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1101  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Decarbonization of the crypto industry on: May 08, 2023, 08:24:12 PM
Mining cryptocurrencies is intensely energy consuming. The use of energy intensive computers keeps creating problems for the miners as it has adverse effects on the environment and also pokes their finances in terms of high electricity bills.
Is it the most energy consuming?  Roll Eyes

Let's be honest, there are probably so many things in the world that consume way more power than crypto mining but guess what? You are always going to blame miming crypto for all that.
I haven't seen people make noise about how watching TV or using electric ovens to cook can impact the environment, for example.

Crypto halvings could also accelerate green energy adoption among miners.
You mean these "green energies" that use batteries that need the extraction of raw materials which process leads to the destruction of the environment somewhere deep in a Third World country, like this?

Let someone convince me how the process of attaining the raw materials for the manufacture of Lithium somewhere deep in the Democratic Republic of Congo is Environmental friendly.


1102  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Is it scam or not.. Roobet transaction on: May 08, 2023, 07:56:19 PM
OP's transaction now has 46 confirmations - https://mempool.space/tx/2576526f091b8a283554c463cc3e6ca77c069eef65854141ed0daecf294279c9

OP you might want to first check your transaction using a blockchain explorer and learn how the Bitcoin network works before you come out here to accuse a service of scam. If you really care, you should even edit the title of this thread to "resolved"
1103  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Seeking for Chia mining answers on: May 07, 2023, 11:57:55 PM
As of Q1 2023, Backblaze managed 236,893 HDDs. The report assesses the reliability and failure rates of various models, and since its inception, the company has witnessed 17,155 HDD failures.
Backblaze, the cloud storage and storage analytics expert, has published a comprehensive report detailing the reliability of hundreds of thousands of hard drives employed in the company's servers. On average, the failed hard drives had an operational lifespan of merely two years and six months, which is less than the minimum three-year warranty mandated by European law.

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/backblaze-hdd-reliability-report-insights-on-failure-rates-and-lifespan.html
Well well well

The "Green coins" can't help it but continue disappointing the hopefuls, can they?

I wonder where the damaged hard drives end up being dumped. In space or on the very Earth that they are trying to "protect" from Bitcoin mining?
1104  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: ETH gas fees are a joke. on: May 07, 2023, 11:02:34 PM
So I have to pay $9 ETH to transfer 70 USDT I just received, out of my wallet? And worse, transferring any amount of ETH will set you back $3 in gas fees.
It looks like the tables have turned, if we look at the current spam on Bitcoin blockchain. That's what Ethereum network has been dealing with since the Bull run of 2017-2018 and the problem has refused to vanish to this date

I think something needs to be done about the Ordinals or those so called BRC20 before things go awful on the oldest and most decentralized blockchain network..
1105  Other / Off-topic / Re: Best 2FA applications to use. Open source, free, secure. Better than Google's on: May 07, 2023, 10:47:53 PM
I've always known that Google Authenticator does not save any of our 2FA accounts in our Google account, so I keep my setup key offline and safe in case something bad happens to my device and I need to recover my account quickly.
I have not used it since my newbie days, but I understand they now have a cloud back up feature for the codes. Here is some article from late April - Google Authenticator App Gets Cloud Backup Feature for TOTP Codes

I am still not a fan of Authenticators with cloud based backups, especially if they are not open source.
1106  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Is anyone else glad Bitcoin is calming down? on: May 07, 2023, 10:23:24 PM
Damn, this post aged well  Grin


Just  a few days ago I said this
These ordinals and shit are hurting the true users of the Bitcoin blockchain because of insane transaction fees which shouldn't be there in the first place. Imagine what is going to happen in a bull run.

And today, the optimal transaction fees are just super crazy. Where now looking at 500 sats/vbyte as low priority fee rate, and I think things are just going to get worse. Which genuine and average user is going to pay that much for a simple or small payment?

I am thinking of not making a bitcoin transaction for a while.



On the flip side, Miners are smiling
1107  Economy / Lending / Re: Need Loan 0.0035 for the sake of my CAREER on: May 06, 2023, 11:50:10 PM
Hi,
I am looking for 0.0035 Btc loan and will repay 0.0037 withen a week, i have to attend Interview Held in abhu dhabi with Wizz Air at Inn Hotel Abhu Dhabi at 09/05/2023, i have to buy a suite and use some money for travling from Sharjah to Abhu Dhabi about 180km, i will pay back loan at 14/05/2023 as i get able to have half salery in advance.
That's just $101.02, it won't even be enough for a suit.

Don't you have Family, Relatives or friends to ask this kind of money where they will even lend it to you without collateral or expecting you to pay interest?
After all, you will repay it to them within a week, right?
1108  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Minners in Kazakhstan pay high electricity tax on: May 06, 2023, 11:27:43 PM
OP, how do you come up with the current power costs in that country? Or perhaps you are on ground?

I am really envious of the stated power rate, even with the tax levied on it. Some of us have been to places where mining just doesn't make sense at all because of high electricity costs.
Speaking of levying taxes on electricity used for mining Bitcoin, it's one of the most stupid taxes I have come across.

Shouldn't they be taxing electricity used for playing video games or electric cookers as well? Since most of these Governments are bitching about Bitcoin mining contributing "posing environmental threats" but so does any other form of electricity/non-renewable energy usage.
1109  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Bittrex to shut its U.S operations on: May 06, 2023, 10:39:44 PM
I received this email from Bittrex after several years of not logging in and my account being blocked  Grin



I wonder what kind of terms of service they have now updated, since I can read them as a result of the block on my account. Not that I miss the exchange anyway.
1110  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Is Tornado cash still up and usable? on: May 04, 2023, 03:16:58 PM
according the twitter account of tornado cash https://twitter.com/TornadoCash it seems the link that you provide is real. But it seem the transaction is getting lower I mean before freeze and police arrive to the site
Thye probably added the link to the profile recently. When I made the post, it was still the old link of tornado.cash. Thanks for pointing this out.

Why the site interface is similar to the mixing service from @whierwindmoney, the similarity is almost close to matching.
I thought I was the only one who noticed it

Especially the side of the statistics where there is anonymity set  Shocked
Maybe they got some inspiration from tornado.cash
1111  Other / Archival / Re: ♻️ [banned mixer] — FAST, SECURE and RELIABLE BITCOIN MIXER (Since 2016) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ on: May 04, 2023, 12:24:00 PM
Hi cryptomixer, I suggest you claim your Trustpilot profile and try to fight the fake/false negative reviews over there - https://www.trustpilot.com/review/[banned mixer]?languages=all

Looking at the reviews which are all 1 star and negative in nature gives the impression that [banned mixer] is a scam which is not true. The reviews are clearly malicious and some are even advertising what I suspect are the real scam services.
1112  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: How Bitcoin Ordinal will waste block space? on: May 02, 2023, 11:56:06 PM
In simple terms, someone found an exploit in the most recent change to the protocol called Taproot. They are abusing the fact that the consensus rules are not strict about the size of the witness in Taproot scripts to inject arbitrary data into the blockchain (something that was previously done using OP_RETURNs with a limit). They falsely refer to that as "NFT" which is another lie.
My question is, can't they put back that limit on in the near future?

I know there is all this argument of Bitcoin network being decentralized and therefore people should not be censored from doing whatever they want with the network, but I don't think Satoshi had anything like NFTs in mind when creating the Bitcoin network.

What I am seeing happening if this thing continues is it will deter common people from using Bitcoin as an alternative p2p electronic payment system because of the obscene transaction fees they have to pay (A good example is Ethereum, I haven't used it in a very long time because of the fees and all the trouble started with the cryptokitties)
1113  Other / Archival / Re: Current list of exchanges without KYC on: May 02, 2023, 11:24:18 PM
After having to close Bybit acc, I narrowed it down to MEXC, Phemex and BingX - I'm happy to see they are all on the list as well. Any favorites?
BingX is shilled to me by the same guy that sent me to Bybit early on so I guess I'll try that one first.

Kucoin still does not have KYC? I was sure they implemented it months ago, I traded there a lot. They were hit hardest by UST fiasco so I ran away shortly after the Luna collapse.
I don't know about BingX, but Phemex is pretty good. I use it often to trade derivatives using Leverage.

MEXC is still buggy and I don't trust it that much. Sometimes their futures price goes way off the index price perhaps because of manipulation and low liquidity and people get liquidated even before they blink. They also spam so much even on the notification bar.

Bitget is probably in the same category. Only thing good about those two is probably if you like to trade shitcoins as soon as they have been introduced. Those platforms tend to list them quickly
1114  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Is anyone else glad Bitcoin is calming down? on: May 02, 2023, 10:58:41 PM
Add to this the expected surge of activity within the network courtesy of Ordinals and their shenanigans (which I am not really against since it's about time bitcoin gets its own NFT), and expect a pretty nasty increase in fees in the next months or so.
There's nothing totally good about the scammy ordinals anyway. Bitcoin was never built for the purpose of storing some shitty JPEGs or GIFs of lousy monkeys and frogs onchain to scam newbies. The purpose of Bitcoin is very clear in the whitepaper.

These ordinals and shit are hurting the true users of the Bitcoin blockchain because of insane transaction fees which shouldn't be there in the first place. Imagine what is going to happen in a bull run.
1115  Economy / Lending / Re: Hello i need 0.03 btc loan on: May 02, 2023, 10:44:07 PM
Interesting that you and kristycryptop felt the need to restart your loan applications when other users offered suggestions on how you can obtain a loan by providing collateral.
He forgot to log out of his account (kristycryptop) and ended up sending a neg to BitcoinGirl.Club after he replied to masdd this Grin

kristycryptop    2023-05-02        bad words and behavior

The accounts masdd and kristycryptop are definitely alts
1116  Economy / Lending / Re: Req 2.5 LTC on: May 02, 2023, 09:48:13 PM
Your mother didn't teach you don't judge a book from his cover ? -_-
My mother also taught me not just trust any stranger on the internet  Tongue

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simply I can't ask my friends I prefer to keep things in secret

Then that's your problem, if you can't even open up to your friends and family. Then what makes you think an internet stranger is the right person to do the job?

Judging by your attitude, I guess you are the problem and so there are no friends to turn to.


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Second it's not like I appear from nowhere I'm here a long time I didn't comments in posts I was just watching and getting knowledge!! even I don't such an activity doesn't mean you can come here and say those things !!
Nobody cares if you were registered here even 20 years ago. The fact remains, you don't have any reputation that one could base on to give you a benefit of doubt and send you a no collateral loan. Your reputation would be your leverage, which you don't have.

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yeah your a legend that's cool but theres no rights u have to tell people what to do !
Have I said anywhere that I am a legend?

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Lets keep BitcoinTalk a wonderful place don't ruin it
You noobs who just wake up out of nowhere and come here for no collateral loans are the ones ruining the forum and scamming people by defaulting loans.
1117  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Marketplace (Altcoins) / Re: Need help swapping or selling a coin I received on: May 02, 2023, 12:04:32 AM
No I have never used Coinsbit before, but I will give it a try. Thank you.
I however, want you to practice a lot of caution with that exchange. It has a number of scam accusations in this forum, so even if you plan to use it. First read through the scam accusations. If you must exchange the coins there, send them in small bits, exchange them and transfer your funds out to avoid losing all the money at once in case they try to scam you.
1118  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Is anyone else glad Bitcoin is calming down? on: May 01, 2023, 11:46:47 PM
Depends on which side you are;

If you are a person using the Bitcoin network for transactions, then obviously you would be glad. However, if you are a miner. then you are sure why they wouldn't be so glad.

By the way, the fee was much lower than it is even right now before the emergence of ordinals into the Bitcoin space. I would have 1 sat/vbyte transactions get confirmed in the next block almost any time of the day, the fee would be worth $0.02 in fiat.
1119  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Marketplace (Altcoins) / Re: Sell your Pi- make good money on: May 01, 2023, 11:37:33 PM
As the title says this is of people who have Pi in their Mainnet balance. I mined my pi for years! And i finally got KYC and migration and friend of mine told me that i can sell on

instagram.com/buypinetwork

I sold all i had that migrated since i locked 50%. So around 200 Coins (not a lot but very good) Smiley
Well well well, that should like you trying to promote your scam instagram profile that you are planning to use to scam noobs off their tokens



It's really confusing that there are still so many people putting their trust in a worthless system  Roll Eyes How long have you been following it? 5 years ? 5 years on a promise that still doesn't have any real value on exchanges right now? Is that worth your continued trust? your blindness makes me feel so pitiful  Sad
Ignorance, not performing due diligence, greed etc

Some people are just too hard to advice, so we just let them be until their money is burned.
1120  Economy / Lending / Re: Req 2.5 LTC on: May 01, 2023, 10:40:07 PM
its an account from 2021 I'm just not that active
But you thought you would only be active here when seeking for a no-collateral loan?

2.5 LTC is worth about $215, are you trying to say you don't have any friends or relatives that could lend you such a small amount with no collateral or interest involved?
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