Come on, Franky, the fact that some can now and then make a deal with the mining pool to mine their tx with small or no (on-chain) fee (who knows if other payment was made and how much that was?) is an exception.
The rule is that in 99.999% of the cases a mining pools will prefer the transactions with the higher fees ( per vByte ).


On the other hand, I do agree that paying more may, on long term only make all the fees gradually increase with no benefit for anybody else than the miners. Plus the users think that the next fee after 1 sat/vByte is 2 sat/vByte, not 1.1 or so, making the rise more abrupt.
I'd like to see this NFT spam gone, but I don't think it'll happen too soon. And I fear we are heading to ... what we had in December 2017 (as fees).

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Thank you.

Legal tender should not mean tax exemption, knowing that the state is, by definition, hungry for money.
But if bitcoin becomes legal tender there might become pretty difficult to know who and how much bitcoin did spend, since the grocery store doesn't ask for your ID.

I guess that sooner or later bitcoin will be recognized for what it is: another form of money. Then it should be no need for such tax and legal tender would be easy and normal. But governments need to be interested to do such a move, so my hopes are very low on that.

I'm not sure what country are you from, but Bitcoin is legal (ie not illegal) in most countries.
However, if Bitcoin will become legal tender, ie I'll be able to pay for everything I want with Bitcoin if I want to, then I'll be indeed very happy.

You're one hour off. Q1 is already running.


I've seen P3 and there Aston Martin and Mercedes have also looked strong. Max may have some real opposition this year. And if so it'll be great!

EPS is focused for single-wallet usage.
Electrs can be used with any amount of unrelated wallets. Also can be used by block explorer (if you install one).


I'm not sure what you mean here. I've always user Electrs locally and didn't expose it to the internet, it works very good like that. But I don't know if or where would be the settings Electrs would advertise itself as Electrum Server. However, since I have no port forwarding done for it, I'm not concerned.
On the other hand, I've done tests with another server, Fulcrum, and there I had to explicitly disable its announcing to get to same behavior as I have with Electrs.


In theory the seeds should be enough to re-create the wallet if it's the case.
Just imagine: from the seeds you can restore the original 3 wallets. And I guess that from the 3 original wallets the multisig one can also be re-created. I don't see any reason to not be like that, but you can easily try this when you have the devices (or wait until you get answers from somebody who has actually done that).

Thank you.
From what I've seen I think that the account was not banned (not even temp ban), still, removing that garbage is an obvious step forward.
So I'll add my "thank you" to the mods too.

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As adauga doar ca nu strica sa punem mai la vedere adresele de donatii. Ca fiecare leu satoshi poate sa ajute.
Am gasit postarea acesta, dar nu stiu daca mai este de actualitate, ca am vazut ca nu a mai donat nimeni de multisor, iar topicul este inchis. Stii cumva ceva despre asta?

I didn't manage to make Bitcoin Core work with hardware wallet. It was half a year ago, but I don't expect it to be better now.

If it helps, I use (with my hardware wallet) Electrum with Electrs as server, not EPS. I've found EPS far too restrictive (although afaik it does support multisig wallets too!). So if you'll get into troubles and want to go for a better server, my tutorial is made for Windows, but since Electrs is installed onto the WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), it can be useful even if you have actual Linux.

It is built into the price and from what I also know nothing else is shown. Maybe some extra fee as "transaction fee" in some cases.
However, the ATM shows both buy and sell prices and you can easily see how big is the spread, hence the fee they're trying to get from you. Not the most straightforward way, nor the most exact, still it can work/can help.


Wow. I've seen ~14% fees and I've found them very big (normal would be somewhere closer to 6%). But in your case, if my math is right, it's 23.5%. That's indeed excessive.

You may be missing something here and there.
1. I do have address (actually 2 addresses) staked, still, when I want to do things, I usually do on completely different addresses so I don't reuse that much. Would that make me a scammer? I hope not 
2. Knowing the fact from point 1, nobody stops a hacker (especially the hacker of a long inactive account) remain with this badge and still use a different address.
3. One can make a new account and stake his address and might be (wrongly) seen as reputable.

So.. I think that this kind of badge would not help. It could even mislead. The proper rules for engaging in trading on the forum are:
* Read carefully all trust feedback no matter who made it, then decide for yourself.
* Make proper use of reputable escrows.
* Avoid impersonation by avoiding other messaging platforms and by using and requesting signed messages (and here the staked address will help).


I think that this is more appropriate for Meta.

Yes and no. Bitcoin is still risky too. Clearly not in the way it was 8, 10 or more years ago, but still risky, let's be honest. Some accept and embrace that risk, some get scared and end up buying high and selling low. Some don't even understand that if Bitcoin will be an even bigger success than now, it will be even farther than now from what it was 10 years ago (as privacy - KYC, as hacks, as technology - see LN for example). Plus the war and a (bad ass) blizzard can still drop the hash rate significantly in 2023!

So bitcoin is still fair to be seen as a risky investment. Riskier than some others (like buying a house and renting it out, for example). Better than some others (imho bitcoin is less risky than many stocks!).

Altcoins, omg, yes, much, much riskier. But pure gamble? No, I wouldn't call them that. I would call 95%+ of them scam, simply because their sole use is to get money flowing for no good reason. Then there are the actual altcoins that may worth attention. Now and then they have good gains even vs bitcoin. Now and then they fall badly. A skilled trader or even investor can earn nicely. Some are strong projects that even worth more support. But gamble? A beginner, probably he can see them as a gamble and they will most probably lose in that. For somebody with enough experience it can be.. just a higher level of risk.

So if one wants to go that route.. it needs years of research before the first move is made. Clearly at that point one is no longer beginner. Before that... yes, avoid.

You're right. The newspapers have greatly fueled this misconception, but it was debunked nicely on bitcointalk, see:
Misconception of selling at premium in Nigeria

Basically the BTC-USD parity is the normal one, just the USD price/rate in Naira is much bigger on the street than what's in the official papers.
So the premium is not on Bitcoin itself, it's actually on USD, if we can say so.

I don't know if this can be done for multisig (no experience, but I don't see why not) but I'd go for more than only standard hardware wallets.
Coldcard is a top choice.
I'd add Trezor or Ledger because of the sheer number of items sold.
And, as something that's not a standard hardware wallet, I'd add either an airgapped cold storage (worse case scenario an USB stick with Tails OS and Electrum) either a SeedSigner device.


But as I said, I don't have enough experience. I have a cheap Ledger, but no multisig. I'm too far from being a whale

Some things I'd say to this:
* I think that some (many!) of those posts are supposed to stay. Else the user would be nuked (and then his posts are indeed deleted) instead of banned.
* By your logic, if somebody is banned by mistake and gets reinstated, a revert or some sort of merge would be needed. Unpleasant.
* I'm far from certain that removing those posts would bring so much of a speed increase: I expect users table and posts table be separated.
* Sooner or later we should migrate to new forum software, so drastic changes are expected to not happen here. But sadly this takes much longer than most have expected.

I think that Q1, most of Q2 and maybe some of Q4 of this year are supposed to be bullish. But it's more a hunch than something based on hard facts.
Also the latest FUD attempts here and there looked more desperate than ever.
So yes, I think that March will end up positive. There's plenty of time to see the price rising again.

Investing is rather easy and, as long as one has money he can lose (or keep locked for long time) he can invest. Historically, if one kept his investment untouched for long enough, ended up in profit.

Trading is difficult and even high education may not cover it. Certain skills (coolness) are also required. So, like some others, I'll also advise you be careful and think twice before you go with trading - or just simply avoid it. To be clear: for short periods of time one can easily get lucky and end up on profit; on long term, if not skilled enough, will lose.

I'm not. I've reported that for trolling, because, although he might have been drunk or high when he has done that, it's not even funny and .. it's still trolling.
However, I know that trolling is more often ignored than getting handled, but we'll see...

As said, you cannot change like that one of the words. What you can do is to add passphrase to the wallet = one or more words separately from what the hardware wallet gives.
But I think that the hardware wallet has to support that. My Ledger HW supports it.

However:
1. The common procedure is that the passphrase should be stored differently from the seed.
2. Because of (1) there's a high chance you'll lose or forget about the passphrase and since the wallet from only the seed is also valid (but with different addresses) you may think at some point in the future that either your coins got stolen, either you wrote down the wrong seed.

All in all there are benefits and risks too in using it, however, it can help you if you thing that the seed provided by the HW is - for some odd reason - not safe enough.

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