["voting with your money"]

Surely most of you have head about the concept of "voting with your money". But if people really vote with their money, and if the government(s) get to decide what their fiat currencies are worth by means of artificial inflation, then who has the power over a country, really? The people or the officials in the government?

Fiat currencies require the element of trust, something not required in Bitcoin. Would a decentralized, unbannable, and incorruptible version of money, such as Bitcoin be considered the people taking back the power of voting from the government?

Can a true democracy run on a trust based financial system?

So I just noticed I have a wallet with about 10 bucks worth of BTCB (Bep2) in it and I completely missed the opportunity to migrate (how often do you look inside a wallet with 10 bucks worth of shitcoins?). I no longer see the swap button on Trustwallet and it seems to be delisted everywhere else.

10 bucks is not a big deal but is there any place I can swap the BTCB Bep2?

Psychological profiling of online personas using AI. Immoral or not?


Feel free to express your thoughts on this.

Is it possible to reply to a topic without bumping it? I think this would be a very useful way to warn others of scammers, trolls and suspicious posts without bumping the thread to the top where more people can see.

Quantum Random Number Generators should be used in mining hardware for truly random nonce generation. QRNG Chips are being sold by ID Quantique (although I have no idea about the cost) - Why are these chips not widespread in all miner hardware by now? Perhaps the cost? Technological immaturity? I know there are some arguments of quantum resistant technologies which seemingly make QRNG less meaningful, but those technologies are not certain to work for future generations of quantum computers. Nonce's optimally should be generated by true sources of randomness.

[What happened:]

What happened: A newbie coiner and Bitcointalk user named  Anderson0077 lost his funds after they were drained from his wallet. Most likely after (I suspect) connecting to this app:

Scammers Link (do not connect your wallet to this app!):

Code:

https://decentralized-base-protocol.vercel.app

Reference Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5492300.0
Amount Scammed: NA
Payment Method:  NA
Proof of Payment: NA
PM/Chat Logs: NA
Additional Notes:
A reviewer has also noted it as a scam app which siphons your crypto from your wallet: https://www.scamadviser.com/account/profile/1272414

[Example:]

Would anyone else want to see a forum math function which turns your math into a latex version?

Here is a plugin example of what I am talking about: www.dokuwiki.org/doku.php?id=plugin:mathjax (not sure of the compatibility with Bitcointalk.)

Example:

[equation]
a^2 + b^2 = c^2
[/equation]

becomes:

a² + b² = c²

edit: there seems to be a mod for the SMF software: https://custom.simplemachines.org/index.php?mod=4077

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For my fellow math nerds,

I have found a very useful video which explains the mathematics and probabilities behind the game Crash and why beating the game with a low multiplier strategy in the long term is almost impossible. Anyone who has played on the Roobet Cryptocurrency Casino should know about it since their code is open source, which is available to everyone but you would need to understand the code itself to make any sense of how it works.

However, there is a youtube video which explains it from a simple mathematical standpoint, so even if you do not have the necessary coding knowledge, it is still easy to understand.

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1HA7e3acSI

 

We hear it all the time in the news and even here on this forum - Scary price drop speculations based completely on fake/exaggerated news or on something without any kind of substance.

While we can all agree that panic selling is newbie domain, there are also veterans who love spreading Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. These are the people who know from experience that the Bitcoin price will definitely rise, but they can't resist buying discount BTC off of panic sellers.

Bear-whales and smaller traders alike spread FUD for the reason of scaring investors and pushing down the Bitcoin price.

Do you consider this FUD-spreading unethical or do "shaky hands" get what they deserve?

[But before I start offering this idea of mine in the gambling section, I would very much like to hear feedback and I appreciate any tips or advice you guys can give me.]

I am thinking about setting up a new type game for decentralized and non-custodial crypto gambling. One which combines investing in new (blockchain or non blockchain) start-ups. Eventually we will partner with start ups who will offer winning bonuses to the winners (and perhaps even the losers), in exchange the partnered start-up will be gaining marketing exposure and public audit data from the community.

You can join a bet AGAINST or FOR the success of start-up companies.

But before I start offering this idea of mine in the gambling section, I would very much like to hear feedback and I appreciate any tips or advice you  guys can give me.

Explaination:

Basically you profit twice, if you win:

- 1x from winning the bet and receiving the loser bet funds.
- 1x from the optional bonuses offered by partnered start-ups (for example: winners receive free extra BTC and the privilege of investing into company shares at discounted rates - Rules and Guidelines TBA.)

How the game works:

Obviously there are two groups for betting: either "Vest" or "No Vest". It will be based on a pot system with "No Vest" or "Vest" betting sides. "No Vest" pot is for betting that a certain startup-project's roadmap goal will not be reached in a fixed amount of time, (to be pre-bet specified by the start-up's officially given deadline). The "Vest" betting group will gamble on the roadmap's goals being met in time by putting their bets in their fund pot. The winning group will receive the other group's funds.

This goals of the roadmap must be defined within specified boundaries by the community and agreed upon by the start-up.

The distribution of winnings will follow a simple formula:

If your group loses the bet, the money you betted will be forfeited to the adversary group but you may receive bonuses for gambling, based on how much you bet.
If your group wins the bet, then you will receive: P*b/B of adversary pot's funds with P = all adversary pot funds, b = (your) individual bet amount and B = total fund amount in your group's pot.

Example:

You bet 100 USD in the "Vest group" of "Start-Up X" because you believe that the start-up can achieve their first working MVP withing 3 months. The entire "Vest Group Pot" is $1000 USD. The adversary group, "No Vest" loses their 3000 USD pot because the start up reached its goal of completing a working MVP with all the demanded specifications. So the winners are the "Vest Group" and you receive  1/10th of that 3000 USD. So 300 USD winnings. Yay.

In order to automate the process, I will need to learn the process and future requirements for developing an automated platform with voting mechanisms which regulate the process. I will escrow the Pot Funds until then, in the beginning of alpha phase.

The funds will be Bitcoin and at a later time, other altcoin options will be implemented, as well as a house coin/token (TBA) consolidated by underlying Bitcoin assets

Basically this new gambling will be based on helping new start-ups gain exposure and give the investors a community based audit system provided by the gambling community and gambling community. Thereby greatly outsourcing project research efforts and project audits to the community.


Business plan:

Winnings will be deducted by escrow service fee of 0.9% + transaction cost and sent to your specified Bech-32 Bitcoin address.  

Of course before I start this gambling service I will inform myself of the regulatory requirements. Although once it goes decentralized and non custodial, I am sure we will see the easing of government regulations.

I will be using this thread to keep everyone updated.

[Solution: I am thinking Bitcointalk should introduce a timed countdown for deletion and a notification system which notifies the posters before their posts are deleted? Just so we are warned that our post will be getting deleted in a certain amount of time? - excluding justified moderator deletions of crap topics/posts, because there is already a notification system for that.]

I noticed the following troll behavior in the gambling forum:

1. You post a good quality post in a good quality topic, which does not get deleted by a mod.
2. OP deletes the entire thread minutes/hours just before the signature week is over.
3. You end up missing multiple posts from your paid signature.

Not only do you miss out on the weeks payment, this also makes you look bad in the eyes of the signature manager.

Normally, this would not be a problem for people who make more than enough posts. But it seems some topic starters are trolling on purpose by doing this.

Not the first time this has happened to me and it is starting to become infuriating. This is not fair, especially for people who are trying to earn some money with signatures. No reason, no warning. Topics deleted within minutes of end of the week. And I make sure to check my posts carefully 2-3 hours before the end of the week, so this is not a coincidence, it seems.

Solution: I am thinking Bitcointalk should introduce a timed countdown for deletion and a notification system which notifies the posters before their posts are deleted? Just so we are warned that our post will be getting deleted in a certain amount of time? - excluding justified moderator deletions of crap topics/posts, because there is already a notification system for that.

I have been seeing Dogecoiners absolutely giddy about Elon Musk and over whether he will integrate Dogecoin into some Twitter-profit-scheme. This has led to a superficial pump in speculative nature. Why do people believe that Elon is not going to simply drop Dogecoin in the future?

Lets take a look at a similiar memecoin and its history:

Shiba Inu.

SHIB is in the top 13 on CMC and must therefore be a good investment, right? Wrong. It's trading at less than 15% of its ATH and is barely surviving.

Remember when it first came out? The idea was to do what most shitcoin devs were doing at that time and send most of the tokens to the wallet of a famous personality (Vitalik Buterin) in order to prove that the SHIB devs could never rugpull their investors and crash the price - they thought Vitalik would never touch SHIB as if there was supposed to be some unspoken, sacred bond between him and this ERC-20 token. Nobody expected Vitalik to donate the shitcoins/memecoins sent to him and crash the markets. Yet he did. Not all of them. Nonetheless the concept of a rugpull-proof memecoin failed. Vitalik did not care about the value of SHIB or the investors of SHIB. And so SHIB crashed and today has yet to recover even a fifth of its ATH price.

Now we have history repeating itself. Except this time with Dogecoin and Elon Musk as its only pillar of support.

I believe Musk is an egomaniac who only cares about the attention he gets from doing things like buying Twitter, making unsustainable cars or half-baked self landing rockets. He is just a bored multi-billionaire who wants more attention. Do people really believe DOGE can survive without Elon Musk backing it?

I for one will not be wasting my time or money just because some useless memecoin did what all cryptocurrencies do every now and then by pumping a decent 50+%.

[Die folgende PDF ist eine neue, offizielle Sammlung an Einzelfragen zur ertragsteuerrechtlichen Behandlung von virtuellen Währungen und von sonstigen Token in Deutschland:]

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Ausstellungdatum: 10. Mai 2022
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Bitcoin price is first and foremost measured in fiat, mainly the dollar. 

Bitcoin is bought and sold with fiat since the beginning. Was that a tragic misstep in the evolution of Bitcoin? Would we have it better if all governments outright banned the purchase/sale of BTC with fiat?

If we had a fiat-decoupled version of Bitcoin which could be traded for services and goods without a third party currency, how would that look? Obviously the government would have no power over people accepting BTC for their goods and services (other than intimidating people with punishments, if caught).

From my observations, the more the regulators go against Bitcoin, the more it evolves into what seems to be a liberated global currency. By my thinking, the rebellious nature of the Bitcoin community against the old, corrupt generation of money and its corrupt services (like banks) is what drives the evolution of Bitcoin. So why not let that nature loose?

In such a reality, I think the purchasing power of Bitcoin would see the same rise in value from its inevitable adoption but without the dumps caused by the broken fiat economy and stock market crashes.

1 BTC = 1 BTC

[please post it in the format : [Title of movie (year) - plot:...] [Your own synopsis on the movie] [Optional: Video link to the full movie]]

I have started watching old famous movies from different cultures and countries and I noticed every culture has their own original style of early film-making. So I decided to make a list of such movies. If you have a movie recommendation, please post it in this thread and I will add it to the list.

However please post it in the format : [Title of movie (year) - plot:...] [Your own synopsis on the movie] [Optional: Video link to the full movie]

Old Movies Worth Watching

Kin-Dza-Dza! (1986) - _{plot: Two humans are trapped on an alien planet which was made almost uninhabitable as a result of selfish greed and a disregard for nature. I recommend watching this movie subtitled in its original audio. Full movie available on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYHv8eJrW2Y}
This movie was really one of a kind. It was its own artstyle, it showcases the damage and corruption done by the Soviet Union from the perspective of a visiting Foreigner.
Here is a good explanatory video (Watch with translated subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWoo16-udZg
Harakiri (1962) - _{plot: The grandfather of a samurai asks permission to voluntarily perform harakiri but stalls by first telling his sad story, which builds up to a vengeful ending.}
You really can feel the emotions of this movie as it imbues the complementary emotions of vengeful satisfaction and benevolent discontent. I recommend watching this movie subtitled in its original audio.
Three Days of the Condor (1975) _{plot: A CIA office worker becomes the target for assassination and attempts to find out the reason.}
 The experimental nature of early film-making in America is a sight to behold.

Old Movies recommended by fellow Bitcointalkers:

Recommended by Arriemoller :
The Phantom Carriage or Körkarlen (1921) _{plot: Swedish Silent Horror Film, by and Starring Victor Sjöström. Full movie available on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew6XUvvoK_o}
The movie's film-styles have been widely copied by many modern films. Some examples of visual echoes in other works throughout the century : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ1RTpikz8I
This is the english translated full version. (Bad quality and weird music added): https://youtu.be/ZvQzaSa_4Q0

Recommended by Lak93xy:

Das Boot (1981) _{plot: A German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.}
It is shivering how they build up tension there. The pure horrific reality of what the people actually might have felt when boarding U-Boats back in 2nd WW.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082096/

Recommended by odolvlobo:
Seven Samurai (1954) - plot: A village hires a group of samurai to defend them against raiding bandits.
This movie is considered to be one of the greatest Japanese films. It was directed by Akira Kurosawa, considered to be one of the greatest directors. It has plenty of action, humor, and drama. The Magnificent Seven is a famous American remake of this movie set in the American West.

Sunset Boulevard(1950) - plot: A struggling screenwriter stumbles upon the mansion of a forgotten silent movie idol and ultimately becomes her gigolo. The movie shows the events leading to his death.
This is a dark creepy drama. It ends badly for everyone. I like this film because it does a great job of bringing out the complexities of the main characters, contrasting their eccentricities and delusions against the other characters.

Dr. Strangelove (1964) - plot: A deranged American general initiates a nuclear attack against the Soviet Union.
This is a very entertaining dark comedy about pathetic politics, bumbling bureaucracy, and a mixed-up military leading to the end of the world. The movie stars Peter Seller, who plays three different characters, George C. Scott, Slim Pickens, and Sterling Hayden. It is directed by Stanley Kubrick.


(Last updated 16. November 2022)

[Girokarten-Terminals bundesweit gestört]

Girokarten-Terminals bundesweit gestört

https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/verbraucher/giro-karte-kreditkarte-stoerung-101.html

Und genau das hier ist der Grund wieso einfach alle Menschen Bitcoin brauchen. Alles was wir tun müssen um an unser Geld zu kommen und es senden/empfangen wohin wir wollen ist es Bitcoin und Internetzugang gleichzeitig zu haben.

Aber nö, da vertrauen wieder Menschen auf Bänker und anderen Finanzgeiern.

Sobald wir alle Bitcoin dem Fiat bevorzugen, wird Fiat aussterben und wir sind tatsächlich frei!

Aber ihr wisst das ja   Wir sind frei, schon seit Jahren  

[DON'T LET YOUR COINS BECOME RUSSIAN WAR-MACHINE FUNDS!]

In light of recent major events or as some may call it, the beginning of WW3:
 
I would like to remind everyone that from a historical point of view, your coins are in the most danger they may have ever been in.

Just look at some examples of what is happening:
Example 1: https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-seizes-30-crypto-wallets-allegedly-used-to-fund-hamas/ >Exchange wallets got (probably rightfully) BTFO'd by the government.
Example 2: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5387930.0 > Bitcoiner who recently got hacked by Russian hackers and lost 2.4 BTC (Coinomi Wallet)
Example 3:https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5386543 > Another Bitcoiner who recently was a victim of a "Clipboard-Hijacking" malware/virus and lost his coins

Some of you may have noticed the onslaught of Russian hacker groups like "lapsus$", who specialize in ransomware and digital theft. A lot of these hackers are targeting not only exchanges, but your phones, computers and of course, crypto wallets.

DON'T LET YOUR COINS BECOME RUSSIAN WAR-MACHINE FUNDS!

I have gathered some very simple OPSEC tips of my own on how to keep your coins safe during these trying times:

Don't Keep coins on exchange wallets This goes double for chinese/formerly-chinese owned exchanges like Binance or Huobi. If China ever decides to join the war on the wrong side, your coins will belong to them in a heartbeat before you have time to withdraw them. Or your own government might decide you are a "persona non grata" and freeze your bank/exchange accounts, especially if you are a russian citizen or former russian citizen (remember japanese-american internment camps 1942).

Don't Keep your keys/passwords/seed phrases on any device which has/has had internet access. Store seed phrases on paper. That means never type it up, store it online, or take a photo of the card. If you disregarded this, and now you think that your wallet might possibly be compromised, then transfer your coins to a new wallet.

Don't Connect your wallet to unknown DEFI platforms or give permissions to any altcoin smart contracts. Depending on the smart contract, this could be used to access your wallet and steal your coins. In fact, best to not hodl altcoins, especially those based on centralized/semi-centralized blockchains like Binance Smart Chain. Just like with crypto-exchanges, any centralization can be used against you.

Don't Use SMS for two-factor authentication. Use Google Authenticator.

Don't Brag about owning any crypto amounts to strangers, or better yet, anyone.

Do Use a hardware wallet or multisig wallet.

Do Triple check the withdrawal/deposit addresses. Clipboard-Hijacking can change your copy/paste address into the hacker's address

Do Check routinely for Viruses/Malware/Phishing and scam-websites. If you like to invest in ICO Projects or unknown coins/tokens then do your research
first. The scam accusation subforum on Bitcointalk is a good place to start.

Do Generate unique, random passwords for any and all accounts and change them often. Never use repeat passwords, especially for accounts with personally identifiable and sensitive information (e.g. Facebook, Gmail, AppleID, Twitter, banks/payments, crypto accounts). Use passwords that are randomly generated and 20+ characters long.

If there is anything you think that I should add to the list, let me know. Stay safe!

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Ich habe gehört, dass es anfangs nur ein Verkaufsrecht für Apotheken geben könnte. Hoffentlich entpuppt sich das als Fake News... Denn ich muss unbedingt der Erste sein, der in Deutschland einen Cannabis-Laden eröffnet

Jeder wird bei mir mit BTC bezahlen dürfen und BTCT Mitglieder bekommen fette Rabatte

Discuss.

Alright so I have been checking out 1inch and I must say, I am absolutely loving the interface. However, when I compare swaps with 1inch and myetherwallet (which uses 1inch as one of their swapping partners), I get two wildly different rates. Why exactly is this? Is someone trying to make a pretty penny by being a bit too greedy or is this something else?

Seeing as 1inch is one of the rates provided by myetherwallet swaps, shouldn't this be almost the same rate? Is MEW getting a worse deal because 1inch wants to funnel the defi crowd towards their own website?

If I were to go on pancakeswap, I would see a liquidity fee of about 7 busd. Still not that bad. Not as good as 1inch but still. I would love to know what everyone thinks of these practices, especially those who understand Defi much better than me. How can MEW possibly demand (secretly) over 80 BUSD on a swap on the bsc blockchain?