Thanks. Yeah, somehow I didn't think of an image *facepalm*. Appreciate the help and the suggestions, I'll keep some of them in mind as improvements. I think most people are worried now about going to the moon instead of comparing the performance of stocks  but eventually bitcoin will stop going up... right?

I have a lot of friends who are into stonks and have no clue how bitcoin works (oH itS sO VoLatile!) so me and a Bitcoiner friend decided to create this tool where you can input the DCA amount, frequency and compare bitcoin vs stocks.

Check it out → bitcoinvsstocks.com

It's free, open source and verifiable (links to Github repos are on the FAQ section).

The most amazing part to me is that even when we started working on it last year, Bitcoin was already much better almost every single stock in the list. Now it's literally DESTROYING them.

And now that the price is up, my nocoiner friends are obviously finally interested in bitcoin  

Feedback is welcome! We're working on a search function to compare against the most common 7,000 stocks.

About the images, got it. I'm not too fond of forums / social media but I do enjoy the conversation here.

It seems Coinkite beat me to the calendar, this is exactly what I had in mind, only much nicer that I would probably be able to achieve:

https://bitcoin.holiday/

I'll be a bit busy in the next coming months, but I think I will stick to riddles / challenges. Originally I thought to make it a 0.01 BTC per month thing, but I'm in a tricky spot with work right now. A few sponsors saw the riddle and got interested in the idea, so that's kind of cool


This thread is pretty cool though. Lots of information out there.


Indeed, I'm not a big fan of social media, but if the riddle is well done I think it will generate traction, in the end if things are done well I think reddit is king, unfortunately no post will live more than a few days so I think I should just post the riddle when it's ready. As opposed to here, where I can warm everyone to be ready.

I was mostly afraid my first riddle would get me banned from most places as I could just be one more guy trying to trick people, so I didn't use any clickbaity titles or anything. Got less traffic but at least no bans.

Yeah, the countdown idea would be good. But I don't have a big channel to let people know that the challenge is starting. Maybe a simple optin form on my website? I could also post the announcement of when the riddle starts on the new post I guess. Like a few days before and then a T minus 24h announcement.

I could also put a counter of when my next riddle is going online now, on say handsomelatino.com/#next-riddle, but that would require people checking in often.

Problem with this is that Reddit users are gonna flame me, but I can always just post when it starts on reddit and give you guys a small heads up. People here can vouch that I am legit and not some random scammer


Sure, I might PM you when the date is closer.

The calendar won't be a big project or anything, just something simple for people to have a reference to, regarding to Bitcoin itself, not to the political or market value where there is plenty of info.

BTW unrelated, I've seen some posts that contain images, is it enough to use the img shortcode? Testing...

Happy to hear the feedback you guys had and even happier to hear that the UI was sleek -- my job as a software developer focuses on UI/UX, so it was an interesting experiment.

If you guys wanna stick, I will be posting a few ideas about my next riddle here, so I can also get some feedback. I have two prototypes with Bitcoin done, but the next one might be based on the Lightning Network, so that I can distribute more rewards to more players. Make sure to have your Lightning powered wallets ready to receive sats.


I just spent the last few days reading many of your posts and replies. Very interesting and impressive to see, the more I read the happier I was that you took the bounty!

Those two dates sound great, let me see if I can make it on time. BTW do you know those dates off the top of your head? I was thinking of a small project to make a "Bitcoin calendar" where people can see when was the time different events happened. I've seen timelines with years and all but the dates would be cool. Kind of like calendars with the name of saints but instead with bitcoin events, if you're interested let me know. No bounty on this one probably, just a cool project to support historical pieces of information.

Congratulations! Wow, that was fast, 20 hours since published. It feels bittersweet that the hard work of so many evenings is gone, but as my wife said, better than people had interest than if no one cared and it faded away on the internet.

I'm also curious as to what was the clue or first word that you found out! Impressive work, and well, I'm happy you're probably the first person to ever read my bio!


OP signed a message which you can verify. I've added since that it's been solved by o_e_l_e_o -- but only if you enter the words

I was not planning on releasing any clues, but decided to do so because I think it would have been way too hard and no one would have cared. Unless it's the year 2030 and 1 million sats becomes $50,000 or something crazy; by that time someone would have brute forced it (someone on reddit already tried all 33 million combinations of BIP-39 words yesterday).

Not to worry -- my fifth project and its reward are already on the works. Will need to find a special date in June / July related to Bitcoin or the financial world, so I'm open to suggestions.

Finally, there was a hidden hint on the project's icon (favicon.svg), which I was hoping someone would find.

UPDATE #1:

I have added a few clues on the crossword page (refresh to see them) -- will add more if needed!

Also, someone has generously added a small tip on top of the total reward.  


Initially I got lazy to program dark mode, but definitely it was needed. It's done  let me know what you think!


From the new clues added to the crossword:

No knowledge about the BIP-39 wordlist is needed or was used as a reference for this crossword.

First hint

Edit: It's night time here, I'm off to bed. Good luck. More clues to come when I wake up.

English, yes.


Yes, automatically, since only the right key would produce a valid message. It even throws confetti at you

Hi everyone, my third fourth Bitcoin project this year is a crossword puzzle:

bitcoin-crossword.com

If you solve it, the words will decrypt a message which contains a 0.01 BTC or One Million Sats Bounty that you can sweep. Code is open source and the encrypted message is open to the public.

Took me a few months to finalize and I decided to launch it today, Pizza Day, in honor of the legendary Laszlo Hanyecz who bought large pizzas and enjoyed them with no regrets.

Feel free to discuss potential solutions. I will be releasing a few clues if the puzzle remains unsolved.

Enjoy your pizza!

Hi everyone, I decided to go for the regular 8 digits, now you cannot enter more digits and I fixed the bugs regarding the numbers.

If you input say 2800 USD, it will still show as "0.090 BTC", but with the bottom the 8-digit amount will show:

0.090 BTC
0.09007560 BTC

Here's more details on the tiny release:
https://github.com/handsomelatino/btc2fiat/releases/tag/v2.1

The interaction may feel a bit messy now, but I still prefer to see approximate values such as "13.2 BTC" instead of "13.212311200 BTC". Please experiment with it on your daily usage and let me know, I'm open to suggestions. The BTC/Sats Eur/Usd toggle will change behavior of these numbers quite a bit.


Thanks, this was a bug. It should never show more than 8 precision digits for BTC now.


Hey, yeah the plan is to be able to use non-JS but for calculators where you expect immediate input that becomes tricky. I still think it would be cool to have that support. In fact plaintextsports.com is using JS for its toggle light-dark mode.

Also, although still not free of Javascript, you can actually run queries which reduce the number of parameters you use, in fact I have a Chrome shortcut that does this:


This lets you run queries such as:

https://btc2fiat.me/?q=0.5+btc
https://btc2fiat.me/?q=200+sats&cur=eur
https://btc2fiat.me/?q=10+usd

So in the browser, I just type "BTC" (tab) and then whatever is my search "200 usd" and it will show up the value right away. Might be a good idea to show others how it can be used but don't know what is the best way to achieve that.

Thanks!

Thanks for all the suggestions!

New version is out at https://btc2fiat.me (hard refresh might be required):

Looks like this →

• Euro/USD support
• Refetch exchange after one minute of inactivity

 (I decided to not go for automatic refreshing since I felt the UX is better if you manually refresh):

This week's To Do: fetch the exchange on the backend and not rely on coingecko.

I'm also not in love with the domain url (.me), but the nicer alternatives are either taken or too expensive. preev is a great catchy name and it works amazing. Dark mode is a most for me (I spent a lot of time with lights dimmed and babies asleep).


Thanks, happy to see btc2fiat.me included.

Thanks! Much appreciated. Preev looks nice, I'll take some ideas from it. Essentially I noticed many converts don't have Satoshis as a unit, which are used a lot recently (in fact I was used to seeing mBTC in my times). And as you mentioned, the dark mode. I read a lot while my toddler sleeps in my lap so dark mode is a must!


Minimalistic Tx fees and mempool sounds like a great idea, maybe for a separate expansion of this project. Thanks! I wanted it to be a "war of the giants" between the biggest contender in fiat which is USD, but I wasn't aware of how big the Euro or Yuan are. So I plan on adding currencies.

When you mention platforms you mean different exchanges? Is it common for users to want to check multiple sources? (My own experience is that the number fluctuates so much that I always give or take some percentage when transacting with others).

Hi everyone, out of frustration I created a very simple, lightweight BTC to Fiat converter:

https://btc2fiat.me

It's free, open source, free of ads or noise.

What do you all think?

Even though it's a very simple idea I was quite shocked to find how hard it is to find a converter that is free of distracting ads and random information which I don't care much about (such as the price of other assets).

I just went down the Bitcoin rabbit hole so feedback is welcome here or on Github. Cheers!

(Note: euro and other fiat support coming soon)

Claro, tiene mucho sentido. Lo que pasa siento es que muchas inversiones de negocios son difíciles de tomar inclusive un buen aproximado de qué tanto van a mejorar el negocio (hasta se puede decir que no valen la pena, pero a veces de verdad no se sabe).

Por ejemplo, se lleva a los empleados a un paseo de vacaciones en el que disfrutan mucho. A corto plazo parece que se gastó mucho dinero pero tal vez a largo plazo esto les sube la moral, y les sube la productividad etc.

Pero completísimo de acuerdo que nunca se debe gastar lo que se debe o no se tiene, o urge. Muchos de nosotros es importante que resistamos el FOMO de no tener bitcoin.

Gracias!

This. Couldn't agree more.

Especially since people in a tough financial spot will almost inevitably be absolutely looking to make quick gains as fast as possible and they will develop tunnel vision into Bitcoin's mission as opposed to volatility.

The way I was introduced more seriously to it: by talking about the dollar and inflation. Let people find out by themselves what is causing this much inflation (is it really what the mainstream media says?) and this might make them look for alternatives.

I was shocked when I realized inflation was 12% in the US -- many of us who don't live in the S are unaware of how this will leak to all other currencies pegged to the dollar -- but most people do agree that our daily expenses, house prices, etc. are going over the roof in almost any country.

I had to literally beg for a salary increase when I got promoted to Engineering Manager. I got 7%, which meant not enough to even keep up with inflation. That was the day I was ready to go down the rabbit hole.

Terminator one is a classic. Definitely what I would do if I could time travel back in time 

Where I come from (and in other countries in Latin America) you can buy bitcoin directly by joining a Telegram / Whatsapp channel of people who are looking to either sell or buy.

That's what I do. You bring cash, they send you bitcoin, done deal. This is the only way I have ever purchased bitcoin.

Or, take for example, my friend, who was going on a sort of expensive trip and needed to sell some bitcoin that he was holding because he ran out of cash. I happily bought it from him.

I used that bitcoin to purchase web-hosting related services and a few physical goods in shops that I saw accepted bitcoin. Again, to my surprise many services accept bitcoin, not just shady ones but reputable ones like ProtonMail / ProtonVPN.

Now, I'm not saying this model works for everyone and I know we're nowhere close to mass adoption if it were ever to happen. Bank statements are very important for certain things (applying for loans, visas and residences to different countries) but I for one keep less and less money in the banks. I talk around locally to people and see who is interested in bitcoin, surprisingly more people than I thought know about it, but of course, still not enough.

Excelente descripción de todos los casos, sería bueno tenerla guardada en alguna página web eventualmente cuando madure 

¿Qué opinas del siguiente caso?

Digamos que tengo gastos que "puedo o no hacer", por ejemplo remodelar el local o hacer una mejora (comprar nuevo televisor etc), digamos que cotizo esa inversión en $1,000.

Si la mayoría de mis ahorros los tengo en bitcon (ya que soy fiel creyente del sistema) si el precio baja o se mantiene igual, pospongo estas mejoras (o no las hago del todo) y sigo acumulando bitcoin.

Al final de cuentas creo que puede seguir siendo considerado como especulación pero le he dado vuelta a este asunto por varias semanas. Por un lado pienso que lo mejor es no hacer estos gastos innecesarios, pero por otro lado siento que el hecho de poder usar bitcoin mejora en la adopción y me siento cómodo ahorrando en ella.

Gracias!