LMMS does what FL studio does for free.
There is also the very powerful Ardour, considered the best DAW, probably overkill for most users.
Audacity can be used for simple multi track audio editing, it can be extended with gazillion filters.

As for video there are many, such as Openshot or Virtualdub. You just need to properly search for Free and Open Source projects, even if you are still chained to a proprietary operating system...

America loves doing those stupid sanctions that do nothing to change those governments but end punishing the population. Of course, it is politics, to make it look "good" to their voters home, the affected countries are irrelevant.

A direct military action is "too costly", but doing nothing makes them look "bad", so they proclaim these grand "sanctions" will do "something", but all they do is restrict free flow of people and goods., or simply makes it much more expensive in the usually very poor countries. Of course the officials they "sanction", have no problem getting anything.

Its just hypocrisy.

Politics cannot taint Bitcoin, its immune to that. The other centralized coins are not, since they have a weak point govs can exploit to either destroy or drive into submission. Stable coins are one of the worst offenders, since they are already pegged to fiat, which in turn are manipulated on a whim by these politicians.

The number 6 comes after the number 5, but before the number 7. If you add 3 twice, you end with 6; and 2 times 3 or 3 times 2 also gives you 6. The number 6 is innocent from these silly superstitions, its only a number, like any other, a human construct since we decided to count with decimals (since we have 10 fingers); and 6 happens to be only one of them.

Believe it or not, numerology is as reliable as astrology...

That sounds likely. This has only been tested with the typical Xilinx S9 controllers. And no, you are not supposed to change any permissions to upgrade...

Whatever controller is used in the S9K and SE and Hybrid none of those work.

Seguramente influyó esa campaña de regalarle 10 dólares a los Venezolanos, pero no alcanzaron la meta y terminaron repartiendo unos altcoin cuyo combinado no llega ni a $2. La comisión es mas alta que lo que daría el retiro...

No, yo no creo que sea un tema de leer, mas bien es un tema de escribir. Leer en los foros es fácil, lo que no es tan fácil es pasar por todo el proceso de hacerse una cuenta y mantenerla.

Yo he usado foros toda la vida, y por ese tema trato de evitar participar en varios a la vez (llevan bastante esfuerzo y tiempo). De hecho revisaba este ocasionalmente por años pero la cuenta la hice tarde, y la empece a usar aun mas tarde...

Generalmente no me hacía falta participar, era suficiente consultar la información y ya.

Atrás colocan varios tipos de foro pero la parte de crear la cuenta y mantenerla prevalece. Aunque 4chan tiene el concepto del anonimato mas arraigado; por eso se ven cosas mas impactantes, pero también permite a cierto tipo de gente desahogarse o incluso revelar experiencias o hacer denuncias que no podrían de otra forma, no todo es basura.

En Japón que es de donde viene este formato (2chan/bbs) a veces les cuesta mucho ir en contra de la sociedad incluso cuando hay injusticias.

Pero este de acá es el mismo sistema tradicional de toda la vida, idéntico a lo que se usaba 20 años atrás. Satoshi pudo haber hecho una lista de correos, hay desarrolladores que son incluso mas retro y nunca le gustaron los foros (ej: lkml). Y algunos solo IRC, etc.

Si piensan que el sistema de foros es anticuado, siempre hay algo mas anticuado. Y eso no lo hace peor. A mi me parece que las redes sociales, esas que mencionaron están llenas de basura, mucha pero mucha basura y en realidad por la falta de anonimato no se puede denunciar realmente sin pagar las consecuencias (no todos los países gozan de libertades individuales, o tolerancia social).

Así que no solo es banal, es que tampoco se puede tratar nada serio en ellas, las redes sociales.

Otrora no, sigue siendo. es el foro de Satoshi, lo único que dejó además al Bitcoin...

La comunidad hispanohablante es otro tema. Se la pasarán en whatsapp o que se yo, sobretodo esos milenial y la ola de vieja generación que ingresó al mundo del internet a través del smartphone donde el concepto de foro no se da tan bien, ya que es una herramienta mas para PCs.

Lo de la pereza mental también juega un factor importante. Y el tema de abrir y manejar la cuenta.

Just because you purchased an account doesn't make you any less noob. Else you wouldn't have made this foolish question (in the wrong section) anyway.

The question itself warrants a good kick, be thankful I'm not the admin...

I join the cycling crowd, even if the question was about motorbikes vs cars.

Anyway, if i can chose it: Bicycle, Electric car, Electric bike, ICE car, ICE bike. Electric assisted bicycle may also be a nice option for some.

I was looking the other day at these ultra cheap Chinese 1k USD electric cars from alibaba; turns out its a golf car with an enclosed car like cabin that can also fill a role for many. And, they also have cheap electric bikes for 700ish USD or less.

Possible? yes. Feasible? No.

Its not just Trump, the same is true for any other country. Those in power can make laws and ban things.

Want precedent? After the crash of 29, possession of gold was outlawed, gov confiscated all they could. I imagine many Americans burying their family heirlooms in those days, i think it was until the 70ies or so.

But that's because gold is physical. Bitcoin is better prepared to face this. People can hide their paper with 12 words better than gold. People can also learn to do transactions securely with the likes of tor, etc.

The 15 or so foolish countries that banned Bitcoin, pretend the world is the same as that before the creation of Bitcoin. No, it is not, the genie is out of the bottle, and cannot be put back in.

Yes, it would piss a lot of Americans. When you ban bitcoin you ban a source of wealth and that's the only net effect. You may drive it underground but will never be able to get rid of it entirely, ever. Heck America lost the "war on drugs", which are physical, good luck with virtual stuff...

As much as Trump hates it, and probably would never get close to it like many old school millionaires of his generation; i doubt he will do anything about it. There is very little chance of that actually happening, It didn't happen in the beginning when all the ignorant media was portraying it as "criminal's money", much less now with so many companies involved and even States regulating it.

Current price is proof Bitcoin successfuly rode a world economy crisis just fine. You might not notice but the ever less and less fluctuations make it stronger than ever.

Its funny seeing some people waiting for some sudden movement in either direction not get what they want, and coming with several theories to make their analysis always right, but, whatever.

Bitcoin isn't going anywhere. For me, a net increase into 9k from last year 7.5k, is within my expectancy for a post halving situation.

The less it fluctuates, the less it needs to fluctuate. Simple.

Actually, it gets better. Hollywood is so distorted, they seem to ignore the fact that. the NSA which is largely composed by the best "nerds" (that's right, you are more likely to find a math or crypto geek person in there than some spy guns blazing agent) is actually long contributor to free open source software. I think they know Bitcoin far better than whoever wrote those scripts. Heck, I'm sure they are here but can't ever reveal it due to national security yadda.

SELinux is a set of improvements to secure Linux. Its fully open anyone can audit it, just like Bitcoin. Who is behind it? Yup, the NSA.
Did the NSA recently tried to sneak some lousy backdoored algo into Linux? Yup, but the community detected it and kicked it out. Nope, you can't play games with a fully transparent community, and cryptographers know this the most: obscurity doesn't make a good crypto algorithm. Only open transparency and peer review works, just like the rest of the scientific community.

Now why would, a part of the free open source community do something this silly? Its released already, who cares who made it, could be themselves for all we care. Or, a more realistic scenario, if the author is, say, American, was simply recruited. That's something the NSA actually does, recruit brilliant minds, not kidnap them like some evil James Bond nemesis.

But meh, Hollywood noise actually helps cover their real activities. The NSA is also a helper agency, CIA, FBI, DEA, etc work together. Yes, in the name of National Security, you can be ordered to shut up and let them tap, if you are American, you have no choice. Therefore, no American company can be trusted anything for that matter. All you can do is close your company quietly once it breaks your morals, but even that can sometimes be difficult.

Actually qbits are not limited to 4 states, but that's what our current technology can achieve to detect so far...

Thankfully the required changes will eventually make it into Bitcoin before this ever becomes an issue. Its not like the devs didn't know about it, i know they do because I directly asked about it like 6 or 7 years ago on IRC.

It is old news, long known. So now Honeywell will compete with IBM and Google?, well the race is on i guess. First customers will be very large institutional/State clients anyway, who else can afford to operate those building sized computers anyway? But that's exactly how classical computers evolved. Its only a matter of time, and time IS the 4th dimension...

Would you please keep the altcoin discussion in the altcoin area? This is the Bitcoin section of the forum, its only about Bitcoin and not altcoins or any random fork of the day, thanks.

This has all the signs of a fake news. As soon as this was reported, someone else tried and it was down. Was it really up in the first place?

Let me tell you something about Saime for non Venezuelans. The gov ordered them to set prices in Petro, and yes, they take the equivalent in Fiat or foreign currency. A passport is 200 USD in foreign soil, for example.

Here is the funny thing: You can't actually pay with Petros. Let alone bitcoin or any altcoin. This news apparently was only applicable abroad, not within the country. It kinda makes sense, as usually at a consulate or embassy you could always pay with the local currency of that country or $/€.

Despite all the cheers, so far, this is not true at all. Saime at this point in time is NOT accepting bitcoin. So stop congratulating my country's gov until they actually deliver. You CANNOT as of yet that we know, pay Saime with bitcoin. I wish i could, it would save me the stupid ritual of exchanging into fiat first, but no.

As far as i know, the only gov entity that actually takes bitcoin for anything, is the one where you can purchase Petros. Its pointless to buy Petros when you can't even pay the gov itself with it for a passport or anything else for that matter. I think the only real thing you can currently do with Petro is buy gasoline, it was scarce just a few weeks ago but Iran sent us a shipment despite US threats, and the gov set up a few special stations that can take foreign currency, and (in theory) Petros.

That said, it would be technically trivial for a consulate/embassy to set up a payment processor, remember they have always taken USD or EUR...

Side note: $200 is twice the usual cost for a passport that's only valid for 5 years, they cost the same in Venezuela, the country where the minimum monthly wage is officially 2 USD (400K VES/400K food tickets). Because "in socialism", only the rich exploiter is allowed travel (before the pandemic anyway).

PS: The current VES/BTC rate according to Localbitcoins, is about 19 VES per Satoshi. Yeah, our fiat is so worthless, you need 19 units of it to purchase a single Satoshi. And yes, we express prices just fine, to those deniers about the satoshi being an unfeasible unit.

What i read elsewhere is that Xilinx provides this sort of security feature, where you can "fuse" parts inside the chip after you flash the firmware to it. This is probably what the rumored Russian malware that damaged nands did, but I'm unsure if the S9s have this.

What appears to be certain, is that the S19 ships with this "feature", and the newer firmware updates in the rest of the S17 family do this as well. So if you even have even the slightest plan to ever try Braiins OS in your S17, make sure you do not ever update the firmware. Because, it is yet to be seen if these could be bypassed somehow (without getting a solder gun, that is).

Bueno es lo que está pasando en Argentina, comienzan en ahogar y exprimir con los controles, aparecen los cupos y el mercado paralelo...

Las tarjetas de crédito en la última etapa de Cadivi podían gastar solo 400 dólares anuales para internet. ¿Y si necesitas mas? Pues al paralelo. Pero, ¿como hacer compras por internet con eso?

Allí entraron esas carteras. Yo en teoría tengo, pero nunca tuve la tarjeta de crédito, ya que llegué a pagar desde Neteller directo solamente.

Pero hubo gente que si, sacaba la tarjeta y seguían comprando por encima del límite anual. Eso fue hace como una década. Un poco antes en 2007 y por ahí, el límite eran 3000 dólares anuales y la presión no era tanta de buscar alternativas foráneas.

Pero mientras el político gobernante tenga poder de decidir arruinarte, te arruinará tarde o temprano... Hasta que se les arranque definitiva e irreversiblemente ese poder: Bitcoin.

Skrill se usó exactamente igual, no sabía que terminó absorbida por Neteller...

Ahora está que si AirTM, pero sus comisiones son estratosféricas. Bitcoin sigue siendo mejor. Paypal... necesita tarjeta de crédito para funcionar, y en Venezuela desaparecieron porque Visa y Mastercard salieron del país obedeciendo instrucciones de la administración Trump. De todos modos antes de su salida tenían unos límites tan ridículos que sin duda el plástico valía mas. Yo tuve varias, doradas incluso, con limites de crédito de 1 bolívar. En un país donde se ilegalizó el pre-pago por adelantado, práctica que se puede realizar en cualquier país para pagar algo por encima del límite de crédito que da la tarjeta. Otra razón mas de hace 10 años para buscar tarjetas foráneas, como la de Neteller.

Pero ahora tenemos Bitcoin, y es muchísimo mejor para todo. Esos otros medios de pago quedaron ya en el pasado.

En realidad Bitcoin está mas cerca de la anarquía, el anarco-capitalismo concretamente. Es la separación entre Dinero y Estado, cosa inaceptable para quien cree que la economía no se debe dejar en manos de las masas (el libre mercado) y mas bien deba "gobernarse" desde el poder central que, según ellos, es "mas justo".

Mas bien va en dirección opuesta de uno de sus discursos, que es el "empoderamiento" de la gente. Cuando se te quita la libertad de decidir a quien vender/comprar y a cuanto, eso no es mas que centralizar el poder en pocas manos (el funcionario que decide por ti). Pero de eso va el fondo en esas ideologías, adornadas de discursos que maquillan y hacen ver lo contrario.

"Yo no creo que la gente pueda decidir bien por su cuenta, así que les quito ese derecho de decidir"...
O, "A nombre del pueblo, quito al pueblo". "Para defender al pueblo, hay que impedir que el pueblo decida".

Pero Bitcoin, no la pueden "controlar". Por eso a los políticos no les gusta Bitcoin, y cuando les gustan las cripto, prefieren inventar una propia que no tenga esa molesta autonomía y des-centralización que interfiere sus planes de dominación...

Pues habrá quien le guste y habrá quien no, pero el antes y el después, ya ocurrió. No se puede volver a un mundo sin Bitcoin.

Y eso asusta a algunos, porque dependían del modelo impuesto por la escuela de Chicago de economía, esa que impulsa la creación de dinero sin respaldo como motor de la expansión crediticia, que ellos ven, combustible indispensable (en su modelo errado) de economía.

Pero hay gente que si sabe donde va Bitcoin. Es necesario estudiar la escuela Austríaca de economía para comprender un mundo post inflacionario. Y esto es tabú en muchos círculos, banqueros y, como no, corredores de bolsa.

Claro que un código de un software libre y abierto hace mejor política monetaria, precisamente porque le quita a ellos esa facultad de cambiar las reglas a su antojo cuando algo no les va como pensaban que debería ir. En Bitcoin las reglas no cambian, no habrá el político que decida echarle mano al dinero de todos para solventar sus problemas de deuda, y eso les aterra.

Pero está muy bien, porque Bitcoin llegó para quedarse, les guste o no, se opongan o no. Quien es inteligente buscará de que manera beneficiarse y la vieja generación pues irá pasando. Tal vez en 100 años se vea con horror eso de que los políticos (u otros grupos) podían decidir de la noche a la mañana lo que valía el dinero.

¿Que tiene que ver la minería en la nube con los pool pequeños? Algunos de esos ni siquiera te dejan configurar el pool, y si usan alguno, por ejemplo el cloud mining de Bitmain ¿cual pool va usar? Obviamente Antpool...

Es al revés. Si el equipo está en tus manos, tu decides que pool usar. Si no está en tus manos, ellos deciden por ti. Mas bien perjudica la des-centralización.

Y si, es bueno disentir cordialmente. Yo solo expreso mis opiniones.