Stop giving your private keys or wallet seed to every tool asking for them. If you really really want to give out all that, make a special wallet only for that purpose and keep very small amount of funds on it. And yeah, pretty much count it as compromised.

Maybe also helps keeping the bulk of the coins on hardware wallet. It may make you think twice before you go looking for your seed backup because whatever software was asking for it.


Also, as already said, you should try to read about more and understand the words/terms you're using. Now you make a confusion and get corrected, no big deal. Tomorrow you make a confusion that leads to a mistake and you lose money, not good.

In October I was already said that 8k is the worse case scenario, still, even then, I was thinking that we're late in the crypto winter and we will probably not touch that.
Since the 19k of October the current 16k is not so bad if we think in terms of going down, but I was expecting we will start going up...

So in January we may see 9k you say... and then what? Should I start asking like the newbies about the end of this bear market: are we there yet? 

If different coins have implemented in their code the same mining algorithm, same hardware and probably same software should be able to mine any of those coins at a time.
If, on the other hand you say about merged mining, ie mining both in the same time, I think that it's not only that they have to the same algorithm, I think that they also have to have something extra implemented to allow merged mining. Plus the mining pools may also have to know about it.
I have some old memories on the early days of Litecoin + Dogecoin merged mining, but they're fuzzy, so better explanations may be needed.

You are only partly correct. In this case I've understand is reasons, since I've been there too. I've also had moments I thought that Jerry may be a spammer (I was not that certain, still...). Later on it has become clearer to me that he was just a guy that felt insecure about his every step, not an actual forum spammer.

So imho it's one of the few accounts who might deserve a second chance. I guess that we don't share this opinion, still, as I said, I understand his.
It may not matter much, Jerry hasn't posted since October (or at least he didn't in the subs not ignored by me).

Yeah, there are far too many careless people who write bitocin, etherium and so on.
itcointalk is not even the worse.

I don't find it concerning for now since, as said, it's not a malicious site for now.
Plus I don't think that are too many falling for this. Even the newbies may already have account at Binance, and then I think that this referral will not be taken into account.


The only problem is that it can easily become malicious in the future if the owner finds out that he is not earning much from those ref links and decides to impersonate websites and do phishing.

This is one of the bits I've missed, I guess. Also I've seen signs that the global economy seems to be recovering somewhat, or at least is not going full speed towards the edge.
My calculations were expecting a shorter crypto winter and less stiff bull market.
I've also matched the length of the bear market with the previous one (I know, it's not enough data, clearly), and my calculations said that Q4 2022 should be the end of this crypto winter.
I don't know if the math was wrong or I've also missed this or that on the way, .. it doesn't matter much now anymore...

I've never used that platform, but from my experience all platforms that require you to deposit more money in order to withdraw the money you should already have there are scam.
Sorry.

I've done some tests with having an username and a password for RPC in Bitcoin Core instead of cookie file and I will post them here in case somebody wants to do that.
I will comment out (not delete) the config lines related to RPC cookie file.
Let's say that the username will be UsErNaMe and the password will be PaSsWoRd (please use much better ones though, just I would avoid using # or : in them).

This would make x:\BitcoinDataDir\bitcoin.conf (see this post) look like:

For Electrs, the content of $HOME/electrs/target/release/electrs.toml (see this post) will become:

And for BTC RPC Explorer, $HOME/btc-rpc-explorer/.env (see this post) becomes:

However, as said in Electrs pages, Electrs is meant for local networks, not exposed to the internet. So this setup is still not safe for the "outer world".
For that you'll probably need Blockstream's fork of electrs and maybe mempool space as explorer. And, clearly, SSL.
I wanted to make this clear, since some may expect that using Bitcoin Core RPC with user/password simply makes everything safe.

I really thought that by now we would be already in an incipient bull market. I was wrong.
Now I try to gather all the info I can get in order to get a glimpse of how long would this crypto winter still last.
OP idea is not easy to dismiss as crazy since the worse case scenario is some 8-10k in this cycle and we didn't touch that. I thought that we will not get there though...

I will be looking for whatever happens in 9th of January, let's see if OP charts / ideas are any good
I still hope they're wrong, but all seems to go wrong with my plans lately...

You had better days with your answers, really.

And no, 50 would not become 0.05. 50 would become 50.0000.
The question is about replacing 1 satoshi with 1.0000 satoshi, not with 0.0001 satoshi.
Your "math" would work only if such a change would be done by monkeys instead of programmers. And it's not the case.

Interestingly, I've never had your problems. And I post sometimes from the phone too.

You should keep in mind that the forum is not an advanced text editor, it's not Word or so (also making it so would most probably hurt the users who use Tor and stripped down browsers for the sake of their privacy).
Plus, on internet, it's not that unusual to lose your posts due to various errors and problems, it's not specific to this forum.
So it's you who has to learn and improve.

All this being said, the conclusions are:
* there's no need for the changes you proposed
* if you want to write larger text, consider using a software made for that job and then copy-paste it here
* whenever you post here, you should copy the whole post into clipboard before submitting/posting it, so you make sure all is safe. When your error ratio becomes very small, you can stop doing this.

Old or new stable coins, no matter; people should be aware that in most (or all?) cases the value (price) listed for them is artificial and they have to trust the issuer that the value will hold.
While stable coins do have their use in the ecosystem (fast transfer of value), their use as safe heaven against bitcoin's bear market is overly risky (just think of what has happened with Terra).
It's always wise to keep money in stable coins as little time as possible.

You'd be surprised. You seem to underestimate human greed (or hunger?). Far too many do think that Bitcoin is a get rich quick scheme. Far too many hear about bitcoin from the wrong sources and jump in without knowing what they're doing.
I would not be surprised if some of those make a choice between getting a better pair of shoes and buying bitcoin in a hope to earn some extra funds (in the near future) to make the things more bearable... 

You do have a point about the double standard, but I guess that it's not so difficult to make a page explaining the situation and everybody who wants to have a scraper can get his IP whitelisted, for example, as long as it's an okay user of the forum.
Let's get real, especially these 3 scrapers help the forum a lot, filling the gaps with features we don't have.. for example because the forum software is old.

I did miss the notifications today, so maybe I am somewhat biased, but I think that it would be nice to not have many problems like this.
However, I have a feeling that it was a bug/mishap, not an intentional blockade, so maybe everything can go on as usual.
Of course, I understand OP's frustration. He will probably need to do extra work because of all this so he can feed his tool correctly with the missing data... so let's not be too harsh on him either. It's okay to ask; whether it will be granted or not... that's a different story and I trust theymos that he will see this topic and take the right decision.

You can install and use a bitcoin wallet even if you don't own bitcoins.
The point is that if you have a wallet (a proper one) then you can use (the private key of) one of your addresses from your wallet in order to sign a message. A good wallet can do that for you easily, with little interaction.
That's why the question was what wallet you use: because the way of signing a message may differ a bit from wallet to wallet.

While I don't understand why would somebody (especially an individual) risk their money on various "products" wrapped around bitcoin instead of buying the "real thing" (for corporations the situation may differ, that's why I said individual), there are already a couple of directions, from ETFs, futures and similar financial products to stocks of businesses that have acquired bitcoin. For individuals even "buying bitcoin" at PayPal or Revolut is actually not the real deal (afaik they still sell only IOUs).
Also there were shares (or similar iirc) to be bought at El Salvador's bitcoin venture, but you can look up in the forum to read how bad they are.
These financial products linked to bitcoin can be nice/correct ones or can be some complicated products containing more fees and booby traps than means to earn money.
So be very careful. I still recommend going for the real deal - bitcoin - even if that means you have to learn a bit of this or that and also acquire a hardware wallet.

I think that something was misunderstood. dkbit98 was never on my ignore list. But he warned me some months ago that if don't ignore / I keep answering to Jerry he will add me to his ignore list.
So Jerry was on my ignore list for a while (although I am still not perfectly and 100% sure it was the right decision), but he's out of that list again.
This is why I've notified him specifically. That's all.


Exactly. Most of those spamming for some pennies may be long gone (and others coming, no worries) and the few ones remaining may have learned their ways and have become meaningful by then.

The difficulty adjustment period is about 2 weeks. If the hashrate drops to half after one week, then there will still be 2 weeks until next adjustment.
Of course, it can happen very close to the adjustment block/moment, but the chances are small.
However, if the difficulty goes down very much then yes, probably smaller miners will have a chance again. They may need pools be adapted for them though.
But I would not be hoping for such situations because then a business with a lot of dormant (less profitable) ASICs can fire them up and perform a 51% attack. Risky.

Related to the question in topic title, the answer would be: pretty badly, depending on the magnitude of the disaster and how much of the earth would be affected. I mean that if something like what killed the dinosaurs will happen, I'd say that mining will be in trouble. Possibly humanity too.


Your question tells only one thing: you should read much more before posting.
If a big number of miners go offline (or get stopped) the chances are pretty big the difficulty will remain high. So the small miners will not really stand a chance.
The small miners can chip in only after the difficulty adjustment has kicked in and reduced the difficulty significantly. This may take long(er) if the hash rate has dropped greatly...

I think that it's simply a small difference between the ways you two see the things. You can block an address from sending you money (black list it). But I think that what was meant in that question was that if certain input(s) are declared to be stolen (doesn't matter how) and you have received those coins (or parts of that), and you will not handle them because they're stolen... what will you do next, seize them (under whatever reasons) or return them to the originating address, or maybe something else?
As an addition, I guess that the question is about money directly linked to a theft, not money washed through 1000s of addresses in many years after a theft.