This is history. Imagining what would have been happening if this or that would have been different is counterproductive.


The new car (for the 2022 new rules) did behave much worse (compared to the rest) than the previous (2021) generation, so that's correct.
It was also bad luck for Ricci because (from my understanding) each car behaves different, has different balance and so on; Ricci had to adapt to the new McLaren when he left Renault, then he had to adapt again to the completely new McLaren in 2022. He didn't.


Haas and Williams are just not competitive enough. Alfa Romeo has an experienced driver and one that brings big bucks, I don't think that anything will change there. Alpine is in turmoil and since I expect Ricci is disappointed and may not be searching too hard, they could both intersect for a "let's give each other another chance".


He is still adjusting with the new car. Quite funny to think, but it looks like Russel has adjusted better.
It depends on how many failures will Ferrari still have, but Mercedes are actively hunting for the second place. It looks achievable now.

That's why I said that they'll never admit they'd do this to favor CBDCs. Just since 100$ bill is not that big this kind of "used for illegal things" narrative may not hold and, as Hydrogen said, this will have a good chance to backfire against USD as reserve/backup currency.

I agree with the others:
* this won't happen too soon
* even if this process starts at some point, it will take a lot of years until 100$ bill will get completely phased out
* it is possible that all this is some fake news or ideas of somebody overly paranoid


Printing cash is costly. And it's easier to slow down the printing of new banknotes (for all the values) than completely phasing out the bigger ones.

Well, he had the contract on his side and could have been keep an overly strong fight for his seat. But I guess that he has proven, yet again, that he's a nice person.


So true.


If this happens I fear we won't see him in F1 ever again... on the other hand with his bad year and current situation, the morale is probably also very low and may not even care to start looking. That's why I also think that Alpine is one of this very few chances.

Nothing unexpected really. Of course, the reasons said would be to protect end users from scams. And that will partly get also achieved. This will make some scam businesses no longer have a chance to exist in EU. But of course, the result will be more stupid rules, more KYC, more things that will make bitcoin more appealing for companies and less appealing for the law abiding citizen.

There were discussions to stop the 500 EUR bills from circulation because they're too big for average Joe and only help those earning money from illegal things carry that money easier. And the 500 EUR bill is still in circulation, just no new banknotes are being printed.

The 100$ is not that big. And I also don't think that anybody would admit they are removing the 100$ bills from circulation to favor CBDCs. So unless they come with a better story I don't think they'll do it. And even then.. it'll take many years until the 100$ bill gets retired.

A wallet is not an account. A private key is a random number from a hugely big interval. The address is based on the private key.
Now if you leave a proper wallet software generate that number for you, the chance others will generate the same number is smaller than the chance for winning the lottery many times in a row. So it's pretty safe to say nobody else will have the same address.
On the other hand if you pick a nice number like 123456789..... to be your private key, somebody else might easily generate the same wallet and steal your money.

PS. Don't use websites generate your wallet, use wallet on your computer, or, better, hardware wallet.
PPS. What I was telling was about bitcoin. Eth / metamask stuff may or may no follow the same rules, you can ask in the altcoins area.

This is imho quite a good question, actually.
While some will say it doesn't matter it's a bear market since Bitcoin can easily be used only as means of payment, ... it's more complicated than that. Bitcoin price can fluctuate a lot.. in both directions. If one gets his salary in Bitcoin and in a matter of days his salary's value drops by 10%, he won't be happy.
That's why I've found it interesting the way El Salvador did; one can still use internally fiat (USD) if he wants to, while he does accept Bitcoin. If he decides to keep/invest into Bitcoin, it's on him and, depending on his patience, he may or may not earn big.
Someday, not too far in the future, the price should no longer have wild fluctuations and then it will be more suitable for adopting bitcoin as legal tender.


I don't understand this. Adopted or not, they still cannot control it. I don't think it has too much effect even on El Salvador's economy, although they have indeed bought some and the price is down now (they still have USD too as legal tender); on the other hand the tourism there has grown over the expectations.


Some are afraid of it, some have their own agenda (CBDCs), some simply want to protect their crappy fiat currency....

Good! I think that all that's still missing is the use of multiple sources (at least 1-2 more big exchanges).
Actually also some reference to the initial preev for the look and feel would be normal imho.

I kinda second this, with some additions:
* if you want to add altcoins and still keep this simple, it could be "good for the business", but I'd suggest you do that on a subdomain and you just keep a link to that on main page (altcoins.preev.net?)
* more fiat currencies could also be useful, but, again, I'd keep preev simple and make the more complicated one a/another subdomain

I find more important to have more often updates for the price (or conversion amount) and to see the price/conversion amount at in the title bar.

I find it nice and reassuring to see the support Hodlonaut has got. I've seen today on Twitter some lines on the matter, but I didn't know the background; thanks OP for this topic.


If he would do this he would get - sooner or later - to fight somebody powerful enough and willing to defend himself.
If he would do this he would get even more websites hosting the whitepaper.


It would be interesting to see, but I don't have such high hopes...


That's correct. But we know that the chance for that to happen is slim. And this is also what Faketoshi is counting on...


Please don't pollute this thread with speculations already explained they're nonsense.

The first step has been done: Ricciardo is leaving McLaren at the end of this year. It's official:
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.breaking-daniel-ricciardo-to-leave-mclaren-at-the-end-of-the-season.7nJEoiDWEllG7NRGR7yn1x.html

Quite shame, I hoped Ricci will do better sooner or later.. and it didn't happen. Let's see what will happen next, will he go back to Renault/Alpine?

For the broken HDD I'd look for professionals. On the other on I'd look for wallet files and private keys (see pywallet app for searching).

Afaik there is also one trusted person on the forum who can do this (I guess that somebody will post his username), but you have to be very careful and cross-check the info since scammers too may come and pretend to try to help you.

In theory, indeed, there can be problems with HW - from things not implemented good enough to actual malicious intentions, especially in the case of closed source ones.
But in reality nothing has happened for so long, we can pretty much tell they've passed the test of time and, as you said, those calls are overly paranoid.

However, a new trend seems to be to be wary with the classical hardware wallets and go for devices like SeedSigner, where everything is open source (and you can even assemble it yourself). But this doesn't mean the HW are unsafe; as I said, they've passed the test of time and the companies seem to indeed care more to sell their hardware (and keep a good name) than stealing from people.

1. Your website looks pretty much exactly like preev did. While I don't mind, you may run into copyright issues.
2. After it ran well for a first look, no matter what I do (closed tab and opened new one), I see only 20k price. Firefox.

Good luck!

It's wallet management, but also transaction and blockchain management. Bitcoin core is quite a complex software.
However, the addresses are not actually stored anywhere. All the possible private keys are the integer numbers in a huge range. The addresses are derived mathematically from those private keys. So they don't have to be stored.

The blockchain contains transactions. When a block is mined, a number of transactions are included into the block and the block is added into the blockchain.

When one creates a transaction he needs to know (from the blockchain) exactly what inputs (yes, inputs, not coins) he can spend and will make a transaction off them, will sign it, broadcast it and wait for a miner to mine it.

Blockchain is not a second software; it's just data. The data of all mined transactions until now.

Actually you may have a chance since there are plenty of shitcoins desperate to get listed somewhere.. anywhere.
I don't think that those will matter when looking for a good exchange, but it may help showing you can be trusted with user funds. Of course, the risk is high that the people with actual tradable coins will not go there, still, one good strategy would be to allow low limits (min traded funds) and low amounts for min withdrawal; and of course bearable withdrawal funds (sorry, I didn't look those up).

All in all, I'd recommend you advertise your exchange in altcoins area, you may have better chance...

Yet you seem to have missed the parts about what is a wallet (since your question shows great confusion) and how safe is that.
Even more, by telling that the devs would lock Satoshi's funds is not only spreading misinformation, it's also insulting the devs. That's how I see this.


The thing is ... Bitcoin is not only for making people richer. There are so many good things Bitcoin brings... from innovation and technology to actual freedom (financial freedom).


Read more and ask more. Cross-check the information you get, don't just believe everything. Then you will know much more and will get better (and hopefully less insulting) answers. Enjoy the ride!

Ei, nu trebuie sa te gandesti asa, ca te deprimi. Cand se termina, se termina, nu trebuie numarat AMR-ul...
Dar ma bucur tare ca va plimbati.. si aveti si unde. Plus rasaritul, desi mi se pare obositor; in niciun sejur la vreo mare nu m-am trezit mai mult de o data/sejur pentru rasarit, de cand ma stiu...


Eh, asta nu prea merge. Sunt acum in Apuseni.. si nu ne prea lasa ploaia sa ne facem damblaua pe coclauri... sau cel putin nu cat am vrea.

The answers are simple if one knows a bit more about bitcoin.
Satoshi's stash, his coins, all are... all on the blockchain. A wallet doesn't contain coins, it contains keys that allows spending coins.

How many they are.. nobody knows, since nobody knows exactly all the addresses / wallets Satoshi owns.


The story seems to be that you may have been smoking something too strong for you. Or you've read the writings of somebody who smoke that. You better get better sources of information. Bitcoin doesn't allow neither stealing nor blocking one's access to his coins if you don't know the private key.

Because it was programmed to work with PoW. (Why can't I charge my old benzin car from the so cool electric charging stations?)

However, as said, one can change Bitcoin code to work with PoS and whoever agrees with the change can use that code, which will work on its own fork of the blockchain.
Of course, most probably the majority will not care about that change (that new coin), which is pretty much proven by the fact the attempts done until now produced worthless coins.