If you acknowledge this part, you're still on the safe side. It means that whenever you see the signs (for example rise of infection rate in your country) you will add additional protection.
Many didn't take the vaccine and still do like you said and they're still 98% safe, just because the number of infections has fallen. You are better protected than them.


After Bitcoin rises enough, nobody will care if we have tails or not under out suits.
And unfortunately, those scared that they'll grow tails, ... may die before our expiration period of 6 months. You know: "winter is coming". Within the 6 months.

1. One may keep track and don't spend "coins from Joe" together with "coins from Amanda" for better privacy (maybe the world knows that address 1 belongs to him, but nothing about address 2)
2. One may be careful and avoid spending from addresses with too many (small) inputs when fees are big.

So yes, imho it's an important feature.

That's exactly why I ve got the vaccine. And for traveling/holidays. Vaccinated people should have way less chance to spread the vaccine (5x less?), less chance to get infected and even if they get infected, the symptoms should be mild. With your colleagues also rapid-tested (overkill imho), you should be fine.

You seem to be worrying even more than me; and I've got the second shot also less than 2 weeks ago  .

Bitcoin is not something people get just for being born on this planet. It's not a birth right. People have to work for it or people have to buy it. So what are you talking about?
By your calculation, I would be entitled to receive 12.2 grams of this planet's gold and I haven't received any yet.



Sure. If you look closer, 1 BTC = 100 000 000 satoshi. If you look even closer, Lightning Network already works with sub-units of a satoshi. So there's plenty of room to work with.


But all this was discussed a very good number of times already; it didn't pop up at any searches you've made before asking?!

You misunderstood me. I know very well where's my ignore list. Just that list doesn't give any hint on when an user was added there, for example, and also doesn't tell anything about users that, by chance, were added, then removed, then added back. And your post seemed to suggest that one should check for this.



I tend to give more chances to getting banned or leaving than evolving.
As I said. I will think on it. Maybe I will indeed empty my ignore list after so many years.

Actually this would mean that one has to keep track of the changes separately and see who is there for a year, who was removed once and now it's back in the list... too much of a hassle.

But on the other hand, it is not a bad idea to clear the list after one year, on a different principle: most of those shitposters who end up in the ignore list have a very good chance that in a year they're already inactive, hence they've stopped polluting the surroundings. And if they didn't disappear, maybe indeed they evolved.

I will give one more thought, maybe this was the bit I "needed".

You don't need 10 factors for a coin/Bitcoin be decentralized. The creator being known or not doesn't even matter, for example.
What you need is:
1. Decentralized database/ledger for recording the transactions; for example, a blockchain.
2. The nodes being as many as possible and geographically spread as good as possible.
3. No central authority that distribute the coins.
4. This may not be necessary, but it surely helps, is to have the miners / pools also spread or geographically.
5. Something useful is also the way the changes in the code/logic (new clients/nodes) has to be accepted by the majority.

Possibly, but their agenda is not necessarily to help you. Some will even bash Bitcoin in the news and their companies may buy or develop towards bitcoin. You expect too much from people don't care at all about you (or me).


Most influential/whales/corporations will use specialized companies for handling crypto for them. It has no relationship at all with "free and easy". It may have some relationship with how crypto is "seen" by the law and finances.


The volatility is clearly not random. FUD, fear vs greed, news actual buys and sell off, all do have their part in the game. For example, I would not be surprised if some exchanges feed the volatility to help increase the daily volumes (and the fees they receive on those volumes).

You are in the Bitcoin area of the forum. So here the main answer will probably be: "Bitcoin, obviously".
If you want more useful answers, you may want to move this topic to Altcoins area - either Altcoin Discussion, either Speculation (Altcoins).

1. You write/wrote "wall of text", which is hard to read; this means that many may skip it. I've almost skipped this post too, so you still have to improve.

2. If you don't ask a question, you should not really expect an answer. At least this post has a question in the title  

3. Both your first post and this post look more like "note to self" than an invitation for debating.

You are right, and still, this is somehow not enough. I mean that with all these things you correctly mentioned, without demand all this is futile. And, although I am a Bitcoin believer (and you know that), I am not sure I could convince somebody who's very strict in economics and numbers why there's demand (and will always be). My wording for it is "human inherent greed", together with the list you already wrote, but that's far from mathematically strict.

Indeed, it can make "smaller" customers happy(er). And those are in greater numbers and will spread the word about the service.

Just somehow I feel that the agenda of big centralized exchanges is more on keeping customers' funds in their own cold storage instead of helping the customers withdraw cheaper...

It may worth mentioning that this is so much visible for Bitcoin and crypto markets only because there the price fluctuations are usually/normally much wider, in both directions.
I don't know though what could make Bitcoin's price daily variation stay within much smaller range. Removal of stable coins maybe? Or more institutional money locked in?

Although I've never applied, I've got the surprise and the honor to join this selected group. I guess that I receive less sMerit than those who applied, but it's still a boost.
And this is some sort of side info too: don't look for new merit sources only amongst those who applied.


Indeed, I feel like some of these complains come from the fact people take the forum far too serious.
On the other hand, I think that everybody can have his own reasons for ignoring users.


I think that the difference comes from the way/reasoning behind the way we use the Ignore button. I don't use it just because somebody hates me, although I never got to the point somebody would get to hate me.
And we're back to taking the forum too serious 


Thank you! I feel reassured that others too have the same reasoning as I do.


My ignore list contains basically people with extremely low quality posts and people I've found that they never post anything useful or meaningful. For now my ignore list stays by this logic. If any time in the future I'm proven to be wrong (or I get to that conclusion myself), I'll change. I don't use the ignore button that often.
I'd say that the forum is so vast, you have to acknowledge that you cannot fill all the "gaps" and the merit sources have to "complete" each other.
However, I'm very new as merit source, I acknowledge that there's more responsibility involved and I'll see what I'll do in the future.

4. They just pretend to be against it, on social media, while in background they're hoarding.

...It's one point I had to add 


And yeah, the logic for what makes Bitcoin actually valuable is not 100% clear and easy to grasp, hence most (especially economists) get it wrong.

Nothing unusual. She's just another over-hyped brand, like everything today. She's trending now, but tomorrow it may be somebody else with the same or totally different topic
And yeah, what's in front of the camera is way too often very different from what's behind the curtains. It's all television show.



Mining is a business. Businesses care more about profit than environment and such. As long as dirty energy is allowed to be produced, somebody will consume it. As simple as that.
Blaming Bitcoin for it is just silly and with no relation with business reality. As I said, I feel like it's some sort of "smoke curtain" for other interests.

A controversial bitcoin mining operation has made a New York lake 'so warm you feel like you're in a hot tub'

Yet another "Bitcoin is bad" kind of "news for dummies".
Of course, in their world, Bitcoin mining is done by computers and New York state depends on this sole power plant to meet the green energy goals.


Of course, they're OK by the law, but who cares about the law when one can blame Bitcoin?



Who has this time interest to keep average Joe from Bitcoin? Any takers?

Interesting, good news. I guess that the dry season is also over in China now? (Not that it matters much any longer).


He most probably already knew the numbers, or knew something pretty close to reality, but simply had other interests.


They will always find something, if it's not the green energy, they'll turn to something else. You cannot please the trolls.


Some do produce their own, and that's 100% renewable, and most probably that's not present in the charts.
But you've got it right. It's those for produce and sell the dirty electricity to blame, not Bitcoin (miners). All this Bitcoin consumption drama is a diversion.

The lower difficulty - the coins easier to be mined - allows miners sell cheaper and stay still on profit. Maybe this answers - at least party - to the question from topic's title 
Of course, it's not only this. There are other reasons that keep the price low, reasons I'm missing, since there are also news about more institutional investors about to come in, hence an increase in demand, which should help the price get back on bullish trend.

Salut si bine ai venit!

Daca intr-adevar intelegi principiile, poti sa mai intri, sa-i ajuti si pe altii 
Iar daca mai ai lacune (eu, dupa atatia ani, tot mai aflu cate ceva nou!) mai citeste, mai intreaba, daca esti de multa vreme in ale computerelor stii ca lucrurile evolueaza si trebuie sa te tot pui la punct.