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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
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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
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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-fc685c047374From 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-55796426From 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 |
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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)  -Dave |
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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 |
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You can take a look here for a new / custom firmware: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=672969.0Some 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 |
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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 |
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Well Amazon blinked 1st: https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/17/tech/amazon-visa-uk/index.htmlMakes 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 |
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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 |
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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
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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
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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 |
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Pulling in from the other thread. If you take a look at constants.js you see: "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 |
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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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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I wonder if they are going to try to build something for the 120V US market for small home / hobby miners.
It really is a wide open market at this point. With everything going high power 220V 20A miners I can really see having a lower power unit that even if it's not price competitive.
I think you could sell a bunch for people who want to have newer stuff at home as opposed to having to make 1 & 2 board S9 and similar to run quiet and at home.
-Dave
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I'm surprised about it, but I can't say that I'm disappointed to read about it. Though, this chart don't show significant drop, things is pretty much stable. Actually, there is more transactions made in December than in August or September. It would be interesting to see chart for longer period.
And I'm getting impression that BitPay is still first pick for moost merchants unfortunately. Maybe it's not very surprising, considering that BitPay have big budget for marketing, comparing with relatively small decentralised BTCPayServer.
I went on a mini rant here about some things: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5380215.msg58988849#msg58988849But I really don't think it's because of BitPays advertising. It's because it allows merchants to take BTC and a few of the larger alts if they want and convert it into fiat in a quick and simple way. At the moment just about every business person is stressed to the max and they don't want to play around with exchanging BTC to fiat or anything else. They want to get paid and move on to the next thing they have to do. Yeah, BTCPay is great but if you don't have the time to convert to fiat and it's Friday and your staff wants to get paid and so on do you really want to deal with that. I actually see that with a merchant I use (namesilo.com). They take BTC direct and BitPay for BTC and some alts. The BTC rate was better for me as the customer if I use the BitPay option then direct. I am guessing that the BitPay fee was less then corporate figured the cost of doing it themselves was. -Dave |
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