Who knows which service that's available to give privacy to users will be targeted next time.

That's what I wonder, which one will be next, but we can be sure that some other service is already being investigated. In this particular case, according to the release they defended the use of Samourai for black money:

"At Samourai we are entirely focused on the censorship resistance and black/grey circular economy,"

I wonder if they would not have said these things if they had been seized the same way. I suppose they would have a better defence but I don't think they would have got away with it.

I read today that there are many billionaires who have sold shares recently, like Jeff Bezos, for example, who for a while was known for not selling any shares. Saylor's sale fits into this context, then. I don't know if they smell a market ceiling and are selling now because of it.

He's not a Crypto billionaire for nothing he is a profit-driven business business-minded guy who has an insight for the future, he might be selling for profit ...

This is inconsistent with what he advocates: borrow against your premium assets, never sell them.

We don't have any information about Saylor's purpose for selling MSTR, however the biggest speculation is that he will use the £370M to accumulate more BTC as Saylor is known in the crypto market as a BTC diamond hands. I hope we will have more information soon regarding this when Saylor officially announces the BTC purchase.

I think that's the only logic I could see to this. Let him sell the shares to buy with the money from the sale bitcoin for himself. But time will tell if you are right.

Why would  this labeled as FUD?
It's a fact, that he asked for approval and issued the shares that were released to the market, there is no doubt or uncertainty in it at all.

Well, in principle it is not FUD because it has not sold bitcoin, it has sold the shares, but the shares of a company that is basically a derivative, leveraged product of bitcoin and where the business intelligence (BI) application software vendor part weighs less and less.

So, if he advocates that with bitcoin you never sell and that you do as the very rich do and instead of selling their assets they borrow against them, this move seems incoherent, unless it is because of the theory mentioned by MrSpasybo.

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Therefore, either he is forced to sell, or there are bills that must be paid, or he wants to use them to buy more bitcoin.

The same as before, it is inconsistent with what he advocates and it makes no sense that a person who advocates borrowing against your assets would be 'forced' to sell to get

$370 million when his net worth is 10 times higher. He should have no problem borrowing such an amount.

Yes, I also hope that, the Bitcoin fees will go down as the craze of halving is almost over, and after a week or two we may see low Bitcoin fees once again. I agree that for a service like Unijoin, low Bitcoin fees are most needed as the customers who mix small amounts always prefer to pay low fees. However, they may not lose big clients even if fees go high, because those big clients don't really care about high fees, they just want the best service which Unijoin provides them.

Yes, of course, if you are going to mix a couple of bitcoins you may as well pay 300 sats/vByte but for modest amounts it is not that we prefer low fees, it is that at the moment I do not even consider mixing. I hope this is not affecting the Unijoin.io business too much.

The number of unconfirmed transactions is not large. There are about 231,834 TXS unconfirmed, but the fees for these transactions are high, so unless there is a change, ~120 blocks are sufficient to solve this problem with an average of 4,000 transactions for each block, and therefore two or three days are sufficient to solve the problem.

Bitcoin Runes^[1] may be a reason to make the height of the fees extend for additional weeks, but in the end there is no real reason for all these crazy fees

That will be if we have a normal volume of transactions, I suppose, but not if we have the Runes up our asses. We already had high fees last cycle with the ordinals and now this new protocol that is being added I imagine that the average rates will go up, although there will be peaks and troughs. For example, I believe that there will not be average fees above 1,000 sats/vByte again, as happened around halving, but above 100, yes.

It is expected to have some sentimental value so lots of people paid huge fees to get into that block, that also contributed to the current feerate everyone is experiencing.

- Jay -

Well, that makes it easier to understand, but the guy must be loaded because he wasted a bitcoin just as if I dropped 5 cents on the ground and didn't go and pick it up.

The mempool is becoming less congest little by little.

It had been dropping slowly, but a couple of big dumps in the last 10 minutes have brought the fees to almost 500 sats/Vbyte, although looking positively it is almost half of what it was this morning. But for me what is clear is that it is the spam of ordinals these recent dumps because they are not going to be consolidations of casinos or exchanges with such expensive fees.

So, in case anyone hasn't heard, the fees after halving have skyrocketed:



The concepts in the image are in Spanish but I think you get the idea.

It seems that this could be due to bitcoin runes, a new protocol within the ordinals:

Deciphering Runes - Native Fungible Tokens on Bitcoin

Special mention for this jerk:

https://mempool.space/tx/7923e59abd8f8ab40dcc7915ae864d8b7ad6776811ba4d478f42248a7827a7f3

Who has paid almost a whole bitcoin in fees to send 0.00020330 BTC.

One thing I wonder is that if this goes on for a few days, how will the campaign payments be on Monday, I don't know if they will have to be postponed.

I saw that there was a discussion about it in another forum and I thought it would be interesting to bring it here with its own thread.