It's much faster. The checksum is a single SHA256, while to generate an address you need 2048 rounds of HMAC-SHA512, a variable number of further rounds of HMAC-SHA512 alongside elliptic curve multiplication to work down the derivation path, and then three SHA256s, one RIPEMD160, and a Base58 conversion to turn that final public key in to an address.

Still, the account you are replying to is an AI spammer, which is why the script they shared is nonsense.

The current canary is valid and within 60 days.

I see taking you off ignore was a mistake. My bad.

I don't know how more obvious I can make this. Valid canary updated last month:

Yes, fairly easily done using btcrecover as Charles-Tim has pointed out above.

Do you know the address the coins are on? It will be a much quicker process if you do. If you don't it will still be possible, but you'll need to set up an address database first. It would also be useful if you know that the address you used was the first (or at least one of the first) addresses in that wallet.

Oh, it's the next generation now? So I'm not going to die 2 years ago/now/in another 2 years/some other made up bullshit? Now it's going to be the next generation? Oh, and whatever happened to the 5G mind control nanobots in the vaccine? When are they being activated?

Been over this 100 times already. If you don't spend any time or money attracting users and building your reputation, then you will have zero volume. Although given the mess of Wasabi coinjoins, only coinjoining with yourself probably isn't that much worse than the default, lol.

You don't need any money or reputation to run your own node.

You cannot seriously claim that Wasabi is fine because you could theoretically run your own coordinator, which is highly complicated to do and nobody does, and then in the next breath claim that Samourai is broken because it is too difficult to run your own node, which is completely trivial to do and tens of thousands of people do already.

Another complete lie, trivially debunked by looking at the very next tweet on that link or even just checking the canary yourself.

https://nitter.cz/SamouraiWallet/status/1664738065632436224#m
https://samouraiwallet.com/canary

No. As BlackHatCoiner has explained above, sethdseed command is only compatible with non-descriptor wallets.

If you want to use the importdescriptor command to create an HD wallet, then your descriptor will need to include a master private key (xprv), rather than a WIF key. So you will need to use your manually generated entropy to generate an xprv first.

Damn, moving those goalposts again!? Are they on wheels?

It isn't. Like everything BADecker posts, this is complete bullshit: Claims that Covid-19 vaccines destroy sperm cells are false

Here's a post I made almost exactly two years ago:


I was supposed to already be dead then. I was definitely supposed to be dead by now! I've also lost count of how many vaccines I've had since then! I think I'm up to 5 or even 6 COVID shots by now. And flu shots, of course. And a couple other ones relevant to my line of work.

So maybe it's another two years before I'm dead? I must admit, I'm getting tired from chasing these moving goalposts all over the place!

Yes. Use the sethdseed command. Link: https://bitcoincore.org/en/doc/25.0.0/rpc/wallet/sethdseed/

Your custom seed has to be in the format of a WIF private key, so if you are using some manual process to generate the entropy, you'll need to convert it to WIF first. Entropy -> 32 byte hex -> prefix network byte -> calculate and append checksum -> encode to Base58.

The simplest way to use a physical process to generate a private key will be to flip a coin to achieve an unbiased 256 bit number, and then convert that hex.

Binance, and every part of it (including their P2P trading), is as centralized as they come.

Bisq.

No. If you need to submit KYC and gain approval to access a platform, then by definition there is a centralized party collecting that KYC data and making decisions on who may or may not access the platform.

I would presume that their Privacy Policy applies equally to all their products.

Everything you type or paste in to their website will absolutely be being stored as described above, and unless you are using a fresh Tor identity each time, then everything you type in will be linked to everything else you type in via cookies or your browser fingerprint.

You should try looking for an open source alternative you can download and run locally. I'm afraid I have no experience of such things so can't recommend anything.

I've already provided a link in an earlier post in this thread to proof of Binance scamming people. CZ also accelerated the collapse of FTX when it suited his agenda. And again, let's not forget he wanted to centralize bitcoin itself by rolling back the chain to fix his own poor security practices.

He is not a positive influence on this space, at all.

Scenario A - you send me coins and I take a look at them.

Scenario B - you send me coins. I then pay blockchain analysis entities for as much dirt on those coins as possible, using their vast mountains of data, their information gathered from various exchanges/services/governments that they work with, the nodes and light wallet servers that they run, their blockchain heuristics and countless previous analyses and investigations, their millions of data points that they buy and sell from third parties and from each other, including non-blockchain information such as KYC data, IP addresses, geolocations, and so forth.

If you honestly don't see the difference between these two scenarios then I really don't know what to say.

Point to where in their Terms they say they are funding blockchain analysis companies like Wasabi does.

They are directly funding blockchain analysis companies, which are the exact same companies providing flawed evidence to the government to prosecute privacy devs for writing code. They are enforcing government sanctioned blacklists and censoring their users. They are enforcing the concept that bitcoin is not fungible. In what way is any of that not nefarious?

And then presented everyone who tries to withdraw bitcoin from Binance the option of withdrawing fake bitcoin on one of these centralized scam chains at a tiny fraction of the outrageous withdrawal fees they charge for actual bitcoin, tricking newbies in to withdrawing fake tokens and not withdrawing bitcoin at all.

Also owns Trust Wallet, which is closed source, but lies about it being open source.

And then miraculously Binance became the number one rated exchange on coinmarketcap! What a coincidence!

Binance has been hacked multiple times already. It will certainly be hacked again in the future. But you are absolutely right - people will keep using it regardless.

Here's a thread I opened a while back discussing Full RBF: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5403730.0

Here's the post on the mempool.space GitHub discussing this new RBF ticker: https://github.com/mempool/mempool/pull/3867. It was merged around 2 months ago.

The term is used across the Bitcoin ecosystem, not just by mempool.space. It is a setting nodes can apply which means they will accept and broadcast replacement transactions for any transaction in their mempool, regardless of whether the original transaction is opted in to RBF or not.

Here's an example transaction: https://mempool.space/tx/5bbea8b183b7e67cd75d54604dd19e0724b89e2b8675133f0feec360f0fd497e

Mouse over the first transaction in the "RBF History" box, paying 9.24 sats/vbytes. You'll see it was not opted in to RBF. And yet it has been successfully replaced anyway by a new transaction paying 10.2 sats/vbyte. This is what is meant by full RBF. Any node with full RBF enabled will accept replacements for any transaction in their mempool.

This is the point I was making earlier - is there a single point of failure? Even if all the Bitcoin Core devs and maintainers conspired to push some malicious changes to the next version of Core, then every node on the network can respond by doing absolutely nothing and continuing to run their current version of Core, and the network will continue to run completely unaffected as if nothing has happened.

If the person or people who wrote any of these so called "DeFi" smart contracts or run the various "DeFi" platforms decide to rug pull and steal everyone's coins (which has happened literally countless times), there is absolutely nothing anyone can do about it.

We already have decentralized finance. It's called Bitcoin. "DeFi" is almost universally a scam.

I've never heard of Quillbot before, but a quick look at their Privacy Policy isn't any better:


And alongside that they collect all the usual name, email address, IP address, geolocation, browser fingerprint, and also very concerningly, "Browsing or search history".

Good idea. You should make a habit of only having the minimum number of essential browser extensions installed, such as uBlock Origin and HTTPS Everywhere. Every unnecessary extension presents a new attack surface and makes your fingerprint more unique.