28 - iwantmyhomepaidwithbtc2

Thank you OP 

Le banquier de Balaji Srinivasan doit soupirer actuellement 

Je serai bien heureux de voir le BTC à 1 million de $, mais de là à l'espérer..

Encore une prédiction à rajouter sur ma liste des prédictions foireuses faites sur le cours du BTC ! Je vais être bon joueur et attendre le 18 juin avant de l'ajouter

Yeah absolutely, I agree with you. Every company, every entrepreneur, just like every human has secrets, and has things specific to its functioning that it does not share with others.
However, not all secrets are darks secrets, and fortunately!

Why would we think that ? There are just some people who have invested well, others who are creative, exceptionally intelligent, or just plain lucky. Some just inherited a fortune and started a successful business. While many successful businesses must have things to hide, dark secrets, I don't think you can generalize that to a universal law.

What is true is that people and companies that don't worry a lot about laws and morals tend to grow faster and perhaps miss fewer opportunities than others. But this does not negate the success of all the others who have remained honest

Yeah or even simpler, he could just exchange his BTCs to XMR and after that, swap from XMR to BTC again. Monero will protect his identity.
It could be done via P2P, like on Bisq or any other platform providing P2P services.

Your friend could also imagine to cash out his BTC from an ATM, and buy again BTC with this cash from an other ATM.
In this second scenario the fees would be more important.


Most of the regulated CEX (even each one I guess) would mark your account in a SAR form once they have access of the Chipmixer's addresses. Most of them probably already own a list, we could imagine that Chainanalysis for example is proactively working on it, if it is not already done of course.
Depending on your past activity on the CEX, the amounts and the frenquency of your exchanges, you could be blocked, asked for Source of funds documents, and for more explanations. In some cases funds could be seized, it already happened in the past

Je partage ce document pour ceux que ça peut intéresser. Le document se nomme "Crypto Crime Report 2022 : Original data and research into cryptocurrency-based crime". Malheureusement pour les non-anglophones il n'existe pas en Français.

Le pdf provient de Chainanalysis, qui est la référence en analyse de blockchains et données dans le monde des cryptos régulées, comme non-régulées.
J'ai mis en ligne le pdf pour ceux qui ont la flemme de créer un compte et de donner leurs infos à Chainanalysis. (à la fin du fin du post)

Les données vont jusqu'à fin 2021, début 2022.
Ce qui est intéressant c'est de voir à quel point un très petit nombre d'acteurs génèrent une forte activité illicite, et un énorme volume d'argent sale. C'est pas un nombre colossal de wallets qui sont concernés, contrairement à la croyance populaire née il y a presque dix ans de "les cryptos c'est pour le blanchiment et la drogue"

Il y a des données intéressantes, quelques extraits en exemple :

On voit dans ce graphique que les gens sont plus impatients qu'avant pour retirer leur fonds sales. Ou plutôt, on peut supposer qu'ils ont de meilleurs moyens à disposition pour tenter de laver les fonds en question, ou pour les masquer. (les malfrats sont de mauvais holders )


Dans celui-ci on peut voir que les scammers doivent faire face à des réactions de plus en plus rapides en matière de lutte-antiscam. La vie des arnaqueurs à l'air de se compliquer, en tout cas, on peut supposer que pour avoir le même temps de présence en ligne, ils ont intérêt à multiplier les sites et scams.


Le rugpull ne connait pas la crise


Pas de crise non plus pour les gérants de Markets sur le darknet, les volumes parlent d'eux-mêmes :



La Corée du Nord va-t-elle pleurer la fin de Chipmixer ? On verra dans de futurs rapports, en tout cas, le mixing semble être de plus en plus à la mode par chez eux :



Lien du document : https://pdfhost.io/v/B9ZH5Gd7K_CryptoCrimeReport2022 (il faut attendre quelques minutes une fois le lien ouvert pour que le document charge et apparaisse, désolé, je ne connais pas de bon endroit pour héberger des pdf sans que vous ayez à le télécharger, si vous avez des suggestions je suis preneur)

You could have a look on the pre-release version of BitcoinCore
You can find the pre-release, v0.1.0, and v0.1.3 here, on the Satoshi Institute website : https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/code/
It can give you a nice start and a source of inspiration.

However, I see that you quoted Mastering Bitcoin book. This one will be more than useful for your project I think. But maybe just like an additionnal layer of help when it is required.

If you aren't against the idea to pay for some ressources, as you already mentionned, you have plenty Udemy courses which are explaining how to start a Bitcoin-like/based blockchain from scratch. The issue with Udemy course is to find one which is not too superficial and newbie-friendly, A lot of them are only focusing on super basic things, and doesn't help a lot to increase your understanding of BTC once you already own some good knowledges.

Finally, this book will give you the best starting point possible in my opinion : Programming Bitcoin- Learn how to Program Bitcoin from Scratch : https://books.google.bg/books/about/Programming_Bitcoin.html?id=OIuGtgEACAAJ&redir_esc=y

(And maybe, you could use ChatGPT for that purpose, but I don't really know, I haven't tested it yet)

Have a nice journey with Bitcoin programming !

Of course verification is necessary at some point, as Source of Funds verification (depending of the amounts of course) or KYC.

All users of casinos and sports bets  want the platform they use to be honest and rigorous with their payouts and withdrawals, right?

For me, the only real way to be able to feel confident with an online casino is through the regulations it has adhered to. This guarantees security for the end user, because if the casino in question is regulated and respects the law, the chances that it will provide an honest and reliable service will be even greater.

If an online casino is not regulated or not monitored by a third party, the risk of exit scams, frozen-accounts and frozen-funds is higher. You can't have everything without paying a certain price for it ; regulations offer security to the user but cost him some of his online privacy and personnal datas.
It's a choice to make, but the choice to send your funds to a shady platform is rarely to the advantage of the end user in the long run.

Difficult question, because I think you have already tried everything that is really feasible in your situation. In any case, when there are large amounts of energy used, there will be a lot of heat in the room if it is closed.

I think that indeed air conditioning the room could be the beginning of a solution, but it depends of the surface of your room. What is the floor area and total volume of the room in question? With this data, calculations could be made.
 
In my humble opinion, there are two solutions realistically available to you:

-Hydrocooling if you can, but I don't know if that would be feasible / cost effective with S17s and T17s. In theory everything is feasible but the financial aspect of this solution will probably lead to a financial loss for you
-Hosted mining, send your ASICs to someone who has better operating conditions than you have.

Apart from that, I don't think there is a miracle solution for this problem.

The forum is not supposed to be a full time job, and should not be considered as such.
You have no contract, no job security, and depending on the country, it may not be able to pay your bills or provide for your basic needs.

However, the forum is a great way to increase your stock of satoshis through signature campaigns or bounties, while learning things and sharing what you already know.
These campaigns, in my opinion, are a win-win system: you advertise sites or companies that you think are clean and legit, and in exchange you get paid. In addition, managers require a certain quality of posting, and a certain minimum frequency of activity.
This is globally beneficial for the forum, it guarantees that at least a part of the regular active users post consistently, and with good quality posts.

But in my opinion, you will only reach the necessary rank by acting as a normal member of the forum, and settling in, making quality posts. If the only motivation of a member is to farm an account to access the campaigns, it shows, and in general this member will not reach the necessary rank to participate in the said campaigns.

In my country, the signing campaigns offer almost the equivalent of a local minimum wage. However, I prefer to keep my job (I'm lucky enough to earn much more than the legal minimum) and tell myself that I'll leave this second salary in BTC, for the future. If I had to rely solely on forum wages for my daily life, it could be stressful. And I remain convinced that doing it out of need, and not out of desire, would influence the quality of the posts. This would not be positive for me, nor for the campaing manager or nor for the forum itself.

I understand, but you have one of the most trusted and reputable member of this community who offer his help for free.
If you are ready to give up, why aren't you ready to be assisted / helped by a trusted person ?

It depends on each of us, we all have different strategies, targets and sales thresholds. We also have different notions of risk, as well as different sensitivities to FUD and the negative buzz in the industry.

Some people choose to invest only what they can accept as a potential loss, and under these conditions it is always easier to hold on to the long term.
Others simply don't have the knowledge and understanding to have a sincere desire to hold their BTC, and the same goes for self-discipline, it depends, we are only human after all.

The important thing is that people are happy when they sell their BTC, that they do not sell it at a loss or with regrets. For example, selling BTC right now might make sense if you came home with purchases made at 15-16k, although in my opinion it would be better to wait.

We are 1 year away from the next halving, so we can speculate that next year and the year following the halving, the price will tend to be active in terms of movement. In my humble opinion, it is better to wait and see what happens after the halving, so as not to miss out on future profits. But no one, neither you nor I can claim to know what the FIAT value of BTC will be in the future, so in any case, no one selling their BTC should be judged negatively for doing so.

I really enjoy reading stories like this, both here and elsewhere on the internet. I myself have shared a little bit of my history with Bitcoin, even if it is very modest when you compare it to others.

I find it necessary to counterbalance a bit the press and newspaper articles that allow themselves to write anything and everything about Bitcoin and Bitcoiners, without understanding anything. The good thing is that the stories here are written by Bitcoiners and not by journalists who don't know what a seed or pool is.

Whether it's positive or negative stories for their respective OPs, it's always good to have feedback on decisions, behaviors, and life choices: especially when those decisions or life choices are based on Bitcoin. I feel that for the past ten years we have all been acting as "crash tests" for future generations, well those who have decided to go all in on BTC. So it's always good to get their feedback.

The great success stories of some people can help to offset some of the big FUD that is regularly around BTC, and that can probably have a positive impact.

I just went to check the thread on Casino Guru, the last two posts are still awaiting moderation and validation.

I hope OP can get his funds back, if it is indeed proven that he did not abuse the welcome bonus system.

From my point of view Wintomato has a rather vague way of communicating, extremely condescending with OP. And even if OP is a bonus abuser and they can prove it, in my opinion it's always better to keep your distance from such a casino manager, who takes days to respond, and once he deigns to respond is condescending.

We have so much choices and opportunities to play online with cryptos, I'll prefer safe and recognized websites. Too much suspicions and lack of reactivity from their team, even if they are not scamming OP in reality, I think we can find better places to gamble anyway.

I agree with you completely, at 100%. When I said that Antpool is "honest", I didn't express myself clearly enough. I meant only the payouts, meaning that yes, indeed they will pay OP if he has reached the minimum necessary.

However, as you say, their policy regarding fees (especially now!) is not clean. Also, personally I would tend to avoid a pool that holds 20% of the total hashrate of the network.
Like Foundry, Binance Pool, Antpool are in my opinion enemies of BTC. They mine empty blocks, and contribute to a strong centralization of the hashrate.
I prefer to mine on small pools, like at Kano, ckpool, or mmpool (before it makes an exit scam, unless the hacker was real? We'll never know). I understand that some people don't want to mine solo, or don't want to wait 1 or 2 years for a block to be solved in PPLNS to receive their funds, but in this case, IMO, they should consider secondary size pools like EMCD for example.

Je t'avoue que je ne sais pas si ça se limite aux fichiers et autres trucs numériques. J'ai l'habitude de le lire et de l'utiliser pour tout ce qui implique un site "perso" hors market et avec un système de paiement automatique, où tu n'as pas besoin d'attendre la réponse du vendeur pour avoir son adresse BTC etc..

Mais aucune idée si c'est une déformation de langage généralisée ou pas



Clairement oui, je pense que le risk/reward est plus intéressant avec du scam que de vrais produits à la vente, en tout cas si on parle d'armes et de darknet en général.

Je pense que ce n'est pas pour rien que sur le réseau TOR tu trouves 99% d'arnaques et qu'il y a tout un travail pour entretenir une légende autour de ce réseau, afin de s'assurer d'avoir un robinet de newbies plein d'espoirs ouvert en continu.

Current number of posts (including this one): 448

Have a nice week guys !

Ouais en effet, ils pourraient chopper l'IP utilisée lors de l'achat / téléchargement du software.

Après on pourrait toujours imaginer passer par TOR pour ces étapes, mais c'est un peu tiré par les cheveux.

Dans tous les cas j'imagine que personne n'utilise de VPN autrement que pour se sécuriser sur des réseaux publiques ou accéder à des contenus multimédias à l'étranger. Mais le succès des VPN et leur nombre d'utilisateurs restent un vrai mystère pour moi, je me demande ce que tant de gens ont à cacher à leur FAI et pourquoi ils pensent que centraliser leurs données dans les serveurs d'une autre entreprise est plus à leur avantage. J'imagine que la plupart paient leur VPN par carte

Quand je voyais des panneaux publicitaires en 4 par 3 en France pour Nordvpn, ça me faisait halluciner qu'il y ait un tel marché


EDIT : pardon pour le HS, je voulais pas pourrir ton topic

Petite question à ce sujet, quel pourrait être le problème avec un VPN payé en XMR ou espèces ? Par exemple Mullvad propose ça
Même si ils gardent les logs il ne peuvent pas remonter à toi si tu paies de manière anonyme non ? (si tu ne te connectes pas sur un site via un compte à ton nom, mais j'imagine que personne n'utiliserait de VPN pour aller sur impots.gouv.fr  )

Yeah I will hold until next ATH, even if I won't sell all my sats, I want to keep some BTC for the (very) long term. Personally I think there is still time to accumulate more BTC until we'll see next ATH ; the next halving is in 1 year and previously it took several months / a year before it was reflected in its fiat price. But who knows ? 


Thank you !
Congrats to you too !    I think that it is very good for yourself to buy something thanks of the increasing value of BTC, and good for the whole community, as it shows concrete examples of one of the interests of Bitcoin holding.

I just hope that the car you bought was not a 2003 Ford Taurus   
Like in this famous meme :





Thank you so much for this kind message ! I hope that my story, even if it is a modest success, could give inspiration and faith to continue the BTC journey to the newcomers !
I will definitely stay around here as long as I can, I really enjoy the community, and the ton of knowledge this forum contains. I learn a lot here, spend hours of reading and for now, I've never regret the time spent here

Thank you very much dear Ratimov !

It's really nice of you to have helped me this way! I will do everything to honor this new rank as due