I can't believe this lunatic hasn't been banned yet.  He's been spamming his stupid retaliatory site and trolling the lending board for years now.  Nearly 20% of his posts get deleted for trolling, spamming, or being off-topic.  After so many reports and complaints, I doubt that he'll actually get banned, so the best course of action is to ignore him and stop responding to his lunacy.

That 49ers game!  OMG that was a nail-biter and so much fun.  I was stuck at ORD waiting for a delayed connection, watching the game at a bar.  Me and my cohort (Packers fan) were a tad bit drunk and being loud rooting for the Niners.  By the time it went into OT we had the whole bar rooting for the Niners.  In Chicago!  Good times lol.

Thank you all for the congratulations on winning the FF league.  What a streak of luck I had there at the end.  That's the first time I've ever been crowned champion outside of my fantasies (pun intended.)  Thank you all for participating and keeping it fun.  I can't wait to start again next year.  I assure you my luck will run out eventually.

@nutildah, please send me an address where you want you winnings sent.  The rest of you, I promised I'd buy the beers if I won, and of course I'll honor that commitment.

@bbc.reporter, @Hueristic, @morvillz7z, @South Park, @suchmoon, @wheelz1200, please send me an address where I can send your beer money.

Thanks again for an awesome season.

FYI; I'm traveling for work this week, so I'll largely be AFK until Wednesday.

GO NINERS!

Welcome aboard.

I've never ran into this issue, but I think you'll have to let bitcoin core finish synchronizing before you can upgrade the wallet.  Try reinstalling bitcoin, load your wallet, and then let it finish synchronizing.  It could take a couple of days or more depending on your system and internet connection. 

You can still use a pruned install, you shouldn't have to install the whole blockchain (over 430GB currently.)  If your wallet is loaded even the pruned install will include the transactions pertinent to your wallet.

This section is limited to only English, if you are only capable of posting in Italian you should post in the Italian board.

Bitcoin Core wallets never had seeds.  If it was core wallet, you would have a wallet.dat file.  Seed phrase wallets didn't come along until 2011.  If you have a 12-word (or 24-word) seed phrase you can try to restore it using Electrum wallet.

It's always better to be lucky than good (that's my strategy this weekend, lol.)  I think luck plays a huge part in it, but it's impossible to quantify.  If I had been matched up with suchmoon in the simi finals I would have lost.

If you think of FF as a way to measure your knowledge of football, I think you'll be disappointed.  I think it has little do with knowledge of the game.  A significant portion of success in FF is keeping yourself appraised of the players on your squad, and their respective opponents each week.  It's an interactive way to stay appraised of other teams around the league, and adds some interest in their performances.  Something to complement following your favorite/local team.  If you find that enjoyable, then you're a winner regardless of the outcome.

Inclusion farming seems to be a plague in several cultural groups, but I don't know how we can mitigate the impact without alienating people.  All I know is that the system is fubar right now.  I reckon that's one of the reasons Tecshare insisted the feedback system be relegated to trades.  I still don't think that's a good solution because there are a lot nuances in this forum that would make a trade-only feedback system insufficient.


I think one of the reasons DT members don't care is because of the custom trust lists.  It's kind of handy if you've been here for some time; I can go about my forum life with notes about goodguys and badguys that I encountered almost 4 years ago.  I can also choose to display notes left by others whom I've come to know and trust.  Nice!

But how does that help newbies?  They show up in January of 2022 and find a trust system full of drama, retaliation, misinformation, and downright lies.  Not so nice!

The lottery is broken, and needs adjustment.  Or maybe it just needs to go away all together. 

It didn't sound like shilling to me, but in the video linked by ChiBitCTy in the OP when Andreas suggested hardware wallets he did mention Cold Card by name.  He was commenting that the Cold Card allows one to enter his own entropy when generating a seed.  Again, it didn't sound like shilling, more like commenting that a particular hardware wallet offers a fairly unique feature.


"There are very few problems in this world that can't be solved with a gallon of diesel and a match."
 - "Burner" (a retired Navy Seal I used to know.)


Steel will make good backups, but not all steel washers are the same, you still need to chose the right materials.  Washers, nuts, and bolts better be stainless (which is a bit more expensive) if you want them to survive fire or flooding.  Galvanized (zinc) or other coatings (tin, nickel) often found on washers will melt long before the steel does in a house fire, and could fill all your stampings making them illegible.  If your backups are exposed to caustic compounds during a flood, the coatings on your washers could corrode or oxidize, again leaving you with illegible stampings.  Steel isn't the panacea that some want to make it, and could lead many to a false sense of security.

Please fasten your flame retardant suit, because I'm going to have to nitpick your statements here:


If someone wanted a single key Electrum would probably be the easiest tool to use, there's no reason not to.  The Ian Coleman tool can be used as well, and allows you to enter your own entropy.  There's no reason not to use an HD wallet to extract a single key.


Again, I beg to differ.  When properly stored paper can survive for thousands of years, and there's plenty of proof of that.  The archival resilience of CDs, on the other hand is only theoretical, and CDs require equipment that is slowly going obsolete.  Even if they don't go away all together, their use will diminish to the point that the equipment to read them will become somewhat expensive.

As for destroying the unneeded used keys, once it's served it's usefulness paper is easily destroyed with nothing more expensive than a match.  I could probably snap a CD into a few pieces with my bare hands, but I don't think my mother could.  She would certainly need a $5 wrench.   

You bring up a good point about security.  Properly stored and protected paper wallets are about as secure as you can get, and paper is among the best media for archival purposes.  Andreas kind of glossed over the methods for storing seeds, yet for the masses, paper is one of the more practical methods of doing so.  Most people won't have access to, or skills to use fancy equipment to make steel backups, and the steel products to store seeds can often be prohibitively expensive for many.

As for single private-keys that are printed out for storage or use of bitcoin, I tend to agree with him that there are better options.  Personally I find single keys to be the best method of giving bitcoin as a gift in physical form, whether just a piece of paper or a DIY coin.  I'll still be using them for those purposes from time to time.

I can't disagree with most of what Andreas said, which I perceive to be advocating Bip32 HD wallets over single private keys stored on paper.  He does specifically endorse the use of a purpose-built hardware wallet over other methods of generating seed phrases.  

I do partially take issue with his statements about air-gapped PCs with open source OSs, however.  Again, he seemed to be specifically opposed to their use to generate single private keys for printing, he never specifically opposed their use for generating seed phrases.  Although I think using a properly air-gapped laptop/pc with an open-source OS is still quite safe, I tend to agree with Andreas that it takes a bit of technical know-how that could lead to mistakes by newbies.

As @Potato Chips suggested it's a blockchain.info (now blockchain.com) account.  It's too bad you didn't write down the seed phrase. You could have recovered your wallet with that alone using any desktop wallet that supports Bip39 seed phrases.

Never the less, you should contact their support team and explain the situation.

That's been my approach, so far: Firewall enabled on all my devices; port forwarding from my modem to my router; from my router to my server, which also has a firewall (ufw) enabled.  Currently I don't have any IPs restricted, the node ports are open to the world (except 22, of course.)  I suppose that if I wanted to whitelist specific IPs I could do so on my modem as well.

Thanks for sharing that, it actually looks like a good solution.  It reminds me of an idea I had at one point, but I'm not sure if it'll work because I don't have any web dev experience; could one set up a reverse proxy on a VPS that points to a server that's hosted locally?

For example, I have a server running on my local home network, and I want to allow global access but don't want to expose my local IP.  Could I install Nginx on an AWS instance with an elastic IP that is advertised to the world, but have that server point all requests to my local IP?

That explains it.  Looked like he played well, it made me wonder why he hadn't played for so long.


Stop mincing words, tell us how you really feel. 


Thanks for the heads up, I just went and put in the rest of my predictions.  It looks like all the additional fixtures are from week 18.

You sure do.  All it would take is one more DT1 member excluding Vispillio for him to be removed from DT1.  As for the Negative against Royse777, our friend Morvillz7z has taken care of the issue by excluding Cacingkemi. 

Meh, antics of all sort used to be fairly standard for football players, maybe not on-field antics but certainly off-field antics that made you question wonder whether they're sociopaths.  Keeping immoral or unethical players on rosters is par for the course for most football teams.  In the old days, domestic violence, drunk driving, tragic auto accidents, none of that shit would matter.  The coaches would just say stupid shit like "we're not going to rush to judgment..."  It's only recently that the NFL and most teams have started treating those incenses with more care.

Obviously this is a different scenario.  Honestly I don't see anyone coming out of this fiasco with their innocence intact.

This thread actually brings back memories, lol.  It's been quite some time since this issue has caused any drama, but yeah there's a lot of shady back-scratching that's been taking place with our Turkish members for a while now.  Several months ago I trimmed my trust inclusions and exclusions, and removed a few names.  I figured my list didn't really have any affect on their DT status, and my reviews weren't affected.  Ironically Vispillio wasn't one them.

Currently I'm on DT2, so it doesn't really make a difference, but I've gone ahead and excluded him.

I was home all day yesterday and checked my node a few times and didn't see anything weird, but this is scaring me.  I'm at the office today but I'll take a look once I get home.  I don't think I'm getting hit (at least I hope not,) I just opened a wallet and it connected to my server without issue.  I only have one node open to the world, and it's listening on standard (default) ports.

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Sounds like a pretty complex set up, or as I like to look at it: a learning opportunity.    
I'd love to see that config file, if you don't mind sharing.  I have Nginx installed for use with Mempool, but I don't have a lot of experience with it.  Will it work for both services?

Damn, what a shitshow.  Sorry you're going through that.  I have not experienced anything like that.  My server is open to the general public, but I'm not advertising it in any way.  Just out curiosity, did you list it on the Bitcoin All Seeing Eye site?  I thought about listing mine there, but decided against it.

That is a pretty interesting graphic, and at first blush I too was surprised that the NFL wasn't more popular.  But once all things are considered I think that the NFL's lack of popularity at Sportsbet.io is lack of intersection opportunities.  Sportsbet.io doesn't do business in the US where the NFL is most popular, and as a sport American Football hasn't been very popular internationally.

It's also worth noting that American NFL fans aren't accustomed to betting on football, or any sports really.  Sports betting has been taboo in the US for so long, and for decades it's been legal in only a few jurisdictions, nationwide.  The fact that it was illegal made it difficult for people to get involved, and even more so before the internet.  Things are starting to change, there are sportsbook apps advertising during NFL broadcasts now.  Even thought it's only legal in a few states currently, more are likely to legalize it in the coming years.