How do you think bitcoin users deal with these situations? They don't, I presume. If you know it's illegal to use bitcoin, and that there exists mass surveillance to prevent anyone from disobeying, then 99% of the people will not take the risk. Dependently on the fine, of course. How do they manage to get around these restrictions without getting caught? Tor, and they don't sell for fiat. They just use it as currency. Do you think, what more countries can join this list? I quickly looked for North Korea, and it's missing. I'm pretty confident it isn't allowed there either.  IMO the restriction of Bitcoin as a currency isn't a big deal because most people are using Bitcoin as a commodity, just convert it to fiat and there's no problem. Lol. And when you'll be prompted to justify that income... Good luck. |
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"Hey, this is my big day to get rich!" Sure, that happens, but we've never encountered that before, so you can't know with certainty, as if a large company became heavily invested in bitcoin. We're now talking about BlackRock, probably the largest financially company in the world, attempting to apply for an ETF. I hold the belief that once bitcoin becomes integrated into the financial system, as indicated by the news, we will witness another level of bullish activity. If the system continues to advance in parallel with bitcoin, we could potentially see trillions flowing in. |
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Wasabi is COMPLETELY OPEN SOURCE, what "opacity" are you talking about? This: COIN FILTERING
zkSNACKs Ltd. may execute illicit activity checking and control via a contracted third party solely in its CoinJoin coordination services. zkSNACKs Ltd. may suspend your UTXOs’ access to the CoinJoin services, with immediate effect for any reason - including but not limited to illicit or prohibited activities, applicable sanctions programs, or any crime or money-laundering activity - at its sole discretion and is under no obligation to disclose the details of its decision to take such action with you. In this case you are not permitted to use the relevant/high-risk bitcoin UTXO to reach the CoinJoin services.
You acknowledge that zkSNACKs Ltd.'s decision to take certain actions, including suspending for any reason at our sole discretion, may be based on confidential criteria that are essential to zkSNACKs Ltd.'s risk management and security protocols. You agree that zkSNACKs Ltd. is under no obligation to disclose the details of its risk management and security procedures to you.
Your access with the relevant bitcoin UTXOs to the CoinJoin services will be permanently suspended. THE "[banned mixer]" SCAM YOU ARE ADVERTISING SAYS IT "runs a thorough background check of incoming funds through a proprietary algorithm" If you want to talk about MixTum, there's an appropriate thread. Here, we talk about Wasabi. Cut the bullshit with whataboutism, and respond like an adult. |
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Please, tell me what point you've made that I've avoided. I've been fully transparent about how Wasabi is completely private, completely open source, and completely non custodial, and how there is never any risk to Wasabi users' data or funds regardless of which coordinator they choose to use. Every aspect concerning the company has been shrouded in opacity, particularly regarding the integrity of the company that Wasabi depends on to function effectively. |
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Your continuous avoidance of addressing the points we've made about the company you're working for is astonishing. Such a childish development team. Do you guys remember the letter n0nce had sent to them? Their hypocrisy is disgusting. |
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I think you do not get my point of view, I just want to know that in an IDEAL WORLD I think you're missing the point. There is no such thing as nirvana. Here's haven, here's hell, and it's far from ideal. In an ideal world, we wouldn't need bitcoin --or money in general. We wouldn't need food to survive, 8 hours of sleep, there wouldn't be diseases, wars, and unhappiness. For the same reason, you can't just make the arrogant assumption that your machine will be free from malware if it remains Internet connected. You don't have 100% security, nowhere. Neither permanently airgapped devices are 100% secure. It's just one factor less to account for. 1- If we connect the Internet to that machine once or sometimes (to update the Electrum wallet) , will it not remain a cold storage? Technically No. But still possible, Yes? Of course and it's possible. It's possible to have a hot wallet which never gets compromised. It's possible to download bunch of non-reviewed software in the same machine, such as cracked programs, and still not lose a penny. In fact, it's even possible to guess a private key with a million dollars worth of bitcoin. What's possible is not relevant. What's relevant is what's probable, and it's a lot less probable to have your wallet compromised if it lives in an airgapped device. |
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- Would you like to have $250 or $200 per week? That sounds rhetorical. What requirements and payrate per post will each have? |
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I have come to the realization that what's stopping me from running lightning projects, as the one I'd proposed last year, is custody of the coins. I don't want to leave custody to some server I don't have physical access, and even if services like DigitalOcean have quite the best reviews when it comes to security, I don't want to buy their expensive services for just starting my project; if it's working towards success, I may migrate to them, but not at start. As far as I've seen, there is no other way to establish a lightning service if you don't do one of the following: - Run a lightning node in that VPS.
- Give your home-running node's macaroon access file.
Both of which give the VPS provider the authority to sign payments. (Reminder that to have a properly running node, you need some good financial capacity)Is there a way to have the VPS communicating over my home node via Tor, at least without forfeiting custody nor payment authority? |
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Can you tell the exact link where we can do this atomic swap with XMR ? I was having the impression it was possible to do it, beyond with bitcoin. But as far as my search engine goes, it isn't. You'll have to find an intermediary to do the ALT <-> XMR swap, such as FixedFloat. There may be decentralized exchanges, but I doubt it'll be cheaper, as there's very little volume for altcoins. By default, it would be coinjoin That's actually smart, because the bitcoin outputs signal it is a mixer, and that's good because anyone tracing your coins can be certain that they've changed hands. The smart part is that not even the mixer knows where they are. Alternatively, you can use a decentralized exchange like Bisq. On Bisq, there is ETH/BTC pair as well. Yes, but ETH has very little volume, let alone other altcoins. |
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I don't get it: on the one hand, Bitcoin users are very much into "not your keys, not your coins". But on the other hand, "we" all want an ETF to pump the price. Which one is it? Encourage people to pay someone else to (promise to) hold Bitcoins for them, or encourage people to hold their own Bitcoins? Why not both? Why do we have to stick in one no matter what? Sure, encouraging people holding their own bitcoin is good, but apparently, the regulatory oversight and the convenience an ETF provide outweighs the benefit of doing self-custody for institutional investors. Let's accept it already. Regulations aren't in favor of the Bitcoin spirit. If we truly like the concept of a decentralized, denationalized, free enterprise money, then accepting the governmental compromises is inevitable. Achieving the desired outcome, which is more or less to make Bitcoin official, involves sacrifices. Otherwise we will continuously remain the unofficial, non-systemic currency. |
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Σε περίπτωση που δε το γνώριζες, θα βοηθούσε πολύ περισσότερο αν δεν έγραφες με bold green και δε χρησιμοποιούσες Google translate για να διαφημιστείς. Κάνεις μπαμ πως είσαι scammer. Ω ναι, με μια απλή επίσκεψη στο προφίλ σου φαίνεται ξεκάθαρα η χρήση του translate. Τώρα όσον αφορά την Paysafecard, τελευταία φορά που τη χρησιμοποίησα δεν σε άφηνε να εξαργυρώσεις κωδικό αν δεν έχει πληρωθεί στη χώρα σου. Μάλιστα, απαγορεύεται από την ίδια η αγοραπωλησία καρτών: Please note: Without our express approval any legal transaction of resale of paysafecard is prohibited.
Likewise, any further transfer of paysafecards (in return of payment or gratuitous) outside the money laundering requirements is prohibited. In particular, it is forbidden to sell, trade or purchase paysafecards on unauthorized Internet platforms. This prohibition applies specifically to file sharing network/bourse. A purchase of paysafecard over the Internet is allowed exclusively through authorized online web shops, listed on the Website. |
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So when we talk about market cap, it makes sense for bitcoin because the bitcoin supply is all real and was entered into circulation as the reward for the work that was done by miners. It still doesn't seem like an accurate metric. Before cryptocurrencies, it was meant to represent the size of a company financially; the company's capital one might say. There is no such thing in bitcoin. Currently, 1 BTC = $27,100, with a market cap of $528.8B. If some large company buys $1B worth of bitcoin, it will increase the total money inside the system but not as much as the market cap will reflect. For instance, it could rise the price by 5%, but the company wouldn't have added $26.44B (5% of the market cap). For example the altcoin with the biggest market cap has 72 million premine and at this point it is being printed out of thin air artificially inflating its market cap.
Sounds like we should switch the currency which we use to measure market cap. |
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Please move this to the altcoin board.
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The fact that there are over 17 thousand DAI, still available to cover the damages of any whirlwind user, pinpoints how upright mixer that was.
Even ChipMixer didn't do that, and I'm pretty confident that they've had the financial capacity to manage it.
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While with native Segwit you would also need to break the hashing algorithm. It depends on how fast you can break the elliptic curve, for if you can do it relatively very quickly, then it won't matter if you're locking coins in hashes or public keys, because the attacker can work out the private key before the transaction confirms. And we aren't capable to even do that within a year as far as I'm concerned. To break the curve within a reasonable time frame, like 1-2 years, you'd need more than ten thousand qubits, and our high score is how much? 127 qubits? Public-key vulnerable outputs can wait. Puzzles have priority. |
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There are currently over 440,000 transactions with the least priority (which pay 1-6 sat/vb), so don't enter a fee rate of that range, as they're probably there for days. Click on the most left block from mempool.space to see yourself what fits your need best. For example, paying something like 7.1 sat/vb can get you confirmed in a couple of hours in the worst case. It is very bad designed, bad organized in fee rate bands' colors. What? First time hearing a bad experience with mempool.space. They're like the most favorite block explorer. Tells you exactly what you need to know, and the styling rocks. What hot and cold colors? Why should high fees be red flag if there aren't overpaying? |
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Which is outdated. Since it mention 340GB blockchain size, it was probably last updated during middle of 2021[1]. Between that we see ~1.5x UTXO[2] and average block size[3] growth. I expect there would be noticeable performance difference with only 1GB of RAM. Take into account that this year, memory usage from unconfirmed transactions has reached an ATH. I don't have evidence, beyond the fact that we all were frustrated with Ordinals, and it lasted for months. Not just a week as in 2017. Even as we speak, memory used in my node is 300 / 300 MB, purging any transaction with < 3.02 sat/vb. (Do you guys remember the days we were paying 1 sat/vb and have it confirmed in 10-20 minutes? The nostalgia hits me hard. ) VPS prices may be dropping faster than blockchain's growth, but the overall performance will get worse overtime if you don't buy yourself something better. Is that with chainstate on HDD or on SSD? That makes a huge difference. HDD. Do we have comparisons with SSD so I can check? In my case, I only used the VPS to test how long it would take to sync. I wouldn't feel safe storing funds on a server. If you ever deposited funds to ChipMixer, then you've stored funds on DigitalOcean[1]. But, my point is that you can't retain custody if you want to develop some big project, unless you turn your house into a data center. [1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1935098.msg61930512#msg61930512 |
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As long as I have my private keys, none of that matters to me. It does. The price is determined by the collective prosperity of the network. We're being reliant on the partition of work, and the value of our work is defined by beyond what ourselves and our people value. It's defined by the competition among all people doing the same work. If individuals beyond this forum deposit coins into exchanges, and these exchanges subsequently employ fractional reserve systems, leading to an increase in the money supply, it will directly impact the value of your coins. (as it happened already with FTX) |
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[...] I was having the impression that when the OS starts up, there has to be temporary storage for activities like writing logs, caching data, creating temporary files etc. And that when the computer shuts down, in the case of Tails, it erases what it wrote. But, apparently, unless you want a persistent storage, writing isn't necessary at all. It runs fully on memory. On the contrary, Tails never writes anything to the hard disk and only runs from the memory of the computer. The memory is entirely deleted when you shutdown Tails, erasing all possible traces. And it makes sense. If erasing files was to be processed when the computer shut down, it wouldn't work with power outages or force shutdowns. |
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