Bump! Let's see if this still works

I've read that too indeed. This isn't just an innocent scam, it's most likely a network of organized crime.

There are 2 things I would improve: get more RAM, and don't use an external drive. It's very easy to accidentally disconnect the USB cable, and that will lead to file corruption. Chainstate when fully synced is 11 GB, that doesn't fit your RAM which will lead to terabytes of data written to your disk.

Adding RAM will improve your overall computing experience, and is not very expensive anyway.

Considering I'm getting older, maybe we should take 2 weeks next time.

Lol. I guess you learned a valuable life lesson. It's a textbook scam.

Playing along to keep a scammer busy is one thing. Sending them money is not "playing along", that is getting scammed!

It's amazing how gullible people are.

You decided to get scammed?

Being able to withdraw only 2% didn't ring a bell?

You couldn't be more wrong. Bitcoin is real money!

When I first saw your topic, I thought you were asking about this scam before sending them money, but apparently you fell all the way in already.

It's easy: not your keys, not your coins. You have access to an account made by a scammer, that means nothing.

You're a horny fool who fell right into their trap from the beginning. Of course they try to shake you for more money and they will try to bleed you dry to the very last satoshi you own.

A random victim has a very small chance of falling for their trap, You've proven to be a great victim who plays along willingly, and you've proven to easily send your money. That $250k doesn't exist, a number in a scammer's app means nothing. It's just to make you more greedy so you'll risk even more money.

I'll give you some advice: delete that app, wipe the phone, take your losses, lick your wounds, and forget about this "hot girl". You know the one you're chatting to is an ugly dude, right? You may have seen pictures of a girl, and they may even have hired her for a video chat, but come on, let reality sink in!

If it helps: I may have archived posts that were deleted later from the topic you're looking for.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!


I can walk fine again, but it turns out my mental capacity hasn't recovered yet. I wanted to right-click "quote", and write this from a new Window. But what I did, was right-click "delete", which resulted in your post being deleted without asking for confirmation Sorry Foxpup, this was unintentional
Thanks again for your flawless timing!

We had visitors, and I couldn't just pull out and demonstrate my time machine in front of them. So I ended up 3 hours late.

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Update: I've removed the self-mod from this topic. It gets derailed anyway, and I'm okay with that. I don't want to be able to make this mistake again, so I dare to drink alcohol again And I hadn't even had any yet.

The whole point of testnet is to test things that you can use in the real wallet later. Since it's open source, you can strip out anything related to the real wallet, but it's kinda pointless to do.

You can click "lock" (bottom-left) yourself.

Why did you change your negative feedback to positive while saying it's neutral?

Before I opened this topic, it would have been dust:
If that happens again, you'll just have to wait it out.

As long as you're not in a hurry, that works. I'm still waiting for lower transaction fees myself.

Many companies overcharge their customers, but wasting money still costs them money.

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Consolidations are going to take a while. I noticed bc1qwkpdjeatdwrpv4vu4mj84ee6vkn96vdz2drfsn is filling many blocks consolidating 0.000049999 BTC inputs at 7.28 sat/vbyte. The transactions all have >1000 inputs, weigh about 75 kvbytes, and send 0.05 BTC. The address received 8.6 BTC in total, so that makes about 170 large consolidation transactions (assuming all inputs are the same size, it's hard to see that many inputs on a block explorer).
How did this address get all those inputs? It came from transactions like this one, which paid $20 at 199 sat/vbyte for something that looks like Ordinal dust spam. Maybe the 4999 sats were a payment for some "service" related to the Ordinals? I don't know, but someone no doubt earned a lot of money from this.

This sounds a lot like a common scam. Someone recommends something, you get fake profits after depositing, in a few months it will show you "have" $80k, and if you want to withdraw you'll have to deposit $8k first "to pay taxes". It's a scam. Don't fall for that, there are enough reputable exchanges out there.
Note: I know nothing about PKEK. But I see no reason for any Newbie to use an unknown exchange, it's not worth the risk.

When in doubt: don't install it, and don't use it.

See my earlier post on offline signing. There's no need to risk anything.

Bitcoin Core doesn't offer 2FA.

The more I think about it, the less it makes sense. Henry Ford comes to mind:
He said that a long time ago, and I think it's still valid.

I like to think "the economy" depends on companies producing things, and people working for them. I expect most people to think like this.
But in reality, "the economy" depends on the amount of money being created by central banks, and it's terrible that basically everyone's life can be influenced literally at the flip of a switch.

This is also the main reason why I like Bitcoin. "Fix the money, fix the world"!

My chainstate directly is currently 11 GB. If that doesn't fit in your RAM, Bitcoin Core has to read and write a very large amount of data for each new block it verifies. I recently tested it with 8 GB RAM, and the IBD wrote several TB of data to my disk. Have you added the maximum (16 GB) to your Matebook yet?

Why go through all the trouble of running a Bitcoin node that takes 2 GB per week in bandwidth, if you have to rely on public wifi and cellular data? Aren't you much better off with Electrum? You can run it over Tor for privacy, and you can create different wallets if you don't want the server to link your addresses together.

This is the same on virtually any forum on the internet.

I can only talk for myself, but I prefer to keep my real life away from Bitcointalk.

That's always a risk, but fraud happens in real life too.

If you have to consolidate small inputs at higher fees, at least omit the inputs that aren't worth the fee. This transaction for instance paid 25.1 sat/vbyte for 698 multisig inputs. That's about 3250 sat per input. It includes inputs as low as 0.00001308 and 0.00001498 BTC, which at this fee adds a negative value to the transaction. They're literally burning money to remove money from their wallet.
Several other inputs pay a very high percentage of that input in fees. It would be much better to wait. I assume this is an exchange using an automated system, and it's amazing they still haven't figured out an algorithm that doesn't waste money (and block space). And at higher transaction fees, the amount of wasted inputs only goes up.

I'm more worried about the fact that the entire economy not only depends but even relies on Central Banks' decisions.

So far, all people who claim their "nephew" or "friend" owns their accused alt account, are from "poor" countries. It makes sense: a "signature income" makes a much larger share of your total income if your "local" income is much lower.

There's a reason books don't get printed in bright red and green font