Reducing block time is bad for security. Just look at exchanges: the faster the block times, the more the confirmations they want for deposits.
Bitcoin ~10 minute blocks were pretty well thought and I would not expect that to change in the near future.

If one wants fast transactions, he should look at LN, not try to change a perfectly working bitcoin.

Each website has its own scripts, formatting, ads, and may even change that from time to time. This means that the scrapper will need to "know" each website's specifics.
Then, as said, copying articles is very close to plagiarism. Even if OP will post on his website the original source/link, various websites and article writers will not be happy about that (some even prohibit it directly), since they lose revenue because of this kind of actions.

Well, what if we are also early birds? We don't know how high will bitcoin get in 10 or 15 years from now, but I would expect people will also envy then those who stacked sats in 2022 crypto winter.

Pretty much similar was back then too. Just back then 1 BTC meant not much, exactly like today a couple of satoshi.
Of course, the earlier one got coins, the more he got for the same fiat or effort, but that doesn't mean we can't still try to get the most of it.

Well, if SMF wiki is not lying, I'd guess that MySQL is the only choice for the current 1.1.x version in use here.

I think that this is an odd way to see the situation, or maybe we've read different news.

Imho the reasons for celebration may be related to the fact the price of gas has been falling, and that by a great deal. It's a trend that means that there's (more than enough) gas on the market, hence also decreasing the pressure on the electricity price (by also creating more electricity from that gas).

Actually the freedom of speech part is the advertising to keep the people focused on something nice.
Meanwhile, in the background, the monetization is the important part. Firing staff, charging 20$ every month for those who want the "verified" mark are the first steps in that direction.
If anybody thought Elon buys Twitter do good for others, it's dreaming. He bought it as a business to earn him money.

It doesn't look to me like a thinking error. The wiki also tells that bitcoin will have a problem in 2106 (2038+68), so yes, until then somebody will have to find a fix, not only for bitcoin, but for many other databases and systems using that time format (and most systems will need a fix "already" in 2038).
However, I am sure it's not an urgent matter  

Most only care you create account by their ref link and fund the account, so they get referral money.
Plus, if you're "lucky" and start trading on a bull market you may end up with some small profit even if you have no idea what you're doing (trading-as-gambling). Of course, bull market doesn't last forever and sooner or alter a cold shower is bound to happen.

I think that it was better for you that you've started on a bear market. Probably you've lost less than you should have if you were trading for longer. And learned, which should be useful for later.

I will start with the fact the signature of this last message doesn't match the first signature posted (28 oct), but it does match the second (30 oct). And also verifies it.
So while you should be careful to have the same signature all along, you seem to have understood the things and done it good.

First of all, CBDCs don't matter much in the equation, they are just another representation of fiat.

Now, sooner or later Bitcoin will most probably get accepted everywhere as payment. Of course, most businesses will still receive fiat, since that's how they pay taxes and for the merchandise. So a conversion will be done.
In the same way as now, if you pay in US with an EU card, VISA, MasterCard or your bank will automatically convert from EUR to USD. But if you don't want them do the conversion (because of the higher fees), you can go to an exchange office and get yourself USD for your trip.
This will happen with bitcoin too. If you want to do the conversion yourself, or you want to buy more bitcoin from your fiat salary, you'll use an exchange. A cryptocurrency exchange.

Then, in the same way people and businesses play on Forex, they do play and will continue playing on crypto exchanges.


So while I expect many of those will become huge businesses, offering also banking, loaning and many other things, some others may even merge with banks, crypto exchanges will remain, in a way or another, offering their services to everybody.

I see no reason why not. Copy the data dir (see https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory ) on the new computer.
You can use similar structure or you can run with -datadir parameter.

Checo's car had electrical and DRS issues.
This can be meaning anything, from recovery and ending in top 3 to even abandoning. I hope for a home win from him, he would deserve that (but as I said, his chances are far from great).

I guess that OP's friend is somehow afraid his address gets hacked or something in a matter of time. The problem is that (if the wallet was generated really safe) the time needed for that may be more than the lifetime of our sun.
Even more, a hacker may go for his wallet's seed instead of a sole address, making OP friend's effort futile.

Another direction of thought would be that OP's friend misunderstood the idea of not reusing addresses (which is good for privacy, while it doesn't really matter for security).


Bottom line: it's stupid and useless.
(As said, if he hears his funds and he's not tech inclined, hardware wallet is his best call).

OK, so some people with a lot of time have made a bunch of taproot transactions writing stuff into their OP_RETURN.
I find the reddit (starting) post quite weak and supposing too much.

* I would say that one should look by the transacted values and make more than one list of OP_RETURN texts; there are more senders with more texts there.
* I would say that the order of those transaction may not matter, hence a reshuffle should look better (and the guy shuffling them did good).
* I would say that it would not be a surprise if other further blocks have such data, completing others' picture / messages
* It's not the first time I see blockchain / transaction used for advertising this or that

I see nothing special. As I said, people with too much time have pus texts there and made some transactions. And some wanted some odd advertising too. So what?

Whether you put a password/pin/fingerprint to your wallet or not, it will still use internally private keys because that's how bitcoin works (if it's indeed a bitcoin wallet and not a custodian account).
The pin/password is protecting the access to the wallet software and maybe the wallet file, hence, as said, it's a (thin) extra security layer.

But keeping big bucks on mobile wallets is unadvised. Consider hardware wallet.
And biometrics is weak security (fingerprints can be copied, fingers can be cut down, or you can be easily put asleep on medicines or drugs).

Actually I've been using PGP in my mails long ago. I've found back then some nice software that worked as a plugin to Outlook. Nice and smooth. I've recommended it to all my friends.
And.. I've stopped at the point the sysadmin of the company I've been working at back then started to be suspicious what I have to hide (and of course, this went to my boss, pretty soon). Yeah, back then I've been using the company email for personal stuff too (too young, too stupid, shhhh, but the company was not that professional/strict either).


PGP is not bad, just.. we're on a bitcoin forum


Although I should have been expecting this, it deserves 1 sM for the laugh.

You should thank @nullama, not me. I was just lucky to know about his work/topics.
And don't be too harsh, people do make mistakes. And somehow everybody tends to assume that testnet behaves 100% identical with main net. And, well, there are some (subtle) differences, like this one.

read https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5418369.0

According to this post, the difficulty drops on testent to 1 from time to time, allowing even slower miners get lucky now and then.


If you read that topic you'll see it was tried successfully.

Those addresses were not leaked from second 1.
Even now, we don't know for sure about some of those addresses whether they were Satoshi's or other miners'.
And as said, he most probably wanted to do the things correctly from start, at least to give a good example.

However, we can try to assume this or that, we will not know for sure the whole background.