Nice setup OP. Did you see eutelsat-113 (over South America) went kaput. Satellite is dead.

I dunno. I guess 144 blocks / a small integer number of people.

But I can say that in July 2012, my year old Mac laptop did 4 blocks in 12 hrs before difficulty adjusted.

I’m neutral on this. Tough call, to be sure, but some of us gave theymos like $20 a long time ago and expected him to run the forums in perpetuity. And he has indeed kept the lights on around here.

The best argument for banning mixers though is because if the government can stop a mixer, then you have risk if you promote/permit them.

Let this be an impetus for creating decentralized privacy solutions that can not be stopped.

Agreed. It seems every halving brings with it a new avenue for money to flow into bitcoin. Fiat leaking into bitcoin requires cracks in the dam and those cracks require preparation…fiat producers love themselves capital controls.


You know how they just “raised the debt ceiling?” This isn’t true. They didn’t raise the ceiling, they eliminated it until a future date. Do you remember the last time they did that? It was august 2019. September 2019 was the repo crisis, where overnight loans on treasuries hit an annualized interest rate of 10%! And conveniently we had a reason to make money printer go BRRR in 2020.

I don’t in general like conspiracies, but with no limit on US debt, we have effectively put a blank check out there for anyone to cash if they can create the economic conditions necessary to justify massive money printing. We are incentivizing our own destruction. I wouldn’t be surprised if we have some major happen in 2024…a new pandemic with lockdowns, WW3 starting in earnest, aliens turn out to be here and not-so-friendly, etc…

1) it isn’t decentralized but pretending to be decentralized (see Ethereum)…because Webcash is centralized, scalability is far easier…all the other shitcoins pretend to be decentralized and offer “features” that are fundamentally incompatible with decentralization. But if those shitcoins would just give up the pretense of decentralization, they could scale far better.

2) not “on chain,” so to speak. I’d think of it more like trying to atomically swap (knowledge of) telephone numbers…I’m sure there is some way to do it, but you’d need to roll your own solution for it.

There are a number of details that are unclear to me regarding auditability/verifiability…but kanzure ain’t dumb…so I presume there is some preservation of key features of bitcoin…

But having been fairly near to the beginning of bitcoin and not coming out unbelievably wealthy, I’ve learned to act before fully grokking details. That said, this feels an awful lot like early bitcoin to me.

Will this compete with Bitcoin? No, of course not—it isn’t decentralized. But then again, neither is Ethereum. While I personally feel Ethereum is of no value, sacrificing both decentralization & auditability, my feelings are clearly contradicted by the non-zero market cap of Ethereum. Webcash is the logical optimization of a shitcoin trying to solve the money problem (to the extent I understand webcash).

There is an executable for Mac…I don’t know if there is one for windows

I’m a dual satellite user. It’s a little bit like magic still to me. But now my coldcard’s sdcard never touches a computer on the internet. I still check my satellite node against a conventional internet connected node (hey, you never know), but I feel more secure with my sats never coming near the internet.

Make sure you get the bitcoins sent to your keys and that you have a very good system for maintaining your seed phrase secure. Send me a message if you want any advice …50% salary is a very big investment and you should match it with appropriate diligence in security.

Cereal? Serial.

You’re website is a sham. There is no article. Assange did a fair amount of posting after being arrested.

#lame

If Assange is SN, he sure posted a lot after turning himself in 07 Dec 2010 (and being held for 9 days)…

I've put up a rough draft of my initial setup at an old disused website that apparently I've been paying to keep the domain name for...for about a decade...

I made about every mistake you can make...so I have some embarrassing but helpful tips on what to do (and not to do): https://www.drgoss.org

“The real fake bitcoin…” best quote ever. I suppose the real fake bitcoin would be what miners say it is, even if the chain dies because nobody will buy its token. But yeah, I really don’t care about conmen…although I admit concern over bc.i & stellar announcement…seems so much out of right field.

Is there a way to search for hero or higher members with at least 10 merit and make that a list to follow? So many threads and so many posts aren’t worth the time…but a more twitter like view of bitcointalk would be cool. Might bring us old timers back. 

Yes.

Anyhow, I defunded these for multi-key multi-state cold storage. I’m not a believer in holding lots of quickly transferable assets.

I did the same with my full set.

These are rare and reliable. I just defunded an entire set (36 bitcoins). Each had the funds on them.

Yup. That is me. I had to break a casascius bearer bar to get back in…hence my long absence.

At any rate, I wouldn't do business with someone I couldn't verify out of band. Not with this sum.

Thanks guys. I also see we are still using SMF version 1 from 2009. Ghetto. Oh well, if anyone serious wants images, I can email them. I've been off the forum for a few years, I guess I was kinda hoping things would be different. I do all my forum stuff from an iPhone. Many people live in the post computer world.

Scratching my head on how to attach images. I'm not uploading these to another server and linking…that's so 1998. Any hints how to attach?

The announcement thread, back before it was bitcoin_talk_.org (via wayback): http://web.archive.org/web/20110515100056/http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=7724.0;all