It means that they moved from a country that was primarily oriented towards agriculture to a country that cheaply rents its workers to large global corporations that produce expensive brands for low wages. It is really a great success, especially if we only look at numbers and percentages, but do people live better, are they happy to work in bad conditions for 12 hours a day, 6 days a week?

That faucet didn't last long because even then there were people who abused everything they could, and your reminder doesn't really make much sense considering that everyone could mine Bitcoin on their computer back then, and the reward per block was as much as 50 BTC. Therefore, if you claim on that faucet every day in one month (30x5 = 150 BTC), while with only one mined block per day, you would have even 1500 BTC per month.


Most people know about that faucet, but in the context of the time it existed, I don't believe anyone got rich using it. Those who mined at that time probably said even then that it was a simple waste of time.

It may have been the first purchase, but the first trade is still something that we attribute to one of the founders of this forum (Sirius), who sold 5000 BTC at the end of 2009. Also, Martti Malmi sold 10 000 BTC during 2011, and for that amount he bought an apartment near Helsinki - so in addition to the most expensive pizza, we also have probably the most expensive apartment in the world, given that the price of BTC at that time was between $15-$30.

You don't know what you are talking about, because how would you encourage people to mine Bitcoin if we know that it is no longer possible without special devices, which are extremely expensive and consume a significant amount of energy, and in addition create a lot of noise. What you are talking about cannot be done as long as Bitcoin uses POW, which is the only logical thing - and once again I tell you that if you have so many doubts about Bitcoin, find another coin that you can mine yourself with your personal computer.

One would think that you understood something after all the posts, but you still live in some illusions that have little to do with reality.

What does internet speed have to do with this particular case? This is not about downloading hundreds of GB of data, but about the service in question, which obviously has a problem with the e-mail provider used by the OP. That service has always been bad in every way, and if anyone has any funds there, I suggest they pull them as soon as possible.

If you are looking for ideal things, then you will really spend a lot of time and you will probably never find them. Bitcoin is not ideal, and neither is everything that surrounds it, whether it is mining, trading or the "slowness" of transactions. What I want to say is that if you're looking for a flaw in something, you'll always find it, it's just a matter of time.

On the other hand, look at all the crypto alternatives that exist and compete with Bitcoin, and these are POS coins or stablecoins that do not have any form of decentralization, have people behind them who cannot be trusted and are easy prey for any government. To me, the winner in this comparison is quite clear, regardless of the fact that things are not ideal.

The way to quick success and how to earn the first million $ trading with cryptocurrencies - why risk your money when you can easily take money from others, and besides, the market is huge because everyone thinks it's easy to make $100k from $100.

Of course, all those who brag about their expensive cars and mansions help in this, they just don't say where exactly they got the money for all that - and the truth is that this money mostly comes from crypto projects that they successfully sold, and which today they are worth nothing.

I don't understand why all those who want to trade with cryptocurrencies don't first try to trade with stocks or something less volatile, but I assume that there are a lot of people who are still underage and cannot have a broker, a bank account and the like...

Nothing has changed in terms of what the mainstream media thinks about Bitcoin, and this is especially expressed at a time when the price of the same is losing value compared to fiat. I think that even today there are some extremely negative documentaries on that same streaming platform, and it does not surprise me personally.

How many people believe what the famous "Oracle of Omaha" constantly preaches regarding Bitcoin?

It is true that the weather in the US is very unfavorable in terms of low temperatures and large amounts of snow, but when was the last time you looked at the air temperatures in the EU? Winter practically looks like spring, with temperatures generally between 10-20 degrees Celsius, of course in some parts of the EU a little lower, but mostly above 0 degrees. The Russian agenda that the EU will freeze without their gas is obviously completely wrong, as well as that gas and oil prices will skyrocket, and the price of gas and fuel has been in constant decline for months.

Look at the map and tell me who exactly is freezing in the EU?

OP, I don't know what exactly is going on in your head, but probably your pools are not working exactly as they should. If you would stop for a moment and think about where the biggest problem is when it comes to centralization, then you would not put miners first, but it would certainly be centralized exchanges that store millions of BTC and act like crypto banks.

Bitcoin mining is generally decentralized, but some people will always see a problem because too much hash rate comes from country A or country B, so once the problem was China, today some claim it's the US. For me, the matter is very simple, if you don't believe that Bitcoin represents what it used to represent, look for something else - you have 20 000+ crypto projects that claim to be better than Bitcoin in one way or another.

Someone who doesn't know how to post a thread in the appropriate board, and who also doesn't know the rules of the forum (Rule 32), will surely have big problems with devices like hardware wallets. If you want to destroy something next time, take a hammer and do it right.

The S Plus is no different from the S model in terms of use, and it never occurred to me (and to most others) to solve our possible incapacity in that way. Read the instructions before use.

If you click "Detection" on your link, you can see what some of the AVs have detected. The most hits are for Trojan.GenericKD.64566212 which can basically do many malicious things on your computer, and if you want to know more, search it through the search engine. The second thing detected is FileRepMalware, which is actually not dangerous and some AVs mark software that has a bad reputation that way. The third detection shows Artemis, which some classify as ransomware and others as an application that will use your browsers to show you various ads and redirect you to various websites.

If you want to be 100% sure that you have removed all threats, unfortunately formatting the disk is the only thing that can be recommended - otherwise there is always a doubt that something managed to avoid the detection of any AV.

Unfortunately, people didn't learn anything, if they did, then something like this would never have happened - and maybe they learned that stablecoins are not as stable as some call them, because the financial damage caused by the South Korean scammer is 3-4 times greater than FTX, but who still remembers that, right?

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I personally do not think that we should hope for a new ATH this year, in any case not before the halving - but I think we can expect that the world markets will start to recover and that the price of BTC will also react positively. Somehow I hope that this positive could take us at least to $30k, and maybe even above that, especially in Q3/Q4 when the halving will already become something that will start to be seriously speculated on.

Because of the attitude that is actually a characteristic of all those who adhere to the "fast in, fast out" strategy, that is, the plan to invest their fiat in as short a time as possible, while making as much profit as possible. That's why we have something we call FOMO (fear of missing out), which is most pronounced during the bull run, when people buy the most, and they are usually focused on some number that serves as their exit point, such as $100k in the last bull run.

The OP is actually asking "how do I know when others start buying so I can do the same" - and let him look for the answer in a possible price increase, although any (even significant) price increase does not mean that the trend has reversed, but that it may be a small pump with great prospects of pulling back.

I don't understand why anyone would panic and feel insecure at this moment, because no one hacked Bitcoin, but one man obviously made a wrong step somewhere and now he paid the price for it. The fact is that such a thing shouldn't have happened to a person like him, but it shouldn't have happened to the computer scientist whose HDD ended up in the trash, or to the engineer who forgot the device password and now only has a few attempts before the device resets.

People have always been and will remain the weakest link in any setup, no matter how secure it may seem at some point.

Such people have no sympathy for other people, and that is why her statements should be well remembered and everything should be done so that in the next elections she and her party get as few votes as possible. However, I hope that people will still learn from everything and realize how important self-sufficiency is, so even though it is unrealistic to expect that anyone can be 100% self-sufficient, anyone who has a little land can produce vegetables such as onions, potatoes, lettuce, carrots and parsley and many other cultures that do not require any special knowledge or too much effort.

I didn't write that because I really think that Saylor should have invested in altcoins, but because you think that from 2020 to today he made all the wrong decisions investing in Bitcoin and considering your positive attitude towards DeFi, NTF and altcoins. Given that the losses of those who, for example, invested in various NTFs are incomparably greater than anyone who invested in Bitcoin, my slightly sarcastic observation went in the direction that Saylor today would not have to worry about what to do with his coins because they would be practically worthless.

Everyone should already know that long-term investing in altcoins has not brought anyone anything good, and I'm sure that Saylor knows that very well. Maybe we should ask Silbert what he thinks about his altcoin adventures and why he is allegedly dumping them all lately?

To me, this story is incredible, that a man who should understand all the risks and secure his funds better than most is hacked in this way? If by any chance it was an online/hot wallet, everything would still make sense, but a cold wallet should be immune to all online attacks, even though @ETFbitcoin mentions a possible way to compromise such storage.

It would be nice if everything was actually a consequence of Twitter's still poor security and that someone was playing a little with hacked profiles...

I converted from my local currency and this fee would be 0.07 EUR in my country, but I am not sure how much this fee is in other EU countries. Also, the rule was that you can return such packaging only in the country where you bought it, so tourists leave behind a lot of plastic packaging that means nothing to locals. However, in my country, all waste has been sorted for years, so we specifically collect plastic, paper, glass, biowaste and other mixed waste - which results in a much cleaner country than 10+ years ago.


You have to take into account that each member of the EU can have its own specific laws, and given the language barriers, I cannot say what is happening in Romania or Spain in this regard - but I think it is similar with all federal states in the US, except that you perfectly understand each other because you speak the same language.

There are many stories in my country about how people managed to educate their children by collecting such packaging, and how it is still an additional source of income for them today. I personally know a man who has developed a unique method in this matter, which is that he is well informed about when a celebration is happening somewhere (birthday, wedding) and offers the service of collecting all plastic, aluminum and glass packaging, and rich people usually agree because they don't need that money anyway.


That's how I earned my first Bitcoin, but it wasn't that hard considering the price was around $200 and the fact that compared to today it was very easy to collect satoshis through faucets. A good faucet rotator and a few referrals could generate up to 500 000 satoshis in one day. Of course, from the perspective of that time, it was very little in fiat value, but in later years we all know that this value increased to unprecedented values.

It's not something that exists only in the US, because it has existed in the EU for more than 10 years (although I'm not sure if all countries are included). All plastic/glass and aluminum packaging is returned in every shopping center, all in order to protect the environment. In the beginning, there was a lot of such packaging everywhere, but today that is no longer the case because everyone wants their money back.

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Nothing is forgotten, the faucets still exist, the numbers have changed, and the rewards of 5000 satoshis that were before, are now 5 or 10 satoshis, with the fact that every faucet has at least one short link that you need to pass + captcha + antibot links before you get award. In addition, such an activity only seems to be free, because you are investing your time, which is extremely limited and expensive.

I don't know what kind of crypto mining you are talking about, but it was never free because it always required a device + energy + time, and nothing has changed in that regard until today. Do you want us to somehow shut down all BTC miners and have everyone mine again with their personal computers - or do you think we should somehow tokenize crypto mining since you think every problem can be solved with a token?