The fact that it is still possible to make a deposit on their site without the possibility of withdrawal deserves a red flag. I agree. But: You strictly adhere to the rules of which flag is for which case That is literally how the Flag system is supposed to be used. Read theymos' post on the Flag system. It looks like a shortcoming in the Flag system for a rare case. whirlwind mixer is for avoid. Agreed. |
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Why isn't it correct anymore? I made another part bold: there are no damages anymore. Did whirlwindmoney make any efforts to solve the situation? Yes. They setup an escrow system before all this happened. Did he ever say that deposited funds should be used to solve this situation? That was implied, when WWM agreed to a 7 day delay on asking back their escrow funds. What did he do to solve the situation? I see nothing. They planned ahead. Whether or not it was intended for this situation, I don't know. Probably not. It looks more and more like "something happened", and we may never know what. But OP was refunded, which invalidates the type 3 Flag. What you highlighted with bold looks like he should make active efforts to solve this exact situation. So at least he should come and confirm that all was done right. I guess we'll have to disagree on this one. OP has his money back, which is what matters for his Flag. So I don't think that it is something obvious even if escrow guy made efforts to solve the problem. That's his job. WWM hired him for this. I'd say that it is an ambiguous situation. That's not a reason for an active type 3 Flag: a set of pretty clear fact-statements.
I created a type 1 Newbie warning Flag: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=3207 |
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The fact that there are over 17 thousand DAI, still available to cover the damages of any whirlwind user, pinpoints how upright mixer that was. I've just Opposed the type 3 Flag, because it's no longer correct. None of this makes sense. |
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@decodx: you should withdraw your Flag: I can also confirm that I received the full amount of my deposit to WhirlWind. I've removed my Support and Opposed for your Flag. Anyone who Supported the Flag should consider doing the same. This is why: Creating or supporting a scammer flag is actively affirming a set of pretty clear fact-statements. If someone knowingly supports a flag containing incorrect fact-statements, then that is crystal-clear abuse, and I will seek to have such people removed from DT ASAP. People who are habitually wrong, even not knowingly, should also be removed. The current Type 3 Flag claims this: decodx alleges: whirlwindmoney violated a written contract, resulting in damages, in the specific act referenced here. whirlwindmoney did not make the victims of this act roughly whole, AND it is not the case that all of the victims forgave the act. It is not grossly inaccurate to say that the act occurred around August 2023. No previously-created flag covers this same act, unless the flag was created with inaccurate data preventing its acceptance. As far as I can see, the bold part is no longer correct, which means the Flag should no longer be Supported.
This doesn't mean I'd trust whirlwindmoney now, it only means the Type 3 Flag can no longer be used. The site still takes deposits while withdrawals aren't working, so a Newbie warning flag would be good. I don't think I've ever seen such a situation on Bitcointalk before. |
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It has happened to me sometimes that it is the wallet itself that rounds up the fees. If the change is smaller than the dust limit, that's the only option. The difference could even be more than the dust limit, as adding another output would increase the fee further. I've made mistakes with fees, especially when I try to rush things instead of taking my time to review the transaction. It happens. |
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I've had that with "Bitcoin Wallet" on Android, restoring my old backup took more than a day on my old phone. It's okay, I haven't been able to use it from Coinomi in about a year, so I'm in no rush. |
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Do you know of anyone who has actually used their anonymity mining service though? It's kinda in the name to not boast about it. Is the escrow address public? I'm curious how much of it was claimed. Apart from the website still accepting deposits, it's looking more like an "exit" than an "exit scam". |
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I think you will get by by installing official releases by those projects. I use a few Electrum Forks for Forkcoins (obviously only in a VM, as I don't trust them). For Monero, I don't need to keep it on mobile. That was only out of convenience, not because I need it on the go. So Monerujo won't work. I tried the full wallet once (on a server), and it's much more resource intensive than Bitcoin Core, so that's not an option either. GetMonero has some options. As much as I like CLI, I won't use it for a wallet. That leaves Cake Wallet or Feather (or web wallets, but I won't go there). Cake Wallet exists in Beta for Linux, which leaves Feather Wallet. I'll install this (in a VPN, of course) and recover my private key from Coinomi. |
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I don't get it: on the one hand, Bitcoin users are very much into "not your keys, not your coins". But on the other hand, "we" all want an ETF to pump the price. Which one is it? Encourage people to pay someone else to (promise to) hold Bitcoins for them, or encourage people to hold their own Bitcoins?
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I for one have created transactions with excess fees when paying a regular fee would leave me with a change output of a few hundred or a few thousand sats. Rather than be left with an output which would cost 50% of itself in fees just to spend, I'll just add it to the fee I'm already paying and donate it to the miners. I take it as a challenge to waste as few sats as possible. This small output for instance could have added a few days to my favourite VPN, or topped up the balance at some website. |
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OK, can you please publish the way you generate the TSV file? I did publish that, read the OP. The latest one on the website is already a week old. Thanks for this, I kinda forgot about this data project when I started another (big) download from Blockchair. Since I'm only allowed to download one connection at a time, it blocked other updates. I'm running an update now, it should be available in about 3 hours. Maybe someone needs more frequent updates, or to have a backup plan should your website go down or stop being updated (these things happen...) If that happens, they'll have to figure it out on their own. If you're interested in discussing different parsers, it's probably best to open another topic about it. |
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Today I just received a call from scammer from the uk fake number You know this has nothing to do with Bitcointalk, right? Why are you helping scammers by creating more backlinks for them? |
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The idea of this tweet is that he has completely lost Trust in the Ledger wallet, and many of the comments shared his opinion. You've been Rick Rolled without even realizing it! |
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The path to merit can't be easy and fast (with a few exceptions) The exceptions are very nice to see though: pluja has 6 posts and 247 Merit. BtcTalkShow has 21 posts and 533 Merit. They've both contributed a lot outside Bitcointalk, and the moment they show up here, they get showered in Merit. |
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That's exactly what i fear, along with very old hardware. FWIW: my favourite for price/performance at the moment is Racknerd. It's a lot more expensive on their website, offers on Lowendtalk are much better. Ramnode seems to be much more solid, but it's a different price level. Both accept Bitcoin. |
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why don't you just use that hardware wallet? I don't like hardware wallets: for small amounts |
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HDD. Do we have comparisons with SSD so I can check? I've tested it in the past, and moving chainstate to SSD made all the difference. I haven't gone back, although I still have my blocks on HDD. I've also had success in doing my own "throttling" with cpulimit and cputool. I didn't know there's tool to manually limit CPU usage for specific application. I always thought it needs to be done from host side which apply for whole VM. BY any chance, is there similar tool to limit I/O usage? I haven't tried it, but knowing Linux, there's probably a way to do it. You can start by using cputool, which can limit the system load for a process. So on a cheap VPS, set it up to keep the load under for instance 0.2. "Load" is caused by different things, and that includes disk I/O. So it may be a start. It didn't work on all VPSses though, I think it works on OpenVZ but doesn't work on KVM. Another way to reduce disk I/O is by installing enough RAM  With that kind of deals, i would say it's near unknown provider rather than unpopular provider. I've seen good hosts on Lowendtalk.com, and I've seen hosts disappear (after I paid for a year). So your milage may vary  |
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You surely know better than to ask me that question. Which is exactly the reason I asked you Moneroju for Monero. You mean Monerujo. I already don't like the name but I'll look into it.
I've seen Unstoppable Wallet, but never tried it. |
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I was having the impression that when the OS starts up, there has to be temporary storage for activities like writing logs, caching data, creating temporary files etc. It sounds like you haven't tried it yet. I can only recommend doing so. Most (if not all) Linux distributions boot into a working GUI straight from the installation DVD. Some offer the kernel option " toram" so you can remove the DVD (and run much faster), but that's optional. All of them create a virtual file system in RAM, where you can save files normally and even install packages (although this is quite limited when running Live Linux). The only difference is that's it all gone the moment you turn off your computer. |
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I prefer to use Johoe's Bitcoin Mempool Site Statistics, which quickly shows how fees developed in the past 24 hours. It shows there was a bump in fees yesterday, and if you would have made a 6.x sat/vbyte transaction at that point, it would have taken 10 hours to confirm. You couldn't predict that bump in fees before it happened. Mempool congestion is not constant. It can drop and it can increase. If the mempool congestion drops, the fee rate and the fee required to get high priority confirmation will be reduced. If the mempool is becoming more congested, the fee rate and the fee required to get high priority confirmation will be increasing. Correct. I like to put it this way: the recommended fee is an estimate based on past transactions and blocks, while your new transaction depends on other transactions made and blocks found in the future. It's an estimate, that's it. |
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