I am not sure if he is trolling, he has a lot of pretty extreme viewpoints, and opinions. Obviously, he is very wrong in this case. There is a lot of misinformation out there about Covid and the vaccine, and unfortunately a lot of people believe it.

I am not sure what caused Vod's issues. Probably some kind of trauma. He has had issues for a while. I think the likely isolation caused by the pandemic probably made things worse for him.

The ping/traceroute doesn't necessarily mean that bitcloak still has a server at the IP address, it means there is a server at the IP address.

Running a bitcoin mixer is a risky business. There are people on their thread complaining about not receiving a transaction. My guess is they are no longer in business. This could be because they got hacked, some government (maybe Russia) shut them down, or they decided it isn't worth the risk of continuing to run their business.

Giving search results is not going to generate any profits for google. The ads next to the search results is what generates revenue for google. This means that relevant search results will generate more revenue for google as people use google more often to query information. Google wants to maximize the search results for people that answer the question they are asking.

Making a change to determine what is outdated and what isn’t is not expensive, but it is probably difficult.

Japans short terms goals may have been to stop the embargo, however once the war was won in China and Russia, Japan would have moved onto Hawaii and the mainland US.

If a site is going to accept a zero confirmation transaction, they will generally tell you in advance the requirements for them to accept it. The requirements will always include the transaction not being RBF.

Don’t get me wrong, RBF is a good feature and there are many circumstances in which it should be used, but there are also situations in which using RBF is not appropriate.

Ive never used their accelerator. I didn’t know they accept other currencies. I was going off what they posted on their website.
As transaction fees increase, the cost of running the free accelerator also increases. This is both in terms of USD and BTC.

Years ago, 10 sat/byte was often not an unreasonable fee for a transaction to get confirmed in a modest amount of time. Today, paying that fee rate is not going to get your transaction confirmed for a long time on its own. I would expect them to increase their minimum fee rate for their free service.

I think Vod needs an extended break from the forum. His actions show that he was not doing well mentally for quite some time prior to him leaving. I hope that he can get himself help that he needs so he can heal and live a good life.

Pearl Harbor was an attack on the United States. It was an attack that Japan hoped would lead to the US falling to the Axis of evil. 9/11 was similarly an act of War against the United States, similar to Pearl Harbor was purported by far left terrorists extremists.

The Biden administration can only be described as extremist and radical. 

The Covid vaccine is safe. It will protect you again contracting COVID at a high rate, and will protect you from contracting a serve case of COVID at an even higher rate. Unless you have an extensive circumstance, you should get the COVID vaccine.

I am against censorship, however this thread is not at all good to be having around and contains misinformation.

Do you have any proof that you are the original owner of your account?

What expenses do you anticipate incurring in order to get the exchange to be ready for the customer? Do you have tests written for various functions and code? Have you had your code pen-tested? What is your plan to have the additional code written?

I may or may not be interested in your project depending on the answers to the above questions and verification of said answers. I have the required capital if I am interested.

You can always create a CPFP transaction to increase the fee of the original transaction.

If you are trying to send your bitcoin to cold storage, it would probably be better to have it sent directly into cold storage so you aren’t sending bitcoin to yourself when fees are high.

If I understand that blog post correctly, google has updated their algo to return results that are relevant to the query being asked, rather than key words in a query. So searching for cars with the best safety rating might return a result that talks about a safety metric and ranks cars accordingly, but might not have the term "best" nor "safety" in the content of the page. 

In the past, when searching for something, you might encounter a webpage that has many random keywords unrelated to eachother, and no actual useful content. This change seems to be making it less likely these types of pages will be returned in search results.

If you are trying to pay a minimum amount in fees, at the expense of having to potentially wait a long time for confirmations you should use RBF, however you cannot use RBF if you want any chance of any service accepting your transaction without any confirmations (you will also need to pay a generally higher fee for 'instant acceptance').

I think viaBTC is trying to promote the use of bcash with their acceleration service. They force users to pay using bcash, and the acceleration website itself gives their version of the "benefits" of using bcash.

I would advise against relying on any free service to confirm below market fee transactions. There isn't a guarantee their service will continue being offered, and it will likely stop being if doing so stops being economically viable.

In some ways what is happening today is much worse than what was happening in 2008/9 when bitcoin was created. What is being pushed today is far more radical than what was happening in 2008/9. I wouldn’t be surprised to see something similar to bitcoin being released that similarly changes how interactions are conducted.

You can have Bob provide a specific signed message confirming he has sufficient bitcoin to complete the transaction. This will not prevent Bob from spending said bitcoin.

The problem you describe is common for high value transactions. If you are selling anything on the internet, you should expect to deal with a lot of time wasters. You can keep an item listed for sale as long as you have not received payment for said item, and make it clear the item will remain listed for sale until the item is paid for.

It should be possible to allow for a type of n-lock time transaction whose outputs are only spendable after n-blocks after the transaction confirms. I don't see many use cases for this type of transaction, so I am not sure there would be consensus for this type of change.

I have seen a number of people post that they had just submitted a "stuck" transaction to viaBTC's free acceleration portal and receive merit on their post. I think it could be a combination of wanting to get to make a post, and of trying to get additional merit.

viaBTC does have a limit that resets every hour, so I guess someone who writes a script that goes to their portal every hour, on the hour and submits transactions is providing some sort of service.

I would encourage you to remain patient and follow up with the support team periodically. I would say that following up more than once per week is probably excessive. You can keep your thread updated as well if you want, but doing so won’t do anything to speed up your case.

Well to be clear, these jobs gains have nothing to do with Biden or his policies. These job gains are due to Trump's policies that are still affecting the economy. Biden will no doubt take credit for these job gains, and will blame Trump when his policies start to affect the job market.



Bien is not just trying to tax gains on bitcoin, but gains on all long term investments. Interestingly, he is not calling for an increase in taxes on kickbacks to corrupt politicians. 

TSMC is planning on investing $100b over three years. To finance this capital expenditure, they will need to either sell stock, or sell bonds/debt, or form some kind of partnership with another entity that foots the bill. TSMC apparently has not disclosed how they will pay for the capital investment.

IMO, the lack of production capacity of new miners, along with the high price is driving the prices of miners. Difficulty has not kept up with advances in ASIC technology for SHA256 mining, and the price of bitcoin

This is not a good way to grow the economy. The additional taxes will force investors to use a higher discount rate when making investment decisions. This will lead to less money being invested into businesses, including wages for employees.

This is not just for gains on bitcoin by the way, it is for all investment gains, long term and short term.