If you are a football/soccer fan, you have probably heard about the stadium where the Bolivian national team plays its matches. The national stadium is located at a sea level of over 3500 meters. When other teams come to play Bolivia who aren't used to the height, they get into all sorts of problems and issues like breathing normally. Bolivia used to beat all its rivals playing at home because of that. It wasn't even easy for Argentina and Brazil.

I just came across a video of your marketing head talking with the Bitfinex team, and I heard some interesting things I wanted to mention them and ask you about it.

• He was pretty secretive but said that Foundation is working on multiple new hardware devices, with plans to release them this year. Can you say something more, exclusively for the Bitcointalk community? We already know there won't be a pre-sale stage.
• How is the development going with Lightning being added to Envoy? When do you expect that to be finished, and have you thought about liquid BTC, for example?
• How far ahead is the Monero community with introducing their forked version of the Passport firmware to support the coin?

It's not cash. Again, my opinion. Anyone is free to agree or disagree.

Then, that someone is free to suggest what should be done to change/stop the threat and the community will decide the course of action.

I don't disagree. But how good has that done us? We don't have a solution for scaling on L1 that wouldn't affect the decentralized nature of Bitcoin and which wouldn't require much more storage at the same time.

It's already been ignored, thus Ordinals led to Runes. Tomorrow Runes will lead to something new, and then we can all enjoy our censorship-resistant Bitcoin at 500-700 sat/vByte.

What does it mean where there is no notification or guarantee from your side? For instance, just for testing purposes, I did a BTC to ETH search, and the second result is for ChangeHero. Your page doesn't show the OrangeFren Guarantee (like with eXch), but there is also no warning that funds may be frozen.

When I go to ChangeHero's website, the first thing I see is this:

https://changehero.io/

The site's TOS also states the following:

https://changehero.io/terms-of-use

Have you taken into account the withdrawal fees? Check the withdrawal tab and the fees that apply. Subtract the sum from your total balance and what is left is approximately what you can withdraw. It could be that.

@sotelorene
I think you have forgotten about a very important strategy: Home court advantage. There are teams that are practically unbeatable when they play in front of their own fans who push them on even against better-performing rivals. Passionate and loud home supporters can make a big difference. It's not so obvious in US sports, but in South America and Europe, fans can be like an extra player on the pitch.

It's a great way to remain in control in situations where you want to give bitcoin to someone who is prone to losing stuff or misplacing them. I have such irresponsible people in my family circle. They would lose their feet if they could take them off. There is still the issue with them getting hacked or leaking the seed somehow, but at least you could protect them from losing their keys.

The Jade can be used for that as well. I haven't looked into it though.

Bitcoin doesn't censor because there was no grave need for that. No transactions should ever get censored. I don't consider the Ordinal/Runes spam to be transactions (going back to the P2P transfer of digital cash), so the same rules shouldn't apply. My personal opinion, of course.

Now you are exaggerating. Don't forget that you need a huge majority support to make important changes in Bitcoin. Even a solution for inscription spam might not pass that threshold, let alone something that shouldn't be prevented.

We don't do anything. They aren't a threat. Ordinals don't use OP_RETURN (I think). Runes do. A solution should be found to filter out only inscription spam, nothing genuine. For the record, I don't consider what Luke Dashjr is doing as a good solution because it affects coinjoin transactions.     

There is already a solution to that which prevents us to make transactions below the dust limit. 

That's the beauty of discussing different topics. You share your opinions and people either agree with them or not. If the majority agrees, it can be implemented. I don't see why a random person would look at the current situation and go: This is fine, let's not do anything and just pay $20 or $50 per transaction, depending on how much the spammers are spamming at the time.

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Btw, there have been multiple posts about these spammers soon losing their money and stopping their attacks. Possible. But the enemies of Bitcoin with access to money printers could also improve their approaches and clog the network in the same way. The current spammers have showed them the way.

I couldn't find a dedicated thread for Bitbox hardware wallets, so this one will do.

The company has releases a new BitBox app update that introduces a few changes and improvements. One new feature that was added is child keys following the BIP85 standard. The BitBox02 can now generate separate child keys of 12 or 24 words derived from your main (parent) seed. Lost child keys can always be recovered by the holders of the parent seed.   

Source:
https://bitbox.swiss/blog/bitbox-04-2024-brienz-update/

Are you aware of any cases where the auto-3D feature stopped working, preventing a genuine user from using the card until your support checked what's wrong?
I am looking at your international VISA prepaid card. Is this country list up-to-date?
The product description says there is no currency conversion fee. Can you share the source you use to convert between USD and other national currencies?

The thing is, people who don't know how to differentiate the real from the fake could easily get tricked with scam social media pages as well. I see people in my Facebook friends circle share them all the time. Fake car giveaways from fake dealers presenting themselves as the real ones. I have seen people share fake cash giveaways by fake bank profiles. PlayStations, smartphones,... everything. It's usually relatively new sites with a few general posts and then a giveaway which requires the usual (like, share, comment, befriend). And people fall for that kind of thing. Logic stops as soon as people think there is something to gain for free.

eXch mjenačnica pokreče avatar kampanju. Ima 10 slobodnih pozicija trenutno. Ako vaša aktuelna signature kampanja dozvoljava da nosite avatar i reklamirate neku drugu uslugu, prijavite se.

Plaća se $1 po postu do maksimalno $30 tjedno.  

Big thumbs up from me for 1miau's service!

I have used his table styles and suggestions a few times in the past in my threads where I have big tables. Many types of table-creation keyword searches using "site:bitcointalk.org" leads to the thread you linked to in your OP, but there is also other valuable information out there that people can read before asking for help.

For instance:

Tutorial - How to create Table in the BitcoinTalk Forum
My Favorite Tutorials on Creating Tables in Bitcointalk Forum

I think people who are using this exchange and are active here on Bitcointalk know how to find the official website, both the .tor and clearnet versions. I have bookmarked both a long time ago. The problem is reaching it from outside of the forum. The typical person isn't as security-conscious as a bitcoiner. If they had positive experiences with such onion site directories in the past, they will unfortunately not think twice to trust it with pointing the way to eXch. At that point, they have already taken a big step towards getting scammed. 

In that case, it's a slight downgrade security-wise. The standard security model requires the owner of the card to confirm each transaction using a code they receive on their registered phone number. It's 2FA. If you get rid of that, there is no longer a second authentication, and anyone with my card details (which I must protect anyways) would be able to make transactions. Am I correct? Can I at least block the card and freeze its spending capabilities anytime I don't want to use it?

One genuine user abandoning Bitcoin is greater damage than 100 shitcoiners going away because they can no longer upload their bananas to Bitcoin's blockchain. 

So your suggestion is joining the shitwagon? There are no benefits. Even the profits you might earn aren't worth destroying the best chance of an uncontrollable way of sending money that we have. 

How does that help anyone? We should all upload bananas and enjoy the high transaction fees? That's what you are saying.

Username: Pmalek
BTC SegWit Address: bc1qarfrzlrxzvdyk05vysrfkqzs4tqqxdllw7g2h4

Thanks

What's currently happening might be a feature, but it's a feature of spam that's abusing the network for its selfish reasons.

I heard a good comparison between Ordinals/Runes and telemarketing spam. Telemarketers are also using telecommunication networks the way they were intended. They pay their bills and purchase the needed hardware to make calls. But what happens then? They spam. You get a call to talk about Jesus, saving the planet, investing in this or that, or they inform you of a lottery you won or can participate in. Most people don't like them. You hang up the phone, you block their numbers.. you censor them. If this trend doesn't end, that's what needs to happen. You find a way to put them in the garbage bin. That's where garbage goes.

Why? Because Bitcoin's purpose is to be a
https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

If blocks are only filled by 10%, 20% or 30% with P2P online payments of digital cash, then something has seriously gone wrong. I have no problem with a free and competing fees market. That's how it's supposed to be. If you are willing to pay more than me to make an online P2P payment of electronic cash, then all the power to you my brother. I will have to wait my turn or reach deeper inside my own pockets to offer a competitive fee rate. What I don't believe anyone should have to do is to compete with spammers who are not making P2P online payments with electronic cash, and are taking away many of the features that normal people love. With those, I mean a cheap, fast, and borderless way of sending payments in any amounts you want.   

Not in this quantity. Only time will tell. The Ordinals attack has been going on for 1.5 years already. People have gotten tired of it, and now we have something else those good-for-nothings are throwing their money on which is obviously attracting the wrong type of people to Bitcoin.

It's both.

You know the saying: "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups". I think it was George Carlin who said that.

I wanted to see how it looks but all I get is a blank Index page. I couldn't figure out more from the screenshot you posted. What's the idea here? What story are you trying to create to attract players to participate? Is it about buying and selling digital property?