Sorry, but from a freelancer's point of view, this is a terrible income source. Most of those jobs only pay you $10, $20, etc. and oftentimes, a freelancer needs to make thousands of dollars a month to make a sustainable living.
Not necessarily, in many parts of the world you can live just fine with few hundreds of dollars, and if you are in Venezuela, Cuba or some African countries you need even less than that. I never used microlancer or any similar websites but I see there are a lot of affiliate links and referral links there. Do we have new freelancing sites excluding those known list above?
Yes there are more websites like laborx.com or blocklancer.net, but I don't think that any of them got any real traction so far like fiat based freelancing websites have. |
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I said I didn't think he was a fool, and by that I meant he generally knows what he's doing in the world of crypto--and I don't think the guy is an idiot or even dumb for that matter.
This short video is showing what kind of fool he actually is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF5ojlv6TL0Justin Sun is a marketer, nothing more.
And he is a bad marketer if I may add, but I don't think he will be happy losing that 10 million even if it means nothing for Poloniex i we look at the bigger picture. Personally and for people in the US, as long as you want to use a centralized platform, there's no reason for any alterative of Coinbase.
I don't think so, it only leads to more and more centralization of power. There are a lot of great alternatives for Coinbase like Kraken for example, and you can still use P2P trading or even better use Bisq and go full decentralized trading. Polonied released official announcement on Twitter and they are now playing dumb claiming they it has no impact on them and they have to connection with Poloniex LLC, because entity running Poloniex is Polo Digital Assets  What a joke! Public address loudspeakerAnnouncement on SEC’s Charges Against Poloniex LLC
In light of the media reports on SEC’s charges against Poloniex, we would like to clarify that the entity running Poloniex is Polo Digital Assets.The aforementioned charges will not have any impact on Poloniex's businesses. https://twitter.com/Poloniex/status/1424960367189393409 |
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I have some good news and some bad news. Good news is that three days passed after I replaced cables/port and my Seagate drive is working like a charm, so it looks like I don't have to purchase new drive after all. I left it running 24/7, every parameters are looking very good and there are no issues with crashes or bad sectors, CrystalDiskInfo is showing healthy drive. Bad news is that my drive is 100% shingled SMR drive and I am getting slower write speed, but I used this only for storing data and running a node, and my OS is on faster SSD drive. I totally forget about CMR/SMR controvesy. If OP (or anyone) wish to use CMR, they should get WD Red plus instead
Here is one list of all known SMR drives (including mine): https://www.truenas.com/community/resources/list-of-known-smr-drives.141/ |
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Bitcoin has it's own inflation rate that is produced with mining every day but it is decreasing with halving every 4 years, so I would not say that Bitcoin is ''anti-inflation''.
However, if we compare Bitcoin with fiat currencies than you can say that it is better to hold Bitcoin than fiat currencies long term, and Bitcoin has a clear advantage.
People who profited most from Bitcoin are ones that forgot about their hard drives with mined or purchased Bitcoin and found it few years later, but if same thing would happen to someone in Venezuela with suitcase full of Bolivars, he would be a broke and poor man.
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Jebote koji k*rac svi još pišete u ovoj temi iz 2019 koja govori o tome što nas očekuje u 2020 godini, a u najveće idemo ka 2022 (4 stranica napisano u 2021) |
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Justin Sun might be a bit odd, but he's not a fool as far as I know. You would have thought he'd have complied with US regulations if Poloniex was still doing business there, no?
Poloniex was founded in 2014 but I doubt it was created in United States, than it was purchased by Circle in early 2018 for $400 million, and then new investors came (probably from China) and one of them was Justin Sun. He is not so smart, and being rich or having lot of Bitcoins doesn't mean he is smart by definition. Justin Sun, founder of crypto platform Tron, said he is part of the investor group that recently acquired Poloniex from fintech firm Circle, after denying his involvement initially. https://www.coindesk.com/despite-denials-tron-founder-confirms-investment-in-poloniex-crypto-exchangeThere is Poloniex ANN in forum from 2014, and @busoni member have two scam accusations: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=420836.0 |
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I am not sure about the content of this infrastructure bill but there is important bill fight happening in Senate now that can affect all crypto world. Senator from Wyoming Cynthia Lummis is one to follow on twitter @CynthiaMLummis for all the updates related this bill and anything Bitcoin related. She is big Bitcoin supporter, she mobilized a lot of people and they might be able to change and correct some things, but bad bill will most likely be accepted, this is one step more closer to dystopian future. If they fails to pass Lummis amendment in Senate they will probably move to House of Representatives, so fight is not over but they are pushing it hard, making last minute changes with thousands pages on purpose. Biden tweeted his support ahead of the vote, saying the "once-in-a-generation investment in our nation's infrastructure" would create good-paying jobs refurbishing America's roads, bridges, water systems and electrical grid.
This guy have no freaking idea what he is saying, but printing more fiat money means more inflation (or hyperinflation) and Bitcoin must go up, at least until all this economic balloon crashes. ...we have to build back better.
They can put their BBB globalist slogan up in their asses. LIVE broadcast now on twitter by Senator Pat Toomey: https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1zqJVXqgmRWKB |
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Same thing that happened to Binance is happening to other exchanges, SEC Charges Poloniex for Operating Unregistered Digital Asset Exchange. Poloniex will pay $10 million (or around 218 BTC with todays rate) to settle charges for operating unregistered online exchange and for not registering with regulators in US. No word from Justin Sun, who I believe is one of the owners of this exchange but he is better known for tron and lunch with Warren Buffett. Without admitting or denying the SEC’s findings, Poloniex agreed to the entry of a cease-and-desist order and agreed to pay disgorgement of $8,484,313, prejudgment interest of $403,995, and a civil penalty of $1.5 million for a total of $10,388,309. https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2021-147Poloniex today posted their old announcement because some US customers have problem accessing their accounts: Refer to the article below if you have issues accessing your account https://twitter.com/Poloniex/status/1424748403943223298 |
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There is nothing wrong with increasing block size, but if you were to increase to that extent, then no one except a selected few can run a node because they are prohibitively expensive. Miners can only mine if they're fast enough, which would mean further centralization as they need to achieve the lowest latency possible to reduce orphans. Complete centralization of Bitcoin defeats the very purpose of it, and putting the control of it to a selected few only serves to discourage people from using it.
Great explanation by @ranochigo and confirmation of this words can be seen with forks that tried to make ''better'' bitcoin and instead created more centralized junk. For example, 3 mining pools (ViaBTC, AntPool and one more) for Bcash are having over 75% of total hashrate, and situation is even worse for bsv scam with 2 mining pools controlling all hashrate, and they are constantly under 51% attacks. We can at least thank all those forks that serve more as testing ground so we can see what effect it could have on Bitcoin and what we should avoid doing. It's not impossible to imagine that block size will also change for Bitcoin in future, but it must be carefully implemented after doing deep investigation as a part of some bigger change, but result will be new forks and I think that people are a bit tired of forks. |
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What would you think of organizing a contest for the banner and the logo for the YouTube channel?
Good idea for organizing a contest, we have several active experienced designers in forum who are ready to jump in and start working on this right away. Google/Youtube is not known for their willingness to give freedom of speech.
Google aka Youtube and other big tech are synonym for censorship and not allowing free speech, they even banned some crypto youtubers (not that I am supporting them in any way), they had Bitcoin advertisement ban until recently and now they allow adds only with special terms, yet we can see crypto scam giveaway videos all the time. It would be a good idea to post Bitcointalk videos on multiple platforms and some of them should be decentralized, not sure if Odysee is best or something better exists that I am not aware off. |
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Anybody out there order one? As I said a few post up at $299 I am way to cheap to get one.
Shipping and customs would be expensive for me, but I would order one of this devices if I lived in United States or Canada, just for testing and comparing with other hardware wallets. Passport is very similar with Colcard wallet, it uses their modified open source code and they have exact same secure element ATECC608A. I even heard they gave away some free devices for testing and posting video reviews. |
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Home mining is possible but not so profitable unless you have free electricity, and isolated underground bunker full o asic miners (and snacks). Having two tier Bitcoins is generally a bad idea and I would rather have ALL dirty Bitcoins that kyc and non-kyc Bitcoins. Even better option would be some miracle code update that will introduce additional privacy layer for Bitcoin, that will make regulators very angry, but I think that governments and their officials are way overrated parasites. Home mining is practically illegal in many places, because it's generally illegal to use home electricity for some sort of commercial purpose, and running even one 1-1.5 kWT PSU 24/7 definitely falls within this category. Residential electricity is sold much cheaper than the commercial one, so it's kinda stealing to use it for mining.
If you have money and resources you can always have your own electricity that is not connected with main electric grid, maybe your own solar or mini hydro plant, that is good not only for Bitcoin mining, but for keeping you independent in case of some disasters or planned cyber attacks that will turn off electricity. |
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This is cool feature to have in bitcoin wallet, and maybe you should consider making extension for Electrum or suggesting change in their github code so they can integrate it directly on their wallet (if possible). I am aware of the shortcomings, the biggest is that the wallet and library support legacy addresses only, the other is that there is only one way to create wallet - via seed.
I didn't test this feature myself but I think that time locking transactions also exist in Trezor hardware wallet and this is a nice way to detach IP from your address and send coins on specific time or block height. There is no limitations for address type and Trezor Suite software is supporting this and it'is very easy to enable Locktime in settings and enter block height or time in unix timestamp format.  https://suite.trezor.io/ |
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did changing the port / cable work?
I decided to test it for 3 days before final confirmation so one more day left, but so far it looks like it was probably a faulty cable, I replaced it with brand new I had at home. Just in case, I changed the port connection as well, but I doubt that was the issue in my case. WD Red (non-pro version) is good option, it's widely available and some enthusiast use it (usually people who hoard data or run their own physical server). It has 3 years warranty.
WD Red is on my list already, but I had to crashes with my HDD after I cleaned and replaced everything. Temperature looks fine, I scanned my drive multiple times, defragmented it, tested for bad sectors, double checked bios settings... and crossed my fingers. |
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What if I don’t upgrade the wallet? Still I can use it, it's not like a mandatory upgrare.
So, what can be wrong if I don’t upgrade the wallet if they require it? Am I risking anything?
Safepal hardware wallet code is closed source coming from China, so you purchased a cat in a bag and you don't know what is contained in those new code updates. You could probably use the wallet even without updates, but some critical updates may be mandatory for normal functioning of device, or you can have old firmware that have bugs. In some of their previous firmware upgrades they added important security updates so it will be wise to stay up to date. Check out detailed upgrade history on their website page: https://docs.safepal.io/safepal-hardware-wallet/upgrade/upgrade-history |
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And this was without any spamming beyond the baseline spam performed by Ayre and his companies to try to fake there being interest and usage of BSV.
I heard that most of transactions on bsv network are coming from their weather app, so it's basically something like spamming to show more transactions. Calvin Ayre in the same time didn't miss to brag on twitter how FluffyPony was arrested, and that is some kind of punishment because he was against Craig Faketoshi... I wonder if anyone has tried spamming this shitcoin's network with transactions that take too long to verify.
Nobody is crazy enough to waste time on this, and this is probably some miner war or some weird clan fighting to take full control of that shitcoin. Meanwhile hashrate is still declining according to bitinfocharts. |
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We do not know who the spammers are but this might suggest that one of their objectives is learning information about the Bitcoin P2P network, esp. about its topology.
It smells (read stinks) to me that it could be some government agency, and this is happening in same time when they are pushing hard for some crazy bill regulations for Bitcoin and all crypto. I can't prove anything but it could be they are collecting information for some tracking and surveillance of all nodes and transactions. The conclusion interest me. Bitcoin have 12775 nodes
So is this number of nodes from Bitnodes more correct than Luke Dashjr version that is showing much more nodes? https://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/files/charts/software.html |
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If I remember correctly this ronaldo40 guy was part of Adkinsbet group that purchased multiple forum accounts and promoted their website, but now decided to move with new betking. I am not sure why he got signature ban, maybe because of spamming and unconstructive posts, but it was totally deserved and only moderators know the true reason. Other accounts that he is controlling should also be checked for similar activity. |
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How exactly are you testing Hardware Wallets? I guess you first need to have actual device in your hand (purchased or received for testing from manufacturer) and then try to reproduce the code. So ... if you want to help, there is a ton to do from simple triage to compilation to design to spreading the word.  I am helping in spreading the word about WalletScrutiny and I am monitoring hardware wallet changes, especially if they claim they are open source. You can track that in my topics that is updated on regular basis like this one for example: LIST - Open Source Hardware Wallets. |
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This sounds closer to what Japan have already done, where Bitcoin is a legally recognised currency, but not legal tender. People often confuse the two. A currency can be accepted by a business if they choose. Whereas legal tender must be accepted and businesses have no choice about that. You can pay your taxes in legal tender, but can't pay them in other currencies.
Real question is what is better option for Bitcoin, to be legal currency or legal tender? I don't know how many business in Japan officially accept Bitcoin, but I am sure that it will be more of them accepting BTC in El Salvador according to what you said about legal tender. Nor exactly sure how this thing will play out in Uruguay and other countries, but regulations is changing so quickly and it's hard to follow it. I would much rather have less government parasites, less rules, less regulations and more freedom, but it looks like many people can't or won't live like that. |
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