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4521  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: ElectrumX Server on Win10 on: February 17, 2022, 02:57:23 PM
BTW if you want to buy 512GB internal SSD, I have one for sale ;-)

Sorry, but this unexpected help I've got blew your business Cheesy
(However, I guess that I would have been buying from inside my country anyway if it would have been the case.)
4522  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Bitcoin + Electrum server + Block explorer under Windows (with WSL and Debian) on: February 17, 2022, 02:46:56 PM
I was told how to handle the 4.5GB Debian takes on windows drive, I will add also here the relevant information in order to Move after Install that Debian anywhere else you want.

Check this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/64219885. But 4.5GB is rather small compared with Windows itself and some popular application on Windows (such as Ms Office), so i wouldn't bother move it.

I've installed that app with chocolatey, ran the command line, got some warnings, but went through. Now that Debian is successfully moved to HDD, I don't even mind if it's slower.

More detailed:

1. Installed Chocolatey to my Windows

1.1. Ran PowerShell as administrator and pasted there

1.2 Ran this command in that PowerShell (source: https://chocolatey.org/install ; make sure you use the latest instructions/command line from there)

Code:
Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

2. Installed LxRunOffline with chocolatey

In PowerShell started as administrator ran the command:

Code:
choco install lxrunoffline

3. Opened a completely new command prompt (cmd) as admin and there:

Code:
lxrunoffline move -n Debian -d x:\the\new\folder\

And waited for some time. Got some warnings, but went through. (Thanks again ETFbitcoin)
4523  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: ElectrumX Server on Win10 on: February 17, 2022, 02:35:03 PM
Check this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/64219885. But 4.5GB is rather small compared with Windows itself and some popular application on Windows (such as Ms Office), so i wouldn't bother move it.

It's an undersized Windows partition I am afraid to make bigger (or even join) because MS decided to make a recovery partition between my two useful ones from the (rather small) SSD.
And.. yeah, LibreOffice is moved long ago, some other things too; I've even moved pagefile.sys.. so I was a bit desperate.

I've installed that app with chocolatey, ran the command line, got some warnings, but went through. Now that Debian is successfully moved to HDD, I don't even mind if it's slower.
All in all, that link is pretty much a life saver; Thank you.

//OP, sorry for the off-topic//
4524  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Writing down seed phrase: printer ink or pen ink ? on: February 17, 2022, 02:19:54 PM
I would like to write down my seed phrase but I am hesitating between writing it on a sheet with a pen or typing it on my notepad app on my computer and print it ?
Which one will last longer ?

As said, it depends on too many variables. I've seen erasable pen, which also fade in time. The receipts are printed and do fade (I think it's thermal and not the best example, but still).
But a proper pen (usually ball pen, I'd guess) or marker would do. A proper printer would also do, just keep in mind that adding printer into equation is usually considered lowering the security.
Also as said, if you laminate it'll be better.

I'll add that you should also store your seed (in a way or another) in multiple (geographically different) places.

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Edit: If the funds worth the hassle, you may also consider CryptoSteel or this solution: Securing a Bitcoin seed phrase in stainless-steel washers
4525  Local / Romānă (Romanian) / Re: Concursuri/tombole pe bitcointalk (sau pe aprope) on: February 17, 2022, 01:24:32 PM
Din seria "you snooze, you lose" avem o tombola interesanta, dar am observat-o tarziu si nici nu am avut timp sa postez chiar atunci pe larg.


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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5386046.0;topicseen

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Modalitate de inscriere: se aleg 2 numere intre 0 si 99 care nu au fost deja revendicate. Nu sunt acceptati newbies. Cine a avut afaceri cu organizatorul poate sa primeasca 4 numere, sau sa fie acceptat si daca e newbie.


Update: concurs incheiat
4526  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: ElectrumX Server on Win10 on: February 17, 2022, 11:51:50 AM
I do not really understand why I must encode my MasterPubKey in EPS config, but for now I will not change it.

I guess that's meant to be used only by you for your own addresses. And because of this block explorers cannot use it, hence I gave up EPS, although I've managed to make it work.

4.5GB should include installed Debian as well.

Indeed. It's basically WSL, Debian and the few things installed. The data folder for Electrs is on another partition.
Still I would have loved to have a way to put those 4.5 GB on the bigger disk, but I didn't find any way for it.
4527  Economy / Speculation / Re: Is There a Bitcoin Supercycle? Is this the end of 80% drawdowns? on: February 17, 2022, 11:02:27 AM
Per definition though, the cycle that we have seen so far is the "4 year cycle". So 2017 was the last great bull run and then last year 2021. And now it's supposedly bear market, but so far the market is holding it's own and barely above 50% of the current all time high. Unlike in 2017 wherein after the bubble is burst the price continues to go down in the next 3 months. But then again, this year we have different set of players in the market that maybe affect how this cycle moves.

I know about the 4 years, but now we are not in a bear market, especially as after the bull run we had one year ago and the following drop, the price did recover from under 30k to new ATH (!).
Nobody knows if this will happen again or we go lower this time. But if you put an equal sign between this drop to 50% and the drop to ~18% we have seen in 2018-2019, I will not agree with you.
So, as I said, let's wait until the 4-years old-fashion cycle ends and then we can look back and draw conclusions. Until then, it's more hope than analysis.
4528  Economy / Collectibles / Re: [Free Raffle] Balletcrypto - 100 lites (.1 LTC) wallets - 3 winners on: February 17, 2022, 10:53:40 AM
I would like 74 and 82.
Thank you for the raffle!
4529  Economy / Speculation / Re: Is There a Bitcoin Supercycle? Is this the end of 80% drawdowns? on: February 17, 2022, 10:35:11 AM
Personally, I believe that the conventional cycles have now been disrupted. But I'm interested in what everyone else thinks.

I don't think that we can safely say whether those cycles got disrupted or not. At least not yet.
There's still long time until the next halving and many things can happen.

I also hope that institutional investors' moves could do this, but hopes don't make that real. We can tell for sure only when the "cycle" has ended.
4530  Economy / Economics / Re: What's happening in Canada ? on: February 17, 2022, 10:31:52 AM
While banks in Canada have shown their ugly face one doesn't sees in the commercials, this can only be good for Bitcoin.

On the other hand, all this is caused by their government. And we have to also see that the current politicians (and the way they use democracies pretty much like dictatorships) are no longer good enough; in the way bitcoin is the evolutionary step from banking, we also need something more evolved than the current politicians.
4531  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Desktop wallets using 2FA. on: February 17, 2022, 09:18:54 AM
but when it comes to a larger amount, I would like to be sure that my coins are safe.

The first question is: does your sister also have to have daily access to all those funds? My guess would be that she doesn't, hence all you have to give her is a backup of the seed (offline). You two can also agree on a set of custom words she doesn't have to write down. I advise you keep one more copy of seed somewhere in the house and also keep your custom word(s) somewhere else.

If she has to spend too, maybe you buy for both of you hardware wallets and you use your HW seed also on her HW (just she will have to keep her HW at herself every time, since HW can be hacked into if one has physical access to it; at least it can be much smaller than a laptop).

Or just set up a different wallet for you, leaving her with smaller amount of coins.

Or, yes, Electrum's 2FA, just pay attention at the fees.

However, keep in mind that whatever you do you need proper offline backup for the seed.
4532  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: The best countries tax wise for Bitcoin on: February 17, 2022, 06:11:23 AM
- Are you implying that most of the European countries also have such a thing in place?

I don't know how it is, hence I didn't try to imply anything.
I would not be surprised though if the tax of the old country is bigger than the one from the new country, one would have to also pay the difference in the old country.
But again, this is speculation, I don't know for sure how it is.
4533  Other / Meta / Re: Respect (or the lack of it) on: February 16, 2022, 03:47:16 PM
But, whatever. At least now I know not to reply to long threads, or at least what might happen if I do so.

I think that this is not the best attitude. I think that you should simply not mind if you get - now and then - a post removed.
Of course, it's up to you.

Keeping in mind your experience with spam, you should understand that they're human (and they can even make mistakes).
You can rely on Meta, you get forum related answers here.
4534  Other / Meta / Re: Respect (or the lack of it) on: February 16, 2022, 03:16:57 PM
My point is, I don't know, maybe I'm weird, but I believe with authority comes responsibility. If somebody deletes a post (or otherwise does something to modify somebody else's work), the least they should do is keep a channel open, should that person have any doubts about it, right?
Instead of saying "please avoid posting things that need to be deleted", and offering no real explanation as to which criteria was used for the deletion in the first place.

Maybe I'm wrong. I've been a forum moderator years ago, on another forum. I've also participated in more than 20 or so forums, from soapmaking to cars, to Linux, and I gotta say the general lack of moderation quality in this forum is quite surprising, especially considering it's not such a big forum (the Ubuntu Forum must have over a million users by now), and the mods are getting paid, while in most other forums they're volunteers.

I don't think that you imagine how many posts are deleted on a daily basis and how many would ask for explanations. No.
If one has doubts, he can ask in Meta, he will get answers - most probably from other users - understand and move on. It's just a post.

About the post, the thread is 24 pages long. You mean to tell me I should've read through 24 pages of movie suggestions before posting, to decide if my post "added value to the thread"? It's an "Off-Topic" thread, it's not about crypto. If  that's the case (I'm asking, I know it wasn't you  Wink) how is that supposed to make any sense?

Interestingly it took me less than one minute to find that out. And (pun intended Cheesy) I was never a mod in ~20 forums.
Really, the topic is not even "too" long, it allows you click the "All" view and then use your browser's search...
4535  Other / Meta / Re: Respect (or the lack of it) on: February 16, 2022, 02:40:51 PM
So, my question was (and still is) how could a reply citing two movies on a thread asking for movie suggestions be considered "off topic", or what in that reply could be a reason for its removal?

I don't know, maybe I will get lucky here, and somebody will answer my question, instead of deleting the thread.

I don't know how to say it nice.. Well.. you simply should not be so much sensitive. I've seen much more rude behaviors than just getting a post reported/removed. It's allowed, it's a free world.
And about getting your answer blocked, ... you don't want to reply to a "mailbox" that actually doesn't exist, right?
All in all, asking here is the best approach (!). This is Meta for.

Now about your post being removed, my take is that since both those movies were already suggested, your post didn't add any value to the topic.
4536  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: ElectrumX Server on Win10 on: February 16, 2022, 01:34:34 PM
but I am really tired of all that kung fu.

I know that feeling. I've spent a lot of time looking for solutions on Windows. And sooner or later I got stuck because something important was meant to work (only) under Linux.
I get pretty easily lost in Linux settings, hence I don't have anything starting automatically, still, I have now local Electrum and local block explorer I use for months.
The only problem I see on that WSL setup is the 4.5GB it's eating off my system drive. If you find a better (pure Windows) approach, please let us know (really, I am genuinely interested).
4537  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: ElectrumX Server on Win10 on: February 16, 2022, 01:23:02 PM
If Electrs is OK for you (imho is one leap higher than EPS) and you are OK to install and use Windows subsystem for Linux, I've done a quite elaborate walktrough for
Bitcoin + Electrum server + Block explorer under Windows (with WSL and Debian)

It was my best shot for Electrum server that I can use under Windows.
4538  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Bitcoin Core Inbound connection on: February 16, 2022, 11:57:06 AM
"You still somewhat help the network though with the outbound connections."

could you describe more about this?

Even if it doesn't accept inbound connections (others connecting to you), your node initiates outbound connections (to other nodes), hence it does participate to the network. Just it will connect to a much smaller overall number of nodes.

"Home connections are usually filtered by a router or modem. Bitcoin Core will request your router automatically configure itself to allow inbound connections to Bitcoin?s port, port 8333. Unfortunately many routers don?t allow automatic configuration, so you must manually configure your router. You may also need to configure your firewall to allow inbound connections to port 8333. Please see the following subsections for details. "

It is too hard for me. If I change my internet provider (router), maybe my new router will automatically configure itself to allow inbound connections to Bitcoin?

You may already be on the right track based on the PM you've sent. You seem to have figured out the correct IP to forward to. As I said in PM, you may have to also look into the DHCP settings to make sure your computer will get the same IP at next reboot/startup.

I don't think that you have to buy new modem.

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Of course, another solution can be what @ETFbitcoin has been writing (UPnP), but I'm not familiar with those settings.
4539  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: February 16, 2022, 10:55:40 AM
For those who think nuclear war can be "won", or have no idea about the difference between 15 kiloton (Hiroshima, Nagasaki) and >50 megaton (modern) yield. I present to you one of the worst ideas ever implemented in human history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction

This literally is MAD.

Is it? We are not in a war. Right now they're playing chess.
There were moment in the cold war much worse than what we're experiencing now.

Now they seem to just prepare the ground for future "friendly" "invasions" (like what has happened in Crimea).
4540  Economy / Economics / Re: How Crypto Became the New Subprime on: February 16, 2022, 10:43:15 AM
I don't think anyone here on this forum will agree with Paul Krugman or support his claims. But perhaps it makes for interesting reading.

Freedom of speech allows people publish their (sometimes debatable whether it's theirs, but here may not be a problem) thoughts, no matter how wrong they are Cheesy

Now, since banks started investing into crypto and crypto related (derivative) products/funds, anything can happen, including some fall. (Just look at fillippone's topic on how bad/misleading ES Volcano Bond is).
Bitcoin price may not grow forever. It had its periods of "crypto winter" and those may come back. Since the banks count everything in fiat, the (unrealized?) loss when the price falls may hurt their balance and may easily become actual loss, hence troubles.

It all depends on how the price looks like when they buy/bought vs how low with the next bear market get. And their exposure, obviously.


But I don't think that on long term this is a problem for the entire banking system, hence comparing with subprime crash is a bit far fetched.
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