Yet again why are you using web wallets?
But, if you are using web wallets or an exchange that relies on JavaScript update your FireFox to 67.0.3 67.0.4

A bit more info here but you have to do another update.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-zero-day-was-used-in-attack-against-coinbase-employees-not-its-users/

-Dave

What I got back was:


-Dave

5 - DaveF

Thanks,
Dave

You left out the coldcard

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5033058.0

It's one of the better ones out there. Even has a micro SD slot so you can sign a transaction and bring it to your PC to broadcast.

-Dave

From the theory of can't hurt to ask the people who built it, I just emailed coinkite / opendime letting them know about this thread here. Let's see if they respond.

-Dave

Although I do have some BTC on OpenDimes it does kind of scare the crap out of me for just that reason.

Plug it into a bad USB port and something fries. Poof it's gone.
Some weird EM field from some other device corrupts something. Poof it's gone.

Etc.

But.... on the same note that loaded physical coin you have in your display cabinet because it looks nice. Small fire due to an electrical short in the lights on top of the cabinet.
Poof it's gone.

You have to do a risk analysis on how much you are willing to loose vs. how you want it stored vs. a few other things and come up with your own comfort level.

-Dave

Or as the Marines say "Improvise, Adapt, Overcome."

-Dave

I would guess a number of reasons.
I think blaming the sudden drop of Google traffic is a bit of a stretch.

If you are running that close to the edge in terms of funding then there are other reasons for the shutdown that have been going on much longer. If this was the end of August and they came out saying that it's been 90 days since Google changed their searches and they can't recover and they are shutting down the end of September that's fine. You had 90+ days to try. Google changes something and you run away crying. Learn to run a business. I can take in no money for the rest of 2019 and still meet most of my bills and payroll. If you have been in business for more then a year you should have 1 month of cost of running the business in savings for every year you have been around. So after 3 years you should have enough money to not sell a thing / take in a penny and still exist for 90 days. Not saying it's going to be a fun time but you still should be around.

With the above being said, I really have not followed CCN in a while. So I can comment on the business / internet side not so much on the are they a good source of news side.
From what I saw since they made the announcement and I have been looking they have a lot of fluff pieces and stuff grabbed from elsewhere.

-Dave

Something VERY basic.
If you are in any of the subforums that allow trading / buying / selling / loaning (or viewing a profile) there is another line below your other info that has trade trust.
It's a # starts a 0 and goes up or down from there. Next to it is a number with the total number of people who have left trade trust.

To give a + or - to someone you MUST have done an exchange with them for something. BTC / fiat / hardware / service / whatever.
If it goes well they get a +1 if it goes poorly they get a -1 or you can leave a 0

If you are outside the trading areas this number is not seen unless you are looking at the profile.
This is important--> If you leave a trade trust that user and did not deal with this person then you get a x day ban. If you do it again you get a perma ban. This means that even if I hate you and you torment me we can't trade trust each other into oblivion.

Now, people are going to say "wait, this means scammers can now just farm accounts and build up trade trust"

Nope, now that we have flags anyone can flag and show why not to trust the user. But that all it is, a flag, you can't say Bob will rip you off if never had a dealing with Bob.
All the flags are saying is be careful it looks like Bob *might* rip you off. As of now with the trust settings it looks more like a WILL.

It also eliminates the DT1 & DT2 drama.

Take a look at my trust.
As of now at the default settings going 2 deep I'm at +14, if you look at the untrusted feedback I would probably be in the 40s (to lazy to actually count)
But there are some things in there have have NOTHING to do with trades between myself and that person but if you look quickly it will add to my "trust in your mind" count but has nothing to do with a deal. So it should not be counted. Trade trust takes care of that.


-Dave

I know I have said this before but it kind of got buried.

Now this forum is not eBay, it's not Amazon or anything else like that but there are a lot of people doing a lot of trades for a lot of things. We can either as a group try to help them or as a group wash our hands of it and say do your own research. But as of now it's a mess IMO and not getting better.

So quoting from my own threads and taking from some others now that we have flags:

Merit = Are they good posters? Help out people? Useful to the board? This does not matter much in terms of trading BTC or hardware or collectibles you *can* help out a lot but still be a crook.

Trust = Can you trust them with money / items / etc. However, there are a lot of people with trust that have never really bought or sold things.

Feedback = Do you really want to deal with them. Because even if the 1st 2 are good you might still want to avoid.

The problem as I said someplace else is when you click on trust you get feedback on things that may or may not make them trustworthy.

With flags it is in theory going to make it better but for now it's making it a bigger mess because anyone can tag anyone else even if you have had no dealings with them.

So what I was thinking was something that another forum had when dealing with this. It was just a good trade count + or - and it only showed up in the swap meet sections.

To leave a comment you *had to have* bought or sold something or had some kind of financial deal with the other person. NO OTHER THINGS MATTERED. This was 100% about if you sent the user DaveF money did DaveF ship what he was suppressed to in the condition it was supposed to be in, or do what he was supposed to do in the way he said he was going to do it and in the time-frame it was to be done in? If anything else happened it went as a comment in general feedback. NOT IN THE TRADE TRUST.

Or to put it as the forum owner put it.
If you send Bob $200 to tune up your bike and he came to your house and tuned up your bike then he gets positive trade trust.
If while he was there he has sex with your wife IT DOES NOT MATTER. That has nothing to do with trade trust. That is a feedback issue.

We seem to have the same issue here. I REALLY DON'T CARE if Bob is promoting scam coin X or an ICO or YoBit SPAM. If I sent Bob 1BTC and he sent me $9000 cash as agreed everything else is not important in the trade area.

Yes? No? Am I just rambling?

Only brought this up because I was looking to do a trade with someone with horrible trust here, but as near as I can tell never ripped anyone off. Didn't do it for another reason, but now they might not sell what they want to sell because of other factors that have nothing to do with handling BTC

-Dave

d - DaveF

Thanks and enjoy the weekend.
-Dave

Bump because it's still here.
-Dave

Also, if you know it's going to be more then a day or 2 you should mention how long between someone wins & pays and you are going to ship.
Just had a issue where they only ship on Monday and I won something on Tuesday and it was a week before they dropped it in the mail.

-Dave

Could be in addition to the SD card going bad the RPi controller or the power supply also took a hit.
Do you have spares that you can test with?


-Dave

Big snip of quote, but yeah I read it. Not impressed. Every time Google makes big changes to their results people complain that they are being targeted.
They come up with the same fancy charts and graphs.

Stop trying to game the Google algorithms, put up relevant content and don't use SEO hacks. I have seen the same thing over and over again from sites that got a big drop for 15 years. Left, right, center, political, automotive, healthcare, whatever. It's always "we were targeted because we are [fill in the blank]" It's kind of like kids blaming someone else for spilling something in the kitchen.

It's an algorithm, it doesn't get happy, it doesn't get sad, it doesn't get hungry, it's just a program. If you think it's personal stop being so sensitive.

Side personal note, if your web business is so reliant on 1 source of clicks and hits and revenue that loosing it will cause you to close then you should not be in business.
That's juts my view having been doing web work since Windows NT 3.51 on an ISDN line. Many people will disagree because Google is the 800lb gorilla in the room. But that's just because they are too lazy to work at getting Amazon, Yahoo/Bing, etc. to all work together.*

-Dave
* Sometimes it's almost impossible without a lot of work. Things that Google will give you a downgrade for are good for other search engines. Too bad, figure it out and deal with it. If you are doing web content that's your job.
 

Sorry, but no.
Going to CCN right now on my laptop the 1st thing on the page is about Tesla stock, below that something about the dow.

Google has been getting much stricter about "relevant content".
I can have the worlds best site the Honda VFR800 motorcycles. If my top 2 things are about cat videos and a chocolate cake baking company I am going to take a hit.

Going down the page, oh look, a 2nd article about Tesla, something else there about the Boeing 737.

Sorry, it's not finance news, it's not business news, it's supposed to be about crypto.

If everything on the 1st page was about crypto I would wonder if google is censoring....but it's not. Google is just doing their job of....wait for it...displaying relevant search results.

If I want to read about Tesla stock I will go to the WSJ or Bloomberg.

-Dave

And out of 21 "articles" on their front page
6 are 100% not crypto related.
4 are only very slightly crypto related.

Think that might have something to do with it?

-Dave

d - DaveF

Thanks,
Dave

d - DaveF

Thanks,
Dave

Selling the domain bitcoinforstuff.com.
$1000
PM or reply here if interested.

-Dave