They might just move country too to somewhere with less regulations. There's enough places for most countries where people can set up businesses off shore and still return back if they ever needed to but don't infringe on laws by only making content on an explicit side of a border. There's enough influencers that seem to enjoy travelling anyway.

A lot of influencers might also be hard to find or hard to prove they've broken laws. I imagine some participate in pump and dump schemes and find other ways to be paid (perhaps they know the coin won't do well and short the dump, maybe they buy in before making their post and sell at a fixed rate profit - like 10%).

I normally find the most popular dex of a network and use that to input my settings.

It's possible you could connect to a scam network and buy fake tokens and may be something that gets used by you can't sign a transaction on polygon and have it broadcast to go somewhere else once you've signed it without your wallet/computer being more compromised too - which is harder to achieve.

No electrum doesn't support Hardware on android. Other wallets do though as mentioned above.

It looks like ledger have released their own app for handling the device though (called ledger live) I'd check on their website too though just in case there's help with installation or tutorials on features: https://www.ledger.com/ledger-live

You'd be better off moving this into the lending section (from the move button in the bottom left).

If you can't put up any collateral though you're not going to get a loan here (collateral would be anything the lender deems valuable enough to cover the loan of you default or disappear) read more here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=577765.0

If you go with moving your funds out of your wallet (which is the safest method) I'd advise you consider that wallet permenantly compromised and stop using it - it may be fine to receive some funds to it but don't make a habit out of it.


I paid a friend of a friend to completely rewire mine and still took the hard drive out. I offered them one I knew would boot if the system worked but they said they'd be able to test individual components were receiving power anyway while the bios was running.

If you can remove the drive yourself it's normally the best way to do things (especially if it's not an apple device as most others make drives very easy to remove - it's normally either the first or second compartment you open - aside from the battery and sometimes ram).

It's pretty centralised and gets controlled a lot by them (in things like staking) I'd stay away from it if you don't like centralisation. The same would go for binance coin.

Eth is mentioned above as being centralised and I doubt that but its pos mechanism still needs to prove itself -   and it's also likely overvalued. Bitcoin is the most well known and most decentralised so far though.

The best language to learn for bitcoin based applications are c and c++ at the moment. There are implementations of coins like ethereum that are done in go as well and other projects like electrum that use python and bitcoinj which uses java.

I think c and c++ are two of the hardest mainstream languages to learn but are generally the most efficient and most predictable.

I leant a lot from interactive course websites like codecademy (if they're not free anymore, somewhere will be). You can likely get all you need from online courses and YouTube videos too.

This is generally why bitcoi.is considered deflationary. It generally means that the supply reduces when coins like these go missing so it would push the value of bitcoin higher..

I think the 3 million figure is a large overestimate though, 1 million were satoshi's coins, 1 million could be lost and the rest are probably recoverable. You don't know something is permenantly lost though either, you can only know something isn't when people decide to spend it so sticking with the 20-21 million bitcoin for how many are circulating is all we can do for now.

(some estimates of lost coins also put it as high as 12 million+ in the past too which I also think is unlikely but we'll ultimately probably never know who's actually right unless a lot of coins move - and then the price will probably crash).

There's probably a lot more examples than what I've mentioned below but it's a gist of what to expect.

If you don't have a strong income straam you might see problems facing day to day expenses and then won't be able to harness all a recession has to offer...

And with that out of the way, recessions normally pose good opportunities for those with cash and liquidity. Good debt gets valued like it's toxic, good companies get valued like they're only going to survive 6-10 years (in some places), gold and other things considered stable go into bull markets - if you buy wheat and it drops in value - you've still got food. Bad news causes panic in markets, more panic than is necessary - you can make a decent amount by buying crashes and selling them back to the market when the price appreciates (but manage your risk with this one). The federal reserve released stress test documentation too which seems to either have been influencing the market or an accurate prediction (if you're interested in forex in any way particularly).

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These are risky ideas that should be originally tested with no more than you'd be happy losing down a grid - if you make profits, reinvest those instead of expanding too much and getting carried away. Placing high orders might affect how others trade or the price you buy at and that could invalidate what you're doing or make it harder.

It takes a while to get noticed round here as a newbie, it always has but I don't think that should be as discouraging as it seems to be for a lot of users. If you're around a lot and start to merge thoughts with the community, or offer insights to an alternative view then you'll start earning quite a few merits.

There's no point in being too high quality of a poster either, just make some good posts and make some contributions (quantity over quality to start with might be a good way to learn - however feels most comfortable is probably the easiest to do).

I don't know if this would achieve anything or be useful but is it possible to make pow and pos tokens on layer 2 of the bitcoin blockchain (in a way they'd have their own mining and compressed/hashed versions of the blocks and certain transactions could be entered into bitcoin's blockchain but most could be stored elsewhere). I was thinking of this as being more of an "adopt the security of a long lived blockchain while offering other incentives like cheaper fees, multi or cross chain validation, or additional functionality bitcoin.apps won't offer because it detracts from the protocol's security". I know layer 2 has applications and tokens but I thought mining was fully reliant on bitcoin's chain and consensus was determined by the software rather than having support/opposition flags like normal blocks for coins do.

Every time I try to search for something like this I'm normally directed to eth and while eth can have clients that enforce its own consensus rules, surely separate nodes on bitcoin's blockchain that were capable of determining their own concensus mechanism and matching the flags of a block would still be possible to implement? Are there any functioning examples of this?

I've seen revolut advertising itself as a stock, crypto and fiat investment manager in one, perhaps that's someone who's trying to do this already and has regulation too (they offer products within the EU, not sure if they're worldwide yet though).

I thought ftx would be an option but I wasn't sure if their stock products are offered without leverage or not. It'll probably be an area of integration that grows soon with a lot of exchanges but I think tax exemptions for crypto investments should be something that also comes out soon.

I do wonder along with this if there's going to be another one of these to come out that we'll see in the future with equally poor adoption rates to start with but an ecosystem that grows like bitcoin did - or if there's been one since. There's a chance for the opposite too and that's happened where a community has grown too big too fast and imploded either because of that or because it was planned to.

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I'd agree with examplens too quite a bit, for someone to hold that many coins and not look at them probably couldn't spend them for a while for some reason and probably also forgot about them. I don't know if you'd consider them crypto enthusiasts either if they bought bitcoin, forgot about them until they came back up in the news, held and then sold,

Older members are more likely to stay here so I think that plays a big role in it. I've seen quite a few newer members with lots of merit and more merits than activity so I doubt it's a full "everyone's selfish" and more an "I'm a bad quality poster" or "I don't post in the boards where most merits are given" with the additional option of being someone who posts a lot of questions and doesn't contribute as much to topics or themselves by offering something interesting to the discussion.

A lot of merit sources would also rather use up their source merits than just have them burnt so there's probably a role that plays too in all this. If you're enjoying the forum, don't look at merits because they'll probably come soon anyway if you're a good poster or become one.

Depending on how you measure recessions, some parts of the world and even some developed economies might already be in one. There are quite a few reasons the term "recession" gets used and they normally coincide (one was 2 consecutively quarterly losses of the stock market in the US and others were 20% drops in the market or 20%.drops in gdp - the last is the one normally used). If recession happens around the time of highest business (now - January) then you'll probably see it having a more profound affect than if it happened in the summer or spring but you still might not even notice it.

A lot of economies are still slowly growing based off the last statistics iirc so I don't think there's definitely a recession coming, deflation might be coming sooner.

Altcoins are at the peak from a relative high against bitcoin now and I'd suggest pulling investments in them until btc dominance shoots back up (there are charts that measure btc dominance that you can search for to see when would be a good time to invest and when wouldn't - when bitcoin dominance is high, alts are a good investment, when it's low, they have a greater chance of falling relative to bitcoin).

The gains of altcoins recently have only been made from chains pretending they have significant news and pushing through changes that have generally attempted to make them all like each other.

DCA into bitcoin if you want to own quite a bit but also dca into traditional investment options if you want more protection (like shares). Bitcoin going over $100k is probably going to happen.within the next 10 years, $50k seems almost certain but we're near the point of when things are hard to predict because of how big the market cap of bitcoin.actually is (assuming most coins are movable still and aren't lost).

Perhaps there was a few apps/developers where their searches were most popular that ads were bought there enough to push their apps down far enough that the user would have to scroll. I don't actually think this is something that'd be done because selling one or two ad spaces for a keyword would be more efficient and more expensive than selling many more in my opinion but maybe apple felt differently about them. It'd be very anticompetitive if there were 8 ads above one app that someone was searching for but then I think that'd cause usability problems too, Apple would be better off auctioning popular ad spots like those to one app or have them on rotation so they got views but weren't destroying the appstore's basic functions.

I doubt anyone plays just one game though and doesn't branch out at some point (I could understand playing one game for a while but not for a long time.without getting bored of it and playing something else).

Bitcoin atms might still print them.

The issue with paper wallets is they're no longer considered the best way to backup a wallet to paper - bip39 came out which now lets you represent multiple private keys with a phrase made up of 12 words which is much harder to deface and become unusable as there's a checksum included and if a letter in a word fails or is misprinted, you can likely still make out what the word is - and if you can't it doesn't take long to bruteforce it.

There might still be people using them and places they can be created (like bitaddress.org).

When I was last on the appstore and searched for a game, I saw an ad for one that was completely different but I did end up installing both (and then removed the advertised game because I didn't like it - the two seemed to be the same genre but different subgenre of games but might have an audience overlap).

A lot of apple game ads were - a few years ago - taken over by gambling and light gambling games (just games that look like they'd be addictive to certain people and have lots of in app purchases). I wouldn't play either but they're probably the groups with the highest budget for ads.

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Will banning gambling ads and apps hurt gambling companies? If people are sent into brick and mortar casinos or online casinos, they might end up betting more anyway. Gambling is particularly bad for addicts and young people (I'm not going to say it's good for anyone but if you find it entertaining and don't do it much, you probably don't need an ad to get you to do it still).

The only reasonable reason 8 could see for doing this that hasn't been mentioned above is to keep up to date with knowing how to transfer his coins and it might prevent either him being scammed or doing something stupid when he comes to sell them (it might also mean he does something stupid and loses all his funds before then).

I hope he's not doing token transfers on the eth chains too as the fees seem like they'd erode a lot of his crypto investment.

Security is probably worsened short term by a system like this but I had an idea of doing something similar to this a while ago but due to skepticism..