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3521  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: sending to an address generated with your xpub key on: September 02, 2020, 02:16:30 PM
Yeah anything generated by your xpub will be on both wallets. If you have an android phone I'd recommend getting the electrum app itself and scanning the xpub straight into that.

You may want to search "electrum change gap limit on console" too see how to add more addresses by using a simple command.
3522  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russia plan to use untested vaccine against the coronavirus on: September 02, 2020, 01:24:10 PM
It's training  your immune cells to recognize viruses and kill them.

So why not wait until you are infected with the real virus, and not some synthetic variant. That will give you better protection, and avoid the side effects.

This is going to depend on how the vaccine works. If there's a 99% chance of success the antibodies will be produced within 3 weeks, there's a chance they can wait until symptoms develop since most people don't die in the first two weeks of having symptoms afaik.

Taking a vaccine once infected isn't normally recommended unless it's a booster (for example tetinus can be taken straight after an open wound comes into contact with rust because it forces the immune system to remember the last dose it had).



I don't understand the prospective you think vaccines don't work - a lot of them have an 80+% success rate (the flu vaccine arguably doesn't work) but you're better off looking into the process of production for the patent exempt vaccines and looking at the ingredients contained within - most are just a vitus in a pool of amine based salts.

The whole point of a vaccine is that your immune system and blood destroy everything within a few weeks. You probably pick up more dangerous stuff from walking around with a cut on your hand or walking with a blister/cut on your barefoot (something everyone's probably done).
3523  Economy / Reputation / Re: Give this user an attention on: September 01, 2020, 07:46:45 PM
I think this is where the "ignore" button is meant to function.
3524  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why doesn't Europe just take on every refugee from Turkey? on: September 01, 2020, 01:34:16 PM
Because the current government won't let them all come to England.

My main point was that Europe should try to unite and make some sort of task force. It's not enough to just take the ones that make it to Greece and claim asylum there or further.

In this circumstance, if the UK took a mere 1 million refugees itd do quite a lot and wouldn't be that expensive for refugees (they are allowed to work and receive half of the unemployment benefits the unemployed receive).

@juggy777, every country (in Europe) has to take refugees if they come within their terratory so the UK already accepts a lot that way. (to be in English terratory, they have to be in the sea from France on the east side of the channel afaik.


I'm not sure that is a reason.

Migrants are "working strength". Thay do everything for less money.

You'd think walking 100s of miles would be proof enough of their working capabilities - not to mention if they've made it to the UK they've managed to travel 2000 miles at least.
3525  Economy / Economics / Re: How do you estimate resilience of economy in your country? on: August 31, 2020, 09:51:02 PM
From prior crises, your country's pretty stable if its gdp doesn't fall by more than 50% - a pretty high figure but I don't think it's as devastating as it sounds.
I don't know, that sounds pretty devastating to me--though I'm certainly not an economist and haven't had too much economics education except for some college courses taken years ago.  Hopefully we don't start seeing countries having their GDP fall by that amount, and if we do I'm hoping there's a quick recovery.

Switzerland and New Zealand were already on their feet so they don’t have anything to worry about as the virus didn’t hit there as hard as it did in other countries.
Yeah, it seems like Europe is doing OK so far, as is the US and Canada (not sure about Mexico and S. America).  That doesn't surprise me, since those are all well-developed economies and were running strong prior to the COVID-19 outbreak.  The US (where I live) is pretty resilient I think.  Hell, look at the hit we took during the banking/housing crisis in 2009.  Things were looking exceedingly grim back then, but we survived it and the stock market has been in a continuous bull market ever since then.

I'm curious about the third-world countries and how their economies are coping with this pandemic.  I don't hear any news about what's happening anywhere in Africa or parts of Asia--except for China and Hong Kong, and they're developed countries with resilient economies AFAIK.

From what I heard a few weeks ago, Nigeria had hotspots but on the whole was fine - not sure if thats still the same.

And yeah I think a 50% drop is still recoverable, countries that took a 20% drop like the UK didn't seem to suffer that much.

Switzerland got added to the fly and self isolate list from the UK also and I think the capital of nz is in lockdown. In defense of Switzerland, they're quite small and close to Germany and France so they've done well managing this far.

It seems smaller countries have a handled the pandemic much better so far - and the UK seem to have split into smaller segments too of at most 5 million people - it'd be nice if we could keep the devolution further even if it is bigger blocks of 5-10 million.
3526  Economy / Economics / Re: 2020 Money is king Again Good news on: August 31, 2020, 08:59:08 PM
This is just wrong...

First of all most government are printing so much money that everything else is being pushed up. And have you been eating paper and cuppronickel recently enough to remember food is tastier and the most important...

Somewhere, could reduce to a society with sharecropping if too much money is printed and everything begins to fail but that's extremely unlikely and would still mean the mode educated perform the best. Who's fixing your tractor engine, you?
3527  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: What area of bitcoin participation is easiest to work with? on: August 31, 2020, 08:47:01 PM
Bitcoin specific, you could host a full node.

For altcoins, I'd try staking if you want some involvement with how they're run.
3528  Economy / Speculation / Re: Your plans for the coming bull on: August 31, 2020, 08:44:55 PM
We're you joining campaigns to earn funds or were you buying into their tokens?

I sold at $10k during the fall last time but I remember being busy at the time so it was an easy move to make. I still held some funds in crypto but cashed out the rest and rebought around $6k. I don't think I'll get that lucky this time I do it and I'll probably aim for if the price reaches a few hundred thousand to start selling -- if it doesn't reach that far and it cashes I won't feel too bad.

I'd spend your time now trying to accumulate stuff before the run. If you wait for then you'll probably make less in BTC terms..
3529  Other / Politics & Society / Why doesn't Europe just take on every refugee from Turkey? on: August 31, 2020, 07:28:17 PM
Just spent some time crunching the numbers and the number of migrants (6 million) is the equivelant of the number of working age people in the UK that were classed as capable of work in 2017 (OK I didn't get the actual number but I took a third of all adults who were out of work which will do). I think Sweden is said to have a 16% migrant population so what's stopping the rest of the west from taking on more?
3530  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Wrong conception on: August 31, 2020, 03:12:00 PM
Can you put a tl:Dr of a summary or the quote at the top?

The post looks quite big and I'm not sure newbies will stick around until the end.
3531  Other / Meta / Re: How it's possible to create a post in between only 40 seconds on: August 31, 2020, 02:26:50 PM
It looked like it was only 2 posts at once, I'd say anything below 5 might mean he just has separate tabs open.

Sometimes if you're switching between tasks you might have a few forums open at once so it's not nonsensical to wait for the point you can post it or to wait for a time when you're online if you are here as a guest. I don't do this and I've don't the 2 posts at once thing on occasion but it's normally pushing out an edit and clarifying it at the same time.

You're going to have to go off your own judgement with this one.
3532  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Lost 1400 btc after using old Electrum! on: August 31, 2020, 01:59:39 AM
I dont know what is the reason why he can't even afford to buy a hardware wallet on his 1400 Bitcoin that has been scammed. Instead of using a hardware wallet to store his Bitcoin. The receiver address it seems moved the Bitcoin scammed. It is the same strategy, transfer into different addresses until Bitcoin can be mix into mixer service and the cashout.

I don't really understand, the victim of scam knows how to post in Github, probably he had knowledge upon storing Bitcoin in a safe wallet on this community.

I've stored a few thousand on a hot wallet in the past, he could've done the same? Just found his seed words from 2014, put them in and got his wallet back (or just copied the wallet file across).

Keep in mind that this guy may also be trolling and/or baiting for donations. That's not the first time something like this would happen.

Won't be the last either, it's similar to the guy who posted the signature to an address containing 1000BTC which climbed to several thousand replies at least in the space of 12 hours.
3533  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: Would you move jurisdiction to avoid tax on your coinage? on: August 30, 2020, 09:20:08 PM
I'd just buy the same number at the lower rate.

But if you sell at 300 grand presumably your buy in was a few hundred pounds or a few thousand per coin. You'll be liable for 20% of that 295 grand profit or whatever. Doesn't matter if it doesn't leave the exchange and is near immediately used to buy back a coin for less. At that moment of sale you realised all of that profit.

The tax man is going to get cosier with all the exchanges as time goes on. If you'd gone trading mad in 2014/15 I doubt they'll pay much attention. I wouldn't take the risk now and even if your trading is under the radar your final cash out won't be and they may want a break down as to how you got that figure.

I assumed based on this

Say I bought 1BTC at $6k, and sold at $300k but rebought at $100k.
I then would have to pay CGT on $200k surely but not on the additional $100k as my holdings remain the same in btc.



Also the thing on the taxes coming in immediately is a stupid plan anyway and this is what makes an economic crisis worse. If they waited for the 2013-2015 of the last crash to put up tax rates - they'd find so much less of a problem to the economy.



I might put some funds into a SIPP before we rise too much too.
3534  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: Would you move jurisdiction to avoid tax on your coinage? on: August 30, 2020, 08:54:32 PM
Every trade is taxable, be it BTC/shitcoin or BTC/fiat. If you sell to buy a dip then if what you sold made a profit compared to what you paid for it then it's CGT time. Doesn't matter if you buy back in ten minutes later for less. You realised a gain.

You see manic traders turning up on Reddit screaming about tax bills because they didn't realise every shitcoin move they had made on exchanges came with a bill, and they made thousands of them. Less of a problem for Brits than Americans but it's still possible.

Ah yeah I just checked what I assumed was the excemption and realised it was different (the "bed and breakfasting" rules as they're called.

I'd just buy the same number at the lower rate. And yeah I remember the funds withdrawal are based on the acquisition terratory too so there's no chance you're going to be able to ignore debts and move, unles you move to an uncooperative terratory such as anywhere below Canada in America.

I'ma have some fun trying to work out what I need to pay in tax last year and this - given I have a bot set up to trade...
3535  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Lost 1400 btc after using old Electrum! on: August 30, 2020, 08:29:44 PM
Yeah also do a bit of research if you leave for a while and have - what is then - going to be a large amount of funds..

Ise hardware/a separate machine too if possible.

I really hope his funds at least came from mining profits and weren't bought or something.. 1400 btc could probably have been bought mortgaging a house when I got here in 2015 or investing life savings...
3536  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: Would you move jurisdiction to avoid tax on your coinage? on: August 30, 2020, 07:54:46 PM
Tbh, I thought it was still 45% until a few months ago.

A nice surprise when you realised otherwise. Less so when it might be whipped away from you shortly after.
For other legal purposes, I "incorporated" myself a while ago so I was previously aiming to pay the 19% corporation tax and put profits into stocks/property - moving £20k a year into an isa and paying income tax on that (which I assume is possible)

Either that or I'll just do like last time and sell at the first major dip and buy the resistance - then there's no tax to pay at all - I'll end up doing this with most anyway but I was hoping to pull out 2/5ths if we got up to $300k and sank to $50k (adjusted for similar after the first major drop where I plan to exit).

We have our very own tax havens on our doorstep like the Isle of Man, Guernsey, Jersey, Sark and Alderney. None of them have capital gains tax. Not sure how easy it is to turn up there and not be hassled by the UK tax man. Jersey won't let you on. Guernsey has population controls too. Sark and Alderney would drive you mad with cabin fever. Isle of Man might be a goer.

I think there's a tax dodging survice you can buy on the isle of man where you buy a plaque in a building and get your post forwarded (with some extra services thrown in imo).

The B word might make skipping somewhere else close by a lot harder for a Brit. We'll have to see what arrangements happen when it's all done and dusted.

I'm not sure on other countries relationships with money but I think there is a golden visa opportunity for $2M (way beyond my budget) and Belgium also allow you to momve a company there if it produces more than 50 Euro a day (imo) - which doesn't seem too hard to achieve (though I haven't tried it sustainably yet).

Since the government were annoyed about consumers paying "foreigners" to pick strawberries, we may well not be able to travel there soon though.
3537  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Can stablecoins be confiscated from a CryptoCurrency exchange? on: August 30, 2020, 07:26:02 PM
1. Yeah they can still be frozen. This is the reason why using stable coins is stupid if they're going to freeze them.
2. Who gets the $? The stable coin issuer - you're essentially paying for someone to give you nothing
3. Are the exchanges ever compensated, is a random bystander who accepts the coins compensated? If not then there's your answer - I doubt it though..

Losses will be passed onto the users. Exchanges light attempt to absorb the losses but I imagine if funds of the depositor of the stable coin are still on the exchange then they'll be liquidated to cover the cost. If not the exchange will probably just gamble with the prospect that therell be enough stable coins that aren't cashed out on the exchange that they can dip into.
3538  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: Would you move jurisdiction to avoid tax on your coinage? on: August 30, 2020, 12:18:24 PM
Tbh, I thought it was still 45% until a few months ago.... It'd encourage me to just keep holding bitcoin if the rates go up and wait on moving.

It'd make somewhere like Belgium (30% rate) much easier to move to though (they have a low statute of about 3 years if you move a company there and pass a language test in German or French).
3539  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Overview of lightning network nodes owned by forum users on: August 30, 2020, 02:55:45 AM
Thanks for the suggestion, I've added it.

I sent you a bb code fix that should work but I broke the pm so you'll have to click quote and copy it from within.

I already have DaveF also, I think that was the one you've got so far - redundancy is never useless when it comes to security so if you want me to mention when someone gets added to add it to your thread (or bump the thread) I can try to remember Smiley.
3540  Other / Meta / Re: Deleted Thread Archived ? on: August 30, 2020, 02:06:29 AM
Short answer: no.

Long answer: you can see the last 100 posts you either posted or previewed by going to https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=drafts.

You'll need to have some idea of what you posted, or if you quoted someone then the thread number might be handy to use a browsers but in "find" function.
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