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Side thought, but not knowing the amounts involved, your financial situation, the amount of stress you feel waiting for things to happen.....
If you have the $, open an account at an exchange that will allow full transactions for NY people.
DYOR as to which to use, but I will say if you don't mind the full KYC thing that you already went though Gemini is NY based and they do actually have decent support.
But, if you have the funds move the funds to the new exchange while waiting for the cash withdraw from RH. It can take a couple of days for the funds to get to you and then another day or so for a new exchange to credit the funds to your account. All the while the market can be bouncing up and down.
This way you don't have to worry about the price of the coins as much. Since you stated you are already down, and with this next statement contact a tax advisor, you might be able to write some of the loss off on your taxes if you buy new coins before you sell the old ones. On that same note when you sell them your gain will be higher leading to more taxes. But, saying it again, contact a tax advisor.
-Dave
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AFAIK since you signed up for RobinHood as a NY resident and gave them all your info they know you are a NY resident (hello NY neighbor Dave I'm one too) at this point there is no way to move your funds out to a cold wallet unless you change your address with them.
However, since they are a regulated brokerage and such they do 'real' KYC verification like checking drivers license numbers against a database and your credit report addresses and such. If it's a 'real' amount of money it may be worth it to you to 'move' by borrowing a friend / relatives address out of state taking up residence there. But, you are talking about a lot of time to change your address to change it back to NY and the possible tax implications and so on.
If it's a smaller amount I would not loose that much sleep over it. Once the crypto markets bounce back, sell it and transfer the funds to someplace that does allow withdraw from NY.
Unlike a lot of places RH does have a fair amount of government oversight, so I would not worry about coins vanishing like other places.
-Dave
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Part of the issue now, and it's all IMO is what existed before the 2008 banking implosion. And to be 100% up font if you bother to do ANY research you can see it was evident that things were going sideways by mid 2007 when interest rates did fall off a cliff. But anyway, back before then you could ALWAYS find a SAFE investment in the 6% range, A+ bonds, some CDs, and so on. To the point that people didn't even bother to move money for an extra 1% here and there.
Then 2008 happened. And you could *not* GET that 1% in a SAFE investment. You could get more but there was risk.
Now people put out these numbers like 8%, other people remember what it used to be like, so 8% does not seem that out of hand since you used to be able to get 6%.
Then greed takes over. And we know how this all ends up.
-Dave
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...Next, I will be building a dedicated BTCPay Server because I can't seem to get it to work on either of my Nodes....
With Umbrel BTCPay should just install from the app store. IIRC with MyNode it's in the pro / paid version. What issues were you having. Both also have active discussion and support. Keep in mind, at the end of the day running them on a RPi is fine, but make sure you do backups and such since there is no RAID or anything else. I admit I don't backup as much as I should, but I don't have life altering amounts of BTC in open channels. -Dave |
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TL;DR: Photographing another screen can be challenging and the best solution is using multiple 'smaller' QR codes (less information per code).
I am also thinking that some screen protectors also cause issues. I peeled the one off my old pixel 4 and EVERY code scanned. Some took a bit of getting a good shot but in the end they all did scan. Put on a new screen protector, and I could not read the bitrefill one or the bluewallet QR. Took it off and they all scanned. That was just with 1 wallet scanning. Will do more over the weekend. But I think the issue does come down a bunch of things: 1) Camera 2) Screen 3) Code itself Some phones / cameras are probably more forgiving then others, and what looks fine to our eyes, or at least mine in terms of screens and screen protectors may be giving some cameras more stress then they can deal with. -Dave |
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I measured with two different volt-meters, they both showed the same value.
Have you checked whether your volt-meters could show correct measurement on other electronic device? And yes, basically, I'm mining with a loss (although: electricity is free because it is excess power from my solar installation).
But since you probably make only <$1/month, you probably wasting your time for setup/maintain your ASIC. And depending on where you live and how much excess power you create, you have option to sell it to government. If you take a look at the OPs other thread here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5420302It's not running in a location that can sell power back. I agree with you in the fact that running the miner is loosing time and money, but I can also see it as a I am going to do this because I can, not because its going to generate any money. As for the oddball power consumption, take the miner back to where you can plug it in and run it on power company power and see what it says in terms on consumption. I have seen some solar, and other inverters, cause some power meters to give really odd results. As in, running a 100W bulb would pull 50 watts or 500 watts according to the meter and the inverter. Had an electronics guy try to explain it to me but never really understood it. -Dave |
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It's down for me in the US, its giving a CloudFlare access denied which usually means that someone @ FTX or someone requested it to be taken down.
OR, they skipped out on a bill or 2 and since they have imploded someone at CloudFlare fifgured they were never getting paid so they pulled it.
The other thought is a massive hack and instead of throwing up a "back soon" page the IT staff, also knowing their jobs may or may not exist tomorrow just walked away.
In the end probably does not mater, it's not like you could pull your money out, all people could do was stare at numbers on a screen that we all now know are not real.
-Dave
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Just about every gambling site out there has SOME for of referral link. It's tagged to your account anyway. This just takes it and instead of just putting http://youwillnever.win/?ref=Dave someplace it makes it a nice pretty signature. There are no posting requirements or anything else so I don't see this as a real signature campaign just a nice looking referral campaign that happens to be in your signature. Not that big a deal IMO. With that. However, I can see this being open to a bit of abuse unless sujonali1819 keeps a tight control over posts. No min characters no max posts. Can spiral out of control quickly. Remember yobit..... -Dave |
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I could not find it in a search but IMO a not your keys not your coins page either needs to be added to tweaked in a way that it can be found in a search.
If it is there ignore that.
Along that a nice piece on the dangers of custodial exchanges and such.
-Dave
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Note that we do offer the best payrate for SHA256, ... Miners earn about 5-20% more on NiceHash than mining directly.
Absolute lies. You really are a bunch of scammers. Mining to a *PPS pool pays around 100% PPS +/- a few % Paying for fuckhash miners, costs around 100-105% PPS. At least 3% of that, up front, goes to fuckhash. So at best you might get a similar reward, or even in rare cases 1-2% more, otherwise a lower reward. For miners: Looking at what people are paying others *NOW* on NH it looks like they are offering a nice premium above what most PPS+ pools are paying, even if take out the 3% you are still way above what you can get at PPS+ BUT that is NOW, if over Thanksgiving weekend a bunch of people stop putting in offers that rate can drop a lot. So a good PPS+ would be better. The best answer you can give is it depends, if you are willing to keep an eye on it and switch when needed it is a viable option. For 'fire and forget' I have no idea. They also have lightning withdrawals for very low amounts with is nice, allowing for small miners to get their small amount funds out for very little vs just about every other pool that has a higher minimum. For people buying hash, depending on your needs there are better places, but since I think most of the SHA buyers are either lottery mining or mining some alt that they think will go way up in value or testing something it's probably a different mind set then most of us here. -Dave |
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But since some HDD company use base 10 while computer use base 2, the actual size of 500GB HDD (5*10^11 byte) should be about 465GB. Size of blocks directory on my HDD already reached 466GB, so node operator who use 500GB should already upgrade their storage or shutdown their node until they make upgrade.
Yes, but the point I was making is a lot of people out there [looks in mirror] who setup 500GB nodes a while ago and have had them running on autopilot so to speak and hit the wall. However, NEW 2TB spinning drives are now well under $50 here in the US and 1TB SSD and NVMe are at the $50 level. So upgrading to a NEW larger drive is not that big a deal. USED drives with low hours and good smart info are about 1/2 those prices. It's no longer an expense. And unless you want to trust a download you still have to download and verify the entire blockchain so no real bandwidth savings there if you are going to do it the proper way. After that your daily download is the same for pruned or not. Would also like to say that if you are US based it looks like for Black Friday there are going to be some 1TB 2.5" external drives on sale for $29.99 so if you want to run a node on a RPi you can keep a look out for that. -Dave |
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With today's figures, and the current energy prices, most miners would not be profitable. Therefore, using best guess figures may lead to very pessimistic figures regarding power consumption, i.e. assuming that many miners just invest money without getting anything back.
There is still a lot of inexpensive power out there where you can host. But it's pure industrial mega space mega use locations. Also, allowing for all costs and everything else in the end there is still and will probably continue to be a large market for used miners. Even allowing for today's drop in price there is still the potential for profit, if you are running a lean operation. As for the geolocation. Yeah well it will get you close, but sometimes it's not even within 50 miles close (80km) https://www.iplocation.net/ip-lookupAnd use as an example any of these IPs: 75.99.58.200 47.21.23.200 68.193.181.40 NONE of those listed are the correct city / town of where the equipment is..... -Dave |
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They need to understand they can't have that unconfirmed option forever though. To increase that 15% they could provide greater rewards for purchases with lightning.
If my old man memory is correct they used to give you a bit more. Not a lot more but a bit. Could have been fold, really not sure but I do remember getting a better discount someplace when using lightning for giftcards. What they COULD do is keep smaller lightning channels open to them. I have opened a few and they auto close them after a while even while being balanced with a decent amount. Don't know why, and finally gave up caring sometime over the summer. Just stopped trying. Back OT, did spend some time reading since my last post. I still think we should wait, but I do see the other sides view a bit more. <shrug> Beating a dead horse, it's going to happen..... -Dave |
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I might be a bit thick here, but.....Kraken is not small it's not like going after 1 person who either had to choose to remain anonymous OR had to have a massive fundraising campaign to help out.
This is not a business that is going to roll over and take it. Not to mention they will probably get both legal and financial support from other exchanges.
Eliminating everything else, the tech, the BS, everything. Am I missing something in why he picked this fight?
-Dave
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And I don't know about you, but I mostly have good relations with those I transact with. Sure, but you also have to consider entities such as Muun wallet or Bitrefill which have tens or even hundreds of thousands of users. Impossible for them to build a relationship with each one. (I named these two specifically since they were involved in the above linked discussions on GitHub and the mailing list.) Could you setup multiple full nodes in one machine without anybody knowing one person is running all?
Sure, but it wouldn't really achieve much if almost every other node continues to run opt in RBF and rejects all the replacement transactions you broadcast. Or more to the point, unless major miners update their nodes to start accepting full RBF replacements. I don't see the big deal with Bitrefill. I use them on almost a daily basis now that they have bill payments too. Waiting for a confirm for a GC is not a big deal, and payments seem to go out overnight anyway. RBF / no RBF I don't see why they would be caring that much either way anyway. Have to go read what they have said. I understand what they are trying to do and why they are trying to do it, I just think as do some others that we would be better off drawing a line in the sand and saying as of THIS DATE (or block number) it is happening. That one last warning so to speak. -Dave |
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Air gapping a device is probably your best bet. How long will it take before for instance USB-C cables come with built-in 4G wireless capabilities? Air gapping will no longer be enough, you'll need a faraday cage too. It's already exist on online marketplace. Usually it also has feature GPS tracking, audio listening bug or even raw data interception. Yep, post has not been updated in a while since it's still being worked on and there really is not much to report beyond that but: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5391131.0Should probably poke him for a real update after Thanksgiving. In that same thought process, just in general, more and more I see places / people using cheap wireless keyboards on machines that they are typing in sensitive information in a public environment. -Dave |
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The thing I am looking for about the outflows is, is it 500 individuals pulling out their 0.5BTC or 1 major institution puling out 250BTC? Not sure such data exists, but I suppose you could trawl through some Binance or Coinbase withdrawal transactions and see the general trend. I would imagine it would be a mix of both. I have a gut feeling that people are stupid and a lot is coming from institutions bringing their BTC back in house so they can say "see we have it, it does exist, and it's not where other people can get to it" In the end it probably does not matter, there were people putting money into a lot of things both crypto and non crypto that were obviously going to fail. There are people who keep more money then they should in unsafe ways. Lets face it, that box in the attic is safe, well except for fire, water damage, theft, depending on where you are animals nesting in it, but yes people still tell me it's safe. -Dave |
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Both of these point to 38s7D6x3hQP9uoYTEKJydwwxHnH7MgyRaq
The former decoded into the address, purely the address string. The latter has extra metadata, namely " bitcoin:", fee and rbf false flag; probably the cause of the issue in other wallets. Electrum, Mycelium, Blockchain( dot)com, Bitcoin( dot)com and Blue wallets work. Green on the other hand, scans, but has to manually delete the other data and leave the address. ( some of the tested wallets are outdated) Maybe it has something to do with the QR Code's size, I'm viewing it with a 1080p - 22" monitor, 100% scale of the page. Interesting, never thought about the metadata adding something the wallet does not like. Wondering now if it's a combination of things. Extra data, not the best screen, not the best camera all causing it not to scan all the time. It needs that 'perfect viewing angle' kind of thing. Have to do some more testing. Might be a good excuse to get a new phone too :-) -Dave |
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I have been using it on and off for years with no issues. From my understanding, and it could be very wrong, a lot of the users are using gift cards that they got for doing things that they cannot cash because they are out of the region and Amzaon does not allow you to use a US gift card in India, and things like that. Also, once again I heard do not know, a lot do come from people that are a lot come from the Amazon Mechanical Turk program. https://www.mturk.com/ Either way it purse.io has been fine for me and a bunch of people I know. -Dave |
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