Is there bootstrap for NYC? The wallet is having trouble syncing. The wallet closes its activity after a few minutes open.
Make sure you have enough (free) memory, also consult the debug.log for clues. |
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At a glance I do not see much about the following here... my apologies if it has been already discussed.  This is a shot of central bankers and finance ministers from 40+ countries that Nayib Bukele invited to El Salvador for a conference on using Bitcoin as a nation. The list of countries reads like a whos who of the folks that would be targeted by the IMF et al with their loans etc. These folks are looking to get off the plantation and they are doing so en masse. <removed list of countries> They did this quietly, and it has not been covered much by mainstream western news. Probably nothing, right? TBH, I'm getting tired of hearing about these third world countries claiming they're getting into Bitcoin, but then not really doing anything. And by 'anything', I mean more than just talking about it or making it a legal currency. I want to see them buy bitcoin as a reserve asset by the tens of billions! Piss or get off the pot! Drain every exchange dry! I mean ffs, if idiots like Do Kwon can buy $1 Billion worth of btc to back his stupid shitcoin, then surely these Central Banks can buy several billion dollars worth EACH, if not more. It's what we all want to see and hear, but so far they're just jawboning. I don't even feel like El Salvador has bought enough bitcoin in reserve to impress me yet. I have hunch that many if not most of them just try to publicly flirt a bit with BTC thinking that it might scare the IMF and hoping it would improve their negotiation position with the IMF. Still positive news methinks, thanks for bringing that up cAPSLOCK! And yeah, Torque has a point there, once they start disposing their USD/EUR/JPY/CHF etc. for BTC we will see jumps in prices that even now are unthinkable. |
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Number of addresses hodling #bitcoin In 2012: 1,080,324 In 2022: 41,937,213 That’s another sign you are still very early in bitcoin, want proof? A quick Google says 2.8 billion credit cards in the world So in 2022 <1.5% of credit cards holder holding bitcoinOk let see for banks account holders, it says almost 63% of the world's adult population have a bank account. and Worlds adults population as of 2021 is (>18 years) ~ 4.1 billion Or in 2022 merely <1% of adults population (having bank account) holding bitcoin.So by any means you are still very very early. While I of course agree that there is a sizeable growth in BTC hodlers and that this is great and reason for enthusiasm, it is a lapse of thought to think of one address = one hodler. My main wallet alone has ~20 active addresses with coins, any wallet with a good count of transactions has easily dozens of change addressess holding sats and whole coins. I guess you have at least to divide your estimation figures by 10 - 20 which still leaves us with an amazing supposed amount of actual hodlers. |
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<snip> I don't even had the time to buy corn yet  I hope it's not mooning again in the evening  ^ Wouldn't worry too much about that rn  I kinda panicked and bought [fiat] on the way down (which was fine, as I needed some of that CHF shitcoin for real life expenses and I was sure it will be rather lower than higher on my due date). My problem is that I couldn't resist to BTFD and I bought back more around the local bottom today so I now have a ~15% more BTC but still almost no shitcurrencycoin for upcoming bills). In the end I'll probably be selling mid-twenties to cover my invoices and will get less shitcurrency than just sticking with my fiat purchases in the mid-thirties. Then again, I DGAF! Currently ~10x of my avg buying price, but still sucks (actually it always sucks to buy fiat). My problem is that I am really fast buying corn, but I have a very hard time to let go of them when the time would be right. Anybody in for a Ramen group order (I reckon we can get it a bit cheaper buying a large quantity together...)? Otherwise that's fine too, I can often take home some half-eaten hamburgers and sometimes I get some fries too that some fat kiddo dropped on the floor (5second rule applied). On a good day the half hamburgers I can take home have the cucumber already eaten away by the customer, these are bright days for this HODLer. I guess now would be a good time to go into hibernation until 2024, I have a certain feeling were done for this cycle with uppity. |
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ps I did know once where this specific gif originally came from, forgotten now Couldn't get that of my mind where this picture/gif comes from but I knew it was very familiar with me.  It turns out it is Monty Python - The Meaning of Life ( Death chapter) which I had seen probably a dozen of times when I worked at night als film projectionist (<- unsure about that term). The appearance of the 'Grim Reaper' preceeds the following priceless dialogue: [The Grim Reaper materializes outside a lowly cottage and strikes the door with his scythe. Geoffrey, who is Marketing Director of Uro-Pacific Ltd, opens the door. From inside the house comes the sound of a dinner party.]
Geoffrey: Yes?
[Pause. The Reaper breathes death-rattlingly.]
Geoffrey: Is it about the hedge?
[More breathing.]
Look, I’m awfully sorry but…
Grim Reaper: I am the Grim Reaper. I am Death.
Geoffrey: Yes well, the thing is, we’ve got some people from America for dinner tonight…
[Geoffrey’s wife, Angela is coming to see who is at the door. She calls:]
Angela: Who is it, darling?
Geoffrey: It’s a Mr Death or something… he’s come about the reaping…
[To Reaper.] I don’t think we need any at the moment.
Angela: [appearing] Hallo. Well don’t leave him hanging around outside darling, ask him in.
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<see link above for the full dialogue>
That said, I fear we now need the machine that goes ping to resuscitate the price. |
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The FRL is interesting, apparently they have recruitment cells all over Russia, and the interest is strong. This could be the beginning of a revolution or civil war in Russia when the Ukranian war is over. And there is no doubt anymore that Ukraine will win, the Russians have crossed too many red lines. The free world will not let this agression stand man. https://twitter.com/lasois4/status/1520853393962520576Please tell me of this alledged "free world", where I may find it and whether it does or does not require a time traveling apparatus to reach   Sorry, just couldn't resist to add:  |
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Buddy, you look hungry and exhausted, have a break and eat something. Maybe someone close to him can make him a healthy sandwich (hell, I guess even on some fatty fries he'd perform better than right now) |
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Just a heads-up: TraderTraitor: North Korean State-Sponsored APT Targets Blockchain CompaniesOriginal release date: April 18, 2022 The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the U.S. Treasury Department (Treasury) are issuing this joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to highlight the cyber threat associated with cryptocurrency thefts and tactics used by a North Korean state-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) group since at least 2020. This group is commonly tracked by the cybersecurity industry as Lazarus Group, APT38, BlueNoroff, and Stardust Chollima. For more information on North Korean state-sponsored malicious cyber activity, visit https://www.us-cert.cisa.gov/northkorea. The U.S. government has observed North Korean cyber actors targeting a variety of organizations in the blockchain technology and cryptocurrency industry, including cryptocurrency exchanges, decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, play-to-earn cryptocurrency video games, cryptocurrency trading companies, venture capital funds investing in cryptocurrency, and individual holders of large amounts of cryptocurrency or valuable non-fungible tokens (NFTs). <snip> |
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Thanks for bringing this up Mbitr, but I think it is a very bad idea in many ways. First of all this caught my attention: Apple and Google have very robust security measures and Photo Seeds indirectly depend on their security procautions. If I get it right, you then rely on a cloud service provider (which me and most of my colleagues just call "someone else's computer"). You rely on them to not fumble with the images in any way (like others have mentioned for example the image metadata). I can see the faces when Apple announces a new privacy initiative and declares they have scrubbed all images stored with them from location data. Also very exciting would be Google telling you that they invented a new lossless compression algo that saves 20% space on their storage, kind as they are they already processed your images (remember it's lossless, no problem for you - image looks 100% the same ). Also you rely on them to keep your images stored at all, that is you actually store a seed that is probably more than 100MB (from 12 images) on their computer and just pray that they won't inform you that they lost a few megatons of data due to "the human error of an engineer during a storage maintenance". But wait, they don't need to lose all 12 images, having one slightly altered is enough for all of it being worthless. At this point I am wondering: Why have a seed at all, when you rely on Google to store a complex dataset from which you can produce a seed (as long as not a single bit has changed), why not just keep the moneys on an exchange in the first place? I'd say that is more secure for the user, if a regulated exchange loses your money, you can sue et al (I am not saying you get it back). If Google loses images that you had stored on their platform (most probably for "free") you might get a discount offered for Google drive, but your data/seed is gone and no chance for legal action as for sure you signed/clicked some agreement saying basically "anything can be lost anytime and it will be just bad luck, no compensation or whatever". To me this looks a lot like a half-baked solution in search of a problem: If you have big moneys in your wallet you don't store the seed online (no matter in which form) and even more so not on someone else's computer. If you have not so much moneys in your wallet, what's wrong with writing them 12 words down on a post-it (not everybody needs the fire safety of filippone's Securing Your Seed Phrase with Washers) and keep it at home so you still have it when you lose your phone? As welsh said: The current system we have is perfect, you don't really need to remember your seed..
<snip> I could not agree more to that the system we have is perfect, I might add it is also simple and secure. If one doesn't understand or comprehend "write this 12 words down and store them securely to restore your wallet in case you lose or damage your fondle slab." will (s)he understand why to remember 12 images and pray they don't get lost or altered? I guess not. IMO the general idea of backing up your valuable data (which a seed seems to be the perfect example of) on a single cloud provider is a very bad concept by itself. |
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^ Breathing in contaminated dust (radioactive particles)?
Yes but that would only happen when disturbing the site like bombing/shooting/digging/eating animals and plants there. There have been many visitors over the years and I haven't heard of people dying of exposure. If the foxhole shoveling rumors are true, soldiers would have dug up a lot of soil 1-2 inches below the ground, where most particles add up. They are then brought up into plants by their roots and also via shoots, and when plant parts are decomposing, the radioactive stuff gets washed into the upper ground levels again by rain. At least concerning Caesium, according what i have learned in 1987 in school. Here's a nice article on the whole situation around Chernobyl supporting OOM assertions: Thirty-six years ago, a combination of defective Soviet technology, poor planning, and an all-encompassing need to please the communist bureaucracy unleashed hundreds of tons of radioactive poison.
.. TL;DR: The soldiers who have been there for some time (more than some hours) will all glow in the dark, but only until they get their proper lead coffin. But then again, there is this Artur Korneyev pal who in his pretty dark sense of humor said that "russian radiation is the best" after shooting a selfie in front of the Chernobyl elephant foot:  ^ The interested observer will notice the sophisticated safety measures being applied: a hard hat (better safe than sorry when dealing with this nucular stuff, though typical russian he even omits the mandatory safety goggles). And that nutjob did that more than once and he is apparently still alive. Every other life form should be dead after several few minutes. From: The Famous Photo of Chernobyl’s Most Dangerous Radioactive Material Was a SelfieFun fact: Things apparently don't rot under enough radiation: ..
“The gist of our results was that the radiation inhibited microbial decomposition of the leaf litter on the top layer of the soil,” Mousseau says. This means that nutrients aren’t being efficiently returned to the soil, he adds, which could be one of the causes behind the slower rates of tree growth surrounding Chernobyl.
.. Credits to the DIY Geiger sites links section, I got all from there. Awesome DIY kits, if one is wanting to tinker with radiation and dose measurement. |
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Thanks to a hint here a few days ago (sorry, can't find it anymore with reasonable effort to credit the person posting it), I watched Ukraine on Fire from Oliver Stone. As I found it quite interesting and insightful, I decided to give The Putin Interviews (also from Oliver Stone) a shot too. Both well worth watching IMO. That said, I think Putin is not the dumb infantile emperor the western media paints him as. The NYT article that d_eddie posted a few days ago is a speculation that would fit the picture I got from the above Stone documentaries much better. |
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Hopefully this time they got more than some devs randomized test data: <snip>
The hacktivist group boasted it had obtained and dumped on the internet 10GB of the multinational's records, including emails, passwords, and customer information, leading some to assume it was stolen during a network intrusion. However, Nestlé told The Register the data is not real or sensitive, wasn't stolen, and was accidentally leaked by itself via one of its own websites.
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Yesterday, one of our third party vendors, Hubspot, confirmed unauthorized access to some of their client data, including contact information (e.g. name and email) for a limited number of Paxos customers. Paxos uses Hubspot for sending certain marketing emails. We do not share any Paxos account information, social security numbers, government issued IDs, or physical addresses with Hubspot. A write up of the incident is available from HubSpot here. Got something similar from Blockfi yesterday: On Friday, March 18, 2022, one of BlockFi’s third-party vendors, Hubspot, confirmed that an unauthorized third-party gained access to a portion of their client data, including certain BlockFi client data housed on their platform. BlockFi uses Hubspot as a client relationship management platform. We will keep you updated on further developments as new information is available.
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Freiexchange deposit says: Deposit ArtByte(ABY)
Dear User, Artbyte is migrating to a new PoW/PoS chain. Deposits from legacy addresses starting with "A..." or "3..." will no longer be accepted after March 11th. New chain addresses start with "C..."
Can somebody point me to the right github? |
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[...] After watching the link Bob kindly provided... [...] I followed Bob's link, and there's a big hole formed over Ukraine... Also, zooming out, the difference in air traffic density in various regions throughout the world is staggering.  You have to filter for 'Military' to see the interesting movements (at least those aerial vehicles that have an ADSB transponder active). As a side note: A few days ago I even saw two B52 Stratofortress flying almost same height together, patrolling on the border of Poland/Ukraine and Romania/Ukraine. As far as I can tell from the Wiki page, these are not made for parachuting food rations into refugee camps and that mission was certainly a pretty direct and not very diplomatic message to Russia in response to ole Vladi circling his finger above the red button.. |
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Just watching this awesome comedy show (think it's called 'EU Versailles summit press conference' or sth). Honorable Secretary 'Zensursula, Flinten Uschi' van der Leyen: We will phase out the use of Russian oil, gas and coal ...<rethoric silence> ... by 2027Meanwhile in Moscow:  That will teach him, I bet. In other news, a Russian made, supposedly Ukrainian operated UAV crashed into Zagreb city after crossing >500km NATO territory without anybody noticing: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/11/ukraine-military-drone-crashes-into-croatian-capital-zagrebAfter watching the link Bob kindly provided in the last days, I noticed that in the day there are often up to half a dozen reconaissance aircrafts circling along the Ukrainian border in Poland and Romania (plus two refueling aircraft on standby), though in the night they seem to all go home. Strictly business hours I guess. If Russia escalates this further NATO may even be forced to put some folks on watch in the night.. ^ J/k but I seriously wondering how such beast can go undetected for so long. |
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Good morning dear friends! Just remember that right when you think something is as dumb as humanly possible... someone... someone out there will be able to think of something even dumber!  I've missed that. What's up with DuckDuckGo? ^ Yeah, I know, but couldn't resist  (Had to duckduckgo it myself, and yep, about time to move on, I guess I am going to look into Yacy again) |
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<snip>
****coin
Help me fill out the "****" here, need a catchy one.
NRYC Not Really Your CoinESC Easily Confiscable Coinor simply EGV Electronic Government Vomit<insert southpark-aaand-its-gone-meme.gif> |
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I did just that when it all started, until I noticed I can't login or pay on Aliexpress anymore (though browsing through the catalogue just works fine).. I guess things are already more intertwined than we thought. |
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