Putins war reminds me of Sadams invasion of Kuwait for a seemingly easy victory and also the Iran Iraq war which filled the sea with mines also making it dangerous for all. Russian supplied weapons and supported militia have already shot down a neutral passenger plane and similar failures have occurred in the middle east because of the ongoing tensions and violence causing the deaths of those without link to that fight.
The similarities are pretty weak while the differences are so massive that you can't even begin to compare the two.  In the 80's Saddam as the invader was backed by both US and Russia and also NATO specially when it came to full scale invasion of Iran, it was more than 60 countries that helped invade Iran. In comparison there are about 60 countries helping Ukraine defend against invasion! Even the air and naval war was vastly different. After the invasion had failed despite NATO's help for years, US decided to take the war to the sea specially because in comparison to US Navy, Iran didn't have much back in the 80's, just a couple of light warships and fast-boats. The passenger plane United States shot down (Iran Air Flight 655) wasn't some militia making a mistake, it was an official order from Washington to shoot it down by the US Navy (specifically the USS Vincennes) in response to Iran sinking the USN destroyer (USS Samuel B. Roberts). They even awarded Vincennes captain with Legion of Merit medal for murdering civilians!!! |
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I know a lot of people here dislike Ethereum, MetaMask does have a feature of potentially showing a warning if the user opens a phishing site, which I don't think uBlock Origin has that feature.
uBlock Origin is not a simple "ad-block", it blocks a whole lot of stuff including potentially threatening websites ( ads, trackers, coin miners, popups, annoying anti-blockers, malware sites, etc.). And that's by default, you can modify it to block a lot more from adding custom lists to the outright blocking of all scripts (like NoScript plugin). |
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In almost all cases people who trade altcoins are trying to increase their bitcoin wealth this is why there are always altcoin/bitcoin pairs and in most cases the volume is dominating in comparison to other pairs (altcoin/stablecoin/fiat/other_altcoins).
The other options were added later for people who were bag holding other altcoins and didn't want to dump them but they wanted to trade and get rid of those alts in other ways.
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Don't forget that risk is venturing into the uncertainty, so endeavor to keep it a calculated risk before diving into the final decision.
The most important thing you didn't explain is "what does 'calculated risk' mean?" otherwise it is just an abstract idea you are raising here that is not going to help anybody. Here when you say "risk is venturing into the uncertainty" I have to disagree because you don't venture in uncertainty, you venture in certainty that has some small doses of uncertainty which is the risk. For example in a trade you first analyze the market fundamentals and technicals then you make a move based on the existing market conditions. There will always be a small chance things change after you executed that trade, that is the risk part. |
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Technically a "wallet" file contains your keys (public or public and private), addresses, transaction history and unspent transaction outputs (aka coins). Your seed phrase is the "master" key that would create all your keys, this is why the only thing you need to backup is that phrase and you can recover it using any wallet software that supports the algorithm; but you still have to create a wallet to get all your keys and transactions and sync to be able to know your balance and spend. Blockchain technology is so revolutionary because of this.
Technically what we discuss here is jut a key derivation function and KDFs existed before bitcoin and blockchain technology. This technology is revolutionary for many reasons such as being able to create decentralized money. |
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Best Practice #1: 2FA, You Know?
Turn on that 2-factor authentication, mates. It's like a digital bouncer at your Bitcoin club. Keep the riff-raff out!
This suggests using centralized services in first place like exchanges and custodial wallets that have a 2FA option. Using these services is discouraged to begin with... Tool #2: Browser Shields
For our non-native pals, browser shields like MetaMask can help spot scammy sites. They're like your online bodyguards, savvy?
Apart from the fact that MetaMask is an altcoin wallet not a "shield"; technically you should keep your bitcoin offline so that getting your online system infected wouldn't affect them. And if you want protection install uBlock Origin and a decent Anti Virus on your system that has net protection. |
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another question is, do we know those address does not have an owner?, I mean the owner has lost the key and can't access the address anymore?.
People have always been speculating about these things but because there is a certain anonymity about Bitcoin and the addresses, we can never know who a certain address belongs to and whether they still have access to the keys! |
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The question is, if he really was satoshi, why would he create such a bad image around him. I mean why make everyone believe he is a scammer?
And I personally believe that CSW is a complete fraud. The real satoshi never seeked recognition.
Exactly, also it is not just about seeking recognition. Even if Satoshi were to reveal his true identity he would never do it like this. For example why would Satoshi even sue bitcoin.org owner for hosting the whitepaper that he released under MIT license for free and in public?! The scammer has poked, harassed and sued a lot of people involved in bitcoin like bitcoin core developers too. That's not something the real Satoshi would do. Heck that's not even something a normal person would do  |
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You said that stablecoins are shit backed by American dollars which is also shit. Bitcoin's price is based on dollars and also backed by dollars. The market cannot exist without dollars. Does this imply that bitcoin is also backed by shit also?
You are confused about what "being backed by something" means. A stablecoin being backed by dollar means there must be a fixed amount of dollar for each unit of that stable coin. For example 1 dollar for 1 tether. Can you say that for bitcoin?!!! Bitcoin price also does not depend on the dollar and is not related to it either. It's just that as the most used shitfiat internationally, it is easier to trade against dollar as opposed to other shitfiats. Otherwise bitcoin, as a currency, has its own value and its own price against all other currencies. If one shitfiat ceases to exist, bitcoin will still exist and work fine! Not to mention that with the ongoing dedollarisation we eventually will see another centralized shitfiat replace dollar and dominate the market where everything is traded against.
P.S. It is kind of weird to talk about PayPal launching a stable coin while they launched their dollar backed stable coin in 1998 when they established PayPal |
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most likely as @pooya87 said, with this coming months, oil price will likely to go up as the temperature dropping low and we need oil specially in Europe otherwise they are going to to freeze to death.
That would be the gas price. Oil price first and foremost affects the fuel prices (gasoline and diesel) then it affects everything. For example one of many effects is as diesel price goes up, the transport costs increase so the supply chain is strained and price of groceries go up hence increasing inflation. |
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I will look in my Bookmarks, to find the article i read about the blocking addresses thing, belive me it's not a "I hear it from ... " it's "I read it in a article".
You haven't heard wrong, you are just confused about what it meant. Here is an example of a topic that is basically covering the same thing that you had probably seen: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5204055.0Let me put it this way, did you know the banks can close your account or freeze your money? Why? Because they are centralized. It is the same with cryptocurrencies, if they are centralized they can do that and more. Sometimes they are not 100% centralized so the degree of control they have is different. In short the more centralized they are, the more control they will have over the system. As an example of a fully centralized cryptocurrency you can check out most of stablecoins like Tether aka USDT. They can freeze your coins if they wanted to. Other parts you mentioned earlier and I highlighted in your previous comment can happen in centralized altcoins, like reversing your transactions or blocks by the "company" like what happened in centralized shitcoin known as Ethereum. None of it can happen in bitcoin though. Simply because bitcoin is decentralized. |
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Even if you were using a legitimate Windows with paid license, it still wouldn't be secure to use it as the OS for your bitcoin wallet. Windows by design is a spyware itself and from its inception it has always had a lot of backdoors some intentionally placed there by Microsoft!
Use Windows only if you have to, and use it for your watch only wallet or at least a hot wallet with very small amount of bitcoin (pocket change) and create your main wallet on an air gap system as cold storage.
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Oil price is rising again and with the temperature dropping slowly we are going to see another slow rise in energy prices in general. This would lead to more inflation specially as they failed to control it with their interest rate manipulations.
We all know during inflation bitcoin price goes up but as long as recession doesn't get worse (unlikely unless they increase interest rates again).
This explains the recent price rise too. If oil goes past $100, it could act as the catalyst to shoot bitcoin up above $30k which can also lead to a rising momentum.
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VISA and MasterCard outside the country.
When you trust centralization, you should also accept the disadvantages. When you trust foreign centralization you should also accept the additional risk involved with that. Similarly there are disadvantages with decentralized money too which you should accept before going full bitcoin. In the new country I didn't even try to get bank accounts.
Just a word of warning: many governments don't look kindly on people who intentionally avoid their surveillance like this. When you refuse to create a bank account, that means the government of this new country you live in as an immigrant or a foreigner can not monitor your every financial activity which they will see as a threat. Specially if this new country is in Europe. You may end up being charged with all kinds of crazy nonsense from something "simple" as tax evasion to more serious things like money laundering to financing terrorism. All because they can't have their hands in your pocket and have 100% surveillance. |
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Malicious people usually don't tend to work with anybody, even equally malicious people like them. Specially when their "cooperation" was based on pure profit, their interests and goals align for a short time but it is bound to fall apart as they turn on each other.
you would be surprised, there are many examples of corrupt people that find and then befriend each other to then reinforce their immoral practices and use each other to hold each other up and continue their silly crap. the only time they tend to turn on each other is when they get caught and its time to protect themselves. just look at the FTX saga when right up until bankruptcy day scammers worked together and then within days of being caught scamming they turn on each other to make immunity deals when you start seeing people move away, turn on each other.. the jig is up and trouble is coming for them I disagree with saying "it only falls apart when they get caught". Getting caught is like the catalyst that pushes them over to show their true faces. After all we aren't talking about normal people; being malicious, betraying other people, etc. are like the personality traits of the malicious scumbags. They are guaranteed to turn on each other even without being caught. After all Wright is not yet caught or punished that the "honeymoon phase" with his "buddies" is ending! |
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_ Avoid trading altcoin: you are not a genius trader, you will eventually get burned.
Only if you are an absolute beginner otherwise altcoins were created to be traded, that's their whole purpose  _ Attend meet up and conference, the Bitcoin community is awesome.
I'm not a big fan of such conferences on a topic such as Bitcoin, they're mostly a waste of time. You can always find the information online and in a much shorter time without needing to attend a hours long conference. _join #bitcoin Twitter: it's less lonely with fellow holders.
I'm not a fan of this either. Social media such as Twitter is not really a place you want to waste your time on for knowledge or information. Specially if you are following a hashtag instead of legitimate individuals. In a hashtag you will see a ton of nonsense including FUD. |
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signrawtransactionwithwallet
"complete": false,
"error": "Witness program was passed an empty witness"
Do you also have the wallet containing the "tb1p8wp...." address? I believe this error thrown because when you "sign with wallet" it has to have the address and the scripts used to create that address otherwise it doesn't know what to do and it gives you this error when it is missing the required "witnessScript". |
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I was going to say maybe OP can just get a list of all known broadcasted transactions and then deserialize them, but that does not include the nonce, which is supposed to be secret by design.
Even if it were possible, such a database would be massive since there has been almost a billion transactions[1] recorded in bitcoin blockchain and considering many transactions usually consist of more than one input you'll have a 40-60 GB database with 1.5 to 2 billion entries. [1] https://www.blockchain.com/charts/n-transactions-total |
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Forgive me if i am wrong, but the only answer you become in fact of Bitcoin Security was and is, "The time will change, when the Quantum Computering will be able to Brute all PK's" and this is far away.
Cryptography was invented thousands of years ago and from its first day none of the algorithms were supposed to remain strong and useful forever. They always have a lifespan. Nothing has changed today with Bitcoin and the cryptography used in it or any other place we use cryptography today like this very website you are visiting through SSL encryption. Try to ask a AI, and you will be astonished, about answers that a normal one of us, know or never will know ... but the answers exist.
I hope you understand what i mean, because the 2 points in my first post, are answers of a big AI, and i don't go further asking. I like more to disscuse with you here.
And to the decentralised thing ... The Blockchain is run by someone (maybe you will reply no its a peer-to-peer system ...), that's a fact, and the fact that the Admin of the Servers know everything is also a fact.
For example ... how is it possible that the developers can take action, in transaction from Stolen Wallets, they can mark them, and the transaction will never be approved by the Blockchain.
Thats no theory, that's a fact and it was done in the past.
Instead of reading the nonsense some crappy AI gives you maybe you should try reading reliable sources like the bitcoin wiki or the bitcoin book, etc. so that you don't end up with wrong information (the bold parts) which you think are "facts"! |
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Anybody can mind an invalid block, create invalid transactions, do whatever that is breaking the consensus rules,... BUT none of it would be accepted by the full nodes that would be validating everything they receive. That's how the decentralized network works. If it were possible for someone to consistently mine invalid blocks and bypass the network's rules, wouldnt it indicate a significant issue with the Bitcoin network's security?
If anybody finds a way to bypass the consensus rules and pass something invalid, then it would be a problem and needs to be fixed. We had this situation once in 2010 that an invalid block was mined and accepted by nodes because there existed a bug in the implementation. It was fixed and the invalid block was discarded. Read more: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Value_overflow_incident |
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