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So I shut it off at about 6:00 PM EST yesterday and turned it back on at 9:00 AM today.
It's been an hour (yeah not much) but nobody has connected yet. Will leave it up though tomorrow and see.
Will update post if people connect.
Side note: I know I have said it before but it's so much nicer asking questions here then on github or reddit. Just get answers no condescension.
Thanks,
Dave
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I use OpenDimes and I would not consider them a hardware wallet. More of a digital paper wallet.
Same with the Tangem cards.
Both are nice products for storing BTC and giving to people but there are not wallets.
But in the end are no different then a paper wallet with a sticker over the private key.
Once it's opened, it's out there in the open.
-Dave
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Is that a daily/weekly/monthly or final limit? $2000 before needing ID is a pretty large sum of money, especially when you can work around that limit by using different ATM's of the same issuer.
$2000 lifetime per phone number for that entire company. Here is one of their machines. They all "phone home" https://coinatmradar.com/bitcoin_atm/9052/bitcoin-atm-bitaccess-las-vegas-golden-gate-casino/So yeah, if you want to launder a lot of money you can keep getting new phone numbers. There are dozens of machines by 3 of 4 companies and many many many local traders in the area so they have to be competitive. There are probably easier ways if you want to move BTC -> fiat in large amounts. Not to mention it's Vega$. It's all on camera. Lots of them ;-) -Dave |
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Every stinkin' one I've ever encountered in the USA wants some form of ID
I have used a lot that up to a certain $ amount are good with just a phone number (SMS Verification) With bitlicense in New York and similar things in a few other states yeah, there are more and more that want ID for KYC, but in many areas like Las Vegas no id is needed below a certain amount. Usually around $2k. -Dave |
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White listing is simple if you are only connecting from 1 place but for mobile it's going to be impossible.
The PEER_DISCOVERY & PEER_ANNOUNCE was what I was looking for but it does not seem to work.
However, I have no idea if it's because it was already announced and discovered that it's still out there.
Going to shut it down for a while and see if connections show up again after it's been down for a bit.
-Dave
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So I setup a server for my own use and all was good.
I opened the ports so I could use my phone wallet and laptop wallet in the real world.
Outside of a few people I told about it nobody should have been using it.
Other then nonstandard ports / just not telling others is there a way to make it private?
No VPN or anything else to make it complicated have to connect is there a way to make it non accessible to the world.
I'm assuming the answer is no, but figured I would ask anyway.
Thanks,
Dave
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I guess we can now say that any kind of home / low power mining is done. It's a shame really, we all knew it was coming but this really proves it. More power hungry equipment with no low power stuff out there at all.
Ah well, it was fun while it lasted.
-Dave
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For bitcoin itself you can usually just copy the files. I have at times had issues with permissions but that is usually just a quick fix.
For the electrum server and the lnd server I have no idea of how they are setup here. I know in general how they are done but if anything was tweaked / changed I would have to *gasp of horror* read the docs.
In general when doing something like this I prefer to do it cold to get a feel for how someone who has never done it before would see it.
Gives me a bit better feel.
So far I do like mynode for the most part. Everything works, decent performance, nice gui.
Not happy about the fact that the latest image for VM is way older then the latest version of the setup itself and the way to upgrade it without paying for the Premium version is a bit convoluted.
-Dave
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I have nothing great to contribute to this thread, as I've never used a bitcoin debit card and don't care to--however, I recall DaveF mentioning that he often uses one and I think he said it's through Xapo (yeah, remember them?). I also seem to remember him saying it's only available in the US, but I don't know the details. This thread is interesting reading for me anyway because of things like this: I am currently using VISA Bitcoin debit card from Coinbase.
I think it's great that Coinbase has something like that, because they're probably the most popular exchange for the average person just getting into bitcoin and looking to buy some through a good exchange. And the reason I think it's good is that it makes it so much easier for bitcoin newbies to spend their coins if they want to, which might well increase adoption in the long run. Anyway, much like bitcoin ATMs which I don't seem to ever use, I hope to see more btc debit cards in the future. Cool stuff. Had Xapo, had Coinbase both gone now. Now just BitPay (US only IIRC) Somebody else just partnered with Metropolitan Commercial Bank, don't remember who, about starting another BTC card. I'll see if I can dig up the post. -Dave |
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So the mynode VM finished the download and now I have it working on the other stuff (electrum server and such)
Seems like a nice GUI wrapper for all the stuff that you would have to CLI for.
The update process if you do not have the paid version seems a bit cumbersome. Once everything it done and synced I will make a backup of the virtual drives and see how well it works.
-Dave
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Edit: I'm thinking it may have something to do with the router. Shows wireless devices but not wired devices.
Some (very very few but some) routers have the Wi-Fi and hard wired networks separate. It's supposed to be some form of "security" Make sure that there is no obscure setting somewhere in the router to keep them separate. I have not seen it in a while but there were a few that did it. -Dave |
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Can't speak to the car rental for everyplace (I use a card that covers insurance) [dollar takes them see below] but for hotels the BitPay card works fine.
It also works fine for airline tickets.
Hmm. Not bad. I've destroyed enough American hire cars to know their system works rather differently from the European version. Many companies here base their business model off taking your credit card and stacking massive charges on it for damage that never existed weeks after you've given it back. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to hire without a credit card in Europe. They take a monster deposit from it too and only release it when they've figured out what they're going to steal. About [redacted because I'm old] years ago but lets just say Polaroids were a thing I was working retail and we had a visit from high up corporate people. Just a standard visit from high up in the company. After they were done one of them asked if there was a place nearby where he could get some Polaroid instant film. I mentioned that there was a 1hr photo place in the mall but they would have to go across to Sears to get Polaroid film and that there was a camera in back they he could use. Nope, they were leaving for the airport and corporate policy was that they took pictures of the rental car from every angle when it was returned WITH A PERSON from the rental company in EVERY shot to prove the condition of the car upon return. So, yeah it happens here too. Back to the Coinbase / Visa thing. The biggest opponents of it I think are going to be the lightning network people. Why use lightning when you can just swipe your Visa and get all the benefits of using the card. -Dave |
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If you have not done KYC you probably hit the limit.
No KYC means no access to any of Coinbase's features as said above. Given the fact that OP has conducted transactions (see screenshot) he has walked himself through their KYC procedure already. Sorry, I'm a bit out of date with what they require. It used to be depending on where you were you could do basic KYC and get some really low limits and then had to give real ID and stuff like that for higher limits. Did not know that it was 100% required now. Not to hijack this thread but is there a place / thread that shows what exchanges require what KYC for what limits? Might be nice for a sticky thread so we just have to point to it. -Dave |
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How long have you had your account?
Did you do KYC yet?
How much have you put though it if you have not done KYC?
If you have not done KYC you probably hit the limit.
IF you have done KYC then you might have hit received BTC from some place they did not like or sent it to some place that they did not like.
-Dave
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I have automatic updates turned off on my phone. I think Electrum does not even push out the latest version in the google play store, so I just downloaded and installed it directly from the website. Check the version number. (Maybe they have already updated it in the play store.)
So you have allow unknown sources and no automatic updates. Not saying it's bad, but unless you don't have a lot on the phone you run the risk of having a vulnerable app stay the phone longer. *Full honesty I have a device with more then the small amounts on it setup the same way but the only thing on it are 2 coin apps it is not used as a phone more of a "warm wallet" -Dave |
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That depends on the wallet you use (such as Electrum),
1. There's no automatic update if you use Electrum
2. You can use PGP verification (rather than hash) to verify integrity of the files. If someone who don't have the PGP private key attempt to upload malicious version of Electrum, PGP verification will fail and people will realize something is wrong.
It's only false security if you automatically believe open source = good/secure software. If you don't perform automatic update, always perform GPG verification and waiting someone to give feedback on newer version of application, i'd say it's more secure rather than blindly trusting closed-source wallet.
If a user don't do all of those when using open-source software, it's their fault.
With the desktop version yes, with the android version unless you have automatic updates turned off. It will auto update when they push something out. With that being said it's been months and months since they did any updates to the android version. But this does loop back to the original point, if you have BTC and only BTC or at most 1 or 2 alts then checking you wallets although time consuming is doable. Looking at my coinomi wallet I have BTC,LTC,ETH,DOGE,XMR,DASH and DFC That would just get to be a full time job to keep up with them all. So since there is not life altering amounts of money there. Heck it's barely weekend plans amount of money. I'll trust the precompiled closed source. For the real money it's secured another way. YMMV in terms of amounts. -Dave |
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Probably but there are a bunch of full nodes on the lan that it is on so it might just be sucking it down quickly. It's a decent machine with SSDs so I'm not sure how it was pulling it. Quick mode shows error now so I don't know if was or not without going through the logs. -Dave |
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Also a CC is useful for other things. (Hotel reservations / car rental / etc.)
That's a credit card you need for that stuff. I'd be utterly amazed if Coinbase ever issue one of those. It'll only ever be debit cards. Can't speak to the car rental for everyplace (I use a card that covers insurance) [dollar takes them see below] but for hotels the BitPay card works fine. It also works fine for airline tickets. I did DefCon a few years ago with nothing but BTC except for the rental car. Hotel -> hotels.com giftcard purchased with BTC through egifter Hotel -> Card to cover charges bitpay Flight -> Delta Gift Card through I don't remember where Cash in LV -> 1 face to face trade and 1 ATM The next year I actually had put a fuckton of cash on the BitPay card for a deal that went bad so I paid for the hotel with it since it was sitting there anyway. So as a debit card it works. Dollar rent a car takes debit: https://www.dollar.com/DaveRamsey/main.aspx?utm_campaign=d_2019_Ramsey_&utm_krxconf=s52t74y3e&c3apidt=p42222141046&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIwN3kgsXo5wIVkICfCh0N3QXTEAAYASAAEgJQTPD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds-Dave |
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