There was this mixer I can not remember there name [something wind], they scammed many customers and they were paying huge amount for the campaigners. Technically, the didn't scam anyone. They just disappeared without a trace, and still have $14,431.27 in escrow after all claims were paid by the escrow. The user disappeared, the site disappeared a few months later, the escrowed funds were not claimed back. I can only guess what happened to them. |
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I am still thinking of finding ways to perfectly make an Android wallet. Is it possible to disable network connection, WiFi, Bluetooth and other means of connection with encrypted password in a way that if you want all these connections to be enabled and functioning again, you will need to disable the password? I'm not sure what you're asking here. Usually, when you want a device to be offline, you don't enable any networking. You can't "encrypt" hardware, so there's no "password" to disable either. Why not use an old laptop? Many people have them piling up by now, and they're quite cheap to buy (although this may depend on your location). For cold storage, you don't need powerful hardware. Ideally, wipe it and install Linux. Install Electrum or whatever you prefer, and you're good to go. If you want to go full-paranoid (which is my preferred setup  ), physically remove networking, camera and microphone. Glue the RAM. Encrypt the disk. Set bios passwords. Even better if the disk supports hardware encryption to use on top of disk encryption. Don't get one with built-in SIM support. I just checked: for €75 or less, I can choose from many laptops with 8GB RAM, SSD and working battery. Those are perfect for the task. |
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At minimum, i do not expect backdoor designed to steal Bitcoin on such general electronic board/module. That's quite an assumption. I'd prefer a much more generic air-gapped laptop with a generic Linux distribution and Bitcoin Core (or Electrum). I don't need anything that isn't moving money from A to B in a legacy address, any other "features" added after that just add complexity and potential exploits, as well as nonsense usages of block space like ordinals and co. I don't want Ordinals (spam) either, but as long as it's using Bitcoin blocks, your node will have to verify them. Let's just hope no fatal bug is added along the way Let's assume you switch to much less popular and much less tested software that offers less features than Bitcoin Core. What makes you think that software is less likely to have bugs? |
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Make your pick:
Kamala vs Trump You couldn't pick a worse topic to promote this in. I'm not voting for either one of them. |
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I've seen few people build their own Trezor and Blockstream Jade. Aren't the components still black boxes? I've seen more discussion about potential bias in dice rolls than about potential problems with hardware wallets. The fact that it's always recommended to buy directly from the manufacturer makes me think there's a lot of trust involved. |
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they certainly have no place in the services section where services are offered with payment in Bitcoin.) Just report the topics, see if Mods agree. I think it doesn't belong in Services. Not even in Altcoins. Now both of the thread has been moved to off topic, regardless it's moved by the creator or the moderators, but still... case closed. Guess I'm late to the party  |
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No time travel, but still "story time": according to the news, last night the Perseid meteor shower reached it's peak visibility at 3:45 AM. When I asked the kids if they wanted to wake up to see it, MehMeh instantly said yes so she can finally make a wish. So we all woke up at a crazy hour, and drove a long time to one of the few dark places this country has (I should have stayed in Norway longer). There were still distant lights, but at least not too close by. Unfortunately, there was about 75% cloud coverage, but the sky right above us opened up. MehMeh counted 11 shooting (we call them "falling" in Dutch) stars, and ran out of things to wish for. After that we drove back and continued sleeping. I was hoping to also see the Milky Way, which I last saw when I was a child, but it wasn't dark and clear enough for that. As a bonus, we saw satellites (and planes of course). |
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I can tell right away that this one at least is AI generated. He created that long post 6 minutes after registration, and went offline right after that. It's obvious he can't type that much in 6 minutes, and indeed, it looks like chatbot diarrhea. I'm starting to think this is a flaw of the Merit system: users spam to earn Merit, and chatbots make that very easy nowadays. It looks like they use throwaway accounts: if it works, it works. If it doesn't work, go to the next one. Chatbot spam at this level didn't exist yet when theymos created the Merit system. |
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i don't understand why you don't trust hardware wallet. There are some hardware wallet which is fully open source, where you can even build one by yourself. I can think of a few reasons. The most important one: it's a black box. I have to trust the manufacturer to do what they say they do, and sometimes they turn 180 degrees. There are some hardware wallet which is fully open source, where you can even build one by yourself. Who's really able to do that? By using a hardware wallet, you're basically trusting them with your money, while the security of "be your own bank" shouldn't rely on third-parties. I really hate this part, and even when using offline software wallets, you have to trust someone. It's impossible to verify all the software you're using, even if it's open source. "Trusting" goes against the basics of Bitcoin, but it's inevitable one way or another. |
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Has anyone successfully compiled this in 2024? Seems to use a lot of libraries that are now deprecated. Wonder if it might be better to compile using an older version of Ubuntu in a VM. I noticed the same, and it was already a lot of work to get oclvanitygen working when I first installed it 8 years ago. An older OS in a VM is worth testing, but it will be slower than a real OS. |
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(*) I'm sure I've bumped into some form of the following idea a few times, but, I've been thinking for a while now about a way to embed easy-to-use client-side encryption/decryption into the PM system. I'd love to see that implemented! I think adding a native, no-signup-required, encrypted/ephemeral chat feature where people could establish public (or private) "rooms" to have genuine (unincentivized, unlike a lot of posting) and short-feedback-loop conversations would be very feasible (and seriously cool). That would be a great replacement for all the people who ask me to use Discord or Telegram. (I think either "Never" or "Always (subject only)" would make a better default for newly-registered accounts than "Always (with message)".) I don't know what the current default is, but if a user doesn't log again in after creating an account, a PM notification would be the only way to reach him. (You can even de-duplicate similar images, by defining the hashing to happen over something other than the raw bytes, like, say, over the image data after it's been moved into a consistent colorspace and simplified in various ways. But, I'm unlikely to pursue that. Fun to think about, though.) Inaccurate solution: create a thumbnail with fixed width, subtract the images. If the resulting image is 99% black, they're probably similar. But this requires far too many checks for large numbers of images. |
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Get yours now! Or, get it now How about now? Bump! Bump Bump |
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I'd love to have an option when sending a PM like "self deletion in x days". Scammers would love that feature.... For privacy, it doesn't help if the user has email notification for PMs. |
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I'm not gonna open a wallet but store a btc like few a month (part of my salary around something 20-80$) regularly. Will see the fruitful result after long years. Read my topic on consolidating inputs: you don't want to end up with dozens of small inputs when transaction fees are very high. |
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I'm new here and found this place after researching transaction 5f3720dd75ea36efed2bffd7bc136dc8556e600d6cc94f2a82c38880e0d02b64. The only thing linking it to this topic is that it was swept in the same transaction as the collectible coins. Other than that, it would probably be better to open a new topic in Bitcoin Technical Support. On a certain day (which I honestly don't remember), I accessed bitaddress.org to generate a wallet for my godson. I'm a tech person, so I took every precaution when accessing the site (Mac/Safari or Chrome), generating the document, and even when printing it. I chose to take my laptop to the printer and connected it via a USB cable (I've worked with printer drivers for years).
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I can't stop thinking about where I went wrong in this process. I see several potential points of failure: - Bitaddress has many phishing clones, but I've never read anything bad about Bitaddress itself. Usually a small typo is enough.
The warning on Bitaddres.org with one s exists for a reason! - You say you took every precaution, but it sounds like you used the online website instead of using it offline, and wiping your computer afterwards.
- The printer may potentially be a problem too, but that's unlikely considering it was swept together with other coins.
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I can no longer reproduce this. Time to lock it |
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