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You left out the point of "So long as you know what you are doing and practice good security"
I work in IT, the security I see SOOOO many intelligent people implement is a joke no matter how hard I try.
Is it better to have your coins frozen by Coinbase because the government told them too or have them stolen by a hacker because you went to a phishing site and got some clipboard malware?
-Dave
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....where microsoft is known to have deliberately sabotaged OpenGL performance on windows platforms, in order to push their own competing technology Direct X.
MSFT doing stuff like that goes back to the beginning of time. Or at least PCs From: https://raywoodcockslatest.wordpress.com/2021/06/09/dos-lotus/“DOS isn’t done until Lotus won’t run.” They managed to code a few hidden bugs into DOS 2.0 that caused Lotus 1-2-3 to break down when it was loaded. “There were as few as three or four people who knew this was being done,” he said. He felt the highly competitive Gates was the ringleader. As for: Similar to how star wars and comic book films were influenced by their disney parent company, once they were bought out.
I'll let Homer Simpson sum that up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVd0-ka1BrkBut seriously, Star Wars / Marvel / etc. with Disney all comes down to money, I don't think anyone thinks any differently. They go with what is going to generate the largest profit and if it changes the core story a bit or a lot so be it. I actually see both sides of it. Part of me really does not like the way some things have been changed, another part of me knows that some other projects would not get made if they could not get enough money out of them. Back to BTC & crypto. Apple & Google are all about making the money. If they have to do things in their stores to help that along it's going to happen. If Coinbase has to adapt they will. People have been complaining about that for years. But, I always find it funny when you see these people running around saying that they can't get the app they just wrote in the the Apple app store, and they are going to call their lawyer on their iPhone while writing a letter on their MacBook and listening to music on the AirPods. Yeah, Apple is going to take you seriously.... -Dave |
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The only thing I can really come up with is "and so what?"
Apple / Google have always controlled what is in their stores. (Although with Google you could for the most part always install anything you want)
Just because it's virtual does not make it any different then shopping at WalMart.
If WalMart says to be sold in our stores you must follow those rules you have to follow them. Same with Amazon.
Articles like this are really nothing but clickbait at it's worst. Rambling shit that talks about nothing.
-Dave
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Thanks Dave and NeuroticFish,
The old version of LedgerLive did work and the Satstack software seems to be working, it found my transactions. I am surprised that Ledger hasn't fixed the problem by because of how many updates have been released since the version that worked. Makes me wonder why.
NeuroticFish I'll definitely take a look at trying the Electrum/Bitcoin Core setup. Thanks again.
It was mentioned somewhere (reddit? github? blog somple? don't remember) that it's on the to-list but it does require a lot of work AND very few people use it so it's not high up on the priority list. Honestly except for the few people who did discuss it on github and the one thread on reddit, and you  there has been very few complaints so I do see their point. -Dave |
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Hmmm a new user comes in and bashes Lightning Labs because of some shit on Twitter and a fight between some developers.
I use both LND and C-lightning. I can say from what I have seen LND has a larger community of users and developers. C-lightning is very tied to Blockstream, yes it's open source but, at least for me, LND seems to have more people working and developing and supporting us dumbasses when we screw something up.
Just my view, take it as you will. Also, keep in mind it's a bit of a loop in the fact that as of now LND has more wallets supporting it, so if you want to promote C-lightning instead of promoting it by itself getting some of the wallet people behind it may help.
-Dave
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You can always switch to linux for crypto related activity.
If you are going to be using Windows, installing GOOD AV software is a must *and* having something like Malwarebytes as a 2nd layer does help. The security part of Malwarebytes is meh at best but it does do a good job of blocking a lot of malware hosting sites. On top of that, if you don't mind giving up some privacy / anonymity installing MetaMask might help too. It's crap software for holding crypto, but it also does aggressively block a lot of crypto fraud sites too. Not going to those type of sites will really cut down on the chance of crypto clipboard malware.
If money is no object installing real front end security is also a good thing. But getting a SonicWall and the security subscription and a Barracuda Web Security Gateway and it's subscription will run into the $1000s and $1000s to start and the annual subscriptions are not cheap either.
-Dave
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A QR code is nice. But without having the address shown too I have always thought it's pointless.
If I say send coins here and just give you a QR code then you have no way of knowing if the code I generated is correct, or if the site displaying it is not altering it in some way, or if there is any malware on the device that is changing what is being passed to the app.
In general they are secure, but more and more you are not getting any other information with them, so at that point they are still secure but you have no way of knowing.....
-Dave
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I know you have the custom text for you avatar but doing something like I have may help too.
I can actually say that even if DarkStar_ / ChipMixer requested the text below the avatar be changed to something else to stay in the campaign I would have to think long and hard about it before doing it.
-Dave
<---I think this does help.
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Thank you for your replies. Any chance you can put the chainstate directory on an internal SSD? It will improve performance a lot.
I know, I will consider it. For the initial download setting dbcache to 2048 to 4096 if you have enough RAM will speed up the initial download while putting LESS stress on your system. There are a few discussions about it around about doing that. Using an SSD does help too. -Dave |
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I think they are promoting BTC so that the average Russian citizen can have that feeling that even if their banking is cut off from the rest of the world they can still move money. Big business has plans in place, as do the oligarchs. The average person does not. This allows them to still function with the outside world.
Side thought, and a sad bit of humor. 1st America did Vietnam and it did not go so well, then Russia did Afghanistan and that did not go so well, then the US did Afghanistan and it did not go well either, now Russia is doing Ukraine. Guess they wanted a new long drawn out conflict that will look like they are winning at 1st and then slowly get eroded away.
-Dave
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In POS you miraculously have to come up with those 100 billion votes, in POW a huge mining farm can be brought down by poeple hobby mining, each losing 1$ a day on electricity but making the guys behind Foundry bankrupt, in POS you can't do that.
And, now I wonder why I haven't said this in the first place.
Shrug, it's been said 10,000 times before 10,000 different ways. But we all have to keep saying it. I am starting to think the only people who are really pushing POS are people who either don't want to deal with mining or really just want to pump their shitcoin / token for some reason. POW is not going anywhere and the hash rate keeps going up as more and more miners come online. The big people get the newer better more efficient ones and we keep buying the other stuff and it just keeps growing. -Dave |
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Side note, but worth mentioning. Big cities for the most part are actually better for facial recognition privacy then smaller more rural areas.
Yes and no. If you live in a big city you'll probably either buy online, either go to supermarket, where's not that crowded. And China has shown that face recognition AI doesn't get scared off by big crowds. The crowd may hide your face 10 times, or 100 times, but one day it simply won't. Big cities might have more cameras and more people keeping track of them but there is so much information overload that it's actually easier to not be seen.
VERY small out of the way places are even easier. Since there are so few people it's easier to keep track of who is where doing what.
I completely get your point, just my point was out of town, i.e. off-grid. They may know where you are in general, but won't be able to track your life details. And excepting the owner of one grocery store, the rest of the world won't know what you are buying. Yes with a but.... In Manhattan there are more then 1100 grocery stores plus 1000s of bodegas where you can grab some food items. Going back to the Billings Montana example there are under 100 grocery stores / bodegas / etc. And they are much more spread out. If you are going 100% or at least 98% off grid not to be tracked it does kind of bring up an interesting question. Using the assumption that you have money. Are you better off in the middle of nowhere where you are forced to use what would be a limited amount of stores / services because there are just not that many around. Or in a larger city, that while it may have more surveillance and security and police etc. but you can vary your routine to such an extent that tracking you is just that more difficult.
Back to the subject at hand. I was thinking about CashApp debit card yesterday since they sent me a bonus offer for certain purchases. If you are keeping the BTC / cash / lack of privacy in a closed loop so to speak would that make it better for some people. CashApp / block already knows who you are. If you are suing them in a small subset of locations and never moving any of the BTC that you have there off the platform but just recycling through it would that mitigate the issue for some people? -Dave |
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...With the current evolution of cameras and face recognition, such people may also be forced to move out of cities/towns. So yeah.. there's a line between common sense and paranoia... (Imho such paranoid people may get targeted in the first place for being different and "they must have something to hide if they do this").
Side note, but worth mentioning. Big cities for the most part are actually better for facial recognition privacy then smaller more rural areas. If you are in someplace like Manhattan with 1 1/2 million people living in 23 Square miles (60 SQ KM) it's easier to be one of the faces in the crowd that generate so much data that has to be dealt with then it is in say Billings Montana with 120000 people in 45 square miles. (116 SQ KM) Big cities might have more cameras and more people keeping track of them but there is so much information overload that it's actually easier to not be seen. VERY small out of the way places are even easier. Since there are so few people it's easier to keep track of who is where doing what. -Dave |
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The best way to say it is the:
THERE ARE NO LEGITIMATE RECOVERY AGENTS.
NONE-ZERO-ZILCH-THEY DO NOT EXIST.
At times the government MAY be able to track people down and you MAY get your BTC back after it all goes through court.
For MASSIVE amounts of BTC and we are talking about $100000+ amounts. You might find some private investigators to track those responsible down and you might be able to take them to court to get some money back after spending a lot of time and your own money. But beyond that no.
Even if you track your coins to a large regulated exchange they will not do anything without legal documents. So you are going to have to spend a lot of money on lawyers and blockchain analysis work to prove that those coins were yours.
-Dave
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Anyone used this silent.link website for purchasing anonymous eSIM and getting burner phone number? It looks interesting, pricing is reasonable and most important thing is they accept payments in Bitcoin and Lightning Network, without using any kyc or email address registration. This could be a good option for privacy if your smartphone is supporting eSIM option, or just for testing and using LN payments  https://silent.link/I see they are using BTCPay Server for accepting paments. Interesting, but it's an esim so unless you can get one of the listed phones anonymously it can still be tied back to you. I would thing that it's probably more anonymous to just walk into a local store and pick up a cheap phone with for cash and then use Bitrefill or similar service to keep it topped up if needed. Nice find. If I had one of those phones I would give it a try, but since they are all more expensive units I'll stick to my old OnePlus -Dave |
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Although none do NOW, at least none that I have seen, there are some hardware wallets that use their own app to do certain things. In the future there is nothing * that stops them from sending that data back home to see what is going on. Or doing something like this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5341906.msg59307599#msg59307599* Nothing except the community screaming their heads off about it. -Dave |
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There is no answer to this question. There are 100s of different countries around the world. Each one with different laws & regulations.
What might me legal here may or may not be legal in that country over there and if you go to that other country waaaayyy over there things are going to be different.
And then you get into the rules and regulations on different states / provinces in some countries.
So, I guess there is an answer.....It depends where you are.
-Dave
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People tend to think it mattes since they are "USA" based.
Just about every country in the world has rules for businesses that deal with their citizens. You move fiat money or BTC or any thing else you have to deal with regulations.
If at any time you want to convert to cash you are probably going to have to deal with a local bank in that country. If say Coinbase said, "nope not going to do what you want" the Canadian government probably would then just go to the Canadian banks and stop them from dealing with Coinbase. That just hurts other users.
There were more then enough ways to get around it. But if they did that then the people who were "helping" the truckers would not get all this free PR and not get to keep 75% of the donations to line their own pockets.
-Dave
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To me it looks like a generic WordPress site running WPeMatico pulling in articles from other sources. I have one doing the same thing. So there is no original content, if google indexes something and then sees the exact same content someplace else you will never be listed in any meaningful way. And since you are just pulling articles from other places and not linking back to the original content it's actually plagiarism. Much like here, that will get you a permaban from being listed with / earning with Google. There are sites / services that will let you monetize with what you have, but the bigger ones will not. Take a look at: https://qoinfaucet.com same basic idea as your site but every link goes back to the original content provider. -Dave |
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