Did you email ian@bitcoin.com from above? If so what did he say?

You can also try reaching out to viabtc, they do have a twitter account:

https://twitter.com/viabtc
And a facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/viabtc

Although not very active they are there.

-Dave

The bumping changes were supposed to help some, and I think they did.

You are never going to be able to clean it 100% due to the number of people that it would take to monitor it.

Removing sigs from that area much like some other areas might help. It also might not, don't know for sure there are sill people using bumping services that don't work so taht is kind of a tough guess.

Also...

Sometimes it's better to let the dumpster fire burn then throwing water on it trying to put it out.
You just wind up with a wet dumpster and a fire over a bigger area because of the grease and oil that was in the dumpster when you tried to put it out.

Do you really want the mods to have to combat worse spam on other boards because people are not getting paid to post there?

*Full disclosure that while posting this I am wearing a sig, if in the future I am not wearing one when someone reads this.

-Dave

Depends on how paranoid you want to be.
You say you are not a tech guy, but are you good enough to remove a drive from a PC and put in a new one.
Or, at least remove and destroy the drive?

You could get a copy of the paper wallet generator on an online PC and put it on a USB stick.
Bring it to a PC that is not online (no wi-fi no wired network connected)

Run the app
Generate wallet.
Print wallet.

Destroy both the usb stick and drive in the PC.

Done.

The above method is overkill, but just about foolproof.

If you have some more ability, then running DBAN to wipe the drive is just about as good.

You can also get some hardware wallets and do it that way.

https://opendime.com/

It generates an address. And until you punch the hole nobody in any way get to the private key.

-Dave

You spelled Labyrinth wrong in the title you have it as Labyritnh.
Anyone looking via google or the forum search is not going to find it.

-Dave

Just got an email from the owner to drop it to $150 shipped in the lower 48 states.
If nobody takes it at this price it's getting stripped for parts sooner or later.

-Dave

Beginning with the disclosure that while posting this I am wearing their sig.

I think that there are many reasons for why they are doing what they are doing in the way they are doing it.
Most have been stated in this thread more or less:


And


And


Along with a few other rankings (Alexa, and such) the higher you get the more you can demand for ads.



Possibly a tiny bit, but if you have 1000s and 1000s of BTC I can see them spending a bit.


And I am sure there are others.

What is also an interesting question is how deep their marketing and other data goes.
Do they know what BTC came in and what BTC went out and how much BTC was made due to people clicking on links in the sig.

That would be interesting to know.

-Dave

It also depends what country you are in, South America is a bit vague.
This has been discussed before:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1242788.920

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5095217.0

-Dave

As I said above, we went with the BitPay wallet.
Since these are not scheduled transfers but more of a we need to move some BTC *now* thing always taking 2 phones with you would be a pain.

Since we went live with this (Oct 15) we have only had to transfer funds once so I can easily see the other people involved not carrying the 2nd phone after not needing it for a week....

-Dave

Since my knowledge of British motoring comes from Top Gear. Are "camper vans" more like this:



or this?




It seems to be a generic term kind of like all copiers used to be "Xerox"

Just kind of interested, they have been getting regulated here for a while. Mostly because of shoddy construction has been killing people as they overloaded the frame and brakes. But when they 1st tried to stop people from putting 3 tons of crap on a frame built for 1 ton everyone freaked out. Then when you could not get insurance to cover them the industry relented a bit. Still a lot of them on the road are dangerous as hell.

And snowbirds in the US are people who move from the north to the south for the winter and then back north for the summer. 2 houses, you guys went the other way. 0 houses.

-Dave

For the ColdCard not only is the software open source so is the hardware:

Firmware:
https://github.com/Coldcard/firmware

Build your own hardware:
https://blog.coinkite.com/coldcard-hardware-shared/

So, yeah you can trust them.

-Dave

Mostly what the above people have said.
Also, important to note about drive performance is use the proper / newer chipset drivers.
Windows will by default install a base set of drivers that work. Usually Intel has better drivers on their site.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-improve-pc-performance-by-fixing-the-intel-rapid-storage-technology-driver/

-Dave

You should proabably move this to
Bitcoin Forum > Bitcoin > Bitcoin Technical Support    here -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=4.0
With that being said.

SSD or spinning drive? Old slow drives will drive up initial sync time. Crappy RAID setup will make it worse too. [been there...done that]

What gen i7 the original ones are over 10 years old. IT's n

Internet connection speed? You are going to have to download over 250 GB of data.

-Dave

Wonder if its true.
https://www.businessinsider.com/boris-johnson-accused-of-burying-report-russian-influence-on-brexit-2019-10

Seems to be a bunch of businesses moving assets out of the UK
https://metro.co.uk/2019/09/23/companies-collapsed-moved-abroad-since-brexit-10795029/

-Dave

1 little typo....Fixed.

Thanks.
-Dave

Same thing has happened before. New gen stuff is coming, old gen stuff gets blown out.
I can't really come up with a good term, but lets call it "form factor" changes it's the same story.

When I am saying form factor I am encompassing the change from video cards to FPGA to small desktop ASIC to all the odd stuff like bitburners and the like to the S1/S3.
Since the S5 and newer outside of the R4 everything has been too loud and power hungry to rally run in your basement / garage without making major changes to power & cooling.

Since the S5 it's just been drop the price on the older slower stuff and bring out the new.

For the future, same old thing. The S1x stuff that we are running now will be S2x in 18 to 24 months....

And we will be having this conversation again.

-Dave

They want to much, but the price will drop over time.....
And oh yeah, it is #79 not in the 60s as I thought.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5197553

-Dave

So. Short version. I am selling this for someone who owes me some BTC.
They think it's worth more then some people think it is.
They want me to start at BTC0.1 and they will have me drop it .005 every few days / once a week until it sells or they get me what they owe me and I pull the sale.
Running log: Dropped to .095 on 6-Nov-2019
Running log: Dropped to .085 on 19-Nov-2019
Running log: Dropped to .070 on 30-Nov-2019
Running log: Dropped to .065 on 8-Dec-2019

And it's sold.

The payment address will be: 155ivCJXDzPjpteAWirETku7AfQE9E4pEN

No real end date. Either someone wants it at the price they want to get or it just slowly keeps dropping.
This is a moderated thread, but I will not just delete stuff out of hand, I just don't want a discussion about it.
No offers in the thread, if you want to make an offer send a PM I will forward it and get back to you. They are active on the forum but don't want to participate here.
Item is in my possession.







-Dave

[Auction] 2014 Kialara #804







Starting bid:0.005
Bid Increments:.0005

End date and time: Ends at 10-Nov-2019 18:00  UTC
Shipping: Included Worldwide. Any Import/VAT taxes are to be paid by winner.
Sniping: Any bid made in last 15 minutes will extend the auction 15 minutes beyond the ending time from the time of the last bid.
Excluded from Bidding: I may exclude bidders at my sole discretion.
Pay To: 155ivCJXDzPjpteAWirETku7AfQE9E4pEN

So long as the 1st post has the full list of links like I posted I think a VERY moderated thread is perfect.
No discussion. No opinions. Just the facts about the items.

Picking on Corrosive for a moment. There could be 2 links.
So you would see. (In a nice table)
Corrosive Silver Cards Diamonds  {date would go here}   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5179654.0
Corrosive Silver Cards Diamond auction {date would go here}  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5194304


In the rest of the thread nothing but 1 post per item and only for a limited time. 30/60/90 days. After that it's removed. This way the thread never has more then the last few months of new stuff in it. But the 1st post has a complete list of what is there. Also after it has been sold out the link to the sale should also be removed. In theory there is a link in the announcement thread to the sale anyway (which by the way Corrosive didn't do).

Because still picking on Corrosive. The diamonds were announced and then all were sold. There is no need to have more information then the link to what they are. The auction although important for determining pricing later would not really be important to the item itself.

LC if you are willing to do it and run with it that would be great. I have so much on my plate that I really think I would mess it up.

-Dave

Bringing this back up again since there have been at least 2 people who missed out some things because the announcement / auction got lost in the piles of posts here.
One I worked a deal with to get him what he wanted the other one lost out. If they want to post / reveal who they are that's up to them.

But, the point remains the same. I still think we need a central post. But without the help of the people creating things and someone in the community to help with the posting / listing it's going to go nowhere.
So ~6 months later...anyone interested?

-Dave