Let the members from Argentina not get angry, but from everything that I had the opportunity to see about their new president, I can only say that after the circus that he will create in his term in that country, it will be even worse than it is today. To me, he looks like some psychotic maniac who lives in some parallel universe where it is normal to wave chainsaws in the sense that he will cut everything that can be cut, and then by some miracle everything will fix itself.

Is this someone who looks like someone who should be the president of one of the biggest countries in the world? I wonder where this world is going and what people are thinking about when they go to the elections.

https://twitter.com/zebulgar/status/1726402110361686344

I think it's about the fact that on the first link the re-captcha is set to maximum difficulty and I didn't manage to pass it even after 30+ attempts, while Google phishing also has the same captcha which (at least for me) was very easy solvable. However, as I can see, the page is still available, which only means that someone on the other side does not take things like this seriously, or there simply aren't enough people who deal with things like this.

I don't know why there is so much excitement over the fact that this man became the president of Argentina, unless someone thinks that the country is a dictatorial state where one man will decide everything? Does he have any kind of power at all or is this function reduced to protocol activities (as in many other countries)?

Even if by some chance he has absolute power and declares Bitcoin to be legal tender, for a country that is in such an economic crisis, nothing important will change because Bitcoin is only a cryptocurrency, not a recipe for solving decades of bad work by corrupt and incompetent politicians.

We have already had discussions on the same topic ->

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5433073.msg61547440#msg61547440

I would not agree, it is the work of an amateur who does not know that a seed can have more than 12 words, and also that there is something called a "private key". Some more serious "hacker" would make a little more effort and expand the base of possible users.

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For those who value privacy, this is not an easy task - because they either get an error when loading the page or fall into an endless loop of re-captcha. I will definitely try later and until then we can try with -> https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/

I really wonder how those who claim that terrorism is financed with Bitcoin react when the company whose services they use tells them that this is not the case? The problem is that the average politician usually knows about the term "cryptocurrency", where he puts Bitcoin and all altcoins in the same basket, and demands the same sanctions for all.

I remember that there was a lot of talk about how the cartels use Bitcoin to smuggle drugs from South America more easily, although even today, as in the time of Escobar, the vast majority still use the good old US$, which is of course much safer than Bitcoin transactions (of course when it comes to anonymity).

To be honest with you, I read until I reached the link where you can supposedly check the vulnerability of the wallet, and then I gave up when I saw what it was actually about - and if you look at what the OP has in his signature, it's a bit strange that he shares links that are classic collectors of personal data that can then be used for malicious purposes.


Over the years, I've read a lot of cases where people's coins literally disappeared from exactly such wallets, and mostly it was about the blockchain.com page - and mostly the first conclusion was that someone became a victim of phishing or stored their seed incorrectly, but obviously there were vulnerabilities that someone managed to exploit.

I recently received a notification from one such online service that I created a little less than 10 years ago, warning me not to use that wallet anymore, but luckily I stopped using it a long time ago.

Armenia is a tough nut to crack, but I still expected more from Wales, who showed an excellent game against Croatia at home, although it must be admitted that Croatia has been playing quite poorly lately, which is largely due to the absence of some important players. Although Croatia defeated the nominally weakest opponent in the group last night, the game they showed is far from what we have seen before and they will have to play much better against Armenia if they want to go directly to the European Championship.

Maybe Croatia's bad games has something to do with the fact that they know that even third place in the group does not mean the end, but additional qualifications in March next year. In any case, it will be interesting in a few days against Armenia, and everything could be further complicated by the bad weather, because rain and relatively low temperatures are forecast.

The SEC has 240 days to make its final decision from the moment a company formally submits such a request and it is officially accepted. I don't know why you (and many others) think that this time should be different and that the SEC will not use its legal right to postpone the decision until the last minute?


People speculate, but do they even know when the halving is and what it means before the halving? There are still at least 4+ months until the halving, and during that period anything can happen - and that includes a price change in any direction. You should not look at the current price as something that is only the result of waiting for spot ETF approval, but also as a pre-halving period in which the accumulation is increasing more and more because people who invest in Bitcoin still think that the halving will have a positive effect and result in new bull run.

It might sound strange to you, but ask yourself, does it make sense to burden yourself with things that you have absolutely no influence on - and some of these things don't really affect you personally?

I understand that it's hard to stand aside and pretend that nothing bad is happening, but the first step towards feeling better is to simply stop looking for bad news and try to create some good news yourself at your local level. If millions of people did the same, then it would have a very positive impact on everything, and even on the economy.

I'm sure there are a lot of good stories globally, but as someone already mentioned, bad news sells much better, and the media are exactly the ones we can blame for favoring bad news at the expense of good news.

Did you know there are websites that only promote good news?

https://www.positive.news/
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/

In the beginning, there were no signature campaigns, and in addition, Bitcoin did not have a price that motivated people, as is the case today - and yet a respectable community was created then, of which, unfortunately, there are not many members who are active on the forum today. Of course, the campaigns played a big role (and they still do today), although it should be said that the benefit was mutual because many companies from the world of cryptocurrencies successfully advertised on this forum.

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I think that these posts are somehow hidden or even deleted. As far as I remember, it was probably some kind of test posts that did not have any important meaning. See more here -> Older profile than Theymos

I don't think that ViaBTC can generate any serious losses with this free service, but that it uses them very well to attract a large number of people to visit their website, which offers some other tools besides transaction accelerators. Of course, there is also an accelerator that is not free, and it is certainly used by some, so we can talk about some kind of source of income here as well.

At the end of the day, we cannot rely on such services forever, and even if they are still available with only 100 free transactions every hour, this will not solve the problem of expensive fees, not even for 1% of users.

The worst thing in all of this is that through years of repeating the same claims, an attitude has formed among people that this is true - and to me it looks like some kind of operation that aims to eliminate Bitcoin at some point by simply banning trading through CEXs and mining. It won't literally kill Bitcoin, but most people still do what the authorities say.


I don't think that their current surveillance was unable to prevent what is currently happening in Israel or what happened in the US in the past, but that some things simply had to happen in order to justify all the wars that were fought in the past and which are being conducted today.

Of course, it is a win-win situation for those who want even stronger surveillance, because the "failure" enabled an open reckoning with those with whom they want to settle, and at the same time, human rights and their privacy will fall a few steps lower.

Hold On For Dear Life

In general, you can expect any malware/virus that appears in desktop versions, with the only difference being that malware adapts to mobile applications on such devices. If you follow all the advice that you could read in this topic, you have a small chance of infecting your device with something malicious, although you should always count on something new and unpredictable that can slip under the radar and infect millions of smartphones in a very short time.

Since you want to know more, the following link has a good summary of what you are interested in -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_malware

Isn't the financing of terrorism through Bitcoin a story that has been going on for years, mostly from the US media? It's nothing new, it's just taking advantage of the moment when such stories become relevant again, because it should be noted that the most powerful intelligence organizations in the world failed to prevent terrorists from carrying out such a massive attack, for which they had obviously been preparing for years. I wonder how terrorists were financed before there was Bitcoin?


https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/cryptocurrencies-and-terrorist-financing-risk-hold-panic
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD1096851.pdf

It seems to me that this story makes no sense at all - because why would someone go to the trouble of organizing such a robbery, and then allow someone to freeze the stolen funds? Either the thieves are dumb idiots who didn't know it was possible, or it's just another "we are a good and honest company" story.

I mean, most of what was stolen was frozen, so the OP is definitely not the hacker

If your BTC were acquired in a legal way and it is not a problem for you to register on a centralized crypto exchange and do KYC, then that would be the simplest way to sell them. However, it seems to me that this is not the case with you, because you don't just want to sell a few hundred BTC, but you even give a discount, which means that you want to get rid of them as soon as possible.

If your BTC are part of some dirty business (hacking) then not only can you get yourself into trouble, but also those who buy from you can have problems. Therefore, I will not advise you how to proceed, until you tell where you got the 200 BTC from.

What you should try is to find the right balance between how to keep the business stable and profitable, and at the same time to invest at least part of the money in Bitcoin or something else that has the potential to bring you long-term profit. Of course, this is not easy considering that obviously your entire business depends on Bitcoins, which means that you always have to take into account volatility, which can often be much more pronounced than inflation, which affects purchasing power due to inflation.

Is there perhaps a way to try to start another business that would be connected exclusively to fiat and thus have two parallel sources of income, so that you can keep most of the BTC for the long term?

I haven't read the report (if there is an English version at all), but I wonder if it's good news that so many French people invest in cryptocurrencies, given that most of these investments are probably in altcoins, which are mostly pump&dump projects in which the invested money is very easily lost. I always say that I don't care what people do with their money (unless it hurts others around them), but I wonder how many of these people will find themselves in big financial problems in the future?

Problems can only mean one thing for all of us, and that is the imposition of some crazy rules and regulations, so you don't need to look at those numbers with so much enthusiasm, because it all looks like a double-edged sword to me.

Are you sure it was transaction accelerators or was it just rebroadcasting services? I have never found any free BTC accelerator except ViaBTC, and it has been the only free service that works for years.

I don't see why Via would decide to cancel that service now, because it doesn't cost them too much, and it does a very good job of advertising for them. In addition, they changed some conditions for free transactions, and I think that some new changes could happen rather than canceling the free service.

Fees are obviously too high for some at the moment, but let's remember that at the end of 2017 they were even $50 at one point, and not so long ago almost x3 than they are now. I don't know if it's ordinal nonsense or something else, but I hope it will go as usual.