Your best solution would be to see if you can be removed from the "managed payments" program that eBay is offering. Or if you are able to have your listing be excluded from this program. It sounds like eBay does not want to manage payments for ASIC miners.

I think it is probably more likely that the bitcoin being exchanged can be traced back to a theft or hack. There is no reason to need to prove you held coin for 4 years to pay long term capital gains tax rates. You also do not need to provide that level of documentation when filing your taxes, at least in the US, and assuming you are not being audited (audit rates are very low, and I have no idea what level of documentation would be needed in the event of an audit).

I think if anyone were to deal with the OP, they will end up having many merchants and exchanges be unwilling to accept their coin.

My guess is not very difficult. My understanding is newspapers are printed locally, and one printing location will print multiple newspapers, such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the local newspaper.

A quick google search found newspaper paper available to the public, and I would not be surprised if a printer could be cheaply procured that is capable of printing a realistic copy of a particular edition provided you have the content that needs to be printed.

See this explination as to why it is not a good idea to store your backups in the cloud.

I think you are probably more likely to end up locked out of your backup than having your coin stolen, but that is really a distinction without a difference. If your KeePass password is too complex, you may not remember it years from now, if it is too simple, it will not provide substantial additional protection in the event a malicious actor is able to obtain the encrypted file.

At the end of the day, it is your seed, and you can do what you want.

I would call this poor accounting practices, not evidence of fraud. Tether and Bitfinex share common ownership and management but are separate legal entities. it appears they were managed in a way such that they were a single legal entity. IIRC, at the time, there were no separate /USDT markets on bitfinex, every trading pair was /USD and customers could withdraw USDT from their USD balance at bitfinex. I am not 100% sure, but it might have been that the only way to obtain USDT at the time was to deposit USD into your bitfinex account and withdraw USDT.

Okay, I will give you that Trump is not very principled, but he is not willing to do anything for power. Trump called for ending the filibuster, but never put substantial pressure on Senate Republicans to do so. Trump also didn't try to change voting laws in a way that would guarantee the US would be a one party state as Biden and Democrats are doing today.

Social media was around long before Trump became President. There are some people who attributed Obama's election to his ability to reach people via social media effectively.

I think Trump's polarization got Americans more interested in politics and more inclined to vote.

My guess is this is to relieve some pressure on their back-office staff to prevent them from having to deal with things such as KYC and customer service inquires from small-dollar borrowers who are not generating much revenue. I would also suspect that the small-dollar borrowers tend to require more resources such as they tend to open more support tickets; this would further decrease the expected profit from these customers.

The stats in question have post titles, so one of the tables queried will have to be the table containing the titles of every post. I would suspect your database would only contain post titles of posts merited. Depending on how the tables are setup, the edit history of posts may also be queried.

Even if the queries were made more efficient, they are still resource-intensive and would be a potential means an attacker someone could DDoS the forum by repeatedly visiting these stats pages.

This is not necessarily true. Someone could utilize a dataset of 32-byte numbers that are prime. Or someone could develop an ASIC to generate 32-byte numbers. Once an attacker has a list of prime numbers, they can test each one against the calculated address derived from the prime number to see if there are any unspent outputs.

Our new "president" misses Trump:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZHD3PbbTqw

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One thing that I believe everyone can agree on is that Trump was able to get more Americans interested in politics, and was able to get more Americans to vote in elections, both the mid-terms and the Presidental election. 2020 saw, by far a record voter turnout, and this was largely caused by Trump.

I recently tried to view some of the merit stats reports and received a Cloud Flare error message when trying to view some of the reports, specifically the top merited topics and replies, recent and all time.

The error message said the web server timed out, and gave this information:

I have noticed these reports can oftentimes take several seconds to load when they actually load.

Based on the above, I strongly suspect that when someone tries to navigate to one of these pages, a report will be generated that is up-to-date as of when the report is pulled, and the report will only be displayed to that specific person. So if two people go to the top merited topics, all time page, 5 minutes apart, two reports will be generated (that are identical, most likely), with each report being displayed to one user.

This is not ideal because the all-time reports need to query every merit transaction, which after 4 years is a lot. I would propose that as an alternative, with the exception of 'recent merits' and 'merit sources', that a user going to any of the merit stats pages will return a static page, and the static page can have a report that is updated every x amount of time. The frequency of how often these static pages should update should depend on how often the output of the reports has historically changed, particularly the rankings. I might suggest the reports be updated no less frequently than once per day.

There is a spike at 20 merits in relation to 19 and 20 as well. The number of times that 25 merits is sent is approximately the same as 24 and 26. There is a similar, but smaller spike at 30 merits being sent.

I think there is a chance that, when someone intended to send 2 or 3 merits, they ended up sending 20 or 30. It is unusual for someone to have 20 or 30 sMerit to send, so the above does not count the number of times someone had 20 or 30 typed, but received an error message due to insufficient sMerit balance.

I don't see any good reason to have a default placeholder in the box for the number of merit to send. IMO it should be blank.

It means that Tesla is speculating the price of bitcoin will increase over time. Bitcoin has a store of value because the market gives it value. I would speculate that Tesla hopes to eventually be able to pay some of their suppliers in bitcoin.

In effect, that is what Tesla is doing. They are growing their 'investment' in bitcoin via accepting bitcoin for their cars.

While Tesla is a car company, it is also a tech company. Their software engineers are more than capable of creating custom software that can accept bitcoin payments. Musk has also said that Tesla is not going to convert the bitcoin received as payment to fiat.

My best guess is Tesla is using the open-source software bitcoin core or a derivative of it, and created its own custom payment processing software.

I would suggest anyone reading this thread to avoid cloud mining services. There is nothing to prevent any cloud mining provider from stop paying out mining revenues to its customers. There is nothing to prevent any cloud mining provider from reselling the physical miners outside of when they should. There is also no guarantee that any cloud mining provider actually has mining equipment, and is not a pyramid scheme.

You don’t think it has anything to do with the fact that Harris is a radical? Or that she is unprincipled? Or that she will do anything for power?

That is a good point. Making statements in court, including statements in a lawsuit is protected speech, so she cannot be sued for libel for anything she says in court. Also if she were to make the statement "I alleged in court that..." it would be factually true as long as she did in fact make the allegation in court. Ditto if she were to say "I plan on alleging in court...".

I read the actual article that Twitchy posted, and it says that Powell's claim is:

I didn't follow the post-election drama real closely, however, I believe that some of the statements I cited in my last post did not ever make it into any lawsuit, or that some of the really crazy allegations did not make it into lawsuits. For some of these statements, the argument (that does not appear in the article) that no reasonable person would believe the claims were true, would probably be a good defense.


For Spendulous specifically, I reviewed his early posts, and it appears he might have been a miner in 2013 or possibly before. It looks like his early posts consisted of a lot in the P&S sub, and in the economics sub with posts related to bitcoin and how it relates to economics. My guess is this place is special to him because he likely made a lot of money via bitcoin. The political leanings of the userbase has shifted over time, and I think more people probably agreed with his views when he first started posting here.

I would also note that I will make a post the majority of the time when I read a thread in P&S for the first time, but I will read bitcoin-related threads and not make a post most of the time. Sometimes I will add a bitcoin-related thread to my watchlist, and not post in the thread for months, if ever.

One concern I have about this is that some hold’ers might decide to buy a Tesla with some of their coin they otherwise would have continued to hodl, and will need to sell 25% of sales price to fiat in order to pay capital gains tax.

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I believe that Tesla is actually describing their bitcoin holdings as an “investment”. I believe that the majority of their reserves are in USD, and this will probably remain true for the time being.

Musk says that bitcoin received as payment will not be converted to fiat, however, there are obviously limits to this. Tesla currently pays its suppliers and employees in USD, and if they are receiving BTC for their cars, and not converting the BTC to USD, they are effectively buying BTC. At one point, they will have accumulated too much BTC and will need to dispose of it somehow.

The real big news will be when Tesla is able to start paying their suppliers and/or employees in bitcoin.