By "subnetworks" do you mean "sidechains"? If that's the case, then yes, they're a much safer and reliable option than the LN. The main difference is that sidechains always rely on a certain third party, while LN can be non-custodial. I'll repeat what I said during high fees in 2017: I don't care how Bitcoin scales, as long as it does it. |
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Storage is far cheaper than RAM That's true, but if you're low on RAM, more storage isn't going to help you. note that since your entire chainstate is in RAM, any corruption to the RAM would result in a catastrophic failure and thus another reindex. Any failure in your RAM pretty much fucks up your computer. Luckily, it's rare for RAM to fail after it's properly installed. I doubt it wouldn't try to reserve the space for chainstate on the disk at all times. So it'll be far easier to just get more storage. Each time Bitcoin Core verifies a block, it reads/writes a lot to chainstate. If you're low on RAM, the disk will be the bottleneck. |
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Thanks again for your flawless timing  |
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I don't have issues with bandwidth I meant in the future, when your image host goes viral. I do have issues with Inode Limit. Which for now is under control. The Linux default is about 58 million inodes per TB. How many did you have? To create another domain would be almost a new project, and it would complicate management. I can try to look at some alternatives, but it would always depend on whether users respected them or not. A sub-domain may work: whateversite.talkimg.com. If you can enforce it so each image only loads on a certain site, they'll have to respect it. I also don't want to scale without control That was my concern indeed. |
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The Bitcoin Price Crash To $68,000 LOL  |
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All countries/central banks issue banknotes with serial numbers for a reason... there is no exception.
This is a long-time international practice, so I'm surprised you've never heard it before Don't make up things about me. Of course I know what serial numbers are. During a bank robbery, if a robber has taken the bait money, details of this can be passed on to the police. If the money is found in the possession of someone, or used to purchase goods, this can make it easier to find the suspect of the bank robbery. That's not the same as blaming innocent people. I'll end this discussion here, it's far too off-topic. To get back on-topic: If you earn your Bitcoin from selling drugs, the police will hold it against you once they catch you. But if your Bitcoin came from a drug dealer who bought a coffee from you, they can't hold that against you. If you believe otherwise, don't use money. Not that barter is going to help you: the cow you got may have been used for a crime in the past |
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You may be innocent ~, but they won't care. It sounds like you have a police-problem, not a money-problem. I'm glad I live in a country where I'm innocent until proven guilty. |
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I can't read the site, but this isn't something I worry about. Almost every banknote has cocaine traces on it, and given enough rotation most banknotes must have been in the hands of criminals. That's not a problem: money is fungible. It's a problem if you're personally dealing with criminals. So don't do that  As soon as that "tainted" banknote enters the banking system, you're fucked. They will freeze the money and the police will interrogate you where you got it from. What's wrong with catching murderers? The police won't come after you, but you may have information that can help them find the real bad guys. If you tell them you received the money when you sold cocaine, you have a problem. But if you got it for selling your car, I don't expect them to blame you. |
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If the Bitcointalk community doesn't oppose the idea, I won't oppose it either. And I will be able to reconfigure the server, to give greater freedom and guarantees in operating in other locations. What is your opinion? Eventually, you'll run out of bandwidth. If you limit yourself to Bitcointalk, you can be pretty sure you'll never have to create a server farm. If you go full scale image hosting, things can get very big very quickly. Going viral once would be enough to give you weeks of work You just have to keep in mind that regular backups are made, and there are users who make a copy of all images. It would be nice if you can separate images per domain. I'm currently storing 30 GB of image backups. I like keeping a backup for Bitcointalk, but if other domains upload a lot of images, it's a waste of my disk space. |
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Let's say you lend me 0.01 BTC, and after a month I return you 0.01 BTC.
And then you tell me: “Smartprofit! I lent you 0.01 BTC that I mined myself, and these satoshi are readily accepted by all centralized exchanges! And you sent me 0.01 BTC, which has a history, and this history is not very good. This is not a fair exchange because I will now have to spend some effort in order for these satoshi to officially become “white”. And from this point of view, 0.01 BTC is not equal to 0.01 BTC!” At this point you should tell me I'm an idiot, and I should learn how fungibility works. If you have a $100 bill, and you lend it out, you don't expect the same bill back. If you lend out your car, you expect the same car back. That's the difference. Bitcoin is fungible until you think otherwise. That's entirely in your mind. Read this (and I'm quoting the entire post because it's that important): I've seen several posts lately from people willing to treat Bitcoin as non-fungible because they believe some coins are "tainted". I'd say this is a severe threat to Bitcoin, and I wouldn't be surprised if governments use this because they can't stop Bitcoin in any other way. If people believe Bitcoin is "tainted", they won't accept it anymore. "We" should really inform people not to fall for this. Nobody would reject a dollar bill because it has previously been used in a crime, despite the fact that 85 to 90% contains traces of cocaine. Claiming Bitcoin isn't fungible is just plain stupid. Here's a few examples: What's that? Are you saying Bitcoin isn't fungible? service which i wanted to top up blocked my account. The solution is simple: don't use services that tell you your Bitcoin is different than another Bitcoin. I don’t tell that i will return btc. We can trace it. We can mark it. Bitcoin is fungible. Stop trying to convince people it's not, and stop using services that treat Bitcoin as if it's not fungible. Lmao you have no glue what are you talking about. Please stop spam in my tread if you don’t know anything about chainanalys, thx BestChange.com should be added to this list. Even though they're not an exchange, and even though I've used them, they seem to think not all Bitcoins are equal: Don’t you think exchangers that do not follow AML should be excluded from your site? Or at least marked as untrustworthy. Today netex24 exchanger sent me tainted btc. And obviously service which i wanted to top up blocked my account. I checked transaction via AML bot: Risk Score: 50% Medium risk transaction
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Exchange ML Risk Veryhigh - 100%@rokuen Thank you for the signal, we will certainly investigate the matter to find out all the details and if necessary, will take measures to prevent this in the future. The exchanger you named is one of the largest on over-the-counter and such appeals are the matter of exception. In any case, your situation requires our involvement. We will certainly get in touch with the service representatives to find out the technical details of your transaction and offer them to change the counterparty, if necessary, if they use some compromised custodial service to store bitcoin. In line with this, I am interested to know if the BestChange company subscribes to the idea that there are clean and dirty Bitcoins. I mean, yes, there are probably a lot of crimes in which Bitcoins are involved as there are countless others which involve fiat, but do you think that Bitcoins involved in these crimes are tainted and are therefore dirty and shouldn't be accepted by different Bitcoin platforms? This is not so much our moral position, but the forced adherence to generally accepted norms. Regardless of our or anyone else's opinion, AML purity for cryptocurrency transactions has become as important a property as it is for fiat currencies. Most crypto transactions end up in centralized custodial services that adhere to standard rules for the entire global market, in particular, the fifth AML directive of the European Union (5AMLD). Therefore, in a sense, the widespread introduction of AML made BTC an analogue of NFT of the ERC-1155 standard
This site explains very well what it's all about: Coin validation proposed to offer as a service to trace coins and try to give you a rating about how the history of the coin from your point of view and to offer that as a service to businesses. I think this could be quite dangerous because it goes back to that 17th century court case where now you could receive a coin that is perfectly valid at the time that you receive it, but a few weeks later a crime is uncovered and now your coin is tainted. So if this coin validation service is advicing many of the merchants where you would want to spend your coin at, it's tainted and now the merchant would refuse to accept your coin. That's a strange experience for you; you're holding a coin that you might have to sell at a discount to get rid of it. The aggregate effect of this might create a run on the bitcoin price. So it reopens this long-set legal principle that currency or currency units are all equal. I can't stress enough how important this is! |
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Yes I think in a lot of way it's a failure, most Bitcoin maxis are in denial.
i just a saw tweet from a maxi telling people to use custodial lightning wallet - this is centralization. this is what we're trying to avoid. Goes against everything Satoshi envisioned I'd argue a Bitcoin maximalist knows Bitcoin can't scale on-chain, and also knows it's okay to risk small amounts in a custodial wallet. I stopped running a lightning node because it's not real user friendly Custodial LN is a lot more user friendly, and I don't mind paying a few cents in fees for that. IMO it's the only one that has a real chance to flip BTC. Good tech isn't enough to become market leader. Monero will have to go up 550-fold to top Bitcoin. |
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It'd require OP to rent VPS which have at least 12GB though. My Bitcoin Core's chainstate currently has size about 10.8GB, you also need 300MB of RAM for mempool and some more for OS. And you can add 1 or 2 GB RAM per year to keep up with the growth  |
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In this case, it isn't. But if you invest all your savings into crypto right before a bear market, you're risking too much. F you 😘! Right before bear market? We are near to the halving this year. Everyone is expecting $100k party and you already started to talk about bear market LOL I meant in general: don't invest more than you can afford to lose. I'm not going to predict the market (but I have my hopes up!). |
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Once you constantly use a block explorer your IP gets attached to that address except if you hide the IP by using Tor for that, an attacker can actually watch over your address and that’s one of then main reasons you see people getting attacked with dust Payment. Until proven, this is complete BS. You made this up, didn't you? |
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We would like to emphasize that financial losses affected only our service; hackers stole funds to ensure the liquidity of the service, that is, the company’s funds and user funds were not affected. So those were not customer money nor company funds, was it the hacker's own money, or what cause if somebody provided liquidity for your company then it's your company money, and you're going to have to pay it back!!!! The first one might have been a genuine hack, this one sounds like an exit...s word! This sounds like an inside job: first drain the company, than drain the next guy involved. |
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#25 please |
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even though, being an early bitcoin adopter doesn't automaticlaly make you filthy rich Chances are many of them sold their Bitcoins when it went x10 or x100. So if someone sold all their Bitcoins at $1, $10 or $100, I can imagine they don't want to be reminded of what-could-have-been anymore. It's also the reason I like to say: "never sell everything!". |
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Bitcoin coins do not have ~ fungibility. Oh really? So if I borrow 1 Bitcoin from you, you want the exact same Bitcoin back? |
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Not really. A hardware key logger is still possible. It's better to avoid entering any sensitive information (including email passwords or even identifying data like email addresses) on public computers. I agree but for people who don't have a computer or laptop, they will have to do it like one of very last options. Let's face it: if you don't own a computer (or smartphone for that matter), you probably shouldn't be using Bitcoin. They can do it with smart phone if possible and it is more individually but phone is not secured enough. I don't trust my phone, but I still trust it more than any computer not under my control. Anyway when they use Tail OS on a public, shared computer, they must only do it with a hot wallet that they afford to lose all bitcoins inside. If you really insist on using Bitcoin no public computers, you should use a hardware wallet. |
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