I guess I look at it as most people who are just getting BTC to use are more likely to just run a SPV client. Keep in mind that if your PC is not on 24/7 and you do not always keep the wallet open when it is on then you will probably have to wait a while after opening up your wallet at that point to be able to spend your coins.


Home yes, school possibly, office only if you own the company. Putting non work software on your work PC is a good way to get fired. Also, unless you are remote work and connecting to an office PC, more and more offices are shutting down PCs and everything else at night. It's a bit more secure and saves power.

-Dave

Was talking to someone removing a BATM at a local place that had been there for years near JFK. Although he did not give a number, he more or less said that the owner of the shop wanted close to 3x what they had been paying for floor space so he is pulling it. Apparently the other people renting space there including a regular ATM and a bill pay kiosk either have not had the increase hit yet or the profit margins are so large on their businesses it's not a big deal.

-Dave

Since it's still trading at close to $50 a coin I took a look at CoinEx which is the only exchange I have an account in that trades it they have a 10 block confirm for trading and 30 blocks to withdraw. Either they know something we don't or have a lot more confidence that there will not be a massive reorg. Does anyone else with an account at an exchange that still trades see anything different?

I don't see the point in taking the risk at the moment, but I guess you can say that about any coin that has low to mid hashrate with an abundance of ASICs out there.

-Dave

<cough> Bernie Madoff <cough>

Tell people they will earn 5% they won't believe you. Tell them you can get 40% though your secret method they won't ask, they will just throw cash at you. Or you have not read this board: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=207.0 If you think it started with crypto you are several thousand years to late. Greed will blind people to the obvious, and there will always be people to take advantage of that.

-Dave
 

The only thing that I will say to that is that *I* have done it (not here). For a while I had a friend in Poland who worked in a salvage yard who had access to some automotive parts that people here in the US wanted.

I wanted to help and make some money so I started an new account, on the Audi / VW forum. I was well known there as me and even helped run some events so I probably could have mode more $$$ had I let people know who the other account was.

But I wanted NOBODY to know who I was with the other account. Didn't need or want the hassle, didn't need the cross over crap (You said these ABS modules are junk why are you selling them?) and so on. DaveF was DaveF and PartMover2000 had nothing to do with him. Could see the same thing here even before the BitLucy, i.e. you said this casino was good and now I have having "X" problem with it, why don't you fix it?

Full disclosure, Royse777 did contact me to do some work, and I was gong to do it, just never had the time. Money was never discussed.


-Dave

To use the car analogy that bbc.reporter used.
No, you can't go after the person who BUILT that car. Unless they KNEW it was going to used in the commission of a crime.
The getaway driver is frequently charged.

Writing the software is not a crime. Running may or may not be depending on what transactions went through. DELIBERATELY helping people who have sanctions against them is a crime. And here is where it gets murky, receiving funds from somebody with sanctions against them is also a crime. EVEN IF YOU DON'T KNOW IT. It's the ignorance is no excuse. Sucks, but that has been up and down the court system for years.

-Dave

It's going in a good direction and it's a work in progress so he can keep updating it as we give more suggestions.
EVERYTHING is going to have some sort of vulnerabilities so long as they are being addressed as they are discussed.

The point of doing it this way seems to be the fact that you can download core, disconnect from the net and have a bit more security.
Not 100% perfect, but getting better. It boils down to what I said and you commented on about TCP/IP and services.

But, it also gets back to having a hardware wallet and PIN is vulnerable to the $5 wrench. ($6 wrench with inflation)

-Dave

I know we discussed it on another thread here someplace but, it come back to the fact that if you are trading or doing anything really, on a centralized exchange or service like this you are always going to run the risk of something like this happening. Change the facts a bit and it can still happen for a "semi legitimate" reason if the exchange had to go to court for some reason and had to give the information to the court / other side of the lawsuit.

Once it's out there you never know what may be made public.

-Dave

Some questions, just to give us more information:

Did it ever work?
If it did, when was the last time and has anything else changed on your system since then?
Are you on 4.3.2?
What OS / hardware?

As others have pointed out it's rare, but also as they said following the instructions and then rebooting the machine can't hurt.

-Dave

I would just ignore them and not feed the trolls by posting their junk here. The other thing you could do is just link to where they are posting and let anyone here who is motivated go over there and show the users there why that person is a scammer / troll.

Either way, it's probably a waste of time, some people will believe what they want to believe no matter what proof you show them otherwise. Since you said it's a conspiracy forum you probably can't get through their tinfoil hats anyway.....

-Dave

And now they are showing no blocks for 16 hours, last one as of this post was Oct 15, 2022, 8:26 PM UTC.
Since it was mentioned earlier in the thread that only 9 nodes at the tip, it could be that a bunch of places were all puling data from the same place that shit the bed.

Or it could be someone trying to force a re-org and others fighting it and due to the massive chain bloat severs are just spinning themselves into oblivion, or it could be bad coding caused an issue. Fun to speculate but until the people running the public block explorers tell us, it's just conjecture.

Either way, it's interesting to watch.

-Dave

The question is how long until we see posts like this about BSV:


I can see exchanges keeping it on so long as there is trade volume and they are making money. I have said it before and will say it again, that is what exchanges try to do, make money.  As soon as they see a coin as a real threat to that it is tossed.

Even if it was known to be a scam at the beginning they will still list something if they think they can make money on the trading fees.

But, there is a tipping point, if they think they can be really hurt by it, it's tossed like yesterdays trash. After all, once you list a coin the hard work is done, you just have to sit there and take the fees, shutting it off is just about no work at all.

-Dave

Could be wrong but I think in general it's not gotten better, but the spammers have moved to places that a lot of us don't see because we don't frequent those sections.

I also think the reporting 'bots' that Mitchell and others are getting better. As they add more terms to them a lot of the things that may have been up for a longer that would have gotten reported and taken down are now removed before many people even see them.

Add in the fact that many of the older accounts that were popping back up to spam have been nuked / banned it is a bit better here.

-Dave

Lets see if it gets any traction in the real world outside of big corporate miners.

I can see it slowly taking over as the manufactures start using it by default, but until you hit that critical mass point I see most people still using V1, I know a lot of people never even update the firmware on their miners unless thy wind up having an issue with something. For the small miners, there really is no advantage to all the additional overhead that it needs. And as with anything, the more features you add to something the more issues you will probably wind up with.

-Dave

2 1/2 hours later it's a T-Mobile issue. I figured it was since I could make calls so the OS could talk to the esim. Turns out that if you don't use it for a while you miss updates to the programming and you have to have them refresh it. Important tip for the $10 / month spare phone in a draw thing. And Side Of Burritos drives a Honda Accord, was watching the video you linked to and I see that dashboard every day.

Side note if you are thinking of getting a 7 there are a few discounts / rebates going on depending on where you are located:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-pixel-7-pro-deal-prime-day-october-amazon-sale/
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/1680560/Google-Pixel-7-Pro-release-price-free-Pixel-Watch-deal

There are others you just have to hunt around a bit

-Dave

LineageOS has a fairly large amount of supported devices: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/ and their nightly builds are always updated: https://download.lineageos.org/dre/changes/

As for GrapheneOS I lied about the esim working, can't get calls in, I can only make outgoing. A physical sim works fine. I think it's a carrier issue, on hold with T-Mobile now. If you never hear from me again you know I died waiting for them to pick up. Watching some Side Of Burritos videos now.

-Dave

If you bought when cards were at their highest with less then 6 months left on mining then you got what you deserved. Sorry, but you can't fix stupid.

Last spring (2021), I bought a couple of 2080Ti, mined with them for a YEAR and sold them this spring (2022) for close to 2x what I paid. There is no way the person who bought them could ever come close to making money.

I just about broke even mining in the year I had them and had I kept them would have been a few hundred dollars ahead when mining ended. So, it was definitely possible.

-Dave

Rant.....
I would really like to see the entire concept of the pruned node removed. Either run a node or don't. There seem to be more and more people who want to have a node running on drives that don't have enough space that wind up going the pruned node route and then wonder why they can't import a private key or are having some other issue that comes back to the fact that you can't go back to a full node without re-downloading everything. Spinning 1TB drives are under $40.00 as are 512GB SSD it's no longer that big a deal.
...end rant

-Dave

Nope, it's a OnePlus Nord running LineageOS. You could not pay me to use an iPhone. OK, well if you give me enough I might use one, but I would still carry an Android device :-)
The battery was not fixable in software, 100% just a bad battery, it would heat up to the point of the phone shutting down even with a 2 amp charger. Was just a bad battery out of the box, it happens, but there was no way they tested it before shipping.

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With that being said I put Graphene on the 4A late yesterday and it seems to be working. Had to jump through a few more hoops then listed here: https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-google-play-esim to get my esim working. Once that was good I went to bed, will do more testing later or tomorrow. At 1st use it seems slower then what was there stock, but it's been a while since I used that phone so I may be relating it more to what I have been using now. Threw them a donation since it's the right thing to do.

-Dave

What loss? If they bought the ASICs / GPUs long enough ago they are paid for many times over. Even if you bought only a year before the merge if you had cheap enough power you were under 300 days for RoI on most ASICs and about the same for GPUs.
GPUs can and are still being sold off,  and as of now it looks to be more profitable running current or 1 gen out SHA ASICs then GPUs.

As for the other coins that can be mined with the ETH ASICs, it's a tough call. If you RoI already on them whatever you sell them off for is profit. Or, you can keep mining at a loss at the moment and hope those coins go up enough.

Businesses for the most part, if they know they can make money mining BTC but *may* make money mining something else but *will* make money selling the ASICs are going to sell the ASICs and mine BTC. That's just good business.

-Dave