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2881  Other / Meta / Re: Report plagiarism (copy/paste) here. Mods: please give temp or permban as needed on: September 05, 2023, 04:25:38 PM
You beat me to it. It's so obvious when a Newbie posts generic information without question on the tech boards.
Why do I not have my own Nuke button yet?

Update: He's nuked.
2882  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Transferring Bitcoin Blockchain from old drive to a new one on: September 05, 2023, 02:11:36 PM
scp -r <username>@<raspberry_pi_ip>:/path/to/bitcoin/blocks /path/to/local/Downloads
scp -r <username>@<raspberry_pi_ip>:/path/to/bitcoin/chainstate /path/to/local/Downloads
scp -r <username>@<raspberry_pi_ip>:/path/to/bitcoin/indexes /path/to/local/Downloads
I'd shorten these 3 lines to:
Code:
scp -r <username>@<raspberry_pi_ip>:/path/to/.bitcoin /path/to/local/Downloads
My Bitcoin Core installation doesn't have a directory "indexes".

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It requires the use of another strorage drive or some ssh connection to another machine to transfer data but that's the idea
But: if you have to ask how to copy files on your local system, I can't really recommend using with SSH.
2883  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: I recovered a bitcoin wallet from 2013, why didn't I find the corresponding bit on: September 05, 2023, 01:46:33 PM
First: move (bottom-left) this topic to the altcoin boards.

Then: I assume you used a Bitcoin wallet to recover your funds. A Bitcoin wallet doesn't support Forkcoins, you're going to need to use the respective Forkcoin wallets. I wrote a topic about this years ago. The prices in that topic are outdated, but the warnings are still valid. Move your Bitcoins to a safe new wallet before doing anything Forkcoin related, and learn what the lack of replay protection means before doing anything else.
2884  Other / Meta / Re: DefaultTrust changes on: September 05, 2023, 11:27:35 AM
Still trying to get a graph for most inclusions / exclusions but having issues for some reason, unless there's already been a list made?
You mean this one? I can get you an update if needed.
2885  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Reliability of sites such as mempool.space for estimating fees. on: September 05, 2023, 08:07:11 AM
To be fair, there isn't a way to figure out how many new transactions will be produced in advance.

Maybe a machine learning model could be made, that looks as previous mempool activity over the past 2 or 3 years and then tries to estimate how many new blocks will be created at any given time
I would extrapolate the transactions made in the past few hours, and use that as an estimate of transactions in the coming hours. It's not always accurate and there can be exceptions, but most of the time it's pretty accurate.
That's why I like Johoe's site: it quickly shows fees are currently slowly going up, which means if you pay the minimum and it doesn't get confirmed quickly, it's likely to take a lot longer. If it would have been the opposite and fees are slowly dropping, paying the minimum is likely to get your transaction confirmed quickly.
I can't get this information from mempool.space's estimate.
2886  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Reliability of sites such as mempool.space for estimating fees. on: September 05, 2023, 07:51:06 AM
I never really looked at it before until now:
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It looks like their estimate in confirmation time is based on the assumption that no new transactions are being made. So, if you pay 12 sat/vbyte now, your transaction will be in the fifth block. That sounds acceptable to me, except for the fact that there's about 1 block worth of new transactions every 10 minutes, so it can take days to clear just those 5 blocks.
2887  Other / Meta / Re: DefaultTrust changes on: September 05, 2023, 06:57:27 AM
You're just one of those who cries foul when some one leaves NEUTRAL trust feedback.
... and then post this:
JollyGood    2023-09-02    Reference    If you make an opinion on the character of JollyGood, it is likely that he will find a way to retaliate with brute force; trying to twist words to give you a negative label, and/or misconstruing facts and time to make you seem untrustworthy. At least, this has been my experience with JollyGood. I commented on him being a complete and utter stickler, this lead to a false theory about me "knowing about a scam before it scammed" (not true) along with countless negative labels. Based on this experience, I do not trust JollyGood.
@BenCodie: read this:
The system is for handling trade risk, not for flagging people for good/bad posts/personalities/ideas.
You can't use "Negative - You think that trading with this person is high-risk." because you don't like his posts about you.
Also, he has a point: your posts about WWM (claiming you knew they were going to scam, but not saying anything about it) didn't make much sense.

My advice: stay out of the forum drama.
2888  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: [BETA] blindmixer.com - Next-gen mixer | Chaumian Bank | Lightning | Blinded-Sig on: September 05, 2023, 05:43:29 AM
According to whois look up, the domain expired on the 31/08/2023 which about some 4 days back. I have no experience with running a website, but doesn't the administrator receive some email notification informing him that his domain has expired or is about to expire?
That's what I would expect. But it doesn't matter if you're not reading your email.

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I also looked into their GitHub and there has been no activity there in different repositories for over a year, which makes me wonder if it's going to be one of those abandoned projects.
It looks like it. There's also no .onion website, so they're just gone. Makes me wonder if they still hold user funds, they were trying to be custodial.
2889  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: Usb Encryption on: September 04, 2023, 04:09:01 PM
if you or an attacker imports this wallet with the seed phrase on a different device, you'll have access to spend the funds on the wallet and set up a different password for the wallet on that device.
That's interesting. So as we say that the password protected wallet is encrypted, it is encrypted only if it remains on that particular system.
Z-tight is talking about importing the seed word phrase, not the encrypted wallet.

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If someone copies that wallet file generated by the electrum and imports it into another computer, it will not remain encrypted???
That's not how encryption works.
2890  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: What happened to https://getbitcoinblockchain.com/ ??? on: September 04, 2023, 03:59:53 PM
My system is a Toshiba laptop from 2009, not a beefy one as you can imagine:
CPU: 2 GHz
RAM: 4 GB
HDD
It will work, but will always be slow. Unless there's a reason you don't want Electrum, I wouldn't use Bitcoin Core on this hardware.

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I have now switched the HDD to an HP Elite 8300 SFF and it seems to be working better:
CPU: 3,4 GHz (boost up to 3,9 GHz I think)
RAM: 16 GB
HDD (same as before)
Do yourself a favor: get an SSD Smiley It's the best upgrade you can get. In case you already have an SSD and just use the HDD for block storage: move your chainstate directory to the SSD. It makes all the difference!
2891  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Transferring Bitcoin Blockchain from old drive to a new one on: September 04, 2023, 03:14:34 PM
I don't know Umbrel, but usually you'd just copy your home directory to the new system. Create a backup and restore the data.

If you want to keep switching OS without reformatting, it's easiest to keep /home on a separate partition (but I guess it's too late for that now).
If you don't want to create a backup, and don't want to format, you can YOLO and manually remove all files other than your home directory after you boot the installation disk for your new OS, and then install without formatting.
2892  Economy / Reputation / Re: The fate of the leftover fund on: September 04, 2023, 02:30:21 PM
A good example how an escrow fund can be managed professionally in a messy situation is whirlwind's Escrow fund managed by minerjones
I'm not convinced that's skill, more a coincidence. I've also seen a bad example of how escrow funds can be managed.

I'm a sucker for strict rules, but it's difficult to take all possible scenarios into account before they happen. This is one of the reasons I don't actively offer escrow services (although I've done it a few times when asked). Yahoo62278's suggestion is a good disclaimer to add if it happens again.

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Maybe every project doing a Signature campaign can provide an escrow fund and in case of an exit scam, losses could be covered.
Eddie's post comes to mind again:
Should never have put the temporary illusion of safety above personal liberty..
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This forum started acting like protecting idiots is more important than letting users express their free wills..
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A new startup can’t come here and start a signature campaign for example without completely being bullied into “trusting” some escrow they have probably never heard of, so heaven forbid they couldn’t possibly scam some users willing to take the risk..
Remember the forum's mission:
the forum's mission to be as free as possible.
If someone wants to risk not getting paid for having a certain signature for a week, who are we to stop them?

As long as Service provider and escrow provider is okay with agreeing mutually in private or in any form - I think it's just fine. It does not need to be public at all.
Agreed. But it will lead to topics like this one, where people question things they're not a part of. The next step would be handing out negative feedback demanding answers, and think that would have happened already if the 2 accounts involved would have had a lesser reputation.

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Difference was the manager Hhampuz was not trusted by $40k DAI so they went with an independent third party escrow which was minerjones in this case.
I'm pretty sure it was Hhampuz' own call to ask another escrow. He ran the campaign and avoided a conflict of interest this way.

Ah, so we were paid in the end for those last few days of the campaign, good to know.

Up until now I assumed we weren't (and I even said that in another thread :p) because I don't really check my sig campaign wallet on the regular basis and few days ago when I checked the usual address from where sig campaign was paid, there were no transactions (except that latest one when funds were moved).
I can't believe I have to say this, but: You know the only way to see if you've been paid Bitcoin is by checking your own address, right? Not someone else's address?
2893  Other / Meta / Re: Trust flags on: September 04, 2023, 02:06:13 PM
If you steal something it's a crime regardless if the victim gets an insurance payout.
Agreed. But "normally", insurance payouts come from all other insured people who pay their premium. In WWM's case, it comes from their own "jar".
2894  Other / Meta / Re: [get yours] Images from imgur + All links to your own posts on: September 04, 2023, 01:52:02 PM
So what image hosting site should we use now? At first I randomly google and choose whatever I though best. Currently I am using https://www.talkimg.com/. I heard it was specifically created for Bitcointalk.
When in doubt, read the OP:
2895  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: Cold Wallet Myth on: September 04, 2023, 10:34:12 AM
2- If we are sure that there is no malware or something in the computer
Allow me to quote Under Siege 2: "Assumption is the mother of all fuckups".

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what difference does it make to connect that cold storage computer sometimes to the internet to make transactions?
The difference is being sure it's not compromised before it's too late Wink

I just want to know that in an IDEAL WORLD, the Electrum wallet on the computer with an internet connection is safe if there is no Malwares, no hacker's attempt etc
In an ideal world we'd have unicorns everywhere. There's not really a point discussing something that doesn't exist.

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We use Cold Storage only to avoid any possible risk that comes through the Internet, Right?
Wrong. It also protects you against your own stupid mistakes. Example:
In June, 2016, I accidentally copied the private key for 1foreverDArUNEX2gVD26vautcx3b8zTZ in my Google search bar. That's been bugging me ever since. It still holds a small balance (~), which isn't what I worry about (and I still use it for tips).
I've downloaded my data from Google, and it confirms Google still knows the private key. It's not something I worry about that much, but it's a loose end to tie up.

if we are sure that there are no vulnerabilities in the system, then we can connect to the internet.
The whole reason of using cold storage is because you can't know all vulnerabilities. For laughs:
What normally happens within twenty minutes? That's how long your average unprotected PC running Windows XP, fresh out of the box, will last once it's connected to the Internet.
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20 minutes is not long enough to update your Windows PC before it is too late.
That's a while ago, but there's no reason to think it won't happen now.

I consider TAILS safe enough for me.
Are you talking about cold or hot storage? It's easy to have 2 USB sticks, paint tape one blue and the other red. The blue cold one doesn't have internet and holds your private keys, the red hot one has internet and a watch-only wallet.

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Don't rely on a single USB flash device, be it with TAILS or some other encrypted container or other valuable data on it, as such devices can fail. Cheap flash storage is sometimes of questionable quality. No backups, no mercy!
Keep your seed words on paper and you don't have to worry about the USB stick.

There are millions of things to account for your computer's security.  One of them is the net.  Never connecting to the net, and to no network in general can mitigate every possible network attack.
But for how long?
Update: I googled it, and the first thing I found was lifetime eSim for €2.50, to be soldered inside a device. This is very scary, it will create a whole new level of attacks. Imagine replacing someone's hardware wallet with a fake device with esim that instantly broadcasts the PIN. Air gapped devices will need a faraday cage to be sure.
2896  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: Usb Encryption on: September 04, 2023, 10:06:28 AM
USB drive has expected lifespan of 10 years which I do not think it is bad at all.
Easy solution: once a year, spend $10 on a new stick from a different brand and make another backup. Keep your old backup.

i fear that someone near to me may read that paper and get access to the wallet.
Does that mean untrusted people have physical access to your house?
2897  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: Mixing coins through exchanges on: September 04, 2023, 09:54:14 AM
Will the Wasabi work well if there is no concern about the agencies doing the chain analysis, as the motive is only to hide from family / friends?
It depends what you're hiding from: are you afraid they're going to rob you? Do they ask for money? Do they even know your current Bitcoin addresses?

If they know your addresses, sending your Bitcoin to an exchange is the perfect way to get plausible deniability of owning Bitcoin: "No, you can hit me all you want, but I sold my Bitcoins last month". If you withdraw them again, they won't know your new address. If this is your concern, it sounds like you need to move and few new friends.
If you use Wasabi, they won't know which Bitcoin address is yours anymore, but they'll know you still own the coins.
2898  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: What happened to Coinomi? on: September 04, 2023, 09:46:10 AM
My only problem is that I can't find the source link on Google
The problem is more obvious from your timeline: they went from 2 months between updates to no update in 16 months.

Anyway, I have my answer and solution. No more Coinomi for me, so I'll lock this topic.
2899  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: New to Bitcointalk on: September 04, 2023, 09:33:24 AM
LoyceV is telling you the truth, you have to read very well.
It seems futile. OP just "answered" a 6 years old question and it sounds like generic AI chatbot output:
Hey there! Seems like you're experiencing some delay with the walletnotify feature. One possibility could be network latency or resource constraints on your server. Sometimes, the Bitcoin daemon can prioritize other tasks over notifications, especially if you're running on a low-spec machine. Also, consider checking the logs for any errors that could give more insight.
2900  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: New Ninjastic.space: which features would you like to see? on: September 04, 2023, 07:15:05 AM
Would it be possible to create a manual option for the user, when entering the post on Ninjastic, to ask the bot to do a new scrape?
That would be a good upgrade instead of using archive.is for this.

If anyone can do this by pressing the button it will lead the spamming of bot to scrape bitcointalk and will end up blocking the ip address if ninjastic bot.
It's similar to BPIP's "REFRESH PROFILE" button, the bot will just have to do it's own rate limiting when needed.

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- i guess adding the last 120 days or 4 months in merit tab will be helpful where applying campaign as managers required it.
BPIP has this already.
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