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81  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Decentralized whirlpool! on: March 25, 2024, 11:47:58 AM
Coinjoins are already non custodial, so an escrow doesn't do anything here.
Looked up for coinjoin and it translates to mean, having multiple users putting in there coins and have it mixed up with the service here being the mixing of several users coin in addresses to get out same value and promote anonymity in the process.

Hence, the service as described in OP is more about, the said platform having to integrate from a centralized means to coinjoin which might run into trouble due to some user's downtime to a more decentralized means of operation where some algorithm will make necessary adjustments for downtimes and continue the process of coinjoin with other available users.

Sure am on track with this…
82  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Decentralized whirlpool! on: March 25, 2024, 11:25:59 AM
Good to see them going in that direction.

For example, is there any mechanism to protect against de anonymization by sybil attack?
I'm looking forward to see how sybil attacks will be discouraged in the case where the attacker launches (or bribes) a coordinator. At the moment, Whirlpool discourages by not allowing you to select which round to join. Round selection is random. But, this is trust-requiring to Samourai users, as far as I understand.

Hearing the term Sybil attack for a first time. At first I thought it was some agency that acts against decentralization and had to check over the web. I was first met by, “it’s a Greek girls name” lol,,, but the meaning yo crypto sums up to mean, where a user spontaneously creates false identities to pretend to be other persons on a p2p network.

My confusion though,
It’s there really much to that, with this being a wallet of some kind. Haven’t completely got an idea about it yet but, i the platform in question would always serve as escrow to whatever transacting that is been done and if that be the case, then there would be little need to worry about the other party’s fulfillment of its end to the bargain.

Or am I misunderstanding anything here.
83  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Privately check on: March 25, 2024, 11:13:27 AM
Can I upload my private key list and perform balance check or address matching?
A concept to private keys and seed phrases I’ve come to understand from being here. It’s supposed to be a you and you alone thing, never a third party. Should you happen to upload any of such online, sure it’s no longer private and you would be well aware that, you wouldn’t be the only one checking. Your even advised not to save your keys online and having these keys uploaded would be a worst mistake. The work you would be shying away from doing or find too rigorous would be something a team of get what we can would do in hours. So, just get going with what you’ve got. You already have a list of them, approach them in sequence.

Am curious though, just how did you OP, get hold of over 5000 private keys? Bought them in some sales or something? Or perhaps it’s the much you’ve had to generate within the Bitcoin existence time frame. That seems a lot.

If it's only 5000 private keys, just import them into Bitcoin Core. It's the easiest way to check them privately.
Just how does this works though,
Would it assign wallets with some balance on it to a particular key definitively or
It would still be randomized or perhaps merge all of it?

Don’t know what am missing but yeah, what’s to be expected in his method of bulk importation.
84  Economy / Speculation / Re: You have a better chance with Bitcoin now than the next minute! on: March 24, 2024, 03:17:21 PM
BTC price at the beginning 2018: $13K
BTC price at the end 2018: $3.8K

BTC price on May 1, 2021: $53K
BTC price on May 30, 2021: $38K

OMG I'm in loss, Bitcoin is SCAM. Shocked

If you cherry pick to calculate the profit, I'd cherry pick to show if you can loss in Bitcoin for holding 1 month or 1 year.
Those skeptics and anti-Bitcoin will definitely pick their calculator and will show to the world on how much is the "loss" that someone has if they've invested on the peak. But that's how it is going to look like if they're not going to zoom the charts. While if they have that base argument and they always cherry pick then we also have our own by just looking at how someone earned a lot by just holding it like start it on 2017 or even by 2020.

The key is hold for long term i.e. at least for 4 years!
This could be long for them but that's the essence of HODL and long term investing.

Oh yeah, it’s an interesting place to look and though I was more of “our own” as used in your quote, a sort of cherry pick and barely mentioned on the price corrections that happened along the years, it’s important that investors don’t forget that, it doesn’t matter much what price is doing at a down time, you could always buy even more and wait on the Bitcoin to side the bulls. This is the ideal time to take profit should you wish to.
Having to sell your Bitcoin when the market price is down or below where you might have bought them is a self acclaimed decision to be at a loss. It’s not on Bitcoin but rather, you as the investor deciding to settle on a loss.
85  Economy / Speculation / Re: 100 Push-Ups A Day Until Bitcoin Is $100K Challenge on: March 20, 2024, 10:44:22 AM

I am still focused on quantity over quality, and it remains my view that my quality is also improving with the mere fact that I am doing the pushups every day and 5 sets per day. 

I am less sore, more push-ups per set, get through the push ups faster and with less pain, less rest time between sets and perhaps some other noticeable improvements.  I am probably around 1 second per pushup, and there still might be some point that I am willing to slow down and reduce my quantity by 1/2 or 2/3 or even more, just to start to focus on something else, but right now I am still increasing my quantity per day.. and my last three sets were 50, 45, 50.. .. so that is more than I had been able to do in the past, and so I have two more sessions for today.. ..and so it could end up going higher than my so far 205 daily maximum... which I feel really go about that, since my first several days I could not even do 100 pushups without being very sore.. .. and yeah, today I am still planning on going for a walk so sometimes other exercises can affect subsequent push-up sets.. but I still have quite a few more hours left in the day.
Oh wow, 5 sets and you’ve been able to archive 205 for a day at some point, that’s a whole lot of push-ups and sets.

Basically, I reserve exercises for a morning and evening session when I can. I say when I can because, I skip days when I over sleep or just don’t feel like doing it for that day but, I still try though.

Meanwhile, I don’t know what 5 sets of push ups might be like. Like how do you split it within the day… it must come with ease but, you must have a lot of free time to session these exercises.

And yeah, 205 is possible with that much session, takes a great deal of discipline too as you have to remind yourself and push yourself to doing the task at hand, not to mention, the pains that would be on your shoulders. Surely you are building endurance as you’ve noted with the numbers your able to achieve which wasn’t the case before.
Even I with a history of push ups haven’t achieved 205 in any particular day. The most I have done and that was in the past was around 170 push ups. Now, I stick around 125 push ups and below. Haven’t really being pushing for more but, I guess the sessions helps and that comes at a great deal of discipline.
86  Economy / Speculation / You have a better chance with Bitcoin now than the next minute! on: March 20, 2024, 10:28:04 AM
Have more volume for less $value

During my short time here and checking on Bitcoin back to its roots when it had barely any value, you would find out that, time spent in doing nothing continues to prove costly as the Bitcoin progresses.
Of course one might buy Bitcoin just anytime you like, but the difference in quantity will always make the huge difference.

Where:
Year starting 2020; $7,200 = 1BTC
Year ending 2020; $28,950 = 1BTC.

Imagine this happening in the same year. You’ve got a difference of:
$28,950 - $7,200 = $21,750

Now, you’ve bought at the year ending, same one unit of 1Bitcoin and it’s cost you $21,750 more $ than you would have by buying at the start of the year. That would have meant;
$28,950 / $7,200 = 4.02BTC.
That means, you’ve got 3BTC more to account for your $21,750 more value.

In successive year, it continued in an increasing order and reduced in 2022. Giving investors a buying opportunity yet again.

Coming to recent time,
In this month, we’ve seen Bitcoin at $73,000 value and today it’s dumped to around $63,000 and from the look of it, the bulls is gaining some momentum in today’s market. This speaks of the more volume you would accumulate for your $value to buy now rather than wait on the market for the market for more examination and it could push through to $70,000 in the next minute (could be exaggerated), giving you less volume for more $value.
Hence, buying at current price gives:

Starting today 20th March: $63,000 = 1BTC
At a later time when price is up $73,000 = 1BTC
A difference of $10,000 = 0.16BTC as more value at a later time. That is also what you stand to loss by not taking chances with the price at the moment.

If the plan could be holding as it’s mainly advocated and most of the precedents to this time continues to do, gains are not far behind. Thought it might dump, it would rise as it’s evident in its history and what better time to not wait but buy before the halving.

Buying to hold today is not having get less volume for more $value but rather, more volume for less $value.
87  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: What to know of Nodes and Running a Node on: March 19, 2024, 10:33:47 PM
Ethereum has never been user-centric. Their philosophy is worlds apart from that of Bitcoin. It has always been a network where a selected few who belong to the Ethereum Foundation has the say on the future. Just remember the big DAO hack of many years ago when these 'big' players lost. What did they do? They simply clicked the restart button, and it never happened. That same button would never have been hit if you and me lost that money or anyone else of less importance to them.  

Not to mention the fact that Ethereum had a huge pile of coins pre-mined and pre-awarded to a selected list of wallets, including the co-founders and the Ethereum Foundation. That's rubbish!
The current circulating supply of ETH is 120,077,426 tokens. But, 72,000,000 tokens were pre-mined and pre-allocated to the founders and the Foundation.
It's very fair, indeed Tongue I wish Ethereum never happened, but it did...
Oh wow! That’s says a lot on the project as it’s seemed self centered and focused on those with a core in its foundation and these possibility simply means, there any anything that can’t be done to the detriment of the public and of advantage to the pioneers behind Ethereum, all they need is a name to call it and some lame excuse. That’s bad!
88  Other / Meta / Re: Bitcoin price update modification on homepage on: March 18, 2024, 05:57:54 PM
Possibility of influx of new users
How is this feature going to cause an influx of new users, people don't join bitcointalk because they want to see what Bitcoin's price is, there are many places they can get that it from, people join here because they want to discuss about Bitcoin and other whatnots.
Obviously, it’s a discussion space about Bitcoin and other crypto related developments and Bitcoin price update is very much a part of that. It’s what the community is about right!
Having to suggest the possibility of new users joining the platform, it’s not uncommon for anyone out of curiosity to search about Bitcoin price on the web. Using Google search engine amongst others and these search engines work on the bases of what previous users have searched for, the updates on related materials and where. Should it be that, Bitcointalk puts out this price update on the web, it would be suggested by Google in searches by just anyone which could lead to the registration of new account from persons who takes interest after using the forum link as would be provided in the search.

Increased participation in what? Forum activities? It only takes a few seconds to visit websites for BTC price, it definitely does not hamper forum participation.
I mean this in the sense that, possibly you just wanted to drop by on the forum, maybe just to see the price of Bitcoin (in the event that the forum was providing this update) and then, after you’ve achieved your initial purpose of viewing the price update, you just might get moved to proceed to other parts of the forum to see what’s new over there.
89  Other / Meta / Re: Bitcoin price update modification on homepage on: March 18, 2024, 03:02:58 PM
The forum must remain neutral in relation to other price disclosure platforms. Therefore, having such a table involved presenting data from a third party company.
Doing this only makes sense if the company pays for the forum. But, I doubt there is interest (on the part of the forum) to sell/rent this space.

Furthermore, each price reference website always gives different values (even if the variation is low). And each user has their own price references. That said, I don't think it makes sense for the forum to present this type of information.
I had a thought about that when creating this topic, I guess I highlighted the eventuality of this and possible traffic ot might generate to any third party website.

Should it be a paid advert, I don’t know if that is of any necessity to the forum or community but, this too could be worked out. With regards to neutrality I think obvious consideration of data from several sites of a defined range, considered to have gotten some prominence and relevance in the crypto world, averaging the price index for all to serve as STANDARD PRICE could be speaking a uni true while and be in some form of neutrality too.
90  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Bitcoin private key or nonce find on: March 18, 2024, 01:57:38 PM
Hello. Do you have any code or equation to find the nonce value used in bitcoin transfer? I do not have a known useful method to obtain the private key and I wanted to collect it under this heading. Let's share our knowledge and solve the formula  Huh
Nonce is unique to a block and if you could find the block the said transaction is or was been mined in, you could as well be able to locate the nonce of that block and in turn, transaction of interest.

About the private key, given the security and importance attached, I don’t understand how you could hope to find this since, it’s a means to import a wallet and take charge of the signatory which is some means to authorize, sign or exchange ownership of value on all or a given amount of Bitcoin required in a transaction. I don’t think this possible.
91  Other / Meta / Bitcoin price update modification on homepage on: March 18, 2024, 01:39:52 PM
Price modification

Hi guys, I am relatively new here haven’t been around only months of this year but, in light of suggestions as to modifications that might instill some consciousness on users of this space, I want to make a suggestion that could prove useful in updates and not necessarily require users to look up other sites for something as vital and utmost necessity like the Bitcoin price.

Personally, I have to look up the Bitcoin price every other day, of course I have done that several times today and the price at the time of my writing this is about $67k - $68k.
I am sure there are a lot other individuals that does this on a regular as well. Especially given the fact that, Bitcoin has been bullish lately.
We have a Wall Observer thread, though it’s got most of its discussions relevant, the most take or point of argument that seems to make the thread it’s best fit is one that isn’t largely looked at on the page or so I think is, the Bitcoin price update. Most of us, using myself for a reference point often goes to other sites like Coinmarket.com, coindesk.com or popular exchanges like Binance et. al to seek price update.

Meanwhile, this is something that could or should be accessed rather easily on the forum. Perhaps the forum don’t hope to consider itself hooked with any site for price update as this would relatively serve promotional purpose to the site indirectly, I think we could have an all in one purpose site that could increase clicks here none the less even though, this isn’t the aim or the community isn’t in any particular need of this but, it would aid users to be here more often.

Format for display:
While this remains open to suggestions,


I don’t know what it’s like for you guys with higher ranks and already has an avatar display but, I think we’ve got a good enough spaces in two places designated by rectangles on my page.


Edit: Would have liked to edit my suggestions into places but, the device am using at the moment doesn’t have that function. Maybe someone who understands what am postulating can come up with the design.

Possible Results we could get from this:
The forum would be subjective to Google search engine for price update to anyone and everyone.
Possibility of influx of new users
Increased participation as users no longer need to go to other sites for something as little as price update which would in turn, push towards looking up what is new on the forum.
There would be some accurate and more trust in what price the forum is displayed to be authentic.
Increased awareness on what Bitcoin price is doing and this could lead users to invest and hold more.

The good thing this far is that, we’ve got Chartbuddy doing something similar in the WO at the speculation board, perhaps the user should run it on a more open space or some other community staff.

Conclusion:
It would be a plus and more signatory to what the forum is about I think.
92  Other / Meta / Re: [REQUEST] the wall observer thread should be pinned. on: March 18, 2024, 11:20:58 AM
Probably some of us consider the WO thread as the troll box of the forum.. or the forum's main chat thread....and maybe some forum members don't know that?    Even though a newbie might get beaten up verbally if joining the WO thread as a beginner, no one can really stop anyone from posting there about any topic, even though you will likely get beaten up if you try to pump shitcoins in that thread...
I think someone who would consider you a troll or having to participate in any troll box should try matching your quality or bringing much insights as I see you do in several arguments the much I’ve had to read from you anyways. You often come with volume and postulates that speaks facts with logical conclusion to each statement.



With that being said, though I’ve only been seeing that topic of recent, I must say, it’s got a lot of activities on it and there is always constant price update. The community definitely need such function since we really concerns ourselves with what is Bitcoin doing. Maybe they don’t get to update the whole topic as some of the informations it Carrie’s would not be relevant in the form of being directly instructive. This is the idea I find the few pinned post I’ve read to be about but, I think it would be a plus to the community to have a price update on the home page of the forum, just like a digital clock.
93  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Unique serial number for every single satoshi on: March 13, 2024, 05:54:13 PM
While the OP might be a large text to read more carefully to understand, I might follow through on some of them but, I really didn’t pick in on how (what I might consider as the constant) 110000. While .5000000000 and all might explain for failing zeros and the 50BTC in Satoshi conversion, how did the supposedly #110000 which continues to reoccur in the rule of inheritance for output and input comes to be?
94  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: apogio's Bitcoin Tools & Tutorials on: March 13, 2024, 05:43:17 PM
Haven’t to see someone like yourself who only joined up a year to this time (although it might seem like a long time) but considering how far the forum has come and the fact that, you’ve come this far to the point of creating simple tutorials to help other users push through even as you learn as well is very inspiring. It tells the magnitude of work that is been put in this forum and what one could archive with some focus.

Just a quick look at your tutorials, I find some of it to come with series and quite self explanatory in simple, logical and some have pictorial representations of steps, that’s cool. Hope this is up more than before for more exposure.

It might be days after but, one year is some time to not say,
Happy anniversary apogio!
95  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin is not a quick rich and get poorer investment. on: March 11, 2024, 11:20:09 PM
Investing in Bitcoin should be approached with caution, as it is not a guaranteed way to quickly become rich or avoid financial challenges. It's crucial to thoroughly research and understand the risks associated with cryptocurrency investments before making any decisions.
While I may accept a cautious approach to Bitcoin investments, I think the getting rich idea itself, like having to have that thought that you would be rich in the end is a bad idea that creates in potential investors and investors the motive to go straight ahead to doing just what they feel is right with Bitcoin investment.
Thai shouldn’t be the case, Bitcoin might be seen or is seen to be just about the safest Cryptocurrency that exists or to pick an investment in and have a high level of security but, don’t go with the idea of getting rich suddenly or at all even. Your free to be hopeful and your sure to be better than when you came but, ensure your taking good steps and approach towards your investment.
Learn to buy and hold as it appears to be the safe option for just anyone, experienced or not.
96  Economy / Speculation / Re: Buy the DIP, and HODL! on: March 11, 2024, 11:02:18 PM
It is hard to imagine any successful investor who ONLY invested for 13 months and ended up being successful from that.. that seems more  like a fantasy than a reality, even though maybe once in a while there might be those kinds of stories... they are not reflective of the real ways that real people actually end up putting themselves in better financial situations in the real world.
Good point. Some persons go with investment with the idea of a retirement. Like, once you’ve attained certain achievements with your investment, you get the idea that it’s enough and you begin to reap the proceeds.
Well guess what, your investment could crumble, inflation could be the order of the day and some unexpected or unconsidered expenses could come and eat up all you’ve accumulated and estimated to last a lifetime in just a single month. That’s how risky the world we live in could affect us and our plans.
That’s why, it’s always best you don’t have a single stream of income and you keep investing the much you can as you go.

And to buy one bitcoin recently is expensive for most of us, so inorder to meet such  goal the individual would  need to engage with different strategies in accumulating bitcoin like DCAing and the others,  such individual may have different goals before the main goal which is one bitcoin, so those goals can be 0.01 Btc, 0.05 Btc, 0.1 Btc, 0.5 Btc, then 1Btc (final goal ) respectively. Depending on the individual financial capability and the price of bitcoin. But same person can still continue with his accumulation either with DCA or buying the dip , once in while (not as frequent or aggressive like when one have a goal to hit) ,  So I guess that what you should be doing now .

I doubt that there is any need for a final goal, but sure I get your point that there are likely easier to reach goals and working up to a longer term goal that might seem difficult to achieve (or maybe even seem impossible to achieve)... .. and so yeah, it is good to keep the various goals in mind and also to readjust from time to time, too... since there could be several differences in your situation 4-6 years later versus when you first established the goals, besides the fact that maybe you had already reached several of the lower level BTC accumulation threshold points.
Perhaps 1 Bitcoin might be a short term goal but never a long term goal or a final goal like it’s said in quote. Final goals always tends to be temporal because, these goals where formed or decided based on your current standing and resources of which, would tend small or just not enough as it is with human nature. As you tend to grow and achieve your aims in life, so do you aim higher. That’s how effective your growth could be on your goals. So, goals can’t be final!
97  Economy / Speculation / Re: 100 Push-Ups A Day Until Bitcoin Is $100K Challenge on: March 11, 2024, 09:48:32 PM
I think it is not possible to do 100 push-ups per day, but for me, I can do maybe 10 to 15 push-ups per day. If I do 100 push-ups a day, I may put too much stress on my muscles and my physical condition may suffer. So I think until Bitcoin touches $100k, I might push up body weight.
Not possible for you I would say but, it doesn’t apply to everyone.

It doesn’t matter much for someone like myself that have been doing push ups for a while, even before this challenge. This challenge was just a push to get back on track with my good days doing some home work outs. Besides, am still young and my health matters to me.

100 push ups might seem like a large number for a starter but, have some consistency to it and your endurance gradually builds. When it hurts, you know your about your limit and you know when exactly to draw the line. Am no gym instructor but, have been around the gym a few times and the last push is what locks it in.

So, how do you do your push ups?
I haven’t been very consistent with this challenge, truths be told but, I do my push ups for sure.

First, I do a wide am push up, spread like a crab;
Usually I am energy packed as it’s always my first attempt and have a rapid 30 before my hands gradually weakens, I continue in bits of 10, 5 and so on, swaying side ways, left and right in between for relaxation with your hands still positioned, I continue my push up until it gets to 50. Then, I take few minutes break (2-3minutes). This widens your chest.

Second attempt, I bring my hands much closer to be straight at my shoulder level;
For this one, the target here is usually 30 push ups, I just go with a little momentum, try to push myself to 20 or 25, using the same swaying in between 5 push ups or 10 as the case may be. That’s after I have pushed for a good number as well. Then I take my break, drinking water as push through.

My third attempts is usually diamond push ups where I have my hands locked in themselves, just right in between my chest. I think this one pumps your chest out;
For this, I try to go at least 15 push ups. It’s usually the most difficult, your weight seems to concentrate on you and your shoulders would literally vibrate due to tension in your muscles. Doing even 10 is not usually easy especially when your just starting but, you try and build endurance on the way. So, you target 15 push ups, sway in between whatever number, maybe take a break and later get at it depending on how I can hold up but, ensuring you achieve 10 of it. Then I could call it a day for push up.

Mind you, some days you can’t active all that in the morning so, when my muscles is tensed up, I just do the rest in the evening. Just take notes in my head on what number I stopped and what style I was doing. When I separate it though, I might beat 100 push ups for a day.

I also try some abs fitness excess. Just lay back, have my legs hinged and I pull myself up towards my knell. At times I do this in between my push ups to enable my muscles get some relaxation and at other times, I do that after.  It all depends on what my muscles detects for me not to strain them.

So yeah, 100 push ups is possible and achievable by anyone, just a matter of technique and consistency. If your entirely new to it, you would find it had but, gradually building on it, you would find the endurance to push on.
My last exercise was Saturday though. Haven’t been consistent with it.

Note: Bitcoin seems to be in a haste to end this challenge as $100k isn’t looking far away, Bitcoin did climb up to $72.5k today from what I can see in the charts.
98  Economy / Speculation / Re: BTC created new ATH before Halving: are you surprised? on: March 10, 2024, 01:10:54 PM
For someone that haven’t been here for long or haven’t been following up with the Bitcoin price, I’m not surprised at the recent development. One notable thing about patterns is that, it’s subject to changes and these changes should be accepted as a new order. Not like anyone could do something about it but, if one believes or accepts the market to be a partially unpredictable environment and Bitcoin to be very volatile, then we could as well accept the fact that, patterns would not be maintained. While this might be the first of its kind, breaking of its all time high and creating a new high just before the halving, it would be a new norm to the realms of possible occurrences in the market.
Factors that could result in this is;

The more popular nature of Bitcoin at this time,
The expectation of the halving, with the occurrence just weeks away,
The tons of investors pitching their tent to take advantage of what was known etc,

It’s definitely something to smile at and take advantage of.
99  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Excessive Bitcoin fees on: March 01, 2024, 07:37:41 PM
It's February 26, 2024, and Bitcoin fees are high again. Didn't satoshi say we should always allow a certain number of free transactions?

Mining isn't charity activity, so don't expect miner or pool would do that. Besides, it's just suggestion and was never enforced by Bitcoin protocol.

What good is a cryptocurrency for the un-banked that costs more than a bank to use?

IMO if those people are unbanked not due to lack of money, Bitcoin still offer some advantage.

Why is the present status quo acceptable?

Personally i don't accept it, but Bitcoin community is on conservative side.

I don’t find anyone to really do anything for free especially, when it’s going to cost them something to do it. Miners gets to procure these devices to enable them mine and get the rewards that follow, they spend on energy too used by these devices that have pushed environmentalist to take interest on energy used by mining and so, having any hope that these shouldn’t be subsidized from fees is a mistaken idea.

While the model of high fees would not be acceptable, it tends to persist only for a period of time and that in itself is acceptable. In a way, it discourages users from making more and more transactions which would in turn result in scarcity and that is good for the system I think.
100  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Bitcoin and Green Energy Subsidies on: March 01, 2024, 07:27:31 PM
From a developing standpoint the only solution to energy consumption (regardless of it being "immense" or not as it is claimed) is to find an alternative mining algorithm that doesn't consume the same amount of energy but at the same time keeps the principles of Bitcoin such as decentralization intact.

So far the attempts made in the past with alternative algorithms (such as Proof of Stake) are introducing serious flaws into the system by changing the algorithm.
Still on the developers stand point,
I’ve come to understand that mining of Bitcoin have had a shift as per level of sophistication. From a time when all that was needed was just a device, a desktop was okay for the task and now, they’ve got sophisticated devices designed for the sole purpose of coming up with these calculations for block reward and confirmation of transactions.

This is largely due to the design by Satoshi Nakamoto as per difficulty level and block reward after the halving. With the fact that, these devices are the ones using up these energy, wouldn’t it make more sense for the company behind these devices design it in such a way that, it’s able to use less energy or perhaps have some backup energy source to switch to remotely, creating a time out for conventional energy source like the fossil fuel.
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