What you're doing is like you'd be trying to "sell" anti-tsunami protection to the citizen of El Alto, ignoring the fact that if they're in danger to get hit by tsunami, they're pretty much hopeless already (with most of the world underwater, food shortage is probably their first problem and not the tsunami).

I was probably greatly inaccurate, but I hope it helps understanding a quite wide point of view here.

Although @tranthidung has written some interesting things, I'll add my thoughts o that:
* I don't think that anybody on this forum will lend you money without collateral; it's too risky, no matter what you say
* it won't be easy to convince others give you money for trading cryptocurrencies; again, too risky
* even if you get somebody lend you money, it won't be good, since you'll be then under pressure to perform and, as said, that's how mistakes start piling up; even more, mistakes can make you lose your money and the loaned money, and then you will be in trouble.

So imho, this direction you want to take... doesn't worth it.

I don't think that something like that would be published.
Ferrari seems to have lately some hard-to-fix reliability issues and I don't think that they would admit this, since their customers - Alfa Romeo and Haas - may not be happy also...

I'm really sorry for Leclerc, I had better expectations from this year, after that great start they had... But yeah, this is not unusual for Ferrari

I think that a correction is needed. While the example stands for Electrum, Sparrow is more versatile and it can connect to a Bitcoin node too.
(I've only done some tests with Sparrow more months ago, hence if I am wrong or I've misunderstood something please correct me).


A Bitcoin node can run as .. well, a bitcoin node, which can already be seen as a server since it's offering its service to other nodes.
SPV wallets like Electrum or Ledger live need servers that are not Bitcoin Nodes (there are servers built on top of bitcoin nodes) in order to operate.
I hope this helps.

I didn't say nor assumed that you said anything 
I was just giving out a friendly warning just in case. If you already know that, even better (but you also know that it's not only you who reads this).
Also, I said "overly confident in TA", not in a certain idea. Like Wilhem said it here in a nicer way, TA should not be taken into account all alone. That's all.

Thanks for clearing up the intended use case.

Maybe you already know by now, but I'll still write it down for others who might read this:
Make sure you stop nicely bitcoin core before stopping your computer, so the data doesn't get corrupted and you're good to go for those 4h a day, of which the first good number of minutes will be needed to catch up.
I don't advise "tricks" like putting the computer on sleep, then the node is not running anyway in such cases.

In order to act as a full node, your computer needs to run applications (bitcoin core), network, hard-disk and so on. That is possible only if it's fully running.
Since you cannot do that, then it means that you cannot properly run a bitcoin node.

Now, if you only want to do tests now and then, you can start it 1h before your tests, leave it catch up and play with it.
If you want to only use it for your wallet, please read my previous post.

Or, maybe you tell what you want to achieve (it was requested by others too, but you seem to ignore that), in order to get better advises, exactly for your use case.

"Every uncaught thieve is a honest merchant". While we suspect the exchanges are guilty of this (and many more), not much was actually proven and afaik nobody was officially accused (charges filled) for this. And this is a news (much better than many news in crypto space tbh). This can be a good step towards normality and fairness (although we are very far from that and even the fact that only one person was found guilty is overly strange).

Since one indicator alone can be misleading, since TA alone can be misleading, it would be no surprise at all to see it "fail for the first time", really.
I think that you are overly confident in TA and this may lead to mistakes.

If you are asking this kind of questions, I advise you consider using a SPV wallet, like Electrum.
Yes, that means that various servers might collect data about your wallet (link addresses), but your wallet will get up-to-date info almost instantly and you don't have to keep a node (and a computer) running 24/7, nor wait until it synchronizes if you've stopped it and you want to use it.

Nope, you've misunderstood me. The context was that on Twitter many were (incorrectly) claiming that Tesla bought high and sold low their bitcoin stash.
That attempt of buying Twitter (or whatever that was) is another story and it's off-topic here.


This sounds interesting, but I'm certain that another reason was to also have a good looking balance sheet.

You must have been trying on another "account" object.
This is how it is in my case (only on the correct account) :

Since one entity can have multiple addresses of multiple sizes, I don't know if any chart (or any conclusion) based on balance sizes can be accurate.
So, sorry, but I find this yet another attempt to find correlations.

Quite a long text for basically the conclusion I was telling for some time already.
* it's expected that sooner or later we will get to the point bitcoin price will have very small volatility, kind of like gold
* it's expected that from some point will prevail only those miners who have invested into their own renewable energy production

But you're missing something more imho.
If we get to this scenario, then bitcoin may become universal store of value, something similar to what gold is. And if so, I would not be surprised if companies, banks or even states will keep some miners running and keep the network secure.

They love to play with fire since they've seen that EU is rather soft...
Unfortunately, instead of EU making an example of Hungary and show that if they want money, this kind of state should not play smartass, they stay soft and Poland tends to follow Hungary's "wonderful" example.


If this will be for real, then this crypto winter may have been the shortest. And this would be unexpected.
I'd guess that this is why many think that it's fake. Time will tell, clearly...

Indeed, Mycelium supports that, but only for the initial HD wallet it creates.
I couldn't find similar feature for imported wallet "accounts" or the "account" created from my hardware wallet.

Well, ignoring users is not the correct solution for this. You will have to make good use of:
* ignore boards (some boards bring more spam than information and may not even be interesting for you)
* report post (to get the spam removed) - I'll add here that reporting is not meant to be overly accurate


You are pretty much correct imho.


In most cases you'll lose nothing. I also think that adding complicated rules is not necessary.
You can, for example every Christmas (when we are supposed to be better), clear up completely your ignore list to give everybody a second chance.

There are 2 mistakes I see here:
1. Even the richest can lose now and then, usually they take small loses to avoid bigger ones or to make a much better business soon afterwards.
2. Tesla is not only Elon Musk. I expect there's a board that take decisions and those decisions may or may not be influenced by what Elon Musk wants.


Yeah, this sounds more like it. Either there was no loss at all (as @Rikafip already said), either the loss was smaller than the previous gains.
Twitter is, yet again, unreliable.

USB is good for a backup "at hand", but you have to think that an USB stick breaks too easy. Paper is still best.
(Also you have to create the txt file directly on the USB, offline, then archive/password protect it, and all this ideally from a live OS).


You have to find better places. Keep the seed in a sealed envelope and write on it "important". Or write it onto the back of a diploma. Or onto the last page of a book. Or all 3. Also, you don't have a shelf that's only yours? That can also be a good place. However, on the desk, no matter it's under the mouse pad, it's bad place from start.

The volumes will most probably also not be the same. And I find this a bigger problem than the prices.
The international prices have skyrocketed anyway for no reason: the gas hasn't change, just the Russians have decided to ask more for it (and in their unrealistically "strong" fiat too).
Imho the more sources the better: let there be competition. We can see where allowing the (Russian) monopoly got us.