I guess it depends on the situation really... The odds of accidentally "finding" a private key whose public key hash (address) was funded in the past are very, very, very close to zero (no matter what hardware or setup you use)... So, if you accidentally "find" a private key it's either:

• because the RNG used by the first "owner" was flawed
• because you used completely immoral and illegal techniques (like keyloggers, malware, evil maid, physical theft, phishing, extortion,...)

In the first case (the original creator of the private key used a flawed RNG), you might argue that you might dare to ask the original owner if he/she is willing to give a reward... Eventough technically you're NOT entitled to one!!!
In the second case (illegal methods used to acquire a private key), i hope the police catches you.

Now, once again, if you find a private key that's able to spend unspent outputs that do not belong to you, the victim will have a hard time catching you (eventough it's NOT impossible). It's like finding a wallet with money on the street: nobody is stopping you from pocketing the money, but if there is a security camera in the neighborhood that catches you in the act, the victim CAN press charges and you CAN end up in jail... No matter how small the odds are, this DOES happen from time to time...


In the past, i HAVE seen people messing up their transaction fees, paying huuuuuge fees by accident... I've seen some mining pools who were able to mine the block including those transactions giving part of the fee back to the person who messed up their transaction in the first place... In those instances, a reward might be fitting...

1) electrum will take care of this for you. If you have multiple unspent outputs funding addresses belonging to your wallet, electrum will pick those most suitable. If needed, a change address will be generated and used automatically...

2) there is nobody governing bitcoin... If, for some reason, you find a private key belonging to somebody else, legally you should not touch those funds... But if you do, there's nobody to stop you (unless your victim goes to the police). There might be a difference between the method used to generate this private key: i guess that if you generate a private key whose public key hash (address) was funded in the past by accident, and law enforcement catches you, you'll have to give those funds back to the rightfull owner... IF you use illegal "tricks" (like malware or phishing), you'll probably end in jail...
But it's all very technical and difficult: it's hard (but not impossible!!!!) to trace bitcoin transactions, it's hard to determine who is the "rightfull" owner of an address, it's hard to connect an IRL identity to an address (but, depending on the circumstances, it's not impossible either)

So the top mixer on your site is using cloudflare's SSL certificates (or should i say, man in the middle attack?)..... Really, remove them from your list, a mixer using cloudflare is actively harming their users and should not be endorsed (just my 2 satoshi's)



Same thing goes for blender (number 3 on your list)
Same thing goes for foxminer (number 5 on your list)
And bitmix (number 6 on your list) seems down

What good is a no logs policy if you allow a US based company to keep full logs (including deposit addresses, letters of guarantee, ip's, times, browsers,...) in your place...
If I had to chose between a reputable site that kept logs but was using an X3 certificate and a site that claimed to keep no logs but was using cloudflare, i'd pick the first one every time (not that i endorse keeping logs)!

You mean, the domain that was on sale last year?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5273751.0

I'm not accusing you of anything, but this looks like a sale disguised as a loan...

I can open the image just fine...

The main problem is that PM's can be faked pretty easily... It's not that i don't believe you (cause i do), but a screenshot might not constitute as sufficient proof for everybody...
Maybe you can ask a mod to verify the PM, afterwards the (potential) scammer's account will certainly be tagged.

Yes, it's a safety feature...

I have a model one (without a touchscreen), the model one's screen shows the scrambled numbers, the website (or electrum) shows an empty grid, you have to click on the correct place in the empty grid, corresponding with the place of the number on your HW wallet's screen. If it were unscrambled, a program tracking your clicks would be able to deduct your pincode.

My model T also shows scrambled numbers to enter the pin on it's touchscreen, it makes it much harder for somebody looking over your shoulder to see your pincode.

I don't have a good memory, but if i remember correctly, the first firmware of my model T did show the number in the "normal" order on it's touchscreen, but one of the first firmware updates fixed it so the numbers were scrambled (at least, that's how i remember it)

I didn't hear from this one (yet), but i added it straight away
Thanks!

I haven't watched the complete video... just the first 10 seconds...
This guy is showing a newpac usb miner... You can find them on sites like this one: https://www.bitshopper.de/en/shop/sha-256-miner/usb-miner-bitcoin/newpac/

The device hashes @45Gh/s (maximum... it is rather difficulty to make those usb miners run consistently at those speeds), and at these speeds it'll draw close to 10 Watts.
Let's assume for a moment, you're able to get it running @45 Gh/s whilst it draws 7 Watts and disregard the power consumption of the rPi (or pc) you need to connect it to. Let's also assume you only pay 5 cents/Kwh for your power.... These are huge assumptions: you'll probably won't keep it running @45Gh/s consistently, if you do it won't consume only 7 Watts, and you'll probably pay way more than 5 cents/kwh

Let's plug in those numbers at a mining calculator:
https://www.coinwarz.com/mining/bitcoin/calculator?h=45.00&p=7&pc=0.05&pf=0.00&d=19893045048575.00000000&r=6.25000000&er=1&btcer=59348.38830000&ha=GH&hc=11999.99&hs=-1&hq=1
Even at these absurdly low assumptions, you'll only make 1 cent/day, so it'll take you 12.000 to recuperate your initial investment (not including the S&H, taxes and customs charges... Nor the investment of an rPi).

Even if you disregarded electricity completely, this gear would still only make 2 cents/day...

@Ucy: thanks for the input
As an answer to your question: the main idear would be to warn people that a show was cancelled and the final episode ended on a cliffhanger...
Netflix is a prime example: they keep pumping out new TV shows, the makers of the show end their season on a cliffhanger (because they think that would decrease their odds of getting cancelled), yet netflix still cancels them... The end result is: all fans of the show are left hanging... They saw the final episode (ever) ending on a huge cliffhanger which never gets resolved.

For me, this behavior is a dealbreaker: i refuse to watch an older show if i know it doesn't have a proper ending (an open ending can also be a "proper" ending, i'm basically talking about the shows that end on a cliffhanger, but it was obvious the show wasn't meant to stop at that point)... Offcourse, shows that are still running are always a gamble.

I'm trying to make a public database people that love TV shows could visit before they start watching an older show... That way they can look up wether or not the show they are interested in has a proper ending before investing a lot of time into watching a show that abruptly stops and leaves them hanging high and dry.

What year was that video you're talking about posted?
I have a couple of those sticks laying around... I stopped using them many, many years ago...

Only the OP can answer this question... This being said, the most common attack vectors are:

• The seed phrase: if a hacker gets his/her hands on this seed phrase, your btc is gone... Hackers use different methods, including but not limited to phishing, virusses and other malware, social engineering, saving seeds on the cloud,...
• The wallet file itself: if a hacker gets his/her hands on the wallet file, your btc is gone if it isn't properly encrypted (and even if it IS properly encrypted, it can be only a matter of time before your funds are gone)... Hackers use different methods, including but not limited to phishing, virusses and other malware, social engineering, saving seeds on the cloud,...
• The victim's computer: if a hacker gains access to your system, the odds of your funds dissapearing increase dramatically
• A vulnerability in the wallet software... IDK if there are vulnerability's in OP's version... but it has happened for other wallets in the past

I'm with @mk4, just wanted to add that that it doesn't have to be an "ugly" page... You can just select the option "Background graphics" if you want a "nice looking" pdf print
At least, it's there on my work pc (windows 10, chrome)

I know, I know,... There are better forums for this discussion... But i'm a crypto fan, and i'm only active on this one... So i might aswell ask some input from you lot  

I was fed up watching yet another netflix show that got cancelled on a mayor cliffhanger, so i decided to start looking on the internet for a database of TV shows that got cancelled without any proper ending. I'm not talking about those shows that have an intentional open ending, i'm talking about the ones that leave half a story arc wide open so they can continue next season, but netflix (or hulu, or HBO, or...) just pulls the plug, leaving all fans hanging...

To my dismay, i did not find any *real* database that was sufficient... Sure, there are sites that list all cancelled shows (but they fail to mention wether they stop on a cliffhanger or not), you have blogs that cherrypick single cancelled shows and completely dissect them, you have incomplete lists and incomplete databases,... but nothing that could serve as a reference for the community.

So, i created https://www.showstopped.com

On my current to-do list are:

• Add captcha to signup form
• Fix the point counter: it seems like only one thumbs up (or down) gets counter per voter => votee combo
• Pre-color thumbs up/down on already voted
• admin-script for nuking users (with option to remove all shows/remarks/votes)
• a contact me-form instead of pushing people to e-mail me manually
• show toplist, add badges
• https://www.google.com/webmasters/markup-helper/u/0/?hl=nl uitbreiden
• when adding a pre-existing show, give a proper warning message instead of a white grim page
• make login/logout/... redirect to the last page you were visiting instead of the main page

There's a flimsy bitcoin link, since i accept bitcoin donations, and if this ever becomes popular, i'll accept btc for adds

My main reason for posting: my current test audience is me, my wife and my daughter (and maybe the cat)... If you could spare 10 minutes out of your day, i'd be gratefull if you'd visit the page and give some feedback (preferably things i'm currently missing, and blatant bugs).

Oh, yeah, before i forget: if you also have a hobby site somewhere out there and you're interested in a link exchange, that can also be set up

@n0nce: that looks correct to me

I can confirm that on my end, everything resolves just fine now.

I cannot read this article, it is not in a language i master.... I'm just going on the discussion in this thread...

Why is there an issue with the electricity grid? They do not need to mine bitcoin... Countries use gold without having any gold in their surface, people use FIAT that hasn't been stamped/printed in their own country... It's not because a country wants to use bitcoin they have to mine it. They only require a couple of running nodes, and you can run those on an rPi if you really wanted to. The citizens themselfs can use an SPV client connecting to those nodes (or other nodes)...

Makes me wonder about the quality of the rest of the article, but like i said, i cannot read it due to the language barreer.

@ancient myths: bummer to hear what's happening to you... taking 2 years for a review is a big no-no, in fact, it's more than sufficient to label them scammers.

That being said: they're a non custodial wallet, if i remember correctly (my memory doesn't always work, especially early in the morning) they routinely move funds around so this might have nothing to do with your case per se...

That's why their statement telling you your funds are "safe" , "in" your "account" are basically nonsense... You have no access to your keys, you don't have a real wallet with them, you're just a couple of records in their relational database. If they decide to edit your record and set "active" to 0, you're a gonner.

If it's ONLY your address, preferably one that has never been used before, it's safe... If you spend those funds on a KYC service, you might decrease your privacy, but that's it....

Don't get your hopes up tough... Make sure you don't hand your seed phrase, account details from a different service or private key to him, and make sure he doesn't push you into sending him more funds first

Just a quick sidenode in case you want to try opensuse: they have 2 versions (leap and tumbleweed). I'd recommand Leap, since it's more stable with regular releases... Tumbleweed is also using rolling releases, i personally don't like to use it for systems that should be stable.

Currently, i'm usually going for either debian or openSuse. My daytime job centers around SLES, so i have a very reasonable amount of experience... If you pick either distro and run into problems: don't hesitate to post them. I cannot guarantee i'll be able to fix everything, but i'll certainly try to answer any question (unless somebody else beats me to the punch ).

The next time i have some spare resources to do a complete setup, i might consider doing a complete writeup using one of those two distro's.
The diff between a walktrough for centos and debian (or opensuse) should be minimal... Basically, just the way the prereqs are installed would differ since you wouldn't use yum, but apt (debian) or zypper (suse) or rpm (suse) instead. Maybe some extra prereqs, but all in all, the way you use git, add users, compile, setup systemd services,... isn't all that different between those 3 distro's (albeit, you probably won't be able to blindly copy/paste commands if you switch distro's).

If anybody wants a walktrough for debian or opensuse and has a VPS he/she isn't using for a while that can be scratched: if you have the resources, i can writeup a walktrough... I can't personally spare the resources right now (my dedicated boxes are basically overloaded as it is), but if you have them, i'm allways willing to help out