The sender didn't even sent $6k in Bitcoin, he created 100 dust inputs and the rest was change. It's just Ordinal spam, and considering someone paid $1900 for it, that can only mean they expect someone else to pay much more.

Agreed.

This is too ironic to not touch this subject: here, Ratimov is complaining about incorrect quotes of his "original data":

To verify Ratimov's plagiarism claim, I checked the unedited post, and unlike someone who would post a small link at the end of his long copied topic, NotATether started his topic by giving credit.

Or: right mouse > Open link in private window. Unless you use a private window by default, in that case it will still show your ignored users.

Isn't the size of chainstate caused by all those UTXOs? It's currently 7.8 GB. Ideally, that should all fit in RAM, but my Bitcoin Core uses much less. Except for the IBD, looking up about 2000 transactions on disk every 10 minutes isn't much of a problem.

Ordinal spammers (or should I say scammers?) need to use Bitcoin's name to get people's money. "LN" isn't familiar enough, I guess. It would be so much better if they promote LN while spamming LN. Unlike Bitcoin, LN has no problem with millions of dust transactions.

There are now 2 topics about forum downtime. See this post of mine for patterns.

Don't do this! There are 2 likely scenarios:
1. You lose access to your funds.
2. Someone else takes your funds.

Try to sign a message from that address.

I hope not! That would mean more people lose their money. I've clarified my post, "blows up" could indeed be interpreted as a pump, while I meant it as a complete failure.

There's a reason the NFT market crashed so hard. It's not art, and it's not rare. It's a scam created to convince gullible people to hand over their money hoping to get rich quick.

Ordinals are just a scam to convince people to pay much more money for Bitcoin dust.

It's not art, it's a can of expired chicken soup. Whoever pays $68,750 for it only does so hoping someone else is going to pay more. To most people who aren't part of that, it is indeed worthless.

I can sell you a can of expired Unox chicken soup for $500 right now That doesn't make it art.

Theymos wrote this:
I'll use my deleted posts archive to see gaps between posts, starting at post 63 million (October 17). I'll only show gaps larger than 3 minutes between posts (which could mean the server was inaccessible, but it could also mean there simply were no new posts for 3 minutes).

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Most of those are at UTC night, but Ninjastic Space's graph confirms users are less active at that time, so there could be many false positives in my list.

Note to self for updates: see find_gaps_between_posts_to_track_server_downtime.txt

Phones are also easier to get stolen from the same pocket. Nobody can steal my laptop from the laptop backpack on my back without me noticing.

I'm assuming you don't run your Bitcoin Core on Windows, and don't install malware on your laptop.

30W is 21 kWh/month, or 263 kWh/year. That's €100 per year (at €0.38/kWh). Assuming I create a setup for 5 years, that's €500. If a Raspi could bring it down to 6W including disk, that saves €400.

I'm on my third fan The first one broke, the second fan had less blades than the original and didn't work as well. Most of the time it's just 8-12 screws.

Don't get me started on adapters....... I've seen original adapters blow up the mainboard (twice). Most of the time the cable breaks internally, but that doesn't happen if you use it as a server.

It may not be designed for it, but after years af running laptops for 24/7/365, I can tell you it works just fine in most cases Just keep the fan clean, and stay away from the ones with power hungry CPUs.

I can only assume gullible people paid a lot more in their attempt to get rich quick. And some indeed got rich, while the majority lost their money. The NFT market is very quiet nowadays, and this seems to be the next thing. Until Ordinals blow up fail too, after which someone will create another money maker for themselves.

Including a free i7 laptop isn't really a fair comparison Availability of cheap older hardware will depend on where you live. I can't just order hardware in New York without high shipping cost and import taxes.

For continuous operation, I'd look at energy costs too. A Raspi is designed to use very little power. Since you're into mining, I assume you have very cheap electricity. Here, the Optiplex will cost more to run a few years than it's initial price.

That being said: I like cheap laptops too. They're much more versatile.

I just checked: bitcoind currently uses 6-9% of one Xeon core, and 3% of the system's 32GB RAM. Except for the IBD, it really doesn't take much resources.
It's been a long time since laptops with only 1 core were sold, so it depends on which CPU you have. And if it's 15 years old, chances are it lacks RAM too.

Am I the only one who doesn't find any of this easy to do on a phone?

My approach is much simpler: my phone itself is worth more than any crypto in my mobile wallet. I'm careful with it anyway.

Safe assumption: of course! Any software adds a risk. Depending on the risk level, I'd run it in a VM, on a different system, or as a different user. After all, you're using a multi-user system, and there's no need to risk it. Use permissions to keep things apart.

Example:
To run wine as a different user, create a new user "wine". Give user "wine" access to your display:
Then, as user "wine":

Note that I haven't used this for wine, but I did for other programs. If I have to use wine, I run it inside a VM with VPN, because I don't trust the programs I use with it. Or on a spare laptop which is setup to wipe and overwrite in minutes.

Go!

Go!

Even better if you add good posts from others too I'm going to use vapourminer's Merit history to clone-dump sMerit. He seems to read a lot of posts, including old posts.

That's like: "you've replaced my bicycle lock, now you can take my car".
Android always feels like a dumbed-down version of Linux. On a slow old tablet, after switching users, the lock screen takes many seconds to load. During that time you can view the entire screen, and even starts apps (including Authenticator).

That removes basic functionality from your phone: you'll need to unlock it every few hours to be able to receive phone calls again.

The reason I haven't Merited your posts is because I have doubts if you wrote it yourself. It doesn't match your other posts, in which you make many mistakes from writing words wrong to incorrect capitalisation.

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I've been slacking (and ill), and my source sMerits keep building up. I'm planning to do this:
I don't think I'll drop 50 sMerits on a random Newbie, higher ranks are welcome too.

Thanks! It's been 6.5 weeks indeed. At least the headaches are less, which means I can think again, so that's something
I've never been ill for more than 2 weeks, and that was a severe flu years ago. Even Covid took only a week. I've broken bones that healed faster than this. I've replaced alcohol by orange juice for crying out loud

It's a feature, not a bug

Enter your username in the Report Options (tiny orange icon on the top right), and you'll see all of them. When 30 DT1-members are replaced at once, BPIP's DT Change Log dumps a lot of data all at once. Your own name will be spread over multiple pages.