It's clearly good news. It's unfortunate that they have to comply a lot of crap to be accepted, but I guess that they've done it right this time.
Now let's see what's going to happen with the countries where Binance was already in trouble.. will they be OK with the new move or will ask for more?


For some time lately they are no longer hostile. Everything has change since big companies invest into bitcoin.
And as long as Binance does all the legal steps, the financial services will accept it, at least in the more open minded countries.

Although it tells it's not optimized, you may find useful parts for your needs here: https://gist.github.com/CodesInChaos/3175971
Another one I've found is https://github.com/adamcaudill/Base58Check and you can get it as NuGet package.
Both are not my code, I've just found them on the internet.

For rising the fee you right-click the unconfirmed transaction, rise the fee, sign and broadcast.

But I am not convinced that it will use funds the new incoming transaction, I think that it will use same input(s) and make one of the original outputs a bit smaller.
Edit: it looks like I was wrong about the RBF strategy, it's described correctly a bit further down.

After the nice attempt to recovery yesterday and then the fall I was a bit puzzled.
I was hoping for some somebody come with the numbers and charts.
Thanks.

OP, the radio boxes on the top show that you don't seem to have a deep enough understanding of insurance industry.
I will not write again what's already in the previous post, but there are many complex operations (from getting the best premium/benefit ratio to avoiding fraud) involved there which cannot be automated/put into smart contracts. Also without humans pestering the others to buy insurance from your platform, they may easily turn to the competition, just because there's somebody to (pretend they) hear them there.

The preparations may be related to events like the attacks/hacks against SWIFT made by North Korea's army of hackers.
The thing is that North Korea needs badly more and more money, especially for the nuclear program, and the banking system tends to be one of the easy targets at hand.

I think that this is unrelated to Bitcoin and it's also not really something that should be taken as "bye-bye US Dollar". I don't know whether it's related or not with the economic crisis which will come sooner or later.

Indeed. Money talks.

I guess that in order to have those cards working, in most cases some startups/financial companies need to be made "there", because current small (bitcoin card) companies just don't know what papers they may need in the other side of the world so they have everything OK and legal so Visa/Matercard will have nothing to complain. And since they don't expect big revenue for the effort to find that out, they just don't bother.
From what I know, for now most of the crypto cards are issued by financial companies on behalf / for crypto related companies. Quite a number of "hands" for such a "small job".

Maybe after this new partnerships it will be easier also for African companies get to issue crypto cards. It would be shame not to.

The problem is that the guy has posted the entire content, and that's about NTFs. I don't know if it was meant to be spam or not.
The original Reddit post is here: https://web.archive.org/web/20211226053929/https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/roqe0t/post_from_satoshis_p2p_foundation_account/
The culprit post is: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/bitcoin-open-source?commentId=2003008%3AComment%3A169634

I don't think that Satoshi would care of NFTs so much to come back for that. I certainly believe it's hacked.

That was another trial, with Kleiman against CSW (I think).

The actual proper good news come from the lawsuit started by COPA against CSW and there the first step was already a success: the judge basically declared CSW as a liar and fraud.
You should read the first 2-3 posts there: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5378263

I don't know what are the expectations on this, but I guess that it will mostly mean taxes for crypto and regulations for crypto businesses.
I don't know how was crypto seen by Turkey until now, but the only good part I see is that they don't ban it.
And since afaik crypro was not illegal in Turkey, the news are not particularly good.


It was bad. It did recover a little, but still not good. And the news about the bargain prices were related to anybody having anything else than Turkish Lira, i.e. the foreigners. And this was quite a blow since Erdogan's rhetoric used to be anti-foreigners.

Still this news is not that much related to Lira's problems. All governments see crypto as a cow that needs to be milked ASAP.

This would only work if everybody would ignore him. And this won't happen. So every person ignoring him actually helps him.

Discrediting him publicly is the only real solution (and hats off to COPA for doing that), else he has the potential to do quite a big amount of harm/damage.
Unfortunately this has started far too late, one example being the fact people from the UK being unable to get access to Bitcoin whitepaper at bitcoin.org (by court order).

And I think that calling him a clown and a liar can be a small part we can do, much better than ignoring him.


It's a good one indeed! 

The "Verifying blocks..." is one of the things done at startup. It should not take too long... unless something is wrong.
It never happened to me, but this can be a start: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=622937.msg6902445#msg6902445
Is everything OK with the storage/SSD?

My country has quite an experience with the inflation. It was quite high not that many years ago and even now it's not so small.
We used to see how each time the USD price took a jump, the gasoline price did the same.
But there were periods of time the USD price was calming down, and slowly even falling. Guess what? The gasoline price most often no longer followed the trend.

My point is: inflation was always used an excuse for fatten the profits. It's nothing new really. Basically the new thing is that this time it happens also in U.S. of A.

I see he does copy/paste replies all over the place. A new example:


and the plagiarist:

1. This discussion is about NFTs, not about Bitcoin.
2. Trump said this or that about Bitcoin. So what? Politicians do say things. They usually don't mean shit.
3. whatever(dot)bitcoin(dot)com is on bcasher's website. Including the newspaper. You could find better sources.

One problem is that you seem to have sold in the 2014-2015 crypto winter. So you seem to have lost faith in Bitcoin. That's a mistake.

So the problem is not that you sold. The problem is that you sold cheap you probably didn't buy back. You should have sold a bit earlier, maybe summer of 2014 and in the summer of 2015, when people were losing hope, you could have bought back. That would have been a great business.

Also, one golden rule is that if you don't plan to ever buy back, then you better sell only (small) parts of your stash.


However, past is past. The only useful thing to do is learn from it. If you regained the trust in Bitcoin, you can consider buying again (but please decide for yourself whether you do or not, don't do it because of my words). If not you, maybe your kids get the chance to be millionaires.

1. It doesn't matter. What he declares and what he does are not the same. Never were.
And he doesn't care. At the end of the day, all he cares about is if this "thing" gets him profit. In dollars, obviously.

2. What does all this have to do with Bitcoin?!

I will start with the first reply you've got, I hope that KingsDen won't mind: "Application long overdue!"

You are highly active, you're "old" enough on this forum, you know how the things work,... what took you this long?
Yes, I know, it need a bit more commitment. But it can be done. And I'd say that a couple more merit sources will be good.

So yes, supported. Good luck!

You're right. I was thinking to the fact the NUC will probably have some more USBs to power and so on and also the processor using more than the Pi when should not do anything.
Maybe it's not much, but it adds up and it also matters as noise (more power use unnecessarily = more heat).


I've read that MicroSD cards can get hot if used continuously, hence can get damaged (or at least this is how I remember it). I'm not convinced they're a worthy option.

There are few very interesting things said about Bitcoin on Twitter indeed. But they're actually very few, there are too few discussions there that worth mentioning here, while a lot of spam and useless talk is the normal there. The Press board already has its fair share of spam from businesses advertising their websites instead of having only notable things there. I expect a similar area for Twitter get even more spam.


Um.. no... if there's a post here about Twitter, people will go to Twitter check it, will not get Twitter people here since they won't know that.


I suggest you bookmark whatever you find interesting. If it's very, but very interesting, you can probably post it to Bitcoin Discussion.
Or it may also have been already turned into a news and then you can add it to Press.
However, use your browser's bookmarks. You'll see, it can help even with many Bitcointalk topics too.