On that same note I use mynodebtc.com as one of my electrum servers / lightning nodes. They have an image that works as a virtual machine using virtual box. IF you have enough spare drive space and ram on your day to day PC you can set it up and not have to worry about other hardware. For the setting up of the electrum side of it they are both more or less turn option on and wait for it to do it's thing.... -Dave |
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As far as I know the person running the node will know your IP address and what addresses are in your wallet.
They know your IP since you are connecting to their server and know your addresses since you are asking that server for balance info.
Any light wallet connecting to a server will more or less leak that same info.
-Dave
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[Sold]Title kind of says it all. 3 Cards shipped in the us for $50 at the moment that is BTC 0.0009 according to preev.com I you are not US based, I will ship international but you accept all the risk for customs fees / loss.   Payment address: bc1qdycmqhg6qwygh937x9mtnke4cghf2ljkffayje Can also take some alts if you want. -Dave
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For $40 why not if for not storing a high amount of btc on anyways.  Does it have a ticker of the current btc price on it atleast? I might do it for $35 since it wouldn't be used other than a price ticker if I put 0.0001btc on it.  No, it's just a hardware wallet. No ticker. As I said in the review, it's just a slightly customized Trezor firmware that they stuck into a watch. It just signs the transaction, everything else is done on with the phone app. Edit: SOLD -Dave |
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Fell off the 1st page bump.
If nobody wants it by the end of the week back into the vault it goes and I'll pull something else out to sell.
Make an offer if you think 0.0025 is too much BTC
-Dave
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Dropping it to $40. It's in a box destined for the storage facility at the end of the week.
So, if you want it after this you are going to have to wait for me to dig it out.
Not a great hardware wallet, but a cool thing to keep in a BTC items display case.
-Dave
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https://ckbunker.com/ for the coldcard is now available on the node in a box setup offered by https://www.mynodebtc.com/ It's a full node with lightning and a ton of other apps built in that you can run on a RPi In the last release they added beta support for ckbunker and a few other things. Will test in the next week or so and report in. Unless someone else here does it first. -Dave
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and there was the LN naive community thinking that middlemen were not suppose to know the sender/receiver of long routes. or of any route (promotion:private untracable untrackable network)
strange because he seems to be able to see and log all payments not meant for him personally(he not intended final destination)
That's how it works I know this provider paid that provider. I have no idea if coingate was the 1st hop or the 7th hop I have no idea if WoS is the final destination or it goes past that. I also know nothing about the payment other than the amount. im guessing DaveF has a direct channel with coingate and a direct channel with walletsofsatoshi. and thus he is their direct route to each other.
im guessing DaveF didnt turn off his autopilot or didnt turn off his 'routing' to not allow them to abuse him
Yes to the 1st No autopilot I setup all my channels myself and routing payments is no big deal, just odd that 2 of the larger providers would need me. im guessing this tactic means DaveF has to close his channels and reaggregate his funds into new channels quite often if they are pushing payments via him so often. (well more often than he likes as he seems to be complaining that he is being used as a middleman)
maybe he should up his fees.. to take advantage of his predicament.. or sway them away from using him as a middleman
Not complaining just trying to understand why people are doing some things and if what I am doing to facilitate them doing it is the proper way. -Dave |
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OK, this is just really odd now. Back in January I posted about a bunch of small repeated transactions being routed though my node from walletofsatoshi.com to opennode.com https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5158920.msg56082955#msg56082955 Just a bit of oddness. Earlier this month I had a bunch going from coingate to walletofsatoshi.com  Now all 3 of these node are major players in the lightning world. All are in the top 20 nodes in terms of capacity. They are all also fairly well connected. Why would they be routing through me #3700+ in terms of capacity and worse then that for just about every other lightning ranking too? Just really odd. From Bob's home node to Alice's home node fine. But big players? Weird. -Dave |
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It seems like many people are annoyed with John McAfee, because his behavior is very difficult to forgive. Several times he promoted shitcoins
and also often gave wrong predictions, which made many people annoyed with John McAfee. Based on the last article I read John McAfee has been
found guilty of tax evasion, commits money laundering and fraud in cryptocurrency. Right now he should be in prison paying for the mistakes he has
made so far. Hopefully in prison John McAfee can introspect himself with all the crimes he has committed.
He ruined so many lives. Hard working people invested their life savings in various shit projects, just because they trusted this guy. He lied to them repeatedly, saying that most of his wealth is in the form of these shitcoins (which was simply false) and that he was being paid in the form of tokens (once again, not true. He was primarily paid in USD for his promotions, although he received some tokens as well). I guess I just don't get it. Why would anyone invest in anything, never mind something as speculative as crypto based on a tweet or you tube video? I know some people are going to fall for stuff like that, but enough to make a difference in coin price? I guess I am going to have to start DaveCoin and hire a promoter for it. Wait this is the internet, I don't even have to hire them.  |
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Utah has is it's own *non* crypto currency https://goldback.com/So in theory yes they could go crypto. Would not be as nice looking as a shiny gold bill. Now, would anyone use it. That is a different question. More people seem to be collecting goldbacks then using them so it's a tough call. -Dave The question is, as technology becomes more readily available small-scale, might these bills be counterfeited in somebody's garage? There should be a hand-held metal detector that you can run a bill through, that can read if a bill offered to you has the proper amount of gold in it. Or is such available, already?  Not sure, any of the regular precious metal detectors will tell you that there is 24k gold in it. I don't know if anyone has made a passthrough one like they use to detect regualr counterfeit bills. There is also the fact that the $50 which is the largest made only has .05 oz or 1.4g of gold so: You would have to make the bill and get the gold into it, but not as much gold as the normal one, which is a small amount and deal with the technical hurdles of dealing with the gold loss when manipulating gold in small amounts. I'm sure there are other things but I have not had my coffee yet. -Dave |
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Utah has is it's own *non* crypto currency https://goldback.com/So in theory yes they could go crypto. Would not be as nice looking as a shiny gold bill. Now, would anyone use it. That is a different question. More people seem to be collecting goldbacks then using them so it's a tough call. -Dave |
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From here: https://www.gemini.com/blog/gemini-live-in-the-ukI see: With GBP in your account on the Gemini Mobile App or on your desktop, you can buy cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Basic Attention Token (BAT), Dai (DAI), Ether (ETH), Litecoin (LTC),
ChainLink (LINK), Orchid (OXT), Amp (AMP), Pax Gold (PAXG), and Compound (COMP). So it looks like you are limited to certain pairs for now. Send their support a message, as a rule they are not good at fixing problems but are good at answering questions like this. Or at least their US support is good. They are also responsive on twitter. -Dave |
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so they auction expired domains now days?
i just assumed a couple months after they expire they simply fall back into the open market.
Nope, all the bigger registrars will sit on them for a bit before releasing them. Capitalism :-) https://www.godaddy.com/help/bid-on-expiring-domains-893https://www.namesilo.com/Support/Expired-Domain-Auction-Frequently-Asked-Questionsetc. The downside is that with some of them, like the godaddy ones, I can put in a winning bid, and actually win and pay godaddy. But, the original owner can still get the domain back for a bit. I do not receive the domain till that time has expired. So for this one, i won it on the 6th, but I don't get it till the 14th or so. -Dave |
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I think the setup with RaspberryPi4 and ordinary HDD would be too slow for full node, yeah, affordable price but with low performance. I would consider the fast internal SSD (preferably NVMe) controlled by modern CPU. Fast Internet (with backup option)would be also essential. Correct me if I'm wrong.
You are wrong :-) On my own side I am running 2 lightning nodes, both on RPi4 units. For those I AM using SSD, but not for speed. Since they are USB they are powered through the USB port on the RPi and the pull less power then a spinning drive allowing me to have a screen and some other things attached without worrying about power. Look at raspiblitz and mynodebtc For others I have setup I have been using 4th gen core i5 PCs. Dell OptiPlex 3020 units. Just about indestructible. 8gb DDR3 ram so it's cheap to find And 1TB spinning drives. For the initial sync if you are pulling from the net then yes it's nice to be able to pull down the blockchain a bit faster, but after that not so much. Now, if you are using this machine for something else (anything else) too it's a different conversation, but just running a local node you can talk to, it's more then fine. -Dave |
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People trust non-reproducible wallets provided by anonymous developers. They trust custodial wallets that make no statement about using cold storage. Yesterday I reviewed a Ballet, a wallet that uses provider-generated BIP38 paper wallets and calls those "hardware wallets" and the app "companion app" and it's ok because Charlie Lee is running this shop. Unfortunately most people in the space are not at all literate about cryptography.
I have been going on rants about collectibles things like the ballet that are funded in general. Too many issues with potential vulnerabilities all around. But I don't think that is going to stop anyone. Have you been able to find anything on the Tangem software? I did not find anything last time I looked. -Dave |
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Is there any reason to press the button before he sees an update of the app on Google/Apple or his credentials revoked? I don't think so. He can probably keep pretending for a week or two.
Because if you leave Friday and don't come back Monday people are going to start looking. IF someone does notice the code change and they come looking for you it's good to be someplace else. Might as well be a beach on a tropical island with no extradition. So is that better then a closed souse wallet that needs 3 checks against their internal code before it's uploaded and the uploads needs 2 different 2fa devices that 2 different people have?
Tell me who has that setup? I have yet to find a project that would even claim to do reproducible builds of their closed source product. Without reproducible builds, people sign off blindly. Nobody has it, that I know of in the crypto space and that is the issue. Yeah, possibly the big players [Coinbase, Gemini, Kracken, etc] But, Mycelium, Electrum, etc. If they do they don't talk about it. I would love for one of them to actually do some epic security measures and be somewhat upfront about it. -Dave |
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Seriously?  You talk about security then you send people to an unknown github to download software? I agree with many of your concerns. I'm not a contributor to YetiCold and only had a lengthy call with the main contributor @JWWeatherman_ which probably is worth nothing if in the end people lose funds but it might have skewed my confidence. I edited my comment above. Your comment sounds like I was part of YetiCold. I am not. I just see this project is addressing many things in a very good way although I have not audited it very carefully. Many concerns can be mitigated the way they step through the whole process but one of my criticisms was also that there is no concise instructions one could read from start to finish. You actually have to do it to know how it goes. @JWWeatherman_ counters this with the videos that show the whole process. Sorry about that, from the way I read it you were part of them. My fault, owe you an apology. I know I have said it before and will keep saying it about open source wallets or anything. Unless you compile it yourself OR make sure that any auto-updating is turned off you are probably getting a false sense of security. Unless they can prove an audit of their update security. Having a code audit and being open source is good. But it the machine that uploads the files to the play store / itunes is not secure then it all goes out the window. Employee "Dave" goes evil. Owner / programmer "giszmo" does everything properly, open source, code audits, etc. 3:30 PM on Friday Dave uploads the bad wallets to the online stores. They have nothing to do with the GitHub code. Says to giszmo "See you Monday" as always and walks out the door. 3:45 PM stores start pushing out bad version 4:00 PM Dave arrives at airport 10:30 PM Dave lands in some tropical island 11:45 PM Dave checks and 500 copies of the wallet have been downloaded and have ~ 35 BTC in total. 6:00AM Sat 7200 copies have been downloaded and have ~90 BTC in total. Dave sits and wait's till there are 100+ BTC in the compromised wallets. And then hits the "Send to Dave" button. Will probably get some more BTC till everyone figures out what is wrong and happening. So is that better then a closed souse wallet that needs 3 checks against their internal code before it's uploaded and the uploads needs 2 different 2fa devices that 2 different people have? I like open source, I use open source, unless everything has multiple separate checks in the process it's not any better some times. Sorry, but I am going to keep saying that. And that the above rant or a similar one should be on every page that discussed the benefits of open source. -Dave |
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