I noticed the waves exchange have listed btc up and btc down tokens, I'm not sure if these follow the same rules of binance or how they're backed but they might be something to look at (I'm also not sure how decentralised the waves exchange is).

(binance made those tokens to offer a  leverage of 1.25-4x without a liquidation).

There's so many sign up bonuses on current futures exchanges that I don't think a dex would be able to compete very well and maintain a good volume.

Wasn't it already possible to pay taxes in bitcoin in some countries already? I thought there were US states that had it as a thing for a while.

The main difference between legal tender and acceptible for taxes is that the courts accept the ability to transact and convert it themselves if it's requested.

I'm not sure where the option is (it's in one of the drop down menus) but I think you can get all 3 of your master public keys (they'll begin xpub, ypub of zpub when you find them). These can then be used to make a multisig watch only wallet on your mobile configured as a 2 of 3 (I think you have to configure it as multisig and not watch only though on the android device).

This probably just means more actually decentralised networks will rise up to take the place of uniswap.

A clone of bisq that functions like uniswap might appear, there's certainly a few main dexes already anyway to compete with uniswap (eg sushiswap and others).

If it is a casascius it should have a few alphanumeric characters on the back that you can type in here to see which address you have: https://casascius.uberbills.com

You can then use your output from the search to get the full address that you can then copy and paste into a block explorer like btc.com or blockchain.com to check it still has funds but uberbills might automatically update anyway.

Before you do invest in a larger setup, check it'll be profitible (unless you're doing it as a hobby) and check a few different profitibility calculators to work out it will be.

You'll find a lot of resources with hardware manufacturers, pools, forums dedicated to the currencies you want to mine and sites related to them. If you're getting GPUs and just want a profitible setup the nice hash is probably a good place to start to try to do that but you might want to see if their fees outweigh their usefulness (I'm not sure how much they charge).

Most companies have been known to either attempt to acquire a rival or actively compete against them to eliminate them (this feels like the same thing but in crypto/open source space).

It might come from a place of developers feeling bad for the trust/faith they got from their initial investors, or, as said above it might be just them trying to get more funds (especially if they release a side token/auction).

Tbf it is probably a good starting pint for learning quite a few things.

You haven't been very specific though. If you've got a computer with a decent  cpu/gpu then I'd think it's a good way to start testing out things with crypto. If you're wanting to try out cloud mining then it might be a good place to start too (I doubt there's much to be made there unless you do longer contracts).

If you had a larger setup, you might be better off looking at other places.

Perhaps it's an optimistic sentiment too.

If you've made a coin and you expect it to be able to fill a gap in the crypto ecosystem, maybe you expect binance will list it soon (this is normally how I'd take these statements).

Even rumours and news of binance accepting a coin might not be accurate because there's the chance they'll implement a coin due to the hype around it and a chance for the opposite (some more widespread "rumours" about coins being accepted by large exchanges might just be sentiment tests).

I don't think he has the patience to hold acquisitions for long anyway so I'd imagine twitter will be dumped in a few years back on the market (probably for a higher price just because Elon backed it for a bit).

If you already realised the gains on tax filing then for tracking purposes your cost basis will become the new amount (from the last buyback at the end of the period you declared for).

To file in a lot of places, you'd have to sell the coin and rebuy it anyway so it makes sense your cost bases should shift at each time it's bought or sold (if you're going for that level of accuracy to include cost basis).

If you're taking this from a personal tracking standpoint, you could have it as either or both (it probably depends on what you want it for - if you're splitting things by year then I'd change it to the 25k a coin but if you're doing an overview of it overall I'd do the 15k a coin).

I'd consider limiting how long you spend trying to absorb information (especially from places like forums, news sites and niche websites where the critique and moderation might not be up to a good standard - for example removing any obscurity or ambiguity from text).

You'll have to find a balance of how much time you spend doing things and this should just be included in that - if you're finding your interest has piqued from not having much to do before crypto related things then find more projects you can take on (they can still be online just don't become too dependent on one thing) - no one can spend more than a few hours learning about something per day without beginning to trade off efficiency either.

Could you elaborate on the problems you faced with the session? Did anything feel like an adversary was in control of the machine or browser you were using?

Have you emailed your vpn provider to check there was no attack on their end?

It's because it already comes with python.

You just need to run python - m venv .venv and follow the rest of the instructions.

Your drive is completely full according to both bitcoind and your filesystem.

I'd recommend trying to move off something before the next shutdown and restart so it doesn't start up and run extremely slowly - depending on the os - (normally about 1GB is enough).

If both are an option it might be best to give both to your participants.

A token is a lot more liquid than an nft so people wanting their money quickly (or wanting a quote from it) would most likely pick that. That being said, having an nft on the platform with a low mint number might rise in value better than the token would for the people receiving it.

I think it probably depends on the project for offering one or the other, if it grows an nft would offer better returns and if you're giving away free tokens or have inflation built into the protocol, you'll be forcing your early adopters or sell quickly.

Binance used to offer some free usdt randomly for trading a certain pair on futures. If you can work out if a coins price isn't likely to fluctuate much then that could be one to look at.

Coinbase earn is probably the best and least risky way to make a few $ though.

Afaik bybit's get up to $600 by doing a simple task was giving people $600 if they deposited 1BTC so it probably isn't worthwhile anyway.

Edit: looking back at it once more could you run "python -m virtualenv" and see what that does? I think I remember esolving a problem similar to this on Debian by writing it that way instead.

I wrote a solution too quickly and it was just suggesting you do step 6.

Could you run pip install venv and use that instead of virtualenv (according to stackoverflow it should be built into python 3)? That can be used and activated the same way I think.

This kinda feels like a useless comparison when only 22% of energy used in the US is actually used residentially: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/use-of-energy/

I saw a report about a year ago that suggested a transaction caused the emission of more CO2 than the average Netherlands household per month - I wonder what country we'll be seeing next...

Linux is considered safer than Windows but it depends on who's using it as you can unknowingly install a virus on either with the same level of simplicity.

I'd try to get accustomed to using it though in advance of installing anything significant like a crypto wallet.