I don't know exactly, how to run a node with tor?
Here is a guide: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Setting_up_a_Tor_hidden_serviceBut you don't need to do that as I said if the US regime decides to place such restrictions, those running the nodes in US would be at risk not the rest of the world. Keep in mind that it would be trivial to get these nodes to relay certain transactions that would get them shut down by US authorities and the node operators arrested. So they either have to try so hard to hide or stop running nodes altogether. |
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I am not sure how accurate this is. From social media, I get an impression that mercenaries who are fighting on the Ukrainian side (mostly Poles and Americans) have dwindled significantly during the past few months. Only the "Georgian Legion" remains active in the frontline cities. And I am yet to find any reports about large-scale activity from the Syrian mercenaries.
The presence of Takfiri terrorists (who aren't all Syrian even though they're transferred from there) can be verified from 3 sources: 1. The eye witnesses in Syria seeing the transfer of these troops usually with the help of Turkey and US over the past year to Ukraine. And the fact that their numbers in places like Idlib has decreased. 2. The videos showing them inside Ukraine fighting on Ukraine's side even among the high ranks 3. The methods of fighting that is being used like the Urban Warfare which these terrorists have a lot of experience in because of what they did to Syria, or like using quadcopters to drop grenades on foot soldiers which has ISIL written all over it. But I agree that the number of them and what percentage they have in armed forces of Ukraine is disputable considering there isn't any reliable stats out there yet. |
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The thing is; if there isn't enough people that care, and kick up a fuss it'll likely lead to this. I don't know if the government would be threatened enough or if they'd just prefer to regulate Bitcoin so that they can profit from people using it, but tighter restrictions will likely be put in place around the majority of the world. Mainly, for them to profit from it.
I doubt the number of people "resisting" really matters to oppressive regimes. If their perceived threat is big enough, they won't hesitate. There are already certain sanctions US government has in place involving bitcoin such as the list of bitcoin addresses that OFAC has placed under sanctions lol. The only reason they aren't (or better say can't) enforce it is because bitcoin is decentralized so they have little to no power here. They may only put some pressure on domestic centralized exchanges. |
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Anyone can link me to a reliable site that shows the median, cheapest high priority fee (not just the median fee or sats/vByte), ideally in BTC and in USD? I can't see such option in the links posted above.
The https://mempool.space/ has been doing a pretty good job with a simple understandable UI. It has the values in both satoshi and dollar.  There is also https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#BTC,24h,weight which is a very old tool to visualize the mempool and see the total size for each fee level. But it is not the most user friendly. And of course there are wallets such as Electrum that also do a pretty good job at giving the user a good fee estimation. |
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does anyone know why this person keeps uploading tons of the same image?
Maybe they are trying to prove there is no "uniqueness" despite what the attackers are advertising The Ordinals Attack as. it would be nice if bitcoin had a feature where someone could do another transaction with a higher amount to remove someone else's junk from the blockchain.
That is similar to basically what the fee market does. Nodes all have a finite amount of memory to keep unconfirmed transactions in, when they surpass their limit they start dropping transactions with lowest fee. Although you don't remove the junk from blockchain, just the mempool and until they rebroadcast the same junk or the junk with higher fee. |
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If someone is living in a dictatorship that would fine or jail people for running a bitcoin/LN node then maybe they should be the ones running their node through TOR or stop using bitcoin altogether. The number of countries US has sanctioned is far higher than just 5 and things are going to get worse the weaker US dollar gets specially as bitcoin adoption grows globally while more countries join the "dedollarization" bandwagon. In any case, is it just me or do core devs/contributors go nuts after a while to the point that they even go against the very basic principles of Bitcoin? There certainly is a pattern here with Andresen as its pioneer. What the hell is happening behind the scenes to these guys  Has "someone" with a 3 letter name been targeting them? |
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Because Bitcoin is permssionless and censorship-resistant, I believe not all who uses the Bitcoin blockchain as a "cloud-storage" is attacking the network, ALTHOUGH Ordinals could open attack vectors for bad actors to congest the network, drive fees higher, while also being incentivized to do it to continue doing it.
Wrong. First of all not letting people abuse this payment system that is supposed to handle money transfers is not against censorship-resistance or permissionlessness of bitcoin. In fact it is enforcing them. You see these concepts doesn't mean you should allow people to do whatever they want. Rejecting such attack transactions is also not new, there are dozens of tx types that we are rejecting. In order to keep the integrity of the system we need to do that. It also doesn't need malicious actors to spam the network, the spam would take place naturally and ruin bitcoin as a payment system. Don't forget that it wasn't malicious people who used cryptokitties or buy any other shittoken on shitplatforms like ethereum! |
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The U.S. does that because why?
Dollar is a weapon and US regime knows how to wield it. China is also doing it with their Yuan through Debt-Trap Diplomacy.
Obviously! China's dream is to replace US as the global hegemony. Maybe not with colonizing and murder of tens of millions of people but still similar power abuse is expected from China in the future also. |
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The war is definitely shifting away from Eastern Ukraine as it is evident from the withdrawal from Bakhmut and the transfer of forces to South West. I try not to predict what's going to happen since the information coming out from this war is usually manipulated and is more of a propaganda from both sides.
The Americans have been asking Zelensky to withdraw from Bakhmut for many weeks now. But he is adamant that he can reconquer all the lost regions. Ukraine has enough manpower to sustain the war for another 3-4 years. They are a country of close to 40 million people (after subtracting those who are residing in areas controlled by Russia). 1,000 KIA per day would mean 1 million losses in 3 years. It is something they can afford at least theoretically. But I am not sure whether the NATO would be interested in prolonging the conflict for so long. NATO weapon supplies are not infinite, and in due time there will be growing opposition to the spending on this war. The bulk of Armed Forces of Ukraine is no longer Ukrainian at this point, it consists of some "unofficial" NATO troops and takfiri terrorists transferred from Syria to fight Russia. Besides, a large part of Ukraine population has already fled the country. Considering how they've shown to fight for a decade in Syria, I agree that Ukraine can keep it up against Russia. You are right about NATO (more specifically Europe) not being able to afford this war for that long but US is calling the shots, not Europe, nor Zelensky specially since he is just a pawn. And US doesn't want this war to end this soon or the benefits of it would stop too. So the real question is how much longer Europe can withstand de-industrialization and how much longer they can violently suppress the mass economical and anti-NATO protests before they change their position. |
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I still think the world economy is in too much of a ruin and it is affecting bitcoin market for us to see any kind of major rally, in other words smaller rises are more plausible. We also have a good signal from past months where price broke the major resistance at $20k and successfully stayed above it for this long which shows the demand for bitcoin is still there and increasing.
This is why I voted yes, I believe we can creep up above $25k and head for $30k. That is unless something majorly negative happens again.
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It can be argued that it might bring more adoption on bitcoin.
It won't because those who are interested in these shittokens aren't adopting bitcoin. They are basically gamblers who seek out something (in this case garbage) they can place some "bets" on and see if it goes up in value so that they can make some profit. In fact if the Ordinals attack has any effects on bitcoin adoption is that it will prevent adoption by making bitcoin hard to use and possibly even unusable if it picks up and the spam reaches or surpasses the 2017 spam levels. |
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Vbytes is a more recent estimation that still counts in bytes, but does not count the bytes of certain parts of the transaction such as the witness data (IIRC).
It does. Virtual size is transaction weight divided by 4 and weight is counting witness by computing "base size" (which is serialized size without witness) multiplied by 3 added to the "total size" (which is serialized size with witness). |
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Not only this sites is unreliable but also it is a malicious website designed to inflate bitcoin fees to unreasonable levels. It has always been reporting outrageously high fees. For example right now it is still reporting 102 satoshis/byte and calls it "fastest and cheapest transaction fee" whereas even in worst case scenario in the past couple of days the "fastest and cheapest transaction fee" never surpassed 30 and right now it is around 2-3 satoshi/vbytes. In other words this site is maliciously reporting a fee that is 3400% higher! ps. anyone can give a quick explanation on the Byte Vs vByte difference?
vbytes is the virtual bytes calculated by taking witness into account (everything gets a factor of 4 except witness) so the size is smaller for SegWit transactions hence you pay less fee. |
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Lets imagine a world where Bitcoin has taken over as the main currency of the world and that almost everyone uses Bitcoin. What would happen if events like the Value Overflow Incident[1] or CVE-2018-17144 [2] happened again when Bitcoin was being used and relied on by most of the world?
Implementations of Bitcoin that have such a bug would accept the invalid block(s) in their chain and the other implementations of Bitcoin that don't have the bug would reject them hence splitting the network into two chains. After a short time the shorter invalid chain would be reorged and the buggy implementations would follow the correct chain which would have the most work too. The risk of double spend would be higher during that short period but it depends on the number of confirmation the receivers demand and how quickly they detect the chain split which is easy to do if their node has a good enough number of connections to various implementations. When both of these events occurred they were corrected shortly after but the Value overflow incident required a rollback of the Blockchain
I don't think it is correct to call it a "rollback" since it was just getting rid of invalid blocks. What would happen if the Bitcoin blockchain was rolled back when most of the world depended on it?
It depends on a lot of variables. Just seeing a "rollback" or reorg does not automatically mean double spends since the same transactions could be in the other valid chain in the other valid blocks already mined. It also depends on what the target of the theoretical attack is, for example a centralized exchange is a possible target and them losing money is nothing new! |
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They could just propagte and leave the validation for full nodes.
That could be abused for spamming invalid transactions through other people's computers. You'd just send the light node your invalid transaction and they send it to the full nodes they are connected to and get themselves banned. Besides, the bitcoin network has enough full nodes that are relaying transactions so there is no need to use others. 2. I understand that full nodes verify every transaction in the blockchain, but how is it done and if light nodes do it too, how they do it if they don't have the full copy of the blockchain?
Light nodes cannot verify everything, that is why they are "light" after all. A full node would verify a lot of things including whether or not the inputs the transaction is spending were spent before which requires the full node to have downloaded the whole blockchain to that point and have built a database of UTXOs. The full node also verifies all the scripts (including signature verification) in the transaction's inputs. |
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Edit: what is this? 19eVSDuizydXxhohGh8Ki9WY9KsHeT75TY It shows as invalid address but blockchair shows only the BCH balance and not BTC, I changed the checksum myself, isn't it weird? That looks like a bug in blockchair website's backend that simply skips checksum validation of the base58 string you enter in the search box. They probably decode it using base58 and just drop the last 4 bytes (and version byte) then search their database. The reason why it only shows bcash history is because this address was only used on bcash blockchain. |
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Looks correct to me but you can always test things like this on the TestNet to be more sure, specially when it comes to setting the time value in the timelock. Also what you called "OP_PUSHNUM_2" and "OP_PUSHNUM_1" should be OP_2 and OP_1 respectively with 0x52 and 0x51 as their byte representations. |
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the funny parts are whilst the west are saying "hate the middle east, hate russia, hate china" we are now seeing how reliant the west is/was on the east. due to all the effects the east has had on the west
It is partially because of lack of resources in the West compared to the East and partially because the "West" is built based on colonization, and without colonizing it all falls apart. If you look at what each country did over the past year, you can see they haven't given up colonizing either. For instance France over the past year has been trying to rob other countries like those in Northern Africa and Yemen to get gas for themselves. They even fund/support the invasion of Yemen (while blaming Russia for invading another country)! |
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During times of financial hardship whenever you ask people such questions (ignoring the possibility of bias in the study) they always tend to speak about alternatives including bitcoin. But that doesn't always mean they have bought bitcoin. I also feel skeptical about the number 52 million considering that it is not reflecting on the bitcoin price. In other words if bitcoin adoption was truly this high price should have been much higher than this.
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