gambling is just throwing money at a wall no matter where it is and hoping for a future good result

however if the price is lower than a previous. then buying more the lower it goes and less the higher it goes is smart. its the real essence of cost averaging

throwing money at "whatever" is not cost averaging or cost control. its just CRP coin random purchase or coin random price

if you are not even trying to average down your purchase price to maximise accumulation and maximise future gains. you are not doing it right

its those that want idiots to throw money at any price even the highs that want you to buy the high so they can sell to you and leave you at the high, while they buy the next low

"ranking sats" cannot be stopped as they are not spamming blocks
its just some guys numerical counting system
(the old purpose of historic brand "ordinals")

but recent change of brand purpose (the memes)
adding memes to certain tx can be stopped by reducing the room they have been given to put memes into tx witness

no one for a decade cared about ranking sats. ranking sats was not a problem..
its the meme spam thats advertised under the brand "ordinals" which is what people can stop

no single input or output deserves 3.99mb
no single input or output deserves 10kb

as said before but continuing

brain learning
dont just stick to cross words or sudoku all day. as thats just energising one part of the brain which after a few attempts is not really training. its just entertaining the brain
if your getting too good at it. its time to stop and try something else

do different things. literally everything that has a strategy to it where you need to learn something
proper strategy things like them "locked room" puzzles, math, riddles, heck even trying different recipes of fried chicken herbs and spices until you worked out the KFC secret recipe

anything that makes you think and try different things will help your brain

find random facts about something
whats the atomic weight of carbon
what breed of crab has the longest pincers
what is the fastest growing tree

if you have a certain hobby. learn all you can about it

learning new skills doesnt just stretch your brain. but it also gives you new things to think about and also talk to family about, they will thank you for not repeating the same joke they heard all their life and the same childhood story for the 1000th time.
 
find proper strategy games which have riddles that reveal where the next stage of the puzzle is
even things like snooker(pool) or bowls where you have to work out the angles.
golf. archery where you have to work out wind speed and distance and trajectory

as for independence.
dont be too proud to think you dont need aids or help from others.
you said you dont want to get to a point of having a recording device around your neck but in the long run its much better then getting embarrassed that you forgot why you stood up walked halfway up the stairs and forgot why you went up the stairs and then argued with family about some lame excuse of how your fine and you dont need help and such

having kitchen appliances with timers is not surrendering. its keeping your independence you wont wont to be in a position of cooking some friend chicken and forgetting the deep fat fryer is on until the fire alarms are blaring out. use airfryers with timers the chime after XX minutes and shut off by themselves. the chime will remind you that you have chicken cooking without burning the house down. so you can then continue making your food without worry. or needing supervision

having things like a bottle of drink near your bed or where you normally sit. so if thirsty you have quick access, and not need to get up walk around and forget why you got up. it will keep you hydrated and healthy.
dont fear using aids or appliances that can help you. its not surrendering, its actually fighting back.

if your having issues with medication routines. there is nothing wrong with setting up calendar appointment alerts on your phone to chime out an alarm reminder at certain times of the day.

dont think of a voice recorder as a bad thing. think of it as a if you are making a podcast to yourself like a mini biography where in a few months/years you may want to listen to yourself about what you did this time last year/month
(like a journal/memory book but easier to take notes), it may even help your family have memories of your in your voice they can listen to in many many decades time when you die of old age in your 90's+

and wink wink it just so happens that you may hint hint rewind your podcast by a couple minutes should you have a foggy moment and no one is the wiser. and you remind yourself what you were about to do without bothering anyone and without them knowing. so you can get on with your day independently

actually having code that actually verifies the data it handles.. not this soft crap that has been in play for several years that allowed crap in without majority if nodes needing to update to be ready to verify everything

its what the whole point of consensus was 2009-2016
my previous posts in this topic have given out some idea's
if i go too into detail of such idea's i get the preacher brigade crying that i must be some totalitarian by making it sound too much like a proposal and too specific of detail.

but the idea is there, if you care to read it.

EG if a op code meant to suggest and promise that its witness will only be a 1 signature length that validates against the tx data.. then its allowed. if its just random crap unrelated to the transactions purpose of the payment. then its junk and should be rejected

ok doomad you keep on talking to your dozen buddies to keep you warm at night
just because 12 people tell you what you want to hear. doesnt make you correct

its funny how when you get debunked the only last straw you can pull is my literacy..
again for emphasis.
this forum is not a legal document its a relaxed discussion forum.
if you think i am borderline illiterate. here is a test

1F Y0U C4N7 UND3R574ND 7H15 S3N74NC3 7H4N 17 15 Y0UR
L173R4CY 5K1LL5 7H47 4R3 L4CK1NG

if you need people to speak in a very very limited version of english for you to understand it. that again is saying more about you then me

the english language is a thing of beauty, there are many dialects of it.

oi me ol mucker owz ya mah
hey dirtbag, how's ur mum
Good afternoon old fellow, how is your mother?

they all mean the same thing. and are all perfectly fine english, should you dare vacate your house and explore the other area's of the country and actually talk to people around england

i dont try to sound like an elitist. i dont need to speak the queens english. if i want to speak like a commoner, i can.
most of the time i actually avoid using techno babble and jargon. so that normal people can understand things in normal terms using real world analogies. rather than recently made up buzzwords to sound like an elitist dev, making up new words that have no real meaning, just created to have some special techno-babble language of superiority

anyway to your other points
there are thousands of people talking about the bitcoin scaling debates, hundreds of topics of such
i know you want to invade those topics and talk about promoting your favoured subnetwork, but thats you being blind to whats actually being discussed

so yea stay blind if thats what you want and pretend its "just franky"

but maybe, just maybe, take some time to look outside your own echo's.. even your recruits are starting to see passed your narrative and see whats actually happened

.. maybe thats where your anger really lays you loosing recruits into your cultish narrative
oh well, its your own time your wasting

oh and ill remind you again even the core devs are happy admitting what they did. so i am still unsure why you plays these games for years pretending devs didnt do things they are now happy to admit they did.. did you miss the memo?
or is this another of your amnesia faults you wish to blame your mistakes on

current nodes allow upto 3.99mb of witness bloat when using a certain opcode

hardening consensus where that certain opcode is only "one signature length" like that tx formats promise was
does not cause a fork (altcoin).

simply saying after block 7XX,XXX consensus is hardened for that opcode to be one signature length is still accepted by old nodes that allow the <3.99mb weight thing. because a 1signature length is also <3.99mb so no harm or deviation of the exploited rules
its just a tightening of the rules

where by blocks containing transactions that go above the tightening. get rejected
all it requires** in this is the mining pools and some economic nodes to add utility incentive pressure for the mining pools([masf+nya style]), coming to consensus of doing the tightening of consensus rules at the certain blockheight

there are other ways to harden consensus again.
**but we might aswell use the method of a trick that have been done before which certain people adored
its funny how those same people are now saying "lets not change things" when they adored changing things done by this method
so we might aswell use their prefered tricks, thus they cant object

junk memes in a tx can be aded to a block (random block index location) by anyone just wanting there transaction in a block. but pools still have to and should be validating and verifying content.

but the ordinals(spcial junk memes). is where junk memes are put into rare tx spending (recent block rewards spends (usually tx index 0 of a block reward spend). meaning a pool has decided to include it in a tx of their reward spending as thats what caseys ranking system is about
these types of extra special junk memes are called the ordinal inscriptions..

so a ordinal inscription (casey ranked junk meme)  as oppose to normal junk meme is more related to a special handling by a mining pool choosing to add such junk

this does make the mining pool more legally liable to distributing illegal pictures if thats what one of these ordinals is

so pools need to truly be careful what crap they throw into their block templates when collating transactions

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to all the idiots that think they can plead ignorant to the law and pleas ignorant to certain things will mean that mining pools can get away with it..
ignorance is not a defence

and to all those that think it is. you will only find that out, after caught, arrested, charged, given a hearing date, pleading innocent and then going to trial where at trial is the only real place you can scram your ignorance as a defence.. which is about 6-12 months too late when your life has been uprooted by authorities getting involved in your life.

so try and learn a few laws
and stop trying to pretend mining pools can get away with things just becasue ignorant user says so
its better for mining pools to be on the watch for preventing doing things that put themselves at risk, rather than listen to idiots telling mining pools "it dont matter, so go ahead commit a crime" the idiot ignorant army of users wont pay the mining pool legal bills and bail while you try to fight it

calculate a "value:premium" window of expectation that a spot market will wiggle WITHIN

EG most efficient method to acquire bitcoin is the most efficient mining on the planet
no one wants to sell at a loss below the most efficient bitcoin cost on the planet
set that as your bottom line value number

EG most in-efficient method to acquire bitcoin is the least efficient mining on the planet
on one wants to buy at a excess above  other methods to get bitcoin on the planet
set that as your top line premium number

in 2021 it was (my opinion of my math)
$10k-$75k value premium window   where the market was wiggling in the $30k-$69k

in 2022 it was (my opinion of my math)
$15k-$90k value premium window  where the market was wiggling in the $50k-$16k

so lets use say 2022

if the window is 15-90  you would want to buy more the closer it is to 15 and would have set a mid point at ~47k where you decide if you want to stop buying and maybe selling

this first quarter of 2023 is setting itself up as a $17-$110 window . which means dont expect 150k this quarter not anything really above 100k as being a expectation of a ATH this quarter

so while prices are below $25k its still low in the price and in the realms of good value so
buy more.
 0      16.5                   55                    110k
  ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
            ^
          22.5

where by in my opinion i would want to buy less as the number start getting into the orange and red zones

or atleast split your investment up into amount you want to see returns in X years(under 4)
and amount you want to see returns in Y years(over 4). and only risk the Y year return on the orange, red zone. knowing its going to take that amount longer to get returns after corrections and next cycles

LN suffers from a liquidy bottleneck

imagine "users" are 5 "routers" hops from other "users"
where the routers are not holding value for their own spending. but just facilitating payments for users

A \                          / N
B --  G                L -- O
C /      \            /     \ P
            I - J - K
D \      /           \      / Q
E --  H               M --  R
F /                          \ S

imagine each of ABCDEF had $500 they wanted to spend with any of NOPQRS
guess how much I J K needs to have set, not for its own use but to facilitate the routes of ABCDEF

imagine everyone one OF ABCDEFNOP wanted to pay S
how much would M need in the M-S channel to facilitate payments to S

run some scenarios. and realise that its not a simple system of
if A wants to spend $500 to S, where S can receive $500-$5.5k guaranteed

also when saying that ABCDEF had say 1m coins each
how many other coins are need to be locked up. not for personal spending. but to make payments viable for destinations 5 hops away

in the example above
G need 3m coins to pay I and G needs
I needs 6m coins to pay J
J needs 6m coins to pay K
K needs 3m+3m just to pay L and M

thats 21m coins needing to be locked up just to allow 6 users of 1m coins
and thats just 1 direction payment. now do the math of amounts GKJKLM needs to pay in the direction of NOPQRS->ABCDEF

see the problem at max scale where being a network of main use to replace using bitcoin wont work

LN will never be the main payment network of bitcoin where bitcoin is the "reserve lock" network of dead data

no
the whole scheme is
that a guy is ranking sats.. (one scheme)
  - eg the first spend of a bitcoin coinbase reward is ranked higher then the [whatever]th spend for that coinreward split

and secondly/separately..(another scheme) if you put a meme into the witness(signature) area of a tx, where that said tx also contains a rare sat (EG "the first sat spent of a block reward(his ranking scheme)).. then that meme is super super rare

his comments about "put into first sat"
is him defining a tx that spends the first sat of a block reward. it has nothing to do with putting data into the 'output value field' of a tx

its a tx containing both a rare sat(in the output value area).. and a meme(in the signature area) of the same tx is deemed then super rare

'final check'?
only check

Achow has gone "god-mode"
he controls the moderation of many platforms used as technical discussion, he does not like independant review, scrutiny or critique outside the core team roadmap

he enjoys those that FOLLOW cores roadmap but wants anyone opposing the core roadmap removed from discussion. even in github he has recently proposed only the 6 maintainer have complete moderation control of github and also wanted to change who has ACK nAck acknowledgement of code proposals
achow has become one of the biggest causes of centralising core
years ago is was luke and sipa. now its achow and sipa


bitcoin core is not an "open-gated community* achow feels that open source just means open to read, but not open be part of the development.
 (unless you are the 'diversity hire' volunteer allowed to make a few grammar check alterations to seem less centralised)

he strongly hates independence and openness

there are protests already. and their reputations are questioned. but that doesnt stop them

softening consensus has already happened to allow core to put in new things without the majority of nodes upgrading first to consent to an activation

you say no to all of these
ok:
so lets see some examples of your promoting and involvement in the meme spam
thats just two posts.. i seen far more

just look at the amount of posts where you have memes in them, even your avatar is a meme
so if you cant recognise that YOU are promoting memes in bitcoin. its you thats unhinged

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bitcoins ethos is consensus not permissionless
consent of the utxo owner by their signature proving consent to move funds
consent of the network that data complies with rules the majority of network consent to agree to

softening those rules softening the need of consent and verification is BAD for bitcoin

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as for legality (much like drugs)
possession can be fought off with the right lawyer to express that it was not your fault(motive/intent) to have data on your computer.. emphasis on the need a good lawyer

distributing is a bigger crime. thus mining pools have a higher risk on their heads.
learn common sense

stop trying to even suggest the thought that people should be free and un-consequentially able to put porn onto the blockchain

you selfish man who doesnt care about bitcoins security or integrity, as long as you can make money out of other people. even if it causes others to be at a loss or harm due to your self-greed mindset

because you can only buy tesla shares in whole units. it requires people to buy whole shares. thus to affect the tesla market means people need to buy alot of shares
also stocks and shares dont have "trading pairs" of swapping assets. thus cant offer internal arbitrage opportunity

however crypto
you can make a market price fluctuation by only needing to buy decimal amounts
and because markets in crypto have multiple trading pairs people can arbitrage those to cycle that same small allotment in circles and re-use it at low cost to ping another order processing.

the average bitcoin order is not 1btc or 100btc. its actually 0.025btc
when someone sells bitcoin to keep a price down. they can use that $ to then buy ethereum. then do ethereum->btc then sell that same allotment for dollar again
thus can generate alot of volume without spending more then 0.025btc

since april 2022 we have seen some of this manipulation

instead of the free market ups and downs pre april 2022
we can see on the 1 year market char the horizontal (unnatural) lines of price resistance holding and suppressing the price below certain lines

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               ^~~~~\            /^{~
                        ~~~~~~}

this is where whales have been making "futures options" bets on prices and then using a small amout of coin to daytrade arbitrage using bots to create the resistance to keep prices below certain lines. which by the endof 2022(new year of 2023) those whales relaxed their resistances to allow prices to re aclimate to prices over $17k

if you look at the monthly-3monthly charts you can see the1-2 weekly resistance lines of $21.5k. $23k. $24k $23k and this week appears to be a $25k resistance

doomad you pretend you are correcting fud
yet the events of 2017 where we butt heads the most. i can back up my narrative with blockdata, code and bips and you keep on telling your buddies not to look at that and just follow your cult hymn sheet
(heck even the core devs you pretend to defend and pretend to be involved in, themselves admit to their flaws, so its odd that years later you still cling to certain narratives and notions.)

i have always given you opportunities to back up your narrative with data(research). but you only rely on quotes you found in the forum of social confirmation bias of people that already followed your narrative. rather than real hard data

you pretend im a cult leader or [insert insult] because that is the only dream you live in. a lifestyle of cults and opposing cults. when your unable to poke at the common sense stuff i say.

i am not recruiting anyone. not=r am i trying to ass kiss nor ask for ass kissers. i keep telling everyone to do their own research. find independence

your the one telling people how, who and what they should speak, where they should and shouldnt speak and what topics people should and shouldnt talk about

and when that fails you get your recruits to cry to moderators to try to get me banned

your antics say more about you then they do about me

one day you will grow out of it.. we can all hope
goodluck with your life.

there are certain things
like FTX which is just financial crimes the so called "no physical harm" thing your chanting and yet people feel he deserves 120 years in prison

so there is one dude involved in facilitating the sales of a substance that can cause overdose and deaths you want free.. and another guy that just messed around with money.

sentencing has guidelines of money involved, people involved. number of times an offence is done

its not like he just named dropped someone he knew which resulted in a one time drug deal of just personal use amounts. he ran a drug den for years of harsh drugs that can kill

i know you want to make it sound like "he just ran a website"
but so did scam bankman fraud if we used your same mindset

but we all know ross done more then just develop a website. he actually done alot more behind the scenes then that.

again if it was just selling personal use amounts of weed. he would have been released by now. but he is not released becasue of the many things he done over the years.

any dev team that is not core, that wants to change the rules gets REKT
yes there are brands that just follow the "reference clients" lead, but dare they want equal proposal publishing and choice.. REKT they go

they see alternative bitcoin nodes brands wanting to offer solutions/proposals as opposition/competition. not colleagues/community members

the whole moderation of core disliking independent scrutiny, critique, review.
the whole be a contributor and we will merge your grammar checks and put you as a credited contributor, but dare you implement code that goes against core roadmap you will get banned on their git-hub

is not the fault of the independent reviewers why core dev are oppositional. its that they like their close gate community but open window policy
you can look but you cant touch

more devs have moved over to altcoins such as ethereum. because core have bully moderators as door-men

this is why you see a lack of solutions mentioned on this forums dev discussion, the irc, the mailing list and the github

@GazetaBitcoin

heres the thing.
he was not just "running a website"

it wasnt like craigs list where anything was just randomly sold
it was a website geared for the illicit content. advertised for illicit content.
he cant play ignorant pretending he didnt know what was on it. when the design of the website he made was designed for illicit stuff to be categorised.

oh and. you made alot of waffle trying to pretend he didnt run the website.. and then ended your last post saying he was arrested for.. running the website

so even you deep down know he was running the website and just are trying to promote lame and debunked claims he was a patsy blamed for something he was uninvolved in

reality check the FBI were for months pre-catching him. watching him and linking him to events and stuff he was involved in

and it was not just the website content. it was the illegal deals and the hitman stuff too, thus he is not innocent

..
now here is the thing.
if he stuck to just weed. and he didnt go vengeance hitman hiring. he might have cause and claim to get his sentence reduced now weed is legal.

but because his crimes were more then "just weed" he has to serve a large sentence

..
i know people think. "if i use bitcoin it makes me immune from normal crimes.. sorry but no. if you intend to murder someone murder is murder no matter the payment method

if you want to broker cocaine deals its not the currency type that decides guilt or innocence
its how involved you are in brokering cocaine deals

he was the drug den.where he had a big sign saying get your cocaine here
and taking a cut for that
 not a vacant street corner

what people are calling "bidens law"
is not about "banning bitcoin"

its about businesses operating as financial services without registering they are:
a business
  -this affects the personal bank account holders that do too many wire transfers on
   localbitcoins and de-fi, breaching their personal banking terms&conditions
   - yep processing say 100k a year for random strangers has been a personal bank
     account red flag for many many years before bitcoin even existed

a financial business
  - this affects both personal and business accounts where they dont have a
    MSB/PSP/PF licence to operate as a financial service. again a rule that predates bitcoin

the detail people forget is that bitcoin became a currency in 2013 thus standard banking policy
began applying to bitcoin businesses after 2013

which isnt about biden/obama. it was the "mainstreaming" of being defined as a currency

yep it was the "bitcoin got allowed" celebrations by many that caused the jurisdictions to then get their fingers into deciding what certain entities can do in crypto

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as daveF said. if your just doing $100(small amounts) to friends or strangers infrequently. its not going to hit thresholds of red flags

doing the banking limits thresholds of $1k+ $10k+ $xxk+ expect questions
wire transfer thresholds existed pre-bitcoin
but became applicable for bitcoins doing wire transfer. when bitcoin became a currency

nutildah..
we all know you have done these crappy memes yourself.
and you are now trying your damned hardest to promote them and make the popular and not want them to stop

we get it your one of caseys gang or casey himself

but no pool has a precedent of being arrested for putting porn on bitcoin because.. there was no illicit porn on bitcoin before. because its just been links and quotes. not actual illicit porn

however it is a crime to distribute illicit porn and mining pools do validate and verifies and makes a choice of what they collate into a block more so than what a user ends up getting
user nodes dont choose what they end up getting in a block.

there is a big difference between a user node and a mining node

EG
an anyonecanspend being relayed unconfirmed by nodes is treated differently than what is same byte for byte lump is treated as by a mining pool owner collating that lump
vs what user nodes treat same said lump once in a block

users didnt ask for said lump in a block
but a pool chose said lump to be in a block

meaning they purposefully chose said lump of data to be added which they have a responsibility to verify and a opportunity to verify what they chose to go into THEIR block template
meaning they had means and opportunity

there is no precedent because ordinal s is a young thing only recently been allowed and so far (luck) there has been no porn to set precedent

but lets not even pretend "no harm no foul" to even suggest someone should try
instead we should prevent before it happens

sorry your side hustle project you love is not admired and does have legal consequence which you want to deny and pretend doesnt exist. but there is legal risk.
so lets not chance it.

and by the way..
its you that want things more so then me.
its you that want things that are making bitcoin seem less appealing.
so its you and doomad types that sound more like CSW

but nice try
yep you want to make bitcoin be less of a currency network and more of a meme network
basically you want people to treat bitcoin like dogecoin. a laughing stock.

firstly the mining pool owner would get arrested for distributing nasty stuff..

secondly. users have the defence that they were not personally motivated to seek and acquire such nasty material it was handed to them without their consent due to a system that just allows things to download onto their device without verifying content
(no motive or intent=accident)

.. because consensus has been softened to not do such security checks
(but yea. if police were to raid every node users house to charge them with storing it.. still get a good lawyer to make a good argument dont depend on justice to sort itself out and realise what was intentional vs accidental/unconsentual)

but yea mining pools need to be very very careful what they add to their blocks

but we should harden consensus to not allow such things through and reject blocks that try in the future becasue a malicious pool does do a stupid thing