I'm having a drink to o_e_l_e_o tonight.
My drink is already on my desk. My thoughts are with Leo... |
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Buying merit is not allowed, so there is no chance you get away with it, even if you manage to trade BTC for merit.
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DAY 10:{
"chain": "main",
"blocks": 826158,
"headers": 826158,
"bestblockhash": "00000000000000000002f7b10a29f78f34966bfb43b2c6b9347c42846efeb1e6",
"difficulty": 73197634206448.34,
"time": 1705514690,
"mediantime": 1705511940,
"verificationprogress": 0.9999970872995876,
"initialblockdownload": false,
"chainwork": "000000000000000000000000000000000000000065f3d1d0dcf7103735cbfc57",
"size_on_disk": 615280976685,
"pruned": false,
"warnings": ""
}
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I suggest that this year, we dedicate a special award to o_e_l_e_o. I don't know what award we could invent, but Leo definitely deserves something like that. I leave it up to GazetaBitcoin and icopress who are usually the best at organizing such things. Of course I am glad to help if you need anything. I am a member of this forum for a year (more or less) and I can safely say that Leo is the most valuable member, especially in technical aspects of Bitcoin. What do you guys think about my proposition? |
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This is the first time in my life that I cried for someone I don't even know.
Sorry for being a coward and crying.
Thanks for existing in this part of our lives. You are indeed a treasure for this community. I am sure you are also a treasure for the people that know who you are in real life.
Farewell Leo, farewell...
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It is the most decentralized, but honestly, I prefer Whirlpool over Joinmarket. In the former, you get infinite remixes for free. In the latter, not only don't you get free remixes, but you pay for every maker's input. It has also presented some issues with the fee selection, like this one for instance. Correct. I agree but it has worked perfectly for me this far. I guess you pay these issues to gain in decentralisation. |
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DAY 9:{
"chain": "main",
"blocks": 825995,
"headers": 825995,
"bestblockhash": "0000000000000000000370fba1a063d19e1e4bb02c7904ec7f2558a8b188a30a",
"difficulty": 73197634206448.34,
"time": 1705388494,
"mediantime": 1705387732,
"verificationprogress": 0.999998615175351,
"initialblockdownload": false,
"chainwork": "000000000000000000000000000000000000000065c96e4626d2d30abef6d88c",
"size_on_disk": 614964503644,
"pruned": false,
"warnings": ""
}
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Bitcoin ETF was expected to partially tackle the No. 1 problem by increasing adoption; the more demand, the higher the price increase.
Well, yes, but in theory. I mean it is expected to let people know about bitcoin, but not to increase its value if people buy shares of the ETF. Imagine the ETF provider A, who owns 1,000,000 (1M) bitcoins and they provide 1,000,000,000 (1B) shares to the customers. So we have 1B shares of 0.001 BTC each. Theoretically, they are not allowed to trade the underlying asset of the shares that belong to customers. They are allowed, however to sell Bitcoin that is not sold (in the form of shares to customers), or buy more bitcoin and create more shares. So, the actual trades, that would lead bitcoin's price higher (or lower) depend on them. |
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You are right, there are only BTC to XMR swaps available right now, and I think there are no available providers even for this direction at the moment.
That is why I posted several alternative options to choose, and there are few other wallets with swap feature like Stack wallet.
Unfortunately, we cannot. Not yet, at least. "Due to technical limitations and the way the protocol works it is currently not possible to exchange XMR for BTC. This functionality will likely be enabled by the next hard fork." https://unstoppableswap.net/I wish I was wrong because I really like the app, but anyway. Ok, so I guess it's something they have been working on. Thanks all, I used eXch, pretty straightforward
Good choice. It worked smoothly, didn't it? |
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- unstoppable swap (quick way)
Hi man. I think unstoppable swap is excellent, but I believe it works only the opposite way. I mean you can only swap from BTC to XMR and not the opposite. Are you sure you can buy BTC using XMR? |
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Yes, Blue Wallet has had many coin control options for several years ahead of Electrum. You get a full list of UTXOs and can decide what you want to do with them. Freezing is one option, spending from is a different one (an option that is still missing in Electrum). I think labelling is also a feature you can use on Blue Wallet. I have never had much use for coin control since mobile wallets aren't my preferred software for storing a lot of coins, and when I did use them, I transferred some coins there to be spent quickly when on the go.
apogio, bluewallet supports coin control.
In bluewallet, you can see the full list of UTXOs when making a transaction and select or freeze any of them.
Thanks guys. I think BW must be more feature rich for mobile since BW is dedicated to mobile-only. If you can connect to your own electrum wallet via tor (which I think you can, but when I tried I faced some connectivity issues), then I would say BW and Samourai are better for mobile. But electrum does a lot of improvements on the field. Let's see. Pluralism is good, anyway! |
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Assume that you have UTXOs A and B in the same address.
In the older versions, you couldn't freeze UTXO A without freezing UTXO B.
In the latest version, you can freeze each of UTXOs A and B without freezing the other one.
This is great news and would almost put Android mobile on par with Blue Wallet in my book. This is proper coin control just worded differently. Just for the record, when you say the last version, are you talking about v4.4.6 or the v4.5.0 that came out a few days ago?
This is indeed a great addition. Thank you both for pointing it out. Pmalek, can you do this with BW? I don't use it to be honest, but I would like to know. I used to use it in the past, but I have never noticed. |
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One solution would be to switch to decentralized approaches, such as JoinMarket. After trying literally every service for this purpose (except the wasabi ones), I can safely agree that JoinMarket is my favorite one. I use others too, of course, but JoinMarket is the most decentralised one. AFAIK there's still no user-friendly interface which can rival Wasabi or Samourai wallet.
It comes with a fancy UI: Jam. Here is the installation guide for multiple node implementations: https://jamdocs.org/software/installation/If you think about it from a technical perspective, JoinMarket needs a backend implementation which is here: https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org/joinmarket-clientserver and a UI implementation which is here: https://github.com/joinmarket-webui/jamYes, it's not the easiest approach. Yes, it requires manual work. But it is worth it. |
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It's been mentioned many times already but in general we need:
1. demand increase, more people get interested in bitcoin
2. supply decrease, therefore more difficult to find bitcoin
(2) is guarranteed to happen by the network rules
(1) is what we can focus on, introducing new people to bitcoin
There is no need to overcomplicate things, trying to read patterns, technical analysis etc.
Fundamentally speaking, (1) & (2) will lead to price increase.
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Hello, I suggest you take a look into the service in my signature. It's the easiest way in my opinion. (edit: LoyceV said the same thing above, just noticed it)
If you are willing to share more info in regards to the trade you want to make, you could swap some BTC to XMR with someone here in the forum. I am also willing to consider this trade if you want.
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DAY 8:{
"chain": "main",
"blocks": 825867,
"headers": 825867,
"bestblockhash": "0000000000000000000251f3f958e2992353dd50877c6cfb8a750a73ea948031",
"difficulty": 73197634206448.34,
"time": 1705303460,
"mediantime": 1705298015,
"verificationprogress": 0.9999987072597638,
"initialblockdownload": false,
"chainwork": "000000000000000000000000000000000000000065a824d15f40934c58397c0c",
"size_on_disk": 614712250513,
"pruned": false,
"warnings": ""
}
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$ sudo ss -tulpn | grep tor | grep LISTEN
tcp LISTEN 1 4096 127.0.0.1:9050 0.0.0.0:* users:(("tor",pid=39059,fd=6))
tcp LISTEN 0 4096 127.0.0.1:9051 0.0.0.0:* users:(("tor",pid=39059,fd=7)) for me the output looks like this: tcp LISTEN 0 4096 127.0.0.1:9050 0.0.0.0:* users:(("tor",pid=23066,fd=6))
tcp LISTEN 0 4096 127.0.0.1:9051 0.0.0.0:* users:(("tor",pid=23066,fd=7))
The "1" in port 9050 means that there is 1 byte on the Recv-Q (receiving queue) waiting to be read. It's a rather curious number to be honest. Is it constantly "1" or have you noticed it going higher? I suggest you run sudo ss -tulpn to see all the ports. Are there any other ports that have Recv-Q higher than 0? Perhaps port 8333? |
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Does bitcoin-cli getnetworkinfo show you are reachable by the onion network? Do you want to try if we can explicitly add a node via the addnode command? Are these options uncommented in your /etc/tor/torrc file? ControlPort 9051
CookieAuthentication 1
CookieAuthFileGroupReadable 1
Can you run sudo ss -tulpn | grep tor | grep LISTEN to see if the tor service is listening at the ports 9050, 9051? |
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You can verify yourself that this isn't copied-pasted from Raspibolt. For example, Raspibolt does bind to 127.0.0.1. I remember I had commented that, because it was producing issues with Bisq.
Correct, I have removed this line too. Yes. Here's my bitcoin.conf:
The differences with mine are: 1. I don't use onlynet=onion 2. I use v2transport=1 3. I use rpcbind and rpcallowip as explained in this tutorial: https://sparrowwallet.com/docs/connect-node.htmlCould it be firewall rules? I use ufw. Is your 8333 port opened? I see you say nothing blocks it, but can you verify using sudo ufw status? Can you please run bitcoin-cli getconnectioncount and then bitcoin-cli getpeerinfo? |
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