exactly what i wanted to say today. i wanted to start one of my FOMO topics here which i always make during times like this. there is certainly a strong buildup in the market now and it could turn into a good momentum that could follow the same previous patterns including the summer of 2019 pattern and before you know it we see all the walls at $10k, $10.2k, come crumbling down and we find ourselves between $12k to $14k in a day or two.

if you feel like the status of any of the BIPs is wrong (or find any other mistakes for that matter) you should open a pull request on the same github repository about that mistake.

for BIP-174 you may also wait for achow101 to come around and make a comment since he is the creator of that proposal.

will this be player versus player game or player versus the house? because in first type i would be curious about how you are going to make money if it is just players playing against each other.
there is also the matter of fairness in games like this since it is not just the player's luck that matters but how others play can affect their outcome too.
if you could come up with a provably fair system that all could verify other user's actions (maybe combine all seeds?) it could be an interesting game.

some of the gaps between numbers is because they wanted to leave room for similar BIPs to be together. for example BIP n be about a certain topic and n+1 be about the same topic too. like how BIP-32, 39, 42 are all in the same range and close and are about HD wallets.

as for status, sometimes BIPs aren't accepted by the community or remain unused so they never reach "final" even if a long time has passed.

there was one case which may be categorized as a roll back but it was mostly a group of nodes that went on an invalid chain. it happened in early years and it is referred to as the "overflow bug" where due to a bug a miner created a bigger than allowed number of new coins which made its block invalid and other miners built on top of that invalid block and created an invalid chain which had to be discarded.

in my personal opinion this can't be categorized as a "roll back" because those blocks were invalid.

this is a lie that they spread to cover their embarrassment. they didn't stop pursuing rollback! they faced the reality that is is not possible to do so and every miner they tried to bribe laughed at their proposal.

actually what happened was last time price failed to go any lower than $8800 despite all the power that was gathered by all the dumpers and it jumped back up to $9000 and continued rising and now it has reached higher levels which may continue rising or not.

reaching $10k and not breaking it won't change anything and will not mean fast drop to whatever lower price. it simply means the same repeated pattern will repeat again and again until it breaks out and reaches $13k.

unless you are day trading in this very tight range and hope to sell at $10k and buy back again in $9k-ish reaching $10k means nothing. even a little higher than that is still the same. the only important thing is to break it and keep the momentum while reaching the next target at $11k. otherwise we have been hitting $10k and coming back then hitting $10k again for a while now. and that's not something you can predict with TA!

Elliptic Curve Integrated Encryption System or ECIES for short. it is defined in the Standard For Efficient Cryptography 1 section 3.8 and i believe that is the algorithm that Electrum uses too.
here is a wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Encryption_Scheme

i think you need to go and take a look at the link you posted here yourself. i counted and there are only 7 cases listed as "illegal" which still doesn't count as "many" when it is out of 190+ countries.
you can also look at the map for a fast visualization. hint: the red is ban cases:


keep in mind that being hostile toward something is not the same as "banning" it and also banks being legally prohibited to invest in bitcoin or the banks prohibiting their users from using their services to buy bitcoin is not called "banned" bitcoin. my bank doesn't let me do certain legal things with my money either but that doesn't mean those things are banned. banks don't set the law they can only define what kind of services they offer and don't offer.

as for taxes i didn't say it was a problem, i said their definition is like that for tax purposes because it is easier to tax a commodity,... than to tax a currency.

it is hard to say since it could take some effort.
i'd say it depends on how many coins they are asking for and who they are. for example if a known developer were to ask for coins or an anonymous person. and there is a difference between a small amount and something like 100. the later is always shady.

and i still say that almost all cases do not need large amounts of tbtc or any amount for that matter. they can perform all their tests on regtest and generate millions of coins in literary a couple of seconds and perform their tests.

if i were you i'd demand explanation from those who ask huge amounts or even a link to the project they are developing .

reading some of the stories you would be surprised how easy it is to convince people of doing things that don't make any sense. for example in the following case the scammer told the victim to actually select "testnet" manually!
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/75776/i-need-your-help-urgently-bitcoins

"many" is an overstatement. i have only heard about 2 or maybe 3 countries that have absolutely banned bitcoin the rest of the 190 or so countries have not!
many countries actually haven't taken any kind of firm stance about bitcoin whether for it or against it. they remain mostly undecided and have allowed it to run its course for now.
some countries have actually accepted it as a currency and have been happy about it.
some countries have called it weird things like commodity, security,... and it was mainly for tax purposes not an agenda.

it is not about disconnecting from the internet, it is about going to a safe environment that you can be sure doesn't have any malware.

this step is extreme.
the better alternative is to use a live Linux from a DVD. all you have to do is to cut of the internet connection and then boot from that DVD. then follow to the next steps

i don't see why you want to take this step. Electrum already creates a wallet for you that has a seed phrase that you can write down and use to recover your funds in the future.
it is best to write the seed down but if you wanted a single key you can still right click any address and get its private key (in your Address tab).

not true. an open source software can still have a very restrictive license that prevents others from using or modifying it without permission from the creator.
in simple terms open source only means the source code can be seen by anybody (is open).

this is just a paid advertisement for a shitcoin called ether. they have been doing it for a very long time now, they pay the news sites to publish this type of misinformation to help with the pump of their shitcoin.

the only thing that is happening these days is that bitcoin price is stable and like always in the past decade whenever that happens traders start pump and dumping shitcoins such as ETH and thousands of others.

if you check the altcoin exchanges you can see how shitcoins are getting pumped every day and of course ETH overlords are scared that their shitcoin is not getting pumped as much as other shitcoins so they start spending money to stay relevant

bitcoin doesn't mirror anything least of all US stock market!
it has always been like this, bitcoin is unique and because of that it has never goes with or against movement of another market ever. the false assumption mainly started after the COVID-19 pandemic and only because bitcoin went down while others were also going down. but that is more of a coincidence than a correlation.

that is historically speaking. but also logically, there is absolutely no reason why bitcoin should follow any other market either. of course there are incidents that can affect everything like the pandemic i mentioned and affect every aspects of our lives that includes bitcoin market.

think of it this way, if it rains and both your yard and your neighbors yard get wet you can't say your neighbor's yard is following your yard and should also get wet each time you water your plants! the "rain" was a cause that affected both. other causes such as watering your plants (stock market growth, stock market crashing,...) has no effects on the other yard (ie. bitcoin market).

the daily profit that is given to the balance you have on the site was what i meant. it could be a 100% increase and similar to other options that exist which increase the lottery ticket, roll reward,... based on how much point you spend.

here is another idea too:
decrease the house edge for 24 hours. again similar to other options it could be spend X points and reduce by Y%. for example a 1000 PR could reduce the house edge to 0%.
i think it could be a nice incentive to bring more gamblers in too.

started, yes but the language suggests that bitcoin is created becaue of the recession which i believe is wrong because Satoshi started working on bitcoin years before the release which means the recession happened after he started working on bitcoin.


no it does not. this is nothing except a brand new FUD that is only about 4 to 6 months old.

"wrapped" usually refers to a P2WPKH script that is "wrapped" inside a P2SH script. but the normal P2WPKH script that produces the bech32 address is called the "native" SegWit address.

such action, alongside topics like this, would only create "dilemma" where there were none. there is nothing wrong with bitcoin.org right now and there is no indication of anything wanting to go wrong in near future for anyone to want to make any kind of move.