Harald Lesch hat neulich wieder einen Beitrag über Bitcoins gebracht, der in knapp einer halben Stunde das Thema Bitcoin analysiert. Dabei kommen auch die Experten Prof. Dr. Philipp Sandner vom Blockchain Center der Frankfurt School of Finance und Roman Reher (YouTuber "Blocktrainer") als Experten zu Wort. Insgesamt werden die wichtigsten Dinge erklärt aber in knapp 30 min ist das komplexe System Bitcoin natürlich auch nur vereinfacht erklärbar. Was mir gut gefallen hat, war der Teil über regeneratives Mining in Skandinavien. Hier das gesamte Video aus Leschs Kosmos: https://www.zdf.de/wissen/leschs-kosmos/krypto-bitcoin-und-co-100.html |
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In multiple occasions, people which were facing big struggles in their countries turned to Bitcoin. It happened in Greece, in 2013
You are very right here! It happened in Greece and because it happened, our amazing contributor Andreas Antonopoulos got involved into Bitcoin. So far, Antonopoulos has made big educational contributions like his famous book "Mastering Bitcoin". I've saved a quote from him (but translated it into German and don't know where to find his original one, so here's just a somehow accurate translation, would be great if someone can find the original quote. I don't find it anymore.  ). It was similar to the text below: "If you go to an ATM today, use your card and withdraw your money, it is ultimately up to the bank whether you get the money or not. One day – as people in Cyprus, Greece, Venezuela, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and many more countries have discovered in recent decades and even centuries – one day you go to your bank and the bank will not give you the money because it can't pay you. In such a situation, you are dependent on the bank, which has already happened to many millions of people. Bitcoin is fundamentally different, because in Bitcoin you owe nothing to anyone and nobody owes you anything. Bitcoin is not based on debt. Bitcoin is based on the ownership of coins owned by you. It's absolute ownership." It's a very good quote pointing out his issue he had in Greece.  |
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I see the price of bitcoin has increased, from 18000 now to 21000. and I think this is a good increase, at the beginning of 2023 and I think of course this is a sign that bitcoin will soon go to a bull market,
Difficult to say but Bitcoin's price has been very low for a long time now, so it's somehow overdue to go up again. As we know, Bitcoin has moved in cycles and it likely to keeo doing so. People are aware about it and try to anticipate the next bull run. Since Bitcoin has started to get very bullish in 2023, many people are getting FOMO, probably.  In addition, Bitcoin is increasingly held by people planning to HODL Bitcoin for a long period. That's removing supply from the market causing BTC price to go up. As Hispo corrently mentioned it's also a result from several good news. Good news from USA, FED, Inflation, Economy and Investors taking more risks again. After all, Crypto is likely to be a great innovation. And finally, the next Bitcoin Block halving is just about 1 year from now. 
but I want to ask is bitcoin going to a bull run, or is it just a trap,?
Nobody knows because if we'd know, we could just take a credit and buy more Bitcoin, repay our credit later and keep our gains. |
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Möglich ist alles und dagegen hätte bestimmt niemand etwas. Ist dann doch überraschend, wie problemlos die 20k gefallen sind und dass es dann direkt auf 21k weiter geht. Aktuell liegen wir bei 20.900 USD und wenn die 20k dieses Wochenende gehalten werden, sieht das für das Jahr 2023 doch gleich ein ganzes Stück besser aus. Von 16.500 USD am 01.01.2023 auf 20.900 USD jetzt am 14.01.2023 ist schon eine ordentliche Leistung von Bitcoin. Dafür hat er sich natürlich Ende letzten Jahres ziemlich ausgeruht... Interessant ist auch, dass die Bitcoin-Dominanz trotz solch starker Anstiege nicht zurück geht. In der Vergangenheit waren solche Marktlagen stets positiver für Altcoins, in denen diese gegenüber Bitcoin zulegten aber in der aktuellen Bewegung von 16,5k auf 20,9k ist das nicht so. Im Gegenteil, die Bitcoin-Dominanz ist sogar seit den massiven Kursgewinnen in den letzten 4 Tagen stark gestiegen: 
Die KI feiert es auch (die Parade ist aber etwas verregnet)
Aber echt... |
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Russia first tested the weapon in 2020 and then again in 2022 and claimed the test was a success and had flown more than 600 miles at incredible speeds. ...I'm relieved. If Russia claimed xy has been a success, it's usually the opposite. Similar to their successful special operation going on in Ukraine... |
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Danke für das Gewinnspiel! Bin ja gespannt was das Jahr so bringt Einen Bullenmarkt (hoffentlich). Aktuell ist der Kurs bereits schön gestiegen. Können wir gerne für das gesamte Jahr extrapolieren.  Habe deinen Tipp mit aufgenommen. Ich extrapolier mal aus den vergangenen Zyklen (hat ja auch das letzte Mal so gut geklappt):
Ja, hat es in der Tat, denn hier hast du tatsächlich etwas gewonnen. Da bräuchte ich folglich noch deine Bitcoin-Adresse, um dir den Gewinn senden zu können. |
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"Influencers" (especially on Social Media like YouTube) are people where I would be very careful of taking their opinions as granted. "Influencing" already sounds extremely shady and over the time we have seen how accurate (hint: not) YouTubers are operating. It's mostly a mix of shilling own bags of useless Shitcoins (probably pump and dump), generation of revenues from referall links or some YouTubers are directly paid for advertising coin xy or service xy. Remember Trevon James, who shilled BitConneeeeect on YouTube? I guess people trusting him got screwed... YouTube has become a shithole and in my opinion, we are better off to avoid it most of the time. |
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When I read your articles, I'm always reminded of Alex Gladstein writing similar articles. Similar like you, he's focussing on how Bitcoin can help normal people in very different cases, where poverty, a corrupt leadership, lack of democracy or military surpression is causing these problems. One of Gladsteins biggest hits is his article "Fighting Monetary Colonialism With Open-Source Code" ( archived) where he reveals an interesting fact: France still uses monetary colonialism to exploit 15 African nations. It sounds a bit crazy but it's true. Monetary decisions for 15 African Nations are still made in France because last century, these countries have been colonies of France. In these 15 African countries, a currency called CFA franc is official currency. It was / is pegged to Franc / later Euro but peg can be changed like in 1994, when CFA Franc was devalued by 50%. In addition, important decisions are made by France. Why is it beneficial for France? Getting cheaper imports! CFA Franc is a relict from the last decade. And here, Bitcoin can be useful as Alex Gladstein describes. Or did you know that France is still controlling monetary decisions of 15 African nations?
So, we can see: Bitcoin is a great tool for people living under authoritarian regimes. It might be hard for us to imagine how it is to live under an authoritarian regime or a very poor country and for those people, Bitcoin can make a big difference. Bitcoin can really help people is such countries to WIN a bloodless revolution and improve their lives massively. |
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Well, it's a great time right now to launch it. Bitcoin prices are low but Bitcoin is about to go up again. Halving is just a year away and world economy is getting stronger again. Recent investment decisions seemed to "play safe" and therefore, high-risk assets like Bitcoin have been sold. But now, high-risk assets are getting more attractive again. Very likely to see more money being poured again in BTC soon. After making some losses, El Salvador really deserves it to be a bit less unlucky and timing is looking good currently. Well, losses are only losses if you finally sell and if El Salvador will HODL, even their initial Bitcoin investment could see some considerable returns. At least, timing for Bitcoin Bonds seems to be better this time. It's always a bit of luck, too. |
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a blockchain is not a court
Since we have on-chain transactions and Lightning now, it's even more obvious that the Blockchain can be compared to a court and less to a bus. Lightning is showing us how the bus comparison is not necessarily true. And a Lightning transaction also can't be compared to park and ride since many additional people would be brought to the park and ride to take the bus afterwards. But that doesn't work for the Blockchain. Lightning is "consolidating" transactions and settling it by broadcasting it to the Blockchain. We can't do that with additional people going into a bus. In my opinion, the court analogy is more accurate. |
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Da Avalanche heute eine Partnerschaft mit Amazon bekannt gegeben hat, wäre Avalanche ebenfalls ein heißer Coin für die Zukunft, der ab heute 19:00 (Verkündung der Partnerschaft) bis jetzt (01:30) allein 25% zugelegt hat:   Mit der Partnerschaft hat Avalanche einen großen Fisch an Land gezogen, denn Amazon gilt als als Schwergewicht im Internet. Gerade, dass Avalanche im Bärenmark solche Errungenschaften einfährt, spricht schon ziemlich stark für Avalanche. Vermutlich sind es vor allem die Subnets von Avalanche, die neben den bereits bekannten Eigenschaften von Avalanche für Unternemen wie Amazon so interessant sind. |
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Ich hoffe nur, dass alle dort jetzt kühlen Kopf bewahren und das gütlich lösen, anstatt seinen Account mit negativem Trust zu zerstören.
Klar, man könnte genauso gut argumentieren, er hätte es absichtlich gemacht aber damit ist ja auch keinem geholfen. Er sollte in Zukunft das BTC von einer vertrauenswürdigen Person verwalten lassen und sich so ggf. wieder Vertrauen erarbeiten.
Jetzt seinen Account mit negativem Trust zu zerstören, hilft ja auch niemandem.
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Ich stimme dir eigentlich bei deinem ganzen Beitrag zu aber ist das Trust-System nicht dafür gedacht? Dafür ist es gedacht aber es wird halt immer jeder Fall einzeln betrachtet. Und da scheint DT sich recht einig zu sein, dass es besser ist, diesen Vorfall nicht mit negativem Trust zu ahnden. Faktoren, die da hineinspielen, können vielfältig sein: - langjährige Zeit im Forum ohne Betrug - leistet einen positiven Beitrag zum Forum (bringt Kampagnen) - es macht keinen Sinn, dass er auf einmal einfach so mit Absicht 5.000 USD veruntreut (hätte durchaus negativen Trust geben können, er verliert die Kampagnen, von denen er offensichtlich seinen Lebensunterhalt finanziert, zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt hätte er vielleicht mehr Gelder veruntreuen können) - wenn man jetzt seinen Account unbeschädigt lässt, kann er gegebenenfalls diesen Betrag zumindest teilweise wieder ausgleichen - es werden auch so nun Maßnahmen ergriffen werden, dass julerz12 in der Folge keine weiteren unschönen Überraschungen verursachen kann (sei es Scam oder ein weiterer Hack), während sein Account trotzdem intakt bleibt - möglicherweise hat DT erst einmal abgewartet, wie julerz12 reagiert. Und da seine Reaktion sehr besonnen war, hat DT auch entsprechend besonnen reagiert. ... Sehe ich genauso, denn mit dieser Variante kann man weiteren Betrug recht zuverlässig vermeiden während man julerz12 selbst nocht eine zweite Chance gibt.
Aktuell stellt der Nutzer (leider) ein Risiko dar, wenn man mit ihm zusammen arbeitet. Zumal man ja noch nicht absehen kann, ob vielleicht irgendwo eine Hintertür in einem seiner Accounts oder Systeme existiert, wodurch auch in Zukunft wieder Gefahr herschen könnte. Wenn er mit roten Trusts überhäuft wird, ist das übertrieben aber eine kleine Warnung oder Info schadet in der Situation meiner Meinung nach nicht.
Für die Zukunft finde ich auch, dass er einen guten Escrow für die Kampagnengelder nutzen sollte.
Ja, er stellt ein Risiko dar und daher hat er ja auch bisher 1 DT / 2 nicht-DT negative Bewertungen bekommen. Das Risiko ist aber überschaubar. Wenn julerz12 jetzt direkt wieder anfangen würde, die Verwaltung von neuen Geldern zu fordern, dann würde DT mit Sicherheit reagieren. Ich denke, dass er mit 1-2 negativen Bewertungen, einigen neutralen Bewertungen sowie einer latent unterstützten Flagge davon kommt aber er steht natürlich unter Beobachtung. Im schlimmsten Fall ist er wirklich ein Scammer (was ich nicht vermuten würde) aber wenn das so wäre, würde DT den nächsten Vorfall anders ahnden. Dienstleister oder einzelne Nutzer wären aber gewarnt durch das, was in seinem Trust-Feedback dazu kam. |
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Nice giveaway 41 -1miau |
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Haha! Nachdem ich letztes Tippspiel maßlos übertrieben habe, probiere ich es diesmal anders. Vielleicht unterschreiten wir die $10k ja 2023 sogar nochmal kurzfristig.
Na bei dir steppt aber der Bär! Klar, ausgeschlossen werden kann das nie und es braucht nur einen weiteren Krypto-Skandal, da könnten die Werte schon erreicht werden aber selbst, wenn so ein Ereignis eintritt, wären doch viele Käufer bei so niedrigen Preisen am Zuschlagen und gerade, da das nächste Halving Ende 2023 nur noch 4 Monate weg ist, wären solch niedrige Preise zu diesem Zeitpunkt schon ziemlich die Ausnahme. Aber vielleicht ist dein Tipp ja ein Treffer, denn es muss ja nicht bis auf 13.200$ fallen, wenn der nächst nähere Teilnehmer deutlich höher tippt. Dann würdest du auch bei etwas höheren Preisen gewinnen. |
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It should be self-explanatory that Bitcoin can't be "right-wing" when it's denationalizing at the same time. Conservatives don't want denationalization. Right-wings aren't necessarily conservatives. But in Germany, conservatives are polling 35% currently and they are pro (German) Nation (which isn't bad as long as it's not nationalism). I can even present you some election slogans. The radical right (polling around 10-15%) is even more pro German Nation state. If we say something against German identity, they might punch us in our face.
In reality, Bitcoin is apolitical. It's truly neutral. I'll have to disagree. The roots of Bitcoin come from the Austrian school of economics. It's the Austrian perspective that sees the economy as an individual driven one, without centrally controlled instruments that can have the most significant affectation. A society that uses bitcoin solely as currency, is an Austrian envisioned one. Then, I would disagree again because "Bitcoin's roots" can't be described in a simple sentence. We should not make the mistake to limit Bitcoin to some of its characteristics. Bitcoin’s capped limit of 21M coins will make it a hard asset, yes, as Austrian Economists like it but it’s only one of many characteristics of Bitcoin. Bitcoin is not right-wing but also not left-wing. It’s completely neutral and it’s up to the people how Bitcoin is used. So far, many people tried to define Bitcoin while only really few appropriate definitions have been made. One of them is from gmaxwell and he made it back in 2016 on reddit, when he quoted someone giving his insight: It's a bit like on a Bus stop and every 10 minutes a bus comes by with a maximum capacity, you can ask people to pay more fees to get onto the bus but that doesn't change the fact that people will be left in the cold and there is no way around that. The late Ted Stevens might be impressed with the analogy here. But the Bitcoin blockchain is not like a bus in pretty much any way, nor are transactions like passengers. When someone creates a bus it isn't a single use event where every participant in the transit network needs to store a duplicate of that bus in their backyard forever. A better analogy is to to compare the blockchain to a court. In the land of imagination people were worried about being defrauded in their transactions, to prevent this they were sure to take all their trades before the land's court so that the perfectly trustworthy judge would not allow anyone to spend funds they already spent or fail to deliver the funds that they promised. Over time the court became heavily used and courts do not scale especially well and so the people of imagination land instead realized that they could arrange their business engagements with contracts and record keeping so that in the rare event of a dispute they could visit the court and obtain justice. But ordinary they wouldn't-- saving the court for disputes and other infrequent procedures and ceremonies (like name changes). Not only does this improve capacity, but it improves latency too-- you don't have to wait for the court to hear your case to make every purchase! So, gmaxwell compared Bitcoin to a (public) court. And a (public) court needs to be truly neutral, as it will apply code as law. In my opinion, it's a great analogy and one of the best defininions I’ve seen so far. Bitcoin is like a (public) court. |
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Avalache hat heute eine Partnerschaft mit Amazon präsentiert. Präsentiert wurde diese Neuigkeit heute um 19:00 und hier ist der passende Artikel. Dabei wird Amazon auch in die Errichtung von Subnets einsteigen, was eine sehr krasse Neuigkeit für Avalanche ist. Weiterhin ist eine Zusammenarbeit zwischen Entwicklern von Avalanche und Amazon geplant. Damit konnte Avalanche eine ganz große Errungenschaft einfahren, die allein heute fast 20% Kursanstieg generiert hat und mit dieser Partnerschaft wird Avalanche sich vor allem in Zukunft einen noch besseren Platz gegenüber der Konkurrenz sichern können, denn Amazon ist im Internet eine bekannte und einflussreiche Größe. |
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Wow, very sad to hear what happened to you, OP. I don't beleive that you are a malicious actor and tried to scam someone. I'll hope for DT to react in a moderate manner and don't destroy your account. We won't gain an advantage if DT does so. The most beneficial way: next time, you should give the campaign money to a trusted escrow and the trusted escrow should handle payments. By doing so, you could increase your reputation again. Since hacks are always responsible for speculations and hot takes, a few people here have wrongfully blamed Electrum to be insecure. It's just wrong! Electrum isn't insecure as it's open source and one of the most famous Bitcoin wallets. Open source and famous means, coders dedicated to Blockchain will review it frequently. As always let's locate the problem: the person in front of the screen. It might be unfortunate but somewhere you might have screwed up. We don't know where, it could be due to a download from a wrong site, you might have downloaded another app infecting your device, let your device open and someone got access to it or something else. But not because Electrum is insecure. tl;dr: blaming Electrum to be insecure because you got hacked is like blaming Bitcoin to be insecure because you've lost your private key. It's BULLSHIT. thanks for coming to my TED talk. But one question: Why so much funds were held on your wallet? 5k USD are a lot of money, enough for several weeks of payouts? Normally, allocations are much smaller, lasting for around 4 weeks, not more? Or am I just having a wrong impression? I'm not Bounty Manager of course. Best wishes for your recovery. |
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The rest is just like you described it. You can not be born without sharing your private details; nor you can die without doing it. You can't get married; you can't get a job.
We can but then, we'll need to go somewhere to the jungle or some islands "behind" Australia. I'm sure that there are also some unpopulated islands but climate is very harsh there. Of course, we won't have access to the internet there most likely, so no Bitcoin.
Privacy is more and more difficult to have in our days and one reason is the fact that people are less and less educated for valuing their privacy.
You are very right on this. When Ledger had been hacked, I brought up in our German section that Ledger handled the issue horribly! So many people got their personal information hacked. Just imagine where such personal details got sold to via Darknet. Some people received (physical) mails into their postboxes, where criminals were threatening them (because physical addresses got hacked). Some said: it's only personal data, no money was lost.  Big ouch! We should value our personal data, once it's hacked we could get in big trouble. Ledger might have been safe (so far) but from a privacy perspective, it's a big nooo! |
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The fact that i'm going to write a book on "Bitcoin as a new part of the human way of life"
Your title sound interesting but how are you planning to write a "book" out of it? Just printing stories of Bitcointalk members sending you their texts, will it be an interview or how are you planning to proceed? Maybe Alex Gladstein's book "Check your financial privilege" is what you look for. It's a great list of unique stories from people discussing how Bitcoin is beneficial for them. After all, these stories are not from 1st world countries as Bitcoin is much more useful for peple in dysfunctional countries like Sudan, Senegal, Kuba or Venezuela. Since Gladstein is a human rights activist, he's always looking for improvements. |
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So why would libertarians bother with that kind of stuff when they are just looking for an anti-capitalist tool such as Bitcoin?
Bitcoin being an anti what? Bitcoin is a fully libertarian and right-wing / capitalistic tool, provided that denationalizing central banking is a benefit for the free enterprise system. Well, that's a common misconception. It should be self-explanatory that Bitcoin can't be "right-wing" when it's denationalizing at the same time. A Nation state is inherently right-wing (but it can be left-wing, too, maybe current China could be an example). In reality, Bitcoin is apolitical. It's truly neutral. It's what people use if for because Bitcoin can be used for many purposes. Let's compare it to gold. Gold can also be used for many purposes. First of all, gold is a chemical element and can also be used for many purposes.
About John McAfee: he had made some contributions in his earlier days but overally, especially the last years, he has been a great grifter. Anyone still remembers how he shilled Verge in 2017 / 2018? Anyone remembers his own, unsuccesful shitcoin? I believe John McAfee had humble intentions but somehow his greed and shill problems outweighed his (mosly early) contributions. |
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