Descindere a ”Crimei Organizate” Timișoara la un italian care a dat „țeapă” cu criptomonede

Asa, ca titlu de duminica... 
Se pare ca nu avem destui tepari de-ai nostri, chiar si italienii vin aici sa dea tepe (tot la italieni!)


Voi fi ingaduitor cu chinul redactorului in legatura cu partea mai tehnica a Bitcoin.
Interesant este ca omul va fi judecat in primul rand pentru fraudarea de fonduri europene (probabil ca de aceea mutase ASIC-urile la Arad) si poate, apoi, pentru furtul de curent electric. Italienii cu bitcoinii si ASIC-urile pot sa mai astepte.

Deci da, e un exemplu "foarte bun" pentru toti aia care se gandesc ce afacere buna fac sa-si cumpere ASIC si sa le dea la hosting pe cine stie pe unde, ca-i mai ieftin. Vorba aia: dai, n-ai.

Since the block size limit didn't change and the avg fee is still changing, first assumption doesn't make sense.
If you look at mempool.space for a couple of months, you'll see how incorrect the second and third assumptions are.

And, unfortunately, since the assumptions are incorrect, the rest doesn't actually matter.
So, sorry, but no.

I find a portable Linux much better idea: it doesn't need another OS to start.
And small tools, like 7zip/p7zip should be available too.

While a lot of tools lately work with biometric data and they do need test data until they come as final product, hence harvesting biometric data can have a good side too, I fear that this is not enough and sooner or later they can get out in the wild - and getting on government hands is the least evil thing I would think about actually.
So I'd say that they're crossing the line.

Subscriu. Inventiva traducerea. Nu ar fi fost rau sa fi fost in romana si nu in


I-am notificat (cred) pe cei "responsabili" pe Twitter, sunt chiar curios daca reactioneaza.


Si tind sa fiu de acord si cu problemele legate de transferul de date si conectarea bluetooth (care credeam ca are nevoie de acceptul utilizatorului pentru conectare!).

I find 7zip the easiest to use, although people will not consider it professional. But it handles AES 256 and also encrypts file names for better privacy. Of course, it's just an archiver, but it does the job.

OP, keep in mind that USB sticks are rather fragile, so multiple backups are a must.

The last info is in this topic. In this moment it shows that it was last edited this year.
Also it's consistent with the old known addresses. You'll see that 750 didn't move and 500 have moved to multisig.


Also it's expected that those old funds will remain untouched, since the ad revenues may cover everything good.

The Nano S problem, as said, is the memory space.

If you use small number of coins long time or you have a laptop at hand to uninstall some apps and install new ones as you need, you'll be find. Of course, if you plan to leave without a laptop, this needs a bit of planning.
And if you want to use it with an Android mobile you'll need an OTG data cable (not necessarily from Ledger) or adapter.


Also, if you plan to use Ledger's official online store, my advice is to try to avoid giving them your home address (send to POBox or similar).

It is published, but because of the high activity it's already on page 2.

If there would have been a next-bitcoin or next-amazon, we would have heard of it
A project can be good even if it's not next-bitcoin. But you're right, there may be maybe 1% of all the projects that worth taking a first look into, and so many signs are there one doesn't even have to get to the whitepaper. And if the team couldn't double check at least the English white paper... yeah...
...But I did say that the logic in that post stands most of time

Keep in mind that although this stands most of the time, there can also be cases when the original whitepaper was not English and was translated into English by another shitty translator.

I didn't run the app, I've looked a bit into the sources though, out of curiosity.

I would not run the provided exe and I don't know if it's related or not to this (rather messy) source code (a lot of functions are not called by any code, names like button7_Click)
It gets with NuGet BouncyCastle, EF, SQLite, JSON but doesn't seem to use them at all. The only package used is some special ListView.

It looks in the Windows registry for all the wallets derived from Bitcoin Core (searching for the reg value strDataDir).
It seems to be trying to copy the whole datadir to USB in order to make it, you know, portable  

It doesn't seem to start any wallet. One arrow copies blockchain to USB (and creates some strange bat and sh files, trying to run an bitcoin-qt-like exe that doesn't seem to be copied), another arrow copies the blockchain back to HDD.

The encryption is also not called, for example. So the app is far from what's advertised.

I hope that I've fed your curiosity. For me it was simply wasted time.

I've installed Electrs, not ElectrumX. Electrs install went very easy on Debian under WSL.
BTC RPC explorer seems to be happy with Electrs.

I plan to write down the steps -  probably in the week-end.

You mean that the transaction is also not displayed in the sending wallet? Are you sure you've actually broadcasted it? Do you remember if you got a message "payment sent"?
Or maybe you could post the sending address too so we can check?

It's your choice, clearly. I didn't open an account at TradeProfile, if that's where all the trades are recorded.
And if it's so, then indeed, those that much curious can go there and check for themselves.

I will add that the last 2 discounts I know of - 2020 Christmas pack and 2021 Valentine's day - the promotions were rather disappointing: $25 and $15 vouchers to buy from Coinify.

However, Nano X issues are more a concern than the possible discounts/promotions.

I think that's not meant as a signal (although it's fun to think that he may have meant that  ).
I think that it was meant to tell earlier only the values meaningful for the purpose of this topic, maybe to give it more credibility for the non-believers.

For example the current "I opened a short at 63 195 and placed a take profit at 63 025" may look as a quite luckily well chosen value, or can look like a hypothetical value, picked only after the market has fallen, so your trade looks good.

Please don't misunderstand me, I don't want to imply that you were lying, I don't care at all. Since I don't trade any longer, for me it's just a fun read. (And I do like it.) I tried only to think out of the box and see what @ryzaadit could have meant. I may have understand it right or wrong, but I hope that you understand that this too can be a way to see the things.

I may be late to the party, but I would also love one of those.
I like a lot the idea to add yourself the private key there.

I don't mind even if the address or tx ID is sent publicly. It will become a nice collectible.
Also obviously I don't mind if the time frame is (way) bigger than 2 years.

You are partly correct. Tether made a lot of tricks and they issue more coins than the actual value they have in their vaults as backing. But I don't think they can do this too much more, since too many eyes are tunr in their direction.
But the users bought USDT for real value, which is altcoins, bitcoin or even fiat money. And while it should be temporary money for transactions, many use it as a backup currency and hold it for (too) long.
And - great point @amishmanish - Tether market cap is smaller than Bitcoin's, people have bought Bitcoin for fiat more than for USDT.

Tether may indeed inflate (and deflate) Bitcoin's price, but only between certain levels; and as said, also printing from thin air should be more limited now. The risk is there, but not too big, I think.

Also afaik you may need to have port forwarding (for the RPC port) set correctly (in your router), else you will remain unreachable.