scientists who refute the IPCC consensus don't "deny climate change" either (you appear to be putting words in their mouth)


those scientists agree with the basic science (almost all are former adherents of the IPCC consensus), but that the methodology for the temperature trends the IPCC people present is bad, and that their conclusions are biased towards the disaster-ist position as a result.

• Greenhouse effect is real
• and so then must be greenhouse gases
• CO₂ is a greenhouse gas
• CO₂ increased as a proportion of the constitution of the atmosphere since the industrial age, by 0.01%

all of the above is empirically factual or systemically demonstrable


but to say that we must all join a CO₂ death cult/middle ages sinners absolution based on the above is not at all clear. casually saying we should all do it because of an anecdote about some scientists someone met isn't even slightly meaningful, I'm sure they all had a favorite sandwich too, but I'm not going to start taking dietary advice from them either

there were Hong Kong protestors suggesting bank runs last week, but this didn't materialise in the end.

Direct Bitcoin use in commerce was suggested as a part of the same basic strategy of taking economic power away from the Chinese and/or Hong Kong governments, and there were reports of a number of Hong Kong businesses accepting multiple cryptocurrencies in support of this. But it's not quite caught on fire, so to speak, just yet


Hong Kong would be a fantastic test case for a significant or dominant Bitcoin based economy; developed 1st world country, good/well established business culture, lots of tech and techy people, small geographically, high population density.

no chance, more like Takeway-your-privacy.com



Bitcointalk users are getting paid zero, yet somehow they're able to give people accurate information?

^^^

I can't figure out whether to give o_l_e_o a merit or 2 for the above post


on one hand, the points made are solid arguments

on the other, why encourage arguments with such ignorants?


if Harlot thinks saving steadily depreciating currencies is better than saving volatile appreciating currencies, who are we to argue? if Harlot actually believes that, then we'll get we deserve, and so will Harlot

^^^ someone get some old British war movies out to keep Jet Cash quiet, he's repeating himself again

this demonstrates rather beautifully the point I've been making for some time (people for some reason want to argue against it)


if someone threatens you for your BTC, no matter the person, no matter the threat, you always have the power to simply say no. arguably, the more severe the threats, the more important it is that you say no. if they're willing to do something like that for money, why believe them when they say they only want 40%?


you should all have realised by now, if someone threatens you for only some tiny amount of money when they could just take it all, it's not because they're being nice, it's because they're lying to you

there is no better international payment method, everything else is too slow and subject to conversion fees (Hungary has it's own national currency, although maybe these "tourism" clinics accept the Euro)



a license is no substitute for a good reputation or track record.

• got a license? you'll lose it, if you get investigated officially for doing sub-standard work
• got a good reputation? you'll lose it, if someone is dissatisfied with your sub-standard work

the situation is similar with both systems, both can be corrupted to trick people into thinking the business does a good job. the difference is that a licensing authority is easier to corrupt than reputation.


and what makes you think Hungary does not have a licensing system for dental practices anyway?

there must be some reason the input script cannot be written in a way that it can be interpreted as ACP as part of the spending script itself, instead of using an input index to reference ACP instead (the scripting language cannot express ACP? if there is an opcode, why not?). there must (of course) be some way of defining which input to a tx is ACP, otherwise using ACP wouldn't be safe to use at all.

maybe ACP is an old part of Bitcoin script that is bound by the consensus rules? I'm not sure

or alternatively, just connect to miner nodes directly, and see which accept 0-fee transactions when you try to relay.

the block explorer sites usually publish the IP address of smaller miners. connect your Bitcoin node to those, and start trying.

did you read the part of this thread where the Chinese government got their hands on the Hong Kong protester's Telegram messages & contacts?

zero fee/free transactions aren't against the consensus rules. if a miner mines a block including free transactions, other miners (and non-mining nodes) will consider it valid

Armory 94.0+ cuts the 180GB db files down to ~ 3GB

• backup Armory wallet files
• delete Armory databases folder (NOT the folder below it)
• upgrade to Armory 96.5 at https://btcarmory.com

consider getting minimum 0.17.1 if you want to be conservative (everything less than that has now-known bugs). But if you're changing the whole setup after catching up on the blockchain, you'll be ok till then

difficult to see why. if there was, best advice would be don't use that distro, it must be insecure in some important way



lol, all of which are the opposite of typical way of using Windows

• never update OS (as it breaks things and takes hours)
• click on anything ("but what if I win the top prize?" )
• always use Administrator for everything ("I always get 'adminstrator needed' boxes stopping me doing stuff, so if I always need admin, I just use it for everything" :FACEPALM:)

in fairness, Mac users are arguably worse, as at least some Windows users are more cautious, because they know how flaky it can be. Mac user are like Volvo drivers; they think that because they've got the safest thing around, that means they can do the dumbest things with zero consequences

right. those libraries are so commonly used that it's not hard to work out a way of getting them to play nice with whatever Linux distro is shipping the most eccentric version of, which if we're honest is always Debian stable, lol. The common Debian joke is that you only need to remove 1 letter from "stable" and 2 from "unstable" to get the words "stale" and "usable"

in other words, places like Argentina are where the real Bitcoin culture is actually taking place, people in that country actually need it. Out of >300,000 tx/day, a significant proportion are happening in places with strict capital controls and/or monetary chaos, out of actual necessity (so also Venezuela, Turkey, China, Brazil...)

These are the real marketplaces for the cryptocurrency space. Only idealists are interested in places with (relatively) stable local fiat, in Argentina, BTC is realism

well, let's be fair:

they're mostly drugged up, all stooges, and all more than half way there to socialism

^^^

yes. miners are warm, and have fans

yeah, wright sure knows how to provide people with signed messages from the blockchain


who wants to bet the next court case will be wright vs kleiman 2020, "where's the 550,000 BTC tx, craig" vs "why here it is, and here is the script that proves it was signed using this public key..."


couldn't he just do this forever? I've changed my mind about this case; I hope wright keeps up the shenanigans, keeps suing/getting sued and bankrupts the DOJ in the process

it's not a coincidence

Some people in the UK media have been promoting Boris Johnson as a political personality for over 15 years. Ask yourself: what for?

he's a total buffoon. he has almost nothing to offer, and yet he became the ostensible most powerful figure in UK politics. There are hundreds of representatives in the British parliament, and the editorial wing of the UK media chose to devote untold amounts of pages/minutes to someone with no redeeming features or skills, as if those qualities are in and of themselves newsworthy? "WORST POLITICIAN YET" was the perennial gist of every Boris story, ever

and these people supposedly have even the slightest sense of responsibility for starting that downward spiral?

the apparent fact is that people like Boris Johnson can become well-known for being bad at doing everything, then become Prime Minister. If just getting alot of TV time can do that, there's something seriously wrong with this garbage culture, as it's this sort of supposedly mindless behaviour by the media that has caused the rise of the "incompetent leader" all over the world, not just the UK. And the media did this worldwide, in synchrony? While international relations are breaking down for unrelated reasons?



John Kennedy was as bad as the rest of them, plenty of skeletons in that cupboard. He made the mistake of trying to upset the rest of the established power structure, and someone was sufficiently pissed to have him murdered. The whole hero worship thing was just what you do when head of state is killed, all the more so when some people in the media knew they had to help cover up the circumstances of the shooting. Making out JFK as an angel sent from heaven strengthened the effect of the "have some respect for the dead" argument when people speculated about inconsistencies in the official narrative.

not really, as the offline machine must have the appimage package installed too, which compromises the security model


computer science solved this problem 40-50 years ago: the static binary (bitcoin itself is a static binary, all needed libraries by bitcoind/bitcoin-qt are packaged into the executable file)


appimage is trying to reinvent the wheel, and they actually managed to fail. they solved the problem of needing to install non-standard extra packages/libs by.... requiring an extra non-standard package/library. great idea. no, really.