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3741  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2021-09-11] India's upcoming cryptocurrency law seeks to balance stability and on: September 15, 2021, 02:12:22 AM
@Woodie, @SFR10. I reckon this is why there are mixing services. They are tools to preserve privacy for all tranparent blockchain transactions similar to bitcoin.

In any case, government only wants control and their share through what they can tax in the cryptospace. They will again use for public protection as the argument for regulation. It always fear they use hehe.
3742  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: Time to buy some low cap coins on: September 15, 2021, 01:46:53 AM
@wheelz1200. Matic is not a low cap project anymore. It has $8 billion in market capitalization and it should be part of a midcap index, I reckon. Low cap gems should be coins or tokens similar to Tulip, Step, Media or Maps. There are a few of them in the Solana ecosystem. However, be cautious and wait for a few days. Solana blockchain is presently being restarted by the developers because of an embarassing shutdown for several hours.
3743  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Solana was down for several hours on: September 15, 2021, 12:41:38 AM
It appears the new flying superstars of the cryptospace has landed on the ground with a few wounds and scratches hehehe. This might not greatly affect the Solana ecosystem market, however, this is a red mark on their report card. According to Solana Status, the network is being manually restarted and presently has 42% of the validators online. Solana blockchain requires 80%.



The network underpinning one of this year’s fastest-rising cryptocurrencies is having problems validating transactions, according to a Twitter account run by the Solana project.

The issue stemmed from “resource exhaustion” in the network that caused denial of service, one tweet from the Solana Status account said over eight hours ago. Third parties that validate transactions on the blockchain elected to coordinate a restart of the network and are preparing a new release, the developer team said later in a statement.  

“It has some interesting technical features, but realistically Solana hasn’t yet been fully tested in a live setting,” said Strah Savic, head of data and analytics at FRNT Financial. “What we are likely seeing is the experimental nature of blockchain tech playing out.”


Read in full https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-14/blockchain-underlying-red-hot-crypto-solana-hits-processing-snag

update

Solana network was down again for 5 hours.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5360030.msg58894790#msg58894790
3744  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [Boxing] Anderson Silva vs Tito Ortiz on September 11 on: September 14, 2021, 09:36:30 AM
Did anyone watch it? I reckon Anderson Silva was very fortunate he connected a lucky punch on the head of Tito Ortiz. Ortiz was beginning his attack with strong punches and very fast hand speed with similar head movement like Mike Tyson’s peekaboo strategy.

That's not a lucky punch and fortunate.

It was perfectly timed. It was already anticipated that an opening will happen soon although the question is when. Silva managed to take that opportunity and wasted no time to react, like a usual fighter's instinct. I'm expecting the fight to be a decision but ended up early.

The unfortunate one is we didn't see the action of Oscar Dela Hoya because of Covid-19.


Hehehe I was only joking and being sarcastic. It has also showed that Tito Ortiz might not have trained very well for the fight. It was only an exhibition match and the result will not be recorded. He only wanted to go in the ring, collect his money and go home to his girlfriend hehehe.

Also, it appears Anderson wants more money hehehe.



Speaking at the Triller post-fight press conference, Anderson Silva expressed interest in fighting the Paul brothers, as he respects the way they conduct business.

“I respect both. The kids are doing good and working hard to be successful in this entertainment show. And let’s go see. Maybe this is possible too.” Silva said.

Silva then formally offered the Paul brothers the opportunity to fight him and Belfort at a later date.


Source https://www.mmanews.com/2021/09/anderson-silva-offers-paul-bros-a-chance-to-fight-him-and-belfort/
3745  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 🏈🏈 The American Football Discussion Thread 🏈🏈 on: September 14, 2021, 08:50:32 AM
I have decided to drop Josh Lambo. He might not have enougn opportunities with Trevor Lawrence only in his first year in the team. Chris Boswell will be the replacement.

I have also made Antonio Brown my flex because of Tom Brady hehe. I want to play Corey Davis instead of AJ Brown. It appears Davis is very good with Zach Wilson. However, the Jets will be against the Patriots and Titans against the Seahawks. Should I do this?
3746  Economy / Speculation / Re: The dump was only a funding reset on: September 14, 2021, 07:23:09 AM
Also, everyone who blame this on the weak hands are wrong. There are no more weak hands, this is proven by onchain metrics.
I only agree with the part that this recent drop was not because of the weak hands but disagree with the rest. The weak hands are always around, their number dwindles during the downtrends and when price is not going up like what we had for the 3 months before the reversal began. But it never goes down to zero and also as the price was rising recently they are slowly coming back even though majority of them will come back when it is too late and price is sitting above $70k.
Besides, weak hands aren't seen onchain to be proven by "by onchain metrics".

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Everyone is hodling, however, the problem, no one is buying.
You seem to have forgotten that price went up from $28k to $52k over the past 1.5 month which is because "people are buying"! Just because price isn't shooting up 30% per week doesn't mean otherwise.

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It is the hodlers job to pump this if you want a pump. There are no more greater fools.
Wrong. Market manipulators with a lot of money are the only ones who can "pump" bitcoin and since bitcoin is not a pump and dump, it is extremely hard to pump it. Cheesy

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They might presently be buying tokens from the Solana ecosystem hehehe. The tokens continue to pump despite bitcoin’s dump.
Every day (WITHOUT EXCEPTION) there is (there has been and there will be) a bunch of shitcoins that are getting pumped regardless of what is going on with bitcoin or anything else for that matter. And the next day (figuratively speaking) they will get dumped.

I can agree on everything you said, however, telling everyone bitcoin is extremely hard to pump is very arguable. Onchain metrics is telling us that bitcoin is in a liquidity shock on the supply side of the spot market which might make it easier for the derivatives market to use leverage to pump the market and cause the spot market to go up together with it.
3747  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2021-09-11] Biden’s SEC is ready to regulate cryptocurrency on: September 14, 2021, 05:16:59 AM
@DooMAD. What do you reckon would be the effect of a crackdown on stablecoins in the cryptospace if successful? Much of the liquidity of the market are presently in stablecoins. I have argued before that it might be a cause of one of the largest liquidity crunches in history that would pop the bubble, however, there were people telling me that I was antagonizing and spreading fud.

They have also argued that it would pump the price of bitcoin because USDT holders would buy bitcoin as an exit from USDT. My answer to that was why would bitcoin holders sell bitcoins for USDT? Their reply was the same, I am an antagonizer hehehe.
3748  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [Boxing] Anderson Silva vs Tito Ortiz on September 11 on: September 13, 2021, 02:39:26 AM
Did anyone watch it? I reckon Anderson Silva was very fortunate he connected a lucky punch on the head of Tito Ortiz. Ortiz was beginning his attack with strong punches and very fast hand speed with similar head movement like Mike Tyson’s peekaboo strategy.
3749  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 🏈🏈 The American Football Discussion Thread 🏈🏈 on: September 13, 2021, 02:13:06 AM
@DireWolfM14. Okay, I will observe for 2 more weeks before looking for a trade. However, I might rest Najee Harris and I might play Antonio Brown and Corey Davis. They appear to collect more points than ESPN projected because of the performances of Tom Brady and Zach Wilson.
3750  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 🏈🏈 The American Football Discussion Thread 🏈🏈 on: September 13, 2021, 01:28:20 AM
My wide receivers and running backs on the bench have collected more points than the players who were playing hehe. It also appears that I have made a mistake. I have drafted lower ranked players without superstars the team requires to bring more points.

How much is a good average no. points per week?
3751  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2021-09-11] Biden’s SEC is ready to regulate cryptocurrency on: September 13, 2021, 12:47:17 AM
Unsure how this is any different to what they've been saying for the last few years.  I recall ages ago they were saying that just about every ICO probably fell into the category of a security and was under their remit.  They never acted in time to do anything about any of those.  Crypto seemingly moves too fast for them, heh.  We'll see if they manage to actually do something this time around.

Agreed, however, it is not to be underestimated similar to China. There were many people in the cryptospace that did not think that the crackdown of Beijing would be true.

There is also Janet Yellen from the treasury department who has her attention on stablecoins. It appears she has noticed that there are printers of American dollars without owning a Federal printer hehehhe.



The U.S. Treasury Department met with a number of industry participants this week to quiz them about the risks and benefits posed by stablecoins -- a rapidly growing type of cryptocurrencies, the value of which is pegged to traditional currencies, according to three people with direct knowledge of the meetings.

Washington policymakers are alarmed at the rapidly expanding cryptocurrency market which exceeded a record $2 trillion in April. As of Friday, the market cap of stablecoins stood at roughly $125 billion, according to industry data site CoinMarketCap. It is unclear which financial regulations apply to these relatively new products.


Source https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-us-treasury-financial-industry-discuss-cryptocurrency-stablecoins-2021-09-10/

The crackdown on stablecoins if successful will be the big short of the cryptospace.
3752  Other / Archival / Re: Exchange Graveyard in 2021 on: September 12, 2021, 06:19:33 AM
@Ratimov. This might be offtopic, however, how much monthly costs do successful exchanges have compared against their inflow of revenues? Do you reckon exchanges similar to FTX might have very high overhead which might make their token a very good hold during bear markets?
3753  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 🏈🏈 The American Football Discussion Thread 🏈🏈 on: September 12, 2021, 02:47:23 AM
NFL experts, do RB1 players always play for the whole game or does the coach let the RB2 have some time on the field also?

I have a problem. Austin Ekeler is questionable according to ESPN and all of my replacements on the bench are only RB2. Trey Sermon, Javonte Williams and Jamaal Williams. Should I trust the projections and choose Javonte Williams as replacement?
3754  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: People don't talk about EOS anymore on: September 11, 2021, 06:37:42 AM
EOS in the cryptospace is dead. This is similar to every project that Dan Larimer has created, that he also pumped and then he dumped. Bitshares, Steem and EOS. I reckon he has earned more than $500 million from his projects. He might be retired and presently laughing at the other scams in cryptospace.
3755  Economy / Speculation / Re: The dump was only a funding reset on: September 11, 2021, 05:55:28 AM
@rodskee. It appears that I not only antagonize the bulls, I am also antagonizing the bears hehehe. However, I am also ready for changes. I reckon if price continues to go down and open interest goes up, this is the beginning of the whales’ short.

Also, everyone who blame this on the weak hands are wrong. There are no more weak hands, this is proven by onchain metrics. Everyone is hodling, however, the problem, no one is buying. It is the hodlers job to pump this if you want a pump. There are no more greater fools. They might presently be buying tokens from the Solana ecosystem hehehe. The tokens continue to pump despite bitcoin’s dump.
3756  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2021-09-11] Biden’s SEC is ready to regulate cryptocurrency on: September 11, 2021, 05:20:30 AM
This is creating a stronger argument for much of the liquidity in the cryptospace to begin going to unregulated sectors. This is the art market where NFTs will also be considered art. It would not he surprising if the Biden administration begins cracking down on the art industry, however.

It also appears that Biden is worse for the cryptospace than Trump hehehe. Where are those liberals and progressives in the cryptospace? I told you.
3757  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2021-09-08] Suffolk county worker charged with running illegal mining farm on: September 11, 2021, 04:30:14 AM
Oh yeah, there is a Suffolk county in the US also Grin I was starting to think about what's happening in good old England with all these electricity stealing cases lately. I wonder what gear that was, no way you could put a 3kw machine in those spaces, 10 miners for a few months and $6k, that would mean about 100$ per miner per month in damages, assuming they had 10c when calculating those, so at max something as powerful as an S9.

I have been seeing things like this more and more. And am starting to wonder if plugging in miners at work to use their electric is the new, bringing along a 5 gallon gas can when filling up the company car and getting some for yourself.

I had the same discussion with a colleague at work, he was wondering how long it's going to take before somebody makes some suitcase like miners packed with graphic cards and comes at work, plug this in, and pouts it under his desks and mines for free, then leaves as nothing happens with everyone else. I know it sounds ridiculous but I'm sure he's not the only one who thought about it.
Imagine snacking at McDonald's while having a miner under your feet plugged to the wall.  Grin


Cryptocoins that use the RandomX mining algorithm can be mined with CPUs. Similar argument. Would it be considered stealing if I plug a laptop with a powerful Ryzen CPU in a coffee shop to mine and do my work while I drink a cup of coffee?
3758  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2021-08-21] Inside Afghanistan's cryptocurrency underground as the country plu on: September 10, 2021, 06:43:11 AM
That is outside the argument. I am only asking if Jack Maller’s original idea to hyperdollarize El Salvador through stablecoins would work in dollarizing a country in disorder similar to Afghanistan.

The idea of implementing something like this in a country like Afghanistan hardly makes sense unless you think you can compare that country to El Salvador. I don’t think the Taliban regime would allow such a thing, despite all the stories of how they have changed.

Also, it is not for you, me or anyone who dictates who should or should not use this technology. They might presently be using it and we do not know, similar to criminals use of American dollars in the black market.

It is not up to me to determine who will use what, but I express my opinion with good reason that positioning Bitcoin to a higher level in a country now ruled by alleged former terrorists would only bring more problems than benefits. I doubt the Taliban use cryptocurrencies, as far as I can see they specialize in using weapons, torturing and killing anyone who doesn't think like them - so if they can't control something, then they won't even accept it.

That is again not the argument. I am not talking about what the Taliban would or would not allow. I am asking about accomplishing financial and economic stability for a country in disorder through Jack Mallers original roadmap for hyperdollarization through stablecoins.

The Taliban might also be using American dollars, iphones, android phones, shovels, cars, television and many more. Is it also your opinion that they should not use these?
3759  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2021-09-01] Twitter Beta Testing Bitcoin Tipping Feature on: September 10, 2021, 05:26:48 AM
There are also those group of Asian women on Twitter who like posting pictures of themselves wearing sexy clothes and bikinis. They also have Twitch accounts and they play different games with their sexy clothes and sometimes sexy cosplay costumes hehe. I reckon those girls might be earning more money than a real job being a cashier in a grocery store.

Like I said, a lot of crypto simping going on too. People buying overpriced NFT nudes for precious BTC (not that there even is a right price for that kind of "art") thinking it's buying them some kind of loyalty or love. Though I think it happens much more for altholders. Bitcoin holders seem to be less and less prone to this pointless spending. They're just generous in a more useful way -- helping people out with their first coins, sending a drop to your wallet, which is exactly how I popped my BTC cherry, just because I asked someone. Won't ever forget that.



Agreed, however, there is much to explore in NFT as the next disruptor to avoid the SEC’s securities laws, I reckon. I am not telling everyone that it is not in a bubble, but similar to the art market used by money launderers, these money launderers will have a new more transportable and more portable mediums in NFT.
3760  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 🏈🏈 The American Football Discussion Thread 🏈🏈 on: September 10, 2021, 04:06:08 AM
I played AB in a league you get extra points for 40+ yard receptions. Cheesy



Nice halftime score!


Fantasy experts, would I have collected more points for Antonio Brown if he was not on the bench?

Also, if I want to make a trade, can I pick any player or can I only pick a player that has been picked by the members in our league?

@suchmoon. Agreed. However, it was not good for anyone who picked the Cowboy’s kicker hehe.

Unfortunately you don't get any points for people on your bench only those you played this week.
But now you know to play AB next week! Good pick!

That was a very big mistake. This would have added 18 more points for my team! I did not check anything before the game started.

After collecting points from Tom Brady, can I put him on the bench and replace him with Matthew Stafford or will that remove Brady’s points?
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