the "recovery" was a simple one not the drop. i completely agree with the rest, the "drop" was not simple at all, it was a manipulation (specially since there was no real logical reason for the drop and we already had the correction too) and a lot of panic sells like they always are and the result was also the exact thing as always.

Craig Scammer started his scam recently (mainly in 2017) which is 3 years after Hal Finney's death so it wasn't exactly right away. and his intentions have always been clear as his scam is a very obvious one even though some people try to keep their head in the sand!

as for Hal Finney being Satoshi, i don't think so because he had communications with Satoshi and if he were Satoshi that would make him a crazy person communicating with himself and that doesn't match the profile. why would he create Satoshi and then also get involved with bitcoin and communicate with it as if to somone else.

i actually disagree. the "bottom" was $9500-$9800 and anything below that was considered "below bottom" which makes those prices a type of reverse or negative bubble which had to pop. and the evidence of the market reaction and the way this "reverse pop" took place supports that too, as you can see it was a sudden rise (similar to bubble pops which are sudden drops). both are similarly catastrophic as it is the characteristics of bubbles.

is it only "cash withdrawals" or any kind of withdrawal?
because if you can for example withdraw bitcoin then you can easily dump the shitcoin for bitcoin and then withdraw bitcoin instead and then you can use any other decent exchange to sell bitcoin.
this is a lot safer than trusting someone else to do it for you! the cost should also be the same since you have to pay that person too.

it has nothing to do with anything and doesn't really require any kind of reason whatsoever.
it is a simple recovery that because bitcoin was undervalue it happened in a fast and big manner within a very short time. have you forgotten how the price shoot up happened this year when price first broke $4k levels? that is being repeated today once again!

first of all it is not "crypto" it is bitcoin that is rising and its rise is being falsely reflected over the entire altcoin market consisting of thousands of shitcoin that are trading against bitcoin but report their prices in USD!!!

secondly, it was very well expected to see a huge panic-y breakout like this when the price started reversing. in fact people were expecting this the day price fell below $10k that we are going to see a FOMO buy. the money is the same money that went out when price fell, it was "waiting" to enter as soon as reversal occurred.

that is wrong.
altcoins have never followed bitcoin, their value against bitcoin is actually declining. the reason why you see a rise is because sites like CMC are reporting the price in USD instead of BTC. all they had to do was not fall that much against BTC to show a rise in their USD value!!!

every exchange is faking volume to some extent specially those that are in competition since there are alternatives that do the exact same thing as them. a one-big exchange like bittrex which was near rank 1 that has lots all of its users (they walked away a while ago when they pulled their scam) is surely faking volume. there are also ways that you can verify it which i am not going to waste my time about, methods such as watching the order books and order history and comparing them for size frequency and shady behavior.

they have been losing traders and volume and with that they are losing revenue, with the recent ban of another 30+ countries they sank more in the ranking on coinmarketcap and went above 100. now they are trying to get some volume back by giving people some free money (the $25 "credit") but i don't think it can save their business anymore, it is sinking ever since they decided to scam their users. now they have to report fake volume to remain close to 100 and not drop anymore...

money has been turning into digital form for way longer than bitcoin has existed and also the term "digital currency" has nothing to do with "crypto-currency" or "bitcoin" for that matter. bitcoin is a type of digital currency. and when people say "digital" they usually mean other means of receiving payment that is not in hard cash like a gift card, paypal,...
so don't get too excited when seeing that poll

you are overthinking it waaaaaay too much and are taking the statement out of context.
the design is there, the explanation is also there and sometimes you can't just keep repeating yourself over and over to people. either they understand it or they resist understanding it. you can't spend your entire time trying to convince people why and how the system works fine!

you have zoomed in way too much on one drop and are ignoring the main reason for this drop that happened over a month ago! zoom out and look at the charts, ever since price dropped below $10k with a massive dump in a couple of hours, investors have been scared and haven't had that much confidence to come back in. that has opened up the doors for putting more pressure on the price and shorting bitcoin in the process to make profit while this fear exists in the market.
everything else like these 2 nonsense news are irrelevant and are noise to FUD the weak hands.

UTXO is unspent transaction output and that is exactly what it is, nothing more. the only thing we can conclude based on that is that adoption is growing. i don't think we can say by how much and that only works when you look at the set in a bigger interval like yearly not anything shorter.

again it is "unspent transaction output", during 2017 bitcoin was under a sever spam attack. one form of spam attack is to increase the size of UTXO set as the attacker creates thousands of transactions every second and that causes the spike.
it has nothing to do with the price.

it is only "holders" if those outputs aren't spent for long time such as years. and unless you find a way to analyze that you can not make that conclusion.
as i said that increase mostly shows adoption, and that is a positive thing.

i don't think bump makes any sense in any other board that is not announcement-y and it may even make things worse in other boards.

for example in altcoin announcement board, a topic that was made 5 years ago (assuming the coin isn't dead) is still worth being on top today as it is still announcing the same valid thing. but a discussion topic in bitcoin discussion board that was started 5 years ago has no place to be on top!

also another point of "bump" feature was to remove the "bump by posting in the thread" incentive which only exists in those announcement-y boards.

that is perfectly normal and you will probably keep felling that even after a couple of years of trading in this market because it is still very unpredictable at times like bitcoin right now and also if you are trading altcoins then things are even worse because they are always unpredictable due to their heavily manipulated markets.

just try to reduce your risks and always look back and try to analyze the mistakes you made in different trades so that you can figure out where you went wrong and not repeat it in the future.

that command signs the rawtx that you already have (generates signature not the tx itself) and in your unsigned rawtx you must have already set a locktime.
in that hex string check the last 4 bytes (8 characters) that is the locktime. use decoderawtransaction to decode and see your locktime value.

i am not sure if BIP68 causes the same error (i had some trouble with it recently) but it may. the easiest way to get rid of it is to change your transaction version to 1 instead of 2.

i have seen this error only when locktime is involved and it is not yet reached. check your transaction locktime and make sure it is set to a recent past block height. in this case i don't think not being synced changes anything since your node should still know the highest block height.

don't worry i do that regularly myself too. specially since when i type in my address bar my history brings it up

as for other explorers, the best one is http://blockchair.com/ at the moment that has a ton of features specially if you are interested in sorting and analyzing the blockchain data in your browser.
https://btc.com/ that i mentioned above is decent since it has all those different size values.
there is also https://live.blockcypher.com/ that has a bunch of other altcoins including Grin
there is https://www.blockonomics.co/ which (i think) has the only API that supports SegWit
https://www.smartbit.com.au/ also has some nice features such as exploring OP_Return outputs

just another idiot trying to talk about something he doesn't even understand. and his nonsense is being published as a valid information by a shitty site desperately trying to get some traffic.


the "demand" for bitcoin is still the same. only a big sell off took place which pushed the price down, that doesn't mean demand has changed!
and like always it is not possible to predict the price in an unpredictable situation like this where most people are standing on the sidelines watching.

altcoins have never performed well in the long run and they are not about to start it now since nothing has changed about them being pump and dump schemes. best case scenario is in rare cases where you make a profit but it is so small that it doesn't justify the risks you took to get to that profit not to mention that you miss out on the profit that you could have made if you hadn't locked up your money in that altcoins and instead put it in bitcoin or anywhere else!

you should seriously stop using blockchain.com explorer (or any others that are similar) to look at things. it is literary the worst explorer out there at this point and they refuse to fix their bugs although their platform is filled with them.

just as we no longer have "block size" and instead have "block weight", we no longer have transaction size and instead we have "virtual transaction size" and fees are calculated based on that.
your virtual tx size is your transaction weight (896) divided by 4 and rounded up = 224 which makes your fee 1 satoshi/vb

use https://btc.com explorer to see these numbers.