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2481  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin increased my mental awareness on: January 20, 2023, 09:12:12 AM
...All day long!
~
...And I keep repeating all the steps, again and again...
...All day long!

I don't know about others but this doesn't sound like mental awareness to me and more like self inflicted torture!
Why would you do this over and over and over again, the moment you have secured your wallets you don't need to go through the same steps of securing the keys for every coin from your add to your stash. You just send them to one of your already-created wallets and that's it.
Creating a new pack of cold wallets for every batch of coins you acquire will at some point end with a misplacement.

Take note that this isn't necessarily the best strategy. While you avoid losing all your coins in one go, it increases the chances of you losing your funds partially.

If I were to lose one of my wallets probably the first thing I would say is Thank You God I didn't put all my coins in this one!  Wink
If you follow the same procedure for all of them the risks of losing one is almost the same as losing your single wallet, but I agree that if you start experimenting with 100 methods and 100 places and you try more and more weird and untested ways some will definitely fail.
2482  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: how long does transaction take on: January 20, 2023, 08:53:23 AM
Transaction has been 2hours now and not confirmed

You simply got extremely, but extremely unlucky!
If you would have sent it half an hour earlier it would have got confirmed immediately,  block 772777 that was mined at ‎2023-01-20 07:31 so about 3 hours ago was not full so it would have included it. After it we had a period of very slow blocks,7 mined instead of 15, and a dump of transactions.

It's still early morning so once the pace picks up again with blocks it will get confirmed probably in a few more hours, but nobody can anticipate if somebody drops another 10k transactions with higher fees than yours.
2483  Economy / Economics / Re: Iran and Russia want to issue new stablecoin backed by gold on: January 20, 2023, 06:00:03 AM
The last inspection by Members of Congress was on September 23, 1974,

Make that 2017
https://apnews.com/article/d0e1efce41bb42ba9cdf1f34dc3f7e5c

There might as well be Gold painted bricks in those vaults, because nobody has tested it.  Roll Eyes  

The same conspiracy theories that make no sense, all that gold stored at Fort Know would be around ~200 billion, just the classified U.S. Defense budget is at ~100 billion, and the US has just issued 1.5 trillion in free money, how hard would have been for them to actually print enough to buy that gold back if it had ever been spent? And why would they spend it in the first place when they can just print billions with ease?

What else do you need? US lobby needs to be broken for a peaceful world.

Yeah right, cause Russia is known for its history of peace and not for land-grabbing wars nearly every decade.
I love how people on Bitcointalk throw all the shit possible at the US while ignoring that right now it's still the best place for development and the top spot in adoption, mining, batms, business accepting and people actually spending it, everything. But no, who cares about that?
2484  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin developer @lukedashjr's wallet was hacked on: January 20, 2023, 05:38:46 AM
It appears that yesterday hodlonaut had some back and forth with LukeDasher via twitter to assert that LukeDasher was misleading people and claiming that there were no ways to keep bitcoin secure

Luke is one of those guys that won't back down even if deep down he knows he is wrong about something, I've seen enough of his ideas that he clings so desperately and won't accept any criticisms over it so I wouldn't be surprised for him to shift the blame but saying that nothing can be done when you're targeted that's beyond going overboard!  As if wasn't bad enough that a core developer has lost his bitcoins in the hack, now the same developer hinting nobody can be really safe it's just too much!

The only good thing is that the media hasn't cached up with this or it's not paying attention at all, and hopefully it never does as it will turn into a real shitshow.
2485  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Head shaking news. Founders of Coinflex and 3Arrows will start a new exchange! on: January 20, 2023, 05:09:35 AM
The exchange’s name is even a spin on “FTX,” with one of the GTX pitch decks opening with the line "because G comes after F." [/i]

FTX was short for Futures exchange, what's GTX standing for, Garbage exchange?
I can already see people nicknaming this in every possible way, Grand Theft Exchange is probably the best one yet!

As I already mentioned in a topic, it wasn't the model of FTX that was problematic and triggered the collapse, it was the idiots that made a mess of everything and loaned and spent funds without thinking twice or even once, in this case, it starts with the problem, the guys in charge of it being the same that caused the problems, so a new exchange with the same people is just as worse. FTX without them and SBF is one thousand times better than any clone launched by the former teammates.

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Su Zhu and Kyle Davies, the founders of collapsed crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC), are hoping to raise $25 million to start a new crypto exchange called GTX, according to two separate pitch decks obtained by The Block.

And since we live in a world that sometimes resembles a madhouse, probably they will get that money immediately! When people throw million at Ponzi schemes, investor bail out three times in a year a company with no product whatsoever, what's $25 million on a project like one hundred others? Just wait for it, in a few months we will get the news about successful funding and I would not raise an eyebrow if in the list of those backers you'll see companies that have lost money over FTX.
2486  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Bitzlato seized, alleges $700 mln of illicit funds processed on: January 20, 2023, 12:39:27 AM
I found the owner has an account on bitcointalk
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=4704;sa=showPosts

Oh ****
I didn't pay attention to the name as when I see an -ov ending name I'm sure I will forget it the next second, but when you mentioned in that quote engineers and mining, this legkodymov, oh yeah! The guy has one hell of a history book with bitcoin!

Thanks to legkodymov.
S5 was based on legkodymov's serial power design, and its power consumption at wall is 0.51W/G.
S2-replace PCB will be released after Chinese Spring Festival, and it will be serial powered too, and its power consumpiton at wall will be less than 0.4W/G.

This now brings the question, (one that probably nobody can answer) why would this guy who could have literally swum in coins like Scrooge McDuck would be laundering money? Was a really a case of defiance against the state and or just unlimited greed hidden behind claims of freedom?



2487  Economy / Exchanges / Re: BTCC exchange, discussion, reviews, opinion on: January 20, 2023, 12:16:44 AM
So I'm pretty sure it's just a new scum exchange that pretend to be an old exchange, old exchange surely will appear on the top 20 if they're still operated until now.

Oh really?
https://cointelegraph.com/top-people-in-crypto-and-blockchain-2020/bobby-lee

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Bobby Lee is the former CEO of China’s first cryptocurrency exchange, BTCC, founded in 2011

I have reason to avoid this based on archives of their site. Try to check the snapshots for 2018 or older, they are running a different service than they currently are. I don't think they really started 11 years ago.

Again, see the above link, BTCC was BTCChina at that time it's normal it looked different.

To my knowledge they have a locked thread here: Topic: [ANN] Bitcoin Core [BTCC] | The return to the Core values of Bitcoin.  , unfortunately some negative feedback emerged.
Elsewhere I also saw a new thread about 2022. Topic: BitcoinCopy ($BTCC) ICO - Bitcointalk Announcement, unfortunately also unclear information.

So you just search for the term BTCC, didn't bother to read the topic to see if it's about some coin using the name of the exchange to gain attention, and decided it's about this exchange? You've been lately on a witchhunt that is starting to become a bit too much!

Seriously, is Wikipedia good enough for you guys?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTCC_(company)
2488  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Has an exchange ever blocked your Bitcoins from Signature earnings? on: January 19, 2023, 11:22:14 PM
For example, if you work in an organization and it is discovered that it is illegal, the money that was paid to you for your work will not be confiscated.

It depends a bit on where you live and what type of illegal activity we're talking about and the sums involved!!
Under the civil forfeiture law or which has led to a lot of weird shit and abuse as long as there is any kind of suspicion your money has been earned through an illegal activity they can seize it. So if you're unlucky, you will have to provide beyond a doubt that you have provided service without knowledge of the activities of the said company and you haven't been involved in anything illegal yourself, which might prove difficult in this context!

But not the case with some signature campaigns on the forum!

I just realized that there is an exchange taking action against cheating behavior on bitcointalk. Btw, who usually reports it, and in what way?

There is no such thing, the guy woke up on the wrong side of the bed or posted after ten beers too many.
Probably copy pasted that from somewhere since I see in the modlog his reply was deleted.

2489  Other / Off-topic / Re: How do you measure image width and height ? on: January 19, 2023, 10:29:58 PM
What I actually mentioned here is how to get the correct size of the image for a decent view on bitcointalk forum And for this, third party tools have to be used to know the size of the image.

Just as NotATether said, you don't need to know the actual image width and height to make it look good when you're adding one
Here is your image with just the width you measured and two random ones:





Do you see any real difference or any stretching happening or are the two not "decent"?



2490  Economy / Speculation / Re: BTC Pumping After The Arrest of Sam on: January 19, 2023, 09:54:45 PM


I had a laugh at this, for sure the green arrow was needed, some could have mistaken SBF for the other two guys with police hats!
It's like in those crash videos where there is only one car visible but somehow the author still finds the need to point a red arrow at it, to make sure you don't look at the sky or something like this!  Wink

This may be the one of the BTC down reason, but there are other reasons as well. CZ tweeted as well about this that Btc price has been recovered to the place where from it down after FTX collapsed.There are still many other reason also like MtGox changed his mind.

The main reason was CPI data and speculation that FED will finally change its policy on interest rates.
The biggest hike during this bull run happened exactly as the numbers were released:
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2022/12/13/bitcoin-as-november-inflation-data-shows/
A lot of shares also had a bump on that day, even Tesla managed to get a 10% back, the whole Nasdaq index went from 10,305 to 11,095 and shares are far less volatile than crypto.

The recovery of funds from FTX just kept the fire burning but alone they wouldn't have meant much.
Overall positivity is what brought this pump, not SBF or CZ or anyone else.


2491  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: Anyone know why FTT price started to rise just now? on: January 19, 2023, 09:20:15 PM
FTT pumping again on the news that the new CEO is considering reopening the exchange. https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-ftx-chief-says-crypto-exchange-could-restart-11674143168

Hmm, it's more like a recovery pump after the previous one faded away.
Indeed it went up nearly 300% from the one-month low of 0.8$ but it's still only $2.4 compared to $25 before the crash and peak of $77. Of course, the news of a possible restart from a damaged company would for sure trigger a pump with every kind of asset be it coins or shares but it's a long way up to recover even a few of the losses.

The bright side with FTX is that the reason it failed was an individual, so if that guy and his roommates are removed from any kind of decision-making job the exchange itself has no reason to not be economically viable.
2492  Economy / Economics / Re: How is the cost of living in your country? on: January 19, 2023, 07:49:09 PM
Today I purchased some fresh fruit, a loaf of good bread, good quality milk and 2kg of chicken drumsticks for my German Shepherd (he eats human food only)
I would be curious to read of the experiences others around the world are having in regards to their cost of living.

Bruh, talk about First World problems here!
You do realize that there are people in some countries who can't afford meat at all and you're talking about how the price of chicken drumsticks you feed your dog has risen? And I'm telling you this as a guy from Europe who doesn't have that food problems, but I can still imagine how some that make $300-400 a month are feeling when reading this!
People can't afford onions and your dog is picky!

In my country, maybe it is a country that has a fairly cheap price of staples or daily necessities. because the price of chicken meat here is only 2.5 dollars per Kg. and the price of rice is only 0.7 dollars per Kg. and for vehicle fuel only 0.89 dollars per liter. But what should be the benchmark is the purchasing power of the people themselves.

Yeah but for the purchasing power there is more thing, let's compare the average wage in Australia and Indonesia and see how many kilos of chicken meat or gallons of gas each can afford! Even at 7$ (usd/ not aus) per  per kilo for meat, do you think the average wage is just 1/3 to compensate? It's closer to 10!
2493  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: What are Address Poisoning Scams? on: January 19, 2023, 07:25:22 PM
Stupidity, laziness, being in a hurry, being careless... people use different excuses and justifications for why something bad happened to them.

I still think it has to be way more than this to fall for this trap! Way more! Add unfit-to-own crypto to the list or something like that!
I mean seriously, who will look at the addresses and see that it has received some coins from x and instead of sending to his normal dress will just copy-paste x? Is this all that this "attack does" (copied from your links)?

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The scammer's address might look very similar to your own Ledger address.
The scammer is now hoping that you'll grab their address from your transaction history by mistake and send them your funds.

What are the chances of this actually happening, let's forget the laziness, stupidity whatever, but not only this it will still need another thing, for the victim to not receive any other transaction to his wallet until he decides to send some coins out.

Furthermore, this whole thing is just ridiculous:



In the example of the article, the victim sends the transaction to an address that starts with 0x61, completely different than any address in the wallet or that has been used before,  I don't think that there is anybody who checks the last characters first and then simply decides to send while the first two are obviously not the same.

Just as you said I don't know how lucrative this would be on a different chain, probably on BNB or other networks it might work, on BTC fees will kill this spam immediately. Still, $1.5 million? Losing faith the whole be your own bank thing would work in this world!
2494  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Warning ⚠️ there is a new hack that steals bank/crypto info on your phone on: January 19, 2023, 06:04:40 PM
I have deleted this shit over 20 times already but the sender keeps sending it back, if you know how I can block the sender ( hidden number ) please do share. God bless

Android? Depends on the version and if there are no custom things installed from the carrier itself but usually blocking unknown numbers from the call settings option> block numbers > block unknown numbers slider > will block messages too, at least on my phone. If that doesn't work you can install Truecaller!

But seriously, why would someone download and open a file received from a stranger? Just why?
This is no different than opening a spam email attachment!
2495  Economy / Economics / Re: The Growth of cryptocurrency over foreign currency. on: January 19, 2023, 05:22:05 PM
as in case of society currently are about to change which will automatically make both investors and government agencies to change their currency into Bitcoin

Bitcoin grows 20%, recovering 5k after dropping 40k and everyone goes nuts with these predictions.

What government and what investors are massively switching their currency to bitcoin?
Just think for a second if we would have such a massive change, wouldn't the price be at least at January 2022 levels when we were at double the current numbers? If they would be buying this much it would have been already refected on the markets? One little pump and everyone things that something radical has changed and suddenly we're going to switch from dollars or euros to bitcoin.Chill!

I think to a certain degree, natural disasters and wars set the stage for which stores of value retain the highest degrees of reliability and durability.

Yeah because from February 21, 2022, Bitcoin has gone up from 39k to 20k right now! War so so good for bitcoin!
Let's see if you have a new war over in Taiwan (god forbid it actually happens, just hypothetically) what's your bet on the price, 10k or 100k?

There is no growth when there is an economic downturn, how many of those do we need to go through to finally acknowledge it?
Look when gold started gaining value, it wasn't until late November that we finally had good news about inflation and the economy in general, during the crisis in March and October after an initial pump it went down from 2k to 1.6k, hitting 10% lower than before the war! Adjust it against inflation and it's even worse!
2496  Economy / Economics / Re: Russian Gas ban - A problem for Europe or suicide for Russia? on: January 19, 2023, 05:00:47 PM
Oh damn. I honestly thought that situation in Iran regarding gas must be peachy considering their natural resources and how obsessed he is with prices of gas in Europe and our problems in general.

You probably don't remember or you were far more shielded by commie propaganda back in the 80s, all we would hear on the radio about the US was civil revolts in Los Angeles, Texas splitting and how they are running out of food, all this while we had empty stores and no heating. The same shit happening now with Russian and Iranian propaganda, throw a lot of envy and two cycles of brainwashing and you get one of these cultists.

As for the gas situation, no wonder, just as Venezuela ran out of fuel the same here, when you're desperately selling all your gas to support terrorists in Syria and Yemen, trying to build some sort of weapons to rival what the US has but you have a GDP on par with Moldova, of course, there is no money left for investment that matter! But prepare for a lot of foaming at the mouth, as obviously we have no clue and we lie, we have no right to comment on what happens in a different country, only the ones chosen by god have!  Cheesy

If things go on like this by 2025-28 Germany will be exporting LNG to Russia!

LE:
Told ya! Here comes the propaganda!  Cheesy Cheesy
2497  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Bitzlato seized, alleges $700 mln of illicit funds processed on: January 19, 2023, 04:33:22 PM
First reaction, what the * is Bitzlato?
Can't find any volume stats on them, neither Coingecko or CMC are of any help here.

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Anatoly Legkodymov, a Russian national living in China, was arrested in Miami on Tuesday on charges that he operated the exchange as an unlicensed money exchange business that "in his own words, catered to 'known crooks,'" a top Justice Department official said.

What the hell was he doing in Florida? Seriously, how can make such risky trips when you know what you're doing behind the counter, and being a Russian right now in the US involved in laundering money? Even if I were a perfectly clean owner of a Russian exchange I would not set foot in the US now!

 
2498  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: LeLe Gold Farm accusation on: January 19, 2023, 04:07:42 PM
The platform is specific to one country and that is the Filipino investors

Now I understand why I got this on their webpage:

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Kumita ng P48 – P2880 Per Day sa pagfa-FARM sa Gold Farm (Lele Gold Coin or Crazy Fishing) Ang unang gagawin ay i-download ang app by clicking the Download. Don’t worry kung may warning like “it may harm your device” that’s normal since hindi sa Google Play nadownload. After installing and download. Join our FB Group >>> JOIN HERE

I thought at first that my browser is playing a joke on me!

The mechanics are not new to everyone. It is a P2E games wherein you will farm and you will be able to earn money.

Correction is a Pay to Play to Earn scheme! So more like P2P2E!  Wink
Should we throw in another P for Ponzi?

As for the SEC warnings, this was pure gold:
[ANN][ICO]HoweyCoins: the only BitcoinTalk-endorsed ICO - GUARANTEED PROFIT
I'm willing to bet that even after the warning, there will be some who will invest in this Lele scam just because they don't trust what the SEC says and they will think it's just the evil reptilians that don't want the poor people to get rich!
2499  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin & China time to time waving History on: January 19, 2023, 03:50:56 PM
El Salvador became a country that accepts bitcoin as legal tender after China banned Bitcoin.

Are we really down to thinking that Salvador, a country with a 6mllion population, that's 1/4 of Beijing and an annual GDP of $69.25 billion, or 1/30 that of Guangdong will offset that? What's next, no problem in the US doing the same as China, Nauru adopted Bitcoin?

There are many real examples of Bitcoin adoption by several countries and a lot of support coming for the progress of bitcoin.

Can you name a few of those examples of adoption by countries, and when we say countries I think we both understand the country at the government level not usage by people in a country which is a different thing! And if we look from that point of view, is Salvador as the country really adopting Bitcoin, are they paying their government employees in bitcoin? Are they using Bitcoin for anything else?
I'm curious why some really claim this progress as being something that really can be seen and has happened and can be measured when from a neutral point of view we can obviously see we're still at the beginning of mass adoption and nowhere near what some claim. I honestly don't think we're that much radically close to global adoption as we were 2 years ago, but fill free to quote some numbers to change my mind!

2500  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: ads might drain your wallets on: January 19, 2023, 03:24:53 PM
No adblock for android is the most recommended so far for unrooted devices, just found adguard[1] (if you are willing to pay) which I think is at least what you asked for. While not open source, they do have a github page to track their development activity[2].

1. https://adguard.com/en/adguard-android/overview.html
2. https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardForAndroid

I've been using adguard for years already on my smartphones, the times I rebooted it and forgot to turn it on before opening the browser and see all those ads even on reputable websites made me think how can one even navigate through it with an adblocker.
I seriously don't understand how you can do it with one, even checking the weather you have 5 pages out of which 4 are ads and you need to scroll down to actually see the line that was supposed to be on top!

I don't know how accurate these stats are:

but I won't be surprised for them to be actually true!

I am surprised people still don't use ad blockers (especially ublock origin).

Yeah same thing, I don't know how they can do it, when I once saw one of my colleagues closing pop-ups on his laptop before trying to show me a video that started with a 5 seccons ad I was looking at him like, what the hell is wrong with you!

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NFT God, known also as “Alex,” said he used Google's search engine to download OBS, an open-source video streaming software. But instead of clicking on the official website, he clicked the sponsored advertisement for what he thought was the same thing.

Yeah, shows how much trust can you put in those "influencers" who know only how to spam the hell social media with their useless NFT garbage!
NFT "God" , lol!



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