I've heard people investigating scammers in the past have also noted that some franchise out their own software to other teams that are capable of using it for carrying out similar scams which could probably be done here (even though those scammers in question were mostly discovering the teams that produce malicious ads on websites and similar scams that would draw a particular audience).

As well as evidence for previous years, how certain they are of their findings and how accurate they think they are might also be interesting - there could be more below the surface that haven't been detected and things that you can't find might have higher budgets and be worse than the ones you can.


I think there's more of an incentive to network and remain hidden in a lot of places too and only reveal yourself to people you think would be most likely to "invest" which could also be done in a lot of places where this doesn't seem like a large scam - or maybe people just got smart after the first few successful attempts in the past (like bitconnect).

It might be more interesting to see what other coins they'll begin to add after bitcoin and ethereum. That'll probably be a large place they could drive/extend influence if they wanted to but might be risky (unless they generally offer diverse funds and package off bitcoin with other investments - which would make a lot of sense to have funds that invest a few % in bitcoin and a majority in big tech or the S&P). More aggressive funds could then invest in cryptos and small cap tech firms that could grow well over time..

One of the easiest ways would be to install a committee that includes senior politicians and judges to decide if politicians should be able to act a certain way.

Here, there's no precise limit parliamentary supplements/expenses claims but local councillors are limited to only be able to claim about a third of their salary in expenses (and their salaries are comparatively low). I think it'd make more sense to limit parliamentary officials expenses but then you'd have those same people taking free trips to places instead from companies so you'd have to limit how much could be accepted in donations and then it might incentivise politicians related to big lobbying companies to take up positions in their systems which could lead to further inefficiencies - they might not have to declare donations or they might be harder to call lobbying if the lobby groups are related to politicians.

There's a rule against posting a signature in your post if it's done repeatedly. If it's done once then it's fine, if it isn't then expect to be moderated and banned for it in further instances.

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There's options to disable viewing of signatures, your in thread signature won't have this and then it'll become annoying. I don't see an issue with signatures being anywhere on this forum tbh (I get they're not in some places but that feels like more of a way to stop the posts counting for signature campaigns as some signatures add different things to threads (as a good example, I saw a newbie ask what gambling sites were trusted and they got a response from a lot of fairly trusted gambling signatures within the first few posts). If a signature isn't relevant to a thread (like gambling in P&S as you've said) does it make much of a difference to anyone else but you? I've not seen this as a complaint before except many years ago when people suggested having some different signatures/profile appearances per boards but it was more to enrol in a signature campaign and self advertise on some boards.

Be careful what you say, many people were asking me at the start of the pandemic why no one uses Skype anymore and then everyone started using Teams (they're both compatible with each other) - just after companies realised zoom wasn't free/upped its prices.

They might find a way to reinvent Access.

There's a chance something like this could work but it'd have to be a devolved democracy and legislature on an international scale. Different countries could be match based on global values and have laws set that govern them or individual countries or parts.

You can't enforce a law that the US and Europe voted for to throttle a cultural ritual of a minority state in Africa or south America. Equally, Indian and Chinese cultures under such system would have half of the voting influence over the world - and foreign entities legislating for something you care about is just going to reduce their power.

Several competing systems with 5-30 million people might do better to resolve some of these problems but then do you still want to set international laws on some things: if 99% of the population votes to ban slavery, should it be banned? There's going to be a lot of conflicts in between that and even controls on substances like bans on alcohol, nicotine, caffeine and cannabis.

AR and VR have been growing economies for a while, they've just been given different names. They might still be growing (just under a different name) but I think they've stunted quite a bit and are waiting on new ideas to enter the space where people are actually able to do things that are different (VR isn't that impressive or immersive to a lot of people too in my opinion - especially without other things to make your space feel more realistic - like moving floors).

Database also gives the impression it's something that's stored and accessible online (particularly from multiple devices/via an external host) which isn't the case for the wallet.dat bitcoin core uses.

It's more of a data file as the name suggests and a lot of systems with wallet.dats are normally the only one running with that file.

The blockchain may be explained as a database in a lot of contexts as it's a more innovative design of one - it's also not exactly a database as that's what your chainstate is - it's literally a log of transactions/commands.

Yes that's the right repo, you can also look here to see who's contributed to the code and by how much: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/graphs/contributors?from=2009-08-30&to=2022-10-20&type=c

There's a good chance an IDE can produce a similar output that's a lot clearer to search through for specific variable references/assignments than that website (even though it's helpful for visualising the layout of the code). An IDE won't be able to provide some of the same descriptors too though, like bech32 (which is searchable but easier to spot in the docs than it is in the code).

A lot of people take money out of investments when they have to pay for things and can't use other money or don't want to - a very abstract example but it's the same here imo.

If you put a certain amount in every month over say 5 years and then withdraw a certain amount every month after that, past price movements would show you'd have made money doing that. It much better to dca than it is to pick a sell all price or date target as that just might not work out (like all the people on about $300k) or if it hits that price and you think it'll go higher only to watch it do the opposite.

It might also be worth dcaing out if you have made good profits on crypto and don't want to completely leave it, if you invested $200 over 12 months and hold it for a few years and then see it's gone up to $24000 but know there's a better, more stable investment elsewhere and you want to preserve your interest you could then withdraw $1800 over the next 12 months to leave your capital in crypto but invest a lump sum in another market that might be more stable/diversified (like stocks).

Delaying large purchases (presumably bought on credit) makes sense when the interest rates have tripled in the past few months. People aren't likely aren't new to seeing quotes imo and it'll have put people off getting those assets (especially since cars lose their value quickly).

I've always seen the 3-6 months of emergency funds being a recommendation in the past although it's a bit late to say it now if people can't save up that money quickly (the 3 months is possibly achievable before a recession hits - though with rising inflation that's probably unlikely). Its probably best for entrepreneurs to take on other employment too if they can't afford their business expenses from their income and have some time to take on something else.

Also depending on the figures being used, the US might already be in a recession.

The other party the channel is connected to can close it at any time. To get around this, open a channel with a more stable node or switch wallets if your current one won't let you pick a node yourself. (also complain to the wallet provider about those funds not coming back to you if you can't pick what node to connect to and it doesn't just select a random one for you).

The idea of having a diverse board isn't something too new but it's something not done in a lot of places and likely good for efficiency, talent hiring and reducing biases. I've seen a lot of tech firms run into problems with having large scale allegations made out of work environments too which doesn't reflect well on a company, its management or a lot of its workers.

Europe is fairly inefficient as a place to invest because of workers rights and I thought this was why a lot of companies invest in the US or invest in Europe and move companies over. However, there's likely a difference between how fast bills can be passed in most of Europe and the EU compared to the US - such as private members bills and the fact parliamentary officials seem easier to "talk to"/lobby for free - there aren't many lobby groups that actually pay individuals to put their message across too (and this seems to be mentioned as quite a big thing in the US).

Iirc the site offers you the ability to tip authors in bitcoin over the lighting network - I've seen no mention of them having or wanting to create their own currency for doing this or for making an automated system or airdropping funds to users.

I guess the issue I'd see is that commenting only costs 1 sat but that might be a positive thing too (it's not costly enough for it to be seen as spending something but is expensive enough it'll stop spam - especially if they have a good moderation team).


You read "plan to begin" as "begin". On a serious note, from what they've already built it's probably not hard to get something that's decentralised up and running (especially if you're paying a sat to post - you already have to sign something to do that so identity verification is already done). I could think a list of hosts might be all that's needed to start decentralising (followed by an app in due course).

I was thinking the same as OP's thoughts on bitcoin but with fiat a while ago.

I was thinking how a group near me that offers extra curricular activities to children of school age (things they wouldn't get to do in school) now pay a fee of $300 for a yearly membership and I was pondering if the club would survive into the coming years if they don't raise fees and costs go up and then I remembered inflation was a thing because 20 years ago the same membership would cost you $100 for the year (prices converted based on today's exchange rates).

I think it'd make more sense to add additional things to the store maybe too try to get people in. Coffee shops/cafes don't have a bad return if you're in a place a lot of people go to work or shop - even ones that sell drinks to go (especially if you can rent a profitible business or are in a good place - like near the end of the strip or the middle). Offering services as well could bring more peace of mind to you knowing chargebacks are less likely (if someone sells you crypto) if you can watch the first confirmation while they're still in the building.

Also it might be worth offering currency exchange services too to allow for the cost of buying things like currency checkers.

Realistically if you're on a high street that's that busy, you shouldn't be too far from a police station or security for carrying large volumes of cash and you also should be in a place that can deal with accepting cash (just note that not all banks are insured to carry large amounts of cash - a lot may only be licenced for up to $20,000-$100,000 which could be an issue if everyone expects to spend/invest their cash on payday).

Another forum member mentioned it to me a while ago. It's quite a nice site and I get weekly updates from them via email too.

The issue I have is that it looks to be fairly small volume at the moment - or it was when I last went their.

I also haven't posted because I don't know what to expect from the community before I do but maybe that's just me - I've seen quite a few "nice" threads on there (such as people building connections/starting projects and others trying to advertise services which both seem to have gone down quite well with the community - there were more general discussions on the lightning network and bitcoin too and the majority of the content seems focussed on that).

One sweeps your coins directly to an address, one gives you a code/list of private keys in a specific format you can import into electrum and another gives you a code you can import into any wallet your like or just copy them down somewhere encrypted iirc.

Sweeping funds into electrum may denonymise you if you don't have tor enabled and the server collects logs. You risk linking your withdrawn funds to that electrum session too so parts 1 and 3 might be safer anonymity wise as you can sweep funds to multiple wallets and connect to different nodes.

All three can suffer privacy risks if you do them too quickly though too. Sweeping funds from chipmixer directly to electrum can mean your mixing is more likely to be traced. Waiting a random number of days (1-7) or adding additional steps can be ways to bypass this though if there's a particular worry - it'd already take a lot of effort to match your inputs to your outputs though if you withdraw immediately but depends on how much you deposit (the larger the deposit the easier it may be to be traced).

As well as what's said above, most miners will have their nodes configured to use different ports and places where port 8333 is taken might also do the same.

Most simple firewalls start at a point of:
Block all connections I don't initiate (for client based-non server environments)
Or
Block all connections that look different to what my others do (for servers)

And I think the second point here is what's going to cause your problem. Most firewalls (if they accept bitcoin core) are able for peer discovery because most nodes send the same types of information and the same style of packets (a message telling you the current block height from two nodes should look almost identical if the protocol is the same - such as if both are using bitcoin core).


Even if you can run port scanning on a datacentre, you'll probably find most will run vpns to forward their traffic so they'll just change their ports and IP addresses (they probably do this dynamically quite often too - saves an old machine you don't want to connect to your machine trying to connect back).