So Bitcoin Core allows to do the same thing, most people have an old pc that they do not use, they can just install bitcoin core, generate a wallet, export descriptors to the online PC (the daily use PC), there you create a watch-only wallet, import descriptors and you will have a functional watch wallet (allowing to create new receiving addresses and create unsigned transactions) after a transaction is created you just copy the psbt file in a USB flash drive, bring to the offline PC, sign and bring back to the online PC to broadcast. You don't see the average PC user do this, right? The average user who gets confused when the internet icon has moved sure can't handle this. And even if they can do it, it's a lot of work for making a transaction. That's okay if you do it once a year, it's not okay for daily use. For instance, people are already taking pictures of seed words even though the software tells them not to I do that too, but only for (mobile) wallets which I'll use for a very small amount. For convenience, I'm willing to risk it. People have also lost funds stored in a hardware wallet after they entered their seed words in a phishing site. Lack of common sense is a great way to lose your money  someone taking the time to learn and do all the process will be less likely to commit error, we see some users loosing all funds from HW because they fall for pishing sites asking seed etc. In reality, most Bitcoin Core users run it on an online system, and most of them probably use Windows. That makes losing funds much more likely than it is when using a hardware wallet, even though human stupidity will always find a way.
My own preference: I use different wallets for different purposes. I know the shortcomings (and I'm aware I might not even know everything), but it's enough to reduce the risk to an acceptable level without being inconvenient. |
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Hi, is it possible for you to unblock user "Liarus"? You don't look like a spammer to me, so vouch accepted. Liarus is whitelisted. |
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Can you briefly say for overall development what information can be obtained using Cloudflare? Everything: The security implications are that Cloudflare can read everything you send to or receive from the server, including your cleartext password and any PMs you send or look at. What I meant is that Cloudflare can see your unencrypted password when you log in. It's still encrypted from the real server to Cloudflare and from Cloudflare to you. So it's not blatantly insecure except in that Cloudflare is very probably an NSA honeypot Ok. Has this topic already been discussed on the forum, where I can fill the gap in my knowledge? I've seen some discussions about it. A good place to start might be different ANN threads on the Service Announcements board. ChipMixer wrote a few articles about Best practices of Bitcoin mixing. the bitcoin network was considered anonymous It never was. Bitcoin is pseudo-anonymous at best. everything is going to the fact that not a single transaction will be carried out without mixing services. That's not needed. It really depends: you probably wouldn't mind paying for your coffee from an address linked to the address you use to pay for your lunch. But it's not wise to let your local barista know you own $100M in Bitcoin, and you may not want to pay for sexual services from the address you received your Christmas bonus on. |
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True, it could be better, but since those speeds are more than enough for 4k HDR streaming (afaik 25-30 Mbps is enough) I am fine with it. Also, keep in mind that those were the speeds for US/Australia/Japan servers which are very far away from me. I've recently transfered large amounts of data between servers, and geographical distance matters a lot. If it's relatively close, I've seen 90 MB/s (almost the full 1000 Gbit/s), but if it's further away, it drops to around 7 MB/s. You can probably determine if the VPN is the bottleneck by opening many connections (Torrent): if that reaches the maximum of your internet connection, the VPN can handle it. |
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Let's all make a wish to theymos to permanently disable changing username and password to the account LoyceVs PM publisher, let everyone know the username password and they can see whatever CCed in to the account 😉 You can of course create your own PM-publishing-account and share the password with a business partner. Just not mine, my password won't be shared and if anyone can read the PMs, the delay-feature won't work. The benefit is doing so will take out the burden on you too. People will not blame (falsely or rightfully) that you may alter information. I'm not worried about being blamed. As long as I'm honest, there won't be any evidence to put the blame on me.
I actually found a use for this: this unedited post wil prove my intentions with absolute certainty after 45 days. If I edit the post, the forum shows it. And if I edit the PM, the signed message can't be verified. |
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I have no idea how this service works. It's hard to discuss privacy of mixers if you don't know how it works, or haven't at least tried it. Different mixers work in different ways. I'll add a bit to what has been said already: you could get a voucher from ChipMixer, and exchange that with someone else (obviously someone you trust). If you do that, there's not a single entity on the planet who could know all the information linking your incoming and outgoing transactions. |
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Thanks again for your flawless timing!
I again forgot it's Wednesday.
I blame the Kids. Nice try  Sarcasm doesn't work if you overlook my own flawless timing I miss you guys... I'll try to find time next Wednesday to make fun of L's tardiness too.  Just for you, I'll set my time machine to arrive 30 seconds late next week. In fact, I've already done it. Not having kids*
*Hopefully Being a vixen, at least you'll know for sure if you have kids. I'll never know if I made a few more back in the days  I'm not sure I can deal with six to ten children. I'm sure I can't deal with 10 kids  I'm 82% sure there's nothing to worry about.  |
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Thanks again for your flawless timing!
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Failed to load database path 'E:\itcoin'. Path does not exist. It sounds like somehow the path got changed in your settings. Try to change it back: Right-click on your bitcoin-qt shortcut, press properties, and add Turn off Bitcoin Core before changing it's file path. |
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Do you think ProtonVPN is bad choice for privacy even if your main usage is 4K streaming? I don't know (never tested it). Can you suggest another VPN with better ToS/privacy policy which also promise it's suitable for 4K streaming, have very high bandwidth or low delay? For Mullvad, I've never tried 4k streaming either. But it maxes out my internet connection when I'm downloading. For streaming, I can imagine the server location matters a lot, and ideally the VPN server should be in between your location and the streaming server. |
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I'm not sure if that's even possible since there's no such thing as a permalink to an email. That's easy to fix if you create your own archive of the mailing list. Like this example. I think Mailchimp lets me download a copy of emails I send through the mailing list, but I never tried it before. A quick search ("create archive of mailing list") shows many options. |
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The merit cycling club member @o_e_l_e_o is heading towards the @LoyceV 10k merit throne fast as now he is left with only 700 merits O_e_l_e_o only received 100 Merits airdropped, while I got 1000 Merits. At the rate he's going, he'll be top-Merited user #1 in about a month. Unless fillippone beats him to it. Or theymos: something tells me he'll earn a lot of Merit next week. Top-merited users, all-time
9426: LoyceV
9202: o_e_l_e_o
8726: fillippone
8181: theymos
8163: El duderino_
7277: Ratimov
7010: DdmrDdmr
6558: suchmoon
5271: LFC_Bitcoin
5137: pooya87
5005: gmaxwell |
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While i can understand you disagreement, it sounds like standard ToS where they include any possible user activity that could give them trouble. Even other privacy-oriented VPN mentioned in this forum have some unsettling/vague details on their ToS, such as
~ It sounds like the standard disclaimer that anyone just dismisses and clicks "ok" on. In my opinion, a VPN is one of those services where you should not dismiss terms you don't agree with. All the more reason I won't use any of those VPNs. There's literally nothing like it in Mullvad's Terms. |
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I do not understand that part.
In fact random mode is 9 times faster (or maybe it is better to say "more effective") than sequential (we test more valid keys), but we have no control over the work performed. I'm confused now too: On my dev card rtx3060 I have performance of about 8mln keys/s, which gives around 30k/s 'valid' keys,
Random mode works quite differently - using GPU we produce bunch of 'valid' keys and then we check all of them. That way we may check much more keys, but we are not able to verify if we do not have duplicates. The corresponding performance is about 600-750k/s. The way I read it: sequential 8M keys/s random: 600-750 keys/s the only benefit would that you may keep your private key in minikey format. Isn't that cool? |
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On my dev card rtx3060 I have performance of about 8mln keys/s, which gives around 30k/s 'valid' keys,
Random mode works quite differently - using GPU we produce bunch of 'valid' keys and then we check all of them. That way we may check much more keys, but we are not able to verify if we do not have duplicates. The corresponding performance is about 600-750k/s. If the random mode reduces performance by more than 90%, could you improve this by testing (for instance) 100 sequential keys after each random key? we are not able to verify if we do not have duplicates Considering there are thousands of funded addresses, you'll find the first match long before testing even 1% of the key space. So testing duplicates shouldn't happen often. Calculations for longer keys (30 characters) are left to the reader.
In other words - if you are in the possession of one of coins, I think you may sleep safe. Now let's build a dedicated ASIC device that does 0.5% of the Bitcoin hash rate for testing keys. It's an round number: 10 18 keys per second. And we're not trying to crack all keys, just 1 out of every 5000 (which gives a reasonable chance to hit one of the 5000 funded addresses). Now it only takes 58^21/10^18/5000/365/24/3600=68 million years to find a key. That makes mining Bitcoin blocks much more rewarding than cracking keys.
A few years ago I created many mini-private-keys (using a slow Python script) to search for a vanity address, but I don't have the list anymore. My search was too slow to find a meaningful vanity addy. |
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In a surprising turn of events, I had to adjust the scale:  |
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I consider PC even less secure than the mobile phone when it comes to keeping private keys securely. For Windows, you're probably right. But getting physical access to that PC is a lot more difficult than getting physical access to your phone. It got me curious how many phones get lost: People aged between 25 and 34 have on average lost three smartphones in their lives up until now, which works out at losing one every three years if you happen to be 25 and received your first phone at the age of 16. That's far more than I expected (and quite hard to believe). I don't use strong security on my phone (because it's annoying), so my solution is avoid adding much value to it. |
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My transaction is Stucked since 7 weeks Who made the transaction? If it's someone else, chances are you got scammed. If you made the transaction by yourself, can you start by explaining how you did that? |
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email explaining
very constructive.
removed trust feedbacks
have a phone call
Settle and talk of what's in the past once and for all
removed his double Trust exlusion Good to see this was resolved! I can't recall why krogoth was on my distrust list Probably because you distrusted many mobile alts. |
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Ik heb het geprobeerd: Een vragenlijst voor cryptobeleggers zou wel via Tor browser bereikbaar moeten zijn (voor de privacy van respondenten). |
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