But what happens if you spill beer on your phone and then can't get more beer?

On a serious note (yes more serious then beer), I have seen a major uptick in transactions routing through my nodes over the last few weeks. Not a major amount, but where my 3 nodes would do 5 a month I have been averaging about 7 or 8 a week since mid October. Anyone else seeing this?

-Dave

Starting with a Democrat and a Republican are working together to get something done wow :-)

I think it's also a bit of inertia with the fact that in the beginning most of the people brining these ETFs forward were smaller companies, who did not have the 'mass' to fight the larger more established rules and establishment. Now that they have the futures and larger places can see the advantages more money (read influence) will come into play.

2022 is going to be interesting with this stuff.

-Dave

Looking at my work notes we have done over 170 Spinning drives to SSD since Jan 1 2020 for a client who was extending the life of some older machines so either you and the people you are talking to are using cheap cloners or we have some amazing luck.

I don't know how the $80 generic ones work, but the 'real' ones are just running an embedded linux controller and dd 'ing (more or less) the entire drive.
The source is only ever mounted in read only so having it come back as 'raw' is just about impossible.

This: https://www.amazon.com/SATA-Hard-Drive-Duplicator-Eraser/dp/B00G6TG5YE
is not the same as this: https://www.mediaduplicationsystems.com/fx2125-sata-sas-usb3.0-hard-drive-duplicator

If you walk into a shop or your tech is using something like the StarTech one. Run away as fast as you can.

The point is the professional ones can do 30+GB a minute if the drives can keep up so yes, you can pull and clone and replace a filled 1TB drive in about an hour.

-Dave

Or buy a hardware cloner, clone the drives and read them later.
Put client disk in slot 1 blank disk in slot 2 & push a button. Drink beer. Then put disk back in client PC.
PCs / phones / tablets. We live our life on them now, and even the paranoid people can't remember everything that they may have accidentally stored on one.

-Dave

If it's not a self moderated then you could probably just reply while quoting the bump(s) and then report it.
Don't stress yourself out over it. Although I still do report a bunch, I have found the mods of some sections will take down more / are more reactive then others that seem to have a more relaxed attitude.

I would purge a lot more, but then again I'm not a mod and don't have to answer to anyone.

-Dave

To expand on have a little wallet that you can give up. This is also the reason for multiple wallets. If they know you have BTC but not sure how much.
You can give them the $100 hot phone wallet and the $2500 from hardware wallet.
If the wrench hits continue you can then give them the BTC.25 cold storage wallet.
They never have to know about hardware wallet #2 with 10BTC in it.

You don't drive through bad neighborhoods in your exotic sports car with a bag of cash on the seat.
Guess what, the internet is a bad neighborhood.

Also about cold storage a topic on a while ago: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5326757

-Dave

Hate is a strong word, but I would say there are a lot of people out there who really disagree with with the fact that they kept the block size small and some other things.

As for CSW, I think a lot of people are missing the point that people want someone to follow. They need a leader. I really don't want to call them sheep since that's not fair to them. It's just how they were raised / educated.

Look at the Boy Scouts / Catholic Church after years of abusing kids people still support the priests and scout masters that did it. them. Don't get me wrong I am not saying don't support the Church or Boy Scouts in general if that is your thing. But these people are so ingrained to follow the leader that they keep supporting people who abused kids. That just blows my mind.
This is the same thing. IMO. CSW has taken their money and they want to give him more.

They can't wrap their head around the fact that a major currency was created by someone who didn't want fame and fortune and power, but rather just wanted to do something good and walk away.

-Dave

If you go though all the crap that that account has been posting for the 10 years it's been here, you can see a lot of nonsensical rambling postings. With a bit of paranoia sprinkled in.

That and the total inability to use the code tags.

As I said and others have pointed out, this vulnerability has been known for years. But since some news outlets picked it up, it's now 'important'.

What is also interesting that I have seen in discussions now, is how many people code in the cloud. I always as does just about everyone I know do everything locally and then push it up to github or wherever. I never knew how many people are doing it all online and then pull and compile it locally. Guess I'm old.

-Dave

Which exchangess? Most of the US based ones, like Coinbase & Gemini will close your account if they think funding is coming from a mixer. There are lots of discussions about that happening here and on many other sites.

Other ones, in other parts of the world, who knows. Depends on their mood and how much BTC.

Also, if you are not doing a straight BTC -> fiat exchange may be a bit less strict. Where some others, really don't care at all.

As for if it's from a mixing transaction or not. Depends who you ask: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1935098.msg58313016#msg58313016

-Dave

If they are really going to buy and hold then it will cause the price to rise. Skyrocket? Probably not since we are already at $60K+BTC /  $1Trillion dollar market cap. So more of a long slow climb. But, I really think if it happens we could see a lot of investors who wanted to get into BTC but not "buy" any invest here.

Just my view.

-Dave

You left out #3 withdrawal fees are a source of profit for exchanges.
https://support.kraken.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000767986-Cryptocurrency-withdrawal-fees-and-minimums
So at the moment $9.30 to withdraw. And according to mempool.space and a few others 4 sat/vb will get you into the next block.
And you have to have at least $30 in there to withdraw. How many people will just pay the fee or if they don't have 0.0005BTC trade it for something else (they get the trading fee) and then withdraw that (whatever that coin fee is)

Where if they are doing lightning they can't get away with charging that much. Because, if they do a lot of people will scream.

-Dave

Do not even have to be sleeping. If you are out drinking or whatever, and (being sexist here deal with it) those attractive women at the end of the bar come over to talk to you it's going to be easier for them to get you to unlock your phone so they can 'put their info into it' or to get you to take a picture then it is to have you enter the password 87g7w458w%Y$W!(SERGdvf

Also, on that note. I am surprised that more apps don't have geo fencing on them. Yes you can unlock you wallet with a fingerprint. But you have to be at home to do it kind o thing. There is at least 1 BMS app that I know of that you can only connect to the controller if you are in the area. Surprised more apps / things don't do that. Or if they do exist I have not seen them.

-Dave

Now that would be interesting.

China / The Chinese government regulates religion in general and regulates it a lot. Beyond that they are very anti Islam. Would they deal with the Taliban on an even scale or would they just take what they want and screw them over? Or would the Chinese government try to enforce their will on them if the Taliban wants to trade.

But Wind_FURY does have a point, storing your nations money in another nation can have repercussions for you. Or if you look at it from the other side, it does let the nation who has your money control you a bit.

-Dave

I've been looking around and for the real tech people it all seems to be a big nothing.
The people who get paid to discuss things and don't understand it seem to be running around screaming "the sky is falling"
Since, as you said, it will show up in any compare check and anything that does not display unicode which many desktop compilers don't. It sounds scarier then it really is.

I would really be more concerned about a real vulnerability like this: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2021/10/apache-vuln-threat-advisory.html

-Dave

I guess, in theory you could have the wallet file or the entire folder its in encrypted so you need a password to have whatever application you are using to access it. And then you could have the application itself require a password for the wallet.
Don't know if that would work but it might do what the OP wants.

-Dave

1) What is a 'good amount' your numbers and my numbers are probably way different.
2) Are you talking about putting in fiat to trade BTC and then pull out? Or just general trading of cryptos?

There are a few exchanges that I like that have a $10K withdraw limit per day. Which is WAY above what I care about, but if you are doing multi BTC trades, it's worthless.

-Dave

This has been known for YEARS and until some non programmers and clueless media people got a hold of it nobody cared.
This is one example I found dated 2017: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/20209
There is at least one more from a bit earlier that I can't find that more or less said the same thing.

Only people who don't program a lot or get paid to scare people think it's a big deal.
Edit take a look at: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=339146 you may have to create an account to see it.
-Dave

How fast is your internet? How are you connecting?
Yes, the 3GB of ram is going to be a killer, but if you only have a limited amount of bandwidth and something else is using it it's just going to make it worse.

Hit crtl-alt-delete and bring up the task manager. How much RAM is core using? How much bandwidth / network.

-Dave

Yes with a but or no with a however.
If you are talking new and good that is one thing. We are discussing old used laptops and PCs.
Power supplies that have been through who knows what. Fans that may or may not have been abused, etc.
I did treat my old laptop well, but in the end set it up to mine some crap CPU coins. Had it screaming for months.
Could have sold it on eBay and the buyer would never have known. Not my style to do something like that, but other people.....

-Dave

Nope, if you have an input that predates the forks and send it to another legacy address it can be broadcast on the other chains. I don't know how common it is for the other chains to pick up the transaction but it is the same. *Unless something has changed since the BSV fork. I saw a bunch of drama back then pop up with people trying to move older coins and moving other chains with them by accident. Didn't really care, just something I read.

-Dave