https://newhedge.io/terminal/bitcoin/difficulty-estimator

Latest Block:   819589  (2 minutes ago)
Current Pace:   99.2818%  (1094 / 1101.91 expected, 7.91 behind)
Previous Difficulty:   64678587803496.61                            
Current Difficulty:   67957790298897.88                            
Next Difficulty:   between 67495959887426 and 67592036924124
Next Difficulty Change:   between -0.6796% and -0.5382%
Previous Retarget:   November 25, 2023 at 7:11 PM  (+5.0700%)
Next Retarget (earliest):   Saturday at 9:07 PM  (in 6d 10h 16m 11s)
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Projected Epoch Length:   between 14d 1h 55m 19s and 14d 2h 25m 50s

Yeap, I guess that probably that was mentioned in FIOD article under the point about KYT policy:


Of course we don't support criminal activity in Bitcoin or crypto, but according to the Chainalysis data just 0.12-0.24% of Bitcoin transactions is probably related with crime; and as for Bitcoin mixing, then more than 90% mixing is made by law-abiding people. So if mixers don't let to use their service for those who stole money by hacking different projects etc, most of mixer users will even not find that out ever.

Combining all the possible printable characters from the ASCII table(93 in total) wil give the following entropy (in bits):

For 10 total characters: 65 bits
For 15 total characters: 98 bits

So I suggest you use anything larger than 15 characters to get a good entropy.

Ps. I am not sure whether all these 93 characters can be used but if I recall correctly they can, I am just busy at the moment and I can't check online. If someone could confirm this please

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It all boils down to how much thought theymos gave this decision.

Let me highlight another very similar example in the shadows of mining pools, Mara pool (a U.S based pool) has been censoring OFAC listed addresses since 2021, on the other hand, Foundry (another U.S based pool 8 times bigger than Mara) does not censor those transactions, so what gives?

There are a few possible scenarios here, one of these two large corps has a bad lawyer who did not point them to the "right" direction, so it's either Foundry is in the wrong and is going to be in deep shit for not banning those transactions, or Mara sucked the government's dick for nothing.

Judging by the size of Foundry, I find it hard to believe that they do not know for certain that they are perfectly safe without censoring those transactions, or else -- it's a huge risk for not too much reward for them.

So now if we reflect this on the forum/theymos, I hope that if we have to bend over, we should at least do it while knowing that it's worth it and that any other option is not viable.

I hope that Theymos will do his best (assuming he has not) to evaluate the situation by consulting some good lawyers who would either point him to a complete ban or maybe just a warning and a set of rules that indicate using certain mixers that engaged in "laundering" criminal funds is against the forum rules and to delete and ban everyone who promotes those particular mixers but not mixers in general.

I asked AI about the legal status of forum content and its owner (ya may not the best place to ask but anyway)


So there is still a slight possibility that the forum could get away with just

1- Banning all sanctioned/seized mixers.
2- Banning everyone who encourages the usage of mixers for criminal purposes.

Of course, going with the assumption that mixers (in their bare form are not illegal)

at least this shouldn't be an unconditional submission to the government: if theymos has concluded that retrieving is the only option here, we should accept it and remember the fact that while we as members are only subject to losing the forum, he could lose his freedom.

I do not think that there are that many coins that are waiting to enter the market, it just doesn't feel like a million would be realistic approach. Plus, the market is already accumulating a lot, there are just companies with thousands and thousands of bitcoins, and they may enter the market if they want to, but we all know that it is not going to end up with something that could change it in the end.

Hopefully, it could reach to a point where we could see something that could change things in the end. I believe that we could end up with a situation that could be a lot more important on the long run, and at this moment we are looking at something that won't be changing anytime soon when we reach that higher price. I get that some people do expect it to change a lot, but I bet that it won't have that type of drastic change all that quickly, we could see some drops here and there but the increases will be a lot more common if you ask me for sure.

Yep, that's right, BTC has exceeded $39k, and it's possible that the next retest will be at $40k or more, before finally experiencing a market correction first. The market may be a little sideways in the future, so we have to be ready for various strategies. What's more, it looks like this is already starting to head towards the bullish era in 2024 or 2025, so we have to be ready for everything.

i was about to put together a table of the different exchanges the applicants want to appear on. thanks for saving me time(have my usual merit giveaway)

most share traders/pension managers care more about the nasdaq first then NYSE second.. the cboe are way down the scale
my odds are still on blackrock(ishares) being first mover for nasdaq

And here are some thoughts on Giants and "Number Go Up"

One characteristic of Giants is that sometimes buy certain classes of assets at what seem to be very prices.  All kinds of interesting stuff.  Below one case, who buys this stuff?  $91,000,000??

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/feb/04/wow-91m-jeff-koons-blow-up-dogs-record-prices-paris-oxford

Giants, defined in a certain way, have so much money (as well as more money coming in), that the LAST thing they need are more businesses, generating more CA$H.  It's almost a problem.  So what do some of them do?  They buy a Store of Value that they like and have confidence in.  The Koons Balloon Dog was bought by a Giant.  I presume he liked it, wanted it.  It's not generating income.  But as a Store of Value, it just could be that the owner could sell that Dog if he wanted..., to whom?  Another Giant.

Once a Giant has, say, 5 castles in Europe, do they want more?  Look, the Rothschilds have been GIVING away castles & palaces in recent years.  The Marginal Utility of another palace is NEGATIVE for them now.  Another example would be high-end car collectors, at some point it becomes more of a pain-in-the-butt collecting evermore Mercedes, Lambos..  There are several assets (perhaps better said: asset classes) that work a little better than others for Giants.  One clue: for some (most?) of these assets, as the price goes up, they are harder to find/buy.  Hmm.

Bitcoin behaves a little differently from typical assets owned by the Giants.  I'm still trying to figure this one out (where BTC falls on the spectrum of desired assets of Giants).  It does look like the Marginal Utility of owning more BTC declines slowly though, VERY typical of assets wanted by the Giants.  Let's see if this scarcity notion of most Giants' Assets holds in the case of BTC.  Perhaps rather than becoming physically more scarce, the BTC price increases might just be more dramatic than usual if/when the BIG $$$ start to flow in.  "Number Go Up even more Bigly."  But, like I wrote, Bitcoin may not follow the other assets I try to track.  It's a New Asset, really a new asset class.  And it is risky IMO, as .gov seems to hate it.

"Following in the footsteps of Giants" may require some out-of-the-box thinking.  But, almost everyone who buys Bitcoin is at least part way there.  We recognize value (and at least the idea, even if unspoken, of Marginal Utility).

I am extremely interested (and have been for years) in following BTC's price movements and acceptance in the years to come.  We will just have to see.

"We watch together, no?"

So which post is correct here on the actual meaning of target price and resistance levels?

Are you a time traveler from the past? Or your notifications are a bit late... 

Has everyone read this news today?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5476162.0

In this regard, the entire crypto-community has the following question:
Theymos, when KYC will be introduced at bitcointalk.org?

You know alot of stupid people.

Do you ask them why they didn't already do that?

I do agree there can be real life consequences.  This is why I am thinking of a different approach.  I think censoring from the start is drawing a very thin line and makes the future even more uncertain for Bitcoin Talk,

I think it is not as important for the safety of theymos to BAN Mixers straight away as it is to rather promote a strong statement against the use of criminal funds with existing Mixers.  I imagine the Dutch Local Authorities would not be too happy to find out theymos has banned Mixers only to continue promoting Coin Joins but will instead be much happier if theymos made it clear every single time that Mixers are NOT to be used with illegal funds.

Otherwise it sets a dangerous precedent.

I think of it like smoking ads.  You are being told cigarettes can destroy your health.  Now you know the risk and continuing to do so will only decline your health.  Even at a first glance, it would make Bitcoin Talk much less suspicious to Authorities than the version we have today.  Then the possible consequences are much lower for theymos too.  What can they do to some body who has explicitly publicly stood against the criminal use of Mixers?  Now compare that to what they can do to some body who banned Mixers only to continue supporting the one thing they hate the MOST.  Coin Joins and Monero.  They would have a much better case to form that way.

I guess.

I’ve thought this for ages, the last cycle was suppressed.

Diminishing returns will be proven false in the next 2 years.

Super cycle loading……


@Bitcoin_for_Freedom
It’s obvious that the last cycle didn’t play out in a natural way. «The Elite» stopped it with China Ban, Futures ETFs and FTX. They did this because they understood #bitcoin  and needed more time to stack.

https://x.com/btc_for_freedom/status/1730969813021790387