That's because it lacks usefulness. Most people reading a forum like this will "scan" the text much faster and easier than listening to an audio file.
While an image can be very useful, while it's said that an image is better than 1000 words, while a screen capture can show easily what problem somebody might encounter, the use for audio files is limited, so I'd guess nobody cared.


You didn't upload any audio to that thread. You've uploaded it somewhere else and you've linked it to that thread.
Even more, as said, since that website you've used is barely known, people won't click your links because they're cannot be sure those links are not malicious.

According to The Block:


The official announcement tells:



So... is anybody still keeping their money on various centralized platforms hoping for pennies?
You still don't see how risky is that?!

If you want to discuss, write here the most important ideas. I don't go to watch random youtube movies only for you to get more hits.


I don't expect anything new to be said there. Mining Bitcoin is just a tiny fraction of human activities that use electricity.
For real changes towards helping this planet big (and costly) steps must be made and nobody is willing to make them, hence they are diverting mass media's eyes towards bitcoin mining.

I could also do this, now and then, for avatar + personal text, but with no strong commitment.

And while I guess that this means pretty much nothing, I guess that many others are in the same situation: if somebody start "managing" such campaigns, some of those having nothing better/more profitable to wear, would also think on this as a valid option, especially if they see reputable/trusted members wearing that.

(And yes, a campaign manager could be a must, as somebody keeping a close eye on how the advertised service is developing, and make sure people don't end up advertising scam).

Although the topic is rather old, I think that there's a small nuance nobody has "touched" yet.
While trust rating is indeed irreversible if the user leaves the forum, while trust rating indeed can be changed only by the user (in theory), there's something more:

Bitcointalk is a forum based on a central database. This means that if the administrator (i.e. theymos) can be convinced, he could invalidate (remove?) directly in the database the trust feedback.
Of course, it would be an overly dangerous precedent, of course, this has never been done (afaik), but, at least in theory it's possible.
There were discussions that at least banned users' feedback would be nice if it's invalidated, but it has never happened.

But, like in every good or bad, I tend to never say never (still, you better learn to live with whatever feedback you've received, it's a safer approach).

I agree to this, although one can look daily into internet banking app and "count the pennies" if he wants too (of course, if it's not technologically impaired).

However, imho it's not the main reason people take out cash for holidays. Imho people don't know what to expect in the new location. I've been this year at a wonderful location in Greece that had no ATM (OK, next town, a few miles away, had that). And almost everybody still prefers to be paid in cash. So having cash on you to cover for the holiday is a pretty much expected approach, no matter what politicians and banksters tell on TV.

Such exchanges usually have much wider spread. If they provide liquidity for some "hot" pairs, they can earn more there than from the bigger exchanges. Of course, it's a gamble.

I've used in the past such exchanges to get rid of new coins or fork coins, for example. Getting to a "known" coin I could withdraw even 5-10$ like amounts was painful and I've been easily losing 10-30% on this kind of trades (or at least this is what I remember, I may be wrong, it was several years ago)

From what I know, now currencies are not backed by anything. They are simply IOU papers, central bank promise papers.

However, countries keep gold in vaults, to prove some sort of solvability. And that can be replaced by Bitcoin. Why? Because private keys are much easier to safely store (if one knows what he's doing) and, unlike for gold, they would not have to pay for huge vaults for storage. Also proof of funds is easy to get.
Even more, it starts becoming visible that gold may not be as scarce as initially thought and this may become tricky (pricewise).

Back to the question: indeed, since fiat is not backed at all, I don't see why would they be backing CBDCs with bitcoin, when they can back with fiat or, directly nothing.

Maybe you know all this, but since you're newbie and your question looks more like jumping in head-first, I feel have to write all this:

Mining bitcoin is pretty much a business. Mining machines are far from cheap and if your electricity price is not overly cheap you'll end up mining bitcoin more expensive than buying it.
So I advise you read more and understand better what you're planning to do.

Also, if you will have only one miner, you will probably use pool mining, gathering tiny amounts from each block mined by that pool, you won't exactly "mine one bitcoin" directly.



Actual miners would give you more info about machine and approximate time frame for getting 1 BTC (assuming the difficulty doesn't change much)

Crypto winter for some, summer sales for some others 

Indeed, it's trading at a discount, especially in the last 2 months. And this situation may last some more months, or the price may drop some more, or maybe the crypto winter is already over (we just have a pump - maybe small, maybe not). However, crypto winter will end. And then some will be crying again that they've missed the train. It happens all the time.

However: this is speculation, not financial advice.

Of course, although it holds not much of value (since it's speculation), it's nice to have such things coming from a "Bloomberg Senior Analyst" (although I don't care much of such a title, I expect some do).

Greed is the biggest problem. That's what most fraudsters exploit. That or insufficiently tested software (like DeFi, new wallets, new exchange platforms, atomic swaps).
If you are less greedy, if you don't go after each wild promise, if you take some precautions (don't keep too much money on centralized platforms, protect your local wallets properly), then you are safe.

Don't jump head first in every new "offer". Think very good every move you do. Think "I would really do this with my card?".

I am almost sure that the engine doing the mixing is not down (I expect its uptime not being related to onion, instead related to bitcoin network and some machine running 24/7 in the cloud).


I guess that OP, when he's back, can easily handle that (and also give more insightful answers too).

Yeah... for me influential means... to be somebody I can always learn from, somebody I wish to be like that person.
This is a forum. You can always make a new account and start fresh. While it's best to be friendly and try to be part of a great community.. licking this or that ass for "being secure" may not get you far. I guess that if you want to be part of this or that mafia/gang you'll have to ask at the street corners, not asking loudly 

Reputation, or a good name, is very hard to earn, it can take many years to achieve. Reputation is hard to earn and very easy to lose. Hence some did live up to their names, some didn't.


Some joined to this forum earlier, some later. Each and every individual has different background of knowledge, different ways of expressing that, some keep learning, some not so much.
Excellence in posts is hard to achieve (and I think that some are better gifted than others in that matter). But you have to seek for proper information, not only the proper package. And also you have to crosscheck everything you read, since everybody can make mistakes.

Sorry, but without the technical details there's no bitcoin.
My list of influential people are people with very good knowledge in Dev&Tech or Mining.
Since you don't care about those, I have no list to give you.

Although I highly esteem also some non-technical peeps, I have a feeling you prefer a list of drama queens and forum policemen, and that's... not really influential for me...

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Do you try to get a problem fixed or you want to create panic?! Asking same question on every corner will get you nothing new.
Chill. Keep in mind that it's week-end and also holiday season. Also, as said, Tor is in trouble itself...
I'd say you should wait until the new week starts...


PS. If it helps, I've reproduced your first error both yesterday and today.

Your wallet private key is a number within a hugely big interval. Let's say bigger than the number of stars and planets in the universe.
And yes, if somebody finds out that number, you're screwed.

Just the chance is smaller than winning the big prize at lottery many times in a row (!).
The seed is indeed "just words". But keep in mind that being a rather big set of words in the list your seed words are taken from, and even more, a word can be used multiple times in your seed, makes it, again very (very-very-very) difficult to brute force it. So difficult that the electricity needed for the job doesn't worth it, no matter how many coins are in your wallet (!), plus it takes an awfully lot of time (many generations!). Again, the chances to "guess" or brute force it are extremely low.

Clearer?

I think that it may be possible.
At the moment a "trade" is locked in, both buyer and seller have a fixed and short amount of time to send you (the exchange) the funds (they promised they exchange) and then you will send to each party its new funds.
Pretty much like an atomic swap, just it doesn't have to be "atomic".

The problem I see though is the if one part is not sending the promised funds in the amount of time, you'll have to send back to the other party what he sent, maybe even on your expense.
So it has to be tighter and I don't know how you can force somebody send funds from his wallet if he doesn't want to... unless you heavily interfere with his wallet and I guess that this is not wanted.

But with devs around you you may receive better ideas.