If you are talking about running a full-node, you have to download and verify the entire Bitcoin blockchain. After that, you can use pruned mode that requires only a few GBs of storage on your hard disk.

But Electrum is an SPV client, so you don't have to worry about storage limitations.
And if you decide to go for a payment processor such as BTCPay Server, you would also not be dealing with full-nodes.

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Edit: While going to work, I thought about what I said. So I did some research and it indeed looks like you do require a full-node with BTCPay Server, but it comes with the installation. Sorry for giving you the wrong information initially.

You shouldn't invest in something you know nothing about, but since you have already invested, it makes little sense to research the projects now. I hope most of your money went into Bitcoin and not some insignificant altcoin. You don't need market and technical analysis skills unless you plan to become a day trader.

You are now a holder of cryptocurrencies.
What is your goal? Do you want to hold until your coins reach a certain price to sell them?
Do you want to use Bitcoin as a payment method to purchase goods or services?
Do you want to reinvest your Bitcoin in alts (not recommended)?

It's much easier to advice you and provide recommendations if we know what it is that you want.

Not anymore. China closed down many mining facilities months before their most recent "bitcoin ban". That resulted in a huge 50% drop in hashrate, but those miners have reallocated to other countries and most of it is back up and running again.

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After the announcement about the ban, Bitcoin's market value fell by 10%. But it has already recovered from that. No one can predict what the future holds and how the prices would be affected if stricter regulations are implemented worldwide. If the US were to ban Bitcoin, that would probably be a much bigger blow than what we saw with the Chinese bans.   

That's correct. The first time I saw my source merits bag fill up again at the start of the next month, I wondered why my number of available source merits kept going up in the space of a few minutes. While meriting, I usually keep an eye on how much I have available and found myself in a situation where I noticed an increase between two merited posts. We are talking about less than a minute apart. That's when I realized the thing you just mentioned. 

Have you considered using a non-custodial payment processor on your website to accept bitcoin payments?
On this list you will see both hosted and non-hosted services that you can try out.

BTCPay Server would be an obvious and recommended choice for many, but it requires a bit of time to set up.

A community initiative that some applied for while others were selected for it based on theymos' own criteria and selection methods. I had out merits in a similar way as The Pharmacist does it. I just go about my business of reading and writing posts and I merit the good ones I find in the threads and sub-boards I regularly visit. That's the simplest way to do it. So far I have always succeeded in emptying my bags at the end of the month.

The problem is not the initial investment. The problem (if there really is one) could be that the rewards for those playing are paid out from the money that new players invest to purchase their in-game characters, which is a requirement if they want to play. Would existing and old players still be paid if new players didn't turn up, that's the question.

In Ponzi schemes, those who invested early can also profit and get their money out. It all seems good and solid until the system breaks down. Anyways, this is my last comment on this subject because it's heading in a direction the original author didn't expect it to.

Jućer je počela Catena X signature kampanje za Hero i Legendary članove. Traži se ukupno 14 članova.

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Isplata: $70 tjedno u BTC.

Uvjeti: Minimalno 25 postova tjedno.
Ne more se pisati u Gambling sekciji.
Postovi u loklanim forumima se broje u kvotu.
Minimalno 5 merita u posljednjih 120 dana.
Prijave isključivo slati sa Bech32 (Native Segwit) adresama.

Yeah, I am missing many new sites but also some of the older ones that I have listed in my other threads. I will check it out.

They aren't going to get much help out of my thread if they don't show any initiative on their end. This discussion won't show them where to play and where not to. But it serves as a good reference to see how serious certain casinos are in warning and preventing players from restricted countries to register and play.

Yeah, that makes sense. I will check out the names in OP and remove those that shouldn't be there for various reasons. 
Thanks!

Alternative accounts wouldn't help them because they would have to have created them before I started my thread. Because of one of the rules, you couldn't have seen the thread, created a new account, and applied in it. Only if you had the accounts before the topic was even started.

No, surely not all of them. I am not sure what checks OgNasty performs to check the users who apply in his threads, but I am sure he knows what he is doing. Otherwise the thread would be a great way to cheat your way to some quick and easy merits.

I am not sure if this part of your post is directed to me personally or if it's a general comment. I have nothing against people who participate in bounties if that's not all they are doing. I dislike social media spam campaigns. But I have nothing against honest content creators, translators, art designers, etc. If done properly, that can be great stuff. But try to take part in normal conversations on the forum from time to time as well.

That merit thread was started several years before I became a merit source. Back then, I wasn't. I have no intentions of re-bumping it because I am now meriting good posts as I come across them on the forum.   

Bitcoin ima dosta limitirane pametne ugovore pa ne znam jel moguće i koliko je pametno i izvodljivo raditi tako nešto preko Bitcoin blockchaina. Zbog svog "scalability"problema je i napravljen Lightning Network. RSK je jedna implementacija pametnih ugovora preko Bitcoin blockchaina ali toliko se slabo o njima priča da se ne sjećam jesam li ikad vidio neku korisnu primjenu njihovih usluga. 

Yeah, it's the rules thing. Too many requirements, but also the fact that many didn't have anything good to share to begin with. But the rules are the reason it was allowed to remain. I think Ognasty's offers came later, and they weren't around at the time I started my thread.

Like nc50lc said, it might be an issue of your wallet not being synchronized yet.
When you open your imported Electrum wallet, there should be a ball/dot/orb in the bottom right corner. It shows the network status of the server you are connected to. What color is it? is it green, red, or blue? If it's still synching, you will see a circle with arrows.

Green means connected.
Red means not connected.
Blue signals a connection through a proxy.

If it shows arrows, let it sync. You should be able to follow the sync progress at the bottom left.

Good point.
It takes around 20 cents to transfer BTC right now according to mempool.space. At the same time it takes over $5 to send an ETH transaction. Not to mention what is required to move tokens from platforms like Uniswap and similar where more complex smart contracts are at play.   

That's not a problem with the Lightning Network, it's a problem with the company you looked up. If I ask you to pay excessive fees to route your payment, it doesn't mean that the LN is flawed. It means that I am a greedy bastard. Having said that, you are still required to pay small fees to transfer coins over LN. But we are talking about sats here.

No complaints there. It's meant for people who transact regularly. But there are also no limits I am aware of to how long a payment channel can stay open. So in theory, you can keep it open for days, weeks, months... not sure until when and transact when you need to.

The difference between running a full-node and using an SPV client like Electrum is that with your own node, you check and verify the entire history of transactions from the beginning of Bitcoin. With a full node, you are just trusting someone else and you aren't doing the verification on your end.

Electrum servers can be operated by malicious parties who can find out things about you to de-anonymize you. By connecting to them, they will know the balance of all your addresses connected to that wallet, including the unused ones. They will also know your IP address and the version of your client. With a full-node, you aren't leaking that info because you are running that server.

Izgleda da si sa Betcoinom onda napravio pun pogodak. Sjećam se da smo zajedno bili u Betcoin kampanji davno nekad, ja u međuvremenu promjenio nekoliko njih a Betcoin traje i traje...

Ja bi slackovicu preporučio da ne prestane pisati u gamblingu i kad mu trenutna kampanja završi. Ti postovi su menadžerima bitni. Ako recimo par tjedana ili mjesec dana budeš bez kampanje a u tom periodu ništa ne pišeš u gamblingu, ta te aktivnost možda može koštati mjesta u nekoj narednoj kampanji. Mislim da ako su dva korisnika podjednako dobra, a jedan od uvjeta je aktivnost u gambling temama, mjesto dobija ovaj sa većom i boljom aktivnošću u takvim temama.

I am considering updating this thread and adding some new casinos to it. I realize that there are plenty of sites that are missing. Especially new casinos that went live after the thread was started. But before I do that, I would like to hear from the community are they even interested in reading it? Do you want to see which casinos have IP blocks in place for restricted territories that warn you that you aren't supposed to be there, or don't you care about it at all?

There are plenty of more casinos that should be added besides Rollbit if I decide to update the thread. I can use my other gambling threads about faucets and withdrawal fees/minimums as source to check which casinos are missing. Or simply go to the 1st page of gambling ANNs and check those available there.

Here is a link and proof that the thread did happen
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5085605.0

It was meant to be only for Newbies and Jr. Members. I expected much more activity in it, but it died out after a while. If you go through the applications, you will notice how many times I had to reject certain members because they aren't capable of reading and understanding what is requested of them.

Najbolje bi bilo pronaći taj izvor iz kojeg su uzeli taj statistički podatak u kvizu i pročitati tačno šta tamo piše i kako su došli do broja do kojeg su došli. Sjećaš li se koje je to pitanje?

Mada ni taj njihov podatak ni ovaj tvoj ne može potvrditi koji je to broj različitih ljudi koji koriste te adrese. Ja mogu imati samo jednu adresu na kojoj mi je sav ether, a mogu imati i 10 i 100 adresa ako to želim. Ista je stvar i sa bitcoinom. U zavisnosti od toga kako koristim jedan ili drugi, to moje korištenje će imati drugčiji učinak na ukupnu statistiku. Da koristim samo jednu adresu, povečavam ukupan broj za samo 1. Ukoliko koristim 100, puno je veći ukopan broj korištenih adresa. Ali u oba slučaja u pitanju je samo jedna te ista osoba.