Some might say that idiots who do this are simply idiots, but an idiot who has a lot of money also has a lot of power - and money rules the world.

An idiot who rules the world is not an idiot, that is a sinister, cunning person.

I have my doubts that someone who can't even summon common sense when it is desperately required is able to muster the resources to rule the world.

In my country, using TOR (without VPN) is not recommended.   Even though the ISP cannot decrypt this traffic (when using TOR), the very fact of using a software tool like TOR is considered a negative point.  Theoretically, the Internet provider can report this fact to law enforcement agencies (as a suspicious fact).   There are precedents for people being considered criminals simply because they used TOR.  However, they did not commit crimes.  Unfortunately, our world is becoming very unfree.

Then you need to use Tor bridges because they are designed exactly for situations like this.

You see, the regular Tor network works fine most of the times. But if your ISP is blocking or incriminating Tor use, you can connect to a bridge. These bridges impersonate as some other kind of traffic, like Microsoft traffic or AWS traffic, and then that is all the ISP will be able to see. They will no longer be able to know the fact that you connected to Tor.

Quote from: NotATether on June 04, 2024, 11:04:04 AM

It's Coinbase Wallet,

So use USDC 
But, you knew it already, the moment you actually agreed to start using that thing you should have been prepared for surprises.
It's typical behavior, to increase prices artificially to promote the in-house alternative, just like Biannce keeps fees up for BTC while lowering those for the token.

I'm not sure whether USDC runs on the Ethereum network because if it does then it won't solve anything.

I have been leaning towards Polygon but I am having trouble finding robust exchanges for it besides Tradeogre.

Doge waiting smiling in the background!

Dogecoin is not supported unfortunately at all by Coinbase. It seems like they decided that BTC and other utxo-style chains are too difficult for them to support.

ETH might reach $5 before Bitcoin reaches $100K, but only if the ETF activity with Ethereum reaches a fever pitch.

Otherwise I can really see them both hitting their targets at the same time, but sometime next year. After all, BTC feels like it's closer to $100K relatively speaking, than ETH is to $5K. I mean remember it used to be worth just a few hundred dollars.

Quote from: Zed0X on June 06, 2024, 12:22:54 AM

I'm skeptical when I see community-led projects because of what happened to the tokens I had before. They say no team holdings but they're usually manipulated by huge bag holders and do not last that long. I'll probably just throw a couple of hundreds as a gamble and see what happens by the end of the year.

Community-led projects with meme tokens, good luck to who believe in those projects and bet big with them. Bet in them with small money you have, compares to your total capital, is acceptable if you afford to lose that money.

I don't think most meme coins even have a community - most of the times , "community-lead" just means a bunch of suckers coming together on Discord who just want to make money.

They're usually not people who would want to improve something with cryptocurrency in any meaningful way. Many of them are just get-rich-quick schemes.

I wonder if other altcoins have their own holidays. If there are, it feels pretty weird that I don't see them anywhere, given that this is an altcoins forum.

However, I'm sure that Bitcoin Pizza day is probably the most famous and well-known holiday in all of cryptocurrency, so it would also be a bit weird if the admin had not put a banner about it here.

I wonder what is the thing about Truecrypt volumes that just make them fail so suddenly. Maybe it's the fact that the underlying hard disk got a few read errors which had corrupted the volume?

I don't know if having a truecrypt partition requires the underlying hard disk drive to be spotless for proper operation, but these kind of things are what make me shy away from using them as a single backup.

@bitmover, slightly offtopic question. You have an account with Namesilo because you registered your domain with them. Did they ever ask you for personal information or any kind of verification?

My account is quite old there, and I know that I had to go through verification for some domains. I'm interested in how the case is now.

Wildly depends on the TLD you buy. For instance, only US residents (or just citizens?) are allowed to own .us domains, and only EU residents can buy the .eu domains. So it wouldn't surprise me if a registrar was legally compelled to ask for identification in those cases.

Your name is getting some wrong results when we have learn and bitcoin in the same sentence.. I will try to fix soon

Why don't you try implementing a case-sensitive search option?

There are some NLP techniques for identifying the context of a word, so maybe you could do some research into those methods.