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March stats, 1244 non spider hits.
So someplace out there (unless a lot of you clicked on it) there are some things still linking to this page.
With spiders (google / yahoo / etc) it's over 22k hits.
Makes you wonder.
Yeah, I know there is a lot of junk traffic out there so who knows where it's coming from I just did not expect that much.
-Dave
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So I have spent more time with mynode https://mynodebtc.com/ along with RaspiBlitz https://raspiblitz.com/Both are solid and both do work well. The RaspiBlitz does not have all the features that mynode does, but it also does not limit you asking to buy the paid version to unlock more stuff. mynode can run on different hardware even a VM where RaspiBlitz is only for a RPi (which this thread is about) If you don't want to play and learn, get an RPI4 with 2GB or 4GB, an SD card and a USB SSD, burn the SD card with one of them and you will have a running node with Lightning in a very short time. Both offer good support (although not here more github / telegram) Both do work, have had both of them running for a while. -Dave |
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I ordered one from Amazon. Delivery estimate is May 19, 2020 - June 10, 2020 is that normal or is it because of the corona mess?
I know I posed about it before but having stock for delivery in other locations might help you sell more.
Will post a review once it arrives.
Stay safe.
-Dave
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Did difficulty drop again? Just looked in on the one machine I have left mining and I have gotten a ton of blocks in the last couple of hours.
Usually I see a post about it here before I really see tons of blocks coming.
Stay safe.
-Dave
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So booted and synced my "lottery pool" yesterday and had a miner pointing at it all night till just now.
I am looking at all the utilization monitoring I saw no unusual spikes and no unusual activity.
I also have a mempool.space explorer sitting on the same VM as the pool & node and it was performing fine also.
So for this limited test it *seems* to point to something on your end OR something I am just not seeing here.
-Dave
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Makes you wonder if the bigger lenders on the board could make a decent business of lending fiat against peoples BTC.
Yes, it seems kind of heartless to make a profit off of this, but if you knew that your could have used your BTC as collateral against a loan at a low interest rate would you have done it?
Probably a bunch of banking regulations that you would have to work around (if you care) but as P2P it's probably also not that big a deal.
I don't have enough liquid cash to do it, but it might we worth a discussion between those who do.
-Dave
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So the ColdCard / Coinkite people just came out with a new thing.
The Coldpower Adapter. It lets you power a USB device, like the cold card with a 9V battery.
This way you never have to plug your ColdCard into an unknown device for power.
Yeah, it's a little bit a lot paranoid but still cool.
Was thinking of getting one to see if I can actually get any sort of charge into a cell phone from it to.
Kind of like a last ditch I need a change thing.
-Dave
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Satoshi Labs should have done more to inform their customers about the security of their Trezors but the risk is overstated.
Not to bash your opinion, but I think your post really should say "Satoshi Labs should have done SOMETHING to inform their customers about the security of their Trezors" I think that is what is the more serious issue. They have known about it for months, but you go and but a new one from them the need for a complex password is STILL not mentioned anyplace obvious it the docs. That is where the issue is. Keep safe out there. -Dave |
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Similar to what ETFBitcoin said, in theory if I setup a full testnet node and opened the ports and gave you the RPC name and password could you do it that way?
Not sure if that would work for you. Also, not sure where the VM with the testnet node is but that would just take a little bit of looking on the VM server :-)
-Dave
There's major security concern if you enable RPC connection over internet, see https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/JSON-RPC-interface.md#securityYes and no. If I only allow Coding's IPs then it's mitigated and with a long complex username / password it's mitigated a bit more But in the end it's a VM just running bitcoin in testnet so even if it gets trashed I really don't care. Probably going to spin up a new one anyway because as pathetic as this next line is it's true: I can't find it......Somewhere someplace I have a virtual drive image with nothing but Win10 and bitcoin on it set to testnet. Not sure where it is at the moment. -Dave |
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Similar to what ETFBitcoin said, in theory if I setup a full testnet node and opened the ports and gave you the RPC name and password could you do it that way?
Not sure if that would work for you. Also, not sure where the VM with the testnet node is but that would just take a little bit of looking on the VM server :-)
-Dave
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You might be better off posting this as an issue to github. For things like this you will probably get a bit more support.
With that being said, I am spinning up the VM that I have a pool on with a node, will let you know if I see anything when it finishes syncing. It's been off for a few weeks.
-Dave
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I have not noticed a change on any of the nodes I pay attention to.
There are a few low power ones I run that are RPi based that I play with but do not really do much with that might be having an issue.
I just checked one of the RPi now when I saw this post but the mempool had just cleared so nothing to report.
If i have time during the day I'll remote home and see if anything is up.
-Dave
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I'm too tired to respond to this but it's just utter tosh.
We can't "build up medical capacity" to keep up with it, some states in the US (the country that spends the most on healthcare by quite a margin) are already beyond-Italy-level fucked - NY and LA, possibly FL. It's either comprehensive testing and selective quarantines (too late for that in the US), or total lockdown, there is no other strategy yet that has worked.
Nah, NY and CA (full disclosure I'm NY based) are somewhat fucked. FL is probably somewhat more because of the general age of the population. It's probably going to worse in some of the low population, middle of the country states. Some of them are going to be ultra fucked. We have hospitals, we have people to help out, we have businesses that can support things. Picking on Kansas: population = 3,000,000 number of hospital beds = 6500 or 461 people per bed. Suffolk and Nassau county NY combined population = 2,900,000 number of hospital beds = 7250 or 400 people per bed. NOT including ~ 1000 at a hospital on the Nassau / Queens border because they are at the moment mostly getting NYC cases. And Long Island has some of the lowest beds to people ratio in NY. And we are scrambling to get more setup and have the governments screaming for help and getting in everything they can. Kansas kind of doing the everything is fine routine. With it's lower population density they might get away with it. On the other hand, if they are wrong it's going to be to late. Just my view and I hope I wrong, but I see the big cities getting hit and getting hit hard and then the smaller urban and rural areas getting it. The advantage smaller places will have is the fact that there will be more "stuff" around be it ventilators or meds or support or whatever. The disadvantage will be that if it hits them a bit sooner the big cities will still have to deal with their own cases and there will NOT be more stuff around there might be less. -Dave |
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In any case, the solution is violence for whoever wins.
Whatever you say Conan. Do you know what is good in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women. FYI it's what is best in life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PQ6335puOc-Dave |
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They do exist and are somewhat common.
Off the top of my head there is the KICK token that did an airdrop somewhat recently with non-transferable (frozen) tokens
Take a look:https://medium.com/@kickecosystem/frozen-kicktokens-are-getting-warmer-4454e951ac22
There was one last summer, I can't remember the name of it that was for gaming. I tried a quick google but can't find it.
So they do exist, don't know if they will ever be that popular.
-Dave
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Hi Dave thanks for answering. Yes I would like the found block = true. The log output would be good to get the initial job id request and then section with all data of found block = true.
regards
Yeah, that's going to be tough to find. You are going to need someone who: 1) Found a block 2) Is saving logs. (most big ASICs don't) 3) On this forum and saw this post. Does it have to be BTC? Don't know what you are looking for but there are probably enough alt coins with low enough difficulty to get what you are looking for mining with a CPU. You can see if what you are working on does what you want, and then while you have proof of concept keep looking for a BTC log. -Dave |
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Cards came in yesterday. Look great. I should have some pictures in a day or 2. The camera on my phone is not great due to too many drops.
Want to thank Corrosive for getting them out quick, especially with whats going on in the world at the moment.
Stay safe everyone.
Dave
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I personally don't think it's that easy to scam somebody with tBTC...
You either have to guide them to a fake wallet that you've compiled yourself to make it look like the testnet is actually the main net, get them to download said wallet and use it. Sure, the reference (non-gui) wallet is easyer to change, but i don't think you'll get any complete novice to run a cli wallet.
Or you have to get them to execute a cli command including --testnet or get them to execute a startup script where you've hidden the --testnet parameter, then convince them everything is normal while the wallet's gui is filled with the word "testnet".
On top of that, if they want to confirm the transaction on any thirth party tracker, you'd have to convince them the fact the tracker clearly says "testnet" is normal for the main net.
I have seen 2 demo instances of clients that were on testnet that gave no indication of it. Yes, it's probably easier to guide someone to a flake client that does something else or works another way, but yeah they are out there. Never saw someone scammed but lets face it, we are probably a small sample set. I would also like to make the point that just about every person lately asking for testnet coins is a newbie. So it just looks really off. "Hi, I am new user, I need these to do some magical new project, gimme some"
BTW, mining tBTC, especially in vast quantities is NOT that easy as you'd think... The block reward is 0.39 tBTC/block and the diff (last time i checked) was >13M. Next to the high diff and the low block reward, you'd have to setup a full node and setup a pool, or at least find a way to solo mine using rented hashrate using your own node. It's just not that simple. You've quoted PART of my post calculating how much work goes into 1 tBTC, you just snipped the part where the actual calculations took place. Since then the diff has even gone up, so those calculations are an underestimation...
I never quoted the cost, you were a quoted as part of another quote. But, yeah there is a cost involved both in time and effort, if you have a great new project show it to us or tell us about it. Don't just come in and ask. If you or Coding Enthusiast or OmegaStarScream or others came in and asked it would probably be a different story. But the OP came in and posted 1 thing in 2017 in Chinese and then came back 3 years later asking for 50 testnet coins to build a mixer and exchange. There are plenty of crap alt-coins trading for fractions of a penny to test the exchange with. And you know what, you can also test the mixer with any alt that has a newer codebase. Just my view. I do also see your points, I just have less trust of humanity. As for the 1 vs .1 vs 10 vs .001 there might be a few instances that it does matter but I don't think they come up that often. Keep safe out there. -Dave |
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