Since people still ask the question "How much bandwidth do I need for my miner," I figure I would give an answer:  The answer is you really do not need that much. 45MB to 50 MB a day between in and out. Also keep in mind some of the bandwidth is me logging into the miners to check on them. -Dave |
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And yet it comes back to trolls who do not understand how BTC and cryptos and exchanges work Although a bit OT, last I heard [I did not check] most darknet markets are using XMR instead of BTC since it's way more anonymous.
Back to the subject on hand, there seems to be a bit of a loop going on here and although people seem to agree with me they still come back to CM is for "bad people"
No, it's for lazy people. There is nothing CM does that you can not do yourself. I just went and setup accounts on 2 exchanges that require nothing more then an email, actually used a separate disposable email service for each one while sitting in a parking lot on the free Wi-Fi from the Wendy's
Both have about the same price on XMR at the moment. So I could move my BTC to 1 of the exchanges, trade to XMR, withdraw to another exchange and trade back to BTC and to my wallet.
Would cost me ~ 30 minutes of time, 1.5% trade fee, .01 XMR withdraw fee and the BTC withdraw fee.
To find me you would need to get the records of an exchange in China and exchange someplace else and then figure out how to trace XMR.
*I did not do this because I have better things to do with my time but the point remains the same.
Or, I don't know, install Samourai Wallet and use Whirlpool and be done.
-Dave
When I get above a certain amount of BTC in my wallet from selling stuff here, payments (if any) from any sig campaign I am in I used to "anonymize" my coins in a very simple way not outlined above but.... Take funds and add to lightning wallet over a weekend or whenever fees were low, create invoice on another device with a different lightning wallet connect to different location. Generate a few invoices to break up the payments and then withdraw to on chain funds. Also untraceable. Now I don't do that anymore but I could again quite easily. Every time someone comes up with a "mixers are bad" I can come up with a "mixers are for people too lazy to do it themselves way" As for the advertising side, did you ever stop to think that since there were people with sigs in certain language sections and now there are not that CM took a look after the people in those sections were out of the campaign and said "look, no difference in the number of users / amount of BTC mixed" and said to DS "yeah we don't need people from there" -Dave |
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Was figuring on the base price of the coin + a good grade math.
Surprising since most of the other bitcoinpenny stuff I have bought and sold has gone for decent money.
Well folks it's here if you want it. Going to leave this open and just move on to the next collectible.
-Dave
Trade ya busted card for it. Got a 2070 that bit the dust yesterday. PMd you yesterday. -Dave |
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Yeah, with a lot of desktop wallets if they had it closed all this time then when they opened it over the weekend then if would have sent it our again.
Different wallets will have different ways of doing it but with the reference client you can use abandontransaction or -zapwallettxes depending on how you want to do it.
And then you wait again till it's dropped from the mempool.
-Dave
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Straight flush from ten to ace.  Dang. That was from the spades auction back in Aug 2019? Does not seem like that was 18 months ago. Guess a pandemic skews your perspective of time a bit. You are the winner of this hand :-) Lets see what Corrosive comes up with to take our money next. -Dave |
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The core software is here: https://bitcoin.org/en/downloadIt does not matter if you are using the internal drive or an external drive. Once you install / run it you just have to tell it where to put the data. Keep in mind you have to be a bit more carful when using an external drive since unplugging it while bitcoin is running can cause database corruption. -Dave |
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So now that the the hearts are being delivered we have our hands. Full house.  This coming from the guy who is trying to sell off other collectibles because I am trying to put more stuff out there for people. Was doing well for a while. And then Corrosive had to go and do this. So anyone with a four of a kind or better out there? -Dave |
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It really surprises me that Exchanges (such as Coinbase and Kraken) don't set up LN and strongly encourage their customers to receive most of their withdrawals in the form of a LN channel. Wouldn't that effectively turn the exchange into a hub? If I want to transact with ANYONE that ALSO has an account at the same exchange, then my transaction would just need 2 hops (one from me to the exchange, and a second from the exchange to the person I'm transacting with). If the big exchanges then set up a few large channels between each other, I could transact with any of the millions of customers that acquire most of their bitcoins at exchanges.
Same thing with mining pools. If each of the largest pools were to set up LN and strongly encourage their miners to all take their withdrawals over LN, then the pools would become yet another hub. The pools can even set up their channels in the blocks that they create (which reduces the "cost" of setting up the channels to the lost opportunity of including some other fee-paying transaction in that block instead). If they try to do it mostly when the blocks aren't full, then they can effectively open and/or close their own channels for free.
I posted about this a while ago. I mentioned it being a support issue. Coinbase / Kraken move a ton of BTC each and every day. The capacity of the ENTIRE lightning network at the moment is a bit under 1200 BTCIt's a loop. Till they know there are enough channels with enough capacity to move the amount of BTC to and from their customers it's pointless to do it since it's just going to generate more support issues. Till we get more big places on lightning it's pointless to have large channels open since it's locking funds and they may or may not be used. For mining pools, at least the larger ones, lightning would just cost them money in terms of needing more back end servers and support. A lot of them send their payments only in their own blocks (or at least they used to) so although there is a cost in "we could have had the fees from someone else" it's really not a cost to them. -Dave |
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Hey @SiNeReiNZzz, could you please review your neg trust on @PhoenixMiner? Any antivirus will accuse any miner of being.. a miner.. There is an ongoing malware campaign with fake PhoenixMiner binaries that contain malware. Most advertise "PhoenixMiner 5.5d" which is not even launched, latest one is 5.5c. There were tens of thousands of posts with this, all deleted, that direct to a mega.nz link. Different from the OP https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2647654.msg26969355#msg26969355I would assume this is one of the reasons the real Phoenix mega.nz folder was deleted. Personally I don't think that the OP of the Phoenix thread has something to do with this and the negative feedback does seem unwarranted Slightly OT but I never understood why they used mega instead of github till now. Or GitLab / BitBucket / SourceForge or any of a dozen other places. Or I don' know, since they are charging a dev fee how about just getting their own domain and hosting it themselves. Because in the end, not having the files on a PhoenixMiner domain really does make it easier for the malware people to post a mega (or whatever) link and have some people believe it. -Dave |
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I'd have trouble getting 100 for it on ebay myself, so that's all I can say... Sorry.
Edit - the 1/4oz thing I think turns some people off to that kind of price I guess... /shrug
Coin reseller market is tough right now.
Was figuring on the base price of the coin + a good grade math. Surprising since most of the other bitcoinpenny stuff I have bought and sold has gone for decent money. Well folks it's here if you want it. Going to leave this open and just move on to the next collectible. -Dave |
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So baring anything going wrong, or the current owner renewing it I just bought the .com at an expired domain auction.
Should be in my domain account by next weekend.
Yeah, does not matter much but I figured what the heck. .com domains just seem to generate more traffic.
-Dave
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Sunday evening bump. Is $125 shipped asking too much?
I figured with the grade is was a fair price but since I did not even get a ping on this now I am not sure.
Talk to me people. Too much BTC or just nobody interested?
-Dave
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So I posted these over the last year and none of them sold. So, I figured I would give them one last try before I part them out /scrap them / recycle. Instead of just bumping the threads I put them all here with the links to the original listings.
Avalon 821 with AUC3 and RPi: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5259801
$100 shipped to you in US
Working no issues, no real idea of it's history but it's here.
Can go cheaper if you don't want the RPi, the AUC3 is still selling for $40+ if and when you can find them out there....Sold Avalon 721 with 1 dead hash board (it does work when it wants to)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5248965
$35+ shipping in US. Includes AUC / Cable / RPi
Turn down the voltage in the config and it's dead silent.Sold S7LN https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5245828 $80 shipped in the US. Seriously the parts + PS are worth more the miner, the red LED is blinking but it's steady @ 2.7TH Totally inefficient by todays standards, but a nice space heater for the winter. Not shown and not SHA I also have an Antminer X3 CryptoNight Out of the 3 boards, 1 is 100% dead, one is only showing 53 out of the 60 chips, the 3rd board works fine. It's doing about 150 KH/s $25 + shipping in the US. Anyone interested? Reply here or PM. Standard, no support they are all old and As-Is.... -Dave |
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I totally forgot about huntercoin: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=435170.0Wow, I mined it and played it back in the day. Now, I have to go and dig through my old drive images to see if I even still have a copy of it anyplace. There was another one too, it was a clone of huntercoin, I don't remember the name but it was out there too. -Dave |
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I don't know if you would put this in the Supply Chain Attacks or someplace else but counterfeit devices are also a concern.
This is why buying any wallet from anyplace other then the manufacturer or one of their partners is bad.
This is why when I bought mine I bought from the people who built it. Not a 3rd party.
-Dave
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And lets face it, I know I have said it before, mixers are for people who don't want to go through the time & effort of hiding their coins themselves. What I posted before. There is nothing CM does that you can not do yourself. I just went and setup accounts on 2 exchanges that require nothing more then an email, actually used a separate disposable email service for each one while sitting in a parking lot on the free Wi-Fi from the Wendy's
Both have about the same price on XMR at the moment. So I could move my BTC to 1 of the exchanges, trade to XMR, withdraw to another exchange and trade back to BTC and to my wallet.
Would cost me ~ 30 minutes of time, 1.5% trade fee, .01 XMR withdraw fee and the BTC withdraw fee.
To find me you would need to get the records of an exchange in China and exchange someplace else and then figure out how to trace XMR.
*I did not do this because I have better things to do with my time but the point remains the same.
Or, I don't know, install Samourai Wallet and use Whirlpool and be done.
-Dave
Saying that mixers are designed / used by and for criminals just shows that you do not understand how crypto works or how to do things. There are also the exchanges that do not require any form of registration such as https://changehero.io/ or https://flyp.me/en/#/ or https://coinswitch.co/ So are exchanges only for criminals too? How about any of the services that have face to face for cash trades (bisq) are they for criminals? -Dave Besides that the current topic here is coin mixers. Not any of these three are providing legal information on their website which makes it very dubious. Swap exchanges of course have another use case. Simply swap your current crypto into another of your desire. Which of course is not only used by criminals. But the use cases here for criminals are very high. Swapping to other coins and destroy the trace to the old coins which came from illegal deals. Hold that coin or simply swap it back to the old one on another swap exchange. So according to your thoughts, we should: Have no exchanges that don't have KYC. No cash so we can't do face to face transactions. No mixers because only criminals use them. No services like whirlpool / conjoin for the same reason. No privacy based altcions. No precious metals because I could give someone gold / silver / rhodium or any bar of metal which is untraceable. You must want a very bleak and depressing world or are just work for a bank who sees competition and is panicking. -Dave |
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And lets face it, I know I have said it before, mixers are for people who don't want to go through the time & effort of hiding their coins themselves. What I posted before. There is nothing CM does that you can not do yourself. I just went and setup accounts on 2 exchanges that require nothing more then an email, actually used a separate disposable email service for each one while sitting in a parking lot on the free Wi-Fi from the Wendy's
Both have about the same price on XMR at the moment. So I could move my BTC to 1 of the exchanges, trade to XMR, withdraw to another exchange and trade back to BTC and to my wallet.
Would cost me ~ 30 minutes of time, 1.5% trade fee, .01 XMR withdraw fee and the BTC withdraw fee.
To find me you would need to get the records of an exchange in China and exchange someplace else and then figure out how to trace XMR.
*I did not do this because I have better things to do with my time but the point remains the same.
Or, I don't know, install Samourai Wallet and use Whirlpool and be done.
-Dave
Saying that mixers are designed / used by and for criminals just shows that you do not understand how crypto works or how to do things. There are also the exchanges that do not require any form of registration such as https://changehero.io/ or https://flyp.me/en/#/ or https://coinswitch.co/ So are exchanges only for criminals too? How about any of the services that have face to face for cash trades (bisq) are they for criminals? -Dave |
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Don't forget about coindroids. Kind of hokey, but still fun, robot fighting game. https://coindroids.github.io/Coindroids-Documentation/#introductionNot what I would call rapid development but it is being worked on and maintained. Uses litecoin / defcoin for now but others can and will be added. Or others were at least planned to be added, don't know where that stands. -Dave |
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And think about office type jobs too that are going away.
How many records rooms are going away because it's become digital?
Old school massive technical storage libraries even when they replaced paper with microfilm or other storage mediums, gone, replaced by one guy the IT department.
Yeah, some skilled trades are going to be here forever but even they are changing. Think about plumbing; soldering pipes, bending pipes, worrying about all that kind of stuff.
Gone for a lot of residential. I helped a friend re-do all the water on the 2nd floor of his house. 2 bath, 1 laundry room all PEX for in and PVC for drains. Crimp tools and glue. Took a few hours with a lot of that having to do with us trying to figure out the angles for one of the drains. Still no leaks after over 20 years.
-Dave
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