Actually, no. It *will be* a new generation of tech based on using satellites, long time aloft drones, as well as ground-based base stations vs 5g being only ground based. That said, major 6G development has been in the works in several countries for over 1 year so China is NOT 'ahead'.

For a start and overall view, ref https://cmte.ieee.org/futuredirections/tag/6g/
6G specific links start about 1/2 way down the page such as these,
https://cmte.ieee.org/futuredirections/2020/11/11/6g-enters-orbit/
https://cmte.ieee.org/futuredirections/2020/11/03/6g-does-not-exist-yet-it-is-already-here-xx/
More are in that 1st link

Oh, btw - initial work has already started on 7G with a time frame of hardware appearing sometime in the next 10-20 years...

For now at least, PayPal is handling BTC as part of their merchant services - in other words, just as PayPal started out years ago with fiat, buying Bitcoin there is ONLY loading a 'wallet' for use with merchants participating in the PayPal system. So while you cannot exchange back to fiat or send BTC to outside addresses from the PayPal wallet you CAN spend it at merchants accepting PayPal.

When PayPal started this they had already announced that eventually things will change. Just *when*, who knows.

Please learn the difference between altcoins and BTC. This is the Bitcoin-only area where you posted...
Mods notified to move moved yer post to the altcoin areas where it belongs

Ja.
Speaking of 'reading the trend', given the nice roller coaster of the previous weeks this year I figured I should try my first round of sell-high, buy again at low trading (all my coin has been earned through mining since 2014) so last week did a 0.25BTC sell @ $38,500 to hold in my BTC brokerage act and setup up a buy-back for when it again dipped to around $32k. Looked like a safe bet  

Rather rude of Elon to screw that up... Oh well, guess only Time will tell if we can ever again buy at that price point. If things seem stable for a while at the new highs I'll probably revise the buy-back to something just under what I sold at. Until then the money stays in the trading acct. At least it (should) never equate to a loss unless everything goes to Hell in a handbasket

Meh.
@OP, you did not 'mess up'. You took your gains at what looked to be a good position - and it was. The fact that price continued to rise is beside the point.

In my case, I sold a few BTC late last Dec @ $28,500k to pay off the mortgage on my house (which I did and THAT was very satisfying). The jump from under $11k in Nov up to my sell target made it look like a good decision.  Now am I pleased that shortly after my sale BTC continued to skyrocket and hit above 35k meaning I could have spent less coin - well no, however, I nonetheless accomplished my goal so I'm good with the decision. This rise to almost $50k is certainly a kick in the butt however, BTC could have just as easily tanked back down to what were more reasonable historic levels instead.

Luck & timing is what it is...

https://www.eastshore.xyz/ is a reputable distributor for Ants & whatsminers but looks like they are out of stock. Trying to think of who was Canaan's EU distributor... In the US it is Blokforge.com

As well as calculators to convert watts/kwatts to BTU so you have an idea of the heat load miners produce.

Correct!
The REAL site for whatminer sales is https://whatsminer.net/
The Whatsminers are made by https://www.microbt.com/?locale=en
For ANY miner, only trust distributors listed on the manufacturers websites or at least vetted by folks here.

It's all about when you can get them. If available then yes the M30S is also good.

Um, a little out of touch perhaps? The FIBRE relay network was taken offline late last year and no longer exists. The operator finally got fed up with no one paying him to use what was a very excellent service.

If your power is cheap, look at Canaan's A12 series. Next batch ships in March.

Um Bitcoin mining cannot be 'ran with a smartphone'... Sure you can mine crapcoins like monero but BTC no way, no how. Since 2014 it has been out of reach even for the best GPU rigs much less a phone.

Then again, maybe you think all crypto is Bitcoin? If so you are dead wrong...

Lovin' these prices! Coinbase showing $44.9k 24hr high and currently at $43.39k.
Sold a bit the other day at 38k and now just waiting for the dip hopefully back to around 30-32k so I can buy in with more
Looks like this is why todays prices is so good https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5315588.msg56298335#msg56298335

Bullsh**
*can be used* for nefarious purposes, yes however, Bitcoin uses a public open ledger with all transactions easily seen and tracked between addresses - hardly 'untraceable'. Now some altcoins - that is a different story.

No matter what coin is used sooner or later conversion to/from fiat WILL occur which brings up the very large elephant in the room which is the fact that fiat is the 'root of all evil' and prime currency used for illicit activities.

@OP
Please change the title of this thread. The US Navy is NOT who did the alleged crime(s). Your title is pure clickbait at its worst.
It was done by Marquis Asaad Hooper and Natasha Rene Chalk who at the time were members of the Navy which is a helluva lot different than what your title says.

A more accurate title would be, "Former US Navy personnel sold 9,000 personal data for Bitcoin". That is just as eye-catching for clicks while also being 100% truthful.

Good link about recovering data from SSD's
Link to problems that HP drives had after hitting 32,768 hrs of run time
IMHO the best and most trusted data recovery firm (NASA used them to recover almost all data on the black box drives from the space shuttles that were destroyed) They have been in business for decades and have several labs around the globe you can send the drive to.

You do not/should not mine to the node! The node is simply there to support the Bitcoin network by well, having another full node on it for storing/distributing blockchain info. AFAIK the devs removed the solo mining function from Core several years ago.

Be it solo pool or normal pooled, mining requires the pool you are mining at to have the fastest possible connections to the BTC network along with wide distribution of that access to be able to monitor chain activity for block changes and notify the network when you have found a block. That is not an out-of-the-box thing to do.

Good question. Considering that electronics shipped to the EU must meet specific labeling and material (no lead allowed) requirements I have to assume that like Sidehack did there will be EU-specific variants?

Query: Are the miners and laptop using DHCP or static IP addresses? If they are static addresses perhaps the laptop is using the same address as your router or a miner and causing a conflict somewhere.

Nope. There is not a secondary market for new vs used or possibly 'dirty' BTC (yet).
Also, 'mining non-KYC Bitcoin' is simply an eyeball catcher tagline. Unless you mine on a pool that requires KYC, all newly mined coins are non-KYC. More to the point - who the f*** cares? New coins are new coins regardless of where they were mined - end of story.