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841  Economy / Reputation / Re: User janjdn shilling shady/probable scam website btcaccelerator[dot]info on: December 04, 2023, 10:09:58 AM
A thread was created about it yesterday. I think you did not see the thread.

Btcaccelerator.info - fake transaction accelerator

Thanks for the information, i didn't check "Scam Accusations" board before creating this thread. I'm locking this thread now.
842  Economy / Reputation / Re: [Discussion] Bitcointalk Community Awards 🏆 on: December 04, 2023, 10:00:26 AM
3. You must have 50 earned merits to voteNote.

Few thoughts,
1. With same amount of minimum earned merits, i expect we'll see more members take part of the vote.
2. I think this rule need to be clarified further. Do you use amount at start or end of voting phase?
843  Economy / Reputation / User janjdn shilling shady/probable scam website btcaccelerator[dot]info on: December 04, 2023, 09:41:20 AM
User janjdn[1] recently woke up and decide to shill shady/probable scam BTC TX accelerator website btcaccelerator[dot]info. Most of his reply has been deleted, but this user isn't banned so i decide to create this thread. If you check his deleted reply[2], you can see he always mention that website. Now here are reasons why btcaccelerator[dot]info is either shady/probable scam,
  • The website isn't very well designed[3].
  • I didn't find information about which mining pool they use to accelerate someone's transaction.
  • As stated by other user[4], there's mistake on it's pricing (see image below if you don't want to visit the website). "Instant Priority" mentioned twice while "Instant Priority" conflicted with "Highest Priority".





[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1935898
[2] https://ninjastic.space/search?author=janjdn
[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20231204093403/https://www.btcaccelerator.info/
[4] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=reporttm;topic=5476294.16;msg=63262406
844  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: How to create a Bitcoin Mixers / Bitcoin Tumblers Websites on: December 04, 2023, 09:24:02 AM
@SecuredNet

There is a software called Youmix.
At a time, few mixers were using it IIRC, and I believe it's still used nowadays by 1 or 2.

Is the spelling correct? A Google search gives different results that are completely far from cryptocurrencies. Even adding the word cryptocurrencies gives the name of a mixer and not a program for creating a mixing service.

The spelling should be correct. But looking on https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5358101.0, looks like it's no longer exist.

Some people say it's harder to track, especially if you 2 different exchange (BTC to XMR and XMR to BTC) where each exchange have different customer and addresses. Of course you can decide the timeframe freely, unless you use 3rd party (such as mixer) which enforce certain time frame.
Outputs like 0.096 BTC are easier to track even if you use BTC to XMR and XMR to BTC

But just like using mixer, you could decide when to perform XMR to BTC conversion. If you don't mind higher fees, you can even convert XMR to BTC in few different transaction.

and privacy is tied to other things like managing a full node or using Tor.

Yeah, but it's not mixer or exchange responsibility.
845  Other / Meta / Re: Mixers to be banned on: December 03, 2023, 11:14:02 AM
I wonder, how Lightning Network is classified. Is it a mixer or not? Because:
1. You can open a channel (a decentralized equivalent of putting coins into some mixer).
2. You can send your coins inside LN (this is where "mixing" phase can happen).
3. You can close a channel, or even get your coins back, without closing your channel (because of swaps, and you can end up with different on-chain coins than you started with).
And then, the question is: if you have some LN wallet, that allows you to get your on-chain coins, without closing your channel, and that is the default behavior of this wallet (for example Phoenix wallet did that), then is it a mixer or not?

I would say no for these reasons,
1. LN usually mentioned as solution towards scaling or microtransaction.
2. LN is non-custodial, unless you use custodial service.
3. LN doesn't offer that much privacy unless you believe other party doesn't keep log and LN software you use have additional privacy feature (e.g. use Tor by default).
3. IIRC by default some statistic of LN channel shown on website such as https://1ml.com/.
846  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: OMNI-UTXO for Bitcoin Network on: December 03, 2023, 10:53:23 AM
First of all, welcome to Bitcointalk forum. If you want more people read your idea, it would be great if you convert markdown to BBcode to make it's easier to see/read.

#### Data structure of O-UTXO

The structure is like this
```js
{
    account: '<Public key of the owner of the O-UTXO>'
    amount: '<Token number in the O-UTXO>'
}
```

Is this really for Bitcoin network? Unlike Ethereum which use account-based address, Bitcoin use UTXO-based address.
847  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Pending transaction for 4 days with 35 sat fee? on: December 03, 2023, 10:42:48 AM
My transaction was stuck due to low fees, no RBF and I couldn't CPFP, the fee I had to pay the miners was quite high but it was 100% successful and so fast... I had the transaction completed within 20 minutes. Had the pleasure to be served by btcaccelerator.info, this site is a super. I was doubting the success rates but after reading all the reviews below I decided to try it. They are not wrong, this service works and its very effective.

--SEO Spam--
hmm if legit this is a side business for a major pool.

now picture getting a ton of 35 dollar payments for a 5-10 buck tx.

and you are foundry pool.

now picture using 15 of each 35 dollar payment to flood the mempool with 1-20 sat dust moves.

foundry makes $$$ doing this.

I doubt it's legit, especially when the website design isn't very well designed and there's no mention which pool used to perform acceleration. In addition, that user seems to perform SEO spam which is common occurrence on this forum.
848  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The Stories on Bitcoin's Value on: December 03, 2023, 10:38:28 AM
A warning to other reader, OP recycle his discussion from old thread to this thread. Here are short snippet from his other thread,

Source: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5474861.0

Finally, crypto units cannot be drunk, eaten, built into products, worn as jewelry, viewed as a picture or movie, or listened to as music. In short, they do not have an intrinsic value that creates a certain amount of benefit through the fulfillment of human needs, for this benefit to serve as a reference for the value of these units.

Source: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5472154.0

Let's therefore assume that those 100 units are 100 apples. Apples can fulfill the purpose of nutrion. By knowing that purpose, you can evaluate whether it is worth giving your bike for those 100 units. The same is true for other products that have historically been money - livestock, grain, wine, fur, metals, etc. All these products were able to fulfill purposes beyond serving as a medium of exchange. That was then used for estimating how many other products to give for them.

Source: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5467415.0

For example. By wheat having a nutritional purpose, speculators approximately know how valuable it is to consumers and whether prices are cheap or expensive. Similarly, by fiat currencies having the purpose of paying debt to the banks and by debtors facing foreclosures in case of default, speculators know these currencies are worth to debtors somewhere in the range of pledged collaterals. Meaning, they will not trade houses for a specific number of currency units if they see that banks take cars as collateral when issuing that number of units.

But since OP bother rewrite his points, moderator couldn't just delete/lock the duplicated threads.
849  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: X.com (Twitter) is approving phishing website ads, beware on: December 03, 2023, 10:20:50 AM
As other users mentioned, it's nothing new. Although recently X also caught showing anti-semitism ads[1] and attempt to disguise ads as regular ads[2] which makes it more concerning.

This is not limited to only X. It is rampant on other social media platforms as well. There is nothing that the owners can do.

I disagree, with manual check performed by human many of such ads could be caught before it's shown to X users.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2023/11/17/1213836636/advertiser-exodus-grows-as-elon-musks-x-struggles-to-calm-concerns-over-antisemi
[2] https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/08/x-formerly-twitter-caught-running-unlabeled-ads-in-users-following-feeds/
850  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: How mixers work? ELI5 and other questions on: December 03, 2023, 10:16:55 AM
2. The article also mentions that some exchanges might refuse to receive 'dirty' BTC. How they define and later find out if particular BTC is 'dirty'? I mean what makes BTC 'dirty' or 'clean'?

There is no clear definition or method how they (or third party they use) to definte whether certain BTC is "dirty" or not. At best you get rough example such as "stolen, from dark web, mixer, etc.".

3. If you bought your BTC from well know CEX, should you be concerned?

Assuming that CEX is legally registered, no.

Is there a way to check for 'dirtiness'?

There are several services which check "dirtiness" of an address. But you have to trust them to provide truthful result and take note each exchange have different way to check "dirtiness".

I am reading an article about mixers and how they work. While reading came up with these questions:

1. How mixer works in terms of blockchain and transactions? Is it like you sending your own BTC to address of the mixer and the same is done by other people, and they just forward your BTC to another address of your choice?
The simple answer is here-
Bitcoin mixers, also known as tumblers, are services that receive cryptocurrencies from users, pool them together, and then send the amounts to their corresponding recipient addresses. This is an effort to obfuscate the transaction trail.


How do you obtain that image? When people use mixer, usually the destination/receiver is their own cryptocurrency address.
851  Bitcoin / Hardware wallets / Re: How to buy a nano ledger s plus case anonymously? on: December 03, 2023, 09:58:23 AM
It wouldn't make sense to buy a 3d printer to make a case for it because buying the case from overpriced case from ledger is over 40 dollars only.  I wouldn't have any use of a 3d printer.

In that case, my suggestion isn't viable option for you.

Can you show examples of a case that can be created with a 3d printer?  I didn't even know a 3d printer can make a phone case.

Few random example which i found from google search,
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5631986
https://www.printables.com/model/290683-ledger-nano-s-case
https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/gadget/ledger-sleeve-nano-s-plus

I just checked to look at what a 3d printer can make.  But what else you need to spend on besides the 3d printer?  Ink... but what else?

I don't know since i don't own 3d printer.
852  Other / Meta / Re: Switching to Presearch search engine for bitcointalk? on: December 03, 2023, 09:49:27 AM
Wouldn't it make sense? https://www.presearch.io/ can't be worst than the current engine...
The forum has its own native search engine and has not proven to be dormant neither is it faulty. The forum cannot therefore switch to a third party serach engine when it is self-sufficient on its very own.

I'd say 90 seconds delay between search could be considered as faulty.

I consider OP a good contribution but targeted at the wrong audience. I assume OP to be advocating for the external search engine project but lacks the capacity to convince, with facts, why his post should be adopted.

That's kind view. I bet some people see OP as shill when OP doesn't acknowledge weakness of presearch.
853  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Which Linux distribution would you use now? on: December 03, 2023, 09:33:37 AM
Aside from security, you might face unexpected behavior after long time it receive last update. For example,
  • Repository or website which host software for your OS no longer exist.
  • Some application cannot use internet connection properly due to certificate problem.
Yes, official repos may go down after some time. But like in case of Centos 6 there are some archive or even 3rd party repos you can continue using.

Fair point. Although using archive is less convenient (which isn't problem for Linux geek/administrator) while you need to trust that 3rd party repos.

I'm mostly using systems with no GUI but I'm yet to see an OS which can't connect to the internet because it's too old. Until recently I was running a Windows 2008R2 machine which was complaining all the time and the browser stopped updating but you could connect anyway.

Perhaps,
1. OS you used isn't that old.
2. There's background application which regularly obtain new trusted certificate.
3. The browser remain up to date even though it's on old OS.

Quote from: ETFbitcoin
What exactly do you mean by rock solid? Rarely crash?
Yeah, that, and also security-wise. Firewall keeps working, kernel has no critical vulnerabilities. Ar least they weren't exploited. Of course, I wouldn't run something connected with finance, payment processing, health, military or some other sensitive data on such a machine.

No critical vulnerabilities is impossible, although no hacker target that server sounds plausible.
854  Other / Meta / Re: Mixers to be banned on: December 03, 2023, 09:27:29 AM
On bright hide, i hope mixer will make new innovation where they offer non-custodial privacy-enchanting service. Or maybe they should switch business where they fork Wasabi Wallet and run their own WabiSabi coordinator without any blacklist.

Spot on! Talk about killing two birds with one stone.

Why stop at Wasabi though? A Whirlpool coordinator would also be cool, assuming such a thing can be extensible.

I mentioned that since AFAIK only Wasabi Wallet support WabiSabi coordinator. As for Whirlpool, user have choice between Samourai and Sparrow wallet. Although in practice, running either would be nice.
855  Other / Archival / Re: [ANN] [banned mixer] | Best Bitcoin Mixer | Extra Layer of Privacy by XMR Bridge on: December 02, 2023, 11:26:34 AM
This service might survive if it completely switches from being called a mixer to an exchanger that converts your BTC to XMR.

It's interesting idea. Although looking at https://kycnot.me/search?q=&type=exchange&xmr=on&btc=on there are already several no-KYC exchange which support both BTC and XMR. In addition, AFAIK one of them currently run signature campaign and another one used to run same thing.
856  Bitcoin / Hardware wallets / Re: How to buy a nano ledger s plus case anonymously? on: December 02, 2023, 11:13:02 AM
I did quick google search and found out some people share design/file for Ledger Nano S case which can be created with printer 3D. If you don't mind people know that you own 3D printer and spend several hundred dollars for it, you can create/print your own case at home.

Okay so earphone cases are not that good because it can't stand the pressure.  But would it protect the nano ledger s plus though?
It depends on what kind of protection is needed for the device in question [you might want to mention that first].

I think OP refer to this product https://shop.ledger.com/products/ledger-nano-case/ledger-nano-s-plus-case.
857  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: Wasabi Wallet - Open Source, Noncustodial Coinjoin Software on: December 02, 2023, 11:01:51 AM
Reputation for innovation
Wasabi Wallet was awarded a share of Bitcointalk's longstanding coinjoin development bounty, along with JoinMarket:

Congratulations to the Wasabi and JoinMarket developers! JoinMarket pioneered a lot of CoinJoin science (and BTW, belcher wrote an excellent & comprehensive wiki article on privacy), while Wasabi is the first wallet that implements CoinJoin in both a highly-usable and sound way. As both a signer and a donor to the CoinJoin bounty fund, I'm thrilled that these two pieces of software exist!

Here are additional context about the bounty for other readers,
1. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=279249.msg2983911#msg2983911.
2. It's awarded when only Wasabi Wallet version 1 exist, before controversy of Wasabi Wallet/zkSNACKs exist.
858  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Which Linux distribution would you use now? on: December 02, 2023, 10:51:54 AM
--snip--
I'm not sure why everyone is so obsessed with updates. Many would say it's not safe to keep using OS without getting regular updates,

Aside from security, you might face unexpected behavior after long time it receive last update. For example,
  • Repository or website which host software for your OS no longer exist.
  • Some application cannot use internet connection properly due to certificate problem.

but I've seen lots of machines running something ancient like Centos 5 for example and yet they're rock solid. Don't fix it if ain't broken they say.

What exactly do you mean by rock solid? Rarely crash?

For my Windows computer I was using Windows 7 until the very last day and I hope to do the same with Windows 10.

Talking about Windows, are you aware of LTSC version which has less bloat and longer support?
859  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: how to access from phrases only. on: December 02, 2023, 10:42:43 AM
Does that paper include any specific word/term? That word/term might refer to specific software or method used to generate that paper.

Hello

I have only a old paper phrase. 10 years ago.
Any assistance would be great. completely lost on how do access this.
Please provide a sample.
Of course, replace every character or word but keep the formatting correct like the number of characters and symbols.

Alternatively, you could find similar image from Google image search result and show it to us.
860  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Where the mixers will promote their projects? on: December 02, 2023, 10:24:25 AM
maybe if someone know about decentralized place, feel free to suggest and it might help the mixers. Grin

There are few decentralized place such as Nostr. Although i've no idea how mixers should promote their service on such place while remain on-topic on place they visit.

Google is not banning mixers and platforms that review and advertise mixers so a user will just have to type the word mixer, unless Google filters out mixer keywords and platforms that advertise and promote mixers, you can still find them here in the mainnet not only on the darknet and other online communities discuss and promote mixers like Reddit.

It wouldn't be fun job for those who tasked to perform SEO, they'll have to compete with other and fake mixers for top search result while remain looking convincing.

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