Sure, its not like medium rewards people for views or anything, otherwise the letter would be here, as copying and pasting isn't too hard, and you can even leave the link for reference and to avoid a plagiarism accusation...

But like you said, Satoshi isn't reading this letter, anyway.

Well the usual, someone wanted their edits to stay, but the moderators wouldn't allow it for whatever reason. The world is full of script kiddies, and insecure computers to launch attacks from...

Or wake up half an hour earlier and do something like warm up exercises first, there are plenty of those on youtube, you will find one that you love. Then you could add something like a stationary bike, after you made a habit of the daily warm up routine.

You could, when reaching work also use the stairs up if the place is not at ground level

Or why watch TV when all content is available online ad less?

Funny thing is, those trip agencies don't have access to ALL routes and pricing, regardless of their claims. Depending on country, you can book flights from an airline that never shows in their system, for whatever reason. But you'd need to learn their names and find their web page on your own, especially on smaller or blacklisted countries...

Did you know, that no American airline is allowed to come to my country anymore? There is a bunch of smaller local 1~3 plane airlines that only go to neighbor countries to connect flight anyone intending to come and leave. You gotta love the thrill of flying those old planes... (don't mind that noise, it gets temperamental sometimes).

In the year 2xxx it was decided to change death sentences, from humane but boring injections, into one more useful for society idea: Survival games!

Indeed, its an old idea, dating perhaps to the times of the great Roman Empire, where Gladiators could earn their living in the same way. Could the winner even perhaps receive presidential pardon?

Remember kids, only those sentenced to death can participate. When your character dies, you will get assigned another death sentenced inmate.

I can see the bright future now....


Or, you could just stick to zombies...

It was probably abused by spammers, making disposable new accounts only to promote their garbage via avatar and signature...

A pen and piece of paper. Yes really, its all you need for a secure offline wallet, in that paper you write the seed words, and protect this paper real good, perhaps make another copy in another piece of paper and secure it very well in a separate physical place.

Of course you have to had printed or copied addresses from this wallet so you can send funds into.

If there is any tool you need, that would be the live (linux) os you should use when making the wallet, or the very rare occasion you actually want to spend the funds stored in it. Offline wallets are meant for savings, once created nobody can steal nothing. In fact most Exchanges move the majority if their funds to offline wallets, which is why the latest "hacks" don't amount to major percentage of their funds. Online you only need a minimal amount needed for day to day transactions, and that should be done with a separate wallet.

If you use Windows, probably. If you are smart and switch to Linux, boot from Linux to do your backup and then install Linux, its probably the end of the virus even if you do accidentally copy it with the backup. Or you could use clamav afterwards to remove it from the safety of Linux.

You are never going to get rid of malware with Windows, no amount of slow OS making software or "common" sense can protect you enough. In fact, you can spend hours and hours fixing it everything, only to have your system infected minutes after you finish, or have a fool friend bring it with his usb stick...

If you are buying in Coinbase that should be enough, you get a wallet there as well and can send funds from there directly to another bitcoin wallet. Same thing for other exchanges.

Make your own wallet if you plan to receive and send bitcoins in the future, for that Electrum is good, but you need to inform yourself first on Do's and don't s when handling your very own bitcoin wallet.

They cannot control decentralized crypto. The likes of Libra sure, but not Bitcoin. Its not a matter of wanting, they simply can't control it. Regulating it requires cooperation from their fellow citizens, but they cannot stop said citizens from keeping secret wallet/transactions...

Bitcoin is something that happened, in-spite of governments. Some don't know what to do about it, but they cannot make it disappear. I guess regulation is the next best they can do, unless they give up fully and authorize it freely the way it should be.

Its probably just a matter of time... State and Money are no longer the same anymore.

Sounds like another kolotibablo or whatever those solve captcha for money things are called. Microtasks pay more in my opinion, IF you find the source and avoid the several intermediaries. Unfortunately only a few of the intermediaries pay in bitcoin, Crowdflower or Figure eight as its called now has a direct (no referrals) site but only works with Paypal which for me now means stuck money.

There you can help train AI recognize things for the Pentagon for a few cents, pays better than solving captchas!

Or if you don't live in a "third" world country like mine, you can probably make more doing polls, such as Google Rewards.

Hmm my story is kinda similar to yours. I didn't really paid attention to it, but i guess i first learned about it the first time it got posted on /. (which was quite early, 2009 i think). But, i happened to be on Freenode a lot for small talk and the occasional Linux helping. One of my hobbies has always been #anime, and guess who was the channel founder? Certain someone who now is on the core team...

Anyway for various reasons i wasn't able to obtain bitcoins easily and i lost interest. But later people would joke some much about dogecoin that, yes, you should remember me joining that channel and since they were giving them away all the time, i could familiarize my self with all the basic concepts:

Wallets (both lite and full node), sending money to others, transfer fees, irreversibility, etc.

Since those "joke" coins were free, any mistakes wouldn't hurt as much. But then i found myself with a bunch of them and i think i wanted to buy something, almost nobody takes doge but exchanges do, and those were converted into bitcoin and then i found myself already knowing how to do things...

Possibly some people enjoyed bitcoin faucets in the very early days and could experiment carelessly.

So what could be done? Perhaps easier access to testnet, so people could familiarize themselves. I don't think any of the wallets expose a simple ui control to switch to testnet (instead of mainnet) and get "free coins". But then you would need some site of sorts to play with them, perhaps some game or anything that would work with testnet instead.

Testnet is supposed to be for developers but end users could benefit from it, i think. Else you could still go to an altcoin, but even dogecoin stopped being given as widely as it used to, back in 2013. Turns out Doge is mostly just Litecoin which is one of the closest to actual Bitcoin. But blocks occur every 2.5m, and mining production is unlimited. Of course its unprofitable to mine, and has already exhausted all its halvings years ago.

I never got my hands into an L3 to mine it for lulz, yeah, scrypt just like Litecoin.
Oh, i also learned about Exchanges disappearing overnight, and cloud mining scams... Invaluable experience, from Moolah and Garza

Lol thanks for the quick update, no need to get worried then ^^

I just saw this error when trying to post a message. What exactly triggers this error message? My garbage mobile connection tends to switch me IPs but usually i receive a different kind of error (Session validation error) but a refresh fixes it.

And the weirdest thing is that the message actually gets posted when this message shows...

What makes you think its male?

Language is a huge barrier. Aramaic has a word that embodies both, and its apparently how Jesus actually taught his disciples. But all is "lost in translation".

The word God does deserve some rethinking as well, ignoring the joke nature of OP, it is a valid concern. People like to anthropomorphize God but you could say the universe is his/her body, and yes male/female are all within.

The Greek caricature of a god doesn't differ much from modern day comics, and that is where the Deus word comes from, at least you are spared from that in English...

You never see God because you are seeing it all the time, silly.

Satan is more of an analogy. Evil only exists the moment you decide to do it (or "welcome" it). The moment you say no, it dies. Rising this concept to a "God" like level, was actually something Judaism borrowed from Zoroastrianism during the Babylonian exile (when they entered in contact with).

You'd be surprised how easy religion is once you add some actual history (context) to it.

And a custom case to fit one board to it... Hmmm i see a potential product here

Even with the voltage regulator (transformer) there is a limit which if exceeded, will cut the power anyway. So its not like its guaranteed they will not cut the power at times. This is supposed to be an anomaly that should not occur frequently...

That is exactly the case, and there is a good reason: Corruption. It HAS to have "strings" attached, Brazil is truly unable to deal with the problem they themselves instigated as State policy. It is Brazil fault, you have to trample its sovereignty by sending UN troops. An UN security council resolution can fix this, and they don't have power of Veto.

Well, i would send them to all countries that share the Amazon, even mine, of course. Maybe the UN could also put a stop to the illegal mining garimpeiros have been doing for decades under such hellish conditions people here would vomit in disgust if they learned about their camps...

But of course, that is all an unknown to the world top leading countries they just buy the minerals, no questions asked. Prostitution? Check, underage? check, slavery? check. But wait, there is more, you just will never know...

Send the troops or shut up. Don't be naive with the money thing, none of these countries deserve that territory anyway, its a Stateless reality where only organized crime rules.

The jungle, looks so beautiful from afar, except for the (slash & burn) farmers, they want it all clear and leave the place barren as a desert.

This is why Carl Jung had to come and: "de-emphasized the importance of sexual development and focused on the collective unconscious".

In fact, they had quite the heated debate and ended breaking relations... But still, Carl was right, and Freud just didn't like his theories getting broken...

10k to 7k is not a crash, its like a mere 30% loss. Why do you insist in abusing the word crash? Let the whale sell them, it means cheap bitcoin for the few lucky that manage to buy them, i would expect a very quick correction afterwards.


Bitcoin's future is sealed in its code. Those who don't trust it, are welcome to sell them, its better for all of those who don't trust it to get rid of theirs, and the true holders to amass them. You will see this is part of the irreversible process of maturity, including price stability, which should healthily slow down its constant price increases and eventually settle somewhere within 1 digit yearly increase (because fiats are all being devalued intentionally). Could take a few more decades...