This is widely incorrect. In some countries the 3 areas/powers - executive, legislative, and judicial - are correctly separated giving less chance to "the government" do anything he wants in the way he wants (of course, there are exceptions too sometimes, unfortunately).


If they would just do anything they want the supreme court would kick their asses pretty bad. So no.
If they have their backs insured properly, then yes, they can do certain things. Still, there are much worse cases around the world; and there the government really does whatever it wants. Do you need examples?


Some store information and tell you, some store information and lie to you and very few don't store information. Of course, governments don't like the 3rd category. Still, this doesn't make them the same.

This is free money. First case is a free insurance, second is... some sort of stimulus for learning.
For the first case, I've seen in my country giving free money to those hit by flash floods; I've never find it fair, they've pretty much bought some votes with tax payers' money, instead of fixing the problem (deforestation). I don't really agree with your ideas either and I don't think they'll be implemented easy or at all:
* CBDCs are money and in the global acceptation money usually is something one gets as payment for something, no matter it's another good or some service/work done for the payer
* there are few countries wealthy enough to just give money to its citizen, that's an exception; in all the rest of the cases somebody (the taxpayer) has worked for that money
* so free insurance is an unfair equalitarian thing, for which probably some tax payers will pay more and some less, and still receiving the same "service"
* education... when I'll see politicians indeed and for real support education, then this may worth a second thought...  

Now, "no premine" would somehow mean wealth created out of thin air and then distributed, and we both know that if everybody receive gold for free, gold will no longer stay valuable.
So, since it's a central bank coin, i.e. a digital representation of same ol' fiat, there will be the same type of "premine" all fiat has (just this time it will be a replacement of a few tons of printed paper) and the fair mechanism would remain the salaries.

Sorry that I didn't really follow a very clear line of thought, but I hope you've got my points. Bitcoin has this success because it's a representation of hard work (of the ASICs), free airdrops cannot compete with that.

He's... deliberately wrong. It's a declaration that can make some people keep their funds in (his) centralized exchange. Many of his followers trust him ... well, too much.


Cold wallets are wallets set up to never go online. Never.
If set up correctly, if used correctly, if the backups are stored safely and correctly, then they are the safest.
Since most people are not knowledgeable enough to handle this, the next safe option is hardware wallets, which are also much more convenient.
CZ makes declarations that suit him best. He is sometimes correct and sometimes not. Don't just believe all he says.

Well, I would not know if the problem is on my side or on the forum's.
And maybe excepting a switch between clear net and Tor, I don't have external services where I could login and check. And I expect most of the users are in a worse situation.

...Or is there another way to find out and I've missed that?


At least this is something I do agree with. And it stands for all social media platforms.

One of the few uses of the Bitcointalk Twitter account is to notify whether the forum is down.
Of course, this didn't really happen lately, but I'm sure that theymos knows this and almost sure that he will act.
...After all, even Hal's wife has made a post in order to keep Hal's account alive. I think that it's even less a hassle for theymos do the same for Bitcointalk.

War is indeed a good trigger for technological advancement, but that usually stands for the technology to be used in the war.
Even more, a war tends to be a black hole for resources/money, leaving insufficient funding for overly expensive projects like the nuclear fusion is.
So overall there are mixed feelings on this: on one hand this war is also a global energy war hence the advancements in producing energy are important, on the other hand the standard war (with bullets) dries up the funds. I fear that overall we'll have a setback/slow down in this development on short term, until after the war.

I'll try to be the devil's advocate here: is it a chance that you've shown us this prediction now because you may be afraid the price could go significantly higher (or lower?) until EOY and make your prediction become inaccurate/bad? 


Imho, according to the 4-years cycle the trend should have been reversed already and we should be in a recovery mode (slow, but still upwards).
But small variations are to be expected after all...

That's true/correct.
I've read already about manufacturers getting silent and having the coins redeeming logic based on their (now offline) website.
I think that I've read about the possibility holograms could be taken down and put back again (in some cases).
Clearly, addresses created with the same firstbits in order to mislead users is not a possibility to dismiss.

Imho collectibles are very nice even if not funded (I tend to like more the DYI ones). Funded collectibles, especially with higher amounts, tend to pose unnecessary risks.
So, again, I agree, you're fully right.


However, the topic has started with a question, not a debate on how (un)safe holograms and fistbits are. If one indeed has such a collectible, he will still want a tool to see his funds without taking down the hologram. Yes, it may not be accurate, in some cases the wrong address may be returned/checked, but I don't know of better tools.

Actually bech32 addresses start with bc1 and the next character comes from the witness version.
More of your questions may also get answered after you read this: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0173

Still a step in the right direction.
When the repayment happens, please @edgycorner, @shasan say my name in here so I can see and remove the support for the flag.
Good luck @edgycorner in finding those funds and next time learn to be more communicative with the lender.

Since every node (hence each pool) has its own mempool, you cannot ensure a node has received or not a transaction.
This being said, the government nodes wanting to censor a transaction can simply not tell / sign that they've received it.
Nobody stops them from doing that and eluding your system, yet still working in the same way they do now.

So I see your system only something that gives more to do to honest (ie playing by the common rules) polls while the dishonest (in this case censoring) ones are favored.
Am I missing something?

The card or coin usually has somewhere visible the address and you can look it up to see whether it was spent. The private key should remain private until the point the coins are redeemed/spent.
The only problem is that a skilled used may retrieve the private key and put everything back to look sealed. And at a much later point after selling that collectible/physical coin/card he can spend the coins on it. And you won't know what has happened and who, of the many hands the coin/card changed is the thief.
The chances are small, but the risk is there.

In the case of these funded physical items you have to trust the issuer and the other people who had their hands on the item. And the point of Bitcoin is to not trust anybody but you and math.



And yes, there's the OpenDime, which I agree, it's not too friendly. Still, somewhat better option for the job.

Since I consider mobile phones even less safe as desktop computers (especially as I use mostly Windows), I use mobile wallets only together with a hardware wallet.
This being said, although Green Wallet is open source and Mycelium is not, I do prefer the way Mycelium works and that's what I use on mobile. Again, this together with a hardware wallet.

If you want to risk and go without a hardware wallet, Electrum and Blue Wallet are very solid options.


PS. I have Android. I don't know which of these work on iPhone; if that's the case, look up those wallets' websites and see if they work for iOS. The wallets' websites should have links to the play store, don't just search on the store since there you may find malicious clones too.

I find more worrying that he didn't contact the lender to find a proper solution to pay back his loan, especially as the negative feedback will deny him access to the signature campaigns.
Unless the reason is war/problems with access and free time or some bad personal issues... I don't know... sorry shasan. I've supported the flag.

I've found the problem and it is, as in many similar cases, between the keyboard and the chair.
Yep, you were right and I am stupid. I managed to be careless with the config key.
I had, by mistake


instead of the correct


All fixed now. Thanks.

Our sun uses a huge number of Hydrogen atoms, it uses immense gravity and heat, plus it has a good number of millions of km of space as distance. OK.
But we, humans, have creativity. We may find out ways to do that in a way not 100% identical our sun does it.
Even the current (test, small scale) ways are already a gain. The energy used is all re-created and can be used for another ignition. And the extra (since more than the initial energy is re-created) can be harvested/used for humanity's use.


See the airplanes. They are no longer that much close to the "initial project" ie bird's flight. Still, they do the job.
Back to fusion: I do think that it can be done in 20-30 years. I do think the presented timeframe is okay.

You know, the simple fact a coin is called Bitcoin doesn't make it worth a lot. See all the Bitcoin forks.
Also a newly made coin may or may not become valuable, see the altcoins, in huge numbers being disappointing for the investors.
And, as a bottom line, the fact a coin (like bitcoin) worth a lot doesn't mean the world/the people get rich. No. Only few of the investors.

This being said, creating a new bitcoin may not make sense, especially if it'll be just a clone. I'd expect people will work in Satoshis in 50-100 years to overcome the price rise, but not much else.
So creating a new coin can (only) make sense if it brings something really new and useful to the ecosystem. And that's not related to the price of the competitor coins. Also that can be done now too, no need to wait 50 years. Again, see the altcoins, some did bring new useful features and some of those are going pretty much OK.

I will start by telling that you're a bit late and this topic is already discussed for 2 days on bitcointalk, see A breakthrough in thermonuclear fusion technology! End of the era of hydrocarbon

However, I'll answer your question: the specialists said that we will have this somewhere in 15-30 years. 10 years timeframe would be kinda rushed, there are still big problems to overcome.

In these cases the private key tends to stay hidden under a seal. That's because short addresses/firstbits are useful for collectible items, usually coins, where the space is very limited.
And people still want to check whether the collectible they've bought is indeed funded.

Happy Birthday!
I've seen a flaw in what you've done and I'd like to point it out here: you've put your bitcoins to storage into somebody else's wallet. Yes, that somebody else is Binance in your case.
You've missed all the "not your keys, not your coins" messages on this forum??
Yes, if nothing bad happens, Binance will keep granting you access to your money. And if something bad happens... bad luck.

I advise you learn how to keep your coins safe in your own custody (generate a wallet or seed safely offline, or buy a hardware wallet, for example). It not be easy (or it can mean another investment), but if you master that, your money will be indeed yours, not like now.