the new s19 pro (126 chip version) with aluminum hbs based on the slightly older s19j pro bhb42631

The heatsink mounting on every model of the S17 is so garbage, that if you somehow manage to get a 17 to your mining location without losing one you deserve a prize. Find a cheap S19 or go whatsminer.

Hello,
I decided to cancel my search for Satoshi and move on to more important things like practicing proper bitcoin etiquette.

That means I'm doing the Initial Block Download for my Satoshi 22.0 node. Thank you to the massive numbers of seeders who sent me anywhere from 1kb to 24gb of the blockchain.

Anyway, I realized that I'm not going to be a very useful full node because I do not have the ability to port forward at my new apartment.
If anyone knows a backend way to port forward or whether VPN services that allow port forwarding would work let me know. This would also be helpful for my bittorrent seeding which hasn't been working since I moved houses.

Thanks bitcoiners!

I really appreciate that when Bulgaria seized the bitcoin that they chose to hold it during the ongoing criminal investigation. As if the entire bitcoin ledger isn't publicly available.

We do not need Bitcoin ETFs, we are the select few who know how to hold bitcoin. However, there are at least 6 billion people who don't know how to hold bitcoin. I feel like an ETF would help them out.

A physically backed bitcoin ETF would solve the grayscale monopoly problem, many many many tax problems, the traditional fidelity-style broker's problems, regulation problems. Heck the SEC could regulate bitcoin ETFs to hell and let crazies like us go wild on real bitcoins if they really felt like it. Same distinction as grain farmers vs grain futures traders.

On the people who don't know how to hold bitcoin, if you've been to r/coinbase or r/cryptocurrency and sorted by new you'd see 1/10 posts are people who got rekt or somehow lost all their coins or let someone steal everything out of shear stupidity, or sent 1 BTC to some random person who said they would send back 2 BTC. It's pretty hard to get rekt when you don't have access to funds. Somehow this leads me to say the type of person who needs a bitcoin ETF would also benefit from just owning robbinghood IOU bitcoins.

Futures backed ETF would be a buy the rumor sell the fact type story.

Peak Oil will come. Peak Gold will come. Peak Bitcoin will come.

Which will remain money after mining ends?

Not oil. 04-20-2020 proves this.

Is exodus iOS wallet ok? been using it for a month and haven't had any problems. Their btc onramp died but I only used it once. Onramp had oddly low fees... cheaper than coinbase or kraken.

It seems like based on my research that Hal Finney isn't satoshi. Or at least that Hal made very specific efforts to make it seem like someone else was satoshi and left no fingerprints of his own.

Here's a little of the early work of satoshi whoever he is:

"Total circulation will be 21,000,000 coins.  It'll be distributed
to network nodes when they make blocks, with the amount cut in half
every 4 years.

first 4 years: 10,500,000 coins
next 4 years: 5,250,000 coins
next 4 years: 2,625,000 coins
next 4 years: 1,312,500 coins
etc...

When that runs out, the system can support transaction fees if
needed.  It's based on open market competition, and there will
probably always be nodes willing to process transactions for free."
https://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg10142.html

i appreciate that they hadn't coined the term 'mining' to describe generating blocks.

gosh I was going to post this 4 hours ago but I got so far down the rabbit hole that I can't remember what I was doing.
maybe another update will come soon. Lots of messages between Hal and Satoshi.
https://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg09964.html

probably a whole world of knowledge just in the replies to that post.

Hi guys this is my first post. Reddit didn't like this post for whatever reason so I figured I would go straight to the source.
Anyway I'm quite interested in finding out who satoshi wasn't, in my much longer effort to figure out who satoshi was. Based on this I'd say Hal Finney probably wasn't satoshi.

I read somewhere that Hal mined the 78th block and that he only mined for a little while before turning it off forever. Seems like this wallet is him.
https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/wallet/59649

In this post he talks about how he's leaving the btc to his kids, who appear to have sold it within a few months of his death. (this is a couple of transactions down the rabbit hole from the 59649 wallet.
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/bitcoin-and-me/
https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/wallet/8302760

Also one final thing, in Block 9 satoshi mines 50 btc to this address and then as the story goes he sends 10 btc to Hal, but I can't seem to connect that 10 btc back to Hal, altough maybe it gets to him and he never combines it with his other btc.
https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/address/12cbQLTFMXRnSzktFkuoG3eHoMeFtpTu3S

just kidding I lied. one more thing. One of Hal's last posts on here connects back to my occam's razor satoshi, Adam B. Who has been trying to help create a 2nd layer of Bitcoin ever since then, apparently this one was called zerocoin, now I think he makes one called liquid.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2436;sa=showPosts