There's always been quite good exchanges for doing instant/non custody transfers afaik.

Shapeshift was a good example of that before they required kyc. There are still some sites that offer it (that aren't p2p) that don't need kyc but dex/p2p is probably going to become the long term solution for those who buy and hold imo as exchanges likely have a short average lifespan given the ones that have already failed.

Depending on how exchanges track mixer usage, they might be able to know if you've used a mixer with funds bought from them.


They can't directly be linked but there might be ways to link them based on other information such as your ip (if you use electrum with the trezor especially) or if funds move between them. If you're using trezor suite, you might want to consider using tor to hide your identity (it's built in but might make the wallet sync a bit slower).

The different accounts shouldn't be traceable if you just do a bit extra diligence on using them -and remember which is which.

I think it's because not much changes that much and it might be due to how big the forum is and how often the archive site feels it needs to be snapshotted.

It's very likely there's a queue somewhere that lists how significant sites are (especially time wise) and perhaps a lot of news sites have started taking over as the main thing they consider worth archiving (would be my guess - especially considering the last two days saw about 300 snapshots a day of a Russian news organisation - maybe the number of snapshots relate to how popular they are too on the archive site).

I'd assumed it was just financial services being a bit more segregated than they are in places where bitcoin has high volume.

Sorting something like this probably relates directly to the idea you can't buy bonds without a certain amount of capital - and that's normally the easiest way to go about reducing a premium like that without making your own service for selling cryptocurrency to South Koreans.

You'd likely only owe tax to your current government under this system but the logistical challenges of setting up and account and doing this cheaply are still going to remain. The 4% sounds like it's close to what PayPal charges 1) for international payments and 2) for rate conversion (combined) which might be what has driven the price to where it is now - banks likely charge similar.

I've also heard the FTX founder and ceo made money out of a method of selling bitcoin in South Korea and buying elsewhere (there's a chance I fell victim to clickbait) but that might be something to look up. If someone often travels to and from there, it might make it more possible - but you can't normally take huge amounts of cash through airports (the EU had it limited to €10 000 and I think that's one of the biggest limits).

If you're basing investment size off what bitcoin has done in the past, you could also look to see what it's done with smaller amounts in the past too.

If you put everything into crypto, you could have 20x in a few years or have half of that everything in the space of a few days/weeks.

If you instead invest and affordable 1-10% of your available cash, you might have 0.5-5% of you initial investment in a few weeks thst you want panic sell or worry about (because it's much smaller). If you did invest that amount and again waited to 20x, you'd be up between 20% and 200% of those initial funds which would still be an extremely impressive rate of return - especially if you're able to invest the rest of your money in accounts that can pay that amount in interest within a year (particularly if banks or stocks where you are can offer 4-8% returns a year).

The figures used here were based off the last few bull market cycles taken individually, we could do better or worse but don't make either a concern if you take away the idea of investing with any money you need to survive plus an emergency fund of a few months if you can afford it.

I don't think the chances are that high but this is one person and only one copy. Self custody allows you to make multiple secure copies/backups of your wallet which can make it a lot harder to lose.

If an exchange doesn't have enough copies (such as due to problems with trust) then you've only got that to fail before your coins are gone.

No. Most archive sites do as you say but archive.org seems to function differently. Iirc it's attached to a US state library and tries to collect as much online information and as much literature/facts as they can.

I had a quick look at 2015 and if you search for the snapshots they take of the forum you should be taken to the landing (/main) page where you can then browse the site as it loaded for them on that day.

In case it needs to be said, don't try logging in as that feature won't work and it's an unnecessary risk.

Also, it sounds like it's being used because it's the size you want to make for the best discoverability by the network for a transaction to not be forgotten by most nodes that use default values (which might make it less likely to confirm).

A lot of transactions fall out of the mempool after 2 weeks too but this might mean a transaction at 280mb could have a chance to confirm at a point in the week when there are fewer transactions (such as the weekend).

Offline backups are the best way to store your funds.the nmemonic makes it quite easy to do too. Onedrive is a problematic place for storing data as it'll get deleted after 3 years anyway if you don't use it much.

If you store a securely encrypted wallet on cloud storage, it's likely safe but you also need a strong random password and memorising your nmemonic is about as complex as memorising a secure password so I see it as pointless..

archive.org used to take daily and then weekly snapshots of the forum's pages. Now I think it only does it every few months.

You can't delete your own thread if it's already had one view (unless you're a Moderator) I'm fairly certain this is the same for self moderated threads (the op can be edited to del or ~ as it sometimes is and the thread can also be moved to archival).

There are other sites mentioned above that archive posts too.

There have been instances in the past where a Moderator has deleted a large and significant thread before (I can only think of one example and it's because the op moved the thread to an irrelevant board and used a bunch of alts to report it). It wasn't possible to bring it back though as posts had been wiped from the database and were inaccessible.

It might depend on what happens next. The two nations making peace might be harder than the 3 or more that could come out of Russia if they have some sort of split and revolution (but that might be a while away - the one that collapsed the Soviet Union took a long time to happen). I could see something like that starting if the EU chose to only accept certain individuals from Russia (such as those closest to the border) but that might be unlikely and isn't the only way.

I still believe the enemy of your enemy is your friend is less accurate than the enemy of your enemy is probably worse... Russia and Ukraine might be able to draw up peace deals and come to terms with the war and perhaps even reconcile over it only if Ukraine does well out of it and Russia doesn't do too badly (as a country doing very badly from a war normally leads to strong nationalism - so instead of only having 300k people that'll comply with Putin''s demands, it'd spiral into millions for the next generation wanting to take back what they're owed). Russia isn't a wealthy country either (materialistically or financially so they'd be able to blame the war for that and not the government mismanagement it was).

I doubt the World will heal quickly from Russia's invasion either. Even China probably added extra troops to their border after learning a neighbour could still be hostile enough to invade.

I saw a Reddit thread that seems to suggest trezors generate random numbers from a mix of inputs from the host device and itself - if this is also used for the nonce when signing (and I can't imagine why it wouldn't be) then this likely isn't an attack vector with the trezor (aside from it being missed somewhere and just being a general bug).

I don't know why they'd make a report like this and use it on their own hardware wallet without proving the attack works on others though - unless something is going to come out about other wallets needing major security patches soon - although I would expect those wallet manufacturers to have been contacted privately before this release too if that was the case.

Edit: I used trezor as an example because they're the most trusted hardware wallet.

I think there's a lot of people who invest this way and it's a historic lesson that needs to be learnt somehow by all investors (either by actually doing it or by paper trading).

If you're putting a lot of funds into an investment - more than you can afford to have (such as if your expenses for the next few months aren't available in cash) then you're going to end up at least paying fees on this funds and taking a huge risk by not selling/buying from average prices over a longer period.

And it's just core that closes? Nothing else?

Have you got access to your debug.log in your data directory? Do you move the blocks and chainstate files once your database gets considered corrupted and do you have any antivirus running or anything that might use a lot of resources all at once (particularly memory)?

It's normally plagiarism or ban evasion imo that leads to someone being autobanned. They can appeal the ban though too if they think there's no reason they should've been banned (but can only make one topic about it and it's the only topic they're allowed to make after being banned).

Autobans are given out by moderators too so it's sometimes possible to get an answer for why they were banned.

There's likely a lot of people diversifying in both too. The bitcoin can do 20% in a day is something the right stock can do too if you get one that's particularly volatile (especially one that looks undervalued).

A lot of stocks don't move very fast though and that might be what moves people away from them, I think the 20-30% on the year that's reported is normally investments in the big few tech firms too, if it were more diversified you'd see a lot less active moves (I think funds are using past performce to compete each other and get the highest returns, but it'll probably work).

I like the idea defense hardware is being sourced from an internationally diverse array of companies rather than one or two based in a single country.

The $15 bln is smaller to each package of military aid already sent to Ukraine though so I don't think it's as dramatic as that article is making out (I think Nato has so far donated over $300bn in military aid - this is just a guess based on what the figure is for the whole world and some information was kept secret).

Also there is no balance of power problem regardless of how many HIMARS the EU buy, they'll barely close their borders to Russia, I doubt they'll be considered that hostile. I also don't think Poland is in the mood for invading their neighbours any time soon - it's likely Europe was running space on military defence systems though and bought these to try to rebalanced that. Afaik a missile defense system online in Slovakia from Britain was relocated to Ukraine fairly quickly, it's likely Poland has deals with the EU or with slovakia, czechia, Lithuania and Estonia to provide them extra protection at least until they get some of their own (most of Estonians military hardware was transfered to Ukraine at the start of the war too). Geographically, if they got through Ukraine, they wouldn't have met much resistance until Austria imo - the other countries likely would've been evacuated as much as possible if that was expected.

I've done a very quick search and found tails os might be compatible with trezor. If so, and the electrum is what's compatible, could you just use a strong passphrase+tor to get a high level of privacy (the passphrase for trezor extends the nmemonic).

This is assuming you're going to have and use different wallets. Trezor suite also has tor built in but you could still be vulnerable that way if it's on your main os and not a live instance.

This feels like it's going to throw fuel in the fire if the forum agrees to do it now. It also might put more investor funds at risk by spreading fud - bad exchanges could still have enough funds to make withdrawals possible if they don't have all client funds now by making them back from fees (like bitfinex did).

Doing something like this might only benefit one party (binance - the largest exchange based on volume). It's not clear but completely logical they've done the above (used user funds to do risky things and made it back more than enough in fees and investments to make them able to think they have enough money to cover all their clients' funds and accounts.

I'd agree in education on using dexes, avoiding cexes and practicing due diligence to ensure you hold custody of your funds and keep them.

By bit's nice, I wouldn't trust them too much if you don't have to but they're a decent exchange.

Bisq are a good alternative if you're willing to wait to get a trade filled too (it's more anonymous than any cex and has notifications if you're away from your machine so you can see when a trade is initiated - but you can't yet control the trade from your phone).

Best change have a signature campaign here too and there are probably other non kyc p2p places too that have escrow (anything that opened after localbitcoins made kyc mandatory).