Well, it's OP who wanted a cheap portable wallet made out of a flash drive so most went along with his scenario. The utility of having an entire working wallet on a flash drive and not just the encrypted seeds you can extract when in need and import into the laptop or computer you would anyhow need to actually use the coins kind of fails to impress me.

But still, I assume most looked at it from the point of having around easy access to spendable coins, not about securing life savings, if the second I would 100% agree with you.

Yeah a total mess but I can see where it came from, he said he bought a small panel that had a USB port, this is where the confusion started, there are a ton of small foldable panels on Amazon that have a DC output for charging phones or laptops, and there are small solar panels for security cameras also, as all of them run on DC on either 12 or 15W. I have one of those for emergencies when I go hiking but honestly, if it weren't so light compared to what I'm used carrying, one power bank is way better, but less funny!

Back to the issue at hand, I'm not sure how he is running those asics on 10kw panels, he has 2x1350, 3250, and 3x 1050W, so 9150W.
He is getting barely 10% excess so no way to run this setup but during the day as he won't have the time to fill the battery unless he shuts the miners way before sunset when he can still squeeze in 2-3 hours the equivalent of one full peak power hour of production to fill the battery for load balancing but this will get him even less running time each day.

This goes against decentralization as you go back to having a representative that can negotiate things on behalf of people he doesn't know and who hasn't their vote or trust, and in some cases, not just one it ends far worse. This whole thing of having someone represent Bitcoin ended badly years ago with the Bitcoin Foundations' failures and scandals, so why stick to something like this?
Exchanges should represent only their business and their company, nothing else.


BATMS does a way better job than exchanges or an entry point with no extra steps.
First, you don't go through the risks of KYC for small sums, it forces you to already have your wallet, so to respect the "not your keys, not your coins"  law and it also gives you far more anonymity, which is a thing for sure you're going to regret losing and you won't feel tempted by the huge numbers of shitcoins exchange advertise since BATMS barely support a few coins.

And despite what others have said, for somebody who just wants to see how Bitcoin works, I would still recommend a BATM over some P2P exchange, P2P still involves a 3rd party, a bank transfer, or any other 3rd party payment solution to pay for those coins, too many headaches for a newbie who is interested in how the coin's tech, not in trading, buying and selling for $.

So, if I want to purchase BTC cheap you recommend using LTC? 

OP, to end this once and for all, just say it, you use Binance spot rate, you use +1% on coinmarket aggregate, or something like that.
It's not that you sell or you can sell BTC at a fixed rate of exactly 28000 both today and one week from now.
As for the $20 upfront fee, just drop it, nobody will pay it!


Well, he claims he's accepting Paypal for crypto so technically he's also taking a risk the other way around, that is, if he plans to send you the coins at all.
Anyhow, that $20 is just so shady, making me think he's after that rather than the whole deal.

I wonder where the 23% comes from



So right now it's 0.0777 in profit with 0.0200+0.0531, a bit better than yours but still, you get
0.0731 in expenses and 0.0777 in revenue, which is 0.0041 in profit, so a 5% margin, nowhere near a 23% stated there.
Taking into account the current mempool spam that drove the fees up and you get a 5% bonus from this which might not be there tomorrow the profit is paper thin, one tiny dif increase and you're losing coins.


Bitdeer, which is actually the only one that has its own hashrate as it's run by Bitmain and it's not simply a reseller of rented hash rate from a pool.
Oh, and their price plan is better than Binance
Hashrate Fee: $0.0172/T/D vs $0.0200/T/D

For what?
As far as I understand he moved some tokens to get a bigger pie of an airdrop in which you receive tokens based on your holdings, right?
CZ comment is the one stupid here, Justin did in this situation exactly what blockchains were designed to do, allowing everyone to move how many coins they want where they want, it's actually Binance that is going against these principles by dictating in a commie way how much you're allowed to get, ignoring the actual balances.


So much for decentralization, so you're not allowed to participate if you own more than x, and you have a reason why that should be?
Next step, no more transactions over 0.001 satoshis are allowed, coins should be for the masses, not for whales, right? 

Reading this after reading hundreds of pages on users here claiming that a terrorist attack is happening on Bitcoin with jpg monkeys, that spam done by people minting memes on the chain is killing normal daily transactions and it's making the true purpose of Bitcoin unachievable, thinking those evil three letter agencies are scared of a protocol that can be killed by 10x10 pixels is kind of....


But, but..that's not what Satoshi planned!
Btw, new 24h interval record, 566,441!

That's definitely not what's happening right now, only exchanges are doing a bit of consolidation as they anyhow pass the fees to the customers, with only a brief moment of 6sat/b confirmations normal users probably are not planning on doing it for weeks.

Besides, if it were for consolidations we wouldn't have a record in Bitcoin transactions, as consolidations would be bigger in size and thus less possible individual transactions in a block. The culprit is brc20 tokens, which unlike the previous ordinals are no longer constrained by a huge fee based on their size, back then when they were minting they were keeping it under 3-4 sat at max, now, it's different.
Until this new hype dies down I assume we're going to have another weekend with mempool going up rather than down.

Interesting is that the record is also happening with relatively normal block time, we don't have a record of blocks in the last 24 hours, just 148 so far from times when we even had over 160 for two or three days one after other.

As for why this is happening, not so many are going to like the reason, it's again "spam" or how did they call it, a "terrorist" attack on bitcoin!
https://unisat.io/brc20/meme  

They use whoissecure, the address you see is the address and contact information of the service.
Not necessarily a scam just from that, Binance s doing the same for example:
https://whois.domaintools.com/binance.com

But the funny part with these guys is definitely this one:


Never in my life heard of a service that will ban you if in 4 days you don't deposit or you don't place an order or anything like that. I'm too lazy to try but is they have a counter on this time limit it would be beyond ridiculous!

Omg!

You have nothing!
If you had anything you wouldn't have changed your plan on what your business is about 100 times.
You were supposed to be a mining farm, then an investment fund, then a defi then an Ico then a mess of everything and the only thing you managed to be is a pure scam.

So you're just a desperate scammer that begs left and right for investors to finally get some money besides your unemployment check if you even qualify for one of those. This scam has been going on for far too long, just drop it, nobody believes your crap, and nobody will believe it anytime soon because it's simply ridiculous and everyone with a once functioning synapse will realize what garbage of a project this is.

You were supposed to be fully licensed in the EU in 2021, yet even now your license is still pending. Just lol!!!!
If you indeed had those 300% APY returns, it's again 3 years since you started you should have multiplied $1k into $80k, why are you still begging for peanuts?
Just go away, go and scam somewhere else, at least bitcointalk scammers, no matter how despicable they are they know when to call it quits!

Oh, and for every possible victim reading just the last page and a bit of SEO
Heliosfund is a scam, stay away from it!

The source is trust me bro, I heard from a friend of a relative of a guy who meet his stepmom on Tinder that she once dreamt of this!

The simple problem with this story is that if the guy who pays in Bitcoin does so because there is no access to other fiances, why is the other guy accepting it since he has no way of cashing out and how does he pay for the stuff? I met a ton of Ukraine refugees last year, they all were trying to exchange hrivnas for USD or euros, they all had either cash in USD or euros, and they had a few debit cards, in the tens of trips in welcoming centers, I've never heard on asking if he can pay in Bitcoin.
It's a psychological thing, and it won't change in decades, when running for your life you want value you can touch and that can be easily changed in times of need, not something you like this. It's not Bitcoin's fault for being so perceived but it's hard to change how humans think, it will take a while.


Yeah, cool story, and what has he done with those bitcoins since he had no way to transfer them or exchange them to fiat?
He paid who with coins, and why did those guys take coins when they also had nowhere to spend them, since, you said it, it was a desert, quite a funny looking desert with 5G poles every kilometer? And why did the guy abandon them and suddenly decided then to continue the trip when he got Bitcoins, why didn't they pay him in coins the entire sum from the start?

Seriously, lock this farce!

So in Russia, this is a feature?   
It used to be extra or why are so happy about the current models?
Oh, and it has door and trunk handles, do they come off?




Of course you did, reminds me of how Russian the elite KAMAZ truck is
https://www.race-dezert.com/home/how-russian-is-a-kamaz-dakar-winning-truck-120782.html


Or here is a better one:
Kalashnikov statue changed because of German weapon
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41367394
Even your most sold weapon that you're so proud of is just a stolen copy, and it so looks like you even managed to make a statue with it instead of the AK.

Show me one Russian product, one, that is at least comparable to the cheapest shit produced in Europe that is entirely Russian.
And btw, it's the same with everyone, everyone screams that everything is made in China when in reality even Chinese phones look like this:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/03/huaweis-p40-phone-contains-us-parts-despite-blacklisting/

At least be proud that there is something Europe will never be able to compete with Russia, poverty, lies, and propaganda, and at least to me it looks like you're happy being lied to day after day, that's why your society will never get better, you never accept when the others tell your whole country is so dip in the shit you should close your eyes and mouth not to drown, but just because you perceive everyone as an enemy you continue on your path, going deeper and deeper.
Largest country in the world, full of resources, and with a life expectancy as sub-Saharan Africa and a median wage lower than Mexico.
But keep believing you're doing great!


The USSR was twice as large, had twice the population and far more resources, and it still ended in the trashcan of history.
Tell me the reason Russia won't!

If it's feasible, why is nobody doing it?
Simple, because the cost of the batteries will never be offset, especially since you need a ton and you're going to have a full cycle every day.
If by overlapping with solar panels thus maximizing the interval in which you generate enough power to 12 hours as you don't generate electricity immediately after sunrise, you will still need to power one miner for the other 12 hours on batteries, one 3KW miner means 36 KWH, so that's half the battery of an electric car, that's going to have 365 cycles a year so it will be dead in 5 years at most, not to mention losing capacity, make the cheapest option possible with half used batteries sand you're up for another $10k upfront and $10k your miners needs to recover, this will an s19 makes around 3k a year before electricity.
Feasible? No!!!


You're basically telling people that with enough investment you can build greenhouses and grow tomatoes in Svalbard.
Yes, you can, but why is nobody doing it?  

From the article:


Tracking the product will not erase all possibilities of fraud!
No tracking, no timestamp, no code, no blockchain will be able to deal with fraud in the food industry.

It might sound tempting when you think the farmer wills can each carrot, assign a code to it and you can check that on an app to be sure you've received that exact carrot, but nothing will stop the farmer from importing illegally 100 tons of carrots and labeling all of them as eco bio green ultra natural gluten free carrots!
Same for the meat industry, things get so complicated here because you simply have no way with a simple database to know if the said ingredients are indeed part of the mix that was used for your salami, this can only be done with a 24/7 monitoring of the entire facility with health inspectors at every step and thus, why the need for blockchain at all?

Oh and btw, and for everyone cheering for this solution, it uses Bitcoin SV blockchain, so, might have to think once or twice before clapping!


But it works, right?
I just washed myself with a shampoo that uses blockchain technology and I need a lawnmower to shave!

If a max of 27C is enough for datacenters to start shutting down then we will be at 100Exa by summer  
I suppose rather than Texas there are other places in the world where there is simply not enough cheap electricity available anymore and all the rumors about crackdown after crackdown on Kazach miners might be true to some extent.
There are rumors about Venezuela also,
https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/04/20/bitcoin-miners-trapped-in-alleged-20-billion-corruption-scheme-in-venezuela/?sh=21313b7b6b65

so, a ton of possibilities.
But, rather refreshing to see some larger moves, be it up or down, it was really boring.


Especially mistakes, but I wonder how a fully enforced US ban will look compared to what happened after China did it, probably one of the events where the start will look the same with a huge drop in difficulty but the recovery will probably be nowhere near the same if there would be a recovery in a year timeframe at all.
Same with the halving, I'm so curious if we stick to patterns or if we completely go off script this time.

Why it doesn't feel right?
That's how things are supposed to be, people deposit money when they want, and people should withdraw money when they want.

What's really surprising in this whole situation is that the whole panic started after someone managed to get 72 billion out of the bank without a hiccup, proving the bank had that 72 billion and not by somebody not being able to get his money out. Furthermore, the other action that triggered more panic and the price dwindling on the stock market is that they plan on liquidating close to 100 billion in assets to prepare for more withdraw and balance sheets, thus proving they still have at least another 100 billion ready. This is a bit of fucked up situation where a bank that has the money is going down while others who are probably in worse situations are watching calmly from the sure simply because their users are not that keen to cash out.

Anyhow, I don't know why everyone is panicking now, the major storm was back in March when they went down from 120$ to 12$ per share.

There is no such guarantee and for sure it's not going to be a formula to do so.

In case somebody is interested in the details of the formula, here is it, pretty old stuff (in bitcoin time)
https://investory-video.com/blog/earn-bitcoin-crypto-millionaire

It basically estimates the whole coinmarketcap of Bitcoin is going to be the same as the global wealth and then divide it to find how much would a million be in BTC.
Oh, and BTW, the estimate is no longer accurate, since the global wealth is not 317 trillion but 463.6 trillion the amount of BTC needed has also gone down to 0.045356.

This is a bit stupid, because if the global wealth goes to 4600 trillion, you will be only needing 0.0045 BTC, so 140$ will make you a millioane.

I personally think the numbers are way off.
$4 million maybe only with the most used keywords, and only checking the most known exchanges, if I would just throw an estimate at least half of that sum was for sure stolen only through chipmixer clones, and there is a lot now ay to count how much people have lost on those. But based on the dozens of websites and they never-ending promotions through adsense must have been pretty lucrative.
And that as just one tiny service, I would easily put another zero on that number.


Phishing adsense scams don't work like that and are not triking users with fake promises.

How this works is that the scammers pay for ads that get shown when somebody searches for example "Binance" or
A ton of users are too lazy to type the whole URL and they simply type the name of the website in google and then click the first result, without checking that the ad which claims Binance is leading to biancexzyaax.is for example

Here is the original report from scam sniffer:
https://twitter.com/realScamSniffer/status/1651452380385509377

So, does this mean that we have a situation where chatGPT was caught both plagiarizing and lying about its claim?  
I've tried asking it for 10 tips and indeed, the reply had the same 10 "secrets" in almost the same order and the same content, but..this is really getting weird, the AI is generating content that was previously written by a human, not so much intelligence as paraphrasing.


You have no idea how much worse it can get but keep on..