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1141  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Coin Stats Alerts on: May 09, 2023, 08:34:45 PM
Maybe your mobile device has a problem.

Are you receiving the alerts as mobile notifications or as email notifications? If it's the former, then it's very likely there is a battery or power saving setting that shuts down your apps from running in the background, and therefore you won't be able to get notifications in real time.
1142  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Dont receive password reset email from freebitco on: May 09, 2023, 08:22:20 PM
Okay. I think what you need to do is either you post this message on it's official ANN freebitco or send a personal message to it's forum representative Freebitco, as he will likely help facilitate you getting access to your account once again, only if you could prove that the account you gave above is actually yours.

freebitco.in PR is more like an account used to make announcements and promotions.

I think OP should try contacting TheQuin via PM if the information he is to share is sensitive. He's very helpful he and he will get him sorted as soon as possible.
1143  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Off-chain mixers on: May 09, 2023, 07:51:16 PM
However I wonder  Huh  why service like ChipMix was so popular since the chip appeared to be just a private keys.
There we so many factors why it was so popular
1. It was one of the kind
2. The fee (It was the lowest, If I recall well, they weren't charging any mandatory service fee)
3. Obviously exposure, they were one of the biggest advertisers here in the forum

We all know what happened when the mixer was seized. Some people lost money because, for some reason, Chipmixer did not delete the data logs as promised.
1144  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: foundry is playing a power game screwing with bitcoin on: May 08, 2023, 11:11:40 PM
https://mempool.space/mining shows block 788837 is F2Pool, not Foundry as your post suggests. Am I missing something?
1. BTC.com says Foundry USA - https://explorer.btc.com/btc/block/788837
2. Blockchain.com says Foundry USA - https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/blocks/btc/788837
3. Blockchair.com say Foundry USA - https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/block/788837

Not sure what's going on with mempool.space
1145  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Bittrex to shut its U.S operations on: May 08, 2023, 10:40:01 PM
I'm wondering what does this mean for the users and their funds?
So the once famous Bittrex got Bittrekt?

I guess the customers or users will have to wait for several months or years before they can get their back funds if things work out according to plan.

This is a little light on the bankruptcy filings they made;

1.  Chapter 9

The purpose of chapter 9 is to provide a financially-distressed municipality protection from its creditors while it develops and negotiates a plan for adjusting its debts. Reorganization of the debts of a municipality is typically accomplished either by extending debt maturities, reducing the amount of principal or interest, or refinancing the debt by obtaining a new loan

2. Chapter 11

Chapter 11 is named after a section of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. Companies that file Chapter 11 do so in order to obtain time to restructure their debts and make a fresh start. The terms are subject to the debtor fulfilling its obligations under the plan of reorganization.
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During a Chapter 11 proceeding, the court will help a business restructure its debts and obligations

3. Chapter 15

Chapter 15 is a section in the U.S. Bankruptcy Code that was added in 2005 to provide for cooperation between U.S. courts and foreign courts when foreign bankruptcy proceedings touch upon U.S. financial interests.

The section was added in response to a United Nations recommendation for cooperation among nations on what it calls "cross-border insolvency."
1146  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: How Bitcoin Ordinal will waste block space? on: May 08, 2023, 09:53:13 PM
With time, with demands, with developments and upgrades, Bitcoin must serve more people, more use cases.
The only demands I would love to see are its use as a peer to peer electronic cash system and maybe store of value. Anything more than that like some stupid scam NFTs or Memes kills the purpose completely.

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Ordinal NFTs are one of use cases and like it or not, it is your personal choice but other people have their freedom to like it. Like people are freely to use Bitcoin for many use cases and as people who support freedom, we don't like censorship.
With current high fee rate, how do you convince someone down in El Salvador to pay for a cup of coffee worth $2 using Bitcoin with a transaction fee of $30  Roll Eyes

Let all agree that the ordinals or BRC20 have no use case, they are just scams.

Bitcoin was for the ordinary person, not a dozen of scammers willing to spam the network at a higher fee rate by creating shitcoins on it so that they can rip off newbies.

Ordinal NFTs can bring more new people to Bitcoin network like some of them can come from Ethereum network and I see it is a good thing.
Sure! Because paying $30 per transaction makes people abandon traditional financial instructions for a BRC20 laden Bitcoin. Great Vision!  Lips sealed
1147  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: [EDU] How to spot a scammer (Read this before doing any transactions!) on: May 08, 2023, 08:43:10 PM
>>snip<<
You did it the wrong way. When you make a scam accusation here, not so many people are going to see it and perhaps send red tags to the perpetrators.

You are supposed to make a fresh topic in the scam accusations board, including all the details showing how you were scammed. Follow the scam report format in this topic
1148  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Decarbonization of the crypto industry on: May 08, 2023, 08:24:12 PM
Mining cryptocurrencies is intensely energy consuming. The use of energy intensive computers keeps creating problems for the miners as it has adverse effects on the environment and also pokes their finances in terms of high electricity bills.
Is it the most energy consuming?  Roll Eyes

Let's be honest, there are probably so many things in the world that consume way more power than crypto mining but guess what? You are always going to blame miming crypto for all that.
I haven't seen people make noise about how watching TV or using electric ovens to cook can impact the environment, for example.

Crypto halvings could also accelerate green energy adoption among miners.
You mean these "green energies" that use batteries that need the extraction of raw materials which process leads to the destruction of the environment somewhere deep in a Third World country, like this?

Let someone convince me how the process of attaining the raw materials for the manufacture of Lithium somewhere deep in the Democratic Republic of Congo is Environmental friendly.


1149  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Is it scam or not.. Roobet transaction on: May 08, 2023, 07:56:19 PM
OP's transaction now has 46 confirmations - https://mempool.space/tx/2576526f091b8a283554c463cc3e6ca77c069eef65854141ed0daecf294279c9

OP you might want to first check your transaction using a blockchain explorer and learn how the Bitcoin network works before you come out here to accuse a service of scam. If you really care, you should even edit the title of this thread to "resolved"
1150  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Seeking for Chia mining answers on: May 07, 2023, 11:57:55 PM
As of Q1 2023, Backblaze managed 236,893 HDDs. The report assesses the reliability and failure rates of various models, and since its inception, the company has witnessed 17,155 HDD failures.
Backblaze, the cloud storage and storage analytics expert, has published a comprehensive report detailing the reliability of hundreds of thousands of hard drives employed in the company's servers. On average, the failed hard drives had an operational lifespan of merely two years and six months, which is less than the minimum three-year warranty mandated by European law.

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/backblaze-hdd-reliability-report-insights-on-failure-rates-and-lifespan.html
Well well well

The "Green coins" can't help it but continue disappointing the hopefuls, can they?

I wonder where the damaged hard drives end up being dumped. In space or on the very Earth that they are trying to "protect" from Bitcoin mining?
1151  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: ETH gas fees are a joke. on: May 07, 2023, 11:02:34 PM
So I have to pay $9 ETH to transfer 70 USDT I just received, out of my wallet? And worse, transferring any amount of ETH will set you back $3 in gas fees.
It looks like the tables have turned, if we look at the current spam on Bitcoin blockchain. That's what Ethereum network has been dealing with since the Bull run of 2017-2018 and the problem has refused to vanish to this date

I think something needs to be done about the Ordinals or those so called BRC20 before things go awful on the oldest and most decentralized blockchain network..
1152  Other / Off-topic / Re: Best 2FA applications to use. Open source, free, secure. Better than Google's on: May 07, 2023, 10:47:53 PM
I've always known that Google Authenticator does not save any of our 2FA accounts in our Google account, so I keep my setup key offline and safe in case something bad happens to my device and I need to recover my account quickly.
I have not used it since my newbie days, but I understand they now have a cloud back up feature for the codes. Here is some article from late April - Google Authenticator App Gets Cloud Backup Feature for TOTP Codes

I am still not a fan of Authenticators with cloud based backups, especially if they are not open source.
1153  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Is anyone else glad Bitcoin is calming down? on: May 07, 2023, 10:23:24 PM
Damn, this post aged well  Grin


Just  a few days ago I said this
These ordinals and shit are hurting the true users of the Bitcoin blockchain because of insane transaction fees which shouldn't be there in the first place. Imagine what is going to happen in a bull run.

And today, the optimal transaction fees are just super crazy. Where now looking at 500 sats/vbyte as low priority fee rate, and I think things are just going to get worse. Which genuine and average user is going to pay that much for a simple or small payment?

I am thinking of not making a bitcoin transaction for a while.



On the flip side, Miners are smiling
1154  Economy / Lending / Re: Need Loan 0.0035 for the sake of my CAREER on: May 06, 2023, 11:50:10 PM
Hi,
I am looking for 0.0035 Btc loan and will repay 0.0037 withen a week, i have to attend Interview Held in abhu dhabi with Wizz Air at Inn Hotel Abhu Dhabi at 09/05/2023, i have to buy a suite and use some money for travling from Sharjah to Abhu Dhabi about 180km, i will pay back loan at 14/05/2023 as i get able to have half salery in advance.
That's just $101.02, it won't even be enough for a suit.

Don't you have Family, Relatives or friends to ask this kind of money where they will even lend it to you without collateral or expecting you to pay interest?
After all, you will repay it to them within a week, right?
1155  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Minners in Kazakhstan pay high electricity tax on: May 06, 2023, 11:27:43 PM
OP, how do you come up with the current power costs in that country? Or perhaps you are on ground?

I am really envious of the stated power rate, even with the tax levied on it. Some of us have been to places where mining just doesn't make sense at all because of high electricity costs.
Speaking of levying taxes on electricity used for mining Bitcoin, it's one of the most stupid taxes I have come across.

Shouldn't they be taxing electricity used for playing video games or electric cookers as well? Since most of these Governments are bitching about Bitcoin mining contributing "posing environmental threats" but so does any other form of electricity/non-renewable energy usage.
1156  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Bittrex to shut its U.S operations on: May 06, 2023, 10:39:44 PM
I received this email from Bittrex after several years of not logging in and my account being blocked  Grin



I wonder what kind of terms of service they have now updated, since I can read them as a result of the block on my account. Not that I miss the exchange anyway.
1157  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Is Tornado cash still up and usable? on: May 04, 2023, 03:16:58 PM
according the twitter account of tornado cash https://twitter.com/TornadoCash it seems the link that you provide is real. But it seem the transaction is getting lower I mean before freeze and police arrive to the site
Thye probably added the link to the profile recently. When I made the post, it was still the old link of tornado.cash. Thanks for pointing this out.

Why the site interface is similar to the mixing service from @whierwindmoney, the similarity is almost close to matching.
I thought I was the only one who noticed it

Especially the side of the statistics where there is anonymity set  Shocked
Maybe they got some inspiration from tornado.cash
1158  Other / Archival / Re: ♻️ [banned mixer] — FAST, SECURE and RELIABLE BITCOIN MIXER (Since 2016) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ on: May 04, 2023, 12:24:00 PM
Hi cryptomixer, I suggest you claim your Trustpilot profile and try to fight the fake/false negative reviews over there - https://www.trustpilot.com/review/[banned mixer]?languages=all

Looking at the reviews which are all 1 star and negative in nature gives the impression that [banned mixer] is a scam which is not true. The reviews are clearly malicious and some are even advertising what I suspect are the real scam services.
1159  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: How Bitcoin Ordinal will waste block space? on: May 02, 2023, 11:56:06 PM
In simple terms, someone found an exploit in the most recent change to the protocol called Taproot. They are abusing the fact that the consensus rules are not strict about the size of the witness in Taproot scripts to inject arbitrary data into the blockchain (something that was previously done using OP_RETURNs with a limit). They falsely refer to that as "NFT" which is another lie.
My question is, can't they put back that limit on in the near future?

I know there is all this argument of Bitcoin network being decentralized and therefore people should not be censored from doing whatever they want with the network, but I don't think Satoshi had anything like NFTs in mind when creating the Bitcoin network.

What I am seeing happening if this thing continues is it will deter common people from using Bitcoin as an alternative p2p electronic payment system because of the obscene transaction fees they have to pay (A good example is Ethereum, I haven't used it in a very long time because of the fees and all the trouble started with the cryptokitties)
1160  Other / Archival / Re: Current list of exchanges without KYC on: May 02, 2023, 11:24:18 PM
After having to close Bybit acc, I narrowed it down to MEXC, Phemex and BingX - I'm happy to see they are all on the list as well. Any favorites?
BingX is shilled to me by the same guy that sent me to Bybit early on so I guess I'll try that one first.

Kucoin still does not have KYC? I was sure they implemented it months ago, I traded there a lot. They were hit hardest by UST fiasco so I ran away shortly after the Luna collapse.
I don't know about BingX, but Phemex is pretty good. I use it often to trade derivatives using Leverage.

MEXC is still buggy and I don't trust it that much. Sometimes their futures price goes way off the index price perhaps because of manipulation and low liquidity and people get liquidated even before they blink. They also spam so much even on the notification bar.

Bitget is probably in the same category. Only thing good about those two is probably if you like to trade shitcoins as soon as they have been introduced. Those platforms tend to list them quickly
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