I think most pools will disappear when mining becomes unprofitable (sooner than you think).

There might be a few volunteer maintained efforts, not unlike solo.ckpool.org, getting donated funds to remain alive. In practice, very few people will keep mining anyway, maybe try their lottery solo mining, which you could do with your own node.

If those running the pool do not care that it gives nothing (ie. 0 pool fee for years) i guess they could remain, but for how long?

In the not too far future, when the prize for finding a block is measured in satoshis and with most miners already gone, so will the pools go with them.

Unless something makes the price of bitcoin spike (like the USD collapsing) which would revitalize and delay this process again a few years. But it depends in how the politicians treat their fiat from now on...

Bitcoin has nothing to fear as long as there are people out there who want it to be used. There will always be some enthusiasts hobbyist running nodes and solo mining (maybe even pool mining) left.

And the last ones are those with "free" energy, such as from natural renewable sources.

Possibly insider, possibly social engineering, possibly both. Who can tell? Looks like a drama is unfolding slowly, but like the dramas, things keep repeating themselves again and again and again.

Should you really be trusting your data to these companies in the first place? When will the next "hack" affect you?

Talk about useless waste. A "first world" thing as they say...

But for gold, that is sadly its most common use, vanity or remaining stored doing nothing.

If, someday in the future, gold becomes abundant, its price will plummet, and perhaps it will go back to being used for more useful things. Near the sea its always useful to have a metal that won't rust.

After this person dies and the face is paced along, it will probably be melted back into some ingot or such anyway. Waste of time. But i guess someone wants to imitate the pharaohs of ancient Egypt, maybe use the money to build a pyramid for the afterlife too?

Lo que no me gusta del mercadillo, es que tiene una separación por regiones, cosa que no tiene el foro principal en inglés (Marketplace).

Allá hay mas bien exceso de tráfico pero es un solo lugar, aunque hay sub secciones para objetos, servicios, intercambio de divisas, apuestas, prestamos, etc. Pero no está regionalizado.

Acá con bajo tráfico, y además nos fragmentan...

No, para nada instituciones u organizaciones, eso es contra natura y viola el espíritu de Bitcoin. Además hay precedente nefasto que no deseo recordar (pero debe estar en los escritos viejos del foro).

Ninguna organización o institución será reconocida por nadie. Ese es precisamente el punto, que no existe cara, que no existe líder, no hay nada pero lo que es nada mas que la moneda en si misma ejecutando las instrucciones que dejó su programador(a)(s).

A Bitcoin no le interesa entrar o no entrar en mercados tradicionales, si les interesa entrará y si no entra seguirá adelante, si tiene una designación XBT desde hace tiempo en ciertos círculos tradicionales, pero BTC se ha impuesto si o si.

Colombia es la que tiene que ver si va permitir esa fuente de riqueza o la va rechazar. Sería de tontos rechazarla porque no tenga una figura a quien relacionar con ella, pero de tontos está lleno el mundo. Realmente solo 15 países han prohibido Bitcoin, la riqueza entonces que fluya para los vecinos. Aunque, en esos países hay gente moviendo Bitcoin, pero deben hacerlo a escondidas.

Cuando aparece una organización que se haga llamar, por ejemplo Bitcoin Venezuela, denúncielo. Aquí nadie se puede hacer representante de nada (y ese ejemplo en particular ha captado dinero de otros, lo cual ya es muy grave). Ni que se hagan llamar "sin fines de lucro" pero acepta donaciones, cuantiosas donaciones (y no residen en el país, que es lo mas patético del asunto).

Pues no, nada de eso. Bitcoin no es de nadie, y por eso es de todos. Y ese es un punto que muchos altcoin no tienen, mas no el único.

Pues ya han dicho que no eran 14, mas bien 28 los bitcoin robados hasta el momento. Bueno si Twitter no cumple con sus propias políticas, que se podía esperar de su seguridad. A lo mejor los perpetradores tenían desde antes la manera de entrar a Twitter, y esperaron al mejor postor, pero es solo especulación ya que se ve muy raro un golpe tan grande para esto.

Pues dije doblador, porque es una estafa idiota de "dame 1 bitcoin que mañana te doy 2". Claro con variaciones sutiles pero siempre es lo mismo, les das dinero, puede que te paguen y cuando les das mas salen corriendo. En fin, que no son actores de doblaje

También se ve una extraña impericia por parte de los que robaron el dinero (por eso pienso que son 2 grupos, uno pagado por el otro); anda que robar y mandarlo a coinbase para cambiarlo es meterle al bruto...

PS: Las transacciones a comisión mínima si que se procesan, puede que algunos nodos las descarten pero otros las mantienen vivas, y la cartera si es lo suficientemente buena, puede retransmitir de ser necesario.

Las únicas que realmente se "olvidan" son las de comisión cero, y ya no es nada fácil hacerlas.

Fíjate que en Venezuela el dólar se ve en la capital, pero en las regiones cerca de la frontera con Colombia el peso colombiano también circula bastante, y en la otra frontera se ve algo el real de Brasil.

Para que lo entiendas, primero cierras el Banco Central. Luego la banca privada restante, a trabajar sin reserva fraccionaria.

Contrario a lo que se piensa, el Banco Central no es que existe para la política monetaria, lo hace si, en muchas partes, pero su razón original de ser es ser banco de bancos, debido a la reserva fraccionaria se hizo una necesidad para fortalecer el sistema bancario de una nación, es lo que previene que una corrida quiebre a un banco individual, el central lo va a auxiliar.

Pero cuando se quita el tema de la reserva fraccionaria, desaparece esa necesidad. Y como ya no hay mas moneda local que regular, tampoco van a hacer la otra función.

La reserva no es la reserva de la nación, eso es otro tema completamente distinto. Es el dinero que se deposita en el banco, cuanto de ese dinero sigue en el banco. Normalmente, es menos del 10%, pero a reserva plena es, 100%. No pueden usarlo sin la autorización del depositante, cosa que hoy se da por entendido pero debería ser al contrario.

Es por cierto la única forma que puede un banco trabajar con Bitcoin, ya que ellos no pueden emitir bitcoins. Es exactamente como trabajan los bancos modernos con valores como las joyas o el oro.

Lo que ocurre es que España (afortunadamente) no ha visto un control de cambio (y control de precios) desde los años 50, y por mas que se estudie, no se comprende "de que va eso". Hay que vivirlo para entenderlo...

La necesidad de ir contra las políticas de Estado, se convierten en un tema de supervivencia. Venezuela ha vivido en los últimos años cosas que por allá se vivieron hasta el año 57. La escasés, los controles, el mercado paralelo, los racionamientos, falta de proteína etc. Según lo que entiendo en España le decían "extraperlista" a lo que hoy en Venezuela llaman "bachaquero", que no es mas que un revendedor informal a precios "paralelos", es decir "prohibidos" por violar los "controles".

Los controles siempre producen los mismos (nefastos) resultados. Algunos estudian la historia, otros no. Quienes lo han hecho, no repetirían semejante error nunca; pero los políticos no son los mas ilustrados en historia y/o economía que incluya la Escuela Austríaca.

La cantidad de cosas que técnicamente son ilegales en nuestros países, ahogados de "control" sencillamente hacen al asunto ese de la prohibición como un postre en el menú del sometimiento. Que mas da, te puedo decir.

Hasta mediados de 2019, en Venezuela estaba prohibida la tenencia y transacción en moneda extranjera. En medio de la peor inflación del mundo, es como ordenar al hambriento no comer lo que le han servido en la mesa. Ya se había hecho cotidiano por la vía de los hechos.

¿Y que van a hacer los Argentinos cuando su gobierno les prohíbe salir de los pesos? Naturalmente, lo contrario, salir mas rápido de los pesos. No es avaricia por el dólar, es repugnancia por el peso. Lo mismo ocurrió en Venezuela cuando Chávez implantó el nefasto control cambiario en 2004, mató la moneda nacional, como Argentina lo acaba de hacer.

Es muy común que esos políticos de poca monta piensen que con sus intervenciones, hacen el "mal menor", cuando en realidad están matando al enfermo con veneno en vez de curarlo. El verdadero mal menor es no intervenir, si ha de perder valor, que lo pierda, pero por su cuenta no con ayuda gubernamental haciendo emisiones sin respaldo para pagar las deudas, que esa es la verdad siempre tras los controles, mientras convenientemente acusan a otros (usualmente extranjeros) de sus propias acciones (dilapidar el presupuesto).

Tenemos que volcarnos a Bitcoin con o sin el visto bueno de los políticos. Es mas normal que se opongan, porque a la larga Bitcoin representa el fin de la política monetaria, es decir, que los políticos puedan robar empobreciendo a todo el pueblo mediante devaluaciones cuando se les antoja, sería asunto del pasado.

El mejor Banco Central, es ningún Banco Central. Naturalmente, esto necesita ir acompañado de volver a la histórica banca con reserva al 100%, el fin de la banca con reserva fraccionaria. Pero eso es tema para otro día (o busquen los videos sobre el tema del Profesor español Jesús Huerta de Soto en youtube).

Esto tiene toda la pinta de ser un trabajo por contrato de parte de los "dobladores" de Bitcoin. Ciertamente es ilógico tomar control de Twitter solo para esta tontería, pero si ya les dio 14 BTC a los estafadores, quien sabe cuanto le tocó a los perpetradores.

Y si, es triste, patético y lamentable, no solo que repitan la estafa de toda la vida, pero que tantos incautos les den dinero. Sin duda con parte de ese dinero han contratado a quienes se hicieron el control de Twitter. Asumo que estos también guardaron las contraseñas y datos personales de todos los que tienen cuenta ahí. Nada mas esto vale una buena pasta en ciertos círculos. Alguien dijo que $15 vale cada dirección de correo real, no se cuanto pagarán por el resto de los datos, especialmente las contraseñas ya que hay demasiada gente incapaz de usar contraseñas distintas para cada sitio que manejan y eso es una mina en potencia para el hurto.

Afortunadamente esto ocurrió luego de que Twitter implementara la eliminación de cuentas inactivas por 6 meses. Pudo ser mucho peor tan solo unos meses atrás.

Color me surprised, the hack was against Twitter, after all. So yeah, given the perpetrators apparently focused in scamming people their Bitcoins, it isn't in the least surprising.

I don't know if twitter has initiated forced account password resets, but after reverting everything, assume they got all of them.

Thankfully, this happened after Twitter enacted the "after 6 month inactivity accounts will be removed" policy.

So yeah, forget Twitter. Have you tried Mastodon already?

Nakamoto is a way too common family name.

You think someone from Cypherpunk/crypto anarchy community, that went the trouble to make a fake identity to remain anonymous, would be so silly as to use his own family name?

I think you should start with ignoring the Nakamotos when searching, and the Satoshis, for that matter...

I guess whoever created Bitcoin (and this forum) successfully remains anonymous, the way it should be, forever.

I think China will become our new overlords. Russia is strong, USA is... weird, EU doesn't do much of anything except last time they helped kick Gaddafi, and sometimes annoy in the middle east (NATO, that is).

Some Arab countries are super rich, what would come from them in the future?

I wonder if the time will ever come for the world to have a government. The UN is, basically, useless.

Ideally fiat coin will lose power from Bitcoin, so the future overlords won't be able to play with people's wealth anymore.

I must be getting famous, for someone to impersonate my nick somehow...

Coincidence? I think not. So let the fact be known straight: I have nothing whatsoever to do with OP.

Well, the first thing they did after hacking twitter, was to scam people with that tired old "Bill Gates/Elon Musk" whatever give me your bitcoins and i double them for you garbage. People, foolishly enough, gave the scammer about 14 bitcoins. Such is the level of stupidity.

I would have recognized the scam miles away, just how long has that stupid scam been going on youtube? And yet, people fall for it, proof that the scammers do in fact have reason to invest resources in perpetrating their crime.

You think if i saw the same tired old stupid scam we have known for ages was people impersonating, say, Elon Musk, coming from, oh, the Elon Musk official twitter account, you think i would still fall for it? Hell no. The sole point of give me coin so i can make you more is flawed to begin with.

Ah well enough ranting about human stupidity. What was Einstein quote again?

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -- Albert Einstein

Now why people EVEN use Twitter? There is Mastodon like for ages. Free and Open Source software. OK, this applies to the previous Whatsapp outage as well, its not like its the first time, nor the last one. But the social networks are, unfortunately, social. How to convince the others to switch to the safer alternatives? They need to keep kicked again and again and again and they still won't get it.

Or that Zoom scandal, why, Jitsi has been there for ages too. Oh but we know Zoom, not Jitsi, because Jitsi must be too hard to remember or something.

There is also the fools that don't use good passwords, or that don't use different passwords on each site. Too many sites you say? Duh, use a password manager. Let me explain what a password manager is, since there is some STUPID misconception (like some have about Bitcoin wallets). It is NOT an online site, it is a program (preferably Free and Open Source) you download to your computer, its a database of passwords which happens to be encrypted and protected with its own password as well. You can generate random passwords for all your sites, never repeating one, never using simple easy to guess passwords: all random, all different. Then you copy and paste from it to the web sites, and some even have browser integration (also, browsers are garbage for that, don't let those ever save any passwords on their own).

It is an unfortunate side effect of the era, when most people online lack proper computer knowledge. To be blunt: the fools got online when they made it "too easy" to get online (ie. Smartphones, etc). And that, is precisely what the crooks fish for. Heck i even met clueless bitcoin miners, and we have seen people in this forum lose thousands and even million of dollars doing stupid things, such as keeping all your wallets in a smartphone you use everyday...

What else can i say? This is not the end, sadly. People will keep using Twitter, etc and keep making the stupid mistakes that makes it so easy for crooks to steal their money.

Are you still using Windows to browse things online? Shame on you, don't say we didn't warn you and later come crying a river, you were told to switch to Linux. It may be not perfect security, but its a giant step in the right direction. Securing windows is a pointless excercise in futility, and I'm not even in the mood to explain you why, for the gazillionth time. Get a clue and search for yourself.

• The double your bitcoin scammers.
• Because that was their goal, this may have been a contract paid in the "dark" net.
• Not much, really. Bitcoin has nothing to do with it, Twitter may get some flak, but probably be forgotten.

In case you didn't notice, they actually "collected". So was their "investment" (paying the h4xx0rs) worth it? Seems so... Turbulent times ahead, too many fools online.

You wrote this on 14/7, same day, so the answer is: Yes.

Most things are good even after the expiry date, but you could restrict it to adults if you are afraid of something.

My experience with eating things post the "best before" date, is that they may taste funny, but not a big deal. Frozen meat does last until unfrozen, more or less.

Does your software support bosminer? There is growing interest from the Braiins OS community for centralized monitoring tools; and apparently, the usual providers have been slow to adapt their software to add the different api fields added/changed from cgminer.

If your dev team needs help to implement bosminer support, tell them to visit the Braiins OS Telegram support group. The api is not formally documented, but you could inspect bosminer source code or ask if you have specific questions.

If you have an S9 with Braiins OS or Braiins OS+ installed, you might find interesting to inspect this url from your web browser:
http://your.min.er.ip/cgi-bin/luci/admin/miner/api_status

The most important thing of that json dump, is that it shows the api commands you can send to port 4028, so for example doing this on linux:

echo -n '{"command":"tunerstatus"}' | ncat 10.0.0.2 4028 | jq | grep '"PowerLimit"\|"HashchainIndex"\|"Status"'

Gives you:

Too bad you are unable to distinguish Tor from the Tor Browser. Perhaps you should start reading at the real page that was buried under an ugly domain site: https://2019.www.torproject.org/

If you are able to ignore the existence of the browser entirely, then we could move forward.

vpn is not meant for anonymity, the vpn server knows everything about you. Tor doesn't work this way, so called "Onion" networks work like the peels of an onion. You talk to a computer encrypted, this talks to a second computer and encrypts again the already encrypted data, this goes to a third, etc. At the opposite side the process reverses.

Once you enter the network, you don't get anyone's IP. A few of them share theirs, so you can enter, but once inside there are no IPs. Ideally you will never go out, but people are foolish enough to browse the "normal internet" from it. There are weakness at both the entry and exit, because that's outside its boundries.

The tor node you connect to, only knows your ip is connected to the onion, but has no idea what the content is.

You don't "register" a .onion. When you run your own node, you can simply host your own content securely, and it generates a random address for you, not unlike a crypto wallet address. If you don't share this address, nobody will ever know about it.

Tor nodes can be exit nodes, can be normal nodes that publish their IP to let others enter the network, and can be unpublished (only the people you tell know) or could just be bridges that relays from other tor nodes and nothing more, no in or out.

The exit node is what allow "normal" web content to be seen from tor. Don't run an exit node, leave that to the "whales" that can afford fighting half internet. Feel free to publish your ip or not depending on how free your country is, it helps people from oppressed regions easier access to the network.

You are the only one that can reveal or not your info. Also using secure software helps, avoid anything that is not Free and Open Source software, especially operating systems. And don't do stupid things.

The real question is, how many months of monthly wage you need to purchase one. That would reveal you the shocking truth of the world.

In my country? 400 months? People don't normally buy those, besides its a sure way of getting yourself mugged/killed by criminals. It is the no.1 most coveted object and they won't hesitate to point a gun to your face so you give it to them as soon as you show it in public, at any time of the day.

Well, now with the quarantine, its probably a bit better, but after we go back to "normal life", that's what normal life is. Never carry those things in poorer countries, just like you should never wear gold as you are painting yourself a target.

If you ever need to travel, always have the cheapest possible android phone. This is another reason why you must not depend on Apple only apps like facetime; avoid like the plague. Besides you should be using Jitsi anyway.

Is it a bad investment? yes it is a bad investment. It could cost you your life.

TikTok exploits the millennial mindset, in this regard it did a good job. But does it end with TikTok? No it doesn't.

All these social media apps are a type of trojan, some data mine you, some outright spy you and some do more...

If the app you use isn't Free and Open Source software, you are getting spied one way or another.

So it is bad if the Chinese gov spies but A OK if the US gov spies? No. Guess what the American apps do? Yes they do it. As long as your program is not Free and Open Source software, it may spy you and you have no way of telling.

Even operating systems like Windows are doing it it, but people don't care. Microsoft even pulls thumbnails of all your pictures, yet people keep using it. The millennials want to "share it all", they want to have fun... Big brother is happy and there is money to be made, thinks Zuckerberg, et al.

Do you have something to hide, citizen?

You don't. Keeping a wallet in your computer, does not mean the money is in your computer, it never is.

Wallets, despite their misleading name, don't hold the coins. They hold KEYS to the coins. The coins are always "in the cloud", also known as the blockchain. You can only move them around if you own the keys to them.

They would be more appropriately called key holders, but its too hard a concept to explain common folk, so its easier to just keep calling the thing a wallet.

But its important you know the difference, because that is why, you can create a wallet, delete it, and still have access to it later as long as you kept the seed words which the wallet software uses to restore the private key.

And, it also means, those words are the most important. Backup? No. Password? no. The words, those seed words, that's all that matters. Understand this, so you can act properly later.

And, create and use cold wallets, which is a wallet created in this fashion, and immediately deleted (not before having a bunch of addresses copied so you can keep sending funds to it).

The funds are in the blockchain, not in your computer.