That's not really such a big problem.
There are only 4 states which depend on those, Bulgaria, Hungary, and the Slovakia Czech Republic duo, with less than 10GW, and furthermore, Westinghouse can produce the fuel, is just that all these countries have contracts with Russia and the replacement of fuel was already planned.
Allow Romania to restart all its coal powerplants and there you go, 12 GW capacity with interconnection just in the middle of the problem.

Nuclear fuel will be easy, oil will be tricky, gas is the problem!


There was less trade being done at that time, look for example the volume in shipping, the war didn't come after a lockdown that fucked the logistic chain forever and still keeps 1/4 of China messed up, and more important that was Irak, it wasn't a clash at the door of the second economy if we count EU as a whole.

That's the whole point of the restriction, identifying the donor.


There are limits in place, you will need to find a lot of people to donate small amounts, and when a lot of them do it is easier to trace where the money is coming from, one or two transactions can get unnoticed but when thousands of people suddenly start receiving money from abroad and donating for the first time it gets suspicious.
With crypto donation it was simple, you could donate millions in 10$ batches from millions of addresses anonymously.
Plus, political parties and candidates have to reveal how much they've got, cryptos allowed them to bypass this and use money from donations for themselves.

Your own Central Bank chief and even the Mayor of Moscow say something else:
https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-central-banker-warns-country-reserves-finite-nabiullina-ukraine-war-2022-4
The only thing that seems to need more sanctions is the import of brainwashing drugs, Russia seems to still get those in large quantities.


Oh yeah, they could definitely sell their mining operations to China! And the Vatican! And Bartovia!

Anyhow, if the US has started to add mining companies to the list Bitmain will have to start making some very cautious moves and decide to whom they plan on selling gear. The US market is by far the largest purchaser of gear right now, Bitmain has orders in the billions with US companies and they don't want to mess that up, moreover, their chip supplier TSMC has already banned the sales of chips to Russia or third companies dealing with Russian clients so slowly the gate is closing down.

Hmm, more like every gas pipeline end in Wien 
Russia has the same problem as Europe, all their gas can go only to Europe, even if they would tries to sell it to China or India, it's simply impossible, and look what China has to say:
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3172028/russian-gas-sales-china-will-not-make-loss-european-markets


Rusia is also trapped in this.
What some guys that claim Russia can cut gas to freeze Europe to death might find shocking is that Russia still pays transit money to Ukraine to deliver gas to Europe! The perfect clusterfuck, wars and diplomacy were far easier in medieval times!

 

I just love the crypto world, this habit of ruining people's predictions in 24 hours or going 180 degrees just after something was announced as well as this one, for example, you can't say life is boring in crypto.

But what does this even mean,

ok,go it..
How can be these restricted even further?

Anyhow, how long has it taken for CZ to cave in? One week?
From the guy that said once Binance needs no country to reside in and no license to operate he seems quite eager to follow legislation lately.

"Must know" facts, oh my god, nearly all of them are wrong.

1) Lazlo didn't spend his coins at a local restaurant, he offered 10k BTC to Jercos who ordered the pizza for him in exchange for the coins.
2) Lamborghini wasn't the first car company that accepted bitcoin, actually, even now you can't walk in every Lamborghini dealership to buy one with coins, it was a single car dealership that accepted coins
3) The coins that were seized from Silkroad have been auctioned in 2015, the rest are only 70k BTC , Coinbase is rumored to have more than 1 million BTC in cold storage, the single address with the biggest stack of coins right now is Binance's cold wallet with 250k.  BTC
Moreover, 120 million$  in BTC means 3k coins..
4) Again outdated by over a year, China no longer holds 60% of the hasrate

Whoever charged Remitano for this article tricked them pretty well.

He's talking about buying the scrapped metal from recycling centers and storing it, but that's simply not possible for the average citizen.

The recycling price for aluminum is about 1 euro, so you would need a sizable investment that will at least cover the back and forth cost with the transport from and back to the center at least something at around 2-3 tons, let's say you will have it pressed that's one cubic meter weighing 3 tons sitting in your apartment...Not really something someone would want there, right?
Also, there is this misconception that because aluminum is not rusting it acts like gold but aluminum is not resistant to corrosion, also cans are not made only of aluminum, there are different alloys used to harden the top and the bottom of the cans, so the price will always be lower for that than raw aluminum ingots.

Prices of lead have also gone up, maybe it's time to put some 10cm lead walls around?  

Oh, the evil globalist.
How about you do one thing if you're against globalism, trade only with your own currency in your own national exchange and don't go global?
It's their companies, a private business and they can act how they want, you can't force somebody to make business with you just because you're "innocent".

And now for the cold shower on your dream of the blacklist and stigmatized honor, you know why nobody will give a damn about this?
Because you yourself didn't give a damn before on how those exchanges are banning other countries, you haven't stated atopic about how every banned country find itself on one of that list, you didn't give a damn till your own personal finances took a hit, this is the real world and the way it works right now.
And why should some users praise Binance for not banning Russian accounts when Binance restricted bank transfers from Nigeria?
Have you protested then, no, you didn't care! And much to your surprise, 99.9% of the world won't care about your issue either.


The very essence of crypto is not your keys not your coins and the removal of the third party in a transaction, what you're doing using a cex is against the very essence of bitcoin.  

The thing about insulating the miner is to divert the noise outside, you can't just make a soundproof box and put the miner inside and that's it, what you will have is one cooked miner in probably the same time as a thanksgiving turkey. You need to have a flow of air and you need tubes, basically redirecting with this the whole noise outside, and if your house is too close to your neighbor he won't be happy hearing a vacuum cleaner noise 24/7.

Oh and yeah, no liquid cooling heat transfer, immersion system uses fans, it would make no sense.
Immersion cooling is obviously the solution but those things don't really work with random heat consumption such as a boiler, you would need to scale it at the exact size to keep the water hot but at the same time to overheat, add more miners and what are you going to do, heat your pool constantly? The other aspect is the cost, is your heat exchanger system for hot water more expensive than what you would pay normally for it in ten years? Paying 10k for a bitcoin boiler with no Asics included? Not really a way to save money.

Anyhow, since both Micro and Bitmain are still betting on over 3kw miners and looking more and more at industrial miners like the mM53 that will come with 6.5kw consumption, the market share of real home miners as in mining in your own home, will probably go down well below 1% in the close future. That is, if we're not already there.

That's US-traded gas, and it went down 10% after going up nearly 100% since January, it was a sudden spike now a sudden drop.
Dutch gas Future (which are important for us in the EU) are almost flat.

But funny enough, the only energy price that goes down the hill is Russian Oil, Espo is $83.15 and Ural is $77.54 per barrel, now almost 40$ cheaper than Brent as Russia runs out of inventory and ships to sell that. Quite the mess isn't it!?!


Oh no, it's the sanctions that are the worst, not Russia invading a sovereign country and killing its citizens.
There is a simple fix, Russia can withdraw their soldier and stop the bombings and killings, easy as pie.

Egalitarian society, lol!
This is just some bullshit leftist propaganda, bitcoin has nothing to do with your dystopian commie future, bitcoin is actually the essence of capitalism, the ones with the capital are the ones affording to buy coins, the ones that want to take other person's wealth and redistribute it can't do it because my keys my coins my decision.


What plan?
Have you ever seen something beyond some colored squares on a map?
He doesn't have the money to build that city, the bonds will cover only 7% of the cost of the plane which of course will be double as this happens every single time, this is just a way to finance his growing debt and buy time, nothing else.
Go to skyscrapercity and see what people there have to say about such "plans".


Everything is according to plan.
They are just finishing the numbers to see how many years in prison they will get for this and if it's worth it, they will go ahead.

Economic death spiral.
It started with populism, wanting to cut taxes but they went beyond what the budget could afford, you can't tax cut and at the same time rise incentives for not doing anything, one of the few times the FMI was right, you can't improve the economy by cutting VAT and covering that from money printing, at least if those tax reductions would have gone to production, but no!

Then COVID happen right after a terrorist attack so tourism was destroyed, there was no income and they started printing more and more and somehow managed to get even more debt on the way and of course, the debt was in other currencies not in their own, a little Weimar of their own.

On top of that a few final nails in the coffin, one of the eco madness that, of course, destroyed production of food, making less food per ha and more expensive, that in a country that is beyond the 100th place when it comes to GDP per capita, resulting in the awesome magical trick of losing places beyond that when it comes to GDP PPP, purchasing power, a clear sign of personal finances going down the drain. And more the fact that they still have to finance money-losing projects or they would face far bigger financial losses and workplaces, the textile industry hiccups during covid which left a huge mark last year, this year skyrocketing cotton prices, and so on and on.

Bad decisions were made at the worst possible moment and short term there is no miracle cure, this is far worse than Greece.

Seems like I was mistaken a bit, the campaign has suddenly reopened, I've been watching only one topic and I didn't realize they have two of them.

But, the whole thing is fishy, is there any campaign that has such an amount of accounts that have clearly changed hands and accepted them and paid them despite negative feedback? Look at the behavior of the accounts, they all defend their sponsor going beyond what's normal, you won't see that with any other normal users, and in no way you're going to see the accusations they hurl at others, it's simply a completely different behavior. Plus, a lot of them were getting tagged yet they've never been to meta or reputation to ask why or plea for removal, why would somebody risk an account for a few weeks of signature money that might be over tomorrow?

As for the addresses, this needs to be looked on by somebody with much more experience than me with blockchain analysis but last year when I've been browsing through their addresses I've seen a lot of really weird things, too many of those go through tumblers, and I don't see users who can barely write down a phrase longer than 6 words being able to mix their coins this way.

The signature campaign is over, and this is one of the bought accounts that 1xbit used themselves hiding behind a signature and trying to make that also look like a legit campaign, there were no real users just bots so there was no real payment. Even if there would be a tx in the blockchain it would be from their wallets to another of their own.

As for ajochems, what a transformation from one of his last original posts:


to:


Much knowledge gained! Such progress!

Oh, the irony of having this topic just below the one about Russia and China forging a new world order, not even mentioning the fact about the debt being paid in rupees.

Loans taken on projects that were never going to be profitable, a corrupted government that got bribed and sucked into total dependency and here are the results, but it's pretty funny how find themselves in this mess they didn't stop for a moment to think how to get out on their own but took even more loans and when loans are not accessible anymore probably take mortages on whatever is left of the country.


Yeah, too bad it was one of the countries that didn't action Russia, and one of the the possible partners
https://www.tamilguardian.com/content/world-slaps-sanctions-russia-sri-lanka-looks-deepen-trade-moscow


Yeah, but they were buying sugar, not gas, they had no cars and they weren't Sri Lankans but Russians.

Looking at how you throw around 5k or 2k, 500k to 1 mil users but not even mentioning what effect not reaching half of this target would have on your profits make some think you're just extrapolating numbers based on some fictive numbers. I wonder if we will ever see the end of those projects coming from people who "know" what they are doing, who are successful in what they do but in order to get millions they need 100 bucks for coffee and burgers.

Just think about it, you're giving away 200 000 dollars because you don't have 2k or 5k, despite claiming to already have a successful business.
Who would buy this?



How those things work, in theory
He needs those 5k to buy followers to his channel and Twitter and other social media so he could be big enough to maybe grab some partnerships in airdrops distribution bounty work from which he might get a share.
Unfortunately, the industry is beyond the cliff, heading full speed towards the bottom of the canyon.

Oh, so this explains the increased activity from him lately


Bitcoin wasn't pre-mined and Satoshi never started a website where he would sell all those coins, just bringing him into such a comparison is a clear sign you're not just one simple scammer but also one hell of a piece of you know what.


There are people who sell drugs, fake merchandise, and expired food, nobody is forcing me to buy those but that doesn't mean they aren't breaking the law or that their business is legit. Since you're obviously promoting and selling some tokens that you know they have zero value whatsoever that makes you an untrusty person, simple as this.


I'm pretty sure you don't know either what this shit is supposed to be.

And the next step is to have all your cryptos in government controlled wallets, then what do you think will happened next in the country that decided on a whim to exchange all foreign currencies in private accounts to rubles?
Whenever the government wants they will force you to liquidate all your crypto assets in the name of the great patriotic war.


And they can tax it and at the same time make it illegal to use it as a payment method or to move coins from a personal wallet to another person's wallet, only legal usage to be purchased and sell on government-licensed exchanges.


Oh, no, what a thing to say!
The assassinations and jailing of political adversaries, the continuous suicide of journalists and businessmen with 10 bullets in the back, the arrests for holding a black piece of paper were not signs enough that it was on the same path as North Korea it had to ban cryptos to make you realize that.


How much polonium tea can you drink a day without getting sick?

Looking at how Faraday Future found investors, went into financial troubles found more investors, went near bankruptcy, found another Chinese investor that went himself bankrupt only to be listed on Nasdaq, and maybe still manage to find a buyer these guys will have it easy, at least for them there is always the mantra BTC to the moon. Plus If we consider true the numbers they release in their PR statements they mine a 2.5-4 cents on average, keeping the boat at positive EBITDA  is easy.


I don't think that it was due to the percentage of freshly minted coins but because of how mining was done then.
With a lot of home miners with no advanced payments, no wages to be paid for maintenance not rent the math for such a miner is pretty simple, if I spend more on electricity than what I'm getting in Bitcoin I rather shut down and buy bitcoins directly that day, at least that's how I would do it even now if I woudn't be tied to an annual electricity contract.

Hmm, I don't think this has anything to do with our signatures.

The .xyz and the .online domains are scammers, a lot of users around here including myself have reported google ads, domains to domain registrars and hosting and even video on youtube for all type of possible scams, I don't think that doing 3 minutes of reporting is something that should be considered a task or should be restricted to an ongoing partnership or directly affected users.

If there is a chance that by writing an email or filling out a simple form a scammer will be stopped at least for a while and save somebody from a monetary loss I think that's some well-spent time.


The users who know how to add that and know what it does aren't probably the ones that will fall for a phishing website in the first place.
As for the google suing part, as much as I would see it happening I give it some hell frozen over chances.