I have seen such warnings too using my Eset Internet Security. It is just the firewall preventing connection to some of the Electrum nodes that your client tries to connect to and sync. Possibly because those IP addresses are flagged. Considering that the communication between your client and these servers can not be exploited since the messages and the whole protocol is kept simple, there should not be any risks here.
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I do find it weird they would lie about being open source.
That's a marketing technique. They do have a github account and there are some unrelated code there and a regular user is not capable of figure out that it is actually closed source so they "trust" the wallet easier. If anyone complains they just give them some nonsense reply about how it is open source (a lie) and how the parts that aren't are because they try to prevent hacking (another lie).
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Although the world has been losing faith in US arms ever since they saw how useless they are but I'm still skeptical about this news mainly because South Korea is not an independent country to begin with. It is basically a US colony specially when it comes to military and global presence. With some small and quick search their military industry doesn't seem independent either. For example the K2 Black Panther tanks that were mentioned in the article is manufactured by Hyundai Rotem which is basically owned by Morgan Stanley which is an American investment company! Or the FA-50 fighter planes is manufactured by Korea Aerospace Industries with Lockheed Martin (another American "arms dealer")! I may be wrong but this looks more like an off-shore US military industry selling weapons through a proxy. ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)
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Changpeng Zhao of Binance became the first hero to blow the whistle.
I don't know the story here but I wouldn't even begin to consider CZ a "hero" since he is the same person who was offering payment to bitcoin mining pools in order to perform a 51% attack on bitcoin blockchain. All because his shitty platform was hacked and he wanted the money back.
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I never understood this whole "decentralization in medicine". First off, why only in medicine? What's wrong with the rest sciences?
Yeah, I don't get it either. But they entered a lot of other fields too, basically anything they thought was a "hot topic" they created a token for. I saw a bunch in energy field, one was even claiming to "ease" selling oil internationally lol. Second, why should scientific work or public info regarding medicine be accessible in such inefficient manner? What's wrong with current technology?
Exactly. When we want to introduce an alternative, that should be a better one and have some advantages over the existing system. For example in bitcoin whitepaper these advantages are explained in the first page. The funny thing is, blockchain is the least efficient form of database so the advantages have to be big enough to justify using it but they don't even exist when they mix it in fields like medicine! The description of this paper, for example, smells fishy, doesn't it? (Haven't read it though, nor am I related to medicine) Haha. That's just academia. The students saw a hot topic and thought about taking advantage to start a project, possibly a dissertation and eventually write an article to have that in their résumé. I know because we used to do the same thing although in our field you have to do solid work not some theoretical nonsense without actual work. For example I spent months working on samples in the lab before I wrote my article on three-dimensional metallography, which was a hot topic those days.
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This is one of those "i told you so" moments since we've all been warning about it for years.
The problem is that people can't see the difference between a fake promise and actual peg. What all these tokens do is that they give a fake promise to convert your useless token to bitcoin at a promised rate (eg. 1:1) but they can always break that promise and change the rate to something like 1000:1 if they wanted to and there is nothing the user can do about it!
We have the same problem with stablecoins too since these days many newbies are converting their coins to them. There is no guarantee that said coins keep their exchange rate. For example 1 USDT could easily be traded for 0.1 USD instead.
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Now the Indian government has freezed a whole lot of bitcoin
This part and your title are wrong/misleading since nobody can "freeze bitcoin" because it is decentralized and transactions don't ask permission from an authority to be included in a block or transferred from one address to another. The only thing authorities can "freeze" is the centralized accounts that hold IOUs not bitcoins. The IOUs that the centralized platform (eg. the exchange) promises to convert back to bitcoin if you wanted to withdraw.
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I will got 3 house when I sold my house then buy bitcoin with that money
In short you should know that this won't happen overnight because bitcoin is not a "get rich quick" scheme! Considering that you said this is a secondary house that you don't use, it's OK to do this but as long as you understand the risks involved. For example price could continue dropping (meaning you could lose money) for some time or price could stay here but in both cases it could take a very long time for price to go back up for you to start seeing any profit. Can you accept the fact that you may need to wait for a year or two to see profit? Also you should educate yourself about storing bitcoins correctly in a cold storage so that you don't just lose all that money to a hack or malware or something like that!
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CZ tweeted today about Trust Wallet - your keys - your coins:
You gotta love CZ that uses any opportunity he gets to advertise his own shitty services even though there is no difference between Binance and even their closed source Trust wallet and the FTX schemes.
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Anyway, "SECG" is a encoding method that produces 97 characters long private keys.
SECG stands for Standards for Efficient Cryptography Group which is not an encoding algorithm itself but set of standards that define many algorithms one of which is key deployment. It could be a key generated using OpenSSL in which case the file should have a .pem extension and the data should start with 0x30 (sequence tag). But you still have to decode the string.
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I suppose they are people like OP who like living in debt up to their necks with an extremely high cost of living that is also rising these days due to high inflation rates thanks to nonstop money printing machines that have produced the highest national debt in the world. That's not even including the high tax rates where the lower class and middle class pay more taxes in one month than the 1% upper class pays their entire lives. ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif)
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But in this way, we deny that there is a human rights issue in Iran
There is human rights issue everywhere. However, it is far less in Iran. I dare say less than anywhere else in the world. Last year alone US police murdered 4900 prisoners, French police is regularly shooting protesters and blinding a lot of them, UK police recently had a clash with idiots protesting against Iranian police and UK police brutally beat all of them and arrested most! in Saudi Arabia they recently hung 81 people for no reason half of them were children from age of 9 to 14. How many cases you can find from Iran?! and that the people suffer from a decline in the level of freedoms and political representation.
The biggest problem we have in Iran IMO is too much freedom and political representation. Literary anybody is doing whatever the hell they want and say whatever they want. For example over the past couple of weeks a separatist is literary inciting violence in Zahedan (city in Eastern Iran) and advertises separatism. A crime that has up to 8 years prison anywhere else in the world and in Arab countries specifically in Saudi Arabia the punishment is beheading. In Iran on the other hand, due to freedom of speech nobody arrests that asshole. If the well-known media cannot be trusted, the testimonies shared on social media platforms, in addition to Iranian cinema, cannot be denied,
Except that the negative things you read on social media is produced by US military in their cold war project with Iran. Here is a study by Stanford university: https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:nj914nx9540/unheard-voice-tt.pdf
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What is the reason of being bearish
The reason for being bearish (or pretending to be) on the internet, specially when they are spreading FUD, is that whenever we have a drop like what we had recently a lot of people start shorting bitcoin. Most of them short bitcoin when the drop ended. So in order to make any profit and not lose money they have to see bitcoin price drop more. But as we can see the drop stopped just as fast as it started so now these people are caught with their pants down...
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~ I'm afraid I cant tell how I stumbled across this key, but I can tell that this is a bitcoin key because where I found It, mentions that this is a private key of a lost wallet. And what my post aint the only one mentioning bitcoin private key with 98 characters.
Did you manage to decode the string to its byte array representation to have more information about the actual data? This project called FinderOuter has a decoder that you could use to quickly check your string with 5 common encoding algorithm used in Bitcoin and see if any of them can decode it and see the decoded data in hex with its length.
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There was news by Aljazeera that dozens of tankers carrying about $2bn worth of natural gas are slowly sailing around northwest Europe and the Iberian Peninsula because they are holding out for higher market prices. I'm not sure how true that is because these LNG supplies are heading for European LNG terminals and the problem there is that the unloading and conversion of LNG is going to take a lot of time which means there is a queue of tankers waiting to be unloaded simply because the terminal is busy! In fact one of the reasons why gas price dropped was this. They got too desperate to sell their cargo faster that it created a fake "higher supply" slightly decreasing the price. 1. The UN has completely discredited itself as an international organization.
I'm glad to see others are catching on to this fact. Although it was clear from the day it was created back in 1945. Did you know that we were literary the first country to file the first complaint to UN? It was about the Allies after WWII and it was completely useless ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)
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A LOT of people trusted Sam with hard earned dollars
To be honest I had never even heard about him or FTX for that matter before all this drama began. But I agree, all these centralized platforms and centralized shitcoins they keep creating has been harming the whole cryptocurrency world more than it helps it. Binance and their centralized shitcoin called BNB will eventually have the same fate as its predecessors. The good news is that all these events are making bitcoin battle hardened. A couple of years ago such a scam would have caused at least a 40% dump. Today it only caused about 16% dump and we have been in an accumulation more which many people think is a bear market so the effects should have been a lot bigger.
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Exchange are bullshit, it allowed crypto to go to $3 Trilllion USD capitalization, now say it goes back to $300M or even $30M so what, if your true and just sit on your cold keys with no intention to sell, so fucking what?
Total market capitalization is defined based on tens of thousands of shitcoins not based on which exchange get hacked and which one didn't. Their hack also doesn't really have significant effect on the dumping process of those shitcoins. So what 99% of the money in CRYPTO is soon to be gone,
Are you high? ![Cheesy](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cheesy.gif) The scammers and pump and dumpers are not going to give up the shitcion market just because of FTX shenanigans.
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Most Altcoin Exchanges sustained for a period of 1-3 years , and somehow are on the verge of getting closed, due to this (fraud to innocent people)
This is not specific to altcoin exchanges, but it is happening to all centralized exchanges. Lest we forget that MtGox was a bitcoin exchange that scammed people and caused a crash in 2013. I agree with your general tone about bitcoin being the only viable option and altcoins being useless, but I'm not sure what you are suggesting here is true about bitcoin being able to fix the issue with centralized exchanges and the risks involved when using them. The only viable solution to the CEX mess is to start using DEX.
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Do not get confused, there are two types of p2p: centralized and decentralized.
Technically speaking a peer to peer network is a network without a need for "central coordination by servers or stable hosts", in simple terms there is no server/website that peer to connect to. They directly connect to each other. So a centralized P2P can not even exist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer
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Take a look at this topic that lists different encodings https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4959742.0. But the problem here is that your string is using a nonstandard uncommon encoding and data structure, it is extremely difficult for us to "guess" what it is! It could be literary anything from arbitrary data that has nothing to do with bitcoin private key to encrypted key including the IV and extra information which again requires knowing the algorithm used to be able to decode and decrypt it. You should start by first figuring out the encoding that was used to encode the data here (eg. base64). Then decode the string to get the raw bytes out to know the size (eg. 68 bytes). Then you have to figure out what part of it is the key which is 32 bytes (eg. first 32 bytes is the key, the second is the IV and the last 4 bytes are salt; or maybe first is salt, second key and finally IV). Then you have to figure out the encryption method used (eg. AES256 ECB or CBC or ...) and where the salt (assuming it exists) were used (eg. in scrypt or PBKDF2 and with what settings). So as you can see it is better if you tell us how you came across this string and why do you even think it is a bitcoin key?
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