I choose to fight it.
They will have to offer me a lot more than just convenience to give them all the information about my life.
I choose to have at least some secrets.

Privacy is liberty in my opinion.

I think I heard somewhere, in some article probably, that the number is 4 and that is why 6 confirmations where decided to be a recommended amount.

But in the early days I think there were some hard forks that needed to be made due to a buggy code and that a blockchain was reorganized as a result.
So in that particular scenario I assume the number was quite high, but I think in general bitcoins weren't worth a lot back then, so no one probably cared about this.

A good question.

I guess that you answered your own question quite well by pointing out that you would need to decrypt this data everytime you start your client and it would stay unencrypted like that for the whole time the program is running. Since Bitcoin Core is usually not a wallet that you just open up for a short period of time and close again, I guess devs just figured that it would add too much complication to add two passwords for no good reason.

Adding full wallet encryption with one password would be very dangerous though, as users would unlock it every time they want to check their balance.

Fees will be lower using a LN compared to using credit/debit cards. Bitcoin transactions are generally cheaper than bank transactions.
LN will be even cheaper. Theoretically LN transactions could (and due to free market economy probably will) only cost in Internet bandwidth.

There is a lot of difference with LN and conventional payment methods. It is a very decentralized and permissionless system.
Competition will be higher and technology is faster and more modern. I believe it is reasonable to assume that LN will have smaller costs than credit cards.
As such, I don't see a reason why companies wouldn't prefer this method and therefor include it into a price and only charge more if you use credit cards.

Bitcoin Core should work with Tor out of the box, by just checking the box to use proxy to connect to other peers.
Proxy values are already setup for Tor by default in Bitcoin Core.

Is there a specific reason why you don't want to connect to all of your peers over Tor?
It will hide your IP address from them if you do. Not even your ISP would be able to know that you run a Bitcoin node, unless you configured it to accept incoming connections.

It is quite surprising to me that Electrum doesn't offer notifications.
As for Bitcoin Core, you could just run a pruned node, people seem to be forgetting that.

I wouldn't be so quick to say "almost everywhere in the World". China and India aren't in that bunch and just the two of them make up a third of the World.
Not to mention Africa.

China and India weren't really in many wars recently, but in a way they did pay their dues. They didn't get loans as western countries did, that is why they are not in debts as western countries are.

Who is to blame? That is a very philosophical question. You could say the government, for printing money to bail out banks.
You could say people for allowing it. Or you could just say greed, which got people in these debts.

Yes. You can read more about requirements and instructions here https://bisq.network/list-token

I hear these arguments for pyramid schemes all the time.
"Pyramid is just a structure man...". You might as well use the same logic and say "That is not a ponzi sheme, Ponzi was just a person and he ain't around anymore...".

Pyramid scheme is a name. It is name given to it due to obvious reasons, but it does not define it.

There are certain similarities and certain differences between all of these things. What is legal and what is not is beyond my point. Many things that are stupid and immoral are perfectly legal while other completely moral things are not. Legality of something makes no argument on morality or profitability of something.

MLM are a watered down version of a pyramid scheme. Sometimes they offer something relatively useful, but you don't join them because of that.
You join them because they give you that extra edge, that bonus, that little magic, that pyramid scheme characteristic of it.
That characteristic is the same one that is a problem with pyramid schemes and that is that after couple of levels, the business becomes unprofitable.

Do that jump a couple of times and if you are in a place low enough, there wouldn't be around enough people to recruit to make it worth your while.
That is the danger. That is the problem with them. You don't have that in a normal business.

You don't get hired by a company and they tell you at the end of the month, "Hey, about that salary...You didn't get enough people to give us money, so you get this small salary that isn't worth your while".
The problem is that you are so incentivized to get a return on your investment that you start getting your friends and family into the same shit.

There ain't easy money my friend. If you are getting that CEO salary without being a CEO, you are hurting other people, whether they know it or not.
Which makes you no better than a common criminal that still has his freedom.

Most of them are soldiers. You want to look for cruelty, there is no cruelty like the ones done by governments. Bigger the government, bigger the carnage.


You can believe what you want. I can just tell you that it is stupid.
If you can produce fertile young with another creature, if they have a history of mixing with your ancestors, they are the same specie as you.
You tell yourself whatever you want, I can just point out from a scientific point of view that it makes no sense.
But hey, if it makes you feel better, go ahead, use whatever words you want.

I would like to be a different specie from politicians, but I know that sadly we are not and that my children one day could very well be politicians.
This is the issue with your view. You can't be a different specie from your family.

Welcome to the banking system. High tech, nema sta.

Don't worry, America visited us

It is nice that you think so much of your country, but when your country gets invaded by US and they slaughter women and children without any punishment to those who did it, you kinda lose faith in such propaganda.

US government is responsible for a lot of death across the World my friend. You can wave your money around all you want, it can't buy you any respect.

Could you be more clear?

And what is Stack?

You could just try downloading a binary from https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.16.0/ or https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.16.0/
The one named bitcoin-0.16.0-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz should do it.

Then in the terminal run "tar zxvf ~/Downloads/bitcoin-0.16.0-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz" if you downloaded it to your Download folder.
You should be able to run it with "./bitcoin-0.16.0/bin/bitcoin-qt" after that.

PS: You could also compile it from source. It really isn't hard.

Holy crap. You are right.
This guy is in Michigan too.

This guy is sketchy from the start. First it is weird that he doesn't get help from the agency he gave this information. Then doesn't say what the inforamtion is, but says his name, which is the opposite of what you would expect from a whistleblower. Now talking about some bladder infection and that he can't get treatment.

I assume that this guy had more rape whistles blown for him than that he is a whistleblower.

Can someone call the police on this guy and give them his address, please.

EDIT: Seems like he has an arrest warrant against him. Seems he is on parole or something and he ran away.

10 year olds, just like most of adults have no idea what money or currency even is.
They just know they have to work for it and that they can buy stuff with it.

You need to explain them how currencies work. About supply and demand. About stores of value. Then just explain to them that like any currency Bitcoin is a currency as well. But it is better, more secure, more private and has practically no inflation. It is written in code, precisely defined, so there are no shenanigans like hyper-inflation with it done by politicians. Explain to them that it is powered by Internet which allows it to be faster, compare email and regular mail so they understand. Do a lot of metaphors with things they know.

None of them know how Internet works either. Kids nor adults. They just see it is faster and better and they use it. Make a comparison and they will understand.
And if anyone has more questions, great, this is how you dive into details for the ones that are more interested in this stuff.

Better to say too little, then too much. You don't want to lose them, then they will just give up. Explain how it works for them and from what they know, if they ask for more, great,

Go back in time and stop myself from clicking on this stupid post.

Oh no. It is a dot com bubble all over again.

Greed is greed, my friend. People should be more educated about Bitcoin, but this will not help with the scams that much.
Someone will come up with a new altcoin or something and promise easy money and people will jump to it because they are naive and greedy.

Same with pyramid schemes. Everyone knows about them, but they are still very popular under a different name of "multi-level marketing".
They use the same stupid trick in crypto space as well. You really need no skills to change a face of the same old trick.
Bitconnect was the same thing and yet was very popular.

You can't fix this mate. Some people are greedy and stupid, they always will be. You can't help them with every little new shape that the same old scam takes.
Until they learn that you can't earn without work, they are helpless.

Yeah, I try to stay away from Google companies whenever I can. They are getting too big. They can track you over half the Internet.

DuckDuckGo is great. Best thing I love about having DDG as a default search engine is that I can just type "qr code " in front of a link and DDG will convert it into a QR Code. I can then scan it with my phone and use it as a copy/paste feature between my phone and my PC. Works the best when you are sending a link over a phone that you visited on your PC, since you just change the link to start with "qr code " and press enter.