Rules are enforced based on the judgement of the enforcer(s).

It was discussed here that Theymos themselves thought a perma ban was too strict for plagiarism and efforts might've been made to change this (I couldn't work out if the is was just speculation though).

Most mods don't mod the same way, most boards don't allow it either (some boards have their own set of specific rules and some don't - think of making a duplicate thread on a d&t board because something has changed and it's considered more appropriate to be rediscussed for example).

I'd say we're probably far from infancy and bitcoin has been adopted by a lot more people in a fast amount of time than most other technologies (mobile phones for example took quite a while for companies to adopt too for worker communications afaik). PayPal slept on bitcoin so much that they've been overshadowed by other companies accepting crypto and trying to become payment processors (or in some cases actual banks) or payment processors accepting crypto.

The ecosystem's maturing and some companies gave up on the turbulence too (like steam) but crypto is already very usable - with bitcoin as the main on off ramp along with some stables.

The article itself mentioned nothing about bitcoin or these chips being used for that. I think 3nm chip technology is a fairly new space though and it'll probably take a while for bitcoin to start using 3nm chips in ASICs.

According to a quick search, I can find most chips are 7nm or 10nm (bitcoin currently mostly uses 7nm chips afaik - there are also 5nm chips on your article that haven't even been produced for crypto mining yet too). Realistically, all three should be coming at some point, it's just a case of when (and if these chips will be able to provide the same operations the larger chips can).

2 doesn't make sense, you can't extract a private key from a signature because there isn't one there.

Your private key encrypts what is meant to be signed (which can then be decrypted by your public key - which is provided in the transaction). The only way your private key could be bruteforced would be by number 3, which is a future concern but currently isn't as long as the private keys were created properly.

Happy 80th!

From what I can tell, the main thing to have risen is fuel and oil (which in number seems like it's up 100%) - your van probably makes you notice this a lot and so your comparison might even be higher than the 35%.

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Regarding this being a way to pass money to the elite, that does look like the case. Before it was supply and demand - but both of those likely stayed the same over the longer term for oil (or with just slightly more demand) but not by 50-100%. Perhaps companies are realising their time with oil might be coming to an end and are going to slowly push the prices higher - electric cars and vans are cheaper to power but more expensive to make and produce (and electricity is high cost now too - I'd guess that's a similar reason since 50%+ of the UK and EU's energy supply comes from renewables).

Tldr: it looks like an outcome of extreme deregulation somewhere imo.

I don't think bitcoin moving to PoS has ever been a reasonable option for it.

It'll bring so much in centralisation and in destabilising and desecuring the current chain. In most pos systems, there are only a few main staking pools that handle requests - those then take a fee too (increasing their own value at the cost of the chain's users and incentivising the main controllers of a chain to try to keep that control).

Some pos coins under similar circumstances (eg the ones that get to vote on which node can verify blocks) are also problematic for when that node breaks down, fails or gets hacked (and I think the second has definitely happened in a few PoS chains before just going offline).

They were meant to curb inflation, not price everyone out of the borrowing market in one go.

A lot of salaries aren't rising at the rate inflation is so if fed rates rise too much, this'll probably have a negative affect on the housing market (and one might be coming anyway so they don't have to make that risk bigger just yet).

500-600 errors are server errors and its because the server database is taking on too much load from one job.

This is likely because it's searching for individual words, subsets of words and then the whole phrase. I don't think the Google search part is accurate for that either (it might find a word that's most mentioned and return that for example as higher results and then you'll be doing a lot more searching doing that).

I think you're better off searching for a whole phrase or splitting the phrase up into one or two more concise words (and then adding a time limit too if you can).

Smart contract is quite an abstract name imo.

In countries where it's legal for both to sign a deposit/bond without an intermediary than a 2 of 2 multisig could be produced for this.

If you mean to take funds from their wallet and give it to yours, this isn't possible or enforceable but it wouldn't be on any chain without them having to lock up the funds.

Probably. If you sell medicines in the UK, you have to be licensed and those licenses are easy to look up. What if the same thing was done for crypto to.help new investors find appropriate places to invest in crypto and not have old people falling for scams in their inboxes.

Most European governments care about protecting the wealth held within their borders to ensure it can stay there (so it gets reinvested in their economy at some point and potentially into taxes).


The ones in the UK were around to enforce kyc and anti money laundering (on paper - they're probably not practically able to do that anyway).

And the issue with your statement is that there aren't distinctions between individuals and businesses in a lot of European countries like there are in a lot of other places in the world (like the US). Most of the economy is diversified, decentralised and already hard to regulate.

Yeah, smart people came here long ago and they're not the ones we need to protect - they understand the space, know what they're doing and know the technology.

Most stocks are investments in if they can acquire a company innovating in their space before it gets too big or if you can find thst company that's innovating.

That was just a message about stablecoins too (and it mightve just been usdt as there were reports a lot of usdc had been minted during the crash).

This also doesn't include the money people have withdrawn in fiat (which a lot of people have probably done to be able to invest in stocks and funds).

I'm not sure this was fully proven as apparently companies have been listing excess job adverts to make it seem the market has more places available (for their own stats).

It will be a thing though as more people have probably retired early from the pandemic and people would've started their own things during it if they couldn't apply for a job at the time (like people who work in bars, restaurants, airports and retail) or didn't see a need to.

What country are you in. Bisq don't offer great rates but they're a good choice for not having to do any kyc.

I've heard of non kyc exchanges (like relai.ch/relai.appo) but don't have any experience with them so I'm not sure of their safety/reputation.

You could also say you want to trade on the currency exchange board here and ask if someone wants to deal with you (via online payments like PayPal).

Also I think the payment processor revolut can handle crypto to fiat transfers so it might be one to check.

I'm not exactly sure what they're looking at with the "wild west market" but they're probably looking to protect investors (and this is hopefully what the bill is being passed for). Tighter regulation was always going to be coming and it'll be interesting to see if plans like this are actually implemented well enough to reduce scams (or if they're just a hassle for exchanges and traders alike).

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I'm also assuming they're just copying the UK's regulations on this which already have licenses for exchanges.

I think it was just a copy and paste from the user guides of smf. It's something that could be fixed but might be unnecessary (like the thread deletion statement below it with "some forums allow it"). It's probably because you don't need it/aren't expected to look there as the edit button is more available/obvious than the forum guides.

I'd assume you're being scammed/have been scammed by the sender. There is the potential that cash app have the funds on hold and if they do you should be able to search the deposit address you gave the sender in somewhere like blockchair (as you've mentioned or btc.com/blockchain.com) and have it show you the unconfirmed transaction that the sender claims is "stuck".

On warming up a wallet, I'm not sure what that might mean but it's not a thing with bitcoin. You can send any amount to any address regardless of whether its been used before (and actually it's recommended not to reuse addresses for both privacy and potential security reasons).

I think what happens next will probably depend on what happens with eth and what happens with the overall economic outlook. The S&P has also had it's worst spring (it might be overall) quarter close in 50 years according to the ft so I think there might be a comparison there too - I got the notification yesterday on that.

I could see crypto falling after a long stagnation too (or gradual movements either up or down) which could present a bull trap - I think we'll decline in August when eth staking gets unlocked and drives inflation.

It's been impossible to shut down or destroy it for many years already.

1btc is always 1btc and the network only needs a few members to keep it going (and the bitcoin network has millions of users - I saw a report about a crypto conference that had an audience of 35k - even with speakers pulling out due to a price crash - that says something about the strength of the community and how easy it'll be to shut down).

Yeah I think op is forgetting about the pandemic causing inflation due to grants/furlough by the government (and other things).

Countries haven't provided much in weapons cost wise (except a few countries on the border of Ukraine which have given a lot considering their size) and most training being offered probably isn't costing them anything more than normal as they'd already have to pay for training of their own personnel.

I think the Web version of most places is easier to use (/and more seemless cross device) than the app versions.

There was a user that made an app for it a while ago so it's possible to do, it'll probably just end up being done by someone who wants it (if someone does) or on request if it's asked for enough times (but I don't think it has been).