, such as "Can someone can make a living through gambling? I don't like to engage in such conversations because those who doubt that gambling can change someone's life are usually those who have gambled and failed multiple times or those who don't really know gambling strategies. Recently, a Uganda pastor who won 100million shillings decided to shut down his ministry. This left me with several questions in my head, such as ' Do religious leaders gamble? Is it right for religious leaders to gamble? Knowing fully well that most of them preach against gambling in their religious places. What is the ethical and moral implications of gambling, particularly in the context of religious practices and beliefs? News source: https://www.reubenabati.com.ng/news/pastor-shuts-down-church-after-winning-n100m-sports-betI'm an agnostic, so I don't see anything bad or strange in this situation. The clergy are just human beings as you or me so they sometimes gamble, buy luxury stuff, drive expensive cars (seduce little boys haha). Perhaps a religious person would think otherwise though. Just my 2c. |
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From the look of things bitcoin price will not come up soon, I guess is better to hold on till when it will show strong signal before putting in money again to escape losses and people who their investment is long over due are already victims of the Price dropping. We should try to be careful this period that bitcoin has not direction. Imagine a friend investment $2000 but what is currently left in his wallet is $400, and the deep is still bearing down the nuds.
Hold on, but if you must buy now be wise to use spare income.
The new Bitcoin cycle/bullrun has started already. That's a fact now. I'm not sure what makes you think the price isn't going up soon. And now it's high time to invest, before we are going up. Halving is going to happen soon too, another driver which could help us skyrocket. Remember that $14k spike back in 2019 if I'm not mistaken? This time we're going to at least $50k and it should happen really soon (April-May-June arena). So go on and invest, before it's too late (you may simply miss the moment we're going parabolic and lose lots of money). Act now! |
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Today's the first day of some serious matches in Miami: ATP: Davidovich Fokina v Paul Hard one, but Paul looks more consistent. H2H is also 1:0 in his favor. Fritz v Shapovalov I'll bet on Taylor, despite him trailing 3:5 in h2h matches. Fritz is really good on home soil and Denis seems to be a bit out of form currently. Schwartzman v Rune Both guys haven't been showing any top level tennis lately but Rune shows some signs of recovery and he's much younger than the Argentinian veteran. Alcaraz v Lajovic I guess no questions should arise: #1 ATP and the best playing player currently. Sinner v Dimitrov Sinner has been showing great tennis lately and he's much younger. Dimitrov's "golden years" are over and his career is a huge disappointment for his fans as "baby Fed" had failed to reach the top level (top 3-5). The only match they played was in 2020 on clay and Dimitrov won that one. Ruud v Zandschulp Now this one is hard, 3 set match definitely, stats are in favor of the Dutch, but I have a hunch Ruud is going to win this time. WTA: Kenin v Andreescu Andreescu is back even stronger, Kenin seems to have some psychological issues (pressure from her dad?) Pliskova v Vondrousova H2H is 3:0 in favor of Karolina, but Pliskova hasn't been showing any decent results lately. The bookies seem to agree with me on this one. Alexandrova v Bencic Dmitry Tursunov famous for his success with Anett Kontaveit can really make a change for Belinda. She has already showed it by winning in Guadalajara. Cirstea v MuchovaKrejcikova v Keys Bouzkova v Sabalenka The power of Sabalenka is hard to match. Perhaps we'll even see another Sabalenka - Rybakina final. I've marked the winner of the match in my opinion in bold. Get ready for an exciting tennis night! |
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The history of Transnistria is a very tragic story. Initially, there was a single country - the USSR.
The so-called Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic was then the place of compact residence of Moldavians. Ethnically and culturally, Moldovans are closest to Romanians. At the same time, Moldova is a purely agrarian country, Moldovans specialize in agriculture. At the same time, an industrial territorial entity (the so-called Transnistria) was artificially included in the Moldavian SSR, the majority of the population, which was predominantly not even Russians, but Ukrainians.
It was the Ukrainians who were the titular nation in this region. And from the point of view of common sense, Transnistria, of course, should have been part of Ukraine, and not Moldova.
Alternatively, this region could be included in Russia (the former RSFSR), since there are a lot of Russians in Transnistria (the second largest nationality after Ukrainians). But the problem was that Transnistria does not border Russia, for Russia it is an enclave.
Since no one planned the collapse of the USSR, Pridnestrovie was part of the Moldavian USSR. When the USSR collapsed, Moldovan troops attacked the peaceful cities of Transnistria (it was a national conflict). In particular, the city of Bendery was destroyed. It was a terrible disaster.
Fortunately, a smart, honest and determined Soviet general, an ethnic Ukrainian Alexander Lebed, was found. Thanks to his decisive actions, this war was stopped, and the killing of civilians was stopped.
I'm sorry - but I'll correct you, in some places you are mistaken. In the beginning, there was no USSR  Muscovy was in that place, more precisely in part of the territory. And some territories, for example Moldova, were in 1940 .. stolen from Romania. Yes, yes, the theft of foreign lands, under various pretexts, is not an invention of modern Russia ... Look for historical facts using the phrase "Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina." In the same way - and most of the other republics, since 1921 they were simply occupied by Muscovy / RSFSR. Until 1921, for example, there was the Ukrainian Independent Republic, with territories including Taganrog, part of the Belgorod region, and the entire Kuban, which were then torn off and stolen by the RSFSR. The second important misconception is that "there are a lot of Russians there." This is not true. Indeed, sometimes there may be an opinion that "there are many Russians in many republics of the USSR." But in fact, there are many Russians in the territories of the occupied independent states. And they appeared there after, from 1930 to 1954, the Kremlin ghouls destroyed the local population, culture, evicted hundreds of thousands of citizens of other "fraternal republics" to the wild north of Russia. And in their place they settled their own citizens from the depressive territories of the RSFSR. More precisely, and more correctly, from most of the territories of the RSFSR, since most of the RSFSR were indeed depressive territories, with a degraded population. So there was a deliberate forced assimilation, or, correctly, the occupation and destruction of the local population and replacement by aliens. This is history, these are facts. ...and if we'll rewind some more, there was a similar sad story of Native Americans and their brutal slaughter by the "peaceful pilgrims". It was much bloodier if compared to the history of Russia. And btw, communists killed more Russians than representatives of other nationalities: from 1920s to 1950s around 4 million people got deported and ~700k executed. |
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The irony of the thing is you telling people to go "custodial".
That's not irony. It was the solution to your problem. Just keep the tip in a custodial wallet until you are ready to open your own Lightning channel and then send it to yourself. No, the solution is kick the spammers out, things simply worked fine before the public Feb exploit.
That's not a solution. How are you going to do that? Have you written a BIP regarding limiting Taproot script length and submitted it for consideration on GitHub? Have you attempted to contact anybody who can potentially do anything about it? Talking about the issue is the first step. It's important! Discussion helps to clarify the issue and generate ideas. What you're saying now is: shut up and do something but real quiet so nobody would find out. No! We're going to talk about this nasty issue and we're going to do it LOUD! |
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Yeah, I'm still waiting for the lightning channel; no tip for me today, thanks spammers.
If you were just trying to receive a tip, you could have opened up a custodial LN wallet and then transferred it to yourself later. There's always solutions to problems caused by "high fees." Seems like people would just rather complain than consider them. The weirdest is when people believe their complaints actually have some sort of effect on the situation. Well it is obviously a solution but it is definitely not a practical solution if you just want to send a small tip to somebody. What would really solve this matter would be a bigger block size. If people forgot satoshi even specifically stated that the block size should be increased in the future! Right now I feel like it's a flashback from 2017! Bitcoin Cash, big blocks does it ring a bell? Actually, why don't that ordinals guy just put his dickbutts on a Bitcoin Cash blockchain? It's probably empty anyway! |
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It's funny how some somewhat established members of the Bitcoin community suddenly switched from "censorship-resistant transactions" to "we need to stop this spam / bloating" and "there has to be a valid reason to make transactions".  When the mempool is full, and you're forced to pay more, the last group of people you have to blame are those who make the transactions. A censorship resistant, borderless, permitionless and pseudo anonymous is still very cheap even when the mempool is full and the price is higher than 20/30 sat/vbyte. Try to make a swift and wait for 4-5 business day after the bank authorization Yeah, thanks god I'm free and no longer depend on a banker guy. Now I have to wait when a 15 yo acne-covered teen sitting in his parents basement gets tired of creating gazillions of monkey pics (or even worse, something like this: https://www.cryptodickbutts.com/) and lets me push my tx at only x10 the price I used to pay before this madness started! I guess I should be grateful! |
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Watched a great match today: Sakkari v Andreescu. Andreescu is back on top of her form, playing her best tennis. I feel quite confident betting on her. She won this one in three.
Other exciting matches to watch/bet on today:
ATP: Huesler v Paul - I wouldn't bet on this one should be very intense but also very interesting. Fucsovics v Rune will be another thriller match!
WTA: Kvitova v Noskova - also can't recommend for betting but it will be fun to watch! Also Fernandez v Bencic worth watching!
I don't normally watch/bet on doubles but this one is super-interesting: Fruhvirtova sisters v Pegula/Gauff!
I will make some "easy" bets today: Ruud v Ivashka, Sabalenka v Rogers, Alcarazv Bagnis, Sinnerv Djere easy money, maybe will even go for a combo!
Almost forgot this one: Zverev v Daniel - as easy as taking a cookie from a baby!
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Another minor sell off. This is probably an effort to just take out a few longs before more up move.
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It seems that Binance froze. Is it planned or not, I don't know. Judging by the lil panic probably not. If Binance is not coming back up soonish, we're screwed. Covid dump will seem small and insignificant compared to this... |
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Binance went down about 2 hours ago with all withdrawals blocked and funds frozen. According to them there is a bug in spot trading algo? Unfortunately my funds in the funding wallet are still frozen as well and the card is not working. Any news, gossip on this event?
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4 sat/b is currently the bottom for transactions and what used to take 1 now takes 10 just like the thread title says. And yeah there is a pool involved in the spam. Will others join the spam fest to make Bitcoin look bad and promote their tokens alt networks as the "solution"? Mine for spam?
I fear it's actually much more than that. I've sent ~$70 earlier today and paid ~$1.30 in fees (10 or 11 sat/b I don't remember precisely) and guess what? The transaction hasn't been confirmed yet! I paid 1 sat/b for similar tx before the ordinals were launched. I feel like I'm actually sponsoring some teen creating zillions of monkey pics hoping to get rich quick. |
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Disappointing from Teichmann, she got bagel'd in the first set. I thought she would do good
things this year but it hasnt started that way.
What did you expect was gonna happen in this match? Muchova is one of the girls in best form on the whole tour and I wouldn't be surprised to see her go far in Miami. I will probably bet on her all the way. Did not expect 6:0 in first set but I did expect a clean 2:0 win and covering of 4.5 handicap. Since it is easy to talk after the match I'll add the proof as well like yourself, didnt expect such a poor result from her, only winning 2 games, very poor. I would also not be surprised if Alcaraz becomes the player who is going to blast through Djokovic's number 1 weeks record. Djokovic was 24 years old when he first became number 1. I know that is still a very long way to go and yes, it will be a lot about his health as well. But the way he competes and also the rest of the competition seems to be inferior.
Different times - when Đoković started you had titans such as Federer and Nadal in their prime, players like Murray in the mix as well. Top 10 were del Potro and Wawrinka, players that could beat you any day of the week. Currently when I look at the top 10, other than Alcaraz there isn't a player who I can see constantly challenging for titles. That's actually what I meant to say. Now only looking at the time Alcaraz seems to have left to also collect some easy number 1 weeks, it probably comes down to his health only. Unless there is another rising star on the horizon that we can't see yet. His level is insane at the age of 19 and even though when Medvedev, Tsitsipas, Zverev etc. are all great players, they are not his level. I agree, Alcaraz seems to have all the tools at his disposal to be No.1 for a long time, the only caveat is staying injury free. and ATM based on his performance at Indian Wells there is nobody at his level currently. I definitely think Medvedev is better than the result in that final portrays. Medvedev has just won 3 titles in a row before Indian Wells and he's 27 (not that young anymore huh?) vs 19yo Alcaraz! Medvedev needs a good rest right now. The problem is that clay season is right around the corner. But if the surface is fast enough (US Open?) I'm sure he'll be able to give Alcaraz a fight! |
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Just a little observation: this ordinals madness is still going on and it's going strong, today I tried to transfer around $70-80 and had to pay for it around $1.30 in fees which is a lot I think. It's around x10 from I'm used to pay for such transactions before ordinals. The worst part is that I feel I'm paying not the miners, not the Bitcoin devs but some random teen creating billions of monkey pics hoping to get rich quickly (and I can do nothing about it). That's a pretty shitty feeling if you ask me. |
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War certainly brings huge losses, the loss of life continues to occur, the bombs and damage are so massive that it makes the countries involved in the war suffer huge losses, and during a war of course there is no economic activity, the farmers cannot take care of the rice fields, oil and gas is disrupted thus creating problems complicated.
Russia is now suffering colossal losses in the war in Ukraine, which have not been seen since the Second World War. On March 18, in a morning report to Russian President Vladimir Putin, representatives of the Russian Defense Ministry reported on the irretrievable losses of Russian troops, that is, the number of dead and missing in Ukraine, which amounted to more than 226,000 people. Of these, 165,713 are servicemen of the regular army, 53,592 are members of PMCs and 7,144 are members of the National Guard. In Russia, more than a quarter of a million have already been killed, several times more wounded. Was it worth it to attack your peaceful neighbors and try to take away their territory and destroy the Ukrainians as a nation? The losses of the invaders will grow much more when the Armed Forces of Ukraine will soon go on the offensive and the Russian front in Ukraine will crumble. Very interesting info, could you please provide a source/link where you found it? I know that Ukrainian side are not disclosing their losses since day 1, whereas Russians initially started reporting casualties but then apparently stopped and classified this info. I don't think it's possible to find this data online, was there some kind of data leak? Yes, indeed, Ukraine classified information about its losses in the war until the end of hostilities. At first, Russia named the losses, reducing them very much in order to reassure the population of their country, and when the coffins went en masse and it became useless to deny the big losses, they also stopped talking about it. But in Russia they are in control of the situation about their losses at the front in Ukraine and regularly report this to Putin. But foreign intelligence is also working in Russia, and secret data is being leaked. If such information gets into the media, then its sources are hidden. Information about Russia's military losses in Ukraine periodically appears in the media, and at the same time they refer to the Russian Telegram channel "General SVR". Source : https://donpress.com/news/18-03-2023-putinu-posle-pereryva-ozvuchili-novye-dannye-o-poteryakh-v-ukraine. I use information from some Ukrainian news sources that I trust. But unfortunately, there is no way to make links to the text. That donpress.com doesn't look like a credible source to me. Besides, according to whois this domain is registered and hosted in Ukraine. You are referring to "some Ukrainian news sources" which definitely contain propaganda (would be logical). In other words: you don't have any credible, reputable, independent source to confirm those numbers. I guess nobody knows the real numbers atm (well apart from Putin and Zelensky and their higher military officers). |
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Miami WTA. Watched two very exciting matches yesterday - 15 year old Czech girl Brenda Fruhvirtova lost to Xiyu Wang 0:6, 5:7 (Wang was leading 6:0, 3:0), and 17 year old Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva lost to Anna Kalinskaya 4:6, 2:6. These girls are the future of tennis, we are likely to see them on tour in the years to come. Another thriller was played by Camila Giorgi and Kaia Kanepi. These ladies managed to play three tie-breaks in three sets: 7:6, 6:7, 7:6. Anyway, matches to watch out for in today's order of play: WTA: Andreescu v Raducanu, Teichmann v Muchova, Noskova v Bronzetti ATP: Murray v Lajovic There are very few big names but these matches look promising. |
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Talking about sanctions, did sanctions stop Iran? North Korea? Venezuela? The answer is no. Did sanctions stop Putin? No. Will they? Most probably not. That's all we need to know about sanctions - they don't work.
All of these countries were greatly affected negatively by these sanctions. You cant talk about countries that sanctions had no effects on and mention Iran and North Korea. At first sanctions on north Korea where more focused on trade ban of weapons related materials but the sanctions were later expanded to luxury goods and it got stricter when the sanctions involved banking transactions, financial assets, and general travel and trade. And at this point you have to be purposefully lying to yourself if you believe sanctions did not work on North Korea. Russia have not been able to fully conquer Ukraine not just because of the passive involvement of the US and NATO but because they have been restricted a lot by sanctions that they cant fuel their war efforts as much as they would like to. Don't be deceived by the bold and fearless face these tyrant put up, deep down he knows his country is in a lot of trouble. My only problem with sanctions is that they don't affect these heartless rulers directly but the country as a whole, causing a lot of trouble for the ordinary citizens of that country. It depends on what you mean by "working"? Can sanctions potentially make life harder for the Russians? Most probably yes. Will sanctions stop Putin? No. Will they lead to a revolution/coup etc in Russia? No. Will they stop the war in Ukraine? Definitely no. Yes, all countries mentioned above were affected by the sanctions to some extent but did sanctions put political pressure on the leaders? No. Can you perhaps provide an example of a country where a ruling leader had been overthrown as a result of sanctions in the last 100 years? At first sanctions on north Korea where more focused on trade ban of weapons related materials
As far as I know North Korea has no issues with weapons production (including nukes): "North Korea has a military nuclear weapons program and, as of early 2020, is estimated to have an arsenal of approximately 30 to 40 nuclear weapons and sufficient production of fissile material for six to seven nuclear weapons per year. North Korea has also stockpiled a significant quantity of chemical and biological weapons. In 2003, North Korea withdrew from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Since 2006, the country has been conducting a series of six nuclear tests at increasing levels of expertise, prompting the imposition of sanctions." So what effect did the sanctions cause? |
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As we all know, bitcoin has been trending for a long time now and has been recognized by nation's and individuals globally. Irrespective of the fact that bitcoin is a digital currency, it is highly volatile and risky and if you must invest in it, you must use your spare cash or funds which you can be able or afford to loose. Many people use bitcoin as store of value ie they use it to store their assets and wealth after converting from Fiat to bitcoin. It is otherwise a savings account to many as they see it so. With bitcoin your privacy is guaranteed compared to the Fiat which you must pass through processes before having access to it.
Fiat is stable enough to sustain it's monetary value but can not guarantee a stable economy as it was designed for. Fiat exchange value varies between nation's as it is measurable in the economical value each nation has and is contributing to the global market GDP but as a national tender it is, it is still of value because that is the only means by which one can exchange for goods and services compared to bitcoin depending on the country in which you are if they truly recognizes bitcoin as a legal render.
As bitcoin is, it has the tendencies to appreciate high in price compared to fiat which is stable, bitcoin has no third party custody unless you have it stored in exchange if not you are solely incharge of it which means you have your private keys and phrase under your custody compared to the fiat which is been held by banks and other financial institutions.
As a bitcoin enthusiast having the knowledge of bitcoin and it's potentials compared to the fiat as a local currency and means of exchange or payment for services rendered what is your take and preference on it? And how long do you think it will take for bitcoin to be accepted as a digital legal tender world wide?
You opinions and thoughts are welcomed, let us discuss.
Certainly I prefer Bitcoin. Bitcoin is the new FIAT, money v2.0 or whatever else you can call it. It's just superior to FIAT in every possible way, starting from finite supply and being a deflationary asset to being unconfiscatable and better for anonymity and privacy. How can you even compare it to some sorry FIAT? |
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