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I was thinking we need a backup plan. What if some day the forum goes offline and doesn't get back up? It would be really nice if we can "start over" at another location, where only the real users can claim the same username. But to start, everyone would need to know that location and it can't be found without Bitcointalk.

The main advantage I see is being able to open an old wallet, or import an old address (watch-only) or private key.

It's about 550 GB now, and usually grows by around 2 GB per week.

I'd like to add: for privacy, run Bitcoin Core through Tor, and always make use of Coin Control.

It's better not to sign a message without a date. The same signed message can be used again in the future, and it will still get verified.

Some people/organisations already have access to thousands of IP addresses.

If one node earns you a dollar, 10,000 nodes earn you $10k. And all you need to do is give one node 10,000 different IP addresses.
That's why Bitcoin relies on proof of work: it can't be faked.

My current laptop has a second disk in the bay of it's DVD burner, but most newer laptops are too thin for DVD drives so that doesn't work anymore.

I don't want to rely on a permanent USB connection, it's far too easy to get disconnected.

I can't find my old post on the subject, but it would be very easy to spin up thousands or even millions of virtual servers for this purpose. It will most likely lead to a few large parties controlling the majority of nodes, which is the opposite of decentralization.

It cost me less than $0.50 to download and prune the full Bitcoin blockchain on a cheap pay-per-hour VPS. If you're developing a marketplace, I don't think you should rely on third parties for your data lookups.
If it's for testing, use testnet. It has a much smaller blockchain.

That makes sense, unlike the Kensington opening, USB ports aren't designed to be locked on the inside. This feels like a highly overpriced product anyway, it should be 20 for $2, just like camera covers.

My kids know my desk is off limits

I don't know, my scraper was blocked by Cloudflare for days (while the forum worked) in the past, so I can't really know this data.

I bought a Samsung 870 EVO Sata SSD a couple of months back. 1 TB for just under €60. My old laptop doesn't have a more modern slot, and one of the reasons I haven't replaced the laptop is that I like having 2 drives in there. Most new laptops are too small for that.

I went from 64 GB to 256 to 1 TB. Next one will be 4 TB indeed, but it'll take years before I really need it.

I've had the Crucial MX500 too. It performs better than the BX500.

Comparing the 870 EVO vs BX500: the main difference is in "Hugely faster deep queue mixed IO. +786%". But like I said: you probably won't notice it in most applications. My main reason to skip the cheaper drives was the realisation that replacing a drive takes many hours and isn't worth the effort to save a small amount of money.

Let's all blame AlexandrTDS

Unlikely: Cloudflare worked just fine. Unless there was a DDOS on the forum's real IP address, but I'd assume it's hidden.

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The forum was down for 3 hours, and almost 24 minutes between post 62982720 and post 62982721.

Thanks! Luckily, theymos turned off the Bitcointalk server this morning, so I could sleep without any distractions.

That doesn't sound bad at all!

Thanks again for your flawless timing!

Thanks. I need it. It turns out I have "mild" pneumonia, and I really had to slow down everything I'm doing. I now realize how underrated breathing air is.

Not bad, not bad at all Slotted is 1, Allen is 0.

On second thought: doesn't that stand out much more than a slightly uneven fence? I mean: I've seen thousands of uneven fences, but I've never seen different screws in all planks. Then again, I never look that close either

I'll throw in a counter argument: what's the point of remembering the passphrase, if you don't remember the seed words it belongs to?

The problem with escrow is that it needs "some input" from real life. If I buy a collectible coin, the only way for the escrow to know for sure the seller sent it, is by personally verifying it. I don't think this can be automated in case there's a dispute.

For what it's worth: there's a huge difference in SSDs. This BX500 for instance:
I found out the hard way how sneaky drive manufacturers are nowadays, after I bought a 2 TB HDD that drops to kilobytes per second when filling the last 20%. With this SSD it's not that bad, and for your purpose you'll probably never notice it, but it is something to keep in mind. I now only buy disks that can sustain their performance until they're full.

I've never liked Apple, and I don't like Windows, so I've been using Linux for a long time. I love it, and can only recommend to get used to using the command line (and vi). I still prefer the console for most file operations, it's faster and much more powerful than the GUI.

And yet, you're still shitposting. Your mistake was joining Bitcointalk to spam hoping to earn money, while clearly you're too stupid to understand what you're doing.
You've created 88 posts and have 43 posts left. At least 40 of  your posts were deleted by Mods. You should have been banned by now.

I wouldn't trust a site that gives such a terrible estimate.

For password strength, it helps a lot to have many rounds of encryption. Keepass back in the days allowed to manually set the number of rounds. If it takes 1 second to unlock your data, it also takes 1 second for each try. Brute-force resistance is one of the great things of BIP38 encryption. I'd love to see a similar standard for encrypting seed phrases.