Yes, it's a shame that the owners of those 2 domains are supporters of Bitcoin clones and unsafe wallets. But that's just because people obviously click the domains containing more known terms like blockchain, bitcoin, coinbase etc. before they click anything else.

Are you basically proposing an "official wallet" as in a "bitcoinwalletofficial"-like website? Any domain - or software - could be changed at any time in the wrong way. Even the said "official" wallet. The thing is, there should be alternatives. Bitcoin.org gives you an alternative for every use case you may be needing. Having a single "official" website/wallet is bad from a decentralization PoV. By having one more alternative that pops up into your eyesight whenever you look Bitcoin up, you're just going to have one more domain on the list of websites newbies tend to click.. or taking it another way, it'd be as if blockchain.com never existed and you proposed it.

I would personally not take this as a "global acceptance" move. It may be one of the largest industries in the world, but I am really intrigued to see whether it'll be a long-lasting thing or they'll remove it after a while as other large platforms did.

Verge probably paid a lot of money to do the PornHub thing. If I remember correctly, it was right when all shitcoins were on a boom - and they tried (successfully, at the time) to pump theirs even more by this "collab". Otherwise, they wouldn't have had all those vans with Verge and PH on them..

Steam had BTC as a payment method years ago. Microsoft did as well, until 2015 IIRC. They removed it due to the extreme volatility.

They surely did have a spike (and this was only back in March).

Esim-ul este din cate stiu o tehnologie destul de noua prezenta doar in ultimele generatii de telefoane mai "premium" tip iPhone .. practic ai cartela sim in telefon direct din fabrica, insa electronica si se activeaza prin operatorii de telefonie fara sa mai ai nevoie de cartela fizica. Din punct de vedere al privacy-ului, nu stiu sincer daca este mai bine cu cel fizic sau cu cel electronic. Daca e vorba de tranzactii mari, eu as lua cate un burner phone pentru fiecare sim.. daca nu ma insel, odata ce un sim este introdus in telefon, operatorii primesc informatia legata de IMEI-ul telefonului.

La noi, in Romania, este momentan mai convenabil cum spui si tu: sa cumperi o cartela prepay fara buletin. Insa nu stiu sigur cat va mai merge si la noi metoda asta; din cate stiu, trebuia de anul acesta deja in toata UE sa intre o noua legislatie conform careia sa nu se mai poata achizitiona in spatiul european cartele fara CI. Dar stii cum e... Romanians always find a way

Aici e o harta interesanta referitoare la acest aspect (e mai veche de un an, dar cred ca inca e de folos).. tari care inca nu cer CI la achizitionarea de cartele.

You need some level of education and knowledge in order to use Bitcoin specifically because it is not centralized and lets you have the freedom you're looking for.

While having a very convenient and easy to use interface & system sounds amazing and better than what we have, it is only that way to some extent. For example, there currently are wallets out there that do not even require you to back up your seed. All you have to do to take and spend BTC is literally just install it and open it up. I think Bread wallet is one of them.

But you cannot have 100% simplicity specifically because Bitcoin is not centralized. With banks, you have people that do all that work for you: verifying txs, checking out your accounts, confirming txs, giving you the cards/IBANs, helping you out with account creation etc. Exchanges do the same thing. They have people that help you out in case something goes wrong. But with Bitcoin, you have to help yourself out. This is also why Windows is much easier to use than Linux is: it does not give you as much freedom as Linux does. Not even close to it.

Smart TVs and iPhones are the two worst examples they could've given. Both are a privacy nightmare, so don't even get me started.

I personally think slow adoption is the healthiest way Bitcoin can grow. Just let it be adopted and used by those truly interested in it. The evolution from 2010 to 2020 has been healthy enough imo and it seems to work out in the end. Let it grow on its own.

We do not need Quantum computers to know that a market can be manipulated. It can actually be manipulated in various ways.. like DOGE has been pumped a few weeks/months ago when some DOGE TikToks popped up.

However, the "classic" pump and dumps happen many ways.. like through larger "signal groups", individuals willing to pump an asset while promoting the pump in order to benefit from it themselves or just through a little spark that is then driven upwards by FOMO and then straight into panic. The funny thing is, you don't even need a lot of volume to pump up a shitcoin. There are some you can pump with only a few dozen bucks.

These coins are pumped and dumped because the spikes are placing them way above what they deserve to be worth. You don't need a friggin' quantum conspiracy to do that - and trust me, the resources needed to do that aren't worth the final rewards.

This debate will never finish unless markets grow up and mature. Bitcoin is what we decide it to be, and tbat can only happen with time. To me, it does represent a refuge from the soon-to-be crashing financial system. Whether others do or do not believe the same is up to their own.

Give it time, God damn it. It'll show its true form within years, possibly decades. Today we aren't even sure if it's going to be legally accepted everywhere within a matter of years or other countries will start banning it. We don't even have the legal framework in some countries to begin with. It just needs time.

There's one very good reason to do so: we're getting too far away from what BTC was supposed to be and we are helping it turn into a perfect tool for surveillance through the stuff we do such as supporting mostly centralized stuff and not caring about the true freedom we can earn through BTC. A lot of people just didn't care, so it evolved in a somewhat bad way.

There would've been one if it was secure enough. However, for mobile, VPN through Orbot is the best way to go for now. A while ago you could've enabled even system-wide tor through OrWall, but it did have some issues so years later they moved on from it (or at least it looks like it.. I tried using OrWall but it's hard to work with it especially as it hasn't been updated in a long time) and sticked to their Orbot VPN as a main focus. You can read these two articles about it:

(2014) https://blog.torproject.org/mission-impossible-hardening-android-security-and-privacy
(2016) https://blog.torproject.org/mission-improbable-hardening-android-security-and-privacy

I would not trust Tor Browser on mobile at the same level I'd trust it on a Tails bootable USB though. I am also kinda paranoid when it comes to using it on my personal phone for the same purposes I use it on my PC. Mobile being a bit harder to work with than PC, there are probably way more flaws and it is much easier to link stuff you do through Tor on your mobile to your identity/fingerprint.

You only get the feeling of owning these coins. If the owner of that platform wants to take out your coins, they can do it. Think of it as sending some money to my card but being able to spend it and see the balance at any time. We both have access to it, and there may be even other parties (my family?) with access to it as well. I promise you they're yours, but how do you know they are going to stay yours in the future as well?

I think this is just overcomplicating the entire thing. Just get an open source, non-custodial wallet and keep your private keys wherever you keep your most valuable/important stuff. I don't understand why people choose custodial wallets over decentralized and open source ones. It's your money, why share it?

Trust me, we all have topics we don't have any idea what is being discussed about or what/how to answer. At that point, all you have to do is just keep on reading and researching the said subject if it interests you. For example, I cannot answer to like >85% of the technical stuff and almost anything related to mining. There's more stuff I can not answer to than just that, so we aren't much different. Some members have a very, very broad knowledge when it comes to mining. We all have different interests.

It'd be nice if you could find some way to offer something for BTC on here - the more people offering stuff we have, the more Bitcoin grows. But that is not a requirement. I have personally tried launching a little signature campaign management service, but I did not have much success. Try to find a niche that hasn't been discovered yet. You might do great.

What exactly is it? Try to find out. You're probably trying way too hard to post threads wherever possible to just get those merits. A lot of my merits came from posts I never thought would get rewarded. Take your time to look through threads and reply whenever you feel like you have a point to make. Otherwise, it gets exhausting and annoying to reply to stuff you aren't interested in.

My post count per day has drastically slowed down as well lately for many reasons - not having as much time as I had a few months ago is one of them. The thing is, it's much better to post once per day but have a higher-than-average quality than posting 5 more times and spamming everywhere.

So long story short, just reply to stuff you're interested in and try to prioritize quality over quantity (what an ironic statement coming from me, the probably longest and most boring reply writer around here). Things will get better in time.

Incepi prin a ofensa alti traderi care chiar sunt de calitate, ne inviti in comunitatea ta iar apoi ne ofensezi si pe noi. Interesanta atitudine pentru o proasta incercare de incepere a unei cariere YT. Bafta tie, mie deja mi se pare ca te-ai cam inclinat spre esec.

Quote-ul de mai jos spune multe despre "experienta ta". Cred ca lui @GazetaBitcoin i-au picat mai putini shitcoini decat tie, cel putin avand in vedere ce ai scris in topicul pe care l-a precizat mai sus.. pare-se ca ai avut cateva experiente nasoale:
Vreau si eu sa stiu cum se poate sa investesc in BTC sau orice altceva, fie si bomboane, fara niciun fel de risc. Umple-mi buzunaru', tata, ca m-am saturat si eu de atatea riscuri! Ai putea sa ii dai si lui Buffett niste lectii, ca stii cum e.. omu' mai risca si el, inca n-a aflat de teoria ta..

Dar hai sa ne trezim la realitate. Teoria si practica sunt 2 lucruri complet diferite, iar tu ai ramas blocata la prima. Avand in vedere atitudinea cu care ai venit aici, nici n-am de gand sa dau click pe link. Prefer un trader "cu limbaj cretin" care sa imi arate cum sa actionez pe piata decat un trader care sa ma faca sa visez la cai verzi pe pereti.

Thanks for bringing this up - I apparently always mistaked one for another. I just found this article and it certainly is an interesting comparison.

Why do you think the canned food (or dehydrated/frozen one) isn't enough to keep you alive?

Looking over some prices over here in Romania, an NRG-5 MRE pack for one day (2,300 kcal) is worth about 38-45 RON (so let's say about $10) while from only one 11 RON ($2.70) can of food you can get 1,000 kcal already, which means you can get 4,000 kcal for only 44 RON ($10.80).

But again, the big negative side is storage space and probably expiration date as well, unless you freeze that stuff. MREs are, I imagine, waay smaller than a few kgs of canned food. The point I was trying to make is, one can basically get canned stuff for almost half the price of MREs while also hitting the necessary daily calorie count if budget really is an issue.

Purchasing at lower levels doesn't eliminate the risk. It doesn't even lower it. Do you think that a large drop necessarily means it'll get back to today's level? It doesn't. In fact, it could simply go even lower at any point. Best thing you can do is just accept the fact that you might have the same amount of money tomorrow or.. just be richer or poorer. There's no way to create a perfect balance and have only positive outcomes.

Guess this belongs to the Altcoin Discussions board rather than Bitcoin.

I think it's more correct to say the difference between those would be the fact that the ledger would be private instead of public.

There already are a few coins that already hide inputs, outputs and/or txs. For example, if you take a look at a tx from one of the latest Monero blocks, you cannot really see much. The amount of XMR that has been spent is confidential and you do not have much info to look after if you were to analyze it.

I think BEAM (here's an explorer, but I can't open it without JS) hides even more information about txs and has addresses that expire after a certain amount of time. As far as I know, it doesn't even store tx details. Like, if you were to receive some BEAM and you restore your wallet, you would have no information about previous records - all you get is the total balance.. and that's crazy, to say the least. Not sure about the legitimacy of their project, but this feature is certainly awesome from a privacy perspective.

The thing with blockchain analysis is, the more addresses are analyzed, the easier it is to find the source of coins. It's like some kind of puzzle where you have missing pieces.

These addresses are tagged by certain parties, most of them probably being blockchain analysis companies and authorities. One issue I personally see is that they can be wrongfully flagged - it's like receiving a $5 bill from a complete stranger and being accused of being part of some kind of crime proxy because the said bill has been used before you in some kind of crime.

Most people don't know that using previously used addresses in new transactions actually links the present to the past of a Bitcoin owner. That, along with some information such as addresses that belong to a certain company/individual, helps with finding out the source of someone's coins.

Most stablecoins (if not all) are centralized, which means someone has control over them. So if you're using a centralized stablecoin and deposit coins to an address that is under your control, your coins could always be taken away from you. If you are going to deposit coins to a centralized stablecoin address on a centralized exchange, it's a double-risk: you risk both the exchange and the stablecoin governance to decide seizing your funds. So yes, storing your bucks in some stablecoins is a bad idea.

Actually no, a "small update" can easily turn out to be a disaster if you don't take care of the security of your millions worth of BTC. I would rather look up the safest way to open a 3-year old wallet worth that much than risk losing it all and crying out loud later. Do you think the scammers only target high-value addresses? Electrum's devs aren't to blame for it. It's just stupidity at its best.

Disagree. Bitcoin as a replacement of the current economical system is only a fictionary scenario. How do you really imagine the economy'd work in a completely decentralized manner? In a way where money can't be seized and the gov has 0 control over it? Banks won't let this happen, so would any other centralized institution or the rich. It'd be a big failure.

I have tried a few; it really depends on both what you define as "tasty" and the brand. Some of it tastes like shit, even expensive ones.. so purchasing samples before a large order is advisable imo.

There are some that last 7, 10, 15 or even more years. The time they were produced matters a lot though, obviously. Mountain House (apparently switched their name into Crisis Equipped) sells freeze-dried food that lasts up to even 30 years.

To prevent this and have the food last as long as possible, you could purchase canned food or MRE (sometimes canned food is cheaper but I think takes more space) and have a freezer specifically for this purpose. However, keep in mind the following thing:

(source: https://ehealthiq.com/how-long-does-food-last-in-the-freezer/)

Just finished writing a post on someone else's thread about it:


As you are a Newbie, I would highly recommend you not to jump straight into the pumped coins if you're contemplating to. YFI may be $100k in a week or .. $1k. Volatility is a thing. You just don't know, and the timing is imo very risky right now. It's been a long time already since it's been very bullish. Coins that have really hard pumps usually have a period where the hype bursts out, and the price almost always follows. Therefore, just be careful when investing and make sure you don't get yourself screwed up by false hopes.