Therefore i want to ask the much more experienced users here for some advice on how to handle that. Maybe there are some "best practices" which i don't know yet. Don't take this as legal advice, but if someone would address me as "Dear Binancian", I'd probably ignore them. What's the point of all that KYC if they can't address you by your name? I wouldn't use Binance anyway, they freeze your funds when they make a mistake. |
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I don't know a casino that's completely KYC free anymore. freebitco.in used to be one but they even get to them so, they will indeed ask for your papers when the gov wants it from them. Mixers on the other hand weren't doing any KYC for the obvious reasons. Not only casinos, exchanges started the same way: some Bitcoin enthousiasts created something new, then it quickly grew over their head, and eventually they disappeared or matured. Bitcoin is growing up, and growing up comes with regulation. and just like that crypto dies. You can submit your post for the Bitcoin Obituaries  I guess that the FIOD have known that already longer what they will be doing , and dont know if that Account is legit or not.
So as long that there is not a notice on there official Website that this Account belongs to them i have my doubts. Their number is on their website. You can ask them What wins has the Bitcoin community had over the government? Bitcoin still exists! That's the biggest win, and it's still growing in popularity. No government can stop it. |
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Government 1:0 Bitcoin community You're quite a pessimist We have "magic internet money", and can send funds without anyone's permission to anyone we want. I wouldn't say the Bitcoin community has score "0" at the moment. It's much higher. I can understand decision to not allow mixers to advertise in forum, but not allowing any members to speak about them, and banning them... this that I really don't understand. Isn't that similar to being allowed to discuss the effects of drugs, but not where to buy them? |
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Things will get quite interesting once full RBF becomes commonplace. Any such transaction stealing coins from a brain wallet or leaked private key could be replaced by another transaction, regardless of whether or not is opted in to RBF. We could end up seeing different bots broadcasting more and more replacements, each paying a higher and higher fee, trying to steal the coins for themselves. Since there is no incentive for any one such bot to surrender and let another bot win, then such transactions could just escalate until the entire value (or close to it) is paid in fees. It looks like this is becoming a reality: claim 83BTC refund fee from antpool  That's going to be interesting if several people claim to be the real owner. In that case following the coins up the chain and signing a message from one of the earlier addresses will be more convincing.
My take on what happened:Address bc1qn3d7vyks0k3fx38xkxazpep8830ttmydwekrnl received funds, which were immediately transferred again. That happens to every compromised private key, and many bots must be competing to be the first to steal funds. Usually, they use a high fee. In this case, my guess is that since more and more nodes accept full RBF, this lead to a very high transaction fee. Eventually, miners will get all stolen funds and the "private key hunters" will only be left with crummies. I hope the real owner can convince Antpool he's the real owner, so they don't send it to any of the private key hunters who also have the same private key. |
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You left out the last character. With this added, the signature is correct. claim 83BTC refund fee from antpool That's going to be interesting if several people claim to be the real owner. In that case following the coins up the chain and signing a message from one of the earlier addresses will be more convincing.
My take on what happened:Address bc1qn3d7vyks0k3fx38xkxazpep8830ttmydwekrnl received funds, which were immediately transferred again. That happens to every compromised private key, and many bots must be competing to be the first to steal funds. Usually, they use a high fee. In this case, my guess is that since more and more nodes accept full RBF, this lead to a very high transaction fee. Eventually, miners will get all stolen funds and the "private key hunters" will only be left with crummies. I hope the real owner can convince Antpool he's the real owner, so they don't send it to any of the private key hunters who also have the same private key. I did some research, as a result of which I received the seed phrase of the wallet from which 139 BTC were stolen. I have evidence that this seed phrase was not generated by chance. That's because you are brute-forcing "easy" private keys. if the owner did not create it himself, and this seed phrase was generated for him by some wallet, then I can provide evidence of non-random generation, as a result of which the owner will be able to go to court and recover lost funds from the creators of the wallet. How about you read the "this software is provided as is"-licence that any wallet comes with? In return I ask for a reward of 10%. I ask the owner of the lost funds to contact me. telegram @Crypto_Validator Quoted for reference. |
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to increase your privacy. Search on Google I couldn't resist highlighting the irony in this. What will be the punishment if there will be "use mixer" in the post where recipe is discussed? OP mentions the word "mixer" 32 times, but never specifies it as "Bitcoin mixer". I see a new market for KitchenAid to advertise in signatures on Bitcointalk, starting 4 months from now! If I search the word "mixer" on Google, all I see is pages filled with this:  (image source in image URL) It looks like "we" have given a completely different meaning to an existing word. |
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linking to darknet sites is already not allowed. To be clear: not all .onion sites qualify as darknet, right? I assume I can still link to non-illegal sites (such as protonmailrmezxxxxxxxxxx.onion). Can you clarify this? I already saw some confusion about it earlier today. - In most cases, old posts will not be deleted. Nobody should be banned for old posts. How about old avatars? Many inactive and even banned users still have an avatar from a Bitcoin mixer. It will continue to be OK to discuss mixers in a general sort of way. Just don't direct people to mixers: don't link to a mixer, don't link to a directory with links to mixers, don't tell people to "Google ASDFmixer", don't link to a mixer's telegram, etc. How about Scams Bitcoin Mixers List and Services closed: I guess it has to be locked too. Phishing sites are going to love this change! Google has shown ads for fake mixers for years. Will it come to a time of KYC-mixers? There's no point. If you want to break the link between input A and output B, any regular KYC Bitcoin exchange will do. Nobody on the planet will know the link, except for the exchange. And they'll keep it for the rest of eternity. It sounds weird now but maybe in future, it will happen and with KYC, mixers will be allowed by laws. The point is to avoid criminals to use mixers, not good people who want privacy to use mixers. I'm pretty sure that's already allowed. It is official now, you cannot stay anonymous on the internet Sure you can, open Tor browser and start over with a new identity. By 2030, no privacy, no private assets. That's the real scary part: IRL privacy is getting worse and worse, and you can't get a new identity there. "KYC" and "mixers" in the same sentence makes it sound like an oxymoron. It depends on who you're hiding from: I'm not allowed to hide my money from government, but I am allowed to not let my barista know I just visited the red light district (for coffee, of course). But I see no point in sending your KYC information to an anonymous party, or even a "known" party if they're hiding in the Cayman Islands. 2) Mixer links in signatures are allowed, but the announcement and deal agreement must be outside the forum (since links in signatures are an individual responsibility) "Pssst! There's this thing we're not allowed to talk about it, but if you click the link under my post, you can read all about it!" Nope, that's not going to work. - Hey, how can I gain privacy in Bitcoin?
- Use mixers! More like: use different wallets for different purposes. Don't use your long-term hodling for buying coffee, and don't mix your coffee money with your weird fetish money. Would you rather have the entire forum shutdown? I guess it became inevitable to ban mixers, but I didn't expect it to happen this fast. Just 2 days ago someone (a mixer) asked me in PM about the odds of mixers being banned. Things changed fast!
After CM was kicked off it's top position, many other mixers largely increased their advertising budget, all fighting to be the new #1. This went a lot faster than I expected. |
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i just came back to say that my single bitcoin is still on that transferred adress. No one touched it since 2019 and i have a feeling it is lost for humanity I don't think it's lost. You used a (known) scam site to create a paper wallet. The site owner most likely has access, but it looks like he's just HODLing your coins. He's probably not in a rush to cash out, which might compromise his own identity (and get him caught). Have you reported the theft to your local police, as suggested before? If they ever take down the owner of the site, it might be useful to have a paper trail. |
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I'm surprised they don't have more Bitcoin addresses on that list. Is it that you can't post onion links on the forum? No. You can't post links to illegal services and you'll get banned if you try to bypass "http://[directing people to darknet sites is not allowed].onion/" (for instance by adding a dot in between the URL). |
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Coindesk have the update on their website. I'm surprised they've "banned" only 2 Bitcoin addresses: one was used for signature payments on the forum, the other holds just $67 worth of Bitcoin and never sent anything. Why in the world would any mixer that wants to remain in business for the long term accept funds that are so tainted What if it's the other way around, and that's the reason the mixer was created in the first place? I think there is a clear difference when a mixer is being used to mix for the average person conducting non-criminal acts for the sake of increasing privacy and an enterprise that has been created with laundered money to offer a mixing service Even worse than that: the latter needs the former. Though this is my personal observation, the government is doing all these to destroy Bitcoin since they could not destroy it directly so they have to enter it from the window to destroy everything, Andy they are attacking any company that connected to Bitcoin activities It's the opposite: what I read about Bitcoin in this case is actually quote encouraging: A cryptocurrency mixing service is not necessarily illegal. While we encourage responsible innovation in the digital asset ecosystem, we will not hesitate to take action against illicit actors.
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Perhaps all of it? 8192? That leaves nothing for other programs, so it's too much. I set it to 7000 and let's see... I'm curious if that helps. More dbcache also means less file cache for the OS. |
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supposing I wanted to do it, would I need to copy the chainstate and blocks directories? I'd copy everything in ~/.bitcoin/ (after shutting down Bitcoin Core). Makes sense, but 16 GB is a lot for a cheap computer. RPi doesn't support 16GB anyway. Yep, it sucks  And the Bitcoin dust those Ordinal spammers create will remain unspent taking up space in chainstate forever. |
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I have 2 nodes and I am currently setting up my 3rd node. Why don't you just copy the blockchain from your existing nodes to the new node? After reaching block 790,000 the process slowed down a lot. I have spent 5 days until block 790,000 and 3 more days until 810,000 and there are still approximately 10,000 blocks left, which will take even more I guess that's around the time the Ordinal spam largely increased the number of transactions, and the size of chainstate. It currently takes 8.5 GB on disk, which won't fit your 8 GB RAM anymore. It looks like 16 GB is the new minimum for a fast IBD. |
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If a topic in Meta hasn't received any Merit after 6 months and 300 views, it's probably not worth reading. |
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this is of course a fake/fraud So someone managed to turn the word 2FA into an attack vector. And there will always be people falling for it. |
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Is it possible that it is a hack? A hack on fiod.nl and treasury.gov? If so, why did certain authorities immediately publish this news? I'm pretty sure they don't publish third party press releases. |
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meta is the gossip section We need a gossip board! Wasn't the requirement for a new board having many existing topics that would fit there? That seems to be the case! Create a new board, and start moving topics (including this one)  |
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In the first strategy, all the authorities need to do is to address the issues facing traditional fiat currencies. Allow me to respond to only this part: why would you even believe fiat currency is "traditional"? If we skip the barter economy, the gold standard is much more traditional than fiat money: The gold standard was a commitment by participating countries to fix the prices of their domestic currencies in terms of a specified amount of gold. National money and other forms of money (bank deposits and notes) were freely converted into gold at the fixed price. England adopted a de facto gold standard in 1717 after the master of the mint, Sir Isaac Newton, overvalued the guinea in terms of silver, and formally adopted the gold standard in 1819. The United States, though formally on a bimetallic (gold and silver) standard, switched to gold de facto in 1834 and de jure in 1900 when Congress passed the Gold Standard Act. In 1834, the United States fixed the price of gold at $20.67 per ounce, where it remained until 1933. Other major countries joined the gold standard in the 1870s. The period from 1880 to 1914 is known as the classical gold standard. During that time, the majority of countries adhered (in varying degrees) to gold. It was also a period of unprecedented economic growth with relatively free trade in goods, labor, and capital. And a bit later: Britain stopped using the gold standard in 1931, and the U.S. followed suit in 1933, finally abandoning the remnants of the system in 1973.
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The appeal of a gold standard is that it arrests control of the issuance of money out of the hands of imperfect human beings. With the physical quantity of gold acting as a limit to that issuance, a society can follow a simple rule to avoid the evils of inflation. Inflation is a terrible thing, and the main reason I'm into Bitcoin. No central bank will want to give up their power over BRRR.
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The service's onion is offline, which means police managed to seize the backend server It's offline, unlike CM's .onion, which was seized. That's a big difference. Allow me to post selective quotes (read the whole article for the full context): While we encourage responsible innovation in the digital asset ecosystem, we will not hesitate to take action against illicit actors.
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The ultimate goal of sanctions is not to punish but to bring about a positive change in behavior. btw, the account immediately had 3 neg trust  That's just to prevent them from joining a signature campaign later Seriously though: 2 of the 3 negatives are for "impersonating". That can be clarified with one small text file. I'm pretty sure that's a government-controlled account The only alternative is an impersonator with impeccable timing. That's not very likely. He is just a troll Unlikely. The account was created 2.5 hours before fiod.nl published this article, and posted about it 6 minutes after publication. People from North Korea, where one among 100000 rarely has access on computer and internet, manage to create a group that plays with the USA like cat plays with mouse. Food must be a very strong motivator  Seriously though: that's not so hard to believe. Same for Iran. Most hackers have to fear prosecution. State hackers don't have that problem. |
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