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3981  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: [Contest][ALT] Best portfolio 2023 on: June 15, 2023, 04:46:14 AM
How are we looking, folks? I'm down 20%! Grin
I'm down, but climbing the ranks. Placing 50% in a stable coin is starting to pay off (again).
3982  Economy / Reputation / Re: 'John Abraham ≈ naim027' Coincidence or Connection? on: June 14, 2023, 06:00:54 PM
considering there are 169 million people in your country?
Your country? I did not say I was from Bangladesh.
I assumed it:
Is this why you deleted your only post on the local board?
I don't know people who learn Bengali for fun, hence the assumption.

I might be from Bangladesh, I might be from Italy. Or I might be from Russia.
If someone would wrongly accuse me, I'd want to clear my name. Your response makes me think you can't do that.
3983  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Transaction error on: June 14, 2023, 05:55:01 PM
Which wallet is that? How did you download the wallet?
Judging by the lack of information, I wouldn't be surprised if OP had someone create a watch-only wallet for him.
3984  Economy / Economics / Re: Russian Gas ban - A problem for Europe or suicide for Russia? on: June 14, 2023, 06:47:02 AM
OK.. my mistake. I thought that the directive to reduce gas usage came from the European Union.
EU wouldn't be EU if there wouldn't be a gazillion exceptions, leaving it up to the member states.

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And good to hear that Netherlands doesn't have any aversion towards nuclear energy.
For many years, I mean decades, there was a strong opposition against nuclear energy. That only changed since they started caring (a lot) about CO2-emissions.

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It is outright retarded not to use modern technology, when it is available. It surprises me that the so called "Greens" want to burn coal and lignite to generate electricity, when it can be done at a fraction of the cost using Uranium-235.
I doubt nuclear power is cheaper than coal. If "the greens" get their way, we'd be back in the dark ages: no gas, no coal, no nuclear, no wind turbines (because they pollute the horizon and kill birds), and probably no electric cars and solar panels too because they're polluting during production.

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France is the only country in the EU who refused to bow down to this stupidity and now they are supplying electricity to other EU member nations.
It's historically grown this way: France is a nuclear power and has a lot of experience with it. The Netherlands had large natural gas reserves, and Germany has large coal (lignite) deposits that can "easily" be surface mined.

The one thing that's always been lacking in Europe, is giving priority to energy security. "We" became too comfortable for too long, and if shit hits the fan, we can't be on our own.
3985  Bitcoin / Hardware wallets / Re: Ledger Recovery - Send your (encrypted) recovery phrase to 3rd parties entities on: June 14, 2023, 06:09:52 AM
~ Ledger developers could have issued malicious firmware stealing users' seed phrases and passphrases, but finally decided it would be more beneficial to create a service that people subscribe to and share private keys and identity information with absolutely voluntarily.
"Could have"? Why not both? We have no way of checking anyway!

I am saying Ledger tries to make passphrases less secure and more user-friendly, which, together with the announced Recovery service, is going to make a hardware wallet no better than a regular hot wallet.
I'd say it's worse than a hot wallet: I use several different hot wallets (for small amounts), and I'd never use Ledger's "pay us to give us your seed phrase" scheme.
3986  Other / Meta / Re: Offensive words on the forum on: June 13, 2023, 04:57:05 PM
Every person is right in his own opinion so do not use offensive words
I feel like it hasn't been emphasized enough how bad it is to want to restrict other people's free speech and make them bend to your standards. Anyone doing that doesn't realize he can't have free speech without others having it too! If you start limiting free speech, everyone loses!
I strongly hate all the wining about free speech! People who complain about this really don't understand how important it is, and how completely subjective "offensive words" are!
Watch Rowan Atkinson on free speech. He explains it much better than I can.



This topic reminded me of Poetry, by TMAN. Enjoy!
3987  Economy / Economics / Re: Russian Gas ban - A problem for Europe or suicide for Russia? on: June 13, 2023, 10:17:20 AM
I noticed a flaw in the energy policy in several European countries: last year, they set limits on the use of air conditioning, for instance 27oC. Yesterday, I was in an uncomfortably warm shop, but at that moment, energy prices were negative. That means solar and wind power produced more energy than could be used, which would be a very good moment to turn the air conditioning in shops to sub zero temperatures. By doing so, they'll need less cooling later on, when it comes from gas fired power plants.
As far as I know, this isn't even allowed, while instead it should be required.
LOL.. so this is what is going on in the European Union. The federal government will decide thermostat reading of your air-conditioner.
Yes, governments are deciding far too much for my liking. But no, there's no need to take it out of context. There's no federal government deciding this, it comes from national governments. In the Netherlands shops are nice and cool, in Germany they're very warm.

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And then some of the posters here claim that everything is well in the EU. Europeans deserve every bit of this. Their aversion to the cleanest and lest-polluting type of energy available (nuclear) is illogical.
Germany shuts down nuclear power plants, the Netherlands wants to build new ones. None of this is based on logic.
3988  Economy / Reputation / Re: DT1 and DT2 members who have negative feedback (or are banned) on: June 13, 2023, 10:15:45 AM
I fell for that Shocked
That's because you are highly gullible and easily susceptible to coercion by others.
Nice twist. Maybe I'm just very helpful*, and you're abusing it for your own agenda. Who knows.

* It's not the first time you post in the wrong topic.
3989  Economy / Reputation / Re: 'John Abraham ≈ naim027' Coincidence or Connection? on: June 13, 2023, 10:14:02 AM
I can vouch for LoyceV here. John Abraham can send the proofs to LoyceV if he has no issue with trusting him. I believe LoyceV won't abuse any private info.
It will be difficult to verify any data, especially if Paypal is involved.
3990  Economy / Reputation / Re: 'John Abraham ≈ naim027' Coincidence or Connection? on: June 13, 2023, 07:57:38 AM
In my opinion, it would be reasonable to assume naim027 is still around here with some of his multiple accounts which we do not know about.
I've been wondering for a long time: what are the odds so many users who all write on the same local board (Bangladesh) are more or less similar in the way they post? Basically, it makes me feel anyone who earns Merit and uses that board could be an alt account. But since all I had was my gut feeling, I had nothing to go on and didn't really want to Ignore an entire country.

One thing I admire about naim027 is his ability to build up accounts very fast and attract as many as possible merits within a short time.
If I check John Abraham's Merit history, I see many WO-posts, Pizza bake-off contest posts and a few rounds of post reviews from The Sceptical Chymist. It could be a real normal user, but it could also be a very familiar pattern of posting for Merits.

The transactions you are seeing are nothing but selling my Bitcoin to him for USD. I never thought that would make me his alternative account, LOL.
You have nothing else to say except this. Do you live in the same country of 'naim027'? How 'naim027' sent you the USD? Can you show the proof of your conversation regarding those transactions? Why are you sending BTC to 'naim027' address from the whirlwind.money mixer after the 6th round payment?
I'm not very fond of asking users for private data, but if John Abraham isn't lying, this would be a good start to prove it.

Naim027 and I worked together for a long time, from 2020 to mid-2021, for a casino.
What are the odds, considering there are 169 million people in your country?

I don't think I should tell where I am from as it triggers my privacy.
Is this why you deleted your only post on the local board?
3991  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: [ANN] Whirlwind.money | ⚡No Fee⚡ | Ultimate Privacy | Anonymity Mining 12% APR🔥 on: June 13, 2023, 07:50:29 AM
Is this the first case (okay, technically only an accusation) of linking users through notes?
2- Why is a known naim027 Bitcoin address receiving funds every week from Whirlwind (via Notes) after your John Abraham account starting receiving Note payments for the Whirlwind signature campaign yet your own registered John Abraham known Bitcoin address stopped receiving funds from Whirlwind even though you are enrolled on their signature campaign?
The lesson is of course: address reuse is terrible for privacy.
3992  Other / Meta / Re: How do you like the idea? on: June 13, 2023, 04:47:26 AM
This brings me to a suggestion for our merit sources out there. Maybe you can create a thread on an important topic for discussion and reward those who share their valuable insights.
Let's not do that. Merit isn't a school project, and it isn't supposed to be a form of payment for doing as I say. Merit is meant for posts that are worth reading, and if someone can do that on his own, Merit will find him.

Given this year's hype, I expect your suggestion to lead to many shitposts created by chatbots.
3993  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Abnormal BTC transfer in and out of address in the same block, how is possible? on: June 13, 2023, 04:33:14 AM
I was just wondering how it was possible to send a Tx that was spending unconfirmed deposits (i.e. with 0 confirmation).
Why wouldn't it be possible? It would be very inconvenient if you have to wait for your change to confirm before you can send another transaction, and it would be impossible to use CPFP if you couldn't spend unconfirmed inputs.
If I remember correctly, I think you can do this up to 24 25 transactions deep. After that, the default mempool will reject your transaction.
3994  Economy / Reputation / Re: [self-moderated] Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source on: June 12, 2023, 08:33:06 AM
I request you all to see my two posts. Don't know if qualify?  Will depend on you.
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I've deleted your post. This isn't the place to show that you can copy from Twitter.
3995  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: SINBAD.io MIXER June Bitcoin Price Prediction Challenge on: June 12, 2023, 08:22:23 AM
Prediction 2: $29,543.70 (copied from last month but made $2000 closer to the current price)
bech32 address: bc1qhc24xdzg58m066jc69v7cyg4kp33tlnsed49hk
3996  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Abnormal BTC transfer in and out of address in the same block, how is possible? on: June 12, 2023, 08:06:31 AM
So the Tx from Kraken (in the mempool) is considered unconfirmed, and because it is in the mempool, it's ok to spend the utxo of this tx in another Tx?

This can obviously be only done by some mempool-watching bots.
This is very common for leaked private keys: one or multiple attackers have bots competing against each other to be the fastest to steal any incoming funds.

And why is such a hack possible?
This is how Bitcoin works: anyone with the private key can move funds. The only thing that's left now is find out how the private key was leaked, and make sure it never happens again in the future. Considering the funds involved are quite significant, they should only have been send to a cold wallet. Hot wallets are inherently risky.
3997  Economy / Reputation / Re: Lending board liar - Timelord2067 on: June 12, 2023, 06:36:33 AM
I'm talking about people who come here hurling insults, even though they don't have a dog in the fight.
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the opportunity to insult him?
I agree, that part is really unnecessary.

Timelord is also a bully. He pushes around newb accounts with baseless interrogations, asking them to provide sensitive info that nobody in their right mind should have to provide. He's rude, arrogant, and frequently lacks a fundamental understanding of how cryptocurrency transactions or the industry as a whole functions.
I guess more people finally had enough, the drop from DT Strength (1) to DT Strength (-8) is rare for someone who didn't scam anyone.
3998  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Please recommend a reliable Bounty Hunter... on: June 12, 2023, 05:19:51 AM
How long do you want to run a signature campaign? If it was for a long time, I hope to hire @LoyceV, he is an excellent member, and I did not see him running a campaign soon, so he will give you good results.
I took a quick look at "FireDAO", and it's not something I want to support. It's another BS ponzi scam with "ape pictures".
@LoyceV, Hi, old friend. I am RainbowKun. FireDAO is not a Ponzi. I think you may have the wrong website.
If that's the case: why use the name of an existing ponzi?

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FireDAO is a project initiated by me and my team, and it is part of RainbowCity. We have been preparing for nearly a year for this project, and we are still developing code every day to ensure that it will be presented in the best possible state. In the future, I will try my best to share with everyone our ideas and concepts behind creating FireDAO. We hope to create a global community together here at FireDAO.
From what I've seen, anything with "DAO" or "global community" in it is only created to make the creator rich.
3999  Economy / Reputation / Re: Reference thread for flag on fake lending service. on: June 12, 2023, 05:05:41 AM
It's just another beggar:
If u like my business donate to me to continue my loan service  my btc address :
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I've reported the thread. Update: It's deleted.
4000  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Best practices installing Bitcoind on a Linux Server (Debian 11) on: June 12, 2023, 04:45:09 AM
In fact, I don't know exactly what a full node is.
A full node starts by downloading ~500 GB. After that, it's ~2 GB per week.

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I think the option "blocksonly" does what I want (only download blocks and ignore unconfirmed transaction). I would like to limit the network traffic for the time being.
Unconfirmed transactions (AKA the mempool) are small in size compared to the existing blockchain.

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The Bitcoin Daemon doesn't do any mining?
Correct. Mining on a computer isn't feasible.
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