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Technical Discussion / Re: How viable is PoW for new coin?
« on: May 13, 2024, 04:53:12 PM »
Just change the hashing algorithm for the new coin so that it is different from that of established coins. In other words you wouldn't want to do a sha256d and then someone who has racks upon racks of ASIC miners connects to your network and mines with all of them until the difficulty is so high that nobody can participate in it.

It will still be susceptible to an attack from GPU/CPU farm unless you already have yourself a huge farm to counter a 51%.
And I don't think there will be anyone who will build a coin in secret , develop an ASIC for it, have those ASICs mine from the strat to secure it and risk millions on such a scheme, it's way too costly and with less and less hype in mining quite the money pit, you could use all that for a PoS coin and prop up the price till you dump it.

I think most new coins don't get attacked because what is left of miners is desperate to keep them alive, but in reality, their protection against someone willing to do harm is minimal.

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This news looks more like Visa throwing tantrum in Tether company and other stable coins because they are gradually been used as an alternative to send and receive payment and perhaps Visa customers has shrink over the years.

I am willing to bet visa crypto cards see more real-life activity than any of those stable coins, in chasing and buying stuff.

Also, I don't understand why iemdiately on the defense and arguing they are lying, Bitcoiners have put Visa and Bnkas under a mcrisope for a decade, they have always blamed them for that and that, those of research papers, and now that they do the same imediately we're going to deny it?

If you do not trust Visa, then how about coindesk on how defi volume is inflated:
https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/08/04/master-of-anons-how-a-crypto-developer-faked-a-defi-ecosystem/

Blindly trusting crypto and denying everything someone else says will never make you see the complete truth!

Now it's just a question of how much truth there is in that, but even if we assume that 90% is a bit of an exaggerated figure, I am of the opinion that the number of real users using cryptocurrencies (including stablecoins) is quite small compared to what companies like Visa achieve.

Well, all the transactions in the Bitcoin chain have surpassed the daily average on Visa, but we're not close to the peak shopping day...so... ;D
Also, I don't know a single real life shop or pub that accepts USDT, I know 5 that d Bitcoin, so again, I'm pretty sure most of that tx are arbitrage bots playing between exchanges and markets, common, no sane user is able to do over 1000 transactions a month and why would he.

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NFTs & Collectibles / Re: Do you really believe on NFTs?
« on: May 10, 2024, 04:24:48 PM »
Simply no!
And even if it were some rare occasion where NFTs would be valuable from the start they would have a hefty price tag, much as your everyday collectibles since basically, they are nothing different. Think of rare cards be it pokemon of baseball and that's the same for NFTs, as for other use cases they have all flopped, nobody is going to pay money for jpg of an art piece he has no real ownership of it.
Of course, it doesn't mean there won't be money to be made from this, but long term, the ones minting will make money the ones buying will lose.

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Bitcoin Forum / Re: High fees is a never ending story?
« on: May 09, 2024, 04:43:51 PM »
Fees are back to let's say acceptable levels for simple payments, meaning 1 input, and not buying a coffee.
The bad thing in this is that it also means usage is dead, the blocks are full of runes and ordinals, a ton of them are coinjoins, we had 100 fewer blocks in the last two weeks that would have cleared the patch down to 6sat/vb and it keeps dropping, so probably a lot of users have either gone altcoin or (hopefully LN) and you're not going to see them coming back too soon.

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The thing is, you can't really outlaw mixers and coinjoins without also outlawing privacy coins such as Monero. The reason being, that it makes no sense to ban mixers when people will just do BTC <=> XMR <=> BTC exchanges on different exchanges.

I don't think they would care about that as long as it's done on centralized fully regulated and KYC-enforced exchanges, they have no intention of tracking all the stopping points, they want to know that X took 100 BTC out of exchange z and that Y deposited 100 BTC on exchange w, as long as they know the full identity of X and Y they are happy because they know you have 100 BTC, and then the IRS comes sweeping in, anything out of the ordinary and they will catch up!




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I found those ones very easy to merge into one:

Bitcoin Forks
https://www.altcoinstalks.com/index.php?board=359.0

Inside this, we have 3 additional boards with very low activity: bch, big and bsv. Just move all topics to the forks board and delete those boards.

Probably this would be a place for them:
Once Popular Coins (Graveyard)  ;D
I really like the "graveyard" thing, seems fitting, just move those three coins there and that's it!

Joking aside, they should be treated like normal altcoins, nobody really cares about forks anymore.


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Bitcoin Forum / Re: Roger Ver has been arrested
« on: May 08, 2024, 07:19:45 PM »
I find it quite funny that Bitcoin.com needs to talk to its spokesperson in order to write about this.
Yes, that's somewhat funny but I believe they don't want to have any clashes with Roger Ver as he's been a part of the crypto sphere for a long time and that's why Bitcoin.com want to have some distance from this issue.

Roger Ver owns Bitcoin.com!

If America imposes a strict ban on the use of bitcoin like this, it will be bad news for bitcoin and most likely this will cause the price of bitcoin to collapse. I suspect that what the American government is doing is aimed at controlling the price of bitcoin.

It has nothing to do with Bitcoin, this is tax evasion!
This thing is getting out of control lately, next if we see a guy who runs a stop sign getting a ticket it will because he owned bitcoin not because he ran that stop sign!

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/early-bitcoin-investor-charged-tax-fraud

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Ver allegedly hired a law firm to assist him with his expatriation and to prepare his expatriation-related tax returns. Ver also allegedly hired an appraiser to value his two companies. Ver allegedly provided or caused to be provided false or misleading information to the law firm and appraiser that concealed the true number of bitcoins he and his companies owned. As a result, the law firm allegedly prepared and filed false tax returns that substantially undervalued the two companies and their 73,000 bitcoins and did not report that Ver owned any bitcoins personally.

44 million in tax evasion, that's why he is in trouble, not because he used bitcoins or money or anything else.


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Well that's bad, that means it's just another centralized pool that will want to start operations in Bitcoin mining.

What do you expect from a business?
They are in for the money and for control, otherwise, this would be the work of anonymous crypto fans over github.

What will happen when all of these mining companies combined control over 50% of the harsh rate?

First, watching the mining scene for so long and being somewhat involved in it, I think they already do, they just hide that, I have a spot somewhere in the difficulty speculation about how those percentages during the texas shutdown were so weird looking.
Second, what could be, depends on what people are in charge of it, Costco or Pfizer, Balenciaga or Ikea it could be a nothing burger or really, but really bad!.

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In fact, it is much broader than the Musk project.

It has always been!
Because basically, Dogecoin has its own characteristics to be used as a transaction tool, one of them. and also as a meme coin which is the most important and trendsetter.

Dogecoin has all the characteristics of Bitcoin except the supply change, which is an infinitesimal increase compared to all the coins already minted.
Completely different for other meme coins doge has 99% usage and 1% things about meme, the other coins are all about trends, they have zero whatsoever daily life use, dogecoin is accepted everywhere and nobody laughs at getting paid in doge. Do that with puppydogmilkconfetti token!

That's right, Doge is very special because Doge is the pioneer of all the meme coins that currently exist. Imagine that previously Dogecoin didn't have many fans until Elon Musk started giving full support to Dogecoin and made the price rise to very expensive.

Not true!
Musk's first tweet about dogecoin was in 2019, dogecoin has always been a top 20 coins even before that:
https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/20170101/


 

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Signature Campaigns / Re: [Pause] UniJoin 🌀 Sig Campaign
« on: May 05, 2024, 05:34:40 PM »
Well, it was nice while it lasted but lately seems like things are more chaotic than ever, now that I think it over it's a bit worse than when CM was seized, at least that was against one certain website, now nobody knows who or what will be next.
Yeah, shitty times, but life goes on.

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So you mean any transaction coming in or out from those sanctioned countries will be taken as terrorist funding!!! It's new for me, well, IMO that's not how things should go, as transactions should be checked thoroughly like for what purpose it was used, I mean who sent it and who received it. Does the receiver belong to a bad actor in the community and using that money for bad purposes?

And how do you think this would work?
I can see how the US government calls Iran and asks them
-Stop lobbying rockets for a while and do tell us, is Hashem Soleimani the guy who is smuggling chips or was that Masem Souleimani, we have 500k pending and we need to know if this is college money or bomb money!
It's sanctioned "countries" for a reason, otherwise, you would only have sanctioned 'individuals" who would do all those transfers with their wife/son/nephew account.

Put the question otherwise, if you know a country is against you using one of their companies, why do you still want to use it?


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I wonder if Zhao had been a poor man who had no money, would the judges have sympathized with him? :'(
That is not the case here, a 'poor man' would not own a cryptocurrency exchange that will give him the opportunity to commit the financial crimes that CZ and Binance committed. CZ pleaded guilty, paid billions of $, cooperated with authorities and gave them all the info and data they need, and that is why the sentence was light, it has nothing to do with sympathy from the judges.
It seems that you did not realize my hint. I am hinting here at the role of money in the case (under the table). A man who has a lot of money can spend some money to gain the sympathy of officials and even judges.

But it's still the same, a guy like me and you wouldn't have been accused or running an unlicensed exchange, laundered billions, facilitating transfers in billions, and so on, so how would have a poor man been in this situation?
Find one homeless person that was convicted for 25 years in prison for laundering billions and I will agree with you.

Also, according to the latest news, there are negotiations with the SBF now to obtain another reduction in his prison term if he cooperates with the authorities in exposing the celebrities who promoted FTX. In addition, we saw how he spends comfortable times in prison.

This is simply not true.
https://cryptoslate.com/ftx-investors-agree-to-drop-civil-lawsuit-against-sbf-if-he-snitches-on-celebrity-promoters/

This is a civil lawsuit between FTX investors and SBF.
The prison sentence was a criminal case between the DoJ and SBF.
SBF could win every civil case anyone throws at him, it has no impact on the 25 years sentence.

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Smart play from Wasabi team, but there is no guarantee this will protect them from anything.
Phonix wallet did something similar with removing their apps from stores for all US citizens.

I don't think that any of those teams were that stupid to say let's just ban people from US and we will be safe.
I mean, you have guys doing something similar to you getting arrested and maybe face a decade in prison and you just take an app offline for a country and get over it, no way they didn't talk with some lawyers or even asked through some channels if somebody is coming after them.

I personally would like "them" to focus more on other things when it comes to cryptocurrencies, such as for example stablecoins, or all those shitcoins that are listed on CEXs, and anyone who looks a little closer to that topic sees that 99% of all that is just a nicely packaged scam.

And the irony in this is that when they finally label a coin or a cex a scammy behavior group, the users light more pitchforks then than they would have for protecting privacy wallets or mixers. The whole thing is so divided at this point that we won't see any consensus in fighting back on those regulations and actions, as long as they package it with promises of more acceptance and being more legal thus more $ there will be no real fighting back. We've entered the stage where $ matters the most and I'm not sure this is the right way.

They Wasabi went a step further. Shutting down its Coinjoin service, effective from June 1st, 2024.
https://blog.wasabiwallet.io/zksnacks-is-discontinuing-its-coinjoin-coordination-service-1st-of-june/

Total capitulation, huh?

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Bitcoin Forum / Re: Has the bear market started?
« on: May 04, 2024, 08:55:36 PM »
As the market has dumped a lot from its peak price so far we cannot consider this market condition as a bear market.

Why it is the beginning of bear market?

Because no matter how you want to label this, correction or not, by definition, it's a bear market and a crash:

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A market correction occurs when a stock market index, such as the S&P/TSX Composite Index, drops by 10% or more from its previous peak. When the decline reaches 20%, it’s called a bear market. If that 20 % decline happens over a very short period, then it is a stock market crash.

Some get confused and try to apply the timeline of the stock market on this of months but they forget crypto is a lot more volatile and doesn't need months to reach those percentages, it can do it in one day, the moment BTC slid under 57k it was the end of the bull run and the start of a bearish period, yeah it can go back up it can also pass the ATH but that doesn't mean that it's all just one line of bullish events.

It's a normal occurrence, nobody died because of it, happened a lot of times but still it is what it is.

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