It is not even a cloud mining but he wants to be using helping people by setting up mining to be deceiving people. Such discussion can make novices or newbies think that he can do it. He will ask them for money and if the money is sent ro him, that means he has scam them because he has nothing to offer than to scam.
Wont they pay him a certain amount for him to set up the so-called mining service? That alone should ring alarm bells because these scammers always have a way of bringing something that would appeal to their victims so that they can easily cash out on them. It was just a mining pool setup service, a service he has offered for years: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3251720https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3992164https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4165790https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4204285https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4781430And so on. Some threads were self-moderated, some had removed posts but they have no negative feedback about running with peoples money. If they were scamming I would think there would have been at least 1 they took my money and ran feedback in the last 7 years. Just my view. Edit to add: It's a pain to setup a pool but there are lots of youtube how to videos, but if you don't feel comfortable around linux then yeah I can see paying for the service. I have setup a few and I enjoyed the tech challenge, others may not and just want to pay for it. And, when they died I had to figure out what happened myself. -Dave |
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Wouldn't most live AV software stop the block from ever being downloaded? I know I have had some issues with false positives coming in and the EDR stopping it before it even got written to the disk.
And since EICAR is 68 bytes you can already fit it in OP_RETURN and nobody cares. Which IMO they should not.
-Dave
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I also notice he used to create many duplicate thread about offering service creating coin/mining pool, but i don't think moderator will take action since it's created many years ago.
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Back then a few people did use their service for pool setup and did seem generally happy with them. No idea what has happened since. On a personal level, I thought they were asking too much money for what they did considering there were decent YouTube videos that you could follow to get you there but nothing bad. -Dave |
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... I suspect the reason it appears to be such a significant proportion is because Luke pulled in the change which makes NAT port forwarding (natpmp) on by default. This has been off by default on Core for quite a while since it was problematic, but will be on by default for v30. So the node numbers for knots are likely disproportionately high as new knots nodes are likely to be accepting inbounds and therefore show up on statistics like this one.
Thanks for this information, I was not aware of it. It will be interesting to see how the numbers change with the new Core version, perhaps they will change a bit more slowly as some people will refuse to make this update. No thoughts on the sub discussion within this topic regarding communication issues or potential improvements for the future? ... I would open up an new topic about it. It's not that big a deal IMO but some people may be caught unaware if they have not been following the discussions. Which does beg the question, how many people actually read the release notes and comments? How many times have things like this happened, and then you have to go and point out that it was in the readme file. -Dave |
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If a coin can be 51%'d then sooner or later someone would do it. That sends a message and proves BTC value, which we should protect. Dave's opinion. Anyone running code by Luke Jr. is risking their funds and computer security since he has proven he has poor OpSec: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5432665.0If you read how it seems to have happened, and how long it took him to notice you would not ever trust him with software that you run.
No way you believe he was actually hacked. That was an obvious "boating incident" exit. In any case, the code is open source. If you are trusting Bitcoin Knots, you are trusting Bitcoin Core since a lot of it is forked, with interesting features added. Again, open source software, plus peer reviewed with gpg signatures of people putting their reputation on the line.
Not sure where you are in the world, but here in the US you can get an Optiplex 3050 Micro PC Core with a i7-6700T & 32GB of RAM for under $150 and a decent 2TB drive for under $125. Will sync a node from scratch in a minimal amount of time. As in fire it up in the office when you leave work Friday and it's done when you come in Monday morning. Picked the 6th gen 3050 since you can get on open source BIOS and disable IME very simply on that unit. You can get other machines that are newer / faster but takes more "know how" to put in an open source BIOS
-Dave
A lot of people depend on laptops and a lot of them are older hardware. If you had an old thinkpad laying around, you could turn it into a hardened node and if you had 2 you could have a good airgap device as well. Well the point is, most of this software is old, but it had no problem dealing with the initial block download, not anymore. Is dog coins in the bitcoin blockchain worth this result? exactly. At this point the hardware I mentioned is 9+ years old and and can sync fine. If you are going to run your node on hardware older then that, then that's up to you. But if you want to push a 9+ year old laptop to do it it will. Not sure why, as I said you are paying a premium for the Optiplex 3050 you can get an i5-7200u laptop with 8GB ram and no drive for under $50 and an 1TB SSD for about the same. But you probably can't install an open source firmware on it the way you can the OptiPlex. As for the hack or "boating incident" exit. That means he is either incompetent (as I think) or a criminal trying to get around tax law. Either way not a good look for someone who is working on software that has peoples money running though it. Yes, he is only making minor changes, but they are still changes and we don't know how well they were tested. Either way, I'm not running it. -Dave |
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Probably haven't compiled it for years, a lot of these old coins won't build on Ubuntu any later than 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver).
Seems a lot of apps stopped being updated beyond that point so Bionic seems to be quite a common "old" version still being used for a lot of things; some of the old coins I even managed to build for the Bionic Puppy version of Puppy Linux, for some old 32-bit boxes I happened across. I don't think I tried building CoiLedCoin for that though so not sure if it is one of those it would work with.
Sometmes one needs also to mess with boost version and for some I never managed to get GUI version but I typically only use the daemon not the GUI.
Once I built for Bionic 64-bit many years ago I just copied over my binaries year after year machine to machine.
Often though I have to get some libraries too to make the binaries work. Again not sure which for which coins though nor whether CoiLedCoin was one such.
-MarkM-
I tried on 18.04 and could not get it to work. Figured since the coin was originally from early 2012 it would need something older then that, like a 10.x or 11.x or 12.x Ubuntu but perhaps something as new as 16.x. But, if I had to spin up a machine running older software didn't want to have to do it a few times till I found the version that I could compile this one piece of software on. So I would do it whenever I had time....once again, one of those projects that are probably never going to happen. Since you said it was running I figured you had been able to compile it on something newer. What do you have for peers? As I said last time I got none when I last launched it. -Dave |
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Not going to respond to all that drivel that you posted since it's just not worth my time but picking a few points from the bottom up. 1) You are talking about renting a VPS the post I was responding to was about the fact that you can't get a secure machine (open source BIOS and no IME or equivalent) to sync in a reasonable amount of time. Since you are on a rented VPS all your data is not secure since it's running on someone server and they can do what they like. 2) Luke's account was not hacked his PC and server were. And he did not notice for a long time. His PGP key was compromised and he did not notice for a long time. They got away with a lot of his BTC and he still did not notice. If you want someone who is that lackadaisical compiling code for you be my guest. 3) If you don't understand the fact that he was running a pool and took hashes from that pool and attacked a coin without telling pool users about it then fine. Hope you don't mind but can you leave your car windows open with the keys on the front seat, since you don't care that people do whatever they want with your stuff you should be fine in having someone just take your car for a spin. Either way, respond or don't you are now on ignore. -Dave |
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Its blockchain is still moving, so yes.
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How did you get it to compile? I have not been able to for a while and all the old copies of the clients I had did not find any other nodes. -Dave |
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Not that I have heard about in a while.
I actually bought the coiledcoin.org & com domains with the plan of doing something with them. But as always life got in the way.
Der Mensch Tracht, Un Gott Lacht
Man plans, God laughs
-Dave
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Dave's opinion. Anyone running any code by Luke Jr. is pro censorship / anti crypto. He has attacked and killed coins he does not like: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=56675.0 Dave's opinion. Anyone running code by Luke Jr. is risking their funds and computer security since he has proven he has poor OpSec: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5432665.0If you read how it seems to have happened, and how long it took him to notice you would not ever trust him with software that you run.
What is clear is that this spam dogshit is making it hell to sync a full node from scratch. It is now almost impossible for computers that aren't backdoored (computers which allow you to install an open source bios, which means older computers) to sync a node because whenever this ordinal crap started the blockchain starts becoming slower and slower to sync, and without this then Bitcoin is done for, since only modern powerful computers (backdoored computers) and eventually datacenters will be able to process these increasingly complex blocks......
Not sure where you are in the world, but here in the US you can get an Optiplex 3050 Micro PC Core with a i7-6700T & 32GB of RAM for under $150 and a decent 2TB drive for under $125. Will sync a node from scratch in a minimal amount of time. As in fire it up in the office when you leave work Friday and it's done when you come in Monday morning. Picked the 6th gen 3050 since you can get on open source BIOS and disable IME very simply on that unit. You can get other machines that are newer / faster but takes more "know how" to put in an open source BIOS -Dave |
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....I still believe that it isn't worth the risk though. We are departing farther from Bitcoin being money and more towards a storage space....
Perhaps, but it's just storage. 2TB drives are under $100 US even with the stupid tarrifs. About the same in the EU. And these are new unused drives from Amazon. They are cheaper elsewhere. Not a big concern. Mempool and junk will probably get big and bloated for a bit as people screw around then back to what we have now. -Dave |
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So longs as the block is valid and built on top of another valid block miners do not care what TXs, if any are in a block.
There are mining pools that allow you to submit the raw transaction to their pool without it ever being seen anyplace else. So long as it's valid it goes in the next block that pool mines.
Does not matter if it's 1 TX or a block full of them.
-Dave
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Where are you located? Keep in mind Win 10 is out of support next month. There are a LOT of 6th and 7th gen intel machines that are about to hit the surplus / scrap world as people who held on to them for 8+ years are now kind of being forced out of them. Heck, I am scrapping 6th gens and selling the CPUs separately since at best here you are going to get $35 to $40 for the entire PC or $30 for the CPU. I mean from a chain store (and I know the drive is to small for BTC) you can get these all day long: https://www.microcenter.com/product/670293/hp-elitedesk-800-g3-desktop-computer-(refurbished)-Dave |
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It's been over 5 years but yes it was around 1/25000 before shorline shutdown.
-Dave
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Burning works for the good of both. The people who stay on the original chain have their coins increase in value since there is less of them in circulation. Those that want to move them someplace else can "swap" them to the token. There is no way of pulling from the client the amount of coins mined, but according to DNPs explorer that only really updates once in a while there are 13924461067 coins out there. Most of those coins are probably lost at this point. http://coins.dognose.net:3001/It's slow to respond at times but it does work. Should probably look into getting the explorer I had up fixed but lack of time keeps me away from it. The problem with any kind of "real" governance is that you need people and those people need time to do things no matter how minor they may be. It's going to be tough to find people who are interested and can put in the time. You just picking it up and running with it makes it easier since it's just you, but puts all the burden on you. -Dave |
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An advantage of using tokens as implementation of an exchange is that one need not rely anywhere near so much on difficulty; one can even just let anyone who wants to use the coin use one single CPU to mine it to eventually keep the blockchain moving except of course during times when some idiot with huge hashpower chooses to freeze the chain by driving the difficulty up and abandon it there making the single-CPU miners take months or years to get the chain moving again.
By inserting "checkpoints" into the clients to prevent anyone going back in time and forking with high hashpower from some past block, one can have one's "exchange-equivalent" not merely wait some number of blocks before issuing a balance acknowledging receipt of coins but actually go so far as to issue a new checkpoint after the input of coins so that all the coins represented by the tokens are coins from back before the last checkpoint thus coins whose current address on the real blockchain is locked-in against any attempts by high hashpower to "double-spend" them.
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That is in fact one of the reasons why I issue my tokens ahead of time; I like to ensure that the real coins represented by my tokens are old coins from far back beyond any chance of their being double-spent from under me by some high-hashpower sabotageurs...
I have nothing to do with the fake tokens on SOL I am talking about a real implementation of ability to trade by having trusted persons issue IOUs on platforms like Stellar and presumably actually honour their IOUs.
-MarkM-
IMO sending the coins to some burn address would be better. Someone creates a token with 13.798 billion NDL in it (max supply of NDL) [or any coin] Same someone sets up a verifiable burn address for the coin. If someone else wants to convert their coin to a token they send that amount to a single address and from that single address to the burn address. Then they sign a message from that single address and all that message has is their XLM address (or whatever coin the token was created on) and then the tokens are sent to that address. Coins are gone forever and the issuer of the tokens has proof. Or am I missing something? You still have to trust the person who issued the tokens to send to you. Someone with enough programming skill could probably automate it. -Dave |
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But, the post I was commenting on was discussing a token on the Solana chain.
That as far as I can tell has no backing at all.
Unless I am missing a NDL bridge somewhere.
Shrug, probably does not matter I don't think anyone has done anything with this coin in a while and since I have not had the time to even think about it for years there has been no working pool or explorer.
-Dave
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...Or course, check your CPU's spreadsheet for its normal/max temp since there are a lot of different generations of i5....
Like over a dozen of them. @takuma sato what are the full specs of the laptop. An early 2010 i5 is a lot different then a 12th gen Same with the drive is it a new ssd is going to run a lot cooler then a spinning drive or even an old SSD. -Dave |
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