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1861  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: September 22, 2023, 05:56:53 PM

The bull run begins



That guy remind me of the Frieza. I think both of them look similar!

 

Nice one! Now they both are same! The both evils combined into one!
1862  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: September 22, 2023, 01:08:13 PM

The bull run begins



That guy remind me of the Frieza. I think both of them look similar!
1863  Local / India / Re: India or Bharat on: September 22, 2023, 12:51:43 PM
At the G20 meeting, in front of the Prime Minister of India Narendra Damodardas Modi, there was a nameplat with the country name Bharat, not India. I think the country will be renamed after all in the near future. India is likely to officially change the English-language name of the country to Bharat.

Most people in the western world know the country as India and it's not yet considered as Bharat by those people. Some internal people of India consider their country as Hindustan instead of India or Bharat. The name Hindustan simply means the place where Hindus live, but some people say that the name Hindustan isn't suitable for India because there are many non-Hindus who also live in that country.

Now, the Narendra Modi and his party is trying to promote the name Bharat instead of India or Hindustan and when we go to the origins of the name Bharat then we know that there was a king named Bharata and his name was present in the Hindu epic text Mahabharat. Now, it's the decision of the public to vote for either Bharat or India, but generally people still widely accept India as the official name of the country.
1864  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Quality over Quantity on: September 22, 2023, 12:38:49 PM
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I believe that the quality of someone's posts depends on the knowledge and skills of that member. If someone has deep knowledge about an issue then that user will try to describe things in detail. I know that sometimes a simple post with a few lines could solve someone's issue but in other situations the issue may require some extra details and that's why the user will have to put effort to write a lengthy post.

Some of the well-known members of the forum tend to write longer posts because they share detail explanation of the issues that other users face. Their solutions have helped many users and that's something we can consider as a quality post. Those members could post two to three line posts and increase their number of posts but still they give a lot of time to forum and write each of their posts in detail.

I would also say that when a post is helpful and it solves someone's issue then that's a quality post and even if that post is just three lines of simple text as a summarized explanation or a detailed answer to someone's question. You should also keep in mind that if someone's posts are good then other members of the forum will support such posts with merits.
1865  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Why are some trust feed backs not having reference on: September 22, 2023, 12:22:48 PM
please I will like to know what is the level of relevance of a trust feedback that doesn't have a reference link in it to affirm it evidence of true judgement because I have seen such farmmat of rating in some members trust reviews.

What is the level of authenticity do you give to trust feedbacks that doesn't contain a reference link to serve as evidence, be it positive or negative/neutral trust.

It depends on the members that you trust because sometimes we don't really have a reference link when we leave positive trust rating for someone. Let's say when we interact with a user and views him/her for sometime and if we find that such user is trying to help others and is playing very important role in the forum then it's our choice to leave a trust feedback for that user or not. Most of the times we would love to support the users who are doing good on forum and are helping others sincerely and when they gain our trust due to their decent actions then we can leave a trust feedback for them.

Another particular reason that why people leave non-reference trust feedback is when a user gets accepted in a campaign that's managed by a campaign manager and gets his/her payment on time for 2-4 weeks. That's another reason for the members to leave honest feedback regarding a manager who has been sending them the payments for their posts on time. In this case the user shows appreciation to a manager who has helped him/her to participate in a campaign and sent his/her payment on time.

Finally, when someone does a private trade with a user and the trade gets completed without any third party involved then in that case once again the user will leave a non-reference feedback about the trade they have done. Those are some reasons for a non-reference trust-feedback and there can be some other reasons as well. You just have to keep in your mind that if someone is doing well on the forum and is helping others and is doing his/her trades in honest way then that user will get trust-feedback from the users who appreciate the efforts of such users.
1866  Other / Off-topic / Re: Kylian mbappe vs Erling Haaland who is the future goat? on: September 22, 2023, 12:04:38 PM
Mbappe and Haaland are currently competing to establish themselves as the future super star so who exactly has better statistics among the both of them that can go on to be the future GOAT.

I would say that both of them are equally good in performance while Haaland plays dominantly and is confident with his abilities and is still younger then Mbappe but still we can't ignore the performance of Mbappe either because that guy is also the top level striker any club can have.

I believe that both of them could be the future goat but if I have to choose one then that would be Mbappe as I believe he's slightly better than Haaland, and I'm sure that I can be wrong with my choice because Haaland can be better in future and may give a hard time to Mbappe to achieve that title.
1867  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Does anyone still stores their crypto in any exchange on: September 22, 2023, 11:54:24 AM
Does anyone here still stores their crypto in exchanges? I think the best choice would be to move a higher value of funds to a hardware wallet while leaving a small amount that's less than 5K in an exchange.

That's not a best choice because even leaving a $1 in a centralized or decentralized exchange is unsafe but people really don't care much about such things before getting ripped by those exchanges. Another important thing I must say is that relying on hardware wallets isn't safe either. The best way is to have an open-source wallet software like Electrum and move the funds into a wallet that's present on a air-gapped system with Linux installed on that system.

Anyone who puts their money into exchanges is somehow throwing that money into a water pond in hope that they could access that money whenever they want, but when they really want to have that money then they won't get anything. The centralized exchanges own their money and they can do whatever they want with the money of those users.
1868  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: No KYC vs KYC enabled casinos (Facts you need to know) on: September 22, 2023, 11:42:11 AM
Undergoing KYC does not mean that our identity will be publicly broadcasted, that is the common misconception of those paranoid with their privacy.  Remember once the casino is licensed and regulated, whatever data they collect are bound by data privacy law and no one can easily get this data from them unless it is ordered by the court.

I have to disagree with you in this case because the Casinos and their owners can access the identity information of the users and they can do whatever they want with that information. I know that they don't publicly broadcast such information but still the shady casinos can do many things in the name of KYC. Those shady casinos can sell the users KYC data in order to earn some extra revenue by following gray hat hackers mindset. Laymen won't be able to get the data from those casinos but someone from government's side can get such data without much hassle, and that's why the Identity data isn't safe with even the trusted casinos. That's one of the reasons why people prefer Bitcoin because it provides complete privacy to user and it doesn't require any KYC information of the users, and there isn't going to be any interference from centralized authorities. The Bitcoin enthusiasts would always choose the casinos that don't really need someone's KYC information.

The government officials if I am not mistaken are not allowed to gamble even enter and stay on the gambling premises, at least in my country.

I agree with you but when someone is addicted to gambling or enjoys gambling then he/she will find a way to gamble. They most probably do it secretly because law doesn't allow them to gamble directly and that's why they will always choose the casinos that allow gambling with any KYC requirements. Because without KYC documents no one can guess who's gambling behind a computer.
1869  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Wallet.Dat Help on: September 22, 2023, 11:29:19 AM
Take note that providing screenshot of Bitcoin Core's main tab proves nothing since anyone can do that with any bought, given or tampered wallet.dat files.
Proof can be anything that involves the usage of that address' private key like signing a message or spending an agreed amount of satoshi at a given time.
So for now, we should just assume that it's his lost old wallet as he told. (being skeptical isn't bad either)
I agree with you that providing a screenshot will not prove that someone is the owner of the wallet, but I asked that in order to see that what's happening on his side. The guy also provided us with his wallet address via blockchair link and that's why I said that he's the owner of the wallet and has access to wallet.dat file. I know that people can share someone else's wallet address and they can have screenshots of Bitcoin Core's main tab in order to prove that they own the wallets. But in this case the guy seems genuine I guess and he has tried his best to decrypt the wallet himself but didn't get any success in decrypting the wallet.

Also, the "balance unavailable" has nothing to do with the password since Bitcoin Core encrypted wallets can show balance even if it stay locked.
I guess when the wallet is encrypted then it's required to enter the password in order to view the balance and transactions. Sometimes when core is not synced fully that can be another reason to show the message "balance unavailable."
1870  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Wallet.Dat Help on: September 22, 2023, 09:06:07 AM

Hey heres a screenshot, the balance was unavailable as the application isnt synced yet.

Also here is the address on the blockchain

https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/address/1AxhH9CKkP1WBoT9bF1jFQo2nEdPDooP4i


Good job, now that you have proved that you're the real owner of the account and now you should sync your Bitcoin core with Bitcoin Network and once syncing is completed then try to recheck if the balance appears there or not. If even after syncing Bitcoin core that balance unavailable message still appears then you will have to brute-force the password once again.  

I must say that brute-forcing the password requires some very powerful hardware and those hardware will not help in brute-forcing it until you don't know some part of the password. In that case you will have to rely on a legit crypto recovery service to brute-force the password for you and you'll have to do that at your own risk. That's the only available option for you, but if you have some idea about the password then you can still try your luck by brute-forcing it yourself once again.
1871  Other / Meta / Re: account banned! [Appeal] on: September 22, 2023, 08:40:26 AM
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After reading some posts of your  account I found that you were trying to promote XRP and demote Bitcoin. You even tried to defame Bitcoin many times for Ripple which is still nothing when you compare it with Bitcoin and it'll always be nothing in comparison of Bitcoin.


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There was no time in the forum when someone will have gotten banned for talking bad about Bitcoin and hyping up altcoins as long as you kept the conversation constructive. There is a whole section for altcoins with different boards where one can discuss freely about them.
You're right but if someone trolls about Bitcoin every time then such trolls may not be acceptable in a forum that's mostly about Bitcoin. The worst thing is that when such people with less knowledge about Bitcoin try to demote or defame it in order to promote those shit-coins that are nothing when compared to Bitcoin. I guess the @OP was also aware of his actions and that's why he said there was trolling going on his account in those days. Although, this forum is the best place where you can have freedom of speech but still everything has some limits and when someone crosses those limits then he/she will have to bear the consequences.


Op, your account is a donator account. The admin will be very happy to make you recover this account only if you can prove that you own the account.

I think OP already has access to that account and he doesn't need any kind of account recovery at all. The account is in his own possession but it's banned or locked and that's why OP has posted this ban appeal thread. He won't get unbanned or unlocked for some reasons but if he can prove that he is the owner of the account then he may get his account unbanned or unlocked. But, still we will have to find the reason of his ban and if he was banned for another thing other than trolling then his chances of getting unbanned are pretty low.

1872  Economy / Exchanges / Re: *warning* Huobi insolvency rumours on: September 21, 2023, 11:00:05 PM
This is the sad truth. After Voyager collapsed, there were warnings everywhere to withdraw all your coins. And yet loads of people lost everything when Celsius collapsed a week later. And again when BlockFi collapsed. And again when FTX collapsed. And loads of people will still lose everything when Huobi or Kucoin or Binance or whoever collapse next.
This time they will lose more than our imagination because if any of those exchanges collapse then the amount of damage will be very intense for the users who trust custodial wallets blindly and are very lazy that they don't create their own wallets to and move their Bitcoin into those wallets.

Ignore what is or is not being said and get your funds in to your own wallet before it is too late.
Yes, that advice is the best one! Just ignore the words of all those exchanges and move your funds into your own wallets as soon as possible. It's always better safe than sorry and if someone doesn't move the funds now then he/she will have to bear the consequences of his/her arrogancy.
1873  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: September 21, 2023, 10:42:32 PM
btw, has China allowed Bitcoin to be able to ban it again?

I think yes they have banned it once again this September. I'm pretty sure that such ban was imposed only to promote the CBDC that they're going to release. We don't really care much about China's bans on Bitcoin and crypto-currencies these days because it is a common thing for them.
1874  Other / Meta / Re: question on: September 21, 2023, 10:08:30 PM
is it ok to advertise link to faucets or other platforms to earn some satoshi ?

You can advertise your site with the help of personal text, signature space, and by adding it on your profile's Website field. The other way to advertise your link is to run a signature campaign on the forum so that the members will apply your link's signature on their profiles and you'll get exposure to your site. Another way that you can use to advertise your link is to make a proper announcement thread in micro earnings board and share details about your faucet there.  You can also launch a review campaign so that the users can learn about your site by reading the honest reviews of the reputed members of the forum.
1875  Other / Meta / Re: Fun thought on Bitcointalk having this particular feature. on: September 21, 2023, 09:52:48 PM

If the main purpose of using voice typing is to improvement in the speed of posting, then I am afraid it is not the right method. It may even take more time to first voice type a post and then do all the spell checks and rectify grammatical mistakes.

I agree that with voice typing the speed of posting will further slow down. The voice tying may help those members who are lazy enough to write the posts themselves using their fingers, but I don't think that someone can express his/her ideas very well with the help of voice typing. You'll still be reading the forum posts as a text based posts and with the voice typing you'll be replying to those posts with your voice which will limit your imagination that you can have with traditional way of typing.

Voice typing can be  useful for those people who have severe muscle and joint problems but the ones who are healthy will become more lazy because of voice typing. I also agree with you that the ones who will use voice typing will have more spelling and grammatical mistakes, and then they'll have to fix those mistakes one by one, and which will be very time consuming task for them.

We never know that many posters may already be using this voice typing feature present inside the browser as we see a lot of posts with grammatical mistakes and lot of other posts with spelling mistakes.
Also if you are using a mobile to make a post, voice typing becomes even more easier, but again the drawbacks of voice typing do exist.

Yes, there could be some posters who might be using voice typing if they're basically smartphone users but the posts with grammatical mistakes and other spelling mistakes can be because of other reasons as well. Some users who aren't good in English may have grammatical mistakes and spelling mistakes in their posts, and there could also be those users who want to write their posts as soon as possible, and post it without giving it a reading. I personally don't post using my smartphone because I don't like that way of posting as of now, but still sometimes I make grammatical mistakes. I believe those mistakes take place only when we don't read our written posts. The worst thing is that the ones who will make posts using voice typing will make far more grammatical and spelling mistakes then the ones who aren't good in English.


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The voice typing feature is already available in your browser and you can easily use it. It has been explained in the above post too.
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No it is not. You assume that we all use mobile iOS/Android platforms or have speech recognition capabilities in our operating systems, which is not true.


I agree with you that we all don't use iOS and Android or even smartphones that have those capabilities. If I'm not wrong then most members of the forum still type their posts using their own personal computer or laptops and those systems don't really have such capabilities built it them. The pc users will have to use external microphones in order to utilize voice typing extensions or applications, while the laptop users may get a little bit of ease because the laptops have built in microphones. But, still they will have to rely on third party software, extensions, and websites in order to utilize voice typing.

1876  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Wallet.Dat Help on: September 21, 2023, 07:06:58 PM
Hello

Recently I have recovered and old wallet of mine from a really old laptop. I used to have Bitcoin Core on it but I have forgotten the password. By checking the wallet on the blockchain it shows it has just over 1 BTC but in the application it says balance not available.



Can you please show us a screenshot of the message where its says the balance is not available and do you have even a slight idea about the password that you used? You mean you checked the wallet address on a block explorer and there the balance appears to be over 1 Bitcoin. I recommend you to check the balance once again on https://blockchair.com/ and then take a screenshot of it and share that screenshot here so we can be confirmed that you are really trying to recover your own wallet's password and it has balance in it. You can blur the wallet address from that screenshot for privacy reasons but at least we can get the idea that really the wallet is present in blockchain and you're the owner of it. The only option you have to know that password is to brute-force it because you have forgotten the password and trusting someone else about it not going to be helpful at all.

I would recommend you to rent a good beefy setup and then try to brute-force the encrypted wallet because brute-forcing require much powerful hardware and if you tried it using a normal pc then that isn't sufficient enough to crack those passwords. I would also recommend you to be careful from online recovery services because they can't be trusted at all.

1877  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: No KYC vs KYC enabled casinos (Facts you need to know) on: September 21, 2023, 06:14:22 PM
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Anonymity: many Crypto-currency enthusiast are strong on having their identity secured and protected so they would tilt towards the no KYC required exchange but if the security of their identity can be assured then I see no problem with undergoing KYC requirements.

The individuals: some individuals can have criminal history and would definitely not go for KYC required process.



Well, that's the most important thing that you mentioned. The majority of crypto-currency enthusiasts or you can say gamblers don't really want to reveal their true identity in public due to privacy concerns and they love to remain anonymous. Those users will always prefer to go with the casinos that don't require KYC and they will try their best to avoid all those casinos that require KYC verification. Sometimes the gamblers who are in having good position in government also try to avoid KYC thing because it would be a difficult thing for a police officer to share his details on a casino site where he enjoys spending time. Such people just love to spend time on those casinos where information about KYC isn't needed, and sometimes those people who have done any criminal activity will also avoid the KYC thing. But, the criminals are so dam good at doing crimes that they can easily manipulate someone else and use his/her documents to complete KYC requirements.
1878  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Don't Just HODL But HODL Wisely and Securely on: September 21, 2023, 06:02:31 PM
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Even by using Electrum, there are still ways that could screw your security that up. The reality is that you cannot really just trust anything. It's what the community recommends that makes us trust it. I read what you said about not being connected in the internet at all, but you never know what you'll plug in into your device. I might sound like a real paranoid, but there's just no real 100% security.

Everything has been built by someone through code or hardware. There is no perfect security, just lessening the risk of being hacked.

Well, your concerns are accurate to some extent but how could someone's system be compromised when he/she uses Electrum wallet? I would like to know about that thing in detail because as far as I know the Electrum is open-source by nature and it can be compiled from the source code by anyone who knows software compilation. I personally have researched about Electrum and that's why I always recommend it to anyone who want to save their Bitcoin for long term in a Air-gapped system.

You may be right but there are perfect measures to power off your networks and those measures are still working without any question. If someone builds a system without a network card and store his/her wallet and private keys and pass phrases in that system then as long as that system isn't connected to internet the user won't have any security problem. I know that everything is built by someone but still there are some restrictions which even the inventor can't penetrate. That's why we trust open-source software because their code is available to public and anyone can compile it or add any changes to it.
1879  Economy / Speculation / Re: Michael Saylor predicts Bitcoin can go to $5 million? on: September 21, 2023, 05:03:52 PM

Yes, at least speculation can be calculated logically that with time and what kind of process Bitcoin can reach 5 million, perhaps it can be understood, but if it is just expectation it will be like nonsense.
The large demand will definitely make bitcoin very valuable. That is the market mechanism in general regarding goods, we understand that very well, including the scarcity which is the value of bitcoin as the reason people want to own bitcoin.
But have you ever thought that for bitcoin to make a significant movement there must be another trigger as a means for people to become more interested in bitcoin, such as in the previous cycle bitcoin was accepted as a means of payment for purchasing Tesla cars and that triggered a market reaction that caused a spike in prices.

Well, in the previous cycle Bitcoin got higher in value and its demand was increased due to many factors not only because of Tesla cars. I think Covid-19 pandemic played a very crucial role in increasing the demand for Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies in that cycle and there were some more factors as well. In that cycle PayPal also launched their service to allow its users to buy, hold, and sell Bitcoin and some other crypto-currencies, and other than that MicroStrategy also invested a lot of money into Bitcoin, and finally DeFi got much popularity in that cycle and it was another factor that led to wide adoption of Bitcoin. Those were some of the known factors while there were many factors that weren't available to public but they also played their role in increasing the demand for Bitcoin in previous cycle.

In the next cycle there will be also some factors that play their role to increase the adoption of Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies. We aren't yet aware of those factors but surely Bitcoin will get more attention in the coming decades and the next generation will get awareness about it in their childhood days. I believe that in next 30-50 years the price of per Bitcoin will be so high in value that none of us can imagine right now. If you consider that thing as nonsense then that's your point of view but in theory that can happen in future.
1880  Economy / Economics / Re: Use of clean energy in bitcoin mining and its impact on: September 21, 2023, 04:48:06 PM
This is so obvious to people who actually know the situation but that doesn't mean that we are going to end up with a result like that at all. We need to realize that bitcoin is still not known in detail by so many people, even the ones who has heard the name bitcoin, do not know much information regarding it, and when a news station talks about how much it uses, they believe them because they do not have the better judgement to research it themselves.

This is why the ones who know, like you and me, we know that it is tiny compared to most other stuff and mostly clean, whereas the ones who do not know would fall victim to fake news and misinformation because they do not care enough to go do their research on the subject.

That's why people say that media is the king because whatever media says people blindly trust that and even if they promote fake news people will trust that news. Most of the people these days don't really do their own research and they accept whatever they hear from those media sources, and the worst thing is that the same people promote the things they heard from those media channels to other people and promote such misinformation.

We Bitcoin users know that Bitcoin mining does require energy and we also know that most of the miners and mining farms are using clean energy for the purpose of Bitcoin mining but who listen to us? They listen to only media channels and believe trust words without question. Surely, the ones who do their own research are well aware of the fact that Bitcoin mining consumes not so much energy out of global electricity production, and it's actually consuming the energy from clean energy sources mostly.

we have over 1000 solar panels in our mining locations. we generate close to 2 megawatts daily in solar energy. we are New Jersey based and are always looking for new and better mining locations here in NJ,USA or even in PA,USA

That's more than enough for us to know that most miners including philipma1957 and many others who run mining operations are using clean and renewable energy sources. The solar energy is the most clean type of energy that we can avail these days and those who use it for mining purposes are doing a great job for whole humanity because the energy we get from sun is 100% free and available in abundant quantity, and it won't deplete even if everyone use it all over the globe. Man, 2 megawatts is a lot of energy and when that's putted into mining operations then that's the best utilization of solar energy in my eyes. Keep it up philipma1957 and I hope you'll surely extend your mining setup to way higher megawatts and the mining power to many Peta hashes in future by extending the setup to more locations.
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