Hi. We can do it using the method you just told me about.

Escrow address = 0xC63B8881c3Db1737C284390137cAc6C1D5D56f86
https://etherscan.io/address/0xc63b8881c3db1737c284390137cac6c1d5d56f86


Released 2.22523101 ETH to this address = 0x33ed5b55cA3344e43De28A3C6F4fF9A44E870e48

https://etherscan.io/address/0x33ed5b55cA3344e43De28A3C6F4fF9A44E870e48

Transaction done. Thanks everyone!

Hi zazarb,

I would like to kindly request for further extension, I am still unable to pay for now. I will have some funds incoming by March 2023. Please allow until then March 31, 2023 and if we can maintain the payment at 0.605 BTC.

Thank you and very much appreciated for your kind consideration.

Dabs

Hi zazarb, per our discussion over private message, I am posting here in your thread.

I would like to kindly request for an extension as there was a family emergency that came up and I had to take care of it and I can not pay you by December 31. Please allow me another month to pay you by January 31, 2023 and if we can maintain the payment at 0.605 BTC.

Thank you and very much appreciated for your kind consideration.

Dabs

Request For a No Collateral Loan
Required USDT Amount: 15,000.00
Estimated Loan Duration: 3 Months (October 29 2022 to January 29 2023)
USDT TRC-20 Address: TG9JY1mhjc1kLPvq2FZGcfPEDuUZPYkXip
Amount to be repaid: 16,800.00
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This looks like an interesting project. klintay is an old friend and we distributed miners and other hardware before a few years ago.

Support for the project. Qortal has some new improvements already to the core. Keep up the good work team!

Gambling is pure chance.

There are several different types of trading:

1. Buy and Hold. Long term traders who are actually more investors. They buy and hold it for a few months to a few years.
2. Day trading. Short term. They buy and sell within a few days. Not very often in the same day.
3. Scalping. Usually forex, but now we them in crypto. They buy or sell within minutes or even seconds.

The traders do all sorts of technical analysis and where you see all those charts with drawings.

Loan Amount: 0.5 BTC
Reason for Taking out a Loan: Personal
Amount to be repaid: 0.605
Repayment Date: December 31 2022 (3 months or sooner)
Bitcoin address: bc1q0m770s58x06rqkvyvlcxujpy039uue0m0nszgs

Signed message:

The difficulty is recalculated about every 2 weeks, the hash rate is estimated every block or so, then they use those values to estimate the halving date. When blocks get solved faster more often, the estimated date moves closer or earlier.

As of this post, the ETA is back to May 2024. I wouldn't get too excited about the exact date as we won't really know for sure until about a few months before it is supposed to happen. It may happen earlier or later, usually earlier, but more than 4 months earlier is kind of stretching it. The bitcoin network will recalculate difficulty to adjust for increased hashrate, so estimates might move in 2 weeks, then it will try to normalize. The target will always be as close to May 2024, but nevermind the date or time, it's the block height.

All these count down websites still calculate based on the block height.

It's like saying, wait for 1 block or 1 confirmation, but that does not necessarily mean wait for 10 minutes; most of the time it will be close to 10 minutes, but we all know it can be 1 minute or 1 hour before the next block. The same with halving block. It's still going to be May 2024. April or March 2024? Possibly. But 2023? Very unlikely. Not impossible, but not likely.

Look at that dip... still bullish.

I'm curious to see what I look like to that AI.

Bitcoin moving sideways. This article says its bullish long term. That article says bearish short term. Traders say this and that. Well, we will see what will happen.

Like, in the winter months, or when it is very cold, I have a hoodie and neck warmer or scarf that partially or completely cover my face except for my eyes. But everyone in the area has something very similar.

For those who carry concealed, colder climates allow you to dress more like everyone else too while being able to carry more "stuff" without standing out too much, or at all.

Yeah, about the mask thing, what I meant is that, as long as I can see a few other people still wearing it (and this is just the medical mask type thing, usually colored light blue or white or black, can be N95 or just other types), then I'll just be like everyone else and wear a mask in public. Because a lot of other people still wear it, and you don't stand out.

But when you're the only one wearing a mask, then it might be a good idea to switch tactics, or do something else to "protect your privacy" while not sticking out like a sore thumb.

The whole point is not to completely cover your face, I mean, no one goes out wearing a Mandalorian (Boba Fett?) helmet you bought from toys-r-us, unless you have the whole costume.

They have those little hats or glasses with IR light bulbs on them, but that also sticks out when seen by security footage. As in, they will literally ask who is the light bulb walking around.

When you are walking around in the "outside" world, you can expect there to be no privacy at all. Everything you see, and everyone who can see you, just think there are cameras everywhere, everyone has a cell phone, and every building has CCTV. Once you are aware of that, you just do your best to blend in like everyone else, like the millions of other people who don't seem to care. If you wear a cap or hat, shades maybe, and a mask to cover your mouth, then automated systems will have a very difficult time to consistently identify you.

I actually found a nice clean copy of Applied Cryptography 2nd edition in a thrift shop, selling for about $5. I opened it, read some parts, leafed through it, but ultimately did not buy it since I don't have any space at home to keep it, LOL. It will probably be still there next time I go.

It did go up a little bit last night (or a few hours ago).

I mentioned it in passing, but someone else may have already mentioned it. At that time, it was one of those "big" things that had funding from outside investors and it has been going on for at least a couple of years already, so it wasn't exactly new. And then you have something like Gemini Earn, which is from the same company that also runs the Gemini exchange, which is probably fairly regulated and secure as far as holding coins for you goes. I still would not keep any coins on exchanges long term.

I did not have anything in Celsius, but the crash that happened affected us all anyway. I was forced to cash out at the wrong time to pay for bills and expenses.

I may have mentioned Celsius, but I also mentioned it together with Nexo and Gemini Earn and even BlockFi, and at the same time all the centralized exchanges, which implies the supposedly common knowledge of "no your keys, not your coins".

I myself don't have anything in Celsius, but I was asking about it since they had, at the time, the interest rates for keeping the coins there.

Before this, I had never heard of Voyager and vaguely remember 3 arrows.