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4701  Other / Meta / Re: If there was Bitcointalk mobile application? on: September 15, 2021, 05:51:51 AM
Your thoughts have been shared by many others and is a proposed addition to the new forum software, but that has delayed for so long that I wouldn't keep my fingers crossed.

Me neither.

You can follow this thread if you really want to have the mobile version Bitcointalk Mobile Friendly App for Android
DYOR/DWYOR

But I don't think it works anymore, does it? From that thread:

Not sure if op is still active, possible to make chrome extension as well? Because many mobile browsers support chrome extensions (kiwi, yandex) while not Firefox ones.

Last seen July 2018, not a good sign.

I happened to see someone posting about this mobile addon but noted the OP has been inactive for over a year.

So chances are pretty slim if he would update Firefox's, let alone create one for Chrome.

Do you use it?

On the other hand, it doesn't bother me much either, as I'm used to it. A mobile version would be better, but it's always worse than PC.
4702  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Transgender on MMA on: September 15, 2021, 05:44:28 AM
This is a consequence of the ideological garbage that wants to equalize what is not equal.

And I say this without having any religious beliefs myself, for example, I am in favor of gays being able to marry too, but things like this are way out of line.

....it's insane and unfair for real women fighting in MMA

it's obviously not fair.

They are still Man in which not fair for the women opponent

It's not fair and that's basically it.

...it's clearly unfair ...

Don't say that out loud or you will be accused of being sexist.

Honestly, I find this quite complicated since I read an article about trans who were born men but scientifically proven as living in a women's body.

I would like to see the proof, because the problem is that when science is previously ideologized, it can end up demonstrating what suits the ideology. Did the woman born with a penis have chromosome 23 XX?
4703  Economy / Economics / Re: Inflation soaring in US and other countries gives good prospect to bitcoin on: September 15, 2021, 03:41:54 AM
I'll take a look at that video, but I have to say....it's made by Mike Maloney of GoldSilver (external link there), who's trying to sell you gold and silver.  And what do those folks always say?  Well, just look at all the articles linked to on coinflation.com.  They all basically say the same thing, and they're the same articles from 1, 3, 5, 10 years ago, just rewritten over and over. 

Yes, but the problem for the last year and a half is the acceleration in money printing, which is what is reflected in the graph shared by Hydrogen. Even the rise of the S&P 500 over the last 18 months has a lot to do with the massive printing of money, apart from corporate profits. If you look at a graph of countries with hyperinflation such as Venezuela or Zimbabwe, you will see that the stock market rises by a huge amount but this is due to the devaluation of the currency and that the devalued currency has to be put into assets to protect the value, and not to the evolution of the business and the profit of the companies.

4704  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey running his own Bitcoin node on: September 15, 2021, 03:33:23 AM
That is wrong. Running a full node isn't equivalent to mining.

I was going to say this. OP the basic concepts should be reviewed. I don't have much technical knowledge but that difference is clear to me.

If anything, the tweet is only to raise more awareness. It is easy to run a full node and everyone can do it. It isn't a big deal for anyone to do so.

What I see as good about the news is that it is one more step in the popularization of Bitcoin. Even people who do not understand much about Bitcoin but see the news thinking having a node=mining, see that someone known is getting more involved.
4705  Economy / Economics / Re: MicroStrategy Buys $250M in Bitcoin, Calling the Crypto ‘Superior to Cash’ on: September 14, 2021, 12:06:47 PM
The large-scale purchase of bitcoins seems to have improved MicroStrategy's performance in the stock market. I wonder what happens if Saylor suddenly decides to get rid of bitcoins?

If that were to happen, the share price would drop significantly because Saylor has repeated ad nauseam that a premium asset you don't sell it, if anything you borrows against it, least of all in the case of Bitcoin, which is the best. Other times he speaks of holding at least a decade.

Giving up trust in a company's CEO is a good reason to sell the stock, which I did in the case of AT&T.
4706  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Michael Saylor buy the bitcoin.Bitcoin prices are likely to rise. on: September 14, 2021, 10:02:54 AM
You should write more carefully, OP, nowadays you have online translators and a lot of tools you can use to write decently if English is not your mother tongue. Be careful especially the title.

Getting to the point, no, I don't think the purchase by MS has an influence on the price, especially in the short term. It is something that everyone knows he will continue to do. In the long term, if he buys those Bitcoin and takes them out of circulation (he does not intend to sell them), he may have some influence, but limited. Think that the trading volume in the last 24 hours is $41B.

I believe that his Bitcoin popularization efforts are more influential than the purchases he makes.
4707  Economy / Gambling / Re: I need admin of Bitvest to come here and explain! ( Not paying my winning) on: September 14, 2021, 05:40:54 AM
The argument that casinos delay payment because they want you to play more until you lose your previous winnings seems logical

Even regulated fiat casinos. An acquaintance deposited $10 or so at Pokerstars, played a tournament and won $1,000. He tried to withdraw it but had to wait 24 hours and ended up losing it all.

...but we're talking about a platform that has been here for years.  If it's taking this long to settle (or respond to) the withdrawal complain, they probably found something suspicious with the account and placed it under investigation.

It seems to me that you have not followed much of what has been said in this thread and in the official Bitvest thread. This kind of complaints appear with a certain frequency, and knowing Lightlord, who always pays but is not known for paying fast, what you say is unlikely.
4708  Economy / Economics / Re: How would Bitconia look like? on: September 14, 2021, 05:33:13 AM
If you will make Bitcoin reliant on a country, you would only weaken it, because the country could be sanctioned or invaded.

It wouldn't rely on that country more than it relies on El Salvador nowadays.

I can tell that many people on this forum are unhappy about the treatment that bitcoin has in term of taxes and restriction. Those that have a significant amount may be interested in living in a crypto friendly jurisdiction and that is simply not possible in many countries. These people could potentially benefit from creating their own jurisdiction, based on the principles of self-sovereignty, crypto friendliness,...

I'm surprised you would say this, as I understand you have a more social democratic view of economics and politics than I do, and you are positing a sort of tax haven where people who have a lot of Bitcoin could escape.

On the other hand, this would not necessarily be the case either. I do understand that if the country were formed, it would initially have low taxes, but there is no guarantee that in time a socialist would come to power who would increase public spending, put more regulations and more taxes. That the only legal tender was Bitcoin does not prevent a politician from putting high taxes. What happens is that since with Bitcoin it is more difficult to know what you have/earn, taxes would have to be indirect taxes.

Apart from the fact that Bitcoin would be the only legal tender in that country, in order to trade with the rest of the world, that country would again have to have money reserves in other internationally recognized currencies - unless it is 100% self-sufficient, which is impossible.

You don't have to. Nowadays you exchange currencies at the click of a button. Not to mention that it won't be long before we have a digital dollar, digital euro, etc.

In addition, I agree that any centralization of such proportions is bad for Bitcoin because it creates a central entity that can be held accountable for what Bitcoin represents. Satoshi, in my humble opinion, decided to remove himself as a central figure for this very reason, and that is why Bitcoin is such a success.

I do not agree with that. Bitconia would not centralize Bitcoin in the same way that El Salvador has not. It would still be just as decentralized.
4709  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Socialists in Bitcoin(talk). on: September 13, 2021, 04:35:03 PM
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Well, I am not going to waste any more time because it is clear that we are not going to reach an agreement and even more so when I believe that we are already bordering on demagogy, such as for example

I got double-charged for an item in the supermarket the other day. No word from BLM on that. So they're in favour of shops double-charging people, right?  Roll Eyes

BLM's central discourse is not based on structural double-charging, as it is on structural racism, and BLM does not praise your supermarket, as it does the Cuban regime, so I'd better not waste my time answering this next time.

The problem is if you say left wing = USSR...

No.

You're off to a bad start too. Quote me where I said that, otherwise I don't waste my time responding to the rest of what you say.

Bitcoin is anti government..
...
These countries adopting Bitcoin are simply giving up on trying to control money.. 

I had not thought of it that way, but, in general, it would be a conception more similar to that of the Austrian school than to that of Keynes, as I said at the beginning. What happens is that, at least in theory, right-wing politics advocates less regulations and less taxes, so that people are freer or less dependent on the state.

Going forward as long as the thread remains open and it has replies it is best that we do not go off-topic to the general left-righ topic but more related to Bitcoin.








4710  Economy / Economics / Re: How Bitcoin differs from gold on: September 13, 2021, 04:16:49 PM
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Your post is an accumulation of nonsense, as some have already pointed out. It seems to me that you have written it without paying attention or thinking much about what you say, for example you say:

Gold is centralized while Bitcoin is decentralized.

which is false, as pointed out by BlackHatCoiner, but it is not based on the article you cite (obviously because those who write these articles do research and check it before publishing it).

Of the things that others have pointed out as incorrect, this one has not been mentioned:

Firstly gold is a physical commodity asset While Bitcoin is a digital currency/asset and with this, they are the two major assets on the economy trend on investment and with the highest bids on commodity price.

Take a look at this and you will see how wrong you are:

https://companiesmarketcap.com/assets-by-market-cap/

Next time do your research better.






4711  Economy / Gambling / Re: I need admin of Bitvest to come here and explain! ( Not paying my winning) on: September 13, 2021, 11:29:48 AM
why no one understand? I have waited over 48 hours until now and there is nothing from admin or support or lightlord. This is unfair??? Why do we have to risk our money on a site like this? This is too bad, this is not good. I don't care if they will pay me or not but at this moment, they are already suck by not paying the winner their funds on time. This is the real thing right now

It sucks but people have already told you: you just need to wait now. You will get your money, it may take a while, but you will get your money. If you keep bumping the thread you will only get more nervous and more desperate. As discussed, this is not the first time this has happened.

On the other hand, if I were Lightlord I would think about what to do to avoid having people in the forum every now and then with this kind of complaints.
4712  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: [Sep 2021] Mempool empty! Use this opportunity to Consolidate your small inputs! on: September 13, 2021, 07:00:06 AM
If you have reused addresses, you have already negatively affected your privacy.
Not necessarily.
Imagine if you and I had a private deal and you gave me your address and I sent you 3 payments on 3 different occasions. As far as the rest of the world knows an arbitrary address received coins from 1 to 3 [sending] addresses but they don't know if that address belongs to you. Consolidating those 3 outputs doesn't change that either.
If you sent me three transactions to the same address, an observer would, at a minimum, know that I own the sum of the transaction amounts received from you.

Yes, but in a practical way: do you change your address every time you receive a payment from the sig campaign?

You can receive several payments in one direction, and if you want privacy, you pass it through a mixer. It sounds to me that o_e_l_e_o said he does that with the payments he receives.

Another thing: if you have small inputs but you are going to hold them for the very long term, do you think it might not be necessary to consolidate them? I got the idea from this:

I had some dust in my wallet 4 years ago, today its worth 6000$.

Let's suppose you have two wallets, one that is for very long term hold (minimum two cycles) and one that is for expenses. If Bitcoin price rises as many of us expect it to in two cycles, it may not be worth consolidating the small inputs now. Although we would have to see if the fees go up proportionally as well.

What do you think?

Edit: after seeing pooya87's comment on that thread, it seems that swiftxi did not have a very clear concept of what dust is.

4713  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: Bitcoin Dust Address Made Simple on: September 13, 2021, 06:57:23 AM
I had some dust in my wallet 4 years ago, today its worth 6000$.

This is interesting because it gives one to think that as the price goes up, what is dust today may be a respectable amount tomorrow, and therefore if one waits instead of trying to solve the dust problem today, one may find that the problem has solved itself.

One might. But what is exactly the problem in having low ammounts of coin in a wallet adress?Is there a real issue impending from it or just ones OCD.

The problem is that if you want to spend those low amounts you are going to pay a lot of money in fees. For this it is often worthwhile to consolidate them into an input when the fees are low as explained in the following thread:

[Sep 2021] Mempool empty! Use this opportunity to Consolidate your small inputs!
4714  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: Bitcoin Dust Address Made Simple on: September 13, 2021, 06:48:31 AM
I had some dust in my wallet 4 years ago, today its worth 6000$.

This is interesting because it gives one to think that as the price goes up, what is dust today may be a respectable amount tomorrow, and therefore if one waits instead of trying to solve the dust problem today, one may find that the problem has solved itself.
4715  Other / Meta / Re: Editing plagiarism, after detection on: September 12, 2021, 07:08:55 AM
OK. Do you think this is his only plagiarism? In this case, I can add besides the second one, which you deliberately did not notice in the first post, another, which he carefully tried to hide. Did it all happen by chance? Yeah. Grin Grin
Then the first Pokapoka124 can calmly continue its publications, not paying attention to the fact that one day it will be blocked again.

Hey lovesmayfamilis. I don't know if I'm not explaining myself well or you're misunderstanding me but this is the second time in 24 hours that you've responded to me with something that has nothing to do with what I meant.

Maybe I've gone too far in general on the plagiarism issue, but I don't know why you say I deliberately missed that post.

No, in this case, I would understand it is right for the moderators to ban him. It seems a clear case of deliberate plagiarism, in this case twice, and of trying to hide the evidence quickly when caught.


4716  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Socialists in Bitcoin(talk). on: September 12, 2021, 07:02:17 AM
The comment about white heterosexual males is quite telling. This is precisely what I mean when I say that right-wing voters are in favour of entrenched privilege, so long as they are in the privileged group. They don't want others to share the advantages that they have benefitted from, because if everyone has an equal opportunity, they lose their unfair advantage. I am a white, heterosexual male, and I am wholly supportive of feminism and movements such as BLM. I don't think it's fair that some people are subject to mistreatment or don't get a chance, just because of their race or gender or sexual orientation. Everyone should get a fair chance in life, and I will always vote to reduce or remove my advantage in this regard.

Today the only unfair advantage is that you have a more prepared candidate, with more merits to get a job and the job is given to a less prepared candidate because she is a woman or an ethnic minority. That is the only unfair thing today. We live in the most egalitarian societies in the history of mankind.

I defend the classic feminism, the one that fought for women and men to have equal rights, for women to be able to vote, etc. I am against modern man-hating feminism, which once it has achieved equal rights, what it wants is revenge.

And of course I am not defending the movement Black Lives Only Matter depending on who is the killer. It is a movement that complains about the alleged structural racism in the USA, but not only does it not say a single word about structural racism in Cuba, it defends the dictatorial Cuban regime:

I know about the structural racism in Cuba because some time ago I met people who lived there, but googling:

"Manuel Cuesta, 57, an Afro-Cuban government opponent, says "there are the vestiges and remnants of symbolically cordial racism, structurally hidden, installed in the economic, institutional and political dynamics" of the country."

Source: Racism in Cuba: banned by law, alive on the streets.

Not a word from BLM about structural racism in Cuba.

The left wing parties defend mass immigration, when they govern they let in many more immigrants who...

... who are usually of working age, and perform crucial jobs to support the economy, often jobs that are unpalatable to the privileged natives. A few years back in the UK we had the Brexit xenophobia referendum. The racists won, and guess what? We now have staffing crises in crucial industries, because there are no immigrant workers willing to slave away for a pittance.

The immigration issue is a question of the speed with which you let immigrants in. For me the brexit in the UK was a mistake. But that's not what I was talking about.

I was talking about the left wing navel gazing discourse not wanting to understand why the indigenous working class vote has swung to the right. And the summary of it all is that left wing politicians have abandoned them.

Among the people who immigrate, the poor people, most of them are honest and very valid, but if you let in many very quickly what you do is to put pressure on social services, push wages down and give less social benefits to the natives, so you can not be surprised that the native worker stops voting for you because that is what you have sought. It is not about any kind of alienation by which he wants to be part of an elite.

if they come from a completely different culture, they hate the western culture and they don't integrate
Ouch. This is really your belief? If you were an immigrant entering a country where people thought as you did, then would you feel welcome? You are extremely prejudiced.

No, no prejudice, see the previous comment. I see a leftist tendency also that if you do not support massive immigration (only the controlled one) you are racist, that although you do not say so it seems that is what you imply, and nothing further from reality.

I am talking about Muslims. Tell me how integrated second and third generation Muslims are in France. On this forum I can say that God (whether Muslim or Christian) is an invention, a pre-scientific human creation, which makes no sense in a modern world and that believing in God is like believing in ghosts.

For saying that I risk my life in France.

like in France you have a lot of third generation Muslims that don't feel French and they don't integrate.
When you say "a lot", what does this mean? "Some" out of millions? Are you claiming that this is true of the majority? The logic is BADeckeresque. "Some" people who had the Covid vaccine scalded themselves whilst cooking... therefore nothing.

Great strawman arg. I am claiming that this is true to a significant percentage.

That is why the French working class neighborhoods have ended up voting for LePen. [...] Have they gone mad? Haven't they gone from being cool progressive socialists to fascists?
Here in the UK, and no doubt also in the USA ("build the wall!"), right-wing politicians have exploited normal people for a very long time. And normal people used to vote left-wing, but now, many of them don't. Have you read 1984? The carefully crafted narrative from those in power is that the inequalities are never their fault, it's never bankers and corrupt business leaders taking your money and starving you of opportunity, no, it's always some voiceless minority who can't fight back. Who's making you poor? Why, it's the Mexicans of course! Or the gypsies! The Romanians, Polish, etc. It's not the white guy in the private jet who just gave you a pay cut, no, it's not his fault! Farcical of course, but it works.  

Of course I have read 1984, but what you are doing in the paragraph is assuming as a premise the conclusion you want to reach.


and he is also discriminated against with what they call "positive discrimination", which is discrimination after all.
It's not, no. It's an attempt — clumsy at times, yes — to right historical and endemic wrongs.

We are not going to reach an agreement on this.

taxes go up and they give more money to people in "aid" for doing nothing.

I find this sort of viewpoint to be both fairly common and morally abhorrent. Not to mention without any factual basis.

Well, here I have to agree with you because it seems to me that in the UK the subsidies are much lower than in other European countries. But in general, this type of aid is a redistribution from those who work to those who do not work, not only for the poor who have nothing and are starving.

If he is not self-employed but is a salaried worker, he will see how there is less employment, and more taxes if he thinks of saving and investing.
See above. If someone is taking away your opportunities, then who is most likely to be doing it? The person in power or the person who has no power? Think about it.

The left-wing politician who has put more obstacles, more regulations and more taxes on the labor market, in addition to filling the country with immigrants at too high a rate, which put downward pressure on wages.
4717  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: How to leave KYC for good on: September 12, 2021, 06:18:43 AM
Sure, but that is also a very ineffective way for a criminal to launder money due to taxation. If I buy 20 bitcoin at $50k each and sell them tomorrow at $50k each, I have realized no capitals gains and therefore owe no tax. If I claim that I mined my 20 bitcoin ten years ago, then I have now realized $1 million in capitals gains and owe whatever the tax rate set by jurisdiction, usually somewhere around 20%.

Yes well, I gave that example, but the criminal could claim it was in 2017 at the peak or whenever suits him best for tax purposes.

I'm pretty sure paying 20% on tax would be a very good deal to be able to legally spend $165 million.
My point was that if you are laundering money, you can do so at rates far below 20%.

That is not clear to me. If you would just say "below", but when you say "far below" I would like to know what you are thinking of.

To launder money you would normally have to set up a company/business and declare more income than you actually have (if you have any income at all). Money laundering with Bitcoin in the mentioned case would definitely be much more comfortable, especially if we compare it with setting up a physical business, but even if we are talking about an online one you will have to set up a website, you will have to keep fictitious accounting, you will have to pass fake payments through the payment gateway etc.

Maybe you're thinking of buying winning lottery tickets, or something like that, but it's also difficult.

I searched a bit, and indeed that seems possible for small amounts, but not for large amounts. I don't think authorities will easily believe you though, if you claim you own $200 million in Bitcoin which came straight from a mixer.

That's what I've been repeating ad nauseam, in this and other threads.

I would like to see the face of the tax official if someone goes there to declare that he has $50M, saying that he bought it a long time ago and can not justify more than the movements of the last year (although nowadays the normal thing that the tax return comes to him by internet, but still, I would like to see his face).
4718  Other / Meta / Re: Editing plagiarism, after detection on: September 12, 2021, 06:02:20 AM
The moderators did not ban it.

Well, maybe the moderators are taking a more lenient approach, after the Mpamaegbu case. To me what LoyceV said the other day comes to mind: we are in a forum that does not ban you for stealing money but for copying two lines. Maybe a more lenient approach would not be bad, especially in cases of someone who only plagiarized once or twice in the past, since we are writing forum posts, not PhDs.

The case you comment on seems to me a bit ridiculous, and that he has put google as a source, very poor. I guess he was in a rush after being discovered.

Question: if we copy anything from the Internet, and then just write that everything is taken from Google, is that correct?

I don't think so. As tradinghunt says:

... is very lazy and unacceptable (in my opinion)

But

at least, it shows that poster does not claim the ownership of that content.

And the second question: Everything on the forum is archived, why the user remains unpunished in case of obvious plagiarism and further editing? I mean after it became known to the public. Does it change something? After all, everyone can see perfectly well that this is the act of an ostrich, which hides its head in the sand, but its mistakes remain in full view of everyone.

Well, I tell you, I don't know if the moderators act more leniently now, but this is a forum, not a Doctoral Thesis tribunal. I wouldn't mind a slightly more lenient approach to cases of plagiarism (especially minor ones, not from someone who has copy-pasted dozens of posts), although what I think counts for little.

4719  Other / Meta / Re: Report plagiarism (copy/paste) here. Mods: please give temp or permban as needed on: September 11, 2021, 08:11:02 AM
Hey, no. It wasn't an irony. I just didn't remember aboit that rule of page 5 but I also write in places where I know I am not going to get paid.

Best, Poker Player.
4720  Other / Meta / Re: Report plagiarism (copy/paste) here. Mods: please give temp or permban as needed on: September 11, 2021, 07:42:43 AM
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It is curious that you bring this post, which is from May. How did you do it? Did you find it suspicious and started to look at the post history?

By the way, I have also reported cases of plagiarism but via the report button. I didn't realize that reporting it here is better because it counts for the posts of the week. Also, because people can comment.

You can reply via PM, btw, if you prefer because you don't want to give clues to plagiarists, although I doubt they are going to read this thead before they are reported.
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