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1281  Economy / Invites & Accounts / Re: SCAMMERS --->Want to Sell GCP, Hetzner, Azure, Digital Ocean on: September 14, 2020, 11:41:09 AM
First of all, i have no clue if you're trying to sell accounts, or if you were scammed by an account seller...
I mean, your initial post looks like you're selling accounts, but your title and your bumps make it look like you were scammed?

Secondly, the rules state that you can only bump your thread once per day... And even then, you have to remove previous bumps.
1282  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2020-09-10] Privacy Startup Nym Will Pay You in Bitcoin to Run Its Mixnet on: September 14, 2020, 11:08:03 AM
FYI, it seems they now have >100 nodes, and that seemed to be their threshold for their rewards program. I did manage to get my node on their list before they officially closed it, but i have no idear if my node was within the first 100....
1283  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: [ANN]: buy handmade facemasks, pouches, scarf's with bitcoin on: September 14, 2020, 11:05:21 AM
update:
Thanks to the feedback i received on bitcointalk, i did convince the own to do a manual translation using a completely different plugin... As for now, most of the site is translated by me or the owner (neither of us is a native speaker tough, if you find spelling errors, don't hesitate to give a shout-out).

I'm still figuring out some of the other feedback i got... The site uses wordpress+woocommerce, and some of the features are a bit "harder" to do (for example, showing a quantity selection outside of the cart).

It's a work in progress  Grin
1284  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: 6 confirmations questions on: September 14, 2020, 10:42:40 AM
Asssume that such 1-month attack happens, its cost will be about $4,250,952 ($590,410*24 hours*30 days).
You've missed a few digits there. Using those numbers, the cost of a 1 month attack would be $425 million. Although you should also factor in that an attacker who manages to overturn a month of blocks would gain 27,000 BTC in block rewards (plus potentially fees if they chose to include other users transactions in their blocks), which at current prices would give them $280 million, so lowering the cost of a month long attack to around $145 million.



I looked at that site (crypto-5-1-.app), but couldn't find their exact methodology... They just say they base their calculations on nicehash's prices...
I'd be weary of taking these numbers at face value without seeing the underlying calculations...

In the rest of my post, i'm going to talk about length and height, but in reality it isn't the longest chain that wins, but the chain with the highes cumulative difficulty (the chain that required the most work). It's perfectly possible to have 2 chains: one with a lenght of 10.000 blocks, and a second one with a lenght of 11.000 blocks, but still your 10k chain could be the winner.

Now, did crypto-5-1-.app take into account you only have 51% of the hashrate? This means that 49% will keep on working on the "honest" chain.
This isn't an issue when you try to do a 51% attack on the last block because you'd be able to start at the same time as the rest of the network:

For example: i'm a thief... I pay a user when the current blockheight is (x-1). My transaction gets included in block with height (x), but i had the opportunity to start working on an alternative chain when the blockheight was still (x-1). If i have 51% of the hashrate, i have a 51% chance of finding a block for height (x) before the rest of the network can. If the rest of the network is first and move on to (x+1), i still have a decent chance of catching up in a relatively short time.
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But... When i try to reverse the last (let's say) month: I'd have to go back to (x-4464) => 6 blocks/hour * 24 hours/day * 31 days/month.
By the time i reached height (x), the rest of the network would have reached height ~(x+4374). Oops
I have to catch up to those extra 4374 blocks as well... But by the time i reach them the "honest" miners will have added (on average) an other 4286 blocks.
I have to catch up to those extra 4286 blocks as well... But by the time i reach them the "honest" miners will have added (on average) an other 4200 blocks.
I have to catch up to those extra 4200 blocks as well... But by the time i reach them the "honest" miners will have added (on average) an other 4116 blocks.
...

With only 51% of the hashrate, it'll take me years to catch up... If, by the time i caught up, i get the network to accept my longest chain (witch will be allmost impossible), i will have effectively removed all profit for all miners for years and years, i will have rewritten so much history that bitcoin becomes worthless...

When you talk about re-writing more than a couple of blocks, everything becomes variable... I mean, you'll have to start looking at the difficulty, at the mempool, at the resell value of your gear, at the effect your actions will have on bitcoin's value,...
1285  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Perfect Money safe to store big money or not ? on: September 11, 2020, 12:02:28 PM
im not sure if we can trust in hardware wallet devs they can scam investors at any time especially if bitcoin price go higher

trezor's firmware is open source, and iirc so is their hardware and their wallet software. On top of this, people have stored millions worth of BTC on these devices without getting robbed.
Add the fact that it's a legal business, whose address, owners and partners have all been legally verified, and i think the odds of them building in a backdoor just to rob you when the price rises is very, very, very small. They would have had to build in a backdoor and get it passed everybody who ever browsed trough their sourcecode AND they would have to hide for the rest of their lives after abusing said backdoor.

I personally also trust ledger, they've been around for so long, are also registered and known by the community, but IIRC their firmware is closed source.

That being said, i wouldn't trust some unknown hardware wallet vendor with little or no feedback, and no community vetted sourcecode.
1286  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: How to transfer money to an exchange on: September 11, 2020, 07:53:49 AM
I know some exchanges accept creditcards... If i'm not mistaking, binance is an example of such an exchange.

Your other options would be P2P trades with cash (or any other form of currency accepted by the P2P trader)
1287  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Can not open wallet on: September 10, 2020, 07:02:29 PM
Guys you are awesome thanks for the quick help!

I understood that I have to do -reindex.
But I do not know how.

If I type it inside the console it says: "Method not found"

How do I start this process?

Backing up my Wallet is no longer an option because I cant open it.
I never changed the system or did anything "wrong". I just did use my PC for 1-2 weeks and could not access my wallet any longer.




You don't need to open the gui to make a backup. Just open your file explorer and browse to the directory posted above, copy wallet.dat to a usb drive or something.

As for what you have to do to reindex: open a terminal (cmd), cd to the path where the bitcoin-qt binary can be found, execute the binary from the terminal, but add the -reindex option.

A second opinion would be to create a shortcut to bitcoin-qt, edit the shortcut and add -reindex.

If this sounds like gibberish to you, just tell us which operating system you're using, and I'll provide you with some screenshots when I get back at the office tomorrow morning
1288  Economy / Reputation / Re: Received message from "Bitcoin SV" via PM on: September 10, 2020, 12:59:33 PM
--snip--
And game-protect please :-P @Mr. Thermos / theymos :-D

--snip--

AFAIK, game-protect was banned a while ago... To bad his reputation spam remains on the trustwall of dozens of users... Man, i seriously disliked this individual (game-protect).
1289  Economy / Reputation / Re: Received message from "Bitcoin SV" via PM on: September 10, 2020, 12:46:21 PM
Bitcoin SV opened a topic that actually accuses you of sending unsollicited PM's:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5274890

Just giving you both a heads-up
1290  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Can not open wallet on: September 10, 2020, 11:44:52 AM
My german is a bit rusty, but i think the error message already tells you what to do...

stop the wallet, start it from the commandline with the "-reindex" option.

If you're running a pruned node, expect having to wait hours/days.

by the way, this error seems like an error from bitcoin core, to make a backup of your wallet, just copy your wallet.dat Smiley. By default, the wallet.dat can be found here => https://en.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/Data_directory (this path can be changed by editing your bitcoin.conf or starting your wallet with extra parameters).
1291  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: electrum wallet node on: September 09, 2020, 04:25:16 PM
--snip--
And yeah if it's Windows 10 with bitlocker then the "bios settings" have been moved. If you've got a spare USB you can probabky find them and boot from the USB with an operating system like Ubuntu (though I've never not been an admin of a win10 machine so I don't know if those settings are blocked).

Locked bios... I can only boot from my (bitlocker encrypted) HDD. Trust is very hard to come by in the company i work for... There are over 10.000 employees, and even if you're part of the ict department (which i am), you get the same locked down laptop as everybody else (unless you're teamleader, or part of the team that manages the laptops).

I do have some shortcuts to get binaries whitelisted or get domains added to the proxy whitelist, but my arm isn't long enough to get the bios password. It's a bummer really, i have to pay extra taxes because i can use my work laptop privately, but the darn thing is so locked down it's really hard to do anything "fun" with it.
1292  Economy / Services / Re: Paying to accelerate one BTC transaction on: September 09, 2020, 03:03:28 PM
It's a little to late to tell you to opt-in rbf... But next time, make sure you opt-in rbf Smiley

In your case, there are a couple things you can do:
  • I see 2 outputs, one is probably going to your change address... You can do a CPFP
  • You can use a free accelerator... AFAIK, viabtc still works but needs a minimum fee of 10 sat/byte (and you payed 3 sat/byte), but you can still submit it to antpool. Antpool gives those transactions a higher priority, but in case of a very low fee it still won't "solve" your situation
  • You payed 3 sat/byte, the mempool usually clears during the weekend... If you just wait your tx will probably get confirmed... If it doesn't get confirmed over the weekend, you can rebroadcast it next week
  • You can pay a big mining pool like viaBTC to include your transaction in the next block
  • You could try to double-spend the unspent outputs used in this transaction and create a new transaction with them, funding the same address but with a bigger fee... Difficult to get it to propagate trough the network tough

Realistically, your options are:
  • CPFP (quasi guaranteed fix + fast)
  • antpool's accelerator (no guarantees + slow)
  • waiting, eventually rebroadcasting (quasi guaranteed fix, but it might take a while)
  • paying a big pool operator (quasi guaranteed fix + fast)

Like i said in the beginning of my post: make sure your wallet sets the rbf flag in the future, avoid these kinds of problems....
1293  Economy / Collectibles / Re: [Free Raffle] Ballet "pre production" REAL Bitcoin wallet on: September 09, 2020, 01:07:49 PM
05 - mocacinno

Thanks  Grin
1294  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: BitFreezer- a self-custody wallet that lets you create a personal HW wallet on: September 09, 2020, 11:20:00 AM
Seems like i'm missing something here... You're calling your wallet a hardware wallet, but i fail to see why...

You've created a normal wallet, you're saving private keys in an encrypted wallet file (like other wallets do aswell), your wallet runs on an online android device, no isolation...

source: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Hardware_wallet
Quote
A hardware wallet is a special type of bitcoin wallet which stores the user's private keys in a secure hardware device.

They have major advantages over standard software wallets:

* private keys are often stored in a protected area of a microcontroller, and cannot be transferred out of the device in plaintext
* immune to computer viruses that steal from software wallets
* can be used securely and interactively, private keys never need to touch potentially-vulnerable software
* much of the time, the software is open source, allowing a user to validate the entire operation of the device
source: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Hardware_wallet

your wallet fails on each of these points in the defenition that can be found on the bitcoin wiki...
- the private keys are stored in an encrypted file, they can be transferred from the device
- you run on a normal android device, no immunity against malware
- your private keys can touch potentially-vulnerable software
- not open source

I'm not saying anything about the quality of your wallet... Maybe it has features that make it superior to other wallets. But it's not a hardware wallet (IMHO).

Personally, i don't like closed source wallets... And i wouldn't pay for a software wallet when there are so many community vetted, free, open-source software wallets readily available. But still, i wish you luck in your business.
1295  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: electrum wallet node on: September 09, 2020, 09:57:51 AM
--snip--
Ask your admin to whitelist virtualization software (such as VirtualBox) or use HyperV Tongue

--snip--
Good you figured it out, i can imagine it's very confusing for people who only have Tor Browser & confused why the option only can be seen sometimes.

Yeah, i'd love to do that... But apparently there's a problem with virtualisation software on pc's that use bitlocker (at least that's what the team in charge of user's laptop's configuration has told me).
And since i manage the partitions on our power infrastructure, and i have full access to our vmware vsphere, I can make as many vm's as i want on both power and x86 professionally, so they don't want to bother investigating virtualisation sollutions for my personal use.

That being said, I find completely hiding options to be confusing for everybody... I mean, why would you completely hide options... That's just asking for discussion like this one. If an option is greyed out, everybody will immediately realise that the option exist, but for some reason it's not available to them.
Maybe i'll open an issue on github somewhere in the future... Maybe (if i find the time), i'll do a pull and see if i can fix it myself... However, this seems like a deliberate choice of (one off the) dev(s), so i doubt they would merge a "fix" anyways.
1296  Economy / Services / Re: Looking for Chinese Visitors on: September 09, 2020, 05:35:12 AM
I know that a-ads allows you to set a filter so your ad is only shown to specific language groups... That should be more or less what you're looking for? Create an ad for your site, create an a-ads campaign and set a filter for chinese language traffic only.
1297  Economy / Goods / Re: group buy => handmade BTC facemasks on: September 08, 2020, 11:50:09 AM
[BUMP] --> will be removed when i bump this thread again in > 24 hours
1298  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: electrum wallet node on: September 08, 2020, 11:12:21 AM
--snip--
I see where it went wrong. It appears only if you have Tor browser open. Try opening the browser and then reload this window, I am pretty sure you will see the tor box.

I think this latest version of Electrum is confusing with some features.

I can't run the tor browser bundle on my employer's laptop (we can use our laptop for private purposes, but all binaries we run have to be whitelisted first, and i really do not want to go to the laptop's admin and ask him to whitelist the tor bundle  Grin)

That being said, you are 100% correct, if you look at the code you'll see it's right there:
https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/b7c2820951fe4a115fd7519a87425c5fe117dacc/electrum/gui/qt/network_dialog.py#L411

Quote
Code:
def suggest_proxy(self, found_proxy):
  if found_proxy is None:
    self.tor_cb.hide()
    return

It might have been a better idear of ThomasV to disable the select menu instead of hiding it... That way it would have made more sense... A bit like: "the menu option is there, but it's disabled because i'm not running the tor proxy"
1299  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: electrum wallet node on: September 08, 2020, 10:47:29 AM
--snip--
Maybe nc50lc has macbook too. In Windows version I do not see any reason to have two different versions as mine is the latest one too.


just as a reference, here's mine: electrum 4.0.2 portable on windows 10 (i don't like windows, but it's my work computer and my company forces windoze OS on all company laptops).



No "tor" select box, but you can still run tor proxy locally and configure electrum to connect trough the tor proxy manually...
1300  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: electrum wallet node on: September 08, 2020, 07:22:23 AM
maybe worth mentioning I am using a Macbook, and vs 10.15.5 with electrum 4.0.2

I do not see the first " use tor proxy " selection on my wallet, that's also interesting.
I am not that of an expert with VPN and TOR, what I can say is that I use sometime a TOR browser, now not started.

so I assume a "normal" connection.

/Users/coucoulandia/Desktop/Screenshot 2020-09-07 at 22.11.20.png

/Users/coucoulandia/Desktop/Screenshot 2020-09-07 at 22.11.36.png

Those screenshots cannot be seen by us, they're stored locally on your macbook. You can upload them to imgur or something and post the links here, but do be carefull not to show sensitive information. Your seed phrase, xprv and derived private keys are defenately sensitive (never share any of those 3 with anybody). Transaction id's and addresses could be sensitive if you're very privacy-focussed. Nobody can rob you if you post a transaction id or address, but they can link a transaction or an address to your bitcointalk user.

As for your problem, what color does the button in the right bottom corner have? Also, do you have enough diskspace? Are you sure you selected the right wallet file (and not an empty wallet)? (Just brainstorming for potential problems here...)


Sorry, never mind... Just noticed i overlooked the post where you already said your problem was solved  Embarrassed

I still wanted to leave the post up as a reference for you: sharing the path to screenshots on your local computer doesn't help us in fixing your problem Wink
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