I'm one of those lucky for whom it's been beneficial. To be honest, I only use BTC, XMR and DAI, so it was a question of timing / holding (=luck?), I'm not a trader at all.

I've worked in the industry and I've seen colleagues of all kinds: some were still holding when they'd done x20, others behaved like the worst gamblers at every signal and ended up poorer and poorer, and the overwhelming majority for whom nothing much happened: not enough reserve to change their life when it went up, but not huge losses either. Some of them became very rich over the years, but I would say that it was a minority.
Tdlr: Behaviour remains the same, some people are intelligent, some are lucky, some are compulsive, etc. Crypto or FIAT (gambling, lack of skills to manage a budget etc...), we're still human.

Of course the will survive, as long as they stay decentralized.

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So the future of privacy coins is clear, but the big question is what will happen to methods of enhancing privacy for non-privacy coins , for example Bitcoin mixers or privacy upgrades such as MIMBLEWIMBLE^[1], which were integrated with litecoin.

Will we see governments asking litecoin to remove MIMBLEWIMBLE?

Are you pessimist for the future of coinjoin if we talk about BTC? I am surprised of how much bitcoiners are not aware of its existence.
It's an interesting question, will governments go so far as to ask devs to roll back features that already exist? That wouldn't be surprising...

Mixers could (in theory) always survive on a .onion domain, no?

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Bitcoin’s network difficulty experienced its first increase of 2024 on Jan. 5, at block height 824,544, rising 1.65% to an unprecedented network peak of 73.2 trillion... See more for yourself here.

Your opinion is greatly appreciated.

Yeah, as a miner I am pretty satisfied that (for now) the next difficulty is supposed to be around -10% for now. Of course it changes every day and means nothing until the last moment of the current epoch.

Latest Block:   825001  (7 minutes ago)
Current Pace:   89.8263%  (458 / 509.87 expected, 51.87 behind)
Previous Difficulty:   72006146478567.1                             
Current Difficulty:   73197634206448.34                           
Next Difficulty:   between 65818282821395 and 70035161762445
Next Difficulty Change:   between -10.0814% and -4.3205%
Previous Retarget:   last Saturday at 1:36 AM  (+1.6547%)
Next Retarget (earliest):   January 20, 2024 at 4:55 PM  (in 11d 2h 20m 52s)
Next Retarget (latest):   January 21, 2024 at 3:39 PM  (in 12d 1h 4m 35s)
Projected Epoch Length:   between 14d 15h 19m 36s and 15d 14h 3m 18s

Somes major pools are probably manipulating the hashrate in order to lower the difficulty, they probably take the bet of high fees thanks to a potential ETF approval.

Quote from: paid2 on January 08, 2024, 01:38:12 AM

Would you agree to send me some dust please ? I would like to do some testing with multisig stuff.
I don't know how much I would need, not a lot, maybe 0,0001

Sure I can send you that much coins in next few days, if you dont need them urgently.
Service I am offering is like free faucet and I usually ask people to return coins when they finish testing, but you dont have to send back this time, since this is the first request I received from this forum.

Thank you! Already received 0,0001 tBTC

I will of course send them back to you anyway, once my tests done I won't need them anymore so it would be wasted to keep them. Thank you!

Il serait intéressant aussi de savoir comment signer des messages avec les autres cryptos !  encore je ne suis pas sûr si la fonctionnalité est disponible sur toutes les blockchains.. mais quand elle l'est le client peut faire défaut !!

Ouais en effet !

Je sais que Metamask permet de signer sur beaucoup de blockchains, je ne suis pas un grand fan de Metamask perso, mais il couvre beaucoup de cryptos et simple à utiliser.

Exemple avec ERC20 : https://info.etherscan.com/verify-signature-tool/

Many bounty managers prefer to fire quality posters when it comes to signature campaigns.

I think you wanted to write "hire" 

Welcome 
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Thank you!

I am sure the campaign will be successful! 

Des flingues, des Ferraris, l'Aston Martin, l'avion, l'hélicoptère, le jet ski, le pouvoir, l'influence, dis pouvoirs magiques, la cape de superman, les cigarettes, une grande cave bien pleine, plein dis petits zoiseaux dans le jardin ..

Donc pour cela il faudra un BTC a 500k ?
(sauf pour les oiseaux que meme l'argent ne fera pas venir haha)

Mais surtout, excellente année à toi aussi 

Merci