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2701  Other / Meta / Re: [CHARTS] Brief monthly overview of the local boards activity on: January 24, 2023, 09:06:55 PM
Its time for a yet another brief monthly overview of local boards activity, this time a little bit later than in previous months as I was busy with yearly overviews.
Well done for one more good reporting work Rikafip!
I am looking at activity from Pakistan members and it's again higher than our local board, French, Arabic, Romainan, Nigerian (recently added), and few others.
They deserve to get new local board, so theymos and moderators do something if you are watching and reading this.
Any update about making yearly reports like we talked about?
2702  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: What could make you start using a new crypto wallet today? on: January 24, 2023, 08:45:30 PM
Will you start trusting a new crypto wallet after it's been out for years or based on users reviews? Or it depends on what the wallet is offering, for example new crypto wallet that's fully open source but not popular because its new, is this a good reason enough to start using?
Don't trust, verify.
Point of the open source wallets is that you don't need to trust anyone if you and other developers can verify the code and don't find any hidden backdoor.
Any newly released wallet needs time  but at least for open source software everyone can identify and help fixing them, that is impossible with bunch of closed source black box wallets.

There are people who use Guarda wallet, Atomic wallet or Exodus wallet the same year of release before they become popular, what could possibly prompt you to start using a new crypto wallet today?
I don't like any of this wallets and I don't recommend anyone using them, but Exodus is probably better option from all of them.
Best option for dealing with shitcoins is hardware wallets like Trezor, Keystone or Bitbox, that are all open source and much better than ones you mentioned.
2703  Other / Meta / Re: [TELEGRAM] Yet Another BitcoinTalk Notification BOT (merits, mentions, topics,+) on: January 23, 2023, 10:36:03 PM
Cheers from Antartica.

We have internet (very slow) and good food.
Bot works fine and water looks nice...  Cool
Have you tried to take a swim or a dive, I heard it's very healthy in right dosage?
2704  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin vs CBDC - Print your own stickers on: January 23, 2023, 10:28:46 PM
Your problem is that you think CBDC and the current "global fiat system" are separate from each other. But they are the same exact thing. Besides, they've been printing fiat in digital form for many years now and only a small percentage of it is in cash form (there is no enough paper on earth to print all of it!). Whether it is called digital banking or CBDC is not going to change that.
As I said this is just a hype that banksters are following.
They are not the same because CBDC can only be implemented if cash is removed from use.
Second, CBDC will have expiration date like coupons, and they will be connected with digital ID, that is something we don't have currently.
I see that you don't know anything about CBDC so I suggest reading more before you are making comparions with current fiat monetary system or something else.

There is no difference between people in China and their level of brainwashedness and people elsewhere.
You probably never visited Chain and you don't know how things work there, but they are already functioning almost like obedient robots.
I know people who lived and worked in China, and there is a huge difference with people in the rest of the world, that is why they are testing ground for new stuff.

Have you forgotten how many people celebrated the day PayPal started selling bitcoin without even having any bitcoins to their dumb users while not letting anybody withdraw?
If PayPal, Bank of America, etc. suddenly revealed PP-coin tomorrow the same people will still be happy and buy that centralized altcoin. Smiley
I never celebrated that and I don't anyone anyone who celebrated PayPal started selling Bitcoin.

It's vital people are made aware of the potential for abuse with this.  It's a dystopian nightmare-in-the-making.
Yeah, but try to explain this to tik-tok generation Tongue
2705  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: Stack wallet for mobile? on: January 23, 2023, 10:15:50 PM
First of all, I do not like a wallet that encourages fingerprint, I mean that makes it noticeable and possible during the wallet setup. Secondly, I like passhrase, it makes me to feel secure while I backup my wallet offline on paper, but the wallet do not support passphrase, even I wanted to import BIP39 passphrase along with seed phrase but that was not possible.
You don't have to use fingerprint, but all smartphones already have biometrics like face and fingerprints, so you shouldn't use any smartphone  Cheesy
Passphrase is a different story and I like it, but I don't see a point in using it for mobile wallets that holds small amount of coins.

Quite a weird choice of coins to support. I have never heard of Wownero or Epic Cash in my life.
It's all privacy based coins, wownero is monero fork with better privacy but it's a meme coin like doge.

So, you are given a choice to use standard seed backups or their own native backup method or how does it work? Can the Stack wallet recover wallets created by other BIP39-compatible bitcoin cliets?
Looks like they have two methods for backup, but I am no sure seed words are compatible with other BIP32 wallets.
I didn't test wallet with transactions, but I plan to test in soon and see if there is coin control and other features.
2706  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Crypto debit card without kyc? on: January 23, 2023, 09:15:29 PM
I would take this with a serious dose of caution. CoinDebit card has had a problem with its service for a long time (September 2022), for now, they are under the pretext of looking for a new provider
I don't know what caution are you talking about when you can't even buy new cards now, and they refunded all the money to people who had money and filled refund requests when beta cards stopped working.
I am following them and I will post when they start working with new cards, that will have bigger limits and different rules for buying cards.
Scammers would continue to sell cards and they wouldn't refund any money to people, this is not the case here, but do your own research.
2707  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Be careful with saxydev; he is a possible scammer on: January 23, 2023, 09:03:54 PM
Dude, there is not such a service for free anywhere. What are you even talking about? You can try a lifetime pointing me to a free service. There is none.
Just because you can't find something that doesn't mean this thing doesn't exist, except maybe in your mind.
I said that I can prove such services exist already, I know two who are totally free and others who are paid, unlike your imaginary service that nobody ever saw, because you don't have website or anything else.
Let me make you an offer, if I post a proof for a free service like I said you will pay me 0.1 BTC, I think this is fair offer for a guy who is so active businessman like you.
2708  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Miner noise on: January 23, 2023, 08:40:18 PM
Hi everyone my name is Richard nice to meet you all . I'm wondering how miners are able to reduce noise or what can be done about it ?
I live in a terraced house my wife and two kids, both are in their own bedrooms but you can hear the neighbor's at times through the upstairs walls when its quiet during the day . Any help would be appreciated
I saw several DIY projects that reduced noise of ASIC miners by creating isolation boxes from different materials.
Some of them managed to reduced noise and other almost completely eliminated noise and used heating from miners for generating heat in winter times or for heating water.
You can search this projects on youtube as acoustic boxes or silencers, and isolating room with miners could also help reduce overall noise.
2709  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Crypto debit card without kyc? on: January 22, 2023, 11:32:43 PM
For the virtual cards, not KYC documents are needed.
Does it mean that upcoming physical FCF debit cards for individuals will be with KYC verification or without?
I think it's time for you to create dedicated FCF topic in forum, and I would like to see comparison with other similar services that are available right now, like CoinDebit card and CoinPayCard.
One thing I don't understand is that you support shitcoins like Shib but you don't want to add Bitcoin.  Roll Eyes
2710  Bitcoin / Hardware wallets / Re: Safepal hardware wallet review and opinions on: January 22, 2023, 11:12:20 PM
If referring to the current design of portable electronic devices, the use of removable batteries is quite outdated.
Most devices use a built-in non-removable battery.
That is not because this built-in batteries are better in any way, it's only because this is cheaper for manufacturers and they can take more money from customers.
I don't know the quality of battery used in safepal wallet, but based on the price I am sure they are using some cheap chinese stuff, and I think this is still better than crap ledger nono x is using.
Keystone and Passport hardware wallets are both using removable batteries that can easily be replaced and I am totally supporting that.
2711  Bitcoin / Hardware wallets / Re: 1inch Network's HW on: January 22, 2023, 10:59:07 PM
What will be your opinion about this device? Let's discuss what you like and don't like about 1inch Network hardware wallet.
I posted about 1inch hardware wallet few days ago in our local board.
This is just one more shitcoin only hardware wallet that won't support Bitcoin mainnet, so I am not taking it seriously at all.
However, based on images and their specifications, this is probably one of the better build quality device, since it uses combination of good materials, metal steel frame, Gorilla Glass, and it's waterproof like modern smartphones.
This device will cost around $199 plus shipping, but this means nothing for me when it's not supporting Bitcoin and it would be just a waste of money.
Ledger Stax does look similar but it's more expensive and I think it's made mostly from cheap plastic like their other devices.
Another issue I have with 1inch hardware wallet is their unknown source code and information about secure elements and security, so it's probably going to be closed source.
2712  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: Unstoppable wallet {User experiences} on: January 22, 2023, 10:44:00 PM
Please reply only after downloading and use that wallet.
I download and used Unstoppable wallet for some time and it works fine for me.
For someone who is not using bunch of shitcoins and likes privacy this is very good option for mobile wallet, but it can be improved in many areas and they should add list of supported coins.

Not a bad wallet if it works for you, but since it did not work for me I passed. But in the little time I had it that is what I noticed. I just tried again when I saw this post and the screen shots for the can't add just came from now so it's still an issue.
AtomicDEX.io might be one more alternative you can use for dogecoin, it also supports Bitcoin and other shitcoins, and you can even exchange coins if there is enough volume.
I don't like that for Bitcoin they are still using old style addresses starting with 1, and wallet is still in beta phase, but it works fine.
Probably best option for multicoin wallet is combination with some hardware wallets, but I saw other wallet called Stack also supports doge.

I am using Coinomi
Other than being closed source, I don't know last time Coinomi developers updated their desktop wallet, not sure if similar situation is with their mobile app.
 
2713  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Huge problem finding hardware wallet - do I only need it for 24 seedphrase? on: January 22, 2023, 09:44:11 PM
But what bothers me again is that the 24 word seed phrase is stored on MicroSD, but I don't want to store anything digitally but just write the 24 seed phrase on paper and laminate it and hide it well. Also, it seems to be the case with all hardware wallets that I have to be online just to generate a 24 seed phrase. Such an offline generation at the 24 Seedphrase would correspond to an "ultracold wallet", which I would prefer.
Seed words stored in BitBox and most other devices are encrypted or/and stored in secure element, but there are some hardware wallets that don't store anything like in the case with Cypherock X1.
Generating words on any hardware wallet is not done online and you can also generate them with dices totally offline and then import in your device.
There are also DIY signing devices (SeedSignber or Krux) that deletes everything once the power is turned off, and importing seeds words can be done fast with QR codes or manually.

My question then goes to whether it is worthwhile to buy a hardware wallet at all and not just click on "Generate 24 words" at https://iancoleman.io/bip39/ and tadaaaa
Ian Coleman lost all his Bitcoin in alleged hack... tadaaaa, so he is not so smart like people think.
If you think you are smarter than guy who created that website, than go ahead, experiment with linux, offline computers and other stuff like that.

PS: In my case (saving for old age), is it generally better to use a decentralized exchange like https://bisq.network instead of Binance?
Why would you even ask a question like this?!
Experiment for yourself, and tell us what happened when you lose money on Binance.
2714  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Be careful with saxydev; he is a possible scammer on: January 22, 2023, 09:16:09 PM
There is 0 service that asks for in debt analyse for free. If you can point me to a service which is up to date, that offers it for free, I will offer you as well for free a lifetime of BTC/ETH analyse which costs arround 200$ each.
I don't care about your lifetime BTC/ETH analyse, whatever that is, fact is that you are 100% using some third party tool, and I could prove it easily but I don't want to waste time on that.
Another fact is that you know nothing about Bitcoin and any other cryptocurrency, and if you love pi network crap so much than use your ''analyse'' for pi newtork not for bitcoin.
I doubt even a single person from forum ever paid a cent for your magical ''analyse'' of anything.
2715  Economy / Services / Re: [FULL] ChipMixer Signature Campaign | Sr Member+ on: January 22, 2023, 09:05:29 PM
I've added a mirror of the spreadsheet to CryptPad: https://cryptpad.fr/sheet/#/2/sheet/view/eSplm+1JhNSpZ2vhLc8J08tS0p2nWrp0CiVXVjIQEnE/embed/
Getting this to work was a bit annoying (cryptpad broke trying to import the CM sheet quite a few times, likely because it's a pretty big spreadsheet) so please let me know if this is something you benefit from/would like to see continue going forward  Smiley
I like it, let's continue with de-googling mission Smiley
Everything works fine for me with cryptpad.fr, but I just wish if it could load a bit faster and work with dark themes.
I think that n0nce or someone else recently posted another alternative called ethercalc.net that load super fast, but I am not sure it's encrypted and fully open source like cryptpad.
2716  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin vs CBDC - Print your own stickers on: January 21, 2023, 09:36:44 PM
What I want to add, though, that experimenting or intending to experiment with a CBDC doesn't mean going against Bitcoin. For example, Ukraine does plan to work on a fiat CBDC in the future, but it's also already quite crypto-friendly and is planning to set up pro-crypto regulations along with potentially launching a CBDC
Oh please don't be so naive, they are allowing us to play with Bitcoin for people to get used on digital currencies, wallets and qr codes, but once they move to CBDC globally they can easily make Bitcoin illegal, and send people to prison if they use it.
Most of the genpop don't care about anything else than convenience and cbdc will be very convenient for sure, just like coupons with expiration date Tongue

CBDC is just the world banksters following a hype trying to keep their relevance in a world that has a decentralized currency called bitcoin. I don't see the point in it and I see even less point in printing stickers and bitching about it on social media because it won't change a thing.
I didn't say printing stickers will change anything, but this helps in spreading word and people may actually do research about CBDC instead of blindly accepting any mainstream narrative.
I am sure they will present CBDC as life saving tool after they pump this current global fiat economy system to explosion in near future.
People is China are so brainwashed they will be the first to accept this, and they will do it gladly, and people who like this should move to China right now to experience this ''benefits''.
2717  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Be careful with saxydev; he is a possible scammer on: January 21, 2023, 09:19:43 PM
I'd like to raise awareness about a possible Romanian scammer, which is trying to fool people that he can offer money laundering check. I am not sure if he managed to scam anyone so far, but what is certain that he follows all patterns of a scammer.
He doesn't have to be a scammer, because all this ''aml checks'' are already available for free with at least one website and one telegram bot.
This guy is probably using this free tools and he is charging people this ''service'' that can be done for free, and he is just trying to earn from this.
It's obvious that most of his posts are made in shitcoin boards, so no wonder he was supporting Pi Network crap, but I didn't saw anyone said he scammed someone.
2718  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Stack wallet for mobile? on: January 21, 2023, 09:11:18 PM
There are not many open source Bitcoin wallets and even less of them for other cryptocurrencies, but recently I saw one called Stack wallet and I didn't saw anyone talked about it in forum.

I decided to install Stack wallet and make a quick test to see if it is any good or not.
Website stackwallet.com is saying that Stack is open source privacy-preserving cryptocurrency non-custodial wallet, and it supports Bitcoin, Monero, Bitcoin Cash, Firo, Epic Cash, Namecoin, Wownero, Litecoin, and Dogecoin.

Installation was quick, I was asked if I want privacy or regular mode (with coingecko prices), and for each coin I have to create new wallet, add name and generate seed words.
You can select your own Bitcoin node, and there is built-in exchange in wallet, but I think they are using some third party centralized exchanges.

 

Stack wallet have backup option but this is NOT compatible with any other bitcoin wallets, so I suggest keeping seed words instead of custom backup.
I didn't receive or send any transactions with Stack wallet, but this could be alternative if you want to keep few shitcoins along with Bitcoin as pocket money, don't use this wallet for larger amount of coins.

Stack wallet github page is available but I still didn't saw anyone confirming if their code is verified by wallet scrutiny or someone else:
https://github.com/cypherstack/stack_wallet

From my short testing  I can say this is not a bad wallet, but alternative called Unstoppable wallet looks and works much better for me.
Another alternative open source wallet is called Cake wallet, that is oriented more towards Monero, but Bitcoin and Litecoin are also supported.

Did anyone else tried this wallet and what do you think about it?
2719  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: is it possible to invest in bitcoin to build a country whose economy is down? on: January 21, 2023, 08:33:09 PM
what is my understanding like that, I ask for your opinion from all of you?
Bitcoin is not a magical stick that fixes all the problems in one country, and I doubt it can help entire country as long as there is corruption and other problems.
It can certainly help some individuals in that country, and maybe slowly spread and expand circle of adoption to more and more people.
We have few examples of countries with bad economy trying Bitcoin experiments, but making Bitcoin a legal tender in some country can certainly attract bitcoin oriented investors.
2720  Bitcoin / Hardware wallets / Re: Are hardware wallets really safe? And so is Bip39? Opinions about Ledger? on: January 21, 2023, 08:26:50 PM
1. So with Ledger, for instance, it’s a “24-word recovery phrase.” I was wondering when and how the recovery phrase was determined on a Ledger device for example? It’s not possible that the company itself knows it before they deliver it with DHL? I’ve heard the best way to buy a Ledger is from the company itself, because Amazon/eBay Ledgers could be compromised.
Ledger wallet is using closed source secure element to generate seed words, and user is doing that when they start device for the first time.
You can also generate your seed words offline and import them in ledger if you don't trust their closed source generation.
Devices are not delivered with pre-generated seed words, and if someone receives device like that, that is a scam.
There is always a possibility for hidden backdoors, but that is the case with all other devices.

2. Just these 24 words in the right order are pretty much secure and it’s like a “count all the atoms on planet Earth” thing so it’s impossible that somebody else uses the same phrase or finds out about it? I’m not the smartest guy in town, but there are no brute force attacks possible by combining 24 words from this BIP39 list? https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039/english.txt
Go ahead and try to brute force it.
You can always make it more secure with multiple passphrases and with multisig setup.

3. The 24-word recovery phrase in universally compatible (whether other hardware wallets, software etc), so if a thief knows my recovery phrase, he can also use it with Electrum obviously?
Yes, he can use it with any compatible wallet, including Electrum and other hardware wallets.

5. If I go for a Ledger, I would probably purchase the Nano S Plus because it doesn’t have any bluetooth? Does anyone have experiences with this particular device?
This device is better than model X that has many battery issues, and you don't need bluetooth when you can connect device with cable just fine.
I am not recommending anyone to buy any closed source ledger devices, but ledger S plus is probably best of all their junk devices.

6. I can setup a Ledger also completely offline with Linux/Ubuntu DVD and just Electrum? Just asking because most tutorials are based on Ledger Live, but I’m not sure?
Probably.
There are thousands of Linux OS, and I don't know if all of them will work with ledger, but most distributions will work.

9. So the Ledger device in general is pretty much 100% secure and the only known hacks and 100% of the time it was the user who put the phrase up on Google drive, told their partner etc.? Just asking because I went to like 50 Reddit threads and there is like “Help! Someone stole my Bitcoin from my Ledger” almost every single day. Ledger support also says on Reddit:
Nothing is 100% secure, especially not when you keep anything on some cloud drive.

10. As far as my understanding goes, there are only 2 ways to “hack” (not the right word of course) a Ledger device:  1. someone knows 24 word seed or 2. Ledger device and someone knows pin code. That’s correct?
No, and this is not a hack.

11. If anyone has other good recommendations for a good hardware wallet, I would like to hear it. Maybe less controversial than Ledger although they still seem to be pretty popular, even after the data breach.
Passport, Keystone, Bitbox, Trezor, are all open source and much better and more reliable than ledger.

PS
You are asking too many questions...
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