it is so funny to see some of the names in the picture the starter posted considering that they were talking so negatively about bitcoin not so long ago. like the stuff JP morgan was saying about bitcoin and how it is going to die. now they are all predicting some high price and all at random numbers without any speculation since they seem to just want to be on the band wagon and nothing else.

just concatenate the two parts together and enter it in bitaddress.org (download the source from github and run it offline). once with first part first and the other time second
917b<first 32 char part>02e9<second 32 char part>
02e9<second 32 char part>917b<first 32 char part>

i have seen metal shops selling metal plates of all alloys and stainless steels are very common so they are being sold among them. but also the producers usually have a website that you can visit and buy plates from them. i don't know if they would sell a tiny piece though, they usually sell large quantities or at least one sheet (which is big).

your opinion is wrong. bitcoin is a digital currency and it has nothing to do with gold. the problem it is trying to solve is also the problem with centralized currencies and the centralized payment processors just as the bitcoin paper says it is.
you should really educate yourself before starting dozens of low quality topics like this every week.

people in the government (no matter the country) know better than anyone else about the dire situation in the economy or the corruption that runs deep in the banking system. so it is not surprising to see many of them actually chose to have some of their net worth in bitcoin although i am a bit skeptical about the total amount that is reported here.

i don't think the laundry part has anything to do with bitcoin. they are just saying that some of these people who have some large sums of fiat out of nowhere are falsely claiming that it was bitcoin profit.

we are in a bull market whether you are looking at the short term zoomed in chart or long term couple of months visible charts. the only reason why we aren't seeing a big breakout yet is that there is a lot of panic sell and day traders who keep cashing out as soon as price reaches $60k to get their short term profit out effectively preventing the rise from growing as it should.

the good news is that as soon as $60k resistance breaks there will be a huge FOMO and price will reach $70k in no time. before you know it we are discussing whether $100k is going to be reached in 2 weeks or 4.

i just want to add that if miners could add transactions after they found the correct hash then the block would not be considered immutable and in the future anyone could change the transactions in that block and bitcoin wouldn't have been safe that way.
the whole point of mining (proof of work) is that after the "expensive work" was performed the final result wouldn't be changeable.

the real answer is that you don't have to do anything, bitcoin's genesis block is defined this way that Satoshi decided to also mine that block too so that block zero also has a valid proof of work. otherwise if you are changing stuff you can also change this little detail so that the software uses an arbitrary block 0 with no proof of work.
there is also no reason to validate block 0 proof of work.

this is a narrative that some "newbie speculators" have been trying to push possibly out of desperation to find any reason to predict bitcoin price.

take yourself for example. if you have money and believe that bitcoin has potential to rise then you would buy bitcoin. however you will never look at hashrate to see what it is to decide whether you should buy or not, doin otherwise makes no sense.
take a miner now. the miner looks at bitcoin price and the profit he is making and decides whether to buy more ASICs to mine bitcoin hence increasing the hashrate or shut down his ASICs due to lower bitcoin price hence decreasing the hashrate.

so it should be obvious that hashrate follows price not the other way around.

having a volatile price makes bitcoin a risky short term investment not a risky currency which bitcoin is. so you can't call bitcoin risky here.

bitcoin is not about profit though specially if it is being compared with the banking system. it is about being decentralized and lacking any corruptible authority in control of your money.

but what's the point of using Shamir secret sharing instead of for example encrypting your seed? you have 2 "shares" one is the encrypted seed and the other one is the encryption key which you keep separately.
this way you are not concerend about the implementation and risks of it and you are also not concerend about the method not being safe because the encryption algorithm is strong and easier to implement (or already is implemented in all crypto libraries).

you are not wrong but what i am mostly looking forward to is the $60k target to be properly broken and the large scale FOMO starts and we see a new much higher ATH be set just like what we had back in early 2017.

what has been happening to USD is more like a long term effect on bitcoin that will slowly show itself both in the economy and then is reflected on bitcoin price also.

you are using the word "hot wallet" wrong. the exchanges are NOT hot wallets they are custodial accounts that have 100% control over the users money and user has absolutely no power.

a hot wallet on the other hand is a wallet that user has 100% control but instead of being kept offline it is connected to the internet. for example an electrum wallet on your PC that you use to connect to internet is a hot wallet.

i think the reason is actually because it costs nearly nothing to create these tokens on ETH whereas creating an actual cryptocurrency requires more effort and some money.
for example take the popular memcoin known as Doge. the dev had to copy bitcoin (or rather litecoin) and make changes to the protocol, test it and spend a lot of time making sure those changes didn't break anything. then release and have to mine it themselves to keep the coin alive for some time before others get onboard.
in comparison a token creator just writes a much shorter script on top of ethereum and doesn't spend any time testing or spending any money running any miner or anything like that. they jut release that tiny code and have a tokne!

you shouldn't even want such a thing, not just because it is a waste of you precious time but mainly because of the massive fee that you have to pay when you try spending all tiny amounts of bitcoin you received.

you see when you create a bitcoin transaction the fee you pay depends on the size of that transaction not its value, and the size is affected by the number of inputs the transaction has. these "inputs" are those payments you receive from any micro paying job.

you suddely realize that to spend 0.00010000BTC you have to pay 0.00050000BTC

it is impossible to predict the price at next halving when we have not yet begun this rally with its bubble. first this cycle has to be concluded so that we can see whether the "cycles" are going to be broken or not and if they are then the next target is going to be wildly different and if they are not then again the next target depends a lot on the ATH price that this cycles ends with.

if we assume the same cycle continues and price reaches $500k then the bubble burst has to be 80% too and it has to drop down to $100k and by the time halving is reached it has to be up to $300k.

so the answer by extrapolating data is $300k

it won't matter if we have both the private key and the BIP38 encrypted key we still can't reverse AES256 to get the password and there is no other relationship between the private key (or the derived key used in AES for encryption) and the encrypted result for us to use to figure out the password.

that means you still have to see a couple of similar cycles to finally stop hesitating to see that the intrinsic value of bitcoin is way higher than the prices that we see.
in 2016 people were also hesitant to predict $2000 when price was barely $500.
i'll see you in 2022 discussing whether price is going to $5 mil from the massive dump to $300k or not

there is always difference of opinion everywhere, there is no reason to single out the religions. i don't know what this university is but last time i checked years ago the Islamic leaders analyzed bitcoin and concluded that it is "halal" to receive it as payment for any "halal" work or use it to pay someone else for the work they had done for you. but it is not if bitcoin is used for gambling or anything illegal. pretty much the stance that everyone else has too.

tickets for what? because there are a bunch of different types there. 5000 sounds more like lottery tickets because the Lambo game tickets are extremely rare and it doesn't give that many away even if you win it.

in any case the biggest thing that got me intrigued about the token was the increased daily profit. but unfortunately you have to make a big investment (about $500) to increase the daily profit so i'm not so sure if it is worth it.