What a service that would be, if someone started selling smartphones doubling as Bitcoin Nodes. Most people would complain it uses up their data  It would need to be optimized to spin up and down quickly (something Core is very bad at doing at the moment). I tested it, and Bitcoin Core shuts down within 2 seconds. Starting takes less than 10 seconds, and my laptop isn't very powerful. On a phone, it could run in the background so it's always up to date. I like the idea, but connecting a phone to an external USB drive seems ridiculous. A 1 TB microsd card costs well over over €100. I don't understand what's weird about that, people are using exactly the same thing on Raspberry Pi running Bitcoin nodes, with external hard drives or with SD cards. People don't bring their Pi with them  |
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I never used Coinplaza for exchanging coins or fait currencies, but it's interesting that I am getting 10,000 euros limit for exchanging Bitcoin to Euro sepa account, and I don't know how that is possible. For Bitcoin to euro, my limit is €100. But when I'm not logged in, the limit is €10,000 (and €20,000 for crypto to crypto). But I can't do anything without logging in, so maybe they show the limit they'll have after full KYC. |
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I like the idea, but connecting a phone to an external USB drive seems ridiculous. A 1 TB microsd card costs well over €100. You are probably going to kill your phone faster with this setup. I don't think so, keeping it wall mounted makes it much less likely to drop it (which is how most phones break). Get a used netbook and replace its hdd I have several old netbooks, but they're limited to 1 or 2 GB RAM. That's makes Bitcoin Core very slow. after watching a YouTube video about Apple's ARM chips, they (and other recent ARM processors) will *probably* have the required CPU performance to run Bitcoin Core, but memory is still a question mark. Disk is obviously a no-no of course. My current Android phone is 2 years old, and was high end. It has 8 GB RAM and I'm pretty sure both the storage and CPU are much faster than my old netbooks. Possibly also faster than my (aging) laptop.
The main problem I see with this is the cost: powerful phones with enough storage are still expensive. I do have a pile of old phones that I don't use, but those lack performance. Give it a few more years, and many people will have old phones powerful enough to run this. Throw in $20 for a 1 TB microsd card by then, and it's a very cheap way to run a low-power node. So give it time  |
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I just want to add a signature, so I can get into one of these signature campaigns and price my posts. I don't want to wait for half a year, posting for free. You're joining Bitcointalk for the wrong reasons. This is a forum, not an ATM. Here's my stance on escrowing account trades: [click-bait] Should I start escrowing accounts?TL;DR: ain't gonna happen. |
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I have seen the maximum daily limit without KYC back in the days when I used was around 100 EURO or a maximum of 200 EURO When I first used CoinPlaza, the limit was €100/day without KYC. Later, they changed it to €500/month, which I think was an improvement. But somewhere this year, they changed it to €50/month and it's still stuck there for me. That's not even enough to reach the minimum for some of the coins. I last used this exchange half a year ago. I just noticed the limit is 20000 EURO a day without KYC That's weird. Maybe it's a mistake? I wouldn't trust any instant exchange with that kind of money. At one point when the block chain TX's were clogging the system, coinplaza.it bumped up their TX fees from a flat rate to a more expensive amount. I recall @LoyceV being a part of that conversation. That fee change made sense, on small transactions they paid more in on-chain transaction fees than the 1% margin they have on the exchange. I always recommend to only use instant exchangers for small amounts. Make many small transactions if needed, instead of sending one big one. If they freeze your funds, at least your losses are limited. |
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I've tested some of my text. That settles it: I must be an AI  And not only that, I'm more Fake than ChatGPT!  |
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I find this idea very interesting, the inclusion of the ID of the users who are voted for.
It is true that it will be more work for those who vote, but it will guarantee the votes for those who change their username. I can guarantee more people will mess up if they have to jump through hoops. Some already write names incorrectly, but it's still obvious who they mean. If they add the wrong userID, it gets worse. Username changes are rare, and there's no doubt who the vote was for. |
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It is (was) a paper wallet I generated in bitaddress.org. I generated it online, in my work. The system is protected by firewall and VPN. Then I printed it in the printer connected in the network.
The network is very safe - I will not tell the name of company for privacy. The printer is connected to the system's network. You made all the mistakes in the book  The main reason to use a paper wallet, is to create cold storage. Cold storage, by definition, has never touched the internet. That's the only way to make sure nobody can ever hack it. By using an online website on an online computer and a network printer, you've added many risk factors. Supposing that there's no one from inside evolved, is it possible to have a malicious intermediate between my computer and bitaddress? I've never read a credible scam accusation against bitaddress.org (but there are phishing sites out there). Any other ideas about how that happened? You've broadcasted your paper wallet through several channels. Another thing is your opinion about one method I'm thinking for generate a paper wallet in bitaddress.org. Everybody tells that the bitaddress' website is safe. Is that so? No website is safe is you use it incorrectly. The idea is to enter in the website and switch off the internet. The next steps will all be done without any internet:
- generate the wallets
- restore the windows, erasing everything
- take out this HD, connect to my other notebook and format it using the program Eraser, which records random information in the drive
- return the HD to the previous notebook and install Windows again
Only now, turn on the internet. There's a much simpler approach: use an offline air-gapped system running from RAM (Tails OS, for instance), connected by cable to a dumb printer (without memory), and create a paper wallet from there.
For future planning: if you ever want to use your paper wallet, you shouldn't expose it to an internet connected computer too. This is much safer: Online:Install Electrum on your PC. Import your address to create a watch-only wallet. Preview the transaction, Copy the unsigned transaction. Put it on a USB stick. Offline and running without hard drive storage:Get a Linux LIVE DVD. Use Knoppix or Tails for instance, or any other distribution that comes with Electrum pre-installed. Unplug your internet cable. Close the curtains. Reboot your computer and start up from that DVD. Don't enter any wireless connection password. Keep it offline. Start Electrum. Import your private key. Copy your unsigned transaction from the USB stick, load it into Electrum. CHECK the transaction in Electrum. Check the fees, check the amount, check all destination addresses ( character by character). If all is okay, sign the transaction. Copy it back to your USB stick. Turn off the computer. That wipes the Live LINUX from memory and all traces are gone. Online:Use your normal online Electrum to (check again and) broadcast the transaction. |
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yes, but through a VPS, the node runs on a server that is not under my control.
It's almost an unnecessary risk that you can avoid if you let it run at home. As long as you're not keeping a heavily funded wallet on the server (and use a decent VPS provider), I wouldn't worry about this. If they ever break it, just start over. |
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Did you have any 'accepted' (by Bitcoin Core) blocks? That maybe just didn't propagate quickly? I haven't seen it (and don't know how I could check). I don't expect propagation speed to be a problem. How many tries will it take to find a valid block at this difficulty? 1 or 2 tries, no? I don't know. If it's the difference between 166 ns and 3.3 ps, that shouldn't matter compared to pinging the rest of the internet. I know from ASICs that the driver tells the chip to go through a whole range of parameters, otherwise the overhead would be too high.
In case the CPU miner is configured similarly, maybe only asking for new work every couple of seconds; that could be a problem. It now makes me wonder if nullama tested it with CPU. A few seconds would indeed be far too much. I may try it myself; just don't really feel like stressing my computer hardware so much. If you promise to behave, I can give you access |
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2022-12-19T10:43:04Z Error: Incorrect or no genesis block found. Wrong datadir for network? There's your problem. |
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Right now, over last 24h I got another 33 blocks. I guess my CPU miner still loses from the ASICS and GPU miners, even when the difficulty is 1. Or I made a mistake somewhere. What's your hashrate like? I think it's 6.58Mh/s: bfgminer version 5.5.0-34-g866fd36f - Started: [2022-12-18 17:27:16] - [ 1 day 01:23:03]
[M]anage devices [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [H]elp [Q]uit
Pool 0: 89.38.99.81 Diff:86.6M + GBT LU:[18:49:57] User:loyce
Block: ...50f75919ef686c53 Diff:86.6M (619.7T) Started: [18:32:55] I: 0.00 BTC/hr
ST:10 F:0 NB:119 AS:0 BW:[807/ 13 B/s] E:0.00 BS:155
8 | 6.31/ 6.38/ 6.58Mh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
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CPU 0: | 793.7/796.3/799.0kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
CPU 1: | 800.0/798.5/658.0kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
CPU 2: | 799.3/793.9/752.0kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
CPU 3: | 799.5/798.1/893.0kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
CPU 4: | 0.80/ 0.80/ 1.32Mh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
CPU 5: | 799.5/798.7/658.0kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
CPU 6: | 782.2/795.5/940.0kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
CPU 7: | 788.5/798.3/564.0kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
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[2022-12-19 11:49:03] Longpoll from pool 0 detected new block
[2022-12-19 11:53:27] Longpoll from pool 0 detected new block
[2022-12-19 12:08:22] Longpoll from pool 0 detected new block
[2022-12-19 12:25:17] Longpoll from pool 0 detected new block
[2022-12-19 12:27:02] Longpoll from pool 0 detected new block
[2022-12-19 12:46:43] Longpoll from pool 0 detected new block
[2022-12-19 13:06:31] Longpoll from pool 0 detected new block
[2022-12-19 13:10:19] Longpoll from pool 0 detected new block
[2022-12-19 13:25:09] Longpoll from pool 0 detected new block
[2022-12-19 13:30:39] Longpoll from pool 0 detected new block
[2022-12-19 13:41:09] Longpoll from pool 0 detected new block And do you have the node fully synced (just in case)? Yes (it's only 35 GB). I did miss the requirement of ~40GB disk space in mocaccino's guide, but it wasn't too bad; IBD went relatively quick. I used nullama's guide. |
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And here's the first one (as far as I've seen): I admit I first chatted with ChatGPT about this before coming here It said: ~irrelevant~ Is this true? That website spits out millions of texts per day, if people start asking forums worldwide if it's true, that's a tremendous amount of spam already. Go bug whoever created that "AI", ask them if it's correct. |
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Question: why did you deposit close to $1000 in Bitcoin to a website, without knowing what it is? How can you confuse an online casino for an exchange? |
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I also will be admitted into the hospital early January and be a status 2 recipient on the list. This means on average I will have a 2-4 week wait for my 2nd heart surgery. Damn that's a lot to take in! I hope to see you around in February, and I wish you the very best! I am human and have everyday problems like all of you. If there's one thing I've learned over the years, it's that everyone has their problems (some much worse than others), and barely anyone talks about it. It sucks. Good luck! |
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I just mined 27 blocks over the last ~24h using a single Compac F; those were always 1-difficulty-blocks, so it should have been possible with CPU, just as well. Your post got me motivated, so I've been mining Testnet on CPU ( Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1270 V2 @ 3.50GHz) for the past 19 hours. So far, not a single block mined. Could be that these people, especially if they are newbies mistake tBTC for BTC I've used a few Testnet wallets (when playing around with LN) that show Bitcoin's dollar value for Testnet Bitcoins. I can imagine that's confusing, and makes some people believe it has value. |
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I've tested OpenVPN on a $4/year VPS, and that worked. It's ipv6 only for that price, and shares the ipv4 IP. Around Black Friday, I paid $10.28/year for a 768 MB VPS with it's own ipv4 IP. It's true it's much cheaper if you're willing to rent less-popular provider with some limitation (usually not using KVM or no customer support). For what it's worth: the former is OpenVZ, the latter KVM (and quite popular, and even still available at that price). And indeed, I don't expect support. |
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Tor Browser is getting 403s on all Bitcointalk images, I'm guessing this is again CF doing something. Crazy idea: would it be possible to setup your own image proxy, and create a userscript to replace the links by links to your own server? That way, CloudFlare won't bother you.Never mind, you're not talking about images posted by users. |
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Yes, I tested it. I have been monitoring my public IP using a custom script and after every public IP change, all inbound connections were dropped. That makes sense, they're looking at your old IP. I'm surprised though, I didn't expect any ISP to change an IP address while you're using it. Can't you complain to them?However, my IP was never found again. I'm confused: does this mean Bitcoin Core gets no new inbound transactions, while it's still downloading new blocks? I think I waited for at least a day once but nothing. I also thought my new IP should be eventually found but this does not seem to be the case. Have you tried restarting Bitcoin Core? If that solves it, you can just schedule it to restart after each IP change. I guess I could create my own VPN with my VPS using WireGuard? It's possible. But from what i know, cost of VPN and cheap VPS (which usually has 1 CPU/1GB RAM) usually is hardly difference. So personally i would recommend VPN since you don't have to setup WireGuard and maintain your VPS. I've tested OpenVPN on a $4/year VPS, and that worked. It's ipv6 only for that price, and shares the ipv4 IP. Around Black Friday, I paid $10.28/year for a 768 MB VPS with it's own ipv4 IP.
Come to think of it: according to myips.php, my ipv6 IP changes all the time! My ipv4 IP doesn't change. I have no idea why it even switches back and forth between ipv4 and ipv6, nor do I know why the ipv6 IP changes. |
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does that apply for pubkeys as well ? See Bitaddress.org > Wallet Details: Pubkeys are 130 characters HEX (or 66 compressed), private keys are only 64 characters HEX. That means there are 256 times more pubkeys than privkeys. I don't know if different private keys can still give the same pubkey though. |
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