paul.stake

Russia can keep the lights on for years thanks to oil revenue and Chinese trade, but propping up the ruble and pouring money into defense isn't the same as building a future. The brain drain alone is a problem you can't…

If you double-spend with the RBF option, you're allowed to create a completely new transaction, using the unconfirmed output. Right on the left, click on the - - and you will be allowed to change the destination. Every…

It is an invalid address. None of the addresses you've shared have coins. I assume you meant - 3JKyqNxb5Wb9uh5NUX4S5PhMZTddEiY92n - as p2sh-segwit, and as anyone can notice from a block explorer it has never received…

Will you rather die out of hunger to hold bitcoin to $10 million? Of course not. Humans have a time preference that is always positive, and you would rather consume / get things now more than to have them in the future.…

What you're describing is Liquid bitcoin in another name. Have you checked what L-BTC is? Here's their website: https://liquid.net/. The only difference with "cBTC" is that L-BTC is pegged 1:1 with real BTC, while cBTC…

The price effect doesn't really need anyone to identify which coins are lost. If a key is gone, that coin never moves again, so it simply never touches the market. The provably lost coins are a tiny fraction of the…

Bear markets are real. It's liquidity declining over a certain period of time. Bull markets are real. It's liquidity increasing over a certain period of time. Cycles aren't real. They are just the observation of a bear…

Any Debian-based distro would be a safe choice. Mine is Ubuntu, but I've tried Mint and Debian. I just find the OS in total to be more comfortable in Ubuntu. That being said, every single of them will work fine for a…

Take a moment to think about it. Cycles? Nope. They don't really exist. That four-year cycle everyone talks about? Just three data points and a story you've made up. Three. Would you trust a coin that flipped heads…

In addition to that, even if miners have all transactions, it's still not granted they'll pick the optimal combination that maximizes their profit. The algorithm used to select the optimal set of transactions is…

Worth noting the article author is the same guy who dumped all his BTC into ETH and runs an Ethereum treasury, so of course he's writing this bullshit. The whole thing rests on the assumption that a crypto-breaking…

Think about those wealthy Bitcoin enthusiasts you know. Check out their journeys: Back in 2010, they downloaded a wallet without anyone telling them to. They mined coins on a laptop while their friends were busy playing…

HODLing is like winning the lottery in slow motion. You're practically betting that the hardest money will continue being appreciated in terms of easy money. And you're not betting it against a broker that can get you…

Since when do you report the specific forum topic that acted as the announcement page of the product you advertised? This sounds similar to filling "cpuminer" when reporting your mining profit. I guess it varies from…

Is this yours? Github account and repo were created yesterday, and I'm not sure the purpose of it. Yes, solo-mine. It's easier by installing a pool software though, and you'll be the only one mining in that pool.…

It's still fake. The image says that in 13/04/2009, there had been 3 blocks mined and sent to the specific wallet. However if you search this date, you'll notice there were no blocks mined in the 29th minute with…

Running a full node at the moment means you're probably already connected with someone who's running mempoolfullrbf=1, so broadcasting a replacement of a no-rbf transaction should probably pass. Note that if you don't…

That's probably the safest approach. Full RBF is the standard state of the network. According to Peter, 17% of 24.x listening nodes run full rbf. Nobody should treat opting-out RBF signal as non-replaceable. It is…

Covenants. I highly doubt it. The best argument for 4 MB block size is that we already have 4 MB block size. The roadmap since 2017 is focused on second layer solutions, as arbitrarily messing with the block size…

Can someone please answer me a simple question? Why doesn't Bitcoin Core just support a mnemonic solution? What's acting as obstacle to the BIP39 proposal? Every reputable wallet software supports it. Most people that…