Por lo que entiendo, esto fue posible al reseteo constante de la dificultad de minado, aún no tengo muy claro como funcionó el ataque pero en la versión 4 se corrigen estos temas para evadir que pueda pasar de nuevo, Y por lo que entiendo era algo intrínseco de la tesnet que no aplica para la mainnet

Si alguien pierde dinero con eso creo que se lo merece por darle valor a algo que no debería tenerlo, hace unos días el usuario BAC comentaba que tBTC ha sido la moneda con mas movimiento en su casa de cambio, así que seguro alguien saldrá perdiendo en esta transición de v3 a v4.

I have worked for a bitcoin salary in the past, and there is no difference between getting paid in bitcoin or in fiat if you will spend the money. There could be a difference if the goal is to hold, but it's hard to hold when you have to pay bills, house rent, and other stuff.

I would prefer a coin with fast confirmations and low fees, something like dogecoin or litecoin, because Bitcoin can be slow and expensive, so, it is not a good option at all.

The reasons behind the attack on the v3 are not the Ordinals, the main fixes for V4 are two:

-Add Testnet4 difficulty adjustment rules fix.
-Add timewarp attack prevention for Testnet4.

I don't understand at all the technical side of the problem, but some people describe it as a block storm https://blog.lopp.net/the-block-storms-of-bitcoins-testnet/

And if you want to follow the current discussion about the migration, you can do it on the next link: https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/9bL00vRj7OU/m/9yCPo3uUBwAJ

Looks like devs, aren't happy at all with the fact that Testnet has a value on markets, and they are even thinking about stopping the Testnet and only moving on with the signet. But I'm sure that will not happen, the community needs the testnet even if some people give it a bad use.

Así es colega, resulta que una casa de cambio llamada altquick decidió listar tBTC, y así empezaron las ordenes de compra y venta, dejo el enlace:

https://altquick.com/exchange/market/BitcoinTestnet

El precio es muy bajo, pero el echo de que exista una oferta y demanda es algo cómico. Por un lado está bien para aquellos que necesitan cantidades grandes de testnet coins, pero por otro lado es una estupidez debido a que la cadena de bloques testnet puede ser reiniciada en cualquier momento.

How can i run a Bitcoin testnet 4 node?

Most of you know how the V3 is about to die with those 2.4M unconfirmed transactions, and the V4 is on the way, but i see the testen 4 is alive and it already has blocks (https://mempool.space/testnet4) so, how can i run a testnet v4 node?

I would appreciate it if anyone had a hint on this topic because I wasn't able to find information about this.

---UPDATE----

USER: mocacinno packaged everything in a container:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5496494

Me gustaría agregar que uno de los métodos que yo he visto anteriormente para el blanqueo de fondos han sido los casinos. Hoy en día no es tan fácil como solía ser en el pasado debido a la implementación del KYC, sin embargo sitios como freebitco.in han sido usados para este fin debido a que esta es una de las formas mas prácticas de justificar el origen de las monedas. Si te preguntan "de donde salió ese dinero?" puedes decir, lo gané apostando, y comprobarlo con el enlace de la apuesta.

If you become a target then you can be hacked.

There is malware called Pegasus, and it's a nightmare for any smartphone, that software can get access to your device even if you don't click any link, they only have to make you a phone call and after that, they will be in.

If you want a secure way to hold your coin, a phone is not the best option. You should use a computer with a secure operative system like Linux to generate your address and private keys.

Can you give us a hardware description, maybe you are running this on a raspberry pi, which would explain why the delay, or maybe it's an old machine with low resources.

If you are running in linux you can concatenate the commands;


Or even use the sleep command between both commands:


It will not make it go faster, but you can leave it running and come back later once all is loaded.

The weird thing is how it's one of the most played slots, it should at least have one max win until now, but no one has got it. If we compare it with the Wanted dead or a wild slot we will see how tons of users have got the x12500, but on that slot, we can have hundreds of dead spins.

Another slot that i like but haven't seen a big win is Nitropolis 4, on stake we see how the max win was x1676 which is really low for a game that offers x50,000 as max win.

Slots are money-eating machines, and they are not provably fair, we can't verify our rolls, and since it has RTP and not House Edge, the bets will be manipulated to ensure the house always wins.

I have seen that with some gambling streamers, they get deep in the hole, then come back, and then lose it all. That's why it's important to know when to stop and to have a limit, because if you don't have one then you will lose all at the end of the run.

And the feeling about recovering and losing it all should be terrible, i haven't experienced it but i can imagine.

Bitcoin testnet, una moneda que según no debería de tener valor, sin embargo hay quienes ya la consideran una Altcoin, fue parte de bitcoin desde un principio, y ha sido una herramienta para que los desarrolladores puedan hacer pruebas de forma gratuita, sin duda alguna una herramienta excepcional para Bitcoin. Pero todo cambió cuando la la legión del fuego atacó (Diría el avatar).

¿Quieren ver como se ve la muerte de una cadena de bloques? Les dejo la imagen:


2.34 Millones de transacciones sin confirmar y bloques con 64 transacciones cada uno, si los bloques son cada 10 minutos entonces hablamos de 384 transacciones confirmadas por hora y 9216 por día. Si seguimos así veremos que se confirman 258,048 transacciones por mes y por ende nos tomaría un poco menos que un año confirmar todas esas transacciones.

Los detalles de el ataque que ha sufrido la red Testnet están desglosados en los siguientes enlaces:

[1] https://beincrypto.com/jameson-lopp-bitcoin-testnet-griefing-attack/
[2] https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/testnet/
[3] https://protos.com/halving-excitement-pumps-worthless-bitcoin-testnet/
[4] https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/9bL00vRj7OU

Y al parecer ya se está trabajando en corregir el error que permitió este ataque, pronto se desechará la versión 3 y se dará creación a la versión 4. Y algo que me da gusto pero a la vez me preocupa es el echo de que el ataque fuera en la red testnet y no en la mainnet, creo que es algo de lo que se debe de aprender para que el sacrificio de una cadena de bloques no sea en vano.

Fuente: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5494933.0

Al parecer la guerra contra los mixers ha empezado, las autoridades no les gusta la idea de perder la trasabilidad de bitcoin y por ende atacarán a todas las compañías que ofrezcan este servicio. Como ya comentamos en otros hilos, siempre está la opción de usar monero, sin embargo no dudo que dicha crypto se vuelva el objetivo del los gobiernos una vez que eliminen todos los mixers de la ecuación. Y No dudo que próximamente saque leyes en las que condenen el uso de mixers sin importar si la fuente de las monedas era limpia. Sigamos de cerca este asunto para ver como evoluciona.

What kills V3 could kill V4, and i use the word kill because the V3 us unusable... a blockchain with 2.3M of unconfirmed transactions and blocks with only 67 transactions, that was a nice way to doom the network. An we should learn from it because if it happens in the test net it could happen in the main net too. I mean, isn't cheap but it's possible.

What would happen in altquick when the V4 comes? will it be a side market or you will drop V3 and only use V4?

The problem with trust pilot is how it can be manipulated, in the past i have seen casinos paying to their users to leave a trust reputation on that site, and things can go both ways, user can get paid to burn a casino reputation, and they can even make it for free, just to fuck up a reputation.

Is important to have references like trustpilot and btcgosu, but is important to have our own criteria, if something looks shady then stay away from it. From what i have seen in the forum so far we can trust in huge win.

Ouch what a bad streak, i really hope you win this time, don't giveup.

But i think you have a better chance if you add 2 games on your bet, known as parlay, it would be easier to get 2 games with +2.5 Goals than getting 1 game with +4 goals. And you would get the same multiplier in the end.

A good way that i have learn to win big with sports is by betting on UFC and selecting the winning method, my last nice bet on this way was Max Holoway winning by KO, and that one pays x7. So, it's a nice way to bet.

We are not all investors, some of us see bitcoin as a way to make money online, and for me it has been that way since 2014. I like more the vision of getting bitcoins online and making them real money, that's how it works to me, buying coins with real money has been never an option. But it's just my point of view, for sure a lot of users have bought bitcoin in the past and made an awesome profit just by holding their coins.

And i haven't seen a lot of celebrities promoting bitcoin at all.

I feel like we need clear rules about Artificial Intelligence on the forum.

What does the forum staff think about AI-generated posts?
Should we report those posts to moderators?
Should AI text be quoted?
Should users make the AI-Busters (Just like we have the Spam-Busters)?
Can users get nuked if they only post AI-generated content?

I know there are some other topics related to AI like this one https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5445074.60 but i don't see any intervention from the staff on that thread, that's why i place this questions to know how should we proceed about this topic as users.

This is 100% AI-generated text, anyone can verify it with any of these tools:
https://gptzero.me/
https://www.zerogpt.com/

And if you think $60k is a low price, then let me tell you it can drop huge, the last time it hit the ATH went up to $64k and then it went down all the way for the next two years until it hit the lowest value of $14k, so, $60k isn't low, it still pretty high, i wouldn't even recommend buying now because the crash is inevitable.

Existen varios swappers para monero, lo que no se es que tan descentralizados sean estos, pero te dejo aquí la lista:

https://fixedfloat.com/
https://simpleswap.io/
https://changenow.io/
https://godex.io/
https://stealthex.io/

Todos ellos son confiados por la comunidad de monero y recomendados en la página oficial de getmonero, y exchanges oficiales que aun sigan manejando esa moneda son Kraken y Bitfinex, creo que ya ha sido vetado de la mayoría de casas de cambio.

Y no creo que los desarrolladores de XMR tengan que hacer algo mas para volverse objetivo del gobierno, sin duda alguna ya podrían empezar a cazarlos bajo la excusa de que han desarrollado una herramienta para blanqueo de capital.

Because gambling is about luck, sometimes we lose and some others we win. But the important thing here is knowing when to stop the session, understanding when you already won enough for a day and walking away with your profit.

And the losing streaks can be rude, sometimes it takes several days or weeks to gat back to a winning run. But the only way to do it is by keep trying it.

If the lose is huge or bigger than you can afford, then is time to quit gambling, that's the right thing to do when you don't understand your limits or when you are an emotional player.