Really?! So there are a lot of open source applications in bitcoin ecosystem and you have found only Satoshi's work?!
OK, he/they was/were/is/are genius and the trust is maximum, but since realistically we won't see him/them again, let's look for options that are possible.

OK, you may be somewhat right on this. I also try to not take sides and from my point of view you seem to be a tad on CZ side. But maybe it's the language barrier and I'm wrong...


You've pretty much expressed the same thing I meant, just with the "contrarily" in front. Maybe I should have been a bit more clear


I also cannot care less for Coinbase, they are overall bad for the ecosystem, still the Americans prefer them. But Binance is not really better, and I cannot support CZ backstabbing, although it can bring good results for the ecosystem. But, let's just think, why didn't CZ do this kind of actions years ago? Instead of calling for transparency, he did odd (at best) actions many times in the "history" and Binance is faking its volumes just as badly as (or maybe even more than) the rest.

I find also funny that the funds he's proposing to aid other companies are all in his shitcoins, not in bitcoin. So, sadly, all his actions are not for the common good, they're cold business calculations.

First of all, I don't think that they are that stupid to buy high and sell low. If they wanted to sell, they could have done that when the trend has change.
However, let's speculate: it would depend greatly on how much time they have. If time is not a big issue (but then why don't just wait a couple more months?) then they (or their brokers) would sell so slowly you may not even notice. Then the price may not even go noticeably lower. If they just dump everything (which would be overly stupid for their business too), then the price will go much lower, but I don't know how low - it depends if it's done in steps, it depends where and how big the support amounts are - but going down to 10k, 8k or even lower would not be a surprise, especially as such a move comes with public declarations - sooner or later - and all the panic and drama you can imagine.

Indeed, open source would be the best. However, from what I see, I think that most of those coming with ideas for bitcointalk app wanted to also get a few cents too from google ads, since nobody came forward with an open source idea.

Avem un nou concurs (de fapt 2 în 1), mai interesant, mai greu și... cu reguli cam multe. (Dar, mai ales că mi-a scăpat cel de Halloween, poate vreunul concurăm la acesta)

🎄🎅�🎄🎅� 1st Annual Bitcointalk Physical CRYPTO X-MAS Decoration Contest🎄🎅
Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5423870.0

Organizator: smoothie

Se câștigă una dintre cele 2 monede Lealana puse la bătaie (și este posibil ca până de Crăciun să apară și alte premii în plus).
La primul concurs se câștigă o monedă de argint LEALANA 0.1 BTC 1 oz 999 FINE SILVER DIME
La al doilea, una mai mică, LEALANA 0.01 BTC 0.1 oz 999 FINE SILVER CENT
Niciuna nu conține bitcoin.


Concursurile constau în decorațiuni de Crăciun*, dar pentru primul concurs postarea trebuie neapărat să conțină o monedă Lealana, iar pentru al doilea poate conține orice monedă fizică de bitcoin/crypto, sau chiar card de bitcoin (bănuiesc că se referă de exemplu la Ballet card-uri).
Reguli:
* o postare de persoană, dar poate conține mai multe "lucrări"
* postarea va conține cel puțin o monedă/un obiect de colecție legat de bitcoin (cu adresa de bitcoin probabil încețoșată)
* dacă am înțeles bine, nu trebuie neapărat poză cu bradul de Crăciun, ci orice îți trece prin cap, de exemplu poți să desenezi unul; dar trebuie să fie ceva original al tău, nu poză de pe net. Chiar se cere să iți scrii numele de utilizator pe o hârtie sau pe lucrare. Sau poate fi un film, dacă se pretează.
* data limită 25 Dec, 11:59 EST (GMT-5)
* cine dorește să participe la ambele concursuri trebuie să aibă (cel puțin) 2 decorațiuni diferite
* nu scrie nimic de transport, dar tare cred că este gratis doar in USA; până la urmă, există un risc cu monedele de argint...

Sper că am înțeles totul corect și nu am uitat nimic, mai vedeți și voi...
Baftă!

1. You cannot really tell people what to think, OK? So that title is.. not the best choice.
2. I think that CZ was not aware of how very bad is the situation of FTX. So it was an ugly backstabbing, but on the other hand a lucky strike for uncovering a huge scam.
3. Keep in mind that CZ pretty much tried the same with Coinbase and although this exchange is a bit more solid and it was proven that CZ tweet on Coinbase was FUD (and soon removed), people still withdrew a could of billions worth of bitcoin from Coinbase (which is good if kept in self custody, but not great if just moved to another centralized system ie Binance).

So while it's most probably not CZ that orchestrated the huge scam at FTX, he's has his own "sins" and people have their right to judge him, at least for those.

I didn't manage to make my bitcoin core work with the Ledger HW, but I also didn't spend too much time on that, since I do prefer the way Electrum works with Ledger.
Hence after having Bitcoin node, I've also set up an Electrum Server (well, a block explorer too) and I use now my Ledger with Electrum on my local Electrum server over my local Bitcoin node.
I've documented my steps, including the bitcoin.conf contents, here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5367296

Some things may have changed slightly since then, I may double check one of the days...

Long ago selling accounts was not a big problem. People didn't think that high level accounts can be used for scams. Signature campaigns were not the business they are now either.
Back then there was even a website that was calculating the worth of an account. But no longer.

Selling accounts is now stupid - although allowed officially, seller, buyer, the account to be sold will be tagged when caught. And it's a good step forward, since the reasons for such a deal can be at least shady, if not plain scam.
Plus now the merit system makes leveling up difficult for spammers, so the way the worth was calculated in 2013-2015 (I don't know the exact years) is different from what it would mean now.

All in all, it's very difficult to know how much it worth. And unless you want to get a no collateral loan (and then the lender will assess the worth and risks) or sell your account for a few bucks to an 1xbit spammer (yikes!) I am not sure why would you care...

The problem is not the difficulty, it's the trust issue. Such an app could harvest sensitive data (starting with your password and continuing with the private messages), hence the few attempts for doing this were not really welcomed...
Plus, installing random apps onto the phone (possibly even directly from the apk in case of Android) is never a great idea.

Very good points. Promote fear of bitcoin and also cash in big: two birds with one stone.


There are people loving it, like there are people loving the news from 6 PM (those with car crashes and dramas and all the crap in the world).
And this means money, profits. They don't have to be masterpieces. Quick and dirty with big rewards. Pretty much the logo of our days' businesses.

There's no best way. Usually people talk about their own experience, or, when the price is growing and Bitcoin reaches the news, then those news can be taken into discussions.
But if you have no experience in Bitcoin, you may get to be perceived as somebody who want to earn from others' work (eg referrals) and maybe that's why you're approaching them.
Also bitcoin is not the best investment for everybody and if you talk about bitcoin as investment you may be perceived in a bad light. Even more, if you convince people buy bitcoin and then they panic sell at a loss, they may try to hold you responsible. It's not an easy task.

On the other hand, the technical parts of bitcoin are superb for the tech inclined. Or Bitcoin can be a very easy way to pay or be paid or simply send money abroad. If you go for technical details or for bitcoin-as-currency and mostly warn about the risks of bitcoin-as-investment, you may have better chances.

Or, you can simply pay with bitcoin for this or that jobs, so people do start finding it useful.

I am not 100% that my ideas are 100% valid, but I'll still write them down. At least if I'm wrong, I'll learn something useful.
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I have the same problem. And the path I took was to install an Electrum server locally, using my local Bitcoin node. And I'm using Electrum with my node.


I think that if an agency has a lot of bitcoin core nodes in the network and you broadcast one after another transactions from those various addresses or wallets, there may be a small theoretical chance (I may be wrong with this though).
But you can disconnect now and then, hence getting different peers, and then I think that you should be fine.


I think that the tracking via Electrum servers can be done much easier than through Bitcoin core.
But if you go with completely different wallets and sessions I think that this is also an OK option. You may want though to also force Electrum connect to different server at each run (I don't know how to do that from Tails).

Exactly. One would pick some nice words, one could pick the words alphabetically, one may not know / care that those words can exist multiple times in a seed...

If somebody has issues with the seed generated by his wallet (works he doesn't know nor want for some reason), a better way is to simply generate 1-2 more wallets until the words are good enough. The result is that the seed is still much better than the one the user would have been picking by himself word by word.

Because the giant centralized crypto platforms that work on fractional reserves or no reserves at all because the lack of regulations and scrutiny must - sooner or later - disappear.
You gave FTX as example. If FTX would have been left alive, it would have been only wasting (much) more of investors' and users' money. Do you want the same from Binance (i.e. waste money) if it's the case?
Learn to keep your funds in your own wallet instead of others' pocket, then you won't care much if this or that platform falls.
And the price.. that will recover, don't worry, as soon as trust is restored in the industry.

Cred că marea majoritate a dash-cam-urilor nu va fi de mare ajutor, că datele se dau jos ulterior și nu-i pasă nimănui ce trafic a fost nu-stiu-unde acum o oră.
Deci probabil că ar trebui dezvoltatorul să facă aplicația să fie și dash-cam.


Cumva am impresia că nu ești parte din echipă, ci doar cineva care încearcă să facă un ban din referințe.
Am dreptate?


Ar fi fost poate un pic mai interesant de vorbit cu cineva din echipă. Că momentan nici nu știu dacă se vrea un proiect într-adevăr util - un competitor real pentru Waze (care de când a fost cumpărat de Google mi-e teamă că nu mai prinde mulți ani) - sau doar încă un proiect care încearcă să vândă niște NFT-uri și jetoane, cât să aibă bani de mers la mare (fără supărare dacă mă înșel, dar e plin de acel gen de proiecte, știm cu toții).

PS. Cred că acest topic se pretează mai bine în Anunțuri Monede Alternative: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=178.0

Nu m-am gândit din acest punct de vedere, că până la urmă chiar și "datul cu părerea" după articolele unor ziare au "votare". Mândrie/orgoliu? Probabil, dar prea multă valoare sigur nu are
Dar este un punct de vedere valid și îl respect.


Asta se întâmplă și în cazul începătorilor, care, în fuga după a da un răspuns nu citesc ce s-a scris deja, se poate întâmpla căpoșilor care nu vor șterge un răspuns, uneori muncit, care în timp ce era scris a devenit inutil fiindcă altcineva deja a răspuns la fel, sau - mie mi s-a întâmplat o dată - poate fi "invalidat" de o completare ulterioară a unei postări făcute mai devreme.
Și mai e ceva: uneori un răspuns asemănător cu anteriorul poate să aibă sens - dacă aduce exemple și completări, de exemplu - sau sunt șanse (reale) ca cel care scrie să creadă asta deși nu este cazul 


Ohoo, există undeva pe forum un topic cu răspunsuri fără cap, sau cu răspunsuri care nu zic nimic. Și sunt sigur că acolo sunt prinse foarte puține exemple. Unii chiar au talent la așa ceva...


Eu aș zice că uneori am. În sensul că frunzăresc zeci de discuții și nu scriu nimic. Și ce? Să scriu doar ca să mă aflu în treabă? Nu, decât așa, mai bine "tac".


 
Aici, cu tot respectul, nu mă bag. Și știi de ce? Că nu ți-am urmărit în mod special postările. Nu sunt "șef de campanie". Din ceea ce știu nu scrii tâmpenii și nu scrii de calitate slabă. Dar mai mult nu sunt "calificat" să spun.


Sunt foarte mulți pe forum care au venit doar pentru un ban in plus. Ban pe care îl schimbă în moneda locală cât de repede au ocazia.
Hai să fim realiști, cei care s-au îmbogățit din Bitcoin se distrează și probabil că vin pe forum rar, puțin și din pasiune, deci mai degrabă pe partea tehnică.


Cât timp nu batem (prea tare) câmpii și scriem cu cap, nu cred că ar fi vreo problemă, întrucât:
* nu facem ziduri de text (steril)
* comasăm mai multe idei în dezbatere, deci practic comasăm mai multe posibile postări scurte


Faină asta! 
Eu mă pot mândri că în medie am postările mai scurte decât Gazeta... sau cel puțin așa mă mint. 

You are pretty much correct. I won't go into details that there's an average of 10 minutes and so on. But yes, if the hash rate drops a lot, the next adjustment will come in ... much later.
But the thing is that realistically it's very unlikely to have such a major drop. This is the beauty of being decentralized. Many countries/regions. Many not even using electricity from the grid. They can't all just go down all together.

I guess that you're referring to Bitcoin price here, since technically it works on proven math/IT/cryptography with easy to reach source code, nothing "untouchable" people have to "believe in".

So back to price. Bitcoin has scarcity and very well thought tech, but in order to have good price there's a need at least for demand. Hence a degree of trust is still needed.
Now, I see two group of "believers":
* those who understand fairly well the math and relationships behind this and will say "it's not a religion"
* those who don't grasp all this and just see the price go sky high now and then; they keep their fingers crossed or even pray to get rich (quick)

My advice is to learn as much as you can as fast as you can. And don't take rushed decisions.
* Crypto and bitcoin investments are different, with different risk levels. You may want to ignore everything that's not bitcoin until you "level up".
* Bitcoin price is very volatile. This means that if you don't know what you're doing and you're just rushing it, you can easily buy high and sell low. Now most tell that the price will soon start going up; there's no guarantee it will do so.
** Learn the basics and see if you get to indeed trust that bitcoin price will go up
** Make sure you invest only money you afford to lose or keep locked in bitcoin for long
** Learn about DCA
** Learn the difference between Bitcoin and "whatever Bitcoin" (various altcoins with Bitcoin in their name)
** Learn how to keep your bitcoins safe (learn to use a wallet, transactions and transaction fees, may buy a hardware wallet)
** Learn how to withdraw the coins to your custody (not your keys, not your coins)

Then you can start enjoying the ride.
You can skip or postpone steps, but it's your own decision to make: time (price) vs knowledge and risks to do things wrong. I don't know where the sweet spot is.

It all depends on screen size, resolution and browser settings (zoom).
I don't think that it makes much of a difference (both are small, lol!). I am not against it, but I also don't think it worth the hassle for the change.

I somewhat agree with SFR10 here: a more interesting change could be to also increase a little the size for normal post text too.