Coindesk have the update on their website. I'm surprised they've "banned" only 2 Bitcoin addresses: one was used for signature payments on the forum, the other holds just $67 worth of Bitcoin and never sent anything. Why in the world would any mixer that wants to remain in business for the long term accept funds that are so tainted What if it's the other way around, and that's the reason the mixer was created in the first place? I think there is a clear difference when a mixer is being used to mix for the average person conducting non-criminal acts for the sake of increasing privacy and an enterprise that has been created with laundered money to offer a mixing service Even worse than that: the latter needs the former. Though this is my personal observation, the government is doing all these to destroy Bitcoin since they could not destroy it directly so they have to enter it from the window to destroy everything, Andy they are attacking any company that connected to Bitcoin activities It's the opposite: what I read about Bitcoin in this case is actually quote encouraging: A cryptocurrency mixing service is not necessarily illegal. While we encourage responsible innovation in the digital asset ecosystem, we will not hesitate to take action against illicit actors.
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Perhaps all of it? 8192? That leaves nothing for other programs, so it's too much. I set it to 7000 and let's see... I'm curious if that helps. More dbcache also means less file cache for the OS. |
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supposing I wanted to do it, would I need to copy the chainstate and blocks directories? I'd copy everything in ~/.bitcoin/ (after shutting down Bitcoin Core). Makes sense, but 16 GB is a lot for a cheap computer. RPi doesn't support 16GB anyway. Yep, it sucks  And the Bitcoin dust those Ordinal spammers create will remain unspent taking up space in chainstate forever. |
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I have 2 nodes and I am currently setting up my 3rd node. Why don't you just copy the blockchain from your existing nodes to the new node? After reaching block 790,000 the process slowed down a lot. I have spent 5 days until block 790,000 and 3 more days until 810,000 and there are still approximately 10,000 blocks left, which will take even more  I guess that's around the time the Ordinal spam largely increased the number of transactions, and the size of chainstate. It currently takes 8.5 GB on disk, which won't fit your 8 GB RAM anymore. It looks like 16 GB is the new minimum for a fast IBD. |
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If a topic in Meta hasn't received any Merit after 6 months and 300 views, it's probably not worth reading. |
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this is of course a fake/fraud So someone managed to turn the word 2FA into an attack vector. And there will always be people falling for it. |
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Is it possible that it is a hack? A hack on fiod.nl and treasury.gov? If so, why did certain authorities immediately publish this news? I'm pretty sure they don't publish third party press releases. |
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meta is the gossip section We need a gossip board! Wasn't the requirement for a new board having many existing topics that would fit there? That seems to be the case! Create a new board, and start moving topics (including this one)  |
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In the first strategy, all the authorities need to do is to address the issues facing traditional fiat currencies. Allow me to respond to only this part: why would you even believe fiat currency is "traditional"? If we skip the barter economy, the gold standard is much more traditional than fiat money: The gold standard was a commitment by participating countries to fix the prices of their domestic currencies in terms of a specified amount of gold. National money and other forms of money (bank deposits and notes) were freely converted into gold at the fixed price. England adopted a de facto gold standard in 1717 after the master of the mint, Sir Isaac Newton, overvalued the guinea in terms of silver, and formally adopted the gold standard in 1819. The United States, though formally on a bimetallic (gold and silver) standard, switched to gold de facto in 1834 and de jure in 1900 when Congress passed the Gold Standard Act. In 1834, the United States fixed the price of gold at $20.67 per ounce, where it remained until 1933. Other major countries joined the gold standard in the 1870s. The period from 1880 to 1914 is known as the classical gold standard. During that time, the majority of countries adhered (in varying degrees) to gold. It was also a period of unprecedented economic growth with relatively free trade in goods, labor, and capital. And a bit later: Britain stopped using the gold standard in 1931, and the U.S. followed suit in 1933, finally abandoning the remnants of the system in 1973.
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The appeal of a gold standard is that it arrests control of the issuance of money out of the hands of imperfect human beings. With the physical quantity of gold acting as a limit to that issuance, a society can follow a simple rule to avoid the evils of inflation. Inflation is a terrible thing, and the main reason I'm into Bitcoin. No central bank will want to give up their power over BRRR.
“Give me control of a nation’s money supply, and I care not who makes its laws.” So said Mayer Amschel Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty. |
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The service's onion is offline, which means police managed to seize the backend server It's offline, unlike CM's .onion, which was seized. That's a big difference. Allow me to post selective quotes (read the whole article for the full context): While we encourage responsible innovation in the digital asset ecosystem, we will not hesitate to take action against illicit actors.
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The ultimate goal of sanctions is not to punish but to bring about a positive change in behavior. btw, the account immediately had 3 neg trust  That's just to prevent them from joining a signature campaign later Seriously though: 2 of the 3 negatives are for "impersonating". That can be clarified with one small text file. I'm pretty sure that's a government-controlled account The only alternative is an impersonator with impeccable timing. That's not very likely. He is just a troll Unlikely. The account was created 2.5 hours before fiod.nl published this article, and posted about it 6 minutes after publication. People from North Korea, where one among 100000 rarely has access on computer and internet, manage to create a group that plays with the USA like cat plays with mouse. Food must be a very strong motivator  Seriously though: that's not so hard to believe. Same for Iran. Most hackers have to fear prosecution. State hackers don't have that problem. |
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Even in the event that it is proven that the IME is collecting telemetry and has all these spy capabilities, how do you think it's going get traffic out to the internet?
Particularly if the computer is airgapped then there is nothing to worry about. Nothing to worry about yet! How long will it take before every device has it's own (low bandwidth) data connection to "phone home" even when the user doesn't connect it? €2.50 is all it takes: I googled it, and the first thing I found was lifetime eSim for €2.50, to be soldered inside a device. This is very scary, it will create a whole new level of attacks. Imagine replacing someone's hardware wallet with a fake device with esim that instantly broadcasts the PIN. Air gapped devices will need a faraday cage to be sure. |
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Frankly I don't know why you bother engaging with that dude. He is the perfect troll machine... This! OP won't win this. Just click Ignore, and move on (that's what I did after seeing many of his posts). Yes, it doesn't seem that calling someone a 'criminal' should have any consequences on the forum It's like calling someone a scammer: for the forum would interfere, Mods would have to decide who's right and wrong. That won't happen. |
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@FIODNederland: Can you confirm this account belongs to FIOD, by posting the username in fiod.nl/Bitcointalk.txt? If so, I'll leave neutral feedback confirming you are who you say you are, which will add greatly to your credibility. Copper Membership means you've paid using Bitcoin. Interesting  To all criminal users of former mixer Sinbad.io, Is everyone that users a mixer been called a criminal, or this is a "to whom it may concern" statement  From their own website ( archived): A cryptocurrency mixing service is not necessarily illegal. |
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Thanks again for your flawless timing! Unfortunately, this is still true: Unfortunately, I'm still ill. It seems to take forever. |
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If it wouldn't be so much work, I'd setup a testnet webshop, in which they can order candy using their Bitcoin testnet mobile wallet. Like Starblocks, but for kids, and I'll actually give them the items they order. I don't know if you are aware but there is one member in forum who owns small ''exchange'' and he started to offer testnet Bitcointhere , some people actually buy and sell that stuff for real, even if those coins don't have any monetary value... well now they have some value. At the risk of deviating even further off-topic: I've seen it, but selling testnet coins isn't what I meant. I meant using testnet Bitcoin to buy real items (again: only for my own kids). That way they can experience online shopping, they can experience paying with Bitcoin, and I'll actually give them the items they ordered. Until they discover a testnet faucet and order 1 trillion candies, of course. |
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And for SSD, if you use full disk encryption, im not sure if they would realistically recover anything. The same applies to HDD Unless your password gets compromised, in that case it's better to overwrite sectors. I sometimes use a "quick and dirty manual full disk overwrite" after deleting data: mkdir crap; cd crap
echo -n '0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000' > tmpfile
i=1; while test $i -le 50000; do cat tmpfile >> tmpfile2; echo $i; i=$((i+1)); done # This creates a few MB temp file
i=1; while test 1; do cp tmpfile2 $i; echo $i; i=$((i+1)); done # This fills the partition. Do this as root to also fill reserved disk space
CTRL-C when it runs out of disk space
sync; cd ..; rm -r crap This also works on USB sticks, or to reduce the size of a compressed partition image by not backing up deleted data. At least this way I'm sure wear leveling doesn't mess up wiping data. But it's only one rewrite, so for the truely paranoid it's not enough. |
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Yes, I still have the 14444.94 DAI under my control. As of now, if they did contact me, I would deny them any of the remaining funds due to what has happened recently with the BTC wallet. How is that related? Not sure what would happen with the DAI left. Maye let the community that was affected decide? The escrowed amount was meant to prevent losses. Since the website is gone, new losses won't occur. As far as I know all valid claims are paid. I'd say returning * the funds (when requested) is the right thing to do (after a 7 day delay, as agreed upon earlier). How would you know they still control the keys for DAI address that sent coins to minerjones? * I didn't mean return to the sending address. |
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Interesting idea, but I don't think so. That would put all funded addresses in chronological order of the first received transaction. That doesn't mean they're "dormant", they could have received more recent transactions too. I can think of a combination of "comm" and "sort" to combine those 2 lists. If there's any interest, I'll do it, but only once. With limited RAM and HDD, I expect it to take a few hours to sort this long list. |
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in the hidden wallet, as 2000$ may be a big amount of money for him
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So there are many people who may have an insignificant amount of money stored in unstoppable wallets but that money is significant for them. My take: nobody should keep "a significant amount" in a hot wallet, including "hidden" hot wallets. If you don't care about losing $2k, then by all means, keep it in a hot wallet for your daily spending. But if you can't risk losing $50 (for instance because you earn $12 per month), then you shouldn't keep it in a hot wallet. I was actually thinking of getting my kids a crypto wallet Let them choose if they want their allowance in cash, or magic internet money. Their allowance is too low for Bitcoin transaction fees, which unfortunately only leaves altcoins. But there's not really a point if they can't spend it to buy toys online. It seems problematic to introduce kids to bitcoin through shitcoins.... You're right. It sucks not being able to use on-chain Bitcoin for small amounts. Not only for my kids, but also for many people (like mentioned above) who would spend a week's worth of wages on a transaction fee. Using LN isn't really an option either: I don't want to teach them to use custodial wallets, especially long-term, and non-custodial wallets come with high on-chain fees for opening and closing channels. If it wouldn't be so much work, I'd setup a testnet webshop, in which they can order candy using their Bitcoin testnet mobile wallet. Like Starblocks, but for kids, and I'll actually give them the items they order. |
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Edit: I just got pissed off, recovered 98789 and will be putting it to rest (I will change its email to not be associated to it and I will remove as many posts as I can). I guess this unequivocally proves that I was not lying, but I do not care anymore. This will be my last time in this forum. Feel free to remove the neutral feedback if you want, or tag it in red if you prefer. Thank you for the last time to the (few) ones that did provide ideas. Nice. you should have done that before opening this useless discussion. Lol. User 98789 is a Newbie again. OP forgot to remove the avatar. What's with the dramatic responses when someone asks to prove what you say? |
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