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1141  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: My real IP showing on bitnodes, although I use TOR on: July 08, 2022, 01:24:04 PM
Most sites that list mødes wither take user input to determine what nodes are out there or use their own peers for discovery (afaik).

I think you just have to wait out them realising your old node is offline and then wait for them to find your new one to list that.
1142  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: How many IPv6 nodes are dual-stack nodes? on: July 07, 2022, 02:56:29 PM
I wonder if this can be determined or at least estimated somehow.
If there is no good way to accurately answer this question, what do people in the forum think? How do you run your node(s)?

Is this just something you'd like to know "for fun" or are you curious about how decentralised cryptocurrency is.

I don't think it matters if the same node is listening to ipv6, ipv4 and/or tor at the same time because, if it isn't, you could just have multiple nodes run by the same person doing that anyway and that'll be close to the same thing.

1143  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Binance remove BTC trade fees to mark 5th anniversary on: July 07, 2022, 02:48:09 PM
They have mentioned this and they might disqualify any trades if they feel many users taking too much advantages on their promotions and might stop it intentionally if they it's already enough. Honestly 0.1% fees in Binance isn't expensive and I don't think I need to sell my coins to save 0.1% fees only considering Bitcoin price drop around 65% lol. I will keep holding and wouldn't care such promotions.

Yeah it probably won't be noticed, the spread is normally the part of trading that costs the most too.

I saw claims coinbase had a trackable price premium over binance too, if this is still the case (especially at times of volatility) then a fee reduction might improve things for buyers but do little for sellers there.
1144  Other / Meta / Re: weird pm received on: July 07, 2022, 04:26:13 AM
There's a recommendation that security questions are quite weak for keeping accounts safe (it's why most places have multiple and why a lot got replaced with multifactor authentication).

I had a brief skim through the seclog and haven't found much over the past week of many resets actually being done so it's probably just an unsolicited piece of advice.
1145  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Core Scientific sells over 7k Bitcoin to raise $167M on: July 07, 2022, 04:12:55 AM
I can't decide if this is bullish or bearish news (it feels quite neutral). A mining farm raising capital to pay for its facility makes sense and the huge amount of goat the market has been able to absorb is also quite impressive imo. It'd make sense for miners to have a figure at which they need to sell their reserves to pay for everything too.
1146  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Putin: workers extra hours, companies to supply war, Draft under discussion on: July 07, 2022, 01:12:19 AM
I don't think this is new news (as in it was kinda expected they'd do something like that) but I don't think Russia have got very far or will with this. Both sides lacked resources to put of much of a reasonable fight against each other too (both with limited and archaic equipment).

Luhansk and Donetsk aren't even fully controlled by Russia and it's already taken it this long to get that far (even though there were allied rebel fighters in both of those areas)...
1147  Bitcoin / Hardware wallets / Re: REWARD $50: Funds not visible after using XPub to receive money in my store on: July 07, 2022, 12:08:01 AM
Since m/44'/0'/0' worked and the code you gave above, I think it goes:
m/44'/client_id'/0'
(either that or m/44'/0'/clientid'/0' -but that may be less likely)

How do you know the addresses generated have actually been funded though? I think you need a script thst goes through and checks from an api (such as a block explorer) as to whether an address you control has been funded or not.

The problem is that m/44/2 is litecoin
The third level will go to different altcoins. I don't know how to handle that (an altcoin path) in a bitcoin wallet.

Just take a look at iancoleman and you will see.

It's just replay protection and there are tools to convert litecoin public keys to bitcoin ones and vice versa (they just add an offset to the public key to make it different - the private key will be the same).

1148  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Cryptocurrency does not offer equal opportunity to the visually impaired. on: July 06, 2022, 11:30:22 PM
I'm confused as to why this is a topic the Internet and computers are extremely accessible and are built for that.

Some of the cryptospace will probably be inaccessible to people with different disabilities but most of it won't be - and for developers it might be as simple as seeing if they can download and use text to speech on their app.

Most exchanges are built of websites which are very easy to adapt and feed into other programs to be viewed more optimally for the user (there are on screen magnifiers on most devices and there are also usbc/USB braille readers that can be used for adapting information - I've no idea how blind people actually use these to navigate round computers but I've watched some do it with great proficiency and at very fast paces).

There are typewriter style machines that could also handle writing down mnemonics for producing paper backups (the bumps should stay if the paper is protected and even if they don't, they just become holes - they don't fade like ink does).
1149  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Will BTC survive if encryption/cryptography becomes illegal? on: July 06, 2022, 10:08:42 PM
FBI, CIA, NSA, MI6, FSB and all others alike would collapse.
All military system would be reduced to sticks, screams, rocks, etc. No communications, etc.

The reports about Russian generals apparently came out because they were using unencrypted systems for communication (it's something I could partially believe - ie someone somewhere close by would be needed to collect the signal and would have to be "listening" to a lot of frequencies at once).
And most encryption algorithms are (potentially considered to be) devised by the West.

In a lot of cases, banning things for civilians and using them for military aspects is done a lot of the time but it normally makes their own systems worse.

I have a suspicion that 5G is being rolled out so there's less noise on the current technologies used for communication (the government allows people to broadcast over ~600-800MHz frequencies and ~2.45-2.5GHz - if 3 billion people are communicating over those channels you get a lot of noise but you also get a lot of advancements and efficiency increases. These two standard frequencies are also known to have a very high range (while 2.5ghz used to be bounded by a 10m range, a good receiver can pick it up 20 miles away).

I mean, I can't see this even a possibililty. Nowadays, information, data and privacy means much more than what we think. I know that common and mortal people are already being harassed with privacy violations and etc, but imagine governments, states, counties, military, agencies, etc, without any kind of privacy...Huh I can't picture that!

I could imagine it being an opt-in procedure (and then Google and Microsoft being paid to ask users - while companies like Mozilla would probably just auto opt out) - for https for example.

Yep, this is very much a "your government has too many old fossils who don't understand technology in it" problem.  The same conversation came up in the UK parliament years ago.  David Cameron outlined his government's plans to ban encryption in 2015.  I laughed at their collective stupidity and naturally nothing ever came of it.  Encryption is just math.  You can't ban numbers, even if your government are cretins and believe they can.  Reality will give them a good hard slap across the face in due time.

I don't actually know how they got things to news articles without a technology journalist telling them the gaps in their plan.
1150  Bitcoin / Hardware wallets / Re: REWARD $50: Funds not visible after using XPub to receive money in my store on: July 06, 2022, 07:14:53 PM
Code:
$path = $client_id.'/0'; 

Since m/44'/0'/0' worked and the code you gave above, I think it goes:
m/44'/client_id'/0'
(either that or m/44'/0'/clientid'/0' -but that may be less likely)

How do you know the addresses generated have actually been funded though? I think you need a script thst goes through and checks from an api (such as a block explorer) as to whether an address you control has been funded or not.
1151  Economy / Computer hardware / Re: Hopefully someone can help on: July 06, 2022, 07:04:12 PM
How did you come to possess them (seems odd to end up with something you don't know anything about)?

Also what country are you in? If its somewhere where mining is profitible you're probably more likely to be able to sell them without paying for international shipping. I can't find many places that sell them though or list a price for them that seems legit, bitmain don't list them on their website either.
1152  Economy / Services / Re: Join Me Let's Built A Peer to Peer Digital Bank on: July 06, 2022, 06:54:26 PM
How do you plan on making it peer to peer though and is this not already a thing in a lot of places?

I just checked and they seem to be called "savings and loans associations" in the US (in the UK they're often called building societies). They're essentially banks where your stake in the bank is determined by how much you have invested there.



Of course I don't know if there are many international companies like this (except for stocks).
1153  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Tips for newbie to long-term investing on: July 06, 2022, 03:06:13 PM
That's the thing I'm struggling with, I actually want to put in more money. But I just can't afford to, I want to maximize on the buying opportunities but I know that's the FOMO creeping in, and I'll just have to stay patient.

Bringing emotions into trading isn't a good idea though.

If you do that you're likely to turn your trading into gambling and cause a lot more problems for yourself. If you expect to buy and hold for a long period of time - dca into bitcoin.

If you have all the money now that you would dca, I'd split it into 4-10 pots and invest in dips, if you don't or you think that'll be any level of stress then invest a certain amount every month or every quarter.



Similarly to "we could've already seen the bottom and just don't know it" - we could see the bottom (or close to it again) there's a good chance of that and something you should prepare for (and dcaing might be the best strategy to do that with).

It might also be advisible to split up where your funds are going for example if instead you invest half your investment in crypto and the other half in a stock index to diversify your portfolio a bit more and make you feel a bit safer in investing.
1154  Other / Off-topic / Re: NIST Announces First Four Quantum-Resistant Cryptographic Algorithms on: July 06, 2022, 03:20:36 AM
I think there's already one quantum proof algorithm/cryptography standard in wide use already (hash based cryptography). You're probably more likely to see that being adopted in cryptocurrencies if a move for quantum resistance had to be made very quickly.

Also, what's the size of a signature in those algorithms? If it's much larger than currently used by Bitcoin, it would either require a blocksize increase or will seriously lower the on-chain capacity.

This might be something determined when the standards are actually made as it's potentially not too relevant.

256bit is still a large number and I'm fairly certain quantum won't be able to compute that for some algorithms (especially those that rely on hashing).

If you had a 2-qubit machine, each clock tick could allow you to cover 4 operations to try to find a solution to a problem - the higher the qubit the faster something not quantum proof can be solved. As distinct (orders of) qubits get discovered it'll become easier for them to solve problems like those produced by ECDSA (ie finding a set of coordinate for a private key from a public key). The problem is, hashing algorithms are non linear (I assume the others rely of non linear operations too) which means the output (given a certain input) is hard to predict - so it's impossible to work out if you're close to an "answer" or not.

1155  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Despite the Price, Great things are happening in the Bitcoin Ecosystem on: July 05, 2022, 09:28:16 PM
Bear markets are normally the times new innovations get built/activated in the ecosystem as tests are considered safer.

There have been a lot of examples of blockchain development companies (and some exchanges) taking on extra developers/staff and trying to attempt more projects than they would've been during the bull market.
1156  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Hacker claims to have stolen 1 B records of Chinese citizens, demands 10 BTC on: July 05, 2022, 09:19:18 PM
Perhaps the fact the hacker is asking for such relatively low price has to do with the fact that most of the data involves normal citizens and even though it is highly sensitive information, it has no inmediate effective use for rival intelligence agencies, but I dont know I am just a normal with no ties to agencies so I could be completely wrong.

Perhaps there's too much data the hackers don't know how to actually analyse it themselves.

Since it contains so many records it might not split up convictions and accusations too or have other reasons it's not worth much to them (either that or it's a test to see if they can get them to payout something).
1157  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Was the coupling of Bitcoin to fiat a mistake? on: July 05, 2022, 09:04:19 PM
It's not abnormal for currencies to be coupled to each other though - there's a lot of examples I can think of that seem to follow proportionally (like the Swiss Franc, the pound sterling and the euro all follow similar trajectories based on each other). It's the whole reason most Western fiat countries have some level of coupling and are considered less volatile because of it.



Bitcoin decouples from the dollar, stocks and other currencies a lot and I think if you compared it on a longer timeframe it becomes obvious which one is growing in value against the other.

Fiat is the major onramp for crypto because its one of the easiest ways to trade and has the highest market liquidity.
1158  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Will BTC survive if encryption/cryptography becomes illegal? on: July 05, 2022, 01:57:57 AM
I think there were reports that some people who are yet to discover fire that have been voted into the governments (the US have the most, other countries have a few though).

If encryption is banned, the Internet collapses. You're not accessing Facebook because Facebook can't fund itself anymore (the companies who used to pay to get Facebook to target their ads towards them are no longer doing it because they can just wiretap all the information they want from users and place their own targeted ads).

Every time you access the Internet now, you're given the site you want after 20 refreshes (sometimes), before then you're either getting a time out error (likely due to ddos and bad packet management because servers can't use keys to regulate that/verify users a real) or you're getting an ad to somewhere else or just a blank page because someone somewhere wants to see if they can do it (anyone can pretend to be a dns server if they want and point you wherever they like now SSL is no longer a thing).
1159  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: algo trading bot issues on: July 04, 2022, 10:37:04 PM
Do you know if the problem would be with my script or the setting on wundertrading

You've not really told us much about either, can you also check your trading history to see if position size is increased during trading (like if a long is opened and then a second long is opened too)?


also noticed it closed a losing trade at the safety stop loss of 3% I put in wundertrading not at 2% which I have coded in the script.

And was the stop loss order inputted on the exchange before the wundertrading one was triggered?

Again this isn't enough information to go off to know why exactly but it probably points to the script having issues.
1160  Other / Off-topic / Re: I think google is spying on us ,when our phones are in the room on: July 04, 2022, 06:18:45 PM
Realistically there's no point changing now, they've already got all the data they needed Wink.



Most of these systems work of recommender algorithms. It's like how you can have the same thought of other people at the same time and how the likelihood of your thoughts being the same for a specific point in time is proportional to how well you know that person.

Recommender algorithms essentially come up with an angle based on a lot of data about you and then try to work out who else has a similar angle and pushes content they like towards you (it's a lot more accurate and picks up data from more people when there's millions or billions of users).
the use of the word angle is because a sizable amount of trigonometry goes into producing these algorithms.
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