Is there some reliable way to create a corrupted db to use for testing?  (on linux: ubuntu direct connect)

I have this DiskCryptor 0.9.x encrypted computer that I only partially remember password. I used this password for every day for like 1,5 years and one not so good evening I came back home, entered the password and it was not accepted. Tried various combinations, maybe I missed some letter or wrong case. Nothing. I am pretty sure that the encryption is not malfunctioning or somehow gotten corrupted. It is the password that got some bit flip in my brain. It got not only several bitcoins stored on that computer, but my digital life for almost decade that is locked away - pictures, music, game saves, everything.

I have the password written down after the incident as I remember it. Obviously, it is not the exact correct password. I think that John The Ripper is best software that can do various permutations on a text string given, then feed the output into command line of diskcryptor and depending of diskcryptor returned status repeat with new password or print out correct password. All could be controlled with BAT file.

I need some ideas and general discussion. Maybe someone have better software that can manipulate a password. I have no backups, the setup was super paranoid and secure.

I'd expect the reindex chainstate to take about as long as restarting the IBD, but without the bandwidth consumption.

So, you don't trust a verified account on Twitter? Damn!
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I've been testing the pool with some home miners over the past month to write a review for the website and wanted to share my initial thoughts:

• No Registration, No KYC: In an industry where KYC is becoming the norm, this is incredibly liberating. I started mining in just 5 minutes. I bookmarked my dashboard, and that's it—I have everything under control.
  
• Non-Custodial: Unlike FPPS pools, which act as custodians and hold miners' funds by approximating reward distributions, the TIDES rewards system lets you receive coins directly from the Coinbase, ensuring the full and exact pro rata portion of your hashrate contributions. Currently, the minimum payout is around 1 million sats. They also recently integrated Lightning for even lower payments.

I'm extremely happy with this project and believe it's crucial for the industry. It's definitely one of the most important ones I've encountered in the last years. You can really see the people behind it aren't newbies, but have a deep, OG Bitcoin understanding.

Well, I think we can almost be sure at this moment that Runes have killed Ordinals:
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I think Casey Rodarmor did the Bitcoin community a big favour when he created Runes.

The editor of the article is confused about what a wallet is. While the article states that the rate of new addresses in the blockchain is down, the title says new "wallets", which is a mistake.

The terms wallet and address are commonly misunderstood by newbies, but this lack of understanding is not something that you would expect from a crypto media site. It's an example of the poor quality reporting at many of these sites.

How about Newbie GOODLUCK-HRM? He earned all his 19 Merit from Merit giveaways, and posts generic crap like this:

You are right because running a Bitcoin core without port 8333 is useless for the network. 8333 is the default port of Bitcoin Core. All nodes in the Bitcoin core are used to communicate and collect data from the network. If any of the nodes here have a problem, it stops the connection of all the nodes. Tick ​​the problem with your ISP. What you want cannot be done for free. Try changing the router settings and forwarding the port to 8333. Although port forwarding can put your computer at risk of hacking, do it cautiously and share it with an expert.

This is the first time I have seen this kind of problem. I saw you here for the first time today. This has happened several times, which is likely due to a browser bug. You can clear the data and try again, and it will be resolved. If it is you still need to fix it, you can message support to find out what problem it is causing.

This isn't a problem, it's just an extra feature/option provided by the browser OP is using. You get the same dialogue if you are using Chrome but without the option to disable JavaScript dialogues until the next browser launch.


Several times? Where? Can you please show us? And, how can a bug create a checkbox followed by a logical question in a dialogue box? 


As I said above, it's not a problem that needs to be solved, it is just an extra option provided by the browser being used, probably, and clearing the data won't make a difference here.


 

You have made a good point and asked about OTP in the right thread for a solution. OTP is a system code that allows us to log in to our accounts securely. Using this, we log accounts securely. OTP stands for Short-Time Password and is usually used to confirm the correct identity of the user. OTP system is used to secure the account. The OTP is generally sent via SMS, e-mail, or a particular OTP generator application. Account users confirm their identity by entering the OTP received within the specified period and using their account securely.

Follow It.

Define "bitcoin stamps". It is completely valid to spend from a 15-of-15 multi-sig.

I still don't understand the point you're making. There is no justification to ban something if it can't be an attack vector for the network, therefore banning Ordinals the way they work, so they switch to being stored at the UTXO, is an unreasonable statement to make.

Like I've stated in my previous reply, I found it in a website's directory that should not be accessible regularly for normal site-goers and obviously, I have opened it up on notepad to check the encoding to see if there is any sussy malware code written. It didn't so the file checked out clean.

Cukup sulit memining TBTC hanya dengan GPU atau bahkan hanya mengandalkan resource CPU karena pertumbuhan Global hashrate di jaringan testnet benar-benar naik secara signifikan dan yang menjadi saingannya adalah perangkat ASIC yang jelas memiliki hashpower lebih superior ketimbang GPU dan CPU. Saya pikir maraknya penjualan TBTC secara komersil yang menjadikan perangkat ASIC merajalela di jaringan testnet Bitcoin (salah satu contohnya : https://buytestnet.com/).

Mungkin akan beda cerita jika ada usulan proposal pada code testnet untuk dibuat menjadi ASIC-Resistant dan usulan tersebut mendapatkan konsensus  (meskipun itu sulit untuk terwujud karena untuk langkah yang mudah biar menjadi ASIC-Resistant maka algoritma mining SHA-256 harus di gantikan dengan algoritma mining lainnya atau menemukan cara untuk memodifikasi SHA-256 biar menjadi ASIC-Resistant)

Tapscripts are already a good privacy feature, we just haven't figured out how to use them properly for serious projects.

I.e. not for monkey GIFs or runes.

Lemme know your thoughts!

Hell, it would be a helluva miracle ngl. But as I stated, I found it uploaded onto an online directory (anyone can find it if they know what to search). I downloaded it to see how stupid they must be to leave a file like that just out there. It shows up to me and most likely everyone else who downloads it as 'corrupted' as we aren't the ones to import those addresses (this sentence is just my assumption as I don't know if that's how it actually works). The person/group of people who foolishly decided to leave the file out in the open most likely have the actual access to these addresses.

The wallet file isn't fake per se, nor are the transactions it shows. What's fake about it is that it doesn't contain the private keys it claims it does.

It actually is not that complicated. You don't need to check any data consistency, time, etc. You don't need to check any of the things you mentioned. You also don't really need to look at the wallet code because the data that they are manipulating doesn't change frequently, if ever. In fact, the specific database fields that are being modified will likely never change in order to maintain backwards compatibility with older wallet versions.

What the authors have done here is simply add fields which represent encrypted keys. These fields contain the pubkey and the encrypted private key which will typically just look like random data (because that's the point of encryption). What the authors have done is just create a field that contains the pubkey and random data (or in this case, a string) as the private key.

It is impossible for anyone (technical or not, professional or not) to identify that the wallet is "fake" by simply looking at it (besides the fact that common sense tells you its a scam). If done correctly, the supposed encrypted key will be garbage data and its veracity cannot be determined without knowing the decryption key. Of course, if it's just zeroes or some other obvious non-random data, then it can be easily determined. You can inspect the data of a wallet.dat file using BDB 4.6's db_dump tool.

which is why once i downloaded some torrent, i immediately shut down the torrent software because i got what i wanted. why am i going to sit there being a server to other people downloading it? i know that's a bad attitude to have but that's the way alot of people are. probably why most torrents eventually dry up and no seeders are left. that could happen to bitcoin too possibly unless people see some kind of benefit from serving up the blockchain to other people for free...

We'd get millions of virtual nodes created by the same person to get a larger piece of the pie, and nodes will become as centralized as mining pools are now.

You already have 1.6 tBTC. Isn't that enough?

mungkin yang membeli tBtc itu developer yang butuh banyak, kalau cuma 0. sekian kan bisa didapat dari faucet-faucet yang yang bersebaran di internet.

kalau mau mining pun bisa sebenarnya tanpa perlu banyak source, alias pakai CPU atau GPU pun bisa.

The thread is too long to ask for info, but has there been a final consensus here on how to treat such accounts?

Is it okay to leave them at least a neutral tag as a warning that they are forum-rank farmers? I believe that the negative tag is too much.

Is it worse than the lottery?
I read a bit about mining and different asics , so if you would invest in the newest mode wouldn't you have a chance of 1 in 2 million, and since a block is mined every 10 minutes instead of one week wouldn't that shorten the time?
I don't know how to quantify the chances by the number of draws but looking strictly at number of, isn't that an average of 15 years if everyone would be solo mining with the latest model?

I'm just asking not making a statement because I really don't know how to do the math on possibilities!