Let's see another example: what's more in the news, the price of Tesla stocks and what's Elon doing today, or the work of engineers trying to make better batteries?
The internals/fundamentals are boring, they don't really change, they can't make the news pretty much on the daily basis.
But price fluctuations and speculation? Oh boy! They can fill plenty of pages about that.
And the average Joe doesn't understand nor cares much about the "rocket science". But the news about price are.. also accessible.

Those who really care about the price they can see the charts and that's all.
Even more, those who want to understand a tad more on the price area may have difficulties in finding somebody with meaningful TA articles or posts.


So it's not necessarily "always about price", it's more about the hunger of news writers for.. anything that's changing, interesting and also accessible.

If you spend on-chain, indeed, in order to verify at least one confirmation you're restricted to block speed, which is on average at 10 minutes (it can be seconds, in rare occasions it can be even more than 20 minutes).
If you use LN, you don't have this restriction.


In theory you can try that, although in reality your wallet won't allow it (eg. if you try from the same wallet). But, since the seller will wait until the transaction is confirmed, he's safe. After one of the transactions in confirmed, the other one(s), trying to spend coins you don't have, will not be confirmed and will also be discarded.

This should be clear, still, from what you've write it doesn't seem so:
In order to sell on exchange B you have to have the coins you're selling and they have to be on exchange B.
From what I know you cannot initiate a trade with coins you don't have.

So, since you don't know what coin will be best tomorrow for arbitrage, you may want to buy the coins, transfer them and only afterwards sell them.


The volumes do matter because low volumes usually mean that you may not find sellers at A (if A volume is low) or, more often, buyers at B (if B volume is low), making you end up either a bagholder, either one selling at a loss (also make sure the spread on B is not too big).


I will not look at this or that altcoin for you, sorry.
As long as you can withdraw the coin from A and deposit to B, it should work. But usually good arbitrage opportunity for too long means one of the following:
* you cannot withdraw from A
* you cannot deposit to B
* the volumes on A or B are too low (basically dead)

So be very careful. And also take the fees into account (especially withdrawal fees).

You know what reminded me that I've seen your site before? The two search boxes
I don't know if it's a bug or feature, still...


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If you know the expected address and it's is legacy (1*) one, I can give you - either source code, either exe, either both - for an unoptimized app (that was made for a different purpose, but it does the job) made in c# that will search for you.
The image is for only 2 digits missing, but it works for any reasonable range, I've used this data for quick tests: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Wallet_import_format

1. You've made a topic about this in February and you didn't seem to fix anything we've said there.
2. The text on the Prediction page tells the same text everywhere and the text is ... about SOL?!

The design is pretty clean, however, this or that small things still make it look unprofessional.

The first question you should answer yourself is what's the electricity price on your side and what other restrictions you have (eg. capacity installed).
Another point is the noise and temperature. If you go for actual Bitcoin ASIC miners, those are usually very noisy and also produce heat.


As said, there's the option to mine with high end GPUs (maybe new CPUs) too, but that's mining altcoins you or the mining pool may sell for Bitcoin, however, since it's altcoin mining you'll have to ask in the altcoins section.
Bitcoin mining is done with Bitcoin ASIC miners. I don't know the prices, but they vary from USB miners (search for Gekkoscience, for example) to actual bigger, more expensive miners.


It depends. What you mean by "not legalized"? If it's not prohibited by law, then it's allowed. So "not legalized" can be actually fine.
Of course, you have to pay for the electricity and stay in the range allowed for your consumption.
If it's disallowed, then you should not go farther than small home mining.

UniJoin seems to behave like a normal mixer, not so much like what you'd expect from a coinjoin (where afaik your coins are mixed with others'). So yes, the link is broken.
Even more, at least in theory, they seem to ensure (or at least imply) that, if you use your initial user code in the further mixing operations you do there, your funds from any deposit of yours don't end up to you. I've done only two deposits, so it may not be so much relevant, still, not bad. I don't know though for how long will this stay valid, since it may depend on the volumes they have and the mixed coins returning to UniJoin as deposits.

Sorry, I guess I've rushed it with the link.
But how about this: European Gas Closes at Lowest Since Start of War in Ukraine (I finally found the original news I've read - in Romanian - and it has the link to this Bloomberg article as source).
I mean even your chart shows the price slowly going down. That should maybe call for the fiat printing machine slow down.


While gas is more difficult to transport - all the pipes kinda end up in Russia (and not Rome) - oil has a wider list of providers, and with Germany announcing they'll get rid of Russian oil imports this year, they pretty much forced Russia rush the sales, hence lowering the price (we'll see in December if it was the typical FUD we also see in Bitcoin markets or not, but for now it started to work).

I find whale alerts a great tools for creating panic. And nothing more. As people advance from newbie to (hopefully) more knowledgeable, they get bored of random alerts telling.. that somebody may or may not do something (my guess would be that's usually consolidating/reorganizing funds).

Attack to privacy? As long as the address' owner is not known, it's fine. And one knows that we're on a public ledger. I see these alert tools as "blockchain paparazzi" What they provide has basically no value, but the plebs "want to know".

However, nothing we could do. We can ignore them, but as long as newbies continue to come, there's still "market" for that.

Actually we're still in the inflation created by the money machine during COVID, which then didn't stop because of the pre-war energy (price) crisis, and now continues because of the war.
I've read somewhere that the energy prices seem to finally be on a downside trend^*, kinda back to normal. But did they stop the printing machines? Not really.

Of course, Bitcoin fixes this

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^* This is just one example I've found now: Natural gas drops as much as 11%, pulls back from more than 13-year high

It's more than just the decentralization, although telling "just the decentralization" might sound like it would be something small/insignificant (and it isn't so).
It's also the fact the blockchain doesn't allow entries from the past get modified and it's also the hash rate protecting the blockchain from malicious parties (like double spends).

It's clearly hacked or bought account. Or both.
I have a feeling that this is the history behind most accounts in that campaign.


It would not be unexpected that some of the team members actually own most/all of those accounts, so an analysis whether the money is just circled around could be interesting.


I know that scams are not moderated, but this campaign is more than scam, it's also about spamming the forum, farming multiple accounts, accessing hacked accounts and so on. But... can this be proven? Because without that there may be a dangerous precedent no matter how good the intentions are.

The thing is that he will have to be extremely careful if he does that, because he can too easily lose all those Bitcoins for being too greedy and not enough informed.
So better not hurry with that, no matter if the shitcoins may turn to dust until he figures out how to do it right.


I've seen this kind of transactions too many times; they're advertising this or that, I think that one of the first was an ad for Monero
But if you want to make the advertiser happy and dig deeper, nothing stops you (just please don't advertise whatever useless thing to us).

It's a matter of a lot of learning and also luck. It's a matter of understanding TA and also the psychology behind it and behind every rumor and news coming out.
I don't think that one mastering all this can still be called newbie. Not any longer, by far.

So for OP question the answer is "no".
A newbie will most probably treat crypto trading like gambling where he has a bigger chance to win if he pays a bit of attention to charts. And, if he's careful at the fees and he has entered in a good moment, he will earn some... until the trend changes unexpectedly and loses more than he has earned. Then he will either leave disappointed, either get on to actually learn (and get back to trading when he's no longer newbie), or... start holding...

Since neither of us is Hari Seldon and we cannot predict what will the world do, we should not invest much energy into trying to find out what's next. History is easier to look back and describe.

As long as the known cycle is still in progress, I don't think that we can predict much. On one side, we tend to expect the history repeat itself, on the other we know that the investment patterns have changed and the charts may look way different. The "so far we are in a completely new trend" illustrates it best: we seem to be on a different trend, but the "so far" part guarantees nothing

The only options you might have are:
1. Get Rep.Dom citizenship
2. Use non-KYC platforms - you can find here a list: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5180421

Another semi-option would be to find an US SMS number you can use (maybe virtual one, maybe somebody helping you out), but that can already be seen as cheating the system (and you don't know for sure if somebody will attempt to use that number to recover/steal your account; also your IP is not from US).

Este si asta o varianta, intrucat am vazut ca se umplu cam greu concursurile cu 100 de locuri.
Iar eu nu particip, nu am unde afisa asa tablou, deci mai bine las pe altii. Si poate ca nu sunt singurul in aceasta situatie.
Dar de aici pana la lasat oricine sa faca 100 de conturi si sa participe...


Bafta maxima sa ai!

First of all, I am not convinced what you extracted from a transaction, I kinda doubt it's actual private key, but I am not that technical so I won't insist on this.

I want to tell something else: if you've spent long ago those bitcoins, much earlier than the moment of the fork(s), you will have nothing to claim, since the coins are already spent. Fork coins can be claimed only if you had bitcoins at the address in the moment of forking. So there's a good chance your effort is for nothing.

You're pretty much spot on.
This discussion about internet cut off did initially come off with the scenario of China, Russia or Kazakhstan getting cut off. Yes, I know, officially China is no longer mining. Still, the discussion is pretty much the same.
Just USA will most probably not get cut off alone. A much more plausible scenario can be "western economies" (and their circle of influence) cut off from Russia + China + whoever is under their circle of influence.

When mining was a thing I China, this could have been one of the dangers, but now it's no longer such a scary possibility.