Hihi this is a nice mess

Cosmic Beyonders gave also NoorulHuda merits, the guy who merited you for your post about Cosmic Beyonder possible alt. 
And  NoorulHuda was banned for plagiarism.
But it doesn't stop here, CB also gave merit to a bounty manager, OneNuts, accused of promoting a bounty with a plagiarized whitepaper, and an alt of  MrCrank who got tagged for exactly the same issue a plagiarized whitepaper.

Anyhow this is a reputation thing, if anybody wants to dig deeper be my guest, this is nothing I would enjoy one a Saturday night.

It's not that easy to get those so-called legit friends, the ones asking for friendships over twitter or FB or any other social media network are themselves not looking like a legit account at all, all your relatives and your friends will block you pretty soon if they see you sporting 20 links to ICOs or Defi all day long.

What some of the smarter spammers do is grow multiple of those accounts so when something gets banned they can replace the whole identity but this comes with a problem, that's greed! When you have everything that is needed for an alt, why not start using it so you can double your income, and this is when you get tagged for having an alt, and all your backup fb/tw/yt accounts are linked and you have no other thing to do than trying to keep using these till you grow some others.


I don't think it's just about some countries and more like the how big of a chunk a certain social class is in some countries, on top of that the average money one could get with an easy job and the lack of other opportunities. It's an accumulation of factors, with the cherry on the cake being the fact that some countries are ravaged by a lot of crime, theft, etc etc things like plagiarism or having two accounts on some forum look like, are you serious?  Sometimes I try and I think could understand somebody having a shock to hear copy-paste is getting him banned when going to his "workplace" he witnessed one shooting and two carjacks.
Not an excuse but probably moral values are influenced a lot by the value of your wallet.

As always, we don't have anyone from Salvador, nobody from CAR, but I'm used to it, we didn't even have anyone to translate the CCB statements from Chinese back in the days. Probably this will be the indicator for the next country that does something big when it comes to Bitcoin, it will be a country with no subforum on bitcoinktalk  

Back to the news itself:


I love this, this is how things should be done.
Not declaring overnight every business needs to adopt this, not forcing merchants to accept it, not forgetting to tell them they will need a bank account to instantly convert those BTC is they want $ and they will have to use a bank or an atm to get the cash, and so on and on.
On top of that, not spending government money trying to boost popularity!

Bitcoin means freedom and bitcoin should not be imposed, if you're forcing this I see it just as an attack on freedom.
With this move you respect everyone's decision, if they want to use it they will use it if they don't they won't, it's just like how shops are allowed to operate and choose what they are willing to accept, it's either "no cash" or "no cc' or "no checks". Boosting all day long about buying the dips, giving away millions in airdrops, using a government centralized platform for this, issuing bonds for some city that will never be built, this is not about bitcoin usage and freedom those are politicians' publicity stunts.

One thing, we had three countries to date, none of them had actually their own free floating currency, interesting pattern.

LE:
And of course, the price keeps dropping, the first time I was checking it today and as usual, again down -2,74% last 24h, I'm starting to wonder if we might need some country to ban bitcoin in order for it to go up!

It won't do much to volatility, they are just reducing the numbers of bets traders can take on coins that might be accepted, the ones left on that list will still attract a lot of, plus it will still be open to manipulation, imagine knowing with just 5 minutes in advance what Coinbase is going to post on this blog, not even mentioning how they themselves would take advantage of this.
It's just another episode of the "going to be listed on CMC" madness when every altcoin that managed to pay the fee to get listed there jumped in price immediately, then it switched to Binance listings and now Coinbase is a bit too late to the game.

True transparency would be to publish the criteria and the scoring before you take the decisions, so that traders know what to expect, not after!

Oh common, before getting infuriated at least read the article!
It's not like the average Igor who has fled the country 30 years ago and still has some 7th-degree relative that has become a city council in Chekalin is going to have his funds seized.


Let's see
-daughter of Mordor's spokesperson
-stepdaughter of the foreign minister
-son of an oligarch with a net worth of billions

So while they threaten everything western and discuss how even if they nuke the whole world they will be the only ones going to heaven they still try to use foreign services. Why not stick to their own exchanges and their precious rubles?

Unfortunately, it's not happening anymore with all registrars the rate at which the above was taken offline is quite extraordinary.

I've discussed this with some other users on a topic, everyone wondering why the domain name was still active and the overall consensus is that domain registrars aren't doing anything anymore about this. There are clear scams, obviously Ponzi schemes, with wrong and tock photos, even with identity theft and NameCheap for example is just silent about them. A few years ago they were quite active in suspending domains but nowadays the whole thing has changed, probably they are far happier with the $ than with the bad publicity. None of my reports in the last year had any effect so I reluctantly quit doing so.

From the list I see that there was one drop before expiration with whois history, that was as com domain from godaddy, probably they are paying more attention to the more used .com extension than to the other garbage.


Just as most people don't go for medical check-ups when they are still healthy but only when they can't stand on their feet without help.

Bitcoin is anti-inflation long-term per design this doesn't mean it will absolutely keep its value no matter what.
All the coins with a limited supply are just like that, does it mean every single coin out there will keep rising in value above the inflation rate, of course not! Moreover every single day there is nearly $40 million worth of fresh BTC that are entering the market, how do you call that? 


People really need to end this thing about how bitcoin will make you rich and how the poor will become at least middle class while the opposite happening to the bad rich guy we're having right now. The value of the coin will only go up if more money is entering bitcoin than what's pulled out of it, there is no way around it, and poor persons who have bout some 0.01 or 0.1 won't be able to unload those for $100k unless there is somebody with that amount ready to buy.

This whole redistribution myth that is happening because of bitcoin must end once and for all, it's tiresome.

So it's about sending Toncoins, or purchasing BTC through the app and then sending the BTC to the user wallet if one has a registered bitcoin address. I don't understand why would you use a bot to do so when you can send your BTC directly from your wallet to an address you agree with your partner., probably when it comes to BTC you're going to either have to pay a USD invoice for the exchange, basically buying BTC in your friends' name, or allow the app to have access to your wallet, which is;t the smartest thing to do in my opinion.

I can see the utility for a tipping feature when you just want to spend a small amount as you tip random users but no way I would use this to send larger sums to somebody.

This is one of the best studies that can be done probably with the data at hand, there is indeed a bit of generalization but it does cover some points, I love especially the thing about the gear that is currently running. Too many just grab the latest model, the most efficient and they think it's the one dominant, if we could only find a way to insert a better breakdown rate for each unit it would be awesome but that as the author said it's probably a near-impossible task and when you finally have the results a year has already passed.

But the main problem with this study is that it was made during an enormous movement in mining, US-based companies are setting up mines in the tens of exahashes, from when the reports end it should have been 20 and a total of 60 exa by the end of the year only from public companies. Where those settled, probably is guesswork.

Another thing is that somehow everyone has shifted from total electricity to total energy, and this shows clearly that the old comparisons are not really good anymore, just like some articles that were once heavily quoted here are now forgotten.

That on-chain fee was just a way for some exchanges to munch some more $, even a single next block transaction wouldn't have cost that much, but with batching it would have been even lower.  Anyhow, pretty interesting move, can't wait to see a similar move from the two big "spammers", Coinbase and Binance, but in the latter's case I doubt they will do such a thing, they are using the fees as a motivation to have people use their shitty coin.



Segwit is more expensive...lol


If all of them would o so it would get rid of a lot of coins that are currently used just because of this fee thing, like Doge and Litecoin.


It's 0.0005 BTC minimum, the fee is 0.00001 BTC, quite reasonable. Maybe they have changed is recently?

Here you go since nobody posted one:



Simply put all gas pipelines go through these countries Poland Ukraine and Turkey.
Moreover, if Bulgaria shuts down its pipelines there is no way for Serbia to get gas, there is no alternate route for them.
So this whole Russian cut the gases for countries is an empty threat, all that needs to be done if you still want to buy is "buy" it from  Germany as Russia will never cut gas to them nor it is able to stop Germany from reselling it.

As for the whole threat of paying in rubles or so, they've cave in pretty easy and early on:


So no, there won't be any European bank buying rubes, there will just be a Russian bank converting euros to rubles as before.


Poland is getting its gas from Norway, they've announced from January before the war they will not purchase any Russian gas starting 2023, so n, nobody is going to freeze without Russian gas, just like all of us in Europe managed somehow to not freeze during the winters before there were any pipelines to Russia in the first place.

The IMF gives you money in certain conditions when you're obviously so much in debt nobody else is taking the risks.
What they do with this money is their own issue, and is two years after you signed an agreement with a warlord another one comes into power then another and another probably none of the original points are still valid nor would the last one in this chain care about it anymore.

When people blame the FMI for doing this they forget one thing, the FMI usually is used by countries that are already in deep financial problems caused mainly by poor management and corruption, and are already shunned by most international banks and lenders, statistically what would be the chance for somebody in that situation to make a huge recovery after taking more debt and spending like there is no tomorrow?
Whenever I see somebody rebelling against what the FMI imposed it's mainly the same, the FMI asked to cut expenses and reduce government personnel, but none of them does this in order to protect their relatives and voters' well-paid jobs.


This is one of the myths I've heard from a lot of east europeans when they joined the EU.
The EU wants to keep us poor so they could sell us their stuff.
If you would have a business in your village what would you like the others to be, unemployed people able to spend only their social welfare checks or well-paid employees that could empty your shelf with one wage?


The bad news:
Singer Akon's Senegalese 'Wakanda' city unstarted, locals left in dark
The really bad news:
Akon Accused Of Planning To Run Akon City As A “Ponzi Scheme”

The moment another account with red trust for scamming that has obviously changed hands comes to vouch for him rather than letting roslinpl clear his name as much as it's humanly possible in this situation it's the final nail in the coffin for that account.


Loved this, probably you won't get "paid" for this, far more likely you're going to get a warning 


Yeah, it's no way the old user would have written this, the style is the same as the garbage posted by others, we just had a thread about it if someone still doubts it:
Please have a look at this crap (1xBit).
Same short phrases, same obvious grammar mistakes, no way for somebody who once actually was a campaign manager at some point.

I was going to ask what the hell is this title for but the first paragraph really cut my enthusiasm to find out what's happening here


I appreciate honesty even in cases like this, at least the guy isn't hiding under false pretexts others do, users that claimed they were interested in the technology, in Bitcoin, and never posted outside the altcoin section. Unfortunately just as not knowing isn't an excuse for doing it, admitting it afterward won't solve a thing either.

Now since I'm in a better mood I'm going to give you some friendly advice, going over the top and attacking the members that have caught you cheating as well as other older members here won't solve a thing, and furthermore will just mean people will give you case more attention. If you would have just shut up maybe that would have been the end but the moment you opened this topic and I saw your name my instant thought was:
"Isn't this guy the one that got and sent back a lot of merits from NoorulHuda , who got banned a few days ago? "

Not a good idea, take it like a man and be done with it.

This has to be one of the craziest ideas I've heard here, at least try to a normal gyroscope as the Russian tried twenty years ago but still failed.
There is a far easier to harvest energy that is generated somewhat by the same rotation with a little help from the moon, that is tidal waves, it would be far easier to create artificial estuaries for this rather than putting disks around the earth.


Has already been tried, even with the theoretical gain the loss of energy incurred by the gears still gives a negative effect.


Yeah because they will be made be of unrealizablium probably.

Indeed a bit fishy, but still might be excusable.
He wears the 1xbit signature code but he isn't on the spreadsheet nor has he applied on the topic but he did apply on cloudbet, for an older member even with the break he has taken the thing would have looked fishy with all the red tags. Anyhow he himself is still on a loan default despite all the positive trust for doing graphics, which is quite a different thing.

Anyhow, pretty easy to see if he has indeed changed hand, either a signed message or sees if he can still design stuff.


Yeah for him it's no big deal, he won't be able to get a loan anymore and for his business when you pay on delivery the red trust doesn't matter, he defaulted for $300 probably business wasn't great either.

The EU is both the largest exporter and producer of wheat in the world, France alone exports 2/5 of what Russia does.

Russia didn't export grain to Europe.
https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/wheat/reporter/rus
neither did Ukraine:
https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/wheat/reporter/ukr

Of but of course, you have better sources than the whole world for your data, as usual

That another politician wants a piggy ride on bitcoin success to get herself a comfy seat

PRO-BITCOIN MEXICAN SENATOR PROPOSES CBDC LEGISLATION
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/pro-bitcoin-mexican-senator-proposes-cbdc-legislation


Now can somebody explain how would somebody who says this kind of stuff is a true bitcoins supporter?


So much for decentralization.


The news is real. The motives behind it can be anything, bitcoin is no longer just coin that is used to avoid the 3rd party, alongside the other altcoins it has become a huge source of funds, and money always brings corruption and special interest that have nothing to do with the initial purpose.
But again, no matter what they try and how they try using bitcoin resources popularity, and userbase for their own political and monetary gain this doesn't change the basics for the normal bitcoin user, as long as the protocol stands intact it's a matter of choice.

And can you name those places and have some numbers for this "usage"?
I know places that accept coins, and I know owners of businesses that do so, they all tell me the same story for the last 5 years, usage isn't there.
Talks about it, groups, chats, investments, buying and holding yeah, this is happening for sure, but spending, no!


And you just invalidated your own point with this one, you just told all the people in Salvador to hold their coins instead of spending because they will be worth more next year.
How can you argue about daily usage when you say stuff like that?


Oh yeah, using somebody's else money in order to promote something to make other people rich.
I think I read this somewhere in Satohis's whitepaper but can't remember where, mind pointing it out?

Multi-million but, half of the GDP of Maderia, there I could see at least tourist spending coins, it could be the same thing for Salvador which still has 10x the GDP but in CAR, I have no clue who will actually use it as a legal tender and not as an investment.


I think it's about time for you to be wrong about these
I mean lately, you have proven a bit too much news to be fake or exaggeration, we need something to be real for once, it was getting really annoying with all those big news proven to be nothing the other day. So despite thinking the same as you two days ago and being suspicious right now I'm cheering for fillippone on this.


Yeah, let's blame it all on the evil Europeans, Morroco has nowhere near the resources CAR has, it still uses a pegged currency to the euro and $ and it has a GDP per capita 10 times that of Central Africa.
So maybe the problem is somewhere else.