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1141  Other / Off-topic / Re: [Life lesson]Nothing is really free on: September 25, 2023, 11:01:45 AM
Ppc, faucets and such are waste of time to earn money. If you put the same amount of time in learning some valuable skill you will earn better.
When I started knowing about bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, what I first knew are faucets and pay-to-click sites. I use the sites for many times and it was not profitable. I can remember that a pay-to-click site even directed me to a fake mining site that said it has mined 0.005 BTC for me that I should pay half amount into a bitcoin address for me to receive the bitcoin mined, it was a scam and luckily I did not pay. Faucets and pay-to-click are waste of time.
1142  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Bad or good idea on: September 25, 2023, 10:21:02 AM
Hi. Indeed GPU mining is dead. Do you plan to sell them to people who want to mine? Or sell them for other purpose, like gaming etc?
Graphics cards are not only used for bitcoin mining, they can also be used for altcoin mining. But as most altcoins are using PoS already, there might not be increase in the sales of graphics cards.

Well it doesn't matter in the near future if they go up in price a bit right? whether it will be used for mining or gaming I'm just hoping they will go up in price so i could profit a little
Using graphics cards in gaming was not the main reason the price increased to the highest price it was, it was becuase they are used in mining. I can remember when china banned bitcoin and other crypto mining, the price of graphics cards dropped, because graphics cards are used for mining altcoins. If cryptocurrencies are no more requiring graphics cards, the price may not increase as it should be, but fiat will continue to decrease in value which might be an advantage.
1143  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Accumulating Bitcoin with ease on: September 25, 2023, 06:56:12 AM
By giving a discount on service render or purchase made with BTC.
Comparing with Fiat payment, little discount may be giving to any product or service render that will be paid with BTC. Just 1% discount can make some customers change their mind from Fiat payment to BTC.
Why? Not necessary. If someone is capable of giving discounts, they can go for it, but it is not needed because we do not need to force bitcoin adoption in a way to let people make less profit or no profit, bitcoin is attracting the people even without anything like discounts. Not everyone can be able to give discounts.

Accepting to pay part or all of the transaction charges especially if products purchased comes with good profit.
BTC transaction charges most times may scare customers away from paying with BTC. If service rendered or goods purchased come with good profit, one may decide to pay the transaction charges in other to encourage his/her customers to make payment in BTC.
Why? Not necessary.

Giving incentives to customers for service render or products purchased with BTC especially if good profit are made from the service render or products purchased.
Little incentives like BTC customized biro, books, handband etc can do alot to attract customers. Remember this customized items can attract them to pay in BTC at the same time help to publicize BTC more in your community.
Why? Not also necessary.

CONCLUSION
BTC is a coin worth holding for the future. Creating a means to accumulate it is more than sacrificing for the betterment of ones future. Although the above sacrifice may not look easy now but will definitely pay in multiple folds in future.
Yes bitcoin is worth holding for future but that does not means you should not please yourself because bitcoin does not need all these things that you mentioned before there will be adoption. Remember that bitcoin still increase in marketcap even when people do not know about it like this time.
1144  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Let's talk about the famous crypto myth on: September 25, 2023, 06:46:05 AM
It's a advice that is mixed up, I believe the right advice should be, never marry your altcoin bag, easy to say right? It's not the same to Bitcoin and ETH, marry your bags and get set forever.
Ethereum was said to be created to solve some bitcoin problem? But ether fee is high and it brings more scammers and it makes privacy to become zero. But this is about investment, I think ether is good, but if someone is holding bitcoin already, is ether needed? I do not think so, though they are worth holding too, including the centralized BNB. If I am holding bitcoin, I do not need either of these coins.
1145  Other / Meta / Re: What's it's shows deleted post? on: September 24, 2023, 10:23:31 PM
I think you are mistaken this for something else. I have just gone through your recent merit history and I saw nothing like deleted post there.
1146  Other / Meta / Re: Self moderated thread creation feature should taken out from newbies. on: September 24, 2023, 03:20:27 PM
This will be good. Newbies supposed not to be allowed to create a self moderated thread. Full member and upper ranks should be able to create self moderated thread.

There are some account sellers that will create new account to be advertising their product with self moderated thread. Few and not common but I have seen a newbie that delete self moderated thread before and all posts there in a long thread gone at ones.
1147  Other / Meta / Re: It may be a silly question on: September 24, 2023, 11:35:56 AM
As you have 2 merits, you have 1 smerits. If you have 4 merits, you will have 2 smerits. Your smerits is the halve of the merit that your have been sent. You can send the smerit to anybody's post that is helpful for you.

Click on the merit on the post that you want to merit, it is beside quote. Read what is there before sending the merit and all your questions are answered there.
1148  Other / Meta / Re: Having android iOS app? on: September 24, 2023, 10:42:46 AM
Doesn't it sound great to have bitcoin talk mobile app to access the forum any time on the go. May be while you are travelling or not in the mood of going PC.
Adding and improving things with time will give new height to the forum?
I like how the web browsing of this forum and I may not use the app, although if one is created I will first try it and see out it is. I do not think we need an app to be accessing this forum though.

As you can see in the above posts, many people have even asked this forum before but nothing done. If you think there is a need for it, you can create the app yourself which would be a good project.
1149  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: If you could..... What will it be? on: September 24, 2023, 09:53:57 AM
What if you could delete an occurrence from happening in the cryoto-world, both past and current events making it that they don't happen or didn't happened. What would it be?

As  for me it is the FTX crash saga which led to many persons losing their funds that could have yield some profits by now. It was one of the saddest period for many in the crypto world.
Nobody have the power to make an occurrence from not happening unless they avoid what the masses are doing because the masses are the ignorant people. Example is the FTX that you mentioned, before the hack, people were told not to leave funds on centralized exchanges, but they will not listen. If they will have money on exchanges, it should not be more than the trading fund which they can also afford to lose.

Another one that people will not have wanted are the Luna, UST and other depegged stable coins, the Mt. Got and Cryptopia exchanges hacked. There are many other exchanges that were also hacked. Nowadays, there are also many DeFi hack and many like that. The best is to just avoid all these bad occurrences.

There are others include the pump and dump projects and exit scam projects and others that have occured in the past.
1150  Other / Meta / Re: Request for sent merit edit button on: September 23, 2023, 10:44:04 AM
My reason for this post is shouldn’t we have something like a second warning when the confirm button is clicked, like ’are you sure you want to send this amount to so so’
That can not be done. Check and check the number of merits that you want to send again and again before sending it.

Secondly shouldn’t we have a patch on editing merit sent even if it is for a specified time like how the edit button doesn’t reflect edited when it is done immediately the post is made.
I do not see any reason for that, it is best as it is now that if you send merit already, you can not reclaim or reverse the merit that you have sent already.

When you are about to send merit on the merit sending page, you will see it can not be undone immediately under the send button, that is enough as a warning that the merit sent can not be reversed.
1151  Other / Meta / Re: is Politics and Society board turning into a lowkey Off-topic board? on: September 22, 2023, 10:09:29 PM
The best that you can do is to keep reporting the topics that are not belonging to the right board. Moderators on this forum are not lenient about reporting topics like that, they act fast and move the topic.

Posting topics on the wrong board is common on this forum but reporting them has been helpful.

The thread links that you post are created by people we can refer to as newbies. Creating topic on the wrong boards is common to those that have just joined this forum. Keep reporting the topics.
1152  Economy / Gambling / Re: Who is likely to win the match between Arsenal and Tottenham? ? on: September 22, 2023, 04:10:04 PM
Both teams have been in their best form so far and have been fit playing just fine. We should all know that irrespective of the fact that football is a competition, there must definitely be a winner and a loser and by  chance any team can win the match come the match day.
There must be definitely a winner or loser? What if they played 90 minutes and the match ended as draw. Like 1:1 or 2:2. A match may not ended as draw and it may ended as draw. There are matches that can ended as no goal at all which is 0:0.

Here is my prediction;  Arsenal 2 : 1 Tottenham.
I am thinking that Arsenal would win either and I am expecting goals.
1153  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: USB port blocker on: September 22, 2023, 10:17:14 AM
I think he refer to either,
1. Transaction with many inputs.
If a transaction is containing many inputs, the transaction virtual size can be high but the signature is just one. Or is that wrong? Or is the high size of the transaction that result to the issue?

2. Transaction which spend input which require to reveal long script or contain many signatures.
Did you mean transactions that are broadcasted using a multisig wallet? If it is multisig, I do not use it as a multisig but as a single signature wallet.
1154  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Is nsa behind the creation of bitcoin? on: September 22, 2023, 10:04:54 AM
Let them continue to speculate on Faketoshis.

If Satoshi Nakamoto wants to disclose his/her/their identity, people would have known him/her/them by now. The only prove that can be used to know who Satoshi really is if he reveals himself to the public.

When he has not reveal himself, see anyone that are involved in the progress of bitcoin as Satoshi.
1155  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Satoshi's Intention/Vision For Bitcoin on: September 22, 2023, 09:26:14 AM
If only Satoshi had come back one last time to clarify his intentions. But he didn't. And here we are, arguing about what he/she/they intended for Bitcoin to be, Look at the clues Satoshi left behind and decide for yourself. To me, Satoshi's intentions are abundantly clear.

So what do you guys think...?
Who are those that are arguing? I have not seen anyone that is argue with other users on this forum about bitcoin and how it can be used as an investment and a store of value in long term, but no matter the prospect of something or how good the thing is in design, some people are just existing to criticize that thing.

I have not read bitcoin white paper before because I do not need to read it after knowing what it is already. But are you sure the 21 million supply is not on the white paper?
1156  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Why are some trust feed backs not having reference on: September 21, 2023, 11:49:47 PM
If you are in a campaign and you like how the campaign manager always do the excellent work, you may or you may not need to put a reference link to the positive trust that you give the campaign manager.

If someone is known as a scammer and some people tag the person account with red already, if you know that it is valid, you may or you may not include reference link if you also tag the scammer's account red.

If you do a trade with one of the forum members but outside this forum, how can you put reference link? You may not be able to. If you more trades with the person with good outcome of no complaints, you can give the person a positive trust without any reference link.

There are other reasons you may not add reference link, but if possible you can add a reference link, it is better.
1157  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Seniors apply patience and kindness to newcomers on: September 21, 2023, 06:38:55 PM
I have concerns about the interactions between experienced members and newcomers in this forum. Occasionally, some experienced members can be quite harsh and may forget that newcomers are here to learn. While constructive corrections are beneficial, it's crucial to avoid using harsh or abusive language.
Newbies also supposed to know that they are newbies. If they are not corrected, this forum may lack the quality posts it supposed to have. Newbies should accept how this forum is and learn in the process. Without the politeness that you called harshness, some newbies may not become better. As long as the quality of posts are there, this forum is good how it is. No matter how harsh some experienced members may be, members are not the same and some newbies are growing.

It's true that some posts from newcomers may be of low quality or show a lack of willingness to learn initially. However, I believe that giving them a chance and treating them with kindness is a reasonable approach.
People can not be the same. Newbies that will rank up will rank up and remember the past when they are corrected. You should know that newbies will become established members too if they accept corrections. When they become established members, they will understand better. Rank up and you will understand.
1158  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: USB port blocker on: September 21, 2023, 04:15:20 PM
This is the best method, but I prefer to have a port for an SD card or even a USB. Sometimes, there is a need to transfer PSBT files, or there are large signatures for which a QR code cannot be created due to the lack of enough space.
This is the first time I am hearing about this because QR code has not failed me before. What do you mean by large signature?

Hardware wallets feature a secure element, so instead of spending money on a locked USB port, purchasing a hardware wallet with a secure element and creating a multi-signature wallet will greatly enhance the security of your coins.
I did not know that I can be able to lock and unlock the USB board using password on the laptop, it would be best for what I am looking for. When I have old laptop, I do not see a reason I should get a laptop. I may buy hardware wallet.

Apart from this, the USB ports can be disabled in the computer too through "Device Manager" if you are using the Windows Version.
I saw it under universal serial bus controller which can be found under device manager.
1159  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: The Quantum Threat to Bitcoin: Implications for Miners, Nodes, and Wallets on: September 21, 2023, 12:53:26 PM
This will not affect mining or nodes or bitcoin wallets. Only what that will happen is for bitcoin developers to develop quantum computer resistant one which may require an update nodes, miners and wallets.

Before bitcoin will not be able to be resistant against quantum computing, bitcoin developers would have created quantum resistant one.
1160  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / USB port blocker on: September 21, 2023, 12:43:51 PM
One of the safest method of having a secure wallet is the use of airgapped devices. If an airgapped device has camera, all needed is the use of QR code and the camera for the transfer of PSBT and signed transactions and nothing more than that. Which means after the device OS has been installed again and the wallet has been created on the airgapped device, the device does not need to connect to the internet or other devices again. If the Bluetooth and WiFi card have be removed, what about the USB port?

I found out online that USB port locker can be used. I saw these two videos on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/q1L3lCDVZUg?si=mLgi0uYnk6MHdI-s
https://youtu.be/BEtOV7RVK6s?si=vEUt2D9GbDbBOnGf

If this USB port locker is bought and used to lock the USB ports, is it like the house door keys that if another locker is used with the locked USB Port, the port will not be unlocked until the right one used to lock it will be the only one that can unlock it? Or are there ways attack can be able to remove the locker in a way the USB port will not be damaged?

Or is it just a waste of time in a way that the locked USB port can be removed and replaced by new one?

Is it worth buying?
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