Did I miss a LN-update that allows to send funds to an email address instead of an invoice? Don't know how many people are actually using it or want to use it but it does work. You can actually send me money just by sending to mrdave@bitrefill.me from a service that supports it. I also have one that is running on my own node but since it's tied to a personal email I don't want to put it out here since I get enough spam / junk as it is :-) Since I have been giving both email address out I have gotten, do some math...carry the 1....yeah 1 payment that way. (not including my tests) -Dave |
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Does blockchain show it sent and cashapp not received? Or does blockchain show pending still? Did you contact the support from both places? You can reach cashapp at https://cash.app/contact or by phone at 1 (800) 969-1940 You can open a ticket with blockchain.com at https://support.blockchain.com/hc/en-us/requests/newAre these your transactions that you made or is someone else involved? You might also want to move this post to support board vs the general discussion. -Dave |
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No, $45 per IP is about average at the moment. If you have control of the ASN that the block is registered to, and if it's an existing company that is still active you may be able to get $12,000 or more for the bundle. ARIN can in theory block IP transfers but if someone takes over an existing company the number resources can move with it. Take a look at the discussion archives: https://lists.arin.net/pipermail/arin-ppml/A good broker might get you more BUT after their commission you might wind up with less. -Dave |
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How long between you bought the BTC and tried to withdraw? There is (was?) a hold time for purchases. Also, they have stated the their compliance team if they are reviewing the transactions and your KYC documentation will take a while: Please be advised that the procedure on our platform is performed by our Compliance Officers and implies a thorough investigation of the information provided by the customer. We'd like to inform you that it is indeed not fast because the details are checked manually and with all due diligence.
But, what is the most important, absolutely all the messages from you are being checked and AML/KYC cases are never left aside until completed. It means that you'll be contacted by the team once the information you've provided is checked. Once again, it's a time- and effort-consuming process.
Moreover, the Compliance Team has regular working hours (not like the Support Team that is available 24/7).
We highly appreciate your patience and understanding!
Also, when making a scam accusation here use the proper format: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=260073.0You don't have to include everything but the more detail the better. -Dave |
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As was shown in this post https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5418267.0 the 'doom and gloom' is not as real as news wants us to believe. Yes things are up, but not really that much. CNG is still fairly cheap, and so on. But telling people that does not sell ad space. I am still seeing some people complaining about 'shortages of things' but digging a bit deeper I see it's a mostly I can't get THIS brand that I like there are only these 4 other brands of the exact same things but I don't like those brands. I made a post a few years ago that is still somewhat active in P&S about a pair of gas stations across the street from each other and one of them had prices that were stupid high compared to the other: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5254433.0From the last time a took a picture and posted in early September it's gotten worse Diesel at the cheap station went from $4.89 / gallon to $5.49 the expensive went from $6.99 to wait for it $7.99 So looking at 1 location you can easily say diesel fuel is $7.99 a gallon on Long Island. And it is....there. Every other station for MILES and MILES around is $5.79 or less. I was listening to someone say how expensive the local pizza place has become for their lunch special. Guess what, 2 slices and a drink have been $8.00 there SINCE 2018. The other place down the road that went out of business (owner died nothing to do with economy) WAS MORE. But, he remembers the good old days or something. -Dave |
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....And scaring Newbies with trigger happy tagging makes Bitcointalk look very hostile.
It's a very fine line as to where keeping it not a disaster ends and hostile begins. I have left negatives for some users, not as much as a I think I really should but it's a time thing. I have also removed a couple when asked to, by the users. Not being willing to change is not a good thing. Allowing, scammers, shit posters, and people who are causing issues on the forum and not having repercussions is also not a good thing. As I said it's a fine line and easy to cross it. Personally, I would rather be on the too harsh but willing to forgive side. But, as I said I am also too busy to tag a lot so it's kind of moot for me. -Dave |
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Beyond that we don't know what we don't know.
RobinHood, PayPal, a lot of other places are not listed. How many people buying & selling crypto have left the exchanges and moved to other platforms that suit their needs better so how much trading is just not being shown. How much trading is being done on exchanges that are not giving their volume to coingecko and others? Things change and trying to extrapolate data without being able to GET all the data is pointless.
-Dave
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There should be an open source mining software on Github anyone can fork to be fully sovereign and mine to their own node.
There are several options. https://github.com/jtoomim/p2pool Once it's installed and running you can tweak a few settings and it will not connect to any other p2pool nodes so you would be solo mining https://github.com/tpruvot/yiimp As BitMaxz mentioned, also take a look at my above post for an installer https://bitbucket.org/ckolivas/ckpool/src/master/ CKpool There are a few others out there too, but for your own solo pool there really is no need to code it yourself. Keep in mind, you will need a network connection with low latency. That is really more important then speed. And obviously, do testing on testnet before going live. -Dave |
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So what you are looking for a L2, but instead of transactions just moving they would need to be 'mined'.
I think consensus would be a disaster. Although not 100% the same, look at what happens to any coin that has a small amount of miners. Going the other way if it's merged mined, then you might as well just skip it and set it up like LN and use BTC in the L2.
I could be totally wrong, or just not seeing something. But I think keeping the L1 as the 'mined' chain and L2 as non mined would be better.
-Dave
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Forums using SMF 2.0 and up can use MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite database to store all of the data on the forum, while SMF 1.0 and 1.1 forums may use only MySQL. mariadb is a fork of MySQL so the same issue exists there https://database.guide/what-is-the-year-2038-problem/From the coding PHP coding side it really is a trivial fix, BUT have you found every place where that code might be. Where someone hacked something quickly together and left it because it worked. It's not the glaring issues that are the problem, it the stuff that is embedded or used everywhere that is the problem. If you are in IT, what are you doing tomorrow: https://www.zdnet.com/article/openssl-warns-of-critical-security-vulnerability-with-upcoming-patch/Probably dealing with that..... -Dave |
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As others have mentioned this was already known and will be fixed long before there will be an issue. What is interesting is that it was done that way in the 1st place. It's not like this was not mentioned in a lot of other places long before BTC was even a thought by Satoshi. I know unlike the Y2K thing this is not getting attention in other places that should because even now 2038 is 15 years away and it will be the next programmers problem. But still.... https://www.reddit.com/r/mariadb/comments/lfm4fz/does_mariadb_have_any_plans_to_fix_the_2038/Anybody want to ask theymos what database server we are running on here? -Dave |
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I have seen this in some land based casino sports books too.
You can bet $1000
I can bet $1000
This guy can bet $1000
That guy over there can bet $50
Go to another casino and that guy over there can bet whatever he wants.
Sometimes it's because they won a lot but in odd ways, other times it's because some automated system tagged something that the programmers thought should not happen.
No different then when casinos back off or limit bet changes to certain BJ players who were not counting, but going with their gut and got more lucky then the odds show they should have.
-Dave
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I think we will see the same as we see with banks here in the US, there will be a few huge exchanges, a lot of large exchanges, a very large amount of mid-sized and a ton of small exchanges that nobody cares about unless you use them.
The large banks handle large businesses, smaller ones for smaller people and so on down to your local bank / Credit union.
Not to say a mega corp can't open an account / use a smaller place but it really does not help either of them. The smaller places may not be able to handle what they need. Same goes the other way, MegaBank will let me open an account with them, but I will not get the personalized service I get from some small local place.
There will be more regulations as time goes on, but once again for the exchanges, adapt or die.
-Dave
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There are a bunch of devices out there that will do something like that by power cycling incoming voltage: http://www.digital-loggers.com/lpc.htmlThere are a bunch of data center PDUs that can be hooked up to monitoring software that will check on multiple devices and do the same thing. What is nice about using the PDU / power line reboot is that you can use it to reboot just about any miner out there. Normally, I would say move this to the AltCoin mining section, but since the merge GPU mining has gone to shit, so perhaps changing the product to accommodate high voltage / amperage devices would be better. -Dave |
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IMO, the issue with testnet is that for 99% of the things you need to do you can do them with regtest coins.
I think it is the opposite, 99% of the things you need to do can be done on testnet very easily. The problem with regtest is that you have to run bitcoin core and then keep going back and forth between your application and core whereas if for example you want to test a wallet you developed, you can just claim some testnet coins from a faucet into that wallet and spend inside it without needing to download, verify, install, run bitcoin core, read documentation of how to use regtest, mine coins, import them into your wallet, and finally spend those coins to test things through a lot of mocks. I was thinking of things that talked to core. But, beyond that you can with a little bit of time and effort (as in a couple of hours at most) you can get 0.1 tBTC which as others have pointed out is more then enough to do just about anything since it is divisible down. If you need more, it just takes a bit more time and effort. If it's a 'real' project, then that just has to be part of it. But, I hit all the faucets I could google and wound up with .044 in about 45 minutes while also doing a few other things online. So if you need it it's there. -Dave *I will be returning it later today. Since I don't have a need for it. |
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IMO, the issue with testnet is that for 99% of the things you need to do you can do them with regtest coins. https://developer.bitcoin.org/examples/testing.htmlIf you are just doing testing you do it locally in regtest, and once you are sure whatever you are doing works you get a little bit of 'real testnet' coins and use those before deploying in the 'real world'. So, if you bork / loose / destroy wallets with regtest no big deal. For some reason a bunch of people are putting a lot of mining power into testnet mining and then there are others who insist on using testnet instead of regtest to do things when it's really not needed. One again, all IMO. -Dave |
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I think I am in a very small group that would like to see more negative feedback and less neutral. I really thing nobody reads the neutral.
Perhaps, it's just me but I have had some people who I told to take a look at this board come back and say "nope, it's a crapfest would rather be on r/CryptoCurrency/ or one of the discord discussions" Think about how bad we look when things like that are said.
I don't know if there really is a good solution, you want to have an open forum you have to put up with crap posters.
You start aggressively moderating people it annoys a lot of them.
Having users self patrol seems to work to a certain extent, but then you get what we have now which is people who don't like the way others are doing something and think their way is better.
-Dave
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Jack Dorsey sold Twitter to Elon Musk, but he is certainly not joking with Block hardware wallet, and they are already making bunch of their first prototypes in factory.
Device images are posted below and we know it will have type c connection, battery, fingerprint sensor or PIN, and NFC support.
They performed alpha testing with this devices and they send them to people to find all weaknesses and things that should be fixed and corrected.
Next they plan to release full electrical schematics and detailed design information, and they want to keep Block wallet with open source hardware.
Minor nitpick but the shareholders voted overwhelmingly to do it, Jack probably wanted it to go through so he could get more users for his new 'not twitter but still twitter': https://www.coindesk.com/web3/2022/10/20/jack-dorsey-backed-decentralized-social-network-bluesky-gets-30000-signups-in-48-hours/Back to this 2FA device. I think the biggest issue really is that. If it had been marketed as a 2FA thing with some other features we would have all been a lot more accepting of it then it being marketing as a hardware wallet. But, with the lack of privacy, multisig with their servers, and some other things it's not what most people consider a hardware wallet. <shrug> At this point, I don't think it matters, as I said above I use cashapp and fully recognize how privacy intrusive it is. There are so many people out there who don't know or don't care and don't want to know or care. This is the product for them. 1 Simple button and things are 'secure'. -Dave |
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Interesting and a bit more sophisticated then some other ways people have hijacked things for mining but ultimately you really have to wonder if the time and effort they are putting into this will came back to haunt them due to the size. This will force the authorities to get involved and so on.
As has been shown sooner or later large bot-nets are more likely going to get taken down hard and the operators found then smaller ones. Since they are also concentrating on big providers, they are more likely to have a good working relationship with the feds...
-Dave
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