The army is the modern way of selling your soul. At least in theory, one has to obey superiors' orders no matter how wrong they are.
Of course, Russians were (and are) lied, brainwashed, and if that doesn't wok, they are beaten and locked up.
Russian soldiers, even worse: they don't get information, they get only propaganda and orders.

Still, Russian people are still our best chance to (stand up and) end this stupid war. Russia is not Putin, but they may have to prove that, for themselves and for the entire world. Else both their economy (Russia) and ours (most of the rest of the world) goes into trouble, at least for short-medium term.

One misconception is that Bitcoin is known and understood by a majority of the people. The world is not bitcointalk. The world tends to believe what they see on TV - and they've seen for too long the "bitcoin is scam" narrative. After they'll understand it's not a scam they'll believe the "environmental disaster" narrative.
It also depends on the age and background and age of the potential customers. The younger and more educated they are, the more open they may be to Bitcoin (at least I expect so).
But the vast majority not believing in bitcoin (or hating it because they think that they've missed the train, or because they think it's a Ponzi) is basically just normal.

If you didn't expect all this, then you had unrealistic expectations imho.

These "Elon Musk" crypto projects are getting boring... Does anybody still falls for them?!
I've tagged that user. Quite shame for the effort he has put into that website...

Elon Musk crypto project without him advertising it on Twitter?
I will consider this a scam until I get to see a solid proof I was wrong.

It was the middle of the week and the prices growing; of course that the chances for the low fee to stay are not so great. But one has to learn patience; if the mempool was empty during the week, (with some luck) it should be empty at least in the next week-end.
I've seen LoyceV up and I've also made a transaction "at the worse time". But I was not worried at all; it was nothing urgent and I also had RBF on. Now it's processed.


BTW, great to see you feel better, Loyce!

I've got some variants, but far too many for a person (110,592,000); maybe your tool can get use of subsets?

Some notations:
- [x,y,z] means a set: it can be one of those symbols on that one position
- * means it can be anything on that position and it's equivalent with [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,a,b,c,d,e,f]; it's your #, just I've seen late it should be # and not *.
- on the image (sorry, no apple, no Helvetica) black means I'm pretty much sure about the value, red means that I have an set of possible values for that position (including *)




Good luck.

On behalf of those who should be here telling "thank you" I will... just say that you are a good person

Yes, that's indeed one of the reasons. Also I expect that in those years China based mining was using so cheap electricity nothing did matter on the large scale.
I kinda expect that - maybe in 2029 though - the miners who don't produce their own electricity will also get extinct, no matter how big they are.


Yet some do sell.
I'd expect some of the miners simply hold instead of selling under a certain price (or better said under a certain profit).
Every cent the electricity is cheaper for some makes the life difficult for the rest of the miners. I guess that's not a fair fight.

One can burn gas only if he has a supply/supplier of gas and also affords that gas. If that doesn't happen, coal starts looking better than burning your own clothes.
With this current war because one thought that if he has gas he can be king-of-the-world, no planning can be done vs gas, hence proper solutions are getting searched for. And for a not-too-long period, unfortunately that's coal.


This is an overrated crap. Sun doesn't shine 24/7, sun doesn't produce electricity on panels covered by snow. Do you actually know how much pollution does the creation of those panels create?!
And when there's no sun, what we do? Stop everything, from factories to traffic lights? Also bad luck for those using electricity for heating?
If you can get all countries work together in this, you may have a tiny chance. So the cleanest you can get that works 24/7 may be... atomic energy.

OK, 2018 too, you're right.
I said 2019 because I think that then it was the bottom and somehow I tend to believe that bottom is more likely for capitulation. But 2018 is also good.

The diff may have been going down, but I didn't see the drama I remember in 2015/2016 crypto winter, when miners did complain on the forum.

Those hit by FOMO and bought at or near the ATH will suffer the most. Some will sell at a loss, some will hold (hence not losing because 1 BTC = 1 BTC).
Some will buy: bear market means cheaper coins for those thinking long term.

Miners... few of those who were using overly expensive electricity may switch off, which means lower difficulty hence cheaper coins for the rest. The network is fine. And while in 2015 or 2016 I've heard about miners switching off, I didn't hear the same in 2019, but I may have been missing that though.

If you're news and/or all your eggs are in the crypto basket, bear market (and crypto winter too) sounds scary. If you think on long term... they may come and will surely go.

User with red trust wanting to pay for crypto with well-know reversible payment system of PayPal. I would be very careful.

I don't think so.

1. Most of the Russians cannot use the banks/cards much and the rubles are getting worthless: not much of ways nor reasons for selling them bitcoin (why would anybody accept rubles for bitcoin?!)
2. Russian whales have anyway a lot of money stashed outside Russia, probably in EUR, USD, CNY, stocks and so on, probably not (or no longer) under their own names. They can easily buy/sell bitcoin under others' names if they want to.
3. Many countries still want to buy oil and gas from Russia, no matter what. So, in a way or another, the money still flows.

As I said in another place, this "crypto helps Russia against sanctions" is imho an over-hyped unrealistic story.

May be related to this: https://twitter.com/dennis_porter_/status/1501378443388198917
But I would still like to hear some more opinions on this.

1. 20% is quite a big fee, especially for a new service you propose.
2. One may just lose the fiat amount he sends or even completely the full card details (it can very well be a trap/scam)
3. Services "sent privately" look highly suspicious from start.

All in all, I advise people who want to try this service only use small temporary Virtual credit card at best. Better safe than sorry.

Imho there are plenty of legit funds, including some that accept Bitcoin, for Ukrainians.

"Somebody reputed here" would have to manage the funds but also go into an actual war zone to help the people there. I expect Ukrainians either look for guns, either look for fleeing, hence you may not find anybody fitting the profile you're expecting.

I think that the chance you find somebody willing to get personal profit off this is way higher than getting somebody who can genuinely help.


Of course... there's always the possibility that I'm wrong...

As said, Electrum seed is not a standard BIP 39 seed, it's an Electrum seed. It looks like a BIP 39, it has the same word list, but if you try to use it as a BIP 39 seed will either not work, either return different addresses.

To obtain the Electrum seed, from what I know:

* On PC there's on bottom-right a greenish button for the seed.
* On Android you have to tap the wallet name on the center of the screen and from there "show seed". (source: a Reddit post)

However, it may be safer/better to simply create a new wallet with the new software, especially if it can create a pure BIP 39 seed, backup (and verify/restore!) that new seed, then transfer the funds to the new wallet, using a small enough fee (I usually recommend 1 sat/vByte and RBF on).

So sorry man 

I never had a dog, but my cat died last year. Although I still miss her, we got another cat to fill the void and for most of the time she does the job well.
So as hard and heartless it may sound, get another dog, pronto! It will not the same, but it won't be as bad as it's now.
And again, I'm really sorry to hear this. Life is never fair.

Hehe, I was expecting this news come up! Actually they took their time with it...
It was one important missing bit in the competition against Binance. Now their offers are (at least in my eyes/on what interests me) on similar level.
I'll follow the FTX card story, I'm very curious if they can make it better and more reliable than Binance's, while keeping it (almost) for free. It is possible.

They're not too many. And competition never hurts. However, competing in US and EU seems not to be OP goal.
Also I remember I've seen African users complaining about the lack of coverage of crypto cards for them.


This is what OP also said he intends to do.


This is actually a good idea!
Also people over there may be more aware about legal status of cypto in their region, which can help, although OP will still have to find contacts and handle all the regional legal difficulties.