On that same note JollyGood is in my trust list because he has left some well deserved tags on people over the years
He also left many tags for people that directly came out of no fact, no logic but purely out of retaliation. May be you did not check his sent feedback section. There is this problem - when you want to check his trust page from Loyce.club or want to check his feedback page, you will see there are so many numbers in the list and since you have this great beautiful memory about him that he is a great scam buster (he used to be long ago), after seeing a first few you feel better to close the page. Have you even ever considered how he insults people on different threads, he does it all the time to the people who do not accept his arguments. That IS the point I was making. Going with what you said, he WAS a great scam buster years ago. If I am going to have to really start going through all my trust lists from who I added (Either good or bad) and look at all they have done since then it's going to take a while. So leaving it alone is what I (and I am making an assumption here) others have done. And as you said take a quick or even long look through what he left and it still does look good. So now we come to the case here. Yes, I disagree with what he left. Do I take him out for just 1 infraction or do I go thought all of them. Then where do I draw the line? 1 out of 100? 2 out of 500? 3 out of 1000? Going to spend some time looking this coming week and figure it out. Bit of humor, but... Looking at your feedback we did a trade 18 moths ago. I seriously don't even remember doing it. -Dave |
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I think it's because most of people are solely depend their source of income in this forum, since there are so many active campaings, it make them impossible to quit this forum. Although there are some people still active without wearing paid signatures, but it's undeniable the number of active users who get paid are way higher than the not paid one.
Is Blazed alive? no one know, is MiningBuddy alive? no one know. Even they're turn active posting, there's no guarantee if they're the real owner of the account as long as there's no sign message proof (there's also a chance the address was sold to other people).
99% of the people in the collectibles board have tons of assets worth more than our lifetime signature campaign earnings, so why would they need to enroll in one? 99% might be a high number. But there are a lot of people in the collectables section that only rarely come out here so it's a 'different' section of the board then others. Same as there are others in different sub region boards that never venture out of there. Not good or bad / just the way it is. Why do we suddenly think someone is dead just because they stopped using Bitcointalk?
The reason being after the pandemic their has been a sudden increase in death due to cardia arrest. Another reason is being inactive and being so good at what someone was doing here, raises a concern. I love it, when people who are unknown personally, as they have never met in IRL are searched and asked about. This literally shows how important someone was for the forum and how much they have inspired others by their activities in the forum. There is nothing wrong as per me by OP for asking whether Blazed is alive or not. I hope he or she is alive and kicking. I proposed a while a go a 'whatever happened to member X' thread and nobody seemed interested. Outside of the privacy issues you wind up with the did anyone even notice? Also I think it depends on how they went away if I went from ~ 25 posts a week to 20 then 14 then 9 then one every now and then, people would ASSUME I just stopped posting. But, if I don't tell then it's just that, an assumption. -Dave |
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No idea but a few questions and a couple of possibilities:
Does the wallet actually open in electrum?
Did you ask in the electrum github?
Was it created in a machine that was defaulted to a different language / character sets? I have had issues where other things got weird when other languages were defaulted.
Could someone have tampered with the file?
Had you ever looked at the files before this? 10+ years is a long time, going from machine to machine and electrum version to electrum version something might have gotten changed.
Sorry that I can't help more, it's an odd one but having more info always helps figuring out an issue.
-Dave
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Bit of a necro bump but TX is still paying people not to mine when their power grid can't handle it: https://www.techspot.com/news/100066-texas-power-grid-operator-pays-bitcoin-miner-over.htmlThankfully for Riot, there is a way to offset these losses: energy credits. It received $24.2 million from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) in power curtailment credits for reducing its energy consumption in August, along with $7.4 million from ERCOT's demand response program.
The more than $31 million Riot received for its actions was over three times what it earned from Bitcoin mining during the same month; the 333 coins the company mined were worth around $8.9 million. Have to love Texas economic socialism at it's finest. Privatize the profits and socialize the losses and still have the private businesses make money. Just think Texas has about 31 million people so everyone in Texas just gave Riot blockchain $1. How can I get in on this action? -Dave |
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IMO, part of the issue is that JollyGood does have a lot of it right. He also has a bunch wrong, once again IMO.
So, do you not support (trust) him and have his good feedback count less, or do you not have him on your trust list and possibly have someone get away with something that they might not have if JG had not been DT1 / 2.
Obviously I trust you I am in a campaign you manage and are in my trust list.
On that same note JollyGood is in my trust list because he has left some well deserved tags on people over the years that others have not, And, I fully admit I am also part of the problem because I should be tagging people but keep putting it off if I was more active, I think that taking out 'marginal' people would probably come easier to me since I would have already tagged them.
Have to think about the best way to handle it.
This forum needs a copy & edit feedback from another user function....
-Dave
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Do you have the private keys or the seed or anything else like what is shown in your link?
The XPUB is your public key, there is no way to recover anything from it, all it does is generate addresses that your private seed can access.
You need the private keys or recovery phrase to do anything.
-Dave
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It changes to a pool I think is original. Pool: stratum+tcp://sd.antpool.com:3333 with worker name: stockmnr.avalon
ss.antpool or sd.antpool? sd is not a valid address. stockmnr.avalon is not what mine defaults to, but I don't know if they have more then 1 username. I would make sure you are on the latest firmware https://www.canaan.io/service/447 and reach out to avalon support they also have a sales rep in the forum you can try sending a PM to: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3481962-Dave |
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Is it changing the pools back to the default ones or something else?
If it's going back to the default pools with the default user / pass for them then the control board is resetting for some reason.
If it's changing to something else, then either the miner or something on your network is infected and re-configuring the miner to mine for them.
-Dave
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IMO, probably not much change in the long term in the use of BTC
Short term when they 1st really become popular and people discuss it as the next big thing, yes there will be a big bump as yet again everyone interprets it as the new Magical Internet Money Machine.
As time goes on and it becomes evident that it's just another part of the evolution of BTC then it will become just another thing that you can do with BTC and just become accepted as part of it.
So, yes the more you can do with BTC the better it is, so smart contracts are worth it from that view.
-Dave
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Think of how long it took for people to go from barter - to gold / silver / coins - to paper money - to.....
BTC / LN / Whatever. Still young. Things will work themselves out. Even now, LN being below 2021 is not a big deal to me. The BTC price vs USD is also way below 2021 so perhaps, people are not using LN because they are sitting on their coins. Or, perhaps spending $0.40 to make a TX is not a big deal to a lot of users so they stay on the main chain.
-Dave
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And since it will come up....
Yes, I will get one of these to play with, because I am a tech & crypto nerd. No I will not use it as a primary or secondary or even 5th HW wallet.
-Dave
Well I got a we did not choose you for our beta email. Guess I will just have to wait to get the thing that I will put in the closet and never use that I will then sell years from now never having taken it out of the box. I'm not an addict to these things I can quit at any time..... https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5455887-Dave |
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The binance card is also unavailable Where is that written? When I click the link I get Earn up to 8% BNB cashback every time you spend EUR or crypto.
Join the waitlist for Binance Card now.
We will notify you as soon as they become available again.  I don't know if it's a region locked thing or not. Also here: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/binance-card-shuts-down-latin-134305264.html for some regions, I know others were already down. The Gemini card is not a debit card, but a regular card that pays rewards in crypto. I know there are a few crypto credit cards on the list, as an exception. Dave casually hands a ton of work Ratimov.... How about a separate section for those cards that are either credit cards or fiat funded that just give rewards in crypto? i.e. Gemini and Fold and the others. -Dave |
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What I was looking for is more of the DaveF had an issue, and using a deterministic wallet would have fixed the problem or if DaveF does not use a deterministic wallet he will have those problems. 1. Users created non-deterministic wallets. 2. They didn't make backups every 100 addresses. 3. They sent some small amount as a payment, and the rest of their wealth was sent as a change. 4. They didn't have that backup, so they lost their change. Topic: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=782.0See transaction: eb5b761c7380ed4c6adf688f9e5ab94953dcabeda47d9eeabd77261902fccccf Deterministic wallets solve this. You can then make your backup once, and generate all addresses from that, including change address. That kind link was what I was looking for. I have known all the benefits of HD wallets and so on, but I just never knew how we got there. Back then I always had to opinion that BTC users were tech savvy and knew enough to backup often and in different ways. Just never really looked at how many people lost how much before we got where we are now. -Dave |
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Probably not expressing myself properly was tired when posting. I saw both of those when searching a while ago. But the BIP motivation says why and even the gmaxwell post has this Bitcoin really ought to offer and default to using deterministic wallets. The additional security of the current pre-generated ones is fairly small considering how most people use bitcoin and the liability of harm due to insufficient backups and increased pressure to keep a single wallet online is enormous.
What I was looking for is more of the DaveF had an issue, and using a deterministic wallet would have fixed the problem or if DaveF does not use a deterministic wallet he will have those problems. I *know* these issues happened, but was looking for the discussion about how doing it this way would have solved it. But, with what you posted I was probably not looking back far enough. -Dave |
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I guess the question really is why? Tires are usually shredded and the rubber and metal recycled.
Not to mention the costs vs energy density. Tire rubber has a much lower energy density then a lot of other things so unless you have the tires onsite the cost to move them there is going to be high.
Seems like either it's a scam to get investors money OR it's an answer in search of a problem.
Remember all you are doing is burning something to create heat, to create steam to turn the turbines in the generator. There are better things to burn...
-Dave
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Because it's sitting in their account and they don't care. ~ THAT is PayPal's target audience. Fees in, fees out, terrible exchange rate. But, it's a painless process. I have a few clients who STILL use PayPal just for credit card processing. They could save a bunch my moving to another vendor. But over the years they have integrated PayPal with so many things. Even saving 2% on the $300000 (so $6000 net) they move through them every year will cost them more in redoing their back end then a few years of fees. -Dave A long time ago I swore I was going to stop even trying to understand how the payments happen in the US but every single time I stumble upon this kind of gem and I kept wondering why in the name of god, why??? I have both my personal account and I do accounting for my family business now and then and take care of payments all we need is a bank account, we have an app with direct debiting, I just set up times, and maximum amounts so a mistake won't overcharge us millions, I can pay every single bill by just scanning a code and that's it, why, again why would I ever need a 3rd party service besides my bank? Do you know how much these costs? 1-5 euros a month depending on the package and if you want better deals with your debit/credit card. Running a paypoint? If you have a small business it's 0.3% fee on sales, money goes instantly to your bank account, and you automatically get a credit line with zero interest for 3 months for 25% of your revenue in that period! So, why would anyone still need paypal? 10 years ago? Yeah for sure, it was like star wars compared to the rest but nowadays? Meh!!! A large part is inertia. Not going to name names, but lets call the person DaveF...yeah that's a good name. Lets say this person has a day job, that generates a paycheck and a side job that deals in crypto. And he is happy and all is good. Then he decides to start selling off a lot of old junk he collected over years decades. But, he does not want to setup a merchant account to take credit cards. So, it's either cash (and crpyto) or he needs a way to process credit cards and for that he dusts off his old PayPal account. The rates suck, and the process is not great but it's there and ready to go. Because at car swap meets that's the way it is cash or card. Same with some small businesses, as I said above there are better / cheaper ways to take cards. But if you have something that you hacked together years ago that works but you hard coded in some PayPal integration would you spend the money to switch? If you are processing enough they the answer would be yes, but if you are talking under $50000 in cards a year the amount you save would be minimal. Don't know how it is in the rest of the world, but here credit cards are expensive to take as a merchant, but if you don't you loose customers. -Dave |
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Don't know if you want this in here or a separate discussion, but for a while I have been wanting to discuss what actually brought this about.
At times I have poked around old lists and discussions, but either my Google skills are slipping or I am not searching for the proper terms. But is there a point in time where everyone got together and said, yes we need this and we are going to do it this way?
-Dave
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All this has happened before, and it will happen again.
Ordinals are just the newest Magical Internet Money Machine thing. Eventually the scammers making them and the suckers buying them will move on.
Will they move to another coin or network to pump their crap? Who knows.
For now, unless you are combining a lot of small inputs, there is an increased cost to your you TX in the next block or 2, but it's not an incredibly large amount of sats like has happened in the past.
-Dave
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It's just good corporate governance. If you have the money on hand to buy back bonds and stop paying interest on them it's better then doing a stock buyback that just boots stock price.
Without doing a dig into how much cash they have on hand / other debts and the rates they are paying on those it's a tough call.
Yes you can get way more money by leaving that cash in the bank and earning interest on it. BUT, it also may make getting money in the future from other bonds easier since overall the company has less debt.
-Dave
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