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9921  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Is it possible that Bitcoin becomes quiescent? on: November 13, 2019, 06:24:09 PM
if most people are using Bitcoin just as a store of wealth

Nowadays most use Bitcoin as an investment, not only as a store of value. But after some more halvings and after Bitcoin is mature and widely adopted, the value may become rather stable and using it as investment may not bring such high reward.
And Bitcoin primary meaning is to be used as a coin. The store of value is a "secondary effect" of all good/successful coins (back in the days when inflation was big I kept my savings in USD/EUR!).
That's why the development goes in the direction to make the use of Bitcoin-as-a-coin go faster and better.

So I expect Bitcoin get used in 2130 as a coin much more than today.
I don't know how much of the transactions will be off-chain and how much on-chain, but we clearly have to keep miners happy even then (the problems will start much earlier than 2130 actually).


As said by @Deathwing, the network will continue to work even then, just at a lower difficulty, if the miners leave. But if the difficulty drops too much, at some point the network could become vulnerable to 51% attack. So ... we have to find long term solutions to keep the miners happy.
9922  Economy / Reputation / Re: Feedom of speech on: November 13, 2019, 05:37:32 PM
Freedom of speech has a cost and are we paying the price for it in this forum?

Freedom of speech is a great deal and whether some like it or not, it's great that we have it here too.
This forum is more and more a view over our society, with good and bad, with people that share our views or not, with people which want to help, to scam or to troll (and so on). It's out choice what we read or skip, what we answer to or not.
9923  Economy / Economics / Re: Malaysia to Limit Cash Transactions in 2020 on: November 13, 2019, 05:15:42 PM
the 25,000 RM limit

In my country (Romania) such limit exists for some years now. Just iirc it's about 10000 EUR / cash transaction, so 45000 RM.
And I can tell that I know only 2 cases average Joe faces these limits: when selling/buying a home (house, apartment) or a (new) car, which operations usually happen through bank / credit anyway.
So I think that it's not a real / big problem.
9924  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Get Paid in Bitcoin for answering tech questions on: November 13, 2019, 02:36:40 PM
The idea looks good to me. I mean, the questions and answers don't have to be centralized on 2-3 websites. The more the merrier.
Some bugs/improvements/ideas though:

1. You break the browsing history. If I press back after opening a question/thread, I go to main page instead of the list of questions.
2. You need a better UI for displaying the "short view" and the "full view". Also I agree with @pooya87, that text-box looking part invites you edit instead of reading Wink
3. It could be useful to have a way to get the link to one of the questions without opening it. You'll also need to offer direct link to each answer.
4. I think that the main page should already show the newest questions, else some may think that they have to create an user in order to see them. That "let's go" link may not be enough (and also may not be visible enough).
9925  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Bitcoin Unchained on: November 13, 2019, 01:24:24 PM
However, as long as the majority of miners are working to
protect the network

OK, so instead of having a chain of blocks you propose "replacing" one "current state" object.
But sync doesn't happen for everybody in the same time. That's why the mined blocks in a shorter fork will become orphaned.
Yes, I know, you wrote that the best "state" is the one saved with the highest difficulty, but this wold mean that you force the network difficulty increase continuously, which will not happen always, it just cannot happen - the new "states" will be mined slower and slower until the process will stop (that's why Bitcoin has difficulty adjustment).
I think that this is one of the flaws of your logic for now.
9926  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: WHAT HAPPENS IF BTC TOUCHES 100K ? on: November 13, 2019, 09:06:21 AM
What happens if BTC is still rally to 100K ?
ALTS ?? dump to zero
at the moment BTC sideways until end of the year

this time currently the last choice for ALTs
take actions or die..!!!

good luck

Is this a sad attempt for FUD?
If Bitcoin reaches 100k, people will be happy with the easy money they've got and will be more willing to spend/invest in altcoins.
And some (very few!) altcoins deserve such a chance.
9927  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Disney plus+ service begins today. Do you think if they accept a crypto on: November 13, 2019, 08:01:04 AM
Do you think if they accepted a certain crypto for payments of their service would it make it explode and be beneficial to them in any sort of way?

As said in other threads, only some 6.2% of Americans own crypto. Such a big business as Disney don't care about crypto. If they add such payments, they'll do it through a payment processor and they'll actually receive US dollars.

I don't think that crypto would make their service "explode", but could give them a slight edge. From what I've read their service is cheaper than Netflix and that's more important for most possible customers (together with the content, obviously).


On another hand I don't know if I can install any Disney+ app on my TV (while Netflix and HBO go are there)....
9928  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: What Will You Do To Recover Bitcoin? on: November 12, 2019, 08:39:54 AM
"Not your keys, not your coins". Unless you (installed a software and) made a wallet and received a private key (or a wallet file) I'd stop dreaming. Most probably that site doesn't exist anymore or has change and would not allow you withdraw.
9929  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: How to withdraw from here? on: November 12, 2019, 08:31:30 AM
You need to ask more clearly what you want. This is a forum, it doesn't hold money so there's nothing to withdraw.
Depending on the wallet you use and the coins in it, you may or may not be able to exchange into fiat and withdraw.
9930  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Discussion (Altcoins) / Re: which exchange should I use? on: November 12, 2019, 08:08:32 AM
Afaik you cannot withdraw fiat (dollars) from Binance, so you may have to do the operation in 2 steps: convert the tokens into Bitcoin, Ethereum, whatever known coin then go to something like Bitstamp or Coinbase pro and transform to fiat you can withdraw.
I don't know if you'll find one place where you can exchange all those tokens, I would try to find the relevant exchanges for each token on worldcoinindex.com, coinmarketcap.com or coingecko.com
I don't have experience with Ethereum tokens, there may be a DEX or anything where you can exchange them all.

It's an awfully lot of money there. If you are not trolling, then you better wait for more answers and do some more research yourself.


PS. If you acquired yourself those tokens or at least that amount of ETH you should know already something. So the chances you are trolling are pretty high.
9931  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Red trust accounts wearing signature..... on: November 12, 2019, 07:14:29 AM
new developers who don't have experience or don't have a lot of lunge in project promotion, always don't care about redstrust participants, because the most important thing for them is that many participants are involved and can attract other users. that is normal in ICO advertising, it is important that users are more selective if they want to join such a project. what else do they plan to register token on the Dcoin exchange? isn't the Dcoin exchange very shady?

And they will just lose money, because many will avoid projects advertised by red-trust users, thinking "if they allow scammers for advertising, what if they are also scammers?"
9932  Local / Offtopic / Re: To vote or not to vote, that is the question on: November 12, 2019, 07:11:17 AM
mai multe persoane cu care am vorbit despre votare n-au fost la vot in turul intai insa vor merge in turul al doilea

Woah, nu e tocmai o reactie la care m-as fi asteptat, e o surpriza placuta. Sunt curios daca e ceva izolat sau chiar vor fi multe asemenea cazuri.

Intradevar sunt si unele persoane care cred ca jocurile sunt facute deja asa cum ai precizat si tu, dar nimic nu este sigur asa ca eu personal voi merge sa votez.

Mda, iar noi trebuie sa le explicam. Si e simplu. Clar si democratic, cu cat mai multi voteaza cu atat mai corect este rezultatul. Plus ca pana la un anumit numar de votanti este avantajat unul dintre candidati, iar de la o valoare in sus, celalalt, cel putin "pe hartie".
Cum spuneam, trebuie votanti cat mai multi cel putin pentru corectitudine: pentru a avea un castigator care totusi reprezinta un procent semnificativ din populatie, nu doar din votanti (!).
9933  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Red trust accounts wearing signature..... on: November 12, 2019, 06:56:48 AM
Some of these bounty owners might not even be aware of what the trust system is all about.  They should, but they might now.  Or even worse, they might not care as long as they can get as many members as possible to advertise for them.  I don't trust these project devs at all, but I would trust them even less (were that even possible) if they allow red trusted members to join their bounties.  It's bad business practice and the fact that they don't care makes me question how serious they are about their projects.

That's correct and that's why they should be contacted, the things explained and asked if this was intentional or a mistake.
I mean that there should be the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise.
9934  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Red trust accounts wearing signature..... on: November 11, 2019, 03:13:43 PM
I find the red trust rule is good, it gives less opportunities to the wrongdoers. And most businesses don't want their name associated with red-trust people.
But indeed, the rules are made by the business owners together with the campaign manager.
In that case, I think that best is to ask the campaign manager or, even better, the business owner (if it's active on btctalk), because it may be just a mistake / forgotten rule.
9935  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: xHelper - Warning for all Android users! on: November 11, 2019, 03:06:00 PM
I do not fully agree with you. Checking reviews does not mean anything. To find out that the application can be compromised only after a long time, when it starts to act actively.
If you installed it relying on reviews, you will fall into the trap with all other users. Ideally, you need to install open source applications, or at least refrain from installing for several months if the application is new and little known.

That's correct, if the discussion was on the reviews from Play Store. Also most apps have a good number of reviews made/bought by the dev, which are obviously good no matter what and when the app is young, they can fool you.
If the discussion is about reviews from blogs and specialized websites, the risk should be smaller, especially if the review exists on multiple sites and some of them are well known. At that point the app may be mature enough too.


I can only say that that phone is got this infection after owner is downloaded some sport-related app from Google Play, but I am not sure is phone rooted or not. What I can say that it was a phone without any protection and no updates from Google in the last 2 years.
[...]
What I found on the page from Symantec is that this malware is possible targeting Jio 4G network users in India, who already have a free app that protects them from xHelper.

OK, this is somewhat more reassuring (for me), thanks.
9936  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Crypto News Aggregator on: November 11, 2019, 01:52:57 PM
Not bad. I like the colors for dark mode better chosen than the ones for light. A resize for the panels could be useful (I prefer to see Monero price and I don't care about Nasdaq and S&P).
9937  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: Best wallet on: November 11, 2019, 01:40:49 PM
Coinomi had some weird approach on private keys security, which is probably fixed by now, but I don't trust them anymore. And afaik it's closed source.

I use Mycelium, but I use it seldom, with a couple of view wallets and one Ledger Nano. In both cases I can't lose anything. But that's related with my paranoia about mobile phones lack of security  Wink
Afaik on Android Mycelium is still one of the best options.
9938  Local / Offtopic / Re: To vote or not to vote, that is the question on: November 11, 2019, 01:19:02 PM
Voi ce parere aveti despre cei doi, va veti duce la vot in turul al 2-lea?

Eu ma duc, dar mi-e teama ca prea multi vor absenta (poate mult mai multi decat ieri), fie din dezamagire, fie crezand ca jocurile sunt facute.
Pentru cei care nu-s convinsi: meciul se termina doar dupa ce a fluierat arbitrul.
9939  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: xHelper - Warning for all Android users! on: November 11, 2019, 01:04:55 PM
I personally had the opportunity to try to repair an infected smartphone with this trojan, and despite all the methods known to me, removal was unsuccessful in all cases.

I am quite scared of the (lack of) security mobile phones offer nowadays. I use a 3rd party antivirus for checking the things I install, but I am aware that some things can easily hidden from antiviruses too.
The phone you had in hand was rooted or not? I hope that only rooted phones are affected...

Also, maybe putting another ROM onto that phone would help get rid of that piece of.. trojan.


Malware infected apps rarely makes it to be added on playstore.

It was this year when Google announced me I have installed an app that doesn't behave right. It was only some ad abuse, I think, but I had the app installed for over a year until Google woke up.
9940  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Poloniex has moved to the Seychelles on: November 11, 2019, 12:55:31 PM
The Seychelles are known worldwide as a money laundering place.

This means that fiat operations are to be avoided at Poloniex.
But Poloniex golden days were related to crypto-to-crypto trading, maybe they want to focus on that.
Of course, with all this they should get rid of their KYC requirements, since nobody sane would give anymore their data.
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