So are the FEDs!  Their own institutions are failing and dropping like flies.  Signature Bank, Silicon Valley Bank, First Republic Bank...  Calling these institutions banks is actually a joke; they are dispensaries of fraudulently printed fiat, who've focused on spending our wealth on woke ideologies with absolutely no recourse.  If the FED wants to minimize the damage they caused, they'll have to harass the people.  And the ones they'll harass first are the ones that figured out how to strip them of their power; us bitcoiners!

It's bad news for privacy proponents.  Jobs come and go, but reliable and trustworthy mixing services are few and far between.  Let's hope that Chipmixer didn't actually suffer any losses, and they'll be back with new servers in a more secure location.

Beware of a scam attempt by member Moto9999.

He asked Shasan for a bitcoin loan, indicating he has bitcoin to use as collateral, but in order to get the collateral he asked Shasan to create an account on some shady site.  This is an obvious scam attempt, the bitcoin is very likely just a fake number on a fake exchange that claims to have been in business since 2018, but the website was just created last month.



Source: https://www.godaddy.com/whois/results.aspx?checkAvail=1&tmskey=&domain=dex-coinby.com

Newbie Flag: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=3134

This is quite disturbing.  I would have assumed the servers were located somewhere beyond the reach of European and US authorities.  According to that article, 1,909.4 bitcoins were also seized along with the servers.  The way chipmixer was operated would suggest that the bitcoin and the data would be more secure than that, so I hope the article is wrong.

At least now, with some relative certainty, we can put to rest the accusation that Chipmixer was a NSA honeypot.  

Another development, searching for "chipmixer" on google doesn't provide any of the previous scam sites in the results.

Yeah, the government gestapo won't be able to seize the TOR site, they would need access to the chipmixer server for that.  Obviously they wouldn't be able to do that.  With all the corruption and censorship being attempted by the FED these days, TOR will likely be our only option going forward.

Yeah, on paper...  Luckily, I'm actually a bitcoin maximalist and tend to avoid shitcoins IRL. 

Yes, but I say so only because he has more experience, and therefore I know more about him than our other two current options.  However, a healthy and improving Purdy would be my choice based on the admittedly small sample size.  The NFC Championship turned into an officiating shitshow right from the opening kickoff, and the kid got hurt, so I'm not holding that one against him.  But if Purdy can keep up the type of play we saw from him during his first three or four games, through 21 weeks, I think we would have a better chance with Purdy than Lamar.

That sounds weird to me.  As far as I know, if your wallet is encrypted with a password you won't be able to open it without the password.  If you are able to open the wallet without a password, then it's not encrypted, and you should be able to send without a password.  The only way you would be able to open a wallet without a password and not be able to send funds from that wallet is if an external signer is needed, such as a hardware wallet.  A watch-only wallet will not allow you to send, so it won't ask for a password either.

Sorry if I'm missing something, but again I don't know of a scenario that would lead to the issue you've described.

Yeah, look at me for example.  I don't need DT to let it be known what downright prick I am.  I've been doing that for decades, a lot longer than I've a member here.  And, I've got the scars to prove it, some dating back to grade school.

All kidding aside, the harassments that some DT members impose on lower ranked accounts is something that really bugs me.  Lately, other DT members have been subject to subject to my assholery more than any other group.  I tend to agree with BitcoinGirl.Club about the subject of his OP, it definitely seems like this individual is focused on growing his influence.  The question is why?

The "why" could have many different answers, among them could be wanting the rank for earning potential, having a need for power, or simply wanting to feign trustworthiness to execute a long-con.  Regardless, there are certain members who's behavior suggests reaching DT is the goal, but using the authority in a responsible manner isn't.

Honestly I'm not a huge fan of Lamar Jackson.  I don't think he has the depth of skill to handle Shanahan's system.  He can have two, maybe three reads tops and then he's off running.  QBs of Jackson's style (historically speaking) aren't durable enough to last a whole season, and the speed of one's legs don't often compensate for the lack of ability to read defenses and progressions.  I'm entitled to my opinion.

As for trading for a veteran; I wouldn't doubt if Shanahan feels Trey Lance burning a hole in his pocket.  If it were me I wouldn't go for Jackson or Rodgers at this point, I might still want to see what other options come about or simply wait to see if Lance fulfils his draft-day promises.


I figured that Jimmy G would end up in Vegas, it just makes sense for both him and McDaniels given their history together, and Garoppolo's experience within McDaniels' system.  Despite his fragility, I think that Garoppolo will be a significant upgrade over Derek Carr.  

Full on fake, scammy, phishing site.

The whois lookup shows the domain was created three months ago, but their site claims they have 11 years of experience.  Obviously trying to trick people into thinking it's hosted by the real Electrum team.  It's not.  Electrum has no web app or web interface, and it's not a multi-coin wallet.  I suggest you fire that lawyer.

I'm not 100% sure, but I think the app attempts to download the update files over TOR.  If that's the case, and your TOR connection isn't perfect I can see that happening.  In fact, I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often, and also surprised it's never happened to me.  I can't tell what OS you're using, but the manual install works well on Windows.

Maybe you don't need a dictionary, but you certainly wouldn't need the loan if you earned enough funds (120% of the loan amount) for collateral.  The premise of your question is...  questionable.  People who seek collateralized loans do so because they are bullish on some token they are holding, and therefore do not want to sell it.  Since you have nothing, that doesn't apply to you. 

Reckless_Satoshi notified me on Robosats' matrix chat room that he posted an example docker-compose.yml file for starting up the front end without need for the webpack.  The following example is tuned for people who want to host their own front end, so you can access it from your own server.  The new version of the file eliminates the npm-dev image, and no longer produces the error I was receiving.  

If you care to set it up, follow these simple instructions:

Navigate to the directory where you want the files stored, then:

Navigate to the nodeapp directory:

Start the docker stack:

To have it start up automatically on system boot start the docker images using the root account or add sudo to the command:

The original version with npm-dev for developers can still be started using the docker-compose-dev.yml file instead.

Yeah, you are right.  I know I clicked submit but the answers were still there when I logged in.  I'll be more patient next time.  Thanks for the heads up.

Sorry for the delay, I posted my answers last night but I was late for the first two or three.

The Baseball classic started last night with Cuba and Netherlands, and Panama whooped on Taiwan this morning.  I'm not much of a baseball fan, so I haven't been following closely, but the local channel will be broadcasting the San Francisco Giants hosting the USA team for an exhibition game this evening.  I'll watch that, should be fun.  Had I known about it sooner I would have tried to attend.  Even if I'm not much of a fan of the sport, Giants games are super fun.

You are only assuming it's a lending service.  Maybe he's adding lead to gasoline to keep old cars on the road.  Maybe. 

@irfan_pak10, yeah elmanches scammed me for about $500 worth of loans when he went AWOL, and there were some others who claimed he was impersonating an escrow provider and scammed them too.  I don't remember the exact details, I'll go through his reviews some time soon and see what I can find.

The short answer is yes.  If you do have some funds tied up in the alt-coins you'll have to use a wallet compatible with that coin, since Electrum is bitcoin only.  But even as it is, if for example, you were talking about a Trezor hardware wallet, you would still be able to use the Trezor Suite software for some time to come.  As long as there are still nodes running for the various coins'  blockchains, you'll be able to transact with your coins.


For the most part this second part is a non-issue for bitcoin, or truly decentralized alts such as XMR, but despite the claims to the contrary, but in reality very few alts are as decentralized one would be led to believe.  If for example, the United States deemed some alt is an illegal security, they could force VPS providers to stop hosting nodes.  A significant number of alts' nodes are hosted on cloud servers, so if that happened the majority of nodes for those coins would cease to exist over night.  No nukes needed.

Make sure to learn the differences between the common uses of the term "Bip39."  As has been pointed out, the mnemonic seed is called a "Bip39 seed phrase," but you'll also run into the term "Bip39 passphrase."  The two are not the same; a Bip39 passphrase is an extension to a Bip39 seed phrase.

I've been harassed on Telegram by a forum member in the past, and I think you're actually onto something here.  I don't doubt Lucius's claim that he didn't contact Amph on Telegram, and I don't doubt that Amph believes that he was contacted by Lucius.  There are some real sick drama queens here who just want to stir shit up.


That's a really good question.  I don't think that the Telegram user who was pretending to be Lucius has any ill intent for Lucius, but he didn't want to expose himself as the Rent-A-Cop, busybody conducting an immoral sting operation to expose accounts being sold.  Remember when bob123 did something like that got a shit-ton of grief over it?  I think that's what the mystery user was trying to avoid, while still being able to expose the account for sale.

Again, asking for screenshot of the PM that was sent is kind of a red herring.  Why would Lucius do that if he already got the PM?  He could have taken a screen shot himself, as he already demonstrated here in this thread.  It does lend some credibility to Welsh's speculation.

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As for account sales, it upsets me less than it used to be in the past.  Yeah, someone could buy a high-ranking, trusted account and use it to scam people, but anyone here with a high ranking, trusted account could go rouge at the drop of a hat.  Yogg, for example.  The best course of action is to be extremely careful when dealing with folks here on the forum, and assume that you could be scammed at any point by anyone.

Also, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that several high-ranking trusted accounts on this forum have been sold at one point or another, and none of us are even aware that it happened.