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3201  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Crypto.com Says Hackers Stole Nearly $34M From Users on: January 20, 2022, 07:46:47 PM
Have to love this quote from the article:

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Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek told Bloomberg TV on Wednesday that the numbers for the hack were "not particularly material and customer funds were not at risk."

I guess that is one of the advantages to dealing with a major exchange with massive assets and investors and insurance, is that the can cover it when things go wrong.
Lets face it, no security will ever be perfect and there is no way to ever get 100% secure, but if they have enough backing and coverage it should not matter to the individual users.
Kind of like FDIC insurance here in the US on banks.

-Dave
3202  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Badger (a Super Mod of casino) and Bitvest.io scammed me 100 LTC on: January 20, 2022, 12:49:12 PM
Well the hot wallets have the money so if this is legit they could pay without issue.
OP do you have the TXID of your deposit and the other transactions?
Everyone else is getting paid and based on the funds in their hot wallets it's not worth scamming for this small an amount, I would think there is something else going on.

Last time LL went dark a few months ago everyone freaked and then he came back and made things mostly OK.
Lets see if he does it again.



You totally right! I was very noob by trusted in that mod but if we think in a different situation where a casino letting me withdrawal my winninng then this won't happened. Also, how we cannot trust in a super mod from a casino that we are playing at? I was trusted them because they have big campain here and a lot of people talking good about them so I decided to play there. But the way the mod ripping me off and the way their admin and other mod trying to project her and muted me when it happened made me feel sick of these people

Noob, you have been talking about gambling and losses here for over a year:

Hello!
I was told from the Complaint Team at AskGamblers.com that I could get help by reporting to this email address as this is the Regulatory body. Please BaoCasino.com is providing an unfair environment and I am really disappointed of what they have done to their loyal customer who is playing at their website for 2 years long already.
My name is Bao, couple days ago I have hit a really big win, around 25k EURO and I was told to making withdrawal of 2 different times of 1000 EURO each and they said I can only withdraw 2000 EURO each day max. After I requested withdraw, they were asking me to providing address verification which is I have already done 2 years ago when I was created account and it's okay, I still provided but badly, I have misclicked and does not paid attention that I have submitted a wrong document. I was tried to contacted them back and explained it, but it's too late. They are closed my account and also closed many different accounts at other casino that I have in same network. So I have asked them why they closed my account, they said that I was provied fake documents. I was very sursprised because it was legit document. I have asked to to prove it why they said it's fake and please let me providing supporting documents and I was also re-submitted my selfie with ID and the address verification but they said they cannot take it. Because the final decision from Admin and they subtracted my winning total amount of 32k EURO.
Please my English is not good but If you guys could help, please help me because this casino is not fair by not letting players fixed their mistake. Everyone in this world will make mistake and I am too. I just missclicked and submitted wrong documents but BaoCasino based on it making a reason to closed my account that having 32k EURO still not withdraw and now being closed which is very unfairness and unprofessional if I don't want to say they are scammed.
Please this is all my future, all my plans, all my hopes. If I cannot get this winning, I will be die, I am at a very bottom of my life and being treating like this making me so shock.

And here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=254871.msg56236665#msg56236665



-Dave
3203  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: BITCOIN over a proxy on: January 20, 2022, 12:13:02 PM
So after months and months of nothing but bounty posts the OP comes in and asks an oddball question. Are they looking for real advice or just looking to get a merit or 2 to rank up as some people try. Hmmmm something to think about.

Either way, more information is needed. Just port 80 open is very odd, most home internet providers block inbound port 80 and others so people cannot run their own webservers. Outbound they obviously are not blocking other ports or the OP could not post.

-Dave
3204  Bitcoin / Mining speculation / Re: Ultra-Low-Voltage Energy-Efficient Bitcoin Mining ASIC from Intel (23 Feb 2022) on: January 19, 2022, 02:47:40 PM
Well it looks like I am going to eat my words from what I have been saying around here for a while.
I REALLY thought that Intel would never enter such a niche market. They have for years only been about CPUs, memory, things that can be sold to everyone everywhere.
Yes, they always had some smaller product lines, but that was usually obtained from when they bought other businesses. Something like this developed in house has been rare from them as of late.

As others have said, lets see how it pans out in terms of efficiency & cost & availability.

-Dave
3205  Economy / Economics / Re: Amazon stops Visa payments on "too high fees" argument (UK) on: January 19, 2022, 12:40:46 PM
Makes you wonder how much Visa jacked up their rates vs. everyone else since Amazon picked on them.

~ 5 times
https://www.ft.com/content/4820b619-4d35-4c6a-8523-fc685c047374

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From October, Visa will charge 1.5 per cent of the transaction value for credit card payments made online or over the phone between the UK and EU, and 1.15 per cent for debit card transactions, up from 0.3 per cent and 0.2 per cent respectively.

And it's the same as Mastercard
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55796426

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From October, Mastercard said it would increase these fees to 1.5% on every transaction, up from 0.3%.

Probably Amazon has decided that it's far easier to deal with the merchants on the platform and have them cover a part of the cost that going to war with Visa.

Ouch 5X? That's insane, or as I like to say. "I'm from New York, we have rules here, 1st you pull out a gun, THEN you rob me. You just can't show up and take my money, that's just not how its done"

I can see why Amazon tried to force some concessions. If they both went 5X I wonder why they picked on Visa.

Either way, I wonder how many other merchants are going to walk away from taking cards at those rates.
For smaller shops I can see them going back to cash only. Had they gone up a little bit at a time over the next 3 years I could see them just slowly adapting. But a big hit all at once it usually what causes people to walk away from a product / service.

-Dave
3206  Other / Off-topic / Re: Would creating our own VPN be better than buying one? on: January 19, 2022, 12:34:00 PM
It's not difficult, but to maintain true anonymity you would have to jump though a few hoops 1st.

1) Find a server host that allows crypto payments and sign up using a disposable email account using some private form of payment from a location that cannot be traced to you.

2) Make sure said provider does not automatically keep logs of all traffic in and out of said server.

3) Be aware of the fact of that if it is just for you and not commercially available that if someone does want to find you and subpoenas the host and starts to monitor the traffic they will know that if you are the only one using it that so it's all your traffic.

4) Any issues with open VPN or any of the other software you use will have to be diagnosed by you.

5) As sated above all the traffic will be from the 1 IP you have with the host.

6) Huh

-Dave
3207  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Crypto.com suspends withdrawals on: January 18, 2022, 07:50:39 PM
Is there a better way to go about this, then? I'm also guilty of this, though I haven't had any issues since I started using GA as a 2FA tool on my device for years now.

Just use different devices. 2FA is supposed to be an extra layer of security. If your computer gets infected by malware, and you're accessing Authy's 2FA through the desktop app on the same computer that you're logging in to exchanges with, then what's the point? A hacker could simply log in and authorize the withdrawals himself.

Beyond different devices, your 2FA device should not be used for anything else other than 2FA. No games, no surfing the web, just 2FA.
Now, the other thing is it also depends a lot on the amount of money being discussed.

I have an insecure hot wallet on my phone but, the amount of crypto in that wallet is not enough to make a difference in my life, it's not even enough to make a difference in my spending habits this week.

I have a 2nd device with GA and Authy on it along with a Google Voice number for getting SMS messages that does have access to more funds. But, to get to those I have to go to my PC log into an exchange and then enter the 2FA info.

Everything else uses a hardware wallet.

You will have different levels of what you need for security depending on your financial situation and the amounts involved.

-Dave
3208  Bitcoin / Mining support / Re: restoring old asic on: January 17, 2022, 09:42:40 PM
You can take a look here for a new / custom firmware: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=672969.0
Some of the links to mega do work. I might have an old one buried someplace but it would require digging thought some old drives to find so it might take a while....

-Dave
3209  Bitcoin / Mining support / Re: restoring old asic on: January 17, 2022, 08:07:39 PM
I *think* it's an Innosilicon A2BOX Scrypt Miner So it's for altcoin mining not BTC mining.
Looking here it looks a lot like this:
https://cryptomining-blog.com/2913-review-of-the-86-mhs-a2box-innosilicon-a2-based-scrypt-asic-miner/

BUT BEFORE THE MODS MOVE THIS....
A lot of the older Innosilicon stuff looks very very similar since they made 1 case and ran with it for a lot of their miners. There were a ton in the China market.

I know they had a BTC miner that was in the *exact same case* As my LTC miner I had both. Side by side you could not tell which was which. There was no external difference between the BTC miner and the LTC miner.
Are there any markings at all on the boards?

Edit to add: Either way, it's so old unless you have free power it's going to loose you money to run it.

-Dave
3210  Economy / Economics / Re: Amazon stops Visa payments on "too high fees" argument (UK) on: January 17, 2022, 05:38:47 PM
Well Amazon blinked 1st: https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/17/tech/amazon-visa-uk/index.html
Makes you wonder how much Visa jacked up their rates vs. everyone else since Amazon picked on them.

Or was it more of Amazon picking on the biggest target to see how they did and if it went well they could go after the other players.

-Dave
3211  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Crypto.com suspends withdrawals on: January 17, 2022, 04:52:58 PM
Earlier today a small number of users experienced unauthorized activity in their accounts. All funds are safe.
 
In an abundance of caution, security on all accounts is being enhanced, requiring users to:
 
-Sign back into their App & Exchange accounts
-Reset their 2FA

I am not sure what would "all funds are safe" mean after an "unauthorized activity", still, it doesn't look too bad (yet).
Let's see whether there will be complains after the update they're rolling out now.

I would guess it's either that they have enough funds to cover any losses or they have insurance to cover any losses.
Or this was internal DB work that went very poorly.

Looks like some people have gotten access back after not being able to login from what I have seen online but still can't withdraw.

-Dave


3212  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Offline bitcoin vending machine using lightning on: January 17, 2022, 01:08:42 PM
Now that looks really cool. I can't come up with a reason to buy one for myself at the moment, but I really want to.
All I need is a product to put in it, and a place to have it be displayed, and some people who know where it is to use it. :-)

It really is nice to see people developing things like this for BTC / crypto.
You had the candy dispensers but the people making them seem to have stopped production.

-Dave
3213  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Crypto.com suspends withdrawals on: January 17, 2022, 12:40:12 PM
According to their twitter feed they are rolling out some changes and will re-enable soon.
Wonder if they will give an after action report as to what happened.

Makes you wonder yet again how safe 2FA really is when people have their APP & Email & 2FA all on the same device.

I really love people that use something like Google Authenticator or Authy and then also SMS both on the same phone.

Dave slams head on wall......

-Dave
3214  Economy / Digital goods / Re: Some adult / adult type domain names on: January 17, 2022, 11:56:27 AM
The marked ones can be interesting for adult website networks. Do you offer them on GFY? If not just hit me a reply, I can do it for you cause creating a new account there can take months.

What is GFY a few searches brought up nothing?

If it's quick and simple I'll take a look, but I am more looking to just sell them then actually do something with them.
Had a few lowball offers in the $500 range for a couple of the domains so I figure they are worth at least that.

-Dave
3215  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: recover coinbase multisig wallet to electrum? on: January 16, 2022, 05:38:08 PM
Pulling in from the other thread. If you take a look at constants.js you see:

Code:
"use strict";

var constants = {
  M: 2,
  MINIMUM_MINER_FEE: 20000,
  BITCOIN_SATOSHIS: 100000000,
  INSIGHT_API_URL_ROOT: "https://insight.bitpay.com/api/",
  DEBUG: false,
  REQUEST_PIPELINE_SIZE: 2,
  REQUEST_BACKOFF: 250,
  REQUEST_BACKOFF_CEILING: 3000,
  REQUEST_BACKOFF_MULTIPLIER: 1.25,
  REQUEST_RETRY_ATTEMPTS: 5
}

module.exports = constants;

So you my be able to download and tweak the .js files a bit to find what you need and change it.
I don't know enough about js and the app itself to be sure what would need to be changed. You would also have to find were the /addr is located and change it to /address and a few other things, but I don't see it as an impossible task. Just a long and annoying one.

-Dave
3216  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: Recovering BTC from an old Coinbase multisig Vault on: January 16, 2022, 03:30:17 PM
It is as stated.
You had one seed, coinbase had one and both you and coinbase had one (that required a password).
If you have the 2 that you should have then that is all you need.
IIRC there are other ways of getting what you need.

On a side note the 525 error means that for some reason you do not have the same SSL protocols on your browser that the server has.
However, here it is probably because insight.bitpay.com now redirects someplace else.
 
What exactly do you have in terms of keys?

-Dave
3217  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Bitcoin Inheritance Protocol with delayed broadcast (improved Dead Man's Switch) on: January 16, 2022, 02:39:12 PM
...
You will want to be sure that your assets outside of your POD accounts are sufficient to cover your debts and any tax liability, otherwise your creditors (or the tax collector) may come after those who received the POD accounts, which can be unpleasant.

Which brings up some other points which is in a lot of places your debts die with you. Except for debt that is covered by real property. i.e. the $5000 someone owes Chase MasterCard will die with them. The $50000 they owe on the mortgage will stay attached to the property. Taxes will vary. But, in some places you can't transfer the property till the debt is paid so the property stays in the estate till the mortgage is paid off. [Side note of real life I had to deal with this along with a friend for a place in Arizona. What a pain.] In other parts of the world other debt might follow the estate. In others it all goes away as you are required more or less to have insurance to cover property debt.

I think that is always going to be part of the problem too. BTC is world wide, how do you create a setup that will work in all the jurisdictions around the world and keep up with them as they change. And so on. Along with contested wills, and other potential things.

Just because it can be done, does not mean it should be done. And then where do you draw the line?

But, this is drifting a bit OT, it's not about the ramifications of the BTC transfer, but about the transfer itself.


You can then use you wallet normally and when you die the executor hands over their words to the person getting the wallet who then would have complete access to it.
And I'm asking why should there be an executor? We've designed a system in which we transact without having an intermediary, just like cash, but we need an executor to inherit? We don't. The system allows trustless inheritance.

Your solution:

Alice wants from Charlie to receive 1 BTC from her when she passes away. Thus, she creates a 2-of-2 multi-sig wallet, deposits the bitcoin and gives one key to Bob, the executor, and the other key to Charlie. When she dies, Bob gives his key to Charlie. Now, Charlie has access to the money.

Flaw: Bob may not give the key for a million reasons. It's down to him if Charlie gets the money or not.

----------------------

My solution:

Alice wants from Charlie to receive 1 BTC from her when she passes away. Thus, Charlie creates a wallet, gives her an invoice, she signs a transaction where she gives the bitcoin, but adds a condition that the transaction is valid after a specific time period. If she's alive after this period, they redo the process. If she's gone, Charlie can broadcast the transaction and get the money.

It's important to note here, in a situation like this in many many many parts of the world you NEED to have human involvement. There has to be someone handling the estate you cannot (legally) just hand over money.
You may need to state it officially that you're inheriting Alice's assets and therefore get taxed, but I find no reason to use an intermediary for that purpose. In most countries bitcoin is considered an unrealized gain, so you may not even need to state you're even inheriting it.

Taxes usually have very little to do with it. It's is the person getting the money really entitled to it? We can disagree with the law(s) all we want. But for now in many parts of the world there are very strict rules covering how an estate is distributed. Going around them although doable and common even without BTC can cause and have caused years of legal issues for people if others choose to fight it. And I am going to say this and leave it alone, until you have had dealings with a contested will over an amount of money that is worth less then a cheap used car you have no idea of the shit storm that can happen over a bit of money.
As for the executor not giving the person entitled to it the information needed. They could just as easily not had over cash accounts, or titles to property or a dozen other things.


-Dave
3218  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Bitcoin Inheritance Protocol with delayed broadcast (improved Dead Man's Switch) on: January 16, 2022, 01:46:21 PM
Not sure I'd want to inherit my holdings to a person that I feel could try stealing my possessions.
He may not want to, but accidentally lose them. He may get stolen. There are lots that can happen until you pass away if another person holds your private key. It's much better to just give them a signed transaction that is not yet valid instead.

they are more then likely enough to be leaving their BTC to people who understand it enough to be able to use an X of Y multisig wallet with one of the keys not being released until after death.
How does multi-sig helps the situation? I don't understand.

The person who is supposed to get the BTC has 1 of the keys.
The executor of the estate has another.

The problem is it will always be a static address so you are probably better off with wallet seed words that are split between 2 people.
You can then use you wallet normally and when you die the executor hands over their words to the person getting the wallet who then would have complete access to it.

The other option is using a hardware wallet that you just imported seed words into with a pin. The recipient of the funds would have had the wallet file and the hardware wallet.
The executor just hands over the pin. You don't even need an executor for this as there are many deadman send email services out there.

It's important to note here, in a situation like this in many many many parts of the world you NEED to have human involvement. There has to be someone handling the estate you cannot (legally) just hand over money. That is the crux of it. I can leave Julie just about everything I want. BUT, I just can't have it automatically happen. There needs to be a will and an accounting of what is what. I had a friend who had to fly to a foreign country in the middle of the pandemic for a reading & acceptance of a will. Just handing over funds although doable will probably cause more grief then it's worth.

-Dave
3219  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: North Korean Hackers Stole Nearly $400 Million in Crypto Last Year on: January 16, 2022, 01:12:00 PM
Makes you wonder with all the scams going on in the markets with fake tokens and projects and DeFi and everything else why bother 'stealing'

All you need are a bunch of state sponsored web people to put up a bunch of sites and then to promote them on twitter / facebook / wherever to get some hype and then let the money roll in. No hacking needed. You will have people just lining up to give you money. Would save a lot of time and effort.

I mean has anyone looked at the Token / AltCoin Announcements boards here lately? It really is a cesspool. And people are still lining up to give away their money.

-Dave
3220  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Bitcoin Inheritance Protocol with delayed broadcast (improved Dead Man's Switch) on: January 16, 2022, 12:38:53 PM
I think part of the problem here is that the way I see it, it's an answer in search of a question.

And here is where I am going to get a ton of people yelling at me about about not your keys not your coins, but as of now I think that a lot of people who are concerned about leaving an inheritance in BTC are the same ones using custodial services like Coinbase. And for the ones that are not, they are more then likely enough to be leaving their BTC to people who understand it enough to be able to use an X of Y multisig wallet with one of the keys not being released until after death.

-Dave
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