Yeah, wouldn't this be more state level spying rather than independent malicious actors? First, to tamper with a USB socket in plain sight in public seems rather high risk, for relatively low reward? At least, you don't hear of it too often. I mean, there's plenty of better places to do it than a airport with all the cameras, and security walking about. However, you typical cheap hotel probably isn't going to have this sophisticated attacks, they'd be much more likely to do identity theft with the documents you provide or alternatively run off with your credit card.

I have a 50,000mah one which I know wasn't allowed, which I admit is significantly larger than your usual power bank. I believe the limit is in the 20kmah mark, and you're allowed two of them, which have to be carried in your hand luggage due to risk of the lithium battery catching fire.

Here you go:

So, it's not specifically the volume of the battery pack, but the rating of watt hours per battery, then you're limited to two. I know I've looked this up before due to going off the grid for a few weeks. For example, when going to Nepal I had to enquire, and see if I could get written permission for boarding with a higher value, which they never got back to me. So, I ended up bringing two around the 24/26kmah.

Though, from what I checked this rule of thumb (100 watt hours) is generally universal in the aviation industry.

Depends on the length of travel. At some point that brick is going to need charging.

Right, I'm going to agree with tokeweed here. I'm letting the face offs impair my judgement . Here are my predictions (not necessarily what I'm putting on a betting slip):

Alexander Volkov
I'm thinking he keeps his distance, mitigates the haymaker attack with his superior height, and wins on a decision.

Movsar Evloev
I'll probably be betting Ige, but Evloev probably takes this one. Depends on how Ige manages in the first round.

Lucas Almeida
Karine Silva
Ode Osbourne
Askar Mozharov
Karolina Kowalkiewicz
Alex da Silva
Damon Jackson
Niklas Stolze
Tony Gravely
Jeff Molina
Rinat Fakhretdinov
Erin Blanchfield

Has to be said I missed some of the weigh ins, although caught most of the main card. I'm quite excited for the Andreas Michailidis fight, as he's always pretty entertaining, although I probably do see him getting knocked out, as he can be quite wild swinging at times.

My most confident picks would be: Erin Blanchfield, Rinat Fakhretdinov, and Alex da Silva. Although, I probably won't be putting down much money this weekend, and keeping it for a future event.

I don't think it was government enforced, the masks they were coming out with wouldn't have met any medical specification at all. It was solely for profit, and nothing else. Even companies that didn't normally venture into the fashion side of things were making merchandise that were face masks, it was immoral, and quite frankly a wake up call to capitalism.

Although, yeah small businesses were the ones forced to close since they didn't have the logistics, and I do believe that more aid should have been granted. Depending on the country you're from some didn't have any aid at all, which was ridiculous. However, the government did give aid to certain big companies which is the ridiculous thing about it. In the UK there was uproar because of certain bigger companies exploiting furlough.

That's true, and also grocery stores which delivered, which happened to be the larger ones with the logistics to do that. I believe some were also charging for priority slots before that was clamped down on.

Yeah OP said the doctor was the owner, but even then usually you still have to go through the normal practices, since especially with medical facilities there's laws about accepting payments, and insurances etc. Obviously, this is a private hospital, and in a different country so I'm not truly familiar with the process. There's also the issue with taxes, and stuff. Since the owner has to pay his workers, taking payment not on the system seems weird.

Yeah, I can understand that. At the moment, like I said I'm only using my Bitcoin for things that I couldn't get with fiat. Then using Bitcoin to boost my wealth if/when it actually increases. Although, I haven't sold any for a while now.

I use to want to use it as a currency, and I was probably within the mindset of you should use it for everything, but that has changed over the years for me. I do think it's vital that people are using it for both though.

I guess it entirely depends on the situation of the person. Where I live there aren't too many places accepting Bitcoin. Those in cities will likely have much more options. The services I use to get my stuff don't currently use it. I could use a payment processor, but that's just going around the fence, when I could just jump over it using fiat.

Nothing better than the birth of your child, I'm sure besides paying in Bitcoin it was a unforgettable experience, and I wish all of you health, and happiness! However, going back onto the Bitcoin side of things, I'm pretty sure this might be one of the first births paid in Bitcoin. Although, that kind of saddens me, since I believe all healthcare should be free, and wouldn't want to be in this position myself.

When Bitcoin hits a million quid per Bitcoin it might just be the most expensive child ever too , nah in all seriousness, I'm happy for you, and your wife! You may have just made some history too.

Although, I didn't think the doctor would be allowed to do that, unless hospitals work different from where I'm from.

I didn't say I wasn't nitpicking .

Alright, I see the angle you're coming from. That's quite possibly true. I mean, I've always said I'd rather not find out who Satoshi is, because there definitely have been accusations of who they may have been, and actually confirming any of that could potentially cause issues for Bitcoin. You know, if there's an accusation that he's a criminal, and then that's proven correct, I can see that being an issue.


What do you mean by censor? Like completely remove them from the network or redistribute them somehow? Not sure I would agree with either, I mean who gives us the right to touch someone else's coins, regardless how inactive or how problematic they could be?

I'm not saying you're wrong though, that's just my personal view point. I'm sure many people would actually advocate for doing something with Satoshi's coins.

Talk about silver linings...
I think that's the main reason why Bitcoin is being used as a reserve currency rather than a traditional currency these days. It has no doubt effected me, and how I treat Bitcoin. Like I said, I hardly spend my Bitcoin these days, and in the next few years that isn't likely to change. The potential of Bitcoin's price, is probably our undoing.

If you don't declare the correct amount, and customs open it you'll basically be charged the VAT if applicable, tax, and the admin costs for it to be delivered or worse completely seized, and likely destroyed. So, yeah you should be declaring the correct values on your imports. Factor it in to your mining costs, and profits. If it doesn't benefit you, don't mine.

If they did do this, I'd seriously be considering who I'm buying the miner from, and if it's going to be what you even paid for. That would be some pretty shady stuff, with big consequences for them, i.e not worth the risk. Most sellers, and manufacturers are offered an incentive to declare correct values, because it doesn't bite them in the arse. It's up to the customer whether they want to pay those taxes or not.

I don't use half of these, but I will say that Sportsbet do have a nice search feature that a lot of other gambling websites don't seem to implement. I actually, don't like the way Sportsbet is set out with the categories, but the search feature makes up for it. Even fiat gambling websites don't tend to have a search feature like this.

So, if you're going to be designing a gambling platform, it's probably worth considering. I imagine most users lean towards using the search function rather than going through the categories manually. Especially, when betting on obscure sports, that you might not be familiar with. For example, with the World Cup coming up you might know France are playing, but you might not know it's the qualifying or the actual world cup, so typing in "France", generally clears that up for you.

You might not get as much interest, but don't put yourself out of pocket. Riddles without a reward will still be appreciated, especially with the sort of teaching approach you took with finding the correct answer.

Now that you've at least proven that the riddles were legitimate, you could contact the moderators of wherever you think might get you banned, and send them this way. That might make it less likely that you get banned, especially if they give you their permission to post. I'm sure they would appreciate it. Otherwise, don't worry about it their loss.

Right. Even securing Bitcoin probably needs to become a little easier. I do believe that hardware wallets have brought us leaps, and bounds in terms of ease of use. However, there's an additional cost to that, whereas a lot of people will not want that additional expense.

Even if we say that's their problem, really we should be considering it our problem since adoption means making it as easy as possible to not only understand, but to access the most secure ways, without actually understanding security to a good level. Fiat you currently can do that, at the expense of a third party. I imagine in a decade or so, banks will be offering their services for Bitcoin, at least the security aspect. Now, for me personally I would never entertain the idea of using a bank for the majority of my wealth again, but I have to admit some people will probably benefit from it.

Yeah, I'm not sure we're ever going to overcome that mentality. Humans like convenience, and the non reversible aspect of Bitcoin only really appeals to certain types of people. I guess what we could see in the future is a organisation which has a large share of the network, which offers a chargeback service by trying to reverse transactions that have been made fraudulently. I mean, I think we're starting to get into tin foil hat territory there as the costs wouldn't likely justify it, but that might play a part in the justification for having a large network share.  

Not even because of the cost in doing so (which I'm ignoring for now), but the fact that you're then raising the bar for accessibility since mining takes a bit of knowledge to get going.

Depends how you look at it. If electric cars don't become less expensive than they're, with at least the same mileage as you would get filling up a regular car, then electric cars could make it more difficult for the poor. Since, cars requiring fuel will become less used, and therefore fuel becomes a sort of niche product with much less demand, which would in turn increase the cost per litre.

This is especially true when you throw the UK in the mix which is banning the sale of any new car that isn't electric in 2030. If you haven't converted by then, and can't afford to convert you'll likely be paying massive amounts per litre of fuel.

At the moment, electric cars are too expensive. You're looking at 30-40k. Anything less only has about a 100 mile range which is absolutely shocking compared to the fuel alternatives. Fuel costs are currently £1.83 per litre, and that's likely to shoot up to above £2 a litre in a few months. Then when 2030 comes on you kind of get a compounded increase, due to the pandemic, war, and inflation. Then, obviously you're hit by the law being brought in banning new car sales that aren't electric.

It was painfully obvious that pretty much every company wanted to profit from it. Just look at how many companies released some sort of branded face mask...face masks which aren't even that effective compared to surgical masks or better yet rated face masks. However, they were selling them with the premise that they would help. It was disgusting beyond belief.

Then you had people basically buying toilet roll, and bottled water on mass, and trying to sell it with a massive chunk of money on it. If anything, the pandemic proved to me how much people actually care about people, which isn't a lot, and how much they value money, which is the number one driving factor of most people's existence, which is sad to think.

I do understand that this isn't exactly their doing, we're pressured to think like this by our economy, but that doesn't make it any less wrong to do.

You're free to customise the forum to your liking via custom CSS. I don't use the forum's default UI. I've customised it to be easier on the eyes at night, but also a theme similar to the terminals in the game Fallout. I know that isn't everyone's cup of tea, but definitely makes things more enjoyable.

Even if you aren't overly familiar with programming, learning enough CSS to customise basic things probably wouldn't take long at all. You could use an extension to change the CSS automatically, get a template, and then extract that CSS, and edit it to your content.

Although, for why the forum was designed this way, it's default SMF. theymos hasn't edited the look of the forum. I do believe there used to be an alternative theme with SMF, but was disabled along with the additional statistics.

I'm definitely not in a profit although if I bet a little more wisely, i.e more singles, and short accumulators I'd probably be decent. Although, due to the way I do bet I'm definitely down, and I don't care for adding it all up either . That would probably be a rather depressing evening of counting.

Anyway, I'm going to try a new method this weekend. I'm actually going to watch the weigh ins, and actually base my bets on it, well at least the one's I haven't really got a strong opinion on. I've never done this before as I usually ignore the weigh ins, as I feel they can be misleading, and subjective based on how the fighters look. I mean look at Oliveira a few weeks ago missing weight, and then absolutely smashing it.

I have a few:

- Bitcoin is too difficult for mass adoption, whether that's as a mainstream currency or a reserve fund type currency.

- While having the freedom to be your own bank, it doesn't suit everyone, and could present problems if mass adoption ever did occur.

That's based on speculation which has yet to be proven. You might be right, but I don't think we can label this a truth until it's in fact a truth.

Potentially, although the cost justification would be huge. I guess as less miners are mining in the future, due to no more block rewards, then it's probably more of a possibility. However, that's so far away, I'm not going to be around to see it.

Fair play, I thought I was security conscious, but I'll be honest I've never even thought about the possibility of a socket being compromised. I mean, even now that I've been made more aware that these things do happen, I imagine they're slim chanced. Would be interested seeing when, and where this happened, and to what extent they gained access to someone's device. I do use Qubes OS with a sys-usb for unknown usb devices, but never really thought about it with charging the phone. Although, my Bitcoin hasn't ever touched my phone, so not that I have to worry about that.

Aren't you limited by what you can carry with battery banks anyhow. I always thought there was a maximum of two at a certain volume. Otherwise, I'd be bringing more of them on my travels.

For that you could bring a voltage checker. They're cheap, and if you've done any electricity work in the house you've probably already got one.

Any reason why you're using bitaddress.org then importing into Electrum? You could effectively generate a paper wallet via using Electrum offline or Bitcoin Core. Obviously, verifying the download of them, and then generating the private key offline.

In my opinion, there's not much use in using bitaddress if you have access to Electrum or Bitcoin Core. There's just additional risks depending on how you generated it via bitaddress.  

What other wallet generators are you using? They could be unsafe or compromised, which could effectively steal your private key, and output a completely different address. It's best to import it via Electrum/Bitcoin Core which has been verified. That way, you know you've got the correct software, and aren't trusting a unknown source.

It's a default SMF feature, which has been explained has since been removed. For additional confirmation, I don't see anyone's email when they report.

Well, this forum has never been truly decentralised, and not that it needs to be either. Not everything needs to be decentralised, and there's obvious examples of it being detrimental. Although, there are features like the trust system which tries to be decentralised as much as possible, which might be what you're thinking of.

What's collected on this forum (IPs) are used for account recoveries, so while the privacy isn't completely private, it's at least used for something useful.