On May 16th, Ryan Gentry from Lightning Labs announced that they are launching Taproot Assets v0.2. As far as I understand, this update should allow us to operate with tokens mainly in the second layer and not take up as much space in blocks as happened recently. Will the new solution from the Lightning Network help solve the problem and reconcile the community with tokens without a mempool congestion?

Rafael Nadal held a press conference at his Academy on Thursday where the 22-time Grand Slam champion announced he will be unable to defend his French Open title at Roland Garros due to ongoing hip injury; the Spaniard also announced 2024 is likely to be his last year before retiring

Financial education has always been a game changer in the financial state of a man, it is the best education a father can give to his children because once you are financially educated, it's near impossible not to be financially stable.

Have you wonder why most lottery winners have gone back to square one after winning or most rich kids losing their inheritance due to poor/bad management of funds, it's because they lack financial education.

On the other hand 1million dollars is truly a life changing amount of money but if you are not financially educated, you will lose it all on  the long run,
I don't know if anyone sees it the same way I do?

I will try find something there, thank you !






Thank you very much! The site I'm looking for was a stock exchange site. Only cryptocurrencies were not there. I remember that after registration I received an email with a "code"/"key" to the account/wallet.
Later after buying Bitcoin on the site, after a few days of not logging in, there was a message, "Hello Your Bitcoin is calling you, log in again to your account". And then I turned off the notifications on the website and I didn't have any more e-mails. I'm not 100% sure it was a Polish site. The registration was in English but the main menu was later set to Polish. So thats why i think it was polish exchange stocks and crypto site.
I can't stop thinking about it. I'm still trying to find this page... Ehhh, maybe this is where I'll find help

It's all "pro-poor" talk. Bitcoin performs much better when it is used less. With an increase in the activity of use, a transport collapse occurs. You can accept this as a given or try to fix it somehow. The developers tried, but it led to unexpected side effects in the form of an unplanned blockchain use case. Now we must accept the consequences of our decisions and move on, or accept that the weakening of consensus as a result of the update of the taproot was a strategic mistake and try to fix it so as not to damage the reputation of bitcoin. Because the holders of the brc-20 tokens uploaded their stupid pictures to the blockchain according to the current consensus rules and paid for it with real bitcoins at the market price, one cannot deceive their expectations about the preservation of the value that they entrusted to the most reliable network, and about the possibility in the future to freely spend their exits.

In the women's singles two have moved to the semifinals, Kudemtrova and Kalinina. Two more quarter finals left in which one is being played between Swiatek and Rybakina and the other is between Badosa and Ostapenko. In the Miami and Indiana Wells open Rybakina reached the finals and unable to lift the trophy. Swiatek on the other side won the Stuttgart Open and these two played in the semifinals of Indiana Wells and Rybakina won 6-2 6-2. This interests me on the upcoming match between the two as it looks promising year for both.

This is as silly a thing to say as people imploring the government to "ban bitcoin" because they don't like it.

Bitcoin is is designed to be ban-proof. You can harass the onramps and off-ramps but you can't stop bitcoin
itself in its tracks.

Similarly, ordinals are pretty ban-proof. By the time you get a significant fraction of nodes to try filter them out from the mempool, they have already adopted a different encoding scheme bypassing the filter. The more you filter, the more ordinals encoding will become indistinguishable from financial transactions, and the more collateral damage you cause. In the worst case, they will just use fake output addresses for embedding data.

That may be a little less efficient but at these fee levels they're willing to pay it obviously doesn't matter much.

Not only is there no plausible approach to banning them from the mempool, but doing so wouldn't even suffice. Miners are very keen on processing these transactions which raise overall fee levels. So they'll make it easy to have these transactions routed directly to them.

Unless it becomes more popular, and there appear to be more transactions on-chain. I wonder what will be your excuse then. "Bitcoin must split, because we can't handle everyone in 1 MB blocks" -  

Lol, what? As far as I can see, the overwhelming majority of Ordinals pay minimum. It was just the recent fuss with BRC-20 which raised the fee rate to the ceiling.

With the exception that roads are not means for monetary transfers that are resilient to censorship?

Nobody bitcoin price prediction has work this season, I told my friends early January that this year will still be difficult for bitcoin to rise since they're still blocks on digestive and ingestive policies of government, why bitcoin should not stay by government. But they argued me to a fault but I knew bitcoin will not gets to $40k this year. The price will definitely rise but not at the moment. Do you predict the price to any level year?

Thats dissapointing for Sinner, Cerundolo could probably classed as a clay court specialist
so that was a tough one for Sinner. Italian hopes are all now on Musetti.

Of the top 10 seeds left in the tournament we have Djokovic, Medvedev, Ruud, Tsitsipas,
Rune. Its really looking good for Djokovic at this stage.


Well Marozsan has taken the first set and the second set is still on serve.... It looks like his
high profile win yesterday hasnt phased him.

So - at the moment, India buys almost 70% of Russian Urals oil. It is a fact. Well, no one buys it anymore, why not buy it.

Faced with Western sanctions on Russian oil, Russia increased crude oil shipments to China, India, Turkey, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates. In fact, China contributed the most to Russia's oil export revenue since the war in Ukraine, at approximately 63 billion euros as of February 2023.

Crude oil has traditionally been the main source of fuel and energy export revenue of Russia, accounting for around 43 percent of the total. Between February 24, 2022, and February 14, 2023, Russia earned almost 197 billion euros from oil exports, including crude oil and refined products. Over the same period, EU countries paid around 83.3 billion euros for Russian oil, which was more than the amount spent on fossil gas and coal combined.

Especially if you can make money from it. The scheme is extremely simple:
- Russia sells Urals oil to India at huge discounts
- India partially sells this oil on the domestic market with a 100% or more markup
- India mixes the rest of the oil with other grades of oil and sells it to other countries. Nominally, something is no longer Russian, but a kind of mix, the origin of which is difficult to prove.

Tell me, where is the world slipping out of the hands of the United States and abandoning the dollar?

The greenback’s share in global reserves slid last year at 10 times the average speed of the past two decades as a number of countries looked for alternatives after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine triggered sanctions, Jen and his Eurizon SLJ Capital Ltd. colleague Joana Freire wrote in a note. Adjusting for exchange rate movements, the dollar has lost about 11% of its market share since 2016 and double that amount since 2008, they said.

A simple question really. Regardless of how people feel about Ordinals or Inscriptions, is it possible to ban them or otherwise restrict them without a hard fork? How would it work? I suppose a limit on the size of the witness data can be imposed after a designated block. Will that work?


I am not looking for opinions. Replies stating opinions on Ordinals or Inscriptions, and any replies to those opinions will be removed.

It's a question of priorities.  The lesser of two evils, if you will.
If you sacrifice what makes Bitcoin matter in order to make it faster or cheaper, you're making it worse.

In your reply to that customer, did you point out that they could opt to include a lower fee and, as a trade-off, the transaction would take longer to confirm?  High fees aren't compulsory.  When the network is busy, you can either choose to have a fast transaction or a cheap one.  

People accept congestion on the roads as a fact of life.  Is it reasonable for people stuck in traffic to say that certain groups of road users should be discriminated against, or that if it carries on like this that everyone will simply stop using roads?  I don't personally see how it's justified to make those same arguments here.  Sometimes you just have to accept that other people exist.  They all have things they're trying to do and there may be times when you might opt to seek a less congested route.  That's life.  Not everything can be perfect.

Ah yes, Ethereum.  A prime example if ever there was one.  I never had any great deal of interest in Ethereum to begin with, but lost what little respect I had for it during the ETH/ETC split (which some people in this topic could learn from).  

What happened?  Well, in 2016, the ETH devs (or should that be dev, singular?) decided to intervene and make something controversial disallowed.  It caused a major divide in their community and the outcome was that many people dismissed the project as a massive failure.  

Now, where have I heard that sort of thing recently....?  Oh, that's right, some of the eejits in this thread want to repeat that mistake!  

I'm glad you're talking sense, though.

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One of my favourite Bitcoin quotes is the following from 2014:


That's the objective.  You're the one losing sight of it.

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See, this is why we can't have nice things.  Even members of the forum who have been around long enough to know better have boarded the reactionary bandwagon.  Shame on you and Artemis3.  Legendaries as naive as newbs.  It makes me genuinely sad to see this level of ignorance from those who have had years to educate themselves.

"OH NOES!  BITCOIN IS TOO POPULAR!  WHAT WILL WE DO!?"  

Seriously, what is wrong with you people?  Anyone can produce a bunch of large transactions in a single day and cause congestion.  That's been a possibility since block #79,400 (the year 2010).  If that's a catastrophic problem in your mind, then by that reasoning, you should have abandoned Bitcoin before you started using it!  

I'm just glad most of the Bitcoin devs have greater foresight than Luke Dashjr and are unlikely to activate the self-destruct sequence like so many clueless users are cheering to do.

What if I told you that your transactions are complete trash to my disk space? They're not very different to Ordinals from my perspective. I haven't made them, I don't earn a 'toshi by keeping them, and I even have to be more generous with my fee rate because of them. May I propose similar to you, or shall we accept that freedom is more important than a bunch of extra data chunks?

New Star have emerged with the win against Alcaraz. It was completely unexpected, and we were able to see good number of matches in recent tournaments won by the underdogs. This time the second set was expected to be a win from Alcaraz, but the competence from Marozsan is really great and the tough play at the tie breaker turned the match. Second set was very close that Marozsan won it 7⁷-6⁴. Marozsan have reached the highest of 128^th rank and winning against No.1 is a big day for him.

What about gold? Doesn't it have the same qualities as well? There is one difference between Bitcoin and gold and it is that Bitcoin is way more volatile than gold, the price of gold doesn't fall as much as it grows over time while Bitcoin's price growth and drop speed are pretty much too high when compared to gold which makes it a more risky investment.

But I don't recommend someone buy and store gold in a bank, that doesn't really give someone an edge over inflation since it is again in the custody of centralized authorities and inflation can affect it for sure.

Actually I am suprised we haven't seen more Bitcoin-Cash-gurus or other shitconers coming out of their holes and problaiming they have the ultimate solution yet.

I do wonder though, do we need more scaling discussions again soon? LN in its current state is not helping as intended - and larger money sum transactions will continue to be only available on-chain. I feel there are some similarities with the 2017 situation.

No because there cannot be Ordinals in lightning.

First things first, I have pretty average memory, I don't forget important things too often, but I also can't instantly memorize things to the tiniest details like some gifted people can.

Around 5 years ago I decided to memorize my wallet seeds to have one extra backup method. My main backups are pieces of paper + a flash drive with wallet files.

I memorized all 4 wallet seeds (12 words each) that I have very quickly by rehearsing them from memory and checking with the written down seeds every day. For a long time, maybe 1-2 years I kept discipline and repeated the seeds every day, but eventually I started slipping and forgetting to do it, especially if I was busy with something. This affected my memory, and sometimes I forgot or wasn't sure about parts of a seed (2-4 words) so I had to look at it again and repeat it more often.

Interesting thing about memory, it's easier for me to repeat them in the sequence that I was always repeating (seed 1 -> seed 2 -> seed 3 -> seed 4) than to repeat only one seed that isn't the first. Also I can't repeat the words starting from non-first word or in an order that isn't original. So to me it's more like keeping in memory one big 48-word seed than having 4 seeds of 12 words each.

So in summary, I think memorizing a seed is easier than most people think, and there's no need to come up with songs or rhymes or other stuff, they can probably even make things worse. But in general memory is not reliable, even in long term, so this shouldn't be viewed as a reliable backup. It's just a nice extra layer of backup that doesn't require any complicated setup, and its strongest upside is that it's always with you (until your memory fails).