My problem is the opposite, meaning it is not the government that bans electronic payment services on the Internet or exchanges, but the opposite is true, meaning that it is payment services and exchanges that ban my country, Syria.

Here the problem is more complicated, because even if you use a VPN you will not be able to transfer money from the bank to buy Bitcoin or convert Bitcoin into cash, so the only method available to us in my country here is P2P.

Brother, in the case of Syria, it is very hard to use not just financial services, but many other different kinds of websites too (except I guess social media), because they similarly block countries like Syria and Iran, Cuba, etc.

There might be Facebook or Telegram groups where there are people buying and selling bitcoins locally - I don't know any myself, but you can check them out.

Alternatively, you might be able to use a decentralized platform like Bisq or Robosats. You transfer some money from your bank to someone else's bank in another country (just be careful not to deal with western countries) and you will get some crypto in return.

P.S. Do you think CZ knew there would be a court case against him in a year? 

At least CZ still has the chance to celebrate Bitcoin Pizza day this year before he has to begin his jail sentence.

But I mean, nobody could've seen that coming.

I always read that kind of shortsighted reaction to the pizza transaction which amounted to 10,000 BTC which is currently worth $693,000,000 paid by now famous Laszlo Hanyecz for two boxes of Papa Johns pizzas. Now, while many of us would surely regret what happened, I think we should always remember that this was actually a landmark transaction, the first one where Bitcoin was used to buy something. And that is why we have the Bitcoin Pizza Day today to commemorate such a pivotal event in Bitcoin's colorful history. Instead of felling some regret, we should instead celebrate maybe by also buying a box of pizza and if possible using our BTC wallet.

You can't have a circular economy without spending some money at the early stage. That's exactly why bitcoin was able to grow, but many shitcoins just plummeted to zero as people were either HODLing them without spending them or they all dumped their bags at the same time.

Actually, just like many of us here in this forum, this can be my first time to hear on Joinmarket.net and when i tried to access the site it is already suspended which is a red flag for the said platform as it can already be bankrupt therefore we have to stay away from it. Since it belongs to the same category with Samurai and Wasabi wallets, the more we should say NO with that. Now, of course, this is just now an academic discussion since the site is not anymore functioning but in case it can be back we should be warning people - especially newbies - about it. There is always that big risk when we are using a tool that the government don't find to be legit and above board, no matter if we agree or disagree.

Are you serious...

JoinMarket's website suddenly going offline fits a pattern of crypto privacy services suddenly going under in suspicious circumstances.

Although the JoinMarket project itself is open source and still appears to be running on Github https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org/joinmarket-clientserver and it even has recent commits as in the last few days.

I don't think JoinMarket has anything to worry about, although the website itself going down is annoying, because it was just an informational resource.

Litecoin and Dogecoin not even making the list is madness. Particularly Dogecoin. Aren't these coins using a much lower PoW block generation time?

And where is Bitcoin Cash in all this? I thought that was supposed to be the one with bigger block size and thus more throughput. Did everyone just turn off their BCH mining machines all of a sudden?

Quote from: hugeblack on May 22, 2024, 01:04:35 PM

Their first project is to defend the founders of Samourai Wallet, which may not give a good impression, especially to legal authorities that can be influenced.

I also worried about that, especially when the founder advertise their service to avoid sanction. There are other less controversial case they could take, such as defending Uniswap for SEC sue.

There is nothing controversial about raising funds to defend somebody in court. In fact, even sanctioned funds can be used to pay for lawyers and other legal expenses that the people controlling said funds happen to be in (at least in the United States).

COPA made a huge fuss about funding Hodlonaut when Craig Wright was trying to sue him into oblivion and look at the result. It was worth it, no?

I'm not against earning money, but what some users need to realize is they have to be active all the time if they want a manager to accept them into a campaign. You cannot be told that so n so just launched a campaign and suddenly you make 10 posts really quick and hope to get a spot. Managers will check how active you have been and pick someone else.

Yeah, I mean at the end of the day, it is a business and you are being paid to advertise for them. So since there is a large, you could say "talent pool" to choose campaign participants from, I am not surprised to see that the same problems at Bitcointalk of many people being overlooked for limited campaign spots are happening here too.

Every electricity grid - Texas... Ethiopia... Uzbekistan... Madagascar... - has the consumption peaks problem.
Peaks consumption creates outages - in my house too.
BTC mining can help stabilising the electricity grid.

I am already aware of the role that mining plays in that regard.

But I was talking about things like this

https://abc13.com/post/houston-outage-map-centerpoint-energy-when-will-power-come-back-on-tracker/14831445/