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1861  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: How my bitcoins were nailed down in my grandfather's garage. on: July 26, 2020, 02:19:13 AM
im sitting here trying to imagine what tools you can hang from a hard drive nailed to a wall. and i thought i had a pretty good imagination but im drawing a big blank here.

ive seen clocks made from platters, speakers made from the armature and such but this is some way out of the box thinking to me.
1862  Other / Meta / Re: This member has weird stats. on: July 25, 2020, 08:27:00 PM
you have deleted most of your posts though and i guess the reason why your rank also move down to MEMBER?

this isn't how it works. things changed i guess because i saw someone sometime ago who deleted almost all his posts as well but retained his rank.

uh, rank means nothing to many people. they are here to learn. makes no difference what rank someone is if that person is  informative and helpful.
1863  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 25, 2020, 08:22:20 PM
So he is still more or less following the price action as a nocoiner.

thats like thinking about that million dollar scratch ticket you lost behind the sofa till the dog ate it or something. why live a nightmare over and over.
1864  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 25, 2020, 03:55:02 PM


Jeeezus...
There's a lot to unpack in there ....

Maybe have a "Best caption for this Pic" contest.

 citadel citizens?
1865  Economy / Speculation / Re: gigamegablocks on: July 25, 2020, 10:17:26 AM
but until there is a fast way to get a tx on chain to somewhere, even if an exorbitant fee is needed (which im actually OK with), it wont work the way i need it to when the mempool is full and im in an emergency situation. i can pull cash from a bank in an instant more or less. try to pull btc out in a cold wallet for whatever in a hurry during peak fomo.

Why would an exorbitant fee not work during peak FOMO moon-sized mempool?

Unless you want to do it in less than ~10 minutes.

there will (most times) always be someone willing to pay a bigger fee than i and bump me out. but youre right, with proper planning i wouldnt care if it takes days to confirm.

my tentative plan is regularly cash out an amount that should last at least a few months at a time in normal circumstances. just hope an emergency doesnt come up where i need it fast (hours or a day or so tops). but again, thats on me as i should have sufficient fiat reserve for such things.
1866  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 24, 2020, 10:50:52 PM
EDIT this reply wound up in its own topic due to some error on my part. sorry for cross post:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5264273.msg54864403#msg54864403



decentralization = ONE (ok manybe a few) datacenter that has the capacity to process this BSV nearly infinate size (at some point) gigabigabloatware data where everything including the kitchen sink and toilet plus the contents of those that goes down it and is stored on chain? i guess always wanted to know the exact composition of my septic tank contents. a "decentralized" blockchain that only huge AWS instances or other supercomputers and the likes likes can run?

No. But nice mischaracterization. At this point, there are plenty of 'normal' computers processing the BSV blockchain.

sure, now. im talking years out (if it doesnt die off in the meantime)

AFAIC, as long as there are no exclusionary barriers for new entrants to participate, then non-mining validation is exactly as decentralized as it need be. More such 'decentralization' is a red herring that serves no useful purpose. I realize this is a controversial perspective, but it is the one I hold.

just the money constraint. perhaps youre so loaded that 100+ grand for a datacenter and update cycle that will be needed eventually is a barely noticeable expense for the convenience and security. so say 50 grand for a casual setup that maybe that would last a couple years? so whats the upper limit for "just verifying" my transactions?

The alternative is to dumb down the entire system to 3 to 7 transactions per second. The notion of such a system working as world money is so ludicrous that it beggars the imagination that anyone would so think.

i agree here. work is needed. it is being done. i may not agree with some of it but stuff is happening regardless.


1867  Economy / Speculation / Re: gigamegablocks on: July 24, 2020, 10:46:12 PM
huh this post was meant to be a reply to a post in the WO thread, unsure how it got here as a new topic (user error im sure).

but since its here..

one thing ive done in case of miners bombing the difficulty (or vice versa) and the occasional mempool problems is park a bit of coin on exchanges (yes not your keys etc) but at least its there to sell on a moments notice. yeah it can be confiscated, stolen by aliens, all that.

but until there is a fast way to get a tx on chain to somewhere, even if an exorbitant fee is needed (which im actually OK with), it wont work the way i need it to when the mempool is full and im in an emergency situation. i can pull cash from a bank in an instant more or less. try to pull btc out in a cold wallet for whatever in a hurry during peak fomo.

please note im not a big blocker as that has issues of its own. but hopefully the folks with the bulging brains will come up with something.
1868  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 24, 2020, 03:59:12 PM
* achievement unlocked *
1869  Economy / Speculation / gigamegablocks on: July 24, 2020, 11:03:12 AM
decentralization = ONE (ok manybe a few) datacenter that has the capacity to process this BSV nearly infinate size (at some point) gigabigabloatware data where everything including the kitchen sink and toilet plus the contents of those that goes down it and is stored on chain? i guess always wanted to know the exact composition of my septic tank contents. a "decentralized" blockchain that only huge AWS instances or other supercomputers and the likes likes can run?

No. But nice mischaracterization. At this point, there are plenty of 'normal' computers processing the BSV blockchain.

sure, now. im talking years out (if it doesnt die off in the meantime)

AFAIC, as long as there are no exclusionary barriers for new entrants to participate, then non-mining validation is exactly as decentralized as it need be. More such 'decentralization' is a red herring that serves no useful purpose. I realize this is a controversial perspective, but it is the one I hold.

just the money constraint. perhaps youre so loaded that 100+ grand for a datacenter and update cycle that will be needed eventually is a barely noticeable expense for the convenience and security. so say 50 grand for a casual setup that maybe that would last a couple years? so whats the upper limit for "just verifying" my transactions?

The alternative is to dumb down the entire system to 3 to 7 transactions per second. The notion of such a system working as world money is so ludicrous that it beggars the imagination that anyone would so think.

i agree here. work is needed. it is being done. i may not agree with some of it but stuff is happening regardless.

1870  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 24, 2020, 11:02:07 AM
decentralization = ONE (ok manybe a few) datacenter that has the capacity to process this BSV nearly infinate size (at some point) gigabigabloatware data where everything including the kitchen sink and toilet plus the contents of those that goes down it and is stored on chain? i guess always wanted to know the exact composition of my septic tank contents. a "decentralized" blockchain that only huge AWS instances or other supercomputers and the likes likes can run?

No. But nice mischaracterization. At this point, there are plenty of 'normal' computers processing the BSV blockchain.

sure, now. im talking years out (if it doesnt die off in the meantime)

AFAIC, as long as there are no exclusionary barriers for new entrants to participate, then non-mining validation is exactly as decentralized as it need be. More such 'decentralization' is a red herring that serves no useful purpose. I realize this is a controversial perspective, but it is the one I hold.


just the money constraint at some point as it will ever cost more as time marches on.  perhaps youre so flush that 100+ grand for a datacenter and update cycle that will be needed eventually is a barely noticeable expense to you for the convenience and security. so say, for the average mook a 50 grand minimal setup (not now im talking later if this ttakes off and actually stores  useful data) for a casual setup that maybe that would last a couple years? so whats the upper limit for "just verifying" my transactions?

The alternative is to dumb down the entire system to 3 to 7 transactions per second. The notion of such a system working as world money is so ludicrous that it beggars the imagination that anyone would so think.

i agree here. work is needed. it is being done. i may not agree with some of it but stuff is happening regardless.

1871  Economy / Reputation / Re: [Interviews] with Bitcointalk members on: July 23, 2020, 03:19:16 PM
oops methinks i may of stepped in something

lol.  I got into bitcoin early, spent too early, and now I am set for major expenses but hurting for daily funds.  :/

I spent a decade here trying to educate people about bitcoin, and the danger of scammers;  I didn't use this forum to make money.

Would you consider writing some different questions for me?

well you just answered the two questions i was going to ask Wink
1872  Economy / Reputation / Re: [Interviews] with Bitcointalk members on: July 23, 2020, 02:37:19 PM
I received your questions, but they don't make much sense for my history here.  Are you aware of my history on this forum?

wait.

wouldnt it make it more interesting and thus more worthy of an interview?

oops methinks i may of stepped in something
1873  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 23, 2020, 02:17:11 PM

i think idiocracy is the big grey(ish) box everything else is in.
1874  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 23, 2020, 11:31:42 AM
I wonder which will be the first US bank to get hacked and their Crypto stolen? Tongue

the fed? heh
1875  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 23, 2020, 10:56:43 AM

[bsv]

This is the coherent argument: Simply Bitcoin. Unhindered by some stupid insane production quota upon transaction capacity.

None more need be said.

surely satoshi would have had to put some constraints on block size at some point, even if it was just to accommodate the then current technology. after all he was refining it till he left.

and no dont ask me for ideas if that was anyones intention.. me brains been running on fumes for a long time.
1876  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 23, 2020, 10:27:27 AM
Well, it's not so much that the majority of fully-validating non-mining clients are run by economically useless riffraff, it is more the fact that the network is dumbed down to the point that economically useless riffraff govern the capacity of the system.

all i want is a node i can run purely to validate my own transaction and check my balances. not a 24/7 node, just for my own use.

i would rather do that on my own equipment, say prosumer class  (is that still a word - high power personal computers HEDT and ECC maybe but beefed to the max) and/or a decent server or two (failover) and enough raid for the blockchain.

i can live with that. i mean rpis are out as well as most regular desktops. but yeah ya gotta pay to play,

but bsv seems to want much much more.
1877  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 23, 2020, 10:08:13 AM
edit: upon rereading, it would seem that I was castigating vapourminer as being penniless. Nay, that was meant to be directed at vapourminer's accusers.

no worries either way; ive been penniless. good for character building IMO. thankfully bitcoin has changed that considerably, among my other endeavor of course

funny the hate on coinbase. yeah i get they have been and are problematic in many ways due to the rules. but never a problem here. to each his/her own.
1878  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 23, 2020, 09:55:33 AM
YOU claimed that both coins are equally decentralized, i asked for you to back it up, and you're asking me to define decentralization?


decentralization = ONE (ok manybe a few) datacenter that has the capacity to process this BSV nearly infinate size (at some point) gigabigabloatware data where everything including the kitchen sink and toilet plus the contents of those that goes down it and is stored on chain? i guess always wanted to know the exact composition of my septic tank contents. a "decentralized" blockchain that only huge AWS instances or other supercomputers and the likes likes can run?






1879  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 23, 2020, 09:30:27 AM
Bump is nice!

Meantime I saw this and just fell over laughing. I simply do not think this well....



i think they pioneered that in china (Hong Kong?)  somewhere else anyway.

hockey sticks to slap back tear gas canisters were another "return to sender" item pressed into service.
1880  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 22, 2020, 10:53:00 PM
Holy shit whats behind these no volume pumps?

aliens
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