I thought that by today the fees are going to be much lesser than yesterday but it doesn't look like that. As of checking, the amount for the fees set on the mempool is more expensive right now, yes today it's much more expensive. IIRC, the fee during 2017 bull run, it was more than this.
But during that time, it was bull run and right now it is not yet bull run. And those that don't want to have their transaction take long, you have no choice but to pay for the suggested fee as priority.

Too bad you don't use your brain
I did not just suggest that you study how the oil market works. And what is the price of oil... Okay, I'll give a lesson again, for the general development of the undeveloped

The fact that you can find an article where someone bought oil at the price that excites you is your merit But the reality is far from this.
1. Market manipulation. There is such a topic. And this Russia is trying to use. Official applications can be made for $100. But here you need to understand the features of the two main buyers - India and China. Provided that now India buys most of the Urals oil. This, as they say, is nothing personal - just business and a little oriental magic. I explain:
The DECLARED price and the real one, in the case of India buying oil, is a very cunning interweaving of corruption, oriental fairy tales and the same oriental trick.
Corruption is the first and very important. In India, the government, to put it mildly, easily and cynically profits from its population. Where will the population go - from "expensive gasoline"? Nowhere. Therefore, an opinion is being formed that oil is expensive = expensive gasoline, and 50% of the margin is in the pocket of the "caring government".
Tales and tricks of the East: As you know, oil deals between Russia and India are in Indian rupees. India pays for Russian oil in RUPIECES And now we are thinking - where does the price come from in DOLLARS? The first answer is - well, there are cross-rates, the ruble to the dollar and the rupee to the dollar, and the answer is how such a NOMINAL price is obtained. All right. But the exchange rate of the ruble against the dollar is artificial, from the word ABSOLUTELY. Therefore, due to a little manipulation, we get a NOMINAL HIGH PRICE. In reality, India does not pay Russia 60 real dollars


2. For children with a developmental delay, it is customary to present information in pictures - for better perception. I prepared this for you - oil prices. Don't forget the previous point!
And once again - this is the price "come and buy now", i.e. maximum. Any contracted "long deal" ALWAYS comes with discounts, and that's 20-40%. Then try to think about what I said



PS I am glad that you began to react cheerfully, and strain yourself at least by searching for information on the Internet, and even its superficial analysis. Do not thank for the progress in your development - I do it from the bottom of my heart

In reality, India does not pay Russia 60 real dollars

I get the feeling that I'm talking to an embittered, ill-mannered child with a developmental delay Do not be offended, but from the outside your "objections" look exactly like that. You know - when a child does not like reality - he starts yelling "no, it's not like that, I know better..." and you are also primitively rude, as if expressing your thought differently, you just don't have enough intelligence

I give you the key phrase "Reuters: Russia sells oil to India for only $32-35 per barrel: this is half the market price" - I'm sure you should at least be able to use search engines

And I strongly recommend that you study the oil market. How it is sold and what is the "here and now" price and how it differs from global supply, as well as what is the level of discount and the cost of insurance, freight, logistics costs, and who pays them. And if you know how to count and carry out simple arithmetic operations, you will be able to understand what the real cost of oil from terrorists is

That means the Urals price on a free on board (FOB) basis in Baltic ports, allowing about $2 per barrel of additional transport costs, has been slightly above $60 per barrel so far in April, Reuters calculations show.

Hello,

Is there any means (website for example ?) to check someone's hot wallet IP address ?
For example if I type a reception address or public key I find the IP address

Thanks

whole saga explained in short
when P2P traders become popular. THEIR BANKS see people using personal accounts doing ALOT of wire transfers. much more than normal people do on personal accounts. this triggers banks to flag such accounts and investigate

in many cases those p2p traders had to upgrade to business accounts register as a payment facilitator/money service. which meant requirements of doing KYC

this eventually lead to localbitcoins needing to add this data collection feature

other events where scammers. who would buy bitcoin. and where the scammer would contact their own bank and claim that a hackers accessed their bank and sent some money to a thief. .. thus the scammer got the bitcoin and a fiat refund. and made the btc seller be flagged as a thief

this too caused sellers to want more info on the buyer to prove the buyer was the account holder

..
now here is the thing
DEX platforms are new. so they have yet to hit the scenarios localbitcoin sellers are hit with due to lack of popularity.. however when DEX seller get popular and start doing too many wire transfers or getting scammed and treated as thieves. they too will end up shutting up shop or going official.

thus DEX wont change things, its just the same saga in repeat. where DEX is just at the beginning and yet to hit the drama

As fiat currencies dump, some countries are moving towards increasing the amount of gold they have in their reserves. More specifically some of them are dumping US dollar to replace it with gold. For example India recently bought 200 tonne of gold and there is rumors of more conversions happening. China has been doing something similar under the radar. So are others.

However, we haven't seen any significant changes in gold price yet to approve the above news.

I'm wondering what does everyone think about gold price in the long term, specially in coming year or two as the conflicts get worse and more economies crash which would push regular people to invest in gold and more governments to start increasing their gold reserves on larger scale.

I watched the first set only of Struff v Karatsev and thought Struff wasnt going to be
able to win with a second chance against the Russian. I was surprised to see the result
this morning, another massive win by the German.

Is anyone gonna speculate a bet on Struff to take the title? He is a massive 8.6 on Rollbit.

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On the womens side its Swiatek v Sabalenka, that should be a cracking match, Sabalenka
has been very consistent for a while now and Swiatek has been really great in Madrid and is
favourite.

yeah, value and price are two different things. people selling their bitcoin ordinals hope the buyer will confuse the two though and think of them as being one in the same.



bitcoin is under a brc-20 spam attack lately it seems like: https://ordinals.com/inscriptions/1985780   

https://ordinals.com/inscription/07938984de137d6d2c756af5ae5950a25f3085bc9079e183852481eddc3804c3i0
{"p":"brc-20","op":"mint","tick":"#gua","amt":"1000"}


according to https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/brc-20-tokens/

BRC-20 tokens are rug-pull technology, and rest assured, once a market is made for this bitcoin-saved metadata, you’ll see people selling you overpriced JSON files for bitcoin.



one good way to get an idea is to look at the inscriptions themselves that are coming hot off the press. have the last few hundred been all of the same type? then it's probably the same person.

if no one does anything to stop it, then yeah it will be. when you make it cheap to abuse the network then that's kind of like asking for trouble...

Just a couple cool shares from this past week.
I was on vacation in Maui the past week and I saw this cool Bitcoin Bull in the window of a fine art metal shop.




Also went on a snorkeling boat tour and after it was over the guys running it asked for tips and named several ways they take tips including Bitcoin! First time I've ever personally experienced someone saying they take Bitcoin for payment (it was just for the tip, but still cool).

We have the first quarter finals to be played between Khachanov and Alcaraz. Will this going to be hard fighting, because Khachanov played hard against Rublev to secure his position on the quarter finals. Based on the players in the quarter finals I believe Alcaraz, Zhang, Coric and Tsitsipas to reach the semifinals.

Help with what exactly? It's a bought fake wallet with no actual private keys, I just don't understand why people keep such large amounts on a single exposed public key.

When you want to be your own bank, you should also do what bankers do, doing some work to keep the money safe, in bitcoin is as simple as holding the coins on a fresh address with no exposed public key. But we don't really know what has happened to some of these wallets and their owners.

A lot of people made thousands, milions using the decentralized blockchain currency for over 10 years now.
Obviously Bitcoin was a big impact on the internet and has helped lots of people.


But, it has also been used, still being used, for all sorts of criminal activity, providing a payment and wealth storage solution to armed conflicts, organized crime, narcotic trades etc..

What would be your take on curbing this issue?

wtf... Block reward is 6.25BTC and i saw a block that almost got 2BTC just from fees...

Can anyone explain what's going on? Whats that high insanely demand on the Bitcoin Network??

Who is causing this? A lot of people are selling BTC??

This might be a cause for a crash

That's exactly what I'm talking about! A naive layman in India is told "yes, we buy at 100+ dollars per barrel, but there is a crisis in the world and a wild shortage of oil, because all the world's oil depends on Russia, you UNDERSTAND!".
After that, they make such smart and tense faces, and go into their offices to laugh at gullible citizens, and count their excess profits. And there is something to consider: 70 dollars of the declared price minus 35 dollars of the real = 35 dollars per barrel into your pocket. In invented you are only 35 dollars deceived? No ! And then plus $ 35 per barrel in the form of final gasoline or diesel fuel that you fill your vehicles with. Well, because oil is expensive! And of course - there is no price of 30-35 dollars, no ))))

PS By the way, your opinion is of interest - why has Rosstat classified oil production statistics in Russia since April 2023?

Check the mempool and see the fee rate that can make your transaction confirmed. Mempool is very congested, the fee rate is 98 sat/vbyte.

Looks pretty suspicious or a joke. Having a hard drive with 400 million dollars, instead of finding the best masters in reality, he goes to the forum to ask... Are you the author? gkelly 15Z5YJaaNSxeynvr6uW6jQZLwq3n1Hu6RX https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=24346.0 Make a complete copy of the hard disk (image) and upload it here and we'll see what you can do 

Look at this Transaction^[1]. It paid 15x more than it was necessary to get confirmation. It paid $38.77 in fees for transaction that worth $180. If you have a look at old transactions of this wallet, it was always paying optimal fees.
I don't really know what happened there, while it paid 5x more than recommended, actually $10.56 was spent in fees while transacted amount was $1.41, check: Transaction^[2]
And here - Transaction^[3], someone even paid 56x more.

Is this done on purpose by some miners to increase the overall transaction fees and collect more fees?

Edit: I had to open this thread on Bitcoin Technical Support board, sorry  .

Hello everyone!

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i have turned it into a website! 

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What do you think of it from 1 - 10 ?  ( 1 is bad - 10 is excellent)

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