Yeh. But it very slow to query this rpc call to local bitcoin core. Is any way to improve bitcoin core response time for this type of query? Thanks.

I don't believe you can stop this without messing with consensus rules. Standardness isn't going to help. Binance essentially funds this, and Binance is literally mining. Newbies can buy and sell this nonsense using third parties, and maybe at this time it'll be worse, because we will have an inaccurate mempool.

If they change the captcha, those spammers will probably find a way to bypass the captcha again.
They may add an extra requirement and not allow transactions that create output worth less than a certain amount to be submitted to their free accelerator.

Layer 2, in my opinion, has three problems:
1 - We move on to custody services, as it will be difficult for everyone to have it on their own and in their own channels.
2 - The fees are still there, but camouflaged. In other words, the person still has to pay a high fee to transfer from L1 to L2.
3 - There is no guarantee that L2 rates will not increase. With increased usage, channel operators and node have found an excellent opportunity to make money from fees. While miners still make a return on the base block reward, channel operators depend their entire return on fees.

For these reasons, I see it difficult for L2 to solve the problem.

In 10 years, are we discussing moving transactions to a future L3? In 50 years, how many layers will we have?

Just to be sure, if he gets banned, what's the assurance that he won't create another account and continue what he's doing here? Asides from him acting like the universe stole his birthright, I've really not had any other issues with him. For me, he's just like a grumpy entertainer who's actually good at what he does and I quite agree with @Vod's suggestion to handle the matter.

I am thinking that if you worry that someone steal your code, why do you want share your code publicly?

I do not know if there are rules in the forum regarding this, but I believe that once the post is published, it will become the property of the forum and is no longer yours alone.

Such a question was raised about the rights of members and the rights of the forum when a member deleted a post containing good educational content. The objection was: Does he have the right to delete this educational content after he published it on the forum or not? But I think we haven't got a clear answer yet.

It’s crazy how you can look at Ethereum and see 20 gwei fees but you look at bitcoin and see 200 sat/btye fees. However I think most have adopted after 2017 and rarely use bitcoin for small transactions. Most use l2 these days or altcoins.

I see we're currently back up to almost 100 sat/byte. Boo, who is minting shittokens on Christmas Eve? 

Here's a good conspiracy theory: Ordinals is actually a trojan horse designed to force people to adopt L2 solutions like Lightning and Liquid. This appears to be where the future is headed. Guess I'm gonna learn how to do Lightning on Electrum.

Doesn't that mean that the attacker has to frequently pay high fees to sustain this attack? Moreover, why does "wasting time on dummy transactions" centralizes the network, and why do we call it "wasted time" since they are regular transactions, just like any other honest nodes would either way verify.

There should have been a 4-year upgrade in terms of block size incrimination in a similar fashion to how network difficulty rises with time.

What I mean is, that Satoshi was able to identify the supply and demand issue earlier through its halving event. However, they did not consider the scaling of block sizes or maybe they never thought that Bitcoin would go to such a high level anytime soon.

Please don't hammer the Electrum network with a gazillion pointless requests. If you need 10 or 20 lookups a day, sure. If more than that, do it offline with a recently updated list.

Such list for now (just checked) is 26934 GiB in size.

It can be done with utxodump program.

You get txids, pubkeys, addresses and few other info.

$1m is too small, he should fine more. Lol. Sigh, this person is not yet done for what he wants that he will never get, ever.

If i'm one of those who support him (which i will never be), i should drop it already lol. It's been a very long time already yet he didn't prove anything, because obviously he is fake.

Nope. That's TryNinja's specialty. Again: just ask nicely

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That is why they worship digiran.
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Yeah did but the article was created 2020 so outdated but I think this is more recent https://www.doubloin.com/learn/who-pays-bitcoin-developers#:~:text=Funding%20for%20Bitcoin%20Core%20development,well%20as%20other%20notable%20contributors.

I'd rephrase it as: 'the final decisions lay in the hands of the full node operators'.

Think of it this way: if core developers were to just introduce a change to the codebase without going through the regular BIP process and simply pushed it to the GitHub master branch, we'd just not update our nodes and the network would not adopt these changes.

Bitcoin, the network of nodes, is very nicely decentralized globally, so no single entity can just change it without every node operator agreeing on these changes by installing the software update that implements them.

Two months might not be enough time to say that it will be permanent.

Plus the Core Developers would probably be in a better position to do something if they study the issue more slowly/carefully. Bitcoin is currently valued at almost $1,000,000,000,000. That's ALMOST ONE TRILLION. The developers SHOULD be more careful and they shouldn't do anything too hastily. Because if the network breaks, there goes the evolution of money.

I mean, ordinary people like me are difficult to become miners.

The disk is 500 G, the Internet must be fast, and computer costs and electricity costs are high. These are the thresholds.

Therefore, in this world, Bitcoin has only 6,000 nodes. Most of them belong to one or two groups.

Moreover, there is no trustworthy exchange place for Bitcoin's decentralized transactions. We must be KYC and become legal members.  BUT KYC is not a part of decenralization.

And this forum. I just posted a post about Satoshi, which was deleted for no reason.

Not for everyone.

I remember I broke hinges somehow while opening the back panel for switching SSD, so better leave the job to professionals.

Using old device for air-gapped wallet is okay but if someone is really going to save few thousands worth of BTC then better spend few hundreds to buy hardware wallet or value for money brand new laptop that can last for atleast 5 years with no issues.

I was thinking is there any ways to make a smartphone air gapped?

But since the mining pool is a group of miners they still can't do anything with it.
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Can anti-Bitcoin trolls use that to take advantage and spam the network? Yes they could, but it will come with a cost of paying higher fees. The bad-actors will waste their Bitcoins merely to cause a temporary inconvenience. From Bitcoin's viewpoint, where did it fail? Because it didn't. It's still chugging along producing block after block, incentiving miners for providing security the network.