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1561  Other / Meta / Re: Disable links for new accounts on: November 25, 2022, 01:30:12 PM
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Forum already has many restrictions on newbies and theymos does not want to implement more. Please read his post

Right, I don't care about making money from the forum personally. (I've actually thought about getting rid of the forum ads, since it's often a big headache and the forum has enough reserves for a long time, but operating at a significant loss while there's money basically just sitting on the table feels wrong, even if the level of loss is sustainable for quite a while.)

The things on the forum which encourage spam are allowed mainly because it's part of the forum's mission to be as free as possible. Eg. banning bounties would undoubtedly reduce spam, but that'd be destroying an entire economy/population/culture which has been able to develop due to the forum's freedom. I am willing to take this sort of action, but only as an absolute last resort. It's always preferable to handle these problems by reshaping the environment to make them non-problems, rather than removing some freedom.

It's wonderful when someone is able to constructively do something on the forum instead of continuing with whatever they were expected to do under the status quo. Enabling that sort of thing is exactly why Bitcoin and this forum were created. Though bitcointalk.org is not a worldwide welfare organization, and people are not entitled to make money.

Limiting newbie participation is very harmful for a community. Newbie jail will never return: I consider the newbie-jail period to have been extremely damaging to the forum. When barriers to participation are too high, then the best people often just won't go to the trouble of joining, and the people who are willing to jump through the hoops are often people who aren't good for the community: people with nothing better to do, scammers, get-rick-quickers, etc. Having a permanent newbie jail policy would improve things a lot in the short-term, but would end up being a fatal poison to the community.

The low signal-to-noise is a real issue which seriously annoys me and is often on my mind. But as you mention, fixing it non-destructively is difficult.

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Primarily, it's just that freedom + size = mess, and with bitcointalk.org I've chosen to keep freedom about as high as possible, for example allowing paid signature ads, poor English, micro-earning services which often attract a spammy crowd, etc. Banning these things (and other noise-generating factors) would be easily possible, and would immediately lead to a cleaner environment, but it'd also be a less free environment. IMO there are enough highly-controlled platforms around, and I'd prefer to try maximizing the freedom axis. (Maximizing freedom on the forum was a policy started by Satoshi when he was an admin, BTW, though it was years after he left before the forum became large enough for freedom to actually come in conflict with signal much.)

Bitcointalk.org is under active development on two parallel paths:
  • First, although the outward appearance hasn't changed much at all since 2010, I have made tons of changes to the code, including many features. About a year ago for example I added the Merit system, which has improved signal-to-noise quite a bit, by means of changing incentives.
  • Second, a completely new software platform has long been in development. This software is open source, can be run now, and an instance of it is available for example at https://www.cryptos-currencies.com/ . But I don't think that it's quite complete enough to migrate bitcointalk.org to it yet.
On both development paths, we try to tackle signal-vs-noise by methods such as categorizing posts better, improving incentives, trying to create smaller sub-communities, etc., but not via restriction, if at all possible.

While I don't claim to have nearly maximized the signal-to-noise which might be possible even given a high degree of freedom, bitcointalk.org is pretty anarchic, and it will always be so. (Though note that some sections are much better than others.) If that doesn't appeal to you, then you should use a different site. Smaller communities, like IRC channels and similar, can be both free and have a high signal-to-noise ratio. This was bitcointalk.org in 2010-2013, but it's now too large. You can also have large communities that are more strictly moderated, like r/Bitcoin.

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1562  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: FIFA World Cup 2022 Group Stage Highlights on: November 25, 2022, 12:10:24 PM
But unfortunately Ronaldo and Messi could not beat the record for top scorers in the World Cup of all time belonging to Miroslav Klose, even Ronaldo and Messi have never written their names on the top scorer board in the World Cup championship, as long as they participated in the World Cup, scoring goals in the world cup is a great thing, that's true, but they can't score as many goals in 1 World Cup event as Miroslav Klose, even Pele and Maradona can't do it, what you say doesn't make me an extraordinary thing, even all players in the world can do it...
Messi and Cris Ronaldo have very bad records in World Cup. They struggled to score goals there even they had hundreds of goal with their clubs. Many reasons for this, they got exhausted after long seasons with their clubs; their national teams relied on them too much which makes them more easily to be quarantined by opponents.

Surely that both Messi and Cris Ronaldo will not be able to hit 16 goals or more in total in World Cup.

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Try to see if there are names of Them Both there !!!


I knew about the record holder, Miroslav Klose but today when I saw the record table again, I felt a bit sad for Ronaldo (Brazil). He should be a player who holds the record. Klose is a good player but he is far under in quality than Ronaldo (Brazil) but even so I recognized what he did in many World Cups with Germany. He had a first World Cup with Germany in 2002 and continued to scored in later World Cups.
1563  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar - UEFA Qualifiers on: November 24, 2022, 02:43:19 PM
The performances of smaller teams like Canada, Japan and KSA surprised everyone. And so I see no reason to think that Brazil or Portugal will easily win the next matches. Every match of this World Cup has become quite competitive.
Surprising results from Saudi Arabia and Japan make this World Cup more interesting. In the next round, big teams like Argentina and Germany will have to play with more pressure and they are no longer have time to enjoy. It's time to fight seriously for them, else they will become World Cup audiences.

The result is unknown and South Korea should not be underestimated. Another Asian-South American matchup. Uruguay will have a hard time serving a goal to South Korea. Let's see how things turn out.
The match is unknown because both teams created chances so far. When it comes to last half of the second half, result is still 0 - 0 and Suarez already was substituted by Cavani. If any team can score a goal from now, they will probably get a final win.

Uruguay is a little bit unlucky because a headshot from Diego Godin hit a keywood pillar of Korea. Valverde so far did not show his ability to create dangerous distant shots like he shown in Real Madrid this season.

Indeed, Spain played very brilliantly in their first match, they scored 7 goals without reply, showing their ferocity. Luis Enrique was very brave to bring out his young players to destroy Costa Rica in the first game.
Young Spanish players remind us about golden era of Spain when they won big titles in-a-row. They destroyed Costa Rica and did not allow that opponent to have a single shot to Spanish goal. Their ball possession time is too high and I am surprised as Barcelona midfielders including Busquet, Gavi and Pedri actually are good trio. They played better than what they did in Barcelona as weeks ago, Busquet received so many bad reactions from Barcelona fans because of his bad performance.

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Meanwhile, Hansi Flick only relies on players who can be said to be old. The Group E stage is likely to be dominated by Japan and Spain, while Germany and Costa Rica will be the spectators of the Qatar World Cup.
1564  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Could 17.5k BTC actually be 13-14k pre-inflation? on: November 20, 2022, 03:31:49 PM
Bitcoin price is very cheaper than its all time high. If anyone dreamed to see this price under $20,000 a few months ago, now they have it and should take it.

I think Bitcoin is gradually forming its bottom but it will need more months to pass through some necessary phases of psychology of market before a new bull run can be started. We have yet reached to Capitulation and Anger phases and before an ending of Anger phase, we should have another terrible dump which is a last test. That dump should be similar to what we saw in March 2020.

1565  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽ FIFA World Cup 2022: Tournament Discussion Thread for Qatar 2022 on: November 20, 2022, 10:03:25 AM
I also predicted that Qatar will wins their opening match. England and Senegal will also win their matches, Croatia will also win their match with Morocco. Why Qatar will win their first leg is that, they have strong defense their midfielders are also good. All the rest predictions you made are very good.
From your predictions, all stronger teams will win, that is unrealistic.

In addition, you should know one more fact, host teams of World Cups usually don't win in opening matches. Let me share historic records about that.

It is true for Defending champion era (1974–2002) and Host country era (2006 - 2018) in general. Personally I can explain it like this, teams are champions or from hosting countries will start World Cups with very high expectation from fans that bring a lot of pressure on their players. Usually, they were not able to play at their best capacity.


List of FIFA World Cup opening matches
1566  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: major strategies for trading cryptocurrency on: November 20, 2022, 09:50:57 AM
DCA (Dollar Cost Averaging
DCA is more matched with long term investment, not with trading.

Two important reasons that DCA is not good for trading
  • Most of traders use all their capital for trading. Consequently, if they have bad entries, they no longer have another capital (reserved one) for DCA
  • DCA is good for Bitcoin but for altcoins, it is not too good. Most of altcoins lose their prices about -90% from their all time highs. So what do you plan to DCA with altcoins? The more you DCA, the more risk you are taking more loses. Even if you DCA around bottom, you might exit when you lose your patience and feel angry with market.

DCA Bitcoin: https://dcabtc.com/
1567  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: How will CBDCs will impact Bitcoin? on: November 20, 2022, 09:46:22 AM
CBDCs are still fiat currencies that are made digital. They're not much different from the fiat that we use through fiat online wallets. It's just that there's no more hard cash representing them. They remain centralized because they're still issued by governments' central banks. They are still subject to the same inflationary mechanism. They're still continuously devalued. They're still under the control and decision of a few powerful individuals. The disadvantage, however, is that they're more easily tracked, monitored, frozen, seized, confiscated.   
I believe CBDCs are worst than fiat currencies in terms of inflation. There are less production cost for CBDCs than fiat currencies. Much less infrastructures for minting, maintenance and so on. Governments can mint $T in one click when they want to do this without prerequisite to have paper, polymer, print, printing machines, human resources etc. This brings convenience to governments that in turn will make their inflationary management worse.

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The point is it doesn't actually compete against Bitcoin.
CBDCs will never compete directly with Bitcoin. What they compete is usage demand from their citizens by choosing either fiat currencies or CBDCs.
1568  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Discussion (Altcoins) / Re: What happens if binance and tether goes down on: November 20, 2022, 09:41:52 AM
Bitcoin created first or Binance exchange created first? and if I remember correctly, binance has only been around since 2017 and before that we also had many other centralized exchanges. All of them have a lifespan and are always replaced by other exchanges from time to time. So there is no reason that when binance dies the cryptocurrency will also disappear, but if bitcoin dies there is a high probability that the market and exchanges will be gone.

Binance or tether or any other company or project is just a part of this market, so without them there would be another product to replace them.
Exchanges come and go but we can not deny that if Binance collapse like FTX, its impact should be bigger because they are a bigger exchange than FTX. Their chain, Binance Smart Chain is bigger than Solana too.

Unless their report - Our Commitment To Transparency - is cooked, their finance management is good and healthy. According to this, they did not use customer money inappropriately and did not take too high risk like FTX.

Tether is a biggest stable coin and its impact (if it collapse) would be bigger than UST impact in May 2020.

Whatever happen with Binance and USDT in future, I am sure governments will launch more laws and execute more strictly regulations on cryptocurrency and blockchain. For future, it is good, not bad.
1569  Economy / Lending / Re: [W] 1000 USDT loan, 1 month, repay $1100 on: November 20, 2022, 01:17:46 AM
I need another loan

  • $1,000 USDT
  • Period: 1 month
  • Repayment amount: $1,100
  • Receiving address (USDT on TRC-20): Will send in DM


Who can make this deal, please leave your message here first, then we will make agreement and execute it after that.

Thanks.
Please send your wallet id
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I have received your wallet id and sent USDT to your account. Please check your account balance and let me confirm whether you have received it or not. As you have sent the wallet ID on pm I am not posting here anything about the transaction. Please, repay on or before the due date as usual.
I received it. Thank you shasan. I lock the thread now.
1570  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: How will CBDCs will impact Bitcoin? on: November 19, 2022, 02:44:21 PM
Fiat is not completely anonymous but it can still be anonymous, just like criminals use fiat to launder money and do their evil deeds without being detected by the police. But if we get rid of fiat completely and replace it with CBDC, things can be very different because the government can control everything even our smallest actions.

But it is true that CBDC cannot affect bitcoin because in my opinion bitcoin is not a currency but an asset more like gold, but regulation will affect bitcoin.
Both fiat currencies and CBDCs are traceable but with CBDCs and blockchain technology, governments can have more easily to do their works.

With fiat currencies, in countries with good laws and regulations, their governments can have enough data to trace flow of your money and can more easily to detect money laundering. This is a good example on how regulations can contribute to help society better.

After the Terra and FTX collapses and some related entities, I believe more regulations will be executed soon but it is good for cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystems in future.
1571  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: FIFA 2022 world cup on: November 19, 2022, 12:03:55 PM
Well, this is a very good thing to do especially in predictions but indeed when looking at the predictions for Brazil I agree but it's still a little difficult to see France being there Cheesy
In fact, there is nothing wrong, but indeed by looking at the current condition of France, I was actually a little skeptical of France, especially by looking at their matches in the last few trials.
Belgium again  Grin

They were considered as one of best candidates to win World Cup and Euro with this player generation. They failed in previous tournaments and in this World Cup, they will not have best versions of Hazard and Lukaku. How will they be able to win it?

I have more belief in Argentina and Brazil but unfortunately, they won't be able to meet each other in the final match.

The prediction above looks real and it is likely what may play out. The only place I have doubt is Belgium team going to final. Belgium was good in the past when hazard, Lukaku and Kevin were all playing in good form. Itt is only Kevin that is still in good form the other two have lost their form. Although there are other young players in the team that can carry the team along players like Troosard and Tielemans
I don't have good feeling about France and Belgium but in Germany I have it. Belgium will have their last chance (likely) to win a big title with this generation but I guess it is a little bit late for them already. Hazard nowadays even should not appear in their squad. A few seasons in Bernabeu destroys a best of Hazard and it is a myth story if we look back at the past, how amazing he played in Chelsea.

Will we have a final match between Argentina vs Germany or Brazil vs Germany?
1572  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Bitcoin can be centralised or decentralised on: November 19, 2022, 11:52:41 AM
If Bitcoin is preferably kept in Centralised exchange i think it is no longer decentralised to the owner because the don't have the keys to unlock and spend their coin but rather the rely on this third party intermediaries who decide how much the are eligible to transfer depending on their KYC verification level.
KYC is another issue but the most important factor is "Not your keys, not your coins" with or without KYC, it is always true.

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I believe private keys is what makes every Bitcoin owner decentralised not just the coin itself
Decentralized is a term to mention about Bitcoin network, not a Bitcoin wallet or a Bitcoin owner. With wallet, we have custodial and non-custodial wallets.

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The fear of misplacing seed phrase and private keys is still a big concern to many who believe they are careless with storing and keeping important datas.
If they use a non-custodial wallet to store their Bitcoin, they must know what they are doing, how to do it safely and correctly. They must learn to get knowledge about it and practice makes perfect.

1573  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: How will CBDCs will impact Bitcoin? on: November 19, 2022, 11:43:31 AM
CBDCs are coming, and they spell the end of the Private monetary policy as we know it. The list of countries adopting CBDCs is growing at a fast pace:
You can follow that website, CBDCtracker.org and get more updates and more details about countries that already launched or might launch their CBDCs. There are some main categories: Cancelled, Research, Proof of concept, Pilot, Launched on that website.

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Governments have already understood the sheer potential of the Blockchain to impose Total monetary control.

So, how do you guys think will affect Bitcoin?
You are asking about a story between an egg and a chicken. There would be no Bitcoin if there are no fiat currencies and centralization, inflation from them. There would be no CBDCs if there is no Bitcoin.

All of cryptocurrency types will co-exist and they will interact with each other, support each other, compete with other in order to upgrade themselves better and bring more convenience to human.
1574  Economy / Lending / [W] 1000 USDT loan, 1 month, repay $1100 on: November 18, 2022, 03:37:16 PM
I need another loan

  • $1,000 USDT
  • Period: 1 month
  • Repayment amount: $1,100
  • Receiving address (USDT on TRC-20): Will send in DM


Who can make this deal, please leave your message here first, then we will make agreement and execute it after that.

Thanks.
1575  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: List of useful Bitcoin block explorers on: November 18, 2022, 02:02:46 PM
e.g. when and in which epoch exactly the respective block has been mined ... the whole tool is called 'timechain calender'
for me personally a nice tool to 'play' something in the already long block past Wink


Nice UI that is mobile friendly too, I like it.

I more like one information - Next Diff Adj (Next Difficulty Adjustment). It is useful to get an estimation for next adjustment on network difficulty especially if it is congested and miners shutdown their ASICs massively by whatever reasons (serious temporary loses or floods, catastrophes, bans on mining etc.)

I know other Bitcoin block explorers have that information too but for the one you shared, it is what I like most.
1576  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar - UEFA Qualifiers on: November 18, 2022, 01:44:51 PM
In general, there is no guarantee for any country to get the World Cup trophy easily this year, but considering that players are better in certain countries such as Argentina, there is clearly a chance and it will be better if Argentina is in the calculation to get a trophy. World Cup. Because remembering that Argentina still has Messi who still wants to make his country proud of him if he is able to bring Argentina to the world cup trophy.
Nobody calls World Cup is an easy tournament and consider it is easy to win. It is a very tough tournament and is only hosted every four years (if no special reasons to skip it like World Wars). Career of player is too short and each player does not have too many opportunity to participate in World Cup. So far, a record for players who played in most World Cup tournaments is only 5 and very few players reached to that record.

It means being a champion in World Cup is a dream for all players and they need to play at 100% energy as well as need luckiness to win it.

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If Argentina is indeed able to make its fans happy and proud because they have the opportunity to get the world cup before Messi retires, that is precisely very good for Argentina, but this is still uncertain because several other countries also have more players in very good condition to play in the world cup this year.
Honestly, I agree that Messi is deserved to win one World Cup for his career but Argentina should not begin this World Cup 2022 with that pressure. Pressure only makes things worse than usual and Messi, Argentina should avoid it. They should only play and enjoy each match, avoid injuries and see how far they can move.
1577  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Can I clean them up myself? on: November 18, 2022, 01:34:34 PM
I wish users can delete their own posts themselves.
do you mean thread/s? because members can delete their own posts except for the thread/s that they created.
To clear it up for OP

  • Posts can be deleted by users. No need to have forum admins' or moderators' help
  • Threads (topics) can not be deleted by users. Some solutions are
    • Sending a request to forum staffs (only if you have solid reasons for your privacy, security), they might (or might not) approve your request and delete it for you. Chance to get acceptance is very small.
    • Deleting OP content by yourself. Delete it all, replace by either "deleted" or "..." or whatever non-sense, but remember that thread, that opening post is still there.

Above all, there are scrapers to archive your post or thread so even if admins delete it on the forum for you, it won't completely be erased on the Internet.

Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules, guidelines, FAQ. If you are not satisfied with my answer, please use "delete" keyword and search in that topic, you will get more clarifications.
1578  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin Balances on Exchanges - Sudden rise in the balance of Binance on: November 18, 2022, 01:25:35 PM
It means that Binance had a ton of coins scattered across a ton of wallets, and have now been consolidating them down into a few known ones.
Exchanges regularly consolidate their small inputs from users and from leftovers in change address after processing user withdrawal requests. This time, Binance chose a 'right' time to consolidate their inputs massively.  Roll Eyes

Fortunately, no domino effects to spam mempool more and it has been cleaned up gradually recent days. We also are going towards this weekend which should reduce mempool a little bit more.

In the past, spamming mempool and cause more expensive transaction fee on newbie users is one of ways to make they get panic. With Segwit adoption in past 2 years, now it is harder to make Bitcoin network congested.


Segwit usage from Blockchair.com
1579  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Exchanges or platforms with too good offers. Be careful on: November 17, 2022, 03:24:54 AM
just like you, I am attracted to using FTX because they cover part of the fees for erc20 transactions and it really helps me. Moreover, they also have very low btc withdrawal fees.
It is their attractive hook to retailed users but when they go bankruptcy, they will make compensation partially for top investors, biggest users first. It's not fair and people should know that.

One more thing I did not like FTX months ago, is their Wash trading that is not a signal of a good and top exchange. When I experienced it, I did neither trade nor store big capital on FTX, honestly. Fortunately, it is how I avoided this bloody collapse.

Although some of them is not quite bad after all since they really deliver, but its just we should always put our minds that however trusted they are and how big the platform it is chances that FTX scandal may still happen on one of them. So better listen to people telling that don't save your money on exchange/platforms to avoid losing it better to save our funds on our hardware wallets to be more secured.
We can enjoy good offers from big exchanges, not from new ones. First, new exchanges can give you very high bonus, very attractive offers but we don't know will they disappear after a few weeks or months of operation. Second, about big exchanges, such as FTX, no guarantee for future. So take risk, take opportunities, enjoy it and exit as soon as possible.

new investors will certainly be attracted by the big prize offers. instead of getting a lot of benefits, but in the end you have to let the assets just disappear.
Even plebs can do the same mistakes like newbies. Because human instinct is unchanged and majority of the crowd can not control their greed and bad human instinct.
1580  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Binance is spamming mempool on: November 17, 2022, 02:56:22 AM
I believe that the image is actually showing the Minimum Withdrawal amount, not the Withdrawal fee, which on the Bitcoin network is 0.0002 BTCs (3,39 $).
Good finding and previously I did not notice it too. Just thought the last information in the table is for Withdrawal fee for both horizontal and vertical views!

If you use mobile and see it horizontally or vertically, you will have different tables with different formats and details. I can confirm by making screenshots below.

Binance did not change their withdrawal fee for both Legacy and Segwit addresses but their spam on mempool in this period is suspicious.

Just want to point out I'm not paranoid about anything, because I don't store a single satoshi of my money on a centralized exchange. Every exchange in the world can go bankrupt if they want - my bitcoin will be just fine. Smiley
They can go with a hack and an exit that can be a scam exit too. In the past, many exchanges were hacked and shut down a few months later. From Cryptopia to Livecoin exchanges (more definitely).

More information about exchange hacks and exchange graveyard. I want to share a proactive warning  Smiley

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