Great to see your Escrow service and I would definitely consider you service in case I need an Escrow.
So far, you have been a very reliable member of Bitcointalk and shown you contribution to our community frequently.

Probably I'll need to change around 120$ of USDT into BTC or ETH (not sure yet) and if that deal would be eligible for your Escrow, I would be happy to get it done.
If so, I would reply here in early February again.

I don't want to use a centralized exchange as I would like to support Bitcointalk deals. 

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I've never offered an Escrow, so I don't know how time-consuming it'll be but it doesn't seem to be an easy job, some might want to scam you or their trading partner, so adding a fee would be justified as a compensation for your service.
Most Escrows charge some basis fees: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=276897.0 / https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5047302.0


Best wishes for your service! 

Die Sache ist halt auch die, dass für einen Litecoin-Preisanstieg deutlich weniger Aufmerksamkeit und Volumen erforderlich ist als bei Bitcoin.
Aber wie du schon sagtest, war 2019, als das Halving Mitte August stattfand kurstechnisch etwas seltsam, da der Preis (verglichen zu BTC) von Januar bis April stark antieg, um dann bis zum Halving (Mitte August) wieder stark zu fallen:



In USD stieg der Preis immerhin bis Ende Juni.

Ich habe das damals allerdings nicht verfolgt, welche Ereignisse da noch eine Rolle gespielt haben.
Natürlich könnte sich der damalige, massive Anstieg Januar bis April (BTC) / Juni (USD) erneut wiederholen, die letzten Wochen hat Litecoin ja bereits sehr gut zugelegt.
Da das Halving diesmal erneut im August stattfindet (wenn auch etwas früher) wären bei ähnlichem Verlauf wie 2019 bis Mitte April weiter steigende Kurse möglich. Persönlich wäre mir das etwas zu spekulativ, da ich das weder damals verfolgt habe noch eine korrelation sehe, dass es auch 2023 3,5 Monate vor dem Halving massiv in den Keller geht...

A really 100% fair governance is difficult to achieve because in a society, you'll always have different points of views. For example, you have bought a new house in the suburbs. Then, a new street directly to the city center will be build directly behind your garden. Some people will like it to get easier and faster to the city center. Some businessmen will like it to have faster delievery time to the city center.
But you and your neightbours won't like it most likely since you'll get noise and pollution from the traffic.
There are always conflicting interests, we could find much more examples.
So, even a completely fair governance will not prevent such things but it can try to improve things as much as possible.

As someone from Germany, we have seen a wide range of governance forms.
Interestingly, the more decentralized ones have been much more fair (Weimarer Republik (1919-1933) and our current form (BRD = Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Western Germany) based on Grundgesetz (constitution from 1949)).
Although I need to say that Weimarer Republik got abused when Hitler seized power in 1933 and set up a new form of government (fascism) removing the democratic core principles Weimarer Republik - and we know what he did later.  
And then, we had a form of government existing in parallel with BRD (Western Germany), called DDR (Eastern Germany). BRD and DDR existed in parallel until DDR collapsed in 1989 and Germany was united as BRD.
DDR has been a Communist dictatorship and tried to build a wall (Berlin wall) to prevent people from fleeing to Western Germany because Western Germany had much more liberties and simply a better living standard.

I don't know Romanian history but I believe DDR has been similar to Ceausescu dictatorship? Both were abolished in 1989.  

Bitcoin is a great example here because of censorship resistance. It's very dificult to abuse Bitcoin. Not impossible like a 51% attack but attacking it will lead to a very high cost for the attacker. A cost, he can't afford. Proof of WORK.  
But I also think mixing Bitcoin and real-life issues lacks a bit comparability.
Bitcoin might be fair but it can't be applied to our street issue above.

Achso, du hofft also darauf, dass Ethereum bis zum Shanghai Update / unmittelbar danach gegenüber Bitcoin im Preis zulegt und du dann kurz nach dem Update Ethereum gegen Bitcoin tauschen kannst? Ja, das könnte Sinn machen aber wenn du auf ein erfolgreiches Update hoffst, wäre das ja ein Verkauf des Ethereums nach dem Update?

Groß is relativ. Da diese Währung der BRICS-Staaten vermutlich signifikant unter dem Einfluss Chinas stehen wird, sollte allein schon der wirtschaftlich starke Teil Ostasiens mit Japan und Südkorea da nicht mitmachen, da die China sehr skeptisch gegenüberstehen. Der neu gewählte Präsident von Südkorea (der zudem pro Krypto ist) gilt, ist z.B. ein großer Kritiker Nordkoreas.
Ich glaube nicht, das diese Staten eine zentralisierte CBDC benutzen werden, die signifikant von China kontrolliert werden wird.
Weiterhin werden die Staaten nicht mitmachen, denen China im Südchinesischen Meer auf den Keks geht + Australien / Neuseeland.
Ja, die wirtschaftliche Stärke der BRICS-Staaten wird nicht klein sein aber die wirtschaftliche Stärke der übrigen Staaten wie Japan, Südkorea, Australien, USA, Kanada + EU sollte schon deutlich stärker sein.

Abgesehen davon glaube ich nicht, dass Bitcoin im internationalen Zahlungsverkehr demnächst signifikant zunehmen wird. Vielleicht zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt aber aktuell sehe ich da einfach keine Vorteile.
Da die BRICS-Staaten sich definitiv für eine zentralisierte CBDC unter der Federführung Chinas entscheiden werden, einfach weil China dort am weitesten entwickelt ist und das wirtschaftlich stärkste Land ist, ändert sich erst etwas daran, wenn intern in den BRICS-Staaten ein anderes Land China in wirtschaftlicher Stärke ablösen sollte, z.B. Indien.
Allerdings das ist aktuell unwahrscheinlich.
Und selbst, wenn es so kommen sollte, scheint Indien ebenfalls eher Gefallen zu finden an digitalem Zentralbankgeld, weniger an Bitcoin.

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In der aktuell eher ruhigen, wirtschaftlichen Lage wird die Inflation bestimmt noch eine Weile recht hoch sein, sich aber über 2023 gesehen weiter normalisieren.
Das sind an sich gesehen sehr gute Aussichten für Bitcoin. Geld wird dann wieder investiert werden und egal, ob die Inflation 2023 zwischen 5 und 6% bleibt oder auf 3 bis 4% zurückgeht, Bitcoin dürfte für beide Szenarien ein attraktives Investment sein.
Bisher war Bitcoin eher bei Turbulenzen anfällig, da es nach wie vor von vielen institutionellen Investoren als hochspekulativ angesehen wird und daher eines der ersten Assets ist, was bei (drohenden) Turbulenzen verkauft wird.
Da Bitcoin aktuell sehr niedrig steht, ist es zudem ein perfekter Einstiegspunkt.
Gold ist bereits heute wieder auf dem Stand von Anfang Mai. Damals stand Bitcoin bei 35k.
Aktuell ist Bitcoin im Vergleich zu Gold also deutlich unterbewertet, wenn man es mit dem Stand von Anfang Mai 2022 vergleicht.

Den Unterschied machten hier die kryptointernen Turbulenzen (Terra Luna + FTX), die Bitcoin in den Keller schickten.
Sollte es kryptointern keine weiteren Turbulenzen geben, spricht vieles aktuell für einen baldigen Kursanstieg des Bitcoins.  

Das stimmt, sollte man nicht unterschätzen, wenn Litecoin überall angepriesen wird.  
Viele Altcoins waren stets nur kurze Besucher in den oberen Plätzen nach Marktkapitalisierung aber Litcoin hält sich da schon, seit es diesen Coin gibt.
So gesehen, ist Litecoin nach Bitcoin der Altcoin, der sich am längsten so gut halten konnte und noch immer gefragt ist.
Viele Coins von vor 2014, die damals neben Litecoin bekannt waren, sind heute irrelevant.


https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/20130714/

Und wenn es darum geht, einen anderen Coin als Bitcoin zu empfehlen, hört man neben Ethereum immer wieder Litecoin, dem etabliertesten Coin unter den Altcoins. Vielleicht generiert der Coin bei den Leuten, die ihn anpreisen besonders viele Klicks. Irgendwie taucht er auf jeden Fall immer wieder auf YouTube auf. 

Wenn du mal wieder von einer "Hetzkampagne" herumfaselst, sagt das mehr über dich und deine kremlfreundliche Position aus als über den Inhalt deines spekulativen Beitrags.  


Es wäre schön, wenn du mal etwas differenzieren würdest, anstatt deine Polemik hier zu verbreiten.
Denn wie bitcoincidence schreibt, wäre solch ein Szenario für Bitcoin ein großer Rückschlag. Das liegt schlicht daran, dass die Adoption von Bitcoin weit zurückgeworfen werden würde. Bitcoin würde, nachdem es in den ersten Tagen bereits Probleme hatte, das Image einer Darknetwährung abzulegen, erneut einen Reputationsverlust erleiden. Dass viele Banken (Fiat-Kanäle) sich davon (vorerst) fernhalten würden und auch da viele Leute verständlicherweise einen großen Bogen darum machen würde, selbst wenn Bitcoin nichts dafür kann.
Bitcoin hat positive Seite aber auch negative Seiten und als Bitcoiner sollte man es nicht lobpreisen, sollte Putler wirklich beabsichtigen, Bitcoin zu benutzen, um in der Ukraine noch mehr Unheil anzurichten.

Natürlich, die Technologie Bitcoin selbst kann nichts dafür, trotzdem wäre das Ansehen des Bitcoins beschädigt. Wie die Pleite von Mt. Gox, die Verwendung von Bitcoin in Darknet zu dubiosen Zwecken in den Anfangstagen des Bitcoin oder unseriöse Betrüger nicht hilfreich waren / sind.

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Allerdings ist dieses Szenario hypothetisch und wir sollten auch wissen, dass für Putin dezentrale, zensurresistente Kryptowährungen eine große Gefahr sind, denn sie gefährden seine Position.  

Aber hey, man kennt es ja von dir. Putler mordet herum und das einzige was von dir kommt ist hypothetischer Müll "gibt dann Hetzkampagne mimimi" und, wenn sich ein Terrorstaat Bitcoinreserven anlegen will, um weiter morden zu können, kommt "fein Kursexplosion".  
Das ist einfach nur arm...

But then, I can't add an additional column (präsentiert von) as it's only a horizontal line and I'm using my _ _ _ to define the size of my columns.
So, won't work for my table above, unfortunately.

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I've only used the same characters, the space seems to be a glitch maybe? Doesn't show up in my preview at least.
Let's see how it'll look like when using “⠀” (U+2800):


Edit: seems to be working!  
Many thanks for your help and your solution.  

Aaaaaaand participation deadline is over.
Feel free to check if I made some errors in adding your predictions.  

I've added your bullish prediction but since it's so bullish, I'm curious why it's even more bullish than my prediction.  


Added as well and that's really a big effort in your spreadsheet.  
+1
It's truly a professional prediction.  

Are you sure that it's bullish enough for our giveaway?  

Edit: I've just checked you spreadsheet in detail and it's interesting that there's not a single prediction above 774450...
I really expect a huge BTC price increase, so will be interesting how it'll turn out. 

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Good luck everyone! I'll leave some updates here from time to time to see how it's going.
May our giveaway honor GazetaBitcoin's couch Bonbon L,  

Aber warum möchtest du dann einen Teil deines Ethereums aus dem Staking gegen Bitcoin tauschen, wenn du erwartest, dass der Kurs durch das erfolgreiche Update steigen wird. Dann wäre es doch kontraproduktiv, das Ethereum zu verkaufen, wenn du erwartest dass der Kurs steigt.
Oder meinst du, dass du Ethereum, welches du nicht im Staking hast, kurz in BTC tauschst, den Dip abwartest und wenn der Dip vorbei ist, das BTC wieder in Ethereum tauschst, weil du langfristig mehr Potential bei Ethereum siehst?

Vielleicht war es noch die Hoffnung, wieder Richtung 100.000 USD zu gehen. So tief war man bis dahin schießlich nicht gefallen.
Zusätzlich war im Vergleich zu den Allzeithochs
2014 = 1.100 USD
2017 = 19.000 USD (ca. 15x Steigerung zu 2014)
2021 = 65.000 USD (ca. 3.5x Steigerung zu 2017)
im Jahre 2021 noch "Luft nach oben".

Daher fielen einige Tipps reichlich bullisch aus. 
Mal sehen, wie es diesmal kommt, 1 Jahr ist viel Zeit.

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Gerne doch, die rumänischen Stipendiaten sind immer willkommen. 

Das ist in der Tat eine sehr bärische Prognose. 
Aber bisher hat es sich ausgezahlt, gegen den Trend zu tippen, den die meisten Teilnehmer hier erwartet hatten. 

+1
Das wünschen wir ebenfalls. 
Viel Glück allen Teilnehmern. 

Mă bucur din nou pentru că GazetaBitcoin îmi face cunoscut concursul în secțiunea românească a forumului. Doresc să îi invit pe toți participanții eligibili la acest concurs, deoarece predicția prețului este mereu interesantă. Anul trecut, participanți au oferit estimări muuult prea optimiste, după cum puteți vedea aici. Am avut o estimare pentru finalul lui iunie și una pentru finalul lui decembrie.
A fost o mare surpriză să vedem prăbușirea suferită de Terra Luna și FTX. A fost foarte trist să-l vedem pe Putler invadând Ucraina în februarie. Multe monede alternative au pierdut mult din valoare. Așa că va fi foarte interesant să vedem predicțiile voastre și unde se va situa în final prețul Bitcoin, la un an distanță de acum încolo. 
Mult succes tuturor!

We know already that Bitcointalk's table formatting is quite buggy.
For example we need to apply some tricks to get a proper size of the first column: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5105539.0

But one of my tables is making issues.
It's not a big table but I can't enlarge one column in it:



If I add more _ _ _, it's resulting in a retun and my _ _ _ continue below... :





It's weird because preview is fine...  


It's not useful at all to have such a limited space.
Any solution anyone? Why does it seem to be a limited space per column?

Kein Problem, das wertvolle BTC habe ich an deine in der PN genannte Adresse gesendet. 

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Ist notiert und habe mich mit GazetaBitcoin bereits abgestimmt.
Dass du den Ledger hier anbietest, ist sehr generös, mal sehen, ob sich wer meldet. An minerjones habe ich ebenfalls bereits eine Bestätigungsnachricht gesendet, dass er Becheid weiß und ihr alle Details mit ihm ausmachen könnt.

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Danke für die öffentliche Info und die weitere Abwicklung samt PN an gbianchi.
Mal sehen, was gbianchi schreibt, entweder hier oder in der PN, dann sehen wir weiter. 

Das passt ebenfalls, habe ich als Nr. 26 hinzugefügt, allerdings etwas abgekürzt, damit es in die Tabelle passt.
Diese Durchhalteparole kann man sogar so abändern, dass man bei stagnierender Wirtschaft / stagnierendem Aktienmarkt einwendet, dass Bitcoin sich schon bald von Aktienmarkt lösen wird um in der Folge im Preis stärker anzusteigen.
Oft auch auf Gold bezogen. 

What our Universe looked like in the most early days is a very great analogy. From what science knows, it has been extremely chaotic. But could we have lived in such an environment? Very unlikely…
As most of the dust had settleted down, galaxies emerged, it still took a very long time until our solar system came into existance.

And after a long time, our planet finally got habitable. To reach that point, most of the chaos needed to be settled.
It’s similar to Bitcoin as a great example how to settle a space formerly known for chaos (or at least failed (but still important attempts or researches) like from Chaum) or we can also take our DT system to a lesser degree. It settled down chaos (scammers) and there’s a set of rules and these rules / DT1 members can be changed by the community if there’s consensus to do so. 

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As someone living in a capitalist country, I believe we should arrange the shop like that, to make them buy the most expensive products and more than they wanted to buy.
It’s called product placement.
Just a joke, sorry. 

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It's not unlikely that Elon Musk would end up as pirateat40 or be someone who's running 1xbit. 

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Regarding governs / governing mechanisms:

As franky 1 has explained already very well, we should try to get an understanding of governs / governing mechanisms / government / governance and consensus.
I’m more used to it to understand "govern" as a verb ("to govern"). At least for our article, I’m referring to "governance" from lat gubernare, which can be applied to a nation state, a community, a sports club, a company, a protocol and so many more. Governance can be achieved in many ways and one important part of governance is to act accoring a consensus.
This consensus should be as fair as possible and involving everyone who’s affected by it. It’s not easy to do it and some people might consider authoritarian governances more efficient but efficient is not everything: It’s efficient vs. fair.

I’m in favor of a fair governance instead of an efficient one. Yes, an efficient one might have advantages but also disadvantages.
Bitcoin is efficient and fair, so it’s already a very special form of governance and I would of course agree to it to call it a fair governance.
Maybe I’m just too focussed on Bitcoin’s tech but that’s what so fascinating about Bitcoin. It’s a special form of governance itself.

To extend this a bit, maybe we can elaborate our current DT system. As you’ve explained, creating trust is essential here on Bitcointalk because (almost) everyone here is an anonymous actor. Scamming is quite easy because scammers can run away easily. So, we need to evaluate, who’s trustworthy to avoid getting scammed. Very early in Bitcointalk’s history, the community agreed to follow a member-based reputation system.
That worked well many years but it was very centralized because DT1 members were picked by theymos.
Some trolls compained that DT is just beneficial "for the elites of the forum" and that some DT members would abuse governance.
But still, DT has been very centralized and in 2019, theymos decided to improve DT by making changes, to make it more fair. Each Bitcointalk member could vote DT1 members in or out via their own trust list.
DT got much more decentralized which also enabled more scammers to get into DT because a vaccum of power always gets abused but overally, making DT more decentralized has been a success in my opinion because changes were evaluated diligently.

So, any opinions on what DT system you would favor?
-   DT before 2019 changes
-   DT after 2019 changes
I would go for a DT after 2019 changes because it’s more fair, more inclusive. More members can participate and be part of DT decisions.

So, yes, we should try analyze what’s a good (fair) governance and what’s a bad (closed) governance and we should try to support and improve the good (fair) governance. We should not oppose a governance itself because it will be replaced by someone powerful trying to seize any vacuum of power.
So, we need to make any system resistant against abuse itself and Bitcoin is achieving that, Bitcoin is censorship-resistant.
A similar issue will come up if we look at PoW vs. PoS. We can take Polkadot, for example, where dPoS (delegated PoS) is used. Polkadot’s inflation is 10% per year and these inflation coins will go to stakers, which are already rich and will make them even richer. In dPoS such rich stakers will be able to consolidate their power, which will lead to a massive centralization over time. Rich stakers will be able to abuse it. I'm sure we'll get a big discussion around it some time later, maybe in 2 - 5 years. 

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Yeah, that's an important point.

Barlow only supported Cheney before Cheney became known for supporting Bush's war. And then, Barlow stopped supporting Cheney, which, in my opinion is a honoroable move because Barlow didn't want to support what Cheney supported because it was against Barlow's ideals. I'm honoring Barlow's decision.
In addition, Barlow has been a vocal critic of Trump before Barlow unfortunately died in 2018.

Politics is not easy because many people come and go. People should always review their own positions and endorsement, which Barlow did. No many people are reconsidering their own positions and endorsements because often it's easier to stay in power by not changing anything, by making convenient decision.
But Barlow stood up for what is right.  

Great and very detailed prediction, I've added it to my list.

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Since time for participation is running out today, I'll also make my calculation:

Time left until January 31, 2023, 23.59h:
24 days
6 hours


On average, each day will be mined (1 Block per 10 minutes) 144 Blocks per day (6 Blocks per hour x 24 hours = 144 Blocks)

Calculation if we won't see any hashrate change:
(24 days * 144 Blocks per day) = 3.456 Blocks
+ (6 hours x 6 Blocks per hour) = 36 Blocks
= 3.492 Blocks until our given date

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3.492 + 770.843 (current Block) = 774.335


Now, we need to adjust our prediction due to difficulty changes.
Difficulty changes are made due to hashrate changes, which are following BTC price.
I'm expecting BTC to make a nice move towards 25k and more miners will join the network (hashrate increase) => more Blocks will be mined.
It's difficult to predict, how hashrate will be affected but I'm adding a total of 5% more Blocks to be mined.

3.492 * 1,05 = 3.666,6 Blocks

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3.666,6 + 770.843 (current Block) = 774.335

My prediction: 774.510

It's quite common that his far earlier coin DigiCash, failed. Quite a few electronic cash systems were launched back then and all of them failed, until Satoshi launched Bitcoin.  
So, I don't blame Chaum for failing.
It's like try and error. He made valuable contributions despite failing.  

But I'm quite disappointed how he launched and designed his new coin, xx-coin. Because we know he can do better, much better.
He abandoned everything what made Bitcoin so successful.

I have thought a lot about it why Chaum's coin failed and a few explanations I got are:

- He didn't made the decision. Maybe he hired some stupid marketing guys and they don't have any clue about a good crypto currecy. And his marketing guys advised Chaum very badly (probably).
- It's a trap! Maybe he's just testing waters to see how to make a perfect launch (unlikely because he collected VC funds).
- He's just clueless himself how to compete against several 10k shitcoins and after Bitcoin was launched over 15 years ago, crypto industry has changed a lot. And he messed it up...
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I don't know...  


Most likely it is, dear GazetaBitcoin.  

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But Bitcoin is governed by its code. And that's a good thing. The rules are simple enough and preventing abuse at the same time. That's what we need and Bitcoin is achieving that. Yes, it can be changed via nodes (a democratic element) but similar to a constitution, the code is very difficult to be changed (what's also a good characteristic, especially compared to Shitcoins).
I would differentiate between good governance and bad governance. Bad governance includes governance which can be abused, for example in PoS. I'm very critical of PoS because it's going into a different direction compared to Bitcoin. Rich stakers will be able to abuse it. I'm sure we'll get a big discussion around it some time later, maybe in 2 - 5 years.  
Of course, PoS is also having advantages but I'm not convinced yet.

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If there hasn't been a free and democratic vote (like North Korea) of our current government, paying taxes is voluntarily.  
Or we should establish such a rule globally.  

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I can agree here and in my opinion it's essential to be able as a citized to vote out your government regularly if you government is abusing power. Bitcoin can be a part of checks and balances. Independant courts, a strong constitution or transparency against corporate corruption.
For example in North Korea, there are no checks and balances at all. It's a failed Communist state led by Kim Jong Un. Kim Jong Un can't be voted out, he's a maniac. People are piss poor. I would not want to live there. Checks and balances are very important and Bitcoin can be part of this and should be part of this in my opinion.
But I'm not an economist, so I'm not qualified to make a suggestion here.  

Done, all changes are finished. 
Back then I've just copied the explanation from where it was suggested, so I've not changed anything but of course, I'l try to add it right away next time for consistency purposes. 
And maybe it's easier for you to implement in into your own topic if I'll comment on all changes here. 

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Done, I've removed the entry: