And where is the central authority to learn what coins are tainted and not? What makes you think that particular exchange used the same source as them? As far as i know that space is pretty much chaotic, victims of theft have nowhere to go beyond their local authorities (which more often than not do nothing), and there are also victims of false accusations or who bought the coins without suspecting anything.

One advantage of mining your own coins is you have 100% proof they are clean, unfortunately as time passes less and less coins will come from mining and more will be the same ones re-circulating, and ultimately some of those will come from dubious origins. Also i would like to know how the few recovered coins get cleared again. This might not seem important now, but it will become more and more important as time passes, because freshly mined coins will become more and more scarce.

I don't think so, no. Its just yet another guy wanting attention, likes, views, whatever. Perhaps 50k~100k, assuming (2024) pre-halving bull run (like 2020 soon, did you check the 2016 one?). But i guess it will be more clear after this halving, after the bull and subsequent bear.

Bitcoin should be slowing its increases in price as time passes, not the other way around. It will never go on par to fiat though, fiats are devalued (by printing, etc) intentionally while bitcoin is not and in finite supply.

Probably. We are witnessing a privatization of money. Unfortunately centralized efforts are doomed to be subjugated by the state. And like you say, Walmart could be forbidden to use its own coin in countries like the USA. Walmart is actually present in China (Chinese rich go there to purchase expensive American imported goods), we should expect a similar situation there.

Save for a few exceptions like the HKD, most fiat coins are State owned. And many states forbid people from using their own. Of course they can prosecute individuals and companies, which is why centralized coins are so weak. People think because a company backs a coin makes it safer, but its actually the other way around. Ask yourself the question, can the coin survive if the parent company is destroyed? Then you know if its centralized or not.

If IBM and the likes back Bitcoin (or something very close), sure. But if they make something like Libra, that depends on Facebook survival, forget it. Zuckerberg doesn't get, how worthless his coin is by making it centralized. And some State initiatives are falling the same death trap.

Still, i guess with every initiative there is chance of discussion and promotion, and people can and will find their way to the original, here.

It is wise to diversify. I don't see gold as an investment for growing, its more like a refuge to not lose (because all fiats lose, albeit most do it slowly). Gold price has matured over time, it is generally considered that it won't have a sudden price fluctuation, but unlike bitcoin this is not a given. People say there is not much more gold, but there is, maybe not on earth but in space... In 50~100 years maybe someone finds a rock full of gold and bring it. Of course most people here are not worried for such long terms, but some entities should.

Suppose you are both believer and scared of bitcoin, what do you do? You put half in gold and half in bitcoin. If bitcoin crashes (unlikely) your other half is safe. If bitcoin goes moon, half your fortune multiplies. Yes, you would have gotten more if you committed all of it, but if you are wrong you would have lost all your fortune. Never put all your eggs in the same basket... This is easier for those with capital, ironically, those with more money can make more money without fear that those with few or little money to invest who end making more mistakes and losing more.

Of course, i already mentioned before the inconvenience and security issues of actually holding gold. With crypto you can be a closet millionaire, without anyone ever suspecting anything...

We do this everyday here. Some people for speed just skip the zeroes. If someone says 94, it means 94 thousand, or they say 940 for 940 thousand.

mBTC is garbage because, it has both non decimals and decimals. Give me a brake decimals from decimals? Get lost.
Also "at current prices", is your biggest flaw. You cannot push a BIP over something that can and WILL change and is outside of Bitcoin to begin with.

If my internet wasn't garbage i would show you pictures of prices. Restaurant menus, shops, everything is expressed like satoshis, now that my currency is 75% the value of a satoshi. You should go to history, since you never lived a reality with hyperinflation, how did people lived with those zeroes, and you will find the same answer. Some Euro countries did have fun with zeroes before the €, but Americans and British have no idea.

Do not try to force an euro / dollar centric view on prices. Satoshis do work FINE, mBTC do not. A hundred million satoshis isn't even hard, i will refrain from talking about the Pengo, everyone loves the Pengo, socialist central planified economy at its best...

PS: If our current gov doesn't fall, we WILL dethrone Hungary, but first Zimbabwe...

Hilariously i have 3 or 4 VISA/MC (still "valid") that could in theory not spend more than 1 satoshi (one is "Gold" lol), and now my entire country has to toss them, because Trump ordered American companies to leave so by the end of 2019 both companies will cease to operate here.

This obsolete method of payment should just go away. We are heavily dependent on debit cards, also operated by both American companies. Who knows what they will do at the end of the year, my guess is that they will bring the only non American debit/credit card company, Chinese UnionPay.

There is little and not enough banknotes, and they are too small to buy things anyway. Hyperinflation renders them useless in mere months. So you can add to the pollution the actual printing of bank notes.

And that's the other ugly side of KYC, losing privacy and possible identity theft. This is the problem of the police state that governments always end pursuing "in the name of national security, etc". Ideally people would never exchange, and pay and be paid in bitcoin. Transition period is quite annoying.

I can imagine many governments regulating them the same as exchanges, forcing them to do KYC/AML and what not. They can then prosecute the operators in their countries that don't comply, exactly like exchanges.

Banning coins they can try, but hardly succeed. This time its a decentralized service which is not easy to shutdown. Centralized services like exchanges and mixers could be attacked. Well, unless there is some decentralized mixer out there, which should be possible to do (and easier than the Bisq DEX).

This is actually funny. You could make it blockchain based and decentralized. Obviously run a node on each gun, which should have mobile connectivity. While you are at it, pass the manufacturer where is used and how frequently, just for, "providing a better customer service", of course
Then they could also reject unapproved munition, which would have some sort of cheap so the gun actually triggers it. You don't want counterfeit Chinese bullets, do you? What if that powder is sub-par?

I'll call them, "smartguns". Yeah, that's the ticket. Add a touchscreen and let it run all your favorite Android apps. Endless possibilities!

I also prefer the M20 and possibly the larger M20S which has the same efficiency. The S17 could be a little more efficient but its way more expensive, AND power hungrier and noisier.

Don't praise Pangolin, those units are made by MicroBT, and their model name is Whatsminer, not to be confused with the re-seller.

Add in the MicroBTs, the M20 at 48 W/T for $1830 (45T) and the M20S for $2680 (62T) also 48 W/T both with November deliveries according to Pangolin.
You could put for comparison's sake the 21s which are the lesser efficient models, the M21S at 60 W/T for $1825 (56T) and the M21 at 60 W/T for $888 (28T). Well i guess the 21s are superior to the T3 and close to the T3+, but the 20s are definitely better.

BraiinsOS allows you full control over your asics frequencies and voltages, fans can be set at fixed speeds or ignored and sensors can be disabled/ignored. This allows the greatest flexibility, and with care you can find the best efficiency per hash board, but you can also harm the miner if you go reckless with the voltage and speed settings.

No, these settings cannot be changed per chip, only per board. This is probably a hardware limitation.

As always, at a given fixed speed lower the voltage until you see the actual/current hash rates differ too much then go back up a notch on that voltage. If you change the speed, do this again, remember this has to be done per board, as every board is different.

Well i have only experienced that a few times after installing it. Are you still needing to do this periodically even when using the latest version? It is probably a bug but I'm not sure what exactly triggers it.

I guess you could try changing the permissions to the file (when its there and working) so that it becomes read only like: chmod ugo-w /etc/cgminer.conf and see if it makes a difference. It shouldn't be disappearing or changing its size to 0 bytes on its own...

The governments themselves are not threatened, but their ability to manipulate the money is. Such as overspending and then hiding it by making everyone poorer (filling the gap by printing some more). These types of governments are better to cease to exist. Separation of money from State is good. No more lies, no more playing with people's money.

There is also a LOT of corruption with this in many places. The worst example always lies with the worst inflation, which is my country of course.

They fear that they cannot change the rules of money on a whim. They have been accustomed to sign a decree overnight to fix some stupid mistake of theirs (or to cover some thievery). Well good riddance.

Those countries more used to transparency, freedom and sane economies, are more willing to open themselves and embrace Bitcoin. The dirtiest are the ones opposing it the most.

Of course the bigger the capital the more relaxed and safer options are at your disposal. Some people have to gamble it or would never make it.

15% of a thousand dollars, or 15% of a million? You can't answer that, but the smaller your capital the harder choice it is.

But what if this guy can afford to have half his net worth frozen? he can literally sleep over bitcoin taking a dive, and wait the needed years for its recover, some people just can't (again those with smaller capital to begin with).

Or as the saying goes, never afford what you can't afford to lose. Maybe he can literally lose half his net worth and still be fine, so he is gambling it.

I'd say, he will make it. But i don't know at what price he bought, bitcoin relative to fiat price will probably rise (slowing down overtime, but up).

Now if he depends on this investment, then he could get in trouble, as you say. Hopefully he doesn't depend on it and can sleep comfortably.

So for you its a matter of beliefs. Then why you didn't split in two halves? I don't trust XRP but if you think that could rise leave 1500 there and put the other 1500 in bitcoin.

Perhaps xrp will look more like a regular fiat overtime ("controlled" inflation), given its main backers. Diversify is a wise answer, in this case it "halves" your potential earnings, but it also halves your potential loses. Of course, you could have automated trading taking care of that (ie. stop loss etc).

You are using too many words to describe a bitcoin bank, which is what most online wallets and exchanges do. Ie, you want to trust a third party with your money, because you cannot trust in yourself well enough to keep it protected.

My answer to this is, are you willing to pay the fee? You should because:

This is a full reserve banking system. Banks "(ab)normally" pay interest to you because, they don't keep your money, and they can go bankrupt, because of the scam known as fractional reserve banking, which is how modern banks operate.

If you have used debit/credit cards or any type of pre-paid card you put money into it and then later spend by swapping to machines, you already understand the gist of the matter. The difference here is that crypto is far more secure and impossible to fake, as sometimes happens to these naive digital payment systems (ie. for metro/trains/bus etc).

Perhaps for some people some form of hardware wallet would be the easiest to use, only for small amounts of course. A smartphone could accomplish the same function of course, but for some people some sort of "card like" device (with eink screen, reader, etc) would do.

But this is not even the coin's realm, its the people doing the wallets, both software and hardware. The coin itself is good. Already bitcoin is on the brink to be easily used for quick small transaction, via LN, but this LN needs to be implemented in a way that is super simple to use, and that lies in the hands of wallet developers. You can't expect a common user to be running a bitcoin and lighthing node in their smartphone, even if some have already done just that, bandwidth use is prohibitive. That's why light wallets like Electrum have their place for daily mundane purchases at the shop etc.

So is there a compiled list somewhere that shows which site belongs to which user in the forum? It would be quite useful. Also interesting would be starting date for each service and any other public available stats.

Definitively these. Move this thread to Reputation board, AND make a post in their official thread. That's what i meant in my previous post, good find kryptqnick

Is the bankroll funding closed or still open? Any figures on yearly interest projected earns?