Any evidence that the recent congestion has been due to spam attacks? Big blockers want big blocks in order to be able to have transactions confirmed in the next block with low fees... Spamming the network would be making sure they don't get exactly what they want. Sounds counterproductive.

Time until first confirmation isn't only fee dependent. Priority also plays a role. You might want to read up on it here

Yet another situation in which the people pay for their banks and leaders "spending extravaganza" and bad management. This has become the norm throughout the years yet we still give these guys our businesses. Soon people will be fed up of banging their heads against a brick wall...


For quite a long time, lol, people aren't questioning themselves just now. Unfortunately it is simply hard for some to stop questioning themselves and act.


Thank you.


Italy would just be another country dragging Europe...

You don't see anything out of the ordinary until huge news break. Maybe a delegation of a bank closing here or there, but things work as usual until the point of total breakdown...


Price swings during that time (and there was quite a bit of market action back then) was rumored to be connected to the Greek situation. Could have been the usual suspects/whales tho.


Countries can't afford to have banks depositors lose their money.


If there was a post of the month award, this would be a runner up this month.

Unfortunately Africa isn't ready for money at all, for some of the reasons OP listed, so they wouldn't be "eligible" (so to speak) to use Bitcoin to begin with. Here's to hoping this changes soon, not for Bitcoin, but for population living in absolute poverty and in remote areas without access to anything people in developed countries consider to be basic. As for the rest of Africa, it's just a matter of time. A few years back "1st world countries" didn't have access to internet, smartphones, etc and look where we're at...

There can be regulations for usage in merchants. Obviously not in the way Bitcoin works, but it's usage "outside" the virtual space can be hindered (I assume you're also in doubt if usage can be hindered, that's a yes for that)

It knows because one key can only correspond to one address, so to speak. I'm not sure why exactly you're confused, as you seem to get things pretty much right.

You might want to read more here

I don't think that after what happened his opinion should be taken seriously or even considered. He keeps burying himself and saying things like this and insulting people just makes him look ridiculous and untrustworthy... So let's just move on.

... I don't see how AI can ruin Bitcoin? Unless AI is so advanced it can discover some kind of vulnerability, which is highly unlikely. I think it's more likely we have a collision.

This is what half the forum has been saying to the other half for the last few months. Unfortunately people forget that a Bitcoin Wiki exists... And rush saying that Bitcoin will become an alt or that this or that doesn't correspond to "Satoshi's vision, written on the paper".

Apparently hard forks for bug corrections aren't altcoins, but for development they are...

YET another attack... What have we learned? Nothing apparently. Or that companies still do absolutely nothing to protect themselves even after attacks previously occured. I'm willing to bet the attack vector was exactly the same...

What Bitcoin and cryptocurrency needs is honest people and devs that have as their top interest the development and steady growth of the technology.

The direction we should head to is build a robust foundation for Bitcoin to work for years to come and adapt to new users and developments towards ease of use...

If you think you've been scammed, you can create a thread at the Scam Accusations board.

I think you'll find this interesting.

You can generate an address wherever and generate a QR code for it, and place it wherever you want. You don't need a specific client for that, just create an address anywhere and convert it to a QR wherever you want.

Most wallets will give you a QR for an address if requested.

There are no wallets easier or more difficult to "pickpocket". This just depends on how much security you employ.

I see someone is an expert in clickbait titles

I really don't know how to they have this many signups and revenue. They show ads? People are still being redirected to these online wallets, which is sad. I'd throw them my money if they developed something with more features and that lets you control your own keys. Also funny thing, this is the first time I've heard Richard Branson being late in investing in something...

Great clickbait title

That being said, it's probably for the best of this community and himself that Satoshi died, or pretended to be dead (which would be the ideal, because obviously nobody wishes anyone's death). People would finally leave him alone. Bitcoin technology would remain, the price would go haywire with heavy swings for a few days and the community would eventually stop mocking him and saying he's be the solution to each and every problem.

No... I don't see what ETH brings to the table or has different than Bitcoin that could really cause issues for Bitcoin.

I don't see why the 1st of August will require special preparation... Maybe accumulate a bit of fiat in order to buy more coins in a speculative possible dip after we scale? Other than that I see no reason to do specific preparation for anything...

Yet again... It's been happening very frequently recently around here, can you post sources to backup your post?

Maybe you mean that double taxation will end in Australia?

Regarding India, maybe you mean this?

No scaling proposal has "passed" so far. Nobody knows if SegWit will or will not pass, but lately it's been looking like it won't.

So yeah, basically nothing's confirmed.