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4001  Economy / Economics / Re: Is the US economy suddenly recovering? on: June 29, 2020, 01:43:59 PM
From this graphs, imo things didn't fall that much.... Other than the airlines who took a massive dip, everyone else doesn't look like they had too much of a problem. Hotel occupancy only fell by half for example.

The global economy was obviously going to recover pretty quickly after lockdowns were lifted and I think it'd still be doing quite well since california and San Francisco seemed to lockdown early and that's where a lot of the technological parts of the economy come into play afaict...
4002  Economy / Economics / Re: Is it a problem if the population decreases while monetary inflation remains... on: June 28, 2020, 08:39:28 PM
It has its pros and cons. The population of a nation makes up its work force and are essential in how much it can produce, but I think population density is a more important factor; how large is the population compared to the land area and job availability. A high number of people in a thriving economy would be effective as there are available jobs, while same number in a dwindling one would lead to high number of unemployment.

Yeah I think resources available will have a massive impact on the economy but the more people that work in a country the richer the rich can get as more people can work for them and labour is cheaper (it's also easier to separate yourself from the ground workers imo). But this probably tops out somewhere and we see countries thriving with populations as low as a few million with some as high as around 100 million (I'm not sure of any countries with a higher population as I'm not sure if there's something they can hide better).

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do a government normally incentivise reproduction/immigration if something like this were to happen
Highly unlikely that a nation would encourage an increase in population purely for the numbers, so the former is unlikely. It could however create an attractive environment for those looking to harness their skills (those educated in various fields) inorder to boost their workforce.
P.S; this post would better fit in the Economics board

Yeah moved thanks! Couldn't work out where to put it...
And of course fewer people means more government/society watching of each individual and a potential rise of the smaller number of people taking up a jobs of a higher role...



Just need to add by "immigration" I mean completely voluntary immigration where the person can return back to their home country whenever they like...
4003  Economy / Economics / Is it a problem if the population decreases while monetary inflation remains... on: June 28, 2020, 07:23:34 PM
I'm using monetary inflation (based from monetary policy) and effective inflation (the price increase of certain "essential items" taken as an average increase in price.

Typically speaking is a population fall for a country or a certain area that uses the same currency a problem as the cost of standard items will increase and the value of the currency will fall because everyone might have more of it (other than a few that may still have nothing) potentially due to inheritance and a few other things.

Has something like this ever happened on a long term or do a government normally incentivise reproduction/immigration if something like this were to happen (causes of this could be anywhere from a nuclear explosion to chemical tests/contamination to a change in socioeconomic attitudes). I'm just wondering if this is a massive problem if this isn't corrected by a government.
4004  Economy / Speculation / Re: Now BTC Price will drop or up? on: June 28, 2020, 05:47:03 PM
I still fell like we should see another retest of 10-10.5k before any potential fall comes into play but I'm not entirely sure... We could see a drop further to 8.8k and then back up to this zone and just consolidate for a while too...
$ 8800 has been reached, how's it going ?, Is $ 10k - $ 10.5 going back to retest? Or will we go back even deeper? thanks

If we climb past $9.5k then I reckon we could see a surge higher. I'm a bit more pessimistic and there's a lot of bearish sentiment atm so I can imagine a break further to 8.4-8.6k at least is probably likely...

I'm currently (unleveraged) short but I could be wrong you could always wait for a break one way before scalping it with tight SL's.

We could be trolled to $11k and we might be but I still expect some sort of correction, whether 8k is enough of a correction I'm not sure...
4005  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Android electrum won't start on: June 28, 2020, 02:39:04 PM
Did you installed v4.0.0b1/b0 for arm-v8a to a arm-v7a phone?

Why would I do that Wink - didn't realise v8 was different oops 🤣 explains why it didn't work though lol...



Yeah I just reinstalled it, should've tried fiddling more with the coach first to see if that did anything though.
4006  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: New US Bill would require makers of encrypted devices to leave a backdoor on: June 28, 2020, 11:47:05 AM
Are a lot of terrorist organisations not advanced enough to know what's best to use for security... Also if this goes through I doubt companies are going to make separate versions without back doors... (perhaps this could incentivise Asia to produce different devices or Europe/australasia to start producing better secure devices that don't have random holes for the US government).
4007  Economy / Economics / Re: China economy and how they handle Covid-19. on: June 28, 2020, 11:39:53 AM
Where's the delusion China is communist with everyone?

There affect on other economies and minimising spread to other countries wasn't like this though (effective) and they should've started their lockdown a lot sooner, are they still in lockdown also? Most European countries are transitioning out - maybe people were right about China being worse affected than weve been made to believe (I think 20 million sim contracts went cancelled around the peak afaik)...
4008  Bitcoin / Electrum / Android electrum won't start on: June 28, 2020, 03:34:55 AM
I get a crash report every time I start electrum for android, has there been a new update or something or have I fiddled with too many things again and need to reinstall it.

I'm fine reinstalling it but I'm not sure what wallets I had so might have to find a way to extract the data (all the seeds are backed up anyway)... So does anyone have a way of me trying to fix this without reinstalling (maybe there's a way to keep data but reinstall the app - I installed a different version on a different user account on the phone and thought it would be fine - which is what caused the problem...)

When I check to see the details of the log also it is completely empty.
4009  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: My bitcoin is frozen at Paxful and they won't let me withdraw it on: June 27, 2020, 11:07:24 PM
Did they provide a reason for the year's delay?

If you managed to charge back a bank transfer once why can't they do it again or was it a different way to pay you used? The statute for charge backs is 360 days afaik at maximum so that could be a reason but I wouldn't trust a site to hold my funds for that long...
4010  Economy / Currency exchange / Re: SELL 100 BSV OF 500 FOR BITCOIN on: June 27, 2020, 10:46:59 PM
If you weren't going to scam, why would you say 100 of 500?
4011  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: My bitcoin is frozen at Paxful and they won't let me withdraw it on: June 27, 2020, 09:55:33 PM
What country are you in? Was it caused by a bank error, if it's in somewhere like Europe I'd phone up your bank and ask them about it (and if they put the phone down, walk in and demand an appointment) I assume the liability will lie with them if it was them who accidentally charged it back and resent it... You can keep claiming with paxful too though.
4012  Bitcoin / Hardware wallets / Re: How to verify a Trezor Message if you don't own Trezor HW wallet? on: June 27, 2020, 01:16:15 AM

What are your other reasons not to use nested SegWit addresses? I have switched completely to native SegWit addresses and I didn't encounter any major inconveniences. If I need to sign a message using one of my addresses then I include an information in the message that it can be verified using Electrum.


The signing issue was mainly a problem in case you needed to prove ownership to an exchange or something, it's also more effort than it's worth to me... I could use it temporarily but I normally use native segwit (other than those exchanges where you can't - sometimes for random reasons where they pick when they want to accept native segwit or not)...

If you set up an Electrum wallet using your Trezor device, you can use it to sign messages just as if you were using a standard Electrum wallet. They can only be verified in Electrum, though. Messages signed using legacy addresses can be verified by Electrum, Trezor Wallet and any other software. Let me know if that's not what you wanted to know.


Yeah this is the only way I use trezor with bitcoin but it might be a good idea to suggest we all use it for signing this addresses in the hope it gets accepted as the standard as its more widely available than trezor...


I didn't think it'd be possible to create a signature without electrum then wanting to verify it before displaying it...

Could you rephrase this sentence? I don't get what you mean.

Oh it was just meant to mena like a sanity check at run time. Electrum takes so long to generate a signature that it seems likely it'd also spend time verifying the signature with the message and address in the process...
4013  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: Legality of Bitcoin cross border trading in US on: June 26, 2020, 11:10:39 PM
I think you'd be paying a lot in fees for the whole thing. Unless you're going to set up a base in North America, Europe and potentially Asia (you just need one person for this) then otherwise currency conversion might be expensive.

I also can't work out what exactly you'd be trying to use this for, why would I come to you instead of just going straight to coinbase? You'd have to kyc on amounts over $1000/€1000/£1000 too afaik (at minimum but it could be 5000 of each of those units).

I don't know if cryptocurrency lawyers easy to find or not, stuff probably depends on the state you're in, I'd imagine new York has quite a few but you can just search for your state I imagine...
4014  Bitcoin / Mycelium / Re: mycelium iphonie wallet on: June 26, 2020, 11:03:53 PM
I don't think there are many options of wallet for ios (it has a pretty small market share especially in Europe).

There's a list of ios wallets here you can use: https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-wallet/ios-iphone-ipad/

I think I've only heard of greenwallet though in the past and I'm not entirely sure it's the one I know (and coinomi but thats closed source so not as trusted but I have stored funds on there in the past).
4015  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: [Beta] Electrum 4.0 is available for testing on: June 26, 2020, 10:47:23 PM
Lightning network support in Electrum is really cool, although they did mention that the Electrum servers for LN are able to misrepresent the state of a channel quite liberally, unlike on-chain servers which can't do that because they have a copy of the blockchain. The question now is which servers will we be able to trust, besides Electrum's official LN servers if any are planned, because relying on a handful of well-known servers sounds centralized to me. Perhaps a bunch of people and groups can spin up LN servers and someone can make a very long list of them to use, because I feel I can trust normal people's servers more than random LN servers on the internet.

Do we need trust in the lightning network? Normally you can set a force time lock for non cooperation and have to sign all your transactions for a new channel state. If its like 2 weeks then you shouldn't need to trust a server or a watchtower as you can handle your funds and maintain them (as long as you can come online once every two weeks)... They'll probanly release software - if they haven't already - for producing your own watchtower.



The new release looks quite interesting I'll have a look at testing it out tomorrow if there's a portable version I can put $5 on a channel and have a test with it...
4016  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: List of Gambling Platforms with Issues. on: June 26, 2020, 10:33:56 PM
Can 1xbit be added to the list, apparently they're selective scammers; trust ref: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=2122225
4017  Bitcoin / Hardware wallets / Re: How to verify a Trezor Message if you don't own Trezor HW wallet? on: June 26, 2020, 10:09:57 PM
I haven't used nested segwit for a long term address and it seems to have so many compativilities that is probably a bad idea to try to (I'd probably pick legacy over it even with the fees)...

Is it possible to verify one when you use electrum if you generated it from electrum or can you just not generate a trezor signature eon a nested segwit address? I didn't think it'd be possible to create a signature without electrum then wanting to verify it before displaying it...
4018  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: everything was fine untill BSV scam appeared on: June 26, 2020, 09:15:52 PM


maybe not btc and eth , but bch was 650$ the date of the fork and it dropped to 200$ because of bsv

High cap alts normally all fall together as people lose hope that have more power to start buying back bitcoin...
But bsv would've caused bch to drop as I said...

There was less hype on bch too and a greater amount of bad rep on one of its main sponsors and also they called standard bitcoin bitcoin core...

Did bch start to be valued at 0.15 too or was it 0.015 (from the start) I think it dropped a lot of its the first or remained stable if it was the second (it's been so long ago since I claimed my forks)...
4019  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Why not integrate Tor into Electrum by default? on: June 26, 2020, 09:08:54 PM
@stompix Google says there are 500 million addresses that have had a history, if we assume 20 billion addresses have been sent to a server and these are just hashed versions(?) then it sounds bruteforceable still (but I could be wrong).

or a hacker will steal them from a distance, knowing your IP and taking advantage of a bug
What bug are you talking about?


A bug through tor is probably similarly likely as a bug through clearnet, clearnet might be less exploitable as more people look into improving its security and cisco/net gear and a few others are paid to maintain it afaik.
A dot onion doesn't stop people doing forensics on your system still, some connections don't even fully close when some apps close (even if the application programmes for it, the operating system could hang on it, get an interrupt and just not come back or it can be interrupted during normal functioning so an unsafe shutdown occurs).

There are some really stupid os enforced bugs that neither tor nor clearnet will protect you against though too...
4020  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: everything was fine untill BSV scam appeared on: June 26, 2020, 08:53:27 PM
It might have caused people to believe that anyone with any sort of slight incentive could start their own coin however bitcoin and ethereum have great benefits so I wouldn't attribute anything of their recent activity to bsv, btc was lower in price when bsv was released wasn't it too?

Everyone with bch got bsv so that definitely had an affect but bch and bsv are kinda scam coins anyway that have an overinflsted market cap (bch, to me, is a less secure version of ltc, without any other differences).
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