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801  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Where did I go wrong? on: September 17, 2022, 04:32:30 PM
So is the problem fixed now?

Do you have more backups of your wallet too as well as having it on the other hard drive?.

It looked like you didn't copy the file across or didn't try loading it into the new core install (if it's not in the default data directory or doesn't find it). I think it resyncs when you put a new wallet in too (faster than the initial sync but still might take a bit of time to load up).
802  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Can different bank accounts deposit on the same Ledger device? on: September 17, 2022, 02:13:52 PM
The ledger won't be your only option for buying and selling the coins as stated above.

What normally happens though is you'd have to kyc with an account (give ID verification) and then the bank account used to buy/sell would be related to that so you'd have to get them to submit their ID information and then you'd be able to buy and sell with their account. (this is based on how it works in other places, things might change or be different).
803  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Problem with btc365 bet on: September 17, 2022, 03:17:26 AM

If OP submits some other information, I believe he could get some support from the community.
what other informations could be helpful?

The pm idea above is a better place to start with than the trust system and might get you through to someone high/close to the team if it's actively managed.

Generally anything that could help convince people of your case without exposing too much of your own information. Examples may include Screenshots of the bet placed (with the amount or ID number on the bet if you want to keep the bet amount private), Screenshots of your conversations over email (particularly relevant stuff).

Obscure anything that might be too confidential.

Check the other thread mentioned above to find btc365partners profile, clock on the link that says "trust" and open a flag with them so others can support it if they agree with it.

You can also read up on trust flags here which might be helpful in working out how to create one others will support: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5153344.0
804  Economy / Economics / Re: How Apple’s iPhone 14 satellite link puts it up against SpaceX and others on: September 17, 2022, 02:43:00 AM
From a country that lacks a lot of dead zones (from personal experience mostly) it seems weird a private company are looking at doing this instead of the government.

It's a big selling point if Google don't do the same soon as a lot of people likely bough mobile phones in the 90s for safety reasons (as calls were probably expensive and low quality). Later on it might've developed as an alternative for a landline, but much later.

I would guess we're a few years at least away from a fully robust system that doesn't have dead zones and has sustained and reliable uptime.
805  Economy / Economics / Re: King Charles pays no inheritance tax on the Queen's $750M private estate on: September 16, 2022, 11:59:06 PM
The Crown Estate, estimated to be worth over $34.3 billion in assets, will now belong to King Charles III.
What would they do with such a big amount - they already have so much wealth and they have all the luxuries
I was wondering if there is anything they have ever longed for like we the poor people?
gathering money to buy sofa - counting and checking the account if we have not over spent - LOL

This bit isn't taxed because it's housed in a really weird way.

A lot of wealthy people make a trust to ensure their children can inherit something while being tax exempt (I've thought of this as like class a and class b share types where one can vote and one can't, the parent could have 1% of the shares and 100% voting rights while the child has 99% of the property and no voting rights - for example, I don't know if this actually works but it made sense in my head).

The government, King Charles III and the Crown estate claim they don't have full ownership of the property and don't make it explicit what they do have. The Crown estate include Westminster Palace afaik (where the government is housed and a lot of their resources) so the monarch can't just take it back. All that's public is that the crown estate and its ceo are liable to both the government and the King to maintain the property but neither own it directly (and indirect ownership could be legislated for - but that'd mean council tax might be due on the property, including property tax arrears which might be why it's owner doesn't want to own it - they might end up paying as much as the property is worth every 50 years). 
806  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Problem with btc365 bet on: September 16, 2022, 05:26:19 PM
This might not be a good forum to bring up this complaint as I don't think they have a big presence around here.

It seems shady they're only giving refunds if you won the bet though, they should be giving you the winnings rather than a refund (which might be reason to ask further too).

I don't know why they'd refuse to pay out during the match if you placed a bet, if you could see their scoring was wrong and placed a bet, why couldn't they and why shouldn't they have fixed it before letting people buy tickets? It sounds like they're not very sharp at collecting match information - probably a good reason not to use them again.
807  Economy / Economics / Re: DAO & Electricity on: September 16, 2022, 05:11:38 PM
Then why is the US power grid 80 percent worn out?
Under normal economic conditions, wear and tear of equipment should not exceed 50%.
That is, you have 50% of new machines put into operation and 50% of old machines are in operation.
it turns out that US laws do not work and this has led to such wear and tear.

What's "new", what's "old" and is there an imbetween here?

Most equipment shouldn't be replaced unless it's soon to break or doesn't have a redundancy (and then a redundancy should be installed).

I think most old/long developed countries have old power grid that renew parts as and when they're needed but the entire grid is designed to function more like a mesh network where if one substation goes down, another should have sufficient energy to power it?

Also there are probably states in the US that renew their power grid much faster than others too is it a case that poorer states just can't afford to or that some have less population? I'm not in the US so I wouldn't know what the problem actually is (if there is one).
808  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Lattice Attack on: September 16, 2022, 05:04:48 PM
ah yes..i got that now. just for everyone who is reading this sake (and mine too) , is it enough to just give the public keys without giving the coordinates and the RSZ?

The public key might be the coordinates already (if it's uncompressed) if it's compressed then you should probably run it through something that can give you both coordinates just to be safe.

Afaik, uncompressed public keys start with hexadecimal 04 (0x04) and compressed public keys start with hexadecimals (02 or 03) as identifiers.

I think your other question about using RSZ was answered also but maybe you could confirm that once you get something going or explain what it is that you're asking.
809  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: No doubt POS is centralized on: September 16, 2022, 04:53:55 PM
Bitcoin's pool data looks quite interesting (a lot of mining is done by miners that are hard for them to identify):
https://www.blockchain.com/pools

I think more about ethereum being pos and more centralised because of it will come out too (especially because of how much needs to be staked to get a reward and how larger players in the crypto industry will do better at obtaining and keeping these amounts).

I'd imagine exchanges go up to holding about 60-70% of coins if we include binance but then mining has done similar by only two pools in tha past (although people can switch pools faster than they can switch staking company - if they can even switch staking company).

I think eth was safer letting a pos coin overtake them rather than being that coin. But I guess it's open source - perhaps a rival chain can come out.
810  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping: an increasingly unequal relationship on: September 16, 2022, 11:32:34 AM
Perhaps the Chinese president has learnt a valuable history lesson (the people who win a war are the ones who stay out of it).

Also Russia and the US have been doing proxy wars in the middle East for some time now, the difference here is Russia somehow decided to put the war on its own border and give itself more consequences than it probably wanted to.
811  Economy / Economics / Re: More people now work in clean energy than in fossil fuels on: September 16, 2022, 12:02:32 AM
There are also proposals to place large mirrors in orbit to redirect sunlight to solar panels at night. To sustain night time power generation. Although I don't know how feasible it would be.

Cables carry better benefits to this imo. There's a lot that run under the sea between European countries already that share a power grid - this is probably the best alternative.

Is renewable power taking over? Or is it simply less efficient. Requiring greater manpower and more jobs to generate an equivalent sum of electricity? But then if it does create more jobs. Maybe that makes it a good thing.

Efficiency of both would probably be hard to measure. A lot of oil, gas and coal extraction have been automated since the mid 20th century if not before. I think there's more space for research in renewables and more work left (like making solar panels that are more efficient or making them out of different parts and for different things - steam based v silicon based v carbon/metal alternatives based). There's also different sized wind turbines and nuclear fusion research.

A nodding donkey doesn't need much manpower except an engineer to maintain it every so often (and they can probably maintain a few at once).

The highest cost for oil extraction looks to be the exploration and infrastructure imo too which might not need too many people working on either as exploration can be done by a small team and the infrastructure can be manufactured automatically (and then likely gets assembled into place by a larger team).

Renewables will probably become more efficient over time too as some become more robust (I think hydroelectric kry from dams might be close to that state as dams and "doors"/gates/locks? have existed for quite a long time for canals and seas).
812  Economy / Economics / Re: King Charles pays no inheritance tax on the Queen's $750M private estate on: September 15, 2022, 04:21:28 PM
Additionally actually, King Charles lost £300mln in having his son inherit his duchy as he became king so maybe there's an argument against taxing Charles over it (perhaps he's already been taxed).

It seems hard to complain about this without being interpreted as ungrateful.

They made a good earning during that time for where they were placed, it wasn't like she served the country and didn't ensure the duchy remained profitible and that she benefitted from the situations too.

There's probably a bit to be said about the efforts she played in the war - but a most citizens already had to participate in that too.

It looks like it will take a lengthy national conversation about tax justice to re-raise.

I think they'll benefit of the fact this could be a discussion that remains open and divided (they don't have to act on it if someone will be against them being taxed on the inheritance - that isn't them or part of their family).

Great Britain typically requires its citizens to pay taxes, regardless of whether they are kings or ordinary citizens.

The Queen did pay income tax for about 30 years too (in retribution for the government rebuilding her Palace after a fire). There's still uncertainty if King Charles will pay the same though and I imagine it might go undocumented either way (unless he doesn't want it to).
813  Other / Meta / Re: How would bitcointalk community react to bitcointalk nfts on: September 15, 2022, 04:06:20 PM
I do some nft related to games

NFT related/blockchain based games are quite fun I think there'll be something that takes over the ones that already exist though (if they don't get better graphics and some storyline to them - there might be some that emerge that have these though).

This idea will only be possible if theymos or other forum staff will give this a go signal to make this an official forum NFT. I don’t know if this is possible but it will be good if we can make our avatar directly using NFT like what twitter planning to do.

You don't need tbeymos' approval to do anything. You can ask for it once something is made but he's maid it pretty clear that's not necessary in the past.

If you wanted to make stuff out of content people already have though, you'd have to clear it with them (if it had enough focus on them/was solely their work).
814  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The impact of bitcoin on world population, what happens when the population rate on: September 15, 2022, 03:02:17 PM
-snip-

If the world population increases, it will have a significant impact on bitcoin. The more people there are, the more money is going to be spent on things like food, water and electricity. This will lead to increased demand for bitcoin as a currency.
I think it's not. Bitcoin is only an alternative instrument, not the only condition for obtaining basic necessities. The increasing demand for necessities even means lowering the value of any currency including bitcoin. This is an analogy of currency in general as a medium of exchange for goods.

I also doubt that half of the population has mains water or electricity that they pay for maybe also food in quite a lot of cases if they can source it locally by foraging or having inherited livestock.

Filtered clean water isn't a necessity to life and might not be available in a lot of places. Electricity is likely available even less than water is and food as it's much less important and requires more infrastructure (like generators).
815  Other / Meta / Re: How would bitcointalk community react to bitcointalk nfts on: September 15, 2022, 02:55:44 PM
Content related (eg posts or art made from them) nfts might go somewhere but I don't think you'd do well with anything else.

I don't think many people here care about nfts though and their lack of anytbing (except being a token which will probably expire afaik when wherever it's hosted does).
816  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Concept of a layer 2 to overcome Bitcoin Blockchain scalability issues on: September 15, 2022, 11:52:11 AM
Also, if you want to make just one single transaction with someone, you don't need to open a channel, with all that implies, nor "hope" that the receiver address is in the channel network of someone that is in your network.
LN still remain the best scaling solution available right now imho, but user-side, I there could be some improvements.

I think this might be something the lightning network could evolve into since they want to allow people to open channels with just the normal channel things (and no inputs) but I think that's waiting on a fork to allow transactions to be made on the blockchain without inputs (I guess so you join a channel of dome one with one that's funded and then be paid by someone else).

Systems like these and the lightning network don't become that good fro throughput and scalability until companies and exchanges start using them more though too in my opinion at least.



It'd probably have to be possible for offloading partial channels to be automatic so the empty channel maker gets their funds as soon as they need it but I this has already been implemented on a manual basis at least.
817  Economy / Gambling / Re: Is this Gambling Bot real or fake? on: September 15, 2022, 11:10:09 AM
You could try running it in a VM (virtual machine) it it's a desktop application to not have to worry as much if it's a virus (this might not be completely safe though still).

I think you'll be able to check it by uploading it to sites like virustotal or you could see what happens when you run it 8f you have a strong antivirus installed (they've started selectively blacklisting certain operations rather than stopping apps from functioning altogether in my experience if they don't look like they're much of a risk).
818  Economy / Economics / Re: Crypto adoption index 2022 - Chainanalysis on: September 15, 2022, 09:26:10 AM
The US, Canada, India and China both look very big to include in one index like this (it'd be interesting if they split them up into four quadrants or something - or by cities in the case of china).

I imagined adoption by cities in Canada to be similar to that of cities in the US, just there's a lot of extra space and extra population elsewhere where crypto might be less heard of.

Emerging markets look like they're adopting it faster but maybe its an existential thing for them to be able to continue competing with other markets by ensuring they take on new technologies and can adapt to them quite quickly and to preserve their wealth if crypto gets bigger (or if it has since they adopted it).
819  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Lattice Attack on: September 15, 2022, 09:08:08 AM
Did you install the dependencies and follow what's on the readme?

It tells you how to edit the json file with your own information on what you know of your private key and coordinates of the public key, this is why I ask, maybe it's a step you've missed.
820  Economy / Economics / Re: Irish Government Pays Artists & Musicians $330 ‘Basic Income’ Allowance on: September 14, 2022, 11:16:57 PM
I think in theory it looks like a good idea but it'd be interesting to get a more robust programme for something like this in place (I'm not sure if they have one already). As in maybe offer guides on how similar people have made it in the past or offer this over a shorter timeframe (although that might ramp up the pressure too much).

I see a lot of people on social media trying to set up businesses and getting a good audience from it (whether the audience just enjoy watching the livestreams, are forced there by the algorithm or actively participate in the person's business is something I wouldn't know).

The arts is a tentative industry at the moment imo (especially for actors/love performers) so this might do something to help realign that industry. I hope it encourages musicians and singers to make more/reasonable demands on record companies too if they're signed.

I don't think the cryptospace for nfts is developed well enough to be decentralised to offer a way for these people to produce things and get recognised yet though either.
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