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First of all, nobody is going to shed a tear over blockchain analysis services.

Having said that, Ciphertrace's URL started redirecting its whole site, to some MasterCard page of all places.

Maybe they were bought out by them, but why them in particular?

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Open-source wallets only.

If they have basic coin control, multiple address support and address reuse safeguards then that is a plus.

I'm trying to load up on some LTC that I plan to use for payment purposes. Also confirms reasonably quicker than Bitcoin these days, where two-three blocks are mined in a few minutes and then I have to wait 30-40 more minutes for my transaction to get mined.

As you all know, scammers impersonate the identities of various Bitcointalk.org users on different platforms with the objective of robbing unsuspecting users. This is why it's important to verify the identities of the people you trade with on this forum.

There are two primary methods of verification:

1. Staked Addresses
2. PGP Public Keys (more secure)

When dealing with Bitcointalk users who provide escrow, campaign management, and other types of high-value services, you should always demand for one of these verification methods. The more addresses and keys provided, the more confident you can be that you're dealing with the real person (short of a SWAT team raid and hardware confiscation, but that is extremely rare and is out of scope for this thread).

On this thread I will list the profile information for all service providers on Bitcointalk, their handles, and how to verify their authenticity if you want to contact them. Especially for interactions outside Bitcointalk.

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If I tap the "Add to playlist" button on a playlist Apple generated, and then tap "New Playlist" (counter-intuitive, I know), will this freeze the playlist from any songs being added or removed?

Just saving the playlist to the library doesn't prevent updates from happening.

[its contents weren't]

In the case where one person deletes their own posts, it sometimes causes adjacent posts to be merged together, like this:

A reply of yours, quoted below, was deleted by a Bitcoin Forum moderator. Posts are most frequently deleted because they are off-topic, though they can also be deleted for other reasons. In the future, please avoid posting things that need to be deleted.

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In that case, please show me a witness transaction only Legancy inputs in the blockchain.

You were right about only legacy inputs transaction since that's what the last sentence of the quote also says. It's at the beginning of the document btw. My question now is how to construct the witness in the following case:

but what if only some of the inputs are segwit?

= segwit

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They're all UTXOs from a legacy address so I figured that the witness array still needs to be the total length of the inputs.

I am relatively certain that in this case you are not allowed to create a Segwit transaction. It must be a legancy TX!
Witness Field also not permitted in this TX!
Witness field may only be inserted if at least one input comes from a Segwit address.

BIP141 says this:

The witness is a serialization of all witness fields of the transaction. Each txin is associated with a witness field. A witness field starts with a var_int to indicate the number of stack items for the txin. It is followed by stack items, with each item starts with a var_int to indicate the length. Witness data is NOT script.

A non-witness program (defined hereinafter) txin MUST be associated with an empty witness field, represented by a 0x00. If all txins are not witness program, a transaction's wtxid is equal to its txid.

So if there is no segwit input, it basically means there is no marker, flag, witness field, etc. but what if only some of the inputs are segwit?

I am not sure what the witness is supposed to be in this case.

In this case, hypothetically if there were 8 witness items, they would not be specified as 00 x8 times, but 08 as the stack length and then each stack (containing the relevant scriptsig)?

And if only half of them were witnesses, then it's 04 as stack length and then the 4 stack items?

How does Core even keep track of which input a witness belongs to if there are legacy inputs scattered in the middle?

Do you think the moderator's note should additionally talk about this possibility?

In other words, I'd like to see something like this:

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In addition, it would obviously be better if only one "deleted post" notification was sent, given the circumstances of the merge. Though I'm probably nit-picking here.

I saw dkbit98's topic https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5540122.msg65333946#msg65333946 but I wanted to create a new one to suggest this optimization.

If you're reading this and wondering why I haven't updated any of the campaign threads yet, don't worry. I'll do that soon.

Below is a screenshot of the Press board, from my account:



These two users, CoinTurk and chmod755, are on my ignore list (for Press spam).

However, only CoinTurk's posts are grayed out, and chmod755's appear like a normal user's posts. But clicking on any post from either account shows the expected "this user is ignored" message.

Is this a bug? My ignore list is not particularly large - there's a few dozen entries in it I think, but it's been a while since I've actually added anyone to my ignore list before today, so it's not like there's hundreds of accounts in it.

As of several days ago - I do not know exactly when they started this - CoinGate the crypto payment processor for many websites has started arbitrarily rejecting people's orders from being created.

This would not be that big of a problem if they did not leave the order page open for some time before rejecting the order.

Now you could actually send crypto to the designated address and then they reject it after it gets confirmed. Which forces you to nag them for a refund which takes a long time to deal with.

This almost happened to me actually when I was renewing one of my boxes a few minutes ago, but soon after I got this email I double-spent the transaction so that no money was lost. See the screenshot below:



It is quite a disappointment that they are doing this, as they used to be a super reliable service used everywhere. I think the EU address regulations have finally caught up to them. They have been requiring personal information like name, email and country for some time without any complaints. Now I'm not a european, or even live in europe, so it's strange why they are doing these rejections all of a sudden. Whatever it is, this is quite frankly a "funds SAFU" risk if you send them any sort of money for an order.

And no this is not a tainted coins issue, because there's barely any time to look at the broadcast transaction before you're automatically rejected (if you even make it that far that is.)

If your service providers use CoinGate then you should recommend them to use a payment processor that does not arbitrarily reject people's orders.

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According to this thread I just read, there used to be a method of running the BPIP extension on Android, by using an app called "Kiwi Browser". But now that that's unmaintained, I was wondering if you guys would be interested in a BPIP app.

It would basically be a WebView around the Bitcointalk forum but with the BPIP code scraped from the extension source, which is something suchmoon told me about a couple weeks ago.

Or perhaps it would be something slightly different, depending on Android design limitations.

I think it's very doable.

No iOS version, sorry. Not possible with my setup.

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Long story short, my VCC provider now accepts only TRX and USDT-TRC deposits, so my demand for these is going to be a lot higher now. No longer the case now but I'll still leave this open.

Guidelines:

This thread is for people who [W] BTC and [H] Tron (or TRC20). I do not offer reverse exchanges at this time.

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- Amount in BTC
- BTC address

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I will give you a Tron address to which you will send either TRX or USDT, and an amount to send, which is the price + the appropriate fee from the table above to cover deposit fees. This all happens within 48 hours unless otherwise stated.

A quick trade should take about a day to execute.

You will always send first.

Anyone can post an offer, newbies, tagged accounts, etc. Except for scammers.

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I have a large amount of USDT-TRC20 that I'm trying to send somewhere, but I'm out of TRX. This amount is too small for exchangers.

So I need someone to send me some TRX, like $5, and I'll send the equivalent amount of BTC in return immediately.

for testing only

Although I am unable to find hard data on https://doge.gov related to how much money has been saved in wasteful government saving, unless you want to take Elon Musk's tweets for it (but they are very approximated and not precise obviously), I am wondering whether there is any correlation to a well-ran fiscal policy in a government, and the general crypto market going up or at least performing well.

Now I'm not referring to the fact that the current market is in uptrend, because that is due to the *very existence* of DOGE. It has nothing to do with wasteful spending in general.

https://x.com/ghost_prick/status/1882819147257553228
https://x.com/pete_rizzo_/status/1882846496565117373

This is who is trying to sabotage the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.

Not going to lie, I have a special hatred of Ripple ever since they tried convince to people that Bitcoin should be banned because of energy emissions.

Seems like they haven't changed a bit.

And not only that, but they appear to have an army of Ripple zealots who want government-held XRP because their bags pumped 6x (only because Gensler was fired, and even then it is less than the total gains on BTC between 2020 and now. The arrogance of these guys man) and that's the only way their bags will pump more.

So what do you think should be done to stop them now?