I think Real Madrid can still make a comeback, but real depends too much on the peformance of Cristiano Ronaldo. If Cristiano Ronaldo he will score 0 goals and complain a lot on every single play, if he has a good day he can score 4 goals by himself... it's very random and you can never know the outcome with this team to be honest.
Champions League is their expectations this season. yeah Ronaldo like heart of Real Madrid . where he played well and scored a lot of goals, that the game will be more interesting. I hope they can get a Champions League title, but Barcelona is the hardest thing to achieve it. I think if you are realistic you could say that Real has very low chances to win compared to Barca. Barca should win this year unless he screws up in the following matches, but he has a margin to fail. Real on the other hand has to be 100% effective or they will be out in no time. |
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The anonymity is within using several addresses. Just use more than one.
Incorrect. Users can use taint analysis to establish a link between the few addresses. If the user accidentally spend inputs in two different address in one TX, it would be a clear indication of their link. Accidents happen, but never likely. Using multiple accounts, wallets, VPN'S and so on will give you a ticket to making sure your identity is safe. Not to say that I do this but if anyone was to do this then it'd be completely effective. Even via PayPal, you can be anonymous if you don't actually link your PayPal to your bank accounts. I never did, and I was still able to make payments for things with people who kindly accepted PayPal. That's a pain in the ass tho, we should have it easier. Also VPNs don't give you any anonymity... if they want they will request logs and trusting that a VPN will not keep logs is like trusting your favorite exchange will not run with the money tomorrow.. an act of faith. Ideally we should have every transaction on Coinjoin type transactions by default and nodes somehow run by default with tor integrated to have another layer of privacy without needing to buy a VPN or know how to do any of that. It should be easy for newbies otherwise its useless cause we need a big bulk of privacy-enabled people to reach any decent amount of fungibility. Thankfully in the Core team they know this so we have people like gmaxwell working on coinjoin type of transaction stuff and confidential transactions etc. |
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Nobody takes this group seriously anymore. I remember they had people like Karpeles as members. There was even Karpeles actual cat as a member too. It was a joke and the reputation is totally gone, nothing can make it look serious again. I think the best they can do is disband it. It's probably a bad idea Bitcoin having an official foundation.
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It's just not possible to know how many people are involved in Bitcoin by country, you could only estimate by judging on registered accounts on exchanges and centralized payment sites like Coinbase and whatnot, so you can't say russians love to scam because you can't extrapolate the data from those variables.
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The kids being born now will be using Bitcoin naturally, when they realize they are stuck without owning any money until they are 18 or 21 depending on some countries. They can't never reach financial freedom. A lot of kids nowaday make a lot of money off ad revenue with their content, and they will just get paid in BTC because it will be the quickest and cheapest way.
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Bitcoin is the safest way on the planet to transfer value, only the biggest idiots lose money with Bitcoin. If you take the required measures, your money will be safe for life. But you always have the same people complaining: people that leave their money on exchanges, people that take no measures to protect their computer and download a ton of shit, people that fail to make backups... |
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But is it normal that it takes hours to go from "4 days ago" to the current one? I mean its just only 4 days, how many mb can be that? As far as I know they have made Bitcoin verify the blocks faster with this update, but it's still as slow as ever for me.
What I noticed is it's a lot faster when you open it, but now then synchronizing.
Bitcoin network on average, generates roughly 144 blocks per day. Multiply that by 4 and it would be 576 blocks. On the worst case scenario when the blocks are filled to the brim, it would result in 576mb. Even though the verification is improved, quality of your connected peers, internet speed and HDD speed remained unchanged. These could cause a bottleneck. Yeah I should update my hardware, but I can't now, no money. If I had to choose, what would be better, more ram, an SSD, a better CPU? what's the priority here? I've got an old quadcore, a regular 7200 RPM hard drive, and 4 gigs of ram. |
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I don't want to support troll hardfork attempts like Classic, should banning every time I connect to Classic nodes help Core in some way? What would happen if everyone running Core banned Classic nodes from connecting to them? I just don't want those leeches anywhere near me.
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If something is not used for illegal activities then that's not real money. Im not saying we should be happy to see Bitcoin gets used for illegal activity, but every serious form of money ends up getting used for that too, there's just no scape from that, you have to deal with it and try to a build a better world without destroy people's privacy at the same time. Thought task.
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It's interesting to see how there are other alternatives right now that have better technology for anonymity, but still Bitcoin is the #1 used coin. This speaks of how important network effect is and how hard other coins will have it to even pretend to take Bitcoins #1 spot.
And we soon will have tech that makes Bitcoin as anonymous as the "anonymous coins."
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Bitcoin could theoretically survive even if all mining machines died, you just would need to mine manually: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3dqhixzGVoof course, the hashing power would drop quite a bit :p but the network can adapt the difficulty, that's the beauty of Bitcoin, it adapts, it cannot be destroyed. The biggest treat is trojan horses like XT or Classic, not laws against it, bombs or anything like that. |
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I think Real Madrid can still make a comeback, but real depends too much on the peformance of Cristiano Ronaldo. If Cristiano Ronaldo he will score 0 goals and complain a lot on every single play, if he has a good day he can score 4 goals by himself... it's very random and you can never know the outcome with this team to be honest.
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This is good news... people that's bright is already seeing the game and how it's going to be played: They will keep pushing for the anti cash agenda, smart people will keep stocking up on Bitcoin so when Bitcoin becomes the only way to deal with money outside of the governmental control, we will go up to the trillion+ dollar marketcap easily, rendering anyone holding a couple of Bitcoin very wealthy.
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I still persist in my work in the real world. I can devote time to work simultaneously. if given the choice I would choose to work in the real world as my main income. and work in the world botcoin as my additional income. I would apprec these two jobs.
I also sometimes confused about this, sometimes my bitcoin income is greater than the income from my job. but if I'm looking for bitcoin sure I am forgetting my job, my emotion devote time to it, because I do not want to leave my job What do you mean with Bitcoin income? I mean what do you do? Obviously signature campaign doesn't pay anything compared to a real job (unless you live a third world country or something), so what are you doing to make more Bitcoin than what you would get in an actual normal job? |
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Everyone is very hyped, I think it's a very safe bet to go and buy a lot of Bitcoin now and expect it to go higher in the next 2 months. I think the pump will not be right at the halving day, it will be 3 or 4 days before or after. How high? no one knows, sky is the limit in a tiny 6 billion marketcap asset like Bitcoin is now.
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My favorite reason to own Bitcoin is because it's the only way where I feel like i actually own the money. Everything else you are trusting someone else to keep it for you, maybe with the exception of Gold if you store the gold yourself at home, but it's very limiting and you can't do anything wit it on the internet.
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With every new news about how the economy is going to enter a new recession, how the governments are going to get rid of physical cash rather soon, all the ever increasing debt... you would be insane to not believe in Bitcoin as the best way to edge against the unavoidable crash we are heading at.
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Well if trading i were able to make around 2 btc montly atleast i would be very happy to left my current work.Even knowing that bitcoin is unstable,and can easy drop its price,but i dont believe it will decrease,it will get bigger year over year being worth around 2000 dollars ,atleast are my hopes bitcoin reach that value in around 25 years or more.Why would i work to others if i can survive and have all the things with some lower effort and work.
"If I were able". You can do that possibly if the price move frequently but it doesn't. Also you can do that if you have larger funds to move even at small margin of price. Still it's not an assurance that you can make decent earnings if you will use your trading funds to support your general financial purposes. In life there aren't just basic needs. We have misc, emergency, urgent and a so called pop up needs if you got my point. And keep in mind that we are talking of "living" here. It's a long term and not a joke one. The price moves enough to make a living from day trading, most assets don't move as much as Bitcoin, but he would need to take way too much risk to make those profits since 2 BTC is too much for him. You can try margin trading but you can end up in debt.. not a good idea unless you see it super clear (like the halving hype which will make the price go up 99.99% guaranteed). |
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why 21 BTC i don't get why that exact number. even if you are making a speculation for the future price and getting rich there is a room not an exact number  anyways, i think putting aside all the businesses like exchangers, gambling sites, online wallets,... there are a lot of traders who have that amount. you have to put that much in to make a decent profit each day. The total number of bitcoins ever will be 21m, so that's why 21 bitcoins. i think less than 2k people own 21 btc. I think 21BTC is not a difficult target at the moment. How did you derive the number "2k" for 21 BTC owners? I think we should have more. My guess is at least 10k people with 21 BTC or above... Dude 21 BTC is a lot of money, you must live in a bubble. Most people all over the world are struggling to pay bills, there's no way anyone but a small minority would be able to drop 10K worth of BTC to have 21BTC... a very small minority not only on a global level, but only on a "first world countries" level. |
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lol and yet no one is unbiased about blockstream
we all know that blockstream loves altcoins and "blockchain" we all know that people such as ICEBREAKER are altcoin supporters.
so the funny thing is that blockstream is just as bad,
i do laugh that blockstream has ties to bankers and silicon valley too.. yet any scenario to push blockstream to the side and keep bitcoin open to everyone instead of a power grab, gets slatted as bad for bitcoin.
bitcoin in short should have no power house. even suggesting that gavin, garzik hearne "resigned" suggests that its a contractual role rather than an open platform for anyone to come and go.
i agree with the fundementals that classics corporate agenda is bad and sways people away from classics code.. but the same has to be said for blockstream
anyone protecting blockstream might aswell be protecting gavin. its that simple. gavin and adamback are 2 cheeks of the same corporate face..
bitcoin should not take any sides, but instead be an open platform for the best code to be implemented by anyone. and for anyone(en mass) to validate that its good clean code.
blockstream has more chances of controling the direction bitcoin goes and forcing people to use altcoins. so please dont make it a "choose blockstream because classic bad"debate.. instead, make it a "choose 2mb+segwit for the benefit of the community and dont blindly follow any corporation" debate
How does blockstream stop bitcoin from being "to everyone"... this is getting pretty ridiculous. Those guys are just coming up with ideas to try to compete against the big giants like VISA (something we will never do on-chain). You are still free to pay for on-chain transactions, I know im not ever going to pay on-chain again as soon as LN goes in unless im extremely paranoid about a transaction because im buying something very valuable (I barely have any BTC so I don't care, it's not like im going to buy a car or a house with BTC). My transaction will reach the blockchain again with LN just like it would do on-chain. AND if blockstream ever screws up for some reason, and it goes bankrupt and LN fails, we will still have the possibility to use on-chain transactions while other layer-based solutions are developed. Now imagine that if LN breaks, and all we would have is Bitcoin with a big blocksize and really centralized nodes (and you are delusional if you think those people will stop at 2mb... soon after we have 2mb, they would want more and more, until no one but corporations can run nodes, just like mining). |
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