Yeah?
When where the Chinese protesting against the ban on mining, on exchanging, on RL usage?
Where were the protesters in Morroco or Egypt?
40 million so-called users of crypto in Nigeria and there wasn't even a gathering of 100 to protest the CB decisions
A board full of people from Bangladesh and have you seen at least one banner in the capital central square protesting the ban?

Get realistic!
Protest will happen only where people know protest will achieve something in those countries Bitcoin is not banned and probably will never be banned at all, in shitty countries total dictatorships like NK or Iran where everyone covers in fear of not getting hanged at the slightest mistake you won't see shit protesting.

Besides, there is also a real inconvenient truth, most of the warriors and revolutionaries in the crypto space are just keyboard warriors.

So this is just me quoting from the answer bullrun2020bro got from support, the link is above but once again:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5132044.msg62919217#msg62919217

In short, you can use still your EURO balance till that date, you will not be able to top it up in EURO, you can convert your balance to USDT (or anything else) and unless anything else happens the card should work as normal till it expires.

Again:
- better ask Binance support if you want to be 1001% sure,
- I have zero idea how the wallet funding works right now, it has been like almost one year since my last usage of the account and card
- if it's a small sum just convert it right now to USDT as the exchange fee is negligible or just spend it and throw the card in the trashcan (this last one is my personal opinion).

I also don't understand why we even discuss the accuracy of AI detection, this 4 lines of spam is clearly copied from ChatGPT, you can argue about writing styles or punctuation or whatever how much you want but the knowledge cutoff date is the clear giveaway that not only he DID use it but also he was so lazy he didn't even check what the response was before pasting it, probably if le last phrase would have been "I lack data so I'm going to copy paste" he would have posted is the same.

I don't know what the rules are for using AI tools to generate posts and the whole deal with his alts is but one thing is clear:
- he did use ChatGPT to write that
- he was lazy to not even read before hitting post

so the whole thing of him being a pillar of knowledge or something like that is pure bs!

I'm just curious since I see a lot of newbies coming here and congratulating CAR for its move, do you guys actually know that:

Bitcoin is no longer legal tender in CAR and it hasn't been since April this year?

https://www.centralbanking.com/central-banks/currency/digital-currencies/7956294/car-to-drop-crypto-as-legal-tender


https://www.jeuneafrique.com/1428334/economie-entreprises/bitcoin-en-centrafrique-ce-que-dit-le-nouveau-projet-de-loi-de-touadera/
https://www.investiraucameroun.com/finance/2003-19148-cryptomonnaie-touadera-contraint-par-ses-pairs-de-la-cemac-a-reviser-son-projet-sur-le-bitcoin


As for SangoCoin, lol:
https://sango.org/#roadmapSection


Crickets!!!!

Somebody tried to pull a scam and there were fewer stupid enough to pour money after the failure of Akon City and the incoming failure of Volcano Bonds.

It's a pay to play to pay to not earn game! 
First, you have to buy this crappy game, then if you manage to actually run it and not crash as everyone on Steam reports, by some miracle if you win something it will be a currency almost untradable that has 0.5$ liquidity!

Seriously, it's 2023!
Lula the Wet Empire was released in 1998
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lula:_The_Sexy_Empire
and it's still 100 times better than the garbage promoted here.

CDV went bankrupt so you can safely clone their game if you really want something that looks like a game at all.

But, but...he offered something! Promises! That should count as one or two satoshi!

I wonder if it's the same guy doing these, there has been an influx lately of newbies asking for partnerships and donations, I have the impression someone is really trying hard to find someone gullible or greedy enough for this. The way he writes with capital letters and spelling mistakes reminds me of spy100 and his alts.

What does Paysafe have to do with the card?

Paysafe is a payment gateway for Binance, the cards are issued by Contis, they are not related at all, besides, even the balance on the cards was a bit meaningless since they were using their internal settlement for it, you could have paid with USDT or Doge, the final fx is between Contis and the receiving bank. It's either that the guy at support are not really knowing anything or Binance is hiding a larger clusterfuck right now and it only releases one tiny bit of bad news at a time, they didn't lose just Paysafe they lost completely the ability to settle euro balances so somebody else has also pulled the plug.

Just two months ago they cheered on getting Paysafe to deal with SEPA transfers, again not settlements, when the GPB went down, now what is this?

But anyhow...



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EDIT:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5132044.msg62919217#msg62919217

Exactly what I was saying: (google translate)

Okay, so let's do it BTC way.

$2205 buys you a contract for the S19J or 0.0816858 BTC.
Before electricity costs, the S19J at 120TH/s will earn you 0.00000229 BTC x 120, that's 0.0002748 per day.
Those are 297 days of earnings in BTC without power.

Now let's assume the price will go up in batches of 100 days of x2 to x16, that's $432k....... so common!

Batch one, current prices:
Electricity prices are 0.0002370, you earn 0.0002748, so you make 0.0000378x 100 , 0.00378
Batch two, bitcoin x2 up
Electricity prices are 0.0001180, you earn 0.0002748, so you make 0.00001568x 100 , 0.01568
Batch 3, bitcoin x2 but the halving comes so you earn fewer coins
Electricity prices are 0.0000600, you earn 0.0001374, so you make 0.00000774x 100 , 0.00768
Batch 4 , bitcoin x2
Electricity prices are 0.0000300, you earn 0.0001374, so you make 0.00001074x 100 , 0.01068
Batch 5 , bitcoin x2
Electricity prices are 0.0000150, you earn 0.0001374, so you make 0.00001220x 100 , 0.01268

At the end of 500 days, you have earned 0.0505, if you had bought BTC you would have had 0.0816!
It will take you an additional 300 days to gain the rest in BTC.
And you know, we assumed the hashrate so your share in BTC stays the same, which at 400k pe coins it's impossible as people will resurrect S5 to mine.


I already told you the numbers are not that bad for other sha256 deals, what I was pointing was the money pit of the s19j at 8 cents kwh.

They lost their partner back in June and there is not a single one willing to come to replace it as Visa plans on ending a ton of those partnerships in Europe. Wirex is also unavailable for the EU with their cards completely not working and hasn't managed to get a replacement so, probably it will be safer to look for alternatives.
Although.....
To be honest, I dropped all my crypto cards and just when I need to spend some coins I send them to Bitstamp and from there directly to my ING account, it's fast I don't have a ton of things to worry about like support, and there are no fx, exchange fees, no fees on ATM, I get a replacement in 48 hours, so why bother with a fourth party here?

If they would allow this their whole real estate market would come crashing down and with it the entire fake GDP, and everyone knows that if they miss and can't fake anymore their 50-year-long plan of continuous growth they are all sent to the execution platoon!
They are in so much trouble they can't afford to budge on inch

Just look at the chronology, and this comes from SCMP, which is basically the CCP paper for English propaganda:

China Evergrande downplays impact of staff arrests in Shenzhen, as property management unit warns on debts
one week later
China Evergrande says founder Hui Ka-yan under ‘mandatory measures’ for alleged crimes, amid stock trading halt in Hong Kong

they have companies not able to pay debts, prices falling down making those debts unpayable, and on top of that:

Even 1.4 billion people can’t fill all of China’s vacant homes, ex-official admits

This is a bit like those companies that failed around here.
They poured a ton of cash they got in debt for into coins, the market crash come, their stock went to pennies, the debt skyrocketed, they had to sell the shitcoins basically sealing their fate, and still had no money to pay the debt thus triggering the bankruptcy of those that lent them money also.

And we have some still arguing about debts ratios of 100% when Chinese debts are at 300% since they have province debts, local government debts, central government debt, and country debt, they even stopped realizing that data after Covid since it went completely off track:
https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3018991/chinas-total-debt-rises-over-300-cent-gdp-beijing-loosens.



Imagine you have built 1 billion houses that nobody lives in and which are on almost every balance sheet at a certain value and this gets sliced in half, it would turn into a flood of bankruptcies since thousands of companies will see their assets turn worthless.
Think LUNA! 


Even without allowing the companies are fall one after the other, Evergrande, Fantasia, and Country Garden, what do you think will happen if they set the price free? 

Do you want to sell your coins for fiat?
Either way, don't *** it do it if you're in a foreign country, a neighboring city that's just a question of fees.

Somebody did mention my topic but let me do a TLDR for you
- I was short of Bitcoin, needed coins urgently, and was on vacation with no access to google auth or my second sim card
- tried to weasel my way out of KYC so tried to make small purchases
- wasted money on getting local fiat, wasted money on the ATM fee, wasted 20 or 40 euros on a taxi
- ended with that damn machine still asking for KYC, suspicious looks from the owners, and a feeling the cash ATM was tampered with maybe even the BATM

I don't know where you live and where you plan to travel, so if you're just sightseeing from Prague to Wien, then no problem, take the 5-7% fee into account and go for it, but if you're going to use some shady 3rd party ATM in some god forgotten city, DON'T!

At least I had some soup!
When you have on this forum 10 people that tell you that you don't have a clue what you're talking about it's time to retreat in the background!
Some of you don't realize how this kind of made-up praising for BTC can backfire, seriously, now when everyone has been complaining for months about the mempool, and how costly it is to make daily transactions how you can just wait or use another coin you're telling people to use BTC over cards? Yeah, they sure do, 400k out of which 300k are drawing monkeys in the blockchain versus 1 billion daily!

Just think twice:
- your friend gets his card stolen and is unblocked ready to spent, he can still call a bank to block it
- your friend loses his smartphone with his wallet without a pin, how safe are his bitcoins?
When you make up stories at least think twice before letting them out in the open!


You really fell hard for this one     . I think you got my soup bowl.
So, if:
- banks are scams
- cards are stupid and faulty

Why za fk are you a Bitcoin lover in possession and using "several cards" from the evil scamming banks that suck our blood?


No, I was talking about the attacker side, OP claimed that the attacker can come to you and in a matter of seconds empty your card by just bumping into you.
The PoS has a delay, after each confirmation it does another PoS to Visa(for example)  transmission on ending the session, then when you feed it with another recipe for another sum it will not get the key to initiate the transaction without a delay, no matter how fast you try to do it you will not get it ready in one second, it's the terminal itself that limits this.


I don't understand why every single time they need to be praising Bitcoin they go for the wrong stuff.
But I assume it's because deep in their hearts they know they're making the same mistakes with Bitcoin as they do with Fiat!

Trusting Binance or Kraken with their coins and KYC, not creating a back-up, using their wallets on the same smartphone they have downloaded one hundred shady apps, and the list can go on and on and on, the real advantages are still here but they want they cling to have been gone for years, it's no longer 2009 anymore.

That's not how transactions happen.
Each generation has a unique key, tapping on it multiple times won't make a double or triple purchase. The "scammer" would have to issue a new payment every time to charge you and that is not done in a second, there is a built-in delay in every of those PoS.

Second, you won't get a contactless card to trigger a confirmation by following a guy, it barely works 2 cm directly from the sensor, and I've used this thing a thousand times to realize it makes no sense even bumping into somebody with it, one layer of clothes and a wallet are enough.
Besides, this whole thing just highlights how banks are better than Bitcoin here, you have chargebacks, and you can get your money instantly back, with Bitcoin good luck, who are you going to call?


As I said above, this is bs! You've never seen or used a contactless card right?
And what is the scammer going to do, wait 30 days hoping you're not going to ask your bank about this, and then go to his own bank and withdraw the money they have scammed from you. Really? What's next drug dealers coming to the police to demand damages for getting paid with fake notes for fentanyl?


Ok, so this is a bank-hating topic, not a topic about facts, got it!
Let's lie to ourselves cause that will make us feel better!

Neah, it's completely different and this is what happens to every company that tries to balance itself around the Russian issue.

They can't really cut it as they have tons of money locked there, and they can't sell as there is no buyer so there goes the 1$ sell to the right person, someone who we have never hard about, usually a random guy who is just the front for the Russian FSB who will run this for a while before it drives it into the ground like every single business takeover they have done so far.

So Binance takes a hit from losing all the fees and the customers but makes two sides both happy one applying the sanctions as it cuts users' access furthermore, the other side since it can now exercise total control and has just been gifted a complete database with all the sanctions Russians citizens have done over at Binance. The ones that are really getting the short straw are those who thought their government would never be able to find out how much money they've moved, now, things will get interesting let's say!

A 1.4 billion company listed on the stock exchange, running at least 18 Exashashes, that's somewhere around ~200k miners with a power draw compared to two nuclear reactors is "showing" to a newbie how the blockchain works! Are you serious?


Are they capable of making invalid blocks on such a large scale?
Assuming Mara would mine only invalid blocks it would simply take them off the equation so it would be like a 4.25 % of the hashrate is not mining at all, a drop of 6 blocks per day till the next adjustment but zero income for two weeks for Mara which would trigger the firing of their CEO and even delisting in case of an inquiry that results they did it deliberately.

Has something happened these days that led to this drop in BRC-20 tx?
https://dune.com/queries/2432736/3996424
I checked to see if it's an error but no, the mempool keeps going down so definitely there is a pause in those, in terms of raw volume yesterday was the 6th lowest from April!!

Doesn't look like the fad ending so abruptly so maybe a large service related to those experiencing issues?
Is this the result virtual monkey zoo going offline or whatever the congregation point of those decentralized assets is?

Rule #1!


This is the exact low-value topic we need to keep off this forum, everyone coming here as a "newbie" and telling how important it is to follow rules!
Lock the topic!

Yeah, bring back the miner toaster:
https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/is-someone-using-your-toaster-to-mine-bitcoin-it-may-be-possible-in-todays-internet-of-things/

This won't be posisble
- it will raise the price of cheap electronics by too much, you need the chip, the board, and integrate it in the design, not worth
- large companies won't do it because they know consumers won't buy this new thing, and a few influencers doing so for fun is nothing compared to the millions that don't want it
- it adds a lot of possible problems, they need a new branch of customer support/tech/repair/design to deal with those and their gain in this?

No, the combining has failed, not for toasters or tvs or fridges, but even when we talk about heating, I've seen tens of strat-ups that wanted to sell you a bitcoin heater or water heater go bust because it doesn't make sense economically.

But, I have to add this as it's just so funny!
A 8TB SSD is too expensive so god forbid we would increase the block size to 4x times as it would put us in the hands of google and amazon, but of course, having 4 million people hosting a 3000w and $3k machine or 40 million at least a 500W (less efficiency, not all running 24/7) one to achieve decentralization is totally doable!!!!! 


As long as any other device is using Bitmain chips you will never! and I say never!!!! be able to compete with them even if you try building your 100+ chp hashboard.  Once there is somebody else making those chips and selling them at basically manufacturing cost price, you could have a chance, till then, never!

I can get a BM1398BB for 20$ via trusty sources and for $10 via less trusty ones and basically no guarantee for DOA, how could I compete with my home-built miner when the 342 chips packed in miner with 1 one-year warranty sell for under 3k?

Yeah, my bad, I shouldn't have asked what they're protecting against but more like why do you even need that protection?
It still looks like a "anti tiger rock" to me!

Let's assume you have sensitive data, important data, and your laptop is used to gain access to more sensitive data, why in the name of god would you leave that around with people able to walk by and temper with it? Are you in a cafe, on a trip, just put the damn thing in its case while you walk away, the chances of somebody actually running with it are far higher than some secret agent following you 24/7 and waiting for that moment. Are you concerned about this happening at work while you leave your device alone for a coffee break, for going to another department etc, then your company has a ton more problems than this!!!

But we started this from guys that don't walk with nuclear codes and more with the concern of our Bitcoin funds.
Now,  why would you have your wallets on a laptop you're in a habit of leaving around?
Somebody who would try to follow you around to do that will likely just rob you when you're alone rather than follow you 24/7 and leave his face on 1000 security cameras all over town.

For some guys it might be a solution, but for your average Joe who carries a few mbits in his wallets and wants protection is just overkill.
Besides, it might actually trigger more unwanted attention!

We're not talking here about buying $99 instead of $100 or the next day because your internet was off.
Let's start again from my first post in this to which you replied:


The user to whom I replied mentioned clearly that you can "fine tune " it by buying based on market trends.
No way, there is little no way in hell you can say this is still DCA when you buy guessing on what might be next!

Changing your dates from one week to a month or a day, and changing the sum from 100 to 200 for the next month, it can still be called DCA.
But buying for $100 for two weeks then two days later throwing $1000 on a whim and then not buying for 6 months cause you think it will go down is everything BUT DCA!
How can you even have an average here?