Nearly every data-center server has both IPV4 and IPV6 enabled, which represents the majority of full nodes. So the data is probably counted twice (or even three times, if it also advertises a TOR address).
Yes with a few buts. 1) Is the firewall setup to pass IPV6? 2) The server may have ACCESS to IPV6 but did the admin actually put in values? 3) Is the BTC node configured to use IPV6 4) Does the node operator know or care. 5) More that I can't think of at the moment. -Dave |
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And at least for the US it's using numbers that are very distorted and many times flat out incorrect. Many states have different prices for power in different areas. Discounts for agreed contracted amounts and tons of other variables.
There are other countries that power is cheap but unreliable, I mean they put in North Korea where most people don't have power and except for limited exceptions it's not reliable.
Pretty map but pointless in the end. Not to mention as we all know electricity although a big part is only 1 part of the cost.
-Dave
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And native segwit bc1q addresses did not exist until 2017. Either the OP is very off with their dates or  electrum did not exist until late 2011 and it took a bit of time before people started using it so early 2012 is a more realistic date. -Dave |
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So if you have any money there and can still get to it, now would be a VERY good time to get it out.
Thank you for the warning... I'm surprised their offers still pops-out on Trezor Suite [the same thing probably applies to Ledger Live and other HW brands that use their services]! Most likely, Coinifly is not going to allow withdrawals as of the time of the bankruptcy filing if the bankruptcy filing is going to affect the operations. So it is likely too late to withdraw.
I looked around but couldn't find anyone that recently complained about withdrawal issues on Coinify [it's worth noting that it's the exact opposite for Voyager's users], so perhaps there's still some hope. The biggest issue is that it is no longer in their hands. They filed for bankruptcy protection. The courts and others now have a lot of control over what happens. Coinify can be a separate owned entity that is 100% solvent and profitable. But if the judge or whoever decides to close it or sell it or change the way it operates pending a deep audit or whatever else then that is what happens. It can also be a self fulfilling prophecy. Even if Coinify is fine, now that people begin to stop using it because of this it will start to shrink and loose clients and money and then...... -Dave |
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Some of the problem may also be there are a lot of us, myself included, who have taken the 'good enough' attitude at times. dkbit98 who really knows a lot and really helps out a lot of users posted this a bit before I made my post about what was happening at Coinify: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5405713.msg60538940#msg60538940 Just a casual side comment at the bottom of a post about something else. I am 100% sure I have done that too over the years. Just give a mention about something that is important but, never made a separate post that other people may have seen in a better section of the forum where it might have gotten more eyes on it. So even now a bit more then yesterday when I started this thread I do think either. 1) A separate section is needed. 2) If it does not get done; a bit of discussion about where and how posts like this should be made so instead of checking reputation and then scams and then services and then.... people can just take a quick look someplace. Would not be perfect or even close to it, but it would be better then now. -Dave |
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I would add ease of use / compatibility / other features. There are some people who have issues with the way coldcard does business and their attitude. HOWEVER, there are also people who like using it and support it because of things like the stupid large buttons and the availability of things like ckbunker. https://ckbunker.com/Possibly you want one with a large screen so people can scan a QR code to send to you without the need of a computer. OR you want one with a camera so you can scan the address you are sending to. And so on. A while ago a wrote about needed more information many times before recommending a software wallet in general for people. There are also more questions you need to ask before suggesting a hardware one. Is small and portable more important then large and durable? Do want the ability to have feature 'X'? I might think it's not needed but you may want it. And so on. The best HW wallet is like asking for the best car without more information. Are you hauling supplies for work? Driving long distances and need good gas mileage? Need to transport a large family? Want high performance? And so on. The same questions need to be asked here. -Dave |
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Somehow I have a feeling that if we had a "Warning" section, it'd be flooded with threads nowhere near the level of importance of the one DaveF started about Coinify, and it'd probably be a breeding ground for all sorts of FUD topics like rumors about Kucoin freezing withdrawals and becoming insolvent, etc.
It isn't a horrible idea, Dave, but I'd say there's about a 0% chance of this being implemented. I don't know how many threads I've seen in the last two years with really good suggestions for forum improvement features, but I'm pretty sure that less than 3% of them ever became reality.
I was more along the lines of ONLY things like 'real' news items about things. I don't care about the 1Xbit scams or the obvious things. But rather items that may have escaped notice. I only remembered about the ownership because of something I was looking at elsewhere. I'm guessing it's an idea that hasn't been taken seriously because:
A lot of this type of post is done in the services announcement/discussion thread (if there is an active one) and on a separate te board like reputation.
The other reason this hasn't been done much is because you could run into a lot of problems with doing it. A board like that could get really busy at times with new threads and accusations and would mean searches are still required (which could already be done on the current reputation/scam accusations board).
I'd like the idea of something like that if it could be implemented but I think it'd get too big and too cluttered too fast.
The problem with the discussion threads / reputation / other sections is that if there have been no problems, nobody looks. This would be a section for a quick glance hopefully BEFORE the shit hit the fan. ...
I therefore support your idea but with a modification.
If the Warning board is created, only moderators would be allowed to post in it. Then, an extreme case in reputation as the one you pointed out or obvious scams would be moved to the board only by admins and iff agreed my majority in reputation.
Or anyone can post BUT a mod has to approve it. This hoping people see things is only going to get worse. IMO. -Dave |
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Posted this earlier today about coinify: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5405723They have not run with peoples money nor as of now have I heard about them blocking withdraws. BUT they are now in bankruptcy so what they want to do may not matter it's up to the courts and lawyers. Anyway, I was thinking of a separate board about things like this. Putting it in reputation may or may not be seen. Similarly putting it into services > exchanges may not be viewed by people if they are not having an issue why look. But rather just some place more like important announcements https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=87.0 that others can post to. Otherwise I can see things like this getting buried. May or may not matter that much. But between them, Compass Mining https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5396462.0 and all the others I can see a separate board being useful. There is so much news out there so many things get lost in the noise. It would not be definitive but it would be a place to glace to see what went to shit this week. Would think it would be best if posting was supposed to be like the press board with everything starting with a date. More like the 'bad press board' :-) I don't think it's going to happen, but would be nice to have. -Dave |
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Bear markets allow big players to get bigger at lower cost. Why do they want that? To make money. So what do they have to do? Spend some of it on things to make the ecosystem better. BTC / fiat / whatever it really does not change. For the most part big money does not invest and hope they invest and do something to make themselves money. It's just the way it is.
Now, is it good for BTC / crypto overall? So long as people keep it going when they leave. Otherwise, you get the crash and the cycle starts over again.
-Dave
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And of course, those are the numbers only for the big guys not the hundreds of small ones with a few petahashes of gear.
And what makes up even more would be the 1000s and 1000s of people with a few hundred or less TH/s of gear How many people are running a miner or 2 in their garage or a small DC somewhere. Mining at break even or even a small loss and they don't care they are just socking BTC away. We see the pool rate we really don't know where it's coming from. -Dave |
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https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/ has a few of the very early releases. In addition to what people have mentioned above you can dig through the forum and find some links that other users have put together. I don't think there is a complete list. Which is surprising considering how popular BTC has become. I'm sure someone will do it sooner or later. -Dave
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There is no way to know for sure. But as a *guess* I would say 95+% are dual-stack. That would be keeping with the 95+% of IP6 being dual stacked.
As of late late last year less then 5% of places on the net were IP6 only. And most of those were cloud / hosted services.
No matter how hard people try to kill it, IP4 is going to keep on going.
-Dave
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Let me know when the 1st quantum computers are close to real operations and then we can start looking.
Quantum this quantum that, it's like the word cyber from the mid 90s to the mid 00s.
Yes it's coming, yes we are going to have to adapt, no it's not something that most end users will have to worry about.
New apps will come out that use more secure encryption and then end users will install them.
The programmers and other people dealing with the software will have to take care of it, but for the end users it will be just about invisible.
Kind of like when the old versions of SSL went away and the web adopted TLS. Most people didn't even know or notice.
-Dave
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I can't comment for the rest of the world but here in the US many banks have an inactivity fee / minimum use requirements on certain types of accounts.
Many of the crypto debit cards out there also have inactivity fees as do some other services.
No exchanges that I can think of have fees for non use, but there are some that will close your account and take your funds if you don't log in / use it for a certain period of time.
-Dave
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I honestly have no idea. I know where to find the bitcoin-qt.exe file if that’s what i need.
No, the exe file is in a separate location. If you did not change the default location, as stated above the data files are in C:\users\your_user_name\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\ How large is your harddrive? What was the last thing that happened before started getting the error? Corruption is usually (not always) caused by not shutting down the program properly / waiting for it to exit before shutting down the PC OR since the IBD (initial block download) does put a bit more stress on a drive then normal PC use it may be the drive has some issues. -Dave |
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I can't decide if this is bullish or bearish news (it feels quite neutral)....
Still, I cannot be sure if that's a piece of good news or a bad one...
It's neither, they are a public company and they are required to give out this information. Since we don't know how many of the large private farms operate we really can't tell how many operations of this size are doing what. It really is more a data-point then anything else. 7k BTC and $167 Million over 30 days is about as important a fact towards the market as Dave was out of the good coffee this morning and is drinking some really old stuff. 70k BTC and $1.7 Billion may move the needle a bit more, but 7k not that big a deal. -Dave |
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Without knowing the details of what they mark as a cryptocurrency user it's tough to be sure.
If they are using 'people that deposit or withdraw funds from known cryptocurrency exchanges' then as others have said above the 50% is not out of the realm of possibility.
On that same thought there are more and more places that you can get BTC / crypto from that may or may not show up depending on how they are doing it.
PayPal now has the ability to buy and withdraw BTC. Does that show up as crypto or just as regular PayPal
Transferring money to cashapp. I can use it to get lunch at a place that uses square / block as a processor or I can buy BTC
And so on. Without knowing how they came up with their number it's all a guess.
-Dave
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Thinking about it a bit more. The *only* reason I could see a "financial institution" caring about using a service like this is to hide the amount of BTC their clients have, If everything is in one big mix then when they send others can't really know what else they have. Their keys stay with the institution but when sending it's all muddled.
Other then that I go back to the individuals with a lot of BTC
Or, something happened that they don't want to or just can't talk about. So they are doing this.
But lets face it, even if we hate the outcome it is fun to speculate.
-Dave
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