Holy fucking shit.

You could at least try to stay on topic, and then you just invite more divergence from the topic when you cannot at least present your question in a way that is relevant to the topic.

I wouldn't say frequently, but I certainly use it from time to time. It is great at just how easy it is to run from your own node. Unlike Electrum, you don't have to run an Electrum server on top your node. You can just point Sparrow directly at your node, and off it goes. have never used its BIP47/PayNym function.

In what way are you looking to avoid sanctions? If your addresses/UTXOs are already sanctioned, or the addresses you are sending to are sanctioned, then it does not matter what wallet you use to make the transaction. The obvious option is simply not to interact with any service which employs blockchain analysis, treats some UTXOs as tainted, and is anti-fungibility and pro-censorship. Unless you mean about using Whirlpool via Sparrow to remove any "taint" or other such nonsense from your UTXOs? It's certainly a very easy option. As I said, it is incredibly easy to run Sparrow from your own node and also incredibly easy to route any external traffic via Tor, which means you can use Whirlpool completely anonymously and completely trustlessly. And of course there is no risk of being censored with Whirlpool like there is with Wasabi.

If you want the best coinjoining method out there then JoinMarket is where you should go, but it remains harder to set up and use than Samourai/Sparrow.

Or just use a coinjoin implementation which is not actively coordinating with blockchain analysis, is not anti-privacy, and is not pro-censorship.

JoinMarket remains the best but also the hardest for the average user to use. So for them they can either download Samourai on mobile or Sparrow on desktop and use Whirlpool.

Even $100 would be sufficient on my part when i would be still a noob or having that zero knowledge on trading on which it would really be just sufficient because its not on how big the capital you do have but rather its the sustenance that you would be making on prolonging yourself into something which we know that it wont really be that simple specially on dealing with this unpredictable market.

It is really that on wrong perception that the bigger the capital the bigger money you would have or speaking about profits which is really wrong. The target that we should really be thriving for is on how you do able to make your capital way more bigger and lessening up the losses or errors you do make.

For investors, no one wants that to happen, and that's also why we invest in bitcoin more than gold. The higher the volatility, the more profitable, and I really hope bitcoin will always hold this factor. But it is difficult to say what will happen in the future, and as we have also seen, the volatility of bitcoin is gradually shrinking. The returns in recent years have started to be smaller than in previous years as bitcoin has gotten bigger, but in return, it has become safer than it was in years past.

Now there is news from India that Indian Rupee has also gone up to become global currency as 18 countries have agreed to trade in Indian Rupee. This announcement came in the backdrop of the commodities crisis due to sanctions imposed by US and EU on Russia due to Ukraine crisis. These 18 countries include:  
This move will help importers in Indian to import goods by paying in Indian rupee. India is taking full advantage of current wave of de-dollarize, as India is one of key ally of Russia.

So he is finally back at break even. Very crazy how he started out with a good dollar average and then by buying high he put himself in a huge bad bag holding position for over a year. Very glade that he wasnt margin called below $20K like many said he would.

Now we just need to make sure he doesn’t start dumping. Due to the state of the economy he might be forced by his shareholders or management to lighten his load and scale out. If we see that during his earnings report then I’ll cause a sell off obviously.

I wants to begins trading but I don't have money in coven, I took my wife's $200 to put it into trading wallet pending where I will do good in trading returns my wife's's money. Could this be enough to start trade?

My wife's mum's has suspect me of taking my wife's money and she didn't know I have already confess to my wife but my sweetheart doesn't wants her mum to interferes in our family matter that she knows am the one who took the money.

So what do I do now that the money is legal in my hand?

there are a few other ways to protect a trezor.

but this one is nice.

Little progress report:

The high fee unfortunately is "normal" here and that's something we're constantly improving and there's a lot of room for improvement there.

Privacy getting lost is what does not seem normal, but a bug. It'd be only normal if the users would be the largest participants in the rounds, but that's not the case.

I took a look at the only modification we've done for the release: #10100 and it does not seem to be the culprit, because it barely affects anything and I tested against some wallets.

https://github.com/zkSNACKs/WalletWasabi/issues/10462#issuecomment-1501026369

Excellent post.


While my first thought is to bat-slap  serveria.com  for saying miners are greedy, you managed to make a much more intelligent reply.

As I type I am mining with 3 other people one 3 locations.

Due to mining we have built a 280 kwatt solar array. and a 45 kwatt solar array. These produce about 1.25 megawatts a day. This is real wealth created by BTC's financial incentives.

I love NFT's and Ordinals for the ability to continue to incentivize mining of BTC.

I am 66 I so wish I was 36 as I know mining coin with my partners will allow us to build more solar arrays as long as mining continues to sweeten the pot so to speak. If I was 30 years younger I would operate a bit differently.

I see all of this as Satoshi's idea of turning energy into coin.

So I am pro mining my biggest issue is many people do not see what I see. BTC could be used to help pay for 1000 megawatts of solar every year. Throughout  USA and rest of the world.

Below is great adventure in New Jersey Notice only ⅓ of the parking lots have solar.
One of my partners has the service contract to keep the panels they have running.
He has talked with them on and off about expansion to more of the parking lots. One of the talking points is they can earn money mining when the park closes from Jan to April.





Now we see mining for what it is watts turn into coin.
As solar business is real and working we rather BTC stay on top of things and figure ways to keep its rewards and fees for mining.

But to be honest scrypt algo since 2020 fall which is around 2.5 years has been better for us than BTC.

mining LTC/Doge makes more $$ per watt than mining BTC.

And here we have a thread with many people arguing against putting more reward/fee money for BTC

Our main business is not mining.

2 of us own warehouses
1 of us owns a solar business
1 of us me is a retired Navy veteran

So attacking ordinals and NFTs simple makes us diversify into Gpus and Scrypt.

We are very green and want to be more green. Rather than hurting us simply attack miners that do nothing to make the industry green.

one last thing is if all mining dies and all coins die, we will still have solar arrays with 20 years left on warranty making 1.25 megawatts a day which is about 1250 x 14 cents = 175 dollars a day in power or $63,875 a year

But gold and treasury bonds are boring as fuck. If bitcoin trades like these assets then it is volatility will go down and that means bitcoin may stay flat for years. See the gold price chart it is disgusting. It is barely above 2000 bucks and it was already at $1800 in 2013. 10 damn years lost on this if you bought this in 2013. I don’t want bitcoin to be like gold tbh. I don’t want bitcoin to be a boring boomer asset.

Uhhh 1% does not own 99% of Bitcoin. No idea where you got that idea from.

As in topic's subject: MicroStrategy Buys Another 1,045 bitcoins for $29.3m:

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/04/05/microstrategy-buys-another-1045-bitcoin-for-239m/

^ in the article there's a typo, they've spent $29.3m not $23.9m.

https://twitter.com/saylor/status/1643586872839471105?t=L7IzW6T8ltWlRp-9pB3Oow&s=19

How does it make you feel that the company that is not doing very in terms of operating profitability is further increasing its exposure to Bitcoin, and now sits at 140,000 bitcoins. I'm a little uncortable with a thought that if things go further south for them, they might be forced to dump it all on the market.

...

That's interesting as well as very good news dkbit98.

I'd be interested to hear comments and results after their testing is done.

In short: greed. Some people got carried away with a possibility to sell monkey pics to gullible peeps, that's all. Miners got excited too as they're earning extra buck for processing spam transactions. Again, it's greed. 

--Snip--

Therefore, all this hysteria with "give up the dollar" is just a beautiful game of China, with its "not intelligent servants", but no world conspiracy

I have worked with plenty of them in my time as a marketing person, I can tell that they are not secretly paid, people know they are paid, it's open for business, they even list their prices and then promote the coins that pay it and for some reason people still buy it.

You want to know the reason? When an influencer is too big, even things they promote, however terrible they are, may go up because those influencers could make it big, people buy because they think they can make a profit from that and because they do buy it, sometimes it does go up, and they think even terrible projects would go up because influencers promoted it, that's the only reason.

payment codes is where there is a partnership involved.

all donators would have to be in on the secret to know whats the next address to use. and they would need to organise who sends to which address so they dont all just end up sending to the same next address,, and due to lots of different donators its hard to do because a honeypot can be done where the authorities become a partner(pretend to be a donator to get in the secret reveal club) and get the secret thus the honeypot then knows the list of addresses


also later(separate flaw) when its time to spend funds received. usually utxos are clumped together as multiple inputs, so unless spending each utxo individually by manually choosing utxo's for input to never co-mingling utxo's into one spend. those numerous addresses may end up being linked later

as for blackhat. he is the person that wants other peoples posts deleted and people banned and tries to tell people that they should not use bitcoin normally and promotes other networks and services that end up messing with people more. and he is in complete ignorant blindness of his actions. he prefers other networks so all insults he says to me apply to him 1000x

he doesnt want you to think for yourself or do your own research he just wants you to follow the group narrative you got recruited into by his forum wife.

even now in this topic he avoids the regulators guidance of how legit services should treat mixers.

for instance he only displays info that echos his preconceived confirmation bias (sounds like stuff he likes to hear). rather then things that are part of the real world. take the chain analysis stats. .. chain analysis only know of SOME criminal activity due to SOME poorly made privacy options. however there are many other better ones that chain analysis cant audit.

EG the police only know about the crimes that got reported. although there are xX more crimes that go unreported. thus crime stats are BS