Do you really think that the USA doesn't care about oil? You underestimate the power of oil and overestimate the power of Bitcoin and crypto.

I bet Germany is popular because of Contabo, they have datacenters in Frankfurt am Main and Nürnberg, it's super easy to set up Bitcoin node on Contabo too but what I don't understand is that isn't it pointless to run hundreds of nodes under one company? It's pointless if they are centralized, then one running node is already enough.

Yes, but the USA imports lots of low quality crude, then refines it and exports it. I think that the discussion about the USA & oils really deserves a dedicated topic. That's a very interesting thing.

If you buy a coin and wait for price to go up, then why should you open long position? Isn't it better to do spot trading instead of futures? I use futures when I want to open a short position, i.e. profit from price going down.

I am not a professional trader but I learnt from my experience that risk is risk and you really gamble 50/50. It's very individual whether you should hold position after overbought or not because if the coin is overbought but there is an upcoming news that will happen more likely and positively affect Bitcoin's price, then it's worth to keep open position. For example, Bitcoin was overbought before Bitcoin ETF approval but it was definitely worth it to hold open position. There are moments when you don't know what's gonna happen and you have to either afford the risk or not, that's why every case is individual.

Are you joking? That's the point of closed-source, you don't know how they are assigning an AML score, so you can't crack it. If it becomes open-source and you know how it works, you might figure out how to bypass it.
P.S. To my mind, AML score is an excuse for coins confiscation and it's totally awful. It does more harm than good because first of all, it doesn't guarantee the accuracy and second of all, an innocent person can get in trouble if they decide to receive Bitcoin from another person. It's basically asking in real life to check every Euro banknote whether it has been in hands of criminal or not. How the hell should I even know or why is it my duty to know or why should I get punished for it if I haven't done anything wrong?

Every scam accusation topic deserves a significant attention because if someone recently became a victim, there is a chance that others will become soon. If the fact that many people bump scam accusation topic for the sake of signature campaign, I would say that that's a positive side effect, this will also motivate businesses to quickly solve the problem and will push their customer supports to offer fast service.

It's always a new account because they register on Bitcointalk when they have a problem with casino. In fact, they aren't the members of this forum, they only register to solve their problem with the help of DT members.

Then adaptive block size is the answer. To be honest, I think that Monero is what many Bitcoin enthusiasts and supporters want Bitcoin to be. Maybe it's time to migrate to Monero?

Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer version of electronic cash that allows online payments to be sent directly from one party to another. The aim of Satoshi was to create a non-reversible transactions without a trusted party. The main idea of Bitcoin also was to keep low transaction costs. I am quoting the whitepaper. I have read whitepaper and it looks like Ordinals completely ruin the Bitcoin. Yes, freedom is good and there is nothing wrong with it but Ordinals clearly abuse Bitcoin and use it for purposes that were never meant. Bitcoin was created to send money, not JPEGs, so I think we are still in the frames of freedom even if we ruin the Ordinals party.
I completely understand your opinion but Ordinals ruin our freedom, not us - theirs. If anyone wants to send 1 cent but pay thousands of dollars in transaction fees, then they are welcome, it's their choice, their freedom and free will but Ordinals don't do that, they send the ownership of JPEG files, not money. That's why I am against them.

Binance owns Trust wallet, Binance owns Binance pool and collaborates with other leading mining pools, so high transaction fees are their interest. At the same time, keep in mind that Binance does many shady things, for example, on Binance, it's cheaper to withdraw Bitcoin to legacy address compared to SegWit address. Does this make any sense? No! They also do every dirty job to promote their own chain.

Exactly! The red flag is in their names:
TrustWallet - UnTrustWorthyWallet
Craig Wright - Craig Wrong

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By the way, CoinPoker seems to be an old website but to be honest, before Bitcointalk, I didn't know about them. Anyway, it's very good that you are here on this forum, this platform will attract many players.

No, it didn't really cost me a lot of money, round-way flight costed me 600 Euro but tickets are crazy expensive, I don't think I'll waste money on it again if my wealth won't significantly increase. Ticket can cost thousands of dollars, hotel for me - 200 Euro. My experience is that event lasted lots of hours but it wasn't boring because besides Octagon fights, there were fights in the crowd.
Besides main event, this fight was worth watching: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/mma/article-13488835/fight-ufc-302-fans-new-jersey-arena.html

I hold my breath and hope that I won't blackout

I respect your opinion too but I simply don't understand why you advocate it when there are so many cons. It's simple, if Bitcoin transaction fees will remain high, people won't use it. The less people use Bitcoin, the less there will be a need of it as a payment method which leads to less adoption. Less activity will result in the death of Bitcoin as a payment method, at least. Less activity on Bitcoin will also promote alternative cryptocurrencies and I won't be surprised if any altcoin will take the first place on the market.
If block size won't increase, there will be no space for new customers who want to make Bitcoin transactions daily and there are billions of people on earth. 600K daily transactions that we see on Blockchain, is really nothing for such a big population. Block size limit is the limit of how many people will be able to use Bitcoin. If we want massive adoption in forms of payment and protection from DDOS, a new model is necessary. At the moment, a slight block size increase is necessary, we can't have 1 MB or 4 MB block size in 2024, the technology has advanced, RAM, CPU, GPU, SSD, everything is significantly more powerful than in 2009 and significantly affordable.

To be honest, I don't understand why should I use a 2nd layer solution. If anyone has to use 2nd layer (I don't mean LN exactly), it's ordinals and runes spammers. Normal users, who want to use Bitcoin as a p2p payment method, should be able to use Bitcoin as it is without 2nd and 3rd layers.

That's what I think, it became a too dirty deal. I even think that ordinals and runes creators work with big mining pools to artificially increase the transaction fee. The scheme should be this: Some people inscribe ordinals and runes, pay extremely high transaction fees (then get all the fees back from pools), increase the transaction fee for everyone, they scam people with dumb ape and other JPEGs and that's all. They make money from creating and selling tons of ordinals, miners make money from increased transaction fees. I have no other explanation because I have seen many posts when NFT creators where crying for increased ETH transaction fees and now they want to pay thousands of dollars on Bitcoin blockchain? Doesn't make sense.

Bitcoin is both. Bitcoin was created for the purpose of making a peer-to-peer transactions without the help of 3rd party in the process but this, besides many other positive sides, is the reason why it became a perfect investment choice. Just look at this, created 15 years ago, the limited supply of 21 million Bitcoins, coin with no $ value goes up to tens of thousands of dollars. Now you see, many people see Bitcoin as a great investment option and don't care about the other positive sides and functionalities that Bitcoin carries and that's pretty normal. Not everyone cares about decentralization, improved privacy, security and so on. Many people value ROI because finances matter in 21th century. Bitcoin still carries it's purpose, simply, people prefer to invest and automatically you think that it gradually turned away to mainly investment purpose.

Any person can get addicted to any person, any medicine, any drug, any activity, any habit, any everything. Is it the duty of wine, beer, whisky and other alcoholic drink manufacturers to take care of alcoholics? Should they fund alcohol rehabilitation programs? It's the nature of humans to blame others instead of their own self for every bad that happens to them but I think that it's not duty of casinos to fund rehabilitation centers for gambling addicts. If any casino does that and funds such centers, it's simply the expression of kindness.
The only duty that I think casinos should carry is to offer informational resources about possible gambling addiction that can occur with any person.

So, If I understood correctly, Foundry USA can remove block that they mined. There might be a case when they mine two blocks in a row and they'll be able to remove both blocks from the blockchain, right? So, technically, 6 confirmation means that there is a very low chance that any miner or pool will mine 6 blocks in a row and that's why 6 confirmation is considered to be a safe choice. Am I right here? If this is the case, then should Bitcoin have beeen made in a way that it will 100% prevent one miner/pool to mine, discover 6 blocks in a row? For better security?
I agree with you that it would be very stupid if any mining pool, especially large one decides to perform such an attack.

I don't know where are you from but there must be some programs in your country that help farmers, startups, tech companies and local business/production in your country. I don't think it's abandoned at all. They won't fund every business but there must be some niches that country wants to develop and with the right mind and good team, it's possible to get funding.

By the way, governments don't tax poor people but it's not like they tax rich people too. There are three classes: working class, middle class, and upper class. Working class does the most job and gets the lowest payrate. The middle class might be working as much as work class but they get better quality of life but still, they are the most pressured class, middle class pays the most taxes, they are the true strength. Upper class pays the least taxes because they are rich, have connections, influence, power and the possibility to bribe others, so, you know, they don't pay much taxes, middle class pays the most.

Wants to discuss? I flew from EU to the USA just to see this fight, alone and yes, I almost cried that Poirier lost against him Dustin had to fight against two opponent, Islam and his shorts All the money that I paid to watch this fight, was really worthy. Money isn't a big issue but flight takes lots of time. It was definitely amazing fight! Dustin Poirier is my favorite fighter, I wanted him to beat Islam and retire, that would be mine and probably his dream too but still, outcome doesn't matter, it was amazing!

Poirier's TD defense has definitely improved a lot, his defense in the first 3 rounds really shocked me. By the way, I personally prefer Islam over Khabib because Islam sometimes strikes and isn't only focused on wrestling. Otherwise, Khabib is really the goat if we talk about results and not about fight style.

Thanks for quoting me because I received a message on Telegram. I'm on vacation and haven't visited mempool.space and thanks to this quote, I received a notification on Telegram and I can't believe what my eyes has to see. Why on earth is anyone consolidating all the unconsolidated transactions today with 300-400 sat/vByte fees?

Is there any explanation to why they overpay? Usually, every business tries to save as much as possible and it's a little confusing why should they be overpaying transaction fees (a lot).

Call that an evidence but can you afford to make a Bitcoin transaction? I can't afford (maybe can but don't plan to waste money stupidly). It's becoming unattractive payment method for so many people, I think that that's more of a loss than an evidence that it works (DoS protection and a self-sustainability assurance mechanism).

To me, it looks like advocating for an extremely high house prices while not being able to afford a house.

CoinPoker Username: OGRoyalFlush
Forum Username: Synchronice
Total Merits earned (Excluding Airdropped Merits): 792
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First of all, this is a signature campaign thread, it's better to ask such questions in their ANN thread.

Secondly, companies use professional business email hosting. They offer you email marketing and provide you with tools that help you to design beautiful email campaigns, emails sent by them doesn't end up in spam and gets delivered. So, I assume, that their marketing emails and user related emails get delivered in a different way.

Does it matter if every person from 10 people pay 100 sat/vByte as a fee or every person from 100 people pay 10 sat/vByte as a fee? It doesn't matter because the outcome is the same. Bitcoin can't grow with such a low block size, it will simply make it unattractive and people will actively start to look for alternatives.
Simply, there is no way that by increasing the block size, miners will lose the profit, no, that's not true.

Why is LN a solution? What if everyone moves on LN? Will miners still profit?

I can't agree with you, Bitcoin is meant for P2P transactions and that includes everything, starting from Coffee to Car and so on. The simple fact is that Bitcoin wasn't meant for massive usage and it's blocks size was 1 MB because it was enough for 2010 and for a few upcoming years. As time goes, number of Bitcoin users increase and the technology advances, so it's perfectly okay and to my mind, even necessary, to increase the block size.

The best way is to have a friend, buddy who wants Bitcoins and will have a deal with you, i.e. will buy these Bitcoins from you. This way, no one will question where does the money come from unless it's a lot of money.
If you are from the USA, I wouldn't risk it because recently Roger Ver was arrested for not paying taxes and I think that he would put more effort into it than you (nothing personal). If you are from a developing country where laws are strictly protected, it might turn into a big headache if you don't pay taxes.

I would really buy one as a souvenir

It's a business and their ACE is the code. ColdCard put too much work to create the code that they have right now (they also copied others to be completely honest) and then The Passport wallet was creating using the ColdCard's open-source code. It's a commercial business, so it doesn't surprise me why they are scared.

The society is not ready to flex with Bitcoin wallets. It depends on the country and neighborhood but overall, you are right, it's dangerous to wear this ring and walk outside if many people discover the existence of this ring, as it should be since the company wants to sell as many as possible.

That's how people get fooled.

For sure, tipping feature is very handy and beneficial for many users but I assume there were many legit reasons behind removing this feature, otherwise Stake would left it.
To my mind, these are the following resons:
1. There were too many beggars in the chat (but I don't think they would remove it for this reason).
2. People were using multi accounts and transferring money back and forth.
3. People were laundering money with it
4. Poorbot.io might be another reason, I don't know.