Most probably; especially as mining seems to be more suitable on sunny places people can put on their solar panels.


Omg LOL!


It may work by actually heating water and send that through pipes, but that means more costs and more waste too.
Or as said, use the heat in a garden where the tomatoes may not mind the noise (although I've read in the past that flower prefer classical music). But that may need to be insulated too if it's near the civilization.


Exactly.

The thing is that while we do have a high degree of freedom of speech allowed here, trolling is against the rules.
However, I did report him, for trolling, I'd guess that some others too, still, no action has been done by the mods.
I can guess that mods' situation is also not easy in this kind of cases (maybe it's hard to tell if it's an illness or trolling, but imho we have exactly the case DaveF has wonderfully described), so yeah, he have wait and see what's going to happen.

I have a feeling that these articles have forgotten about the noise a bitcoin miner makes.
I don't say that using the heat of the ASICs is bad (I think that some even use it for their garden/plants) as long as they mine anyway, I just say that the topic may need to be expanded/completed in order to make it actually useful.

"Other contact info" was (is?) sometimes used for linking accounts/bounty campaigns. We could learn from them and instead of insisting on the name of those fields (and yeah, the fact they may do something if clicked), just use them for our needs if it's the case. (Actually I think that some few users do that already.)


Since it's not replaced yet, I'd conclude that the new software is not considered yet safe enough to be used for this forum.


Indeed, irc was simple and effective. I think that for example Monero development meetings are still discussed on irc.
But irc needed to know what software to start and also what server to use and maybe that was one of the reasons it's not in this list (maybe those settings were either too many, either not standardized enough?)

Well done!


Actually this math is terribly wrong because there's a very good chance that more than half of the 21M is locked in wallets lost or to people or entities not willing to sell (the vast majority of those funds) for very long time.
Even more, one can safely count on the fact that some will buy more than 1BTC. Did you really stop at 1BTC? I kinda doubt it. And even owning 1.001BTC means the result is different.

On the other hand, who cares of those millionaires? Let them hold fiat; we hold Bitcoin.

Dificultatea se schimba cam la 2 saptamani. Asta inseamna ca daca creste hash rate, sunt intr-adevar sanse ca pentru o vreme blocurile sa fie generate mai rapid.
Deci ironia ta nu prea are baza.

Trying to scare some newbies, eh?
What you posted is no useful information: it's data available to whoever wants to read it and everybody can transfer his funds wherever he wants. And we should not care.
What you posted is FUD: the numbers can be seen as big and scary by the inexperienced, but it's actually just a fraction of the coins sold and bought on a daily basis. Even more, somebody with such amounts of coins is usually not so stupid to break the price and sell at a loss.

Still, we're in bear market, so the price can still go lower (or higher!). Traders have to stay alert, HODLers can buy more or just enjoy the ride.



You should take another look: https://mempool.space/tx/4e51e9c29620f676e49e4a3670be158fa626866c032b46a2a2ee254c861604c6
Even more, please don't quote such big images at full size. You can edit the img tag and change the height to make it smaller.

All this was discussed in the Ledger Nano S Plus topic. You could have been reading that first, really...


Afaik it's not discontinued yet, meaning that for a while (at least the EU legal 2 years) they should still offer support for it.


Yes, sooner or later it will most probably get discontinued and if vulnerabilities are found, then using the old device will become unsafe.
At that point it will be recommended to buy another HW (from Ledger or not).


Now? No. Not yet, by far.

This is not about bear markets, the tx fees are usually low when the price doesn't change much (no matter how high or low it is).
And I'd bet that a lot of people would prefer to pay much bigger tx fees as long as their coins also worth much more


I think that you've overpaid some 10-20x. Did you use a web wallet or something?!


There are many altcoiners whose main narrative is that bitcoin is expensive to use, just to divert people's eyes from the fact their supported coins are copycat shitcois or useless forks.


The tx fee is completely unrelated to how many coins you send. It's related to the size (in bytes) of the tx, which comes from number of inputs, number of outputs, the type of address you use (SegWit is cheaper) and obviously how much you're in hurry / how much you want to overpay for speed.

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Don't take me wrong, I'm happy you've discovered that bitcoin is not expensive to use. I simply want to point out that you still have a lot to learn

Oh, but I don't deny that! My point on this matter was that price topics belong to Speculation.


Yet OP question was what you expect and you didn't answer to that

Most of the less complicated solutions related to banking are implemented by using their centralized nature to the max. In bitcoin world this may not be the best direction.

I won't deny it, some things could be done to make things easier for non-technical people. But I will be honest and I would not expect people invest time and work "for fame"; let's be honest, the most fool-proof solutions are commercial ones (i.e. ones for which the developers got paid).

From what I've read (eg. on Financial Times) MicroStrategy is also considered involved, for helping/covering Saylor's actions.
See: https://www.ft.com/content/b356290d-a9c2-4ed2-8852-7f2d0c080f1c

I think that I've said it somewhere else too: imho it's not (yet!) an attack to bitcoin, but it can be used for attacks against bitcoin and also to bring back into actuality the "bitcoin is illicit money" narrative.

OP was very focused on this drop, he may have been expecting it exactly in the night between August and September and.. it didn't happen as he expected.
However, I see two conflicting directions here:
1. The historical crypto winter may not be over (may take 1-3 more months) and this means a new leg down is possible (and the worse case scenario is under 10k!).
2. The rainbow chart shows the price is in the low area and it's not much (if any) room for going lower.

Some will go by some indicators, some will go by another, hence some will always be wrong. I find it a good time to buy, HODL and wait for the "winter" to get to an end.

While you somewhat have a point, I'm afraid your call may remain unanswered. Or not in the way you'd like.
* Banks' move toward cheaper, faster and online based services is ongoing for years
* Banks are institutions with money and power they can change a lot pretty fast
* Bitcoin is evolving - SegWit is a leap forward, Taproot too. LN is expanding, maybe not too fast, but it does. Bitcoin development is un- (or more precisely under-) funded.

The bigger problem I see is that you've compared apples (private businesses working with money) with oranges (the new money). And here:
* Bitcoin related businesses do evolve, but some care only about profit, or they are being slowed down by the financial sector they have to interact with, so it's not much visible
* There is so much money to come if one starts just another business like the existing one, many won't even bother for innovation
* Banks themselves start working with Bitcoin and I would not be surprised they would come with the innovation you may be expecting (as I said, they work with a completely different level of funds).

I think that PayPal is maybe too "customer oriented" and allows chargebacks much easier than banks, for example.
Exchanges seem to prefer old school bank transfer. The few that allow Credit cards (another chargeback champion) ask for quite a premium there afaik.


Well, if I'd be PayPal and I sell Bitcoin (or, even more, IOUs) at 21 000$, why would I agree to make business with Binance that sells Bitcoin at 19 500$? To allow the users get bitcoin cheaper and I'll have less profit?

And indeed, PayPal is new in this, but before that PayPal was prohibiting Bitcoin related transactions and there was also the aversion of every honest bitcoiner against PayPal for being scammer's heaven and allowing chargeback for everything related to bitcoin. So before it was even worse/riskier. Or am I missing/confusing anything?

I think that it's not negative feedback he needs, instead reporting for trolling.
This way he should face at least a temporary ban.

Although this was asked before, I'll come back to this. Are you sure you use a command line like

..or whatever your IP is?

You are comparing ElectrumX you said it's configured for SSL with Electrs that seems to be asking for non-SSL connection. The command line of the two must differ.
I use Electrs locally without SSL and my config looks pretty much similar with yours (just I use cookie for accessing Bitcoin Core).

It's just yet another typical Romanian "wild west" so-called businessman. He has paid politicians, made contacts, made a fortune leeching taxpayers' money (and giving parts of that back to the politicians) without doing much. I'm so sick and tired of the them (and the huge number of them too) I no longer keep track of them.

So I had to look up who this guy is. It's one of the "close relatives" of an ex-prime minister that was so "nice and clean" he has already done prison time too. There are stories that this prime minister has ruined the industry of the town I was born simply because he didn't get the bribe he was expecting. Well, I guess this "businessman" has remained close friend because he was able to deliver.

If you read the end of this newspaper translated with Google, he is still receiving money from the government, most probably for contracts poorly made long ago, to favor him.



I will add that afaik everybody who has US citizenship is liable for taxes or at least the difference if he has paid lower taxes in another country. Maybe this is the case?

As soon as you put the money into a reputable escrow, you can go on.
Until then... it's just the usual bulshitting you're doing all over the forum lately.