I seem to remember eToro always "gave" some amount of money to "play" when you brought your own. You could never withdraw that as it was meant for "playing" only. Yeah i know it sounds like a Casino for some reason, but the "game" is like "trading" with forex, stocks, other assets like metals, oil, and even some crypto. It has a term "cfd" or whatever.

Its a promotion to get you hooked to their site. Are you sure those "$100" aren't really for "playing" inside eToro? You can probably NOT withdraw that...

Thanks to this, and India, the price went back to Over 9000!™

I don't know if corona virus is affecting, but it could be a side effect of the global economy slowing down. Bitcoin does not lose value when the global economy goes bad.

Did you see NASA's pictures of current China pollution? Its so ironic, how the virus made the skies clear again. All those factories closed; but that means someone is going to run out of (cheap) Chinese goods...

9k is a good value in my opinion, it might get back into 10k if the enthusiasm continues. And, halving is coming...

They will, for the same reason they opened their economy rather than continue the dogmatic socialist centralized nonsense. Sure it won't be quick, last time it wasn't until Mao Zedong died, that Deng Xiaoping started the economic reforms. Perhaps some remaining old dinosaurs need to go, or perhaps a revolution would occur like you suggest.

Thing is the economic disadvantage of refusing bitcoin is going to matter, and just like some other countries took and are still taking their time, they will end admitting defeat because the reality (numbers) talk better than the politicians.

And, its not like they don't have internal pressure. Things under an oppressive regime simply take much longer, but eventually they will find it useless to resist, like they found useless to oppose capitalism and ended embracing it, so will they embrace Bitcoin, even if they oppose it at first.

Note that bitcoin is controlled by no one, no govs, no institutions, no banks, no millionaires. The code governs it, and you know how hard it is to change its rules without everyone approving. So its not like the citizens would "control it" either. Very likely they will adopt a ton of useless regulation that seem to appease the average politician. If anything, its about the government losing control over the money, and that is good because that way things remain transparent and clear. If you over-budget, fix it without ruining everyone's money, that practice has to end.

In the words of a famous Indian:

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Mahatma Gandhi.

Yes, it might not have been a wholesale "ban", but it wasn't good. Now things are looking better. Any "obstacles" to bitcoin just prevents wealth creation, it is an opportunity deprivation to put obstacles to it. Those countries that adopt it have a competitive advantage their rivals don't.

The implications for this are too important to let the ignorant politicians to handle. Thankfully your justice system is not just for decoration, like it is in my country... Well at least in this case, some justice was served.

Now lets hope they don't over "regulate" things, which would slowdown the wealth creation process (The size of the State is somehow always in counter-position to wealth creation, maybe its only a giant parasite?).

About time Korea got in. It was strange they had such ambiguity with so many investors there interested, and the various exchanges etc.

China will take longer, because politicians there are even stronger, but its only a matter of time. Let them be surrounded and notice how wealth goes to others instead, for them to finally get it.

Blocking bitcoin means blocking wealth, pure and simple. The politicians that don't get it by words, will get it by numbers.

Lets just say Korea now has acquired an additional competitive advantage over China.

Of course it depends on their levels of "regulation". The more the State meddles in, the less effective. Such as that 20% tax... not good.

Los irresponsables estos van a esperar que tengamos como 20 muertos y miles de infectados para admitir algo. Mientras tanto van es andar acusando al "imperialismo" de "crear el virus" como "arma de ataque contra los pueblos del mundo"...

Son tan predecibles en su retórica gastada que aburren.

La información va salir primero por medios no oficiales (junto con falsos positivos y mentiras de los bromistas de siempre), y luego cuando el descaro sea lo suficientemente vergonzoso, es que aparecerán (tarde) las cifras oficiales. Tenemos décadas viviendo así.

La cantidad de muertos en este país es altísima sin el virus. Entre las estadísticas, quedará la cosa sepultada debajo de las muertes por arma de fuego y por toda clase de enfermedades curables que no se atienden por falta de insumos o atención médica. También dirán que no son tantos los muertos, que es una "guerra de cuarta generación", etc, etc.

Claro que la enfermedad no discrimina (a diferencia de los políticos), esos porcentajes a nivel mundial pueden perfectamente aplicarse a personas del foro.

Sobre el efectivo eso no es mucho problema, no tenemos casi billetes desde hace un año y el mas grande ni siquiera alcanza para comprar un dólar de todos modos... La forma de pago común es débito o transferencia, también hay una forma "pago móvil" con los teléfonos (app, sms).

La mayoría de los bitcoin ya han sido creados (18 de 21 millones), así que el riesgo de que se "manchen" es muy elevado, y eventualmente casi todos se mancharán. Me parece una pérdida de tiempo intentar discriminar con eso, además es injusto. Las autoridades dedíquense a buscar a los delincuentes y dejen de intentar estropear al medio de pago.

El único bitcoin "limpio" es el recién minado, y ese va escasear mas y mas, cada 4 años la mitad de lo que se consigue hoy.

Me recuerda el tema del billete de dólar americano y las trazas de cocaína que existe en muchos de ellos.

Eso es demasiado, para mi esa posibilidad es cero.

Si llega a romper el histórico de 19k, ya sería bastante meritorio. Pero esa cifra tan alta (1.2M) es absurda y menos en solo 5 años. Ahora si fuera como pones en el título: el año 2140, es posible.

No se esa parábola que mencionan si es que sube y luego baja, no estoy de acuerdo. La gráfica correcta del bitcoin es la curva logarítmica. Bitcoin no baja (a largo plazo) pero su aumento desacelera en el tiempo. Las subidas históricas que tuvo, fueron las mas grandes. Las que están por venir, serán cada vez mas pequeñas.

Y ya casi todos los bitcoin que existirán han sido creados. De los 3 millones restantes, el grueso se va crear en los próximos años. Dentro de una década el tema de la minería debe estar probablemente olvidado excepto para un pequeño grupo de entusiastas que no les va importar seguir minando a pérdida (o tienen energía gratuita, etc).

The watts guessing thing isn't done by bOS yet, maybe if you request this feature they may consider it for a future release. I guess some people would have to volunteer measuring at different speeds and voltages for them to be able to produce such a thing.

An alternative is to code it yourself (it is open source after all), or pay someone to do it.

The SE (and K) are not supported (don't work) with BraiinsOS yet. I think i left various links in that thread pointing for possible methods to regain SSH, but those models came with SSH access disabled from factory because they are 2019 models. I believe you can still control the fans using some html trickery with the factory firmware.

The bOS team plans to add support to more hardware such as the S17 after the next release.

One of the reasons they rewrote cgminer from scratch in rust (called bosminer) was precisely to ease adding more hardware.

This allows the people from India to save their money from the ill management of their government to their fiat. It gives them an alternative for keeping their savings, regardless of politicians.

Of course an increase in demand is going to put some pressure up, little or much, it will depend in how much demand it gets. The startups can even restart a source of wealth what was being stupidly blocked by (ignorant) politicians.

Its good news. And yes the second most populated country in the world should weight something.

Android based router? No thanks, might as well put windows in there... The thing even has a screen, its a tablet of sorts.

The HTC Exodus phones claim the same thing: "Full Bitcoin Node", whatever that even means (for HTC). Sure a 500gb SSD should be able to do it, or maybe its just using the cheapest flash memory you can get (the phone is supposed to cost 700$).

I think they are just trying to make something "cool" for the people learning about crypto, something more like a fashion.

Yes a raspi like thing could do the same but safer and cheaper. Just use a 500g sd (or usb hd).

Are you even aware that goTenna is just some American company and not (really) a technology?

The idea of a mesh data network started with an MIT project called roofnet. From that came something else and then a company called Meraki which was later bought by an even bigger company. But, a Free Open Source protocol also came out from it: open-mesh.

This is the software to build a mesh ad-hoc network. The idea is that all the wifi routers connect to each other, and people with internet can share it with everybody else much further away (as many hops as needed) by giving internet access to their device. Once you have that, you can do anything else like running Bitcoin nodes (which won't have stellar latency, mind you, this is a high latency network), you could even do that over tor for added security.

LoRa (LongRange) IS a technology developed by some company in France. They use lower bands, which tend to reach longer distances. Unfortunately the availability of these bands change from country to country "433 MHz, 868 MHz (Europe), 915 MHz (Australia and North America) and 923 MHz (Asia)."

This sounds great when you need to cover long distances (such as from a city to a town) as long as there aren't many obstacles (such as a mountain) in the way. Of course, there have been experiments using 2.4 (wifi) doing really long distances using unidirectional high gain (large dish) antennas. But i guess using this technology aiming the thing would be much easier.

This is one of the reasons people seek anonymity. Crooks may find out if you are stashing a large sum by investigating you socially or online. The sad thing is KYC is all over the place, and that information is prone to be stolen by third parties.

This is one of the problems with owning a hardware wallet, they attract attention. Its like in my country, where owning an iPhone is nearly a death sentence...

However a piece of paper with handwritten words, or a book where the seed words are carefully hidden in plain sight, and of course a lifestyle that doesn't attract attention, could let you survive in certain places.

I always use 1 sat/B and this is never a problem. Sure, have RBF around just in case.

Why do you even let wallets decide? Always use 1 sat/B. Does it make a difference if it takes 6 hours, 11 hours or 20 hours?

As far as i know, the only tx that are "dropped" are those using 0 fee. 1 is safe, no matter how long it takes. Yes i know some nodes may drop them, but others will retain it and they won't ever leave the network until processed.

I love how Electrum shows the "size" of (mempool?) transactions to go before an unconfirmed gets confirmed, the number is quite useful to give you a rough idea how the traffic currently is.

Actually, the fact that the prediction can fail (a sudden traffic spike right after you broadcast) is even more reason to NOT let wallets decide the fee.

BTW: The only time i had a transaction take "weeks", was on Jan 2018, i have never seen that again. In the last two years, my 1 sat/B tx would took a day or less, sometimes even 1 hour.

"Fees are low" is misleading, the fee is not arbitrarily decided by Bitcoin. You the user decides the fee. Wallets are prone to guess wrong (too late) or be victim of a sort of attack where a large traffic spike in turn makes wallet use higher fees which in turn makes the other wallets rise the fees which in turn...

Anyway, don't let the wallets decide. 1 sat/B is good for everything, unless you have an emergency. Then "2" would probably make it in half an hour...

I'm still waiting for when they let us use 0.1 sat/B...

It is true that the hardware has no direct means of measuring this. My guess is that they took some measures manually at different speeds and voltages and make an educated guess.

Bitcoin is mentioned in the 3rd season of the series Person of Interest, at least twice in the "plane episode" (13). Its also mentioned in a previous episode, some guy made "a million and a half in bitcoin".

El problema es que el tráfico no es cero. Hay menos tráfico que antes, pero hay tráfico, hay gente que viene y va a otros países, y la posibilidad de contagio es muy grande. Por ahí dicen que el virus no sobrevive a la intemperie a mas de 27°C lo cual puede ser un factor mitigante.

Y Venezuela no cerró las fronteras ni detuvo todos los vuelos como hizo Corea del Norte. Además, las fronteras de Venezuela son muy "porosas", tanto trochas como embarcaciones "ilegales" han estado traficando (de todo) constantemente incluso con complicidad de autoridades.

Una vez mas participamos a la fuerza del juego de azar de la vida, como el Zika y Chikunguya, etc.

PD: Esas páginas de vuelos no registran todos los vuelos (por contradictorio que parezca), especialmente los de Maiquetía...
PD2: Venezuela no tiene trenes, no realmente. Esa es otra triste historia que podemos contar en otra ocasión.

Pero si ese contrabando de extracción es la mayor fuente de ingreso de los militares que son quienes mantienen al gobierno actual. Tanto es así que Maduro les creó una empresa minera para que organizaran mejor el asunto, que no es mas que un saqueo encubierto de los bienes de la nación.

La aniquilación de la economía, por desconocimiento o intención, no puede hacer otra cosa que acabarlo todo. El problema es el tiempo que toma el colapso, cada día perdido son mas vidas perdidas. A China le tomó muchos años y muertes entenderlo, tal como a los actuales del poder no les importa nada mas que llevar a cabo sus planes que no llevan a ningún lado pero les permite vivir muy bien a ellos; esa casta selecta "civico-militar" que vive a todo lujo rodeado de la mayor miseria que pueda vivir un país.

Y para ponerle broche de oro: "Hecho en Socialismo".

No creo que se vaya a la luna. De hecho no creo que suba a mucho mas del doble, y si lo hace, será temporal (corregirá). Lo único que hay que hacer es observar el histórico completo para reconocer la gráfica del precio de bitcoin en el tiempo. Bitcoin tiene un comportamiento similar al de otros valores como el oro pero es necesario ver la historia completa para reconocerla.

Se trata de una curva logarítmica, que inicia casi vertical al comienzo, y termina casi horizontal al final. Los primeros años bitcoin aumentó su precio decenas y cientos de veces, y con el tiempo esos aumentos han ido disminuyendo. Al principio había muchos bitcoin por crear y la mayoría ya fueron creados.

Bitcoin ha pasado de ser una fuente de riqueza a un valor que preserva dicha riqueza en el tiempo. Ya no es posible hacerse rico de la noche a la mañana con bitcoin como hace 10 años, la etapa actual de bitcoin es de consolidación como una moneda que no pierde valor en el tiempo, a diferencia de todas las demás.

Quien guarda en bitcoin no pierde su dinero, y puede que hasta lo multiplique, pero le tomará cada vez mas tiempo. A menos que se trate de trading, en cuyo caso se aprovechan las fluctuaciones locales, pero ese ya es otro tema.

Sin duda lo que sea que valga el bitcoin hoy, mañana en varios años, costará mas. Incluso si bitcoin mantuviera un valor artificialmente fijo en el tiempo, el resto de las monedas pierden así que su representación en dichas monedas sube. Bitcoin fluctúa por su libertad, pero su valor en el tiempo siempre tiende a subir, cada vez mas lento.