Let's bring the discussion back to dedollarisation instead of War Propaganda.

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Let me share a theory I heard recently that involves possible Finland joining NATO and collapse of (Soviet)United (Union)States.

We know that one of the major factors contributing to the collapse of the Soviet Union was economical. All those little countries with loads of economical problems were under the Soviet umbrella and Soviets had to provide them with enough incentive to keep the "loyal". To put simply as the economical problems grew, eventually the whole thing collapsed.

A very similar situation is happening again. It is not example a "union" like Soviet Union but more like a bloc were US is absorbing all these little countries into it. All of them (the entire Europe) has been facing a crisis and US not only been incapable of helping but they've made everything a lot worse by printing more dollars and exporting that inflation to Europe and by selling energy at extremely high prices and at small amounts that helped deindustrialization of Europe. Now more little countries like Finland with all their economical problems are being added to this "bloc" while US economy is slowly collapsing itself.

On the other side we have an Eastern Bloc that consists of the strongest economy (China), members from the West (like South America including Brazil), almost all the energy in the world (Iran has been in the bloc from day 1, Arabs are joining in like Saudi regime which is literary the only reason why Petrodollar is alive, tiny Arab nations like Qatar/UAE/..., Venezuela and more),... and the whole bloc's economy has been growing over the past year while separating itself from the failing Western Economy and also from Dollar.

The theory is that some experts suggest that what we are witnessing today is the start of the collapse of United States in a very similar way Soviet Union collapsed.
This also means more tensions, more conflicts and more nuclear threat.... and threat of WWIII which could also be averted when US collapses like Soviet Union did and nuclear war was averted in 1990's.

They are protecting their revenue by implementing blacklists, not reducing it.

If they are unable to run a censorship-free coordinator, then the correct thing to do would be to shut down their centralized coordinator and work towards setting up decentralized ones.

Instead they opted to sacrifice their users' privacy, enforce the nonsense that is "taint", and attack bitcoin itself, in order to protect their own income stream.

Because we are now in a place where if we want privacy, we are surely trying to hide something. That's how the ruling classes look at those seeking privacy. Why can't you be more like the rest of the 99% of population that doesn't mind that we (your government) looks into everything you do? Since you are trying to break the history of your coins, we (the caring government) must keep an eye on you. We only do that as a fight against terrorism, money laundering, and because it's a national security issue, obviously.

You are a bit ambiguous both in terms of your prognostication regarding what might happen and also lack of specificity regarding what constitutes a "dip" worth buying.

#justsaying for a friend.

That's right but I'm afraid the guys behind Wasabi wallet are doing a lot more than just censoring certain transactions. They may be fully cooperating with the government(s) and other agencies in deanonymizing all the transactions that go through their centralized "mixing" coordinator servers.

The problem is the centralization where there is a company that is trying to make money from a software (Wasabi wallet) they've created. If the things get worse with crackdowns the same thing could happen to other centralized companies that have created "regular" wallets like Coinomi. In other words it is not even a privacy-wallet related issue.

The governments will put pressure on these companies (as the centralized point of failure) and demand they comply with whatever they say. They won't stop there either, they will put pressure on any known entity they can get their hands on. I personally believe that the reasons why some core devs have acted strangely is this, like the recent case where one of them advised bitcoin LN nodes start censoring transactions from certain countries!

I read your posts like a humorous magazine. Summary: Russia is falling apart, children are drowning in toilets, grandmothers are praying for Putin, and the Buryats are running out.

blockchain.com is dealing with the illegal images issue by putting a "report" button next to the pictures of the nft. i guess that solves the problem. if someone reports it and they agree it is a bad image, they can just take it down. off their website anyway. maybe that's good enough.

Stompix is correct, YOU want the change, not him, Ordinals are real, they are already in the blockchain, and no change is required to keep them there, on the other hand, a change is needed to ban them, so it's not like we are trying to convince you to let Ordinals in, they are already sitting on the couch, it's the folks who want them out of the house who are desperate for a change in the protocol, so his statement is perfectly stated.

Oh, and as for your little poll thread, please don't take that too seriously, the percentage of Bitcoin users who are going to see it rounded to a whole number will be zero, the only way to find out is to wait a few years and see, if Ordinals stay alive it means enough people wanted them - if they die, it means the opposite, simple free-market capitalism.

Hello everyone.
I think some people interpret this whole situation a little bit wrong so I wanted to share my opinion on this topic.

I think the banking contagion is now over. The government and federal reserves backstopping the banks with the protection of assets above 250k. So we won't see more bank runs because people know that their money is protected now so banks are safe.

Some people and media also say that the system broke and that means that federal reserves won't rise interest rates at the next meeting. And I think it's completely wrong. I think they will just rise rates for another 0.25% as a response to the SVB situation. The inflation is still pretty high and FED will keep fighting it, they can't afford to stop right now.

So I think we will still see a lot more bankruptcies, there will be more layoffs and the stock market will keep suffering from that. This also means that bitcoin will probably find a new bottom.

The Swiss National Bank (SNB), together with the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority, issued a press release stating that the problems of some banks in the US do not pose a risk to Swiss banks. And Credit Suisse has everything in order - it meets the requirements for capital and liquidity.

Well, CS, for its part, immediately announced its intention to get access to the SNB credit line in the amount of $54 billion. "Which will certainly support business and customers."

The collapse of the global financial system is temporarily delayed.

Borrower Eligibility: Any U.S. federally insured depository institution (including a bank, savings association, or credit union) or U.S. branch or agency of a foreign bank that is eligible for primary credit (see 12 CFR 201.4(a)) is eligible to borrow under the Program.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/files/monetary20230312a1.pdf

The thing with software wallets is that there's always a chance of a private key leak simply due to the fact that your wallet's private keys were generated through your computer/mobile device. And add the fact that it's closed source? We have no idea how secure the wallet app is.

Next time, grab a hardware wallet.

without code changes.. the spam, by just sitting in mempool plays with the fee structure
it also plays with the tx per block structure
it also plays with the time expectation for payment settlement

but hey an exploit has been allowed and you dont want to fix it because you think its not broke

oh and the fee mechanism you think will "figure itself out" wont figure itself out to make spam disappear in blocks...
because said spam can manipulate fee's of other people in the pending(zero-confirm) stage of mempool filling