I like to use "Coin Control" expert feature on Bitcoin Core to deal with this. By using "Coin Control" you have the freedom of choosing exactly what coins are you moving, so you can pick the bunch of inputs that you want to consolidate into a new address.

Often times noobs get confused about how Bitcoin works and don't realize this should be pretty much a basic feature to understand if you want any privacy at all. Unfortunately, it's how things are nowadays, and I don't see it changing unless someone comes up with a way to add privacy at the protocol level to make inputs and outputs mixed by default at no additional cost. The goal for mainstream adoption is to click "send" and that's it. Having to deal with Coin Control-like advanced features isn't user friendly, but as I said, it is a must nowadays to expect any sort of privacy out of your transactions.

You may be correct. For Bitcoin's health sake, it may be better that we take a long way to get to the ATH again. Slow and steady wins the race. Rocketing up to $20k again in a matter of days like we did, you end up paying for that high speed action sooner or later. We will go slowly towards $20k, and when people realize how Bitcoin was never dead and it's now higher than ever, the new FOMO cycle will being, exponentially, dwarfing the previous high, just like the $20k peak now dwarfs the insignificant (and insanely high back then) $1300 peak of the MtGox days. The question is, what will be the peak in the next fractal formation? Some say above $100,000 pretty much guaranteed.

The government in charge of this did a complete disaster a job handling this situation. Like you said, they should have just given the coins back to the owners in a 1:1 ratio, but what they did is hire some guy to dump the coins in exchanges to pay the owners of the coins in fiat, and in the price that they were at when the crash happened! unbelievable.

It looks like they finally were struck with some sanity and not (correct me if im wrong please) apparently creditors will receive the rest of the coins in a BTC transaction? That's what I heard last time, that they were going to stop selling finally.

But why would people use it at all? unless you are in a situation in which you are FORCED to use it (like in Venezuela or whatever) then chances are you will not care less about using fiat to do your daily shopping with bitcoin instead of fiat. People in general don't care, if they government works, they will not look for alternatives.

And the fact that bitcoin can go up 100x in the next 10 years, also guarantees if people have some bitcoins, they will just hold it long term waiting for it to go up, instead of "using it", whatever definition of "using it" you have (I assume you mean buying goods and services with it)

Well as we all know now, it turns out it was not FUD, the end of Cristiano's career in Real Madrid was very real and now he is going to Juventus for the next season.

I can't wait to see how he performs there. Im sure he will keep making 30 goals per league on average and it's going to be an epic fail on Madrid's part if Juventus vs Madrid happens and Juventus wins with some Ronaldo goals. Big mistake to let the best player go for such small amount of money, he still has at least 4 more years of elite level playing and they sold him, big mistake.

When I put my coins in Mintpal to trade I was waiting for confirmations to end, I went to sleep, woke up next morning, and then the exchange had disappeared, I was waiting for confirmations to take the trading history screenshot. This is plain bad luck, not a fucking excuse, it's what happened. It's more like what excuses they will find to confiscate my money.

Also some exchangers are straight scams, like Livecoin which says (in TINY font) "we only save records for the past 30 days". A lot of people didn't see the tiny font, now they lost many trading records, until they realize the stupid idea of not keeping records permanently or at least having it in big font. C'mon!! fuck that. These things just force people to hold these coins and never ever report. What would be the point anyway? you are already screwed.




I have all of my transactions in Bitcoin Core, I took screenshots of most transactions and trading history, but I was unlucky with Mintpal. Also I have some coins mixed, these I understand I can't never sell now.

Im not looking for excuses to not pay taxes, I just don't want them to find excuses to fuck my hard earned bitcoins up by stealing them from me because some unlucky moment which made me lose some of my trading history. Since there are no guarantees of what happens in this situation, it's safer to hold and look for other people's experience in the same situation, don't be a guinea pig for the goverment's legislation on crypto guys.

Again im not trying to not pay taxes, understand the situation here.

And if governments don't cooperate, they will just scare away holders which will leave to more friendly jurisdictions in this matter, and they will miss on all these juicy taxes while the friendlier country benefits.

Many people lost records by accident.

Cryptsy, Mintpal, Gox, many many other random exchanges of back in the day, dead and so is your altcoin trading history, what then? You didn't do anything illegal, only trade BTC for alts back and forth, BTC earned in sig campaigns, made some gains and so on, but the trading history was lost in the hack/bankruptcy/whatever random reason these shitty exchangers died randomly. Many of us are affected by this. I have records, but not from Mintpal!

And even if you have records, is it enough? they could claim the screenshot or excel spreadsheet file is fake. Why should they believe it? no way to know by looking at blockchain transactions either. If they believe spreadsheets and screenshots, people could just fake these and launder criminal money.

These doubts, lead people to just hold in BTC.

In some countries, doubt may be enough for confiscation. You don't know every jurisdiction in the world.

The mixed coins are a good point too. If you ever used a mixer, to test, then these coins are lost, as in, you can never sell them. There is a risk that the mixed coins you receive have some criminal links... it would be a problem selling these coins in an exchange, unfortunately. Some people didn't think about this years ago, now they are stuck with never selling, or never being able to buy anything big, that could raise government alarms. They could ask, and then you couldn't explain the origin, since the inputs are mixed.

You must keep track of every input and output of transactions, very annoying but necessary.

We must lose all the pathetic newbies holding bitcoin. They must be annihilated. Please sell already, you don't deserve to own a single satoshi. Only individuals ready to get rich must own bitcoin, the rest must hold fiat and other liabilities. Once all the morons are off the ship then nobody will be willing to sell for these ridiculous prices. The elites are buying your cheap coins and you don't even know it. Sad!

None of these are in the same level as Ronaldo in my book, they are top players but a step below, not at the same league as Cristiano, Messi, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo Nazario, Maradonna... these are only born like every 50 years. These players you mentioned are top but in the level of Rivaldo for example. They don't give me the same extreme feel as when Maradonna or Messi have the control of the ball.

It's a double edged sword. If you go through extra times and penalties you will be more tired but at the same time you will have had an extra training and a boost of confidence on how you can get past these times of adversity. If the other teams had an easy way into the finals they may be too relaxed and this may be a problem. If they were able to rest properly then they should have recovered. We will have to find out in two days.

When bitcoin was on national tv pretty much daily for a week with mainstream media talking about it all the time and reporting on how it went just $1000 up in the last 5 minutes, and you had mainstream media jokes on mainstream media tv programs like Jimmy Kimmel and so on, you knew too many clueless noobs were getting in and it was time to sell. Now that nobody is talking about it as much anymore and when it's mentioned it's to say "it's dead" once again it's when the noobs will not be buying and when the smart will be accumulating for the next peak in $50k-250k ATH. Just business as usual.

It is really crazy how far scammers will go into promoting their scams. Twitter is getting it's feed filled with fake accounts whose owners are pumping scammy links announcing so called "BTC giveaways", or in an altcoin of choice. Im pretty sure some of these links may contain malware. Just go to any famous crypto person in twitter and in the replies section 9 out of 10 times you will see fake accounts trying to confuse noobs into clicking. Now faking being Alonso to promote a coin is a next level fraudulent.

Edit: Oh wow, so it seems that they convinced Alonso be part of this? Might be similar to other celebrities being persuaded into scams like when Floyd Mayweather ended up in the Centra ICO thing and he had problems with the IRS later. I hope they stay safe, but these people will be ok even if they make mistakes, they have enough money to cover any problems with the law.

Betting on these is too difficult indeed. My sixth sense tells me that Croatia is going to win the tournament, so I may risk it and give Croatia some winning money on the bets, but it's extremely hard to predict at this point.

France vs Belgium, very thought match, but France may be able to win Belgium, Griezmann is very motivated to become a world champion, would be one of the youngest world champions along with Mbappe which is also on fire. Very exciting matches for a football fan even if your teams are already out.

I don't think so. The delegates model is most likely gameable-exploitable to the point that it doesn't offer any additional security that the current PoW model in Bitcoin wouldn't provide, so most likely funds are not going to move in Cardano other than small speculators, big pockets are not going to risk it. Maybe if Cardano or any other coin trying to dethrone Bitcoin can prove to be secure for 10 years while resisting several hardfork attempts big pockets may reconsidering diversifying in said coin, until then altcoins have a lot of job to do and a lot to prove.

In order for a coin to defeat bitcoin it must be:

1) A better store of value (very hard to achieve, due the big PoW network of bitcoin)
2) A better payment system (easy, because bitcoin doesn't really scale much, without giving away some privacy and decentralization)

The problem is it must be BOTH, otherwise bitcoin will always be at least the best store of value. If LN is a success maybe it can be both.

Who knows, maybe luck is on their side because they are the hosts of the tournament after all, and this always gives the players an extra motivation to do well in your land, specially when Putin is closely watching the match, you don't want to lose in that situation. They will whatever it's on their hands to stop Croatia, possibly another show of heavy defense, but Croatia is one of the most solid teams in the tournament, as a matter of fact Croatia is my favorite for the winner contender of the teams left

My top 3:

1) Croatia
2) France
3) Belgium

This is simply impossible in practice, but if you want to talk about what would happen in theory, then the price would basically be a flat line. If you want to see how that would look like, just look at a dead exchange graph for example BTC-E:

https://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/btce/btcusd

As you see, it's a perfect flat line. This is impossible, because equilibrium never happens in markets, unregulated ones at least, as there is always some buying and selling action.

Irrelevant. No matter what your jurisdiction says about bitcoin, when you wake up the next morning you'll open your favorite block explorer and you will see how every 10 minutes there's blocks being mined with transactions on it.

If your government bans bitcoin, you can still use it and obtain with cash or in exchange of goods and services.

If your exchange bans physical cash too, they will pretty much help the bitcoin economy since people will resort to providing goods and services in exchange of bitcoin as the only way to obtain it.

All govs will have a "we are banning the damn thing" period, which will follow by a "we give up, we are unbanning it" period, these that hold through it all and obtain as much BTC as possible during the dip will come out on top.

It's very possible that "satoshi" is an organization and they have guaranteed themselves the biggest Bitcoin stack, but think about it... what is the point at all, if they will never move it?

It's has been almost 10 years, and not a single satoshi coin has moved, so what's the point?

At this point they can't move coins anymore, since it would crash the market. Im starting to believe satoshi is dead, so either Hal Finney or Dave Kleiman, or someone else already dead, or maybe he is so committed to his project being a success and was already rich, that he deleted the private keys. Consider all angles.

It may be both. Pacquiao loves to fight but he also has problems with the IRS (rumors say). He also needs the money to keep funding his political campaign and other projects in Philippine. If I was him I would keep fighting for as long as I can physically do it without risking my health too much. He is now in a position where every single fight will be a big pay day, even if it's against more mediocre fighters. Keep making money while it lasts, age catches up on everyone eventually.