Yeah, that's something I started to realize about 5 years ago. I continued to believe there is still a hope and people see the truth but nowadays I am desperate and I am convinced that people have some responsibilities in. That's why I was saying Bitcoiners kill Bitcoin, and governments are happy

Finally we fall into the same finance, filled with the same wolves and the same ideologies. The ideologies we wanted to get rid of and made us take an interest in Bitcoin in the first place.
I have to admit the 'hyperledgers' are very smart, great done.

Adding stuff like LN, Ordinals and who knows what they will give us in the years coming, I will be less and less interested in Bitcoin, and possibly leaving it because this is not what I was originally sold

I got scammed!

I didn't know that but now it makes sense why SignatureBank decided a few weeks ago to reduce its reserves. It said it was for a diversification of its activities but look like they're just anticipating...

As for the bridges between CBDCs, not so surprising since they were the ones making bridges for
- the economic and monetary union in Europe. With the euro currency and even with ECU (probably the 1st euro)
- long before, to assist in the settlement of the reparations imposed on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles after the world war #1
- and many other bridges. If I'm correct it started to be here after the crisis in 1929.

Too many internationnal agencies now lurking at the cryptocurrencies industry. That doesn't smell good to be honest

Same here, I didn't find anything relevent about the minimum system requirements, not even a discussion, so I concluded there is no difference in this matter.

And yeah, I'm the guy who has always a problem with Bisq lol. I have 4 gb ram but in reality I have 6 gb. I think there is 2 gb used as like a swap file for Linux.
Intel I5 5200U CPU@2.20 Ghz It should be enough as a system basically because Bisq is not a software doing millions of computations per second, or a super super heavy video game.

I know using a server for this purpose is not a good security practice and I have listed the risks. Considering that I don't store funds, unless a person in control of the server clicks to confirm a transaction, releases the collateral and transfers it to his wallet.

So I'm only risking the collateral. Knowing that I don't do big transactions... I try to weigh the pros and cons but I don't see something else 'dangerous'...

edit:

off-topic, but how that comes above CPU @ 2.20 is linking to mailto:CPU@2.20
 

Perhaps but you forget to mention you work for (or own) Ibandirect.

Here you were looking to buy ads on the forum
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5290327.msg55671333#msg55671333

Here, you were promoting the affiliate program
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5301104.msg55857679#msg55857679

You have a direct link in your profile.

There is nothing wrong to promote your company, but for sake, there is no need to fool people.

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I wonder if @Ratimov decided to abandon the list, or have currently no time and plan to do it when he will have free time, or something else...

Hi guys,

I'm looking for a recommandation.

I'm ready to give up to use Bisq. Each time it's a nightmare and I'm lucky when I finish a TX.
However, I'm ready to give a last chance and to try to use it with a virtual server. What specs should I buy to be 'safe' (RAM and CPU).
It will be based on KVM, so the ressources will be 'dedicated'

Le fait de toucher une somme d'argent n'est d'après moi pas une condition pour définir ce qui est de faire de la promotion ou être sous influence.
Y'en a qui le fond bien gratuitement, alors bon...
Sinon ca serait trop facile pour noyer le poisson: "on ne l'a pas payé, alors c'est légit"

Comment peut il réellement savoir qu'il n'a pas été sous influence, si justement il est sous influence...
C'est un peu comme les gens bourrés au volant qui te racontent qu'ils maitrisent parfaitement leur véhicule^^
Mais comment tu peux le savoir étant donné que tu es complètement bourré et donc moins de réflexes, et moins de cerveau tout court...
Ou les femmes battues qui souvent pensent ne pas être sous influence de leur conjoint. Et se définissent comme juste battues.
Ou les femmes voilées qui clament haut et fort le faire par choix, alors qu'en vérité elles ont (souvent) été influencé dès leur plus jeune age...

En vérité le lobbying, ca marche des 2 côtés, c'est pas juste les méchants qui en font. Le lobbying, c'est souvent le mal dans l'esprit des gens.
Hors, c'est ce qui permet justement de plaider sa cause et informer les députés et autres. Tout simplement parce qu'on ne peut pas leur demander de tout savoir sur tout


Bon après, venant d'un ÉCO-NUPES, faut pas s'attendre à grand chose...
Il le dit lui même, j'ai fais de la merde

For those who do not know the FSB

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) is an international body that monitors and makes recommendations about the global financial system. It was established after the G20 London summit in April 2009

What's happening:

International regulations framing the cryptocurrencies industry are expected to be significantly strengthened by this summer.
FSB has published the outcomes of its recommandations about the regulation of the industry.
https://www.fsb.org/wp-content/uploads/P160223.pdf

Problem:

- the financial system faces a risk of destabilisation.
It's a WOW white paper. They even invented a new word: "cryptoisation", the transition from existing established currencies to digital assets (= the dedollarisation)
Geez, LeGaulois is cryptoized

- risks of interconnections between traditional and decentralised finance. For exemple, this case of interconnection (related to FTX):



Good job, you asked for regulations claiming it will help the mass adoption? While it does the opposite...
MICA (Markets in Crypto-Assets) et TFR (Transfer of Funds Regulation) will be worldwide very soon

https://coinrabbit.io/

I believe there is no ID verification there.
Perhaps the same goes with Sovryn.com
                                          Sovryn.app

But such platforms with no KYC will soon or later have to abide by the laws. The same way p2p markeplaces are following (latest exemple with localbitcoins)

Edit:


Yes my bad.
.App is the correct TLD, even though .com is the same entity
There is a topic about it in the Project Development section

C'est un peu jouer sur les mots ^^

Pas de KYC, sauf si une agence vous fait la demande, ou que vous estimez qu'il y a un risque (de blanchiment, ou autre truc pouvant être considéré illégal). D'ailleurs vous le précisez bien sur votre site
Grosso modo, un p'tit coup de pression, et vous allez ravalé votre discours et vos principes d'anonymat.

Il ne peut pas y avoir d'anonymat dès lors qu'une entreprise est concernée.

I wouldn't really call their service expensive. 3.5% is about the average used by mixers.
'Of course, there is always something cheaper and higher. Like in a supermarket)

interacting with another service
Jambler has a white label solution. You make money but the work is externalized

No, there is no option for that and it's something that has been asked a lot of time

However, here is Bitcointalk with a dark mode



It works with any browser based on Chromium (Brave, Chrome, Opera, Edge, Vivaldi, Epic...)
Open in a new tab chrome://flags/#enable-force-dark and select "Enable"

Otherwise, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/dark%20mode?hl=en

You have a misconception of the AML and KYC directives. It's the same thing, the KYC directive is a part of the AML laws.

Under the the name AML, there are:

- KYC: know your customer
- KYCC: Know Your customer's customer. Yes! customers of your customers
- KYT: know your transaction
- KYB: Know your business
- CDD: customers due diligence
- SAR: suspicious activity report
- PEP:  politically exposed person
- and so on...

Do you think they don't check the source of the funds? They do, as well as the banks involved in both sides (since it's also their job).
Do you think Kraken doesn't do that while it has a Money Business registration.
Why do you think they all have paragraphs about AML on their ToS,

Quote from: Woodie on Today at 12:42:41 AM

So you think Elliptic is wrong? Because just to say: it's not the only company with the same conclusion. Everyone is wrong? What a bad luck.

The Blockchain is like statistics. It has data and it can't have an opinion. That's something only a human can have.
Mathematics never lie: 1+1=2 and there is no other truth

I posted a few facts.

You don't need to be a registered business to be sanctionned by any governmental agency. Otherwise, I could say "Hey, I'm a criminal and I killed someone. You can't do anything because I have no company"

That's because the proposal does not even mention the AML regulation at all. I don't know where he got this.
Basically, it's just an adaptation to European Union law regarding economy, health, labour, transport and agriculture.
You know what I mean, the stuff that makes all countries to have the same laws, quotas, etc...

It does talk a bit about crypto companies but it's just to say their website-services-infrastructure have to be "secure" enough.
Like if they weren't already doing it...
Adding, the fees must not be hidden and clearly listed; and warning people crypto is a high risk investment.

The points are the same for any company outside the crypto industry. Including insurrances, banks,...


tltr: nothing to be afraid. It's rather a good point for citizens

Is that a joke?
A centralized exchange doesn't set a price per se. It is based on the supply and demand, as well the trading volume.

Additionnaly, a CEX also acts as an escrow service. It connects buyers and sellers and is the middleman between both.


Everthing is clear. The difference is know and understood.

Because blender.io has been sanctionned by the U.S. Treasury and its website sized.
Better to keep low profile because the police would love to find the owner.

I would prefer to start from scratch, instead to say "hello, I'm blender.io admin, and back on track!"
I aslo won't be criticized by forum users saying I have a failed project, making my business at risk (the risk that people don not trust me anymore)

my 2 cents.

Fact 1: the signature campaign for sinbad.io was paid with funds coming from Blender's wallet

Coincidence? Blender's admin is so kind that he decided to pay the campaign's participants? For a service he has nothing to do with?
Blender decided to become a charity person?

Fact 2: almost all of the early incoming TXs to Sinbad were coming from the suspected Blender's wallet.
Suspected, but blockchain forensics companies are rarely wrong

Fact 3: Both use approximatively the same methods to obfuscate their transactions

Fact 4: Both use a 10 digit mixer codes

I could add other facts but it's unnecessary (for now)

And for reference, adding a question I asked to @sinbad.io

The marketplaces will follow the same path the centralized exchanges followed.

Both will have the same laws to follow. There is no reason a CEX has to be strict with KYC-KYT-EDD and a marketplace doesn't have to be.
Otherwise, CEXs wouldn't exist, and companies would make a marketplace instead, to be less bothered.

And don'y worry. If there are still some marketplaces without ID verification, they will soon or later join the group.
Including HodlHodl or LocalMonero... It's just a matter of time, trust me.

They won't all die because there are always people who have no problem with the KYC but for sure the DEXs will become the only way to trade without to be bothered.


If you really want bitcoining, you have to use bitcoinized tools 

Finalement peut être pas effectivement.

Hier, je suis tombé sur ce message de PayWithMoon. Avant de commencer à lire, j'ai repensé au topic de @patrickus
Un peu plus bas, l'entreprise se dit justement "victime" de ce Choke point 2.0
(A la base, c'est une entreprise qui fournit des CB virtuelles, que les gens paient en crypto)


Pour résumé cette opération,

En Décembre, Signature et Silvergate (dont j'avais posté dans l'autre topic Binance poignardée par Signature Bank)

En Janvier,

- La Metropolitan Commercial Bank annonce la fermeture totale de sa branche liée aux crypto-monnaies.
https://investors.mcbankny.com/news-events/news/news-details/2023/Metropolitan-Bank-Holding-Corp.-to-Exit-Crypto-Asset-Related-Vertical/default.aspx

- la Fed, la FDIC et l'OCC publient une déclaration commune sur les risques encourus par les banques qui s'engagent dans les crypto-monnaies, n'interdisant pas explicitement aux banques de détenir des crypto-monnaies ou de traiter avec des clients en crypto-monnaies, mais les décourageant fortement de le faire pour des raisons de "sécurité et de solidité".
https://www.fdic.gov/news/press-releases/2023/pr23002a.pdf

- la Réserve fédérale refuse la demande de deux ans de la banque crypto Custodia pour devenir membre du système de la Réserve fédérale, invoquant des risques de "sécurité et de solidité".
https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/orders20230127a.htm

- la succursale de la Fed de Kansas City refuse la demande de Custodia pour un compte principal, qui lui aurait donné la possibilité d'utiliser les services de paiement de gros et de détenir directement des réserves auprès de la Fed.

- la Fed publie également une déclaration de politique générale qui décourage les banques de détenir des crypto-actifs ou d'émettre des monnaies stables, et élargit son autorité pour couvrir les banques à charte d'État non assurées par la FDIC (en réaction aux institutions de dépôt à vocation spéciale du Wyoming comme Custodia, qui peuvent détenir des crypto-monnaies en plus de la monnaie fiduciaire pour leurs clients bancaires).

- le Conseil économique national publie une déclaration de politique générale n'interdisant pas explicitement aux banques de servir des clients en crypto-monnaies, mais décourageant fortement les banques d'effectuer des transactions avec des crypto-monnaies directement ou de maintenir une exposition aux déposants en crypto-monnaies.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/nec/briefing-room/2023/01/27/the-administrations-roadmap-to-mitigate-cryptocurrencies-risks/

En Février,

- l'unité de fraude du DoJ annonce une enquête sur Silvergate concernant leurs transactions avec FTX et Alameda.
https://archive.is/fF2i3

- la déclaration de la Fed du 27 janvier est inscrite dans le registre fédéral, transformant la déclaration de politique générale en règle finale, sans examen par le Congrès, ni période de notification et de commentaires publics.
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/02/07/2023-02192/policy-statement-on-section-913-of-the-federal-reserve-act

- les demandes de Protego et de Paxos pour suivre Anchorage et obtenir l'approbation complète pour devenir des National Trust Banks sont toujours en suspens (après le délai de 18 mois), et semblent susceptibles d'être refusées de façon imminente par l'OCC.
https://archive.is/jnxFx

source de tout ca ici https://www.piratewires.com/p/crypto-choke-point

A côté de ca, la SEC qui chercherait à bannir le stacking. D'ailleurs, Kraken met fin à son programme de stacking et verse 30 millions de dollars dans le cadre de l'enquête de la SEC

J'avais les adresses bitcoins de 2 mixeurs qui étaient de pure arnaques. Un a fermé, l'autre a fermé pour ouvrir un autre scam.
Facile à avoir parce qu'ils ne changeaient jamais d'adresse pour chaque transactions. Donc facile à tracer

12LkQ2yJH7rnzfespwBTW4xDKf7iUhEhMU
En prenant en compte le prix de Bitcoin au moment de chaque arnaque, il a récolté environ 40 000$
C'est pas beaucoup en vérité, (comparé aux autres arnaques), mais il a fait + 30 000$ rien que sur 1 mois. J'ai arrêté de compter après 30k $ mais il restait une dizaine de jours pour finir le mois.


1HtV8k2Pj4y5bRR1NbjF2uEq8DZjJF2pJk
Lui, est quasi millionnaire avec plus de 900 000$ volés, en l'espace de 2 ans
Soit 450k par an, soit ~40k$ par mois.

Tout ca avec un site pourri qui n'a couté pas plus de 15$, et qui en plus de ca, était quasiment inconnu dans le monde des mixeurs de bitcoins.
Il suffit à côté, de faire quelques blogues qui redirigeront vers leur site, et pousser ces blogues dans les SERP de Google.
Ils ont d'autres méthodes, comme celle des attaques par le biais de noms de domaine homographiques, mais en général, c'est comme ca

Le plus drôle, c'est qu'ils ne sont pas si fort que ca pour de l'anonymat. Plusieurs fois, j'ai réussi à trouver quels sites ils avaient avant, ou sont hébergé leur site, etc...