How they want to make something special out of some no news.
The thing is that the spike from 19999 to 20001 created more millionaires than the spike from there to 39999.
Why the 999 numbers?
Easily, all those new millionaires are because of the no less than 36,767 addresses with a balance of 50BTC and a few satoshis most of them with the untouched reward from the early days of mining.


It's not new millionaires, those were millionaires even in 2017 and in 2020, and a few thousands of those addresses actually belong to Satoshi and other early miners, so you could cut that spike of 30k easily by a factor of 10 to get a number closer to reality.

You have a completely wrong image of the climate in Europe, probably watched too many Christmas cartoons or listen to some crazy propaganda about us freezing to death in our igloos or something. Europe is not that cold frosted place in which you stay in the dark and cold under 10 meters of snow for months, not even the northern countries are like that.
Seriously, this shit needs to end:




Iceland is part of the EEA, EFTA, and Schengen, it's not isolated at all, more like almost fully integrated and it would be a member of the EU if it weren't for those fishery disagreements, the only real reason it's not willing to join the EU, and that might change since now the UK is out of it, the main reason for the disagreements. 

You and your fudge! 


So it recovered 30 blocks in 600, that's a 5% pace if we exclude the first day.
If we go with the next value, it's 18 blocks in 200, that's way worse, nearly double.
Current 24-hour pace is 169 blocks according to blockchair, making it again worse than the previous.

So, I think I really need to shut up babbling about limited hashrate growth, the madness doesn't really look to be out of steam.
This is from Bitfarms:


I doubt there is any Ukrainian mining farm online, they are rationing electricity as much as they can, and no way with main cities in blackouts would they allow a farm to keep running. Besides, the drop actually happened at a moment of relative silence around there with no raids or explosions happening, it got worse today, but this would coincide with a spike, not a drop.

Oh, look who's back, the 2.5% daily then 300% returns in a year scammer.


Please do tell me what I might have misunderstood in this
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5402841.msg60373968#msg60373968

Let me give you an example:



WATTUM "Largest cloud mining company on the market" OH REALLY?
How nice of you, bringing another company with a scammy past into your business conglomerate.
Oh, and yeah, I'm one of the guys that reported your spam that ended up in the trash, thank me later for that!

Since he already said he lost money, it's obvious the culprit here is the same as in gambling, it's called Chasing losses.
He wants to desperately recoup those losses and he thinks he can make it big, (lol at the x10 in a year), same as gamblers, raising the stake with the hope this time will definitely work. Of course, it's less risky than a bet but at the same time, it might now produce the results he hopes for. Not even mention that from the start he will get less money for that gold and he will have to pay a lot more to get it back, and...the family issues. I personally wouldn't want to run into my mother-in-law for a while after this.

Also, from another topic:

This is going to end badly, that is, if it's real!!


And if he had bought at the end of 2017 waiting for a x10 he would be single by now!  
Oh, and furthermore, why don't you sell all your jewelry and your wife's jewelry like the OP now?


 

Nice, now take a flight to Pyongyang and explain to the people there how a totalitarian regime has no power over bitcoin.
Do share with us the experience when you return, that is, if you ever do!

A lot don't understand that Bitcoin brings you the freedom of not having to rely on an untrusted 3rd party, it's not an unbreakable shield by a totalitarian regime that is ready to throw you in prison and kill its own people, the freedom of using Bitcoin is because you are allowed to have that option in a free country in the first place, once that ain't a guarantee anymore any kind of freedom goes away.
There are a lot who don't understand the abuse of power a dictatorship is capable of, it's easy to say that while you're talking on a forum from the safety of your house in a democratic country, do this thing out in the open in another and see how it goes!


There are tools for voluntary disclosure and donation of assets, Jack Ma is the prime example among thousands of how those things happen. As the OP you start with the premise that the secret police in such a country will somehow respect your privacy and rights and not pull a gun to your child's head and tell you that you have 10 seconds to remember what your cat eat exactly 147 days ago! 

Massive investment coming out of... government money who would profit how from this?
Yeah, I know, taxes and profits from mining but at current prices and assuming full profit, not deduction not anything else Iceland will gain 2 cents per 5 cents spent per kwh, this if they would sell the electricity at production costs, thus they could simply sell it at 6 standard rate as usual for business and munch on those taxes the aluminum industry and the billions they are making. Besides, who would invest in billions in energy capacity for something that might be totally unprofitable even with current prices in one year, thus the government wouldn't gain a penny and it would be left with extra capacity nobody needs.

The clear indicator of why this won't work is there for everyone to see!
Remember Bukele's geothermal volcano mining?

Iceldn has produced around 18Twh of electricity, taking the standard model available now (not preorder), it can power up around 600k miners, which would make between 15-20% of the total hashrate. That is using all the energy for mining (no cooling or anything else), and shutting down every other industry, hospital, school, and nightlamp in the country. So the fact that they still produce 1.3% is a feat of its own since that requires close to 8% of all the electricity produced in the country, again, assuming only relatively new gear, with half of the electricity going to the industry.
Now, that 8% is giving ~$100 million in bitcoin revenue a year, Iceland exports 2.3 billion! in aluminum and that created 4000 permanent jobs.

You do the thinking on what they will choose to supply with electricity. 

So there you have it.


Binance Holdings Limited is registered in the Cayman Islands, but they are not licensed by the CIMA to operate a cryptocurrency exchange there, so they use that Cayman-based shell company to run other Ltds in different countries. There is no office and no license in Malta either.


That's Binance.us, incorporated in Delaware, again a virtual office.


They don't and they don't again! Don't worry, funds are #SAFU, /s!

In reality, it never happened and it would be stupid to do so!
This is not oil or coal or copper we're talking which has a global consumption that is heavily influenced by the price, here no matter what the price is the amount of daily produced coins will adjust to being the same every two weeks after each fluctuation.

On top of that, everyone seems to ignore the fact that difficulty can't increase overnight if profitability goes to the moon, we had record profitability per each TH/s two years ago simply because there weren't enough gears to be turned on and mine, they had to be produced, shipped installed, which took time to do so. Thus, even if the price was sliding and profitability was going down that gear was already ordered and in transit and got installed at lower levels, that's the reason you see it growing although the price is going down.

Second thing, the difficulty will still be able to grow even with flat prices, that is because of improvement in efficiency for newer gear, so you're going to have the same consumption, in the end, game same profits margins for miners, but overall the difficulty and hashrate of the network will be higher.

This is a nice graph:
https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/mining_profitability-hashrate-btc-sma30.html#3y

It shows how 3 years ago prolonged levels of low profitability were keeping the hashrate growth moderate, then fast forward while despite price going down high levels of profitability were keeping the hashrate going up until again the equilibrium will be reached and the graph repeats itself.

Showed this yesterday to my father, had a good laugh at it, so:
-use of porous material, not clean material in contact with food
-no fridge to keep the mandatory contact surface under 5C  temperature
-no clean utensils used for intermediary meat processing, no designed space for depositing them between usage
-no mandatory gloves used while serving customers
-no sign of running water, scraps directly in plain view, meat of different kinds in the same space
-no label, no packaging, no readable label on the date and provenance of the meat, no sign of the last inspection
-let's not even talk about pest control
-probably mentioning something as mesophilic risks would be futile
-if it's not the cameraman's shadow then obviously traces of metmyoglobin which means already a lot of time since butchering

As a seller, I would love to do business there, as a client I would go vegan.


Well, that's the bulletproof way of turning a country into one big ****.
The moment the population doesn't care at all who you put in power, the moment there is no such thing as consequences for imbecile or crooked leaders the country enters a death spiral of agony til it finally pushes the rest button, which although it will lead to possible better times with will come also with a lot of pain, and in some cases, the population will rebel against reforms and it will revert back to the spiral, a never-ending nightmare and it's better to act now if you still have the chance until there nothign to rescue left. Otherwise...there are plenty of examples where this leads to!

This is just bullshit!
You can say anything about how crappy the banking services, are and how bad the timing is but to pin the death of a pregnant woman in a hospital on the banks is just stupid. Imagine you would be in a car accident and before rescuing you the ambulance would check if you're insured or demand you to transfer money before they take you to the hospital, at least 20% of the daily care fee, book your hospital on bookingdotcom, I can already see the advert.

This is all the blame on the doctors and here they would be immediately fired and never allowed to practice again, plus slapped with so much damages to pay to the family that they will end up on the streets. I don't know if this really happens it's an exaggeration, it has a bit of truth but the rest is false, but in case it did really happen like this then that country has much bigger problems than a cash shortage.

Love the moving goalposts, like a shitcoin developer clings to different dates depending on how he wishes to weasel his way out of this.
Remember this garbage you posted just a few months ago?


When you keep posting shit like this when you keep being called on the stupid things you say, when it's obvious you have no clue what you're talking about when you've become the laughing stock with that stupid claim of Russia occupying half of Ukraine by May, don't you think it's time to move your quota shitposting somewhere else? Seriously, you have no clue about the countries at war, you have no clue about economics, you have no clue about anything, so stop using server space with your daily garbage 4 liners!
When you have 30 posts in this topic just quoting the TTF price, maybe you need to find a different playground, somewhere where you don't stand out like the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz story for the same reason, of just straws and no functioning connecting synapses.


You assume:
- "volunteers" get paid differently than normal army pay (which is not 200k rubles)
-  they will get back alive
-  they will really get paid that much
-  they will get paid at all
Then you go ignoring the effect of the 300k able men who were the single providers for most families in the poorest regions, 300k dead and mauled men whose families won't get any help, just like the crew of Moskva, because, well it was an accident and they didn't die on combat duty. Oh wait, it's not even a war, it's a special operation so after it ends they won't be receiving any payment like veterans.

Safe as not pulling an exit scam? Probably, since they make a shitload of$ on their fees and others' fees and extra hidden fees.
Safe as in not ever getting hacked or getting in trouble with their investment strategies the way ftx went? That's questionable.
Overall, investing in ridiculous APY on their website in some unknown shitcoins? Not safe at all!

I've been a wirex customer enough to be really cautious about them, one thing you should know from the start, it's almost impossible to contact someone and have a live chat with them, you will end up shutting down your laptop and going to sleep rather than trying to get ahold of a real customer support person. Second, all those advertisements on returns are really dangerous, not even mentioning they offer 50x leverage for their trading, an easy way to simply lose a ton in a glitch, and glitches do happen on their platform, I've been stuck with forever loading screens before even while just viewing my balance and not just once.

I'm not a fan of the biggest CEXs around but they are a better option than wirex.
Wirex is doing a good job at having a card and an easy way to top it up and spend, that works 99% great, the rest not really a thing.


Just go earn the other 75k   , I only need 65k with 4500 in the bank , so to earn 60000, which is around 250 euros, and at a 0.5% crypto back it means I need to spend around 50k euros with their card to be able to cash in my rewards, and not die and wirex not to go bankrupt by that time.

It's not even that complicated it's just a spam ad with a Whitelabel page with different intros and clips, the so-called inquiries are just to make it look like they really care about who you are and they have an actual female on that entire website, I've seen those ads before and a few years ago I even helped one friend to install their flash popups on his blogs.
The main company behind this is flirt(dot)com and the guy spamming is just earning from refferal through his affiliate program, the giveaway is in the blocked page ublock showed,


So he probably thought the could spam the entire forum with his links and maybe earn $30-50 from a paying customer.

If he wanted to do a social engineering attack and especially target Philip he would have said he is selling mining gear or has a deal in solar panels, far better chances to catch him with that  

The G20 is a forum, it's not an organization, it has no way of enforcing anything between participants, it's just an informal forum where everyone bitches about their problems, the rest agree and disagree, and when they return home every single country is doing things as before.

To expect something crypto-related that will end in a unanimously agreed regulation of some kind is a fantasy, not while China which has already banned almost everything crypto-related is a member, how do you think that will sound? To make things worse there is Japan and SK with tighter regulation already in place and some that don't really give a damn like Brazil and Mexico.

So, nothing to see here, they will have far bigger issues to discuss than focus on crypto.

Do you have some numbers to compare usage on it?
Because with 200 million in Nigeria even a fraction of it, like 0.1% doing one transaction a day would mean 200k extra transactions, which, obviously are not there in the blockchain at all! Besides a comparison would mean having access to government data, and those have not also been revealed, not even mentioning the last week when the ordinal hype raised the transaction fee to at least 10sat/b, close to half a dollar for a simple tx, not something really appealing for a country with a minimum wage around ~$100.

Plus, if you are unable to use a debit card hard chance you are knowledgeable enough to use a Bitcoin wallet.


Nigeria doesn't have the $ as a currency to not care that much about the exchange rate or conversions or capital outflow, for Salvador it was simple, the central bank was not involved in money printing, money security, or anything else.

1$=1$ and 1Luna=1Luna as long as you don't sell or try to buy BTC with it 10 years later.
I find it amusing how while we're going down 1BTC=1BTC but when we're in a bull market everyone forgets about that and starts with 1BTC =x $.

As for the conference itself, it's no longer 2015-2017 when every major event was something new, never seen before, when you had literally millions who've never heard of it before and so, just to point out a thing, since we're talking about Miami, the Miami-Dade Arena was called FTX Arena from 2012, one year prior to the conference, this was just an event wth no authority that can take legal decisions presently.

The conference was more like an auto show, where everyone goes to see what's new and companies invest for publicity, no car maker decides the prices for the cars or the wages for their workers based on that.


Oh...btw


one year later, Stronghold is returning placed orders to avoid bankruptcy.  
Not really the guy you want to take advice from, right?

I checked a few of those and there are 5 ratings from people that do mention they haven't been through the fire with it, so, are those ratings completely true if the box wasn't actually put to the test?

From my army training and the years I spent with inspections on the farm's buildings, there are a few things you need to look at in those so-called safe boxes, the temperature they are rated and the amount of time they are rated for at that temperature.
So if it's safe for 2000C without the time then it means it's garbage.
No safe box should ever have under an hour of constant +1000C, the average house fire goes to 800 and it can keep those for more than half an hour without intervention, so most of those "silicone fiber glass " and other stuff is useless, they throw at you a certification that really means nothing, like the 30$ box that shows a UL94 classification which is for the material itself, not for the protection of the content.
Two guys are asking for the fire rating and the shop owner just avoids the question going bla bla bla.

I don;'t know maybe it's just me but storing more than 1 BTC in a cheap $20 alibaba safe (yeah I know it's amazon but I've seen enough resellers to not care anymore about the brand)  seems like a really not so good idea!

Nobody here is talking about crypto or crypto taxation, OP wanted a simple answer on taxation on agricultural products.
Do read the message to which I replied!


Of course it's right because that's what we're talking about, taxation for a yearly activity with a determined revenue that comes falls into different categories, non-taxable, taxable under 10% here as additional revenue but still beyond a certain amount, or taxable at 25%.

I don't understand why you felt the need to bring crypto into this, might as well talk about tourism taxation or revenues from copyright as they have just as little in common with agricultural stuff as crypto.