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1801  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: What happens to Bitcoin in the long term? on: August 27, 2020, 08:24:29 PM
Question regarding the viability of bitcoin in the long term. From my understanding, the security of bitcoin comes from miners who verify the blockchain. What happens when there is so much halving that the reward for mining bitcoin is extremely low and the cost of verifying the blockchain for the miners exceeds the reward of their bitcoin?

The economics of Bitcoin mining ensure that there will always be miners that benefit from mining as long as there are transactions paying fees, regardless of the value of a bitcoin.

However, the security of Bitcoin against a 51% attack depends on the value of the mining revenue. If the value of the fees are low, then the security will be low. The real question to answer is then, how low is too low?
1802  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: I gathered every Satoshi Nakamoto thread. on: August 27, 2020, 08:17:15 PM
Every post on Bitcointalk by satoshi or referring to satoshi: https://www.google.com/search?q=satoshi+site%3Abitcointalk.org
1803  Economy / Economics / Re: Anybody know what happens when Bitcoin hits 21M circulating supply? on: August 27, 2020, 08:09:20 PM
The real scary part is, if the miners do not sell their coins, technically speaking someone can have all the bitcoin in the world.

The irony of owning all the bitcoins is that it makes them worthless.
1804  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Hash Target and Difficulty on: August 27, 2020, 07:22:03 AM
The current difficulty is 17,557,993,035,167.31
But 1 PH/s is 1,000,000,000,000,000 hashes per second and the current network hash rate is 120 EH/s.
17,557,993,035,167.31
1,000,000,000,000,000
1 PH is > than current difficulty.   Hmmm.... that doesn't make sense.  I must still be missing something in my understanding.

The average number of hashes needed to mine a block is: 2256 / Target

This article might be helpful to you: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty
1805  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Hash Target and Difficulty on: August 27, 2020, 06:25:46 AM
The range of numbers SHA256 can generate is from 0 to x ...

The current difficulty is y ...

So when a miner is Hashing the Block Header they must find a SHA256 result that is currently less than x / y ...

Not quite. The hash of a valid block must be less than or equal to the target value. The target value is recomputed each difficulty period, adjusting it depending on the time it takes to mine the last 2016 blocks.

The difficulty is computed from the target value like this: Difficulty = T1 / Target

where T1 = 0x00000000FFFF0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Likewise, the target can be computed (approximately) from the difficulty like this: Target = T1 / Difficulty
1806  Other / Off-topic / Re: Why is there something, rather than nothing? on: August 25, 2020, 11:01:10 PM
There are theories that time did not exist before the Big Bang, so there would be no "before the Big Bang".
Time does not exist. Universe is just expanding if that's what you mean. There would be something before the Big Bang, because something caused it. If there wasn't anything before the big bang, then the big bang wouldn't happen.

"because something caused it" is an assumption, and it is not easy to support that assumption. There are many possibilities that I can think of (I haven't really thought about it much, so don't laugh):

  • The universe has always existed but only became observable at some point.
  • Something transformed into the universe.
  • The universe existed before time existed and then time began.
  • Time operates like Zeno's paradox, in that time slows as you get closer to the beginning, so you can never get back to the beginning, even though there is one.
  • The universe was created by some external process.

Also, "nothing" cannot exist because "nothing" is the absence of existence.
So how do you want me to define you "nothing"? We should not playing with the words. Existence of nothing means existence of the absence of existence.

If "nothing" exists, then there no absence of existence ("nothing" exists). Existence of nothing is self-contradictory.

Anyway, you can define it any way you want, but when discussing fundamental concepts, such as the origin of existence, I think the meanings of words matter because you have very little else to go by.

BTW, I'm not necessarily trying to contradict you, I'm just bringing up points to consider that I think are relevant.
1807  Other / Ivory Tower / Re: People claiming to be Satoshi (List of Faketoshis) on: August 25, 2020, 06:59:49 PM
What do these people gain by ruining their own reputation? Roll Eyes

Narcissistic personality disorder
Delusions of grandeur
1808  Other / Off-topic / Re: Why is there something, rather than nothing? on: August 25, 2020, 05:32:06 PM
What makes me curious is what happened before the big bang. And before that. And, also, before that. You get my point. We can't set the start of the "Time" equal with X, because there's always gonna be a X-1.

There are theories that time did not exist before the Big Bang, so there would be no "before the Big Bang".

With my logic, since we exist right now, nothingness never existed.

You are trying to say that we must have always existed because we exist now. That is not necessarily true, depending on how you define "always", "exist", and "now". Sorry for being pedantic. Also, "nothing" cannot exist because "nothing" is the absence of existence.

Imagine a room with no windows. This room is empty. I just removed every atom inside that room. Now I removed the walls of it. ... So is this nothing? Yes and no, from my view. Yes because there is no atom there. There is nothing.

The room still exists, despite containing nothing and having no walls. It exists as a volume, a location, a memory, etc.
1809  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: I want to help all people on: August 25, 2020, 05:19:20 PM
Cyryptocurrencies are illegal in Bangladesh. You are very courageous.
1810  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Why don't more people invest in btc? on: August 25, 2020, 02:20:12 AM
The answer is simple. Investment in Bitcoin is speculative and risky, and most people avoid speculative and risky investments.
1811  Other / Off-topic / Re: Is it possible that the 1% group want to kill us intentionally with covid ? on: August 25, 2020, 01:27:28 AM
I have a theory why covid plague started :
...
Is it possible that the 1% group want to kill us intentionally (get rid of the people they don't need)?

Considering that the 1% are just as vulnerable as everyone else, that wouldn't make sense.
1812  Other / Serious discussion / Re: Blockchain would be a great application for vaccination records. on: August 24, 2020, 09:12:31 PM
I think it would be hard to justify why a block chain would be better for this than another kind of database.
1813  Other / Off-topic / Re: Can blockchain technology replace the inernet of the future? on: August 24, 2020, 09:06:49 PM
I have not come across any other stronger contender that has come this close to replacing the internet as we know it today. Sure, machine learning, VR, AR are revolutionary too but they are not replacing the internet.

Your post makes no sense. Block chain, machine learning, VR, and AR cannot replace the internet.
1814  Other / Off-topic / Re: Please tell me how to start income from youtube ? on: August 24, 2020, 08:17:07 PM
Try this:
https://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+start+income+from+youtube&pp=1
1815  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Deepak Chopra (co-author of Super Brain) is now into blockchain! on: August 24, 2020, 05:37:10 PM
I have no idea who this guy is and how smart he is(though hands down for focusing on a project with a good cause), but I'm still not convinced why this needs to be put in a blockchain. Does such database really need to be decentralized and tamper-proof?

Deepak Chopra is a well-known charlatan: http://skepdic.com/chopra.html
1816  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: bitcoin pricing on: August 22, 2020, 08:55:59 PM
how to accuratly predict the price of bitcoin? i know no one knows in the futures but people always investing in bitcoin cannot be randomly.. correct? there must be a reason

It appears to me that you are being fooled by something called survivorship bias (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias). You are focusing on the people who have made money, and overlooking those that have lost money. And most of that is due the fact that the people who have lost money are not around to talk about it (or prefer not to talk about it).

Some people make money. Some people lose money. Nobody can predict the future price of a bitcoin with any degree of certainty -- even the so-called "experts". In my opinion, investment success is mostly random for most people. The key to setting yourself up for success is to gain information and to be able to leverage it. There is no magic formula or strategy. Oh, and regardless what anyone says, technical analysis is astrology for traders.
1817  Economy / Economics / Re: Btc/eth denominated mortgage or traditional serious borrowing in cryptocurrency? on: August 22, 2020, 08:24:52 PM
The purpose of your post is not clear, but it is clear that you can't afford to buy a house for your brother because your income is not stable and you apparently don't have enough collateral to mitigate the risk.
1818  Economy / Economics / Re: Some are hungry, some are losing their homes - some are doubling their wealth on: August 22, 2020, 08:11:58 PM
In my opinion, the primary causes of wealth inequality have been the actions of governments to solve economic problems through social, fiscal and monetary policies. Whether or not wealthy people are intended to benefit from these policies, they are able to make use of them more effectively than the rest of the population, and so ultimately they benefit the most.

An obvious example is quantitative easing. Though the purpose is to give everyone more money in order to stimulate the economy, it actually benefits wealthy people much more than everyone else by supporting prices of debt and equity, and by lowering the risks of investments. It is absurd to believe that the best way to help people suffering financially is to give money to banks and investors.

So rather than putting the blame on wealthy people, the blame should be put on the politicians and the bureaucrats that concoct those policies that are ultimately destructive.
1819  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Bitcoin Core: can it show OP_RETURN data on the GUI ? on: August 22, 2020, 07:49:54 PM
No and I'd avoid any wallet that displayed it.  That data comes from an third party and can be malicious.  If not malicious, it can be and often is spam.
The best defence against malicious messages and spam is both to just to avoid displaying human readable information sourced from untrusted sources.

Perhaps giving the user the ability to add simple regex plugins that could parse certain OP_RETURN transactions in their wallet and display relevant info would be a safe and useful feature.
1820  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: key safety strategies? on: August 22, 2020, 07:40:58 PM
What are the best private key safety tips.
I just learned about the CASA app. But it has a monthly fee.
What other srategies can I consider?

It really depends on your circumstances and on what you are trying to accomplish. You have not given enough information in order for anyone to give you good relevant advice.

In general,
  • It is important to store backups of your seeds and private keys offline with strong physical protection.
  • Never store cold wallet seeds anywhere that is accessible to the internet.
  • Hot wallet seeds and private keys must remain private and encrypted always.
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