I would expect the places that have hired 3rd party company as "sysadmin" would block most of the unusual ports.
It's not necessarily related to Bitcoin, but I guess that they also don't want people download torrents and other big stuff over their connection (since this also tends to make it unusable for most of the other customers in many cases, I think).

Tunneling may be the solution (although I think that's slower). But I don't know how to do that.

When I have the time and mood I go through the noise (!) of crypto twitter and filter it by comparing it with the reality from bitcointalk.
Plus sometimes I read the news from https://defidive.com/news?filter=bitcoin

OP is historically (just look at his posts!) unsure about each and every step he makes. I think that he's also pretty much afraid of new hardware.
Based on this, picking a new Ledger Nano S plus (not Nano X!) makes sense for him. Else I would clearly go for Trezor or SeedSigner...

Electrs will be just a "blanket" over your own BitcoinCore node, so imho it's not such a paradigm shift.
But it's really up to you. I can't help with more than this, maybe others can.

Probably not the answer you're expecting, but since the last development in that plugin was 2 years ago, it may be significantly less effort for you to just use Electrs (or blockstream's fork in case you want to use it out of your LAN) as server.

And if you skip the few Windows specifics, this topic shows you the steps for installing Electrs.

Since the mixers are operating in the gray area - let's be honest, at least in theory they protect privacy of both honest users and possibly money launderers too - they may simply not care where the money comes from. Of course, this is probably the official reason some mixers are targeted by law enforcement too (and it's better to honestly say "I didn't care, so I didn't know").

On the other hand, a mixer is just a private business as any. The mixer owner may take certain steps without announcing that (from locking and returning the stolen funds to keeping track of the transactions), but, since such things can hurt the image of a mixer, we will never know a mixer's real stance on that.

So I think that you're expecting too much.

I've missed the qualifying, but I've just seen the highlights ( https://youtu.be/7QFluV5wV4I ) and:
* it looks like we might have an interesting race between RBR, Ferrari, Merc and Aston
* I find interesting the performance improvement McLaren has shown, but it may be only caused by the slow corners of the city circuit

Today is sprint race day, I'm looking forward to that. Since everybody had a lot less time to practice and configure the cars.. it may be interesting (and obviously the race too).

The very small amounts the faucets give is not the only problem. One has to also be careful with the withdrawals because if your wallet has a lot of inputs it can become very expensive to spend or consolidate them.
Plus it's not uncommon the faucets not allowing the withdrawals (hence scam).

I will add that I don't think that trying to earn from faucets worth the money one would spend on electricity for the device he will use for browsing there.

PS. If one is paid for reading/learning, it's already better than the rest though.

Ar fi fain, dar din pacate bancherii au suficienta hartie tiparita, iar vasta majoritate a minerilor pare mai mult decat bucuroasa sa-si vanda monezile pentru acea hartie tiparita.


Da, e frumos... dar eu am incercat sa stau pe variantele care par sa aiba sanse cat de cat.
Na, sper sa ma insel/sa fiu prea negativist... dar pentru ca bitcoinerii sa ia locul bancherilor de azi ar trebui ceva masiv sa se intample. Revolta? Poate. Dar decembrie '89 mi-a aratat ca uneori chiar si o revolutie va schimba niste lupi cu alti lupi, iar noi ramanem tot oi...

Bitcoin Core downloads/synchronizes the blockchain. You'll need half a terra for that nowadays, btw.
The Electrum Server will get Bitcoin Core's data and creates a database on top of that for easy retrieval of various things your wallet or a block explorer (!) would need.
Depending on how it uses the data, I guess that an Electrum server can also survive without txindex (just the sync could be slower), depending on what data it gets from Bitcoin Core and what it stores.


Well, Fulcrum specifically asks for txindex to be 1.

I am truly impressed when people come asking the right questions. Very nice!


You have to keep your eyes open, since the space is full of scammers, some even claiming to be good businesses (or even impersonating such businesses).
So you have to do a proper research on where you buy your coins from and pick a business/method that has already passed the test of time.

And indeed, you have to make sure you withdraw the coins to your own custody, just this means yet another learning curve, since it has plenty of security implications.
If you don't have computer management/install skills or the amount of cash you want to spend on buying coins is 4 digits or more I recommend you just do a quick research and buy a hardware wallet, they're the easiest path for "safe enough" self-custody.

It worth mentioning here that some exchanges may offer you (cheaper) bitcoin withdrawals on other chains (usually BSC or ETH). Beware, those are not bitcoins, those are altcoins ("wrapped" bitcoins) and I would stay away of those.


Some ask for KYC and not everybody wants to give that out.
Then the known exchanges have quite some not-so-small withdrawal fees (they falsely call them transaction or network fees, but it's more than that), hence if somebody buys small amounts sometimes the brokers come out cheaper (although the price is bad/expensive, if we consider/add the withdrawal fee too then it may come out cheaper).

40 NeuroticFish

Please & thank you

It may worth mentioning that both those tutorials are made for local use (server and Electrum on same computer).
So for accessing it from mobile that may need a little more configuration.

Did you check the Tor address will Tor browser? Did you copy paste it as https an worked??!
I had to change to http to work.

For start your should know that "waving" "badges" means nothing on the internet.

Then, if you think you need to tell about phd in order to - I don't know - give more weight to your so called proof means that it's you who should improve your interaction skills.

Plus: if you think that implying that someone is stupid will make your point correct then I'm sorry for you.


There will always be some industries hungry for energy. The number of such industries keeps rising over decades. So a more sane direction for your efforts should be to get better sources of energy. Convincing any industry to give up has no real chances for success.
Then the energy Bitcoin uses will no longer be a headline.

Then, since Bitcoin cannot be mined with any kind of computing power, if I'd have free electricity, I would have no issues keeping a computer computing for science overnight.

Bitcoin computing is not feasible to be redirected. Being a rush for finding the blocks, where only one pool wins one block, anyone diverting computing power towards anything else gives the competing miners an extra chance. And then then the miners will leave a pool with such a policy.

So, if you indeed have a phd, I expect you focus on directions that can bring results. And remember, internet doesn't care who you are.

I will just come and tell you that
1. You seem to not fully understand what is bitcoin mining for, hence you propose to fix things you don't understand.
2. You seem completely unaware what this amount of energy means in the grand scheme of things.

PS. I dare you convince the companies (and casinos) turn off 90% of their electricity based advertising then come back preaching.

It's most probably the "job" called "money mule". Somebody gets money (most probably dirty money) under his name and buys crypto to clear those funds.
If the authorities catch the network, the money mule name will be the first to ask this and that.
If the exchanges freeze the money, the "employers" of the money mule may or may not have understanding for that.

OP, the first post tells in at least 2 places (plus a third in the sig campaign) that the Tor mirror is https://... but it's not working with https, it works, like all Tor addresses I know, on http.
You may want to fix. This one does open with my Tor browser: http://[banned mixer]

Just a small heads up: BlueWallet was/is closing the LN feature. The news about closing came in... February I think, I don't know when will they close the feature, but imho it's no longer a good idea to keep money in their (custodial) LN service.

Indeed, then it's most probably the original owner and he knows what he's doing.
Still the other scenarios can remain - more or less - on the table, from splitting for heirs (it doesn't have to be 3 heirs, the heirs don't have to get the same amount) to splitting for hardware wallets or simply keeping a couple of millions in various places scattered over the world (there was a family already claiming to do so or years).

Also this scenario also makes a lot of sense (and can add to the story) :