Every branch is saying they can regulate Bitcoin even if it conflicts with another branch. FINCEN says it's currency so they can regulate it, IRS says they can charge capital gains tax, and now CFTC says its a commodity and subject to them. Bitcoin is not a future in any way shape or form so this latest example is absurd. CFTC is solely for futures and option markets. Bitcoiners need to start standing up against this bullshit or we will have a dozen financial branches regulating us at once. Bitcoiners need to realize that transacting on a transparent blockchain is dumb, and migrate to true private and anonymous cryptocurrency. Pick your favorite. I prefer Monero. |
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What is the state of the nation?
+1 curious to know. There seems to a few contributed pull requests on Github that aren't being merged. Is the lead-developer still working on the project? |
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No. The agency that arrested him is 100% funded by civil asset forfeiture.
Do you have a source for this claim? |
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They could imprison you forever if they even suspect you are with-holding passwords. This is also the reason why the probably made a lot of transactions shortly before the raid. They purchased a bulk of the coins than raided Burt's home to steal back their Fiat. Atrocious behavior.
So, was this a classic LBC undercover sting where an agent posed as a buyer and purchased BTC from Burt, allegedly for buying drugs online or something like that? |
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I'm horrified by your story. Outright scary! Eventually, I assume Homeland Security will want to cash out, by selling these coins on an exchange or auction them out to an investor (like the Silk Road coins). Just as the community should be encouraged to not trade with stolen coins, obtained through hacking of exchanges etc, I similarly feel no one should purchase or be involved in the trade of 'tainted' coins such as yours that were stolen from you by the State. Hopefully, someone will take their time to ensure these coins are tracked so that any future potential buyer can be made aware of where these coins came from. |
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Makes me feel like I got off "light" compared with you.
Mind telling us your story? |
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Yes absolutely. It should not exit unless you use the exit command (or control-C, etc.)
There is clearly something going wrong here, but not clear what. Anything in your system logs? In some cases the process can be killed by the kernel if the system is short on virtual memory.
It is a dedicated machine, with 8 GB RAM and lots of HDD space. Resources should not be an issues. Thanks for pointing me to syslog. This shows up: kernel: [859428.738710] bitmonerod[8170]: segfault at 72a0001c ip 083ec820 sp bf814980 error 4 in bitmonerod[8048000+58e000]
kernel: [859502.299108] bitmonerod[8180]: segfault at 72a0001c ip 083ec820 sp bf8658e0 error 4 in bitmonerod[8048000+58e000]
kernel: [859520.137126] bitmonerod[8188]: segfault at 72a0001c ip 083ec820 sp bfa2fb90 error 4 in bitmonerod[8048000+58e000]
Clearly something wrong... |
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I have compiled monero from source and am running a full node under Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS. The machine hosting the node sits behind a router. The node started OK, and was syncing for a while. Now, the deamon exits every few seconds with these messages showing up in log files:
i have a similar node setup (ubuntu 14.04.3) and literally just recompiled from source last night and its running fine. If you haven't yet, this might be a good candidate for higher tier support, irc #monero-dev or to paste the output of set_log 3 to a pastebin and report it on the monero github issues. Thanks for the pointer. Ran with log level 3 but nothing bad is thrown up in the logs. The last thing that happens before the deamon silently exits is this: 2015-Sep-11 22:12:58.154735 BlockchainLMDB::open
2015-Sep-11 22:12:58.155122 BlockchainLMDB::need_resize
2015-Sep-11 22:12:58.155257 DB map size: 1073741824
2015-Sep-11 22:12:58.155391 Space used: 967413760
2015-Sep-11 22:12:58.155522 Space remaining: 106328064
2015-Sep-11 22:12:58.155650 Size threshold: 0
2015-Sep-11 22:12:58.155811 Percent used: 0.9010 Percent threshold: 0.8000
2015-Sep-11 22:12:58.156804 Threshold met (percent-based)
2015-Sep-11 22:12:58.156940 LMDB memory map needs resized, doing that now.
2015-Sep-11 22:12:58.157083 BlockchainLMDB::do_resize
2015-Sep-11 22:12:58.157331 LMDB Mapsize increased. Old: 1024MiB, New: 2048MiB
Assuming the node is completely syncronized, it should still be running and not exit. Correct? |
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I have compiled monero from source and am running a full node under Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS. The machine hosting the node sits behind a router. The node started OK, and was syncing for a while. Now, the deamon exits every few seconds with these messages showing up in log files: supervisord.log2015-09-11 08:17:35,019 INFO spawned: 'bitmonerod' with pid 22865
2015-09-11 08:17:36,046 INFO success: bitmonerod entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for > than 1 seconds (startsecs)
2015-09-11 08:17:38,321 INFO exited: bitmonerod (terminated by SIGSEGV (core dumped); not expected)
2015-09-11 08:17:39,327 INFO spawned: 'bitmonerod' with pid 22872
2015-09-11 08:17:40,353 INFO success: bitmonerod entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for > than 1 seconds (startsecs)
2015-09-11 08:17:42,630 INFO exited: bitmonerod (terminated by SIGSEGV (core dumped); not expected) 2015-Sep-11 08:05:03.671453 Initializing p2p server...
2015-Sep-11 08:05:04.902003 Set limit-up to 1024 kB/s
2015-Sep-11 08:05:04.902564 Set limit-down to 1024 kB/s
2015-Sep-11 08:05:04.909222 Binding on 192.168.1.74:18080
2015-Sep-11 08:05:04.909641 Net service bound to 192.168.1.74:18080
2015-Sep-11 08:05:04.909794 Attempting to add IGD port mapping.
2015-Sep-11 08:05:07.920155 UPnP device was found but not recoginzed as IGD.
2015-Sep-11 08:05:07.920405 P2p server initialized OK
2015-Sep-11 08:05:07.921089 Initializing core rpc server...
2015-Sep-11 08:05:07.921554 Binding on 127.0.0.1:18081
2015-Sep-11 08:05:07.922109 Core rpc server initialized OK on port: 18081
2015-Sep-11 08:05:07.922290 Initializing core...
2015-Sep-11 08:05:07.923361 Loading blockchain from folder /home/bitmonerod/.bitmonero/lmdb ...
2015-Sep-11 08:05:07.923555 option: fastest
2015-Sep-11 08:05:07.923815 option: async
2015-Sep-11 08:05:07.924034 option: 1000
2015-Sep-11 08:05:07.926220 LMDB memory map needs resized, doing that now.
2015-Sep-11 08:05:07.926638 LMDB Mapsize increased. Old: 1024MiB, New: 2048MiB
2015-Sep-11 08:05:09.099995 Initializing cryptonote protocol...
2015-Sep-11 08:05:09.100157 Cryptonote protocol initialized OK
2015-Sep-11 08:05:09.100515 Initializing p2p server...
Is this a networking issue, or is the UPnP warning irrelvant? Anyone here that runs a node under Ubuntu, who compiled from source recently? |
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When all trading happens on a decentralized network where any given node might become the most important for a brief time, the only way to get an advantage is to build up faster and faster throughput across the entire network, which just happens to be global.
Trading happens on a decentralized network, but takes place on centralized exchanges. So, as an ultra-fast trader as such you're just interested in the activity on the exchanges (which may not even be registered on any blockchain), not the network as a whole. As for 'traditional' fund/stock trading, this also takes place on multiple exchanges, rather like cryptocurrencies. I don't see trading with either as being more/less centralized than the other. |
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Just wanted to say... more and more updates every week. We've concentrated a lot more on some pretty sweet apps for our back end. I'll keep this threat on updates for our front-end for Wall of Coins.com from now on  I can strongly recommend Wall of Coins. They have a great and very responsive team and their service has been impeccable from day one. |
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German banks have very bad security. The person sending you the money was almost certainly not the same who bought bitcoin! In Germany many transfers are still done via paper by filling out a form and sending it to the bank. If it is below 500 EUR, the bank will probably not check the signature, or do a very bad job at it. German banks have an API as well, which is good and popular to use. It doesn't support 2 factor authentication however, so if someone get your keys, e.g. via a Wintendo virus, you have lost. And other problems. I don't accept transfers of amounts below 500 EUR from German banks myself, decline everyone coming from VPNs and Tor, etc. A few times I have called my bank and asked them to return the money and asked them to inform the sending bank because the scam was obviuos.
Note that you may get in real trouble if you refuse to return stolen money.
True, not blaming the buyer necessarily, but more scams seem to come out of Germany, probably for said reason. The money was returned, and I had to make a vow to BNBank to stop all bitcoin related activity. So that was the end of that. |
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Men det er og investorar som kjøper mykje, grekarar som jobbar i Noreg og sender bitcoin til Hellas fordi pengar dei sender gjennom bank ikkje kan takast ut i Hellas, folk som skal betale noko med bitcoin, osv.
Interessant, da jeg nylig leste at Grekere ikke får kjøpt Bitcoin pga alle bank problemene i Hellas. Hvordan omsettes bitcoins i Hellas? Localbitcoins? Dessverre er det stadig færre nordmenn som sel bitcoin til meg.
Men det er kanskje bra, siden det betyr det en netto flukt bort fra NOK til BTC, og derfra til mindre sporbare altcoins. Spesielt nå med en så svak krone er det enda mindre attraktivt å veksle tilbake til NOK. |
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How do banks in Norway, Sweden and denmark work with bitcoin?
As for Norway, my experience is bank don't work very well with Bitcoin. If you're lucky, they don't know what it is and don't care, otherwise they seem to be a bit on the paranoid side and prefer to not be involved. For instance, DnB closed the bank acount of Justcoin effectively shutting down a very successful exchange in Norway. Is it safe to trade bitcoin with bank transfers?
I myself sold some coins and was paid by bank transfers. As most people doing this, I experienced at some point one buyer initiating a (fraudulent) chargeback claiming non-delivery of coins, after which my bank (BNBank) made efforts to shut down my account (they froze it for a while and only reopened it after a lot of complaining). If you plan on selling coins and accepting deposit into your bank account, just make sure you have a paper trail of some sort in case your buyer tries to scam you (*especially* Germans!) Is there any local prepaid card that will work with bitcoin? Like xapo or advcash?
I have no experience with prepaid cards, but I assume that pre-paid Visa/Mastercards obtained outside Scandinavia would also work within Scandinavia. The only pre-paid card provider I know of in Scandinavia is CCEDK ( www.ccedc.com) which has several posts on this sub-forum. Good luck. |
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Jag har länge undrat varför här är så lite aktivitet i det skandinaviska forumet, är vi fortfarande så lite skandinaver som använder bitcoins eller alla håller till på den internationella delen?
Jeg tror det er fordi svært få her bruker bitcoin i hverdagen. Når brukte du sist bitcoin til å betale, eller ta betalt, for noe? Jeg har kjøpt VPN hos Mullvad med bitcoins... Ellers finnes det nesten null mulighet for å bruke bitcoin til innkjøp av 'normale' ting og tjenester i Skandianavia. Dersom andre deler mitt inntrykk er det kanskje ikke så rart at aktiviteten i forumet er lav. Finnes det en liste over merchants i Skandianavia som tar betalt i bitcoins? |
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18080
sudo ufw allow 18080
Thanks. My router and firewall has been opened, but I still get this error when running bitmonerod: 2015-Sep-02 22:14:09.960218 Binding on XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:18080
2015-Sep-02 22:14:09.960469 ERROR /home/bitmonerod/bitmonero/contrib/epee/include/net/abstract_tcp_server2.inl:713 Exception at [boosted_tcp_server<t_protocol_handler>::init_server], what=bind: Cannot assign requested address
What could I be missing? bitmonerod was compiled from the current Github source. |
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Which ports if any do I need to forward on my router to a machine running a monero node?
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IF XT wins it will bring on so many changes that the Bitcoin we thought we knew and had, will be something completely different. Be prepared for a fully centralised coin should it happen that XT gains consensus.
Whoa!! Hang on. There are lies and damned lies. How did you reach the conclusion that bitcoin will end up being 'centralized' if XT gains majority? |
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This is VERY strange, as I have been transmitted the VERY SAME message telepathically from Satoshi MANY TIMES! Do you think it is a coincidence? |
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Right now most bitcoin users are completely unaware of the blacklist, we need to spread this information asap. Please retweet my tweet or make your own. We need this information to reach both the media and the community, it's a fundamental threat to bitcoin https://twitter.com/turtlehurricane/status/633844328205430784Heck, what's the big deal? Can't you just remove the IPs in list above, recompile and run your own XT version that would even trust Stalin's personal node? This is not a fundamental issue. The code is open-source: you are free to remove/edit any source code to your liking. |
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