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Tuesday, May 27, 2025

27/05/2025, 18:19:58 UTC Sponsored by @Whale
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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Hueristic
on 27/05/2025, 18:08:55 UTC
Man, that’s huge 22,000 BTC? That is not a small buy at all. With how low the exchange supply is right now about 2 million + BTC left on exchanges. That’s like almost 1% of what Is left on exchanges. This could cause serious price movement, if they buy it straight from the market, things are gonna explode. Even if they try to do it quietly through OTC to avoid spillage, it will still put pressure on the supply..
According to CMC, the daily volume on exchanges is 510,000 BTC.

I wouldn't trust a thing from that shitcoin site.
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Re: Quick loan 48 hrs
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condoras
on 27/05/2025, 17:59:08 UTC
Trust: +0 / =0 / -2

?

How do you see the Trust score, it depends on your Trust list and settings. Check this thread from LoyceV, it's very explanatory.

This user's password was reset recently.
This user recently woke up from a long period of inactivity.

This user is over from back then. No matter who gets the ownership of this account, this feedback will never change. Especially Lauda's... Cool
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Re: It offers the possibility of buying btc outside the financial market OTC
by
bias
on 27/05/2025, 17:08:29 UTC
you mean you have some sellers who are selling BTC right ?? okay i am ready to buy some small amounts like 10 to 3000$ depending upon how you want me to pay you means payment method

However, you have only USDT available... Undecided
And if/ when you buy the BTC, you will sell them here for +7%. Roll Eyes
What an idea... Cheesy

You're looking for buyers to match with the buyers you have?

Probably, he isn't satisfied with the current number of buyers that he has. Cheesy
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Re: Goldkingcoiner's Paper Trading Contest (#2) -Win 0,00025 BTC- 100% free!
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goldkingcoiner
on 27/05/2025, 16:39:35 UTC
Topic has been updated. Contest #2 is active.
I saw this before, but barely use Telegram (it runs in a VM on my old laptop). I've started your bot now: go all-in on Bitcoin, wait until I'm rich Cheesy
I was hoping for more trading pairs than just USD-BTC, that would make it more of a competition than the current "buy and hodl".

It's still a work in progress Smiley

If you would like, I can emulate the altcoin experience by adding a function which slashes your funds in half every time Bitcoin goes down by 2% Tongue
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Re: Can anyone tell me anything about this wallet? Can you tel location of purchase
by
Findingnemo
on 27/05/2025, 16:11:56 UTC
It's a weird development in scams: back in the days, scammers made small promises. Nowadays, scammers promise billions and somehow that's what earns them the most money.
Well, bitcoin was worth a few cents, then it reached a single-digit dollar value, then two, and so on. Currently, it's at six-digit figures, so it makes sense, right?

I bet OP already lost some money, which is why he is asking for the location with the hope he can get back his money. Good Luck, buddy!
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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kanftka
on 27/05/2025, 15:52:09 UTC
⭐ Merited by Hueristic (1)
Man, that’s huge 22,000 BTC? That is not a small buy at all. With how low the exchange supply is right now about 2 million + BTC left on exchanges. That’s like almost 1% of what Is left on exchanges. This could cause serious price movement, if they buy it straight from the market, things are gonna explode. Even if they try to do it quietly through OTC to avoid spillage, it will still put pressure on the supply..
According to CMC, the daily volume on exchanges is 510,000 BTC.

Yeah, right. But does the daily volume on CMC usually means only spot trading on all exchanges? and sometimes it might include futures or other stuff too. Like perpetual futures making up to 60% + of all crypto trading volume. Still, 510,000 BTC moving daily is a lot compared to what’s left on exchanges, but a big/huge buy like 22,000 BTC still isn’t something you can just buy without the market noticing…
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Re: Community feedback about merit and those whores
by
drwhobox
on 27/05/2025, 15:51:57 UTC
Today's spammer can become a real asset for the forum tomorrow.
In 10 years on Bitcointalk, I've seen that happen only once.
Who was that?
I forgot the name, it could have been before a name change. All I remember it was someone from the Nigerian local board who took my challenge to clean up his post history and stop spamming.
I thought it was you. I might be mistaken but you somewhere wrote about it that when you registered your intention was something else then later your interest grew for Bitcoin and the technology.

There was a user I can not remember his name. He was banned for spamming but later he earned a good name. I am not regular so I can't remember the name clearly. In fact, I don't know if I will recognize the user if I see him in a discussion.
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Re: Can anyone tell me anything about this wallet? Can you tel location of purchase
by
apogio
on 27/05/2025, 14:34:11 UTC
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That's not a wallet, it's a Bitcoin address. If you're looking for a scammer who tells you he sells a wallet with the private key to this address, you'll probably find someone. But that is indeed a scammer, and the wallet is fake.
So whatever you're looking for, you're not going to find someone who gives you a wallet with 3 billion dollars, no matter how much money you pay to the scammer.

How did you find out what the question was?
Anyway, it's very fun that you even had to say that nobody will give OP a wallet with 3 billion dollars. I thought they would, but now that you clarified it, I will be more hesitant. Tongue
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Re: Community feedback about merit and those whores
by
babo
on 27/05/2025, 13:45:02 UTC

@babo, As LoyceV said, sarcasm lose the power if that needed explanation.

yes ok but I'm really not against the day towards these workers who do the oldest job in the world
I don't care even if it was done
I really don't know about this nonsense about the day of the sandwich with ham or the day of the child with almond eyes or other nonsense like that Cheesy

I said I am like sheldon cooper, I dont understand sarcasm, lol bazinga
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Re: Community feedback about merit and those whores
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Shishir99
on 27/05/2025, 11:14:47 UTC
Today's spammer can become a real asset for the forum tomorrow.
In 10 years on Bitcointalk, I've seen that happen only once.
Who was that?
I forgot the name, it could have been before a name change. All I remember it was someone from the Nigerian local board who took my challenge to clean up his post history and stop spamming.

It was brainboss LoyceV!
I have seen you mentioned that somewhere else and I remember that pretty well. You were talking about Brainboss who is a campaign manager right now. This is not his username, but his service name is Brain boss Management. His username is kinda hard, I am not surprised that you couldn’t remember his username.

@babo, sarcasm lose the power if that needed explanation.
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Re: Community feedback about merit and those whores
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babo
on 27/05/2025, 10:18:54 UTC
It's sarcasm, which kinda loses it's power when it needs to be explained Wink

ah now I get it, I consider these things of the days of things a nuance of woke culture, which I hate because it's stupid
we are at the twilight of intelligence with woke culture, do not support these brainless men
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Re: Community feedback about merit and those whores
by
The Sceptical Chymist
on 27/05/2025, 10:16:32 UTC
Showing edit version 1 of 1 — scraped 8 hours ago
@Xal0lex is the one responsible here, because out of all the posts you put in the list, he's the only one who gave merit to them.
You don't blame someone for being generous with pure intentions; those who took advantage of generosity are the ones to point fingers at.

Can't argue with that, though what I will say is that Xal0lex probably should've seen the pattern and not been so generous; it's not as if he's a newbie and hasn't seen all of the merit abuse and assorted shenanigans over the years.  

On the other hand, this is just some questionable merit-giving we're talking about and even if it were blatant abuse, there's not much that anyone's going to do about it anyway.  Theymos doesn't even care all that much about merit abuse (and I'm still waiting to hear his State-of-the-Merit-System address but am doubtful that it'll ever come).

Today's spammer can become a real asset for the forum tomorrow.
In 10 years on Bitcointalk, I've seen that happen only once.

Who was that?
27/05/2025, 09:01:30 UTC Sponsored by @Whale
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Re: List of VPN Service Providers - 2024
by
joniboini
on 27/05/2025, 02:39:25 UTC
That's 23 GB/s on average. I highly doubt that. Where did you notice this?
IIRC, it was in a Reddit comment from their representative replying to a user who claimed they got banned recently. I think the user stated that they did use a lot of data in a month, but never explicitly stated the number of it, then the Windscribe representative claimed it was 60 PB/month. Other reports claimed the users only use 10 TB or less,s so I'm not sure the exact limit for their "unlimited" plan. I guess I'll look for other services if they keep being hush hush about it.

Monday, May 26, 2025

26/05/2025, 22:29:49 UTC Sponsored by @Whale
⭐️ Received 1 merit from xhomerx10 for Re: [get yours] Images from imgur + All links to your own posts
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Re: Dates with Flags
by
Mia Chloe
on 26/05/2025, 21:20:41 UTC
If you read that wrong, it was intentional.  Smiley

I just noticed I have four inactive flags:  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=30747;page=iflags
None of them have dates attached - should the reader assume the flag is made about the same time as the topic referenced?
I don't think flags generally carry date or timestamps. Probably some other extensions by LoyceV could have data on that but based on the forum's interface alone I don't think flags come with dates. Normal trust tags come with dates even if you don't add a reference link. LoyceV also has a data collection on that and it's pretty much why I guessed he should probably have one on this too.
However generally the flags are usually created shortly after what happens on a thread so it's usually within same date window.
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Re: [get yours] Images from imgur + All links to your own posts
by
joker_josue
on 26/05/2025, 18:02:41 UTC
And on that motivation, I've uploaded 187 GB of images in .zip-files again. Even better: I now have enough disk space to keep the .zip-files and also extract them (bringing the total to 383 GB).

Excellent work. Thank you very much.

By the way, I take this opportunity to ask. Are you able to easily make backups of TalkImg images?
The model I implemented is working well?
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Re: [May 2025]Fees are low, consider Consolidating your small inputs @1.00 sat/vbyte
by
Satofan44
on 26/05/2025, 16:31:59 UTC
That's why I said it's a rhetorical question Wink But still, it doesn't make sense: exchanges trick people into withdrawing made-up "wrapped" tokens instead of real Bitcoins, exchanges convince people to keep their Bitcoins on their exchange, but the spammers do all their shit on-chain.
What spam?
Bitcoin mempool is empty for months and number of transactions is slowly but surely decreasing, and you can consolidate almost every day.
People who want to crate spam moved on new altcoin blockchains, so I think even ethereum fees are now much lower.
I don't think he is necessarily talking about today. As currently the mempool is empty for some time, previously it was full for many months all the time. I remember all the fuss about ordinals, and then runes and so on during the last year. I'm not sure whether it will come back as the wider market of these things suffered massive losses after this period of activity and spam.

Anyway the point stands that there is no reason to do everything on chain.

Back ontopic: today's a good time to consolidate at the absolute minimum of transaction fees again Smiley
If only all major services always paid attention to this.  Smiley
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Re: Understanding mempool.space
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ABCbits
on 26/05/2025, 11:47:54 UTC
Am I reading it wrong?
Which one am I supposed to follow when putting a transactions?

The fee rate recommendation is below text "Transaction Fees". As for which recommendation, you can hover your cursor (on desktop) or touch (on mobile) the priority text to see their defnition of high, medium, low and no priority.

Which one am I supposed to follow when putting a transactions?
This depends on the seize of your transactions, but for simple transaction just follow recommended transaction fees.

As stated by @LoyceV, it should be depends on OP needs since mempool.space shows fee rate recommendation.

Currently this is 2 sat/vB but even 1 sat/vB should probably be confirmed quickly.
For more complex transactions including multiple inputs and outputs that could be different.
Here is one website that can calculate fees for specific number of inputs/outputs:
https://coinb.in/#fees

Some wallet also have preview feature where you can see transaction size before the TX is signed/broadcasted.
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Re: [May 2025]Fees are low, consider Consolidating your small inputs @1.00 sat/vbyte
by
dkbit98
on 26/05/2025, 11:24:35 UTC
That's why I said it's a rhetorical question Wink But still, it doesn't make sense: exchanges trick people into withdrawing made-up "wrapped" tokens instead of real Bitcoins, exchanges convince people to keep their Bitcoins on their exchange, but the spammers do all their shit on-chain.
What spam?
Bitcoin mempool is empty for months and number of transactions is slowly but surely decreasing.
People who want to crate spam moved on new altcoin blockchains, so I think even ethereum fees are now much lower.

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Re: Community feedback about merit and those whores
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Shishir99
on 26/05/2025, 09:40:33 UTC
And they wonder why they don't get a dedicated local board....

First, the local community has to unite and apply for a local board, right? I know there was an application, but it is too old. As far as I understand, the admins know the real size of the community. It may look like we have 30+ active posters, but I think admins know how many of them operate alternative accounts. I think he would smile and stay silent when he sees the application again.

The reason attention went to Xal0lex is because of your topic title. If you can edit the title and remove merits from it, it will be neutral.
Why would I remove that? Isn't that obvious why they are posting these things? You should blame the abuser instead of someone else.
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Re: AI Spam Report Reference Thread
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memehunter
on 26/05/2025, 08:38:54 UTC
⭐ Merited by ABCbits (1)
The shitposting continues:
Somehow he managed to earn 10 Merit already, so he's encouraged to keep going.

Look like he is getting a lot of positive energy from his brother Grin
Cryptoddler

Cryptoddler    2025-04-16        Always good content. Positive energy


As of May 21, 2025, Bitcoin has shattered its previous all-time high, reaching approximately $109,800 before settling around $109,400. This surge follows a significant rebound from April's low of about $75,000, marking a 47% increase in just over a month .

Several factors seem to be fueling this rally:

    Institutional Inflows: Spot Bitcoin ETFs have seen substantial net inflows, indicating renewed institutional interest .
   

    Political Developments: The U.S. Senate's advancement of a bill to establish a regulatory framework for stablecoins has been viewed as a significant endorsement of the cryptocurrency industry .
   

    Strategic Bitcoin Reserve: President Trump's executive order in March 2025 established a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, positioning the U.S. as a major holder of Bitcoin and signaling governmental support for digital assets .
   

Given these developments, I'm curious to hear your thoughts:

    Do you believe this is the beginning of a sustained bull market, or could we see a correction soon?

    How do you think the establishment of the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve will impact Bitcoin's long-term value?

    Are there specific price targets you're watching for in the near term?

Copleaks: 100%
Origin Gptzero: 100%



Been watching the market movements lately and can't help but notice how much influence corporations and nation-states seem to have on crypto these days. Remember when this space was all about individual retail investors and decentralized communities?
Now we've got:

Major corporations adding BTC to their balance sheets

Central banks developing CBDCs
Countries like El Salvador and others adopting crypto as legal tender
Institutional money flowing in through ETFs and other investment vehicles
Tech giants launching their own blockchain initiatives

The market seems to react more to what BlackRock or a country's regulatory announcement says than to community developments or tech upgrades.
Question for everyone: Do you think crypto has fundamentally changed now that corporations and countries are major players? Is this good for adoption but bad for the original crypto ethos? Or is this exactly the kind of mainstream recognition the space always needed?

I'm personally conflicted - more capital and legitimacy is great, but I worry about whether the decentralization principles can survive when the biggest movers are centralized entities.

What's your take? Has crypto lost its way or is this evolution necessary?

Copleaks: 100%
Origin Gptzero: 100%



Just caught wind that Arthur Hayes (former BitMEX CEO) is predicting Ethereum will outperform Solana in the upcoming alt season. Given his track record with market predictions, this caught my attention.

For those who haven't been following, Hayes has been pretty vocal about the ETH vs SOL debate lately. His thesis seems to favor ETH's established ecosystem and institutional adoption over SOL's performance and growing user base.

My question to the community: Do you agree with Hayes that ETH will outshine SOL during alt season? Or do you think Solana has more upside potential at this point?
Personally, I'm torn. ETH has the security and developer advantage, but SOL's speed and lower fees have been attracting impressive user growth. The ETH/SOL rivalry is one of the most interesting narratives right now.

Drop your thoughts below! 👇

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Origin Gptzero: 100%




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Re: Cryptocurrency exchange without KYC and AML
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katanic97
on 26/05/2025, 08:35:11 UTC
100% SCAM
You should create a Type 3 Flag against this "exchange", so they get a big red warning banner on top of this topic top prevent new victims.

Also, this scam could be post here  Crypto Scam Tracker along with the whole story
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Re: Request Support (or Opposition) for Flags here!
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Rikafip
on 26/05/2025, 06:11:31 UTC
I've Supported the Flag, and tagged them. It is however better to create a proper scam accustion thread against them. That will lead to more Flag Support and makes it easier to find the problem. I now had to read 34 posts.
OP created the scam accustion thread, link is at the bottom of his post.

Anwyay, flag supported. And yeah, it's unbelievable how reckless people are with their money.
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Re: [May 2025]Fees are low, consider Consolidating your small inputs
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katanic97
on 26/05/2025, 05:52:32 UTC
I think it's pretty clear when you realize that it’s all just a marketing trick. They have to latch onto the bitcoin name to sell their JPEGs or whatever else they’re promoting.
That's why I said it's a rhetorical question Wink But still, it doesn't make sense: exchanges trick people into withdrawing made-up "wrapped" tokens instead of real Bitcoins, exchanges convince people to keep their Bitcoins on their exchange, but the spammers do all their shit on-chain.

Back ontopic: today's a good time to consolidate at the absolute minimum of transaction fees again Smiley

Exchanges have an interest in keeping users funds on their platforms, mostly for control in my opinion. But that doesn’t mean the Bitcoin network is sitting idle it’s actually being used quite a lot. Spam transactions might not showcase that in a nicer way, but they’re still proof that block space is being purchased Smiley
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Re: Community feedback about merit and those whores
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Zoomic
on 25/05/2025, 15:23:58 UTC
I have witnessed the celebration of international days but some in this list is funny and not worth celebrating...
And they wonder why they don't get a dedicated local board....
Only if they can read here and make their discussion atleast 80% bitcoin discussion, the remaining 20 can go to meet up, politics and the rest. They have more of off topic posts.
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Saturday, May 24, 2025

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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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aesma
on 24/05/2025, 18:37:48 UTC
⭐ Merited by El duderino_ (5)
In France we have this tax deduction thing only since a few years ago, well there was a form of it before but the money was stuck until retirement age no ifs no buts the only exception being personal bankruptcy, so that wasn't an option for me, but now they have relaxed the rules.

I have however with my job a tax free thing where I get "matching contributions", so I put the max in there (5400€/year). I just started the aforementioned thing, that lowers my income by as much as I put in it so I get taxed less, and my job also contributes some to it, so that's free money.

Like LoyceV I see it as diversification, that helps me hodling BTC. And for example I'm looking at houses and plan to spend all/most of that fiat stuff but none of my BTC stash to buy it.

Also as long as I'm here the taxman is taking a huge chunk of my paycheck to give it to retirees so in theory I'll get a state pension out of that, although I'm not sure the system will still be there by then and I plan to retire 20 years early so that will probably not work, let's say it's plan C.
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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JayJuanGee
on 24/05/2025, 17:45:22 UTC
There is no need to give up so easily.  Each of us likely has abilities to put our coins into private placement and also to figure out networks to transact directly with others rather than giving in to having to have our transactions channeled.  
You got me. I was kind of seeing the future as bleak.
It seems like the government are slowly influencing what people perceive Bitcoin as
Though not as an enemy but as an asset that grows like Gold
Hence why they push the narratives of bitcoin been digital gold.
I'm not surprised about this and even consider it smart but many don't even know or care why Bitcoin is Bitcoin.
I'm not against ETF and the opportunities it brought but I think it opened the government eyes to a way.

Many of us are still getting used to bitcoin, and it is a bit of a moving target, so yeah there will be ongoing pushes to put all of us into KYC channels, yet the non-KYC channels are not completely closed, even though there may well continue to be increasing barriers, yet we do not necessarily need to be controlled by the barriers and the channels that financial institutions, traditionally rich folks and/0r governments may want to place us and/or keep us.

Lets talk tariffs moonboys  Roll Eyes
It looks like a new buying opportunity is being created. Not only for Bitcoin, also for the stock market.
You buy stocks?
Taxes (or better: tax deductions) force me to invest in pension plans. Some diversification to reduce all-eggs-in-one-basket isn't bad.

I understand the lure of the tax deductions and even possible employer matching within retirement plans such as 401k.. even though your retirement plans are likely different from the ones available in the USA and surely not everyone has access to various retirement investment funds.

I am thinking that I would have had been distracted if I was still contributing into my 401k from 2014 and thereafter, which I was not, and so bitcoin became a substitute for my 401k contributions that no longer were available to me at that time.

There can be employer matching up to 5% or something like that, and depending on income there can be tax benefits (deferral) up to $23,500 per year, which surely can be tempting to get the tax deferral up to the limit, even though it may well be better to invest into bitcoin rather than receiving the tax deferral benefit.

How many days can we within see at 70%?


Bitcoin dominance is not really very relevant in these here parts even though shitcoiners love to use such bitcoin dominance metrics (to the extent that they are not made up figures) to trade shitcoins or even to bounce between trading shitcoins and trading bitcoin..

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Another thing is that, the approach of selling off Bitcoin with intentions of buying back at a much more lower price is purely gambling. It's not as if there aren't people who actually gets away with it, but you know, just like gambling, it's purely about luck, and if you're not lucky, then you end up losing and missing out on potential opportunities thereby defeating your aim and purpose for selling in the first place.

From my perspective, for anyone who had reached an overaccumulation status, then such person would just sell from the overaccumulated portion of their holdings and not necessarily sell any bitcoin with any expectation to buy back cheaper.

Best practise is always keep your Bitcoin under your own custody, never go for exchange. That's the simple and best practise.
There still seem to be a lot of people buying and selling their bitcoin through exchanges, so surely it is likely best that any of us who are using bitcoin should keep considering possibilities to support any businesses who accept bitcoin, and also there may be ways that we try to interact with our neighbors by using bitcoin, though surely so many of us likely are not engaging in neighborly commerce in these times... so surely easier said than done, even though there still can be opportunities from time to time to directly interact and transact using bitcoin.

I also sometime have to go through exchange to convert my Bitcoin into fiat because of tight Bitcoin regulations in my country (Pakistan). But I never store my Bitcoin on any centralised exchange, just use the exchange whenever I need some conversion. For long term storage, your self custodial wallet is best option.   

It is problematic to create a bunch of small UTXOs - hopefully people understand the issue, especially if they are poor and they are creating a bunch of $10 to $100 UTXOs, it can become quite problematic for them at various times in the future.
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Re: List of VPN Service Providers - 2024
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Synchronice
on 24/05/2025, 10:38:09 UTC
Another interesting new alternative is Obscura VPN, but that is available only for MacOS for now.
It's very strange to create a VPN only for MacOS users, I think that's mostly a marketing plan because if privacy is the main reason, then they should be linux focused but their product is focused on Apple users and by marking their VPN as MacOS limited, it might make some people to feel that this is a special service for Mac and they might buy it for only that reason.

Whole Europe is going crazy, Spain limits cash withdrawal from banks, CBDC announced in EU from October, etc.
I think I even saw that in UK every crypto transaction will have to be KYC only from 2026  Tongue
Good luck to them with CBDC in Germany Cheesy
Wasn't UK enforcing KYC on transactions higher than 2K pounds? Or something like that?

I'd like to see more price models like this:
I stumbled upon this thread on Lowendtalk. Note that I wouldn't trust that VPN, comments say it's not encrypted and basically only meant to avoid the Great Firewall of China, but I like the price model: €1/TB, unlimited time. Especially for light users, paying per TB could be a better deal than unlimited bandwidth while you pay per month. But I haven't seen any other VPN provider offer that.
For reference: 1 TB would last me about 3 months on my desktop, and many years on my phone.
I agree with you, that's way better and fair price model.

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Re: List of VPN Service Providers - 2024
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apogio
on 24/05/2025, 08:26:51 UTC
I haven't used it, but I've seen their agressive discounts (and don't like that for a VPN).

Me neither, I dislike unreasonable discounts, because they look like they have put a red arrow pointing at them saying "here we are, notice us please"

If you don't live on the continent, latency is high anyway.

Yeah certainly, even though when I travelled to the a country in the middle east, I didn't see a major difference, but it obviously depends on the country and their internet performance.

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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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JayJuanGee
on 23/05/2025, 23:19:07 UTC
⭐ Merited by Ambatman (1) ,AlcoHoDL (1)
[edited out]
You pointing out the importance of hodling bitcoin for the long term as well as the power of compounding in Bitcoin investments. Yeah, a lot of investors believes the best strategy to bitcoin investment is locking in some dollar profits and this is mostly the trader's mindset, and they often fail to realize that when they constantly do this, they may actually end up missing out on potential returns that usually comes from Hodling on to their Bitcoin over a long period of time.

Bitcoin's historical price growth can be seen as a testament to just how much potentials for massive returns Bitcoin has when hodled for the long term. Just like you stated, with returns of over 444x over just a decade, it's living proof that Hodling through the volatile market, the storms and the usual ups and downs can actually turn out to be incredibly profitable, more profitable than constantly selling off your bitcoin when there's a little short term price pump in the market.

Of course, another problem with selling too much too soon is that we would never really know for sure when to get back in, so then we spend a lot of time waiting for the price to drop to some kind of a target price, and maybe it drops and maybe it does not. If we are still accumulating bitcoin, we might end up waiting and waiting to buy, and instead of buying regularly, persistently, ongoingly, consistently and perhaps even aggressively, we are waiting.  Waiting is not a good strategy for anyone who is still in their accumulation stage and who has not yet reached a high enough status of accumulation or a status of overaccumulation.

Guys can do what they like, yet in bitcoin, we have a large number of bitcoiners (perhaps low coiners) who end up selling way too much of their bitcoin too soon, even when they should be accumulating bitcoin and they may well even consider themselves to be accumulating bitcoin, yet they are engaging in conduct to sell bitcoin with a purpose of buying more of it, which is contradictory and does not help to bring them to their goal of reaching overaccumulation status.. .which is a place that most of us should want to be, even if our numbers in regards to what is overaccumulation status are different.

Right now, I would  consider a person who has a goal to have an $80k per year income to be at his threshold of overaccumulation status with 16.837 BTC. Sure, if he has a few more bitcoin (maybe something like 20 BTC for cushion of 3.163 BTC) then that makes it easier to make sure that he does not ever dip below overaccumulation status in the event that he wants to enter into either price-based and/or time-based sustainable withdrawal.

I doubt that selling and/or trading as compared to strict regular, ongoing and perhaps even aggressive buying helps to assure getting to an overaccumulation status faster.. and from my perspective if a person sells bitcoin in order to try to buy back at a lower price, then he is likely taking chances (ie. gambling) in terms of screwing up his accumulation of BTC.  Sure, he might get lucky, but from my perspective it is not worth it to be taking those kinds of chances with an investment like bitcoin.

Haven't used them anyways, but Fuck you Bitstamp....
Well We losing the war to privacy. Decentralization is becoming a wishful dream.

There is no need to give up so easily.  Each of us likely has abilities to put our coins into private placement and also to figure out networks to transact directly with others rather than giving in to having to have our transactions channeled.  We also might need to keep track of transactions that are KYC and ones that are not... and so for example if we are removing coins from Bitstamp or similar exchanges and they are asking us questions, then perhaps we mostly keep those coins in wallets in which we send them back the same coins that we took from them when it comes time to cash out some of them (if we are going to use their exchange for such purposes).

Should be creating more (rather than fewer) incentives to figure out ways to transact privately.  I recall local bitcoins had allowed for people to contact each other directly, and frequently I would do my first transaction on local bitcoins and if I liked the person, then I would do any future transactions directly.. .. but yeah, that Local bitcoin's service does not exist any more.

Lets talk tariffs moonboys  Roll Eyes
It looks like a new buying opportunity is being created. Not only for Bitcoin, also for the stock market.

You buy stocks?

Lets talk tariffs moonboys  Roll Eyes
It looks like a new buying opportunity is being created. Not only for Bitcoin, also for the stock market.
The great opportunity was only a few weeks ago brother….

108-111 is like just the same…

Surely for anyone who is in their first cycle or two then maybe they are still buying bitcoin at any price, but if any of us are either into 3 cycles or even close to 3 cycles, then we should have had mostly accumulated already or perhaps we graduate to some kind of buying on dips, and yeah, this move from $112k to $107k is hardly a dip of significance, including that we had sub $100k prices for right around 3 months including some prices that were in the $70ks and even lower $80ks for quite a long time (like all of March and at least half of April).

3 pages and no jjg ok own up to it who broke them???
ChatGPt can fill in, no problem:

User Input:
Act as JayJuanGee from Bitcointalk and create a Wall Observer post where he complains
about the current state of shitcoinery while praising todays ATH of Bitcoin.

ChatGPT response:
Not nearly long enough
For me, there seems to have had been problems with the style rather than length.
Right. I mean i actually saw the bottom of the post before i decided to scroll past! Tongue

*it was quite obvious it didn't even attempt to use your style.

I fixed the above quote to add what I had said.

fuck apple fuck trump buy Sammies.
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https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/live/tariffs-live-updates-trump-threatens-new-tariffs-on-apple-eu-in-latest-escalation-of-trade-war-191201009.html
Tariffs live updates: Trump threatens new tariffs on Apple, EU in latest escalation of trade war
"I have long ago informed Tim Cook of Apple that I expect their iPhone’s that will be sold in the United States of America will be manufactured and built in the United States, not India, or anyplace else," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "If that is not the case, a Tariff of at least 25% must be paid by Apple to the U.S."

Apple stock lost ground Friday in conjunction with a broader market decline.
BTC dipped like a freaking stock on this news
but gold went up?

3300 to 3360  this jump is 2%
btc dropped from

110800 to
108,600 or 2%
an exact match

If you are getting excited about gold rather than bitcoin, you are getting lost in the short-term noise.
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Re: [get yours] Images from imgur + All links to your own posts
by
xhomerx10
on 23/05/2025, 20:31:05 UTC
I would like to nominate LoyceV as a Bitcointalk Forum Hall of Famer.  He is truly legendary.
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Re: Save your nice merit records here - LAST UPDATE: 13/04/2024
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Negotiation
on 23/05/2025, 15:17:11 UTC


Nice to see @LoyceV it is the wonderful merit history on your profile 18888.
Love this buddy.💕
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Re: Request a new Definition for Merit Sources every 3 Month !
by
NotATether
on 23/05/2025, 15:12:16 UTC
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It is worth noting that 25 smerits is much less than the 100 smerits minimum that theymos assigns merit sources, so I don't think one merit source can do this by himself.
I don't think there's a minimum. I've seen posts about a 10 sMerit monthly source.

What on earth is someone going to do with a 10 smerit allocation?  Cheesy
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Re: Request a new Defination for Merit Sources every 3 Month !
by
DPHOR
on 23/05/2025, 14:00:05 UTC
It's best if sources try to exhaust their source allocations, even if it means giving posts higher amounts than is typical. If you have 150 source merit and you only see 3 merit-worthy posts in a month, then I'd rather you over-give each of them 50 merit than let the merit expire.
I can't say I completely agree with theymos here, but I get the reasoning behind it. If all Merit sources would do this, the amount of Merit created each month would be equivalent to the total of all Merit sources.

I was overflowing with sMerit - over 1,000.  I decided to trust Theymos and do what he suggested.  He removed me as a source.  :/

Merit is centralized and political - if Theymos likes you; it's hard to suggest otherwise.

Well I would have to believe what you said because if not so there wouldn't had been any day that people submit application and he don't even respond or give a word to those who has already submitted application, and again while does some people have a higher merits allocations than others. All this made me have this rethink that Merit is political, in fact everything is politics and one must be strong on forum politics to be able to survive in all aspects and that is what they called reputation.

Perhaps an alternative solution, should theymos choose to do nothing, is for a merit source (or merit sources) to create "mini-merit sources", where said merit sources monthly sends 50 merits to everybody on this list, who will then have 25 smerits each to merit other users.

It is worth noting that 25 smerits is much less than the 100 smerits minimum that theymos assigns merit sources, so I don't think one merit source can do this by himself.
This is a nice suggestion and since there no move to add more sources then I am fully in support of this steps. This will help reduces the task on merits sources if their messengers are working for them. I mean, if such amount are being credited to the people on the list then it would also relief those merits source from much task of reading and giving out merits.
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Re: [May 2025]Fees are low, consider Consolidating your small inputs
by
slick43
on 23/05/2025, 13:17:48 UTC
Fixing this would require a lot more changes  but right now, that seems almost impossible.
I don't think any of the changes needed will ever be made or that a consensus will be reached for any. Bitcoin was designed to be censor-proof, so it will go against it to try and censor any transactions at any time, no matter how annoying they are to the community.

As suggested above, they will die out on their own when they hype fizzles out and no one is willing to burn anymore of their money on them. Till then we can only educate people to not jump on the trend and consolidate when fees go low.
5000
Mods: I realize this isn't really a Technical Support question, but it's related to dozens of support request threads that have been made in the past, and it can potentially reduce support requests in the future. That's why I post it here.

Background
Whenever the Bitcoin network gets more congested, fees get higher and higher. Most wallets now use "dynamic fees", which means they start competing with each other for fast confirmations. This results is fees spiraling upwards. Not so long ago, more than 600 Satoshis/byte was needed to have any chance at a fast confirmation.
The result: this board filled up with topics like: "my transaction got stuck for 2 weeks, help me". At the moment, these topics don't exist, which is the reason I open this "opposite" topic.


Example
18 days ago, someone made this 4909 bytes transaction with 33 inputs and 510 Satoshis/byte fee. After paying fees, his 0.033BTC turned into only 0.0079539BTC. If he would make the same transaction now with 20 Satoshis/byte fee, he would have saved 0.024BTC. Instead of just 0.0079539BTC, he would have ended up with 4 times more!


Opportunity
Since about a week, fees are quite low again. For many months now, even transactions with 1 Satoshi/byte are likely to get confirmed within an hour.
If you've been collecting faucets in the past, you most likely have many inputs around 0.000xBTC. A few weeks ago, anything under 0.001BTC wasn't even enough to pay for the fee. If you set a very low fee now, you can consolidate inputs as low as just 2000 Satoshis (0.00002BTC).


It's good for everyone
If you make a big transaction with high fees when the network is congested, you take up a lot of scarce block space. This makes the congestion even worse.
By making a big transaction when the network isn't congested, you're prepared to be able to make a much smaller transaction once the network is congested again, without adding much to the congestion.


Consolidate small inputs
If you have many small inputs, now is the perfect time to consolidate them into one new input! If you're not in a hurry to get a confirmation, you can set a very low fee and just wait. Once it's confirmed, your funds can be send in a much smaller transaction, which means you'll save a lot on fees if you want to make a transaction when fees are high again. If you have enough small inputs, you can save up to 95% or more on fees!


How
Now the tricky part: it depends on your wallet! The easy way would be to just send your entire balance to a new address in your own wallet. Make sure to manually set the fee!
I prefer to "Enable coin control" in Bitcoin Core, you can do this in Electrum too. Select the inputs you want to use, and leave out very small dust inputs (say 0.00001BTC, it would still cost more in fees than it's worth). Then simply send all selected inputs to a new address of your own.
If you have many different inputs, I suggest to consolidate them in multiple steps. Don't create a 100,000 bytes transaction with 500 inputs, but instead create many transactions with 20-ish inputs.


If your wallet doesn't allow you to set your own fee, and/or to use coin control, you can export your private keys and import them into a wallet that does support it. This, however, is something to discuss in another topic.

Privacy
Consolidating your inputs links them together on the blockchain. This wouldn't be any different when you use the same funds in any other transaction, but you should consider this before doing it.


SegWit
User Wind_FURY found a comprehensive overview of Techniques to reduce transaction fees, including the use of SegWit addresses.


Fee estimators

No spam
All my threads are now self-moderated to stop signature spam. I will remove all irrelevant posts. If you quote the entire OP, your entry will be deleted.
Once in a while I'll summarize posts and clean up this thread.


Disclaimer
Use this information at your own risk. At all times, think before each action, especially when you're dealing with private keys. When in doubt, don't do it!
I'm human, I make mistakes. If something is incorrect, please let me know.

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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
by
El duderino_
on 23/05/2025, 13:05:54 UTC
⭐ Merited by d_eddie (1) ,JayJuanGee (1)
Lets talk tariffs moonboys  Roll Eyes
It looks like a new buying opportunity is being created. Not only for Bitcoin, also for the stock market.

The great opportunity was only a few weeks ago brother….

108-111 is like just the same…
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Re: Do you think campaign managers enrol their alts in their own campaigns?
by
Zlantann
on 23/05/2025, 07:56:39 UTC
Assuming a decent campaign manager earns more than the users in the campaign, that would be a dumb thing to do. I also think that if it would happen on a large scale, it would have been discovered once in a while. So it can't be happening a lot.

Greed can make people want more even when they have enough. If a manger is not content with his pay he might be tempted to enrol alt(s). Since the campaign management market is competitive, a campaign manager might want to charge lesser fees just to get a job. At that point he might start seeking for diverse means to increase his earning which night include enrolling his own accounts in the campaign. Just as others have stated reputable campaign mangers will not engage in such misbehavior because they are concerned about their brand/name. I also agree that this behaviour happens rarely.
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Re: [self-moderated] Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source
by
Rashlyowl
on 23/05/2025, 07:10:25 UTC
Let's say "it depends". But if you're so worried about Merit 4 days after you joined, I don't have high hopes.

Now I'm trying to adapt here & find as much information as I can, I'm not looking for merit (at least for now), just trying to contribute as much as I can. I saw there were some good threads on our local board that were not BTC related, that's why I asked.
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Re: Request a new Definition for Merit Sources every 3 Month !
by
babo
on 23/05/2025, 06:49:05 UTC
spread any excess smerits on several people
I don't know LoyceV has 800 merits and can't give them all, he takes I don't know dkbit98 and makes two smerits source of 400
logical, right?
There's a flaw in your reasoning: Merit isn't scarce. There's no need to reduce one to increase another. The fact that that doesn't happen, makes me think theymos thinks there's enough sMerit going around. I don't have exact numbers without digging them up, but from what I've seen, there's more Merit going around now than we had a year after the introduction of the Merit system, while we have less new posts.

mine is not a perfect proposal
but it's always better than the 3 month rotation proposal, that is, it doesn't change anything for me but follow my reasoning, should I rotate every 3 months for 45 merits? come on
you understand very well that it's a ridiculous thing

how ridiculous is my smerit allocation after all, it's funny but I do it for the good of the community so if I have less, I give less
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Re: How many of the merits source are doing what Theymos Said?
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nutildah
on 23/05/2025, 03:53:03 UTC
I had to quote it completely so you see it yourself that he once actually said such just to clarify a situation that once aroused.

If they complain about amounts, tell them to complain to me. It's best if sources try to exhaust their source allocations, even if it means giving posts higher amounts than is typical. If you have 150 source merit and you only see 3 merit-worthy posts in a month, then I'd rather you over-give each of them 50 merit than let the merit expire. That way there are more people capable of sending merit, and the "merit economy" is less top-down.

I tried doing this for a short while and got burned by giving merits to alt accounts; some of which ended up becoming scammers or sig campaign cheaters. That is the personal reason why I am unlikely to give an account which I am not overly familiar with a bunch of merits all at the same time.

When the Merit system was introduced, I started by sending 1 most of the time, then 4, and now often 6. And the occasional much larger amount for posts that I believe deserve it. If I were to just dump 50 Merit on a few posts that are "okay" but not exceptional, that doesn't feel right.

Agreed.

You know which other Merit source disagrees with this, and doesn't empty his monthly source? This one:

Hehe.

I would give LoyceV more merits for this post but he has too damn many already. He's too good, is why. Not just because he's part of the Merit Cycling Gang.

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Re: [May 2025]Fees are low, consider Consolidating your small inputs
by
katanic97
on 22/05/2025, 22:32:02 UTC
⭐ Merited by pooya87 (2)
Well the Ordinals Attack started 2-3 years ago and has been going on ever since. So they don't really "fade away" without being blocked...
It'll only stop when no new victims are willing to spend money on it. I don't really get why this has to be on-chain in the first place. When I compare the estimated number of "Bitcoin users" to the total number of funded Bitcoin addresses, it's clear that the large majority keeps their coins on exchanges. Why don't they do the same with their Ordinal crap? Keep it on a centralized exchange!
This is of course a rhetorical question. They need Bitcoin's name to sell their money maker.

I think it's pretty clear when you realize that it’s all just a marketing trick. They have to latch onto the bitcoin name to sell their JPEGs or whatever else they’re promoting. If this was happening on some regular centralized platform, no one would care...
Meanwhile, the network gets clogged, fees go up, and people who just want to use bitcoin end up paying the price. And as long as there are people throwing money at it, it’s not going to disappear on its own. Fixing this would require a lot more changes  but right now, that seems almost impossible.
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Re: Do you think campaign managers enrol their alts in their own campaigns?
by
GiftedMAN
on 22/05/2025, 20:54:23 UTC
Assuming a decent campaign manager earns more than the users in the campaign, that would be a dumb thing to do. I also think that if it would happen on a large scale, it would have been discovered once in a while. So it can't be happening a lot.

On this note I wonder why any reputable manager(s) would accept to manage a campaign where the campaign participants earn more than he does that's crazy if you ask me and if it's happening that means the attention of members have not been drawn to such things that's why it has not been exposed.
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Re: Request a new Definition for Merit Sources every 3 Month !
by
Findingnemo
on 22/05/2025, 19:58:08 UTC
I don't have exact numbers without digging them up, but from what I've seen, there's more Merit going around now than we had a year after the introduction of the Merit system, while we have less new posts.
You may notice the difference if you dig a little bit. If we remove merits shared from WO, ranking up threads, merit review threads, and forum drama/politics, the activity on merits shared that's actually related to crypto might decline a lot compared to the past. Wink

Quality of posts decreased? Probably but if we concentrate on Bitcoin, we can't come up with new ideas every day but rewarding something that's not pure spam could be a new criterion.
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Re: Request a new Definition for Merit Sources every 3 Month !
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Churchillvv
on 22/05/2025, 14:39:19 UTC
The fact that that doesn't happen, makes me think theymos thinks there's enough sMerit going around.
From my perspective of Theymos view on all this going on, if merit source must be added it has to be proved to Theymos that the increase in the number of newly registered members and/or posts in the forum is way too high that the merit in circulation is not enough anymore.

And from my perspective, Theymos is looking at the statistics of the forum there is no increase in new members or activity instead it goes up and down within a normal ratio. which makes me think that's the more reason Theymos hasn't approved new merit source or increased the merit allocation of any merit source.

However, is anyone in this forum making any good post and is not recieving merits? of course No so what is the reason behind the merit increase discussion, in my opinion it's just a sense of power or superiority to others that's the reason why guys are forced into requesting for merit increment and also a sense of belonging to the ruling class of the forum through merit. Hence the merit system is more of a power struggle mechanism.
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examplens
on 22/05/2025, 14:22:32 UTC
how to avoid the scammers
That's easy: don't lend out any money Wink

Check out the topic history of this experienced lender, and see how many Scam Accusations he's created for defaulted loans.
I saw somewhere that shasan stated that he has about $30k invested through various loans. It is a serious question, what if he wants to get out of the lending business? It can't just be that he demands full payment from people in a short period.
A good example is Darkstar, which still has open loans even though it stopped its lending business 2 years ago
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Re: How many of the merits source are doing what Theymos Said?
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SmartGold01
on 22/05/2025, 10:07:24 UTC
Are you sure about this? That someone can't merit a single post more than 50 merit. There is no limit to how much you can merit a single post, but there is a limit to how much you can merit any user each month. You can see a post that deserves even more and decide to merit the post 50 merit each month. There is no limit to how much merit a single post can receive.
That's incorrect. You can't send more than 100 Merits in total to a post.
You are right and only 50 can be sent for the duration of 30 days or 1 months after which that user can be able to still top another 50 in that same post.
I have seen some post having 100 merits from a particular user but they don't earn the 100 at a go but after one month gap.

By the way from OP,  I will advise that many merits source aren't holding back their merits sometimes it's actually very hard for them to keep finding quality post to merit but they can't just dump such amount of merits to any random posts they comes across without evaluating how quality such post could be or how contributive and helpful it's to the general public before receiving such quality.
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Re: How many of the merits source are doing what Theymos Said?
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Churchillvv
on 22/05/2025, 09:42:30 UTC
Are you sure about this? That someone can't merit a single post more than 50 merit. There is no limit to how much you can merit a single post, but there is a limit to how much you can merit any user each month. You can see a post that deserves even more and decide to merit the post 50 merit each month. There is no limit to how much merit a single post can receive.
That's incorrect. You can't send more than 100 Merits in total to a post.
Absolutely haven't seen any of the post received more than a 100 merits, however when looked at I figured out that posts that has 100 merit by a user are basically sent over time months or two months of sending 50.

The merit system was corrupted the moment the concept was typed out.

There is no trickle down effect and the various gangs will shower their own members for self gratification overly inflating their own egos.

It's an abject failure.
The merit system was corrupted the moment the concept was typed out.

There is no trickle down effect and the various gangs will shower their own members for self gratification overly inflating their own egos.

It's an abject failure.
Absolutely can't agree less to this, but according to BitcoinGirl.Club abusers will always abuse. but whether it's used for egoistic purposes by some I guess it's meeting the purpose of its creation.
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Re: FDE while running a node on SSD
by
ABCbits
on 22/05/2025, 09:25:22 UTC
⭐ Merited by vapourminer (1) ,YOSHIE (1)
If you do a full disk encryption setup while running a full Bitcoin Core node on an SSD drive, does the very demanding i/o activity while downloading+verifying the blockchain do too much wear and tear on the drive?

I would assume that SSD drives, since they don't have mechanical parts, are safer to run a full disk encryption node than an HDD, but nonetheless, what would you consider when shopping for drives?
For the drive there's no difference in I/O load whether it's gets encrypted or non-encrypted data to write to or read from. The OS does the encryption/decryption in memory, it doesn't matter for the drive what kind of data it gets to write to media or read from media.

There's more load on the CPU as it has to do the encryption and decryption, but usually it can handle it without much notice for the user. This of course depends on the CPU you have. Most modern CPUs have built-in instructions for speedy encryption and decryption.

FWIW, there's small I/O slowdown on read/write benchmark even when your CPU is fast enough. See https://scs.community/2023/02/24/impact-of-disk-encryption/, specifically benchmark result on SAS HDD. Although it's small enough where most people won't even notice it.

If you do a full disk encryption setup while running a full Bitcoin Core node on an SSD drive, does the very demanding i/o activity while downloading+verifying the blockchain do too much wear and tear on the drive?

I would assume that SSD drives, since they don't have mechanical parts, are safer to run a full disk encryption node than an HDD, but nonetheless, what would you consider when shopping for drives?

Also what about built-in drive encryption vs software encryption like VeraCrypt or dm-crypt (which I think is what most Linux distros use by default)? I would assume there's no need to even bother with built-in encryption and you should buy one without it and just encrypt it yourself with open source software.

Anyway I just wanted to know if full disk encryption has been tested and if it's safe for the drives, and if anything, what settings to tweak in order to make it more reliable.

In the bitcoin core app there is a toggle that says RPC server, you need to enable that. But the bitcoin core only works for you and saves your transactions unencrypted on your mac. If you want to have it encrypted, access your node from anywhere or be nice to others and let them use your node as well you would need something like an electrum server, additionally to the bitcoin core software. And when you do that it is easier to run a tiny linux machine or a VM on your mac with for instance Umbrel or some bitcoin node docker. Have a look at umbrel, they even sell the whole thing done. However, you must know that it is more expensive and you trust them to make any node choice for you; on the other hand it is convenient.

Bitcoin core runs on a mac. But then you start with electrum server, etc. And you end up just buying a tiny linux machine that runs all the time. On Mac you can also have a VM run (in for instance UTM) of Umbrel... that sets up everything for you and you just need to open some ports on your router.

Do you post this reply on wrong thread or intentionally being off-topic?
1. OP never state he own any Mac device.
2. OP never mention or ask anything about connecting to Bitcoin node, so why do you mention RPC?
3. Other full node and application that use RPC-JSON protocol still can connect to your full node, even if FDE is enabled. So i don't understand why you mention Electrum server.

I did some tests (about a year ago). If I remember correctly, my laptop with 8 GB RAM wrote almost 5 TB to disk during IBD. That's a fraction of what a modern SSD can handle.
In my other test, with 32 GB RAM and enough dbcache on a server with HDD, the disk speed was not a problem at all. More RAM can make up for a slower disk, problems arise when your disk is slow and you don't have enough RAM.

If you have neither (fast disk or big RAM capacity), you probably better not force yourself to run full node anyway.
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Re: lending service
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MHtraders
on 22/05/2025, 08:07:32 UTC
This topic might help you: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5460744.0

But, you should take LoyceV's advice, and don't.


Thanks
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Re: Testnet4 Mining (Discussion)
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BayAreaCoins
on 22/05/2025, 07:09:06 UTC
Basically, if the code allows for any mining fuckery, someone is going to hit it.
So breaking transactions to prove a point?

Submitting blocks with zero transactions is faster than including transactions.
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Re: Request a new Definition for Merit Sources every 3 Month !
by
babo
on 22/05/2025, 06:32:43 UTC
I am sure theymos would ''love'' to have additional work in rotating merit source members all the time Roll Eyes
I honestly don't see how this would improve anything in this forum, not to mention that members would never be sure about merit source status.
Maybe some inactive merit source could be removed and replaced, but I don't want to have more complications with rotation.

This makes me wonder why some sources have so much more sMerit to send than others. At 850 it's quite a challenge to spend them wisely.
Maybe they are not monitoring exact merit number, they just spend it as they go.

Exactly  Roll Eyes
especially if they are merits source like me with a monthly smerit endowment of 45 smerit
It doesn't make much sense
my solution, on the other hand, sorry if I'm not humble, makes more sense.
spread any excess smerits on several people

I don't know LoyceV has 800 merits and can't give them all, he takes I don't know dkbit98 and makes two smerits source of 400

logical, right?
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DireWolfM14
on 22/05/2025, 02:55:04 UTC
This topic might help you: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5460744.0

But, you should take LoyceV's advice, and don't.

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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Biodom
on 21/05/2025, 19:57:51 UTC
It's amazing that you dollar people already have a new ATH, while we euro people are still 10k short.

well hey we work with what we have..

iow.. still happy enough here  Grin

Ya, because a strong dollar is the goal when we’re nearly $40,000,000,000,000 in debt… Imagine being proud of being a fiat bagholder while the US is printing money and stacking BTC. Europe is failing in every way and a strong currency while your manufacturing is disappearing is not the strong position some think it is. This is why Europe is 50 years behind. They’re playing checkers while the US and China are playing chess.

USA will default in 2027

all part of the plan.

I don't see it, honestly. If anything, it would be some other country or countries.
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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₿itcoin
on 21/05/2025, 19:38:39 UTC
⭐ Merited by El duderino_ (10) ,OgNasty (1) ,JayJuanGee (1)
It's amazing that you dollar people already have a new ATH, while we euro people are still 10k short.

well hey we work with what we have..

iow.. still happy enough here  Grin

Ya, because a strong dollar is the goal when we’re nearly $40,000,000,000,000 in debt… Imagine being proud of being a fiat bagholder while the US is printing money and stacking BTC. Europe is failing in every way and a strong currency while your manufacturing is disappearing is not the strong position some think it is. This is why Europe is 50 years behind. They’re playing checkers while the US and China are playing chess.

It actually highlights how complicated global finance has become. it is true the us $ remains dominant in market, it comes with trade-offs like a vast national debt & aggressive monetary policy

On the flip side a stronger € does mean slower BTC gain for EU holders in fiat terms, but it also reflects partially unyielding fiscal control

At the end of the day, Satoshi built Bitcoin to rise above these fiat battle utterly whether you are stacking sats in USD, EUR, or any other currency, the long term goal is financial sovereignty Smiley

Indeed those are good points. For Europeans looking to flee before it completely falls apart it even can be viewed as an opportunity. Looking forward though, you’re getting a preview of what actions each government will take as fiat continues to crumble. If Game Theory in Bitcoin becomes a thing, there will be very obvious winners and losers. We’re seeing the writing on the wall now.

well said dude

What we are witnessing now feels like a live stress test of global economic policies, Bitcoin is quietly becoming the benchmark here for trust in a world of depreciating fiat. You are right this is a glimpse into how different governments will respond under pressure & those moves will shape the next decade

For individuals especially in regions facing structural decline, it is not just about fleein, it  is about positioning wisely. Game theory is in motion  & those who understand BTC’s asymmetric advantage early are already a few moves ahead on the board
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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philipma1957
on 21/05/2025, 19:37:11 UTC
It's amazing that you dollar people already have a new ATH, while we euro people are still 10k short.

well hey we work with what we have..

iow.. still happy enough here  Grin

Ya, because a strong dollar is the goal when we’re nearly $40,000,000,000,000 in debt… Imagine being proud of being a fiat bagholder while the US is printing money and stacking BTC. Europe is failing in every way and a strong currency while your manufacturing is disappearing is not the strong position some think it is. This is why Europe is 50 years behind. They’re playing checkers while the US and China are playing chess.

USA will default in 2027

all part of the plan.
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Re: Request a new Definition for Merit Sources every 3 Month !
by
dkbit98
on 21/05/2025, 19:28:55 UTC
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I am sure theymos would ''love'' to have additional work in rotating merit source members all the time Roll Eyes
I honestly don't see how this would improve anything in this forum, not to mention that members would never be sure about merit source status.
Maybe some inactive merit source could be removed and replaced, but I don't want to have more complications with rotation.

This makes me wonder why some sources have so much more sMerit to send than others. At 850 it's quite a challenge to spend them wisely.
Maybe they are not monitoring exact merit number, they just spend it as they go.
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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OgNasty
on 21/05/2025, 19:19:27 UTC
⭐ Merited by El duderino_ (5)
It's amazing that you dollar people already have a new ATH, while we euro people are still 10k short.

well hey we work with what we have..

iow.. still happy enough here  Grin

Ya, because a strong dollar is the goal when we’re nearly $40,000,000,000,000 in debt… Imagine being proud of being a fiat bagholder while the US is printing money and stacking BTC. Europe is failing in every way and a strong currency while your manufacturing is disappearing is not the strong position some think it is. This is why Europe is 50 years behind. They’re playing checkers while the US and China are playing chess.

It actually highlights how complicated global finance has become. it is true the us $ remains dominant in market, it comes with trade-offs like a vast national debt & aggressive monetary policy

On the flip side a stronger € does mean slower BTC gain for EU holders in fiat terms, but it also reflects partially unyielding fiscal control

At the end of the day, Satoshi built Bitcoin to rise above these fiat battle utterly whether you are stacking sats in USD, EUR, or any other currency, the long term goal is financial sovereignty Smiley

Indeed those are good points. For Europeans looking to flee before it completely falls apart it even can be viewed as an opportunity. Looking forward though, you’re getting a preview of what actions each government will take as fiat continues to crumble. If Game Theory in Bitcoin becomes a thing, there will be very obvious winners and losers. We’re seeing the writing on the wall now.
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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Btcdeybodi
on 21/05/2025, 19:14:58 UTC
It's amazing that you dollar people already have a new ATH, while we euro people are still 10k short.

This is indicative of a weak USD and strong EUR. FWIW, we just barely hit a new ATH in USD.

When we properly break out soon, everyone will be able to celebrate.

Probably before/on the weekend, we will have an all round celebration of a NEW ATH.

Seems some weak hands have liquidated the market already, but we move regardless, the moon will be our starting point Cool

Sight you @Infofront, WO originator!
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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₿itcoin
on 21/05/2025, 18:58:21 UTC
⭐ Merited by El duderino_ (5) ,OgNasty (1) ,JayJuanGee (1)
It's amazing that you dollar people already have a new ATH, while we euro people are still 10k short.

well hey we work with what we have..

iow.. still happy enough here  Grin

Ya, because a strong dollar is the goal when we’re nearly $40,000,000,000,000 in debt… Imagine being proud of being a fiat bagholder while the US is printing money and stacking BTC. Europe is failing in every way and a strong currency while your manufacturing is disappearing is not the strong position some think it is. This is why Europe is 50 years behind. They’re playing checkers while the US and China are playing chess.

It actually highlights how complicated global finance has become. it is true the us $ remains dominant in market, it comes with trade-offs like a vast national debt & aggressive monetary policy

On the flip side a stronger € does mean slower BTC gain for EU holders in fiat terms, but it also reflects partially unyielding fiscal control

At the end of the day, Satoshi built Bitcoin to rise above these fiat battle utterly whether you are stacking sats in USD, EUR, or any other currency, the long term goal is financial sovereignty Smiley
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
by
goldkingcoiner
on 21/05/2025, 18:56:22 UTC
⭐ Merited by Swordsoffreedom (1)

That's the part that doesn't make sense: the dollar is centuries old, the euro is a much bigger shitcoin with much more BRRR from many interest rate cuts.
In simple terms is because they have had more years to print more papers. A known secret is that They have more printer

Printers have been in control of the economy this whole time.

Euro people here but still glad about the ATH.

In an hospital bed right now but for good reasons, I'm doing various tests and will start on mounjaro to lose weight. So I'm fit when I retire early.

My tax euros at work.

Get well soon!


your trading strategy lookin like a GPS with no signal  Tongue , recalculating at every turn Grin


That's good, lol. Gotta remember this.
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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OgNasty
on 21/05/2025, 18:36:31 UTC
It's amazing that you dollar people already have a new ATH, while we euro people are still 10k short.

well hey we work with what we have..

iow.. still happy enough here  Grin

Ya, because a strong dollar is the goal when we’re nearly $40,000,000,000,000 in debt… Imagine being proud of being a fiat bagholder while the US is printing money and stacking BTC. Europe is failing in every way and a strong currency while your manufacturing is disappearing and you’re repatriating assets to try and stay alive is not the strong position some think it is. This is why Europe is 50 years behind. They’re playing checkers while the US and China are playing chess.
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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on 21/05/2025, 17:45:31 UTC
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It's amazing that you dollar people already have a new ATH, while we euro people are still 10k short.

well hey we work with what we have..
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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infofront
on 21/05/2025, 17:45:27 UTC
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It's amazing that you dollar people already have a new ATH, while we euro people are still 10k short.

This is indicative of a weak USD and strong EUR. FWIW, we just barely hit a new ATH in USD.

When we properly break out soon, everyone will be able to celebrate.
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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Ambatman
on 21/05/2025, 17:14:38 UTC

That's the part that doesn't make sense: the dollar is centuries old, the euro is a much bigger shitcoin with much more BRRR from many interest rate cuts.
In simple terms is because they have had more years to print more papers. A known secret is that They have more printer
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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lightfoot
on 21/05/2025, 16:35:33 UTC
⭐ Merited by infofront (5)
It's amazing that you dollar people already have a new ATH, while we euro people are still 10k short.
Well, the dollar shitcoin is worth a lot less lately. Interesting to see that reflected in the price of bitcoins....

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Re: Borrowing a bitcoin to buy a miner, generate a bitcoin and pay it back
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on 21/05/2025, 15:41:43 UTC
4. Use the bitcoin miner to pay back the bitcoin once a bitcoin has been generated
According to SoloChance.com, you'll have a 1 in 21,934 chance to find a block. That's a nice way of saying you'll never pay it back.

Did not realize the odds are that bad. Then I might just as well wash windows after hours instead.
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Re: Request a new Defination for Merit Sources every 3 Month !
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babo
on 21/05/2025, 07:14:08 UTC
For example, I have 45 smerits a month but I manage to spread them around, is easy
This makes me wonder why some sources have so much more sMerit to send than others. At 850 it's quite a challenge to spend them wisely.

now you understand why in the end I don't agree with the rotation, if you rotate my sMerits, 45 to another you just make a huge effort, for 45 smerit. 45 smerits to give is easy effort for me

Instead, maybe those who have smerit > 1000 would be better off splitting it in two
just so as not to give him too much effort
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Re: DT1 and DT2 members who have negative feedback (or are banned)
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babo
on 21/05/2025, 06:30:14 UTC
If you don't want an extension or website, there's also my Banned users list Smiley

thank you i prefer this

bpip browser extension, in addition to other options, also recognizes banned users

For example, how it looks


[β] BPIP Extension: user info & extra features add-on/extension, Firefox/Chrome

ah cool, thank you for info, i try to understand what is better for my purpose

~~~

ty you too for your response
we really have a lot of possibilities thanks to people who made awesome tools, bpip was created by suchmoon? i don't remember - thanks to all
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Re: Request a new Defination for Merit Sources every 3 Month !
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Vod
on 20/05/2025, 22:18:41 UTC
It's best if sources try to exhaust their source allocations, even if it means giving posts higher amounts than is typical. If you have 150 source merit and you only see 3 merit-worthy posts in a month, then I'd rather you over-give each of them 50 merit than let the merit expire.
I can't say I completely agree with theymos here, but I get the reasoning behind it. If all Merit sources would do this, the amount of Merit created each month would be equivalent to the total of all Merit sources.

I was overflowing with sMerit - over 1,000.  I decided to trust Theymos and do what he suggested.  He removed me as a source.  :/
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Re: PERTANYAAN KHUSUS UNTUK USER SFI
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Husna QA
on 20/05/2025, 18:44:49 UTC
Saya memiliki akses dalam informasi yang disediakan akademi crypto yang dimiliki oleh kalimasada dan timothy ronald, dan dari itu saya tanya pada kalian apakah jikalau saya membagikan setiap informasi dari dalam menuju forum ini apa kalian setuju dan merasa itu bermanfaat ? Apalagi disana mereka lebih sering memberikan informasi tentang bitcoin, dan altcoin juga sebenarnya. Mengenai hal ini mereka tidak mempermasalahkan untuk membagikannya kemanapun dan selain itu juga mereka mengklaim jikalau informasi yang mereka dapat dikemas dari informasi A1 dari sumber yang berbayar dan mahal. Jadi bagaimana jikalau saya membagikannya??

Meskipun seingat saya tidak ada larangan yang khusus tentang penggunaan AI di Bitcointalk, namun sedikit saran, kalaupun informasinya hendak di share sebaiknya di modifikasi terlebih dulu.
Dan sebagaimana yang disebutkan teman-teman diatas, perhatikan aturan penggunaan konten dari academy crypto tersebut dan juga aturan di Bitcointalk semisal mencantumkan sumber, dll.
Maksud OP sepertinya bukan AI mas, tapi A1 mas. Yaitu informasi yang bisa dipercaya atau berasal dari sumber terpercaya yang memang biasanya dari sumber yang punya reputasi yang sangat bagus.  :)
-snip-

Terima kasih atas koreksinya, nampaknya yang dimaksud OP adalah sebagaimana yang agan sebutkan di atas. Saya baru 'ngeh' istilah tersebut, barusan googling dan menemukan informasi berupa tabel berikut:

Quote


Kalau lihat dari apa yang diposting OP, sepertinya masalah izin tidak ada masalah, jadi ya problemnya mungkin datang dari konten itu sendiri. Red trust juga bukan "hukuman" yang pas kalau ada orang ngeshare kontent AI karena fungsinya lebih ke penilaian apakah orang itu bisa dipercaya buat trading/bisnis di forum atau tidak. Misalnya manajer atau borrower yang tepat waktu bisa dikasih trust positif atau kena trust negatif kalau malah lari dkk. Dulu memang pernah ada yang make buat flag kaun spam, tapi seingat ane sekarang neutral trust yang dipake untuk hal semacam itu. CMIIW.
Tag trust, baik itu negatif atau positif bukan jadi tolak ukur yang menjadikan user tersebut dapat dipercaya di forum ini. Karena ada beberapa yang menggunakan trust + (positif) untuk membangun akunnya layak dipercaya, namun setelah beberapa waktu, dan trustnya bertambah, si user akan menggunakan Trust-nya tersebut untuk menipu member yang lain. Begitu juga sebaliknya, trust negatif juga bukan berarti member tersebut scammer, ada beberapa manajer masih "memperkerjakannya".

Kalau tidak salah, LoyceV pernah mengingatkan perihal trust perlu juga diupdate atau di review kembali (koreksi jika saya keliru); Karena kondisi pemilik akun bisa saja berganti, semisal di hack atau diperjual belikan. Jadi, trust yang ada pada sebagian user memang belum tentu valid setelah kurun waktu tertentu.


btw, sejauh ini belum ada kesimpulan dari OP terkait apakah rencananya untuk share informasi dari akademi crypto tersebut jadi atau tidak.

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Re: Is this a violation of rule 27 of Btt?
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Bitcoin_Arena
on 20/05/2025, 17:06:03 UTC
I see where you are coming from  Grin
Probably a mistake? @Zwei also noticed another one



nah, he is just a talented multilingual (he = google translate). but for real, i have no idea how he managed to last this long, he been doing this for years.
He was probably under the radar or perhaps no one bothered to report such posts before, let's see what the mods will do now that this has been brought to their attention. I remember a certain service complaining about their translated posts being deleted no so long ago
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Re: Novosti
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ovcijisir
on 20/05/2025, 12:51:41 UTC
Napisao je da nije odmah pokupio BCH i ostale forkove, a kad se sjetio vec mu ih je netko popalio.

A da misterija bude veca nakon nekog vremena ih je dobio nazad,pa je nedugo nakon toka opet (netko drugi?) maznuo coine sa te adrese Cheesy

They include 1k bcd and 100m xec, worth about 2500 $
It gets weirder: those coins were taken, but returned 11 hours ago! The BCH was also returned and taken again 2 hours later.

O zašto bi netko vratio coine na wallet čiji private key je javno otkriven? Jedino tko je mogao izvući coine s tog walleta je netko tko je vidio private key na slici što znači da je čitao thread. Zar nije onda pametnije javiti se čovjeku i pitati ga vratiti coine?

Pa zato i je misterija, tko zna zasto su coini vraceni natrag na tu adresu, niti ja nisam mogao smisliti nikakav logican razlog za to ali eto, blockchain ne laze.
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Re: Novosti
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slackovic
on 20/05/2025, 12:20:46 UTC
Napisao je da nije odmah pokupio BCH i ostale forkove, a kad se sjetio vec mu ih je netko popalio.

A da misterija bude veca nakon nekog vremena ih je dobio nazad,pa je nedugo nakon toka opet (netko drugi?) maznuo coine sa te adrese Cheesy

They include 1k bcd and 100m xec, worth about 2500 $
It gets weirder: those coins were taken, but returned 11 hours ago! The BCH was also returned and taken again 2 hours later.

O zašto bi netko vratio coine na wallet čiji private key je javno otkriven? Jedino tko je mogao izvući coine s tog walleta je netko tko je vidio private key na slici što znači da je čitao thread. Zar nije onda pametnije javiti se čovjeku i pitati ga vratiti coine?
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Re: Request a new Defination for Merit Sources every 3 Month !
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notocactus
on 20/05/2025, 11:05:28 UTC
I don't think so. As a Merit source, "hoarding" already means you can send less sMerit in total. If my source is removed at the end of this month, that doesn't make me spend more now. If anything, it would make me more careful with "my own" earned sMerits, as I'll need those to cover the time when my Merit source is put on a dry spell.
Merit is for quality posts and if there are not enough quality posts, source merit can be spent less than before. If the forum changes to be less active in future, consequently in this example, there are less quality posts, so sourced merit monthly can be reduced and can be spent less. It's natural and there is no convincing reasons for dumping sourced merit on non-quality posts just because your monthly countdown timer comes to very last days.

While we will not be directly moderating this, I encourage people to give merit to posts that are objectively high-quality, not just posts that you agree with.
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Re: Novosti
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ovcijisir
on 20/05/2025, 10:44:56 UTC
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/snip

Naravno da je neko odmah proverio i pokupio forked koine, kojih je bilo oko $40k

Kako znaš da nije on pokupio te forked coine? Nije mi se dalo čitati cijeli thread. Možda je kasnije netko spomenuo to. Ali opet, kad imaš 10 milijuna dolara, vjerojatno te tako boli ona stvar za 40 tisuća.

Napisao je da nije odmah pokupio BCH i ostale forkove, a kad se sjetio vec mu ih je netko popalio.

A da misterija bude veca nakon nekog vremena ih je dobio nazad,pa je nedugo nakon toka opet (netko drugi?) maznuo coine sa te adrese Cheesy

They include 1k bcd and 100m xec, worth about 2500 $
It gets weirder: those coins were taken, but returned 11 hours ago! The BCH was also returned and taken again 2 hours later.
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Re: [OFNT] [AOBT] The Alliance Of Bitcointalk Translators
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cygan
on 20/05/2025, 09:47:28 UTC
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Thank you, dear cygan Smiley

I announced d5000 about the new translation. I have one small mention though... Where you wrote "Original Thema:" you named d5000's topic, but the hyperlink leads to LoyceV's topic Smiley

oops, i must have gotten mixed up - its fixed now! Smiley
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Re: For those that use Bitcoin Core as a wallet, how do you plan safety?
by
ABCbits
on 20/05/2025, 09:34:02 UTC
⭐ Merited by apogio (1) ,vapourminer (1)
It's been years since I tried, but as far as I know Mycelium supports BIP38 too.
I vaguely remember it too (but I haven't used it for years), and I know that Mycelium also exports an encrypted backup of a private key in PDF with a random code.

That's good to know. Although it's not exactly straightforward option when you plan to create paper wallet, since you need to generate wallet/import private key, create backup and move backup to computer (which used to create paper wallet).

It's been years since I tried, but as far as I know Mycelium supports BIP38 too.

I vaguely remember it too (but I haven't used it for years), and I know that Mycelium also exports an encrypted backup of a private key in PDF with a random code.

I 've never used Mycelium, even though Andreas Antonopoulos used to mention it a lot. It must have been a pretty good wallet, but I 've noticed that for iOS, it has a warning.

iOS version of their wallet last updated 2 years ago[1]. That may be reason behind warning you see.

[1] https://github.com/mycelium-com/wallet-ios
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Re: DT1 and DT2 members who have negative feedback (or are banned)
by
babo
on 20/05/2025, 09:33:03 UTC
@LoyceV I don't know if I've already asked you and so I asked you this question
but do you have some sort of bees to ask if a person is banned or not?
I can't figure out how to figure out who is banned or not in the forum

couldn't we have a special "banned" "title"? insteed of rank, we can put banned
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Re: [OFNT] [AOBT] The Alliance Of Bitcointalk Translators
by
GazetaBitcoin
on 20/05/2025, 09:17:10 UTC
⭐ Merited by cygan (3)
while you were publishing this post, i was already working on the german translation, which i have now finished

Thank you, dear cygan Smiley

I announced d5000 about the new translation. I have one small mention though... Where you wrote "Original Thema:" you named d5000's topic, but the hyperlink leads to LoyceV's topic Smiley
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Re: Request a new Defination for Merit Sources every 3 Month !
by
CryptopreneurBrainboss
on 20/05/2025, 08:46:44 UTC
You mean I could have a vacation from this ever growing pile of sMerit that keeps coming back no matter how hard I try to spend them? Wink

What a problem and one many would prefer to have instead of the common one ''You have 0 sendable merit (sMerit) which you can send to other people.'' lol.

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My idea here comes from all that applications in the past , and maybe we can see something like we have on the Default Trust 1 List.
So it could coosen at some kind of pool and change ever 3 Month.

Why 3 months, why not 1 like the DT system and after immediately you lose your merit source status, you lose all the source smerit. This will discourage hoarding of smerit but for this to be flawless, it can't be influence by voting like with the DT system. Theymos has to be the one deciding who gets to be the source or not. Now how does he choose the right candidates?. He can't ask for recommendations either because then we begin to have some favouritism.
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Re: [OFNT] [AOBT] The Alliance Of Bitcointalk Translators
by
GazetaBitcoin
on 20/05/2025, 07:31:19 UTC
Dear AoBTers: although there is still plenty of time for the pizza contest, I'd like to remember that the sooner we update and bump our threads the better for the members in our local boards who want to participate.

Maybe a small heads-up would help...? So here we go Smiley

     *Update pending.

This should be in the attention of Peanutswar, DrBeer, N.O, Adiljutt156 and r_victory.

Porf, please be aware that the PID translation made by SatoPrincess was also updated.
Also, Porf, did you PM the non-AOBT translators about this...? In this moment only N.O remains should be PMed...



Regarding the remaining 2 topics in progress, the situation is the following:


This thread has 8 translations, thus only 2 more are needed. The available languages are: [FRE] [ARA] [IDN] [TUR] [UKR] [FIL] [BAN] [URD] [HIN]. Therefore, this should be in the attention of paid2, khaled0111 / Zwei, Husna QA / dansus, mindrust / mela65, DrBeer, Peanutswar, DS, Adiljutt156 and M47AK16.


This thread has 2 translations, thus 8 more are needed. The available languages are: [GER] [POL] [ROM] [RUS] [FRE] [ARA] [IDN] [SPA] [TUR] [FIL] [PID] [BAN] [URD] [HIN]. Therefore, this should be in the attention of cygan, zasad@ / DrBeer, paid2, khaled0111 / Zwei, Husna QA / dansus, Porf, mindrust / mela65, Peanutswar, DS, Adiljutt156, M47AK16 and myself.



Apart from all this, Porf, can you take a look, please, at the image links for mindrust and zasad@? Their images in OP are broken...
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Merits 4 from 2 users
Re: A Sad Day for Physical Bitcoin Collectors
by
SilverCryptoBullet
on 20/05/2025, 02:48:22 UTC
⭐ Merited by fillippone (3) ,JayJuanGee (1)
Btw knowing you posted publicly your key i hope you have redeem those bitcoin forks first especially on BCH fork, its more than $40k worth if you mention it.
Claiming forks must be done properly and safely.

Firstly the bitcoin life-changing amount must be redemeed and moved to a new non custodial wallet. Then this man can claim forks with that private key - remember only do fork claiming after this private key and bitcoin address has empty bitcoin in it.

A guide for fork claiming.
LoyceV's Bitcoin Fork claiming guide (and service).

Fond memories of the 2017 fork season.
Claiming, moving and selling BitcoinPizza has been a life achievement for me!
I wonder how many of those forks still live somewhere.
Most of 2017 and later forks died with time.
How Many Bitcoin Forks Are There? You will be surprised!!!