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201  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: Can't boot umbrelOS on: March 01, 2024, 08:50:58 PM
I've tried everything and I think the problem is that it doesn't recognize the microSD, I'll try with a different SD and I'll update you. Thank you

I see that you don't mention what type of storage you use. What disk do you have? Is it an HDD or and SSD? Are you certain that the problem is with the SD and not with the disk?
202  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Who was Satoshi Nakamoto? on: March 01, 2024, 08:00:33 PM
I have seen posts by Greg Maxwell but never knew to which extent he was involved with cryptography. What I am reading about him now is impressive.

Greg Maxwell is undoubtebly one of the most knowleadgeable people on the field. I really enjoy reading his posts. I have learnt a lot from him. We are lucky to have him. Of course the list is not limited to him.

If I had to choose one of his papers that I really liked (to the point at which I could understand it):

Simple Schnorr Multi-Signatures with Applications to Bitcoin
G. Maxwell, A. Poelstra, Y. Seurin, P. Wuille,
IEEE Designs Codes and Cryptography, 2019.
203  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin Vs Monero - Privacy as the world becomes more dystopian on: March 01, 2024, 07:40:03 AM
This is what makes Monero stand still and strong even if largest Exchanges remove it.  There are a lot of Decentralized opportunities to convert Monero into other Cryptocurrencies.  There is even Atomic Swap possibility between Monero and Bitcoin.  There will in consequence ALWAYS be an option and a Market for it.  I honestly doubt it is going any where unless Europe or The United States ban it.  Even then, underground it will continue to thrive in my opinion.  You can ban Open Source legally.  But you can not stop Monero nor can you find its users easily.

If Coins like XRP get in this same mud Monero is in, it would die quickly and painfully.  Look at Monero however.  Every body hates on it all of a sudden but it is still on the rise.  Monero simply can not die for now.

I honestly agree with you. Monero will be there for us, for a long time (I could say forever, but anyway). Monero persists some amazing features and it is a brilliant cryptocurrency privacy-wise.

But if we dream of such a cryptocurrency to become widely adopted and more and more people to start using it, then I seriously doubt about it. The problem lies in getting higher adoption.

Μost people follow the dark path created by governments and the media. They will not be able to escape the lie they have been immersed in and I take for granted that they will follow the logic that monero exists only for criminals. Simply because the media and governments say so. Not to mention the unimaginably strong bond of the average person with the modern economic system (banks, loans, FIAT money, inflation, etc.).
204  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Common misconceptions about cryptocurrency (Bitcoin) on: March 01, 2024, 07:25:42 AM
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Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:24:25 +0100
From: Satoshi Nakamoto <satoshin@gmx.com>
Subject: Re: Bitcoin
To: mmalmi@cc.hut.fi
The site layout is looking nicer.  More impressive looking.

There are a lot of things you can say on the sourceforge site that I
can't say on my own site.  Even so, I'm uncomfortable with explicitly
saying "consider it an investment".  That's a dangerous thing to say and
you should delete that bullet point.  It's OK if they come to that
conclusion on their own, but we can't pitch it as that.

A few details: the FAQ says "see section 2.3", but the sections aren't
numbered.  Also, could you delete the last sentence on the FAQ "They are
planned to be hidden in v0.1.6, since they're just confusing and
annoying and there's no reason for users to have to see them." -- that's
not really something I meant to say publicly.

The links to sites to help set up 8333 port forwarding is great.
favicon is a nice touch.

Someone came up with the word "cryptocurrency"... maybe it's a word we
should use when describing Bitcoin, do you like it?


Sourceforge is so slow right now I can't even get the login page to
load.  Maybe due to the site reorg they just did.  I'll keep trying and
try to get you that logo stats thing.

Quote by Satoshi himself. The "Bitcoin is not a cryptocurrency" narrative is just produced by bitcoin laser-eyed maxis who have no idea what bitcoin is but they learn to repeat some expressions that they hear because they sound fancy.

We are bitcoiners too, but we have to keep our eyes open and distinguish the truth from the lies.
205  Economy / Collectibles / Re: [FREE RAFFLE] - Custom eXch Cryptosteel Capsule (#1)! on: February 29, 2024, 06:41:43 AM
 17 - apogio

Good luck guys
206  Other / Meta / Re: [Results 2023] Bitcointalk Community Awards 🏆 on: February 28, 2024, 06:55:47 PM
I also want to congratulate each and everyone of you.

Congrats to the organizers and the participants.

I am particularly happy for the winners in the "Discovery of the year" category, where I took the 4th place. Now that I am seeing the names: Joker_josue, PowerGlove, paid2, it is only normal that I didn't surpass them! The guys are amazing.

Special thanks to icopress and GazetaBitcoin. You facilitate our lives in here.

Finally:
Foxpup, I don't know what to say lol. Congrats!

Lastly:
o_e_l_e_o you have won a place in our hearts, apart from the obvious awards. You see... We miss you!
207  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Best 10D each year of Bitcoin in return. on: February 28, 2024, 06:21:26 PM
I wonder if it simply means the highest individual ten days puts together. Not necessarily the the ten days in a row with the best return. In that case I guess you can get a negative percentage so far this year when you take out the ten best days spread throughout the past two months. But if that is the case its a pretty arbitrary and meaningless graph since there is plenty of appreciation outside of just the top ten days, even if the graph says its negative. Because the top ten days could overlap on the price chart, like days from early January when Bitcoin shot from low $40k's to high $49k, and then days from February when Bitcoin shot from low $40k's to $52k, covering much of the same ground.

Well yes in that case it sounds reasonable. I believe it's what you say. But I wonder, if you get spare days, not being consecutive, how can someone get an aggregated percentage? Just by adding them together?

For example:

Day 1: 32%
Day 2: -12%
Day 3: 10%

So, adding Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3 the percentage is 30%, but if you take these days consecutively and calculate the increase in the period from Day 1 to Day 3, then the percentage is 27.76%.

So, in general, I don't know how percentages work when you want to calculate cumulative percentages.
208  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Best 10D each year of Bitcoin in return. on: February 28, 2024, 05:07:41 PM
Good info. Let me ask something though. I see that in the first picture, in 2024, in the section about the "return in the rest 255 days", it gives a negative percentage. Isn't it strange, since in 2024 Bitcoin has only gone up?
209  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: How does a cryptocurrency gain value? on: February 28, 2024, 04:28:15 PM
So, I'll talk later on about ways to make predictions on cryptocurrency rise. Apply the rules and make accurate predictions.

Most of the time in this forum, this is not necessary. But of course you are free to participate in such conversations here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=224.0
Since all the ways to predict future value of an asset are speculative by nature, please make sure to post in the board I have sent above.
Finally, predicting future prices won't give you any additional reputation. To be respected in the forum, you need to help people and construct good answers.
210  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Common misconceptions about cryptocurrency (Bitcoin) on: February 28, 2024, 03:34:04 PM
Look, you've done a misconceptions too.

Cryptocurrency ≠ Bitcoin

In fact, according to Satoshi himself, the word cryptocurrency was good. You can see this email from Satoshi to Marti Malmi (Sirius) for further info. I haven't read all the conversation, so I apologize if they concluded that the word wasn't appropriate, but according to the email above, Satoshi said:

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Someone came up with the word "cryptocurrency"... maybe it's a word we
should use when describing Bitcoin, do you like it?
211  Economy / Exchanges / Re: eXch - instant exchange BTC / LN / XMR / LTC / ETH / ERC20 on: February 28, 2024, 11:28:34 AM
Friends, I have great news for you!

In the very near future we will launch regular weekly raffles, by participating in which you can try your luck to win a custom Cryptosteel!

Quote

Astonishing news icopress. You always take good care of your people. Thanks
212  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Who was Satoshi Nakamoto? on: February 28, 2024, 06:19:49 AM
Yes having seen the answer by BHC I believe that perhaps he is right. Adam Back couldn't have been Satoshi.

Btw this conversation between all of us proves that we just speculate. I thought that Adam Back was Satoshi, but apparently he couldn't have been and I just changed my mind in a few minutes after reading the posts above.

Nick Szabo is a good candidate indeed!

In wayback machine again, 2006, why is there a link to a "Bitcoin" post from the future? How can such a thing have happened? It exists in

I think it works the other way around. I mean if you look at the article that was written in 2010 (it's in Russian), it references BitGold, so I believe "Links to this post" links to articles that refer to BitGold.
213  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Who was Satoshi Nakamoto? on: February 27, 2024, 08:38:53 PM
I don't really care, like many others, who Satoshi is. The reddit post provides a funny speculation, which seems reasonable and of course you did well to create a topic just for fun. But god, we have tooooo many topics like this. Anyway!

Let's speculate once more (because we secretly like speculating):

If Nick Szabo is the whitepaper guy, how can we explain the brittish spelling? The brittish spelling is also curious, because if you observe the emails, Satoshi uses a ton of American English words, like "newbies" etc.

So, my speculation would be that Adam Back wrote the whitepaper and Nick Szabo wrote the code. And then, Nick Szabo was answering the emails etc.
214  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: Aqua wallet - Bitcoin, Lightning, Liquid on: February 27, 2024, 01:28:32 PM

The LN implementation is very good imo. The best I have ever seen.

I am surprised by the fact that so few mobile wallets support coin control. Such a basic feature, missing in basically every wallet. I miss coinomi  Undecided

For android I would suggest BlueWallet and Electrum. If you want to have the best features in a strong open source wallet. But the topic is about Aqua. I believe they should add coin control. Perhaps the should be told that in a feature request. But as I said, I am not entirely sure I will use it, so I won't request this feature for the time being. I think about sending some funds and using it strictly as an LN wallet. But I use Phoenix which is good so far and WoS for smaller amounts which is also good despite being custodial.
215  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: Aqua wallet - Bitcoin, Lightning, Liquid on: February 27, 2024, 01:13:26 PM
I have no balance to check it, so please can you tell me if the wallet supports coin control for on-chain transactions? I could just fund my wallet and then try to see if I can choose coins, but I can't fund it at the moment, so I would appreciate it. Thanks.

I have only LN balance, so I can't confirm.

It doesn't look like they do. I see no option for that in the app menu

Yeap I thought so. It's better than WoS though because of it supporting Liquid and also being non custodial. I will give it a try and I will let people know. To be honest I am more interested in the LN aspect of the app.
216  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Satoshi - Sirius emails 2009-2011 on: February 27, 2024, 10:07:05 AM
That man who bought the two pizzas also helped making the mac port, and open sourced the first GPU miner...

He is of course only remembered for buying pizzas with Bitcoin only.

I was unaware of that, thanks for pointing out. It's unfortunate, but it's also normal. I mean, the story with pizzas seems very intriguing even for someone with zero knowledge in Bitcoin. Unfortunately the open source work he has done is only appreciated by a few people... Thats life...
217  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: Aqua wallet - Bitcoin, Lightning, Liquid on: February 27, 2024, 07:32:52 AM
I have no balance to check it, so please can you tell me if the wallet supports coin control for on-chain transactions? I could just fund my wallet and then try to see if I can choose coins, but I can't fund it at the moment, so I would appreciate it. Thanks.
218  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Satoshi - Sirius emails 2009-2011 on: February 26, 2024, 06:27:33 PM
Not sure about everyone else, but I'd rather this topic didn't degenerate into another inane "who is satoshi?" thread.  We've got hundreds of those already.  I'd politely ask if everyone kept the focus to the historical interest aspect (and definitely don't engage with deranged shitgibbon LeezHamilton, because that's a sure-fire way to ruin a topic rapidly).  Faketoshi does not belong in this thread.  Talk about him elsewhere, please.

You are right. We shouldn't have derailed the thread like that.

The main purpose of the topic, for me, apart from providing information about satoshi's ideas, is to help us realise whether Bitcoin has severely diverted from the original version.

To this extent, I am looking forward to hearing everyone's opinion.
219  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Archived emails of Satoshi Nakamoto to some Cypherpunks on: February 26, 2024, 07:43:37 AM
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I wish you wouldn’t keep talking about me as a mysterious shadowy figure, the press just turns that into a pirate currency angle. Maybe instead make it about the open source project and give more credit to your dev contributors; it helps motivate them.

This is very interesting. CSW claims to be Satoshi. Gavin publicly said that he believes CSW to be Satoshi, because he signed in front of him with the private key associated with the public key in the first block. Then Gavin changed his mind and said that CSW isn't Satoshi. But my question is, did the court ask Gavin and CSW if they recall having the conversation above? If CSW was Satoshi, then this message must have been written by CSW.

Satoshi Nakamoto <satoshin@gmx.com>   Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:41 PM
To: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>

I started implementing a marketplace feature earlier that facilitates offering things for sale and taking orders, it's only half done though.  A bit like e-bay but without auctions, just "buy now".  Among other things, it would make it easy for anyone to offer currency exchange.

If you send to 1PhUXucRd8FzQved2KGK3g1eKfTHPGjgFu and e-mail me your bitcoin address, or IP if you can accept incoming connections, I'll send back the same amount +50.
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Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>   Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 3:08 PM
To: Satoshi Nakamoto <satoshin@gmx.com>

Hi Satoshi,

I sent you 32.51 coins, my bitcoin address is 1JuEjh9znXwqsy5RrnKqgzqY4Ldg7rnj5n

My IP is currently 84.73.233.199, however, it's a laptop so may or may not be online at the time you act on this mail. I suggest using the bitcoin address instead. It'd be convenient if the same comment functionality was available via indirect transfer. Can the comment be encrypted using the public key of the receiver and placed into a block?
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Satoshi Nakamoto <satoshin@gmx.com>   Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 6:16 PM
To: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>

I sent back 32.51 and 50.00.

I badly wanted to find some way to include a comment with indirect transfers, but there just wasn't a way to do it.  Bitcoin uses EC-DSA, which was essential for making the block chain compact enough to be practical with today's technology because its signatures are an order of magnitude smaller than RSA.  But EC-DSA can't encrypt messages like RSA, it can only be used to verify signatures.

There was indeed a way to send to IP address. Sounds strange to me, doesn't it? What are everyone's thoughts on that?

220  Local / Ελληνικά (Greek) / Re: Συζήτηση περί big blocks (κ.α.) on: February 25, 2024, 05:15:18 PM
ΔΕΝ υπάρχει το τέλειο Linux distro (ΔΕΝ έχει υπάρξει εδώ και 25+ χρόνια)

Για μένα το τέλειο Linux distro ήταν το arch. Το δούλευα σαν main pc για 7 χρόνια. Μέχρι που το γύρισα σε Debian (το οποίο κορόιδευα ασυστολα χαχα). Τώρα χαίρομαι που παίζω σε Debian.

Με το bitcoin δεν θα συμβεί αυτό. Στο λέω νομοτελειακά πως μπορεί να αναγνωρίσω αλλα κρυπτονομισματα σαν καλά, όπως πχ το monero. Αλλά να γυρίσω από bitcoin σε κάποιο νόμισμα που τώρα κοροϊδεύω δεν παίζει.

Δεν χαρακτηρίζω αδόκιμη τη σύγκριση σου, απλά το αναφέρω γιατί με τα distros δεν χάθηκε και τίποτα, αλλά αν δώσουμε αξία σε οτιδήποτε centralised, χαθήκαμε!
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