"App to let criminals know where the easy targets are". Even turning it up once, while you are at home, is enough to put a mark on your back. And people generally don't exchange currencies that often, so there's no need for such an app. Existing solutions like forums, chat groups, social networks, etc. work just fine.
Don't forget it can be also used by criminals to lure other's by setting themselves in the app that they want to trade. Just imagine them waiting for targets to show up ![Cheesy](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cheesy.gif)
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It depends on many things: 1. do you want to keep those altcoins or just mine and sell for something else? 2. do you solo mine or use a pool? - If you solo mine you need each different wallet afaik. 3. if you mine in a pool, check if the pool doesn't keep the money for you until you want to withdraw 4. also if you mine in a pool, maybe you want to use a multi-pool that auto-exchanges your earnings into a coin you want.
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Maybe. I don't deny it. And also maybe it should be changed to be based on something else than number of blocks, to cover any case of sudden huge leave of the miners (although, debatable, the chance for that is small).
One of the beauties of shitforks is that we can see the effect of their pisspoor tweaks. The emergency difficulty adjustment thing has massively warped Bcash at times and mining on it is basically a strategy game these days, if anyone can be bothered at all. As ever there's a balance to be found and Bitcoin errs on the side of caution and sustainability. The way it's set up can foster short term grind sometimes but at least it remains dependable. I clearly don't want a derailed shitfork ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) I am aware that the perfect balance is difficult to find, hence my wording with maybe. Also I know how difficult is any change to get accepted, so I don't expect ... anything. The devs did a great job so far keeping the right balance and so far I trust them. Still, I think it never hurts to give them ideas now and then. They have a better overview and they can make their decision.
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or 2016 ten minutes
It's not 10 minutes, hence it's better to tell by number of blocks, especially if you talk about devs. It should happen more often than it is right now.
Maybe. I don't deny it. And also maybe it should be changed to be based on something else than number of blocks, to cover any case of sudden huge leave of the miners (although, debatable, the chance for that is small).
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What a terrible way to try and gain gold exposure... That’s basically throwing your money away.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Let's say I'd choose the seller you propose: I don't live in US of A so I may pay more for shipping, then local VAT and other fees for out-of-EU item than for the actual gold. Then selling it back for Bitcoin is basically out of question, so it would be many more steps (and fees) and getting back to Bitcoin. So.. what makes that website good for me? And why holding stable coins is "throwing your money away"?
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Halving caused it with more interest for Bitcoin and with instability with block times because of hash rate drop. I dont understand why developers dont make difficulty adjustment more often then once every two weeks.
Difficulty adjustment happens every 2016 blocks, it's not at 2 weeks and if the things will continue like now it may very well take more than 2 weeks this time. And every time there are big fluctuations in the price the mempool gets more crowded. Still nobody seems to blame the arbitrage bots.
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Is this all the bears & manipulators have got?
We’ll be at $15,000+ by the end of the year.
I think that there may be coming more such waves. However, indeed, that 15k+ sounds more than reasonable.
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While sitting in quarantine at home I started to think about gold. Yes I know a weird thing to think about but I was just interested in buying gold, as it is one of the oldest payment methods. ![Wink](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/wink.gif) Gold is not weird at all. I was thinking of buying gold in November-December 2017 and I am sad I didn't do that, just I didn't find a good way to do it (shipping, customs, ... possible headaches). But now it's much easier for crypto lovers because since then there started to grow quite some interesting gold backed stable coins, which can be much easier for us to handle. But I won't say more, since this is not the best place to discuss altcoins.
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I think it is the responsibility of governments to take care of their people.
It's not like that. At least not directly. The government should give good and equitable laws and should allow law enforcement organizations work properly (without giving them too much or not enough power). Based on this people should learn to be smart and take care of themselves. If people learn enough and gets smart enough, they'll see that perfect laws and perfect balance is impossible to achieve, especially in the current type of democracies where the government's top goal is to .. get elected next time. (I won't even talk about non-democratic countries, there's much worse there.) The hate actions are caused by lack of knowledge, lack of culture and heavy misinformation and manipulation. If people would use their brains more they would see through all this and would ignore / block such tweets / posts. Banning based on race would do more bad than good. Freezing (stealing!) others' money is a theft unless they are found guilty and the judge allows that operation. Ban based on IQ could be more appropriate (joke aside!), but unpractical, not comprehensive enough and still unfair and people that find easier to destroy or kill instead of reading one more book you can always find in your country too, no matter which one is that.
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The logic behind the bitcoin as the future currency is rigged and makes no sense at all, this is also why gold, diamond, silver, etc. is incomparable to bitcoin because they all have a practical use that is hard to be replaced while on the other part, with bitcoin, its practical use is easy to replaced, in fact we already have better coins than it but we chose to live with its brand name.
You should read more before using big words like these. A lot more. (Unless you are trolling, of course.) Also you should try to see the reality under the nice words. And keep in mind that not everybody who can write on the internet is to be trusted. Then you may be able to see the mistake under the "better coins" idea and also under "the logic behind the bitcoin as the future currency is rigged and makes no sense at all" (I wonder where you get them from.)
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at the same time I do think the cryptocurrencies should have been divided on the basis of various factors. For example you can take stable coins on the left and normal coins on the right .
Indeed, interesting idea, but quite bad implementation - I think that maybe it just cannot be done right with only 2 dimensions. I don't agree on the stable coins idea though. Afaik most stable coins are acting as tokens on various platforms, so they should not get a different "root", most should just stay with the rest of the tokens.
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Brave is more than great if you use it on only one device, preferably laptop/computer.
I have to use it on 2-3 different computers and the smartphone. And then the problems start: temporarily there's no sync for the browse history and bookmarks, 3rd party password managers don't work good on many smartphones (including mine), .. and all this is a show stopper.
The rewards are extremely low, I don't believe it worth to pick your browser / extensions based on that.
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On the serious side, we have more chances to see it happens than not. I mean, if you see the number of people predicting 1BTC could be worth $100k or 1 sat=1$ and the number of people telling us Bitcoin will collapse soon or later...
It's just speculations but statistically seeing how things are going for a decade there is a high probability to hit the $20k line again. (I can bet money) At least I hope we won't need to say "The good old time when a bitcoin cost $20k"
That's correct. I actually expect we'll also have the days when we'll say "The good old time when a bitcoin cost $20k" (!). Still, OP asked if that will happen. No event in the future has 100% probability, hence that answer of mine. If he would have asked "do you expect..." or "is there a good chance....", then the answer would have been ... the speculations ![Wink](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/wink.gif) Edit: and I never trusted/believed the junkie dreams of Nostradamus.
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The answer to the topic title is "could be, but nobody knows for sure" Why or why not?
Because, you know, time travel and crystal balls don't actually exist, so nobody knows what future holds.
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another good suggestion is to stay away from scam website such as bitcoin . com that would dump an altcoin on you and call it bitcoin.
OP, I think that this should be added in a way or another, but with big fonts and colors, to the first post. Since bitcoin . com keeps advertising that their altcoin is the true Bitcoin, newbies will keep getting fooled and many of them will also send those to Bitcoin addresses. (Though unfortunately in many cases they also come here only after making the mistake.)
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If OP never told them about the bug, they would've probably let him withdraw the entire amount.
And it could have been accused of stealing, since exploiting bugs to get money is some sort of stealing, after all. Also the probability to withdraw all is not that big unless OP caught all the onwer(s)/admin(s) away for all that time. And big amount withdrawals are usually verified by a human.
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In the end he left me with 6.5BTC and I kept the XP points. The bug bounty as it was called.
I think that it was pretty much reasonable. Abusing bugs is usually not allowed. It's common sense. I don't know though if it's covered by ToS and how is it covered by law.
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It looks to me like hardware wallets war just started, as Ledger released research Actually the war has started more than a year ago. See here. Since then Ledger releases now and then notes about certain vulnerabilities of Trezor. However, it was discussed and turned on all sides, and the proper result is that there's nothing to worry about the hardware wallets as long as others don't have physical access to them. With physical access on the other hand, there are a lot of possible problems.
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