I read those decided they were things a corrupted government brings/makes worse. Corruption begins to authorise nepetistic ways to make money through previously illegal activity by guaranteeing people will get away with things if they're caught or giving them a preset fine when they're caught - or giving groups you know an exemption so they'll be inclined to protect you.

If merit transactions are still loosely monitored by the forum (and the admin team when made aware), would there be a reason to do this?

If there's been a system change where being dt1 automatically makes you a merit source and I've missed that then that'd be different but I think the two accolades should stand on their own as much as possible.

Have people given reasons for withdrawing from dt1 (surely you could just not participate if you didn't want the drama)? If there were cases of this and it become more evident there were reasons that conflicted with the user being a merit source afterwards then it'd probably be a good idea (done individually) but merits might be recognised more than trust so a dt1 member and merit source i could see stepping down from both at the same time if they didn't want the pressure of the trust system.

This seems like an interesting concept because of the demographic you'd see in a church. Do you know what ages you were teaching. (The majority of church goers here I'd say were under 20 or over 50-60 so it'd be quite an interesting group to educate on bitcoin - I've seen churches have a lot more variety of ages but those seem to be a lot bigger and have more of a chance for younger adults to acquire social contacts like older congregation members do).

You can also find more information on the website by clicking on the padlock and seeing if the owner has linked their address to their certificate or if a more trusted certification authority has accredited the we site's certificate (as apposed to a let's encrypt one).

I think there's less investment in the private sector of most European countries imo - not sure why this is, maybe governments not wanting to invest in companies that'll just take their money or the lack of growth opportunities for companies (along with higher wages).


As supply and demand rings true normally it'll have to change back at some point. People have higher increases in price on essentials so money will be taken from things considered less essential (although a lot of public transport in the UK seems to have undergone legal attempts to make them cheaper - or direct intervention if a government entity holds the contract).


I don't know if this is too much of a problem since the UK (and presumably the nordics) have had bumper harvests this year and the EU still subsidises the bloc when they can't produce crops due to weather conditions so I imagine imports can be sought fairly easily.

Investments locally and internationally should've already helped Hong Kong's economy. If they haven't done this then they will probably face huge problems (self dependency can only go so far when you're over developed like Hong Kong is).

If Hong Kong is facing financial hardship/decline I think China would be to blame for that (either actively or passively).

When your old laptop does give up, you might want to look at taking out your old hard drive and keeping it safe if you have  a lot of crypto on it if you don't migrate your funds to a new electrum wallet (your hard drive will be smaller than a 3 inch square but it may be problematic if it ends up in the hands of someone who wants to steal from it).

I think the main ways money is made from software development (chronologically) has been'
1. Donations
2. Adverts
3. Token airdrops (like uni and the one you mentioned op - these definitely benefit developers).
4. Fees (like electrum's 2fa or metamask's swap fees)

For number 1, if you use the device with the watch only wallet for a lot of things and there's a decent chance it could get malware then I'd suggest checking the address matches the offline one for larger transfers but it might not matter as much to you for smaller ones.

This has made me wonder whether a 17% inflation for people used to 9% inflation is actually easier to manage than those who have seen 7-9% who are used to 1-2%. I'm not sure there's going to be a credible way to actually know whether this is easier or harder to adjust to though.

A growth of 2% is quite good since a lot of economies don't seem to have grown much over the past few years (maybe 5 for some European countries).

There was a clock tower near where I lived for three years, never looked at it once and just relied on the bell (every quarter hour) or looked at my watch - maybe this is what you should do. The same would go for btc price; whose price are you going to quote petrol stations quote their own a lot of the time, will that be what you'd expect for crypto?

I think this has been my worry about most encryption on the Internet, once the breakthrough is found it'll spread and start to be mass produced fairly quickly imo and then everyone will have to upgrade their cryptographic algorithms very quickly.

The worrying part is we don't know when the breakthrough will come.and just have to hope everyone's given enough warning to adjust to it.

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It's seemed very telling that nothing bigger than 300 qubits has come out of any quantum lab for a few years too - a lot of areas of research have stagnated around the same point for now.

How much are u ou hoping to convert and what do you want to do with it?

I've just done a test and noticed that metamask can convert usdc to eurt (presumably this includes most large volume erc20 tokens and eth too).

Whether it's the best way to hold euros might be different - it's a fee free holding but can you not get this from an account anyway. You might face problems trying to use a cex to convert to eurt because it's probably a lesser market in the US so might not have much liquidity (afaik the US have to have their own segregated markets for assets while a lot of countries in the rest of the world can use the same global one).

But the servers themselves aren't central. There's a lot of servers running electrum and a few implementations of it. It WAS easy for one to be malicious but it's also because of the way electrum is structured, it'd be a lot harder for a client like bitcoinj to have nodes that could cause disruption/he dishonest as it connects to multiple at once (and often hops between them).

What did you hyg them for and what hve they dropped against?

Did you buy ICOs and have they fallen against btc and eth? If those two were true then I think there's a chance you've made a loss more permenantly and it's probably worth looking at what you did wrong to try not to repeat the same mistake.

If you didn't buy an ico and just bought a coin that was hyped then you might be better off holding some of the coins (and transferring the majority back into btc) as we might see similar runs again but price might drop a lot too between now and then.

If you bought coins you thought would do well but didn't, this is the one that's going to be harder to assess. If they've still got an active team and they look to be doing things and coming up with new ideas then you might be better off holding the coins. If not then you'll be better off selling them - especially if they're low volume and low volatility.

This may be off topic but I think it's an interesting distinction that running a full node or an spv client both fall under decentralised. If everyone only had a choice of running bitcoin core, the network would be distributed instead of decentralised (as I understand it).

From what I've read/understood so far, decentralised networks reduce the need for trust by having enough identical honest nodes to handle requests. Distributed networks have identical data and processes on all nodes (but maybe different implementations/software clients and versions - like eth being scripted in multiple languages).

I think it's one of those errors that's given if there's an error but the server can't diagnose it (or it's a risk to the security of the forum if it does).

It's probably the database receiving too many requests to process at once, an error writing your post on the database or the post not being parsed correctly by the scanner that checks posts for things that are suspicious that just stopped working or was interrupted.

I think it'll he an interesting thing to review in a few weeks to see if this means much to investors (perhaps also whether bitcoin breaking the 1tr market cap too if we get that far).

At the moment I don't think it's done much price wise since the news though.

You're kinda right though op, we didn't see flying cars because it's been deemed too dangerous/difficult to implement (also hard to train for).

Flying bicycles are another thing we've not seen much of due to lack of demand.

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I thought of this a few weeks ago .they could be made a lot quieter/smaller by having a container full of liquid helium that expands when the car wants to take off and compressed when it wants to land.

There'd be a lot less of a risk for wings/prepellars colliding and perhaps less energy used if something could deliver enough of a force to recompress the container and keep it compressed.

I'm curious to know if there are good ways to tell the difference and what stops this from being an accident that could've happened with more expensive PSUs?

I'd guess cheaper parts have thinner cabling that can't handle the power going through them and maybe poor insulation/none in some areas of the wiring too.