I think it should be changed to neutral. I know I have gone on this rant before but I'll do it again briefly here. On this forum as of now there is no differentiation between 'trading feedback' and 'general feedback' So, when you leave a negative or positive for anyone who you have not traded with or know actively how they trade it distorts it. Looking at his feedback iv4n has promoted many questionable things over the years, so if we had 'general feedback' that would be a good place for a negative. But we don't, we only have the 1 feedback. And it is supposed to be for TRADING. Does not matter what else they say or do. If you don't like it, talk to the boss: LoyceV's guide seems reasonable.
The system is for handling trade risk, not for flagging people for good/bad posts/personalities/ideas.
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- Leave positive ratings if you actively think that trading with this person is safer than with a random person.
- Leave negative ratings if you actively think that trading with the person is less safe than with a random person.
- Unstable behavior could very occasionally be an acceptable reason for leaving negative trust, but if it looks like you're leaving negative trust due to personal disagreements, then that's inappropriate. Ratings are not for popularity contests, virtue signalling, punishing people for your idea of wrongthink, etc.
- Post-flags, ratings have less impact. It's only an orange number. Some amount of "leave ratings first, ask questions later" may be OK. For example, if you thought that YoBit was a serious ongoing scam, the promotion of which was extremely problematic, then it'd be a sane use of the system to immediately leave negative trust for everyone wearing a YoBit signature. (I don't necessarily endorse this viewpoint or this action: various parts of the issue are highly subjective. But while I wouldn't blame people for excluding someone who did this, I wouldn't call it an abuse of the system.)
- Exercise a lot of forgiveness. People shouldn't be "permanently branded" as a result of small mistakes from which we've all moved past. Oftentimes, people get a rating due to unknowingly acting a bit outside of the community's consensus on appropriate behavior, and such ratings may indeed be appropriate. But if they correct the problem and don't seem likely to do it again, remove the rating or replace it with a neutral. Even if someone refuses to agree with the community consensus (ie. they refuse to back down philosophically), if they're willing to refrain from the behavior, their philosophical difference should not be used to justify a rating. For example, in the YoBit mass-ratings example above, ratings should be immediately removed after the person removes the signature, even if they maintain and continue to argue that they didn't do anything wrong. If someone agrees to "follow 'the law' without agreeing to it", that should be enough.
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Makes you wonder how many things like this happen that have nothing to do with JPM Chase / Petrobras / whoever and more about the employees working for them.
Back in 2011 a barrel of oil was in the $110 range. So 300,000 barrels is barely $33 million in total. Even if JPM was getting them at a hefty discount (say 1/2 price) and reselling them above market price (say $120 a barrel) you are talking about less then $20 million.
Not worth it for a major bank. Worth it for a few corrupt employees on both sides.
Not saying banks don't do bad things just that the numbers really look too small for them to bother at the institutional level.
As for the amount of bad things that other places do with other things vs BTC it really is just a numbers game and PR.
BTC does not have anyone running a PR office to bury bad news about it or correct misinformation in the news. So it's easier to bash.
But, it's not like BTC is going away.
-Dave
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So I decided to put together an umbel box to compare it to raspiblitz / mynode Hardware: RPi4 4GB $55 Argon ONE M.2 Case for Raspberry Pi 4 $45 1TB M.2 sata drive $79 16GB SD card & Power Supply $15.00 So total cost $194 (+ tax) Power draw during initial sync 1.1A  Still playing around with it. Will report in later. VERY VERY slick GUI in my opinion. Seems to be a nice build, I like the app store concept to add features / services. Might be my new go-to node in a box. -Dave |
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As others have said, looking at it, it's 95% certain to be an exchange.
They took all their inputs and now customers are withdrawing and they are shrinking the wallet.
I am saying most likely an exchange since most casinos tend to send out their payouts at scheduled intervals and in batches.
This looks like people just withdrawing over time.
-Dave
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If you can run your own Electrum node then why not just run a simple full node. The full node needs less resources too!
Very good point! I was studying yesterday the options for having my own Electrum server and I just noticed that it cannot be done with pruned full node. And then, whatever I do, the full node is already all I need. And lately Bitcoin Core also accepts HW, which is something I surely have to try out. You kind of need an electrum node for mobile wallets / lightweight wallets on your phone / tablet / netbook anything that where even running a pruned node is not viable. Even if you have a powerhouse laptop that can handle everything without stress if you go on vacation how is the Wi-Fi / Internet in general at the hotel? Do you want to have to sit for 2 hours while you get the blocks you missed while getting there because of crap bandwidth? How many of you actually tried to run your own explorer?
With the way how world is going right now, I think we are soon going to have to host everything on our own.
More or less yes. You either do it yourself or have 0 idea what is being done with the data. I have an open electrum node for people to use. Am I more or less trustworthy then some random public node? I know I am, or would at least like to think I am. You don't know that. -Dave |
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Lesson one is to run your own node. Lesson two is to not look up your own transactions on block explorers. Lesson three is to do everything over Tor. If you really need a block explorer, then you can run your own instance of mempool.space. All the code is open source, and they even give you instructions: https://github.com/mempool/mempoolI'm not sure I believe their statements regarding Monero until I see evidence to back it up. Of course Chainalysis will claim they've been able to provide some "meaningful leads" (which could mean almost anything) on Monero transactions, because that's what they want the US government to believe so that they will keep giving them expensive contracts. And I know some people probably want me to shut up about them by now, but you don't even need to know anything about linux / programming / tech because all of the node in a box appliances that I keep talking about have some form of a block explorer built in or with a 1 click install. raspiblitz / mynodebtc / umbrel Take your pick and do it yourself. -Dave |
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Walletexplorer.com, a block explorer site secretly operated by Chainalysis, has provided law enforcement with “meaningful leads,” the documents say.
Is it really a surprise though? The walletexplorer creator works for Chainalysys. It even says so on the main site. I remember some conversation abut that when it popped up like 4 or 5 years ago. And some people were upset because they ran a bunch of queries for firstbits there and were freaking out that 'the man' now has their information.  As for the Electrum nodes. The more you want privacy the more work you have to put into it, by running your own nodes & servers. The issue is that too many people do not know how, and of those that do know how to do it, many do not want to be bothered. Not saying that we should throw our hands up and do nothing, just dealing with the reality of it all. -Dave |
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Unless you have very limited bandwidth, less then 4GB RAM or less then a 500GB free on your HDD there is no reason you cannot download the entire blockchain.
Depending on the amount of RAM in your system and speed of your internet connection it can take from a day or so to couple of weeks.
As n0nce asked. What is the issue you are having?
-Dave
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At least if you use 1.1.1.1 as DNS, this issue is already few known for past few years. According at https://webapps.stackexchange.com/q/135222, the problem is complicated and looks like won't be solved anytime soon. I would recommend people to use different archive service if they wish everyone could see archived page easily. Thanks for finding that. I am surprised that archive.today does not have that piece of information on their front page. Such information doesn't fit front page, unless it recently happened. Seperate page to mention technical problem would be better. But there is not any link on their site that I can see that says "having issues reaching us at times, click here" Even you posted the link from slackexchnage about it, nothing on their archive itself. Yes, I am complaining about a customer service issue on a free site / service. But, how many people try it, have it not work for one reason or another and never go back to them. Now, with firefox pushing the secure DNS and using cloudflare by default I don't see the situation getting better. -Dave |
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yeah and from the looks of things, it would be really expensive to store all that bsv blockchain data. I mean just think of 1.8GB blocks popping up here and there. Oops time to make another hard drive purchase. that's probably what the miners are doing, you know? making trips to best buy every friday or every other.
You are still hung up on blockchain size and you are either just living in your own bubble and don't want to hear it or have some other agenda. But for the sake of it lets run with BSV. As of today their blockchain is a little under 1TB as can be seen here: https://blockchair.com/bitcoin-sv or here:https://explorer.viawallet.com/bsv/statistics/volume/volume Even with them pushing out their bogus stupid large blocks they are still not over 1 TB Now lets do BTC with some really inflated numbers. Although it's below it lets say the blockchain today is 400GB Now lets say every block from today on out is 4MB and it's 100% filled. 4meg * 6 blocks an hour = 24 meg per hour 24mb * 24 hours = 576 MB a day 576MB * 365 days = 210240 GB per year So a bit under 4 years go get to 1 TB Since we have 400GB today and we have now filled 4+ years of blocks that are larger then possible we are still going to fit on a 2TB with your OS and room to spare. Since you had them running to best buy, here you go https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-blue-2tb-internal-sata-hard-drive-for-desktops/9312076.p?skuId=9312076$45 for 2TB On a side note, I just put together a setup to test a node in a box going a bit high end. However: RPi4 8GB $75 16GB sd card $10 RPi power supply $8 Geekworm NASPi 2.5 inch case $55 2TB 2.5" drive $70 So a little tiny box that can store the blockchain for YEARS and YEARS to come and run a lightning node and an electrum server and some other stuff for under $225 Could easily have shaved $50+ off the price by getting a different case a 4GB Pi and a 1TB Drive. Stop worrying about the blockchain size. -Dave |
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OT: John Wick stores his gold coins in the basement under concrete.
Continuing OT, if someone steals then from him, he is going to get them back. Seriously, was thinking while driving home. Why was using stainless steel even a thought for the engraved plates, instead of, as o_e_l_e_o said and using titanium or other stronger metals. For the punched ones, I get it. But you are never really going to get enough heat to melt titanium or have an impact strong enough to really damage it. Just wondering if it is a case of, "that's what it is" or if there was another reason. -Dave |
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At least if you use 1.1.1.1 as DNS, this issue is already few known for past few years. According at https://webapps.stackexchange.com/q/135222, the problem is complicated and looks like won't be solved anytime soon. I would recommend people to use different archive service if they wish everyone could see archived page easily. Thanks for finding that. I am surprised that archive.today does not have that piece of information on their front page. Keep in mind that by default if you use firefox and choose the secure DNS option that they want you to it uses the Cloudflare DNS servers. So there are probably a lot of people who use firefox choose the secure DNS option and now can't get to them. You can change the settings in Firefox here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https#w_manually-enabling-and-disabling-dns-over-httpsAnd you can get to archive.today with the other provider that they include nextdns. But, I do not know a thing about them. -Dave |
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Wow, really did not expect to see my name in the top 10. Figured there would be a lot more people above me. I figure when I have a day like this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5058163.msg55954810#msg55954810 that there are a lot more people reporting a lot more stuff out there. Big thank you to the mods who have to read all the reports and act on them. These are the people who have the most good reports over the last year: +-------------------------+--------------+
| User | Good reports |
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| vareole | 569 |
+-------------------------+--------------+ Damn, an actual scammer has been cleaning up the forum undercover! Its kind of a Batman-type situation, except instead of being a billionaire playboy he's a scammer. The reports are probably for excessive bumps and whatever posted by the competition. That and probably reporting marginal posts by people who tagged him as a scammer. -Dave |
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This is truly a sign of an overheated bond market.
Coinbase is one hack away from losing half of their balance sheet, and it has happened before. If DeFi ever becomes big they will also be eliminated - they aren't even the first mover in this space.
If there is a way of shorting these bonds, I certainly would.
Although it's a bit OT, yes you can. Just like any other security. But: You have to have enough money / other things in your brokerage account to cover the full cost. You are going to be paying interest on the amount. And your brokerage has to support it. The obligatory: This is not financial advice, speak to your financial advisor before doing it. And this is US based info, other parts of the world can and will have different rules and laws about it. -Dave |
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Ehh, the dip buying is a bit more of a PR move in my opinion. He "only" bought 150 BTC, which is more or less $6.8 million. Whereas while El Salvador is definitely not a powerhouse country levels of wealthy, I don't think that $6.8 million will make a significant dent on their balance sheet.
100% agree for a country, $6.8 is nothing, it's a PR move. But, it's a good one. Keep bringing it up again and again, never let it leave the public view that they are supporting BTC and buying more to support the people. If they keep it up, showing that they are serious and in it for the long term, then it will eventually just be everywhere in the country. -Dave |
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As @dkbit98 multisig is probably the best. Setup a 2 of 3 wallet. Have all three seeds in different locations, sealed in different tamper evident ways.
Check on them often. Someone would have to compromise 2 locations, 2 different ways without you noticing before getting to your BTC.
For more fun, add a 4th location with a seed that has nothing to do with anything.
-Dave
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Another thought on this is what do we define as a user?
If someone buys BTC today during the drop @ $44,000 and intends to sell it at $50,000 when it goes back up. Are they a user or a trader?
If they are a trader they don't care about KYC since they are not going to hide the profit and will report it to the IRS, or whoever taxes income in their country, and pay their taxes and move on.
If the same person missed the $50,000 sell window and sells at $55,000 since it's still going up but they decide to keep some BTC since they made their profit and then they go and buy stuff with it are they still a trader or are they now a user. If they are a user, does privacy even matter to them now?
And so on.
A better question might be, if people do care about privacy how much effort will they put in before they say "meh, whatever" and let some of their info be known.
-Dave
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Accessing the .fo is fine to me, but when accessing the .today domain redirects me to the .md domain.
It does not do that for one public DNS that I checked but, it does redirect to .vn on another public DNS. I wonder if archive is doing something odd for redirection that is causing an issue on some DNS servers. Or is it just a rotational redirect and one of them is broken and the cable DNS are waiting for the TTL to time out before going to the next. Will have to check if I get back to the office later and can do more testing. For now I changed the subject to reflect that. -Dave |
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Since a lot of people like to use it for archiving posts for reputation. I had this in meta and some mod moved it, to off-topic. I think it's better here. Just my opinion. It's not much of a block but while browsing Ratimovs post https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5356476.msg57979125#msg57979125 when clicking on the links it took me nowhere. Thought it was odd and did some more checking. Turns out some ISPs or at least optimum are either deliberately blocking the site or have their DNS servers so screwed up you can't get to it. Using 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1 or 9.9.9.9 will get you to the site. Using a PC I have access to on Fios it works. Usain a PC I have access to on Spectrum it does not. I don't know if this is a transient issue, or if it's deliberate, or even if Optimum / Spectrum even run their own DNS or subcontract it out so it might not even be them. Just an FYI to people, who use the archive.*** service it may not work for some people. It was working sometime last week, don't remember when I last clicked on one of those links. -Dave From cable: HEADER:
opcode = QUERY, id = 29796, rcode = NOERROR
header flags: reply, want recursion, recursion avail.
questions = 1, answers = 1, auth. records = 0, additional = 0
QUESTIONS:
archive.today., type = XX, class = 1
ANSWERS:
-> archive.today.
type = CNAME, class = 1, ttl = 60, dlen = 19
alias = www.archive.today.
So I look up www.archive.today and get:
HEADER:
opcode = QUERY, id = 29841, rcode = NOERROR
header flags: reply, want recursion, recursion avail.
questions = 1, answers = 0, auth. records = 0, additional = 0
QUESTIONS:
www.archive.today., type = XX, class = 1
**complete** Using 8.8.8.8 it works properly: HEADER:
opcode = QUERY, id = 29891, rcode = NOERROR
header flags: reply, want recursion, recursion avail.
questions = 1, answers = 1, auth. records = 0, additional = 0
QUESTIONS:
archive.today., type = XX, class = 1
ANSWERS:
-> archive.today.
type = A, class = 1, ttl = 300, dlen = 4
IP address = 151.106.9.30
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From when I used it, it's mostly the standard desktop chrome / Chromium they they compiled for android to run as the desktop browser instead of the mobile browser.
So yes many extensions work. However, many sites, crypto related and others have issues, because the think they are running on a full desktop browser and not a 6" screen.
Or they are looking for things that are not there.
I do knot know if they made any other changes since I last tried it.
No performance issues that I felt.
-Dave
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