Asides from my teleported message, I have never submitted a single post!  And yes, the rest are quality posters, but they're a really small minority.

As an aforementioned user, I can assure you that altcoinstalks is a spamfest. Having "Coin Voting", "Bounties & Rewards" and "Aidrops & Giveaways" as the very first sub-boards visitors will immediately see, says it all.

Look. I agree you believe you educate people about Bitcoin privacy, but we have repeated this conversation around solutions for privacy quite a lot of times. The fact that you still quote these whirlpool messages, as if they even mean something substantial, shows with what tenacity you're trying to sabotage Samourai. I agree with Poker Player that the more you talk, the more you ruin Wasabi's reputation.

Quite literally not. There are far more important things in this world.

Except that in your last 13 feedback of your Trust summary, people have accused you of being a horrible human being, regardless. People with no relations with mixers wrote these. Even Poker Player, who carries a Wasabi signature, and could have been considered in disadvantageous position. You cannot keep wandering around with that soundbite. Nobody buys it.

Acknowledging that everyone is going to die versus wishing and praising for someone's death are two separate things. I'm quite struggling to think what else there is to say.

This is precisely why it takes so much. The transaction has to pass through a lot of bureaucratic processes. This is why peer-to-peer cash is priceless.

Depends on a lot of things. How congested? Is the median fee less than a couple of dollars or has it skyrocketed to double digits? What's the amount transferred? If it is more than four three digits, I can barely find a period where it is less expensive with Bitcoin. If the amount is equivalent to the price of a meal, then a banking transaction will always be cheaper than an on-chain. How many inputs do you want to spend? That's the kind of questions that will determine the answer.

Another thing: Check your seed's integrity. At least once a few months. Create backups. There are far more chances you screw things up than some random dude compromising your seed phrase. It has not happened to me, but I'd absolutely not want to be the guy who found out his text was erased from a flood, or a heavy storm.

It is a good reminder to take this shit seriously, because we're all alone in this. There is no recovery service.

Bitcoin transactions are still cheaper than most remittances between banks, especially if you're sending money across the borders of your country. I agree that you should rather use an altcoin if transacting frequently, though.

For the sake of the argument, bank transfers are instant if both people use the same bank. Try using two separate banks and see how much time it might take. Try again, but select a recipient from outside the borders of your country. It's more than 10 minutes. Remittances can take up to three with four days. Paypal transactions can even take months to finish.

Good, but these posts are deleted as spam, not as plagiarism. I agree that there are countless of AI meaningless posts, and should be deleted, but not because they were generated by an AI; simply because they lack essence and / or fill the board with shitposts.

My reply goes to banning someone and using "ChatGPT plagiarism" as an excuse. Of course and I support banning spammers.

Makes a lot of sense. You can't have blockchain analysis embedded in every KYC exchange on Bitcoin, deeming coinjoined coins as "tainted", and just ignore privacy altcoins at the same time.

I trust Bisq, and that's why it is the only DEX I'm using. However, if I had to choose which one I trust more, Tor Browser or Bisq, then it'd be the former. Not only it is less complex, it is just far more reviewed and consider it less probable to de-anonymize me. (Tor Browser comes with the extensive Firefox development)

Me too. I have switched to public nodes since then. Probably has to do with the minimum memory of the Raspberry Pi?

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BTW, @exch.cc, have you tried contacting theymos about the old domain (user)name? I'm pretty confident he'll allow changing it to "exch.cx".

Plagiarizing is forbidden, not paraphrasing. When an AI corrects your grammar, that is considered paraphrasing. And yes, I personally encourage the use of Grammarly or an LLM if used properly, because I frequently stumble across posts which are criminal offenses to the English language.

To consider something plagiarism, you need evidence. Not, "mechanically seemingly generated text" evidence. Solid evidence. Unless ChatGPT or other AI models allow you to search their database, which I very much doubt as it'd be super privacy invasive, how do you expect this to happen?

This topic is a duplicate to an old of mine, where I make an efficiency and price comparison between coinjoin, XMR and mixers. Have a look.

The most efficient mixer is Monero, there is no doubt. What matters is how you exchange your bitcoin for it. If you prioritize self-custody, then I'd recommend you to trade in Bisq. If you prioritize comfort (and pricing sometimes?), maybe you should check an exchanger like eXch.

I'm not entirely sure what Circle was, but if you're talking about a simple fiat exchange from a large firm with a simple non-KYC registration, then I very much doubt there is any such service left. Especially in the US.

To me, the best and only truly decentralized exchange is Bisq, which is completely peer-to-peer, operated by a DAO. The next best ones, which are centralized, can be found in here: https://kycnot.me/search?q=&type=exchange&btc=on&fiat=on.

Shutting down Bisq is same difficult as shutting down any other peer-to-peer network. The rest of the non-KYC, centralized exchanges can be shut down easily, though.

It is very simple. In this forum, you can rent your signature space. Not all users can do that, usually it's Sr. Member and above. Why would one pay you to wear their product? Because, this site has a lot of traffic; probably millions of visits each month. If you have posts in thousands of pages, then you're appreciated in that matter (campaign managers look a lot more than that, but it counts). Another factor is merits, which determines how the rest of the users appreciate you.

Overall, this forum incentivizes quality posting, even though it might encourage shitposting sometimes.

Heyy, ChipMixer, long time no see!  

It does not violate any rule. It is forbidden to direct people to Bitcoin mixers, but this one does not even have to do with real bitcoin. You're just playing with testnet.

If you think about it, there is no easy way to mix testnet bitcoins. You may be wondering why would one want privacy in testnet, but I'm sure there is a reason or two. For example, you might not want to reveal you own a faucet. That is a feedback for the project too.

That being said, I also experienced address reuse, which I suppose is a realized decision by the OP. BTW, that allows me to steal every deposit.

There are no truly decentralized exchanges that prioritize fees, volume and variety of altcoins. The closest thing we have to truly decentralized is Bisq, but that is expensive if you use it to trade frequently, has a low volume, and does not support a lot of altcoins.

You only get these in centralized exchanges, unfortunately.

What I intended to convey is that there was no necessity for Kruw's disgusting behavior on the forum to prompt us to question the principles of Wasabi developers. They have been showcasing their negative aspects for quite some time now. Wasabi started as a project to make Bitcoin fungible, and now they support the notion that some coins are tainted. They display their cooperation with surveillance firms as a necessity, at the same time they do acknowledge blockchain analysis is inaccurate.

And countless of other examples which reveal that they are either incompetent with the subject or actively malicious-- which in either case means they can't be trusted with our privacy.

Pretty much what Learn Bitcoin said. The problem isn't the phishing attack per se; I mean, it really sucks if someone fell for that, but they can't have missed the many warnings. (If I recall correctly, once the seed is generated, it displays a "Never share it with anyone" message)

The problem is, for once more, the data the hacker possesses right now. That email and name list will sooner or later be sold at Breached or some other corner of the darknet, and there will be victims.

Paper wallets in their traditional form are far from recommended. They limit your entire wallet to just one private key, which besides bad for your privacy, is easy to mistype when writing it down. Plus, it is evidently insecure to use javascript for generating private keys. I'm mentioning this, because often times, it is an abandoned project like bitaddress.org which offers the option for paper wallet.

We tend to worship whatever has the most power. And since power emerges from the ability to process information, it is natural that we are insatiable to knowledge.

Another reason is our curiosity. From birth, we are inherently inquisitive, endowed with the consciousness to ponder the mysteries of the unknown. Questions like "Why does the grass appear green?" or "Why is the sky blue?" are typical queries a child might pose. Our consciousness compels us to question our existence; "Who created me?", "What is real?", "How did everything come into being?". Provided that we will never know everything, we will always have novel aspects to explore.

Then protect your private key, because it is far more probable than you will screw things up with the paper wallet, than the entire Bitcoin network with itself.

For the sake of the potential confusion: Bitcoin Core is an implementation of Bitcoin. It is not Bitcoin itself. I don't understand why you're concerned about Electrum going extinct, but not about Bitcoin Core. Both are equally reputable and maintained for more than a decade. And both are parts of the Bitcoin network.

And I strongly recommend you to create an Electrum wallet instead, as it's more user-friendly and contains less complex terminology.

OP, note that with current fee rates, you'll have to pay quite a lot. Spending 30 inputs takes up about 2000 vbytes. With fee rate at 45 sat/vb, that will cost 90,000 sat at least.

Technically speaking, the transaction fee is not considered an output. From the perspective of the protocol, the sum of all the outputs minus the sum of all the inputs is the transaction fee.

I swear I've heard it in a negative tone before.