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2021  Other / Meta / Re: So I had a person send me a pm to beg for merits. on: November 12, 2023, 01:23:59 PM
The person did not offer money. They just asked for some free merit.

So a how to report this?

Am I required to report it?


This is personally down to you, if you don’t like what he did and would wish others to be wary of him then it is your choice to create a report which I think will lead to some DT tagging him. Or you can just ignore his posts, PM and probably reports his PM again as unsolicited.

I haven’t read about a laid down punishment for this act just account buying it is frowned upon and the punishment to the offender lies on your own hands.



Here is theymos’s own link warning against it
Do not beg for merit excessively.

Based on this quote I replied to his pm with a link to this thread.



here is what I sent to him:

since it is my pm I can reveal my answer:

"okay no merit gifts for you.

please read this thread it may help you out.



https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5473781.msg63143588#msg63143588"





I sent that and started this thread because
I rather a newer person learn than have them banned or tagged.
2022  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: November 12, 2023, 01:16:52 PM
good morning wo
my first haiku for Sunday
at a loss for words
2023  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: November 12, 2023, 05:18:49 AM


very very enjoyable thank you.
2024  Other / Meta / Re: So I had a person send me a pm to beg for merits. on: November 12, 2023, 05:02:47 AM
The answer is up to you.

You can report the user in Reputation section for begging, other DT members might leave negative feedback to the account or you can do that by yourself.

You can also report his PM as unsolicited message, click "report to Admin".

Am I required to report it?
Not required, but encouraged.

7. No begging. [5]

I could reply to him with a link to this thread.😀

2025  Other / Meta / So I had a person send me a pm to beg for merits. on: November 12, 2023, 04:47:54 AM
The person did not offer money. They just asked for some free merit.

So a how to report this?

Am I required to report it?

2026  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: November 12, 2023, 04:07:39 AM
buddy buck up ⬆️ lets mount an attack on 38k
2027  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: November 12, 2023, 03:45:53 AM
#Bitcoin    is up 131% in 12 months!

source

Bitcoin is a decentralized currency.Bitcoin is a currency that has popularity and demand among people all over the world.
We saw that few months back Bitcoin price was from $25k to $28k but currently Bitcoin price is increasing again at Bullran pace.Currently the price of Bitcoin is close to $37000$.

not bad.

but it is just an x quote with no real analysis on your part.

so do  you think this is a pre ½ miner relief rally which will bring us up to 48k before jan 1 2024?

any thoughts about it .
2028  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: NFTs in the Bitcoin blockchain - Ordinal Theory on: November 12, 2023, 03:30:27 AM
I've ran a full node for 4 years using a small EC2 instance. It very occasionally has a hicup. This is pretty impressive low cost to run a Bitcoin mainnet node.


A few things to note, though. Since people are quoting Satoshi. He never flat out disagreed with data. He also never had a block limit in the begining. It was Hal who convinced him to do so. Also, it was temporary at 1MB...its now 20203. Due to high transaction fee's there are now 1000 shit coins!


Satoshi also explained that eventually Bitcoin will be ran by a few big data farms, and users would use thin clients. I think that future is inevitable. It is already here when considering the centralisation of mining.

Data from NFT's is stored in public keys not on chain. You can verify data existed ( supplying the preimsge) but not recover it. So it wont bloat the chain as the address contains the data already. Its true that subsequent  tx's from the wallet will likely be related to their coloured status though.


A contentious subject...but I created a protocol thst allows for storage of data on Bitcoin and many other networks. Although many disagree, there are also others who believe in the free market.

https://aidios.io


yeah I talked to foundry told them I had 5.0 ph which is around 50 s19s.

they only accept miners with 20ph.

even if i switch everything to s21 gear I can go to about 16ph so I simply am shut out of the largest pool.

I burn about 210kwatts and will be fully expanded to 280kwatts in a few weeks.

so mining for the 300-1000 kwatt guy is tough even with cheap power.

the big issue for me is 280kwatts cost me
What kind of power do you use? Grid? Renewable?

solar and grid and a prepaid contract to the grid.

my power is cheap but location one  the master transformer is 320 kwatts.

this allows us 230 in winter and 190 in summer

the second location is about 60 kwatts winter 50 kwatts summer.

so 240-290 kwatts.

we may add a second transformer we are trying to do a telsa super charger deal .

if that works we add three super chargers. run two of them and get  a 500kwatt transformer.  this could spare us 200 more kwatts.

so divide by 3.5  maybe 80 s21s on 1 transformer max

our prices for power will always make money but right now a s21 makes 200 x 8.5 = 17 dollars.

it burns 85 kwatts so 85 x 4  cents = 3.40 power

thus 17-3.4 = 13.60 per machine which is decent for 70 units . but i am still shut out of foundry.
and 70 units is 280k out of pocket.

If the machines show in jan I could get 90 days at 1000 a day then the ½ ing  which means 350 a day.

we are always slowly adding the new gear.

maybe just ten machine for january. say 43k
2029  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: World wide fee estimation getting wacky? on: November 12, 2023, 03:11:59 AM
Personally, I noticed that in Electrum the fee will be overkill if it's in ETA, and the actual closest fee can be found in the Mempool from tip option.

Also, this thread explains the same : Minimize your transaction fee with Electrum wallet
Thank you for quoting my thread. ETA is Estimate Time of Arrival and Estimate can be inaccurate (overestimate or underestimate). With Bitcoin transaction fee estimators, I only see overestimate and I see a need to check mempool by myself before broadcasting a transaction with a proper fee rate.

I don't run my own node so I use two third party websites to double check mempools and pick a feasible fee rate to use.

Quote
https://mempool.space/ offers real-time data and it's one of the tools I use to calculate the fee required at the time of boradcasting a TX.

There is another good mempool observer.

https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#BTC%20(default%20mempool),24h,weight
https://bitcoindata.science/bitcointalk-api#bitcoin-fees (I recall this tool uses data from mempool.space)

Quote
This one claims 220sat/byte for two blocks confirmation:
https://btc.network/estimate

Same with this one:
buybitcoinworldwide.com/fee-calculator

And this one overshoots by 3x with 163sat/byte:
https://bitcoinfees.net
They have histories of overestimate fee rates so let's avoid them in future.

I use my trezor to pay
 I compare it to jochen I bolded above.

I try to consolidate one wallet in my trezor so that on absolute needed fast confirms.

I can send a small byte amount and use 11 sats. i then rush to viabtc and use the free acceleration tool.

mostly used for buying 3000 usd or more gear from bitmain.

if i do a send that is not important i may do 3 or  6 or 8 sats. I then use rbf on the trezor if I have to.

I also hold ltc and doge to make payments cheap
.
2030  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Angry at the high fees? That's what everyone predicted the future will be like! on: November 12, 2023, 01:12:37 AM
this will not end it will simple repeat 🔁 whenever big players want it to.

But if this path is followed, we will reach a point where we will have 3 or 4 players controlling the entire mining market and transaction fees.
Don't you think that's bad for Bitcoin's fundamentals, and for Bitcoin itself?

I think so, and I can't see LN as a possible alternative for day-to-day transactions. Now it works, but if it scales it will no longer be efficient, and you will suffer the same type of problems with fees.

The alternative I see is to force a percentage of the block to allocate older transactions. For example, 10% of the block was allocated to transactions with more than 24 hours on the waiting list. In other words, you would reduce the waiting time to a minimum viable time, while giving you the freedom to choose the fee to guarantee faster transactions.

doubt that works.  Look at it this way Scrypt has a vested interest in fucking up btc fee payments.

Scrypt makes about 45-80 million a day in mining payouts.

Doge rewards do not shrink over time they stay at 10,000 a block.


So if my idea that Bitmain controls 55% of the L7's in the world and switch them back and forth as I have postulated Bitmain smoke every other scrypt adjustment say 55 % of 45 million  an extra 25 million every 3 days.

They can keep their games up forever.
2031  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: NFTs in the Bitcoin blockchain - Ordinal Theory on: November 12, 2023, 12:35:10 AM
I've ran a full node for 4 years using a small EC2 instance. It very occasionally has a hicup. This is pretty impressive low cost to run a Bitcoin mainnet node.


A few things to note, though. Since people are quoting Satoshi. He never flat out disagreed with data. He also never had a block limit in the begining. It was Hal who convinced him to do so. Also, it was temporary at 1MB...its now 20203. Due to high transaction fee's there are now 1000 shit coins!


Satoshi also explained that eventually Bitcoin will be ran by a few big data farms, and users would use thin clients. I think that future is inevitable. It is already here when considering the centralisation of mining.

Data from NFT's is stored in public keys not on chain. You can verify data existed ( supplying the preimsge) but not recover it. So it wont bloat the chain as the address contains the data already. Its true that subsequent  tx's from the wallet will likely be related to their coloured status though.


A contentious subject...but I created a protocol thst allows for storage of data on Bitcoin and many other networks. Although many disagree, there are also others who believe in the free market.

https://aidios.io


yeah I talked to foundry told them I had 5.0 ph which is around 50 s19s.

they only accept miners with 20ph.

even if i switch everything to s21 gear I can go to about 16ph so I simply am shut out of the largest pool.

I burn about 210kwatts and will be fully expanded to 280kwatts in a few weeks.

so mining for the 300-1000 kwatt guy is tough even with cheap power.

the big issue for me is 280kwatts cost me
2032  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Angry at the high fees? That's what everyone predicted the future will be like! on: November 12, 2023, 12:18:00 AM
yeah back to topic. big players can do a lot to make fees high.

Me with 350kwatts of power am just a small player that has to pick spots and shift with ease to survive.

eventually I will be squeezed out unless I use a switching technique which means I need 500 to 600 kwatts of paid off gear that allow me to switch from one algo to another.

Big guys can do this and Smaller guys can do it to.

So there will be a vested interest from big plays to boost fees and profits for short times and switch excess gear via software controlled multi guides.

Thus the ability to boost btc fees to the moon only needs to be done for 2-3 days. move your excess btc miners to btc and reap profits. lowers the diff on ltc/doge when the low diff hits on scrypt load up on scrypt

when the diff goes high on scrypt switch to btc.

the switch  to btc does not mean you always jack btc fees just once in a while.

you bread and butter is the extra million you mkae on ltc and doge every other doge diff adjustment.

this will not end it will simple repeat 🔁 whenever big players want it to.
2033  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Angry at the high fees? That's what everyone predicted the future will be like! on: November 11, 2023, 10:30:58 PM
Once the ordinals trend ends we will get back to "normal" fees

for a bit then we will uptick again. There are vested interests that want more than just btc in the market.

So every once in a while fees will get forced up.
2034  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Angry at the high fees? That's what everyone predicted the future will be like! on: November 11, 2023, 09:21:09 PM
I just paid nearly $70 in fees to move $300 between wallets. I have concluded within myself that I am going to avoid micro transactions as much as possible. Consequently, between miners that primarily self mine and miners that primarily host, I think that it is the miners with self mining that will benefit more from these high fees. What surprises me is that despite the high fees, it is not showing any negatives on bitcoin's price action.

Or it is and we should be at 41 to 45k. Not 37k
2035  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Angry at the high fees? That's what everyone predicted the future will be like! on: November 11, 2023, 06:14:14 PM
LN has its own issues.

This fee level dropped a bit. last blocks are running a bit under 1 coin in fees.
See the pattern repeat year after year.



next spring with rewards 3.125 miners will really need fees to grow.


funny how

2016 25       coins to 2-3 btc fees not bad  
2020 12.5    coins to 2-3 btc fees bad
2023  6.25   coins to 2-3 btc fees = terrible
2024  3.125 coins to 2-3 btc fees = a miners dream a users nightmare


Is there a way to control this escalation of future fees?

It's just that ways have gradually emerged for large miners to be able to influence network fees, and this could harm Bitcoin - a lot.
I believe that the entire Bitcoin community should think of something to avoid this control by (large) miners.

WELL all gear builders would have to have a world wide ban on mining. Frankly I can't see it as possible.

right now you have

buy and hodl
traders
users
miners
builders
software guys
pools

Blending all of the above is really hard to do.

As a miner high fees feel good.
As a seller of items using btc for my payment high fees suck.

So I am in a personal conflict of interest on 2 catagories.

I also trade a tiny bit the effect on trading is harder to understand
lastly I mine and hodl

so just me alone and I  am In a complex situation.

other absolute supermoon of btc price most of the time I have no idea what to root for ie multi hedged for safety’s sake.
2036  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Could the scalability of the Bitcoin Blockchain be enhanced without sacrificing on: November 11, 2023, 05:54:45 PM
Is it possible to enhance the Blockchain such that it can handle an infinite number of transactions every second without jeopardizing its decentralization and security?

Definitely, No.
To process the infinite transactions per second we need infinite resources as simple as 2 + 2. Try to catch the point the Infinity cant be achieved even if we cant predict the approach to Infinity.

When it comes to the Blockchain to achieve the triangle (Secure, Scalable & Decentralized) we have the L2 solutions on the Base-Chian It is not possible to achieve this triangle cheaply. I would like to quote and explain what I've learned a couple of days before in this section posted by the senior, to achieve better security you need to pay better.

You cant expect a secure environment for cheap.


Well LTC and Doge are secure and you can move them easy peasy on the cheap.

If you think of BTC as an oil tanker or a cargo ship. Moving millions of wealth safely  for a few grand is fine.

If you think of Ltc as a single box truck
and Doge as a pickup truck

all three can move freight.


The problem is people refuse to do this thought pattern.

I certainly am not going to pay a freighter (btc) to move 1 car as it is too costly.

I may pay a tow truck (ltc or doge) to move 1 car

Like it or not business is going to keep trying to make btc for large moves.

If you believe in BTC and No Doge/LTC you are simply being stubborn and hurting the network.

I mine sha 256 and scrypt on a daily business and I hodl all 3 coins.
2037  Economy / Computer hardware / Re: Reputable Bitmain Sellers on: November 11, 2023, 05:29:55 PM
for USA I use https://vmssecuritycloud.com/

New York based
2038  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Crypto arbitrage trading bot development to increase profit on: November 11, 2023, 04:55:32 PM

Crypto arbitrage bot will trade for you 24/7. Our bot is developed with premium features to ensure 100% profit. Sit back and relax while our bot trade for you.
If profit is guaranteed, why do you need to sell the service? Use this bot and get free profits.
It is true that a crypto arbitrage bot can achieve profits, but it needs to be fast and to have a strategy. Even so, profit is not guaranteed and therefore there is no such thing as 100% profit.
This is the first time I hear about Beleaf Technologies. Are there any details about the nature of their work?

just from the words "100% profit guarantee" i already knew that this was a scam project. because if we use logic with 100% guaranteed profits, why not use it yourself and enjoy all the profits, why bother selling the service to other people? that alone can prove that this is a scam project. and there is no history of a trading bot being able to provide 100% profit because that is impossible to achieve.

Worse yet he edited the 100% guarantee out of the op.
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he did on   the edit on Nov 10th which is after moneystery posted his complaint on Nov 8 about the 100% guarantee
2039  Bitcoin / Mining speculation / Re: 2023 Diff thread now opened. on: November 11, 2023, 04:50:14 PM
~~

Basically they turn the miners on when the difficulty goes down, and when the difficulty increases they turn the miners off - directing you to another job.

That makes sense to me. Which proves that there are large miners that adopt this strategy. In turn, this makes it clear that mining is less decentralized than it should be.
Is there any way to try to avoid this type of behavior in the future? Unfortunately I don't think so, and I believe it will get "worse".

here look at this post I just did in another section

LN has its own issues.

This fee level dropped a bit. last blocks are running a bit under 1 coin in fees.
See the pattern repeat year after year.



next spring with rewards 3.125 miners will really need fees to grow.


funny how

2016 25       coins to 2-3 btc fees not bad  
2020 12.5    coins to 2-3 btc fees bad
2023  6.25   coins to 2-3 btc fees = terrible
2024  3.125 coins to 2-3 btc fees = a miners dream a users nightmare





large players have a vest interest in jacking up btc fees.

and they do it time and time again. It all ties in with how to max your profits.






BT topic.


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

Latest Block:   816325  (26 minutes ago)

Current Pace:   103.1092%  (1862 / 1805.85 expected, 56.15 ahead)

Previous Difficulty:   61030681983175.59                            
Current Difficulty:   62463471666732.73                            
Next Difficulty:   between 64404555057593 and 64416304463627
Next Difficulty Change:   between +3.1075% and +3.1264%
Previous Retarget:   October 29, 2023 at 11:50 PM  (+2.3477%)
Next Retarget (earliest):   Tomorrow at 12:42 PM  (in 1d 0h 53m 33s)
Next Retarget (latest):   Tomorrow at 12:46 PM  (in 1d 0h 57m 6s)
Projected Epoch Length:   between 13d 13h 52m 4s and 13d 13h 55m 37s



we are up to 3.1% that would mean 10) biffa in the lead with about 1 day to go. those blank spots could still mean no winner



01) 0.01 to 0.33%. I will pick this and give to joker_josue if I win philipma1957
02) 0.34 to 0.66%
03) 0.67 to 0.99% - joker_josue
04) 1.00 to 1.32%
05) 1.33 to 1.65%
06) 1.66 to 1.98%  - Stompix pledges to rollover to next pot.
07) 1.99 to 2.31%  - iwantmyhomepaidwithbtc2
08) 2.32 to 2.64%
09) 2.65 to 2.97%
10) 2.98 to 3.30% - Biffa
11) 3.31 to 3.63% - Mikeywith pledged to talkimg
12) 3.64 to 3.96% - Warfare
13) 3.97 to 4.29% - Greyhats
14) 4.30 to 4.62% - alh
15) 4.63 to 4.95% - GazetaBitcoin
16) 4.96 to 5.28% - NeuroticFish pledged to talkimg
17) 5.29 to 5.61% - vapourminer pledged to talkimg
18) 5.62 to 5.94% - Heuristic pledged to talkimg
19) 5.95 to 6.27%
20) 6.28 to 6.60%
21) 6.61 to 6.93%
22) 6.94 to 7.26%
23) 7.27 to 7.59%
24) 7.60 to 7.92%
25) 7.93 to 8.25%
26) 8.26 to 8.58%
27) 8.59 to 8.91%
28) 8.92 to 9.24%
29) 9.25 to 9.57%
30) 9.58 to 9.90%






Sunday and with 27-28 blocks to go 10) biffa is in the lead

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

Latest Block:   816451  (2 minutes ago)

Current Pace:   103.1093%  (1988 / 1928.05 expected, 59.95 ahead)

Previous Difficulty:   61030681983175.59                            
Current Difficulty:   62463471666732.73                            
Next Difficulty:   between 64415269217967 and 64415657564012
Next Difficulty Change:   between +3.1247% and +3.1253%
Previous Retarget:   October 29, 2023 at 11:50 PM  (+2.3477%)
Next Retarget (earliest):   Today at 12:42 PM  (in 0d 4h 31m 33s)
Next Retarget (latest):   Today at 12:42 PM  (in 0d 4h 31m 40s)
Projected Epoch Length:   between 13d 13h 52m 4s and 13d 13h 52m 11s



we are in danger of no winner as it could drop to 09) or 08) which were not picked.




update we shifted to 3.34% putting mikeywith in the lead at block 2005
update we shifted to 3.48% keeping mikeywith in the lead at block 2009
2040  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Angry at the high fees? That's what everyone predicted the future will be like! on: November 11, 2023, 04:44:19 PM
LN has its own issues.

This fee level dropped a bit. last blocks are running a bit under 1 coin in fees.
See the pattern repeat year after year.



next spring with rewards 3.125 miners will really need fees to grow.


funny how

2016 25       coins to 2-3 btc fees not bad 
2020 12.5    coins to 2-3 btc fees bad
2023  6.25   coins to 2-3 btc fees = terrible
2024  3.125 coins to 2-3 btc fees = a miners dream a users nightmare


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