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181  Other / Off-topic / Re: Something New I Learned About Wifi on: September 06, 2023, 09:52:32 AM
Shouldn't that information be private? Or Is it safe to post it on public forum? Unfortunately, couldn't go through it because of the moral problem of going through what is probably someone's private info that should be kept private with or without the owners consent.


Consent should not be taken from people who are ignorant or don't understand what they are consenting to unless you are certain it will never be abused
182  Other / Politics & Society / Re: changes need to be made on: September 05, 2023, 08:31:01 AM
If by Economic Nodes they mean Nodes that participate in meaningful Economic or Network activities. Or Nodes that contribute to the proper functioning of the Bitcoin system rather than idle ones then it may be a good idea because that will mean every honest & working participant can easily participate in Network consensus with little to no restrictions or with low barrier to entry. So they could use Proof of Work consensus mechanism to determine who quafies as economic node or who has contributed significantly to the economy or network. The contributions have to solve useful problem properly with little to no issue.


Nevertheless, the right consensus or voting method for the Bitcoin System is the one with little to zero restriction, to enable anyone, whether new or old participate or contribute to the network without limit. Qualified contributions qualify as economic nodes and the contributors are ranked up by the weight of their useful contributions which will give them higher voting powers. This voting power can be accumulated on any part of the decentralized Network and used in future voting on the area on the Network that is related/similar to contributors works, talents or interests






For now, any development by core that is against the Bitcoin ideals will fail or won't be embraced by the Bitcoin community. There will be competing ideas and developers that take over the roles of lazy, dumb and anti-Bitcoin developers. This will be happening at a rate their minds cannot comprehend
183  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: How can we support Bitcoin if Satoshi demands life sentencing for non-violence on: September 04, 2023, 05:08:31 PM
The ideals of the one you claim is Satoshi is completely opposite of what Bitcoin represents. This is part of the reason we believe he's not Satoshi, as Satoshi ideals are in his creation, works and writings. Whoever or whatever claims he/it is Satoshi but goes against the Bitcoin ideals/principles is fake satoshi  and should not be taken seriously. Even Bitcoin will not listen to such person as he doesn't speak the language it understands. Both (Bitcoin and fake satoshi) are incompatible.

In regards to demanding life sentences for ulbrich, well, if he actually purposely use his marketplace for evil especially for things that are very harmful to society then people like him typically reap what they sow which could be as bad as a life sentence. Other than that, his marketplace seems to be free as Bitcoin, maybe with lack of transparency which maybe necessary to expose evil. Tech like that are typically used by all kinds of characters  but they ought to be built responsibly to prevent bad behaviors or abuse. Fair rules, Reputation, Transparency, Moderation, etc would have made the tech more responsible and that could help the inventor avoid harsh punishment like maximum of 5 years imprisonment.


Bitcoin will remain decentralized and transparent p2p system for people who want to use money naturally and morally. But people who love money (the love of it is the problem) tend to ignore this important safe guards which is why money is often used as bait to get them trapped and enslaved in the fait system and restricted by its unpleasant features.
184  Economy / Economics / Re: Is market manipulation a common occurrence everywhere? on: September 01, 2023, 08:59:03 AM
Everyone wields different powers when it comes to business. Some say that cryptocurrency prices can be manipulated by wealthy individuals. Despite being decentralized, it seems that price movements can be controlled by specific entities.

So, in your opinion, can everything related to money in this world be manipulated? For instance, do you believe that the value of the USD or the largest stock market in the US can be manipulated by a few individuals?

What kind of people are capable of market manipulation?


First of all, price of true Cryptocurrency like Bitcoin can't be manipulated or dishonestly controlled by anyone. The power to do so was taken away from those who could in the past. The current price movements of the market are true reflection of natural market forces. Meaning, only things that naturally contribute to price movements will effect the price. Not some forces somewhere selling thousands of coins just to push the price downward whereas the economic/market force, sentiment or general feeling is bullish.
By the way, you don't need to have loads of money to contribute to price increase or decrease. Just one positive/truthful word or two, or some useful/good organic contributions are enough to move price up. An opposing force can't succeed in moving price downward if its words or contribution are just false, manipulative or inorganic.


Same applies to the fiat system, but unlike Bitcoin the market forces of fiats are based on the world's system or centralized fundamentals which could be considered manipulative. For example, dollars regulators printing more dollars to purposely weaken it abit. This is allowed by their laws...and we sometimes overlook it.


185  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: No Electric Supply to Bitcoin Mining Operations in Laos on: August 31, 2023, 03:20:54 PM
Denial of Service, for whatever reason, is why any serious participant in the Bitcoin Network should operate in nomad-friendly manner, independent of centralized systems and according to Bitcoin ideals. Being nomad friendly means you are light/mobile as possible, ready to move to another location when necessary, to survive in dangerous/uncertain world with many adversaries who could try to harm or capture you & make you their slave.
Having large hard-to-move cryptocurrency hardware concentrated on a single spot, and worst still, depending on centralized system isn't a good idea. Small mining business should be hard to spot. The large ones could be securely outsourced to multiple people in different locations.
186  Economy / Economics / Re: Another Coup in Africa: What is the economic effect? on: August 31, 2023, 09:13:17 AM
The effect will be positive for friendly countries if  Gabon knows what she is doing or allows those who can help to guide her. Ofcourse, Russia would be in the best position to help as this is happening because of her current role as World leader to prevent a globalist takeover of the world and have a head as guide. Those who are against her are decreasing while she is increasing... but this is temporal.
187  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Hundreds of thousands trafficked to work as online scammers in SE Asia, says UN on: August 30, 2023, 04:42:00 PM
It's the typical issue of people getting trapped into doing the wrong kind of job because of money/rewards. All of them including the overlords, scammers and the scam victims fell victim to the money trap... It's the love of money trap, which billions of people around the world are held captive in like slaves are held captive by their master - Money.

It's incredibly hard to resist this trap. Only very few people out of billions resist it. The rest have been caught and have become part of the Matrix in the hands of a puppet master to run & maintain the system.

It's interesting to note that the puppet master will find it hard to thrive on a decentralized and transparent system. Decentralization weakens his power and transparency exposes their evil. He thrives in darkness of centralized systems where he controls his victims.
They are only able to successfully use crypto because they operate from their centralized darkness,but could easily be exposed on True Cryptocurrency Network where everyone will be monitoring the system for scammers and evil doers. Those caught get bad reputation and everyone will try to avoid them.
188  Economy / Economics / Re: I wonder if food prices in your country have also increased? on: August 30, 2023, 09:10:03 AM
Price increase is relative from my experience. I remember back then when people complained about expensive foods, we usually bought them cheaper than what they claim. I think they could be telling the truth but we live in seperate reality and will likely experience things differently.
If you read posts on inflated prices and you believe them, the high price will become your reality & you will start seeing inflated products in real-time.
It's hard not to believe those that you share thesame reality with. Better to avoid pessimistic people and be with people who are stronger/wisers.


It's also important to avoid places that produce little but earn a lot. When you hear that wages are about to be increased in such places, that could mean increase in consumption and more inflation. Better to avoid such places. Live in places where production is higher than consumption. And much of the products have to remain locally rather than exported.  
Also avoid places where good quality is ignored in order to mass produce things and beat inflation. Always consume good quality products

189  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Question on Governemnt's Sales of Seized Bitcoins on: August 29, 2023, 03:12:28 PM
They likely start at the current Bitcoin price. It's also possible they firstly get them mixed to sell at the current price or buyers buy below the current price because crime money should be worth-less, then the buyers get them mixed & re-sold at current Bitcoin price.
Notwithstanding, the real value of cursed or crime money/coins, which are supposed to be destroyed, can't be hidden, even with mixing services. They will always be worth less and have little to zero effect on the price of Bitcoin.
The seized coins are cursed and worth less than billions
190  Other / Off-topic / Re: Exploring the Possibilities: AI's Potential Impact on Humanity on: August 29, 2023, 09:44:43 AM
Any AI will be as safe as its developer's moral culture, even as safe as the boundaries/rules the developer set for it. AI made by anarchists, game theorists, lawless minds etc will be more dangerous and evil than AI made by people who obey certain moral principles. The latter will likely try to set some reasonable boundaries for an AI(if they remember), while the former will try to gamble by allowing the AI to take big risk, do whatever it want and hope it learns from mistakes, "evolve", survive and become something useful.

The easiest way to program AI to be superintelligent and always solve problems accurately for you is to give it a set of good rules it must not break while solving problems. It will become very creative at solving problems while trying to avoid breaking the rules. But most AI developers won't be smart enough to know such rules. It's a key or probably secret rules that's worth alot and require great deal of effort to know.
191  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Effective and Intelligent Solutions to Propel Future Bitcoin Price Surge on: August 28, 2023, 04:56:18 PM
But Bitcoin went above 60,000 few years ago without most of the points you listed as solutions.
Beside incompatibility with the Bitcoin ideals, the solution won't have any significant impact on the price of Bitcoin and it will create several issues.
I re-arranged your list in an order of priority to see if the solutions can be effective if implemented one after the other:
1. Scalability and Technological Improvements

2. Regulatory Clarity

3. Educational Initiatives

4. Global Economic Uncertainty

5. Mass Adoption and Mainstream Recognition

6. Institutional Investment


Anyone who understands the true purpose and nature of Bitcoin will disagree with the details in your points/solutions. And after re-arranging the points, they seem to point to certain agenda...
a globalist "One World fiat Currency" agenda, which is not what Bitcoin was intended to be. But once you base the list on the Bitcoin ideals/principles (like decentralization, transparency, censorship resistant, immutablity, etc) the agenda falls apart and the list becomes contradictory to Bitcoin ideals.
So, you can be sure that without your solutions revolving around the Bitcoin ideals/principles, there can't be any significant increase in price, as anything contrary to the ideals will make it less valuable and suppress or weaken the price like gold and fiat currencies have been. Gold and fiats should atleast serve as prove that developing Bitcoin on centralized foundation will weaken it and destroy its true purpose.

Bitcoin doesn't need the "Regulatory Clarity" and mainstream recognition or mass adoption to do well. A few thousands bitcoiners self-custodying their bitcoins and using them properly, in decentralized p2p manner is better than bitcoins owned by billions of people on centralized exchanges/platforms. Government regulators will certainly be in favour of building centralized tech to regulate the billions. These are not what Bitcoin needs, and it's not a good idea for its future price increase to be based on it.
192  Other / Off-topic / Re: Reality Check: Do you believe this is true? on: August 28, 2023, 10:00:25 AM
Reality Check: Do you believe this is true?
"You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can’t have it." ~Robert Anthony
For me, it's time to try harder every day. I've always believed having a positive attitude is important, but had trouble focusing on results and deadlines. For you, do you believe you can have literally anything you want, starting with a positive attitude?


"You can have anything" could mean there is no limit to things you can have, but this isn't true without relying on the CREATOR of the Universe who is the source of anything in existence and can give it to those who rely on him. Your belief has to based on the truth that the CREATOR can give you anything good you ask, if you deserve it.
People are heavily limited on their own... being positive without relying on the CREATOR won't remove the limit.. Better still, humans don't have the power to do or have anything they want on their own. It comes from the CREATOR. If you are able to have or do something "great" it could be the limit of what you can have or do. That doesn't mean you can go beyond your limit to have or do something greater. But with the CREATOR, the limit (depending on your faith) is removed.
193  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Shared idea on Bitcoin scarcity and it's relation to halving on: August 25, 2023, 04:21:45 PM
Bitcoin mining is modeled after gold mining... The more gold is mined the more the reserve is depleted and it becomes harder for miners to mine new gold due to scarcity. The depletion of gold reserve and the reduction in the amount of gold that can be mined is called deflation in Bitcoin context. In Bitcoin mining, deflation is the halving of the number of bitcoins that can be mined, and this occurs every four years. With the halving, bitcoins become scarce and harder to mine. This scarcity contributes to the increase in the price of Bitcoin. The harder mining bitcoins get the more valuable Bitcoin becomes

This is in contrast to fiats currencies, which supplies are continuously inflated as long as the papers and computer numbers for printing them are in abundant. This is why they become worthless overtime thereby weakening the purchasing power of fiat holders.
194  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: The lottery revisited in web3, and on our beloved Bitcoin on: August 25, 2023, 08:51:09 AM
Interesting idea, but how sure are you that Bitcoin price is random? If someone is able to accurately predict the price all the time, he/she will be the winner all or most of the time.  Centralized Prediction Markets wouldn't be fair to such people... they will likely think they are cheating and have their funds seized then try to get them arrested. The player will try to avoid the centralized exchanges for lottery, betting or predictions. This is why I like the idea of decentralized lottery or prediction markets.

Maybe more than one person should be able to win 1st, 2nd & 3rd places daily so it doesn't feel unfair and boring to people who play constantly without winning.

The NFT part should be done on sidechains rather than mainchain though.
195  Economy / Economics / Re: Cointime Economics : Glassnode framework for Bitcoin on-chain metrics on: August 24, 2023, 03:53:49 PM
Well, in decentralized p2p trading it's difficult to know and predict things if you don't have the order book or know how much most buyers and sellers are willing to buy or sell Bitcoin. The best kind of orderbook for decentralized trading would be the ones that do not show what people are willing to buy or sell Bitcoin... that info should be confidential or private... which should make it difficult for price manipulators from knowing the general strength of demand vs supply in order to manipulate the price.
The price should move naturally, according to the Bitcoin economic/market forces... The market forces exclude people/things that tend to create false demand/supply based on the overall information they have on demand and supply.
196  Other / Off-topic / Re: Why do you prefer getting answers here? on: August 24, 2023, 10:12:47 AM
I've scanned through the forum, not all boards, but only few questions and answers is unattended, not treated or can't be found on different cryptocurrency blogs, reddits etc.

Pondering on it, members have unique reasons why they'll read, search for answers, or ask question in this forum, in the face of the answers already written on other quality alternative question and answer forums, cryptocurrency blogs, and social medias.

I will add that the forum breaks answers down into understandable terms to quicken the learning process of a dummie or lay man in cryptocurrency.  Gave out time reading on blogs, reddits etc, but bitcointalk provides a simple method of teaching or writing answers that's not yet beaten by any platform that I've read

Your well broken and detailed answers, could add extra meaning to this thread, my thoughts and resolve or put an end to an extra minute spent basking in thoughts about this question. Cheers



Members are almost guaranteed to receive answers which come so quickly especially on the active boards. Curious minds tend to like that. And it seems interest, passion and rewards (not necessarily monetary rewards) move others to give helpful answers. But all these would be abit difficult without the useful moderations
197  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: How long can Bitcoin out perform inflation in the long run? on: August 23, 2023, 04:26:30 PM
It's OK owning and storing Bitcoin long-term to benefit from its price increase, as it was created to be Store of Value and serve as a hedge against inflation. So it's clearly serving that role as long as price keeps increasing.
 What people need to know is the right time to invest or buy to reap the maximum benefit. And the right time to buy, to be sure of a bountiful harvest in the future is when the price is low or when it looks like Bitcoin is underpriced/undervalued or cheap.. . basically when you notice massive dip in price, it's safer to buy there than when price is high.
So, if you wish to beat the inflation, by let say, selling your $100,000 for Bitcoin, the best practice is to split the money into multiple pieces... maybe into four pieces, which will be 25,000 each. Use each piece (25,000) to buy the major dip in price rather than putting everything into Bitcoin at once... worst still is buying at high price with the 100,000... It's like planting at the end of raining season rather than at the end of dry season which is the beginning of raining season.
198  Economy / Economics / Re: The refusal of the country from its own Central Bank on: August 23, 2023, 03:22:28 PM
So, he recognizes the fact that Central banks are generally bad/evil but chooses the lesser evil which regulates the US dollar. Clearly, the lesser cannot be a real solution the country's economic problem but just to help make the decay abit slower.
I think that should give the country the opportunity to fix its own issue and make it good rather than an outright abandonment for a lesser evil.
199  Economy / Economics / Re: How Does devaluation of currency helps to build a dwindling economy? on: August 23, 2023, 09:13:12 AM
Well, if your country's currency is weak, the purchasing power of people with stronger currencies would increase over your local products. So, they could sell their currencies for your currency in order to buy your products cheaply, benefit from cheap investments, etc... and that could help the economy of the weaker currency. But you must be careful what and how you sell to certain people with stronger currencies else they take advantage of the country and leave little for you to take care of your needs. Becareful selling things that are too sensitive to be sold to people who are not patriotic enough or don't love your country/people... basically selfish people who would want to exploit/enslave you or own great things or anything too sensitive for non-patriots or selfish people to own.

200  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: BITCOIN: Give people time! on: August 22, 2023, 03:35:25 PM
I'm more interested in inviting people in a possible  self-sustaining & interdependent parallel society based on Bitcoin ideals with Bitcoin as main currency. And my targeted audience will mostly be talented hardworking people struggling to earn a living in the fiat based alternate society. I'm not really interested in their fiats, just the talents/skills and the passion for work. If they are rejects of the fiats system due to lack of school qualifications or certificates, we'll immediately scoop them up, have them refined and placed where they belong in the parallel society to help develop it and earn bitcoins via "Proof of Works" consensus mechanism. No need for certificates.. . Just prove what you can do for the society by solving problems with your talents.
The bitcoins earned by these people will be used to buys good things from other bitcoiners. That's how the bitcoins circulate, creating a thriving self-sustaining and interdependent Bitcoin economy without the need for more fiat investments.
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