I built/packaged Electrum 4.5.8, and when I trying running it, I get this:

Code:

Error: could not find paymentrequest_pb2.py. Create it with 'contrib/generate_payreqpb2.sh'

How do I fix this? I tried running

Code:

generate_payreqpb2.sh

, but I don’t know if it created any files or put them in the right place. Can someone please explain this?

One objection to Bitcoin is that criminals use it; but, besides Silk Road, what illegal operations have been proven to use bitcoin, monero, or other cryptocurrencies?

[describes blockchain voting]

Nexius.io founder describes blockchain voting, which (along with ranked-choice voting) was used to rate the U.S. third parties' presidential candidates on their October 23, 2024, debate.

🇸🇻's largest mining farm is powered by volcano energy; it provides ¼ 🇸🇻's hashpower.

But are there any mining farms in the 🌎 powered by nuclear microreactors ☢️?

Listen what this Austrian Economics / Mises Institute author of a book titled Better Money: Gold, Fiat, Or Bitcoin? says here:

https://youtu.be/g7vI957pg7U&t=2597

I don't see any reason to think that the price of Bitcoin is going to be predictably higher in the future.

🤦‍♂️

Why can't I import a Bitcoin Core private key into an Electrum wallet that supports Lightning?
Running importprivkey in the Electrum console, I get:

Error: This type of wallet cannot import private keys. Try to create a new wallet with that key.

When I create a new Electrum wallet with the private keys, why is Lightning disabled for that wallet?

Now that Purse.io has been sunsetted, I'm wondering what are some online bookstores that accept ₿?

prelude to centralized Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)?

PYMNTS  |  November 3, 2023

The Clearing House has reportedly said that it is not aware of any ongoing issues after a narrow processing error that affected deposits and transfers at some banks.

Bank of America had sent a memo to clients Friday (Nov. 3) saying that some of their deposits may be delayed due to an issue that was affecting multiple financial institutions, Bloomberg reported Friday.

Similarly, a spokesperson for JPMorgan Chase & Co. told the media outlet that a system issue had affected ACH debits and credits sent to the bank and other lenders.
Other banks that experienced deposit delays due to the processing issue include US Bank, Truist and Wells Fargo, CNN reported Friday. There were also complaints on social media from people who hadn’t been paid because of the problem.

The issue affected a single file, and therefore a batch of payments, and was ultimately a narrow processing issue caused by human error, a spokesperson for The Clearing House told Bloomberg.
Reached by PYMNTS, a spokesperson for The Clearing House said in an email: “The Clearing House (TCH) experienced an ACH processing issue which impacted less than 1% of the daily ACH volume in the United States. TCH is working with the financial institutions who have customers that have been impacted.”

The Federal Reserve said the processing issue happened at EPN, the automated clearing house owned by The Clearing House, and said all of its financial services were operating normally, the Bloomberg report said.

“On November 3, 2023, a processing issue at EPN, the private sector ACH operator, resulted in a number of ACH entries having certain data elements obscured (file dated for November 1, 2023, processed on November 2, 2023, with effective dates from November 2-3),” the Federal Reserve said in an alert issued Friday. “This error was contained in a single interoperator file that was distributed by EPN to its participants during the November 2 6:00 p.m. processing window. These entries contain valid Nacha syntax, but obscured account information and recipient information.”

The alert added that EPN had informed the Federal Reserve that these items could not be processed by the receiving depository financial institutions because of the obscured data, that EPN instructed its participants to initiate returns and that originating depository financial institutions will need to be ready to initiate new items to complete the payments.

In its Friday memo to clients, Bank of America said, per the Bloomberg report: “Your accounts remain secure, and your balance will be updated as soon as the deposit is received.”

(source)

What politicians (in any country) are accepting ₿ donations?

This U.S. congress candidate does: https://aversa.vote/

A CoinCloud ATM did not give me the $100 I sold my ₿ for. Going to the URL they texted me, the ATM says: "Error: The transaction has already expired", but the ₿ transaction confirmed!
{I even had to use a different phone number, ∵ my original one (which used to work with these ATMs) gives an unknown error when I type in the PIN they text.}
Their SMS support #, (855) 264-5046‬, is unresponsive; support@coin.cloud hasn't responded to me after weeks.

_{Also, CoinCloud now only allows buying ₿ online. Why? Is it part of a Deep State scheme to deprive citizens of cash? (Or a scheme to combat fiat-induced inflation, an example of Gresham's Law?)}

I'm getting:

Code:

× Unfortunately, LocalBitcoins.com does not longer offer trading services in your current geographical location. We apologize for the inconvenience.

I'm in the 🇺🇸.

Are there alternatives that work in the 🇺🇸?

I'm trying to connect to my local Electrum lightning node using c-lightning, but why do I get this error:

Code:

All addresses failed: 127.0.0.1:9735: cryptographic handshake: peer closed connection (wrong key?).

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Does earning bitcoin count as wages/tips?
Can one earn small amounts of bitcoin and still be qualified for unemployment? Does this depend on the country/state?
Some countries/states consider bitcoin an asset. Is earning an asset wages or tips?
The reason I ask is that my state's unemployment application only accepts US$ for reporting earned wages/tips.

Does US$ money supply correlate somehow with XTC/USD rate?

In early 2020, the Fed nearly doubled the money supply of US$ by printing more fiat (Le Sel de la terre n°115, Luc PACIOLI : Le fil rouge du mondialisme économique, p. 125). Did this affect XTC/USD exchange rate?

I have two Lighting channels; for days, one has been stuck at REESTABLISHING and another at SHUTDOWN. When a try closing the channel on the SHUTDOWN one, a "please wait" dialog box pops up, and it hangs there.

Is it possible to search for all the posts with the most merit?
I don't see this option in the Advanced Search.

"Groundbreaking Claim! Trump Set Up Democrats In Sophisticated Sting Operation – Caught Stealing Election Red-Handed"

Therein is described the U.S. Post Office's August 2020 U.S. patent 0258338 ("Secure voting system"):

BACKGROUND
Field
This development relates to a voting system that also incorporates the use of cryptographic elements, such as blockchains, as are used with cryptographic currencies, to track and secure the vote by mail system.
Description of the Related Art
Voters generally wish to be able to vote for elected officials or on other issues in a manner that is convenient and secure. Further, those holding elections wish to be able to ensure that election results have not been tampered with and that the results actually correspond to the votes that were cast. In some embodiments, a blockchain allows the tracking of the various types of necessary data in a way that is secure and allows others to easily confirm that data has not been altered.

CISA's 7/31/2020 infographic:

Most ballots have proprietary style codes, such as timing marks, code channels, or QR codes. If the codes are not recognized by the voting machines, the ballot is rejected, and an election official manually reviews it.

Some ballots have watermarks, too.

This could have been used as a sort of proof of existence / validation of ballots.

Dr. Steve Pieczenik said:

This is really a sting operation, contrary to what everyone else said. We watermarked every ballot with QFS blockchain encryption code. In other words, we know pretty well where every ballot is, where it went and who has it, so this is not a stolen election.

• Usury "is to sell what does not exist."
• "Capitalism is state-sponsored usury." (cf. Barren Metal)
• Bitcoin is, by design, unable to perform chargebacks or force collection of interest on loans, thus making usury within the blockchain impossible.
  

∴, Bitcoin is immune to capitalism and usury.

Has anyone here read
David Golumbia, The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism, 2016.
?
scholarly review:

• Quinn DuPont, “The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism, by David Golumbia,” Journal of Cultural Economy 10, no. 5 (September 3, 2017): 474–76.

Why would Bitcoin/blockchain/decentralization be linked with "right-wing extremism"?

Are non distributed autonomous corporations (DACs) like Google, Facebook, et al. interested in developing DApps? Why would they be interested in developing DApps? Have any non-DACs developed DApps?