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As an alternative, you can just backup your wallet data. That's how Bitcoin Core backups work: copy your wallet file to a USB stick, test it, and make another backup on a different brand stick. Then, just to be use, make a new copy on a new stick every year.
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It seems to me that ChioMixer was a genuine effort for Bitcoin privacy, while Sinbad was an operation made to mix the operators legitimate coins. It could be. If the bad guys were in charge of Sinbad, that explains why they were quickly trusted enough to send them millions of dollars worth of Bitcoin. Pretty much anything can be used for good or evil, but starting a business for evil is very different than a legitimate business being abused. It made me curious about Tor: ~ a small fraction of users globally (∼6.7%) likely use Tor for malicious purposes on an average day. However, this proportion clusters unevenly across countries, ~ |
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But if you don't back up your wallet. Can they still hack your wallet then? This is too dumb to even discuss. Even hard drive failure will make you lose your wallet. You have different risks, and need to reduce all of them. It's always a balancing act between the risk of losing access by yourself, and the risk of someone else gaining access. The latter can be both physical (to your device or the seed phrase you wrote down) or online (unless you use a proper cold wallet). Until now, I haven't found the perfect solution. But I do have different wallets for different purposes. |
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Only solution is to always memorize your address (the last part). The only solution is the check the entire address. Address reuse is bad for privacy anyway, so memorizing the address doesn't make sense. |
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Perhaps a format will solve the issue... Nope. A hdparm speed test doesn't care about the filesystem. |
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I don't get this: if you send your non taxable coins through a mixer, how do you prove it's non taxable? You make it sound as if the tax office is searching for blockchain evidence. Which government department does that? They don't search for that, but the burden of proof is on me. If they question my taxes, I'll have to be able to prove where the money came from. DRAFT - NOT CURRENT POLICY
Starting Jan 1, 2024:
- Forum accounts that are obviously run by mixers are not allowed. *
- Mixer announcement threads are not allowed. **
- Promoting mixers in signatures, avatars, and profile-bios are not allowed.
- It's not allowed for mixers to do giveaways, sponsorships, bounties, paid posts, or paid ads in posts. If a thread is for paying people to do something for a mixer, then that's also not allowed. **
- Mixer URLs will be automatically wordfiltered out, but you can still discuss mixers otherwise.
* Existing accounts will be banned from posting, but will be allowed to continue sending/receiving PMs for at least a few months so they can settle any business.
** Existing threads will be locked and archived. What do people think about this version of the policy? I think this is very clear. |
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I can't find an English review for this exact model, but my Intenso USB stick is faster than what you get. Could the format be an issue? My disk is exfat The filesystem matters, but not for raw speed tests. |
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No my IBD is finished and my node is stopped. So essentially my RPi is connected to an SSD which has the whole bitcoin-core structure, but bitcoind is not running. Which SSD do you have exactly? I'm just guessing here: is it possible you're using a very low quality USB cable? Have you tried Gnome Disks? It has a Benchmark feature. Or have a look at GSmartControl, see if it can give you a reason for the low speed. I also ran fstrim -v on the mounted directory and it trimmed some data, but it didn't work afterwards. I mean no amelioration was seen. That shouldn't matter for " hdparm -tT", it doesn't use the file system. |
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For a second it seemed to me that the Admin was talking about all the Tor links... talking about this as something that is associated with the darknet. But I checked and I believe that you are right. See: To be clear: not all .onion sites qualify as darknet, right? Correct. And something can also be darknet without having a .onion. By "darket" I mean something that wouldn't be able to exist for long outside of the shadows because it's being suppressed by the state. @BitcoinGirl.Club, It's high time for you to change your bio and write I am not a girl. I guess people think you are a girl because of the username. I was thinking the same for a while until I saw somewhere that you wrote you are not a girl, but you were also amazed to see you were nominated for Miss BitcoinTalk. LOL. I've been nominated for this category before. I'm just wondering, if I change my name to LoyceV.girl, would I win?  Little did I know my nickname was female when I pulled it out of a random generator in 2015.... |
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/dev/sda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 62 MB in 4.67 seconds = 13.28 MB/sec Isn't it too slow for an SSD ? Especially the second timer. Most microSD cards are faster than this nowadays. It should be 10 times faster:  Did you run your disk speed test during IBD? If so, that's probably why it's slow. The type of SSD matters too: some perform just as you'd expect, and others are only fast "in short burst", and after writing the burst data, it gets much slower, up to the point that combined read and writes can make the entire system freeze for a while. That doesn't matter much for normal computer usage, but it matters a lot during heavy tasks (such as the IBD). |
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what is the staff being paid to moderate the forum and does pay vary? Mods have a Bitcoin address in their profile. If you're curious: check the blockchain. |
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In the case of Sinbad, it appears that the entity is a group of hackers funded by a government or organization, so they were not able to do much, especially since the service is a renaming of a previous mixing service that was operating on the forum. Let me see if I understand well what you meant: are you saying that FIODNederland is a group of hackers? Not a user created by Dutch authorities? No, he's saying Sinbad appears to be government funded. And it's not the Dutch government  |
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when I checked it on blockchain explorer, it had total 28k$ incoming balance. And this is probably just one of the many different addresses used by the malware. |
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This is a very interesting link. It shows Sinbad received bad money even before they started. It looks more and more like they weren't "a good site also used by bad people", but they were "a bad site that needed good people to hide their bad money"! If that's the case, they had it coming. But taking down this site won't change anything except for slowing them down. Long-term, they'll continue elsewhere. As much as I like privacy, I don't like criminals. And especially criminals who abuse good people's need for privacy to hide their own crimes. I have long seen offers on other forums to sell “dirt,” that is, funds obtained in not entirely honest ways. I've seen those offers on Bitcointalk too: "old Bitcoins" for "new Bitcoins" at 10% discount. It's either a scam, or shady as hell. |
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Be careful for phishing sites! In the past days, I've seen "fixedfl aot" and "f iixedfloat" advertising on Google. Google responded to my report: We decided not to take this ad down. We found that the ad doesn’t go against Google’s policies, which prohibit certain content and practices that we believe to be harmful to users and the overall online ecosystem. As long as they can earn from it, right?  |
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~sending merits to users who have a little left to the next rank means that you will easily get 10 to 50 merits once you reach 90% of merits requirements, which is different Of the majority who either review post/topic individually or send 1-5 merits. Show me 50 users with good English (or Dutch) posts) who need 10 to 50 Merit to reach their next rank, and I'll bump them up. But I don't have the time to read through users' post histories. |
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there's always the risk that the defendant is judgement proof. The money is literally waiting in a Bitcoin address. innocent until proven guilty and i would imagine it is not easy to prove. That's the real tricky part indeed. You'll either have to find the exploit in the source, or find many more victims who claim the same thing. |
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so they should encourage mixers and give bitcointalk the ability to advertise mixers like a mofo.
then contact the mixers to find crooks. If government wants a mixer that alerts them on "crooks", they'll have to create their own honeypot mixer. It is almost certainly leading the forum towards the introduction of KYC I don't share this fear. KYC would leave only spammers with bought identities on Bitcointalk, all good users will abandon it. So many loopholes were found in the implementation of this censorship, so it will be very interesting to see how the moderators manage this in practice. I guess Newbies will get banned, and users who have something to lose won't risk testing the boundaries of the new rules. Now I even think that the investigative authorities do not approve of this decision, because one source of information that they used during the investigation eludes them. Lol. What if they were promoting a honeypot mixer here, and now can't talk about it anymore? 3. The service does not collect KYC-type info from all users. It is even possible to register on Google without KYC. It's a bit unbelievable to me that this is a theymos statement.  From a regulator's perspective, I'd say this makes sense. If a mixer follows KYC procedures, they can either catch the criminals or criminals won't use it. so if the hundred or so people that had sinbad signatures get a reward for attracting criminals to use sinbad why would not they get some of the confiscated funds. Lol. I don't think "attracting criminals" is a goal for law enforcement. mixers are one of the only ways to hide non taxable coins.
if a guy is holding 50 coins from a block he hit in 2011. He wants to cash a few in 2011 that block was worth under 500 bucks and he reported hitting the block in 2012 paid his tax.In the USA 🇺🇸 if he held it to now he owes no tax.
If he wants to cash some of it he should not need to reveal the rest as it is not taxable. I don't get this: if you send your non taxable coins through a mixer, how do you prove it's non taxable? I like the blockchain evidence that proves those coins were old. Where I live, everything is taxable, but that's not the point here.Someone can make for exemple make a signature design with no link. He writes "Go to visit abcd.mixer"
People just have to open a new tab and search for the domain name
In a post, the same can be done, it's fine since I don't directly post their URLs That's not a loophole: an URL is still an URL even if it's not clickable. So posting "abcd.mixer" won't be allowed. |
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It's a 5 year old laptop which originally belonged to one of my relatives. To ask the obvious: did you clean it from dust? Dust in the fan can make it get very loud when under load. My laptop is older than that, and currently on it's third fan. |
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I don't care , I have my own lifestyle, own idea. I am not a millionaire so that I fear of any financial loss. Privacy is more than just finances. I am not going to do any criminal work here in Bitcointalk. Do you mean the "I have nothing to hide" approach? What will be your action if Authority ask for KYC? Which authority? You mean the scenario in which government forces Bitcointalk to ask all users for a copy of their passport? I'd do the same as I do with any other website that collects more information than they should have: sudo echo '127.0.0.1 bitcointalk.org' >> /etc/hosts |
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