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Without giving away too much personal info, I have a chronic disease. I've had this disease for a decade and have had a lot of treatment for it, but it is winning. I likely only have a few months left. And so, I bid you all farewell. I'll be spending as much of my remaining time as possible with my family. In a week or so, once this thread has run its course, I'll ask theymos to lock this account.
I have learnt a lot from many of you, and I hope many of you have learnt something from me. Although we will never meet, I would have loved to share a beer with many of you, and I hope you'll remember me fondly.
Leo
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Starting with this release, it will not be possible to use Knots fork of Bitcoin Core when connecting to an external bitcoin node because Dojo will actively refuse to make an RPC connection to such node.
For users with bitcoind installed by Dojo (via docker), bitcoind will now periodically scan connected peers and ban those that are detected as Knots. This feature can be turned off by setting BITCOIND_CRON_JOBS=off in docker-bitcoind.conf.
This feature was added to protect our users whose privacy-enhancing transactions such as tx0 or BIP47 notification would not be relayed properly because of non standard policies set by default on Knots nodes. Not a surprising move, really. If Knots are going to refuse to relay Whirlpool transactions, then Samourai are simply not going to connect to any Knots nodes with their software to ensure their transactions continue to get good propagation. There will also be people who do not run Dojo but won't want to connect to Knots nodes for the same reason. This is unlikely to make any meaningful difference to the wider network though, given that Dojo is about 3.1% of all nodes, and Knots is about 0.4% of all nodes.
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https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-November/022134.htmlThe Linux Foundation are ending their support of mailing lists. They have agreed to continue to host the historical content, but the bitcoin dev mailing list will need to migrate to a new platform. Options raised so far include another mailing list host, Google Groups, groups.io, Nostr, Matrix, a forum, GitHub discussions, or even do nothing and just let the mailing list end. Either way, apparently a decision will have to be reached very soon - before the end of this year.
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https://freedom.tech/patriot-act-comes-to-cryptocurrency/A fantastic article authored by Seth For Privacy ( https://nitter.cz/sethforprivacy), who is the Head of Strategy & Marketing for Foundation Devices, known for their Passport hardware wallet. As I've mentioned in another thread, and as Seth explains in this article, this newest piece of legislation is an outright attack on bitcoin. It is clear the US government want the only way to use bitcoin to be through fully KYCed centralized exchanges. They are trying their hardest to absorb bitcoin in to the existing fiat system and surveillance state, and destroy the very thing that bitcoin is. What can you do about it? Get your coins off of any centralized exchange and in to your own wallet. Close your KYCed accounts and refuse to ever complete KYC again. Use privacy tools. Anonymize your coins. Refuse to use any service or product which treats bitcoin as non-fungible and discriminates against or censors certain coins. Bitcoin was not made to become an off-shoot of the fiat system, to be another tool by which the government can can surveil, censor, and control. And if you happen to live in the US, start contacting your representatives about this draconian piece of legislation. https://bitcoiner.guide/nokyconly/https://kycnot.me/
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If you've not been following the FTX trial, you really should, because the level of fraud on display is enough to even rival that of CSW. Here are two snippets of code (pictures courtesy of https://nitter.cz/molly0xFFF) which have been submitted as evidence in the trial. This code is regarding FTX's insurance fund which was widely publicized:   The first picture above shows how the value of 5,250,000 FTX Token supposedly in the insurance fund was "calculated". It wasn't. It was just coded in. insuranceFund.size = 5250000 FTT.  The second picture above shows how the value of USD in the insurance fund was "calculated". The daily trading volume on FTX was multiplied by a random number, and this was used to adjust the insurance fund to a new size. This is the kind of bullshit centralized exchanges are using in their "proof of reserves", "safu funds", "insurance funds", "collateral funds", "1-to-1 matching reports", and all the other trash they peddle to convince you your funds are totally safe. Literal random number generators. They will do and say anything to get you to hand over your coins to them. Don't fall it. |
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https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/commit/8b46d1c6ca20b8c99b979569c7432a97d8fc20a1o Major features (onion service, proof-of-work):
- Implement proposal 327 (Proof-Of-Work). This is aimed at thwarting
introduction flooding DoS attacks by introducing a dynamic Proof-Of-Work
protocol that occurs over introduction circuits. This introduces several
torrc options prefixed with "HiddenServicePoW" in order to control this
feature. By default, this is disabled. Closes ticket 40634.
It uses the Equi-X algorithm, which is itself developed from RandomX, which is the ASIC resistant PoW algorithm used by Monero. It is also being developed by the same user, tevador. There's a fantastic post here which explains how this is going to work and what the end user will experience: https://darkdot.com/articles/tor-ddos-leads-to-proof-of-work/. Site admins can manually decide how much PoW is required to reach their site, and users can decide how much PoW they are willing to perform. Hopefully this puts an end to DDoS on Tor.
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With the death of some old hardware I was using to run one of my nodes plus a few other bits and pieces, I've decided I'd quite like to simplify my always-on home hardware down to a single device.
With that in mind, I'm looking for both hardware and software recommendations for a standalone device capable of running the usual Bitcoin and Lightning nodes, but in addition to that, an Electrum server, an instance of mempool.space, a coinjoin server (be that JoinMarket or Samourai Dojo), and Bisq. I'd also like to potentially use this device to run a variety of non-bitcoin software, such as Pi-hole, personalized cloud storage, potentially a home media server, that sort of thing. Having looked in to it a bit, it seems that Umbrel might be the most straightforward way to do all this, and can run everything I've listed above except Bisq (although an app appears to be in the works).
My first question is whether anyone who has experience with this kind of thing would disagree about using Umbrel and would suggest just running something like Debian (or any other Linux distro)?
My second question is whether anyone could suggest some hardware which would be most appropriate for this. My main considerations are low power usage and being powerful enough to run everything I've listed above. I had originally looked at a Raspberry Pi 4, but I have some concerns about whether it could handle everything listed. At the moment I'm sort of considering the Orange Pi 5. I don't actually need it to be a single board computer at all - I'm just looking for energy efficiency with good enough hardware.
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Honestly, they've printed so much money out of thin air that I've simply lost count. The big surge in money printing at the start of COVID was the fourth round of so called quantitative easing since 2008. I'm not sure if the ongoing money printing up until April of 2022 was just extended QE4 or if that counted as QE5. So I guess we are on the brink of either QE5 or QE6. Anyway, let's take a look at the Fed's balance sheet:  2008 - 0.8 trillion dollars. 2022 - 9 trillion dollars. 8.2 trillion dollars just created out of thin air in 14 years. To put that in to perspective, with population of ~334 million, that's $24,500 of new money for every single person in the US. That's $8.2 trillion driving up inflation, devaluing the dollar, making your savings worth less, making your money buy less, making you poorer. Don't worry, though. They'll reverse all this printing, they say. They started at the end of 2018, and managed to take a measly $0.5 trillion off before they started printing again to astronomical new levels. Don't worry, though. They'll reverse that too. They started a year ago, and have managed to take $0.6 trillion off it this time!  But wait, let's zoom in on the last few months of the graph I shared above:  $0.3 trillion new money in a week. It took them a year to take off $0.6 trillion, and they've undone half of that progress in a week. Guess it's back to normal proceedings of money printer goes brrrrr! Can't have the banks losing money now, can we! The banks must be protected at all costs. Fuck 99% of the population who are being made poorer and poorer on a daily basis. As long as the banks get endless bailouts! Here's a quote I made almost 3 years ago: If it took them 11 years to start reducing their balance sheet following the 2008 crash, how much longer do you think it will take following this crash? Not to mention they probably aren't even finished printing for this crash yet. There will be another crisis, and another, and another, all before they even begin to undo these changes, let alone get their balance sheet back down to "normal" levels. The printing will never end. The dollar value will never stop falling. This isn't temporary - this is normal.
This is the new normal. Money printer goes brrrrr. Fiat is a scam. Bitcoin fixes this. |
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Americans, now that lnurl is getting some adoption, if you host your own lnurl server make sure you're blocking Iranian, Cuban, North Korean, Russian, and Syrian IP addresses so that you don't wittingly accept a payment from users in those countries! Not worth jail time or fines. So what next? All node operators should start blacklisting IP addresses from these countries to stop receiving transactions from them? In fact, don't run a node at all in case you accidentally process some illegal transaction? Since when did we start censoring ourselves and our fellow bitcoin users in order to appease the whims of national governments? This is not the way. And to anyone affected by this, you can of course use Tor to bypass such stupidity. Edit: Just to be clear, Matt isn't actually pro-censorship. He is making a statement against LNURL, but in a very poor way in my opinion. Even if you think LNURL is awful, using a position of influence to post instructions on how to censor people is a poor way to go about it, especially when so many people now assume this is his real position. |
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An additional paragraph appeared this morning at the top of a blog post Gavin Andresen wrote back in May 2016 about his meeting with CSW. Feb 2023: I don’t believe in rewriting history, so I’m going to leave this post up. But in the seven years since I wrote it, a lot has happened, and I now know it was a mistake to trust Craig Wright as much as I did. I regret getting sucked into the “who is (or isn’t) Satoshi” game, and I refuse to play that game any more. There has been a lot of discussion over the years about why Andresen never came out and formally denounced CSW, since it beyond any doubt that he is categorically not Satoshi. This is a step in the right direction, but it's a bit weak for my liking. Obviously it was a mistake to ever trust CSW, but Andresen needs to go further and categorically say "Sorry, I was wrong. CSW is obviously not Satoshi." |
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Time for part 3 in what now seems to be an ongoing series. Who would have thought centralized exchanges could fuck up in so many different ways! Parts 1 and 2 are here: Recent events should make everyone withdraw all their coins to their own wallets - Centralized exchanges censoring users and seizing coins Recent events should make you withdraw all your coins to your own wallet: Part 2 - Centralized exchanges going bankrupt, users losing everything Part 3 is doing to be a two-parter. The first issue is a follow on from Part 2 above. As part of Celsius' bankruptcy proceedings, not only have all their users lost all their coins, but Celsius have now published a complete list of every user's full name alongside their account balances and a list of every deposit and withdrawal they have made. I'm not going to link to it for obvious reasons. Given what we know from previous data leaks, these people will now be prime targets for phishing, malware, other malicious digital attacks, or even physical threats. And you can guarantee that blockchain analysis companies have already downloaded this list and will be linking deposits and withdrawals against blockchain data to start linking previously anonymous addresses to real names. The second issue is as raised by gmaxwell in his thread here: PSA: Get your Bitcoin off any exchange supporting "BSV" (due to insolvency risk). The TL;DR is that (as we have already seen above with Celsius collapsing secondary to the Terra Luna scam) even if you don't trade in shitcoins or scamcoins, by using an exchange which does support these coins all your bitcoin is at risk of being included in their bankruptcy proceedings. The next biggest threat at the moment is any exchange which is supporting the BSV scam, but any sufficiently large enough altcoin could collapse and take an exchange down with it, resulting in their customers losing everything. Not using centralized exchanges at all is the best thing you can do, but getting your coins off them if you are already using them is a close second. |
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Looks like full RBF will be coming to bitcoin sooner rather than later, and I've not seen any discussion about it yet on the forum. Here are some relevant links and discussions: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2021-June/019074.htmlhttps://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2021-May/003033.htmlhttps://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022-June/020557.htmlhttps://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/25353https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/25373The TL;DR for anyone out of the loop is to implement a new setting for nodes, so that the node treats all unconfirmed transactions in its mempool as RBF enabled, regardless of whether or not that transactions signals for RBF. The default behavior (for now) will be to have this setting disabled, so the current opt-in RBF rules will apply, but nodes will be free to enable this setting and switch from opt-in RBF to full RBF if they choose. There are a number of good reasons to do this, including benefits and more security for multi-party funded transactions including coinjoins, Lightning, and other layer 2 solutions. However, it also essentially stops any business from accepting zero confirmation transactions for small values, since all transactions (even those opted out of RBF) could potentially be replaced using RBF. I'm also curious as to what is going to happen when (for example) 50% of nodes have enabled full RBF, 50% of nodes have not enabled full RBF, and I try to replace a transaction which is opted out of RBF. What about if I'm using a hot wallet and not my own node? Will I have to connect to different servers to find one which will relay my replacement transaction? And then presumably some block explorers will show the original transaction while some will show the replacement, and I'll have no idea which one will actually get mined until one of them is mined? |
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Part 1 is here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5387401.0. In that thread I spoke about how centralized exchanges and services were freezing the accounts of their users and seizing their coins, often indiscriminately and because of completely external reasons that the users themselves had no control over. If, for some crazy reason, you still have coins on a centralized platform, then the recent events with Celsius really should be the last wake up call that you need. If you are unaware, Celsius Network is insolvent. About a week ago Celsius completely froze all accounts, all transfers, all trading, and all withdrawals: https://nitter.net/CelsiusNetwork/status/1536169010877739009. The next day it is reported that they have hired restructuring advisors: https://archive.ph/riZJu. Celsius have 1.7 million customers, all of whom are currently unable to access any of the coins they deposited to Celsius, and indeed, are unlikely to ever see them again. Lured by the ridiculous promises of 20% returns, users completely ignored the fact that their Terms of Use explicitly stated that their coins would be lent out and used to make highly risky investments, and if something went wrong they have absolutely zero protection, despite this being repeatedly pointed out. Well, something has gone wrong, and now these users have lost everything. So, given that these centralized platforms are gambling your money and go bankrupt at any time, why are your coins not in your own wallet yet? In particular, I'm thinking about the millions of people using BlockFi. If you look at the first two underlined links above, you'll notice that BlockFi's terms are almost identical to those of Celsius. BlockFi are losing large amounts of both Bitcoin and Ethereum from their central wallets as users try to withdraw their coins while they still can. They've just announced they are cutting 20% of their staff. They just been fined $100 million by the SEC. They refused to deny giving users' money to Three Arrows Capital, which has also just collapsed in to insolvency: https://nitter.net/BlockFi/status/1537137936549957632BlockFi will be the next to collapse, but it certainly won't be the last. Get your coins out of every centralized exchange and platform in existence and in to your own wallet now, before it is too late. |
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I don't often/ever encourage people to watch videos, but this would be 30 minutes well spent, even if you don't like his humor: Data Brokers: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)The whole segment is pretty terrifying. Everyone knows (or should know) that most browsers, websites, and apps monitor you and collect your data. What many people don't know is that data brokers buy and sell every piece of data about you that they can, right down to your debts and your medical conditions, and they sell it to literally anyone who wants it. A broker called Epsilon settled for $150 million after selling data to people they knew were scammers for over 10 years. Data has been sold to domestic abusers and stalkers, allowing them to track down old victims. The video mentions a case of a murder after the victim's data was purchased for less than $50. Plenty of companies say your data is anonymized, de-identified, or collated with other data before being shared or sold, and lots of people think that means they are safe. Not so. One study found that 99.98% of anonymized data could be de-anonymized and used to identify individual users. Anonymizing data is meaningless. Even simply visiting a website (but not actually doing anything on said website) still provided the website with enough information to personally identify the user in question, track down their contact information, and send them an email minutes later. They sell your data to the government. Governments might need a warrant or other legal ruling to come and search your computer or devices, but they don't need any permission at all to simply buy that information from data brokers. Multiple three letter agencies are buying your data and using it for anything they please. This is a very similar situation to a variety of three letter agencies employing the services of various blockchain analysis companies to track your bitcoin addresses and transactions. In addition, centralized exchanges provide all sorts of data to data brokers, especially if you willingly hand over your KYC information. So do blockchain explorers. So do servers of SPV and light wallets. So will sites like Coinmarketcap or various crypto news sites. All this bitcoin related and other crypto related information will be pooled with all the other information held about you and sold to anyone who wants it, including scammers and criminals. Remember that simply clicking on a website was enough for that website to identify that exact person. Do you really want the whole world to know how much bitcoin you are holding? The amount of privacy invasion going on in our daily lives is staggering. Don't make it even worse by willingly violating your own privacy. A good place to start taking back some control in general: https://www.privacyguides.org/Peer to peer bitcoin trades, avoiding the privacy invasion of centralized exchanges: https://bisq.network/, https://localcryptos.com/, https://hodlhodl.com/Run your own node, and avoiding leaking information about your addresses and transactions: https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-core/ |
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I think as the currently highest IQ person on this forum (200), I have earned the right to start a high IQ gang.
Entry requirements:
IQ >160
IQ <whatever mine is at the moment. (Obviously you are not allowed to be smarter than the gang leader. If your IQ is higher, we will assume you are a haxxor and you will be kicked from the gang.)
Perks:
Literally none
If your IQ falls below 160 at any point, not only will you be ejected from the gang, but you will not be allowed to reapply for a period of thirty (30) days for bringing the gang in to disrepute.
Apply below!
Members:
o_e_l_e_o (Supreme Overlord)
ImThour
BlackHatCoiner
LoyceV
bill gator
Welsh
LFC_Bitcoin
TryNinja
shahzadafzal
n0nce
UmerIdrees - IQ 154! BANISHED!
JayJuanGee
Foxpup
NoorulHuda
Mitchell
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HubSpot are a marketing agency. They collect data and use it to serve you ads, social media marketing, various content, and what not. Yesterday, they were hacked, resulting in the theft of the personal information of an unknown number of people - name, address, email, phone number, etc. Why should you care? Because it turns out a variety of centralized crypto services have been sharing/selling your data with/to this marketing agency. Here's the tweet from BlockFi confirming their users are affected: https://nitter.net/BlockFi/status/1504982848771608586And another tweet from Swan: https://nitter.net/SwanBitcoin/status/1505261139571191813No doubt we will see more crypto services admitting they were also handing your data over to HubSpot in the coming days. Users affected can expect phishing emails at the very least pretending to be from these companies and trying to get users to hand over account credentials or seed phrases or complete password resets. I'd also be concerned about SMS phishing or SIM swap attacks, as well as attempted forced access to email and other accounts. More complex phishing attempts could also be attempted, such as those that we saw after the Ledger data leak. Just another one of the many risks you take when you hand over your personal information to centralized services. |
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