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BTC will never die, anymore than cabbage patch dolls have died ( or 'pet rocks') , there are always fools that will embrace the scam all the way back to zero, and HODL

Look at all ponzis in human history, all had their day in the sun, and then fell out of favor, this too shall pass.

Most campaigns these days and paid influencers on youtube, are trying to bring in 'green woke' suckers to the fold, the original base of losers has been played out.

Rebranding is the game today, BITCOIN is yesterday's crypto.

Last year 2k shitocoins, this year 10k shitcoins, there will probably be 100k shitcoins next year, but some will be 100x better than bitcoin, that's where smart people have moved, and only morons HODL;

...


Come on people given me some reasons. I have studied 'bubbles' my entire life, and NADA in human history has any bubble lasted over 10-20 years, and yes most had 2-3 cycles before they fell out of favor, south-sea bubble, and Mississippi bubble both went to the moon, and back before they finally fell back to earth like Icarus.

Today with 10K shitcoins, and most are far better than BTC, why in  the hell should this continue; $1 invested in shibu is 50k coins, much more likely it will go 10x than BTC, which can only now go down, as the COVID one-time funny money is not coming back.

The big companys and pension funds have seen BTC lose -50% in a few days, they can't gamble their pensioner money without going to jail, there is nobody, no greater fool on earth to buy bitcoin. It's almost game-over.

1   1   🍃 Chia Network™   10,500,000.00010525 XCH   $8,280,300,000.08
2   2   🍃 Chia Network™   10,500,000 XCH   $8,280,300,000

ok, the above is the 'pre-mine' its an IPO reserve for the company to buy cocaine & prostitutes post IPO. ( $8 Billion USD )

But the following are public addresses, who are tehse people most of these addresses were also accumulated around pre-mine, which means that they're insiders to the orginal scam.

3   3   xch1nrhexgfyrrqtwh6kmcyhfr2qwnv8xujzx3jtagxz6xc69j6407esad2hqc   321,584.52527194994 XCH   $253,601,556.63 ( $253 M USD )
4   4   xch1f0ryxk6qn096hefcwrdwpuph2hm24w69jnzezhkfswk0z2jar7aq5zzpfj   96,523.34437993832 XCH   $76,118,309.38
5   5   xch14e92mun79frwqatdn9csf5l645z4xjcuw3mne3gsf0cr3nc2zm8st8ld5m   57,546.57210441154 XCH   $45,381,226.76
6   6   xch1svfwe2vxtrv2772p4xdd08qmjrg5p8xumajextyxujxcc33q80gqhwyzhu   56,910.31810439785 XCH   $44,879,476.86
7   7   xch1n9a9g9ynaypu4vrtu3dnwkh7ywf00cfdyemhue4tddvp2yyy578qaktfkk   13,796.367829643375 XCH   $10,879,815.67
8   8   xch14lejhu3m0hksnjmyaz4z5s8jdxq7xemjcmv5q5z3lur5pc2nzvvspmwxtf   7,679.500244409056 XCH   $6,056,053.89
9   9   xch1jp6frj3ecddur7dxak3n7lq0j75ltquh2zyd44epdu0d6704y2hqyky5hf   6,592.759938174482 XCH   $5,199,050.49
10   10   xch17symyju5c349yr0vj72shf5pe0f368gyjgld8jgvxunm9zuudeuqnth3mq   5,745.079665070111 XCH   $4,530,569.82

The rest is just Trump change.

11   11   xch1tyfk0mpw02kgcxuqx7f62l8v2juwa2ndtwgz7c4a37dctpnk66rqhugsg5   5,655.35950281902 XCH   $4,459,816.5
12   12   xch1k7hudx79g0s22tl8lq060adugwgnjmz2cv8kdnvmnqtf0uvxazaspwutd5   5,136.023223211 XCH   $4,050,267.91
13   13   xch1542cgry2fxusx83fnw9c70fud268mr4fsd9hd4jv3cdz0l5jxagsx65dy4   4,382.0173822 XCH   $3,455,658.91
14   14   xch168350u6lag66uecllg4ef5yygmuzmmkd02jqgxr5qjvmrqjq8k4suzc9ew   3,810.000001 XCH   $3,004,566
15   15   xch1rs4eltuk22swnr3z7d0dfj3xtxxdmeyp3hue5rhv69285mslmlpqp4y46g   3,744.0000000001 XCH   $2,952,518.4
16   16   xch1zmfr9hw0fm3xgqafx6y46zaj5ng9ehcnq9e44ns4xg08rjaen06q3gun36   3,700 XCH   $2,917,820
17   17   xch1rzjlfk5mdml0rnjd7x4je32ur75trk7cv0nupndp20skxv2yjfks90j66k   3,612.951023963219 XCH   $2,849,173.18
18   18   xch1a8gjch09eer4m6wt2vfxjj795wtgtktf6rpug3dqkp83klkk70as0kwc6p   3,500 XCH   $2,760,100
19   19   xch1pmjt4sqakjjydgslle9e7ree8peplfv30edyekcrzk24874k4r9q5yudju   3,472.013360879257 XCH   $2,738,029.74
20   20   xch1kr6p92zgshgn5cdszdkp879fxw0jze8n8rwwnsu03xl7nsfzg3dstrrhjz   3,300 XCH   $2,602,380
21   21   xch1cpjsnds7208a0v4wrjyxrlqgw7vumxe80x9vd2yeanrsnsrn6n5qttcptj   3,288.784123540001 XCH   $2,593,535.16
22   22   xch1f75f2k2v3xmve97yfg0r3sgn4pp7ecn7ufxmrchg8dr5l500ah4swmwnsj   3,222.0763468101 XCH   $2,540,929.41
23   23   xch1y2yhucrv9xl87qns4n4g442q69r76dwlx6squfpa2rwh4u9pcxqqeessdk   3,208 XCH   $2,529,828.8
24   24   xch1jq6fug6zx088p6wkpj3a4rxrtv56v4w28trcksax0snepfwktg7qngfnwx   3,078 XCH   $2,427,310.8
25   25   xch1rzyhqhhup3n5kjzxx9cq7fqv099ejyr9nn78dnyak9c4sss5ua3q7q3umf   3,000.0000000001 XCH   $2,365,800
26   26   xch1fzs3c5geqmzxpzdn7a68pzn99ssx4wh02d3tn4q2htl3yk8xg6cs5wstec   3,000 XCH   $2,365,800
27   27   xch1qh7rqsfvph5cl86y2vytd536ch3ua9dhuc3808ac0t9hh78xkapqz8puxt   2,848.125 XCH   $2,246,031.38
28   28   xch13qnyz0a4cea5y5p4mwza3x2zw97kpqnn4hepqqw5dx2xafawgw5qxhmcp2   2,831 XCH   $2,232,526.6
29   29   xch1me04wujhgqeeefhgljhxdczvh9d9rj6gl662yv6e90f77en4d96q5m4qkz   2,760.1176118702 XCH   $2,176,628.75
30   30   xch1ams8nz2qx4ydllfp9kcaunzx3vgep4s9wn8tskmj3xnkca6s6hrqn3t606   2,696.325 XCH   $2,126,321.9
31   31   xch1kw8pawz0mqper7ajppsd3xgkg05pmffldad64dhulseeanqrfhls6g2v9h   2,600 XCH   $2,050,360
32   32   xch147pv24sym0n6ywnpqm4gzrxkt0mj50hs0w8qu24krv7fqx9kgkgq50fetm   2,567.977244094055 XCH   $2,025,106.85
33   33   xch1teen2vr5wsy397uvs3mza80z8ntuxmjfyzv9h2z2f78uakm6lsdqvfdzkq   2,303.999999999 XCH   $1,816,934.4
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35   35   xch1yksf30wwvj7q5k80ygy9kwwqqhytwzu6fnk8rjrm6r0u6szpqqzqyd347g   2,154.45052727 XCH   $1,698,999.69
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39   39   xch1fhakxwt2a4lzvureq6rxtaa6g5dc7hwapcmz58g3kscnqk4cmw4qwnuz89   1,933.1 XCH   $1,524,442.66
40   40   xch19h3vftex6544lg8zlh3gxwhr5p25l20t7q3wrn9tnvf9urpvmdjqc59u3z   1,900.792444 XCH   $1,498,964.92
41   41   xch12cjxn5cp6jwnqmhx4mz2dqqhrazepd055xhfyrmc92l824a4rj2qluzzn8   1,853.767122340011 XCH   $1,461,880.75
42   42   xch1euzp6w6a8yqxgr4cggv7aasluc00vgurxv0teljzg6dga03y54kqrpx04h   1,827.5 XCH   $1,441,166.5
43   43   xch1c287rrcq6rsxuszjmesmgpa29p2ts6s09qns55yh7sqerkfdjf2qrhvsck   1,751.987 XCH   $1,381,616.95
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45   45   xch19d5mha6v9gxz34n2vpjz6js9yahzzvdrtqva7km2jufe0tggrdaqq80flp   1,714.671931846506 XCH   $1,352,190.29
46   46   xch1v39e64j2vexv0hhlqtlnzhvjprmfwgsnuedfvnelwey42l82x2lswrc422   1,704.102200000162 XCH   $1,343,854.99
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48   48   xch1qp4hsxu8wftydu73cwrxkryugyat6n2alh80m5maf5lx0t88wrdq9gjl2j   1,674.000000075686 XCH   $1,320,116.4
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52   52   xch1dth9p2dec5kkswrxzutgwzp0a4vehfwl7esxu474tekutsj7u3vs3uut8v   1,526.00115 XCH   $1,203,404.51
53   53   xch1x8g9yxzue0u0y0tt8trk24rjjzrcux30z5ex6glxzawqsm7j7xuqtup30z   1,500.0000000001 XCH   $1,182,900
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57   57   xch159mqumt0qwjmady4ne0x0w0qqftr635vdr7ugr8pwcp9fsv6l5asjvzq8p   1,432.01271319 XCH   $1,129,285.23
58   58   xch14kt24kln32mcxh78vyvc22rkcjjxe2vfqgzuk6wmudcy9sed29ysd3w7jk   1,422.376575290271 XCH   $1,121,686.17
59   59   xch1g9gpxjn9evnh3zqanrkcrvrv2ktjx7xtv5d69mmjyg5ppvvy49qqr8hm9c   1,404.70850538 XCH   $1,107,753.13
60   60   xch1q5mh6l0uz9fn6er67z4hxdgylql5xuw6upxjdk3d80dyt8kum8ssrjxsvh   1,396.00441386 XCH   $1,100,889.08
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62   62   xch108sw9q9v9cqcc8ap8jvhh5ld44y7spfwwja2zpxul3330366hdusre28z5   1,344.002002682526 XCH   $1,059,879.98
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Experts Advise Musk to Invest "Corporate Funds" in Cocaine Rather than Bitcoin - Safer Investment ; If he must Play with BITCOIN, then he should use his own money.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-ditched-bitcoin-payments-still-110000470.html

30 years ago John DeLorean, an earlier Musk, a guy that had his own car company, he  needed to earn cash, and his car company wasn't making money, just like Mus,

So DeLorean bought $200M USD worth of cocaine and brought it into USA and re-sold, eventually he got busted, and his auto company went bankrupt.

Funny Musk now is doing the exact same thing gambling with other peoples money, to save his own arse.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-bitcoin-holders-have-no-choice-but-to-trust-in-chinese-crypto-miners-11622167864

Hell I have been saying this 5+ years on this forum, and everybody here is in denial.

The so called 51% consensus was bullshit years ago.

Why not change from HODL to Coddle?

Trust-Less SatoshiNA bullshit is now 180 degree to 'trust-me',  I'm bitcoin (NSA)

Claude Erb, a former commodities portfolio manager at TCW Group, draws a parallel between religious conviction and the trust and faith of bitcoin’s devotees. After all, he pointed out in an interview, no one has actually seen the bitcoin blockchain, and yet we have faith that it is all-knowing and benevolent. “Is that all that different from a belief in a ‘crypto God,'” he asks? “There are many leaps of faith required.” Erb likens bitcoin’s huge popularity to an “explosion in trust in a financial God, who may just be the man behind the curtain.”

The Bitcoin-Gods are indeed crazy, if fact they are insane.

I have wrapped up my bitcoin hacking project, just wanted to see if there was any people interested in hacking ETH?

It's actually real easy, same as btc, just that the public key is hashed with keccak, rather than sha, otherwise all is same same.

Anybody interested let me know, the brainflayer3 in this link was all max'd out years ago for ethereum, even the blockchain database scraping is essentially the same.

https://github.com/room101-dev/Grand-Ultimate-BTC-Hacker/tree/master

[Are the plots we build in Chia wallet the original plots?]

Are the plots we build in Chia wallet the original plots?


Right now we are all getting 'classic plots' from chia-pos aka 'chia plot create' cmd-line

And can Connect them to the pool or not?


yes, for the past 3+ months you can 'mine' your plots on hpool.com the site is in english it takes about 2 minutes to setup there are videos on youtube, there are guides on medium.com, of course chia-net says that good sheep don't use hpool (dot-com), 90% of all blocks are found every 5-15 minutes in ASIA with Hpool (dot-com), seems like only the 'woke' in the West have been 'sheeped' in this scam

What is the original plot and the portable plot?


original plot aka classic plot is the real deal, 'portable plot' is a new scam by Cohen ( the porn king of the internet aka bittorrent ) where he re-purposes classic plots into porn-plots aka 'portable-plots' where he rents your disk-space to others and pay's you 5 cents per day for each 1T., remember Amazon charges $20 for 1T, at 9.8EB Cohen would be earning $20M/day off your hard-disk

How to Build them?

classic plot build 'chia plot create -t fasttemp -2 slowtemp -d hdd'

Keep the old chia-pos software forever, because in the future chia-net will not longer let you build 'classic plots' so it must be in defiance just like right now where we're told "Do not run hpool.com, but we do, because some of us are not sheep', besides everybody knows that solo-mining doesn't work accept at pre-mine.

The software to build 'portable porn plots' has not yet been released, IMHO given the entire chia blockchain is non-functional the chia-dev has better things to do than buildup their porn fetishes.

If we want to connect to the original Chia pool, We have to start plotting on May 31st?


( These dates are meaningless, chia-net has never released any software on time, and when it does its unusable mess of bugs)

If you want the 'classic plot' you started plotting two years ago,in the future just refuse to use the new 'port plot engine' what I have already done is fall back to version 1.3 of chia-plot, and I have quit updating.

Most of the reason that Cohen&Hoffman are pushing portable porn plots is to punish hpool.com for beating them to the punch-bowl. Thing is no blockchain on earth provides the 'pool' that's all on the outside, the blockchain provides an RPC interface called 'get-new-blocktemplate()' when called by a pool they start a new block. With CHIA they never released the pool interface so hpool.com wrote their own.

Given that hpool.com is already finding 90% of all new blocks &XCH in asia, they will never use the new chia software, so we will have chia-classic forever, and the new chia-porn which who in the hell knows when it will come out? IMHO almost never because the chia-net team has been mis-managed since 2017.

To start with chINa& BITCOIN

First of all BITCOIN is NSA, sha256&secp256k1 are NSA, CHina  is trying to break itself away from the USA centric handcuffs.

THen there is jack ma, of taobao, aka alibaba aka ant, aka bitmain, aka antminer; see jack ma is the owner of 90% of all crypto in CHINA, china controls 90% of all crypto on earth.

Jack ma is already under house arrest, so the CCP has already taken over all crypto on the earth.

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Then there is the cash infusion, chinese people are compulsive gamblers, everybody wants to play. The ONLY way these days to get rich in China is CRYPTO, which is why everybody is playing.

Of course GOV something needs to protect morons from destroying their familys, self abuse is ok, but not to destroy the family or communtiy; thus gov has to do something

PPL on this forum are rather silent about the fact that china owns bitcoin, they'll talk shit all day about 51% consensus, but turn their head if you mention that CHINA does 90% of the mining, which of course means that CHINA owns bitcoin, but its not just that, they run all the pools, and they finance all the projects on the earth. Take bitcoin-gold in Ukraine, financed by chinese billionaires, ... same for most of the silicon valley crypto, just a chinese money laundering op

What go me going on this is the "CHINA BANS BITCOIN", well they essentially have, by taking out jack-ma china now owns 90% of the worlds btc infrastructure, what they do with it will take years to figure, they move slow, they're in no hurry

Probably besides economic depression their greatest fear is the west undermining their economy with crypto, remember crypto came out of the IMF, BIS, & NSA/CIA;

Russia&CHINA are terrified of crypto, they see it as a trojan horse, how is it that something from the west, can be now owned by CHINA? Largely because the walmart economy post 1980's where all wealth moved to china, and all wealth is hidden in gold before  and now crypto, certainly the west could pull the plug anytime it wishes and bankrupt asia with crypto manipulation.

Most  work in CHINA involves developing their own crypto that isn't tainted by the NSA, CIA,MI6/5,GCHQ, ....all this takes time;

Then there is the golden-goose, china's not stupid about money, they see that bitcoin's capilization exceeds almost all western companys, there is a lot of money to be made, so why kill the golden goose.

The biggest play here is they by the fact of OWNING jack-ma, have already OWNED the entire world crypto infrastructure, all the ASIC miners on earth btc,eth,zcoin,...all are under chinese control, all call home for pools, all report, and all miners can be re-configured as they wish

CHINA is already 100% digital, nobody uses cash anymore its gone, hell I remember 15 years ago in city's all ICE vehicles were gone all had gone to electric, 10 years ago; Most of china is today like tomorrowland of disneyland, while most of usa these days is an open sewer of homeless.

IMHO China will simply 'take ownership' of the crypto, just like they're doing. It will drive the west nutz, it will be west that has to 'ban crypto' so that chinese doesn't control western wealth.

This site is about BITCOIN, I dont' think bitcoin has much of a shelf life left, there are lots of new coins, and CHINA is looking at everything, the good thing is they have their fingers on everything, so they can't lose.

In the meantime everyone in asia  is still getting rich in crypto, unlike the west, where the IRS in the USA has largely setup road-blocks at every entrance & exit, in ASIA crypto is still largely wild-wild west.

People should just admit a mistake and move on, the biggest regret I'm hearing is that they didn't make any money, but then why haven't you been on HPOOL all along, earning chia, waiting for what?

Then there is this drive loss problem, 100's of people bought these 18tb drives, filled them up, and they fail, then the people go nuts about losing months of plots.

Drives die, I just had a 2TB drop dead the other day, controller failure ordered a pcb from china, pulled the old prom-bios, and it still didn't come back to life. Shit happens, Chia-Plotting kill's my NVME's every 100 plots, again shit happens.

Just dial it back, maybe 4tb drives hold 38 plots, is less risky than a 18tb, holding 175, doesn't take as long to replace.
I just bought two 8tb's and one was dead, its taking seagate almost 3 weeks to get me the new one, seller didn't help me because I failed to report the first 5 days of purchase, I didn't think to test, as the drives are piled up and I bring them in when I need new space.

Like everything only do what you can afford to lose, and mix&match, I was already mining gpu ETH done this for years, and I hack bitcoin as hobby, I'm only doing chia to diversify my crypto-hobby. A little space mining, a little gpu, and some classic btc coding.

CHIA is now a cult, and sadly too many people new to crypto have latched on to the cult bullshit about not using HPOOL, I knew from the very start that Solo-Mining was impossible, and I also knew that they were lying about chia, I knew the site was in english, I knew hpool was a trustful legitimate pool, all my pools are in china, so what?

What you have here is an over-hyped cult, and the next step is mass suicide, take a break folks, step back, quit waiting for the morons at chia-dev to develop a pool-protocol, mine what you have make some money and move on.

Quit putting all your eggs in one basket, I think 8tb drives are just right, the security kind we call WD purple, keep it simple; Take a rest from, and for gods sake quit waiting to make money, I think the biggest problem in CHIA is that people have spent months grinding their HDD's, and wasting their money, with NO ROI. For god's sake stop the insanity, the Chia-DEV are already terminal, you just watch their videos, and you can see the Cohen & Hoffman, are already exhausted emotionally & physically.

Everybody needs to take a break.

I make $20/day, on each batch of 200 plots, about the same as I would make on my ETH mining rigs; I never expected anything more or less, Chia Cultists are holding out for the 'moon' but all they have gotten is the shaft. This is not going to end well for anybody.

Hello, I dabble in chia-plotting do about 16x day plot generation, for the last few months. A plot is large 108gb file created similar to a bitcoin sha-256 hash, the name of the file represents the hash of that 'plot' (file); The space of chia is all the plots combined at that point in time given  8% daily growth that is 51k new plots added to the network daily

Morons solo mine, what they don't understand is that last month (1eb) they needed 1k plots to win, this month you need 10k plots to win. This is why I pool-mine using hpool, which has been around for months.

So, I have a good idea of what I earn, right now at current space EB is 7.4, e.g. 7.4 billion-billion bytes

400 plots can earn 1 chia every month on hpool (dot com) right now, so 1 plot earns 7 cents / day.

I'm curious how much it costs to host and generate plots, AWS ain't cheap the resources to make a plot are enormous 6-8 hours and 1.5 trillion random r/w on a virtual-disk

Just curious if there is anybody out there stupid enough to do this, and what your paying.

Lot's of people are now offering 'plots' for sale; but I never see the price, given how much it costs to make plots ( I mean I burn up one nvme on every 100 plot creation ), and you need a super-computer, and 3 nvme system, ... its not a cheap hobby to make plots.

So lots of people who want to be green think "I will just buy plots, or farm them on amazon on my mobile phone", ... how much is this costing you? For 7 cents a day, that drops by 1/2 every nine days ( chia space grows 8% per day ), doubles every 9 days, ergo your income on fixed plots 1/2 every 9 days.

1.) Fall back to the last working plotter chia-pos 1.3, all the software since then is broken

2.) Use linux, and cmd-line only

3.) Don't use any gui tools

4.) don't use any plot managers like 'plotman' they'll kill all your hard work, and reset you to scratch

5.) develop monitors for all NVME iostat, nvme, htop are your friends

6.) never try to run more than 4x plots in parallel on one NVME drive, the controller can't handle it

7.) Watch for the infamous 'mis-match' error in the chai-log for each 'chia create plot' instance, once you get that message, it means that NVME has been destroyed

8.) Watch 'sudo nvme smart-log /dev/nvmeNNN', watch TEMP of controller and 'controller busy count' if either go astro, then kill that plot process before it kills your NVME

I see now that chia-pos is saying they have a new 'killer version' ( 14), since about 1.0 of chia-plot, 'making it faster' has really meant killing NVME's more often, the plot speed is always going to be 6-8 hours, its always best NOT TO KILL YOUR HW. CHIA-DEV doesn't care about you, they only care about the CHIA IPO.

The GUI is unstable, the blockchain code is now terminal, nobody on earth can get chia-net to sync, and if you do, its doesn't stay sync'd for long.

The only thing useful is to use old pre 1.3 plotting software and make plots and then mine on HPOOL.com and make some money today.

Once chia gets the blockchain stable and sync'd ( this could take months, if ever ), then we will see. My fear for now is that the newer plotter software is designed to make it impossible to earn money on HPOOL, so there is a war, don't get involved, hold back to a working version, where the plots are supported in both worlds.

DEV is saying that when their plotting protocol is done, we must destroy all our plots and start over, the chinese now own chia by 70%, they'll not tolerate this bullshit coming from dev. The CHINESE IOU's made the price go to $1600usd, and keep it there, once the chia-dev team trys to screw china out  of its hard-work, then chia will implode.

IMHO the future is this, people  (US USERS) will clone chia fix the bugs, as its clear this team has no software management experience at delivering a software product to a commercial market. Sure they're all great influencers and marketing guys, but they have never developed software in a real software company.

Chia is a good idea, its too bad that a weak management team destroyed it. It's not the first proof-of-space coin, there will be others, we all can see the problems, so now lets fix them.

Sure BRAM created bit-torrent yaba-yaba, but it took 5+ years to get it rock solid, and he was probably long gone the people that made it rock solid were more than likely dev's in the wild improving open-source.

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I cannot stress enough, why plot chia if you can't earn XCH? To do this you must use HPOOL.COM, they have a plotter, and a miner, I only use their miner, its rock solid, and they do updates weekly; I don't know about their plotter I don't use it, I don't have to give them my keys, I just sign a their generated public-key, and it proves I own my plots. Right now you can earn a chia every two months, with every 200 plots. If you do as your told and 'solo mine' you will earn ZERO, and then be told to delete your plots once the pool is blessed by god-chia. They're even saying your must POS to join their pool, this of course is all 100% bullshit.


HPOOL.COM is fair & honest company; the guy is western educated and speaks fluent english; its just a normal pool just like ethermine.org, or superpool.io; These guys have years of experience, the chia-team don't know shit about mining-pools, they'll never deliver anything but bugs.

Lastly the question why have for months the talking heads on youtube dissed HPOOL.COM, these are old paid influencers, by you know who. Why the lies? About private-keys, about stealing, about not trusting china? Why?

Why do they do nothing about destroying our NVME drives, why do they not care? ( chia plotting kills my brand new samsung evo 980's at 25% of warranty TBW, that's every two weeks DOA )

Why is chia-dev sw management so blatantly incompetent?

I see this technical board has really gone to zilch, nada anymore

Has all the dev's quit? Moved on, has everybody moved on to crypt 2.0, 3.0 projects? & left the btc dinosaur?

Really got to know, especially the problem here is when you do post real info, the mod's always delete, the fantasy of btc mythology must be protected at all costs, even though only a few bots remain.

I have been now playing space POC 'capacity' so called hard-disk cryptos for a month now, so far I see mass incompetence, and not much justification for a business model.

I see lots of chinese using it as a lottery vehicle to 'get rich'

Chia seems to be #1, they got 7.2 EB ( billion billion byte ) huge amount of storage, but its all used to hold garbage hashes that are useless to the world, and worse the freckled owner Bram Cohen is calling for them to be deleted an re-plotted as "Portable Plot", insanity

The Chinese who have been now on Chia ( & all the other space coins ) for 6+ months are NOT going to go along with deletion, so I expect to see tons of folks coming out of China that support POC

For now bitcoin you can't solo-mine, gpu mining soon will be kaput on ETH, especially with Bitmain coming out with a ETH miner ; So POC is like one of the only areas left where little people can obtain crypto without $$$

The general movement seems to be "Buy it if you want it, mining is for Amazon(s)"

The entire premise of crypto is largely gone, its only become a giant financial ponzi gambling abstraction.

Say CHIA above its 7.2EB, one plot is 108GB on a HD, to make that file it takes 6-8 hours on a  super-computer PC ( 8+ cores ), 64gb ram, and 3+ nvme drives; I burn up a NVME drive every 100 plots, that's how wasteful this process is, now were' told in the future that we must replot, which means I must once again destroy many NVME drives at $200 each.

Green my ARSE

1.) Fall back to the last working plotter chia-pos 1.3, all the software since then is broken

2.) Use linux, and cmd-line only

3.) Don't use any gui tools

4.) don't use any plot managers like 'plotman' they'll kill all your hard work, and reset you to scratch

5.) develop monitors for all NVME iostat, nvme, htop are your friends

6.) never try to run more than 4x plots in parallel on one NVME drive, the controller can't handle it

7.) Watch for the infamous 'mis-match' error in the chai-log for each 'chia create plot' instance, once you get that message, it means that NVME has been destroyed

8.) Watch 'sudo nvme smart-log /dev/nvmeNNN', watch TEMP of controller and 'controller busy count' if either go astro, then kill that plot process before it kills your NVME

I see now that chia-pos is saying they have a new 'killer version' ( 14), since about 1.0 of chia-plot, 'making it faster' has really meant killing NVME's more often, the plot speed is always going to be 6-8 hours, its always best NOT TO KILL YOUR HW. CHIA-DEV doesn't care about you, they only care about the CHIA IPO.

The GUI is unstable, the blockchain code is now terminal, nobody on earth can get chia-net to sync, and if you do, its doesn't stay sync'd for long.

The only thing useful is to use old pre 1.3 plotting software and make plots and then mine on HPOOL.com and make some money today.

Once chia gets the blockchain stable and sync'd ( this could take months, if ever ), then we will see. My fear for now is that the newer plotter software is designed to make it impossible to earn money on HPOOL, so there is a war, don't get involved, hold back to a working version, where the plots are supported in both worlds.

DEV is saying that when their plotting protocol is done, we must destroy all our plots and start over, the chinese now own chia by 70%, they'll not tolerate this bullshit coming from dev. The CHINESE IOU's made the price go to $1600usd, and keep it there, once the chia-dev team trys to screw china out  of its hard-work, then chia will implode.

IMHO the future is this, people  (US USERS) will clone chia fix the bugs, as its clear this team has no software management experience at delivering a software product to a commercial market. Sure they're all great influencers and marketing guys, but they have never developed software in a real software company.

Chia is a good idea, its too bad that a weak management team destroyed it. It's not the first proof-of-space coin, there will be others, we all can see the problems, so now lets fix them.

Sure BRAM created bit-torrent yaba-yaba, but it took 5+ years to get it rock solid, and he was probably long gone the people that made it rock solid were more than likely dev's in the wild improving open-source.

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I cannot stress enough, why plot chia if you can't earn XCH? To do this you must use HPOOL.COM, they have a plotter, and a miner, I only use their miner, its rock solid, and they do updates weekly; I don't know about their plotter I don't use it, I don't have to give them my keys, I just sign a their generated public-key, and it proves I own my plots. Right now you can earn a chia every two months, with every 200 plots. If you do as your told and 'solo mine' you will earn ZERO, and then be told to delete your plots once the pool is blessed by god-chia. They're even saying your must POS to join their pool, this of course is all 100% bullshit.


HPOOL.COM is fair & honest company; the guy is western educated and speaks fluent english; its just a normal pool just like ethermine.org, or superpool.io; These guys have years of experience, the chia-team don't know shit about mining-pools, they'll never deliver anything but bugs.

Lastly the question why have for months the talking heads on youtube dissed HPOOL.COM, these are old paid influencers, by you know who. Why the lies? About private-keys, about stealing, about not trusting china? Why?

Why do they do nothing about destroying our NVME drives, why do they not care? ( chia plotting kills my brand new samsung evo 980's at 25% of warranty TBW, that's every two weeks DOA )

Why is chia-dev sw management so blatantly incompetent?

[Enormous pressure will now be on BIDEN to make good on all the pensions and unions that bought into the COVID rise of BTC.]

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/

Well its here

Musk bought in at $42k, rose it up to $66k, bailed at $50k, and now falling like a rock to $31k

So all the CORPORATE buy-in of BTC has now been lost.

40% loss of capitalization in just a few days, 500 BILLION US DOLLARS lost, and more to come. ( $1.2T is now $740B )

Next test is $10k

HODL on morons, suckers; The whales, and corporations are all heading for the exits, the bag-holders as always will be the HODL'rs

Enormous pressure will now be on BIDEN to make good on all the pensions and unions that bought into the COVID rise of BTC.

[Why is there post here? The mod's seem to think that bitcoin is an alt-coin, go figure.]

Why is there post here? The mod's seem to think that bitcoin is an alt-coin, go figure.

Two parts here random key search of bitcoin, and ECDLP high-level math analysis to map public-keys to private.

Also going to include the OPENCL code, so people can do both NVIDIA & AMD cards for hacking btc.
Also including brain-flayer 3.0, a complete rewrite that supports up to 4gb bloom-filters ( about 150M bitcoin addresses )

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https://github.com/room101-dev/Grand-Ultimate-BTC-Hacker/projects [ dozens of components 100's of 1,00's of lines of code, huge requirements for the server - experts only apply ]
https://github.com/btc-room101/bitcoin-rnn [ how to map btc address to private key using ML RNN tensorflow python ]
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Recently I have re-deployed my RTX-3070's from hacking btc do mining ETH, which is very profiitable now

These old GTX1060-3gb cards are worthless, but just experimenting around I made an interesting discovery.

Normally the 1060-3 would do about 50MH/sec, but when I put the hacking tool on its own NVME m.2. on the MOBO I found that the 8gb bloom filter was almost 100% allowing the GPU to run at max

Now I have 300M addresses from BTC that have value, placed in my 8gb bloom filter gives a false positive of one in a trillion-trillion-trillion, so not often

The 250 MH/sec is how often a private key is created ( more on this later ), and then all possible (comp/uncomp) addresses (h160)  are ran through the bloom-filter, so the through-put is really 250 M & 300M , or almost 1,000 TH/SEC address compares, but really higher because I'm doing 4 different combinations so its 4,000 TH/sec, on just one card, but I'm doing six on a rig, so its 24 PH/sec

This yields about one lost address per week to be found

For the record the rtx-3070 was doing 1,000MH/sec, but I was just running the bloom-filter off of an SSD, but it was shared, I have never tested a standalone NVME with the RTX, I could imagine they would do 1TH/sec easily.

WHat's all this mean? Well in BTC secp256k1 you got 10e77 combos, 1/2 that to birthday you got 10e36, divide that by 10e15, and you get 10e15, that many seconds tells you how often you should have a hit in real time, old calculations were on the order of  one every 1,000 days.

But on a rig I'm see way more often, because I guess for the simple matter is the napkin, is always different than real world.

So what are the tools?

1.) hack up vanity-search, which  is the best gpu solution for generating keys
2.) add the 8gb bloom filter, note that linux only support 4gb shared memory, so the bloom must be cascaded, note that brain-flayer only used a 512mb bloom, so creating a 8gb bloom is a major task in software engineering
3.) hack up vanity-search so that on every new key, its runs through the bloom-filter for every possible address that can be generated, comp, un-comp, h160, eth,...

The Gtx-1060 only uses 970mb of memory, so in effect even the older gtx750 could be used here

I spent a few years ago spending time putting the bloom-filter on the gtx-1070, but even though there is only 8gb, you can only allocate 700mb max at a time in CUDA dev, so I found near impossible to get a working 4gb bloom running on a GPU, so I fell back to doing it on the CPU.

Note in my rig here I'm just using an 2core i3 ( $50 cpu ), with 4gb memory, as this is essentially 100% gpu

I'm just sharing this cuz well its my hobby, and I have to report.

Lastly, just for the record, like the original brain-flayer dude, I don't spend the coin, I don't even own a single exchange on earth, what I do when I find btc, is I put it in a database, and watch how long it takes be spent after I find it, I have found to date, that almost all coins are gone < 1 yr, which tells me I'm not the only one playing this game.

The selection of random-keys in vanity-search is very critical, of course all that code has to be stripped, as your not looking for prefix, I use a baby-step/giant-step algo that runs through public-keys, where I have 100's of 1,000's every 20 minutes randomly search for a new key from that public hash ( of known high-value ), I do this to make sure that my private key search space is within known valuable addresses, as I'm not looking for a prefix like vanity, I'm looking for a random public address of known value. The 20 min idea, is that time try another, because of scale of the pool, there isn't much duplication.

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Lastly, on hacking btc, I spent years working on hacking the original public-key coins hold +50 btc, there used to be 1,000's, now there are < 900, and its dropping a few per month, so there being hacked. I was very close to getting a public key mapped to private, using various techniques, but had to move on other projects. Essentially the trick is p is the prime, and n is the order, if you can get n-1, n, or n+1 == p, then you can use a linear discrete log tool (cado-nfs) to get the private-key. The tough nut to crack, is finding the p just close enough to secp26k1 p, to put you in the ballpark for using kangaroo where you need to be within 2^40

I have crack these public high-value keys, but given that I dont' actually touch them, sweep them, its just a mental puzzle and move-on, but the cado-nfs, and finding n+1 is a very difficult & tedious process, of which a few months I get burned out and move onto other projects.

Mapping public-keys ( not hashed pre 2013 bitcoin was not sha'd ) is a real thing, but it takes tremendous knowledge of graduate-math in crypto; The ECDLP is one of the most difficult problems in mathematics; There are many steps, its not like normal hacking; There are no tools, everything is roll-your-own; There is no such thing on GITHUB, as the only thing you'll find there is junk; Like they say, if it made money, they wouldn't be giving it away for free.

So far Bram is saying you have to re-plot and to join his 'official pool' you must buy XCH in order to have a 'stake' in the pool, this is all of course a giant scam.
HPOOL already owns +70% of XCH, and plotting for months, and their ownership will never go away, right now  you can plot, and use HPOOL and earn XCH, and you can harvest and take your chance of winning a solo-mined, unless you have 10's of 1,000's of plots your chance of solo-winning at 6EB ( todays size) is almost zero.
Yes, Bram is saying that you must re-plot to use his non-existent pool protocol. I think that Bram has gone completely full retard, and refuses to acknowledge the truth, that he has lost control of Chia.

The problem is the blockchain is full of bugs, the chia-pos that make the plots is killing NVME drives, but they don't care to fix the problem. The chinese tossed together a rudimentary pool(HPOOL) months ago, CHIA-DEV has done nothing, they put a lot of work into chia-lisp, which I love, but the majority of the infrastructure is unstable, and needs massive work.

Now Bram is trying to do stuff like re-plot in order to kill HPOOL.com, but this is impossible, as its the Chinese in early sale of CHIA as lottery IOU's that sent the price to $1600 USD, if BRAM trys to kill HPOOL, then the CHINESE will pull out of CHIA, which means it goes to zero, even chia-dev team isn't this dumb.

Worst of all is the lies and mis-information, on you-tube all the influencers I see none admitting to using hpool, all the  posters like 'caleb' are telling lies about hpool, like their influencers working for Bram.

Caleb is the worst he says "I have never used HPOOL, but I can tell you that its in Chinese (not true), that they require a private-key ( not-true ), and they'll steal from  you ( the big lie ); Caleb is woke, and his lies have 20k followers so he claims on his non existent chia-space-pool. Go figure, why do the chia cultist have to be fed lies, why are they all mushrooms?

I see the biggest problem with CHIA is that in the West the 'woke' are being fed bile, and in ASIA people are dealing with reality.  so I suspect that he has not been 'woke'.

If you watch the Hoffman/Bram videos, they come right out and say, their plan is to IPO on the NYSE. They don't care about XCH, pooling, or the little-guy, they just want to build the next RedHat for Crypto, and sell out for cash. They even say they don't hold the green-shit-coin. Go figure. Of course this is all the lie of all lies, as we all know, just like ETH the majority of XCH was pre-mined.

Watching BTC demise is fascinating, because all the cultists come forward and say 'HODL"

What is important is the best developers have all 'moved-on', BTC is 2009, and now is 2021 there are now +10,000 btc-clones ( shit coins ), and many of them are 100X better than BTC in everyway.

The only dev's that have stayed with the dinosaur are the weak hands, or what we call 2nd & 3rd tier developers, all the 1st tier  dev's are working on crypto 2.0 (chia/horizen), and even crypto 3.0 ( internet coin protocol)

This base of 'defenders' ( bots actually )  is largely sub 50 IQ folks defending BTC, mostly bot's generating text-stuff (hater or hodl'r by sentiment context)  and of course mostly fools so called influencers who are paid penny's of BTC to post feel good bile about BTC.

Better COINS than BTC? Well CHIA, Horizen, come to mind really good teams

Todays BTC is largely like the little boy at the dam, with his fingers trying to plug the leaks, everybody knows the dam (dike) is going to fail, but they frantically keep plugging the holes ( patching the blockchain ), but the bitch is going down. This is a fact.

Today's BTC is a poorly written 12+ year old hack, a trojan horse actually that was 'gifted' by the NSA. Super low quality C++, where it was hand-fed by a few good guys who are now dead ( hal finney ),  and now most of the effort in BTC is low-level people working the marketing scams, of trying to bring new suckers into the con (scam as musk would say)

I will say this, all CRYPTO is a scam, because it attracts scammers like flies to feces; Even CHIA for how much like the team, is just a scam to get the green/woke people into crypto.

[ sorry for my absence the past month, they banned me a month for telling the truth, go figure? ]

They still will not let me post on 'technical' here on 'how to hack bitcoin' something I have been doing now for 8+ years, I like to share, but 'they' would prefer to keep everybody to live like mushrooms as we used to say 'keep them in the dark, and feed them feces'.

[With a market cap of over $1.1 trillion, Bitcoin now weighs more than the combined market cap of the four largest U.S. banks:]

https://www.inbitcoinwetrust.net/is-bitcoin-btc-now-too-big-to-fail-fcefcdd7b894

With a market cap of over $1.1 trillion, Bitcoin now weighs more than the combined market cap of the four largest U.S. banks:

    JPMorgan — $461B
    Bank of America — $334B
    Wells Fargo — $174B
    Morgan Stanley — $151B

Bitcoin also exceeds the combined market cap of payment giants Visa ($483B) and Mastercard ($383B).


Fascinating, BTC maybe slower and more expensive than Visa to do a transactions, but its more valuable than largest company on earth that processes credit-card transactions.

Finally, Bitcoin has surpassed the market cap of all publicly traded companies except the MAGA (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon) and Saudi Aramco.

In short, Bitcoin is a giant among midgets.

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So there you have it, Bitcoin is now bigger than Banking combined, and bigger than any stock market scam. Today all the banks & companys are joining the BTC bandwagon.

What could go wrong?


Bitcoin does not need governments and central banks to survive


Well sure it doesn't it doesn't until it does, then the FED steps in to bail out all the pension & 401k that got lost. Just like always, the FED doesn't allow capitalism to work, it perpetuates crony capitalism, where MUSK is kept alive, and say an unlucky business is destroyed because it doesn't belong to the inner circle 'club'.


It's here now, like it or not. With the COVID infusion of cash, and stimmy-checks, BTC has gone to the moon wrt to the USA economy. It's now a major part, and if BTC took say a 90% decline today, like 2017, it would wipe much of the USA economy.

Because BTC soaks up all the FIAT on earth, it could not only go to $100T, it could go to $1 Quad-rillion;

Somebody at some point must step back and say? Is it rational to have the worlds wealth tied up into an 'unknown' ponzi? Nobody asks that question, because all aboard to get on the Musk Train to infinity.

We are out far on a tenuous branch these days, in an area on unknown.

In America, everybody loves a winner, everybody despises a loser.

All politicians are onboard, in their biz, money is the blood of politics, and Bitcoin now has all the money.

The emperor has no clothes, indeed but who is going to step forward and condemn a winner? Nobody.

In spite of all this, this huge capitalization of BITCOIN, the enormous amount of money that people have re-directed out of productivity into virtuality.

Much of this is the old story,

1.) first they sent all our jobs to China
2.) then they had us do all our shopping from Walmart, where everything was made in China
3.) then they told us to put all our money in Chinese Banks (BITMAIN/ANT/ANTPOOL) and HODL

( critical here to remember, China mines all the BTC, miners decide which transactions go on the block-chain; a flip of the switch on software and china could turn off all exits for the west, only leaving the east with the ability to 'exit', this alone, and this alone and why its not even discussed as national emergency situation is telling; that COVID & the RESET  are all part of this engineered take-down of the USA economy )
What happens next?

[Private key wallets are usually at risk of being hacked, but hardware wallets are completely risk-free, so many large investors have turned their attention from software wallets to hardware wallets.]

Private key wallets are usually at risk of being hacked, but hardware wallets are completely risk-free, so many large investors have turned their attention from software wallets to hardware wallets.

There are more 'fake' "Trezor Wallets" coming out of China, that there are 'fake' Apple Store, and iPhones; and that's a lot. In China, the people who work at the Apple stores don't even know they're not working for Apple, and its the same for the Trezor Universe.

U might trust Trezor as much as the baby-jeebuz, but its irrelevant, unless you bought your 'Trezor' in person from the CEO at the Company, and even then he probably doesn't know if its a real device. Often these things are fabricated by the 100's of 1,000's in China on contract, and the rejects that fail 'test' are thrown in a bin and sold for cheap, then end up in Nigeria where they're resold on ebay

Lot's of ways to scam the hw-wallet, the big one is the fake scratch-off key, the second is to have pre-determinstic random numbers, say you generate 1M random keys from a seed, then you send out the Trezor clones, now you have a database, and you scan all the addresses, on the mining-pool of BTC, when you see an address from your pre-deterministic database of priv-key/address-map on bloom-filter in real time, you 'sweep', or even better you flag and have a human watch&wait until big money appears on that address.


Wallet Software is dangerous, free trojan horses.

Hardware Wallet is a joke, how do you really know its doing what you think? How can you trust the company.

Why have so many addresses you have ONE for your serious, like the big-miners, you see they have one address with 150k btc's

You have a few addresses for junk stuff

You run your own bitcoin full-node, your own electrum-server  if you wish to make lots of addresses, you use coin-join, if you wish to do your own mixing

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Everything is offline. Get a couple of dice, say roll the 32 times and write down the numbers, then enter the numbers on an offline laptop, that is virgin, no web-browser, sort of like the hive-model, virgin clean no chance of malware. You run "KU" for python bitcoin/pycoin, ku will take the generated random number and generate your WIF, you write that WIF down. Your done. You engrave that WIF on some metal, and put it away. If you want more special private-keys, do this again.

Now you have a private-key, on the same offline virgin, when you ran KU to get your WIF, you also got all the address formats, right now the one you with to use, comp, uncomp, bc up to you Your done.

Your PRIV-KEY has never seen the internet, your PRIV-KEY is hard saved permanently. You tell nobody, ever. Your security is 100%. NOTHING no random generator on earth can better the dice rolls, as all computers do pseudo-random generation.

Given that you have your own private full-node, and electrum server, you run the wallet software, so it only connects to your server internally, use TOR if you wish. Nobody on earth can connect your IP, to that address, I'm saying you have imported your secret priv-key into this private wallet node. This just be for coin-joining or mixing internally to save coins; You can always create throwaway addresses, bringing in new funds, but you can mix them back to your secret address.

Of course once you have gone to the trouble of making a 'super-priv-key' you never share it with COINBASE, or sweep using a wallet, you never use mobile-wallets, unless you fund toy-accounts for pocket money

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All wallet software online is a scam. All wallets on mobile's is a scam. The only safe wallet is on your own private wallet-server, that nobody can see what your doing. If you can't afford to lose it, don't use it with public domain software.

Most hardware wallets are a scam. Either they give you rub-off key, which they sweep your funds later, or the hw-wallet has a serial number where they can later activate malware, why would anyone think that companys making wallets are safe? It only takes 1-2 dishonest employees in cahoots with a Nigerian OP, to destroy a company. Hell anybody that gets into any wallet hw or sw is not to be trusted free or not.

At least with your own node you can monitor 'call 2 home', and prevent malware

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In summary making a super-secure private key is easy, just roll a few dice a few times. Keeping that private-key off of the computer, and off of the internet is the secret. Running your own wallet-server is most important of all to make sure NOBODY associates your high-value address with your geo-ip

What in the hell is a paper-wallet Paper is where you do your scratch work rather than on a computer, storage of your magic number is up to you, hell grind it into the bottom of your desk with a drill

'wallets' are 100% bullshit hw or sw, running your own BTC full-node, you can do your own transaction 100% anonymous

All exchanges are either ran by the GOV, or criminal in nature.


Private key wallets are usually at risk of being hacked, but hardware wallets are completely risk-free, so many large investors have turned their attention from software wallets to hardware wallets.

10's of 1,000's of people have been robbed by buying cheap trezor clones online from ebay

Over $2Billion USD lost every year from BTC theft, but its a dirty little secret

hw-wallets are USB devices, the easiest thing in the world for NSA to hack is USB devices, these days lots of malware out there to scan, super easy to get into a device read-only dump the memory, and decrypt it later

but most hw-wallets use the ebay scam, where a scratch off key is included in the package, and of course as soon as you use the wallet with that key, your funds are swept by a 3rd party

but even making your own key isn't safe, because all wallets hw or sw are trojan horses

original btc design didn't even have 'wallets', it came later by criminals and exchanges and governments




Its not that the paper is wrong, but the idea of printing the private key on it is very dangerous. Thankfully they were replaced with seed words which are better.

In short, its the modern, safer version of it. Private keys should never be handled directly.

Seed words require a dictionary to map those words to a 12 bit digit, typically 12 or 24 seed words, what a pain in the ass. Not all sw even uses the same software mapping. This crap was invented by the same dildo that brought you 'brain-wallets', another scam that caused people to lose millions

Just roll two dice 3 dozen times writing down each pair of digts, and your done. U have your numeric private-key. Convert to WIF format offline secure, and tattoo that on bottom of foot. Done.

WIF is typcially about 28 characters, easy to write down.

I think memorizing 12 or 24 words in an order is as dangerous as 'brain wallets', people are constantly forgetting the order, or one word, read the net, not a day goes by somebody messes up and loses all their btc forever

Just convert the numeric key to a WIF, and write on system using a permanent marking system, welding rod if you wish, or plasma-ionic rifle, bury it with your gold, so know its in a safe place.

Why pick on paper, there are scrolls laying around with old ink 10's of 1,000's of years; going to last longer than you, especially if stored in dry place. Like a PVC gun tube, where you keep your gold buried.

Most of the time when people first start BTC they don't know what they're doing, they go online and get an 'address' and never backup that priv-key, then years go by they think their rich, and then when they go to spend their btc ( cuz they hodl ), they find out they don't have the key, or the password to the wallet; So many gimmicks and pitfalls in BTC to lose your money




A mnemonic seed wallet has many advantages - you only need pen and paper to make it, it creates a full wallet with as many addresses as you need, as well as change addresses, and you can even memorize the seed to additionally store it in your head.


Why indeed? Because most people can't remember where they left their car keys ten minutes ago.

Write it down, or lose it.


On Ethereum they tell you they intend to reduce eth  live holdings, to increase price, on btc they can count on people being stupid to reduce active addresses. Lost coins, means price goes up. By Design. More theft price, goes up; by design.

Like you already KNOW, if you use an online/mobile-phone wallet, and  use their private-key generated, then you have already lost your money.