If anyone cares and has about 700GB of free space on a drive & a lot of bandwidth and reads Russia there is a dump of a lot of data from Roskomnadzor available here: https://ddosecrets.com/wiki/RoskomnadzorFigure I'll have to move some blockchain backups to make space for it. But it's not like the Russians did not have a heavily filtered internet anyway. -Dave |
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Outside of the tweet is there any other mention of this anywhere?
I know a lot of providers are pulling out since they are not getting paid. Some pulled out as a statement. Others are just not getting paid and pulling out.
Or is it being cut internally?
-Dave
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I know I have commented before here, but since I have been busy this last week I have been spending more time just reading through the trash that the alt & token boards are.
I have have to say I just don't get it. If I was looking around and saw what these people are positing I would be running the other way if I was at all interested.
Is it just me just really loosing patience and tolerance for these people or has it always been this bad? I really think those sections used to be at least a bit better.
-Dave
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Hello, I am nodejs software developer. I'm learning solidity. I'm beginner level.
I have seen a lot of honeypot contracts, what is the logic of their operation? Are there any places where it is used other than rug-pull? Is it completely made to defraud people?
Is there a contract similar to this one? I would like to examine.
(if the relevant topic is prohibited, I can remove it.)
99.999% of the time it is as you said for a rug-pull / rip off. I can only think of 1 reason to use one and it would have to be disclosed up front and the people sending funds to it would have to be aware of why it's being done. However, I don't think anyone has ever used it that way as there would be better ways of doing it. Essentially it would be for a no back out purchase that would be issued only after it's all done and then could only be calculated after the fact. -Dave |
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When you have multi billion dollar international banks that have given up on doing full global cards and actually issue them by regional subsidiaries I really can't see it being done that easily. Coinbase does not do it themselves here in the US the card is issued through metabank with the back end done by marqeta. BitPay uses Metropolitan commercial bank, Fold uses Sutton bank, and so on. You will need some larger financial institution with serious backing if you want to issue cards.
-Dave
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Well the Ruble is now dead: https://twitter.com/anders_aslund/status/1501315627386118145Can't trade it for anything inside of Russia. Just about all foreign banks will not take it. I suppose you could trade it for BTC, but who in their right mind would take something that will probably be worthless for something that has value. -Dave |
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MC and Visa have pulled out of Russia. The cards will still work till they expire, BUT any money transfers in or out are banned. So this really has nothing to do with Binance.
Everyone in Russia can no longer use their cards for any international purchases OR fiat purchases.
Binance is probably in a gray area but due to the plummeting value of Russian currency, and the fact that it may hit some sanctions it's not worth their time or effort.
-Dave
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Interesting. I have a few issues with it as some things are a bit general. 'Real Estate' is it commercial? Or residential? Or all? Same with 'Energy' it's a bit vague. Can't dig into it from where I am at the moment to see where the data comes from so it may be buried in the tweet.
There are a few other things that are not there that I wonder why, did it not fit the narrative or are they buried in some other category. Rare earth metals comes to mind (not just gold), heavy manufacturing industry also.
-Dave
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Not for a while. From what was discussed elsewhere, they are going to the big buyers 1st then to the smaller bulk then to distributors.
Till they trickle down to us will probably be months.
It's probably a smart move on their part. 1000s and 1000s of end users can be a nightmare to support, putting them in the hands of professionals 1st to find issues that can be dealt with in a data center environment with full time support engineers is probably better.
Unlike other manufacturers that let us do the beta testing of the products.
-Dave
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coinomi is an open-source wallet that guarantees some level of security Please actually read the thread before hitting reply. There is extensive discussion in the previous posts about how Coinomi absolutely is not open source and has had a number of very significant vulnerabilities in the past (transmitting seed phrases to third parties, not encrypting communications, etc). Further, no wallet can guarantee your security since even the best hardware wallets or cold storage can be used in an insecure way if the user does not know what they are doing. In a nutshell, if coinomi wallet is used properly and in a secure manner, it is still vulnerable and we can lose our funds? If you can give a short summary on this , it will be really help because i do have coinomi wallet in my phone with little funds.  Short Version: coinomi is closed source so there is no way to know what it is doing in the backgroud Their desktop version also had a major whoops at one point in time and was sending your seed phrase out to google to be spell checked Long version, no matter what people tell you phone wallets are vulnerable. Some more then others, but in the end you are reliant on the security of Android or iOS to be safe. Both have had many many issues over the years are are still shown to be vulnerable to attacks. Android is a bit worse in some ways since it allows for phone manufacturers to put whatever they want on it, better in other ways since you as the user have a lot more control in what the phone has on it. iOS is a bit more locked down, but Apple has had their share of security issues over the years and for the most part deny it's a problem till they are forced to fix it. So in the end they both suck. Don't store more on your phone then you are prepared to loose. Or as I said above, as a rule that works for me, I don't store more on my phone then the phone itself is worth. -Dave |
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I'm going to take this a step further and go with, don't use phones that have a ton of manufactures bloat and customization on them. Just don't use mobile wallets for amounts you are not willing to lose. Are you comfortable carrying around $50-100 in cash in your wallet? Yes? Then you should be comfortable carrying around 0.001 - 0.002 BTC in your mobile wallet. Are you comfortable carrying around $10,000 in cash in your wallet? No? Then why are you carrying around 0.25 BTC in your mobile wallet? I use an open source mobile wallet several times a week. How else am I going to spend bitcoin when out and about? They are a necessity. But I also don't store my entire stash in one, just like I don't carry around all the fiat I own in my pocket at all times, which would be plainly moronic. Put your funds in cold storage, and transfer small amounts to your mobile wallet as and when required. No, its not just BTC using older phones with all the bloat leaves you with tons of other security issues too. Password leaks, PII being sent who knows where, etc. -Dave |
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3. DO NOT use old phones with outdated software
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I'm going to take this a step further and go with, don't use phones that have a ton of manufactures bloat and customization on them. It's just too easy for bugs to be found years after support from Samsung / Motorola / Nokia / whoever has ended. Stock basic Android is just that, there will be vulnerabilities found over the years after support has ended. But, they will probably not be as big a show stopper as all the added manufacturer and carrier bloat. https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/208.pdf-Dave |
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BTC still has a $700+ billion dollar market cap.
Thinking one person saying anything about it can make that much of a difference is silly. Sorry, but it is. There are dozens perhaps 100s of factors that move markets this large.
People who were speculating that now want something stable due to everything else going on in the world probably moved the price more then anything else at the moment.
-Dave
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Did not work, I'll have to check over the weekend when I have time to see what I did wrong. You would think that a L2 solution that is (1) designed to save people money in tx fees and (2) is supposed to increase privacy would have a simple way to select the UTXOs you want to use. -Dave |
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Stupid question:
Is there a way to choose what inputs you use when opening channel?
I just opened a channel and instead of using the 1 large input it consolidated about 8 small ones.
Not a big deal since I don't care when it opens and I have the fee set to 1 sat/b but had I taken the default / suggested 15 sat/b I would have spent a fair amount of BTC.
-Dave
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$300 shipped to the US is very expensive.
That is almost what it would cost to have a CNC place do it here.
Yes I know you would need to design it, and create the CAD drawings and so on. But still that is US cost not China cost.
-Dave
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On that point, I have to agree with @franky1.
I would rather be buying useful products than sending money. It's more effective as assistance, and it has an immediate impact. It's true that charities don't spend their funds in a fair manner. There have been some 'scandals' (with the CEO getting dinners in palaces, or some getting an outrageous paycheck,...), and this is a general way of working with them).
How about we create a buy group among us. We could organize a campaign among the members of bitcointalk (no matter if they are in a signature campaign)
One person would be responsible for buying essentials we listed from a shop accepting Bitcoin and delivering them to a charity that we would designate in order.
If something starts to do it, let's do it in this thread (if @DaveF doesn't mind of course)
No problem posting here, but I do think a new thread with a different subject would be better. I was hoping to guilt some others into donating and being public about it. Didn't seem to work, have to talk to my friends Italian grandmother about how to generate guilt better :-) However, we have to be very careful to avoid this which was why I was going with the public donation to the known addresses:
As for the charity thing, yeah that is a shitshow. But it's a shitshow of our own making. I have lost count, what is this the 3rd or 4th time in recent memory that there has been some group of us here making donations to something that went sideways? Not saying the funds were stolen or not used properly since we don't know for sure but look back at the Bruno / Phinnaeus Gage / Gleb Gamow fiasco https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5251105.0 there was another one last year but I don't remember the name at the moment. I'm sure there are more that I just did not notice. We as a group should come up with a set of "guidelines" so to speak on how to deal with donation / charity situations.
Or, it's going to keep happening.
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I didn’t comment on anyone’s good intentions at all, but the way how to do it. You need to know that every Ukrainian supporter is a Russian enemy, and we all know how they treat enemies.
If the Russians are worried about some random internet dude donating a few hundred dollars more then the CEOs and other world leaders then they have way too much time on their hands. I think the asshole in the F150 that decided that red lights are optional is a larger threat to me. (This may just be the morning commute talking) It is good that people "care so much" about the injustice in the world but I hope some day they care about all aggression in the world against all human beings not just those that the media is dictating them to care about.
For example if you go about 2000 miles to the south east of Ukraine there are civilian houses in a city not so unlike Kyiv that were bombed 12 times yesterday killing hundreds of innocent people. This has been going on for 7 years. I'm talking about Yemen, what UNICEF calls "largest humanitarian crises in the world". Of course your media doesn't cover it or tells you about it in a footnote with false information, simply because US is selling the bombs that drop on those cities!
I bet none of you even heard that a single air raid yesterday killed more civilians in Saana than those wounded in the past 5 days in Ukraine.
The war in Yemen is (well was till last week) mentioned on and off again in the news. BUT the major difference is as far as I know (and correct me if I'm wrong) it's an internal civil war. It's a shit show to be sure but it's not like they were invaded. -Dave |
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