Regarding ease of use
I had that thought again a few days ago, when I sent some transactions.
"Why do I have to check these awful random strings of numbers and letters... why couldn't addresses be displayed like seed words or so"
My hope is that HW makers come up with a solution for that.
But Bitcoin development itself has stalled quite a bit in this area.
Of course, Bitcoin is not the place to try out every new idea, just to see how it goes. But I agree... more could have been done.
I guess many Devs rather work for shitcoin projects and get rich... market forces.
Probably there should be some kind of reward program paying BTC devs, when some of their ideas get implemented.
I wouldn't know how that should work, or specifically look like, but building something like that should be a community effort.
Yeah I agree. There have been attempts in the past to try to make addresses easier to use, but they all had attack vectors and compromises. Alas, I don't really see a good solution until banks start to allow btc to be stored in online accounts, with multi-level security protocols in place to make sure btc can't leave without adequate validation of the true account holder. Banks would also have to integrate something like Lightning rails in order to make transactions fast. But of course even if they did this, it violates the whole "hold your own keys, be your own bank" original purpose of Bitcoin. Not like the masses would even care, though. |
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I want an NFT to a native American cave wall painting. Or to Neil Armstrong's boot print on the moon. |
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I agree. Now he's saying that as long as the price trudges along the "lower bound" aka $40-50K, it's still valid. But look at his chart, it could literally still do that and go sideways until mid-2024. Which is what I've been saying all along. His $100K by Christmas 2021 scenario was never a certainty. But he did say that it was or else S2F invalid. An EOY parabolic run was expected by the majority, so the market was inclined to go another direction.
Isn't this the trap that the n00bs fall into literally every bull run tho? Bitcoin no does not do sideways. So whether you or PlanB would be saying sideways until 2024 that sounds like a ridiculously unlikely scenario, and either of you would be looney or out of touch with reality to be saying it. You misunderstood, J. I did not say it would go sideways until mid-2024. I said that PlanB is saying that if the price were to stay in the lower bounds of his S2F model, that it would still be valid. And that if you look at the lower bounds of the $40-55k range on his chart, it extends out until mid-2024. So ask yourself, what is HE saying then? But I guess we're the looney/out of touch ones, not him? Oh.. I was just thinking that it could be that we end up having something like $50k average for this halvening period.. and surely at that point maybe aspects of PlanB's model might need to be reconsidered.. and so 50% performance from the expectations of the model might well be considered as a possible failure.. perhaps? perhaps? I personally am not even willing to consider a $50k average (if it were to occur) for this halvening period as a failure yet.. let's see how the second half of this halvening period plays out..
PlanB is who made the initial claims, and is now moving the goalposts. Why should you conform to his redefinition of success or failure of the S2F model along with him? Now, do I personally think it'll stay in this price range all the way to mid 2024? Well of course not. I don't even think it'll stay here all the way through next year. |
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Haha...I think my needle is now stuck on "screw 'em". I mean, after over a decade, if they don't realize it by now, well....they can't be helped. |
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However, HWs really bring people to actually using Bitcoin.
I mean, I have met countless guys who hold five figures in "crypto" on exchanges and haven't even sent one transaction in their life.
Probably because they are terrified of screwing up, of fat-fingering and sending to a wrong address, or somehow losing all their coins completely. And what veteran even doesn't sweat a little bit, waiting for those first confirmations to start showing up? Especially with a large transaction. And I can completely relate, as that is how I felt in the beginning too. It really is a shame that the "ease of use" factor of bitcoin has not been improved really at all in 7-8 years. By now it should be as easy, secure, and painless/fearless as using your online bank account. It's still a HUGE impediment to global mass adoption. |
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most of my coins are in hardware wallets.
I just happened to have the large sum on coinbase prepping to spend on mine expansion.
Oh, sorry for the bad assumption. Glad to hear that you use hardware wallets. Personally if I'm going to liquidate a large amount of btc, it gets moved to an exchange and sold within minutes of hitting it. I just can't trust leaving any amount there for any longer than what is required to do the sale transaction. Also as others have said, SMS 2FA is terrible and is vulnerable to getting compromised. Digital 2FA auth app on a dedicated, isolated device (turn on/off wi-fi only to sync 2FA) is the only way to go. |
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I am not quite sure how they ported the phone.
I suspect they used tracfone had the cell number hoped by getting the email
that the email linked to tracfone and to coinbase was the same
so if they hack just the email
they could try to port the cell to their carrier.
then get into coinbase change password and use 2fa to allow withdraws and alter the email
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Best to buy a burner phone set up google to microsoft auth.
the coinbase account does not know that phone number so no one can port it over to another network.
Sorry that it happened, but I cannot figure it out from your description. coinbase did have some SMS troubles last May or so, maybe it is somehow related. The ported phone would jeopardize both methods (text or Authenticator), wouldn't it? what's the "email linked to tracfone"? why there is such a thing? Phone a the ported phone was a tracfone. I do have an email/phone account so they could have ported the phone from trac phone to Verizon mobile by entering my cell number They could have hacked the email using recovery to the phone. This gave them the phone and the email. they use that to go after the coinbase they change the password. they find that no changes in the account or withdrawals can be done without a code that is only available on a phone that no one knows the number. It is not 2fa. and gives a six digit number every 60 seconds . They could have been say with draw .25 btc and putting in random six digit numbers as I was driving home ( I think they get locked out after 3 wrong numbers). so I could have lost .25 btc if they got lucky. I think my error was the email recovery was linked to the cell which let them get into the email. That email is 22 years old I changed the password. I am playing with fake hacking of the now drained (by me) coinbase account to see if they just needed the have the phone number ported to be able to change the coinbase password. I also had the account set to need the auth app for any withdrawal (thank goodness) found this on coinbase signout session web 198.54.133.76 United States about 20 hours ago signout session web 198.54.133.76 United States about 20 hours ago signout session web 198.54.133.76 United States about 20 hours ago signout session web 198.54.133.76 United States about 20 hours ago signout session web 198.54.133.76 United States about 20 hours ago signout session web 198.54.133.76 United States about 20 hours ago password reset completed web 198.54.133.76 United States about 20 hours ago password reset requested web 198.54.133.76 United States about 20 hours ago signin failure api 187.11.158.232 Brazil 3 days ago signin failure api 187.11.158.232 Brazil 3 days ago all of the above is bad shit this looks like first shot they took signin failure api 2605:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxx:xxxx:c91f United States 7 days ago each signout session was likely 3 trys at moving the btc. random codes are 1,000,000 numbers so they had say 18 of 1,000,000 of grabbing the btc I am genuinely sorry to hear about this philipma. I'm also glad and relieved to hear that no coins were stolen. What am I about to say next, I hope you don't take as rubbing it in or anything. You have to decide what works best for you. But I can honestly say that if you had had your coins on a hardware wallet like a Trezor, none of that would have happened (provided you set it up correctly, have your security protocols right, and don't fall for the phishing scam of going to a fake Trezor website, etc.). I'm seriously baffled after all the talk and confirmation over the years about how great and solid hardware wallets are, that people still refuse to investigate and use them. In fact, if someone has a legit link of someone getting their coins stolen from a Trezor that wasn't a phishing scam, please link to it. I'd be curious to read it. So far I have come across zero. |
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Avoiding vaccination = helping spread the virus, giving it time to mutate and transform etc. So the reason we still haven't stopped this virus is in fact you and your anti-vaxxer comrades.
Arguably, it's the vaccinated that are responsible for the creation and transmission of these mutations. How is it that my Delta antibodies protect me from Omicron, but people exposed to the gene therapies utterly lack protection against the modified Omicron spike protein?
How am I able to spread the virus? I've had it, isolated for 14 days, and am theoretically immune from contracting or spreading it further until the other ~24 proteins significantly mutate. You can't. And you know what? Unvaccinated people who have not been exposed to Covid cannot spread the virus either. Huh, isn't that interesting? But in the Clown World we now live in, every naturally immune and unvaxxed person on the planet is apparently an unclean, walking petri dish of Covid just waiting to infect someone else by their very presence. Guilty until proven innocent (aka, until they get the vaccine that is). The fanatical vaxxed regard themselves as if they are completely clean, immune, and non-spreaders...such is the global mass delusion going on. I also had to laugh out loud when serveria.com above said "giving it time to mutate and transform etc." as if that is a bad thing, when he apparently doesn't know that this is EXACTLY what you want the virus to do. It is a well-known science fact that coronaviruses get weaker and less lethal as they mutate. So the more mutations the better, until it is no more of a threat than the common cold. But alas, real science left the building long ago. <sigh> In case it's not obvious, the CDC and FDA are not independent, they are governmental departments, with their obvious bias'. Neither do they need to prove anything either, they can simply leave it to independent experts to verify their data. This is how it's always worked in the past, even if it takes years even decades to achieve. Not to mention that the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) is a drug-based agency, clues in the name, not a vaccine-based agency (like the CDC), so they can't really be considered experts on vaccines in a hurry (but continue to be responsible for regulating them anyway), which naturally many medical professionals find relatively dumb. If there were a vaccine-based agency that was responsible for regulation, then there'd be more confidence within the scientific and medical community it seems.
Hopefully this helps to explain why many medical professionals don't trust the vaccines, because they haven't been given the opportunity to verify the data themselves (like they are capable of).
Most people don't know that 40% of the FDA's yearly budget is paid for directly by the pharmaceutical companies. 40%! Talk about collusion, conflict of interest, and potential corruption of the highest order. |
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I agree. Now he's saying that as long as the price trudges along the "lower bound" aka $40-50K, it's still valid. But look at his chart, it could literally still do that and go sideways until mid-2024. Which is what I've been saying all along. His $100K by Christmas 2021 scenario was never a certainty. But he did say that it was or else S2F invalid. An EOY parabolic run was expected by the majority, so the market was inclined to go another direction.
Isn't this the trap that the n00bs fall into literally every bull run tho? |
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The story is 100% real. But the person who posted it is a well-known anti-vaxxer and she isn't/wasn't familiar to this poor lady. She mentioned the wrong age etc.. besides the lady in this picture is now alive and well. Unlike many anti-vaxxers who died because of their stupidity...
THE POINT IS, THE WOMAN HAD THE ADVERSE REACTION TO THE VACCINE YOU DUMBASS. THESE VACCINES ARE NOT 100% SAFE. I never said that she died. But without medical intervention, she likely WOULD have, and it would have been the vaccine that killed her. Get it? And without recourse, and no one for her family to sue over it. She got lucky as hell. It doesn't matter who else linked to or framed the story. |
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EXACTLY! And such a coincidence: most anti-vaxxers are operating with fake facts and stats. Remember that pic you posted in reply to Alcohodl's post regarding his family member dying of covid? It's fake you know it?
I took you off /ignore just to reply to your stupidity. Even 2 minutes of internet searching would have shown you that it was a real story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9496075/Mothers-legs-erupt-horrifying-rash-blisters-getting-AstraZenecas-Covid-vaccine.htmlIn an attempt to work out what triggered the rash, medics also carried out tests for HIV, herpes and other skin conditions — but the results all came back negative.
Doctors eventually decided the vaccine caused her rare reaction after carrying out two biopsies, the Scottish newspaper reported.
Ms Beuckmann was then given steroids to calm her immune system down and stop the reaction. She said the drugs — which weren't named — are 'helping'.
Her doctor has advised that she shouldn't get her second dose because of her reaction. But I guess that clowns like you just calling it 'fake news' makes it so? Back to /ignore you go, twit |
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What a great man to guide us in our quest for the truth...
Once you decide to read about Dr. Fauci's corrupt medical practices, background, and history, you'll have a list of atrocities a mile long about that supposed 'great man guiding people to the truth'. Anyway, still waiting on your collected and compiled data showing the claimed efficacy of the vaccines....you know, 'the science'.... |
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*Banks who won't give you a loan because they don't recognize BTC as collateral have entered the chat*(yes, this actually happened to me) |
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That's EXACTLY the problem, and it's a massive problem. Journalists, lawyers, historians, even priests, have suddenly become medical experts and are publishing articles discrediting scientific work, pushing their own agendas and advising the masses on what to do and not do in health matters. And, sadly, many people buy into this misinformation, risking their lives and the lives of their families. One such example is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a conspiracy theorist and anti-vaccine advocate.
It's both funny and telling how you condemn this man without ever actually reading his book. If you had, you would see how well-researched it was and all the factual citations and data he painstaking collected to back his assertions. Everything thing he cited in his book about Dr. Fauci is absolutely factually true, and every cited event absolutely did happen. In fact, I'd very much like to see you prove otherwise. But alas in your world, I guess it's easier to just dismiss it and falsely label people as "conspiracy theorists" than it is to face the truth. Right? Like an ostrich sticking his head in the sand.  Note that I don't necessarily agree with Robert Kennedy Jr. on other worldly topics, or even his assertions about other vaccines in general. And I certainly don't see eye-to-eye with his political views. But as to Dr. Fauci's background, history, and motives, it's hard to refute documented, cited facts and evidence. Facts + data + stats + clear observations == truth False claims/beliefs + propaganda + wishful thinking == lies |
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For now I remain pro-vaxxer as well as pro-choice.
That's the way. Everybody else could also be anti-vaxxer as well as pro-choice. That's just it, anti-vaxxers ARE pro-choice. We are just defending ourselves and our personal decisions. We don't give fuck what others do with their body and health, and we certainly aren't advocating or pushing for what others should or shouldn't do. Leave us alone, and let us be. It's the fanatical pro-vaxxers out there that are on the attack. They want to plead with, belittle, mock, patronize, and condescend anyone who chooses not to get the vaccine. They want to push for mandates, to force *everyone* to take the vaccines, and to carry around vaccine papers to access places or privileges. They want to vaccinate their toddlers and children, and applaud when others do so as well. They applaud when people lose their jobs over refusing to get vaccinated. And they want everyone to continue wearing masks, basically forever. Supposedly for the "greater good". With absolutely no data or evidence to prove the efficacy of the vaccines. None. And they seem totally ok with constant lockdowns, and losing their civil liberties and freedoms day by day. They literally don't care about that! The fanatical ones are anti-choice and anti-freedom for sure. (notice I said "the fanatical ones", it doesn't apply to all in favor of the vaccines) It's been 2 fucking years now this shit has been going on. TWO fucking years! And here we are STILL fighting about it. This all ends when people stop complying with all these draconian policies and go about their lives. This all ends when people leave each other the fuck alone to make their own personal health choices, and to respect each others rights. Everyone. |
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I trust my family MD. He has been examining me, and directing my health plans and actions for years. He is young, aggressive, and follows 'new stuff'. I was initially reluctant, because most vaccines take decades to develop. He said to do it, so I did.
There are a lot of things that I know more about than my doctor. Medicine/disease/vaccines is not one of them, so I trust what he says.
I trust my banker, he has been doing all our families money business for decades. He is older, very smart and studied economics (<- science angle). Since he helped me transfer fiat to kraken, he knew I have some bitcoin. He called me today and recommended to sell this internet fantasy money, the bubble will pop he said. I didn't. For over a decade I blindly trusted my supposedly smart accountant with regard to financials and investing, until that fateful day in 2013 when he found out that I had heavily invested in Bitcoin. He told me that it was a complete scam, and that I should sell it all immediately. Thank god I didn't listen to that fool. And then I promptly fired him, and went on with my life. Now I'm bitcoin wealthy and retired. Btw, he is still slaving away as an accountant. Don't trust, verify. |
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OT: Need more proof that we live in an ever-deflating world where zombie corporations are being propped up with free money, and then with acquisitions? Take a look at Cerner, Oracle's latest acquisition. The are buying Cerner for $28.3 billion, the most Oracle as ever spent to acquire another company: Oracle to buy medical records company Cerner in its biggest acquisition everhttps://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/20/oracle-to-buy-medical-records-company-cerner.htmlNow you would think that Oracle is buying them because they are profitable? Nope. Cerner's financials say that their Total Debt to Equity ratio (FY) (%) = 29.81. Which means that out of that $28.3B equity valuation, they have $8.3B in total debt outstanding. If you believe the valuation estimate, that's still nearly a third of the company that is all debt! And over the past 4 years, their accumulating debt had been growing at a much faster rates than their profits. Which means they were on track to eventually going belly up. Is it any wonder that M&A is at an all time high? It comes amid a surge in global mergers and acquisition activity. M&A topped $5 trillion for the first time ever in 2021, led by technology and health care, according to a report cited by Reuters.
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Let me put it this way, so that my point becomes clearer:
Suppose that a heart surgeon is corrupt, but he is the only heart surgeon available to operate on me. If I have a serious heart condition, I will have no choice but to visit that doctor. I don't like him, but it's my only option for an operation. I won't need to be friends with him. I won't need to hang out with him. I just want him to operate on me and save me. I will simply use his services. I could choose not to visit him and wait at home until a more ethical surgeon becomes available. Would that be a wise choice? You answer that.
No I would not, as any sane person would not, and you are crazy in your bent justification. Your mental gymnastics are truly incredible to behold. Now that I know that you are batshit insane, I'm done having this conversation with you. I'm done. Especially since you seem to have all this time to type a bunch of emotional nonsense, but still refuse to answer of my questions about vaccine EFFECTIVENESS with any actual science data. Good luck with your fifty thousand jabs and boosters. I hope you don't die or have any side effects. /ignore Next time you go out shopping, or use any product, service, technology, medical help, or take any type of medicine, make absolutely sure to fully research the ethics of the companies behind those goods and services you're about to use. Be VERY prepared to be SURPRISED by the results. If you fully and truly believe and respect your grandiose ethics, you should be a man about it, abandon everything in civilized society and go live in a cave, animal skin for clothes, stones for tools, the works. A proper cave-man. Just don't return to society crying like a little sissy whenever you feel a pain in your body or you catch a cold. No medicine for you, those pharmaceutical companies are so corrupt, how dare you put those poisons in your body. Better pray to Karhu for help. Good luck waking up. You just don't get it, do you? Yes, I have had a number of vaccine shots (measles, mumps, chickenpox, tetanus, etc.) and have used and continue to use NUMEROUS pharmaceuticals on occasion in my lifetime, because they are relatively safe and very effective. And I will continue to do so when and where it make sense. And if there were another worldwide deadly virus outbreak like Smallpox, I would not hesitate to take the vaccine for it (provided it were safe and effective). But the CV19 vaccines? No. Because they are neither safe nor effective. The collected science data so far, and my worldly observations, tells me this. When it comes to your body and health, you personally have to evaluate everything in terms of risk vs. benefit, not just blindly follow what the establishment tells you that you should do. It's not an all or nothing, black or white scenario like you like to paint people in. Back to /ignore |
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Let me put it this way, so that my point becomes clearer:
Suppose that a heart surgeon is corrupt, but he is the only heart surgeon available to operate on me. If I have a serious heart condition, I will have no choice but to visit that doctor. I don't like him, but it's my only option for an operation. I won't need to be friends with him. I won't need to hang out with him. I just want him to operate on me and save me. I will simply use his services. I could choose not to visit him and wait at home until a more ethical surgeon becomes available. Would that be a wise choice? You answer that.
Go under the knife with a corrupt heart surgeon, even if he was the only one available? No I would not, as any sane person would not, and you are crazy in your bent justification. Your mental gymnastics are truly incredible to behold. Now that I know that you are batshit insane, I'm done having this conversation with you. I'm done. Especially now it's Monday and you still seem to have all this time to type a bunch of emotional nonsense, but still refuse to answer any of my questions about vaccine EFFECTIVENESS with any actual science data. Good luck with your fifty thousand jabs and boosters. I hope you don't die or have any side effects. /ignore |
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