ok since ive long lost the 4d chess narrative bit and other lunatic ideas that have floated through this, please refresh me brain: whats the end goal?? 1. he want to prove hes satoshi and then owe to billions to Kleinman he cant access, because, well, hes not satoshi 2. he wants to lose this particular case, and be off the hook for 1/2 those "mined coins" he pretends to have and so now he can tell Kleinman to sod off. 3. padded cell for life 4. profit? im not really interested in this idiot but still, i am interested in a train wreck sort of way. and yes, i feel horrible about it too ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif)
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Do you guys think all of this covid back drop will be bullish or bearish for bitcoin in the short to medium term?
depends. will the newly deceased covid victims have left their keys to thir estate/whatever or are those coins lost forever due to no backups or such.. if the 1st no real effect but in the second case good news.. a donation to all so bearish, kinda
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i keep some parked on exchanges for whatever. and while it would be annoying, i could afford to lose them if the exchange tanked.
but on proof of keys day i do try to have most all of that off the exchange in my own wallet for the 3rd.
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Almost all bitcoin transactions in the future will be done on exchanges, between bank accounts, or through digital warehouses without any bitcoin moving on chain. I'm not holding mine like that but you know most people and companies will, out of fear or because they don't know any other way. Nice list. You are basically describing a centralized shitcoin that’s like meta-Paypal 2.0 with magic “blockchain” pixie dust sprinkled on top. Who needs it? (Not the banks, who do not like transparent blockchains for their own use! There is a reason why JPMorgan Chase (!) paid the erstwhile Zcash Company to adapt zk-SNARKs to their own bigbank confidentiality requirements. See also Greg Maxwell’s discussions of bigcorp interest in Confidential Transactions—which are accordingly implemented in Blockstream’s Liquid. Only idiots make their own finances publicly transparent; bigcorps are not so stupid.)Notably, you omitted Lightning Network, and other off-chain things not under the control of banks and other regulated corporations. The end game is bitcoin becomes the settlement layer for the world. Transaction costs are going way up in the future, you're not going to want to do on-chain transactions when it costs $1000+ to do so, but if you're settling a billions dollars, that's a tiny price to pay. The fact is, whether we like it or not, very few individuals (other than those of us here) will hold private keys in 10 years. The transaction costs alone will ensure it. That would turn Bitcoin into a bankers’ wet dream: The totally controlled, centralized, regulated basis for a cashless dystopia in which everybody can be tracked, traced, and forced to ask permission to use money. That is not a new allegation, and it’s not true. The fact is, whether you the bankers like it or not, cryptographic cleverness will continue to enable technologies that put the individual in direct control of his own money. most people ive talked to about bitcoin think like rolling is posting right now. so i talk about seeds private keys wallets lightning confirmations etc? i usually get wtf as an answer so i tell them open an account at coinbase (USA) and yeah bad rap but ive had em for like seven years no problem. i tell them just leave it there. later i can explain the real deal but i gaurentee only one in five would care; the rest would leave the coin there and use it as their main wallet. so yeah those are gonna be off chain once coinbase hooks to all those merchant payment portals. all just internal database entries.
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I know money does not buy happiness. In fact it sort of seems like it might challenge it, lol. But it *DOES* allow one to stop being a slave making someone else money.
money buys convenience and time (as in time to gauge the situation and plan accordingly..) and sometimes health. but happiness is where you find it and mainly a state of mind,. ive been poor and happy. well not poor as in starving to the point of deaths door but poor to the point where i did wonder what the next meal would consist of and when it would happen.. that is the suck im the 1st to admit. anyway sorry to hear about that. i wont pull the "dont worry youll be fine" bit; thats an insult. but hang in there, we coiners have the advantage, we just need to ride it out a bit more. doesnt mean its easy in the now though or that it will be guaranteed. just better odds than the nocoiners have.
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if you want to keep a percentage or all of your coin with a 3rd party, even with interest, be my guest. advising others here to do so? wrong.
you should learn why bitcoin was created as you seem to have no idea.
that being said i leave a small amount parked on exchanges for convenience and to catch wild swings in price and have ladders set up for that. but thats a different animal. i know i could lose it all; exchange gets hacked, my account could get compromised, exchange suddenly decides it doesnt like me, many other ways to lose ones coin, and now youre at the mercy of the exchange. good luck with that.
i lived through mtgox. did you?
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Humpback Whale = 5000 BTC or more Whale = 1000 - 5000 BTC Shark = 500 - 1000 BTC Dolphin = 100 - 500 BTC Fish = 50 - 100 BTC Octopus = 10 - 50 BTC Crab = 1 - 10 BTC Shrimp = less then 1 BTC
seems to me that we need new categories.. I am not sure how far down, maybe down to 1 satoshi? Shrimp = 0.1 < BTC <= 1 BTC Krill = 0.01 < BTC <= 0.1 BTC Bacterioplankton = 0 < BTC <= 0.01 Brain eating amoeba = 0 BTC mindrust fish = used to have btc
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Bitcoiners have less to fear from boating accidents, and more to fear from getting hacked. It is scary that your Microsoft Windows® machine is just one careless e-mail attachment click away from scrambling all of your data, and sending all of your money to heinous criminals who know how to make money disappear. Don’t you wish that you had bought a hardware wallet? Such grief!
while i agree windows is the biggest OS for hackers to target, i have to say ive been running my original wallet.dat on core in a 24/7/365 on internet connected windows machine since 2011. no issues. no clipboard hijacks. no virii. no malware. one hardware failure but a quick replacement drive and a restore from backup to the new drive was all it took. to be fair, i did transfer the bulk onto paper wallets when they came out (2013 maybe?) then to trezor (2014 maybe?) however there has always been a small balance on that daily driver with the wallet, and its been transferred to a few machines during upgrades/rebuilds during that time. its still on this one as i type. small amounts, mainly for mining payouts and such and quick transfers to merchants and such just keep it patched, use decent antivirus (but dont depend on AV to save your ass, just another layer of security, REAL security depends on the user) and dont be stupid, ie practice good internet hygiene. oh and BACKUPS. and then TEST those backups. that being said, hardware wallets and paper wallets, airgapped (as in real airgapped as just "mostly airgapped" doesnt count) computers rule though. i certainly dont advocate hot wallets on windows.
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Based on my parental settings, my router blocked it as porn.
unusual behavior, my security setting send all porn to my 1,700 tb raid 10 array and then AI tries to sort them into redheads, blonds, number of persons, how many are upside down and other such important parameters. purely for convince its so hard to search that stuff nowadays.
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iirc pools used to give data on worker numbers back in the days and a lot of miner programs identified themselves as such and such. thereby giving a rough breakdown.. cgminer would mainly of been gpus (back before asic stole -cks code with no credit), some fpga had custom miner software with different names they would report to the pool and so on. Did anybody collect and archive this data in a useful format? (Maybe ask the NSA. They collect everything. wish theyd they tell where i left my car keys yesterday.
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I have no Idea how you can differentiate between base systems, gpu miners, fpgas and asics over time. The overlap is huge and due to locations their profitability is widely varied so you would have to make massive assumptions. Literally this could take a person a lifetime to get within a small tolerance of error.
Not to mention it is widely believed satoshi (and others) used custom FPGAs and how those could be calculated is beyond me.
iirc pools used to give data on worker numbers back in the days and a lot of miner programs identified themselves as such and such. thereby giving a rough breakdown.. cgminer would mainly of been gpus (back before asic stole -cks code with no credit), some fpga had custom miner software with different names they would report to the pool and so on. maybe break into cpu era, gpu era, fpga era, asics era? lotsa overlap i know. dunno if thats helpful or not. or if its just lack of caffeine and barely functioning brain cells typing this. heck took like 20 edits to make this seen even vaguely like a coherent post. i will stop typing now.
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ive lost many due to my own stupidity over the many years.. testing new wallets without understanding them enough, not having copies of seeds, having a couple paper wallets deteriorate, not maintaining proper backups.
best masterpasw application is old paper notebook and ink pencil . the typical paper notebook is pretty low quality paper. ink blurs and washes out. use high quality archive paper and pencil (doesnt wash out typically) or permanent marker (test it 1st companies seem to differ on whats "permanent"). better: stamped high melting point metal of some sort.
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Are you blind? You can see the credits in the image.
No that watermark is the only reason i even found the original link, but most people wouldnt notice it, especially when the image is so small on bitcointalk and the watermark is very light you blame your own eyesight and monitor size/resolution for your failure instead of your lack of attention to details? before accusing someone of plagiarism, please pay a bit more attention.
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ive lost many due to my own stupidity over the many years.. testing new wallets without understanding them enough, not having copies of seeds, having a couple paper wallets deteriorate, not maintaining proper backups.
do your homework.
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[...] this kind hack has been known for a long time, the transactions happened, and some exchanges have blacklisted the address, I know it does not make sense but that is reality for you, I do not have an amount of bitcoin that is anywhere close to that amount and I still check my coins at least once a week to see that everything is fine and I try to keep my wallets updated so something like this does not happen to me.
This just shows the irresponsibility of some investors when it comes to their money and how they do not seem to understand that in this market if you lose your money there is not a bank behind you helping you to get that money back, you are your own bank and that includes securing your coins properly from hacker attacks.
actually even if you check your addy once a week (or more) by the time you see the problem its done and gone. but i agree with the rest. the main thing is secure the wallet private key and/or seed when the wallet is created. and when you are prompted to update the wallet (from within the wallet itself or email/news/etc) you need to spend the time to check the official site for the new version to see what updates there are and the reasons for those updates. then at the very least verify the checksum/hash before installing. five minutes in a search engine would of prevented this. edit: when a new version of a wallet comes out i usually wait a bit (couple weeks minimum) to see if anyone runs into problems. in my case the core wallet and trezor hardware wallet. i let others test updates.
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No, I used many scientific math data points. It's too sophisticated to post all of the analysis, so I just post a helpful summary using the best summary of proven science and math confirmed by analysis.
we thank you for you thoughtfulness in sparing us from using our brain to think for ourselves. in the future perhaps you could just post the single word "confirmed" or "science" instead of bigly images and all that stuff we wont understand anyway. we can infer the rest.
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as long as it, as well as bitcoin, was open source i would of been fine with it.
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control boards i get, but arent PSUs and fans more or less bog standard across the mining space? like 8 pin power and 120/140 mm screamer fans, maybe different fan connectors but easy fix no? 3/4 pin is the same even if different order for pwr/gnd/pwm/tach or whatever?
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Male, female, man, woman, father, mother... We all know what they really mean, yet we are forced to redefine them for the sake of political correctness. And we are distorting and corrupting the beauty and significance of each and every one of these words, and their true meaning. A song, kindly dedicated to all. if they force me to redefine my sex from "attack helicopter" to "offensive generic device" or something i will be pissed.
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I think she they wants to retest 10k.
FTFY jeeze..
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