More miners needs to adopt the Ocean approach and their templating.

Agreed.  I think the only thing we can really do is pop into conversations we see to drop a reminder that yes, it's a centralized, pre-mined, self-allocated, incomplete scam ledger, that has zero real world value, has no actual banks using it and the "partners," were PAID to be called that which are literally banks that Ripple PAID to run a pilot that they completed and did not continue using, runs paid FUD campaigns, pays for condescending bot engagement, pays for influencers to shill it, pays for insane amounts of advertising, actively promotes blatant misinformation even in pair articles, lies constantly, outright brain cancerous SCAM.  It's the antithesis of "crypto."  Their only positive cash flow is from dumping the self-allocated pre-mined vapor tokens on gullible, naïve, non-technical, likely poor retail buyers.

Banning influencers from being paid to shill securities (yes XRP is a fucking security, spare me please) would be a great step in the right direction.  Financial crimes of this scale that defrauds people should be punished way, way more harshly IMHO.  It ruins lives when people are conned into thinking they may have a chance to better their families.  XRP/Ripple leaders themselves need imprisoned, can't change my mind.  They're that nefarious.

Ripple/XRP is making dumb people way more vocal.  The confident ignorance is mind blowing on X.  So many non-technical people who are so full of themselves it's disgusting.  People literally brainwashed by paid influencers, the "XRP (bot) army," advertisements, and blatant misinformation.  XRP is brain cancer.  The sooner is dies, the better for humanity.

Not until "using Bitcoin," is obfuscated in the UI/UX.  People like us have to remember that 99% of people are "normies."  As in they operate on a steady diet of social media, their 9 to 5 job, immediate family, and McDonald's.  They can barely (and more and more often not even) operate a computer.  People's personal digital privacy and security is an afterthought to almost everything, and even when they're reminded of it, they could care less.  Totally apathetic.  If they were trusted to handle their finances like we handle custodying Bitcoin, they would be damn near immediately ruined.  Banks will always play a role in my opinion, it's how we integrate it all together is what's going to be interesting.  Maybe the banks morph into custodians?  Only time will tell.

Out of sight, out of mind.  Keep keys very hard to access that would require doing something other than the most fun thing there is to do, and that is sitting on your computer.

ByeBit.

I do my best to not be obnoxious about it and I don't overcomplicate things in technical language.  But when I see an opportunity to bring it up, I usually take it.  It typically ends with them being intrigued and me parting ways with $5 or $10 of Bitcoin.  I've been doing this since very, very early on.  Lots of painful transactions were made looking back haha, but I have zero regrets.  Most forgot they had it, some were hooked and are now financially independent.

Howdy, Bitcoin Talk people!

Long time lurker here, been lurking since around the beginning, finding Bitcoin around the time the concept was being floated around in the Distributed.net community, time to break the mold and actually participate here!

I've been running my own full node for a long, long time, run a full node on Liquid Bitcoin, and ran full nodes for some other chains.  I'm very familiar with using Lightning, but haven't delved into the technical side of it yet in terms of running the back end.  I'm now considering jumping into the Lightning world now that it has had a decent chunk of time to mature.  But before I go full time on it and dedicate fresh new metal to it, I'd like to hear some experiences from you all so that I can decide whether or not the time and money investment is worth it for me.

If you've ran or are running Lightning for any significant amount of time and have a moment to reply, I'm curious about the following:

• How long did you run Lightning?
• In your experience, how technical does proper maintenance and security get over time?
• How large (you can give ranges if you don't want to be specific) was your bankroll with your node?
• What was your profit margin like?
• Were you actively trying to network/open channels publicly?

No response is a bad response so feel free to contribute any and everything you feel like sharing.  The more information gathered the better!

Thanks for your time, I look forward to hearing about how it all went or is going for you.

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Yep, closing now, was just making final check.  All set!

Awesome, it works now!  Thanks a lot for the help, I appreciate it.  No problem at all, it has been a long time haha.  Problem fixed, mission accomplished, job done, all good!

I paid that upon registering back in 2021 for using a VPN, that had confirmations back then I always send decent fee'd transactions.  Maybe since it has been so long it got mixed up somehow?  The wallet address I was given to pay for copper only had the 1 transaction going to it from my copper membership payment.

I tried that when I cleared all browser data, then once again.  I just tried in a different browser and it's still like that .

Yep, I have 6 or 7 confirmations now.

Just cleared all cache, cookies, browsing history, everything just for good measure and I'm still getting the same result .

GTFO.

Yeah, I was expecting something like that, but I'm not getting any option at all.  Here's a screenshot: https://talkimg.com/images/2025/02/19/qzYaH.png

It's simple.  The hope is to drive value to the token temporarily so that the central entity behind them can extract (scam) as much money as humanly possible from the community.  99.99%+ of altcoins/shitcoins have this sole purpose, even when they're painted as solutions to something.  The faster participants realize this and find Bitcoin, the better off they (and we) all are.

I'm assuming that it's automated like the page says.  It says to wait for 1 confirmation to come back to the page to fill out a form.  I revisited at three confirmations and I see that my balance due is now 0.00000000 BTC which used to be the amount that I paid so I'm assuming that it registered my payment, but the form it mentions isn't appearing.  I'd rather not publicly share my transaction since I value the privacy of my funds.  I'm not really worried about a badge or anything like that, just trying to escape the time constraints and would like to be able to upload images.

I purchased a copper membership but it seems to be stuck and I'm not sure who to message about this.  I tried to search for solutions but am not having any luck.  On this page https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=credit;promote I get this:


I sent the payment and it has several confirmations, the price is now reflected as 0.00000000 BTC but the form it's mentioning isn't appearing for me.  Am I doing something wrong?  Or is this a kink that needs worked out?

Thanks for reading!

How are you finding rental properties that accept Bitcoin for rent?  I'd be very interested in actually doing this.  The closest I've got to that reality is paying my share of rent to my room mates in Bitcoin like over 10 years ago.  Painful memory haha but no regrets .  Would love to find a property owner that accepts it directly even if it's me buying Bitcoin each month and sending it to them to square up on rent.