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6941  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Redphone - telephone service for Lightning Node on: August 11, 2021, 11:10:27 AM
If you already running a Lightning Node you may be interesting to follow and try this project called Redphone- phone for your lightning node, that is completely self-hosted and it can use webRTC audio channel for connecting two peers on the internet.
This software was made by pseudozach and it was built for Impervious AI Hackathon that started on August 4th and it's running until August 20th 2021, and it is in competition for $25,000 in BTC prizes!
Impervious is one more interesting project I started following because they are focused on making p2p internet that is secure, censorship resistant and built on Lightning as Bitcoin Layer 3 network.
https://www.impervious.ai/

Demo video for Redphone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDii_9ZaiYg

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Setup
- prerequisites: Bitcoin + Lightning Node
- download, configure and start impervious, follow instructions here
- download and install cloudflared for your environment
- clone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/pseudozach/redphone && cd redphone && npm i
- start the app:
npm run start -- 8888 8881 (where 8888 is redphone webserver port, 8881 is impervious http/websocket port)
- expose the app to public internet:
cloudflared tunnel --url http://localhost:8888 (where 8888 is redphone webserver port)

2021-08-05T06:09:08Z INF +------------------------------------------------------------+
2021-08-05T06:09:08Z INF | Your free tunnel has started! Visit it: |
2021-08-05T06:09:08Z INF | https://fits-protest-featuring-mpegs.trycloudflare.com |
2021-08-05T06:09:08Z INF +------------------------------------------------------------+

- go to the provided link to see your LN Phone


Source code: https://github.com/pseudozach/redphone
6942  Other / Meta / Re: We need a new global moderator. on: August 11, 2021, 09:07:20 AM
Maybe we do need some fresh moderator blood and not only global mods but some new local moderators would also be a good addition to have.
Croatian local board is asking for new Local moderator for years, after theymos himself asked us to propose someone to replace the old moderator.
Here is the topic we started in 2020 and we are still waiting for answer [Request] Theymos we need moderator again in Croatian local board.

I'm mostly clicking "Ignore" instead of "Report to moderator" these days. Makes everything 100% "Good". Doesn't leave much to read though.
I am doing the same thing and my Ignore list is getting bigger every day.
6943  Local / Hrvatski (Croatian) / Re: [VELIKA LISTA] Hardverski novčanici (80+) on: August 10, 2021, 07:43:12 PM
@FatFork imam za tebe još jedan novi hardverski novčanik KeyPal koji nam dolazi iz Kine i dizajnirao ga je TokenPocket, a za sada je još kao presale opcija, ali sam našao na alibaba stranici da se može kupiti za $139.
Oni kažu da bi software za KeyPal harderski novčanik trebao biti Open Source kod ali nisam našao neku Github stranicu koja to potrvdjuje, osim ove prazne github stranice.
KeyPal nopvčanik ima dva mikročipa Secure Element NXP MCU + SE sa nepoznatim sigurnosnim sertifikatom.

Podržane kriptovalute: BTC, ETH, ETC, USDT, BSC, TRON, MATIC, HECO, DOT, EOS, KSM, LTC, BCH, DOGE, BNB, OKExChain...


https://www.keypal.pro/

PS
Hvala na ažuriranju liste... do iduće prilike  Wink
6944  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: looking for advice/mentoring - wallet focusing on time-lock on: August 10, 2021, 01:32:43 PM
I looked at trezor suite, it does not seem like it supports actual time-locking of bitcoin.
It only allows post-dating transactions so that it is guaranteed that they won't be mined (or broadcast) until later date/time (or block height).
Yes, Trezor is not freezing any coins, it's like if I wanted to send you 1 bitcoin tomorrow but I can't have access to my wallet or internet, I will send it now with their Locktime option and it should be sent tomorrow at specific block or time.
I think that Taproot scripting will improve a lot what you want to do, and I find it very limiting in your approach of using old legacy addresses only.

I checked those Trezor wiki pages but it is related to their old web wallet, here is Trezor blog post describing same Locktime feature in Trezor Suite:
https://blog.trezor.io/trezor-suite-privacy-made-easy-f73771fb2037

6945  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Bitcoin Unit Converter:🔁Convert satoshi, mBTC,Finney, bit to 170 fiat currency on: August 10, 2021, 01:18:47 PM
The problem with that approach is that my domain has a lot of links (like yours) and some nice positions in Google searches... I will lose a lot of traffic if I change my domain url without any redirect from my prior url...
That is true, so you can approach this the other way and ask for donations from people if they want to continue using your website with same domain name.
You invested a lot of work in this so I think it's perfectly fine to ask something like that, and it won't hurt anyone to split the cost and spend a few bucks.
6946  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Bitcoin Unit Converter:🔁Convert satoshi, mBTC,Finney, bit to 170 fiat currency on: August 10, 2021, 01:11:41 PM
Do you have any suggestions? If there is no other way I will pay that ~50 usd, but I wasn't ready for such a price increase (10x in one year)
This is how domain selling makes profit, first one or two years are usually cheaper and then they increase price a lot, so one of the option you have is to buy totally new domain and transfer all website content there.
For example there is bitcoinscience.club, bitcoinscience.life or bitcoindata.club, bitcoindata.online, bitcoindata.me domains available for cheap.
I was also using your website when I had to explain someone about Bitcoin units, or to see how much 1 BTC is worth in some exotic fiat currencies.
6947  Economy / Services / Re: Mixers/ and or tumbler service... on: August 10, 2021, 12:59:37 PM
I do charge Fees mainly around the 25-35% area.
Sounds like a real scammer NightPigeon is bashing all other mixers and claiming he is better than everyone else, so he will charge you some crazy fees, and all you have to do is trust him on his words...

anyone who understands mixing understands that real mixers charge anywhere from 20%-65%.
Wrong.
Chipmixer is one of the best mixing websites we have and it doesn't charge any fees but you can donate as much as you want to support them.
6948  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Freelancing Sites that Pay in Bitcoin/Crypto on: August 10, 2021, 11:12:35 AM
Sorry, but from a freelancer's point of view, this is a terrible income source. Most of those jobs only pay you $10, $20, etc. and oftentimes, a freelancer needs to make thousands of dollars a month to make a sustainable living.
Not necessarily, in many parts of the world you can live just fine with few hundreds of dollars, and if you are in Venezuela, Cuba or some African countries you need even less than that.
I never used microlancer or any similar websites but I see there are a lot of affiliate links and referral links there.

Do we have new freelancing sites excluding those known list above?
Yes there are more websites like laborx.com or blocklancer.net, but I don't think that any of them got any real traction so far like fiat based freelancing websites have.

6949  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Poloniex exchange charged by SEC on: August 10, 2021, 10:58:05 AM
I said I didn't think he was a fool, and by that I meant he generally knows what he's doing in the world of crypto--and I don't think the guy is an idiot or even dumb for that matter.
This short video is showing what kind of fool he actually is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF5ojlv6TL0

Justin Sun is a marketer, nothing more.
And he is a bad marketer if I may add, but I don't think he will be happy losing that 10 million even if it means nothing for Poloniex i we look at the bigger picture.

Personally and for people in the US, as long as you want to use a centralized platform, there's no reason for any alterative of Coinbase.
I don't think so, it only leads to more and more centralization of power.
There are a lot of great alternatives for Coinbase like Kraken for example, and you can still use P2P trading or even better use Bisq and go full decentralized trading.

Polonied released official announcement on Twitter and they are now playing dumb claiming they it has no impact on them and they have to connection with Poloniex LLC, because entity running Poloniex is Polo Digital Assets  Cheesy
What a joke!

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Public address loudspeakerAnnouncement on SEC’s Charges Against Poloniex LLC

In light of the media reports on SEC’s charges against Poloniex, we would like to clarify that the entity running Poloniex is Polo Digital Assets.The aforementioned charges will not have any impact on Poloniex's businesses.
https://twitter.com/Poloniex/status/1424960367189393409

6950  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Best Hard Drive for Bitcoin Node? on: August 09, 2021, 05:48:52 PM
I have some good news and some bad news.
Good news is that three days passed after I replaced cables/port and my Seagate drive is working like a charm, so it looks like I don't have to purchase new drive after all.
I left it running 24/7, every parameters are looking very good and there are no issues with crashes or bad sectors, CrystalDiskInfo is showing healthy drive.
Bad news is that my drive is 100% shingled SMR drive and I am getting slower write speed, but I used this only for storing data and running a node, and my OS is on faster SSD drive.

I totally forget about CMR/SMR controvesy. If OP (or anyone) wish to use CMR, they should get WD Red plus instead
Here is one list of all known SMR drives (including mine):
https://www.truenas.com/community/resources/list-of-known-smr-drives.141/
6951  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Is Bitcoin anti-inflation? on: August 09, 2021, 05:22:42 PM
Bitcoin has it's own inflation rate that is produced with mining every day but it is decreasing with halving every 4 years, so I would not say that Bitcoin is ''anti-inflation''.
However, if we compare Bitcoin with fiat currencies than you can say that it is better to hold Bitcoin than fiat currencies long term, and Bitcoin has a clear advantage.
People who profited most from Bitcoin are ones that forgot about their hard drives with mined or purchased Bitcoin and found it few years later, but if same thing would happen to someone in Venezuela with suitcase full of Bolivars, he would be a broke and poor man.
6952  Local / Hrvatski (Croatian) / Re: Što nas očekuje u 2020. godini on: August 09, 2021, 04:12:51 PM
Jebote koji k*rac svi još pišete u ovoj temi iz 2019 koja govori o tome što nas očekuje u 2020 godini, a u najveće idemo ka 2022 (4 stranica napisano u 2021) Cheesy


6953  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Poloniex exchange charged by SEC on: August 09, 2021, 04:03:57 PM
Justin Sun might be a bit odd, but he's not a fool as far as I know.  You would have thought he'd have complied with US regulations if Poloniex was still doing business there, no?

Poloniex was founded in 2014 but I doubt it was created in United States, than it was purchased by Circle in early 2018 for $400 million, and then new investors came (probably from China) and one of them was Justin Sun.
He is not so smart, and being rich or having lot of Bitcoins doesn't mean he is smart by definition.
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Justin Sun, founder of crypto platform Tron, said he is part of the investor group that recently acquired Poloniex from fintech firm Circle, after denying his involvement initially.
https://www.coindesk.com/despite-denials-tron-founder-confirms-investment-in-poloniex-crypto-exchange

There is Poloniex ANN in forum from 2014, and @busoni member have two scam accusations:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=420836.0
6954  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: U.S. infrastructure bill and Bitcoin on: August 09, 2021, 03:44:52 PM
I am not sure about the content of this infrastructure bill but there is important bill fight happening in Senate now that can affect all crypto world.
Senator from Wyoming Cynthia Lummis  is one to follow on twitter @CynthiaMLummis for all the updates related this bill and anything Bitcoin related.
She is big Bitcoin supporter, she mobilized a lot of people and they might be able to change and correct some things, but bad bill will most likely be accepted, this is one step more closer to dystopian future.
If they fails to pass Lummis amendment in Senate they will probably move to House of Representatives, so fight is not over but they are pushing it hard, making last minute changes with thousands pages on purpose.

Biden tweeted his support ahead of the vote, saying the "once-in-a-generation investment in our nation's infrastructure" would create good-paying jobs refurbishing America's roads, bridges, water systems and electrical grid.
This guy have no freaking idea what he is saying, but printing more fiat money means more inflation (or hyperinflation) and Bitcoin must go up, at least until all this economic balloon crashes.

...we have to build back better.
They can put their BBB globalist slogan up in their asses.

LIVE broadcast now on twitter by Senator Pat Toomey:
https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1zqJVXqgmRWKB
6955  Economy / Exchanges / Poloniex exchange charged by SEC on: August 09, 2021, 03:25:03 PM
Same thing that happened to Binance is happening to other exchanges, SEC Charges Poloniex for Operating Unregistered Digital Asset Exchange.
Poloniex will pay $10 million (or around 218 BTC with todays rate) to settle charges for operating unregistered online exchange and for not registering with regulators in US.
No word from Justin Sun, who I believe is one of the owners of this exchange but he is better known for tron and lunch with Warren Buffett.

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Without admitting or denying the SEC’s findings, Poloniex agreed to the entry of a cease-and-desist order and agreed to pay disgorgement of $8,484,313, prejudgment interest of $403,995, and a civil penalty of $1.5 million for a total of $10,388,309.
https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2021-147

Poloniex today posted their old announcement because some US customers have problem accessing their accounts:
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Refer to the article below if you have issues accessing your account
https://twitter.com/Poloniex/status/1424748403943223298
6956  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: About block size limit and transactions fees on: August 09, 2021, 03:03:36 PM
There is nothing wrong with increasing block size, but if you were to increase to that extent, then no one except a selected few can run a node because they are prohibitively expensive. Miners can only mine if they're fast enough, which would mean further centralization as they need to achieve the lowest latency possible to reduce orphans. Complete centralization of Bitcoin defeats the very purpose of it, and putting the control of it to a selected few only serves to discourage people from using it.
Great explanation by @ranochigo and confirmation of this words can be seen with forks that tried to make ''better'' bitcoin and instead created more centralized junk.
For example, 3 mining pools (ViaBTC, AntPool and one more) for Bcash are having over 75% of total hashrate, and situation is even worse for bsv scam with 2 mining pools controlling all hashrate, and they are constantly under 51% attacks.
We can at least thank all those forks that serve more as testing ground so we can see what effect it could have on Bitcoin and what we should avoid doing.
It's not impossible to imagine that block size will also change for Bitcoin in future, but it must be carefully implemented after doing deep investigation as a part of some bigger change, but result will be new forks and I think that people are a bit tired of forks.
6957  Other / Meta / Re: Bitcointalk Youtube channel - what would you like to see? on: August 09, 2021, 02:24:38 PM
What would you think of organizing a contest for the banner and the logo for the YouTube channel?
Good idea for organizing a contest, we have several active experienced designers in forum who are ready to jump in and start working on this right away.

Google/Youtube is not known for their willingness to give freedom of speech.
Google aka Youtube and other big tech are synonym for censorship and not allowing free speech, they even banned some crypto youtubers (not that I am supporting them in any way),
they had Bitcoin advertisement ban until recently and now they allow adds only with special terms, yet we can see crypto scam giveaway videos all the time.
It would be a good idea to post Bitcointalk videos on multiple platforms and some of them should be decentralized, not sure if Odysee is best or something better exists that I am not aware off.
6958  Bitcoin / Hardware wallets / Re: Thoughts about Passport hardware wallet on: August 09, 2021, 11:45:00 AM
Anybody out there order one? As I said a few post up at $299 I am way to cheap to get one.
Shipping and customs would be expensive for me, but I would order one of this devices if I lived in United States or Canada, just for testing and comparing with other hardware wallets.
Passport is very similar with Colcard wallet, it uses their modified open source code and they have exact same secure element ATECC608A.
I even heard they gave away some free devices for testing and posting video reviews.
6959  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Home mining for non-KYC Bitcoin on: August 08, 2021, 08:33:28 PM
Home mining is possible but not so profitable unless you have free electricity, and isolated underground bunker full o asic miners (and snacks).
Having two tier Bitcoins is generally a bad idea and I would rather have ALL dirty Bitcoins that kyc and non-kyc Bitcoins.
Even better option would be some miracle code update that will introduce additional privacy layer for Bitcoin, that will make regulators very angry, but I think that governments and their officials are way overrated parasites.

Home mining is practically illegal in many places, because it's generally illegal to use home electricity for some sort of commercial purpose, and running even one 1-1.5 kWT PSU  24/7 definitely falls within this category. Residential electricity is sold much cheaper than the commercial one, so it's kinda stealing to use it for mining.
If you have money and resources you can always have your own electricity that is not connected with main electric grid, maybe your own solar or mini hydro plant, that is good not only for Bitcoin mining, but for keeping you independent in case of some disasters or planned cyber attacks that will turn off electricity.
6960  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: looking for advice/mentoring - wallet focusing on time-lock on: August 08, 2021, 08:10:27 PM
This is cool feature to have in bitcoin wallet, and maybe you should consider making extension for Electrum or suggesting change in their github code so they can integrate it directly on their wallet (if possible).

I am aware of the shortcomings, the biggest is that the wallet and library support legacy addresses only, the other is that there is only one way to create wallet - via seed.
I didn't test this feature myself but I think that time locking transactions also exist in Trezor hardware wallet and this is a nice way to detach IP from your address and send coins on specific time or block height.
There is no limitations for address type and Trezor Suite software is supporting this and it'is very easy to enable Locktime in settings and enter block height or time in unix timestamp format.


https://suite.trezor.io/



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