I've used vanity addresses in the past, but not anymore. They look cool for a while, but then... they're just addresses.
As said, there can be risks, especially if you don't know what you're doing or using a flawed tool. Then there are obvious privacy concerns. Then they kinda make you reuse address, which is not great either...

So at the moment I understood HD wallets, I gave up vanity addresses.

@Fivestar4everMVP: you can look for topics about vanitygen, get the newest binaries from the oldest thread, play with it locally, whether you'll ever use such an address or not. You will see that it's not quick&easy to generate one, especially if it's long. if you want to use such an address, make sure it's a good vanitygen and make sure you generate it in a safe environment.

One day they like them (innovation and so on), next day they don't (emissions and other lies).
One day the promote them (in order to also promote CBDCs), next day they want to reduce people's interest in them.

So they have no idea. Still, they do like to tax the income from crypto, don't they?

Since Tesla's sale off has already happened at least weeks ago (if not months), most have understood that this news changes nothing. Of course, some needs more time to understand that's old news.
Also.. we're still in bear market; I've said it not long ago that the recent rise can very well be just a bull trap.
And somebody has also said something interesting: literally anything can trigger the next sell off (not as news, but as pretext). Is it  the case? I don't know. We'll see.

We need more patience until we're sure the bear market is over.


PS. It was a big surprise for me that Tesla did buy high and sell low. I've been expecting them be smarter.

People are careless. You can train them as you want, in most cases a new scenario will take them off guard again.
I've seen something very smart somewhere, but obviously costly: the people connect to virtual machines and only those are part of the network. The laptops are just machines that can be hacked. The people will most likely open those documents on the laptop, not inside the VM. Problem solved

It depends on what you count as relevant. Imho they are relevant, since they are "paying customers".
For example imho Ethereum is seen as a very successful blockchain exactly because it has so many tokens using its infrastructure (and paying for that).

It looks indeed fishy. Supporting the flag.

Merit sources' each point of (merit source) sMerit replenishes at 1 month after it was spent.

I guess it depends on each merit source's habits and activity (meaning topics read) how much merit they can spend; I know merit sources were asking for more, I know cases some were spending much less than the monthly quota (I don't know though if that still happens).

People who bought high are scared. Some love to exploit their feelings and making that kind of topics has the potential to convince them sell.
Also, while 1$ and "bitcoin is dead" are obvious FUD topics, questions whether the bottom is in or how long this bear market last are actually legit imho.


The current surge is not that big. It's nice, but fr from uncommon. So asking for reasons may not give correct answers.
It may be China problems (as you said), it can be end of bear market, it can be bull trap. We'll see.


One can look into recent history and will see that some banks did take people's money in the past financial crisis. Bitcoin was created to fight that.
But people never learn. Greed (and poverty) make people risk big money to earn some more cents. Average people's financial knowledge is almost zero. And governments (and banks) exploit that at maximum. This is the world we're living in. So you're right: people should carefully hold their Bitcoin.

Actually you're just opening new playground to frustrated trolls like yourself. This is how I see this.
I felt sorry for you when you made that famous topic about supporting/opposing that flag. Now I'm no longer sorry and I am pretty much deciding between tagging you for trolling or just ignore you.

I see it different: the system will be trackable, but the system will not be mandatory. Like now, not all payments are done with CC. Some are in cash, some are done as bank transfer and so on.
Even more: the system, although trackable, it won't be transparent. So only certain agencies will have access for the tracking information.

I see no risk for defense or other sensitive payments... (unless done by complete idiots, obviously).

It's completely unreasonable. It is a mix of misunderstanding and wrong information.
Bitcoin block rewards will become 0 only in about 2140. And even then, mining should not stop since the miners also receive the transaction fees (they receive those now too!)

So the year is wrong, the mining/block reward is misunderstood, hence 2025 is just a random date. And it's so close, the chances Bitcoin die off this fast are small.

It may worth mentioning here also the fact that since they use another blockchain (or blockchains!), the transaction fees when sending away tokens are paid in the underlying blockchain's coins and not in tokens.
It may be obvious for us, but may not be for those who have to ask what is the difference...

I think that this means that you cannot receive inbound connections, hence your node helps only with the outbound connections it makes.
I am not sure if I am right and I am not sure I can explain it better, so I leave that to others.
Edit: sorry, I was wrong here, see @NotATether post below.

For your own use this is not a problem.

However, you may find this useful/informative: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2135851.0

Guessing a higher price in bull market was not difficult to do and if one wasn't overly optimistic, that came true.
Guessing high values in bear market is risky. We do hope Bitcoin price will reach new ATH, there's no certainty - especially for when will that happen. In theory, the 4 years cycles still look good... but, again, there's no certainty. That's why I advise you be careful with the financial advises to others, since sooner or later some may blame you for their loses.

I see CBDCs pretty much like government issued stable coins. But, like the stable coins differ one from another (look how "stable" was UST/Terra), I expect to see differences between CBDCs too.
Some may require KYC, some not.
Some will have mechanisms to lock/seize your funds from your own wallet, maybe some won't.
Clearly all tx will be watched, but that happens with your CC too.

I don't know yet whether I'll use CBDCs or not. After all, I do use CC now too, so...

If you find an exchange where you can sell those coins, please do. But I doubt you can.
So, as said, you better close this "wonderful offer" and move on before you start getting accused for trying to scam.

Binance has now some 0 fees with no monthly fee either (for their 5 years anniversary), but I don't know how long will it last.
I don't like it exactly for the opportunities this gives to those who want to manipulate the market (wash trading, fake volumes, you know the drill).

Heeey! CONGRATULATIONS!
Very nice and deserved achievement!

Of course, with such commitment, such activity and such great learning curve (and good answers), it was bound to happen.
Well done!

Don't we know the answer to this already? Bitlucy has gained a reputable face in the community, something that made people trust it easily, a face that was to blame when everything has fallen apart.


Indeed. Somehow the communication in this issue was.. sub-standard... (for example, I don't understand why the closure for the famous google form were not announced^{[or I just missed that??]}, it could have been helped).
But with so many people pushing Royse - maybe some for good reason, but certainly some others simply for their own benefit - rushed and heated answers are not that much of a surprise.

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I try to stay somewhat away from this drama, but I still want to say something to JollyGood: you've done very good job many times in nailing scammers, but I have a feeling you're exaggerating in this matter. Of course, I may be wrong, still...please think on this.

I've warned you back then that this kind of topic can easily get you red tag. It's there.
Yet, you ignored the friendly warning and, instead of say, "sorry" and close that, you went on.
So here were are. You may be surprised but, I'm certainly not.

(I will also support the flag now.)