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Is there a 28.1 snap of Bitcoin Core for Ubuntu?
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xyzzy099
on 18/03/2025, 23:30:57 UTC

I have been running Bitcoin Core on Ubuntu for some years now, and a new version usually gets a new snap pretty quickly - but currently my Ubuntu 24.10 system is stll showing 27.1 as the latest version, even though 28.0 and 28.1 have been released for months.

Is my snapd broken, or have snaps for Ubuntu been stopped for some reason?
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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xyzzy099
on 12/10/2024, 21:36:03 UTC
⭐ Merited by El duderino_ (21)

Interest in Bitcoin has hit a low for this cycle. Price is moving up. New money is flooding in with more on the way. We’re about to have a pro-Bitcoin President and lowering interest rates with a second wave of spiking inflation. I still don’t know how this lines up every four years, but I’m excited for the next year as I’ve seen this before.

As it is for presidential things…. I see extremely different things… who is actually a favorite at this time?


https://www.realclearpolling.com/betting-odds/2024/president
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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xyzzy099
on 25/07/2024, 14:52:33 UTC
⭐ Merited by jojo69 (1) ,d_eddie (1) ,JayJuanGee (1)


Are you talking about the 2nd picture in this post?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg49889186#msg49889186


Dickpics included? Is this still here on the WO or someone had a second thought regret?
Technically, no dick
After one beer too many
A dickless piss pic
#haiku

Funny how history can sometimes be re-written, since I thought that we used to just call it a pee pic or something like that... and were't most guys talking about the shoes, anyhow?


Well, I have a pretty graphical memory, but somehow in this case memories are quite blurred.
My only question is if this pictures is still buried in the WO, or not.
I tried to search it, but without muck luck. So I guess the former…
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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xyzzy099
on 25/06/2024, 20:40:21 UTC
⭐ Merited by El duderino_ (21) ,fillippone (5)

Lisbon
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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xyzzy099
on 07/05/2024, 12:44:40 UTC
⭐ Merited by El duderino_ (4) ,vapourminer (1) ,JayJuanGee (1) ,Hueristic (1)

WTF, Is it believable for a low amount transaction of this fee.

4 may 2024, someone paid $100,608 fees for their $6 amount Bitcoin transfer.




Hmm. No change address. Weird. I don't think any legit wallet would miss that.


ive sent txs setting the fee to be deducted from the sent amount in core. so, the tx goes out with just destination addy. guess it was deliberate?

This kind of thing used to happen occasionally because someone tried to spend directly from a paper wallet without transferring the whole amount in the wallet.  There is no change address for a paper wallet, so you have to transfer the whole amount in the paper wallet to a 'hot' wallet first if you want to be able to spend some part of it and get your change.
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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xyzzy099
on 03/05/2023, 22:49:59 UTC
⭐ Merited by Biodom (5)


Another irreverent reference:
Slaughterhouse #5 (the first one to write the last name of the author without googling it..count on your honesty...gets 5 merits) ...enters PacWest...check out the late after-hours print.


Kurt Vonnegut
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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xyzzy099
on 03/05/2023, 22:20:30 UTC
⭐ Merited by d_eddie (1) ,HI-TEC99 (1)

So, please stop posting nonsense about Al Gore!

You don't parse sarcasm do you? There were no macbooks in the 60s. The nonsense about Al Gore was spread by... guess who? Al Gore. Kind of like CSW with bitcoin, but it was even easier to falsify. What a dork.


Rumor has it that Al Gore not only invented the internet, he actually invented most of computer science as we know it.  That's why they call computational methods "Al-Gore-ithms"  Wink

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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
by
xyzzy099
on 18/03/2023, 23:08:17 UTC


Little GAME

First to post/quote it….

Merit shower

It’s a piece of WO history X

Me at a party drunk AF at this time cheers

I vaguely remember that you said you deleted that picture.
So I guess the only option to see it is hoping someone quoted it.
I wasn't able to find on your merited posts with merits>1.
But maybe I didn't dig it hard enough.


It wasn't deleted - I found it and linked it in this post:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg61932583#msg61932583

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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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xyzzy099
on 18/03/2023, 04:19:48 UTC
⭐ Merited by jojo69 (1) ,Hueristic (1) ,sirazimuth (1)


site host free

Bull market starting
Toilet and being drunk AF
Few understand this

#Haiku attempt

Haha, bull market times.

Only the OG’s will remember this. When the green candles are pumping, so is the dude.


I got to page 489 of his posts, but I wasn't able to find it!


Little GAME

First to post/quote it….

Merit shower

It’s a piece of WO history X

Me at a party drunk AF at this time cheers




https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg49889186#msg49889186

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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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xyzzy099
on 02/02/2023, 13:24:42 UTC
⭐ Merited by JayJuanGee (1)

Nope, no sorcery, luck or the Fed ( Cheesy ), just this little math thingie:



Sure, this is so localized it may well be Fed-or-whatever-else-induced noise, but it's still fun to comment on and attempt to predict such UPpities...


Does this formula have any other meaning than the result is 21*106? Which is, of course, a great number.

So for i =0 I get 10500000 as a result. For i=1 I get 5250000 and so on. So does e.g. 10500000 have any meaning or can anyone continue working with the numbers / this formula? For example make a formula to calculate the mined bitcoin per year?

It would be great if I could scribble all over the blackboards at school.  Cheesy



Any maths professionals here?

Well, I am not a maths professional, but...

The purpose of writing it in that form is basically just to show how the halvings work.  There is a halving of the block reward every 210,000 blocks.  The block reward for each block in the ith halving period will be 50/(2^i), and the total of bitcoins generated in that halving period will, of course, be 210,000 * [50/(2^i)].  The sum of coins generated in all halvings will be ~21,000,000 as we all know.

Sorry in advance if I have misunderstood your question.
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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xyzzy099
on 04/07/2021, 20:12:42 UTC
⭐ Merited by El duderino_ (3) ,JayJuanGee (2) ,xhomerx10 (1)

It looks like CoinGeek has already accepted CSW as Satoshi
https://coingeek.com/coingeek-weekly-livestream-episode-19-taals-stefan-matthews-shares-early-encounters-with-satoshi-video/

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In a stunning revelation, Matthews tells CoinGeek’s Chief Bitcoin Historian Kurt Wuckert Jr. that he initiated a series of proof sessions wherein Dr. Wright met in private with several relevant figures such as Gavin Andresen. The purpose of these highly confidential meetings was to provide evidence that Dr. Wright has the keys to the early blocks in Bitcoin. On these occasions, the invited guest was asked to randomly select any three blocks from the first ten and to dictate a private message that Dr. Wright would sign.

I believe that Coingeek is actually owned by Roger Ayre.  It is specifically dedicated to promoting Bitcoin SV.  Look at the bottom of their front page and you will see this blurb:


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The first media to report all the information in BSV (Bitcoin Satoshi Vision). BSV is the only major public chain that maintains Bitcoin's original vision and is committed to creating fast, frictionless electronic cash.
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Re: Raspberry Pi - corrupted blocks
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xyzzy099
on 27/01/2021, 14:22:14 UTC

Probably a stupid question, but you're not copying the blockchain while the client is running?  If so, the database will be changing as it's copied, and you will always get corruption.
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Re: [FREE RAFFLE] GEO BOLIVAR ART no. e/16
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xyzzy099
on 20/01/2021, 23:43:41 UTC

73 - xyzzy099

Thanks :-)
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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xyzzy099
on 21/11/2020, 01:36:10 UTC

Whatever happened to that professor in Brazil that trolled this thread for years? Anybody remember his name?

I'm curious if he still has an online profile and twitter account.

Last time I heard from him he made a lengthy negative comment on a pending ETF application when the SEC asked for public feedback.

Stolfi?

He hangs out on the /r/btc subreddit with all the bcash tards. Good place for him to be honest, surrounded with like-minded intellectuals


Apparently he is still lurking around here too - last active about a month ago, according to his profile:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=183158
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
by
xyzzy099
on 16/05/2020, 12:55:33 UTC

Whew! Elon Musk jumps in:

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Pretty much, although massive currency issuance by govt central banks is making Bitcoin Internet 👻 money look solid by comparison

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1261416824459030529
Someone tell me how to make that ghost icon thingie.
https://graphemica.com/%F0%9F%91%BB
(copy-paste it into a text edditor that doesn't have this font and it should show the 1F47B unicode number. Then google that number)
Is there a way to just type it out? For example, ™ is made by holding alt and typing 0153 on the numeric keyboard?

This worked for me:

1) Press and hold ALT
2) Type "128123" on numeric keypad
3) Release ALT

Of course, the font in use must contain the 'ghost' character.
That just gets me {. Using whatever is standard for windows, but I could still copypaste the ghost into the address bar like any other text. Weird.

If I try to enter it on this forum, I get the same '{' as you.  It works in Wordpad, etc., and probably lots of other websites and forums, just not here  /shrug

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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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xyzzy099
on 16/05/2020, 12:16:53 UTC

Whew! Elon Musk jumps in:

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Pretty much, although massive currency issuance by govt central banks is making Bitcoin Internet 👻 money look solid by comparison

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1261416824459030529
Someone tell me how to make that ghost icon thingie.
https://graphemica.com/%F0%9F%91%BB
(copy-paste it into a text edditor that doesn't have this font and it should show the 1F47B unicode number. Then google that number)
Is there a way to just type it out? For example, ™ is made by holding alt and typing 0153 on the numeric keyboard?

This worked for me:

1) Press and hold ALT
2) Type "128123" on numeric keypad
3) Release ALT

Of course, the font in use must contain the 'ghost' character.

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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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xyzzy099
on 23/03/2020, 15:43:31 UTC
⭐ Merited by nutildah (1)

It will definitely trickle down to the real economy, just like it did 2009 - 2019.

During that time they managed to keep a lid on food prices, gas prices, and some services, but literally *everything else* skyrocketed: houses, student loans, new cars, new phones, utilities, phone bills, health insurance, etc. And that was all during a period of global deflation!

You can't have all those things skyrocketing while people's salaries remain stagnant over the same period. That's inflation (actually stagflation) and that's why people feel poorer and poorer over time.

It's going to be even worse over the next decade. MUCH worse.

I'm not sure it did trickle down...

In the same bill where congress approved $800B+ in 'fiscal stimulus', they also approved a measure that allowed the fed to pay interest to banks on excess reserves.  Until this time, banks naturally kept excess reserves as close to zero as possible; however, as soon as they started making money off them, reserves skyrocketed.  In the graph below you can see that shortly after the 'fiscal stimulus', the excess reserves climbed to over $800B almost immediately.  Coincidence?  Maybe  Wink  They continued to climb, and are still very high:

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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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xyzzy099
on 12/03/2020, 13:35:57 UTC

It's funny thinking back to huge posts from long ago.  When I first made a bookmark for the WO, it was on page 673. Now whenever I come on here, it opens on that page, so I'm destined to see Frozenlock's twitching eyebrows forevermore (unless I were to update my bookmark, but where's the fun in that?).  Leads me to ponder whatever happened to folk who were posting back then.  I sometimes wonder what the ratios are for:

Still Around : Bored of WO and signed off : Got Wrecked and signed off : Made Enough to Retire and Disappeared : Suffered Psychosis and Disappeared : Died

Why use a bookmark?  If you just add the thread to your watch list you won't have this issue.
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Re: Moving Bitcoin database to new harddrive without having to resync
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xyzzy099
on 10/03/2020, 01:38:16 UTC
⭐ Merited by suchmoon (4) ,Jet Cash (2) ,nc50lc (1)

Is it possible that you made  the copy while the clent was running?  I would imagine that if that is the case, the database would be being changed as your copy was taking place, possibly resulting in an inconsistency which would require a resync.

If you are going to make a copy of the blockchain, I think you would need to shut down, then copy.

Just guessing here :-)
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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xyzzy099
on 09/03/2020, 19:42:34 UTC
⭐ Merited by El duderino_ (2) ,rdbase (1)

When the hell is ETF on TP coming?

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1236792359213502469
Elon should have a shit coin on this. He would clean up in the crypto world! Grin

Meanwhile... somewhere in Western Canada.

Even more of a reason to get in on an ETF of this. Cheesy