I find it weird for someone to describe someone trying to hold politicians accountable for their votes via the political process as "authoritarian". I thought it would be expected for voters to hold their elected officials accountable at the ballot box when elected officials vote in ways their constituents do not agree with.

This is not true.

If you hold an asset for more than a year, any capital gains will generally be subject to long-term capital gains taxes, which are generally less than short term (<1 year held) capital gains taxes (generally are taxed similarly to ordinary income).

In general, you can use any capital gains losses to offset capital gains if you sell both in the same year.

I would suggest that you consult with a tax professional who is familiar with your individual tax situation who can give you personalized tax advice, rather than generalized tax information as you will find in this thread.

I'm sure larger customers can have access to reduced interest rates, but have doubts as to if they would be able to get unsecured loans absent some strong alternate form of guarantee such as a letter of credit, or loan covenants that can be enforced easily by binance.

I think this is usually the case with most exchanges and has been since bitcoin's early days. Even if an exchange has clauses saying that the exchange is guaranteeing against default risk in their TOS, most exchanges have been located in locations in which customers will have difficulty enforcing these clauses in court. Take MtGox for example, they filed for bankruptcy in 2014, and here we are in 2021, and their customers have still not recovered all available assets of Gox.

It is the Wild West in crypto land, and customers of an exchange should weigh the risks the exchange will be unable or unwilling to honor deposits with the potential for possible profit resulting from depositing coin on an exchange.

Using an automated system to handle refunds means that you are increasing the 'temperature of any coin you receive via the payment processor. Automating refunds means a customer can potentially trick your payment processor into sending your coin to customers that maybe shouldn't receive it. It is also probably not uncommon for customers to pay too little, but will be willing to pay the balance later, and refunding customers in these cases would make little sense, the merchant should simply bill the customer the difference between what they paid and the total amount they owe the merchant.

You might describe coinbase or gemini as "legit" today, but all exchanges that lose customer money are generally considered as "legit" before said losses. You can evaluate the risks the exchange will become insolvent, or otherwise not honor your despoit with the risk of the alternative if your seed is compromised.

Having a lot of coin on your internet-connected computer is superior to having coin on a seed that an adversary has knowledge of. You could move your coin onto your internet-connected computer and keep it there until you have a chance of creating a new seed/new private keys with more security precautions.

Creating/signing/broadcasting one transaction is going to take more time than it will to create/sign/broadcast two transactions.

If you have good reason to believe your seed is or is about to be compromised, you need to move your coin as quickly as possible. This is one rare situation in which, I would advise that if you don't have anything to hide, you should be willing to give up privacy for the sake of preserving the security of your coin. Keep in mind that if an attacker uses your seed to steal your coin, your privacy is lost anyway, along with your money.

As I mentioned above, time is of the essence to move your coin out of private keys that can be derived by the compromised seed. If you have an existing exchange account, moving your coin to that account may be a quick way to move your coin. There are risks to moving your coin onto an exchange, such as the exchange getting hacked (or "hacked") or your exchange account being compromised.

If you decide to generate a new address or new seed, you may decide to skip some safety procedures, including creating backups before using the private keys, in the interest of time. Which precautions you decide to skip is up to you, and you should weigh the risks of taking an additional minute to complete a precaution, and in that minute the attacker stealing the coin secured by your seed versus the risk of loss resulting from not implementing the precaution.

Probably not. theymos registered his account several months after the thread would have been deleted.
It was probably satoshi. The first two threads were satoshi testing the forum, and the fourth thread was satoshi writing administrative notes on the forum's configuration.
Probably not.
I doubt this, lol.

I would have to agree with you on this one.

Having a gender-neutral birth certificate is really just stupid, and there is plenty of time for parents to decide to accept their child's gender for what it is. Teaching young children that they "want" to be another gender is where the abuse is.

Binance offers crypto secured loans that are structured similarly to how loans in the lending subforum work, the borrower puts up 1xx% collateral of one coin, and receives a loan of another type of coin.

You are right though, this language is very broad, and Binance could expand into other, more risky businesses while your coin is tied up in "activity".


It would be unusual for an exchange to give lenders a 'haircut' when a borrower is unable to fully repay their loans. The last time I remember this happening was poloniex I believe in 2019, and this was because the losses exceeded their reserves. I believe it is most common for exchanges to have reserves to be able to temporarily take over margin positions until market conditions improve, and/or to cover losses up to a limit.

If lenders had to take a haircut every time a borrower is unable to repay a margin loan, the rates lenders would demand would be too high for borrowers to want to use the platform.

Trump would sometimes say stupid things, and would sometimes contradict his own administration. These are examples of Trump wanting to make everything about himself, and wanting to answer all questions, even if he didn't know the answer.

I think Biden will make a fool out of himself by showing just how little he is able to respond to questions when he doesn't have the answer on a script or a teleprompter. Biden will show how much of a cognitive decline he is in.

This is probably the main reason why many people are not interested in testing LN. In terms of USD, the cost to open/close channels is very high.

I think LN has a little bit of a chicken/egg problem. While some merchants accept LN, most cyrpto-accepting merchants do not. With so few merchants accepting LN, there is less incentive to keep a lot of coin locked up in LN channels if they might want to spend their coin on-chain.

This will be insufficient in about 20 years. Several states allow for birth certificates to be gender-neutral.

I don't think it is unreasonable for someone to have a preference as to if their partner has ever changed genders.

It is pretty rare, but sometimes scammers will return some or all of the money they owe their victims. I think this is most common in cases involving late/defaulted loans.

If a scammer has a conscience, feedback from other community members in the thread may persuade them to return the stolen money.

I saw that and it is quite sad that our President cannot take questions from a friendly audience.

I think Trump probably talked to the press too much, and as you said, didn't have a filter. Trump should have let the experts do the talking in his press conferences, rather than make everything about himself.

Biden is not talking to the press nearly enough. All of his appearances are carefully staged and scripted. One of these days, he will slip up and answer questions, or someone in his administration will intentionally allow him to speak, and he will make a fool of himself, which will lead to the end of his time as President.

This is really not a covid aid package, it can be more accurately described as a 1.9 trillion dollar democrat pork package with a little bit of covid aid inside.

It looks like this is basically a service that helps merchants keep track of which invoices were paid and which remain outstanding. If a customer pays too much or not enough, it will be up to the merchant to arrange to either refund the amount overpaid, or decide what to do with the amount paid that is less than what the merchant is due. If a merchant is due $500, but receives $497, they can decide to either accept the $497 as the full amount or refund the amount received if they don't receive the additional $3. It doesn't sound like bitfinex is interested in mediating customer disputes, and this is probably true for most crypto payment processors.

From the looks of it, $15 minimum wage is simply not happening, at least a government-mandated $15 minimum wage (a market-based $15 minimum wage is already in effect for many labor markets).

I also believe that Pelosi is much better at whipping votes than Schemer is. Part of this is due to the fact that there are very few "safe" senate seats for either party, and part of this is the 6-year terms Senators have -- leadership today may be different from leadership in 6 years, which makes it more difficult to bully Senators, even if they will be facing a primary in the coming election season.

Reparations today are an all-around bad idea. First of all, there were over 750k Americans who died in the Civil War that was fought for the underlying purpose to end slavery. Secondly, anyone not on the receiving end of reparations had nothing to do with slavery, and their current financial status has nothing to do with slavery. Third, the descendants of slaves current often poor financial situation has less to do with their ancestors status as slaves, and more to do with their current voting choices.

Your website claims to have 94% accuracy. It doesn't specify the metric or methodology that caused you to come to this conclusion, but this sounds phenomenal. If this could be translated into auc of 0.94 for investment choices, your model would be very valuable.

With that being said, I think it is more likely you are either using flawed methodology, or some of your training data is leaking over to your test data, causing overfitting on your test data. Your testing procedure may also be otherwise flawed. I would encourage you to review your training and testing procedure, and re-evaluate your claimed 94% success rate.

If a sportsbook expects to have a total of $1000 wagered on an event that is roughly even money odds, if someone bets $10,000 on one side, the sportsbook would need to adjust the odds in favor of the other side so much in order to attract enough bets, that they would end up losing money regardless of the outcome.

Betting limits are a function of a projection of the total amount that will be wagered on an event.

iPads will only allow you to install software from the Apple Store, and to my knowledge, there is no full node software in the Apple Store. If you were to jailbreak your iPad (generally a bad idea), I don't believe Bitcoin Core is compatible with the iPad iOS.

To answer your question in the OP, the minimum requirements to run a full node is listed on the bitcoin.org website.