GetGems is killin it, its efforts are on r/bitcoins front page https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/, Coinbase tweeted about it aswell but Pavel Durovs interest is something else https://twitter.com/durov. GetGems proved themselves to be the real deal, big fan.

https://www.coinbase.com/apps/55aeb83f69702d2db5000056 Julia is a quality feature, i suggest everyone to try it out, it makes managing, buying and selling Bitcoin like kids play.

Satoshi is not anonymous as other commenters profess to believe.

Satoshi is Craig Wright, didn't you peasents know?

Satoshi has returned, flipped his previous years of maticulious privacy and security measures, and has decided to make a loud bozo out of himself in a courtroom.

Craig is the real satoshi, obviously.

case closed.

The answer seems obvious to me. Bitcoin was created as an experiment, and to exploit the creativity of the creative programmers. It was given to us with various caps and restrictions to prevent it ever becoming the dominant payment service in the world. The creators were the central banks and financial elite, and they kept back a million Bitcoin as a security for future manipulation and control, or maybe it was just an investment. The project has been massively successful, and is now being used by the financial organisations for their own purposes. We are lucky to be riding on the tail of this success, and will be able to reap the benefits as it starts to find  its planned level.

All investigations follow clues.

Many suspect that Satoshi died in an accident, so maybe one day this case is solved once and for all.

BTC's are not stored in wallets, but on the blockchain. Since it is a self custodial wallet, in which users are in control of their funds through their seed phrase, all they need to do is to import their wallet into a different software to access their funds. Nothing is lost.

Your funds can only be confiscated if you use a custodial service that holds the keys to your wallet.

Being the one to add the candidate block to the blockchain while mining is what I meant to say there. If you are mining solo, the entire reward is yours to keep, but if you are mining in a pool, then your prize is distributed among the pool members. Some miners are mining solo or with a pool hoping they or the pool hits a block, which is rare and hence the term "jackpot".

Yes, you can do that. There's nothing preventing you from doing so. Just make sure to read the sticky topics to understand the rules better (don't spam, don't promote something illegal, etc.) other than that, you should be fine and if there's is a specific rule, you'd like to clarify, just post it here.

Official website: https://zk.link/

Medium: https://zklinkblog.medium.com/

Documentation: https://docs.zk.link/docs/Introduction

Telegram:

Group chat: https://t.me/zkLinkorg
Announcement channel: https://t.me/zklinkofficialchannel

Main twitter account: https://twitter.com/zkLink_Official

Github: https://github.com/zkLinkProtocol

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The project does not need any investors so please beware of scammers. It's currently backed by Coinbase ventures, Polygon ventures, Solana ventures, and many other VCs[1][2].

There was a public presale, in January which was sold out in 25 minutes. The distribution is expected to be at the end of this month.

This thread is just meant to give the project more exposure and to keep the community updated. If you have any concerns or questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/10/22/decentralized-exchange-zklink-raises-85m-ahead-of-market-launch/
[2] https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/05/04/coinbase-ventures-backs-10m-zklink-raise-ahead-of-mainnet-launch/

Do check out the site whattomine, a simple search will lead you to website, there you can compare GPUs, ASICs to mine on specific algorithms and the coins supported on that algorithm, how they have been performing and what profits you can expect.

Dont think this to be a one shot winner thing, mining is almost a full time job if you want to be able to hit that block once a while and reap the jackpot profit. Decide on your electricity costs and maintenance costs, those go in the negatives while the return comes in the positive. A load of youtube videos are also there about mining, you can check those out too.

For beginners, I would suggest reading and learning about the process and the setup first and the costing. Its enough to throw your enthusiasm away, even though I am not trying to be mean, its the truth.

^^^ With 8 billion people on Earth, that's (on average) 262500 satoshi's per person. Plenty enough to do business with.

People have a complete misunderstanding of Bitcoin. They think of the 'bit' in Bitcoin as the bit in computer language. And, to some extent they are right. But the 'bit' is so much more than that, and in some ways, so much less. Here's what I mean.

The bit in the mouth of a horse can turn the whole animal at the will of the rider. But if all you have is the bit, it will fall right out of the horse's mouth. You also need the bridle if you want the bit to be able to do it's job. And you need the reins if you want control.

What is the bridle in Bitcoin? To some extent it's the blockchain. And what are the reins? They are the extent that the rider allows himself to control the horse, with or without the control of government or banking. It's up to the rider where he wants to sit in the saddle... in control of the horse, or under the thumb of government.

When does government control at least some of the Bitcoin activity? When it is public, right? Like Coinbase, and their relationship with anybody who uses their system.

But you and I can transact privately in Bitcoin, and nobody in government might even know about it. If there isn't any memo in the blockchain record, the reason why we transacted is known only to the two of us, except when we make it known to others. It's private, between you and me, and nobody can interfere, not even government.

This might sound funny regarding Bitcoin, but read the short article, "Properly Adjusting a Bridle: How to Fit a Western Bit" - https://www.aqha.com/widget/-/properly-adjusting-a-bridle - and think about how to apply the info to Bitcoin and your transacting using it.

It's time that we start to properly understand how we can totally bypass government and banking through privacy laws and rules. By going through public exchanges, we are sticking ourselves right into government. As a possible alternative, consider BISQ and BISQ 2.

What other alternatives might there be to using a public exchange? How can we turn media apps - like Telegram - into private Bitcoin transfer places that might 'push' Bitcoin into private use among a lot more people?