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Sanity check in Computer Science terms is a bit different from what sanity literally means. As I have already answered previously, you do not require an internet connection to generate private keys, public keys or their…

It is possible, but just a hassle as compared to downloading Bitcoin Core and generating it yourself. Assuming that your OS ships with OpenSSL, you can use OpenSSL to generate an ECDSA keypair, then convert it into a…

You don't need an internet connection to use any Desktop Wallet (Bitcoin Core, Electrum etc). You would be able to install and use the different clients normally, as you would on a normal computer. The process to…

Yeah, it's an inflation hedge. People buy precious metals when the market gets worse. It isn't a great investment vehicles if you're chasing returns.

Not exactly sure what is the exact reason for that, could be cyclical or structural. Central banks are also shifting their economic policies as well. I'd hold my horses for now, some of the markets are still closed so…

Gold is a precious metal and is seen as an inflation hedge. It is not likely for it to sharply drop or increase in price and it should be rather stable. Most of the countries have a reserve of precious metals in the…

You do realize that the entire market is down right now. Practically every market index that I've seen has slid substantially over the past few days or hours with the bond yield going down as well. You have to consider…

It doesn't. RBF transactions are always replaced by wallets who uses mempool size as the calculation algorithm. You can't inflate your mempool count this way because transactions spending the same inputs are getting…

Doesn't Bitcoin Core look at the amount of time transactions take to confirm with the historical statistics? Ie. Sorting transactions into buckets, analyze fees from a new block by looking at which bucket it is in. If…