There have been a couple of updates since my last post one just came out today... https://coldcard.com/docs/upgrade <-- As always don't trust anyone's posted links verify them. Still nothing for the Mk3 I guess they are just going to keep them as is unless something bad happens and perhaps not even then. From the site: New Feature: Temporary Seed import from a COLDCARD encrypted backup.
New Feature: Export seed words in SeedQR format (on screen QR).
New Feature: Provide user with info about transaction level timelocks (nLockTime, nSequence) when signing.
Enhancement: New submenu for saved BIP-39 Passphrases allowing delete of saved entries.
Enhancement: Add current temporary seed to Seed Vault from within Seed Vault menu. If current seed is temporary and not saved yet, Add current tmp menu item is shown in Seed Vault menu.
Enhancement: Speed up opening Passphrase menu when MicroSD card is available, by deferring card read (and decryption) until after Restore Saved menu item is selected.
Enhancement: 12 Words menu option preferred on the top of the menu in all the seed menus (rather than 24 words).
Enhancement: Allow passphrase via USB if passphrase already set - operates on master seed.
Enhancement: Improve BIP39 Passphrase UX when temporary seed is active and applicable.
Enhancement: Continuation of removal of obsolete Mk2/Mk3 code-paths from master branch.
Bugfix: Confusing first-time UX replaced with simple welcome screen.
Bugfix: One instant retry on SE1 communication failures
Bugfix: Handle any failures in slot reading when loading settings
Bugfix: Add missing "First Time UX" for extended key import as master seed
Bugfix: Hide Upgrade Firmware menu item if temporary seed is active (it cannot work)
Bugfix: Disallow using master seed as temporary seed
Bugfix: Do not allow APPLY of empty BIP-39 passphrase. Use "Restore Master" instead.
Bugfix: Fix yikes in Clone Coldcard (thanks to AnchorWatch)
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On another note, things not looking so great for Ocean: https://ocean.xyz/dashboardWith the hashrate they claim to have they should be finding around one block a week, but it's been 15 days since their last block. Seems like a number of their miners are giving up on them and their total hashrate is gradually falling. It's all about profitability. If the miners stop earning sats for their work, they will eventually move to other pools. I saw that ocean mining has found many blocks in the past, but only 2 in 2023. Have they been working in the past (before 2017)? That was not ocean mining but rather Eligius which was a different older pool. As for banning Knots, yes they can just rename the user agent something else but what's the point, they are such a small % of nodes out there that the odds of you connecting are 0.4% per connection. Not a number worth worrying about. Unless they want to spin up 100s of nodes it's never going to be more then an irritation to others. Unless something changes and / or JD throws a lot of money at the pool I see it slowly dying since miners as a rule follow the money and not mining certain transactions means less money. -Dave |
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Location? And KYC or No KYC. It keeps coming back to those 2 things. We can bitch about Coinbase being evil and all that later, but they have a Physical & Virtual cards that work well if you are in the locations that they support. Same with the crypto.com card. But for me to tell you to get X if it is not supported in your location.... Same with the KYC. Either way take a look here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5473572.0-Dave |
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The mempool.space accelerator wants about $37 each that is probably the best you are going to find.
I don't think anyplace else is going to do it for less.
As LoyceV said you can try the viabtc accelerator for one of them, but with fees spiking over 100 sat/vb it's going to be tough to get in at the moment. Once they drop to saner levels then you can probably get in.
-Dave
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On mobile but if you are running a pruned node you can't restore an old wallet since it has to rescan the entire blockchain.
If that is not what you are doing you can ignore this.
-Dave
Yes, I'm trying to restore an old wallet in the pruned node. Is it possible? Or do I need an unpruned node and download the whole blockchain? You need a full node to import a wallet. If you search around there are people that have done it with a pruned node by jumping tough hoops but it's really not worth it. -Dave |
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On mobile but if you are running a pruned node you can't restore an old wallet since it has to rescan the entire blockchain.
If that is not what you are doing you can ignore this.
-Dave
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Keep in mind what @LoyceV said in his initial reply. Without knowing how much BTC there were the BTG and BCD forks too.
If you already moved your BTC and are going to nuke that windows install anyway then installing some sketchy clients is not a big deal if you are talking more then a few dollars worth of coins.
Also depending where you are exchanging the coins you might be better off going fork -> BTC -> Some alt like doge / LTC -> withdraw instead of fork -> BTC -> withdraw since some of these sketchy exchanges have stupid high BTC withdraw fees.
Also, be safe make sure that there is NOTHING on that laptop that has any information that matters that can be compromised.
-Dave
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This all sounds crazy to me. Maybe I just don't get it
It's gonna be the pool that ends up censoring the transactions surely? Individual miners, or even large farms of miners aren't going to give a fuck about what transactions go in where, they just want the maximum reward for spending all that money on equipment and electricity right?
If it was up to the invdividual miners, say if there are 1000 miners on a pool and 50% of them could not accept a midgetpornmeme transaction and 50% could, or even if there is one pool that doesn't accept a particular transcation but another 4 pools do, I mean whats changed?
So the pools are going to end up doing it, but will it make any difference, and if not why bother doing it unless its just to promote your own pool/code/software and cut some extra profit somewhere on the side for yourself as a company.
Maybe the pool will have a page where you can vote, but then who controls what the other pools do, if they all vote the other way then it doesn't matter.
One of the things that StratumV2 CAN do is allow the individual miners to create their own block template. So you as a miner can submit a block that you want when you find a share that will mine a block. (not a 100% accurate way of describing it but it works for this explanation) The other miners and the pool have zero say as to what is included in the block that you submitted. Now. 1) It's a feature of Stratum V2 the pool does not have to support it. 2) As others have pointed out the block that the core client comes up with will maximize fees. -Dave |
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Or maybe your coins moved already when you moved coins on the other chain.
Good point, should probably check with a BSV explorer before doing anything else. I wonder how much BSV is gone because of the lack of relay protection. -Dave |
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Update for anyone following along:
After securing my BTC, tried the following:
BCH
This was the easiest to manage, seems like there's an ecosystem that is alive at least. Electron Cash app seemed to work fine, forked coins were there and I was able to send to exchange and swap for BTC. Works as advertised.
Result = Claimed!
BSV
Looks like a dead ecosystem. The main website looks like bizarre propaganda for CSW, with little to no information about the technology. There is an electron fork that doesn't look maintained. Only have binaries available for Windows and Mac. No AppImage or deb file for Linux, have to build from source. Tried to build from source but it only supports up to Python 3.9.X. Tried to build with 3.10 but lots of errors. Doesn't look widely supported on exchanges and for the pittance I would be collecting here, my time is worth more than this.
Result = Abandoned.
eCash
No idea what this network is meant to be. They did a share split 1:1000000 so now everyone looks wealthy. There is an Electron ABC for Linux which appears well supported and I was able to claim my coins. Appears Binance supports this asset so I sign a transaction to deposit to my personal Binance. No block has been mined for over 40 minutes. Transaction is still unconfirmed. Feels dead.
Result = Pending, but likely abandoned.
Nothing else worth doing, already wasted too much time on these. Thanks everyone for all your comments, Merry Christmas!
I can make a windows machine with the electrum BSV client if you want and install something you can remote in with. Yes you have to trust me a bit, but if you have more then a few $ of it you might as well grab it. Not a big deal I keep a couple of laptops around just for testing so it's a clean wipe after every use anyway. PM or reply here. -Dave |
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Much like keeping funds on your phone using a web how wallet has a large risk of loosing all your funds.
On that same note, keeping a small amount of crypto there for convenience may be an acceptable risk for some people.
The only one I know guarda.com but I don't know anything about it other then it exists.
-Dave
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Personally, I tagged the Symmetrick account when too many questions arose about the account no longer being operated by the original owner/creator but apart from one other red tag it seems as though members have refrained from tagging. I don't really see the point of adding more tags: if it changed owner, there's a clear warning now for anyone to avoid doing business with Ratimov's new nickname. If he's just grumpy and ignoring all the drama he caused, there's no need for more tags. Any reputation he had is gone. That is it in a very short sentence. He had a good reputation. Deserved or not, does not matter anymore. But it's gone. Can we all just move on from here at this point? If people look they will see that that account should not be trusted. If they don't look they will not see it and no matter what else if they don't look nothing matters since they are not looking. Yes, it's a bit of circular logic, but if you don't care about checking then that's on that user. -Dave |
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Is there any reason that you are not enabling RBF?
If there is a coinjoin and fees spike it has the potential to sit there for a long time.
I realize bumping might lead to some privacy issues but can't think of a reason not to have it enabled.
-Dave
Normal payments sent from Wasabi signal RBF, but coinjoins do not. This is to make DoS attacks (in the form of a double spend of unconfirmed coinjoin inputs) marginally less likely to propagate. But, how do you protect from fee spikes? Yes, it's an edge case but other then CPFP there is not much you can do and it does leave the potential of having a coinjoin sitting out there for hours / days. From what I can see the fee paid is about what it should take to get it into the next block, but we all have see that blow up in peoples faces when there is a long gap between blocks and some ordinal garbage hits. -Dave |
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So 50 MB per day per miner is all you really need.
Just did a look on a couple that I have running and the numbers are still the same.
So it means that a single miner needs almost 50 MB per day and if someone has 10 miners running then the number should be around 500 MB and for 100 miners it would be around 5000 MB which isn't a lot by any means. A simple 1 Mb internet connection should be enough to do the job but there might be some delays due to ping but still I believe that a 4 Mb connection is going to work like a charm for the setup. I would like to know more from you DaveF. Yes even for 100 miners 5 MB would be fine. But There are 3 things to consider. 1) Bandwidth. As shown you really do not need a lot. So for 100 miners a 512 Kbps connection would be saturated 24/7 a 1Mbps would be at 50% 24/7 and so on. To allow for the fact that it's not constant bandwidth i.e. you are going to need more when a block hits and new work is sent to your miner a 4 or 5 Mbps connection should be fine. Once again we are talking 100 miners here. With the amount of power they are using getting faster internet is not a big deal. 2) Latency. A.K.A ping time, or the amount of time it takes for a packet of data to leave your miner and get to the pool or leave the pool and get to your miner. This is also important and why using services like satellite not recommended. Cable / fiber / DSL something that is ground based. Also, 4/5G can do some funky routing things. If you are spending real money on a miner spend a bit on the internet service for it. 3) Your internal network / router. And once again this means more with more miners. 1 miner plugged into a cheap home router is fine. 25 plugged into a cheap network switch along with some security cameras and somebody streaming Netflix behind that same home router is going to cause data drops and speed drops as it tries to keep up. Better equipment is not that much more money and will just make for a better setup. -Dave |
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Are you looking to try to scam again?  Did you follow this guide: https://exchange.blockchain.com/api/#introductionYou have be logged into your blockchain.com account before you can request your API key. Also, are you locked into blockchain.com for any reason? There are a lot of other services that also allow API access. -Dave |
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Is there any reason that you are not enabling RBF? If there is a coinjoin and fees spike it has the potential to sit there for a long time. I realize bumping might lead to some privacy issues but can't think of a reason not to have it enabled. -Dave |
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How can you even oppose this?
I don't -- i won't try to force anyone not to use it, all am saying is, as a miner I would NOT use a pool that allows human beings to generate their own biased template that would result in a loss of profit for me. I also explained scenarios of which I would engage in creating my own templates, if all pools are forced to ban certain listed addresses, and said pool would pass the responsibility to me to un-censor those addresses, I would, I would also accept it if another miner does it for the sake of fighting forced censorship, but doing so for any other reason means you are guaranteed to make me lose profit and I do not want to lose money, I also don't know many people who are willing to. The moment a miner sees his pool making 0.5 btc on fees while there is a potential of 5 btc sitting on their mempool, it would be pretty hard to keep the miner, no sales pitch in the world would fix that, money lost is money lost. Solo pool, ya great idea -- not solo, i would pass. Again, i am only stating my opinion, if others are willing to use pools that give users the ability to create transaction biased blocks, be my guest, this would allow the pool is use (that uses default block template) to make even more profit. For pooled mining it also depends on where fees are at the moment and how much is being given up. Going from 5 to 0.5 is a big deal Going from .1 to .99991 when spread across a few hundred miners is not even a worry. What would be is going from X to 0 because someone made a mistake with the template and mined an empty block. Everyone has their own pain point. Makes you wonder if you can code the pool to say the optimal block was X but you did Y his cost Z. So now your reward is lowered by Z and given to the other miners. This way if you paid me to mine your TX I keep the money and nobody else at the pool can complain since they got paid. Just a thought. -Dave |
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