Just another poor guy who's bored on the internet, and hopes someone will use him as a middleman because it is " completely anonymous and secure". He's on my Ignore list now. There are quite a few people on my ignore list, but sometimes you just see the crap coming from some accounts and feel they need a tag. Some of it is probably based on my mood but I would like to think that having a few neg tags and a flag or 2 will stop someone from getting scammed by them. Can't hurt, the odds of posters like this ever going legit are small and if they do feedback can be changed and flag support can be withdrawn. -Dave |
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I don't see a physical address or anything else so I would be wary.
You probably missed it, but it is written on the site Voltage Incorporated 1050 S Sagebrush St Wichita, KS 67230 Email Address: support @voltage.cloud Telephone number: 620-755-1703 I checked the usual spots, the main page, the about us page and the contact us page and did not see it. So either their site is not mobile friendly or I just missed it. However, looking at that address it is someones house not even an office in a strip mall or one of those shared office places, just a house. Sure that the cost can easily be lowered but there are surely people who prefer to pay for a "ready to go" solution. It will certainly become a niche later on. When you see the electricity price in some countries, it can be cheaper to run a server. If you spend $3 on electricity, well it could be better to buy a 3$ VPS with a 100 times better connection, and maybe a "better security" what HW are they hosting on, what it the back end connection and where are they hosting
I don't know the specs of the HW, but I know that Lite and Standard nodes are hosted on shared HW, while Pro nodes are on dedicated servers. Servers are located in The United States Could be the way they do their marketing, but the way the pricing is shown (per hour with a per month price) looks like they are just spinning up machines on the Amazon or Google cloud (or similar) not saying that is bad but if it's a well known cloud good cloud provider that's fine. If it's DaveF hosting it's a different story. Don't get me wrong I like seeing more things like this in the BTC space. But without more info this service may or may not be worth it. -Dave |
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Nope. In my opinion hardware wallets make no sense to use. Completely unnecessary.
If you are going to hold, use a piece of paper.
If you are going to spend, use your phone.
If you are going to trade, well the exchange does the holding for you.
There isn't any need for a hw wallet in any of these situations.
For you....For others it's a different story. Hot wallet on my phone a few hundred dollars of crypto at most. Or, as I like to say, the phone is worth more then the crypto on it. Warm wallet, under $2500 but that much would suck to loose so although it's on an internet connected PC it's needs a hardware wallet to sign / send. Cold wallet. 2 of 3 mutisig in separate locations that all have live physical security and single pass-though man-traps. The argument is that there is no way for users to know that the firmware signed by the maker is the one that is actually running on the device (only that the device claims that its running that).
That's wrong; you flash the device yourself using the firmware downloaded and verified from the website whenever you update it, actually. So every time you do, you re-verify that everything's fine. Interesting. Is this flashing you talk about done by the official hardware wallet app? (BitBox App, Trezor Suite, etc) Or is this something I need to do separately myself? Depends on the particular wallet. There is no 1 answer. -Dave |
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I can say that at least 100 of the 0.001 are from me. They are the Dave and Julie DIY Bitcoin Penny Coins.
Yes I know a penny should be 0.01 but give them away to people so deal with it :-) or send me a bunch of BTC and the next time I am making things to give away I'll fund them with some of your money...
No real set time when they were made but were always done in batches of 5 or 10 usually just before events or gatherings and no idea how many still exist.
-Dave
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The question is what HW are they hosting on, what it the back end connection and where are they hosting? They have a nice website but...... I can have a BTCPay server up and running in a VM on my home PC on behind a cable modem in less then an hour since I have an image that is almost up to date handy. It would be sitting on an external USB drive with no redundancy. I will give that to you for $7.50 a month.....do you really want that? Setting something up in the AMZN cloud or similar will be different. I don't see a physical address or anything else so I would be wary. Come to think about it https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5364742.0 I'll host one of these for $5.00 a month......... -Dave |
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Or, and I am just putting it out there you can have a trusted member buy one and ship it to you.
Don't know how customs is where you are and if you would really trust the "random internet person" here but I think there are enough people you could reach out to who would buy & reship for you. Also, when are you coming / where in the US are you going to be? Have it shipped to a trusted member and you can do a F2F, have a cup of coffee or whatever and get it.
Just a thought.
-Dave
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There really are enough DEX out there for people to use, if they choose not to use them, then that is on them.
Also, lets face it at least in this case it always looked like someone just talking BS. They sent coins out and their account was frozen. That is just not logical. I can see where they may freeze your account if incoming coins originated from someplace that they have on their 'no' list but going out. You could have just as easily sent them to your wallet 1st and then on. 1 quick extra step. It really does not even pay to monitor outgoing for things like that. Otherwise they will be following coins forever.
-Dave
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I would do BTC and possibly 1 or 2 alts I that's it.
USD EUR GBP for the fiat side
Add a couple of donation addresses on the bottom with different coins. The more popular but cheaper to send alts even if someone sends you a few doge here and there it could add up.
The original preev colors were fine as is the white on black you have setup.
Keep it as simple as possible so lower power devices / slow internet can still get to it.
Just my thoughts.
-Dave
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set the max Power to 100W for 1 board and then use only 1 hashing board, at the end you will have 1.1Th/s for about 110W, it’s not really hot and it’s not loud with only 1 Board, you will hear only the PSU, not the Miner
Would it also possible to change the fans of the miner to standard 120mm computer fans to make it even quieter, or does Braiins OS doesn't work then anymore? I ask this question because I think I will use the miner to run all 3 boards at 100 Watts each if this is possible with basically no noise. More or less CFM = 3.25 x Watts / allowed temp rise deg F So figure out room temp and how hot you want your miner to run an you can do the math of how much air you have to move. This is not perfect but should give you a good idea of how fast / slow you have to run the fans. It's also a worst case scenario of heat transfer. -Dave |
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Very interesting observation. What is also possible is that the person who owns the address already used up all his bitcoins and have now come to the more or less oldest ones to also use them to fund his lifestyle. I can't really think of any other reason to not touch coins for so long and then move them at this point.
There are probably a lot of people who had a few hundred to a couple of thousand BTC from back then and are just slowly moving them as they need funds. Think about it if you sold 200 back in 2017 you had $4 million USD (before tax) here we are 5 years later and you can cash out another million. You can have a really nice lifestyle with that and if you are quiet about it not attract attention. And a couple of years from now you can sell another 50 for?  I don't see it as any differently then someone who back in the late 90s dumped $5000 into APPL to see what might happen an for the last 15 years has been slowly cashing out. If you don't talk / brag about it nobody will ever know. Except the IRS....they know..... -Dave |
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Flat out not true.
With things like the lightning network more and more people are transacting without their wallets / addresses being touched. Addresses / wallets are just one small indicator of what is going on.
As more people use LN for day to day transactions BTC price will change. But there will be limited visibility on chain with addresses / wallets.
Some people like LN, some people don't. At this point it's 'whatever', it's being used and it's growing so all other things aside lots of small transactions are going to matter more to theBTC price then a few larger ones.
-Dave
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I don't see the reply from FTX which is why I asked. All I see is stuff from Aztec and a bunch of replies from other people nothing from FTX.
They could have deleted their tweet or posted the reply someplace else. I still can't find them commenting on it at all.
Either way probably does not matter. FTX + FTX US + FTX Turkey have a volume close to what Coinbase does. VS a crap DeFi token. I don't think they care if they loose all the Aztec users.
-Dave
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Does anyone have a link to what FTX said from FTX, not from a 3rd party? I poked around their site and their twitter feed but might have missed it.
Not saying what was said is not true, but there have been a lot of people saying that "X" said "Y" and we all find out later it was "Z"
And as always, not your keys not your coins....
-Dave
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I recovered an account with them once that I lost the 2FA for, had no balance, it wasn’t too hard to do..
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I never had any issues with their customer service either, but there seem to be a lot of people that do. Don't know if the long term users get treated better or we have just been in BTC for so long we understand it better and don't need the hand holding that new people do. The only way I see this happening is if CB were to sell their servicing division for their retail accounts. Perhaps they would strike a deal such that they would provide back office support for whoever buys their servicing division. It is also difficult to manage credit risk, and I am sure that CB has invested a lot into their credit risk management, and risk management regarding processing withdrawals.
I see it more along with keep it running but shrink retail customers and then sell them off to someone else. Yesterday you were a Coinase customer tomorrow you are a Gemini customer. Kind of like what HSBC did. Make everyone miserable with fees till a lot leave, then sell off the rest to Citizens bank. Or there could be something we all are missing. Are there a lot of people that DO fall into that trading amount and it's going to work out well for them. I don't see it, but as mentioned many times here, people on this board are not your standard BTC user / customer. -Dave |
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Minor information update from today concerning this incident: 22.8.2022 15:00 - Incident was reported to Czech Police. Total damage caused to ATM operators based on their feedback is 16 000 USD.
$16,000 stolen? That means either these hackers must be very cheap (like its some teenager getting cash for a new PC), or General Bytes ATMs have almost no liquidity in them. Going with very little liquidity. There really is no reason to have much sitting in there for most people. AND if GB sent out emails and texts although servers may not have been updated / patched they may have just taken them offline or moved the funds ASAP. I wonder if we are going to see a lot of cheap BATMs on the market soon. -Dave |
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I would really like to see someone start to dig up a lot of the REALLY cool miners that people made over the years. MrTeal and his Chili kind of things: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=304250.0Some of the oddball things based off of the BE100 chips. The original Avalons and BitFury based things. Getting into the BTCGarden and BFL stuff. Possibly even the early Innosilicon and CoinTerra and KNC Don't forget all the early USB ones out there too. The one in Caracas has a lot and this one seems to have a few, but you would really need a real museum curator to go and start digging up all the stuff from 8 to 10 years ago. -Dave |
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Every other place I frequent, be it motorcycle boards, tech boards, whatever trolls are removed. Some of the more fun admins have shadow ban settings where they are the only ones that can see their posts so they can troll on but nobody sees them.
Here, although against the 'rules' it seems to be permitted.
As others have pointed out unless certain lines are crossed, they get to stay. I guess page views are more important the quality.
fxsurfer/snowshow started his trolling career on the biggest Croatian forum (forum.hr) at least 5 years ago but they are not so hesitant to ban obvious ban evaders/trolls so he gets banned as soon as someone spots his new account. In the end he started avoiding it and instead focused on bitcointalk where on top of having bigger audience he can get away with one alt account after another, even though its obvious who is behind them. Makes you wonder how much letting people like him stay along with all the other shit poster and such hurt BTC in general. Imagine coming here as a new BTC and seeing all the crap that is permitted. Same with the altcion section and so on. I do spend a fair amount of time here, but I do seem to be less and less active since I really don't always have the time to wade through crap. -Dave |
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2 thoughts 1) If you are worried about old power sucking machines nodes in a box work well: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5364113 and they really don't use that much power after IBD:  Thar is what a full mynodebtc on a RPi pulls through the USB. Obviously at the power pack at the wall you will be 110V/220V but still only a couple of watts. 2) If you are not running other things like a block explorer, electrs, lightning node. 1TB will last a good long time. If you want to do more, yes 2TB -Dave |
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Here, although against the 'rules' it seems to be permitted. Because, unfortunately, punishment isn't enforced. The rules are there, and are violated. Isn't there one mod responsible for this? I just want a respond. Am I wrong for requesting this? Nope, you are 100% correct. But as others that have been here longer then you and me have said, nothing seems to happen. We report, and complain and report and complain and nothing changes. The mods / admins seem to like their spam. The sad part really is that if his posts were actually deleted nobody would complain. It's not like there is any justification for all the ramblings. -Dave |
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