You do have a point there, although I think that the inflation and government getting to actually benefit from it is more complicated.

As pro, the first things that come into my mind would be that it's more traceable than fiat and they won't have the headaches with counterfeit money. Also keep in mind that there are countries that don't even use their own currency. And there Bitcoin is as good as any, or better.

Different governments do see things different. Most probably for some will not be a threat at all.
There are already politicians who want/allow to accept bitcoin and I think that there are some who want to even replace their currency with bitcoin, just they're too few for such moves yet.


First mistake: most rely on devaluation of their currency, not necessary dollar.
Second: Bitcoin doesn't have to replace a country's currency in order to be successful.
About unfavorable laws, those can happen, at least temporarily, but again, not everywhere. Especially where democracy works, they can't do much more than overly tax it (if they know that you hold it!), but even that is not likely. If you read the news, the countries evolve in the opposite direction of what this FUD tells. In various places you can pay your tax with Bitcoin already.

1. Post link(s) to previous translation(s).
2. Offer, for a start, your services for free, especially for Announcements. It will rise your experience (crypto translations have their own terminology you have to master) and will increase your visible portfolio.
Just double check and avoid as possible the scams, because you may get associated with them. (Also always write that you are only the translator and people should use their own vigilance).
3. Add your name into translator lists (after you'll have a portfolio).
4. Bump (withing the rules!) your topic now and then to gain visibility. Again, after you have a portfolio...

From what I know there are at least 6 other Turkish translators on the forum, hence you'll have to be better and cheaper than the competition. Good luck!

I disagree.
Unlike religion, bitcoiners base their "beliefs" on logic and math, not just because this or that guys say so. Imho it's a huge difference.

You are right. And as addition, one can always install other wallets too until he fills up the HW storage, to increase even more the probability for having it all overwritten.
Still, I think that the point is to not take (any) chances...

The governments are not all coordinated and will probably not be able to stop all exchanges. Keep in mind that there are also decentralized exchanges over there, not only the bigger and most known centralized ones.
So all that can happen would be a lot of noise and maybe a few businesses relocating.


They cannot. They are not coordinated. And they would need to filter all internet packets and also ToR. Globally.


Just think, Bitcoin is not yet a success as global payments, but it already works pretty good as investment and store of value, imho. So they don't go together.

Unfortunately this is not an accurate way to find out. A file marked as deleted will no longer show as used space, but with the right tools is can still be easily recovered.
I would go for:
1. Don't keep all the funds on the same HW, or only keep the spending funds on HW.
or
2. Physically destroy the device.

Although I've seen this behavior at payment processors, I didn't at the centralized exchanges. And at the exchange OP can double check if the address has change before attempting such a risky operation.
On the other hand, I always suggest use of RBF just because the fees can change in widely, and the exchanges wait for confirmation(s) before sending the mail. So the double spend will be no longer possible.

Also I've also seen in the past at least once an exchange suggesting (at least for an altcoin) to first send a small amount. It can be useful if more complicated things have to be set/checked (address and some other details too). But I don't see it useful for Bitcoin, where only the address is necessary. Still OP has to be careful to not mix up Bitcoin with BCash and such. All in all, if OP needs a peace of mind, he can do a small send first time, maybe in a week-end. Otherwise it's not necessary.

And yes, if anything goes wrong, the proper tool is the support and the proof (tx id). I myself faced such a problem, long ago. I've sent the deposit, it was not the first deposit I've sent there, but that one was not credited. I've contacted support and after a while (I don't remember if it was hours or days though) it was handled/fixed/credited.

Bitcoin is not fungible. There is already a pool that only mines "clean" transactions. Of course, it doesn't matter much yet for its small hash rate and the only block I know they've mined was not perfectly "clean" too (by their rules), but it can be a dangerous trend for 5 or 25 years from now.
Monero is fungible, hence it's a problem for governments and it faces a lot more barriers Bitcoin had. It's still difficult to foresee what will its future look like, if any.

Although I would not celebrate yet (I almost did Thursday though), I feel like 25k is a bit tough and I really hope that you're wrong. Of course, on my logic September is also a bit too far for 50k levels.
However, I don't rule it out to have a few undecided weeks, if not even going a bit lower still..(but not under 30k).  It depends though on the news (Taproot) and if any institutional investor starts buying big again.

1. Just for you to know: the hash is more useful than a screenshot
2. The fee you have used is too small, others have been using higher fee hence their transactions keep getting confirmed before yours.
3. Look at option 3 in HCP list and try to do CPFP if you're in a hurry. If not, just wait and the transaction will either get confirmed, either get reverted, but it may take weeks. However, there's a fair chance that in the next week-end the fees will go low enough to get your tx confirmed.

There are few accelerators you can use, but I don't know if they work and you may also have to pay more than you'd want for it. The only one I know for sure it works needs bigger fee than what you used.


Edit: It looks like I was too pessimistic this time. The transaction is confirmed.

... and I start to think that China is such a whale and all their actions are coordinated in that direction, just they don't do it that often to not gather too much attention.


If they would have wanted it out of the country, they would have done that. But they don't. I don't know if only some very powerful members of the Party exercise their influence into avoiding Bitcoin get fully banned or it's intended to only stop this and that to stay in the news, but we have to keep something in mind: China always tried to find ways to acquire western wealth, no matter if it was western currencies, companies or, why not, Bitcoin...

Yep, the average Joe will either have to give up trading, either will have to learn to use the decentralized tools. Imho it's a good direction, actually. People are versatile living beings and will learn.
In their attempt to protect the old system, the governments actually starve it even more, since less money will flow on that route. Well, we can't expect politicians understand all the subtle details, don't we?

Interesting point of view! And this is something I don't get to say often about news.
...And while the price of the coins will continue to have its ups and downs, the results of this "stress test" will remain. Nice!

It was a great race and great performance for all first 6!
Max got first place, well deserved, Carlos Sainz and Lando Norris have shown that they're great drivers and they have the right stuff for becoming rather soon the next generation of champions.
Perez is starting to get used with the car, there's hope that he will be able to help Max more often.
But Vettel did wonders there! And Gasly was not bad either remain in front of Lewis.

However, this race made the performance of the car matter less and the skill of the driver matter the most.
Too bad for Mercedes, it was bad luck too; also a bit sad for Leclerc, but there I don't know if it was utter bad luck or provoked bad luck.


Edit: fixed typo

Hats off for those. It's a work not really known, only the results may be seen by some now and then.

I guess that you're right and it should be explained better there. I have it on ignore and I don't know why would somebody unignore it, but that's me.


This is a good logic. Still, you would have to unignore that area and actively watch it. It would make sense a DT user do that if he wants to invest time in such a task.

Yep, I've also received merit from him today on an old topic he already merited almost one month ago.
I guess that he keeps a database of posts to merit at some point when his sMerit is getting replenished.
Unfortunately this is not a definitive proof that he's not human, since people can do this too (but obviously way less effective than DdmrDdmr)

What is the rule for when Merit Sources get replenished?

I'll also start with: I'm 100% agains Ponzi schemes. This should also put my views in the correct light.
Imho posting there should not warrant negative feedback and I'll tell you why.

At some point the forum got filled (stifled) by Ponzi advertising. Since the forum is completely for allowing the freedom of speech, those cannot/should not get removed, with or without negative feedback (which usually doesn't matter for throwaway 1-post new accounts). So the solution was to make a containment area for them: Investor-based games, which, if the memory serves me well, is meant to be ignored by default, hence the users will get to go there only if they know what they're doing.

Strangely, I think that some do put money there willingly, probably in a hope that they will not be the last ones, the ones scammed, i.e. they'll receive others' money (which may become the ones scammed), in case it's a honest (LOL!) Ponzi. Well, not all human decisions make sense for me...

AdvCash used to ask for KYC ("passport info"). You can ask on their thread though. Advacash, if it's not a typo, I never heard of though.
There is a huge list of crypto cards, but I don't think that any of those is anonymous.

So, yeah, look in services, there are some very few offers of anonymous cards, but those are usually expensive (obviously) and imho also rather shady (I expect that they are on some 3rd party's name, so VISA/MC doesn't complain), hence you most probably won't find proper reviews for them. Unfortunately this also means that you can (easily) get scammed too (no matter you buy from this forum or elsewhere).