He's awake. Phew.. thank god. And indeed, great job to the medical team(s).

I was also watching the game. It looks bad and it is even worse that there are no news for so long time.  
News agencies say nothing, twitter is "over capacity" on any search on the matter... if/when anybody has news, please share. (Although against the odds, I'm hoping for the best).

I'm not convinced it's oversold, I'd say it may be more related to the fact that although it's now locked in, it will come in use only in November.


I don't care what it is, but it would help me feel a bit more reassured, more comfortable if it happens within a month. Just to tell once more "bull run is not over yet" 

Being millionaire doesn't necessarily mean somebody is smart, understand tech and want common good.
Many are too old to understand Bitcoin.
Many have businesses related to banking system or gold, hence they'll be against Bitcoin.
Many trust kinda blindly on what other rich people (usually tied to central banks) told them.

Bitcoin markets are unregulated or poorly regulated and many will either fear that, either come against that.
Bitcoin is pretty easy to steal if somebody doesn't have the patience to learn about how to keep it safely.
Bitcoin allows tax evasion, allows hiding dirty money and so on.
Bitcoin is not perfect and some of these guys will not accept anything less perfect (as they understand that) than the banking system they already know and trust.

But don't worry. All these problems are temporary. We just need to go on. More and more people find the benefits of Bitcoin by every day passing by.

That's correct. The only scenarios that make sense to me and would make the transaction dropped this fast with current mempool state would be:
* the transaction was double spent (RBF)
* one of the parent transactions was unconfirmed and was double spent (RBF)

It's called vanity address and there are applications that can do this for you. And if you don't want too long starting (vanity) part it can be done even with your own computer.
One such software doing this (from 2011!) is Vanitygen: Vanity bitcoin addresses

Imho the proper guidance should be: stop using laptops for mining.
Laptops don't handle well running 24/7, laptops may not have proper heat dissipation, all in all, laptops are not fit for mining. And you have a good chance to damage the laptop way before the ROI (PS. Did you calculate the electricity cost vs the income?)

All in all, I think that you're doing it wrong and you may have to ask for guidance in the altcoin mining section (I do hope that at least you don't try to mine Bitcoin with your laptop).

The price is moving, people started transacting again and.. the hash rate was falling yesterday by quite a lot.

There are 2 possible explanations:
1. As you said, maybe MARA is trying to become a strong voice, and for that it needs to stay calm for a while and gather friends.
2. The censoring of transactions was meant to be a commercial gimmick, just to attract some attention on them.

I don't know which is more likely, we clearly need to keep our eyes open. The history has shown that, with or without MARA, the big mining pools plotting working together may result in possible bad actions (see SegWit2x proposal).

IMF are basically bankers and accountants. I wouldn't have big expectations from them.

El Salvador made a historic step forward. Of course that the established system tries to react and make the things harder. It would be wonderful if more countries would follow El Salvador bold move really soon; that could dilute/nullify whatever IMF is cooking.

If Bitcoin price grows, Jack is winning.
If Twitter is read even more, Jack is also winning.
And it costs Jack absolutely nothing.

I don't think that such a tweet alone can move the price though. But I don't know also what will be needed to move it further.
Some say it'll be the taproot lock in, but I think that even more is needed.

Nu am prea inteles partea "ca si cum ai investi intr-un ETF".

Crypto cumperi aproape ca si cum ai cumpara euro. Daca atunci cand ai nevoie de bani euro a crescut, bingo. Daca a scazut, nasol. Diferenta e ca pretul euro variaza foarte putin, iar crypto nu cumperi de la banca. Plus ca e indicat sa tii crypto la tine in portofel (virtual).

Cred ca pentru ETF ai nevoie de broker, ca la actiuni. Deci nu, mersi.


Si da, am un pic investit in crypto. Daca aveam mai multa minte as duce-o mai bine acum. Dar din pacate am cumparat prea putin si uneori am mai si vandut (cumparat bunuri). Oricum, daca trag linie, sunt pe plus.

In the past the ransoms were paid in cash. Internet has diversified the ways one can attack and ask for ransom, crypto made the money transfer faster. But ransoms did exist even before.
So imho still the internet is the one doing more "damage" than crypto...

Well, they use the internet for this and I don't expect internet get killed/banned because of this.
What I mean is that although it could give some short term ammo to this or that bitcoin hater, on the long term all this won't matter and Bitcoin will prevail, maybe even get stronger.
And since bitcoin payments can be tracked, .. let them use Bitcoin. It'll help governments understand that Bitcoin is not that bad after all.

You don't upload images to the forum. You upload to an image hosting website, like imgur.com and put here the link, either with the Insert Image button from the forum, either with "get share links -> bbcode" from imgur.
As an additional info, newbies cannot post images (you can, but they won't be visible) [exception: copper member], hence until one ranks up he/she has time to learn.

Of course it did! That's why there's a solar eclipse today (albeit partial), you didn't know?!

If there are 2 outputs, then there are 2 recipients. As simple as that and basically that's all you know.
The fact that in reality there's a high chance that one of the recipients is the same or a different address in the sender's wallet, it's only a (rather small) detail.
If you know/expect that one of the addresses is the change address, then you can look for various other small details that can provide extra info:

* if one "recipient" address starts with the same character as the sender and the other doesn't, there's a good chance that the similar address is change address

* if one address received some pretty "round" amount (in BTC, or USD, or EUR, ..) then the other one may be the change address; also because many wallets don't do fee rounding, the recipient that got coins with more number of characters after the decimal point is probably the change wallet (because of the tx fee)


All these are assumptions based on common use, but most of the times they don't really give a 100% certainty.

Nothing unexpected, really. Just scroll up and see my previous answer (post #5) 

If you don't understand it, ban or regulate it. If these senators would have lived in the stone age, we would have now much better regulated fire and storms.

Desi as prefera sa fie ca in El Salvador si deci practic fara impozit, asta nu cred ca se va intampla prea curand la noi.
Sau mai stii? Romania sta bine la IT, iar un impuls ar putea transforma tara in pol de dezvoltare pe blockchain, dar nu cred ca visez prea departe...

Asadar, cat timp ca statut juridic nu sunt bani, se vor impozita.
Varianta cu impozit direct la conversia in fiat este printre cele mai OK variante, dar as prefera sa o vad simplificata, fara complicatii de gen CAS/CASS sau praguri de impozitare.
Doar ca aici este iar o problema: unii sunt (mai mult sau mai putin) HODLeri, altii sunt traderi, iar altii chiar au venituri in crypto (pentru diferite servicii sau munca depusa). Nu ma astept ca cineva sa declare/verifice daca aceste venituri provin din munca sau investitie, si atunci problema CAS/CASS devine din nou de actualitate (desi daca nu iti declari munca, nu ar trebui sa te astepti nici la pensie, nici la medic gratuit, si gata).

Stopaj la sursa nu stiu daca e viabil, ca atunci iti bagi picioarele in anonimitate la BTM-uri, o sa ti se para prea mari preturile la PC Garage, o sa eviti casele de schimb autohtone si vei schimba pe unde legile sunt altfel ca sa eludezi legea (ca vei fi sau nu prins ulterior, e alta poveste). Sau poate ca ma insel si ar fi mai bine asa, ca nu ai mai avea de completat declaratii si rectificari.
Clar, nici declaratiile duse cu manuta ta la ANAF nu sunt o solutie intr-adevar viabila, ca nu cred ca prea multi fac asta.

Deci la noi, ca de obicei, nici in car, nici in caruta. Teoreric ar trebui reformat statul in asa fel incat:
* ceea ce primesti la sanatate si pensie sa fie strict legat de cat ai contribuit
* impozitul sa fie fix si unic, indiferent ca ai castigat bani din impins vagoane sau tinut Bitcoin la saltea si incasat la ATH
* ANAF sa devina mai puternic, mai destept si mai independent politic; sa lucreze pe bune si la fel pentru toti..
* omului de rand sa-i intre in cap/in sange ca trebuie sa-si declare cat de cat realist veniturile si sa-si plateasca impozitele
* sa se fure mult mai putin din acesti bani
Atunci nu ar trebui sa avem aceasta discutie.

Pana atunci, varianta El Salvador poate fi mai de bun simt decat celelalte...

Some topics were already listed, however they will most likely not meet this "requirement" of yours.
I will only add that the fact that certain coins were not moved, it doesn't mean (at all) that they are lost.

Some can very well stay in someone's cold storage, especially the older exchanges'.
Others will be locked inside funded collectibles.
And these are only the first examples that came into my mind.
Imho the "not transferred" rule, although interesting, can give you greatly inaccurate results (although all the other ways to "count" such coins are also inaccurate).