Not really, but it went all south when those stupid Americans with their stupid garbage American weapons that can't hit a thing turned the former leader of ISIS, my bad IRCG, (same shit) into kotlet. Then it went around the globe and further south when instead of downing a F35 as they claimed it turned the next day they hit a civilian plane with their mighty weapons. Since I made fun of him over and over he ended up ignoring me!

But I like to think of it as Yin and Yang.
He comes with the propaganda, I come with facts and debunk it.
He spills venom right and left about Europeans dying of hunger, cold, thirst and raccoon bites, I came with positivity.  
Isn't life fun? Of course, not if you're executed if you wear jeans in a public place!  


The weird part is that I don't see the change right here, exactly by the same people claiming the dollar is dead, I mean everyone is in:
Isn't weird to hate the dollar, despise it but still agree to get paid by its value?  
There is propaganda, and there is reality!

Everything!


Nice story, so in conclusion:
- Georgia gives cheap energy 9% of the total to Bitfury
- you have neighbors who have fled the country because of super low salaries

How the f-word did having miners in the country helped the economy, that's what I am asking you!!!!
For three messages in a row, you told me how beneficial for the economy having miners is and you still are unable to give me an example of it, furthermore going full contrarian and showing me an example of how setting mining farms in a country doesn't change shit in the national economy!

So, which one is it?

Looks good? Seriously, that's your criteria? 


I don't know who that guy is but if after spending 5 minutes on that website he can't smell a scam he must quit whatever he's doing!


0.80 daily is 10TH/s before power, to offer that for 10$ when the cheapest gear would cost you 11$ per TH, that's $110 upfront before electricity, hosting cost, labour cost means it's a scam!

1.5% daily means 45% a month, in order to pay that you would a miracle!
If I would invest $1000 I would get $450, how could it be possible for them to make a penny after giving you that much?


One of the reviewers is quite funny!
https://www.trustpilot.com/users/62a0a058871da7001461fa2e
The guy got scammed by 4 ponzi schemes before and now he's trusting this scam. Triple facepalm.

Ok, nearly all of them Marathon, Riot, HUT8 or Hive are listed companies, they all have to release financial statements, now, out of curiosity, can you please tell me since you're so sure about it, how much those companies paid in taxes, last year for example?
As for subsidized energy we have already seen it in action so we know how "beneficial" that is!

Yeah, because desperation is here!

In case somebody is still wondering why OP is so full of hate against the us dollar, let me show you two pics to clear the confusion:
This is how depolarization and the fall of the dollar looks from Iran, Op's country:



From 3700 rial for a dollar to 51000 in 6 years.

Gdp per capita in 6 years of sanctions:




120th in the world by GDP, basically the poorest of the poor, a country with more gas that the whole world but which must burn mazut to power up the electricity grid while shutting schools to not kill everyone from pollution, a country that can't even pay for basic food imports unless the seller takes payments in oil.

This is what dollarization and stupid basij propaganda look like in reality, poverty, poverty and poverty!

Actually, more like 210 quadrillions! So:
-2000 times more than the world GDP
-500 times the global wealth
- if distributed equally would mean $26 million for each human in the world
- the total market cap would be 380 000 times that of Bitcoin now.

Improbable? That is a soft word for this fantasy!


Yeah, and unfortunately instead of education and knowledge you've focused on meme coins!
The moment you claim stable coin ATMs would replace commercial banks, it's clear you have no idea what you're talking about!

Why would they unless they have excess capacity?
Cheap taxes, subsidized energy, low-paid workforce is a receipt of disaster, look at Kazachstan! 10% of the global hash rate and 7 million in taxes.


And you as government would you want to deal with this kind of company? No!
You make arguments on what the government should do but you only analyze things from the bitcoin holder perspective.


Crickets!
https://cointelegraph.com/news/banking-system-consumes-two-times-more-energy-than-bitcoin-research


Estimates reached 275 TWh
https://bitcoinminingcouncil.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/BMC-Q4-2022-Presentation.pdf
Well, let's stop comparing banks and compare with construction or freight transport because that makes sense!


While I agree with the stupid greenwashing of everything and how ridiculous the situation is there are two cases when energy consumption is dropping or keeps being nearly the same and still the country grows
- heavily industrialized countries that have no room to build more but build more efficiently,
Germany was using 5800 kWh per capita in 1980, and is using 6700 now, but the GDP per capita went up 5x times
- former communist countries that were building crap while wasting resources
Romania was using 2800 kWh per capita, is down to 2400 kwh but the GDP per capita went up 10x

But in both cases, you must have either something very inefficient to begin with or tons of money to improve it, from scratch, it is impossible.

Possible, yes! Likely and often, no!
It all comes down to the cost of buying this, the cost of disposing of it or storing it, and so on, the freight tax, the port tax, a huge mess of costs that basically dictates how long it can go, but it will never go way below this as at one point it makes sense buying something that costs 20$ to store or throw away for -30$.
I don't know besides commodities with closing contract dates how this work, like in electricity trading but it must be nearly the same, the highest downward spike I've seen was around -100euros/Mwh so probably that is the limit.

Unless you want to share the tx there can be only speculations but from my own experience:
I paid near the minimum next block fee as it was a bit of a priority to get it confirmed, there was a small dump before the next block that pushed my tx outside of it but the second block was mined just a minute after so my tx was in the top paying ones and some with just 1/2 got confirmed also.
So technically I paid twice as much, but in any other situation, I would have paid the minimum.
Since you mentioned only a 2sat/b difference this must have happened just like in my case, in the low fees era, so, not applicable anymore right now.


On top of that, nobody knows the incoming transactions rates, you can have a normal time with just the average 2-15tx/s or you can have somebody dumping 5000 in one go as Binance did a few months ago and this will ruin every single prediction made in the last hour, turning next block transactions into next day priority.

Yeah right!
Do you really think anyone will take you seriously when after saying you have 3-year plan and talking about buying gold and silver you mentioned a ...coin..that has already lost 75% since the launch? And for sure you're going to make x1000 in 2 years? Have you ever looked at the lifetime of hype coins? Two years is like 6 generations of hype shitcoins!

But let's see this, put the money where your mouth is and show us how you bought $1k worth of aidoge!


Change the pharmacy, it might be dealing is some really weird meds and drugs!
Why the hell would you invest in a coin that is pegged to the value of USD when you said it yourself that the value of a $ will go down?

 

Weird that you mentioned Lauda and not Satoshi!

The other interesting thing is that you are so sure of not leaving the forum, nobody can be sure about that, nobody is immortal, nobody is immune to everything, and most important not even a forum can be eternal. Might sound a bit rude but you know, rather than telling people you're not going to leave it should be the other way around, users telling you not to quit or missing you when you do it.



There were many more, Gavin Andresen, Hal Finney, Mike Hearn, monbux, Vod, MagicalTux (lol), Blazed even Buterin had an account here

Huge difference between posting using a bot and meriting somebody using a bot.
And I have to say this, packing it as politely as I can, but if you ever thought for a second DdmrDdmr is using a bot to make his posts you really need to stop kidding around. Seriously!


Users that make posts worth more than one merit will make more of them, each will get 1 merit and in the end, they will still end with more merit than a guy who only has one post in his entire history merit worthy.
I don't know why after all these years with the merit system we still have discussions focused on how people are spending merits, Theymos was as clear as possible on this issue, and if you have even then a problem with it, apply to be a merit source, earn more merit and restore the balance you think is broken by his merit spending habits.

I don't get it, every single topic we talk about is how privacy is important but one single thing and we try to find everything about a person and why he does this and that and who he is and what he does when he isn't doing this.
His account, his merits, his decision! /end

I laughed.
Not about the feedback mentioned but about the fact somebody finds it funny.


Then, outrageous idea but how about you lock this until you have something that is actually funny?
But before doing this, can you actually tell me why is the feedback JG sent funny and not the ones he received?
I mean:

Oh, and before you go there, it's an old story and everyone knows it, even Satoshi:

I would definitely support if more people who run a yt channel would keep talking about technical aspects and advantages of Bitcoin rather than the same clickbaitish sensationalist crap which unfortunately is also the content this generation seems to favor more.

On top of that, I would love to see you doing this, not only because you are one of the old-time maxis but it would also send a message, look, even seniors can fully understand what others think it's a complex and impossible to master for the average Joe, so it might convince a ton of no sayers that this ain't some thin that needs a college diploma or some millennial vaporware fad.
The only downside is that you will need a bit of promotion to take things off the ground, things that are more flashy, and so on but I think you can do it even without exaggerating, so, give it a try! You have one subscriber for sure here!

Oh, and earning in BTC, no, you're going to earn £ and exchange that for BTC, no other way around.

Well, first my bad at saying 0.1 based on a website that monitors it, if we look at the actual marketplace, yes they do have around 1%, or 3 exas.

Now, there is a trick to this, don't know why I mentioned it first since it was the most important and adding more to Phil's hint at hijacking being the easy way out,  if you rent hashrate from nicehash, it doesn't mean automatically you're free to do anything you want with it, Nicehash for example,has  a policy with limited mining pools to which you can point that, so you will need to either get Nicehash to approve your malicious pool or bribe the pool to which you point this.

So no f#$% way would a big player like mara or core or riot allow you to rent this and point to your pool at Iwannahackbitoin.cheap 
They will rent it to you at a 10% surcharge but only if you mine at either foundry or maybe one or two trustable alternatives.


Yeah, imagine that 10 blocks with like the last block mined that had 7,897.78BTC worth of transactions so around 200 mils, gets invalidated so 2 billion worth of payments deposits, and withdraws suddenly are nulled or are spent differently, multiply this by a bigger timeframe of around 24h and see who will use bitcoin for anything after such an event or how much trust would anyone put in it.

Some are too focused on the aspect of investment where you just buy and hodl and forget that for it to actually have value you need to usage, and this would be sent in a coma if someone would really manage to get such an attack going for a longer period of time, not 1h no 4 h but something in the days value. Highly unlikely but it won't be a walk in the park if it does happen.


No, it's like robbing a bank with a tank and the only guard watching is a guy in the 90s in a wheelchair and armed with a squirt gun.
Since you mentioned this, si a pool does a 51% , you, like the other guys watching, what are you going to do to stop them?
Genuinely curious!

Yeah, and I stand by my opinion:
- copy pasting questions or topic titles into and from chatGPT brings nothing important to the discussion
- instead of doing so the user could simply say, ask chatGPT, just like those links with letmegooglethis for you
- trying to brag about how you asked the question to reveal some hidden secrets is just silly
- I can't really see much difference between this and plagiarism.

Copy-pasting an answer from Quora is plagiarism, copy-pasting from an AI that learned the answers scanning Quora should be....?

But, I still stand on the other too, nobody will be doing anything soon as long as money is not involved, plagiarism enforcement is down the drain with accounts getting caught and nothing getting done for weeks, so, even if one or two mods are thinking like this, overall the absolute majority just gave up.


And there shouldn't be, but again...

If you would be curious to find out how apartheid ended you might have a shock to learn that a huge influence in this was caused by US and western companies boycotting everything from RSA and retreating from the country basically threatening the whole economy.

So, if you were an oppressed South African you would see the whole thing different.


What's the name of the fantasy world where this things you mention are true?
An economy the size of Romania, 90th place by GDP per capita in the world and so reliant on trade that the first thing will trigger a meltdown, strongest economy in Africa and an electricity crisis for 15  years are just not compatible.

But you're still not allowed to talk at your cellphone while driving a card without having a hands free device and there are plenty of places that ask you to turn it off.
Nobody really cares even in this forum if you're using AI to create your posts as long as you're not wearing a sig and you don't get paid for copy pasting answers, but in this case he did it for money and in a campaign that openly prohibits that, so yeah, it's quite close to being tag worthy.

No, they shouldn't unless you want competition from cheap spam


Yeah, nice in theory, so damn bad in practice.
You say that low fees will drive adoption but there a few problems with it, if adoption means more transactions it means more transactions in the mempool, it means longer periods you have to wait for your tx.
The miners will not benefit a dime from it since even with mass adoption and billions in fees they will still be forced to include low fee tx, so they will earn still less than they would now by accepting high transaction fees.

I'm quite surprised to see that there are some who hint at thinking that imposing a flat fee of 1 or 5 sat/b might be a solution and suddenly the laws of mathematics will change and everyone will get their tx. No, it won't mean that,  it will only mean that if a larger tumbler or exchanger will drop a shitload of transactions for 2, 4, 12 hours the network will be paralyzed and nobody will be able to get a tx no matter how much they are willing to pay. And this is just setting the stage for the cheapest and dumbest 100℅ chances of success spam attack.

There are none, even that links that "calculates" the cost is showing only 110petahash available for rent, that's more like  0.1% rather than 51%.

Basically three possibilities to achieve that:
- you buy/build it, and the costs are in billions as per above
- you rent it, but three is nobody renting you that much
- you steal it, as in hijacking a pool or bribing some operator

But all are expensive, they require industry connections, and they all end with the same question, why put all the effort for it? A nation would just take legislative measures, a terrorist group has nothing to earn, other groups are interested in making money not spending money, so just some bored kid who has by chance manage to infect some servers of mining pools but that's quite the stretch.


It's not impossible, yes as I also said the money spending doesn't make sense but it's not impossible. As for the nodes, no, the nodes will not be back to the chain because that would break the rule, they have to follow the chain with the most work, in this care the malicious one.