I really dislike all this political in sports.
As long as a country's flag is there, world politics are involved, in a way or another. There were already cases (they may have been related to doping though) the sportsmen were allowed, but without representing the country. Maybe this should be done more wider: we're all human, why represent one country or another? (Imho all countries should unify - but not through war, obviously - and ruled by individuals employed for the job based on actual skills.) Didn't realize Haas F1 team owner was an Oligarch although I knew they had a Russian owner.
Is it the owner or "just" the main sponsor? BTW, in the F1 world where everybody wants to become a driver, I don't know what's going to happen with Nikita Mazepin. I've read "rumors" that he may get banned from F1, and obviously there's no shortage of possible replacements.
Did you read about Bernie Ecclestone latest interview defending Putin?!
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Thanks for the feedback, I'm glad it worked. (And thanks for the tip too if it was from you. )
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Ok first of all I have really given up on trying to understand bitcoin behaviour, I remember so called experts said that bitcoin will touch 100k by the end of 2021 and we all know how much accurate that prediction comes out to be, then there is El Salvador we thought it will touch sky after El Salvador made it legal tender but it crashed.
And now i thought it will go new low and now it is going up, like what is happening, why it is going up in such situation of uncertainty and war?
1. When you want to flee with your wealth, Bitcoin is easier to carry than gold. 2. When your currency value plunges badly, you may want to spend it for basically any investment you can, especially one that has a chance for not getting restricted. 3. Various traders seize the opportunity for speculation. 4. Bitcoin was going down for quite some time, it's about time for a reversal/recovery. PS. Never take into account the short term price movements, speculators may trick you; never believe anyone's price prediction, they don't have a crystal ball.
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China has started to evacuate their people from Ukraine only today. That may mean that Putin has told China that the war will not take longer than 4-5 days.
I think that Putin also greatly underestimated what Europe will do in the financial vs resources part of the war. I honestly didn't think that Europe will become this united this fast (and I'm glad that I was wrong).
Unfortunately, my reading of this is that Putin may have told the Chinese that he has failed to secure a quick victory and has now to go into Godzilla mode on Ukrainian cities to seize control, as the Ukrainian army did somehow not bend to his delusion of being hailed as a liberator of shorts. This is very bad news and our leaders should works towards a halt and give a chance to diplomacy. This indeed may happen. And it can easily turn into a long term guerilla war until the point one of the following things happen: * Ukraine is conquered * Russian or Belorussian army makes the crucial mistake of attacking something belonging to NATO * Either a "James Bond", either a "Claus von Stauffenberg" ends this
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China has started to evacuate their people from Ukraine only today. That may mean that Putin has told China that the war will not take longer than 4-5 days.
I think that Putin also greatly underestimated what Europe will do in the financial vs resources part of the war. I honestly didn't think that Europe will become this united this fast (and I'm glad that I was wrong).
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We appreciate your concern. Of course, our thoughts and prayers are, like in the rest of the world, with the conflict participants, and we wish a speedy peaceful settlement. However, geopolitics does not concern us directly.
We are simply an information resource (like Google) and do not directly participate in financial transactions. That is why no sanctions would affect us. Moreover, the Russian segment on our website does not mean that this is the only direction — we help save money and time for people worldwide. We have dozens of different currencies, hundreds of exchanger directions. We are beyond politics and do not comment on the events as our audience is international. We help all our honest users, notwithstanding anything, that is why the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is not a threat to our business.
Good to hear. I hope that the Best Change team (individuals) are also OK and not dragged into that mess nor much affected by it.
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The technicalities involved in rightly securing your bitcoin is much. To get more security, you need to be more technical.
You obviously missed this part of the discussion. Imho it's more like laziness (indifference) + lack of knowledge (risks) than lack of technical knowledge.
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My friends - designers from Ukraine - created the NFT collection "STOP RUSSIA".
I think that those wanting to donate don't really need souvenirs like NFTs for this. Nobody can guarantee that the money from the NFT will actually go where they should. And I guess that the fees for buying NFT are higher than sending the coins directly on-chain. ...just my 2 satoshis.
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Man! that's tough, the question is..... does Putin really care about the sanctions and what effects it will have long term in the Russian economy or he is to egocentric to care?
I'm sure that he does care.. at some extent. The economic problems can get to the point those defending him find out that it's more viable economically to... send him to the thrash of the history than getting the now rather worthless paycheck. I am sure that he realizes that not-so-subtle detail. I agree with binance and kraken, the citizens of Russian should not be punished for the crime of their president, he is too stubborn to listen to any sense of reason, there was no need for this war in the first place, especially fighting a country not as powerful as you in terms of arms and ammunition. it is very sad situation.
The problem is that Binance started to go by what regulators ask from them so they can go fully onto rich countries' markets. And I would not be surprised to see - sooner or later - somebody starting to point their finger in their direction, leaving them no other choice than freezing accounts. Also I don't know if they use actual Russian banks for deposits/withdrawals; if they don't (which I expect), the SWIFT blocking has its effects here too, on the fiat side. While I agree that average Ivan accounts should stay unharmed, these exchanges should watch for accounts that can be related to exactly the sanctioned individuals and companies.
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The only way, I imagined to have 0 leaks is to buy a phone, import electrum, then import the XPUB and generate wallets to receive coins. Then check the balance through Tor with wifi in a cafeteria for example. That is why I was asking if there is device to just generate wallets.
Actually some of the Electrum servers also leak information about the addresses in a wallet and their transactions/funds. All the SPV wallets (light wallets that connect to external servers) face, in a way or another, this same problem. If you want proper privacy, I think that the actual way is a bit more complicated, involving you install Bitcoin Core and download the full blockchain. I think that in order to import a master public key you may also have to install an Electrum server and use Electrum with your own server. I've done that a few months ago.
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While i agree with your logic, i managed to find some BTC seller who accept RUB at HoldHodl[1]. But obviously the rate isn't fair. At time of writing the post, those seller charge 4-30% higher.
That's not unexpected, by far. Keep in mind that any seller risks that until the point he will spend those RUR they will probably worth much less than at the moment of trade. And obviously the sellers also try to profit greatly...
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swapping a coin under investigation to other coins may alter the flow of that coin and make it difficult to trace.
Um.. not really... Do you realize that the coins in the cex account are only entries in a database, associated with an account id? Do you realize that after one deposited coins there, those coins can be spent (by cex) for other users' withdrawals, still his account id keeps track about his current amount of coins? All the trades done by that account are also part of the same database, linked to the same account id. So tracing the coins should be easy, no matter they are Bitcoin or USD pegged whatever.
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Because if poeple would sell their rubles for Bitcoin as the ruble becomes worthless, it means somebody is selling those bitcoins for rubles, right?
That's why I said the options are limited. The available options are most probably in-country, either face to face, either with the account at the same bank. Don't rule out completely the option that some Russians may need to sell BTC for fiat (RUR, USD, EUR) for their daily spending.
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Nothing to be sad about except probably accept that everything crypto, including Bitcoin, is basically a peace time solution and are not suitable for the imagined dystopias and wars. Bitcoin's network depends on an uninterrupted, peace-time supply of Electricity and great Network infrastructure. Both of these things are targeted in wars.
So while Bitcoin will still be good for safekeeping your wealth and taking it over the borders in wartime, that wealth will definitely fall down in value while uncertainties continue. Still, we cannot possibly be at war always and at war everywhere. So bitcoin is still a safe bet in the longer term. People haven't seen enough uncertainty to believe that for Bitcoin. They intuitively think of Gold as THE ASSET. So, no grudges against gold there. Bitcoin's still a baby for war times.
Gold is difficult to carry with you. Gold is heavy. Gold has to be declared at the border. One can easily hide with himself one or more copies of his wallet seed, sometimes even in the plain sight and go on. Even a hardware wallet is not a problem at the customs. Indeed bitcoin can be difficult to spend if electricity / internet is down (although smartphone + power bank can solve the problem if the electricity is not completely wrecked), but I don't know how many would accept gold either, since the risk of receiving counterfeit/something that's not gold is pretty high. I don't say gold is bad. What I say that neither of the two is perfect.
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I was working on a method to secure seed words
You do realize that the better/stronger your method is, the better the chance that an accident/stroke/brain damage (which I hope will never happen!) can make the coins unrecoverable by your family, right? You do realize that in 10 years you may have forgotten the wonder method for securing the seed? Sorry, no matter how good or bad your method is, you should not use that. And an advice: it may be better to put that .. key... into a code tag, since now it strangely shows (at least to me) a space character that doesn't actually exist
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The challenge here now is the "technical know how" is it every body that can be able to afford the cost to run a full node transaction considering the technicality, fund and a capacity of about 400gb memory space among others, although use of paper wallet here as such in hardware wallets can still goes along way providing suitable solution to securing privacy and having control over your coins and the respective keys to them.
I see no challenge, really. If one has no technical knowledge a hardware wallet covers most of the security he needs and he can continue by reading a few non-technical things, but not much more. And a light wallet like Electrum for Desktop or Mycelium for Android don't need 400GB and such, they are pretty straightforward and small. I think that paper wallets are a (technical) step forward, not for everybody. Yes i read it on the news about how account belonging to Russians were laid on embargo and the innocent citizens are suffering for this, and this call for a total avoidance of centralized exchanges because to me using them is synanymous to using fiat banks as they serve as a third party which can be easily use in tracking individual user by government or any private or corporate organizations as no privacy protocol is strictly adhere by them all.
Indeed, centralized exchanges are somewhat like banks - in relation to KYC, legislation, sanctions -, but they're even worse actually than banks because: * in Europe 100k EUR/person/bank is backed by the government; this doesn't happen with exchanges, no matter what their owners say (some may be insured or have a reserve fund, but inside job/theft and sloppy handling can happen) * an exchange may tell it was hacked, close the business and leave you without your coins; or be hacked for real, with same result * phishing schemes can steal your money usually easier from an exchange than from a bank * you can easily mistake your overly complicates security settings at certain exchanges (like believing that 2FA keeps your account safe while your API keys are exposed) * you can get your phone stolen, having both the 2FA and the exchange's app on the phone.
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It's not the first scammer with "wide" and stupid retaliatory feedback. I have my "painting" too, from g.p. and such.
We know that those don't mean anything, but: * newbies may not know that and may even get a wrong impression about somebody because of this * lower ranks may be afraid to post real negative feedback because of this
The problem is, on the other hand, that "not regulated" is crystal clear and if admin starts to add exceptions.. he may be opening Pandora's box. Still... I think that a rule on removing all the trust feedback a banned user does may make sense. In most cases it won't help, still...
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I don't know what are Symbolic links, chainstate or indexes, I'm new to Bitcoin Core, I had used online wallets and now hardware wallet (trezor). I will search on Google, hope to find something useful and make the change you said.
Symbolic links are some sort of shortcuts. You put a shortcut in a folder telling that the date is somewhere else. The system will see the data like it's in the original place. A google result that could explain it better is: https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/chainstate or indexes are 2 subfolders of your (Bitcoin Core's) data folder. My point was to move the current content of those folders to the SSD and put (on the HDD) symbolic links to point to the new location. When I've done that myself the speed improvement was significant. At the end, if you want to have all the data on HDD and move the content back, you'll have to pay attention at removing the symbolic links (you may have to google a little).
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