This is not true, except maybe from their point of view. One of the things Localbitcoins tells you is the country (ip) of the other party, of course if you use tor the ip is random, so you cannot tell. But that is stupid as anyone could be using a proxy or vpn to fake a country anyway...

Indeed this browser is merely Firefox with Tor bundled and some default settings changed.

And yes, the (silly) message is visible if you enter Localbitcoins from Tor (regardless of browser).

In 2019 the Tor project went with a very misleading image. Tor is Tor, their browser is their browser, they are separate, period. I do not agree with their revamped image. One thing does not mean the other, you can perfectly use Tor with any other browser, they will scare you of leaks, especially if you use something like Chrome which makes sense, but you can still use a secure browser that is not "The Tor Browser", via Tor. Get it?

The real Tor page is this one: http://2019.www.torproject.org/ notice the 2019 in front of the url.

Oh yes, it is possible to use Tor Browser without Tor, i won't tell you tho

Developers might not be discussing things here, but that is pretty normal nowdays. Usually those discussions go in their separate areas, such as a mailing list or a freenode dev channel. Some of them are here and even have global moderator status...

Incidentally i NEVER go to reddit for Bitcoin matters, tho i have an account and probably subscribed r/bitcoin or whatever. I don't think reddit is suitable for developing talk.

Bitcointalk dead? tell your "friend" to come and see...

In this case downclocking for efficiency would help OP squeeze a few more (about 80 maybe), but 200 isn't going to work.

When aDSL service was inaugurated here, 20 years ago, the "normal" plan was 256/64 (kbps), and the "fastest" was something like 1024/128 (yes, it was already pitiful for 2001). I kept using that (Cisco) modem all this time until it finally died last year, then i bought a new one but the phone service died and with it dsl service which was intermittent for a few more months after that. Nominally my current plan is 4096/768. but it only worked a few days August last year, it quickly deteriorated afterwards. Ah the joys of state ownership and anti free market economy...

But yeah i know, it only sounds strange that in 2019 there would be still plans like that somewhere.

Oh if it was kbps (i might have mistaken my memory) then i doubt he will have any problems, as the link is 100KB/s not 100kbps, so 8 times better. If each S9 takes 2kbps he just needs 400kbps and still has 400kbps to spare...

Yeah i probably saw avg 1kbps instead of 1KB/s, my mistake. Still the recommendations to reduce bandwidth use apply, especially a local dns cache.

I agree kids should be kept away from violent video games, but defining the nature of "violent" can be tricky at best. Is Minecraft violent when another player kills you?

Of course there are games that are easy to identify as such, and some game publishers even use that weird rating system of theirs.

Actually my post was meant to be the story inside a game lol... But yeah, you might give ideas to the real world. But in any case, its for the death sentenced only. I bet more than one "reality show" producer would love it...

What to do with kids and video games and the internet? I'm not even sure. Perhaps keep them away from it entirely before 13, restricted before 18?, i don't know the right answer frankly. Restricting times might tone down addiction or might give them anxiety. Was it like that when the TV invaded people's home's in the past? Did the earlier generations that grew up without the "electric nanny" had the exact same thoughts?

It might be that in the future the internet/games would be even more invasive, this is a core argument for the Accel World anime, people get a chip implanted that basically gives them augmented reality everywhere, and there is even a whole plot about some secretive (fighting) game being played with it...

But the genie is out of the bottle, so i don't know, i did play a few shooters when i was a teenager, but it was single player games, as multi player connectivity was but a dream in the early 90ies... There are some parents that absolutely hate video games, as i clearly remember before there were parents that also detested TVs and giving them one for their room was unacceptable (i had one, plus 8bit video game console, but some of my friends couldn't).

Petro failed because its fully controlled by the government, even its price is fixed to whatever they feel like, thus repeating the same mistake they did to the (currently) worst fiat on this planet. You can only handle petro in a single State owned web page located in Venezuela, one of the countries with the worst internet connectivity of the hemisphere. And apparently its nodes don't fare any better, rumor says they are located within the same data center.

Nobody can own nodes, nobody can own wallets, nobody can audit the source code (contradicting their own law). It is known they took Dash's code and changed it to suit their whims...

Even though the government wants people to use it, merchants don't bother. Again it needs connectivity, and Venezuela's internet infrastructure is garbage. Most payments are done using debit card (iso7816) using an old fashioned keypad system that uses modem dial up connection to send and verify each transaction...

And each customer makes the pad dial up again, and again. Line busy? too bad, keep trying... I don't think many people here even know what a dial up modem is... They connect at 1200 or 2400 bps, VERY old fashioned, as in 80ies technology...

Last time i measured, 1 S9 needed about 1 KB/s, so you are like half there... even with all optimizations, i think you will either end having a half hashrate or worse.

Anyway i would recommend:

No dhcp, manual configure all miners.
Local dns cache, your dns should be in your own LAN, and that DNS be a caching DNS. You could even just put the resolving addresses manually in hosts or whatever for the pool you use.

There was a mining proxy, but its abandoned. Don't bother with it. You need to get a better uplink asap, or just use 100 S9s, i'm not sure why you ended with such a slow bandwidth to begin with, even in my garbage country, its possible to do better with money.

Another thing could be to maximize efficiency which lowers THs but produces more per watt. So a typical S9 would consume like 810w for 10TH. This has already been done using the Braiins OS Free and Open Source firmware. But of course that's 10 vs 14, not exactly half...

Try to get another link and pass half your miners over it.

Well this is the opposite of freedom and decentralization, exactly how a socialist mind would think: The free market cannot be free and needs the State controlling its price... Perhaps you are thinking floating bands or such by a central bank or something?

You cannot be more far from the truth. Bitcoin is absolutely free, and cannot be controlled. In fact, whatever someone is willing to pay for it in fiat or other altcoin, is absolutely unrelated to it. Bitcoin has nothing in its code that regulates any external factor such as price. And the only thing that regulates Bitcoin is its code, whats written in it, gets executed, nothing more, nothing else.

So to answer your question: No, there is none. Price is decided by the free market, the way it should be.

Bulls and bears will come as they please, to Bitcoin it doesn't matter. This will naturally decay into less volatility, over the course of a few more decades, just like gold has gone "boring" after centuries. Bitcoin is only 10 years old...

That's what all open source wallets are. Electrum, Core and many others can be downloaded and used without telling anyone. Only the closed source wallets would be controlled by a third party, just like online wallets are controlled by the site operator.

Bitcoin is decentralized, therefore using any of its (Free and Open Source) wallets is already decentralized and p2p. The same cannot be said about certain centralized coins, such as Ripple...

The only way you could be using a centralized wallet, is that you are using some online or closed source wallet, or not Bitcoin.

Won't this go against the States already regulating it? Can Trump also use an executive order to ban Cannabis again from the whole country?

Currently Trump is forbidding nearly anything to American citizens and companies regarding Venezuela, except for "humanitarian" things. Petro is a centralized coin, and it can only be used from a single server providing online wallets in Venezuela, i haven't tried but i guess you could connect to it via Tor. Not that you should, Petro is really bad an altcoin and should be avoided for several different reasons, not political but technical (think: State scam).

That said Bitcoin cannot die. Nope, not even if ALL states ban it (good luck with that). It would just go underground, number of transactions would decrease, perhaps mining as well, but it will not die. Price might even soar (remember, illegal = scarce therefore expensive).

We could all transact p2p using tor or similar, and no gov would ever know. ISPs can detect tor activity, but not what activity is going on in it. You could be reading some manifesto or sending bitcoin. Mining can simply shrink down as i predict will do anyway after some more years (due to economic reasons).

An American cannot come here and say they don't deal with Petros without confessing a "crime", but i have no reason to believe they cannot do it anyway. Its like saying people don't do drugs in the States.

China and Russia is more likely to try, or perhaps they have already seen the futility of it. Once upon a time, they also believed in central planned economy, but decades of famine convinced them otherwise. So in those countries they might try and see how futile is it, and end allowing it after a few years. Even Cuba is backing down some of its half century old policies, their communist party officially stating in 2017 that some amount of market and private ownership is needed, ie. following the likes of Vietnam and China.

Trump might get pissed some fellow Americans could be dealing with China secretly in bitcoin, and thus avoiding his little tax war with them. But so far i see most good citizens declaring and paying their (new) custom fees, perhaps helping pay for the mythical Mexico wall that will end all the problems for Americans, somehow?

But if America decides to join the likes of Russia, China, maybe India, Bolivia etc; i don't think people would keep calling it "land of the free"... Or, i don't know, people could vote in next presidential elections...

Sounds like having the blockchain with less able transactions per minute (or more expensive) is an advantage, as it disincentives others from borrowing the blockchain for their own projects... Shoo shoo Tether, go to Ethereum and leave us alone... Perfect!

I start to see the beauty of Luke's reduce the block size idea
But yeah, its fine how it is. Bitcoin only needs bitcoin in its blockchain...

Indeed, anything "online" defeats privacy, just connecting to the site they already get your IP and browser fingerprint, even before you start providing them with KYC stuff...

But then you are probably mistaken. You think owning your own wallet means the money is in there? Nope, it isn't. Bitcoin is like a "cloud" service, the money is always in the blockchain. The wallets are actually keyholders, but i guess calling them keychains or such would confuse the people more. When you make your own wallet, you can "send funds to it", but the funds never move across wallets, they move within the blockchain who can move them next, and the blockchain exists replicated in all the nodes in the entire world. Therefore the obsolete concepts of moving capital across borders no longer applies to Bitcoin.

What i want to say here is, that technically, all coins are online (in the blockchain). But to control the coins you need keys, that's what your wallet stores. If you want privacy, you should make your very own wallet, and take steps to secure it. For savings, an "cold" seeds written in a sheet of paper with your own hands is very, very safe as long as you keep said sheet (physically) safe, make at least one more copy with your own hands and keep it in a different physically secure place, in case place a burns down or something, place b is safe.

With a cold wallet like this, you can send all the funds you want to it and nobody can't touch them. This is perfect for long term savings, just keep those words safe.

Well this is like the "customary"/metric thing, the world is such a funny place with people not adhering to the same standard...

It is true that there are many countries where the decimals is denoted with a , not a .  I usually avoid using the cosmetic ones people sometimes use on every 3 digits (ie 1,000.00, i would just write 1000.00 or 1000). There is a recommendation that, if absolutely needed, people should use a space instead, such as: 1 000.00.

Do remember NASA messed up once a probe because of the metric/customary (ie. imperial) units thing. And if it happens to them...

This is one more reason to get rid of decimals, and the dreary mBTC unit. Japan is smart, they don't use cents at all. And of course many countries where their local fiats are above 100 per USD don't need to bother.

More absurd/incredible standard is different things i can imagine in the 21ist century: Electricity... Yeah, once upon a time it was even more varied, but the Euro zone at least converged into 230v, there was a time were many of those countries each used a slightly more or less (ie. 220v or 240v). But in any case several countries still use a range, essentially an US/EU split (115v/230v) with a myriad of plugs too. Oh and sheet paper size, you would thing the entire world used A4? Wrong, like the "customary units", America and a few other countries including mine, use their own sizes.

Anyway good call, i have seen it before in localbitcoins, laughing it off and not falling for it, but wondering whose poor victims would...

My country uses , for decimals, metric for measure, american paper sheet sizes and american electricity rules from the 60ies or so, ie. no ground pole, and "Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter" sockets is for wimp (or rich) americans. We here have our power plug next to the running water, you can literally open the faucet with one hand and plug your electric shaver with the other at the same time, in the (obviously) un-grounded socket.

Remember kids, in this country the electrical code won't save you as it does in yours... No hand holding!.

Hmm could it be those "miners" Bitcoin addresses are in a blacklist somewhere? Perhaps if they were/are part of a scamming operation? And why would the other site also restrict your account? Something doesn't match here...

I do know from others that Coinbase can take a lot of time on new accounts, verifying your data etc. It should be them who explain you what the problem is...

So, NOW you accuse the campaign manager of not properly doing his job? In a totally unrelated topic? Don't you just like to accuse people of "spam" when they post something you don't agree with? Do you even know what people mean with "spam"? Perhaps a link to the source of it all? but its clearly offtopic so I'll refrain...

I'm not stopping or changing my post style because you say so. Oh, and you don't know what kind of malware is running in the OP os, but your assumption is just that. Instead of covering all possibilities, as someone who is supposed to know about all variants of malware should...

Truth is, OpSec and smartphone is something that doesn't normally go together. Unless you have one of the rare (non Android) Linux phones, installed and secured by yourself, instead of the usual android/ios...

The Android ecosystem is very vulnerable and exploits have been occurring nonstop. Its almost as dangerous as running Windows in a PC, thanks to its closed proprietary software ecosystem, and "shortcuts" taken in its OS design.

Would be interesting to see if Huawei's OS fares any better. At least they promised to provide the source code...

Actually i would prefer a list of ebooks freely available, preferably in .epub format for my Linux based (Sony) ereader. The group that needs to be purchased is off limits to the people in my country, that is, unless you know of a book store that accepts bitcoin... Which Amazon clearly isn't, and i'd rather avoid the convoluted way of buying Amazon gift cards...

As for trading, he would need books on trading. Doubt understanding the coins themselves would make him any good trader, but it might convince him to hold...

I quote you because you are mistaken. You said he wouldn't copy the virus by copying "documents, pictures and music", and that is a lie, and yes i am correcting you.

I don't get why you even mention something about the signature campaign, which you clearly also participate in...

And no, the term when it was coined, and i think still is, was clearly macro virus, not macro malware.


So let me repeat it so you get it, and prepare to be corrected every single time i spot you telling a lie: YES HE MAY COPY THE VIRUS WHEN DOING THE BACKUP, or malware if you like the newer fashion, which may also include the spyware crap.

Can the virus infect ALL doc files? OF COURSE. This is not a matter of beliefs, it simply depends which one infects the system and is running. Do i have to mention the ransomware crap too? but again, you are the one familiar with the term malware...

THE BACKUP CAN COPY THE MALWARE. If he does it from a secure os, such as Linux running live from a dvd, the copying won't execute it, that is, until he opens a freshly installed windows, open the file and executes it (ie. the macro virus).

If he was smart, and instead used Linux as the new OS, then very likely the virus won't execute, if only because Libreoffice would probably ignore it (hoping he didn't just run MSOffice from wine)..

OF COURSE he could also try using clamav while running the live Linux to the backup data, before moving forward.

And no, i don't need you to explain me the "5/7" stages of malware infection, good for you knowing it, go ahead and explain it to them...

As if viruses did not infect "documents". I wonder if you are even familiar with the concept of "macro" virus? And, how about exploits to the image rendering system abused from pictures? I also have bad news to you about music, its tagging system, and exploiting the bundled players...

Its just like when the industrial revolution took place. Robots are machines, but even more specialized and delicate, depending. Some are industrial crane like contraptions doing the same boring and repetitive thing again and again and again 24/7 in a production line.

Of course robots don't necessarily need to have AI, that is an entirely different matter. Yeah, before departing i remember Hawking joining that grim group of Elon Musk and others warning about the consequences of AI, and how we most prepare to deal with it. Musk proposes enhancing humanity...

I don't know if there will be a Skynet or a pacific coexistence. Perhaps neither. Then comes the matter of self awareness and sentience...

But i guess that deserves a new thread.