Cautam astazi printre randuri pe site-urile de stiri sa vad ce mai e nou prin lumea crypto si.. am dat de o stire care mi s-a parut destul de interesanta: suprapunand graficul pretului BTC peste cel al pretului per actiune pentru compania Beyond Meat, se observa ca miscarile pe grafic sunt asemanatoare! Si nu-i vorba de graficul pe o zi sau o saptamana.. ci din iulie 2019 pana azi!

Am sa las graficul aici:


Mi se pare interesanta si legatura dintre BTC si Beyond Meat din perspectiva traderilor: amandoua au opinii impartite, unii spunand ca sunt supraevaluata, o "bula" ce urmeaza sa se sparga mai devreme sau mai tarziu, o "moneda falsa"-"carne falsa" (pentru context, Beyond Meat produce alimente asemanatoare carnii, facute din plante) etc, toate acestea fiind mentionate de-a lungul articolului.

Sa fie oare o legatura d.p.d.v. al graficelor deoarece exista pareri asemanatoare? Dar totusi, chiar si asa.. in afara de adoptie, Beyond Meat n-a beneficiat de anumite caracteristici considerate motive pentru cresterea imensa a pretului Bitcoin precum halving-ul si cantitatea limitata de monede.

Ce parere aveti?

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Sursa: https://www.ccn.com/bynd-bitcoin-beyond-meat-btc-usd-are-trading-in-perfect-sync/

As far as I know, the more full nodes there are on the network, the more trustless the blockchain becomes. But the large size Bitcoin's blockchain will sooner or later become a problem when it comes to users' capacity of holding an entire node on a hard drive.

I do get the idea that hard disks will increase in size in time. I mean, we see this with every new phone, PC and other devices. But I think it'd still be a good idea to somehow make it so that a larger percentage of people's devices could become at least semi-sustainers of the trustless manner of BTC.

So what if, besides pruning, using an SPV and owning a full node, we had the option to only hold 10% of the blocks on our device in combination with an SPV node? As far as I know, there's constant communication between the Core users (can't find a more specific term - I mean communication between those who are using the Core wallet), right? Well, then the blocks could be split in 10 slices and whoever chooses this option I'm suggesting would have to only store 10% (a slice) of the blocks downloaded on their device. The newly installed Core wallet would receive the information regarding which slice they should become in order to know which blocks to download and store on their device.

How would it work?
Say there were exactly 999,999 blocks mined on the network. Each of the 10 slices of semi-nodes would have 10% (so 100,000 blocks) downloaded and stored. As soon as block no. 1,000,000 is mined, the last slice (slice no. 10) gets to download it. All the other slices would delete the first downloaded block (except slice no. 1) and then download the next one after the last.

For example,

• Slice 1 (storing blocks 0 - 99,999) will download block no. 100,000.
• Slice 2 (storing blocks 100,000 - 199,999) will delete block no 100,000 (as it's now stored by slice 1) and will download block no. 200,000.
• Slice 3 (storing blocks 200,000 - 299,999) will delete block no. 200,000 (as it's now stored by slice 2) and will download block no. 300,000.
• ... and so on.

Now let's say there are 1,000 semi-nodes split into a perfect balance of 10 slices of 100 users. After a while, 300 users disconnect at the same time. Obviously, these 300 aren't split perfectly into 30 users from each slice so the balance is disrupted. What happens next? Well, the next one who downloads the Core wallet and decides to take only 10% of the blocks will download the slice that has the least users, helping maintain a balance as close to 10% as possible between all slices.

I have also made a table (forgot to complete the first row and lost the excel file) if it helps but I am not sure how easy-to-understand it is. It was a big headache as the first block is block "0" and not "1"

With a blockchain size of 500GB, a Bitcoin supporter/user could sustain the network even by downloading a slice of 10% on a 64 GB phone, hence becoming a semi-node. We could have the option to download 10, 20, 30, ..., 90% of the blockchain if we have enough storage. For example, if the blockchain had a size of 500GB, maybe I have a 256GB phone and I want to become a semi-node downloading 200GB (so 40% or 4 slices) of the block data.

Is this plausible & a good idea or is there a large flaw I'm missing?

That is only a disadvantage if you are looking to get more USD and not BTC. If you're looking to double your USD and are afraid to have BTC's value potentially dropping, you'd have to play with fiat instead (or stablecoins).

My usual goal was to double my crypto, not my fiat value. After all, what we are holding in our wallets is Bitcoin.

You could double your fiat value from $100 to $200 with crypto gambling and then have fiat hyperinflation leading to the devaluation of your winnings. Same thing, but takes longer to notice.

That is a feature that isn't available yet (so just an idea), right? I have never seen a brighter Ignore button here so I was wondering if it's a thing or just a suggestion.

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Well, then I personally think this is the best solution rather than an easy-to-abuse demerit button. Even if we had some rules for it, they could only be subjective just like the term "burstposting" or "constructive posting" is - leading to more unnecessary arguments.

It just seems to me like it'd be an unnecessary additional stress on the mods and members of BTCTalk having to solve disputes about the upcoming demerit issues and abuses. As you say, it brings additional power to higher-ranked members and that isn't fair nor is it okay.

It's still partial destruction as everyone'd get out of BTC the moment they say declare it illegal so price would crash. Altcoins would be in an even worse position and would crash to 0 way more brutally. At that point, I'd be in no interest to spend my 10BTC I've bought for $100k and - worst of all - I wouldn't even have where to spend it at anymore as it'd be considered illegal, right?

It's like declaring drugs legal in The Netherlands. It'd cripple the markets in a minute and only few would continue using it illegally, "underground" as you say. But overall, legally, the drug market would be over.

Logically, I'd say this move on the long term would make the "underground" price of BTC skyrocket while the legal markets would value it at $0 - as it'd be banned. I looked up a while ago whether drugs/weapons cost more on the black markets than on the legit ones to make sure I'm correct but found nothing.

Is there any article where this is mentioned? I've been looking for a while now but I can't find anything tbh besides Russian imprisonment for spreading false Coronavirus news and China's death penalty for concealing virus symptoms. Would be great if I had official information about what OP mentioned.

You will receive double the payrate if you have 0 posts. In fact, being a Brand New member makes you eligible for a triple payrate. That's right, 0.1125BTC/week!

Read the OP.. No, you are not eligible with 0 merit, 0 activity, 0 post count and a Brand New rank of an account created half an hour ago.

This. I feel threatened, my posts from 2013-2015 would be golden buttons for the demerit function.

While I do also happen to find lots of completely crappy posts made by newbies, a demerit button does more bad than good in my opinion. One more misuse case for this button is if someone simply does not agree with my idea and beliefs thinking they're utter bullshit and uses the demerit button as a replacement of expressing his own thoughts opposing mine.

Sometimes silence and ignorance does more good than punishments. When I started being considered a shitposter & spammer on the forum and most of the higher-ranked members were ignoring my posts, that alone made me understand something must be wrong. I still feel the guilt over my first few spammy & crappy years on the forum, but the ignorance from members, signature campaign managers and basically everyone besides those contradicting my posts & calling out my bullshit made me change my attitude and behavior.

Nowadays, whenever I see a Newbie (or Full Member) posting crap I just skip their posts until I find a better one. If it's good enough, I'll merit it and after a while they'll understand what "quality" and "shit" posting is. The following might not be the best comparison (sorry but I really can't find a better one), but it works the same way we teach dogs to stop barking or sit. Once you give it treats for having a good behavior, it'll understand it's not okay to bark randomly so its attitude improves. If you start shouting or hitting a dog when their behavior is not the best, they'll only become more aggressive - in consequence, your violent actions become counterproductive.

Demeriting users could become counterproductive the same way. If I demerit 10 of your posts, you may start believing I have a problem with you and we may start a beef on the forum as if we don't have enough already between some of the users.

One idea I have is that we could have a "mark as nonsense" button which, after X amount of interactions from members with >1k merits, would automatically hide the post in threads. But this is turning, like you say, into censorship and I don't think it's the best path we can go for. I don't know if there is any way we can "punish" users for low posting quality without it turning into at least a semi-censorship button.

Not sure if this guy has been banned yet, but XenoFever is on a rule-busting spree and it looks like he isn't stopping at plagiarism:

Links no. 2 and 4 have referral links.


Archived in case XenoFever modifies/deletes their thread again.

Only if I could understand what you're trying to say.. Could you be more specific? All we have is an address and an unintelligible message..

Thanks, Hhampuz! Great to see another successful long-running campaign out here. Enjoy your weekend and stay safe!

How is this a "takedown" and how are these answers "brilliant"? If you take a look at any of his posts, you'd see +80% of the comments roasting him and <20% supporting him. He's an old man, he doesn't even understand how Bitcoin works. The last time he tried to show how crappy Bitcoin is turned 180 degrees straight against his own forehead. With that tweet about "blockchain forgetting his password" he showed how much he really knows about BTC. Boomer.

If enough people quit using, hodling and having interest in BTC, the price could dump even to $1. It all depends on what the decentralized community (us) do. With a pandemic or without, the markets will be moved accordingly with our moves.

If they don't register your identity, they surely do log your IP and browser fingerprint which could be used to identify you if they wanted to.

Most crypto casinos have Tor IPs blocked too, so how do you really get to privacy as soon as they log some crucial information to identify you with? Besides the Blockchain-based casinos (I believe Etheroll is one of them, but requires MetaMask to connect to their website which I'm not sure whether is centralized/decentralized), I don't think there are many options to go anonymous on crypto casinos.

I personally do not trust USDT or any other USD pair. I would use them for very short timeframes on exchanges but I wouldn't have enough trust to use them for long term holding (say if I expect a big BTC downfall).

Most large volume markets are on USDT pairs (which could be due to the fact that it's much easier to trade BTC for USD prices than BTC for ETH) and some of them are obviously wash trading. I just don't trust it due to it being centralized.

It is, I'm just another overly-paranoid guy out there and although many consider I'm going towards the extremes, I don't give a damn.

I am still looking for a DIY tutorial for some portable Faraday cage. I have some boxes at home made out of metal but they don't help much: phone still rings after I close the box and is still connected to Wi-Fi. AFAIK, as soon as you put an AM radio inside the box and it stops receiving signal, it means you've got a successful cage.

Anti-RFID pouches/cases I've seen are too expensive. Tinfoil should do the job but there must be something I'm doing wrong as signals are leaked. I made a DIY phone case with some tinfoil and if I put my phone inside the case and then put the case inside a metal box, it disconnects from everything: bluetooth, Wi-Fi, radio, cell signal.

You know these older phones with physical keyboards? If you have one of these, take it and use it for calls and messaging. If you want to stop the tracking, just take the battery out and there you go. You could have two phones:

- Phone A, old model (say an old Nokia) strictly for communicating through SMS & calling;
- Phone B, smartphone with modified hardware (no mics, no GPS antennae, no cameras, no fingerprint etc) for Internet browsing. If you go for a combination of Graphene OS, Replicant or Lineage OS (without GApps, of course) with Orbot and Tor browsing and never connect to any of your personal accounts, you should be good.

If the old phone you're using for communication has a 3.5mm jack slot and you're worried you may be listened to through the phone's mic, you could take the mic off and only call using headphones or handsfree. May be more inconvenient but it eliminates this risk too.

For accounts, Parrot OS Live with Anonsurf on or Tails is the best choice. When I need to log in to Twitter for example (I use an account that has no link to my identity), I use Tails but I make sure I do not access any other of my accounts unless I reboot. Be under control of the tracking. Take your privacy back, I never consider a step towards my privacy to be "too much". It's never too much imo.

And here I am, a member from 2013 that has probably only joined sig campaigns for a timeframe of max 10 months. Guess there are some members out here currently owning over 10 BTC from these campaigns.

Quite interesting. It's the same lost opportunity as those who haven't held their accumulated BTC from Andresen's 5 BTC faucet. It's very interesting to see how this all progressed in 10 years. Ironically, I knew Bitcoin would become a thing back in 2013-2016 and yet I did not take the right steps to ensure my place in the game.

As far as I know, websites hosted on the .onion domain need a central server to keep the website alive but unless the server location is somehow leaked, it is not an easy job for example for authorities and intelligence to take it down. A very good example is Silk Road, which was hosted on Tor. If there was no Silk Road insider to give intel crucial information and no crucial information would've been given, it might have probably still been live on the internet. However, packages seized for suspiciousness at the time were later successfully found to be linked to the now gone website.

Although the case isn't 100% understandable (or at least wasn't the last time I read about it), it is suspected by some that the intel might've been able to "crack" the website but I personally don't think so. As soon as there was an insider that was successfully corrupted by the FBI to work with them on taking it down, their job gets 100x easier.

I'm not sure if there is a way to create a decentralized website on Tor by using an .onion domain. As long as running the website needs a computer to run it from and that computer going offline means the website going down for everyone, it means that it's a centralized website. Right? As far as I'm concerned, decentralized websites would mean hosting them somehow on multiple computers. Maybe there is a way to do this on Tor I haven't heard of yet.

For example, Proton Mail and an intel agency (can't remember if it was FBI or the CIA) has an onion link, I guess it has to have a central server but I could be wrong of course..

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Why wouldn't they be? You could contribute to Monero at any given time. Anyone could. Its code is open for anyone, but it's written in such a way it's giving us anonymity when using it the right way. Why exactly are you wondering whether it's open source?

I think most popular centralized exchanges out there are newbie friendly. As soon as you know what "Assets", "Withdraw" and "Deposit" means, you should be fine. If you use non-KYC exchanges, make sure you choose a reputable one. Also do a quick "X scam" (where X is the exchange's name) search before registering to check if there are valid and active accusations against them.

If you want a decentralized exchange that is newbie-friendly, Atomic DEX is your choice but they lack the volume.

One important thing is that you should make sure to toroughly read the Terms and Conditions before registering & depositing on a website any amount of coins. As soon as you accept the Terms and Conditions, if they have KYC and AML policies and you are not willing to share your personal information, expect to be asked for them at a certain point if and when they consider your account/transactions to be suspicious.

Just raising up this tip to avoid a future "COINBASE SCAMMED ME" thread on this forum. Keep your funds safe.

Pentru cei care nu stiau inca de acest fenomen, cred ca detaliile sunt prea putine! Asa ca am sa las eu aici o explicatie a acestuia:

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Dupa cum probabil bine stiti, Bitcoin-ul este o criptomoneda ce poate fi minata. Pe scurt, exista niste indivizi numiti "mineri" care se decid sa sustina reteaua Bitcoin folosindu-si echipamentele electronice (anumite componente din calculator). Pentru sustinerea retelei si munca depusa de aceste componente, un algoritm asigura rezolvarea unor "blocuri" o data la aproximativ 10 minute. Daca ati facut vreodata o tranzactie, ati observat probabil ca aceasta a fost inclusa intr-un "block". Acel block a fost minat de indivizii cu componentele lor.

Minerii primesc o recompensa pentru rezolvarea acestui algoritm. Din nou, pe scurt, exista varianta de a mina singur in speranta de a rezolva un block (desi sansele sunt in momentul de fata aproape imposibil fara o investitie masiva in componente pentru minat) sau varianta de a mina in "pool", adica alaturi de alti mineri, recompensa fiind impartita intre acestia in final in functie de munca depusa de componentele lor.

Recompensa, conform ideilor lui Satoshi si codului din spatele faimoasei monede Bitcoin, la inceputul monedei a fost de 50 BTC pentru fiecare bloc rezolvat. Cu alte cuvinte, o data la aproximativ 10 minute, 50 BTC au fost minati. Tot conform ideilor lui Satoshi si codului Bitcoin, aceasta recompensa este programata sa se injumatateasca dupa fiecare set de 210.000 blocuri minate. Fiecare block avand un timp de rezolvare de aproximativ 10 minute, 210.000(blocuri) * 10(minute) = 2.100.000 minute adica 3.9927 ani.

Asadar, o data la aproximativ 4 ani de zile, recompensa se injumatateste. In 2012, recompensa s-a injumatatit de la 50 BTC la 25 BTC. In 2016, de la 25 BTC la 12,5 BTC. In aproximativ patru zile, recompensa se va injumatatii de la 12,5 BTC la 6,25 BTC.

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Ce inseamna acest lucru?

Uitandu-ne in trecut la ceea ce s-a intamplat cu pretul unui Bitcoin in urma injumatatirilor, am avea tendinta sa spunem si sa credem ca urmeaza inca o explozie incredibila a pretului. Acest lucru este posibil, insa exista si alte posibilitati: pretul poate ramane in zona $7-12k sau poate chiar sa scada.

Asadar, desi as vrea sa pot spune cu certitudine ca urmeaza un boom, nu cred ca este cea mai buna idee sa va faceti sperante false. In caz ca, considerati ca va puteti asuma riscul unei posibile scaderi sau mentineri a pretului, simtiti-va liberi sa va alaturati comunitatii noastre. Welcome to Bitcoin!