It is not safe to just find people who want to do a f2f tx from just anywhere, it is easy to get connected with scammers and thieves, for f2f trades, it is recommended to use p2p exchanges like bisq, as they allow you link up with people who also want to trade f2f with you.
In fact, for me BISQ is even more private than finding someone and trading f2f. We should run our own node and connect BISQ to it over TOR. Then, this system is very secure and of course, very decentralised. Alternatively people can use Robosats. Many people use Umbrel or Start9 for their nodes. These implementations support Robosats as a plugin and it is fairly easy to use. Finally, there are exchanges like the one on my signature (and of course many more) that people can use to exchange between currencies. A list of them can be found here: https://kycnot.me/. |
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The easiest way to explain BIP39 to a layperson would be to simply tell them that those 12 words is their password without which they would lose their money. If they wanted to know how it works technically, you should show them this picture:  |
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PHOTOGRAPHY Brompton Rd, London | Sony A6000 & SIGMA 30MM F1.4 DC | 1/120s @ f/8 Obviously I am the photographer, so the picture is mine. Good luck to everyone
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Hello icopress, my signature is updated, I am ready to rock & roll!
Happy new year to everyone!
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Why don't we run Bitcoin Knots instead of Bitcoin Core to count a number of us who care for spam-free Bitcoin and celebrate the Bitcoin anniversary on the 3rd of January? The number can be checked at bitnodes.io or coin.dance/nodes. Bitcoin Knots: https://bitcoinknots.org/I am not sure whether the question is genuine or whether you try to attract ignorant people to bitcoin knots. I would suggest converting the topic to a detailed comparison of Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Knots, so we can have a serious discussion about it. In this regard: "Spam-free" << censorship resistant, so I 'd rather feel ordinals choking my neck than having my transactions censored. Hope it makes sense! Finally, as a community we must focus on expanding the network and on scaling it, rather than changing its fundamental rules. This applies to both Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Knots. |
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Any campaign manager (or not) who wish to cooperate with BlackHatCoiner, I want to tell you that you will regret not having done so already.
He is a very knowleadgable guy especially in regard to Bitcoin and of course he is trustworthy!
Good luck BlackHatCoiner!
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I am locking the topic now until announcing the winners for avoiding having other predictions posted by accident. Thank you all for the participation!
Good luck to all the participants and once more: RIP light_warrior. |
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Happy new year guys! Let 2024 be an astonishing year.
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Sorry to bother the community, but it is a hard time for me now. I am really appreciated to your suggestions, help, instructions of How to earn from Bitcoin, including a job related to Bitcoin, mine, trading, or anything else.
A great retired forum member (according to a lot members that are still active), has written this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1629118.0It's the first pinned topic in the Beginners & Help board of the forum. So I am surprised you didn't see it when you opened the thread. But anyway! Good luck with your attempts. |
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I have a copy of the passphrase, it's BIP-39.
You must mean seed phrase. But perhaps he used a passphrase as well. Did you ask him? |
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Omo this fees they tired me ooh, and e don discourage me well well, recently I been want buy some tokens worth of $15 but to my surprise the fee alone na $25.
A know no why the fees dey increase everyday.
You can definetely find P2P exchanges to do such a small transaction. You will find a deal where you will pay someone $15 dollars and they will send you coins via Lightning Network. 1. download Muunor Wallet of Satoshi. 2. find a partner to trade with either using P2P exchanges (BISQ, Robosats etc), or through this forum's section. However you must know that such small amounts will always have the "fee issue" if you plan to use them on-chain. |
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There is only one option. Both nodes only have one channel, and that is with 1ML. It doesn't make sense to blame the routing algorithm, because the only possible route is 1ML.
That can't be true, because:
- I have once paid my c-lightning node from electrum.
- It really doesn't make sense to call it a lightning wallet if it needs to have a direct channel with everyone you transact with.
Ok, sounds fair. So, the problem lies somewhere else. I will try to search about it and if I come to a conclusion I will update this post to inform you.
EDIT:@BlackHatCoiner 1. Are those 2 the only channels you have opened? I mean does node A and node B have only one channel each with 1ML? 2. Have you tried opening a direct channel between the 2 nodes to see if it works both ways? 3. Have you tried opening those channels with another node in between? Perhaps the ACINQ node for example? 4. Does your system look like the following: [A] 0.03 --------- 0.001 [1ML] 0.001 ------------ 0.02 |
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I'm certain about the former, but not the latter. You see, both Electrum and c-lightning nodes are currently hosted from home, and since I have not port forwarded their respective addresses, I don't think you can request to open a channel with them. However, the other way around is totally possible. From both nodes I have opened a channel with 1ML. So, no. I don't think you can find the channel links in 1ML.com. Electrum node: 0219f73f45e0f51963c0c1542b0b5b01439ced304e2aa3253197aa64438aeb2f1f
c-lightning node: 02345753d3f0563fa565dc08ac7a627545416069a537f86c94915cc416e9c1b20e The connections you have are: A (electrum) <-----> 1ML <-------> B (CLN) I think it has to do with how the routing algorithms differ. CLN is great for privacy, using route randomization. So the payment algorithm does not always use the lowest fee or shortest route. This obviously means that from the CLN node to the Electrum node, the payment may fail because it will not necessarily route through the 1ML node. But, it's curious because you say that the problem is the opposite way. In this slide here, it says that Electrum node supports private channels only and no routing. I guess this means that they don't act as routing nodes, but can they initiate a payment that is not direct ? Because if not, then you can pay only direct channels from node A. I am not sure which implementation they use though. |
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Can someone explain the significance of the upcoming Bitcoin halving and its potential impact on the market?
Bitcoin has a maximum supply of 21 million coins. This is fixed. Until today approximately 19.5 million coins are in circulation, which is ~93% of the total coins that will ever exist. Every ~10 minutes on average, a block is found and the reward for finding the block adds 6.25 new bitcoins to the 19.5 million that already exist. But before 2020, the exact same process was adding 12.5 new bitcoins. And before 2016 it was adding 25 new coins. And before 2012 it was adding 50 new coins. You see that the flow of newly generated coins is decreasing and it doesn't decrease slowly! In April 2024, the reward will be 3.125 Bitcoins. So, essentially the rate at which bitcoin enters the market will decrease 50%. Now, this will definetely impact the market because the "need" for more bitcoins will stay the same but bitcoin itself will become more difficult to find. In simple terms, there are two main factors that drive the price of a scarce asset. The generation rate and the demand. Assuming demand will remain the same and hopefully it will go much higher, then the generation rate works in the exact opposite way. If it decreases, the product is more rare and therefore more valuable! But, don't forget that if demand decreases, then this will impact bitcoin's price negatively. |
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- From node A, I have opened a channel with 1ML in testnet. (electrum node)
- From node B, I have opened another channel with 1ML in testnet. (c-lightning node)
- From node A, I can send about 0.02 and receive about 0.001.
- From node B, I can send about 0.03, and receive about a 0.001.
- I create an invoice of 1000 sat from node B.
- I attempt to pay the invoice from node A and receive "No path found". The log says: "electrum.lnutil.ConnStringFormatError: Don't know any addresses for node: [NODE_PUBLIC_KEY]".
I can pay node A from node B, but not the other way around. Isn't it odd?
It is. Are you certain that the channels are open? Do you have a link on 1ML where I can see the channels? Node B is CLN and node A is LND? Perhaps it is the common issue when having 2 nodes with different implementations. The routing algorithm differs and sometimes it fails. I am searching the web to find a relevant post and I will guide you to it. |
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EDIT: BlackHatCoiner was faster. Hi. 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With a transaction fee of $50, I presume the miner is part of the club.
Or perhaps Foxpup is the miner. Don't forget foxes dig mine a lot. Like this one for exampleEDIT: Let's not derail the conversation once again. Sorry Loyce, for continuously telling bad jokes on your thread. |
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Hi, the setup is as follows:
1) laptop with portable HDD, never connects to the internet
2) laptop2 with portable SSD, signs transactions, keeps an updated blockchain, normal internet usage on internal drive on a separate OS
If you need to run because there's a fire, thieves, or gov becomes north korea, you can put your 2 drives in a bag and gtfo, without worrying about no laptop.
If you need to wipe 100% your keys, you can do it because it's an HDD. SD cards or usb sticks or SSD drives would make you paranoid that there was a way to recover keys. Unlikely if you use FDE but still. Since you don't need to sync the blockchain on your HDD, it doesn't matter that it's slower, it's just to store keys and sign tx's, so an HDD is good to go, that is why im asking, what would be a good one to buy. Also, if you use Bitcoin Core as wallet, you need the actual file.
The signing must be done on the offline computer, not the online one, since signing requires private keys and therefore if you have the private keys on the online device, then essentially all your wallets are hot wallets. I would do the following if I wanted to maintain the 2 computers logic: 1. Online device - A small pc (NUC or Raspberry) with a portable SSD, that would act as a bitcoin node. All the data would be installed on the SSD so in case of fire I would take it and go away. In fact I could also take the small PC with me. But even if I didn't take it, no big deal, I guess. Note: Using an NUC, you can use internal NVME and then just take the whole PC and run. 2. Offline device - Cheap laptop with the cheapest internal disk. This would be used only for key generation and signing and it would be connected to the node on device (1). I would setup Linux and install Electrum on this device. I would make sure to fully encrypt the disk with a strong password that I would copy in 2 physical media stored in separate places. Of course, for any wallet that I generated I would keep the seed phrase in physical media too and anytime I created a wallet, I would erase the memory after backing it up, so If I needed to sign I would have to type the seed phrase again and then re-erase it. Imagine something like a temporary signer. In case of fire, there is nothing inside the laptop, and even if the stole it, they wouldn't be able to access it, because: Linux with full disk encryption. Final Note: Running is unnecessary. The only thing you really need is the backups of the seed phrases and to make it difficult for the thieves (or anyone you worry about) to read the disks if the computers are compromised. |
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Hello.
I don't understand from the post what kind of problem you face.
Is the funding transaction slow? Is the channel opening transaction slow?
Both these operations require an on-chain transaction so you must make sure the fee that is set is high enough.
Also take into consideration that in order for the channel to open, it requires 3 confirmations.
I am not aware of the services you have used, but I have tried LND and CLN and in both occasions it took approximately 1hr for the channels to open.
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Software level airgap - you have turned off your WiFi in your OS.
Hardware level airgap - you have physically removed your WiFi card (or never had one to begin with).
I think both are very secure, but software airgap has 2 possible flaws: 1. software malware like the one you mentioned in the answers above. 2. it's just one click away from becoming "non-airgapped". I think this has also been mentioned somewhere above. In any case, yes, hardware level airgap is not so prone to errors. |
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