I can't find a logical reason why it should not be there. SMF is old  If there's a quote inside the deleted post, clicking the quote usually brings me to the topic. This is definitely something that can be improved (also when a Mod deletes a post). Adding the topic title and a link to the topic make it much easier to find back (without using third party tools). It could be a great idea to have like a newsletter one a month of the most intriguing things going on in here  That'll turn into a tabloid filled with drama  Another forum I visit sends a short summary every 6 months or so, usually based on some large changes and the rest based on which topics I've been active in. But by the time I haven't visited that forum for 6 months, I'm not so interested anymore. So I don't think it's worth the effort. |
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But maybe there's still some folks out there that prefer paying a management fee over learning how to secure the coins themselves I can imagine it "feels" safer and especially more familiar to see a number in your broker's account, than having to deal with your own transactions. People are used to buying ETFs this way. But the management fee is a good one: I hate those! I wish I could just keep my own shares and store them by myself, instead of paying my broker and the fund owner. |
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you need to have a huge work on that text file for it to be manageable and organized. But.... that's the fun part I can probably do it myself, including daily updates, if someone else makes a one of those online graphs with daily updates. |
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all you did is make an assumption that the temperature difference between the two sides was 1 deg C. You're taking it out of context. This assumption was needed to calculate the required amount of heat transfering through the coin, and the result of the calculation made it clear it requires an unrealistic amount of heat. I said I thought it should be higher than that given that body temp is 98.6 and room temp is about 75. That means you'll have to transfer 400 W of heat through a coin to reach a 20 degree temperature difference between sides. If you're not seeing how ridiculous this is, I give up. To quote satoshi: If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry. maybe i don't understand the physics involved
That's an understatement. |
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I guess it's time to revive the discussion thread. That's the thing: when a site just works as expected, there's not much to discuss. |
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Are we allowed to call people who fall for this idiots?  Anybody who trusts Ledger with their keys, and thus their coins, is an idiot. Is this worse or better than people who trust exchanges or soon ETFs with their Bitcoins? |
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Electrum is not excluding that balance, the block explorers you check are falsely displaying the P2PK balance as the P2PKH balance. While technically correct, I think it's a good choice to display the information. The block explorer knows for a fact that the same private key can access the funds, so why risk someone overlooking his funds? With Electrum, your only option is to "Sweep" its private key (Wallet->Private key->Sweep) and Electrum will be able to spend that P2PK unspent txn output. The main drawback: you need a hot wallet, and can't sign offline. I'd always recommend an offline setup with Bitcoin Core for these amounts. |
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Obviously, if they unlock it to find $50 inside, they will know there must be something else. We're talking about hot wallets here, $50 is acceptable but I wouldn't want a lot in it anyway. |
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personal messages (PMs) tend to go unnoticed for a while That's what Receive forum announcements and important notifications by email is for.I meant this one: I hope under your personal message options you have set this : Notify by email every time you receive a personal message: Always. If you really hate your privacy, you can of course use any third party bot to forward your emails to Telegram, but I wouldn't recommend it. |
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First: I've never used Coinbase Wallet, so I can't speak from experience. Question: I see on my coinbase account that I have around 800€ but no idea how can I put out to my bankaccount. If you "see" your funds: are you talking about the wallet, or Coinbase the exchange? If it's Coinbase, you can sell your funds. If it's "the wallet", than I guess you have access already and can send your funds to an exchange to sell it. Suggestion: sell some, but never sell everything. You have 8000% profit now, what if it goes up a lot more? |
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Ratimov should take a hint: This was just in the last week (until Saturday morning's Trust data dump). |
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That was a very thorough analysis. But I do disagree that there might only be a 1 deg C temp difference. I've seen you do this in more topics: you make a ridiculous claim, and stick to it despite overwhelming evidence of being wrong. Your first statement was there's a temperature difference between sides of the coin. I debunked that. Now you're saying the coin can get warmer. Nobody says a coin doesn't get warm if you hold it in your hand, but that's irrelevant for flipping the coin. |
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Ratimov's posts isn't that entirely bad, despite translating using tools, his posts are useful too. Agreed. But I wasn't talking about those, I was talking about the posts that were edited into this: Moving them into another board means he was spamming that board. Forum admins can decrypt your message PMs aren't encrypted. Forum database includes PMs, deleted PMs, is encrypted and only admins, global moderators have access to database. You're talking about backups. This is irrelevant. |
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What matter is, are we going to allow moderators who do not have a sense of responsibility, the liability and loyalty to preserve the reputation of bitcointalk? One way or another, deleting trash is exactly what Mods are hired for. The only thing that - in my opinion - shouldn't have gone unpunished is moving trash-topics into another board: What do you think a moderator should do if he sees such garbage topics in the root of the section under his control? Isn't that what bans are for? To stop people from posting garbage? Then again, users often get away with many bad posts without getting banned. An investigation is required first to find if the moderators are guilty of mutual agreement or it was an innocent irresponsibility. I assume and hope theymos will not use his "access of the forum PM" for this. |
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Maybe I have used the words "external" and "partition" wrong. I'm not a techie person. "External" just means: outside of your computer. In the /media folder I found the disks. Linux is so different from Windows. I like the Linux approach much more. You could for instance mount the second disk as /home/username/.bitcoin/blocks, which makes it a dedicated blockchain disk. |
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Password 12345 will let you see the whole wallet (1, 2 and 3) as usual as it was
Password 11111 will only let you see wallet 1
Password 22222 will only let you see wallet 2
Password 33333 will only let you see wallet 3 "We'll just keep hitting him with a $5 wrench until he shares at least 5 wallets!". |
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I also did the trick with symlink for chainstate on ssd. I meant the other way around: chainstate can just stay in your normal home directory. That way, all your wallets end up in your home directory too (which makes it easier to add to your standard backups). My 1TB HDD is already formatted and I plan to use it just for Bitcoin Core. My hdd's and ssd are connected through SATA, not USB. Does that mean they're internal instead of external? I assumed it's USB because of the topic title, and I don't think external SATA is very common. the linux btc core installer sees only the partition where the os is installed. In Linux, applications don't deal with "partitions". You just mount the partition, for instance in /home2, set up the permissions, and tell Bitcoin Core to save it's data in /home2/username/bitcoin. Or better: Tell Bitcoin Core to install in your normal home directory, then quit it, move blocks from ~/.bitcoin to /home2/username/bitcoin/blocks, create a symlink for blocks in your .bitcoin directory, and restart Bitcoin Core. |
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pennies these days are made of mainly zinc like 95 percent with a copper coating. zinc is not quite as good of a heat conductor as copper.
lets say room temperature is 85 deg F and your hand is 95 deg F. That's a temperature differential of 10 degrees. You have the coin sitting in the palm of your hand with one face exposed to 95 deg F and the other side exposed to room temperature. There is going to be some temperature differential when you actually toss the coin and the sides will not get into thermal equilibrium before the coin lands. Okay, I'll bite. But in normal units. Let's assume there's a 1 oC (or 1K) temperature difference between both sides of the penny. And let's assume it's made of 100% zinc ( Wiki: 97.5% Zn, 2.5% Cu). The diameter is 19.05 mm, and it's 1.52 mm thick ( Wiki). That means the surface area is 285 mm 2. The thermal conductivity is 112.2 W/mK. It's been a while, so I had to look it up:  The thermal conductivity of a material is described by the following formula: K = (QL)/(AΔT)Where, K is the thermal conductivity in W/m.K Q is the amount of heat transferred through the material in Joules/second or Watts L is the distance between the two isothermal planes A is the area of the surface in square meters ΔT is the difference in temperature in Kelvin So: K=112.2 W/mK Q=<unknown> W L=0.00152 m A=0.000285 m 2ΔT=1 K That means: Q = K * A * ΔT / L = 112.2 * 0.000285 * 1 / 0.00152 = 21 W. This confirms what I expected: you'll need to transfer massive amounts of energy through a penny to get a small temperature difference between both sides. The specific heat of Zinc is 0.387 J/g K. A penny weights 2.5 g. That means adding 21 W for 1 second would be enough to raise the temperature of a penny by almost 21.7 K. It's safe to say you won't transfer 21W from your hand or a slightly warm surface into a penny, and it's safe to say the heat transfer inside the penny is large enough to keep both sides at almost exactly the same temperature. |
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