This was the email I received after the initial MIA Thanks. WWM has a good point here: If all we wanted to 'exit scam' we could've done it for magnitues of times more than the current state with way less effort. I have indeed seen much larger scams with much less effort. So far, I haven't seen anyone who lost money over this, although it's likely some of the deposits were made by people who didn't know about the escrowed funds.
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And for the OCD among us, or at least those who have the great idea that I will get organized *soon* it allows us to categorize some things. i.e. bc1qCarStuff...... or bc1qH0tSauce.... or bc1qC0llect and so on.
So this way looking back later I would be able to figure out what was what without searching though a bunch of random addresses. Have not really been doing it, but there was that plan.... Why not use labels in your wallet for this? By using vanity addresses as labels, you're basically making your labels public. It's bad for privacy. For example, let's say that your regular address is 1LoyceVg9r******* You made me curious how many of the 1,219,157,164 used Bitcoin addresses contain "LoyceV" (case insensitive): 1Dd7BCtAQLEsKAn8LoYceVnChJugppMXbM 3DzkCVBN3VLoYCEVbhKxAsc7B2qg9pNW3h 1Ex3dKEQ62P1LoYcEVPs8ra5uWcMvj8XPC 179V56LoYCevph6CUwUNvP4huhYu9TiiVy 3LoYCEVV9PLS99113RXpayzpXJKdFiDTq9 1HBXxakN6qFL9CKVnrHLoyCeVguetikHsa 1LoyceVSbrv3CP3jT12qVYrNSbrqz4FL5q 3KtVhoLoYCEvvK4NjnfnAdvJk6NmPXau77 1J2VyNLLn2BLoyCevFPkUgcnJcGXwqWmWM 36X9KA5NueLSsPVjq3nLoyCEVbNdWcfMEc 1H28sq4JkXDp2UD3ULoyCeVJa4rnKcVrp2 3MPh3rUeD8xkZLcvwm7YtMKTdY5LoyCEvj 3LoyceVUWE9iUFKJT6ncGHgBGGXCwkGBeB 1DegqmsN9BXTyU7RMWysZX9ZqLoYcEVNtg 3K5K4gm4QmrBeBgTxqmYJLoYCEvsiPPis5 The list is a lot longer with "DaveF" (1699 entries) ![Cheesy](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cheesy.gif)
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Not really sure it's worth installing yet another app on my phone just to up the fee paid. After 2 months, I'd do it just to get over it. Or use Electrum from a Linux Live DVD. You may even be able to use CPFP with coinb.in (risks involved!). I might see iff I can zappwallet (is that still a thing?) Did you create the transaction from Bitcoin Core? If so: right mouse > is "Abandon transaction" available? I inadvertently entered 0.00000001 not 0.0000001 so I've just been sitting that one out. Counting that many zeros is one of the reasons I set all my wallets to mBTC instead of BTC. It helps ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) Not sure why but one of the explorers keeps saying it's at the end of the queue and never progresses toward the start of the pile. Each miner will have their own order in mempool. For small amount, online Electrum or other reputed online wallets like Sparrow et cetera are recommended. For small amounts (AKA the amounts you can easily afford to lose), it doesn't matter much. Trustwallet is not recommended at all. It only have one bitcoin address Does that make Trustwallet the sender?
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Though it may remain unanswered, the question arises as to why the 13 BTC is untouched for this length of time. If this was an all-out exit scam things would have been far more obvious but they have not moved any funds. If I had to choose between exit scam or them being unable to access their server, I would come to the conclusion they no longer are able to access their server. Perhaps they are in no rush to spend the Bitcoins, as they have more Bitcoins stacked somewhere? They would most likely get back to spending it once the dust has settled down. I have seen that kind of behavior before, with scammers and hackers. They are definitely aware that the address is being closely watched. I don't think so. They're running a mixer, they'll be very capable of hiding their trails. If they intended to pull an exit scam, they'd be very capable of doing so, and they'd make sure the servers stay online. It was as if the owners suddenly disappeared. Yep. Something must have happened. @Hhampuz: can you answer this question? I'm curious if Hhampuz tried emailing his contact again: I got an email back from whirlwind just now and it was as I suspected - something happened.
Basically, main people lost access due to travels while people still with access didn't have the right credentials to solve basic issues that caused withdraws to get stuck on the back-end. I've been assured that nothing has been lost and that all will be taken care of tomorrow meaning all currently pending withdraws will be processed and things return back to normal. It was an unfortunate situation is all!
I've asked my contact at whirlwind to reply in this thread whenever they can with further details, so from now until then/tomorrow night there is no need to panic even if I wouldn't recommend you to deposit until the backlog is cleared. Campaign participants will also be paid out as per usual tomorrow, regardless of if you've removed your signature or not. If his contact is not the same person as "main people", it wouldn't make sense for "something" to have happened to all of them at the same time. The message to Hhampuz is the only thing that makes me think there could be more to it than "something happened to them". My guess: they abandoned the project due to the lack of users, but kept it open for deposits. It's an exit scam by the book. I stand corrected.
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This is xLays from bitcointalk.org. I'm staking my new address which is bc1qe26htyqprnt7nnpru25uemmmuq69xewzlayzrs. Today is 2023-10-14.
BTC Address bc1qe26htyqprnt7nnpru25uemmmuq69xewzlayzrs
Signature: Hwi/L5v6AC4f/KkuL3o6jVJNkKY17P0y85Bd5P8pDG+yEq5mlNYoUxVRxPkXGCHFZvvK7uYGCoP74ZUyV5Utbbc= Verified in Electrum. To be thorough, you should sign a message from one of your older posted addresses.
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But How will users know that The updated thread is in the bottom? Ask OP to update it. I didn't realize until now you picked a topic for which OP is still active. I'd leave it up to the topic creator to update his topics.
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Now it's plagiarism. You should use quote-tags. Even better, while you're at it, why don't you quote the OP, update the images, and post that in the original topic (with a short explanation saying you've updated the image links)?
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Bump!New Trust lists created in the past week:
Amazingly, since my upgrade to a faster server, updating the top-navigation-bar takes a lot longer. It's as if it only uses half a CPU core, it now causes the server load to go to 0.50 instead of 1. I'm still ill, but once I'm okay again (which takes a lot longer than expected), I'll add multithreading to the navigation-update.
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Please ban bounty spammer and Newbie Yeakubali66 Banned! for plagiarism. He has text-spinned my entire topic, and posts it on the same board (no doubt to earn Merit). Plagiarism: Seize the Opportunity: Consolidate Your Small Bitcoin Inputs During Low Fees!
Background: As Bitcoin network congestion drives fees higher, now is the ideal time to consolidate small inputs.
Example: A recent 4909-byte transaction with 33 inputs incurred a 510 Satoshis/byte fee, resulting in just 0.0079539BTC. With today's low fees, you can save significantly.
Opportunity: With current low fees, consolidate inputs as small as 0.00002BTC, potentially saving up to 95% in fees for future transactions.
Benefits for All: Consolidating during low congestion benefits the entire network by reducing congestion when it's busy.
How to: Depending on your wallet, send your balance to a new address, manually setting the fee or enable coin control. Consider multiple transactions for various inputs.
Privacy: Note that consolidating inputs can link them on the blockchain, so weigh the implications.
SegWit: Explore SegWit addresses for fee reduction.
Fee Estimators: Check fee estimators for optimal transaction fees.
No Spam: Spam-free thread; irrelevant posts will be removed.
Disclaimer: Use this information cautiously, especially with private keys. Report any errors, and remember to think before acting. Original: Mods: I realize this isn't really a Technical Support question, but it's related to dozens of support request threads that have been made in the past, and it can potentially reduce support requests in the future. That's why I post it here.Background Whenever the Bitcoin network gets more congested, fees get higher and higher. Most wallets now use "dynamic fees", which means they start competing with each other for fast confirmations. This results is fees spiraling upwards. Not so long ago, more than 600 Satoshis/byte was needed to have any chance at a fast confirmation. The result: this board filled up with topics like: "my transaction got stuck for 2 weeks, help me". At the moment, these topics don't exist, which is the reason I open this "opposite" topic.Example 18 days ago, someone made this 4909 bytes transaction with 33 inputs and 510 Satoshis/byte fee. After paying fees, his 0.033BTC turned into only 0.0079539BTC. If he would make the same transaction now with 20 Satoshis/byte fee, he would have saved 0.024BTC. Instead of just 0.0079539BTC, he would have ended up with 4 times more!Opportunity Since about a week, fees are quite low again. For many months now, even transactions with 1 Satoshi/byte are likely to get confirmed within an hour. If you've been collecting faucets in the past, you most likely have many inputs around 0.000xBTC. A few weeks ago, anything under 0.001BTC wasn't even enough to pay for the fee. If you set a very low fee now, you can consolidate inputs as low as just 2000 Satoshis (0.00002BTC).It's good for everyone If you make a big transaction with high fees when the network is congested, you take up a lot of scarce block space. This makes the congestion even worse. By making a big transaction when the network isn't congested, you're prepared to be able to make a much smaller transaction once the network is congested again, without adding much to the congestion.Consolidate small inputs If you have many small inputs, now is the perfect time to consolidate them into one new input! If you're not in a hurry to get a confirmation, you can set a very low fee and just wait. Once it's confirmed, your funds can be send in a much smaller transaction, which means you'll safe a lot on fees if you want to make a transaction when fees are high again. If you have enough small inputs, you can safe up to 95% or more on fees!How Now the tricky part: it depends on your wallet! The easy way would be to just send your entire balance to a new address in your own wallet. Make sure to manually set the fee! I prefer to "Enable coin control" in Bitcoin Core, you can do this in Electrum too. Select the inputs you want to use, and leave out very small dust inputs (say 0.00001BTC, it would still cost more in fees than it's worth). Then simply send all selected inputs to a new address of your own. If you have many different inputs, I suggest to consolidate them in multiple steps. Don't create a 100,000 bytes transaction with 500 inputs, but instead create many transactions with 20-ish inputs.If your wallet doesn't allow you to set your own fee, and/or to use coin control, you can export your private keys and import them into a wallet that does support it. This, however, is something to discuss in another topic.Privacy Consolidating your inputs links them together on the blockchain. This wouldn't be any different when you use the same funds in any other transaction, but you should consider this before doing it.SegWit User Wind_FURY found a comprehensive overview of Techniques to reduce transaction fees, including the use of SegWit addresses.Fee estimators No spam All my threads are now self-moderated to stop signature spam. I will remove all irrelevant posts. If you quote the entire OP, your entry will be deleted. Once in a while I'll summarize posts and clean up this thread.Disclaimer Use this information at your own risk. At all times, think before each action, especially when you're dealing with private keys. When in doubt, don't do it! I'm human, I make mistakes. If something is incorrect, please let me know.
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I want to know when I will upload the updates threads with same title in archival board then they will be seen in the search results with original threads or not? Try it ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) I don't use the forum search, and I expect search engines to show the older and more active thread first.
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The imgur problem has been discussed in several topics, including my dump of 801,550 images. Considering the amount of lost images, I don't think manually replacing a few topics is going to matter much. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like there will be any other solution for the missing images either. My guess is that most of it will just disappear into the history of the internet.
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If I wanted to read AI diarrhea, I wouldn't need Bitcointalk. I want to read from humans, that's what forums were created for. What's next? Only AIs posting and only AIs reading? What's the point?
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