Paid back. Thanks. Actually took 4 hops to get to you. Never seen that much routing for that small an amount before.
So the good news is that I can auto generate an invoice with a QR code and email it.
The bad news is, for some reason I can only do it once and then lnd refuses to do it a second time without a restart. Since I can generate them by hand through SSH it has to be something with my shitty code.
This is why I like playing with hardware more then software. Guess I am sticking with btcpay server for now.

-Dave

Need a favor. Can someone tell me if this QR code works? Trying to do something and I don't have my phone or tablet handy.



And if it does work what invoice info do you see?
I have been trying to script auto-generating invoices with QR codes and emailing them. I think I finally got it working.

Thanks,
Dave

You are correct. For some reason I got it in my head that they were doing something different.
Yet again I was overthinking something. This is why I usually hold off on posting till I re-read it a few times. Updated original post.

-Dave

Full disclosure: I did not hear about / know about your service until this morning when Hhampuz posted the Signature Campaign thread, I have applied but not heard back yet.

So, with the above statement being said, I figured I would give it test.

The good: Worked just as advertised.  Sent coins to the given address got coins back to other addresses. Just like any other mixer. Quick and simple. They give you the private keys which I think is great.

The not so good: you sent out the coins to [redacted] number of addresses but they were all the exact same amount.
Edit: see the comment from DarkStar_ below.


The neutral: You should have a way to space out the transactions. 2 now, 1 later, 1 much much later.

Wallet key: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx2At9wx

-Dave

That or just poor programming for some reason, and since everyone just clones everyone's code from git people just ran with what they had.
Like you I did not notice iquidus had posted updates. Going to have to load them and see what happens.
That's just joy of running all of this on VMs. Quick restores to just before you broke it.

-Dave

Bitcointalk profile link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=300014
Current amount of posts (including this one): 1989
Amount of merit EARNED in the last 120 days: 125+
SegWit BTC Address for Payouts: bc1qgr0v8nzkemvsvta6ynrs92lyxnvnqnk44ygax4

edit: I also just did a small test / review of the service: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5194344.msg53699750#msg53699750

Thanks,
Dave

There is a difference between hair dryers / microwaves / blenders / air compressors that run at 12A to 15A for minutes vs something that may run for hours 9A or 10A
Stoves / clothes dryers /etc are on 220 lines that don't suck as bad.

-Dave

Kinda sorta quoting myself here, but I changed the numbers a bit.
You can screw with bitcoin with a lot of money and a fake PPS pool(s).

6 blocks an hour  * 24 hours in a day  * 12.5 coins per block (for now) = 1800 BTC generated per day

1800 * 8750 (USD value of BTC at the moment) = 15,750,000 USD Lets round that up to 17,500,000 a day

Let’s give everyone a 20% bonus so $21 Million USD a day in our PPS pool in outgoing BTC

Let’s do this for a quarter so 90 days. That is just shy of 2 Billion USD out of pocket if this killer pool mines 0 blocks and has to buy all the BTC that they are giving out.

Since it’s a PPS pool that they control, they can point the hash to ANY SHA coin. Kiss every SHA coin that is not BTC goodbye. Then they point it back to BTC for 2 or 3 difficulty increases. And then in the end they point the hash rate nowhere. And the block chain comes to a crashing halt. Are you seriously going to mine at CKpool or Slush or P2Pool when it’s going to take forever to find a block because difficulty spiked because with an extra 20% marginal hardware gets turned back on, or are you going to mine here and get your extra 20% all day every day.

And then they shut off and go away. How long will it take us to recover?

Who would do this? I don’t know. Do you think if I went to Chase / Bank Of America / HSBC / CitiBank / Western Union / Wells Fargo and said “Hey, each of you cough up $350 million and I’ll set Bitcoin / crypto back 5+
years.” They would ask how or just write me a check? It's also petty cash for just about any government. Even after the divorce settlement Bezos probably still has it in cash in his safe at home

-Dave

I 1kW range/2 kW for 110/220 is still iffy in older construction that has not been updated. Sadly there is a lot of that. Parents house was built in 1970/71 and the wiring in there scares the crap out of me.

If you are building a setup in the garage or shed and bringing in new power I would hope it would be done properly.

-Dave

This comes up from time to time.
It is simple to do it with the core wallet.


And so on.
If you do a bit of programming you can generate a file and run the command against it to send out the payments.

No clue on how to do it with Electrum but I'm sure it can be done.

-Dave

Just to be sure, do the sub boards count?
You have posts in Games & Rounds, Investor-based games (under gambling) do not count but what about  Gambling > Gambling discussion?

Thanks,
Dave

For *charging* you can get away with making your own cables fairly easily. I have done it and repaired some.
For data transfer, it's a bit more picky. They did work but with 1.1 speeds, the tolerances are easy for a machine to solder tougher for a human THAT DOES NOT DO IT WELL.
You can get away with many solder connections that are OK or even pretty good, to get full USB speed it's more difficult.

At least for me.

-Dave

X10 I remember them as that company from the late 90's early 2000s with the annoying pop-under ads.
They went bankrupt too.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20031022/1624251.shtml

For those of you too young to remember:

https://www.geek.com/news/x10-ads-are-useless-545130/

-Dave

<-Sigh->
I have posted something along these lines several times, but looking around I think I have to say it again.
The current trust / feedback system works to a point, but since there is no separation between trade trust and regular trust there is always going to be a bunch of unhappy people.

I can be an ass who pisses people off and trolls all day.
That does not mean I am going to rip you off if you are buying something from me or selling something to me or having me do a task for you.

There are several people on the marketplace that have some negative feedback / trust that has nothing to do with trading & sales.
You can promote the YoBit scam, think BitcoinSV is the real Bitcoin, and whatever else. Does not mean that if I sent you $500 via PayPal that you are not going to send me the BTC we agreed upon.

Or to put it as another (motorcycle) forum owner put it.


Now, you might not want to deal with them because they are an asshat, but if you do you can at least be reasonably sure that you are going to get what you asked for delivered.

Since we do not have separate trade trust and regular trust (feedback), we tend to keep looping back to the issues on this thread.

-Dave
 

It's probably easier to go get a working USB bill acceptor.
Just my view, but if you do have issues then it's just another thing to diagnose. Is it the acceptor, is it the usb <-> serial adapter is it something else to go wrong.
I don't know your budget and yes a $25 usb to serial is a lot less then $300 for a new acceptor but it just might be worth it. Not to mention you can still sell the old one.

I don't know where you are so I am just using US prices, if you are someplace else in the world I could be totally off.

-Dave

Looks like the explorer had stalled on Jan 15th. I was trying to get it back up and running but I think something really munged the DB so I just did a purge and reload. Should be up to the current blocks soon. It's moving real slow but I don't have time to figure out why at the moment.

@dnp do you have a copy of the changes you made, I would like to take a look if I ever have that mythical thing called free time.

Everyone, difficulty is low you can probably find blocks mining with some old video cards.

-Dave

The other factor I think coming into play is support.
Do you think Bitmain wants to support 5000 users who bought 1 or 2 or 3 miners each. Or one big player that bought 15000?
Customer service and support is not cheap.
Then add on the fact that now you are dealing with home users who may or may not have as good power as a big industrial data center so now you have to deal with more repair issues.

The R4 was great, the a741 was great as was the a821. But sadly I think those days are gone.

What I would like to see is them partnering with someone like sidhack who they sell all their last generation chips to who produces a slower but quiet miner.

That or towards the end of the run start making the same miner with fewer boards (like many of us are doing with the S9) that can run cooler.
Sell them cheap to move stock of the old boards and chips with a 14 or 30 day DOA warranty and be done. You can get away with that with an old gen product for $249 you can't do that with a current gen for $2999 because, nobody is going to buy something that expensive that they plan to run for 18+ months with no support. For $249 a lot of people will roll the dice.

Just my view.

-Dave

Did a bit of testing.
Yeah, you can really feel it's lack of performance on slower connections.

You might want to work on a way to load the data differently. Don't ask me what it is but there has to be a better way. Home FiOS is great. 4G access point, pretty good. Trying at the fringe of Wi-Fi where I can still get to something like news.google.com in several seconds I can feel and see coinmap start to crawl.

-Dave

Sorry, poorly worded.
As far as I knew it stored nothing about networking or peers in the registry. I thought it was all QT / GUI settings.
My bad.

Either way I still do not think it's the issue here.

-Dave
 

It's kind of an endless loop.
If you are new how to you gain traction in this sector.
Design / build / implement. That's simple.
Now you have to prove its safe. (open source hardware / software) but then what?
How do you get a foot in the door with the big players?

-Dave