Bitcoin Forum
May 24, 2024, 03:55:37 AM *
News: Latest Bitcoin Core release: 27.0 [Torrent]
 
  Home Help Search Login Register More  
  Show Posts
Pages: « 1 ... 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 [85] 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 ... 229 »
1681  Other / Politics & Society / Re: restoring the ottoman/istanbul/byzantum empire the smart way (for turks) on: March 25, 2020, 04:01:02 PM
So you want them to go back in time, and make it an autonomous city state ruled by a christian monarchy no less.

This isn't going to happen, and the Ottoman Empire wasn't a mere city state, or christian, but Islamic caliphate.

Besides why would you want to change their religion? Who are YOU to pick THEIR religion? Are you from the mistaken view that Islam cannot be peaceful, when that is the very meaning of the word? Christianity also has its long history of violence, so the religion is not the problem people are.

Should i remind you how the Ottoman Empire was stopped from invading Europe? Should i mention how the "christian" Vlad the Impaler got its nickname from?

This is the guy that single handedly stopped a many times larger Ottoman army in their tracks by breaking people minds with the "spectacle" they saw...

While the fictional vampire tales made later that came to our days are all utter garbage, the REAL Vlad was actually far crueler, medieval style. The Pope had a serious trouble with him as he was both a devil to ex-commune and the savior of (Christian) Europe from the Ottoman (Islamic) empire.

Sure there are also the crusades, the witch burning, inquisitions, etc. This is THE AGE when Islam was seen as the civilized, cultured and even scientifically advanced world, precisely by the likes of the Ottoman, vs the DARK savage Europe.

Again, its the people. Funny thing you need to be told that...
1682  Local / India / Re: India shutdown for next 21 days , opinion? on: March 25, 2020, 03:34:27 PM
So, cops hit you just because you was in public during quarantine? Wow, this is way too much. Ok, it's lockdown, but police can't hit people on streets without any reason. People still need to to buy food or go to work. Most of us don't go out of home without important reason.
I think that complete lockdown isn't solutiom, despite pandemy. Obviously, shops most continue to work. And I think that most factories also should work, with all precautions obviously. Otherwise huge recession will begin. This pandemy already hurts economy a lot.

Heh, i wonder where is that nice country you live in that society expects cops NOT to hit people, be thankful they are not shot on the spot. If anything, the cop would be endangering himself by getting close to a possible diseased...

If you have to go out you have to do it alone, and keep your distance from others at all times. It would be good if you had gloves and a mask, but there are simply not enough of them. Only reason to go out is to procure food or medicine (if no delivery is available); no socializing, no getting close to others for no reason.

If you fail to abide or your country fails to make people comply, the virus spreads and the situation lasts longer.

In this state of emergency, any "rights" you may feel to have, are suspended. This is exactly what people feel when their gov is ousted by a military junta or such, it is a nice experience for some of you to experience this first hand. And the surviving is also part of the experience, but usually it means hiding from people's bullets, not an invisible virus.

China stopped it because they implemented strong measures like this, after the local gov failed the central gov acted. Other countries were more lax, and are now paying the consequences.

Current top 10 countries by deaths:

  • Italy 6820
  • Spain 3445
  • China 3281
  • Iran 2206
  • France 1100
  • United States 804
  • United Kingdom 422
  • Netherlands 357
  • Germany 181
  • Belgium 178

As you can see it is running rampant in hyper connected Europe, its also thriving in the USA.

Also there is a reason the richer countries got it faster: people there actually have money to travel. This very simple fact is ignored by some. Of course, they also had more money for tourism, or simply more business. When was the last time you wanted to visit a poor country? Ever been to Haiti? And guess what, an average Haitian could never afford a plane ticket in the first place.

Does it mean the poor countries won't get it? Actually, they don't even have health care in many cases, not only are they getting it (late but getting it), they can easily overcome the top 10 countries. And act as recurring source of the virus worldwide.
1683  Other / Politics & Society / Re: STAY AT HOME: Let us help everyone to kill the virus. on: March 25, 2020, 03:07:21 PM
Staying at home doesn't kill the virus, it just means you will be vulnerable when you do go out eventually, or when you have things delivered. Building a healthy immune system to kill the virus in your body is the way to gain permanent protection. It saddens me to see so many people in the supermarkets buying pharma products to destroy their immune systems, and none of them is wearing gloves.

If the entire world magically stayed isolated for two weeks (twice), the virus would die by itself. Unfortunately people keep going out and getting infected and infect others. The quarantine is slowing down this process at best, which may also lengthen the thing as well. But the idea is to help healthcare better cope with the sudden influx of patients. In many countries this has gone out of hand, as they did not isolate themselves seriously. And it happens that those countries have the highest death count, simply because there are not enough places and resources to treat them all and there are too many grave cases at once from uncontrolled spreading.

And, while far fetched, it might even give time for a vaccine/cure.
1684  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The Coder and the Dictator: Petro creator talks with the New York Times on: March 25, 2020, 02:51:59 PM
Almost everything we do in life is based on trust. If we trust people who have control like a dictator, we are placing ourselves in danger. But sometimes we almost don't have any other choice if we need to get food.

Cool

Its a very effective tool for domination: from the stomach. Many people here say that's exactly the method, since if you want to eat, you have to be nice with the ruler and his ministers...

With a destroyed economy (way before the virus) and little barely any national production incapable to satisfy 10% of the actual demand, most people are forced to depend from the State to live.

Its not like, you could work and feed yourself, not anymore anyway. Only a rapidly diminishing minority can still do that. Most people have to eat whatever the gov puts in that box, which is often just grains and pasta, few tuna/sardine cans if you are lucky, maybe some oil and milk.

Meat? What's that? Its been years... The "Maduro diet" is sarcastically called here. Of course the man himself (and his closest officials) are very well fed.

The big irony is that, for many people, the quarantine doesn't really change things much. There is little economic activity left to shutdown anyway, and people were already avoiding staying long outside because its too expensive and too dangerous (criminals target those with money to go out).

And, Bitcoin is about being trustless. Only the code its executing matters, not the whim of the few.
1685  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Corona crisis will be used to implement mass surveillance, BTC to the moooon...? on: March 25, 2020, 01:45:03 PM
This Israeli historian/philosopher figured out what the "endgame" of the "elite" will be this crisis: in short "mass surveillance"...

Just imagine what that will mean for the BTC price... Grin

While i agree that world governments are ramping up mass surveillance, i fail to see a connection with the virus. The usual suspects for pushing this are terrorism and criminals...

Coincidentally (or not) i also fail to see the connection with bitcoin.

This mass surveillance business has been going on at least since 9-11 if not before.
1686  Bitcoin / Mining software (miners) / Re: Braiins OS: open-source mining firmware [S9, T1]. New release includes AsicBoost on: March 25, 2020, 01:39:08 PM
hi
i have t1 16 th/s miner.
can i use  braiins frimware Huh

my miner control boards have not memory card socket.

It is recommended that you do not. T1 support is getting completely dropped following next release. This is because the T1 was barely a basic test use at best.

Its better that you keep your factory firmware.

If you try it, you will be on your own.
1687  Local / Mercado y Economía / Re: Provincia argentina estudia implementar criptomoneda propia on: March 24, 2020, 06:41:11 PM
Respecto al Petro ahora que su creador habló, me quedó claro que tenía una idea en principio igual a la tuya: un token ERC-20 (smartcontract) de emisión limitada, descentralizado (obviamente usando el blockchain de Ethereum).

Y llegaron los políticos, y lo arruinaron todo...
1688  Local / Español (Spanish) / Re: Moneda local baja... Punto para el Bitcoin! on: March 24, 2020, 06:31:49 PM
Aquí fue al contrario, después de varios meses en 75mil bolívares por dólar, cuando arreció la crisis mundial, bajó a 70mil. Pero eso fue hace 4 días, finalmente volvió a sus andadas y ya hoy va por 78mil.

Y aunque no está relacionado, bitcoin anda por $6600, es decir, al alza.
1689  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Coronavirus: International Updates on: March 24, 2020, 06:15:22 PM
Did I miss the Panama stats? Elwar would want to know for his Seasteading.

Cool

You did, but since you insist....

Panama: 345 cases 6 deaths. If you are seasteading, stay in your seastead for some months...
Colombia over 300 cases (306) and 3 deaths.
Spain with 39,675 and 2,800 deaths (world's 2nd with most deaths), it is spreading faster than Italy.
Cuba isolates tourists in hotels, 40 cases reported countrywide.
California needs 50,000 hospital beds to cope with virus.
Ruben Blades says Trump is the most stupid and incompetent politician on the planet (get in line lol).
India with 519 cases and 10 deaths; Has been put under Lockdown for 21 Days.
1690  Other / Politics & Society / Re: How is Coronavirus affecting you? on: March 24, 2020, 03:21:08 PM
My local grocery store has limited customers to purchasing only 2 of any one item, so I find myself trying new brands and flavors of products like soup than I normally would.

When in a socialist central planned economy, not only do you have to get used to a limited purchase, you WILL lose the ability to "choose" product brands, and eventually certain things will only be available certain days or the week, or the month...

Been there, done that, for years...

Your problem for now is the virus, once its gone you will remember this and laugh it off. Doesn't happen like that when the State chooses what things must cost, because the market is "unfair". OUR Virus has lasted many years, even the young here don't even know what this "choosing brands" business is about, if there is a soap, ANY soap, praise the dear leader. Often, there is no soap, and you know when there is no toilet paper, you NEED soap.

But at least you people are getting a taste of it, hope you never forget it.
1691  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Coronavirus + Prisons on: March 24, 2020, 03:12:52 PM
Some inmates that have minor cases are being released in some advanced countries. while in Africa nobody cares about the prisoners if the virus will affect or kill them, not minding that they are also our loved ones trapped behind walls, who need help, because the virus has no boundaries,  I read about prisons in the amazon deriving funds from inmates to pay $4 for treatment or checkup before they will be issued with hand sanitizers and facemasks, but the government is supposed to make free provisions for them because they labour too with their sweat and energy.
We should'nt forget the prisoners they are human beings serving capital punishments. What could be the best healthcare provision for the prisoners?

This is typical in my country, all prisons are State run but are worse than the typical condemned building in other countries. Prisoners getting infected and untreated (all diseases) is very common. For the most part if you have no money, you won't survive. All prisons are gang controlled, so you either sell yourself to work for the gang, or die. Working for the gang means what you can imagine: bully, extort, traffic, sex, fight with other gangs, you name it. They are called "universities for crime" over here, because if you survive, you will graduate from whatever mild crime you might have done into a full fledged criminal already part of an organization which often use the prisons as the headquarters, with the "boss" living there a life of luxury you would think comes from fantasy if i told you. One of the kingpins even managed to build a Zoo... Pools, brothels for underage girls, drug shops and "night clubs" are commonplace for the ruling gang (and their guests).

I would ask you to search Youtube videos or online articles if you didn't believe it, but most of the "good" stuff is in Spanish anyway.

Yeah, here in prison you have to pay for a piece of wall for you to sleep on, or a stair, or whatever. Of course food and medicine too. The State is... the source of officials to pay bribes to and have them bring you stuff, or something like that. The control within prisons is crime organized. There was once this woman prison director that wanted certain boss to behave more like a normal prisoner; her family was threatened and she quickly resigned. It happened a few years back, just to give you an idea. And yes, we share the Amazon, i doubt that is related, but our cultures are similar.
1692  Other / Politics & Society / The Coder and the Dictator: Petro creator talks with the New York Times on: March 24, 2020, 02:51:36 PM
This article was recently published by the New York Times. It tells the story about who and how the State backed cryptocurrency known as Petro came to be.

When Petro was originally announced (Nov 2017?), it sounded quite nice and very close to typical cryptocurrencies. I remember that December being honestly surprised (because access to foreign currencies was forbidden) and there were rumors that it would have a limited production, run decentralized as a token on the Ethereum blockchain executing rules defined by an ERC-20 smartcontract.

Then surprisingly, everything changed. A Russian team was brought instead, it would still be a smartcontract token but running in the NEM blockchain instead. Also the price was somehow pegged to the barrel of oil, like "stable" coins do. The gov made an ICO presale event and raised hundreds of thousands of dollars, at this point i gave them the equivalent of $100 in bitcoin, i never saw that money again...

Indeed after the event and the unknown amount of money was raised all went silent. A few months later, the guy in charge (Carlos Vargas, mentioned in the article) and the Russians with their NEM token were kicked out from the project. Months later we learned that Maduro gave the project to yet another team, they turned to Dash and made Petro (again) from that. By a completely unrelated source, i was told this was hacked and had to be redone (again) a 4th time, which is the current Petro iteration the government has been running. Of course, ignorant of technology (same way they are ignorant of economy), they chose to hide the source code (in violation of their own law that mandates that ALL State developed software projects must go public domain) and centralize operations to a very few nodes and a single online wallet without releasing any software so that nobody else could participate with nodes or wallets.

In any case this article reveals many interesting things about how Petro came to be, in its first iteration which was the one we were talking and discussing about in the beginning. At some point we were even told it would be possible to mine it, which of course never happened. It is also unknown how many people lost their money in the Petro ICO presale event of 2018, or what happened to the Russian NEM team...

But you are also going to read something interesting, about how things are handled by the government of Venezuela. Some of you might be surprised for us it has been so long of the same things (abuse) that we somehow got used to it them, but for a foreigner they might get (rightly) shocked. No, they are not exaggerating to sell more newspapers, when they portray the government as a sort of criminal gang that is quick to extort and threaten people when things aren't done exactly how they want it, no matter how mistaken that might be. Its the very reason Venezuela economy went so low, the regime does not tolerate anyone but "Yes men", or else...

And its why you see crazy nut things happening all the time (ie. Maduro just ordered that nobody pays rent for 6 months, not even commerce). Maduro himself does not like books or reading much, but what little political formation he got, came from a Leninist party that was disbanded during Chávez regime to join the larger PSUV (which the Communist Party refused to join into). In any case what little insight Maduro might have of the economy, is basically either the one practiced in the now gone eastern bloc "Real Socialism" central planned (command) economy, and/or the idea that destroying the coin and the economy destroys capitalism so its even better... Too bad in practice what gets destroyed are people's lives instead, as the wealthy have the means to either flee or survive by bribing their way into the new regime.

Anyway here are some excerpts from the article, do read it entirely if you can. Ask if you have doubts. No i never met in person anyone involved, and as is always the case in these situations, the truth takes years to come out due to the risks involved. I must admit the Petro creator Gabriel Jiménez, having previously participated in anti-maduro activities (in the US, no less) was pretty suicidal accepting such a State commission. Its truly a miracle he wasn't imprisoned and the keys thrown as is often done here to political opposition, foreign journalists or even mere policy dissenters, often among their own ranks.

Oh and while this is about the Petro, do note that the same happens with everything in this country. Same attitude, same results.


...
But whatever Mr. Jiménez felt about the regime, he felt just as strongly about the potential of cryptocurrency. When the Maduro administration approached him about creating a digital coin, Mr. Jiménez saw an opportunity to change his country from within. If a national cryptocurrency was done right, Mr. Jiménez believed, he could give the government what it wanted — a way to fight hyperinflation — while also stealthily introducing technology that would give Venezuelans a measure of freedom from a government that dictated every detail of daily life.
...
“The actual goal of the project was to change the economic model of the oppressive regime,” he told The Times recently. “This was my mission and my gamble, in a bet that ended costing everything I had in my life: my friends, my partners, my reputation, my love, my company and my country.”
...
The situation rekindled Mr. Jiménez’s long-running interest in cryptocurrencies. He began paying his employees in a digital coin; even with the crazy volatility of the crypto markets, it was more stable than a Venezuelan bank account, and it wasn’t subject to the Maduro regime’s diktats.
...
Initially, the Maduro regime saw Bitcoin as a threat. The technology, after all, used a decentralized network to create and move money, and no authority was in charge. But then some members of the government noticed that this cut both ways. Cryptocurrency could also be a way for Venezuela to escape sanctions levied by the United States and international organizations.
...
In September 2017, an official loyal to Mr. Maduro floated the idea of a digital currency backed by Venezuela’s oil reserves. This was unorthodox: One of the tenets of Bitcoin is that its value does not derive from a natural resource or government fiat, only the laws of mathematics. But the distinction faded in the face of Venezuela’s desperation. The official, Carlos Vargas, read about Mr. Jiménez’s crypto work in a local publication and asked for a meeting.
...
The vice president was friendly and curious, and suggested that this was Mr. Jiménez’s project — they were just there to learn from him. Mr. El Aissami wanted to know how many Petros there would be, and whether new ones could be mined like Bitcoin. Mr. Jiménez thought that the officials didn’t have a particularly clear idea of how cryptocurrencies worked.
...
Mr. Jiménez opted to base the Petro on Ethereum, Bitcoin’s leading competitor, which would allow it to trade in the kind of free, publicly visible market that was otherwise forbidden in Venezuela. No one on the government side seemed to be worried about this — or even aware of it.
...
When the president gave Mr. Jiménez the floor, he went over the basics of the Petro, including an initial issuance of $200 million. Then the finance minister spoke up, and for the first time, Mr. Jiménez’s plans were challenged. The minister took out a manila folder with a map of the Orinoco Belt and said he wanted the Petro to be backed on an ongoing basis by certain oil reserves there, which were worth orders of magnitude more — many billions of dollars.

Mr. Jiménez pushed back: It was one thing to tie the Petro’s initial price to oil, but if it couldn’t trade freely after that — at whatever price investors felt it was worth — then it wouldn’t be a revolutionary product. A Petro whose price always reflected oil reserves would essentially be a bond
...
Mr. Maduro announced that the currency would, in fact, be tied to a specific block of the Orinoco Belt — exactly what Mr. Jiménez had argued against. He complained to Mr. Vargas, but was shot down: “You cannot contradict the word of the president.” Mr. Vargas told Mr. Jiménez to rewrite the Petro’s white paper to reflect Mr. Maduro’s decision — and to do it quickly.
...
When he tried to resist sharing a digital copy of the white paper, he said, the minister told him by phone: “You have to understand that this is now a project of the state. If you don’t hand over the file, I won’t be responsible for what happens to you.”
...
The government told his team that they would need to compete to have a role in the Petro’s launch — against a Russian group of murky origin.
...
In any event, the Russians showed little interest in doing any work. Mr. Jiménez and his company were left to handle almost everything as the Feb. 20, 2018, Petro launch date approached. That is how Mr. Jiménez found himself feverishly coding all night under armed guard, and then summoned to the presidential palace early the next day.
...
On live television, Mr. Jiménez saw no way out. He scribbled his signature and gave a forced grin as photographers moved in.

Mr. Jiménez took a seat and wondered what he had just done. The president said that Venezuela had already collected $725 million from investors. He thanked Mr. Jiménez by name, as well as The Social Us. “It’s a company founded and run by young geniuses from Venezuela,” the president said. “You stay crazy.”
...
The Petro never really got off the ground. On March 19, President Trump signed an executive order barring Americans from using it. The same day, an Associated Press article about Mr. Jiménez noted that he had helped create the Petro for Mr. Maduro only a few years after interning for an anti-Maduro member of the House of Representatives. The congresswoman, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, immediately wrote a letter asking the Treasury Department to investigate “whether Venezuelan national Gabriel Jiménez meets the criteria to be sanctioned under the appropriate authorities.”
...
In Caracas, Mr. Jiménez was barraged by criticism from the political left and right. The Social Us found it impossible to get new business. In July, a lawyer delivered a 68-page document to the National Constituent Assembly, asking that Mr. Jiménez be investigated for “treason against the homeland.”
...
In April 2019, he sold his 2007 Toyota Autana and bought a ticket to the United States. When he arrived, he moved in with his father
...
Mr. Jiménez still had essentially no money, but a crypto start-up in the San Francisco Bay Area allowed him to work out of its offices, eat from the fridge and stay on a couch in the chief executive’s apartment.
...
1693  Bitcoin / Mining support / Re: Flashing S9 Control Board Without SD on: March 23, 2020, 11:15:46 PM
Hey guys, I have a bunch of S9's with security firmware that we are trying to load with another firmware, but unfortunately we've found most of these machines to not have the SD chip that allows flashing (see picture below).  My question is how do I flash this thing if I can't SSH, load through the web UI, or flash via SD?

Well first you need to find a way to restore SSH access, one of the methods i know involves downgrading to the earlier firmware from 2019 (may?) from Bitmain, and then executing one of the exploits involving the html server. Once you restore SSH, you can proceed to liberate your miner.

I know you can install the Free and Open Source Software Braiins OS using this method (using a simple python script). For other firmware it depends.
1694  Economy / Economics / Re: Virus Bear Market? on: March 23, 2020, 10:58:24 PM
What about central banks printing more money? Wont that de-value cash further? 

So if people can pay for things like groceries with bitcoin with central banks printing more money inflation then would bitcoin crash like it did with the virus?

It will devalue cash over the long term. Inflation is up 20% since the last QE party began in 2008. That will continue.

You can already pay for groceries with BTC. It's easy to buy gift cards to Amazon (Primenow, Prime Pantry), Whole Foods, other supermarkets. You can also use apps like Spedn at physical stores.

The problem is the market doesn't trust BTC to hold its value. It's considered a high risk asset. Merchants and vendors don't want to hold it. In bear markets, investors don't want to hold it.

If BTC were the global medium of exchange everyone used, it wouldn't crash like it did, but that entails a lot more than being able to buy groceries with it.

So this Virus bear market will end when governments announce vaccine?

No idea, but it would sure be a start!

I don't think people lost trust in bitcoin, some holders simply decided to cash to buy things for the virus while others rode the global economy going recession due to production and commerce worldwide shutting down.

Now China is starting back up, and they will find themselves in a world where nobody else is producing anything (but can't buy either) until every country either controls the virus or waits until everyone gets infected, a process that could easily take 3 months if we take China itself as example.

very_452001: It IS doom & gloom, consider returning back to sands for the next months or half a year? If far away from humans, even better!
Indeed once the World Health Organization officially recognized the global Pandemic, and the outbreak getting out of hand in Europe and the US, things took a turn for the worse. At first the naysayers were laughing at it like "just another conspiracy, yadda" but the numbers didn't lie and most countries did not anticipate or assessed the danger properly. Now its obvious, but its too late, exactly the way a hyperinflation hits.

Unfortunately vaccines and cures are taking longer than the virus to spread around, even with countries bypassing normal medical trials and rushing; its still taking too long. If you survive, by next year there probably will be a vaccine. Survivors will probably develop defenses in their bodies for the slight mutations of the virus and probably won't need them except for the usual risk group (just like the flu).
1695  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Coronavirus: International Updates on: March 23, 2020, 10:27:23 PM
- Paulo Dybala and Paolo Maldini test positive

- Marouane Fellaini tests positive

- Lorenzo Sanz (ex-Real Madrid president) death due to coronavirus

- German Chancellor Angela Merkel in self-isolation (edit)


Mother of Miguel Bose Lucia Bosé (actress) died as well. Also the Opera singer Plácido Domingo resulted positive (for the virus). The virus in Spain is pretty much out of hands, just like Italy. The military have found deaths while performing mass disinfection in old people's homes.

I have also seen various news reporting how world pollution has plummeted worldwide due to economies shutting down everywhere. Ironic, how a virus that kills people by not letting us breath, is actually helping the planet breath again. Is mother nature telling us something?

The Angela Merkel self quarantine is because she met a doctor that resulted positive.
Germany has 29,056 cases and 123 deaths.
(Finally) Olympic games postponed for next year (Japan stubbornly wanted to do them on schedule as they typically are), told Dick Pound to USA Today; it appears countries started to withdrawn unilaterally from the games.
Japan has 1,128 cases and 42 deaths.
Venezuela now has 77 cases confirmed. Maduro halts rent payments for 6 months, even commercial.
UK with 6,650 cases and 335 deaths, PM orders strict lockdown for 3 weeks.
USA is at 43,224 cases and 583 deaths.
France with 19,856 cases 860 deaths.
Colombia claims 3rd death among 235 cases.
Chile confirms 2nd death, with 741 cases.
China restarts productive activities while keeping some restrictions (i told you).
Canada rapidly climbs with 2,020 cases and 24 deaths.
Belize confirms first case.
1696  Local / Español (Spanish) / Re: La FED le hizo un favor a Bitcoin? on: March 23, 2020, 06:25:46 PM
Estoy de acuerdo con Ddmr, esto no es de el todo positivo para los holders de bitcoin. En esta crisis Estados Unidos han estado sacando dinero de la nada y no son cifras pequeñas... Esto tendrá un impacto negativo al largo plazo. Y si estados unidos decide inyectar $700 billones a bitcoin, eso es dinero en cripto que se va directo a sus bolsas. El día en que bitcoin suba a $1M si ellos deciden vender los bitcoins que compraron a $5000 entonces será otro rotundo crash en el precio.

Esto no me dice nada de bitcoin, pero si me dice mucho del dolar estadounidense, y la gente que se confía ciegamente de el...

Luego no sería de extrañar que intenten aplicar tasas negativas como medida de contener la presión, pero todo tiene un límite. ¿Cual es el límite de ellos?

"El día en que bitcoin suba a $1M si ellos deciden vender los bitcoins que compraron a $5000" es un sin sentido por varias razones, lo he explicado varias veces en inglés, por lo visto toca hacerlo en español.

Nadie puede comprar cantidades realmente grandes de bitcoin instantáneamente. Todos los vendedores tienen sus límites, y apenas se produzca tu primera transacción, eso deja una información que el mercado recibe. Entre mas grande logra ser tu primera compra, mas va subir el precio para tu segunda. Entre mas sea el capital del que dispones para comprar bitcoins, mayor va ser esa subida de precio con cada transacción.

Lo que ocurre es igual a cuando una ballena comienza a comprar, el precio sube mucho antes de que termine. Va a tener un promedio mas alto al final, y esto va depender mucho de las fuerzas de mercado global, pero no es nunca el precio que estás viendo para todo el capital del que dispones para hacer la compra.

Y lo que pasa con la venta es exactamente lo mismo: Tampoco se ejecuta (completa) de golpe, y en la medida que va vendiendo, va cayendo el precio reduciendo cada vez mas la posible ganancia (el promedio tiende a caer).

Este es el mismo motivo por el cual ningún gobierno puede "imprimir infinitamente hasta comprar todos los bitcoin" porque el resultado es que su moneda pierde valor mas y mas rápido (y también le sube valor a bitcoin por la demanda) haciendo inalcanzable la meta.


Por otro lado bitcoin no va subir a $1M, probablemente nunca sin una hiper-inflación del dólar (que es mucho mas probable a que el bitcoin llegue a valer un millón de los dólares actuales). Y esto se entiende estudiando la gráfica del precio en el histórico, que forma una curva logarítmica en toda su historia. La curva es casi vertical al comienzo, con las subidas de precio mas impresionantes y en la medida que pasa el tiempo, tiende a volverse cada ves mas horizontal. En la medida que pasa el tiempo, bitcoin tiene a subir cada vez mas despacio. Las subidas de precio mas insólitas ya ocurrieron en sus primeros años, donde aumentar cientos de veces su valor era posible, hoy apenas el doble es algo para celebrar. Nota que la curva no es una parábola, no llega nunca al punto de descenso (que algunos erróneamente esperan). Pues la utilidad de bitcoin y su limitado número hacen que su valor se mantenga en el tiempo. y de hecho tiende a subir, cada ves mas lento por la eternidad.

Esta gráfica logarítmica se puede apreciar en otros rubros como el histórico precio del oro.
1697  Local / Altcoins (criptomonedas alternativas) / Re: AXEL se convierte en un campeón de privacidad de datos on: March 23, 2020, 06:00:48 PM
Publicidad no solicitada de algo que no tiene relación con Bitcoin.

Por un lado hablan de privacidad y descentralización, por el otro de patentes de software...

Mensaje para "AXEL": Las patentes de software solo son reconocidas como en 6 países. Al resto del mundo no nos importa.

El contenido de su mensaje publicitario no solicitado, está increíblemente copado con palabras de relleno que suenan formal pero no dicen nada. Es mas propio del lenguaje de los políticos que el de una compañía que alega tener algo que ver con informática.

El único software que vale la pena, que es seguro y respeta la privacidad es aquel que está completamente libre de patentes: Software Libre y de Código Abierto.

La palabra patente para mi es sinónimo de hostilidad. No por nada, en el idioma español existe el término "patente de corso"...

La única patente que admito es aquella que se crea en uno de esos países oprimidos (los poquísimos que admiten patentes de software), a manera defensiva para que nadie mas pueda apropiarse de algo que es entregado abierta y libremente a los demás sin ninguna otra limitación de uso y aprovechamiento. La GPLv3 lleva algo de esto implícito en su licencia de uso.

NO a las patentes de software.
1698  Local / Español (Spanish) / Re: No puedo abrir mi cartera BITCOIN-CORE [ +AYUDA ] on: March 23, 2020, 05:11:53 PM
De acuerdo , gracias! Supongo que eso sera para darle la informacion de lanzamiento al .exe , no ?
Si, pero recuerda lo que te dice VB1001, lo primero de todo, guarda antes tu archivo wallet.dat a buen recaudo.

Suerte

Siempre lo mas importante son las palabras (seed words) con eso todo lo demás es irrelevante, esas palabras deben estar anotadas en papel todo a mano (no dispositivos digitales: no copiar y pegar, no imprimir, no tomarles foto) y a buen resguardo, preferiblemente 2 copias (hechas a mano) bien guardadas en lugares físicos distintos.

Si bien respaldar la wallet.dat puede ser opción, está va acompañada de una clave que no se puede perder. En realidad con las palabras frase lo demás no importa, puede borrar la cartera y regenerarla con esas palabras. De ahí su importancia y delicadeza.

El único fastidio con core es claro la sincronización que dure bajar todo el blockchain de Bitcoin. Aquí era un caso simplemente de que la cartera anterior la tiene en otra carpeta, solo había que copiarla a la carpeta nueva o usar la opción esa.
1699  Local / Esquina Libre / Re: Cultura - Aprovecha tu tiempo si estas confinado en casa COVID 19 on: March 23, 2020, 03:46:28 PM
Yo escucho mucho Radio Clásica (a que los españoles no se lo esperaban) de radio nacional de España. Eso es porque hace unos años puse una pequeña antena satelital con este único objetivo (es gratuito HISPASAT 30°W). La verdad triste es que hace como una década desapareció la música clásica de la radio en Caracas. Y ahora que el internet está limitado, un streaming (incluso de audio) es impensable. Me salvó esa jugada que fue muy económico en su momento pues los decodificadores FTA descontinuados para video mpeg2 los estaban regalando.

La buena música relaja mucho en tiempos de claustro.
1700  Local / Mercado y Economía / Re: ¿Gobierno venezolano se arrodilla ante el FMI? on: March 23, 2020, 03:24:30 PM
El principal argumento usado por el FMI para rechazar la solicitud de préstamo hecha por el gobierno venezolano es la falta de reconocimiento internacional. Éste apoyo ionternacional stá fraccionado entre los que reconocen al actual gobierno y los que reconocen a la oposición. Además, el gobierno venezolano siempre ha mostrado carasterísticas de autosuficiencia de manera irresponsable, situación que no es así y menos aún después de años de despilfarro de los enormes ingresos petroleros recibidos durante la llamada "revolución".

La situación es compleja y ahora todo ésto queda en manos de la OMS que prestará ayuda consistente en suministro de kits, envío de insumos, pruebas para detectar el coronavirus, asistencia y cooperación técnica.

Pero aún sin esa ambigüedad, el FMI no presta así como así. Todos los préstamos del FMI van acompañados de ciertas condiciones, que indudablemente el gobierno actual no va a admitir, principalmente porque están orientadas en sacar al gobierno de la economía (libertad económica).

Mas interesante es que si bien otros países han ofrecido (y enviado) ayuda humanitaria, dinero no están dando mas. Específicamente China con quienes tenemos una deuda gigantesca y Rusia que nos considera mala paga.

Kits e implementos ya tenemos porque los envió China. Maduro lo que quiere es dinero pero no se lo van a dar. Lo que no termina de entender (como político necio que es) es que para generar riqueza la economía debe liberarse y eso es lo que menos quieren.

Lo del Interferón cubano es para ayudar en el tratamiento, no es ni de lejos una cura o vacuna.
Pages: « 1 ... 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 [85] 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 ... 229 »
Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.19 | SMF © 2006-2009, Simple Machines Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!