1) Do not use the default username / password
2) Keep it behind a firewall separate from the rest of your network. VLAN will also work.
3) Only use stock or well known firmware. Finding a post about a random bit of code that can generate 20% more profit is going to get your miner and possibly your network hijacked.

That should just about do it. Some people also say don't buy used you don't know what the old person did, but so long as you re-flash the miner to stock you should be fine.

-Dave

They do not charge a fee in NY. I am guessing with them trying to do as much as possible online that any costs associated with taking cards is more then covered by allowing them to operate 24/7. Thinking about it they can also probably get a much better credit card processing rate since to put it bluntly, they do know where you live and what you drive ;-)

Dispute a charge your vehicle registration and license both get suspended.

Use a stolen card, then you really don't want to get pulled over because you know that it's been flagged.

And so on.

So even if they go with the universally hated BitPay they don't even have to make you jump though the BitPay KYC since as said, they know where you live. And at the 1% rate that BP charges it's still probably less then even the best credit card rates.

-Dave

And so it begins....

https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1621026986784337922


I guess Twitter really does not want people to use their service.
Slightly OT but how many projects came in existence because you could play around with the API for free and then turned into a real paid thing for the developers and a revenue stream for Twitter for the better API access.

Now, just to play around how many programmers are going to pay. My guess that unless it's a a paid project to develop things, not a lot.

-Dave

Actually BTC did pop above $24000 when the announcement was made and then came back down over a number of hours.
With portfolios becoming more diverse and more ways to acquire BTC for more people I can see things that used to move the market more not doing as much. Even now, we can love it or hate it but you can get BTC through your PayPal account. And I would think just a very few of the people that did saw the FED announcement and went to buy or sell their BTC.

Just my view.

-Dave

Also, it's not a manual ban it's automatic, even going back a decade to NOMP https://github.com/zone117x/node-open-mining-portal#attack-mitigation it had automatic banning of IPs that were causing problems. It can also be a combination using something like cloudflare as discussed above to take care of the 1st layer of attacks then something internally to filter out the rest.

-Dave

Once again it depends on the payment system and what you are doing.
Some examples :

With coinex after 1 conformation I can trade on their platform with the funds, but I can't withdraw anything I traded for or the original coin until 6 confirms.

With Bitrefill if I DO NOT use RBF and a high enough fee it's either 1 confirm or at times 0 if it's for a small enough card since I have been using their system for a while.

For larger amounts it's 1 confirm with no RBF and high enough fee. BUT, we are talking about $10 to $50 gift cards, not sure if that is going to change for a $1000 amazon card for a new user.

shoppy.gg is usually 2 or 3 confirms.

If you are going to be gaming the network to doublespend the time and effort involved are going to be a lot more then a few dollars.

-Dave

Fair enough, up until I saw you post I never heard of RSK, but is RSK actually worth anything?

NMC and ELA and all the others I don't think come to $50 of extra mining income per block. Although to be honest I have not checked in years.

Lets revise it to you can find out about some merged coins, but it's not like the pools are going to get rich by mining them and not telling you.

-Dave

Take a look here: https://forkmonitor.info/feeds/stale_candidates/btc.rss
What I posted earlier were orphans, this link is for what happens when 2 pools find a block at just about the same time and it becomes a race to see who wins.

Either way it's the same for the people transacting.

Both blocks have your transaction = no change
One block (winner) has it the looser does not = no change
One block (looser) has it the winner does not = that TX will be in the next block (give or take depending on space) slightly longer wait.

In the end, transactions do not just disappear.

-Dave

https://specter.solutions/desktop/ it's a 1 step more or less install for using hardware along with core.
Fully open source: https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop

Personally I have used it a little and it does work, but for most HW wallets electrum connected back to my own server works just as well.

I am guessing it's not a big demand / people are not asking for it because it's rarely asked about.

-Dave

Check this post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5397166.msg60503248#msg60503248

You can see where the block reward will go and some other information.

If they are merge mining other coins and stuff behind the scene you will never be able to check for that, but most of them are worth so little it does not really matter.

So long as you stick with the larger pools it's not something to worry about.

-Dave

New York can make it's own way, but even a place like Woodstock has less then 10000 full time residents. They don't have a formal IT staff and the last time I had to do something at Town Hall they proceed credit cards through a 3rd party and took checks to the local bank at the end of the day.

The New York DMV does, or at lest did their own credit card processing and deposits checks electronically.

Somewhere in between those 2 extremes is where a lot of the processing will fall.

So the smaller places if they do would use 3rd party, but I could see the DMV running their own. And probably having worse conversion rates then Coinbase but I'll rant about that if and when it happens.

-Dave

https://bitcoinchain.com/block_explorer/orphaned

It's not something to be worried about.

More then likely if you have a TX in a block that gets orphaned / lost it's going to be in the next black anyway.
If you are selling a car, you wait for more then 1 block.
If you are selling a cup of coffee, you are probably not waiting for a confirm anyway.
If you are shipping something then it does not matter since it's not leaving at that moment.
If you are selling something online with digital delivery then they just have to wait for that 2nd confirmation if it's expensive.

-Dave

Cleaning up and found this one:





$15 shipped US with no tracking. (put it in an envelope and put on a stamp)
$18 shipped US with tracking.
International shipping will depend on where you are but it's probably not going to be worth it.

BTC payment address: 37KpY3xevo6kt3Wx6osJESKxvnGb84MMiQ
Lightning: LNURL1DP68GURN8GHJ7AMPD3KX2AR0VEEKZAR0WD5XJTNRDAKJ7TNHV4KXCTTTDEHHWM30D3H82UNVW QHKCATJD9JXYCTWDVENJ3NLH0U

-Dave

There is no 'proof' it's part of the basic concept of PoW.

You would have to have enough hashing power to mine more then 6 blocks while the rest of the network only mined 6. So if nothing else changes you would need FAR MORE then current existing SHA256 hash power to ATTEMPT do it. And there is still the chance due to luck that it still would fail.

You can look at the amount of existing hash power and extrapolate from there.

-Dave

Too late aAt this point google and a few others probably already have archives of it. @Alexeymalutin change the password and check your access logs.
That or just wipe the server and start again.

Back to the original issue, IF you are 100% sure it's not some AV grabbing the file and removing it since it never makes it out of the temp folder I would look at the server closing the connection before it's finished and the desktop just removing what it thinks is an incomplete file.

Also could your front end router for the PC be doing any kind of filtering? More and more home routers are coming with some for of AV so it could be killing the download too.

-Dave

At a guess it's your AV coming in and removing the file(s) because it sees something it does not like.
It's been a issue on an off with Hashtopolis for years. Check the logs of whatever AV you have on the machine, it's probably in there.

By default most anti virus programs will pop up a warning, but windows defender has a reputation of not telling you at times that it blocked / removed a file.

-Dave

So long as you treat it as in insecure hot wallet it's fine.
Want to keep a few dollars in it to make a quick transaction here and there it's fine. But for more then that, no it's not something you want to use.
Much like I keep saying I keep less on my phone then my phone is worth. For a browser wallet I have think it is something like keeping lunch money on it in case I want to order a sandwich and don't want to go digging out my phone or hardware wallet.

-Dave

Also, if you don't want to do it yourself following the guide that NeuroticFish has there are a few pre-done nodes in a box that you can setup as a VM if you don't want to dedicate hardware to it:

https://umbrel.com/#start
or
https://mynodebtc.com/download

They are the 2 more popular ones, there are a bunch of other options, but if you are looking to be supported sticking with the more popular setups will save you a bit of time if you need to go to their communities for support with an issue.

-Dave

If anyone really cares the new price everywhere I can see here in the US for a 2TB Samsung 870EVO SSD is $149.99
Amazon, newegg, Microcenter, wherever it's $150.
These are all brand new sealed in a box drives.

Just about EVERY 4TB spinning drive is under $100 until you get into the higher end ones which you DO NOT NEED for this. Yes, your IBD might take a bit longer if the rest of your system is good enough. But if there is ANY other bottleneck be it RAM, CPU, download speed, then the drive speed does not matter.

Back to what I said back in November higher hour used 1TB and 2TB drives are being given away by a lot of people since they have NO real value anymore.

-Dave

If you read the linked article
https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/judges-finds-bitcoin-facility-in-falls-is-operating-in-violation-of-court-order-sets-fine/article_1170797d-9994-5836-9289-8f3bca1d51a1.html

It's got 0 to do with the NY law itself but local zoning regulations.

Or, to put it bluntly, get your ugly high power usage stuff out of this area we want to build condos and hotels and there is the possibility we might get another casino license up here and that area really needs to be cleaned up. But you can't come out and say that so you just keep annoying them till they leave.

The entire area where it is, really needs to be redeveloped in a major way but there is resistance since what is there is providing SOME jobs and revenue and people don't want to trade it away for something that MAY happen in the future.

Side note about NY: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5437485

-Dave