How do you deal with a fake review scenario? Like in this example below.  Oh the irony of this fake comment being shown in public for more than one month, and in the same time we can't see any real negative feedback for most exchanges. Last time BestChange said they are working on improving feedback system was months ago, and I don't see anything really changed in good direction. Now I can see only one single negative review for all exchange, and everything else was ''resolved''  |
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Certain things, like plagiarism and threats could still be perma bans. But, other offenses just get you a 30 or 60 or 90 day vacation and welcome back to being a newbie.
Sorry, but I just don't see the point of doing this and I don't expect anything would be better with this change. There is already temporary ban in bitcointalk forum, but I wouldn't go so far to remove their rank and allow them to come back as a newbie. People are going to try to register again after being banned no matter what rules and regulations we have in place, and we saw that many times. Then you will have the issue with moderators having to deal with all this 30, 60 or 90 day ''vacation'' period for more members, and that means more work for moderators (for nothing). |
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Where is the page where I can contact the ones responsible about having a rotating add on bitcointalk forums?
According to THIS post written last month, I think that theymos recently announced some changes in this ad campaigns and auctions, and it would be even harder to get something going for altcoins and projects like this. You can still talk with individual campaign managers, hire them to start new signature campaign, with signatures and avatars for members to wear. |
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If you get a design for a forum mug, you can have it printed locally. That still gives the problem of the webshop knowing you're into Bitcoin, but it's probably cheaper than centralized printing and international shipping.
I do prefer downloading stuff whenever I can and printing them locally, that can be 3d printing or anything else. You can print bunch of random stuff along with Bitcoin, so your local webshop won't really know what interest you, but they don't really care if you print bitcoin, apple or fbi logo if you pay them money. There is always an option that you can buy a printer and even start your own printing business and accept bitcoin payments. As for privacy reasons, people can always create a new forum account to order and receive stuff, they can also use alternative delivery addresses and PO boxes. Sure, this address will be connected with Bitcointalk forum, but they won't know your main account, and you don't have to use this alternative account ever again. |
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Rejoice, time for yet another brief monthly overview!  Here comes the junky fix for some members  I will focus more on positive sides of this report, with Nigerian board getting active members almost as Italians, so they really deserve to have separate local board, like I said before. Rikafip I have to criticize you for not being in top ten members of our local board, shame on you, why are you avoiding us?  Damn it slackovic, wake up.  Last active today, but he isn't writing much. It's a game of thrones and he lost his crown and a dragon... Just to think about it, slackovic isn't even in the top 10 anymore. I hope he spends some quality time away from the forum. Well, the king is dead, it's time for a new king! King is dead, long live the king Maybe we lost slackovic for now (he'll be back), but we gained few new members who could follow his past glory soon. |
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Another example of the useful integration of bitcoin and technology into everyday life, when excess heat from bitcoin mining is used to grow flowers. BitcoinBloem is an example of a great bitcoin adoption where, due to rising gas prices for heating greenhouses, an economical business plan was developed in which greenhouse heating was provided with the help of bitcoin miners
This is in Netherlands so I guess this is why they use it for flowers like tulips  I guess that instead of flowers they could also grow food like fruits and vegetables, and this could be done in especially in cold regions. Mini greenhouse heated by bitcoin miner could easily feed a family, all they would need is reliable power source and they would get double benefit. |
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Producing a hardware wallet now is way cheaper than 10 years back.
Yet in the same time materials and microchips needed for production are not easy to find and they are getting more expensive due to this manmade global crisis, so it's not all black & white like you say That is why we can see almost all hardware wallet increasing prices, and global inflation is probably highest we had since WWII, not by accident. Yeah ledger is holding the monopole but they also invested most money in marketing... |
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This also makes it easier from a support/documentation perspective. If the device is new, then the user goes through the usual and well-documented onboarding flow. If you're instead presented with the PIN screen on startup, that means that the device has already been previously set up by someone else. I think 21 wrong PIN's are more than enough, and it's very unlikely bricking of device would happen by accident, but my question is what are the chances of someone cracking PIN with some external software/hardware attack? There are more than enough chances for hackers to try, since Passport have most wrong PIN attempts out of all other hardware wallets. I understand that this was first introduced with Coldcard wallet, but they have 13 wrong PIN's instead. An additional benefit here is that there's no incentive to steal a Passport, because it's unusable if you don't know the PIN.
It's similar situation like when someone buys used smartphone that is locked and it's practically unusable, except for spare parts. |
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Hey friends! I know you are all eagerly waiting on my review of Passport v2. Good news; I received the wallet and I'm trying it out thoroughly, jotting down everything. Expect the review to be finished relatively quickly. Oh finally IT arrived, take your time and write a good constructive review I have recent experience of waiting one package to arrive from far away country and it appears to be lost somewhere in the twilight tracking zone  Do note that I've not tried CoinCards yet and can't vouch or guarantee for anything. Just a way to maybe get a good deal.
I saw this deal and it's ok-ish, but I think it only only works for United States (correct me if I am wrong). I own a Trezor Model T and a BitBox02, n0nce, as I like the idea of sending & receiving to/from a HW BTC without cables.
Have you seen recent price changes for those wallets? Bitbox is now €139, Trezor model T is over €260, so I think that $259 price for Passport wallet is more than fair. With discount it's even cheaper, and presale price was fantastic. |
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Is there any reason you are absolutely tied to Windows? Any software you are using which only works on Windows?
Maybe wiNd0ws Defender? I heard stories that it can protect and defend you from all ''attackers'' I don't recommend using Ubuntu-based distros though, if performance is an issue. Luckily, OpenSUSE is pretty light and I even have the perfect full node install guides for it.. Me neither, I stopped using all Ubuntu based distros. I think that Debian is much lighter than Ubuntu, and Fedora is getting more users but I wouldn't exactly called it light distro. Bisq works great there and can easily be installed with -rpm package. The beauty about Linux is this is not the only interface available (which is named GNOME by the way), you can use another interface called KDE that looks almost exactly like Windows.
Both of this are a bit heavy, so for people that want to use lighter DE I would recommend trying XFCE, or even lighter Lxqt or Lxde. |
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Is it correct to assume that the inventors of Proof of Work are Moni Naor and Cynthia Dwork?
It's one thing to imagine a concept idea about something and totally different thing to put it into practice with real world examples. Hal Finney was the one who adapted this concept in 2004 using the SHA256 hashing algorithm, and calling it eusable proof of work. Few years later this was adopted for Bitcoin back in 2009, and than it was followed by all other shitcoins. |
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I guess I look at it as most people who are just getting BTC to use are more likely to just run a SPV client. Keep in mind that if your PC is not on 24/7 and you do not always keep the wallet open when it is on then you will probably have to wait a while after opening up your wallet at that point to be able to spend your coins.
It's not that hard to run a node using RaspberryPi or some other small format low power computers, but I agree that most people won't do it without a good reason. If they are not sending and receiving coins daily or on regular basis, then they probably don't need to run full node and download full blockchain. Any business that deal with Bitcoin should run a full node and Lighting Network node. Home yes, school possibly, office only if you own the company. Putting non work software on your work PC is a good way to get fired. Also, unless you are remote work and connecting to an office PC, more and more offices are shutting down PCs and everything else at night. It's a bit more secure and saves power.
Unless you are government official of some corrupt country, than you can run anything you want I know several examples of people like that doing Bitcoin for years in some countries (maybe they still are), and story even broke out in news. |
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You can absolutely avoid them totally. I've been buying/selling/trading/using/saving/spending bitcoin for years. I'd wager I'm in the top 1% of bitcoin users in terms of actually using bitcoin as a currency, almost daily. Every single one of my coins has been mixed, coinjoined, or otherwise obfuscated. I have literally never once had a problem with someone refusing one of my coins or demanding KYC or any other such nonsense, precisely because I refuse to do business with anyone who attacks and undermines bitcoin's very existence by treating it as non-fungible.
That currently works only because Bitcoin is not widely accepted by merchants, so regulators simply couldn't enforce stupid regulations on everyone. Imagine that you had to pay everything with Bitcoin, but merchant would be forced to scan your sending address to see if there any any alerts for avoiding your coins. That is why EU is now working on new regulations and this would mean reporting of every little thing and all transaction people are making. One more danger is the new labeling for efficiency of blockchain in new EU MiCA regulation act. |
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And talking about pruned node, do not forget that pruned node still download whole blockchain (with current size 432.91GB[3]). If they have slow hardware or internet, it could take weeks.
I don't know how BTCapsule works with this, but last time I checked pruned node for Bitcoin was around 5.1 Gb in size, that is significantly less than full blockchain that is around 86 times bigger. https://prunednode.today/I will look into this some more. Anything to make BTCapsule easier to use is great. I think the program works just fine though, and I feel like it’s extra secure with the new Linux version. I realize it will be annoying to wait for Bitcoin Core to download, but if you get a whole Bitcoin out of it, then it’s got to be worth the wait.
Is there any difference in security of BTCapsule runing on Linux and wInD0ws operating system? There are significant number of people who are using MacOS (maybe higher than Linux), so it would be good if you could add BTCCapsule software for MacOS. |
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If that is so, these pseudoTXs, that are not uniquely identified (i.e. there is no TX id), can be matched by date and quantity to derive the real TX Id on the pertinent blockchain, thus revealing some of each person's addresses (with what that entails).
At this point I will consider any centralized service and exchange that holds customers private information to be only one step away from sharing all this information with everyone in the world. If people are still OK using all this services after so much hacks, leaks, liquidations, and other similar stuff, than they shouldn't be surprised if they get scammed in future. It's even crazier that governments are now pushing harder than ever this digital identity crap and CBDC, and we should just trust them, yeah right. When you think about it, ~10% APY ain't that much at all, well at least not enough for me to risk my bitcoin and give it so a 3rd party. Imho very bad risk/reward ratio.
This is nothing, compared with the risk you are accepting signing up for services like this. When you add high inflation of fiat currencies this 10% get's even less important for people who invested stable coins. |
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So, in a month this topic will become relevant again.
I can't believe almost a year passed since last Bitcointalk Community Awards, but I am looking forward for new one and thanks for doing this icopress. Better to add rules that sending merits is not allowed, or maybe theymos could maybe disable merit option for this topic all together, if that is possible. I think I saw few topics that had merit button removed (that would be best option here) but maybe I only imagined this things I think the competition would lose its charm if the voting were to become anonymous or overly moderated.
I agree with this, but doing voting without any rules is also not good. Newly registered accounts and recently activated accounts should not be allowed to vote, if we want to have nearly as fair voting results. |
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What is the benefit of a device bricking itself after x number of attempts, rather than just factory resetting itself? Assuming in both cases there is no chance to recover access to the original wallet without knowledge of the seed phrase, then bricking instead of simply securely wiping/shredding the data seems like a bug, not a feature, and simply forces the user to purchase another hardware wallet rather than just using their newly reset one to recovery from a back up.
Maybe there is still a theoretical chance that some important secure leftovers could remain in secure element, and that could be exploited by malicious attacker. Passport used old Coldcard code as a base and they are the first ones to introduce this feature, knowing how old secure elements they used had known security flaws, this is not totally impossible. You won't hear about flaws in ledger and similar blackbox devices, because they signed secret NDA Anyway, I like this self-destruct mechanism, other wallets have this enabled when you try to open device and mess with the inside. If there is a secure / non-bypassable PIN counter implementation that doesn't rely on the secure element, I currently see no technical reason holding hardware wallet developers back from using that instead of the more destructive method. I doubt that any 'non-destructive' implementation is as secure as one that leverages secure chip counters, though.
Passport is hardware wallet for (old) 007 James Bond, mi6 only needs to add special bomb explosion option when you enter wrong pin 13-1 time 💣 |
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Thanks for the update! Is there also news about an application that can actually support ColdCard in an easy way with NFC signing?
I don't really know much infiormation about that, but you can ask NVK and coldcard team. There are few videos Coinkite-Coldcard released on their youtube channel explaining how NFC feature works, showing address via NFC, and signing a text message using NFC. BTC Sessions also released full 30 minute tutorial how to use Coldcard with NFC feature, so you can check out both of this channels. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLG8Atcd-l4https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqMPBcyg_wemgvC1jDI3EIw |
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Blockstream Jade made interesting update in their latest firmware version 0.1.38 with support of CompactSeedQR codes. This contains 7x7 square table grid, and this codes can easily be drawn on a piece of paper and it reminds me on game I played on my school paper. I am not a fan of Jade hardware wallet, but I like this new CompactSeedQR codes and I wonder if someone saw them in other Bitcoin wallets?  https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/blockstream-jade-v-0-1-38/ |
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