Most people tend to learn from their own mistakes. If somebody tells them, they think they know better.
This being said, people usually find out that pruned nodes don't worth it when they want to try out something and change the wallet.

Yes, that's why he's also shady.


I think that you're the one on mushrooms. No matter what trades you've made, it's 100% up to his discretion whether he gives you trust or not. That's how things work.
On the other hand, begging for trust is also not allowed and shady.


I suggest you look into your own trust rating now and then.
Also this answer of yours just proved me that my decision to not hurry in trusting you was correct.


PS. I've done trades now and then, I've given positive feedback now and then and never asked positive feedback in return. And you know why? Because I do know how this forum works.

Do you know that he is not supposed to give you trust feedback just because you've done trades?
So this makes your moves and motifs also shady, sorry.

On the other hand, if you have proper proof that he is selling trust, that is another matter.
And with so much text posted all around, I've almost missed the only relevant image. https://prnt.sc/WDkwDgwuyuK9


For now imho both of you are guilty. But since you have already a history of odd accusations, for now I won't rush it with trust feedback on any of you.

From my understanding on-chain transaction will happen only when this notes are getting funded. Most probably only once.
My guess is that they plan to sell them unfunded, basically expecting the first owner fund it on-chain. Afterwards it can be passed on with the nominal value being contained there.

However, one big question remains: what will this "re-keying" mean.
I hoped it's something that doesn't involve re-creation of a new wallet (and new address), hence no new tx, but I don't know...

It cannot happen simply because PayPal fees may be much higher than any of the competition's.
And, as said, they were selling IOUs called Bitcoin for so long. So I expect they may try to find ways to not have to work much with actual bitcoin (hence put a discouragingly big enough withdrawal fee).
PayPal has its own role in trades: it's a pretty well known and reputed escrow. Bitcoin is just another currency they'll be escrowing, they have no good reason to compete with Bitcoin Exchanges.

E lucru mare sa vad o asemenea revenire. Sa fiu sincer, nu ma asteptam. Bine ai revenit!


Din ce am inteles eu, OP doar traduce una-alta si s-ar putea sa nu fie atat de implicata in proiect. Deci raspunsuri la intrebari ar trebui cautate de la echipa IC (probabil la topicul in engleza, daca exista - eu am ignore pe altcoins, deci nu o sa imi bat capul sa caut link)
Poate ca Madalina ne spune daca e din echipa IC sau doar traduce, daca putem intreba aici sau nu are sens, sau care ar fi directia pentru cei interesati.
Cand mai faceam si eu traduceri pe aici, eu puneam din start si link la postarea originala, exact pentru a evita "surprize".


Dragut. Din pacate am fost prea lenes sa invat toate astea asa ca nu am ce cauta acolo.
Dar de curiozitate: finantarea aia va fi in fiat, in bitcoin, in ceva monede care pot fi schimbate, sau in vreun token care inca nu e listat niciunde?

Maybe this is what you want? https://github.com/iancoleman/bip39
From what I see it may be in js (just watch for the libraries too). You can look to actual site for tests: https://iancoleman.io/bip39/

Since creating an address basically means to randomly pic a number from an unimaginably high range, since a wallet can be created whether you're online or offline, since a wallet can be recovered at any time if you have the private key or seed... if I understand correctly your question, the answer is no.

I don't want to be a show stopper, but according to what I've found on the internet there are already a lot (i.e. 101, it seems) of crypto-remittance companies over the world: https://tracxn.com/d/trending-themes/Startups-in-Cryptocurrency-Remittance

If you're starting a new business in this area, you'll have to find a good way to handle sudden price variations for crypto while keeping the fees low.
Also keep in mind that since the inception of Bitcoin the banks and similar services have been lowering their fees more and more, and also started speeding up their operations. So you have to develop fast, big and meanwhile keep the fees low.

Now, I don't understand from your business model if you will transfer the money internationally or you'll send crypto to the office from the other country and that one will sell the coins and do local transfer afterwards (keep in mind that it has to be a clean business, else money laundering and lost funds will happen). But if you do this, crypto is not even necessary, since it's your company's money on both sides, you can transfer fiat to the other branch (fiat that will get there in some days, but it doesn't matter) and that branch, in the same time, will send locally the needed fiat as (local, faster) bank transfer.

So crypto may be useful if the various branches are franchise/have different owners, but otherwise.. not so much. Am I missing something?

I see this as yet another nice collectible, especially by changing the PK it should be safer than the established collectible items.
My questions are:
* Will you open source / peer review your technology? I mean that nothing stops you have something else than you claim (i.e. you can keep private keys, maybe make it 2-of-3 with 2 keys in your hands, and redeem yourself the funds after a couple of years).
* Will these items get redeemed only after expiration or by destroying them? I mean that usually collectibles do have a value even if they are redeemed (if they are not destroyed).

One of the biggest problem is that, together with the mindset of getting rich overnight (as you also said), they don't have the knowledge to assess that certain "offers" are (far) too good to be true.
And this goes from getting into HYIP or so-called "cloud mining" to sending money to various "Elon Musk" (and so on) impersonations or hacked accounts in order to receive back double the amount (since money grows on the trees, you know...)


This is a different topic. Actually two of them.
1. People who jump in without looking around into certain altcoin that promises to make them rich (and scam them, obviously).
2. People buying into Bitcoin at FOMO and panic selling at the first price drop. This second one is not scam, actually. And here a good plan and "invest only what you afford to lose" does help.


This is a risky advice and I am pretty much against it. Trading is not for everybody and can get people lose money very easy, by buying crap at FOMO, falling for pump and dump schemes, or by using unrealistic leverage and so on. This is not for beginners; by far.

I think that one main reason, especially at start, was that many (altcoin) mining pools were sending payouts no matter how small (no threshold implemented), and if one was mining to exchange address it was spamming it with small inputs which the exchange had to consolidate.

Another good reason can be disputes. If one didn't receive the reward it had to be somebody's fault and the exchanges didn't want to be part of that.

Of course, as you said, the DB maturity plus the various coins' clients running with probably much smaller resources could also have been playing an important role.


But especially for Bitcoin solo mining, if one is willing to risk 6.25 BTC in 2022 by sending it to wallet under others' control... something must be very wrong in his setup (to say it nicely).

The direction is pretty good, but I don't understand why CSV is not good, really.
I've exported CSV and opened with Excel/LibreOffice Calc and it looks great, it has headers, one can use mathematical operations on it:

Actually no. This is no different time from any other.
It's nice that you try to get people moving, but it's just another price drop in just another mid-cycle low/bear market.
So while more bitcoin related activities are (always) welcome, let's be honest with ourselves, ok?

6-7% drop is not so much something we should freak out.. right?
Some have cashed in, some speculated the NY situation... I don't find the situation that bad...

Let's see what happens before the week-end comes. If the price continues the downtrend, then may become something to worry, but imho we're not there yet.

According to this (deleted?) post, OP plan seems to be to get some easy money by doing nothing.
I guess that he doesn't understand that he needs:
* fast hardware and internet
* a lot of know-how (if an user has troubles or the software doesn't work properly, that must be handled good and fast without affecting users' income)
* trust (users won't just send hash rate to you if they feel that your pool may not work, may not find blocks or may not pay the rewards)

So there's a lot of work there, and just starting with looking into existing pool software may be far from enough.

Exactly. With NY state being "the largest producer of hydroelectric power east of the Rocky Mountains" one would expect the NY miners use cleaner electricity than many others. So I really don't know what basis that (ugly) political decision has...
Oh well, the miners will easily find other, more friendly places, although it'll cost them the relocation and the time they won't be hashing...

I think that's not about differences of opinion. I think that it's about some in hurry to cash in and then most probably rinse and repeat.
The number of longs is getting very big, I've read. I don't think that so many traders are wrong.

Woah, I've "scanned" shortly the posts, from what I understand OP couldn't make even EPS work (and he's still keen to use EPS)?
If so, I recommend this post of mine where I managed to run EPS with Electrum. Maybe it hives hints of what is missing.
I remember that I did also hit a dead end .. until I've tried with Sparrow wallet which kinda hinted me that I should create a wallet file. Then all started working. But I didn't like it at all (I find Electrs a much better server).

While I find the site neat and informative, I've found a bug and now I fear I cannot trust the data you display.
Please double check how the things are being stored, calculated and shown, since whatever-BTC is a different market than whatever-USD (and then converting to BTC) and keeping only one market and converting can give odd results.

Example: Monero's ATH. The date it tells it's 2018-01-09. In base currency USD it tells 542$. In  BTC it tells 0.0172BTC
Now... the thing is that from my research none of that is correct.
XMR-BTC ATH seems to have been some 0.031-0.033 BTC in 2018-02-25
XMR-USD ATH seems to have been some 475$ in 2021-05-02
I've got my data from Yahoo charts, I don't know how accurate they are, but I'm sure they do prove what I want to tell/explain. (CMC has a bit different numbers and dates, but at least they're pretty close.)