Well that's not what you said earlier.


Again, you're not defining what "centralized" vs. "decentralized" entails... You are projecting some arbitrary, unknown standard. There's definitely different metrics by which decentralization can be measured, which in addition to what I mentioned earlier also include mining pools as a % of total hash rate, the service providers of node hosting, and % of coin supply held by individual wallets. All of these things can affect a cryptocurrency's level of centralization/decentralization.

Are you reading this chart the same way I am? 5 years ago there was about 4.1k transactions per day and now its about 26k transaction per day... That's an increase of over 5x. I'd say that definitely suggests adoption is occurring.


These websites are counting different things: the first is active (currently reachable) nodes, the second is total nodes seen within the last 2 weeks.

Cmon man, what are you talking about? Are you basically suggesting that whatever amount of nodes Bitcoin has, that is arbitrarily the minimum required for decentralization? So when Bitcoin had less nodes than other coins do now, it wasn't centralized? Do you go by global dispersion of miners? Or do you go by development decision-making process? If its the latter two, then Bitcoin isn't the most decentralized. Let's go by the first one for argument's sake.

Current node count for major cryptos:

Bitcoin - 49,944
Ethereum - 7,914
Dogecoin - 6,732
Monero - 3,515
BNB Smart Chain - 2,242
Solana - 1,960
Litecoin - 954
Polygon - 183

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/12spjfx/most_decentralized_cryptos_by_number_of_full_nodes/

Simply put, its dumb to say "only Bitcoin is decentralized" for multiple reasons. You are arbitrarily defining what decentralization entails to make sure that only BTC meets this definition. Rather, its a granular scale, from most centralized to most decentralized.

I know "rah rah go bitcoin, bitcoin over all"-type posts (or threads, like this one) often results in getting easy merits from loose merit-givers, but it leads to misunderstanding and incorrect generalizations. A basic dumbing down of thought in order to root for a home team.

For the ChatGPT (or whatever you're using) to produce a sentence like this, it looks like you asked it to generate a post for you, and felt it sounded too lengthy and technical, so you asked it to rewrite it:


Its not a violation of any rule per se, its just taking a shortcut. Ultimately it doesn't matter if you use AI or not; what matters is if it produces spammy garbage that nobody wants to read and adds nothing to the conversation. But there's far worse posters than you on this forum, so I didn't report any of your posts.

Wow, what an ass hat. Well what I make of it is there's a good chance he's used AI for other posts as well. I took a look through them and the ones I looked at came back between 0% - 30% AI, so its not really enough to report them. Something about his posts still feels off, but they're not the worst I've ever seen. Maybe he just recently took to using ChatGPT.

Here's what the other detectors had to say about the last two paragraphs of the post you quoted:

Hivemoderation: 99.9% likely to be AI generated
Copyleaks: Human Text!

So it appears he found a way to evade the detectors, he just slipped up with this one post.

Yeah well we've been waiting over 2000 years for that first comeback so...




A lot of Romans were visiting the forum after Jesus left.


I fundamentally disagree. Everything should be able to be made into a joke. So long as its funny.

"People say rape's not funny, you can't joke about rape. Well I'll prove you wrong: imagine Porky Pig raping Elmer Fudd." - George Carlin. If you don't know him, look him up. And Porky Pig and Elmer Fudd if necessary.


Dammit Loyce, you coax merits out of me, I don't want to give them to you but I have to.

Jesus didn't have a great trust list.



He kept Judas in there even after Judas had betrayed him, because he was into turning the other cheek and all that. As a result, everyone had to live with Judas' shitty trust ratings, until he was eventually voted off DT2, a few hundred years later.

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Satoshi's not coming back. Its truly a moot point and there's no reason to have him in your trust list... he was long gone before the trust system even started.

Hello shasan, I have sent 211 USDT to the address above:

https://tronscan.org/#/transaction/491c9990344476a4dcdb720225a286de248dfab7572d342b79b9213e4be84fde

I accidentally sent a BTC transaction to the exchange I am getting the USDT from with too low a fee and will have to wait for it to confirm. I will send you the remaining 9 + an interest charge within the next 3 days. Thanks for your understanding.

edit: sent the remaining 9 + 1 as a "tip", thanks

https://tronscan.org/#/transaction/4fbd361d4cc20ee9a922690691fb8f68283abb32ed77e2ba88094209ac5bf756

Idolatry of DT leads to butt hurt, and butt hurt leads to sadness, so don't do it. At this point its mainly just a collection of veteran forum members who are still here and undeterred by the drama and salt (and butt hurt) that comes part and parcel with the "responsibility." There is no magic or "club" feeling to it... We're all just here.


Even though I was young when the show was running, I remember watching Xena the Warrior Princess and her making my willy feel tingly, even though I didn't know why it was happening.

BitGirls tokens are now a huge success!

How/why?

Well, they were at the forefront of the digital trading card scene, predated only by Spells of Genesis and a handful of Rare Pepes. This makes them of interest to the vintage token / historical NFT community, which I suspect will grow along with the success of dissemination of Bitcoin.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-rebranding-in-japan-bitgirls-tv-show-to-sugarcoat-mtgox-drama


According to this article, the BitGirls series on Counterparty has the following distinctions:


Here's an example of one:



And this is its entry on the xchain block explorer:

https://xchain.io/asset/CHIKARINBG

For more info, check here:

https://rarejapanesenfts.com/collection/bitgirls/

There's no good or bad
No free will, no past or fate
Only the present

These are all companies that charge fees. If their server were to go down, there'd be no way to utilize them. This is the same reason I don't consider something like Uniswap to be a DEX... everyone is dependent on a single server, website, or single point of failure, so they are not decentralized.

An exception to this is ThorChain which utilizes liquidity pools of coins on different blockchains to perform swaps. The fees are paid to the liquidity providers rather than a company.

Litecoin is great because

1) Its a well-established coin, around since 2012.
2) It has active dev work,
3) Most recently adding MWeb which will help privatize certain types of transactions, and
4) It has a strong community.

My main problem with it is not as many services that I use support is as much as BTC, ETH, DOGE, even BCH, BNB and MATIC are more commonly accepted. Its hard to imagine a coin from 2012 suddenly taking the world by storm, but it does have its benefits and I think it will rise nicely with the nest bull run.

Dogecoin is the largest meme coin by market cap, ever. It also has the most dev work, the biggest community, and by far the best adoption when it comes to be used as a currency. The thing is most of the other meme coins aren't "coins" at all but rather "tokens," wholly premined, centralized in governance, not good for anything beyond sometimes getting pumped by hype.

Yes, I'm sure there's some of that but in several places around the world its far easier to become a crypto services provider than it is in the US. This is because some governments aren't as staunchly against it. The reason for this is (aside from extra tax revenue, kickbacks & bribes) the government doesn't mind if crypto usurps traditional financial service providers... it doesn't have as much of a vested interest in their success because they are foreign-owned companies. Although it is distant, there's possibly even the chance that they're crypto-friendly because it actually helps their own people.

If you receive XMR from a KYC exchange, they don't know who sent it to you, only that you received XMR. If you send XMR from a KYC exchange, they will know the address you are sending it to & the amount, but nothing beyond that. They really have no idea what you are using it for unless they ask you and you tell them.

I'm not sure there's any "decentralized" exchange for XMR. Maybe AtomicSwap supports it but I'm not sure, and they've had troubles recently. ThorSwap doesn't support it at all. There are only KYC exchanges, non-KYC exchanges, and swapping services (a mixture of KYC and non-KYC).

It is also kind of amazing that almost none of the VIP donors are interested in using their accounts anymore (for good, anyway). Just think about that: in essence, a single account is currently worth $1.85 MILLION... maybe their owners f'd off because they were seriously rich & didn't need it for anything, or else it is just a reminder to them of how much BTC they "wasted"... one or the other 

I do have to wonder how much one of those accounts could earn weekly in a signature campaign -- granted it still belonged to the original owner.

You have some cool stuff in here... COMICCOIN are a bit hard to come by, even if the supply is very high. Then you have something called PETAMINE which I never heard of before even though I used to follow Let's Talk Bitcoin back in the day. The first PETAMINE was issued back in June 2014, which makes it exceptionally old, the last issuance was in Sept 2014.

https://xchain.io/asset/PETAMINE

From the archived version of the URL in the description:


BIPFORUM looks like it was for token-gated website access at some point, which makes it akin to EARLY.

I'd be interested in taking your EARLY off your hands if you're interested. Feel free to shoot me a DM.

Still buying the following if you have them:

- FLDC (FoldingCoin)
- SJCX (Storj)
- LTBC (Let's Talk Bitcoin Coin)
- EARLY
- TATIANACOIN

Other tokens from 2014, including:

- JPJA
- JPGOLD
- COMICBOOK

Also if you have Spells of Genesis cards or Rare Pepes, feel free to send me a DM if you are interested in selling them or making a trade.

Thanks!

OK I'll add the other good thing BTC allowed me to have which are my own "vintage" Counterparty assets. A lot them are now worth something thanks to an emerging collector's market of old tokens on the major blockchains, mainly Bitcoin, Ethereum & Dogecoin, and to a lesser extent Namecoin and Monacoin. Some of the stuff I made back in 2014 turned out to be "firsts" for tokenization use cases, even if they didn't have pictures of frogs or apes attached to them.

I only wish I'd bought Spells of Genesis tokens and Rare Pepes when they came out in 2015-2016... some of them are worth mad money right now.