Use alternatives for off-grid transactions

• [Total privacy Bitcoin]: off grid Transactions LoRaWan/goTenna
• https://gotennamesh.com/products/mesh
• LoraWan: https://github.com/valerio-vaccaro/LoraCaster

It is partially true only.

During weekends, there are less demand for transactions than intra-week days (working days) so usually you will have less waiting transactions in mempools during weekends. But it does not mean mempools always are not overloaded in weekends. The network can be congested a few weeks or months and if you fall into such periods, mempools will only get cleared a little bit but still likely congested.

Read more about weekend effects

• Guide to check fees: Taker, maker, deposit, withdrawal, transaction fees

You should announce it in your business thread instead of creating a new thread (this one) for the announcement. In future, if you want to resume your business, make another announcement in that thread, not create another new thread.

I could be wrong but do you have a business and accept Bitcoin as a payment method. So (assume it is true), your customers will have to make on-chain transactions to send their bitcoins to your wallets. They bear the transaction fee, not you. Correct me if I am wrong with my theory.

Big or small, you can always receive bitcoins. Problems appear only if you are senders and have to pay transaction fees.

Lightning Network.

• Basics of the Lightning Network
• Electrum Lightning Network walkthrough
• Youtube video on Lightning Network
• Overview of lightning network nodes owned by forum users
• The Lightning Network FAQ
• A fortnight of lessons on the lightning network

I don't know about it but will check more.

Not all images are invalid. Perhaps some different reasons to make images valid or invalid from imgur.com.

It is a terrible rule update from imgur.com.

With this change, I guess in future they will force people to pay money for image hosting. It's all about money at the end.

Years ago, they allowed to upload images with Tor but changed it and now, more terrible changes. Time to move from imgur to other sites.

• https://vgy.me/
• TalkImg.com - Image hosting for BitcoinTalk

Mourinho is every experienced and smart and his tactics is perfect for knock-out matches. I felt like he intentionally reserved his players for Europa League when he saw that opportunities for AS Roma to compete for top four in Serie A becomes vague in a last few weeks.

Roma did not play better than Leverkusen in a first leg semi final and they even faced with conceded goal in early of first half. However, they played strictly in tactics and minimized chances for Leverkusen to have goals in Olimpico. Bove again had another great match for Roma and he has become a new icon in Rome. He is a home-grown player for them, just like Totti and De Rossi and now started to have bright future with them.

It is a simple goal for Gatti, not a magnificent one but it is so important for Juventus. With this goal, they had a draw and will play a second leg in Seville with less pressure.

We know that Sevilla have very good support from his fans at their home stadium and it won't be easy test for any guest. Juventus actually deserve to have goals in the  match after many opportunities they created. In that equalizer, if not Gatti, Milik can score it too as they both can complete that situation easily.

This draw will help Juventus and Serie A to hope that they will have an Italian final match in Europa League between Juventus and AS Roma.

Nobody can be sure about that.

Difficulty, difficulty adjustment, network hashrate, transaction demand (waiting transactions in mempools) interact with each other and impact on transaction fee.
If difficulty adjusts to lower than now, blocks can be found with faster average block time that can be helpful to clear mempools at faster rate. However it is only true if the rate of new waiting transactions in mempool remains the same like now. In reality we are unsure what will happen with that rate in next 2 weeks and later.

Another factor is hypes around Ordinals, BRC20 that can contribute to add transactions with very high fee rates at tip of mempools. It will cause domino effects and late comers will have to increase their fee rates if they don't want to wait a few weeks. You can not control how people react with their transaction need and mempools, fee rates.

Sum up, it is a very complicated scenario but I believe that sooner or later, the hype will no longer hot than now. From DeFi, NFTs, GameFi, Metaverse on Ethereum ERC20 chain, I believe it won't be different on Bitcoin blockchain.

If it allows you to type your favorite fee rate, it is acceptable to use. I don't see that allowance with Mycelium wallet. If it does not have Mempool option but allows you to type fee rate manually, you can manually check mempool by yourself and type it for your transaction.

With Electrum wallet, I double check mempool manually every time before I broadcast my transaction.

I am not sure about that.

OP can move this topic to Wallet software (Mycelium) board.

It is how I found staffs, admins, VIP members and Donators when I made my threads.

Thank you Loyce. I knew about that announcement from Cyrus but forgot to update this thread. On it now.

Mostly is because of inactivity or abandon the forum. It can be from other personal reasons like Dabs.

Forum staffs were chosen very carefully and very less likely they will turn to be scammers. I recall that one forum staff was removed because of scam (it is very far in the past).

I put my time to request unlocking that local thread but sadly local members did not contribute good things there. Only a representative of BitcoinVietnam looks good and I am very doubtful that Vietnamese guys will be actively in that thread. They are very early Bitcoin adopters in Vietnam.

Reading your topic title and your total activity point, I guessed you are a new member in last few years, one or two years after 2017. When I checked your profile, I found that you are from a 2016-cohort and you are surely knew about what happened in 2017 (with the quoted content too).

I don't understand why you tried to say it is a first ever Bitcoin has problems to be seen. This time, what is happening is significantly better than what happened in 2017 or 2021.

• Mempools: https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#BTC%20(default%20mempool),all,weight
• Average transaction fee: https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-transactionfees.html#alltime
• Fee in reward: https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-fee_to_reward.html#alltime

It's time to bump this thread with an updating information about one of our staffs.

Xal0lex was assigned additional task to moderate threads in Other languages.

He informed me about it today.

You should prioritize wallets that are open-source, non custodial (self-custodial) and have good reputation.

• Trust wallet is close-source
• Electrum, Mycellium are open-source

All three wallets are non-custodial.

I will prioritize Electrum wallet. It supports Bech32 address and Lightning Network.

Don't store your coin on exchanges if you don't want to trade it.

Thank you. I forgot to update the status of Vietnamese local thread. In fact, I was the one who tried to make request for unblocking it. I am going to update the moderator for it too.

• Vietnamese discussion on our local threads. Talk in English, self-moderated.
• Months later, it was unblocked by hilariousandco.

Thanks. I did not update this thread for a long time but I knew about efforts from your local members to increase its activities and made your request to have a local board.

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Completed.

• Xal0lex now is one of two official moderators for local threads in Other languages.
• Updated status of Bangladesh local thread.
• Added Nigeria local board. Not sure when theymos created it.

$100 interest sent. Loan will be extended one month.

Please confirm, I will lock it after that. Thanks.

If you are unsure about your old wallet, you should move your bitcoins to a new wallet.

You can do it in either ways which both cost you transaction fee because it is an on-chain transaction.

• Moving your coins from that old wallet to a new wallet, after importing its private key and sending it to your new wallet.
• Sweeping it.
  
  • Sweeping your private keys into Electrum

That passphrase is a layer to protect others to access your private key. That passphrase can not protect your private key if you leak the private key. With a private key, others can import it and be able to spend your bitcoins.

They have reasons to create their games and doing it on a biggest blockchain is very smart idea. To support game-makers, miners and mining pools do have their roles in high transaction fee too. We cannot have evidence that they do this and that but it's reasonable if they broadcast some transactions in mempools with very high fee rates in order to force others to join the race.

At the end, miners get benefit from the race by earning very good mining rewards than usual, with abnormal high transaction fee (with some blocks, it is up to 6.6 BTC).

Verify it with Bitcoin block explorers
https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/blocks?s=time(desc)#f=id,hash,time,guessed_miner,fee_total,fee_total_usd,size

I have no issue with either bi-weekly or monthly payment in this crazy period. I will not move my bitcoins after receiving it from the team and see its value drops a lot after spending transaction fee. So moving it monthly looks to be fine, personally.

It's not about me but I think maybe some of others might need it weekly and the team can consider about spending payment in stable coin during these days. When things are cool down, we can return to Bitcoin. I don't vote for this option that is only my idea. If others like it, they must vote for it.

Thank you.

There are three options: ETA, Static, and Mempool.

• ETA gives you overpaid fee rate.
• Static gives you rights to set a fixed fee rate like 1 sat/vbyte or 5 sat/vbyte for your transactions. It will be always like this before you change the Static fee rate by yourself.
• Mempool gives you recommended fee rate by retrieving information from mempool. In theory, it is a good option but I would like to manually check mempools before I choose a fee rate for my transactions, no matter I chose Static or Mempool option.

Where to check mempool and fee rate. One of two websites:

• https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#BTC%20(default%20mempool),24h,weight
• https://mempool.space/graphs/mempool

Those bot operators will use data from available resources rather than running their own Bitcoin full nodes. If they rely on other parties to have data for their Telegram bots, they will have issues if those parties have problems.

It's good to mention those telegram bot notifiers but it's better if you mention some websites to check mempools and fee rates. Likely those bots use data from those websites

• https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#BTC%20(default%20mempool),24h,weight
• https://mempool.space/

Bitcoin’s Frenzy of Activity Pushes Average Transaction Fee Over $7, Nearly 2-Year High

It is because of BRC-20 tokens and low quality projects try to migrate their projects to Bitcoin blockchain that is a biggest chain and can be helpful for them to catch attention of token fans. Those tokens can be weak, low quality but from what you have seen on Ethereum blockchain, Binance Smart Chain and other chains with smart contracts, you will see the same with BRC-20 tokens.

I guess it won't stop soon and the Bitcoin network, mempools will be more overloaded with those shit tokens.

I don't like to use those extensions because I prioritize my safety and security on my device first.

Convenience is not my priority as I can manually do it with Notepad, Word and so on. No need to use extensions which can save my time but it is not too much to sacrifice safety and security. A few seconds to copy and paste to save a draft is not annoying with me.

Browser extensions: more dangerous than you think