On the other hand, I just realized an issue with CNC cutting, which is that you'd need to find a way to mechanically fasten the washers in place without the drill bit interfering with your fastening method. While using a CNC cutting machine anyway, just start with a metal plate. Engrave the words, then cut out washers  By the way, I'm certain a better stamping surface will make it much easier, since the rather soft workbench I use with a piece of metal on it, simply absorbs a lot of force. By using a nice anvil like fillippone, most of your energy will go into the letter. Definitely! You shouldn't stamp on wood, even just a heavy hammer under the washer will do. |
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Do kids watch TV nowadays? You mean you have to wait until a certain time to watch something, and then wait through countless commercials? Nope, they don't. He spent 7 years on the forum building a fake alias Lol. I never made it a secret Loyce Valenzuela came out of a random name generator. used to be highly alcoholic %age drinker… Used to? I've barely even started! in order so disguise a possible personal attack aiming at the 1Meritsled and bum, a simple, innocent very implausible details make the house of cards collapse!
My nephew don’t even bother giving a single glimpse at the TV i bought them when they come over. Twitch and YouTube only. There you go, kids don't want Youtube, they want Youtube Vanced. Which, unfortunately, isn't available on our media player  It feels nice being the last "batch" of kids who grew up with cartoons, live action series Old cartoons are on Youtube. The kids love Lucky Luke and Pink Panther! Old action series are great to watch together with them, MacGyver is next on my list. What went so wrong? Your /etc/hosts, apparently! Allow me: Unable to connect
An error occurred during a connection to instagram.com.
The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments.
If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer’s network connection.
If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web. I tried today: 3*3, and got answers varying from 6 to 10 or 11. You must be joking. I had with one of them that kind of problems with 8*9, but never with 3*3. Maybe they're a bit young for this. Actually Q1 was "Write the following numbers as words: 18, 24, 38, 55, 83, 99". That's not a 30 minute exercise. They've done their paper next day
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If they don't have iPads unlocked all day, cartoons on TV are just the next option.
When they are no longer allowed at TV, they get to play actual games. Here, screen time is strictly controlled nowadays, and has to be earned with good behaviour. It makes things better for all of us. What went wrong seems to be parents' lack of time and the easy solution of iPads and consoles. True. There were times when the tablet was a necessity for our sanity. Not anymore I try to show mine now and then older cartoons (they do like Woody Woodpecker) I just tested: they couldn't recognize the Woody Woodpecker laugh. I'll add it to my list. |
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i find my money Congrats! When using https://iancoleman.io/bip39/ with the seed words from your hardware wallet, taking your computer offline is not enough: it should never go online again! Get a Linux LIVE DVD, boot from it, don't give it internet access, close the curtains, copy IanColeman's site on a USB stick, don't give it access to any hard drives, run from RAM only, and play around with it until you have the private keys you need. Then turn off the PC and wipe it's memory. thanks for Security advance , that help me Please give me btc address here i will send 25$ You're welcome  My addy is in my profile.
Does this mean you've now manually copied 500+ private keys using Ian Coleman's Mnemonic Code Converter? In that case, you may want to read how to Consolidate your small inputs without overpaying in fees. Consolidating 500 legacy inputs gives a 75,000 transaction, setting 1 sat/byte costs you 0.00075 BTC minimum, but if you don't pay attention to the fee your wallet may make you pay many times more.
Last suggestion: Don't consolidate 500 inputs in one transaction, and don't copy all your private keys to a hot wallet at once! Reduce the risk by sending small amounts at a time to your hardware wallet, or use offline signing. |
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Package id 0: +51.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 0: +47.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 1: +47.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) I forgot to add: this should be during syncing, not while idle. If you checked while syncing, the temperature isn't the problem. How do I confirm that the HDD is the problem I've used fdwrite and f3read to test SD cards. If this gives an error on your hard drive (which should be empty to test all sectors), you know for sure it's the problem. But I doubt you'll get an error on a HDD this way. |
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One hundred and seventy-third week paid. Thanks again There is no excuse. There's always an excuse The kids don't have school (6 more weeks to go), and were finally in bed. It's hot, and the couch was calling me. My kids just got a TV ban for today because they didn't solve (yesterday) a 30 minute (tops) math paper I've printed for them. Lol I tried today: 3*3, and got answers varying from 6 to 10 or 11.
Remember the days when I could have the Bitcoin price (in k) as percentage in my booze? Last week's amaretto came close, but now I'm just back to 38% again |
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so there could still be dust in there. Check the CPU temperature. Command: |
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I didn't break the cards, but the data was lost. In that case, I would indeed blame the adapter. I've had several shitty microSD to USB adapters that disconnect when you look at them. I assume you didn't have this problem with the card in a phone, right? From what I know it depends greatly on the usage. It's not the same if it sits in the pocket doing almost nothing or you play a game. Agreed. But even when playing a game (with the screen on) it lasts many hours if not the whole day. So keeping up with 1 block every 10 minutes shouldn't consume a lot of power. I'd go for a laptop instead. You really make it hard for me to decide How about this: get a damaged laptop! They're awfully cheap, and for the purpose of a node it doesn't matter if the screen fell off. I have them, but it's annoying to hook up (especially with proper cable management that doesn't allow for quick disconnecting). Maybe a laptop with broken screen isn't the best idea after all  Another direction which you may like more: I may be able to get my hands for free onto an ASUS Pro57V (CPU = Intel T5800, 4GB RAM) and then I'll just buy a proper external HDD and insert it into this baby (which now has an old school 500GB WD Black in it). What you say? It's older than my current laptop, and this one is ancient already, so I wouldn't expect too much from it. But it will work (at 35W tdp). Why an external HDD, instead of replacing the internal disk? [PS. I will need tips on how to turn off and on the screen of that ASUS laptop] On: press a button. Off: Try xset dpms force off. Or easier: close the lid, usually that turns off the screen. |
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I wish it would be easy to measure. There are devices that do this, but usually the surface temperature is a pretty good estimate. If it's not warm, it's not worth worrying about. Now the electricity price is subsidized, until next spring at least. There are so many taxes and then reductions I cannot properly measure.
By not-so-strict calculations 4 months ago I paid around 15 cents/kWh, 2 months ago I paid some 7 cents/kWh. Here 2 of the taxes on electricity are also temporarily reduced, but it's still more expensive than ever. I didn't realize until yesterday how "local" high natural gas prices are: apparently European prices are 9 times higher than in the US. While you did scare me, since I feel like CISC processors tend to be more power hungry than RISC ones (eg ARM), hence a RPi4 would have been better for the job, this setup doesn't look like a bad business after all... The Raspberry Pi only consumes a few watts indeed. microSD may not be best suited for such load. From my experience it tends to heat up and start failing (but maybe the adaptors I've been using were not top quality either). I've broken cards in the past, but that happened by overwriting the entire card many times. The IBD writes all blocks once, and reads a lot of data, but it's only the chainstate directory I would worry about. If you're really going for a phone-setup (again: not easy but very cool), you could symlink chainstate to the phone's own storage. I also guess that a more powerful smartphone may be more power hungry too, but I may be awfully wrong. My assumption was the average phone battery holds about 10 Wh. It lasts more than 10 hours (especially with the screen off), so it can't use more than 1W on average. [Also, fyi: that SH system I consider buying, with that Intel G proc, 4GB RAM and 1TB HDD is just a tad over 100 EUR]. I'd go for a laptop instead. And I would not take into account systems that have own screen. There's usually no reason to buy screen for a machine supposed to run in unattended mode. Remote desktop - in a way or another - should do. Somehow I always end up carrying a monitor for trouble shooting. Again: I'm a sucker for laptops nowadays Ideally one with DVD drive (to replace for a HDD). you can get a 1TB spinning drive for under $50 I only recently found out that many well known harddrive brands use something called SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording): Western Digital, Toshiba, and Seagate have sold SMR drives without labeling them as such, generating a large controversy, as SMR drives behave much more slowly under some circumstances (such as random writes) My 2 TB HDD has this problem, which means that writing a lot of data leads to terrible performance. I've seen it down to writing just kilobytes per second: in order to write a single byte, it might have to rewrite multiple gigabytes.
In "normal usage patterns" (as designated so by HDD vendors, not by users!) this creates not much of a problem - the data is written to a CMR cache on the outer rim of the disk. Later, when disk usage goes down, the firmware will move the date to its final place in an SMR band.
When writing larger quantities of data at a time, this CMR cache is exhausted and the process of I/O to SMR bands has to take over - this is slower by orders of magnitude. Since I now know about it, I'd never buy an SMR disk again. |
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Just found out he is also a moderator of NSFW Subreddit with something to do with girls and BTC.  You're on to something! Just like Zuckerberg created Facebook to get pictures of girls on campus, what does "GirlsGoneBitcoin" tell you about the reason Bitcoin was created? |
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From what I can tell, you can get DIY CNC routers for $200-$300 I think the KISS principle applies here: a seed storage doesn't have to look good, because you can't show it off and you won't hang it on the wall. It's literally meant for your eyes only, so if a hammer and letter stamps can do the job, I wouldn't use a CNC cutter. |
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i will try on my real seed and back So: did it work? |
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It could be hardware failure. With just 4 GB RAM, you're asking a lot from your old HDD. I recently saw a case in which an incorrect CPU voltage setting caused problems syncing. So that's why Bitcoin Core gives a warning when started for the first time: This initial synchronisation is very demanding, and may expose hardware problems with your computer that had previously gone unnoticed. Memtest won't expose all possible problems. Any chance the laptop's cooling system is filled with dust? |
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The only really worrying part may the consumption. Measure it Here, prices easily go up to 50 cent (euro/dollar, it's the same nowadays) per kWh. That means 30W costs 11 euro/dollar per month. If not for the disk space requirements, a VPS could be cheaper (but also more risky for running a node). Back to the 11 dollar per month: that's 400 dollar in 3 years, and could very well justify buying a much more energy efficient second hand laptop to use as a node. This got me thinking: how cool would it be to run a node on a phone? Replace Android by Linux, add a 512 GB microSD (around 50 bucks), and login remotely. Or even without replacing Android: stackexchange mentions installing Bitcoin Core in Termux. Phones take at most a few watt power, and modern ones have more RAM than low-end laptops. You may want to turn off data |
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Since I am not good in hardware stuff and since I somewhat eyeing a configuration to move my bitcoin node away from my main computer... how bad is this CPU: Intel Pentium G4400T 2.90GHz?
Would I hate myself if I start using a mini PC with that CPU and 4GB RAM? I would add 4 GB (8 GB RAM total), and go for it! With SSD, it should be able to synchronize 450 GB blockchain within a day. This 6-7 years old system would just sit running 24/7, hopefully without creating too much useless heat. I wouldn't like the 35W TDP. In summer because of the heat, the rest of the year because electricity prices are outrageous here nowadays. The laptop I'm using now has a slower CPU (but more RAM). I should really upgrade, but don't like the hassle. |
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I have at least four or 5 very old electrum wallets pre-2011 As explained: that's not possible. One of those wallets is the one with the 10.7mBTC as I've been corrected to say and for which I shared one of the transactions and one of addresses in my last post. That's not wallet from 2010: the transaction happened in 2021. Am I 100% sure that the wallet belongs to me? Yes definitely If you're sure about that: forget about Electrum, and try to remember what you actually used. Electrum didn't exist, so it must have been something else. Have you ever used brainwallets? you could try and recover the coins in this old electrum wallet given by this old seed. (weave circle round thrice close your eyes holy dread honey hath jan) That's not a seed phrase, it's not even random. It comes from a poem by Kubla Khan: Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread
For he on honey-dew hath fed, Only "jan" is missing from the poem. |
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Username - Stevjohnsonlive
Kindly remove the ban for this user Denied. You're far from an being an established member, so I can't take a vouch from you. |
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For unlimited amount - we have reserves and able to serve big amounts Sgning is not safe Combining those two statements is a very big red flag. Signing a message is an established method to provide proof of funds. Claiming you have "unlimited" amounts and refusing to prove even a tiny 10 BTC balance doesn't inspire confidence. I also notice the typical buzz words on your website: Use verified solutions for standard or clean mixing. And here too: Trusted and safe Those are claims customers could make after years of service, it's not something a newcomer should say about themselves. |
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Hurry up guys... some of you already got paid! Missed me?  Or was I disqualified?  |
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If anyone does run with this idea, choose a name which does not have "taint" in it please. Take the opposite: tniat.com. It's available |
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