Quote from: NotATether on May 02, 2024, 12:45:58 PM

No thanks, I don't want to be having all these miners next to my dam. That'll just mean more power outages. And the government is already rationing power between districts, so I think it is a very dumb idea to make electricity even more scarce by giving it to the miners.

Although in fairness there have not been so many outages recently probably because it's raining so much here, but just wait for the rain to stop and then it will be back to outages as normal.

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Power infrastructure here isn't the same as in USA. I'm not going to pretend I know about the electrical situation in Texas but the lines are clearly more stable across the whole country than over here. A single technical glitch or heavy rainfall is enough to down a power line and disrupt a neighborhood's supply here. And there's no advanced monitoring of outages at all (but that is a problem across the whole continent).

Also, a bit irrelevant but everyone's still gotta make a trip to the utility in order to pay for electricity and transfer it to the "electricity card" for the meter. A couple other countries in Africa are like that too.

So doesn't make much sense to compare geographics between a first world and a third world country.

Well... repeating what main stream media say is called siding with mainstream media, NotATether

That is backwards. By that logic, that would mean every account tweeting about this or writing it on social media, Medium, and other blogs including Lyn Alden and Joel Valenzuela who you quoted in your post are all siding with mainstream media.

Have you ever considered that MSM doesn't care about your or my opinion? That's why it's still primarily broadcasted on TV or on large websites with a comment section only observed by some outsourced content moderators from India.

You really can't allow them to just dominate the discussion like that. If there is no way to have any discourse or opinion then we will be stuck watching and scrolling through news written by billion dollar companies.

As, leaving the country can save them tax as well. Besides if USA citizens stop buying and selling BTC, it will still be functional. As BTC price is no doubt greatly influenced by USA but with time it will recover and the trend will shift to another country maybe.

You have to pay a massive exit tax to renounce your American citizenship, so this is not viable except to really rich people who move to tax havens to keep their wealth (and they will not be allowed to enter the US again if tax evasion is the reason why they did that).

It is also complicated to work with 2 github accounts,  etc..

Yeah, I know. I use a separate github account for the BitMixList repository and pushing commits to a branch becomes very tricky from the command line due to authentication issues. You have to put the token in your URL and not use SSH keys, and so on.

The surge of GME and AMC (as well as some copy-cat memecoins) for no reason at all aside from the resurrection of Roaring Kitty is telling us something: when something rise for no big and solid reason at all, it can plunge anytime for no reason at all. At any rate, I am sure this short run is a big blessing for those who immediately take advantage of the opportunity to sell at a hefty price and then maybe buy again the same asset later for a good profitable difference. Now, let's see if there can be developments and updates from this Roaring Kitty guy that can influence the market so we can really say that he has a solid god-like cult following.

Actually, don't expect anything different any time soon.

I wonder how companies like Gamestop and AMC are even in a business at this point - they need to declare bankruptcy and close all their locations since their actual businesses are failing. I was thinking that this guy had made a memecoin out of these stocks from what the title read. Ironically that would also take capital away from the real companies but who cares? They're already dead.

Here's a crazy case of a dust attack that ended at the mercy of the hacker who returned the funds.
The purpose was to create confusion in the history of transactions with similar addresses, which ultimately led to the confusion of the victim who sent coins to the wrong address.

https://cryptopotato.com/71m-wbtc-dusting-attack-victim-recovers-stolen-loot/

That's why you're not supposed to fetch addresses to pay using the transaction history. Many wallets have an address book specifically for that purpose. For example, Electrum has such a feature.

But of course, if the problem comes from the likeness of addresses on different networks, well then it's much harder to detect, really. Except I guess for only using one wallet per network.

Quote from: Learn Bitcoin on May 15, 2024, 05:14:44 PM

Also, there looks like to be some kind of airdrop for users who interact with testnet coins. I don't know any of those airdrops.

Nice. I have 0.006 tBTC.

Do you think is it worth anything in the airdrop you mentioned?

I strongly advise against trying to claim any sort of testnet airdrop for ideological reasons. Testnet coins are not supposed to have value (which is why they are so named testnet), but all this talk about trading coins on altquick and airdrops is just going to reinforce the idea to other people that testnet is some kind of crypto that you can earn money with,.