Foreign real estate purchases are a bit of a plague to the UK so I'd expect them to be the same in the US (it's especially true for London, Surrey and holiday homes in the UK but can go a lot further than that).

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Is this a greater fools theory example? The news I saw from Reuters last month was that real estate prices in the US have dropped for quite a few months (as it was the UK's first official drop in prices after a decline had begun).

Buying with cash poses no issue to an investor, what will start to bring issue is the people who've bought with mortgages/debt when interest rates go up.

What was the link you were trying to øst OP? Can you post it here and replace the dots with spaces?

It's mostly targeted at newbies afaik but will also impact those with poor reputation and some other users (depending on how unknown the link is to the forum and probably if it's phishing too - like using specific characters).

I've seen it for higher ranked users before but it's mostly for newbies posting lesser seen/unique links.


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I referenced countless numbers of times when I was a newbie, nothing like that happened to me. If it is antispam, I ought to have seen it too, but I do not often post many links, maybe the reason.
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Links will be whitelisted after a while so they're not considered suspicious to the automated software under certain criteria or may be spotted based off other criteria (perhaps ranking highly in search engines). I don't know if the criteria is known as there's a chance mods could train an automated part of it by filing reports and it is done automatically afaik.

I can't remember who it was last time but there have been other comparisons drawn between the current price movements, those in 2015 and 2019 and it seems quite an odd thing to have happened so quickly that we might instead of already had most of the bear market over (of course we could see like we did in 2020 and get another crash but, to me, bitcoin's price is looking a lot safer than it did for a while anyway - I think 2015 and 2019 were just very slow years price wise too).

This could also be due to major forks of eth and eos entering the news too which might be effecting both prices.

(of course it could also mean there's greater risk because there's much higher volume now too and a weaker price than those times but the high volume/high speed trade executions do look out of place to me for a bear market - unless too many whales just got a lot bigger and are using it to attempt trades/perhaps more risky ones too).

I saw it being in a niche news article from March about it getting a functioning/stable UI this year - when I searched for it now, I think the article was from an obscure source as I don't think I've heard of it before - (not sure if that was what it actually was or if they were after making standalone executibles or something - since it was a news article I was reading and it seems like it used to be released in python).


It hasn't ended up in the news quite as much as chipmixer and bitmixer did afaik too. I didn't hear it being mentioned much with the big binance hack (when chipmixer was) - perhaps it's harder to trace/know too...

I was looking a few days ago to see if there were any good new competition to chipmixer and couldn't really find anything. Wasabi coinjoin seems to come up a lot but wallets can get a lot of data from their users and I don't know how much I'd trust that - in case you get a virus, could it see your history or join yours without you knowing because another system got compromised?


I'm wondering how much of a drawback this might be and I'm still not sure. It means it's harder to use on a lightweight client (perhaps apposed to services like bisq which would let you convert to xmr/grin and then back later without needing a long sync) - but I'm not sure if bisq suffers privacy issues for being spv (which is the reason reddit seems to give for joinmarket needing a node).

Joinmarket looks like quite an interesting new project and it'll be interesting to see how that develops - especially if centralised mixers become easier to censor.

Yeah I'm confused too as to why you're comparing a diversified asset to an asset.


I think this is the best way to go about things but your % allocation of each would then depend on your risk tolerance. If crypto does well, it's probably worth knowing how to get your funds out and move them to safer assets so you can keep earning on them/store the equity you've built up.

It wasn't you're point but I do like the forum design for its simplicity...

Some sites are a bit like a first presentation after you've discovered transitions in powerpoint in school, it looks cool to you but it's not going to work everywhere and is going to look like every other website.

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I'd support the suppression of locked topics - unless they're made by a mod sich as for topic moves - but I'm not on boards where I often see them so my view might be a bit irrelevant (also the text for them in some places is smaller so they're harder to accidentally click).

Also it might be easy for a user script /plugin to be made for doing this.

Any idea where the computer could be?

You can't recover anything without the old wallet file or a backup still (and that'll probably never change as it'd be an attack on bitcoin's security).

If only there was a way to send funds much faster internationally (perhaps within an hour)!

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Also thanks for the update!

This is mostly to test whether or not notify works again but have you checked your spam/junk folder? Is guess if you use notify, receive emails but don't click on them and just find the topic then you might end up with them just being sent to your spam folder (or equivelant).

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My notifications weren't working for a few hours yesterday but I think that was just me having bad signal and my email provider not downloading them when I had good signal.

It'd projably depend on the site. If it's just a slots site then it'd make sense to give users free spins (you can probably pay less to give them more goes at them then too).

If it had other things like live/table games and you wanted to let them gamble on everything then I think cash makes more sense.

I don't think many countries in Europe are that friendly to startups (perhaps it's the same.for the rest of the world). Removing things like tax audits for their first few years of operation (in innovative markets) does seem like a much better policy as the company would still be finding its feet.


This is quite well documented with global companies trying to exempt themselves from regulations and tax too (though it can be done on individual levels - I'd guess there are pitfalls to both along with the benefits they receive).

I doubt a lot of people are spending that much on debt without being incentivised to do it (eg high inflation and low interest).

Quality of life depends on where and how you live but it's much more than the assets and liabilities you might acquire.

You can't call a mortgage a liability somewhere (if house prices don't rise much) and then call it an asset builder somewhere else because house prices are soaring there (you still need a house near social or work connections).

Not sure if it's the same for t the other countries on that list but I think the figure for accepting bitcoin in businesses is out by a bit (I've seen quite a few places advertise at their tills that they accept bitcoin - they probably don't have a website/promote it online though).

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Perhaps if most countries have skewed data on that then it's still a good way to compare them though as ones with high crypto acceptance that's known, might have higher unrecorded acceptance too.

Are you sure you had bitcoins back in 2012?

What format have you been able to recover files in so far? Have the recovery programmes managed to recover any files from your system (extensions might be handy here to see if any dat files have already been recovered)?


That sounds like it's been overwritten or you're not using good recovery software.

Have you searched the drive for wallet.dat if it's working properly - and just left that search running?

Bitcoin core stores and distributes the blockchain also as well as being able to manage wallets (if you open one/some on it).

The blockchain is merely a database as said above that gets stored on many clients. Bitcoin's blockchain has no central authority as different bitcoin clients are able to interact with each other as well as other software (like servers for spv/light wallets which can process transactions without the need to download the blockchain themselves).

Does it not send one notification if you have that enabled but then nothing else normally? (I've never used it and have read it two different ways already).

Have you checked you get normal notifications by unchecking that or do you not want your inbox being too clogged by testing that.

Why do you need one so quickly? What are you staying at in the US and what do you have available to get one shipped to you.

If you're not staying long could you wait until you get back and have a fixed address?

If you're staying for a while and do really need one, could you get a po box or a self storage box you could get a device shipped to? (I'd count this as one of the most secure and reliable options I can think of - but I can't think of much).

It's hard to verify the device is genuine if you buy from a reseller from what I know of both trezors and ledger.

Can you instead by a cheap laptop when you're there (from a reputed retailer) and use an airgapped environment until you get a fixed address a hardware wallet can be delivered to?

I've noticed that site has been down for a while and I assumed a lot of people used it historically so I'm curious if anyone knows why it's down and if it's staying down if we know who the creator/owner was/is and maybe the reason for it going down as I doubt Google's estimator was a good alternative (they've still got 3 years on their domain too).

It looked like a good site for eventually getting ad revenue as it was quite well known but I don't think I ever saw an ad on there to date though.

I think it was an issue of things being hard to find and I don't think the bitcointalk show has been recommended to me even though many videos on cryptocurrency have - I'd be curious to see how many of their views come from subscribers or link clickers and how many come from the YouTube algorithm but I'm not sure if cyrus could get this data.

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@op, have you tried using url shorteners? You could put one of those in instead of directly linking to bitcointalk and then have clues in the video as to what the link is when you reference it - so you don't mention it in the description and have your video do badly.