From: https://www.newsday.com/long-island/crime/cryptocurrency-long-island-suffolk-sini-1.50355683The covert Bitcoin mining, which went undetected for several months, cost county taxpayers at least $6,000 in electricity and put important county infrastructure at risk, Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy Sini said. Sini said authorities executed search warrants on Aug. 19 and found 46 cryptocurrency mining devices, which require high levels of electricity to run, hidden in six different rooms — including under removable floorboards and inside an unused electrical wall panel. Authorities believe Naples had been operating at least 10 of the machines since February. Starting with I live in Suffolk and am amazed that any county employee would put in that much effort to do anything, including mining. I have been seeing things like this more and more. And am starting to wonder if plugging in miners at work to use their electric is the new, bringing along a 5 gallon gas can when filling up the company car and getting some for yourself. Although the dollar amount is more, it's still just stealing from work and should be treated as such. But you do have to appreciate hiding a miner in an unused electrical wall panel -Dave |
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I dont generate those kind of keys, I generate keys on the basis on vulnebrity i did not generate some unknown keys. I generate keys which is dependent on a vulnebrity, so it gives me more accuracy. So it don't take years to get keys with balance.  Its not "years" to find keys / addresses with a balance. It's 10s of millions of years to find them. According to your other post you already found over 60 keys. Prove a few of them by signing a message or just go away, other then providing some entertainment for us to poke fun of you being an idiot, there is no other reason to be here. This forum is not hostile to new users, but idiots like yourself who spout garbage are going to be flamed till you leave or stop spouting BS. -Dave |
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The SEC is known for moving slowly with new things.
For all the people complaining about the ETF approval speed think back to the 1990s when self directed online brokerages were becoming a thing.
Some of the hurdles that some companies went thorough were insane. And since the internet and internet security were new they were demanding a lot.
Now, it's a well known process that although not easy or simple is at least known. So you can submit in a way that works.
I am 99% sure it's the same here. If this entire ETF thing goes to shit, then the SEC has the 'we did what we could' defense when the people who approved it get hauled before congress to explain what happened.
-Dave
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My request to the favorite forum. I copy someone's post when I join a campaign and post it myself. Forgetting to re-edit my post, I am counted as an alt account. I do not know him or the owner of that profile. Later I found out now. My account has been negatively trusted as a connected account. I have deleted that post. Can I get out of this negative trust.Is there any way to get back from negative trust
I will never copy someone's post in the future.
Let me start with: NOAnd then move to, who cares. You have a Newbie account with no merit and have done nothing with it except post altcoin bounty crap. It's not like you were ever going to do anyting useful with this account. -Dave |
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Interesting. A quick web search didn't bring up anything regarding externalhosts for c-lightning. Seems this is lnd exclusive. Good to keep in mind for the next LN box (still unsure between the 2 implementations rn).
c-lightning is probably a bit better then lnd for some things, and you can add a lot to it. But, lnd does a lot more "out of the box" so to speak. It's a bit more bloaty in terms of code, but IMO, it is a bit of a one size fits all application. And I feel lnd is easier to implement, and at a guess others do too, since it seems to be the go-to app for nodes in a box. -Dave |
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Interesting. I had my node set up with 'announce-address=[domain]' but it didn't work, a friend of mine couldn't find my node just through ID, gossip protocol somehow didn't relay my info with that setting. Somewhere I read that domains aren't resolved in Lightning so I needed to actually use IPv4, IPv6 or Tor address. But maybe that was old info? With which config entry do you set the domain? announce-addr? Or something else? from https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/master/sample-lnd.conflines 64 to 67 ; A list of domains for lnd to periodically resolve, and advertise the resolved
; IPs for the backing node. This is useful for users that only have a dynamic IP,
; or want to expose the node at a domain.
; externalhosts=my-node-domain.com With that being said, no idea if having a dynamic IP and using a dynamic DNS provider can cause issues if between your IP changing and DNS being updated if something is being routed through your node or other financial transactions are happening at the same time. -Dave |
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Unless OP actually find weakness on RNG which used to generate private key on specific wallet software.
Yes, someone who has no idea how to find / contact people on github. Or How to google search the various discussions of importing / checking massive numbers or private keys [side note I actually had to do that once due to poor programming on someone's part] and is a new user here who came out of nowhere. Found a vulnerability that nobody else has. Sure..... -Dave |
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You should be fine (for now). I don't think Electrs goes over 200GB at max on mainnet.
So, even with everything on there I don't see an issue.
If you start adding on other stuff, that answer will change, but for now it's fine.
-Dave
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Option one is probably one of the hardest since many providers force regular DHCP changes on their residential customers to prevent this.
DYDNS is usually a good way around this.
Correct, but I don't see how to solve it via DynDNS. Afaik DynDNS is, well, DNS, so it translates a name to a (possibly often changing) IP, like a residential one. But I can't set a domain name as address in Lightning, at least I don't think any current implementation resolves hostnames. .68:9735 OR 03f8a4c71e852ff1104d20ad204404992c120aaf0d41259ee02f96ad5f45f5fc8b@dave.lightning.ninja:9735 will both get you to my node. If you have a bunch of nodes up it just makes sorting them a bit easier. Option two is what I use, but there are many nodes that do not so Tor so you do loose the potential of connecting to a bunch of people
Right, I think it's the easiest and safest to setup and use as well, and myself have both an onion and a fixed IPv4 address, but it's sad to hear many don't connect to Tor nodes, that was new for me! From my 100% unscientific looking around and playing with my LN setups, it really seems that most people are on clearnet. I can't prove it or provide and pretty charts and graphs, but just from how many peers and channels I have and can see TOR just seems much more limited in terms of numbers and amounts. Option three. Don't get me started, 90% of the world can't reach stuff on IPv6, there are major providers that would not know if it came up and bit them in the ass.
So bad?  To be honest, I'm not sure myself how to set an IPv6, but I'll try it and add guide-type info about all 3 methods in my starter post in the next days. Yeah, so bad. At least here in the US most providers do not give IPv6 to home small biz users. I am sure there are some but even asking about it for the most part will get you nowhere. -Dave |
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Wait, so you actually own a Cobo hardware wallet?
I remember they offered some devices for free or with discount few years ago in forum.
No, a consultant that I deal with a lot has one. But, since I am the go-to guy for crypto stuff, he saw the tweet that they were shutting down and gave me a call. Which does bring up the point, that they had his email and did not even contact him. Not a great way to do business. -Dave |
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Cobo Vault is shutting down next week.
Nice to give your users an entire 8 days before shutting down your back end.
I wrote about this news few months ago (June) in their topic and everyone was aware that something like this was coming. Not everyone, someone not on the forum asked me about a tweet they saw about it, which is why I posed here. I did a quick google search for wallet not vault (so that's on me): cobo wallet site:bitcointalk.org The 1st 3 or 4 results were all to the altcoin sections. So I thought (incorrectly) that there was no dedicated post in the HW wallets section. Their topic has fallen to the 2nd page so even a quick look did not show it on the hardware wallets page. At that point I figured a post on this thread was worth it. Their wallet is open source, so there is nothing hidden and anyone can check the code, plus their developer LixinLiu is very active and trying to help everyone. I am not trying to justify anyone, Cobo made a bad decision  Did not mean bad as in going to steal your BTC, but bad as in "whoops that little bit of code does not work the way it was supposed to" and you now have a device that is not doing what you want. The same way any piece of unsupported hardware can have issues that will not be resolved. As for LixinLiu and all the rest, if you look at the tweets from cobo and on the article I linked it does not mention him. So, look at it as someone who bought this product and got the shutting down info and has seen no other communication from the company. I got a call last night, did a quick (wrong) search and followed the few links that cobo provided and sow nothing. Just what happened. My Opinion: If keystone / LixinLiu want to keep going they really should be posting here about it in a new topic. -Dave |
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I did a very quick look and could not find any source code for chivowallet, is it closed or am I just having a bad google day?
Also wonder how much training the police have received in dealing with crypto issues. I can see that causing issues down the line.
-Dave
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For the PayPal page: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/PayPalShould probably add the fact that you can now buy & sell BTC if you are in certain countries but you cannot withdraw. Also a page for RobinHood is needed since you can buy & sell there too. But also still not withdraw. Probably need a page for John McAfee....just not sure what to put there.... -Dave |
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Some profit taking, some stop loss, some people panic selling and you get a 15% drop.
Not the end of the world, not even that big a deal. Let's see how it plays out over the next few days / weeks / months.
-Dave
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It has been touched on but part of KYC vs No KYC also matters as to where you are and what your end goals are.
And....how much have you accumulated through KYC already.
If you bought 100BTC from coinbase when BTC was $600 and all you want to do is sell it when it gets back to $60000 then who cares.
It's not like you can hide $6 million from the tax man.
If you want to sell it off slowly, over years and years then that is a different story.
Same with general privacy. There is the saying 'any 2 people can keep a secret so long as one of them is dead'
If you have that 100BTC that you don't want people to know about, but your pissed off ex-wife / ex-husband, who you talked about it with knows, then everyone knows about it.
Even if it was just a casual conversation with a friend, who then mentioned it to someone else when they were talking about BTC.
If anyone wanted to know about your KYC or non KYC BTC then they could do a little digging and find out.
Now, if you just want your privacy it's easy.
Take any KYC coin you have, sell it, take the cash, pay your taxes (if any) and then take the rest of the cash and buy BTC face to face and be done with it.
Because just about any other way, there is a chance of someone figuring it out.
Even if you pass it through 3 anonymous exchanges, when you go to bitrefill.com to get a gift card for a burrito at Chipolte, you left a trace trace that can be followed.
-Dave
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For myNode, btcpayserver only available if you use premium version (cost $99) or you bother setup it by yourself.
True. I just now edited my reply to reflect the paid version is needed for the auto install of BTCPay However, if you are going to be setting up a store, getting hosting, etc. $100 +/- of getting everything going is going to be minor. You still have to get the hardware for the node anyway or if you are hosting it someplace there is the cost of the extra storage and such. -Dave |
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If it’s an online shop, I recommend using a Bitcoin payment processor that supports Lightning for the same reason of unbeatably low fees. My recommendation would be to use https://btcpayserver.org/. There are 'node in a box' setups. raspiblitz: https://raspiblitz.org/MyNode: https://www.mynodebtc.com/ (you need the $100 paid version to get btcpayserver auto-install) That do most of the setup for you in terms of setting up your own BTC node / lightning node / btcpayserver. You still have to know what you are doing to get it integrated into your store but they do get you most of the way there. And both have active support. -Dave |
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As far as I can see the last two blocks 699367 & 699368 emptied the mempool.
If your transaction has still not confirmed as Loyce said post the txid and people can take a look as to what the issue, if any, is.
-Dave
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For the most part say 99% yes. But, the question is how much BTC? And how technical are you? And what are you looking to do with the BTC? If you are never going to hold more then $50 of coin and it's just 'passing through' as you spend it then spending $100+ on a hardware wallet is not worth it. Your largest loss can only be $50. I made a thread about it a couple of years ago that can give you and others some things to think about: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5205304. -Dave |
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