@CryptopreneurBrainboss
I want to inform you that I am now a Sr. Member. I have updated my signature and would appreciate being promoted in the campaign whenever a Sr. Member position becomes available.

People hate Bitcoin for all kinds of irrational reasons. Getting scammed with altcoins could be just one of many reasons. People are complex and it isn't always as simple as blaming a scammy altcoin. When you have the media and politicians propagandizing against Bitcoin it can be hard to convince people of its benefits. Educating users on Bitcoin, as difficult as it may be, is more useful than just pointing blame to something you don't like.

US regulation ends up affecting the rest of the world. That is why KYC and AML is so prevalent. That is why most countries refuse to trade with North Korea and Cuba. Now they are using the conflict in Palestine to try and force stricter measures on cryptocurrency transactions, using the excuse that restrictions on privacy are necessary to prevent Hamas financing.

This will undoubtedly be a huge blow to custodial mixing services. I always expected these businesses to become obsolete but thought it would be because decentralized solutions would become superior in terms of convenience for the user, not because of coercive government actions against those providing or seeking a reasonable level of privacy. Hopefully this will be the motivation needed for adoption and development of privacy enhancing protocols resistant to government censorship.

Bitcointalk username: FinneysTrueVision
Prediction 1: $38,246.10
Bech32 Address: bc1qadxeq3s8eejwlgukl55gxurddc2xj3qryg8psw

It seems very paranoid to be worried that you will be attacked for wearing a t-shirt. That is just not a concern for most people. There might be a few isolated instances where somebody was attacked because people knew they held bitcoin but I only hear those stories maybe once a year, if at all. You are more likely to be a target for criminals if you are wearing a nice watch or drive an expensive car and even then it's also extremely unlikely.

The escrow address for the campaign is under sanctions and anybody interacting with it could face legal problems. The last thing forum users want is to be subjected to privacy invasive interrogations simply for writing some mundane posts on BitcoinTalk whenever they try to transfer their funds. Some might feel like participants deserve compensation for their efforts but it should not come at the expense of the manager who risks legal problems if they knowingly violate sanctions.


At least 7 people were receiving campaign earnings directly to their Binance account.
https://platform.arkhamintelligence.com/explorer/tx/bf0ba9d8a31df0c39e7114d767761c8b9c6bd48ae93ed69982363b7a54be99b9

As we have seen with centralized exchanges, even the strictest KYC policies and blockchain surveillance aren't 100% effective at preventing criminals from using their platform. Anything that provides privacy will be seen as a bad thing by law enforcement so I suspect that even if mixers tried to be compliant there will still be sanctions, fines and arrests.

I started the same way. It is probably a common experience for bitcoiners. Almost everything that I earned I would immediately spend, gamble it away or invest in some hyped up altcoin. Everything I earned would quickly vanish. There is no special method I used other than choosing not to spend what I have earned. It becomes tempting to spend during bull runs or when there are huge discounts for Black Friday. In the past I would try to rationalize this spending but after some hard lessons I am disciplined enough to keep my spending to less than 1% of my total BTC holdings per month.

I meant to say 3 years, which is the default shown when visiting that page. That's still quite a long time without significant growth.


The claim that Monero has more nodes seems to be based on the Monero.Fail website that includes older data which is why I believe they are cherry picking an inflated number.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/olb651/monero_nodes_15k_bitcoin_nodes_13k/

Teofimo revealed that he turned down a $1.5 million offer to fight Ryan Garcia. Perhaps it was a bit of a lowball offer from Golden Boy, but I also don't think Teo is worth nearly as much as he thinks he is. The long layoff due to Covid and personal issues followed by a loss to Kambosos and a lackluster split decision win against Sandor Martin really hurt his value.

Ryan still has several options but at 140 the only champion he is capable of beating, in my opinion, is Rolly Romero. That should be his next target if he beats Duarte.

Daily transaction count for Monero hasn't changed much in the last 3 years. I'm not sure its adoption is going anywhere either.
https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/monero-transactions.html

For every new merchant that accepts Monero I see two or three that accept Lightning. This is purely anecdotal so I'm not sure which one has the advantage.


Node count isn't a very reliable measure because you can cherry pick whichever source is more favorable to your argument. MoneroHash says Monero has 3k nodes while Monero.Fail says it's 22k. For Bitcoin it's 16k nodes according to Bitnodes and 63k according to Luke Dashjr's website.

I've never know anybody personally who was this addicted to gambling. I've had relatives who went into debt because they were betting with money they borrowed and ended up losing. Most people are sane enough to quit after they have lost a substantial amount. If you are unaffected by losing hundreds of thousands of dollars then that is a sign of severe addiction. Maybe there are underlying issues that are causing this addiction and they should consider getting treatment.

I honestly thought BitShares was a dead coin. I haven't heard news about it in several years. Waltonchain is also an old coin that had become irrelevantafter some scammy behavior. I don't know if the Tornado Cash token is associated with the mixer but Binance probably doesn't want to be associated with something that has been sanctioned by the US government. The other tokens I haven't heard of but I assume they are dying projects with very little volume.

The IDF objective is committing genocide and ethnically cleansing Palestine of it's native population. That's not according to Hamas, that's according to the Zionists themselves.

Here is convicted terrorist and Israel's current Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir celebrating along with Zionist settlers the burning of a Palestinian infant.
https://x.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1723739613125116299

Further down that thread there are many more examples of genocidal incitement and celebrations of the killing of children.

Here's a compilation video documenting Israel's racist abuse towards Palestinians.
https://x.com/BTnewsroom/status/1712606372813066586

Currently, in the West Bank, religious fanatics are terrorizing and displacing entire communities with encouragement from Israeli government officials and with the military as their accomplice.
https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2023/11/9/23945651/west-bank-israeli-settler-palestine-gaza-war-violence

It isn't very hard to find statements from Israeli politicians openly calling for genocide. It's completely demented to witness the dehumanization of a population and conclude that this Zionist savagery is done with the intent of making Israel safer.

After watching Shakur Stevenson's performance earlier this month I am glad those two are not facing each other. We were spared from what surely would have been a boring chess match. Both, Shakur and Haney, act like tough guys on social media but they turn into pussy cats when they are inside the ring. Over the weekend we saw that technical fighters like Demetrius Andrade can be beaten with aggression. It can be frustrating for an opponent when they are missing punches but it is necessary to remain calm and continue applying pressure.

Unfortunately these newbie bounty managers are not very reliable and often end up scamming or disappearing without explanation. I made the same mistake when I was lower rank of joining a bounty managed by a newbie without an established reputation. I wasted a month of my time only to end up not receiving payment. Forum users should beware of newbie managers and only join bounties managed by people with a high level of trust.

This is some nazi level depravity. Palestinians who survived a massacre can't even bury the piles of corpses around them because Israel isn't satisfied with the many hospital refugees they already murdered and these maniacal, sociopathic criminals want to finish them off.

Over 92% of those killed by IDF terrorists have been civilians.  Over 80% of the population in Gaza has been displaced. Clearly this isn't about preventing terrorism, that is just the excuse Israel uses to carry out an ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.

Bankroll is part of the reason but also the media makes a big deal when a celebrity influencer wins a lot of money. We don't hear much about a whale going bust and losing millions in one night. This causes us to perceive that rich people are just winning all the time when in reality they are also the biggest losers. Having greater wealth can have certain benefits when gambling but you can also incur higher risk so it ends up balancing out where statistically the average rich person will have a similar losing percentage as someone who is poor.

Andrade's awkwardness kept him in the fight for a while but Benavidez is too strong and every body shot was zapping the energy out of Demetrius.
Benavidez was never hurt by Andrade so he just pushed his way forward and broke him down.

On the undercard I was impressed with Subriel Matias who maintains his perfect KO win ratio and also improved his streak of wins by retirement. I don't know if it's a record but 5 straight opponents quitting is even better than Lomachenko's streak when he earned the nickname "Nomaschenko".  A unification against Teofimo Lopez could probably sell out Madison Square Garden.

Jermall Charlo looked a bit rusty but still got the win against a naturally smaller Jose Benavidez Jr., who also only has one good leg. Charlo's best days may be in the past and I can't see him being competitive against Canelo or Jose's brother David. It seems like his best option might be Caleb Plant.