This looks quite interesting! You gave him a lot of reading though, were there reasons you chose those books over the whitepaper (that'd be my concern but they're probably good at quickly reading documents anyway)?

Did you keep communication channels open or does it not work like that there? If you did there were lots of promising reports you might be able to dive into and see if they're worth sending - on the scale crypto is used for illegal activities but some of those quotes do cover it very well.

Domains can be used as collateral if the lender considers them valuable enough. At that point you might then have to set additional terms for what happens if you're unable to pay the loan on time, is the lender able to use the domain straight away or should additional time be given (this could be discussed afterwards but the lender might be more likely to reject the offer or put an imeddiate auction up for the domain so you have to try to outbid other people wanting to buy the domain).

Not really. You can't normally use someone else's work and sell it on as your own if you've painted it or something and it has been copywritten (if it's specifically been placed in the public domain - ie hasn't been copywritten then you can copy it - copyright is automatic, if you can't see a license the creator will likely still be protected).

Whether copyright is actually something possible to be enforced in this way might be unclear (especially if you're copying something that has been taken a lot of times - and you merge perspectives - but then it's probably easy enough to find a copyright free version).

There are a lot of stock images and places you can go to get images (and rights purchases may be cheap too) then they'll be available to be used for nfts.

It could be some organised group trying to launder and steal funds via bitcoin (that seems to be what bitcoin abuse is saying).

$300M is quite a lot to hide though expecially as it's been noticeable enoggh to be brought up here and on bitcoin abuse (maybe not as anonymous as most other payment mechanisms)...

Do the two actually have the same structure?

I think it's going to be hard to know whether eth pos is going to be bad for it or not and might take time to notice (there might also be a pow rival that remains post fork).

Afaik there have been lots of transactions on the eth network and these have been expensive in the past and somehow the chain survived that - perhaps it remains to be one of bitcoin's main rival (or that it implodes for one of many reasons).

So similar to what pools already (or used to) offer to their users to mine valid transactions for them (I'm not sure if they allowed them to be fee free).

If something like this become possible I'd imagine mining pools would have to spend a lot of time/crypto buying up those commitment shares so they don't become cheap and lose them in block rewards.

When I mine, I normally assume that the fees for my transaction will be returned to me anyway (and they're normally insignificant enough to be able to come that way).

It's sad there's no much by way of details from how the hydrogen is actually produced (and what is done with the waste products) as that might decide whether it's actually a greener alternative or not.

Producing hydrogen from (hydrocarbon) cracking probably isn't even a bad place to start as long as the waste is also in demand/useful - most intensive processes rely on shorter chains too.

Electrolysis from renewables might be a far goal for them too but not one too far away.

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I hope this isn't like Germany's idea of getting rid of nuclear power plants though (replacing something green(ish) with something that looks greener and then switching to something worse if it doesn't work).

A couple of years ago centralised systems were put in place for places like exchanges and cybersec institutions to mark addresses based off their evilness and try to use those to prevent evil funds being washed through exchanges - in a decentralised space I don't think it works but more places are demanding kyc (even if just to steal funds off clients they know aren't willing to file it in some cases).

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Credit scores to defi seem impossible to enforce, credit scores in cefi are fairly weird too and can't track much - based off my own.

It's just an address with a big balance. They might be doing some mining because it looks like they're receiving quite a few small sums every so often but I haven't checked the times of those and it could be something else entirely.

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Your block explorer also says it's segwit and is probably right based on the transaction sizes it seems to send.

The actual $20k level doesn't look to be acting like either support or resistance. We've seen lots more around the 22 and 25k regions but on any timeframe it looks like the price is hapoy to flip to either direction in the shorter term (so I'm not sure 20k is the point we should really be looking at).

I'd query the topic for the type of notes you'd want to take too.

If you're drawing diagrams do you need drawing features like straight lines and features like a paint brush so you can draw a basic outline of some shapes and make it neater than predrawn shapes without needing to edit them much?

There lots of note taking software online that can normally be searched for by Google drive and will offer you free storage and do most of those - I can remember draw.io off the top of my head. Most presentation software is also able to do this (libreoffice - open skuffe - and PowerPoint - propriety).

I don't know where your limit comes from, have you don't kyc (submitted ID documents and completed all that)?

Did you send your funds on the last occasions to the same place? If you want to wire a large amount and you can send to the same place and your bank account accepts it, I'd send a small amount, a larger amount and then the rest of the amount and do it that way.

I'd be careful about trying to do this though if you're wanting your funds to be fully secure you should get a hardware or airgapped wallet and experiment with a few $ hundred in bitcoin before doing such a large move just to be sure you've done everything as correctly as possible (and not make yourself worry if you get a scam email or something too).

The current thoughts with bitcoin is that quantum technology will only be able to affect bitcoin stored in keys that have already been signed or used for a transaction (I wonder if there's a figure for this)? It also affects funds stored where public keys have been exposed but I think this is an unlikely thing to happen.

In it's current design, bitcoin is fairly quantum safe because it uses ripemd and sha2 hashes for public key security (they're used to make addresses). If quantum technology becomes strong enough to be deemed a threat to bitcoins current algorithm, a hard fork could then be enforced to switch algorithm to one that was quantum proof.

I think the best algorithm to pick by that point is one that's most used and one that's considered most secure - if one isn't found by that point I'd assume hashing algorithms could provide for it in some fancy way.

The forum is big for an archive. There are archive sites that scour this forum and archive a lot of details.

There are 5411334 topics (according to when this one was created). There are a lot of user profile pages if you want to archive those and many pages to a lot of threads.

There are projects to archive this forum though too so you'd just be adding to that. You could also try doing a day of scraping the forum for number of users online so you aren't hammering the servers while they're already being hammered.

The forum bans multiple requests that are sent within a 1 second period - from the same host - so you'd be best off only making requests less than that.

Do you know what keys belong to which nmemonics? I'm not sure if it's possible but I'd assume if you'd be able to link 2 private keys somehow as coming from the same xpub then you'd be able to calculate the further on.

It's normally suggested an xpub and a private key are usually what's needed to make a master private key though so I don't know how you'd go about doing thst any further.

You might just have to try to search harder/hope you've made another backup.

Your "words" store your key. They're the whole key.

The only difference between creating a wallet and opening a wallet is thst you're using a random number generator to create a wallet.

There is a checksum placed in a lot of nmemonics but these are easy to bruteforce afaik so there's no way the system could know if you've "lied".

What stops you from accessing someone else's wallet is that the chances of doing it are considered so small that it's realistically impossible to do.

I wonder if people using the service were given warnings in advance of the news to try to mitigate any hacks before this was published in the news.

I'd assume they were trying to hide that the hack actually took place given these circumstances, although if they just didn't notice it, there might be more news to follow.

Those 12 words are selected from a 2048 long wordlist to represent a 128 bit string.

There's no need to trust anyone as each word is turned into a number in your wallet/computer and all words can be hashed to make your private key and public keys.

The 12 words are just about long enough to encode a 128 bit integer, you can also get 24 word mnemonics from wallets which encode a 256 bit seed/key.

Wood fires in the UK (especially in homes) are probabky the most efficient way to heat a room quite well. I've been in houses with them (even open plan ones) and they get very hot very fast if you want/need them to.

I'm surprised there aren't more ideas on the steps people can take to save money though - even simple things like switching from old light bulbs to new ones can save about 12x on electricity costs. Standing fees are high in the UK though which might be a problem.

The UK is facing bigger issues because the government and companies aren't doing anything about it. If it didn't cost much more to make green energy before and now gas costs 2-4x the price, maybe you need to roll out green energy faster (forcing energy firms to spend money on investing in green energy that they can then keep going with would be a great policy to bring in but for some reason it's not being done)?

Afaik pfoa and pfas are both forma of plastic (or predominantly used as plastic).

Considering it was only a matter of time before plastic polluted everywhere, this was bound to happen at some point.

I don't think anything short of mass international filtration of these substances or producing things (like bacteria) that can naturally digest them and thrive of them will make much of a difference to people's chances of getting back to strong health and not damaging ecosystems (especially areas like bogland that have to remain inhabited to facilitate some carbon capture).

A lot of pollutants are soon to be incentivised for consumers to return them and for producers to dispose of the waste they produce properly too - hopefully this will see some effect over time on the current issues of plastic pollution but it'll take quite a long time to resolve/leave.