I need to make sure my stack is back up and running, I just put in an order for more Rnode parts.

I can neither confirm nor deny this accusation.

or maybe you're just hooked on hopium

Never gonna be enough for you, mate

Warning: do NOT use travala.com any more, if you did.

They directly stole my money.

Here is my response to the customer service agent:

(Customer service agent),

> Sorry for the delay, im ahmed from compliance department, for refund or either processing the booking, the verification is a mandatory step, we require the minimum and basic info for that, and you can pass it easily through the following link :

Let's establish the facts: I have been a regular customer of Travala for years, have done probably a hundred or more bookings through your site - mentioning this *not* to claim some status as a customer (which I do not want, and do not have), but to point out that ZERO times on the website or through any of those transactions was it mentioned that you could simply keep my money and provide no service - i.e. STEAL my money - if I did not pass a verification process -handing over extensive and intrusive personal documents - that you never documented anywhere. And indeed for this booking, again, no such advance warning was given.

So you (that is to say Travala, not you personally!) act exactly as a kidnapper: to give me back the money which is mine, you insist that I hand over security sensitive information. Which I will not do. There are an endless stream of documented violent theft events of cryptocurrency holders, so spreading one's personal information is stupid, and any claim you make to "keep my data safe" is ridiculous, given the equally endless stream of reported hacking events. I do not trust your company with my personal information because I don't trust *any* company with it.

I have been doing Bitcoin development work for over a decade, I will make sure that a lot of people in the community know that Travala steals its customers money, directly, with no apology.

Feel free to pass this message to any management, I would appreciate that.

(me)

You lack the common sense and the touch of reality when start inventing your own clown rules and theories to try to defend your position.

Its not a repetiotion of a dogma, its a repetiotion of the established definition of fungible money.

You can live in your own invented reality, no one cares about that.

Also if it were absolutely fungible (private) then we would enter the outlaw phase much earlier and it would have much less chance of surviving. There would be no market demand for chainalysis because no regulated entity would be allowed to touch it in the first place.

And if it did manage to be successful despite being fully private it would become a victim of its own success because privacy at scale benefits large corrupt groups more than it benefits individuals.

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Chainal is meaningless in a p2p economy

pretending like you've actually made a consistent argument lol

instead of leaning on an AI that actually told you "fungible money has to have indistinguishable units"

so you pretend utxos are equivalent to cash,

which I refuted.

then just repeating "you're wrong."

now you "repeated the established definition of fungible money" somewhere.

which you didn't.

You lack the common sense and the touch of reality when start inventing your own clown rules and theories to try to defend your position.

Its not a repetiotion of a dogma, its a repetiotion of the established definition of fungible money.

You can live in your own invented reality, no one cares about that.

most federal agents tend to be boring people, and when online they cannot divert from their mission asigned by their boss, which must explain the unhuman levels of refusal of the truth.

this bitcoinisfuture is almost nearly a bot, which means he's an agent who has no real discussions or even thoughts, you can make all the good points, he'll leave and repeat the same slop over the other corner.

yeah I don't buy it.

who breathes an oxygen atom isnt recorded on a transparent chain.

if you can distinguish, it ain't fungible.

Chainanal is going to map the entire utxo set and assign a risk score to every single one.

I hate to break it to you son

Bitcoin is the long evolution and synergy of different technologies. it's extremely well designed but it's not perfect.

it's certainly is an an expression of any universal truth.

as long as you don't see it as something designed and created by people, you can't actually analyze it in an intelligent way.

Thank you. But reality is not a story, a story is different.

Bitcoin cannot be gamed, as such it is the default language of the ungamed.

Empathy, Love, Unity, those are the invisible alignments of exchange.

Those exchanges live within you and the recipient's, Bitcoin just makes those rules as permanent as the same rules of the Universe.

Have fun learning more about everything.

It's literally enjoyable buy default.

Coinjoins entered the chat long ago. #Lightning too.

Fungibility is a spectrum. Monero is probably the most fungible thing we have, small amounts of cash is next (large amounts are less fubgible), then gold. Fiat in a bank account is the least fubgible.

When it comes to bitcoin it's a pretty good balance between making large scale State level corruption impossible while also making small transactions pretty fubgible. Rememeber that UTXOs get sliced and diced through history, it's like how we've probably all breathed in an oxygen atom that Hitler also breathed in.

Bitcoin is a mirror of the Universe, a perfection better than barter. Currently now we have one in which the human construct of Money (which was imperfect) became money Fiat Currency (even more imperfect) over a massive spread of generations that could not possibly retain and or reflect upon the same.

It's insane to sleepwalk it to the same again.

Bitcoin is the perfect set of rules that allow people without permission to simply say NO!

It's been happening since the 3rd of January 2009.

No is Now is Never is forever!

#Bitcoin

1 Bitcoin = 1 Bitcoin, your BS is absolutely ridiculous

Again, you need to read the definition of fungible money and stop inventing your own BS.

Again the point of the risk analysis is not to look at when things are going well. Instead to consider the potentially catastrophic situations and your exposure.

You dont calculate risk that's how you get 2008.

You cant know what will happen but you can try to understand the structure of how things are.

With enough time you will hit all of the extreme situations and the only this that matters is if you can survive

OK you're really not getting this. There's effectively 0 friction because when you get to the point where when they want to take it you can not physically stop them.

That is the physics of the situation

You're right that before that point you can't know exactly how the theater of lawfare will be done.

It doesn't matter.

The way in a car crash it doesn't matter if your licence is up to date or if the other guy did an illegal turn. None of that changes physics

There's enough compute right now to fuck up your network. Its order of magnitude more.

When they attack bitcoin they physically cannot get an order of magnitude more of hash power.

Do you see how one is a physical limitation and the other is just legal and economic.

Those are not the same category of risk

Its very poor risk analysis if all you're looking at is what's happening right now. Its like saying driving without a sear belt is fine because i haven't died or been in a car accident yet.

You try to look for worst case scenarios and how the structure of things create risks.

I agree that monero is too insignificant to be attacked right now, but after bitcoin already got big people already know that monero could get big enough to be a threat.

And there's orders of magnitude of what they need to attack monero just sitting there already.

When bitcoin or monero becomes an existential risk to the us government they will taken over any industry and try to destroy you.

In that situation you should fully expect all public miners to be seized and any potential miners to be used against you

If you're hoping laws will protect you, you're an idiot

One you dont like the slop do your own research

Two yes you are right the large public miners are known and will be used by the government to attack bitcoin.

They will control sometgin in the magnitude of 20-30% maybe its as high as 50or 60? dunno

The problem is that the same attack on monero means that there is 10x more hashnpower ready to go against all ofnthe potential hash power of all desktop and laptops if they all only mined. Maybedl its only 2x the amount.

But it's not 2x current monero hashing.

Its 2x all potential mining

Its Already lost

Hash Power in Large Public Companies vs. Total Hash Power

As of the end of 2025, public companies engaged in Bitcoin mining represent a significant portion of the overall computational power available for mining, but exact comparisons vary.

Total Hash Power Overview

The total global hash power is estimated to be around 350 EH/s (exahashes per second). This value represents the combined computational capability dedicated to Bitcoin mining fundamentally across various industries, regions, and private operations.

Contribution from Large Public Companies

Large public companies, such as Riot Platforms Inc., Hut 8, and Marathon Digital Holdings, contribute a considerable share to the total hash power. Reported figures suggest these companies, in combination, account for approximately 20% to 30% of the total hash power. For example, Riot Platforms reportedly had around 8 EH/s dedicated to Bitcoin mining, equating to a significant fraction of the overall total.

Here's a breakdown of some key players and their contributions:

Riot Platforms: ~8 EH/s

Hut 8: ~4 EH/s

Marathon Digital: ~7 EH/s

Implications and Trends

The involvement of public companies in Bitcoin mining has implications for both scalability and resilience in the network. Their larger operational scales allow for capital investment in cheaper energy sources and advanced technologies, essential for maintaining competitiveness.

Moreover, there's a notable trend towards diversification, with companies pivoting more towards data center operations, blurring the lines between traditional mining businesses and tech-based solutions. This transition is critical as profitability from mining becomes more volatile due to fluctuating Bitcoin prices and rising operational costs.

Conclusion

In summary, while large public companies make up about 20%-30% of total hash power, the ongoing changes in the sector may lead to shifts in this dynamic. The rise of energy-efficient technologies and enhanced operational strategies will likely continue to influence the landscape significantly.

Very different landscape and magnitude in terms of concentration risk

This is actually a great reason why having miners with alternative sources for income weakens your network.

In your attack scenario bitcoin miners can only make bitcoin so they are economically incentivised to make sure they are in consensus. While monero miners have a more complicated revenue function. They might earn mining monero or fiat with alternative uses. So their commitment to mining is not as strong.

In that sense monero nodes are less powerful since they can't dictate as much power of what they accept as monero consensus from and economic perspective while bitcoin nodes wield significantly more leverage over bitcoinn miners