i finally bit too, but i was successful in resisting the first couple of times he trolled by swinging his "Christianity club" 
On the other hand, when ones doen't call out on lies, one probably accepts them, so i had to put things into perspective.

Well, then i'm probably missing the fun?!
As an ex-member of the Christian Church, but as a man who is acting on Christian values, more than less, i can only say that the Christian Church is not acting very Christian, probably almost never did.
I believe Jesus Christ would turn in his grave if he knew how things turned out regarding "Christianity".

I wonder if Jesus Christ, if still alive, would be a Bitcoiner...

I agree, but look ahead under the fact that Moore's Law is broken. Even if storage/cent and speed grows in a linear way, the blockchain will grow faster. So the performace/(blockchain)byte ratio will likely go down. It's not hard to sync blocks, but as i said, the percentage of private miners will decrease.
On the mobile data issue: What i personally experienced was 3G getting slower with more people using it, now it's the same with 4G. 5G is not even available in my area yet, but i remember myself switching back to 3G mode to get faster and more reliable connections, ccompared to 4G, because of too many customers using the latter. Bad weather is still a factor for poor transfer rates, especially over longer ranges/low transceiver areal density.
In comparison, big mining farms likely have multiple fiberglass connections, one or two hops away from backbone routers, acres of servers... In the long run, big eats small, because mining is a business which is based on our economic rules.
I don't want to put Bitcoin down, but the aspect of growth (EDIT: and/or scaling) was not given enough attention, imho. A chronic problem in the IT industry i was in, balls deep.

Hi folks,

i have a good reason to sort of revive my PHP programming again.
There are not many things i didn't do with PHP yet, but i need help with charting.
It's not hard to create the data, but i ceased to find a library that easily lets me display a simple chart like this:



The line is representing non-zero values, positive and negative, but the differnce to zero should be colored (red for negative diff, green for positive).
Any hints or tips?

Thanks  

EDIT:

For now, it looks like the Highcharts JS API will do.
Using the "area" type of Graph, setting css properties .highcharts-point and .highcharts-graph.highcharts-negative to the desired colors does the trick.

That is the one thing that wasn't taken care of in the Bitcoin conception. Size of the blockchain.
Sure, storage is cheap (at the time), but if the BC gets to sizes that are no more manageable conveniently at the private level, and the initial blockchain download becomes so effin big that it takes months on a standard connection (let's say, for now... 50mbps or so), less and less private full nodes will be added to the  network, while the mining companies continue growing. In the end, a few big miners survive. I am thinking about slow, indirect movements towards decentralization.

Aye, captain.
In my poor ass case, this would make the majority of my corn subject to tax (if i'd actually sell and buy back in 100%).
Most of my corn is tax-free, because bought before 2021, when the tax law changed. As soon as i sell it, it's untaxabe fiat money, but when i buy in again with that money, all corn i'd get hold of would be taxable when i sell it.
In the face of 25% capital gain tax, this trade wouldn't work in my favor.
Judging by the numbers, it's best for me to straight hodl, because IF i sell in the future at the (theoretically) highest price, only a fraction of the money would be subject to capital gain taxation. So i better choose wisely when to sell. That said, the projected ETF pump/dump seems not to be the best event for me to trade.
The current situation of law kind of sucks in this manner, i can only hope for subsequent occasions to up my BTC holdings through trading back and forth, and preceding changes in taxation policies that would work in a better way for trading BTC.

I can trade back&forth between Cryptocurrencies (and stablecoins) withour being taxed, but the crux here is that once i make such a trade, the amount of BTC (or Crypto) i'd sell for fiat money would make it taxable. So this option would be great, but the law considers sold/traded coins as the "oldest coins" of my holdings, making them taxable when selling for money as well.

It's a shit law, and it's clearly aimed at milking traders, but it goes a little bit to far. But there's no reason to change the taxation policy, because why would the government want to pass on the extra money?  

EDIT: While thoughtfully writing this post, Bitcoin went up several hundred US-bucks. Niiiice  

EDIT2: Aaand back again 

@Chartbuddy: Let's make a deal like last time. I go to sleep and you push it over $45k? Thanks in advance! 

#GN

I wonder if i would actually be emphatic, would reading her posts hurt?
Anyway, the only one who exposed himself in these here parts is Cryptotourist, imho.
#sadfuck

Wow, Antisthenes, this was the longest scroll-of-crap in a while 
And by the way, when i write "HODLer", i mean HODLer, not whale. Somebody trading the cycles is not a HODLer.
It's HODL (from HOLD, not SELL, nor TRADE)
Why don't you understand?
Or is your lil sad ass just trolling?   

Yeah, that's likely an "intimidation wall" to trigger panic reactions like "oh no! Bitcoin is going to crash at insert_wall_ask_price_here !!!"

The broker of my choice is offering recurring buys starting from $50. It's KYC-ed, though.
On the other hand, only buys/sells of more than $1000 are reported to the authorities.


The Mar'22 bull-trap's top, i was already waiting for that wall to appear.

You mean major in the range of 10% or more?

More important: is the (local) top in?

Real hodlers never sell  


OK, thanks for indirectly answering my question (FYI: There definitely has been snow in Africa already)
So we both (three, including JJG) agree that Bitcoin is no more (Bitcoin) without PoW.

Still available in the EU, if you take the import tax and shipping time.

Found this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WWvYCSq_uw

Go near the end of the video, there's a half priced alternative made by "BlissLights".
Looks like the same asian product got re-branded by more than one "manufacturer" 

Thanks a ton, AlcoHoDL, for putting my search for the perfect christmas present to an end 

I don't even dare to ask 
 

No worries, vroom's chopper is able to climb at speeds of many $kph.

1. I have to admit that i (more or less) count on trader's yield days, typically in december. However, i don't see more than a 10% setback, which is extreme already.
2. Inflation and returns from other markets increased the investment volume, this is why we go higher faster, as seen in previous bullruns.
3. Anticipation is growing with every cycle, so more "investors" are more sure every cycle that Bitcoin will perform.
4. Bitcoin is easier to get for the ordinary (and responsible) buyer (please mind NYKNYC, people!), and well, the speculation on spot ETFs became more dense, too.

All these (and also more minor ones) are able to build the ground for steeper charts, but if true, we will have to expect the according blowoff spectacle after next ATH, too.
I can feel your concerns, though, as i might be totally wrong because of expectational biasing.

#NFA


Seconded 

Just read your reply on the phone and went online on the PC for a minute to answer that before drifting off to dreamland...

No, it's not dumb in a way that it is technically possible.
I know that Bitcoin is not Bitcoin without PoW, even if i didn't explicitly point that out. And that was the expected answer, but i did want to read WatChe's opinion.
Don't get me wrong  
#GN