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Ich sags nur ungern, aber Bitcoin ersetzt Banking und die nötigen Sicherheitsstandarts nicht
Es ist ein neues (Internet-) Asset, braucht aber genügend Sicherheit und Know-how zur Verwahrung und Gebrauch
ich sag's gerne: wenn man schon über "genügend Sicherheit und Know-how zur Verwahrung und Gebrauch" nachdenkt, dann doch bitte auf Grundlage der einzigen digitalen Währung, die digital scarcity erreicht hat, also am sichersten und dezentralsten ist: bitcoin es wäre ein logischer Fehler woanders zu beginnen. wenn man nicht bitcoin nutzen will, kann man auch beim fiat system bleiben. |
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could be the reason for the small drop... buy the dip https://cointelegraph.com/news/btc-and-okb-plunge-after-okex-suspends-withdrawals"Major exchange OKEx suddenly suspended crypto withdrawals while one its key custodians cooperates with an investigation, shaking the crypto markets Major crypto asset exchange OKEx has suspended cryptocurrency withdrawals, announcing that one of the holders of its private keys is “currently cooperating with a public security bureau” concerning ongoing “investigations.” The exchange noted that it has been “out of touch” with the key-holder, preventing the "associated authorization" from being completed. OKEx plans to resume digital asset withdrawals “immediately” once the key-holder “is able to authorize the transaction.”" if I was a member of a banking cartel/consortium and I would want to fight bitcoin since it threatens my 500 year monopoly on handling peoples money I would form a major bitcoin exchange. best way of manipulating the price, do rug pulls, etc. funny thing is that my competing exchanges wouldn't even mind my business since it would create volatility which is how my competing exchanges make money. |
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observing a 800btc buy wall at $11290 at fines getting challenged.
it has been a long time for me to observe such a wall.
Woah..being eaten!
going down!
edit: wall is getting pulled and put back at lower/higher prices. only 656 btc left
edit2: looks like the wall was able to hold the price. it is gone now, price at 11333
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/repeated rant on
I watched as a young child as my parents marched in the 60's for civil rights and to end regime change wars. I watched them march in the 70's over gas shortages engineered by nation states and big oil companies. These entities operating with complete disregard towards environmental consequences and without a ounce of moral decency.
They carried this fight into my adulthood in the 80's and 90's where I picked up their cry and joined in protesting and being 'green' as we know it now, before it was even really a thing. Somewhere in the back of my mind this thought that they would live to see the changes we had all dreamed of.
The dream of not passing on this continued criminal neglect and destruction of our Planet.
My parents are gone now and I am left with carrying on the fight as best as I am able. Teaching my children as I was taught as best I can.
That this Earth we call home is it.
There is literally no other place to go...and why would we? As much as I advocate a colony on Mars and for humanity to expand into the final frontier of space we need to take care of our own backyard first.
Saying that, it doesnt have to be one or the other..it can and should be both...and more.
We are capable of so much...and we have more than enough resources AND production facilities for everyone. Many times over if we take a responsible long term custodial approach to this amazingly beautiful place we live on.
I have been lucky enough to travel some..and I can tell you I have wept with joy and wonder at the shear awesomeness that is Mother Nature. The grand vistas and profusion of life that abound throughout multiple ecosystems.
Our Mother is hurting now...and it is past time for change.
In my lifetime I have seen the gradual changes that are now increasing more rapidly. Event piling on event in cascade towards a future where life as we know it might not be possible on the surface of our planet anymore.
I am sick and tired of it. It has to change. I am unwilling to keep passing this off to the next generation.
We have to act now..before its too late.
/repeated rant off
i don't think greatness of nature is in danger. the ability to support humankind is. we will have to rely on technology I am afraid. |
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observing 10737. we need to get above 10750 to get some little run up started.
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all the national geographic documentaries about wildlife, all the books we read as kids about lions and tigers and gorillas - we always thought there is a vast and rich and enormous mammal fauna covering the entire planet. truth is, the only thing covering the planet is us, on an exponential rate. mammal "wildlife" is a folklore, a fairy tale, a facade - an utopia from the past. welcome to the Anthropocene, get ready for a complete artificial Star Trek like environment. forests are no primeval forests but artificially planted timberland. nature is reduced to curated parks and golf course -like landscapes. we were part of nature when we gatherers and hunters. we have chosen to eat the fruit of knowledge and got kicked out of paradise. we've built our own nature. with back jack and hookers. this train has left the station. nature is gone. the only question left to answer is how much nature we need to survive as a species. how much diversity of mammals or insects is needed for humankind to survive? maybe more than is left presently, maybe less - we will find out in the coming centuries. this is not the usual "we are killing the planet, let's go back to gatherers and hunters to save nature" environmentalists stupidity (which unfortunately can serve as a nice source of future "eco-fascism" suppression of human rights) or the usual cultural pessimism tune of "we are going down". it is just a fact that we have to acknowledge - nature is gone, curated "nature" is the new reality. also not suggesting that we should not try to treat animals more ethically or that we shouldn't try to preserve nature where it still exists. all this is important but we cannot escape "our" nature - which is to create our own environment globally. |
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remember the last pump in July? it came out of nowhere. bitcoiners were bored to death, several months of sideways had erased all bullishness. the bullishness came back very very strong during that pump. if anyone posted that we would be stuck under $10600 in October, no one would have merited that. August and September were sideways with a larger drop beginning of September. now everyone waits for the election. it is better to go sideways with some minor corrections for a longer time as if price would have unsustainably gotten too high (due to the July bullishness) too soon and print a double top on ath. if 2020 turns out to be only 25-30% gain in btc price it is not a catastrophe. year started around $7k. if you want extraordinary gains you need to be extraordinary humble. 100k within 12 months? that is humble enough...  |
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(...)
Thanks man, I appreciate the comment, which applies to most of us here.
About exposure, yeah, this is the only thing I'll regret when we moon. The fiat I could've invested in BTC, but didn't... Well, it is what it is, now I'm in HoDL mode and will wait it out.
As LFC says, we may get there next year. I'm OK even if we get there in 2022-2023. Of course, "getting there" means different things to different people. For me, it means BTC = $100k. I do expect BTC to reach far higher values than this though, even reaching $1M and beyond.
We'll know soon enough.
Thanks, AlcoHoDL.
(...) thing is... it isn't. you could just buy more/re-allocate  don't you feel short on btc? |
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Beim Flippening gehts nicht um den Preis, sondern um das MarketCap. Und da sind wir aktuell bei einem x5 von Bitcoin entfernt.
Mit Einführung von Eth 2.0 erwarte ich ein x2. Und nächstes Jahr ist sicher noch mehr drin, also ich hab mit 2021 gestimmt. Wobei ich mir nicht ganz sicher bin, ob es nächstes Jahr passiert. Spätestens 2022 wirds kommen. Darauf würd ich sogar wetten.
achso... das ist natürlich was anderes und ist natürlich auch nur ein sehr begrenzt aussagefähiger Parameter. vor allem, wenn man die vielen mio ETH betrachtet, die pre-mined sind. sind die mit in die market cap von eth eingerechnet? ich nehme mal an, dass dies so ist. dann hat dieser Parameter keine Bedeutung. lasst uns PavillonCoin erfinden. wir machen kein hard cap aber dafür pre-minen wir uns millionen PCoins in unsere eigene wallet. dann verkaufen wir ein paar PCoins für 1 mio pro stück und damit haben wir einen Marktpreis. Den multiziplieren wir mit der menge der hergestellten PavillonCoins und schwupp haben wir ein PavillionCoin flippening. ohne hard cap und ohne emissions schedule und mit pre-mine kann man keine digital scarcity erreichen. ohne digital scarcity kann es kein digitales Geld sein. was will eth denn eigentlich sein? world computer? Geld? |
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Introducing Bitcoin on TRON
We’re excited to be the first to support Bitcoin on TRON (BTCTRON) today! Starting now, Poloniex customers can use our new Swap feature to exchange their Bitcoin to BTCTRON for free directly from within their Poloniex Wallet. BTCTRON is a type of wrapped Bitcoin token that exists on the TRON blockchain. But... Whatever for? as always: to lure folks into new Ponzinomics adventures. |
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On the Bitmex drama, my thoughts. Some bitcoin companies are like lab rats: they have been left alone to experiment things that one day will become part of the new FINancialTECHnology world. Take Bitmex: bringing futures to the next level right? or finex or any other. Then they come and tell you, hey boy, this is our territory, how do you dare? And then they publicly admit that "Digital assets hold great promise for our derivatives market and for our economy". Yeah, right? Thumbs up to 600watt, somac. for https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg55302340#msg55302340With CME, Bakkt and Grayscale, the US derivate market is becoming of "significant size", which was one of the main concerns of SEC. The other - manipulations of almost anonymous high leverage traders operating on Mex is now in the process of solving. This is not only CFTC and SEC concern but possibly the main "bart generator" for the last 2 years. So in any possible way, Mex news is good for Bitcoin. The 3% drop in the price is by no means to be compared with the benefits of manipulators being kicked out of the market. It is quite possible that the CFTC statement "Digital assets hold great promise for our derivatives market and for our economy" is related to a possible ETF approval, as also suggested in this article: https://bitcoinexchangeguide.com/a-big-positive-step-towards-the-bitcoin-etf-approval/Although, IMO, institutions will find a way to get into Bitcoin without an ETF. We've seen however, that in the last months despite the huge purchases, the price didn't move as much as it should. The only logical explanation is of course the fraudulent shorting using Mex and other not well regulated exchanges. There is also a non logical explanation. As we are normal people here, carefuly thinking about every detail, we tend to forget that there are people who are not like us. Take for example Las Vegas - how many addicted people are in the casinos losing all the cash they bring in their pockets! The same is with the addicted daily traders, who can't be called manipulators, but like vicious brainless piranhas eat the price down until their stash is gone in an endless stop loss chase. The removal of Mex shorters will tip the balance against the piranhas and in favour of the natural growth. So I applaud the CFTC action and hopefully it will shut down Mex and put their owners and other money launderers in jail, where they belong! I did merit this post because I think the idea expressed has some plausibility. but... I strongly oppose the the highlighted part. it is cheap to demand jail for folks you don't know personally. the problem is that for someone this may become very personal. I was put in jail on several occasions mainly for political reasons fighting against and also breaking drug laws. jail is a serious matter. it is a very archaic punishment. to be locked into a small cell is a shocking experience. you cannot go anywhere anymore and this has power to break your back. they wanted to lock me up for 10 years during my latest trial. the law that they used to press the charges in my case was not even anti-drug law but regarded pharmacy. the European High Court had to step in and declare the prosecutor's and court's strategy unconstitutional. the incident was more than a decade ago but the the trial is still not resolved. for several years this 10 yer sentence was hanging above my life like a Damocles sword. with wife and kids this ain't no fun and gave me serious insights and learning experience regarding jail, police, punishment etc. my take is that jail should be exclusively for violent crimes. not at all for drug related stuff. and scamming greedy gamblers is not on my list of things that I want the U.S. jail system to the care of. I have no clue if and to what extend Hayes did steal his customers money. if he did, a fair trial would be ok to call out for. is there evidence that he did? |
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^ Got yourself a vacant cruise ship (conveniently already registered in a tax haven)?
MS Satoshi Oh yes, I bought a cruise ship The Crypto Cruise Ship  Wow, are you serious? That's a bit bigger than a seastead. Is it this actual one that you are refitting to be bitcoin-oriented? Sounds like an interesting venture, Elwar. Congrats! Any timeshare presentations we can attend to check it out for a few nights free? Yep, that is a render of the actual ship we purchased (which we are not allowed to name) refitted with our logos. 245 meters long, 777 cabins. Cabins starting at $25,000. The auction for the rooms starts November 5th. https://ocean.builders/cruiseshipWe'll be accepting bitcoin at all businesses on the ship. holy fuck, that is impressive. almost as big as the titanic. wishing you luck. |
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I seriously worry about being able to "cash out" when "fuck you" rich. I fear that, by that time, all the cameras, guns, machetes, rusty pipes and what have you, will be pointing at us HoDLers, even going so far as to label us criminals, DPR v.2 (or is it v.3?), or some other "guilty-until-proven-innocent" accusation. It all depends on how "accepted" Bitcoin will be at that point. And, as you know, timescales in Bitcoin time are very short, meaning that we'll know quite soon. It's all good to imagine an ideal world where TPTB have accepted and even endorsed Bitcoin, but I don't think this will be an easy battle. We may win, but there will be blood.
Of course this "cashing out" may not even be necessary, if things play out in Bitcoin's favour, and BTC (or satoshi, or whatever fraction of a satoshi results from a 2nd layer solution, should 1 BTC > $1M) ends up being usable in buying everyday goods and services. This would be an ideal situation, in which BTC's intrinsic value stays in the BTC realm and we directly use it to survive (food, shelter, Lambos, hookers, blow, the usual necessities). But, somehow, I don't think it will be that easy. Not when the establishment sees their power taken away. They won't surrender without a fight.
My advice is to be prepared for any possible outcome. Personally, I'm more exposed to BTC than I am to more traditional investments, but I can surely survive (and ever enjoy the occasional little pleasures—but nowhere near "fuck you" rich status) without touching my BTC. I just follow the "invest what you can afford to lose" motto, while at the same time supporting and firmly believing that Bitcoin will succeed.
In short, as Bitcoin's value is rising, my feelings are bittersweet. Sweeter than bitter, of course, but there's always that aftertaste you get when chewing a dirty piece of paper...
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Alcohodl, it is ok to get fkn rich due to years of hardened bitcoin hodl. you don't need to be scared. you earned it and folks will admire you for it. I doubt that bitcoiners will have to fear getting robbed more than the casual millionaire next door. you deserve it because you went down the rabbit whole and put money in some magic internet money shit when everyone laughed about it. you helped this revolution get ignited, you carried the torch in a critical time of its existence. when it was vulnerable. the bitcoin KI will not forget you and will reward you royally. it will be easy. the difficult times were the gut wrenching multiyear bears. the next difficult times are now. but the future is bright, bro. and.. how do you sleep with less than 90% bitcoin exposure? |
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bitcoinmaximalist.net ? A W E S O M E. it is such a relief to encounter this bitcoin-only stuff. ty |
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Wenn dann irgendwann mal die Staking Zeit bei Ethereum anfängt, werden ja sicherlich einige keine 32 ETH sein eigen nennen und einer Staking Node seine ETH zur Verfügung stellen, um an den Rewards beteiligt zu werden. Wie sieht es überhaupt hier bei euch aus? Hat jemand vor eine Node zu betreiben? Vielleicht hätte der eine oder andere eher Lust seine ETH jemanden von hier "zur Verfügung zu stellen"?
Vielleicht kann der Chef aus dem Gartenpavillion da genauer antworten aber die meisten PoS Coins haben generell die Möglichkeit, die eigenen Coins zu einem beliebigen Node zu "delegieren". Das müsste doch auch bei Ethereum gehen?
Ansonsten gab es heute diesen interessanten Artikel zu Ethereum, wo Vitalik Buterin sagt, dass vor dem Beginn des PoS Ethereum ETH 1.0 bereits durch L2 Lösungen auf bis zu 100.000 Transaktionen pro Sekunde skalierbar sein soll und dementsprechend vielleicht gar kein ETH 2.0 nötig sei: Außerdem teilte Vitalik die langfristigen Aussichten des neuen Ansatzes zur Skalierbarkeit. Er schätzt, dass Ethereum (ETH), sobald die optimistischen Rollups vollständig implementiert sind und der Übergang zu ETH2 beginnt, 100.000 Transaktionen pro Sekunde verarbeiten kann (Phase 1.5). In ETH2 mit seiner geshardeten Infrastruktur werden hingegen „nur“ 1.000-5.000 TPS verfügbar sein. Buterin schrieb diesbezüglich: Es erscheint mir sehr plausibel, dass, wenn Phase 2 endlich kommt, sich im Grunde niemand mehr dafür interessieren wird. Jeder wird sich bereits an eine Rollup-zentrierte Welt angepasst haben, ob es uns gefällt oder nicht und bis dahin wird es einfacher sein, diesen Weg weiter zu beschreiten, als zu versuchen, alle wieder in die Basischain zurückzubringen, ohne einen klaren Nutzen und eine 20-100-fache Reduzierung der Skalierbarkeit zu haben. verstehe ich nicht. man braucht jetzt nicht mehr auf das eine Verspechen zu warten, weil es ein neues Versprechen gibt, das vielversprechender ist? habe gerade den poll dieses threads entdeckt. fast 50% der voter rechnen damit, dass eth 30x gegenüber bitcoin steigt nächstes jahr? und bitcoin sich aber garnicht bewegt. DAS ist ja sportlich. da wette ich dagegen. jemand lust? |
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Resting tonight...finished a couple of books recently.
"The dark forest"- by Cixin Liu (following the 'The Three-Body problem")
Great sci-fi, many twists and turns that leave you in suspension until almost the very end.
"The price of tomorrow" by Jeff Booth. The main thesis is that technology is inherently deflationary and it cannot be stopped. The society needs to re-organized because the inflation will not be here any time soon. Lots of references to bitcoin.
"The infinite machine" by Camilla Russo.
Maybe you don't care about cough-ethereum-cough, but i like to know about the competitors.
In fact-here is a question:
Do you think that recent practical abandonment of eth 2.0 in lieu of level 2 solutions (mostly zk-rollups), etc means that eth had bitten more than it can chew and it is choking on this (Defi, etc) as we speak? Their main head honcho, VB, recently opined that there would not be eth 2.0 in all practical senses (just 1.5+rollups).
Mainly: are they practically went into such code complexity that they would not be able to solve it and, hence, prone to an outright collapse?
If so, btc and newer chains might benefit.
merited for suggesting reading books. (I just pretend I didn't see the eth stuff) imagine you really take it serious and decide to read one book per week, no matter what comes. (I know that there are folks who would think now "only one book a week?", but I am talking about the regular hard working bitcoiner with lots of time devoted to several social media shit trying to keep up with bitcoin development all around) that makes 50 books a year. 500 in 10 years, 1500 in 30 years. 1500 is a semi sized bookshelf in a bookshop. 1500 is nothing. an entire life devoted to books and all you get is one measly shelf. be very picky about what you read, don't waste time with mediocre books. I would be interested to hear suggestions of good reads of you guys. books I am reading right now: "A history of the World in 100 Objects" by Neil mc Gregor "Dead Men's Trousers" by Irvine Welch (3rd part of Trainspotting!) "The meaning of War" by Ian Mortimer |
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250 btc buy wall on stamp @10550
sorry for off-topic
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ernsthafte frage: wieviele eth fullnodes gibt es? wo kann ich nachsehen? wer weiss darüber bescheid?
die ca 8860 nodes die ethernodes.org zählt sind keine fullnodes oder?
Ja, ethernodes zeigt alle Full Nodes. Wobei es keine Auskunft darüber gibt in welchem sync- mode die nodes betrieben werden. Ein Fast sync Node validiert halt nicht die komplette Chain, sondern glaub nur die letzten 1024 Blöcke, Full Sync schon. Kann man darüber streiten ob Fast Sync Nodes noch als Full Nodes zählen. Dann gibts noch Archival Nodes, die syncen dann nochmal länger, weil sie Snapshots des kompletten Netzwerks erstellen. Also ja es zeigt alle nodes, aber halt nicht den Sync- Mode. Und wenn du dir den Sync Status der Nodes ansiehst, siehst du, dass 21,4% der Nodes im Moment nicht synchronisiert sind. Vollständig synchronisiert sind also ~6900 Nodes.  Quellewelcher art von den nodes, die du aufgezählt hast, würden denn technisch am ehesten einer bitcoin fullnode entsprechen? (also die gesamte Geschichte und den aktuellen Status des gesamten Netzwerkes validieren) wo kann man zahlen oder Schätzungen dazu finden, wieviele Full Sync nodes laufen und wieviele Archival Nodes? vielen dank für's erklären. |
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ernsthafte frage: wieviele eth fullnodes gibt es? wo kann ich nachsehen? wer weiss darüber bescheid?
die ca 8860 nodes die ethernodes.org zählt sind keine fullnodes oder?
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