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The question is of course: which incentive could work here? You need a target to attack if you launch an 51%. And this target has to be valuable more than the resources spent on the 51% attack. Just for fun, I googled…

There could be even some logic here: - those who wanted to sell their Bitcoin, in part did so still during the bull run in 2024 and 2025, instead of waiting until the final crash [1]. This has made the bull run less…

There is few information in the article about the reasons why this analyst thinks the bottom is in. The closest I found was this quote: Source So I interpret he thinks that these factors are short term factors that…

Also here ... 96% of the potential crypto users do not live in the US. Even if we only look at high-income regions, we have around 1.2-1.3 billion people living in countries with a per capital nominal GDP of more than…

Yes, it can. You can encode the necessary metadata in the nSequence field, like EPOBC did, or create fake public key hashes aka addresses (P2PKH/P2WPKH) or public keys (P2PK). P2(W)PKH offers less bytes. Basically to…

But that's exactly the point! Mechanisms like Stampchain SRC-20 use only opcodes common in "normal" transactions (in this case OP_CHECKMULTISIG). Yes, OP_RETURN is (afaik) only used by "data transactions" (the other…

I also don't like this idea, unfortunately. HeRetiK and vjudeu have already written that you can't really tell if a transaction contains metadata or not. And if there is a significant fee increase for a group of…

Freakout? Lol no. I'm only in the camp that "we should plan a bit ahead, but no rush". And BIP 360, in its new iteration, seems a good way forward to me. Only re-used addresses (where the public key was published on…

I get this, but there is a little difference: the convenience and speed of an upgrade to QC-resistant cryptography. Banks often use SaaS cloud software platforms, or at least quite standardized software. The software…

Thanks for your explanation, but I don't know if I agree. Regarding the privacy argument, my interpretation is that the groups using different kinds of addresses, as long as there is no extreme advantage/disadvantage of…

What do you mean with "know what we know today"? I haven't understood that part still ... I still don't understand why the key-path was really necessary. Articles about the topic cite privacy advantages, for example,…

I like that approach. It was unexplainable to me that Taproot had this vulnerability having been conceived when the quantum computer threat was already spoken about. And as far as I know, there were only complicated…

That's an argument I hadn't thought about, thanks for your opinion, I think I agree. I read a bit further through the mailing list thread and the proposer seemingly left the discussion offended, so my reading is that at…

Today, I came across the proposed BIP 360. It isn't officially recognized yet and was shared as a draft by a dev named Hunter Beast back in December 2024. Apparently, it's part of a project called QuBit, and they plan…

I agree somewhat with that low inflation (~2%) is often demonized a bit too much in the Bitcoin community and in the traditional view it is better than deflation. But there are catches and I would definitely disagree…

I only found out about questionable stuff after doing research into them, shell companies, fraud, etc.. I thought they were legit until I lost $$ from an unannounced upgrade and following bugs and did a TON of research.…

well if I do that, then I run the risk of getting none of my money back.. I don't know what to do.. this is a lot of money to me that was lost from their issues after an unannounced upgrade as well as issues occurring…

they operate in the US with no US operation locations, they use a expired US MSB license that shows the location in Dubai as their way of saying they are fully legit.

I'm in a tough spot and could use some advice. A crypto exchange I was using has had some pretty shady practices after a big system crash, which ended up costing me and others a lot of money. Personally, I'm down over…

I've voted for "above 65k", although of course nobody can be sure about that, and I would only set the likelihood at slightly over 50%. My reasoning is the following: We are since March in a slightly bearish price…