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Open you wallet and spend some money. The same way any 'real' project should be funded.
Satoshi didn't run around asking for money to create BTC.
He sat down and did it. Find a bunch of like minded individuals and get to work. You can even <gasp> borrow money and if the project makes money you can pay back the loan and keep the profits for yourself.
Why have ICOs been regulated into almost oblivion.....because most of them were scams.
Sorry if this comes out as grumpy, but in the end blockchain projects are not that much different then any other business / project. You can get funding the same way.
-Dave
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I posted this thought a few months ago: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5398711Now that CB has had a 2nd quarter of *public* losses I am just wondering if anyone has had their opinions change. Or, if you didn't see the post the 1st time around feel free to comment now  More of an discussion point then trying to make people change their minds on how / where they store their coins and if they know how an exchange is doing matters that much to them and why. -Dave |
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Not QUITE the same but.....
Here in the US most banks are insured by the FDIC Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation more or less it covers peoples deposits in banks up to a certain amount ($250000 it most cases).
If the bank becomes insolvent OR if the bank does not meet certain requirements the FDIC steps in and does 2 things.
It freezes the accounts in the bank usually for a couple of days at most to do an audit
Then it either has another bank take over the bank and keep it running. OR it cuts checks to the people who had money in the bank.
HOWEVER, there have been times when what should have been a couple of days took a couple of weeks.
No different then here, but back before BTC and "not your keys not your coins" people were discussing "cash not in hand is not your cash"
Yes this is supposedly a criminal investigation but in the end if you don't have it, it's not yours.....
-Dave
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Not 100% sure what you are looking for.
The screen you are showing is for addresses you have sent TO ALREADY it has nothing to do with YOUR receiving addresses OR addresses you added to send to later.
Under Window (Okno) you should have receiving addresses which are the ones that you can receive. And sending which are ones you added to the "address book" so to speak.
Once you send to them they should appear in the window you are showing.
-Dave
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The Sondors Metacycle is real and it's on the road! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8fkCzvfWTYFrom this video you can see a guy cruising around on it and talking about his thoughts on the bike from his ride. Some things to note. The bike can indeed travel a maximum of 40 miles on the freeway. This is if you dropped it on the freeway with a full charge. Clearly this is not a bike meant to ride at such high speeds even though it is capable. The rider also complained quite a bit about the thin bike seat and wishing it was 1 or 2 inches wider. I'm not sure how big the rider is, but this is probably the first thing I'll check out when mine arrives. Nice to know it isn't vaporware. That price seemed too good to be true. From the other comments I have seen it's 40 miles if it's downhill. Which is odd, since it does seem to be getting 65ish in the city in those same reviews. Most likely is going to need some software tweaks on the motor controller. But as a city / commuter bike it's more then enough. Still have not heard on my order so I guess I am not getting it for this riding season  As for the seat, if the range really is that low it's not important to my ass. Not like you are really going to be on it for that long. -Dave |
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There's no single entity like a government or a company that would be able to buy bitcoin at this point. All they'd do is buy what's available on exchanges and drive up price to insane levels like a million USD because if you'd reduce coins on exchanges by 80 or 90% you'd introduce insane volatility. You'd have bitcoin swing to 100k and back to 50k daily.
I don't think there would be swings, I think it would be a continued climb. If the government(s) were not telling people they were doing it, just buying and holding it then as the price REALLY started to go up due to the lower amount of coins being circulated people would REALLY have FOMO and the price would just keep going up. Right till the very hard crash at the end. But I can't see any government bothering to do it, or being able to keep it a secret as they spent that much money doing it. -Dave |
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Think about it as anything that is specialized then something that is more generalized.
A Lamborghini will go really fast BUT you can't take your family on vacation with a lot of luggage. (If you mention the URUS I will have to say it's not a Lamborghini but an Audi with a different logo on front) Think of it as an ASIC.
A Ford F150 will let you haul a lot of things but will not be good on the track. Also think of that as an ASIC
A BMW X3 will take your family on vacation but it will be tight and be OK but not great on the track and you can haul a decent amount of stuff but not as much as the F150. That is an FPGA, it's OK at everything but not great at any 1 thing. So, they cost a bit more and are slower and *tend* to be more power hungry. But in theory with the proper software you can have it mining SHA256 and then reprogram it for scrypt.
Now note, for the technical purists, I the above is not a 100% accurate description BUT I like to think it gives a good general concept.
-Dave
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I have not checked the MK4 (since I don't have to to check against) but the MK3 diagrams / BoM were accurate as to what was posted on line vs the coldcard that was shipped to me.
Where did you find hardware information? Nothing on their GitHub, for sure. I was under the impression that ColdCard was open software and hardware - even after a license change; but now that I'm actually looking for it, I can't find datasheets. https://github.com/orgs/Coldcard/repositoriesAlso did not check the trace layout but don't see why it would be inaccurate.
Sure, in theory, even with whatever non-open-source license they moved to, 'Verifiable Source Code' of both software and hardware, should be accurate and allow users to source parts for repairs if needed. Here you go: https://github.com/Coldcard/firmware/tree/master/hardwareNo idea why they stuck it there but since the link is on their blog: https://blog.coinkite.com/coldcard-hardware-shared/ and mentioned in a few other spots, I actually think it was posted somewhere on bitcointalk too. But, it is there and public and somewhat up to date. -Dave |
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OR, you can setup one of the 'nodes in a box' https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5364113 which run an electum server and then connect to that. It really is just 1 line in the config file you have to change to have it allow for more information: https://github.com/romanz/electrs/discussions/472May not be the ideal thing for everyone to do, but running it yourself does provide for more privacy and security. And it's really not that tough. mynode even has a preconfigued virtual machine that you can run so long as your PC has enough free drive space (550+ Gb needed at the moment) -Dave |
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I imported the private key of one of the wallets and realized that it was him, that he was not syncing. Thank you in advance!
You imported private key of one of addresses, not private key of one of wallets. Anyways, that address has probably a big transaction history and servers do not load them due to protecting themselves from attacks. The other possibility, also do to a massive transaction history is local RAM. Had that years ago when someone was running an online store that swept every transaction to 1 address. After a bit electrum would not work. Upped the RAM in the workstation that electrum was running on and all was good again. I do not know if this issue was fixed in later versions since after a while the issue never came back after adding the RAM, then they went to bitcoind and then out of business But, if you only have 4GB it *might* be an issue. -Dave |
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There are many places posting about it online here is one: https://fortune.com/2022/08/09/coinbase-posts-1-1-billion-loss-falling-revenue-in-q2/Not surprising, since trading is way down along with the price. With their tie-in with blackrock and some other things that they have said about 'large investors' and 'institutional investors' I wonder if they are going to slowly transition away from the small retail market (read people like us) and move to the bigger players and let them handle the front end so to speak. They would let E*Trade deal with me for my buying and selling of investment crypto and they just handle the back end. No real idea, just speculation but I have seen a lot of similar speculation. -Dave |
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...and we need a different system for trades as they are 2 totally different things.
Can we get an amen. I have been saying that for years https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5154576I don't think it's ever going to happen, but we can keep hoping that it will and complaining when it does not. I think there are a bunch of things a lot of us would like to see happen on the forum, in terms of trust / feedback / etc but if it has not happened yet, I don't think it ever will. -Dave |
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Well, hate to bump this thread and bring that again but I am receiving the same service has expired error as the previous time... I believe I am not the only one? And how could this happen after barely 1 month of solving this... I hope the owner could resolve this once for all and if he is busy IRL to let another trusted member to run it for him  Or hopefully open source it so anyone can run it or something close to it. In theory it's probably not that hard to do, but I do tip my hat to them since they DID do it while the rest of us just stood around and used it. Pull a bunch of data from a bunch of APIs and math, I am really surprised nobody else has done it. There are a few that look the same but only pull from 1 source. the site is also unavailable for me, I wouldn't say that there is a problem with hosting here or that anything expired. I would rather say that the problem with the cache is on the server side. Pinging going well and have a response from there. Pinging preev.com [157.230.67.179] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 157.230.67.179: bytes=32 time=120ms TTL=128
Reply from 157.230.67.179: bytes=32 time=126ms TTL=128
Reply from 157.230.67.179: bytes=32 time=128ms TTL=128
Reply from 157.230.67.179: bytes=32 time=127ms TTL=128 The 157.230.67.179 is the IP of the DNS made easy expire page. It's a known thing in the hosting world. -Dave |
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[5] A random Bitcointalk user starts a DIY hardware wallet project that utilizes all of the above projects' open-source hardware and software which allows people to build their own wallets from off-the-shelf components and still has like a 90% 'trusted' codebase, due to having been battle-tested in 3 reputable wallets.
[6] A random Bitcointalk user starts a small company that buys those off-the-shelf components in large quantities and assembles them, to make this easily available for everyone. The components can be easily replaced/can easily be bought, even if you use the wallet as cold storage and only find out after 10 years in a safe that your display is broken. Sadly NVK does not provide the right informations for Coldcard even if also components like the display are clearly off-the-shelf aliexpress components. What discrepancies did you see? I have not checked the MK4 (since I don't have to to check against) but the MK3 diagrams / BoM were accurate as to what was posted on line vs the coldcard that was shipped to me. Will also admit I just checked what was there in the general sense, not that what they had labeled as a 4.7uF capacitor was really 4.7Uf and not 1uF or 8uF just made sure it was a capacitor. Also did not check the trace layout but don't see why it would be inaccurate. -Dave |
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As others have said check a block explorer for your balance before worrying about the crypto being lost.
Also, make sure before doing ANYTHING you have your seed words backed up safely and securely.
On the off chance that while doing other things with the LL software something else 'burps' in the device you want to make sure you have a good backup.
The odds of it are so low as to be zero but why take the chance, there is already something not right with the software don't want to find out it did something wonky and reset the device.
-Dave
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Not much.
For many (most?) BTC users I don't think it would matter. They are using some wallet or exchange that has nothing or very little direct interaction on github.
Think about it, how many people are REALLY building core from source? Same with electrum and most others, they click a download link and move on. The downloads can be re-directed somewhat quickly and easily and the development moved elsewhere in a few days / weeks. So development would pause / slow for a while as people transitioned to another service and then everything would continue as it was.
BTC price would probably take a hit as everyone ran around panicking but beyond that, not much else would happen in my view.
-Dave
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And with a tiny bit of network knowledge and equipment it's easy to see where where data is flowing to and from for your miner. And see where and what is being done.
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Alas you cannot, it encrypts the 'extra' data inside the miner, so you can only see 'where' it is going. You cannot see how much the fee is nor what other data is sent. Also it's close source so you can't even check any of that. In theory you can get close if you are not mining at the same pool they are. IF you just follow the where you can see how many stratum requests do to dave pool and how many go to slushpool. Some basic math will get you in the ballpark. You would probably not be able to see 2.5% vs 3.25% but could figure out 2.5% vs 7% As for the firmware itself, there are plenty of users who have reported lower energy use along with the same or better poolside hashrate. So from anecdotal evidence there are many people who use it and are satisfied. Some people have seen no benefit or even worse results, even in the same farm. So at a guess if the equipment is already at it's limit there is very little else that can be done. Would I use it? No, but that's me and my choice, I would not stop anyone from using it if they felt it worked for them. -Dave |
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I would put it above 60%. For now.
With a lot of the 'Big Name' exchanges that are US based they are going to be providing full tax info to the IRS starting next year so there will be a lot of people who will have to start giving up that information and paying.
Will probably crush the markets for a bit before everyone adjusts to the new normal.
How many will keep trading, how many will move to other unregulated exchanges will be interesting to see.
-Dave
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From the local machine can you telnet to 127.0.0.1 on port 50001?
There may or may not be a response, but it still should connect.
If you try to telnet on port 50002 it should not connect.
If you can connect from the local PC can you connect to it's IP on 50001 on a different PC on the network?
-Dave
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