People, you are on the bitcointalk forum, shouldn't you all have started valuing your privacy a little more a long time ago and stopped using that spying garbage of a browser? If for some reason you don't want to use Tor, then at least try Mozilla Firefox.

The fed has a dual mandate. Job market is at historical high. Unemployment is at a level consistent with full employment. Wage are growing, slower, but growing.
Inflation is still above target, with a potential effect from tariffs that has still to materialise, given the most increase comes from services and housing markets.
The risk is to cut to soon, and when tariffs come into play, being forced to raise rates too violently.

And would a rate cut save the economy? No I highly doubt that

The US is in a tricky situation they might be heading into a recession (which could encourage the rate cut).

To me, this is the point.
A 25 cut is a policy error, in my humble opinion, but this cut or even a 50 bps one, aren’t going to change anything in the big scheme of events.

Yet, if those cut are done to accommodate Trump pressure, this is far worse.
I don’t think I am a naive person, but this level of pressure from fiscal authorities on the FED is unprecedented, even by modern standards.

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Not only is the title still a fact. But the 30-day volatility actually registered a new low not only for 2025, but also for all the period since mid-2023: 0.96%.

It is likely that the order books are "thicker" and the liquidity higher when the price is higher, but it is not guaranteed. In the altcoin world for example you have very liquid coins (which tend to be more stable) with a relatively low market cap and others with less liquidity, a higher market cap, and probability of stronger price swings. I can search for concrete examples if someone is interested.

Hopefully, but I am losing faith: why Powell, who is going to retire soon anyway, chose to open for a rate cut in September? I could understand the members of the board, who need to be re-elected, but JPOW?

He could have signaled a total independence of the FED from the WHite House, which is by far more important, in the long run, than a mere 25 bps cut.

And if you read my first comment, you will also notice where I talked about such being part of the limited options the president has over the power to remove the chairman, which includes if he's not effective in his duty and if he's doing things based on his personal interest and not for economic benefit, then the president can present a case against him; if it's valid, then that can be used to remove a seating chairperson from office, and not just like he can seat and declare/replace him without any backing.

I don't need to live in the US to read about US law, and I also don't need to be a US citizen before I can read about "Humphrey's Executor v. United States (1935): Presidential Power and Independent Agencies", which was a clear case where supreme courts cleared the air of presidential power over independent agencies like the FED. Or has such a law been revoked in the US that I'm not aware of?

I agree. 20% per year is good for everybody. But i would like to get 20% every year. I don`t sure that if i would by BTC today, i would get such percent. It`s cost is too high as for me.

And i know myself, i`ll sell when it would be x2-x3.

As much as people want Bitcoin price to keep rise drastically (in this case, at least twice every 4 years), "Past Performance Is No Guarantee of Future Results".

It is unfair to call it FUD, lol.  Leading voices like Nikita Zhavoronkov, the developer of Blockchair, are legitimately concerned and are calling for continued high fees or even protocol changes to maintain security, while Pierre Rochard minimises the problem by claiming that rising Bitcoin prices offset declining rewards.

Listen, dismissing Bitcoin security budget as FUD is lazy, its security budget is real.  We are in a cycle of halving subsidies, which means that 51% attacks become more affordable if fee markets do not change & miners hash power drops.

Even if they are been chosen by the US president their duty is not to serve their personal interest.

FED duty is to serve the interest of economy in their country and President is out of scope of any administration.

But somehow we cannot deny that their our corrupt officials out there have debt of gratitude towards their appointments gotten from the President. So hopefully the chosen official have right or solid principles and cannot be controlled by anyone.

That option that the US president has to remove the Fed chair is limited, which means that a man like Trump – if there was much for him to do in his power – could have replaced Jerome Powell long ago instead of badmouthing him long ago, as that one is not on the same economic path. By law, Trump can only take action against him if he has done anything based on his own personal interest or is not effective on duty.

Has anyone correlated this with the historical data that people have? Like past rate cut cycles and their effects, such as the 2008 crisis or those in the 1970s? The long-term impact on the economy could be devastating, and, as others have noted, it could trigger a market crash. I agree that it's better to have something to diversify into, like Bitcoin.

I was thinking something more practical (e.g. create new wallet, make backup, create transaction and restore wallet from backup) rather than theory aspect. I also agree about teaching safety of using Bitcoin, although it partially covered by common digital literacy.

Not to mention the fact that introducing fake Bitcoin coins with zero value to people who see Bitcoin as fake money is quite misleading. Teaching them with worthless testnet coins can reinforce skepticism and incite confusion.

It is clear to you and me what is Bitcoin and the difference between networks. Do you really believe it is smart to introduce to people who can't even grasp 1% of the existence of the magic internet money its testnet, a valueless copy of Bitcoin?

Pure Tyranny. There need to be some check and balances and some office should remain independent of the government.

There is not a single thing or institution that is independent anymore, everything is political and biased. Wake up, you are living in a fantasy that does not exist anymore for decades.

I think it is already lost. China has taken over the world. For example the Chinese manufacturing exports are already higher than US + Germany + Japan.


This would also explain why they are getting more desperate to cut the rates. Recession is killing production and they wish that by cutting rates they can help it improve...
This desperation is palpable in all of other Trump's actions as well.

For example the recent meeting with Putin in Alaska. 2 psychos met and Trump basically sold Ukraine and Europe out just so he can focus elsewhere (specifically Asia, working from West toward East).

Ukrainians' reactions in their social media were funny when they saw US military (red circle) do this for Putin:

It is not possible to send testnet coins to a real bitcoin address.

You are mixing things up. Bitcoin wallets isn't hard to use, I think they are the easiest without any complication, elelctrum is even the easiest of them. The only responsibility you have to take is to make sure your seed phrase is properly back up and that's it. You hardly see someone playing around testnet coins because they hold no value, they are mostly used for testing the network and maybe built some kind of applications or if the developer want to test one or two things.

Regarding confusion of sending Bitcoin from mainet to testnet, it's not possible. All Bitcoin testnet wallet start with some special characters to help differentiate between testnet and mainet wallet. Legacy wallet testnet start with m or n character while segwit start with t character. You either see something like this mhjdheuwond.... Or nkdqtbdnsk and segwit with tbq1..... or tbp1.... You can see that it's easy to spot t character in the testnet and absence of c character from the testnet, if you want to send Bitcoin to this address the wallet will say it's invalid.

That’s why topics like this one are useful as they can guie newbies and show them the best practices when using the testnet.

I believe not. We might start seeing that as a real issue if Bitcoin's price doesn't increase high enough after each halving. If the price doesn't keep up, we probably have two more halvings before the community gets into another serious debate like the Block Size Wars on the road to SegWit.

But if you truly believe it's merely FUD, OK.

  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Having the board of the Central Bank, an institution deemed to be independent, targeting its own mandate, without intrusion from fiscal authorities, is of paramount importance when looking at the long-term sustainability of the US economy, through the sustainability of its debt.
If Trump sabotages this, it will be very difficult to revert and offset the negative effect.
Bad for the USD, good for bitcoin.

Of course it is not about the inflation.
If it were for the inflation, FED should hike rates.
It’s about the liquidity, and the market going up only. This is the reason why the White House is pressuring the FED: it’s all political.
And a bad situation for the USD, either way.

Two Fed’s board members, Christopher Waller and Michelle Bowman voted against keeping the interest rate steady in the last meeting. Which shows that they are on Trump's side. With the unexpected resignation of a member Adriana Kugler, Trump will appoint his loyalist thereby controlling almost half of Fed’s board membership. With one more member on his side, he would assume full control of an important board that is established to be independent.

I don't think it really matters. This whole thing looks more like a political fight between parties with conflicting interests. The rates won't change much. But right now since Trump has managed to force the Arab dictator to increase production and lower the oil price, his speculation is inflation coming down so he is pushing for lower rates to battle the recession.

He has already cut the funding for far more important stuff like universities budgets just because students were protesting against him...

The best way to learn is by practicing, therefore, for anyone who wants to try BTC, it is a good idea to practice & understand through the testnet first.