QR is indeed getting traction around the world, but in order to get somebody interested into scanning a QR code, ... you will most probably need something more / something that attracts the eyes, else people will ignore it.
Even more, on a privacy conscious forum like this, where people are careful about anything that could steal their coins.. it's even more difficult.
And I will add that if we go on this path, too many people will have too similar avatars and the not-so-technical people may not even notice there are differences and the information one avatar holds is probably different from the information of the next avatar.

So as I see it now, the idea has quite some obstacles...

Multumim!

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Felicitari, Gazeta, ai castigat unul dintre premiile puse la bataie de Krogoth!
Nu este din topul listei tale de dorinte, dar tot nu-i rau!

Si, era sa uit ce era mai important: felicitari pentru premiul 1 (categoria anti-spam) la "Premiile Comunitatii Bitcointalk", acum am eu pentru ce sa te invidiez! 

It can be seen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ETcLj5jBy4

It's by default with French subtitles, but if you play with the settings (gearwheel icon) you can select that the subtitles get auto-translated on the fly into English or the language of choice. It's clearly not optimal, but it can be a solution.

I had the impression that NY state was pretty harsh with crypto until now. So this change is... somewhat surprising for me.
However, as long as it didn't pass yet, .. I won't get my expectations too high. The hopes, yes, but not the expectations.
...And only afterwards we will see if this can set a trend or not. One step at a time, since we're still early.

From what I've seen and understood there, this AnonPay is an app of Trocador, and this Trocador is an "exchange aggregator". So I guess that they earn from the exchanges they use (and what's sweeter than hassle free money?)
Their API docs tell that the chosen exchange can be found/seen, but it looks like it can be seen only for trades already done (see GET method trade). I didn't find any way the caller can pick the desired exchange.

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Thank you for the new opportunity!

Step 1 should have been long ago (and like somebody quicker also said) : sign a message with one of your bitcoin addresses and post it into this thread in the same way others did.
Step 2 may be to try (from another browser maybe) to change your password via the mail address with https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=reminder

But I would wait for more ideas in case you find mine risky.

Yep, that's correct. The fact that I start to agree with OP doesn't means that "tomorrow" we'll touch again the last ATH, nor that there won't be corrections, no.
The only news is that going under 15500 is becoming unlikely from now on.

E mai complicat. Cei mai multi nu i-au vazut fata si nici nu le-a pasat. Au auzit de la vreun prieten sau coleg, la mana a 3-a, a 4-a samd ca se fac bani gratis, deci s-au bagat.
Telefonul fara fir e o unealta foarte puternica, iar cand e vorba de bani lumea nu se gandeste prea mult, cat timp exista promisiuni.
Nu zic ca nu ar fi de vina. Dar majoritatea s-au bazat pe acel prieten/coleg, nu pe teparii din linia 1.

It's much more impressive than I expected. 7z is probably also more powerful than what was previously proposed, depending on the compression level of choice, still, I'm impressed.
Does the node need the entire blockchain "at hand" in order to validate transactions, or it has the UTXOs somewhere else? Because if it needs to continuously unpack old blocks then indeed the computing power spent probably not worth it. And if one wants to save space he can just use pruned node.

I've seen this theory more than once. Also I was not convinced we're out of bear market yet.
However, we've already had some attempts for correction/bring the price back down, rather weak and rather short lived. The upwards trend seems to be pretty powerful and I start to believe that OP was indeed right.

Thank you and well done for the nicely handled giveaway! Also great job bitmover and Loyce on the support!
And also congrats to the winner!

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Thank you, Betnomi!

Multumesc!


E si vina mea. Uneori uit sa pun in lista din postarea #2 unele concursuri (si rar sunt tras de maneca legat de ele). Si de acesta uitasem..  

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Ca informatie, am citit legat de concursul lui Krogoth ca daca tot nu se umplu toate locurile, vineri s-ar putea sa lase lumea sa-si mai aleaga inca un numar!

I don't know what they contain. Files  
chainstate and indexes are folders in the data folder, usually at the same level with blocks.
But it depends if you use standard settings/config or you've already set up something, since there are config settings for them.
You may want to read:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory
I don't know the settings for those folders, I've always used symlinks.


What I meant was that the blocks can always stay on HDD (including during IBD!). And after the IBD even having everything on HDD no longer hurts that much.

Da, normal ar fi ca plata in Bitcoin sa fie mai ieftina, ca taxele Visa dispar, si nu sunt mici. Pe de alta parte intervin schimburile la cine stie care exchange, poate si schimb valutar, mai comisionul procesatorului de plata si la noi eu unul nu am vazut niciodata sa iasa mai ieftin daca platim cu bitcoin.
M-as bucura sa vad un magazin la care este intr-adevar mai ieftin cu bitcoin...


Mda, doar ca daca nu ma cramponam in asta.. poate ca as fi dus-o mai bine azi.
... Si ca o mica nota, ai gresit un pic cand m-ai citat (pare ca te-ai citat pe tine).


Sa speram!


Il mai vazusem mai demult. Ceva, nu stiu ce, nu mi-a placut sau nu m-a impresionat. Pareau sa fie mai mult firme de buzunar cele care acceptau bitcoin. Sau cel putin cele mai putin departe de mine erau asa...

Multumesc ca mi-ai amintit de tepar, l-am "pictat" si eu.
Celui onest intentionez sa ii trimit merite, dar numai dupa ce a fost confirmata tranzactia.



.. De fapt nici nu poti sa gresesti mai mult.
La concursul nemtesc legat de blocuri si dificultate am nimerit-o (OK, am facut si un excel si am estimat una-alta). La al tau, concurs similar, am subestimat masiv revenirea minerilor dupa inghetul din State si am dat complet pe langa.
Iar la asta... am introdus pretul in 23 ianuarie 2023. Asa ca m-am gandit sa pun ... 23 202.30! Mai lipsit de imaginatie nici ca se putea!

There are multiple things here:
1. Some wealthy entities are buying bitcoin happily at this price levels. They may be paying for defamatory / FUD articles.
2. Under the hood there may be some sort of "exchanges war". In the same way Binance has given the last push to FTX and spread some FUD on Coinbase (iirc), I would not be surprised if some exchange tries to "give a push" to Gemini.
3. Governments and central banks have their own anti-bitcoin agenda. Just they are trying to be careful, since if they hit bitcoin too hard people may also perceive badly the yet-to-come CBDCs.

But we know already that we don't have to get scared of each and every news, don't we?

I agree with what was posted before me. Dealing in private (especially at this stage) can get you (too) easily scammed.

I advise you wait until users with bigger experience in mining will see this and can guide you into providing relevant information (eg what kind of miners and hardware you have there).
It may worth moving this (or asking again) in the Mining Hardware subforum: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=76.0

You may want to consider taking a few pictures with those devices (make sure nothing private/sensitive is captured), uploading the images to imgur.com and posting the links here on the forum.

You can keep the block data on the "slow as fuck" HDDs and only the chainstate (and indexes if you have them) on a small SSD. And it's already very fast.
Even more, you no longer need ultra-speed after the IBD, so you can move then everything onto HDD. That's what I did not long ago I had to do an IBD (external HDD is not so great when one doesn't have UPS).


Did you actually try this out? I would be overly surprised if you get for real these numbers. Plus, as LoyceV said, your math is wrong.