You are going to have to jump thought a bunch of hoops to get there but you can get old / unsafe / you should not be running them versions of nodejs here: https://nodejs.org/dist/You are then going to have to go through and install any dependency it needs one at a time. archive.org is your friend for this it may not get you everything but it should get you a lot. The other way to go is Yiimp there are a few installer scrips for that out there. -Dave |
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Isn't it the other way around: SSL stripping doesn't reduce your privacy, but it makes you send Bitcoin to the wrong address. The point I was making is that if you are either a motivated criminal or a business or a government spinning up a ton of exit nodes and other services is not difficult. And it makes people using 'many different exit nodes' for privacy loose a lot of it. The tor cannot be tracked is bogus considering the number of tor sites that have been traced / seized over the years. -Dave |
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Wouldn't it be more likely for all privacy minded users to abandon Wasabi entirely? Even if the current bad reputation isn't enough, that will end the moment it's bought by a blockchain analysis company.
The "privacy minded users" are not their target. Instead their target is the majority who don't really understand how to improve their privacy and are too lazy to do any research so they end up in a honeypot like Wasabi wallet..... I posted it earlier someplace but we are not their target audience for the most part. It's businesses that want 'privacy theater' so you can have peoples coins and put on a nice show that due to the fact that they are using this wallet with this feature that people can have privacy. And look we will never send you 'tainted' coins because these nice people are checking them for you. Much like people buying bitcoin ETFs instead of just buying coin. ...Tor ...
Tor is pointless, no you can't steal funds with this attack using Tor but to think it provides privacy is weak at best. https://therecord.media/thousands-of-tor-exit-nodes-attacked-cryptocurrency-users-over-the-past-year-Dave |
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...But if you want to stack coins with no kyc and have a need for heat a modded m50 or s19 is viable....
Even with the mods, unless you know something I don't, you still have to get 220V to wherever you want the heat. I am using a modded S9 for heat in the back room of the condo at the moment, would love to do something faster / more efficient but it's all 120V without doing a bunch of work. -Dave |
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Ordinals has absolutely nothing to do with coinjoins.
This is my last post to you since you don't seem to care and I am tired of wasting my time. You are 100% correct ordinals has absolutely nothing to do with coinjoins. Ordinals are filling blocks with transactions that are obviously not coinjoins. And the rest is Crateology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrateologyAs I said take out ordinals, take out known TXs, take out what else they know from other services and you have a very small pool of txs moving at the moment. Keeping an eye on all of them and figuring out what is going on where is a lot less difficult then if all the txs in blocks were 'real' transactions. Could 1 person do it looking at a list? Probably not. Can a lot of people with a lot of computing power and resources following all transactions do it. Probably yes. You also seem to think that there are not a ton of tor nodes that are not run by and fully monitored by the government too. -Dave |
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There are probably more then a few people on this board sitting with 50+BTC from the early days who could setup a coordinator Setting up a coordinator doesn't cost any BTC, a coordinator just sends messages back and forth to coinjoin participants. Once again, if I setup a CoinJoin Coordinator for Wasabi users with a bit of tweaking it's not impossible. Getting people to use it would be the issue. But if I am charging no fees I can see where every TX came from and where they went. How would you be able to see where every tx came from or where they went? Did you read gmaxwell's explanation about Chaumian blind signatures? Don't the users learn which inputs match up to which outputs?
In the simplest possible implementation where users meet up on IRC over tor or the like, yes they do. The next simplest implementation is where the users send their input and output information to some meeting point server, and the server creates the transaction and asks people to sign it. The server learns the mapping, but no one else does, and the server still can't steal the coins.
More complicated implementations are possible where even the server doesn't learn the mapping.
E.g. Using chaum blind signatures: The users connect and provide inputs (and change addresses) and a cryptographically-blinded version of the address they want their private coins to go to; the server signs the tokens and returns them. The users anonymously reconnect, unblind their output addresses, and return them to the server. The server can see that all the outputs were signed by it and so all the outputs had to come from valid participants. Later people reconnect and sign. 1) Because all the other coins in the coinjoin would be that persons. That is the point. 2) Later people reconnect and sign is the problem. It's usually (not always) not later, it's then and there. a->b->c tend to happen in somewhat real time. So now I know what to look for. And with blocks being full with ordinals at the moment you can probably eliminate 80+% of the TX, take out what are other known addresses and transactions. And the few dozen or hundred at the most can be sorted through at the governments leisure. -Dave |
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If a Fed was running a Whirlpool coordinator, they could perform a targeted attack where they only choose you to mix in rounds with 4 decoys so you gain a false sense of privacy. Or, they could just rug pull you by not mixing your funds after you pay the coordinator fee.
Should read: ANYONE can run a Whirlpool coordinator, and they CAN perform a targeted attack where they only choose you to mix in rounds with 4 (or more) decoys so you gain a false sense of privacy. Or, they could just rug pull you by not mixing your funds after you pay the coordinator fee. There are probably more then a few people on this board sitting with 50+ BTC from the early days who could setup a coordinator
- Can WabiSabi be traced?
Not unless you are the biggest whale in a coinjoin round with insufficient liquidity. Even outputs that do not have matching amounts cannot be traced to an owner on the input side - it’s even possible that the output changed hands as a payment to someone who did not own any funds on the input side at all:
Once again, if I setup a CoinJoin Coordinator for Wasabi users with a bit of tweaking it's not impossible. Getting people to use it would be the issue. But if I am charging no fees I can see where every TX came from and where they went.
The right tool for the right job. Hammering together something to make your BTC private will always have flaws / vulnerabilities. It was not made to be private. Same way a VW Bug was not made to haul lumber. You can do it but why. Rent a pickup truck or a van. Same here, want more private BTC there are enough BTC -> XRM or other privacy coins -> BTC and done.
Not kicking any of the people working hard to do this, but it really seems to be more effort then it's worth. -Dave |
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Good explanation for the dip: More sellers then buyers :-)
Seriously, in addition to what others mentioned part of it is the post Christmas / beginning of the year gotta pay some bills thing.
If you are sitting on some BTC you bought over the last few years before the recent run up and sell now you are still made some profit and if you have things sitting on a credit card at who knows how high an interest rate. It's a win to sell now and see what happens later. Can always get back in on the next dip
-Dave
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I suggest you also add a source link for every wallet; for instance I cannot find the source code for Aqua wallet.
Sure, I will add it at later stages. This is just something to get me started, since I planned to created this topic for a while, however I am not going to add hardware wallets in this list (except if some of them adds support for L-BTC and liquid network). That is because the wallet isn't open source (for now[1] apparently).
Correct. They are cleaning the code and working on releasing it as open source with some improvements. Side note but important. It's not just open Open Source but Open Source and Current.
Don't know what ''Current'' is. I am adding open source and source available wallets in this list. It is up to each user to check if wallet code is reproducible or not. Aqua walet is bonus category since it's not technically a multicoin wallet  As mobile wallet, there is Alphawallet, which is open source but it only supports EVM blockchains.
This does not my cup of tea, since it doesn't support Bitcoin BTC. Aren't L-USDT and L-BTC the same as wBTC, in which Bitcoin is locked in exchange for tokens and therefore we consider it an altcoin? It is not always possible to guarantee 1:1 or am I wrong about it, I have no experience with Liquid assets  No they are not, since you don't need any shitcoins for sending L-BTC and L-USDT, and everything is backed by bitcoin. IMO current is what is in github (or wherever) can be compiled to be what is in the playstore / downloads / whatever. As I pointed out for a while you could take what coinomi had online compile it and you got the same binary download that they were giving giving you. At some time that stopped. Too many people, myself included, may check once or twice that what they are giving me is what they say it is and then never check again. -Dave |
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Kruw is in the contributors' list of wasabi: https://github.com/zkSNACKs/WalletWasabi/graphs/contributors. In his profile, you can see he has forked both WasabiWallet and WasabiDoc. He even reviews pull requests if you check the PR history. And of course he replies to issues. So there is no doubt he is involved in Wasabi Wallet. Playing devil's advocate here: Isn't the way Github works that anyone can add "commits"? If they're accepted, that doesn't mean the guy works for the project, nor does it mean the project shares his views. It just means he made 7 out of >30,000 "commits". By his own words he is an contributor: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5286821.msg62080676#msg62080676In the end does is matter? At this point it's not like he is going to change his actions and I really don't think anybody here is going to change their opinion of him or Wasabi. I could probably go on for a while about it all, but it's just screaming into the void about the way people act. -Dave |
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I'm with Poker Player unless there is some other reason the other person defaulted and disappeared for years. The answer is no you get nothing. If after 2 years for whatever reason you quit the forum and there was no way to find you they would not get their money back either.
In MOST jurisdictions if you take out a loan on a car and don't pay they take your car and sell it. If there are any funds left over they lender has to put forward some reasonable effort to find that person and give them back any overages. If after reasonable time and effort they can't. They get to keep the money.
This long with not contact. It's yours.
But, if there was some other real reason for them to go dark for that long (jail?) you might feel differently. But not even an 'I'm not dead' PM?
-Dave
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I just realized that the troll Shenanigan has been banned from our forum. And only an hour after the infamous "Bitcoin SV" troll was also taken down. Could this be just a coincidence? Or maybe our admin or global mods had some inside information that we weren't aware of? 1/19/2024 3:04:09 PM Changed to Archived status Autoban user 1/19/2024 1:52:27 PM Changed to Archived status Autoban user Either way, it was a bleak day for trolls.  That, or one of the mods or admins finally realized that having people like that around was just becoming too disruptive. Or, there was a PM sent that violated some rules. We know why SV was banned which was those posts that he made before they were deleted. I could see shenanigan setting vicious PMs to people, but not having courage to post those things in public where he would be ridiculed by all. Either way, good riddance. Side thought, I started this thread a while ago, still would like to see why people actually got the boot. Just me being a gossip I guess: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5419611-Dave |
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The attack on MongoDB that happened last month was against their corporate systems.
The vulnerability that seoincorporation mentioned was against the DB server that you host yourself. (and it's been patched)
Yes there are ways to test against it, but you are going to have to do some digging through the code.
And, since it's only on Mac / Windows and it's because it's not verifying some certificates properly that means that you have your DB server exposed to the public internet without having some security in front of it that will filter for this attack. And why would you be hosting a public DB server on Mac or Windows anyway?
-Dave
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1st you have to understand how solo / lottery mining works. At 500 gh/s the odds of you finding a block is 1 in 900,000,000 or to put it more bluntly once in 17,500 years. That's it over and out. https://solochance.com/If you want to run your own pool there is a lot of software out there that will let you do it. But you have to have a knowledge of linux and a few other things. https://bitbucket.org/ckolivas/ckpool/src/master/-Dave |
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...Most dead cryptocurrencies came from projects launched during the 2020 - 2021 bull run....
I would think a lot more were in the 2014 range when the altcoin boom really came in. Coin after coin after coin most of which are gone. https://www.coinopsy.com/dead-coinshttps://99bitcoins.com/deadcoins/No list is entirely accurate. And there are probably quite a few that are on 'life support' Not traded, not being updated, but still have a few active nodes and miners. I can think of a couple that fall into that category that are listed as dead. Zombie coins might be a better term. -Dave |
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This confirms that mining is very centralised and controlled by a few institutional investors acting in their own interests and not those of the other participants. Is there a chance to know who are the investors of Foundry, AntPool, F2Pool and ViaBTC?
In theory everyone can join the network, but in practice those who actually participate in the PoW consensus (51%) and produce blocks are less than 0.1% of the miners, i.e. those 50-60 miners reported in the research. To achieve such a high hash rate, it is necessary to have a mining farm and an economy of scale.
Not at all. Learn how mining and pools work. Just the people on this board who mine are more then the "0.1%" that you claim. Anyone can point their miners at Ant or F2 or Via or Kano or another pool. Just because you don't have a bunch of S19 sitting in your garage does not mean that other people don't. https://explorer.btc.com/btc/insights-pools-Dave |
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Side note but important. It's not just open Open Source but Open Source and Current.
Even now there are a lot of projects that are open source or at least close to it but what you can find on github and other places is weeks / months behind what you will get when you download from the app store / play store.
Back in the beginning even coinomi had SOME current code available. It just didn't last. So good today does not mean good tomorrow. Be alert.
-Dave
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