Ports are just extra identifiers for software. There's normally a protocol label or another piece of information within the packet/stack frame you transmit between each of you so the port probably isn't required. And if its a dot onion service, I doubt you're using the domain for anything else?

And I think it takes some time to get listed on the site with nodes, not sure how long or if you manually have to input it though.

Yeah. When a node starts up on the lightning network (from the implementations I've seen) if you're connected - either by the way you're doing it or by having a channel) the node you connect to will send a list of other nodes and potentially routes but your node will also compute routes between them.

You could try opening a channel with him? If you both trust each other afaik the worst that can happen anyway is that one of you messes up and the other has to split the funds back to the other as they were when you made your last transaction (but this event in itself is extremely unlikely).

I think the main and realistic problem currently is that it isn't fully developed and hasn't had the time to prove its security.

There are a bunch of reasons different companies don't get involved, they'll be judged for everything.

On top of that it took quite a while for segwit to be adopted and this protocol requires companies to host a channel/watchtower in one location and send all their outputs out through that.
Not to mention, as soon as an exchange starts accepting the lightning network, therell be a lot of people trying to use it. And we do have more nodes than bitcoin mainnet (afaik) but each node is kinda like a miner and we probably don't have more devices signalling for the security of the ln (not that we need to get too close to that).

Exchanges work based on competition I think binance are investing in lightning research at least, so the other major large players will be doing the same...

Have you tried leaving it on for a few minutes afterwards to see if it reconnects? And have you checked their node stays online (by asking them).

Do you have a channel open with them also, is there a reason your retrying to connect? Unless c-lightning implements a client that doesn't need to sync the blockchain you shouldn't need to connect until you have a channel open...

I created a list of forum users here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5266907.msg54940969#msg54940969

You could also use a site like this to find more: https://explorer.acinq.co/

How did you find it?

Was it one of the many YouTube streams that seem to be going on now? I think I saw a large number of people tune into one, but I assumed they were bots or frbricated somehow.

This is quite an oldish tactic, must be going on for a few months at least...

In % we've been kinda low for a while.

It probably discourages users to have to pay the evil fees to register via tor but newbie jail was rejected before t
Evil fee implementation so it'll probably be the same again now...

What sections are you looking in? I find this sometimes with meta, reputation, marketplace and a few others...

The bitcoin related boards are normally alright though for content.

Has this happened, people getting caught using the same ip as a criminal? Surely they have some sort of defense in that case if they're using a vpn?

I'd rather get democratic countries to have to cosign each others Warren's but I can't see that working out well... (they'd just say "sign ours and we'll sign the same.number of yours"...

I don't even think it exists.

If anyone goes through with either trade, make sure you do some more advanced research than just looking at the images.

A couple of lightning gambling sites let you cash out to main chain amounts over 0.001-0.01, sometimes betting 2k sats on those or higher fulfills your moral conscience in asking for a withdrawal - especially if you have my luck 🤣.

They normally take a few days to respond to their email afaik, if you've used them some common problems might be:
1. The site autorefresh at the start failed on the depo screen (so you can just refresh it yourself to continue)
2. If you tried funding the deposit address twice but went past step 3 and can't see your private keys/chips chipmixer would be able to help with that providing your session hasn't expired).

These are the most common I see, generally if there's a problem with funds your token or a signed message from the deposit addresses should be sufficient afaik.

Yeah!

Nothing is ever track-free. Even using a system like tails still has tracking potential... And any vulnerabilities Firefox could have that might not have been noticed could be duplicated in the branch split to tor...

On top of what Leo said, you can open a different wallet by going to file>recently open and see if anything is listed there. Alternatively, you could click open to see if there's another file there.

If you downloaded electrum via a browser, you might want to search your history to see if it came from electrum.org (just to be safe). And check you're running the latest version.

Then, if the top two steps fail, restore your wallet from seed using the file > "new/restore" > "I already have a seed" and follow the next steps.

You could always just try connecting via tor through the same country or region (not the same as yours though)... Then when you check your ip logs, it'll look weird if it's from anywhere else.

I went through my ip log for the last month and there's only the two parts of the world I set my vpn to listed there.

Try pressing the "eta" button/label thing... Someone suggested it to me, works wonders

Not since v4 it doesn't. You can set the password potentially to as long as you like (I don't actually know what the limits are, but they changed it to a keyboard input which is much better/more secure).

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I'd say the mobile version is pretty secure (as secure as it can be). The same attack vectors probabky exist for both the PC and mobile now so I think it's pretty much the same.

Theoretically and realistically yes...

You'd have to give them a copy of the blocks and the chainstate, they'd still have to do the syncing process afaik (or they might just need to rescan with a new wallet file) either way it saves buying excess data.

I'm not sure also if blockstream would be a cheaper option for you. https://blockstream.com/satellite/

I think they're stuff is similar to the outernet and I remember equipment should cost around $20-100 (depending on your postal service obviously).

The mempool method sets out how far your want the transaction to be from the tip of the mempool.

If it's below 0.8mb then it's likely to get confirmed in the next two blocks (or next block depending on how fast it's mined). I'd say 0.2 would almost guarentee it entering the next block. I wouldn't go further than 5-10 as 20 would probably take a while to confirm when fees are high (few days possibly).

Eta is using the other servers fee estimates (presumably derived from bitcoin core ones) which analyses both the relative increase in fees over the past blocks and the current fee rate for confirmed transaction and tries to estimate what sort of fee you'd need based on that..

Static is just static. I think the values are generally starting at 1 sat per byte and ending at 500. It's sometimes helpful for some tasks - you don't care when it confirms but want a specific rate for example pre set (mødt exchanges use a system like that so it might just be making people who only use those services more comfortable - and it does allow you to set very low fees like 1 sat per byte for if you want to consolidate inputs).

You know there are companies that aren't in the US right?

I don't see Scandinavia and a few other countries taking much of a fall.

The US have managed to try to push up the price if their stocks by taking out company loans to do buybacks (it's been one of the worst markets to invest in for a while tbh if you want a dividend). If you take a developed European stock, you can expect to. Earn back your initial investment in dividends within 10-25 years afaik. With stocks in the US it'd take about 500...

If you've researched a company well, it shouldn't go bankrupt while you own the stock (especially if it's high cap) so you still own the stock anyway) - they'll often drop slowly if they decline (in Eurasia). You're talking about retailers yoloing on Robin Hood that is completely different because they're often using 250x leverage (and I think that's an underexaggeration).

If you're trading anything you shouldn't have to worry about being liquidated ever...

The only way you get liquidated is through not managing risk. Since when was margin equivelant to buying a stock?

If I buy a share in a company, I own the share (at least in the UK) this doesn't sound like an alien principle to me... And by that I mean: if I buy the physical share, I'm obviously the only one with that certificate 2 if I buy one online and the company goes bankrupt then the shares are still protected and mine providing no leverage was used.