At least it's not London - the most heavily surveilled city outside of China, with a quite absurd 73.3 cameras per 1,000 people (as of May 2021). For interest, New York (7.1 ) and Los Angeles (8.8 ) are an order of magnitude lower. And Texas would need around 400,000 cameras to match London (if my maths is correct).
Those are GOVERNMENT cameras as far as I can see. This is the GOVERNMENT forcing PRIVATE business to install cameras and GIVE THEM ACCESS TO THEM. More then that, they are making them cover areas TO THE PROPERTY LINE. Because that's real easy for some person who runs a small bar in a strip mall. They only have to cover the ENTIRE PARKING LOT AND THE BACK THE ENTIRE STRIP MALL to the property line. -Dave |
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Well it's been a long time but they released an update to the ColdCard. One for the 2 & 3 versions and a separate one for the 4th https://coldcardwallet.com/docs/upgrade <--Remember don't just trust links you see in the forum verify for yourself.Did a few small things on the older units and the one for the Mk4 is technically the 1st public production release so it should be what is on the units that they are shipping. Wonder how long they will keep the older versions going. -Dave |
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https://houston.novusagenda.com/agendapublic/CoverSheet.aspx?ItemID=25591&MeetingID=536The purpose of the proposed amendment to Chapter 28, Miscellaneous Offenses and Provisions, is to establish a requirement for bars, nightclubs, sexually oriented businesses, convenience stores, and game rooms to install exterior security cameras providing video coverage from the exterior of the building to the property line. And Additionally, the ordinance requires that a camera owner or operator store video footage for no less than 30 days, and provide HPD with the footage within 72 hours of a request. So you now have to install and maintain what could be thousands of dollars of security equipment and give it to the police within 3 days. WITHOUT A COURT ORDER. JUST HAND IT OVER BECAUSE THE COPS SAID TO. Yet another reason to not be in Texas. -Dave
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Got 2 totally different things as to the source of the funds. Were both addresses used only for receiving campaign payments, or were there coins from other sources too? Or it's just spewing random garbage. Which makes you wonder which exchanges or blockchain analysis companies are employing the same (or some of the same) methods which are being utilized here. If it is so completely arbitrary/random, then it just lends more weight to what I've always said: Taint is completely meaningless bullshit. Mine was just the campaign. From what I could see so was the other, but since it's not mine and I did not look at EVERY input I can't be sure. BUT and let me be clear, mine was the 'dirty' one the other was clean. So unless they had a few $0 payment weeks and those weeks happened to be the ones with 'dirty' coins then it's all BS -Dave |
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Since you are back, and I hope everything is OK. Are you planning to do anything with this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5322560.20 Somewhere someplace I have a text file with a bunch of updates I was thinking needed to be done. Would go dig it up. -Dave |
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I agree with what has been said:
The -1 is not that big a deal if you want to provide a service just use a reliable escrow and if you do enough good deals over time it really will not matter.
As for joining signature campaigns, that really is up to the individual manager.
But still wearing the sig for a service that has gone away and itself is tagged is not a good thing.
-Dave
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unspent tx
You mean unspent transaction output? If you don't use RBF, then the nodes should not accept your second transaction as it tries to double-spend the previous outputs, something you've stated you don't want in your first transaction. Yes, unspent transaction output. But if one miner accepts the second transaction and their block is valid, so the network would accept it (this block) too, or not? ...
Two transactions from the same input cannot get confirmed. Once the first one is confirmed, it is considered to be a spent transaction output and cannot be spent again. That would be a major flaw.
We assume that both transactions are valid before being in a mined block. If transaction 2 has eg. a higher fee, how do the network/miners handle it? Yes if both transactions are valid the 1st one mined gets put into a block and the other one is dropped. That is always the risk with RBF, if a miner does not see the replacement transaction OR for whatever reason does not take it into their mempool the 1st one is still valid when it's mined. -Dave |
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The problem is, well one of them anyway, is that although it's an off the shelf laptop so to speak, from what I can figure many municipalities along with AT&T have a custom firmware loadout on the 4G cards. I saw a mention of it on a usenet group when I was looking for help with it.
I don't know what's the situation with spare parts for those laptops you purchased, but you could try finding hardware maintenance manual and identify all compatible wifi cards. It's not that hard to follow manual, open laptop and replace wifi cards or any other parts you want, spare parts for used laptops can easily be found on internet or in used computer shops. I also had issues installing Debian Linux on one of my laptops, but I managed to do it with Debian non-free iso, and alternative option was MX Linux that is based on Debian with some tweaks. There are a bunch of cards that *should* work, but if you follow the link that @ETFbitcoin posted manufacturers do have the option of BIOS locking the cards. Normally Dell does not do this, but since they / the PD did do some custom things to something in them I could wind up spending a lot of time and get nowhere. OR it could be I just got a bad card....... Even taking the bottom off to get to the card is a project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiGfj_Rneho-Dave |
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Or it's just spewing random garbage.
I went to the chipmixer campaign spreadsheet for week 231 and pulled 2 addresses.
1 was mine the other was someone else.
Got 2 totally different things as to the source of the funds. To the extent that it only popped as coming from an exchange for the other address.
-Dave
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I was reading it as we got a bunch of BTC when it was $50000+ and sat on it hoping to get more money and now that it's been hovering around $40000 we don't want to admit we fucked up.
But that's just how I read it :-)
Seriously, the price movements have been an issue with me getting business to run their own nodes and take their own payments. Which is why so many go to a service to do it for them and convert to fiat on the fly.
I can see them sitting on the BTC for a bit before someone in accounting noticed when they took a look.
-Dave
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I tried to access their bill pay service, and it appears they want me to join a waitlist. So it might not be open to everyone yet.
I think the ID verification is to ensure that you are paying your own bills, and not someone else's. If they are allowing customers to pay other people's bills, they could potentially be "transmitting" money, which opens them up to additional regulation (and would probably require them to collect ID information anyway).
I agree that 2% is probably a bit high. If I was going to use crypto to pay bills, I may as well sell it on an exchange and withdraw to my bank account.
They only ask for the account number and the amount you want to pay. So if I WAS paying other peoples bills they would have no way of knowing unless whoever I was paying was giving them that info back. I am guessing that in case someone comes looking for something they have a record. As I have said in other places my privacy is blown anyhow, and they already had a ton of my info from when there was an issue with something else. *-Dave *Not bitrefill's fault at all but they needed to get some info to figure out what happened. I could have just taken a refund but wanted to know what caused it. |
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I think that was attempt number 106. The problem is, well one of them anyway, is that although it's an off the shelf laptop so to speak, from what I can figure many municipalities along with AT&T have a custom firmware loadout on the 4G cards. I saw a mention of it on a usenet group when I was looking for help with it. They appear normal, but were setup slightly differently so in the event of a true emergency they worked a bit differently. It is probably some little thing, but enough for linux not to work with it. OR They were deliberately disabled under linux to prevent something for some reason. -Dave |
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Eliminating a lot of things, if you are using a wallet that has off the shelf parts and a list of what they use with a diagram and they publish the source code then *in theory* so long as you know the actual chip(s) they are using for RNG then you can be mostly assured it's safe.
Hardware wallets are a very very very small segment of what hardware randomness is used for. If people can't trust them then think about the number of devices that use them that would be impacted. Think about the number of video slots and stuff in casinos. If they are not random the amount that would be lost could be minor compared to any particular BTC hardware wallet.
-Dave
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Added neg trust and started a flag too. Please support it when you have a moment.
Surprised it too this long for someone to do a flag the big red warning for newbies when it finally gets enough support is a good thing.
-Dave
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I think you are going to see more and more of this as time goes on, till it's no longer news.
More and more countries are going to be rolling BTC, and other cryptos into the fold.
For now it's going to be the smaller ones with less financial regulations anyway since it's quicker and simpler then doing it in a very financially regulated way.
HOWEVER, I still see the issue of it not helping other BTC users outside of the potential price bump, since unless you have a lot of money or crypto, having your finances in another country is just not reasonable most of the time.
-Dave
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I look at lightning as the same way as routing vs peering in networking.
If I want to go from A to B on the internet my network provider can do one of 2 things.
Go from router to router, provider to provider to get me the data I want (routing)
OR
If the other end of the request is large enough, they can connect directly to them (peering)
I have many small nodes that I connect one of my lightning nodes to.
I have another node that I have mostly larger peers.
I also have a channel between the 2.
This way when I am making / receiving payments there will just about always be a good path.
Could probably accomplish the same with just the larger nodes but doing it this way gives me more options.
If you just want to buy and sell things and are using a hosted service, does it really matter how they do it in terms of connectivity so long as the sats move?
-Dave
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DarkStar_ could you change my payout address to bc1qcmdvrqez38ca6t7m7f2lm7j63k8unjmntp8jkw -----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
I am DaveF until I say otherwise please send my weekly payments to bc1qcmdvrqez38ca6t7m7f2lm7j63k8unjmntp8jkw
-----BEGIN SIGNATURE-----
ICZiwHU0oYFG7zoQD4ngasn+H2BpwdPWp7i7KYOgEeQwNok1vOphBVII8nEP4IBlfT4vyK8fKKAjH/t5zEUQeO8=
Signed with bc1qquutf3venv8rufrqua7dv3t6rd2tl28ake4ag5 as discussed here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1935179.msg59378380#msg59378380
Not that it’s anyone’s business here but, the money is still going to Ukrainians, just via a friend in Poland who is renting a house with his own money for 2+ displaced families. Although the government of Poland is helping with many things, he is about to hit a very large financial wall.  -Dave |
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Did two credit card payments with bitrefills bill pay. Started another thread so this one can stay for gift card providers and leave the other one for the bill pay service. Other thread here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5396798-Dave |
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So Bitrefill is rolling out their US bill pay. https://www.bitrefill.com/buy/billAnd since you asked @o_e_l_e_o here is another trigger warning :-) Seriously, they want a drivers license / ID and live selfie and a bill with an address that matches your ID and a phone number. Since for other reasons, outside of the selfie they already had that info and I figured I could be the tester for all of you I did it. the 2% fee seems high to me but it seems to be what is out there for other non crypto bill pay services. You can't do multiple bills at the same time you enter the info and pay then enter the next and pay. Did 2 small payments to credit cards. If those work I will move to mortgage and some other stuff. Could not pay my cable bill, kept giving an invalid account number. Will update as I do more. -Dave |
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Soooo I picked up a bunch of surplus rugged dell laptops at auction. 8 for about $140 total That was a pretty good deal you found, but I would pick old Thinkpad T series laptops instead of Dell, because they are built like tank and used by army for a reason. It's easy to replace DVD drive with a cheap drive bay caddy adapter for any HDD or SSD drives, so you could have much bigger drive space than you need. This is a perfect machine for running Bitcoin node, it will survive most drops or water spills, and spare parts with batteries can easily be found worldwide. Local flea market should be one of the places you can visit to find one of this  There are a lot of surplus places out there selling old fire / police laptops you just have to do a bit of looking. The Panasonic Toughbook really is the gold standard in rugged laptops but even really the really old ones still sell for a premium. But any of them more or less are prefect for a portable node that you don't have to worry about damaging. -Dave |
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