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23 - NeuroticFish
29 - NeuroticFish
Thank you, Betnomi!
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Multumesc! O săptămână nu mai verific ce e nou şi ratez tocmai concursul la care puteam participa şi eu! Şi am ratat cu .. 10 ore şi un pic. La naiba! M-am repezit însă acum să intru în concursul Sinbad. Să fie cu noroc! E si vina mea. Uneori uit sa pun in lista din postarea #2 unele concursuri (si rar sunt tras de maneca legat de ele). Si de acesta uitasem.. 
Ca informatie, am citit legat de concursul lui Krogoth ca daca tot nu se umplu toate locurile, vineri s-ar putea sa lase lumea sa-si mai aleaga inca un numar! |
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For the 'chainstate' (and indexes if you have them), where can i find them and what are these folders or files exactly?
I don't know what they contain. Files  chainstate and indexes are folders in the data folder, usually at the same level with blocks. But it depends if you use standard settings/config or you've already set up something, since there are config settings for them. You may want to read: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directoryI don't know the settings for those folders, I've always used symlinks. So, basically are you meaning that after the IBD, it is okay to move the blockchain data to a HDD (keping the indexes in SSD)?
What I meant was that the blocks can always stay on HDD (including during IBD!). And after the IBD even having everything on HDD no longer hurts that much. |
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În schimb, am tot văzut magazine online care să ofere clienţilor reducere dacă aleg să folosească Bitcoin ca modalitate de plată în loc de card. Deci, putem spune că adăugarea modalităţii de plată cu Bitcoin poate atrage clienţi? Da, normal ar fi ca plata in Bitcoin sa fie mai ieftina, ca taxele Visa dispar, si nu sunt mici. Pe de alta parte intervin schimburile la cine stie care exchange, poate si schimb valutar, mai comisionul procesatorului de plata si la noi eu unul nu am vazut niciodata sa iasa mai ieftin daca platim cu bitcoin. M-as bucura sa vad un magazin la care este intr-adevar mai ieftin cu bitcoin... Oricum, de acord cu tine. E revoltător să ceri atât de mult. Mda, doar ca daca nu ma cramponam in asta.. poate ca as fi dus-o mai bine azi. ... Si ca o mica nota, ai gresit un pic cand m-ai citat (pare ca te-ai citat pe tine). Dap, e posibil ca Mallers sa functioneze si pe post de ceasornicar fin pentru ceasurile noastre  Serios acum, sa vedem cand intervine si pe piata europeana, ca, pana acum, a lucrat cu celelalte continente. Cred ca din momentul in care intra si in Europa ceasurile noastre intra in linie dreapta pana la termenul in care vor fi reparate drese cat de cat. Sa speram! am gasit intamplator un site de care nu stiam - https://coinmap.org - care arata toate locatiile care accepta BTC din fiecare tara. Il mai vazusem mai demult. Ceva, nu stiu ce, nu mi-a placut sau nu m-a impresionat. Pareau sa fie mai mult firme de buzunar cele care acceptau bitcoin. Sau cel putin cele mai putin departe de mine erau asa... |
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In alta ordine de idei, concursul cinstit organizat de celcarevreasa-siachitelocuintacubtc2 s-a incheiat, castigatorul fiind ales in mod corect, corectitudinea fiind garantata de site-ul nou creat de catre bitmover, pe de-o parte, si de stapanul suprem al celor cu obraz gros, pe de alta parte. Jos palaria! Tot in acest context, organizatorul tepar al celeilalte tombole s-a ales cu recenzii negative de la mine si de la inca un membru DT. Multumesc ca mi-ai amintit de tepar, l-am "pictat" si eu. Celui onest intentionez sa ii trimit merite, dar numai dupa ce a fost confirmata tranzactia. Mai NeuroticFish, ce sa zic -- Te felicit! Se pare ca ai o inclinatie spre predictii, reusind sa castigi la doua concursuri cu predictii deja, si asta in foarte scurt timp  Te-ai gandit sa joci si la loto? Serios acum. De acum incolo cred c-o sa-ti urmaresc predictiile si sa pun si eu niste numere apropiate de ale tale  Glumesc. Felicitari inca o data, ma bucur ca ai reusit sa castigi! .. De fapt nici nu poti sa gresesti mai mult. La concursul nemtesc legat de blocuri si dificultate am nimerit-o (OK, am facut si un excel si am estimat una-alta). La al tau, concurs similar, am subestimat masiv revenirea minerilor dupa inghetul din State si am dat complet pe langa. Iar la asta... am introdus pretul in 23 ianuarie 2023. Asa ca m-am gandit sa pun ... 23 202.30! Mai lipsit de imaginatie nici ca se putea! |
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Look like mainstream media trying to put fear in people mind There are multiple things here: 1. Some wealthy entities are buying bitcoin happily at this price levels. They may be paying for defamatory / FUD articles. 2. Under the hood there may be some sort of "exchanges war". In the same way Binance has given the last push to FTX and spread some FUD on Coinbase (iirc), I would not be surprised if some exchange tries to "give a push" to Gemini. 3. Governments and central banks have their own anti-bitcoin agenda. Just they are trying to be careful, since if they hit bitcoin too hard people may also perceive badly the yet-to-come CBDCs. But we know already that we don't have to get scared of each and every news, don't we? |
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Can you write to me in private messages?
I agree with what was posted before me. Dealing in private (especially at this stage) can get you (too) easily scammed. I advise you wait until users with bigger experience in mining will see this and can guide you into providing relevant information (eg what kind of miners and hardware you have there). It may worth moving this (or asking again) in the Mining Hardware subforum: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=76.0You may want to consider taking a few pictures with those devices (make sure nothing private/sensitive is captured), uploading the images to imgur.com and posting the links here on the forum. |
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Is 500GB a lot? 5TB drives cost less than $100, so $20 for 1 TB. $20 gives you enough space to run a system, some basic software and have enough space to run full node at least until 2025.
man, you're talking about HHD right? it is slow as fuck. You can keep the block data on the "slow as fuck" HDDs and only the chainstate (and indexes if you have them) on a small SSD. And it's already very fast. Even more, you no longer need ultra-speed after the IBD, so you can move then everything onto HDD. That's what I did not long ago I had to do an IBD (external HDD is not so great when one doesn't have UPS). Compressing data into a format like .zip or .tar can roughly decrease file sizes by a factor of 1/3rd.
500 / 3 = 166 gigabytes.
While I do not support most updates or amendments to bitcoin core, I do wonder if compression of file sizes may become necessary at some point to maintain node support.
Did you actually try this out? I would be overly surprised if you get for real these numbers. Plus, as LoyceV said, your math is wrong. |
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This may be only partly on-topic, however, there's something I want to say for some time. I've noticed that Blockchair's onion website ( http://blkchairbknpn73cfjhevhla7rkp4ed5gg2knctvv7it4lioy22defid.onion/) also has a captcha. This has two interesting properties: it works on Tor (which bitcointalk doesn't have and has a not-so-great-solution) and it's most probably not provided by Google. Those with better skills in inspecting web pages may want to take a look; maybe even come with some interesting ideas (or, why not, implementations - ) |
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Eu zic ca pana la LN e cale lunga... Revin legat de acest punct. Nu stiu ce hram poarta Jack Mallers asta, dar dupa ce si-a bagat coada foarte serios in "bitcoin in El Salvador" (si s-ar putea sa nu fi castigat prea mult din asta, cel putin nu in mod direct), acum pare sa se dezvolte puternic in Filipine. Un bagaret ca asta e.. cam tot ce ne trebuie. Si cum cel mai probabil va intra cu solutia lui de plati, va fi direct interesat. Deci s-ar putea sa nu fie asa lunga aceasta cale... (clar, in functie si de setarile de an ale ceasului, dar poate ca deja recuperam din decalaj...) Impresionanta lista! Mersi! Ce este foarte interesant insa abia acum urmeaza. Ca sa gasesc postarile respective am cautat pe Google "Spectrocoin BitcoinTalk". Si, ce crezi?, am gasit, printre altele si un topic despre fondatorul SpectroCoin (?), care ar fi dat niste tepe, primind, in mod evident, si recenzii negative. Aparent, respectivul este si in spatele unor tepe date de Bankera. Culmea culmilor respectivul domn bandit a scris si in sectiunea romaneasca! O fi oare roman?! Mai multe detalii despre tepele date pot fi gasite in recenziile care i s-au scris la sectiunea Trust a profiilului. Spectrocoin a oferit intr-o vreme si carduri, pe acolo am citit de ei. Nu erau de incredere. Apoi au aparut si tepele... Nu stiam ca sunt sanse sa fie roman. Oricum, avem tepari destui, cu sau fara el, deci nu conteaza. |
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However, if you want some sort of pruned node, you can make an encrypted volume as a file (see veracrypt) and when you have all the data you need you copy that file onto the USB stick (with a generic data.dat like name), then delete it. The stick will look empty and recovering the data will be just fine as long as nothing new is written onto it. This will only fool the most cursory of investigations - i.e. plug it in, it looks empty, oh well nothing to see here. Anything beyond that will clearly show the header of your encrypted file, and then you are back at the issue of being asked to decrypt it. Well, then you can put some documents there like you'd write a book or a paper. Or.. use your imagination... Also, the beauty of veracrypt volume files is that there's no clear header or anything to be read or understood. It can really be anything there. |
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Multumesc!
Avem re-editarea concursului in 2 pasi al Sinbad.io, cel cu ghicitul pretului Bitcoin: SINBAD MIXER February Bitcoin Price Prediction ChallengeLink: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5437617Organizator: SinBad.ioSe castiga: 6, 5 sau 4 mBTC (primele 3 locuri) Neaparat pana in 10 Februarie vei scrie (o singura data) cat crezi ca va fi pretul Bitcoin (in $, coinmarketcap) in 28 Februarie la ora 10 GMT. Formatul este: Prediction 1: $xx,xxx.xx
bech32 address: Neaparat intre 11 si 25 Februarie vei scrie (o singura data) cat crezi ca va fi pretul Bitcoin (in $, coinmarketcap) in 28 Februarie la ora 10 GMT. Formatul este: Prediction 2: $xx,xxx.xx
bech32 address: Cele mai bune 3 predictii vor fi premiate in bani (6, 5 respectiv 4 mBTC) Pentru a participa, un cont trebuie sa aiba cel putin 50 de postari inainte de 31 Ian. Nu este permisa/acceptata editarea predictiilor. Din pacate nu scrie nimic de cei cu conturi multiple, din pacate nu scrie nimic despre suprapunerea predictiilor. Da, este concurs-reclama, dar cum am castigat prima editie, nu ma plang. Iar premiile sunt chiar mari pentru un asemenea concurs. |
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Maybe o_e_l_e_o will win our special BonBon L giveaway rewarding his bullish prediction. 0O
I've just took a look and I think that the last block number was 774505 and if I'm right then o_e_l_e_o may have won place #4. However, let's wait for the official announcement. |
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Price of btc at 10 GMT 30.01.2023 was 23203.06
Woah, so Royse was indeed correct. Lucky me! \o/ (I had my doubts because I had the impression that at least on Bitstamp the price went under 23200; but yeah, CMC was the one that matters.) So the winners are:
1st NeuroticFish $23,202.30 Prize: 6 mBTC
Yay! Happy day! Thank you very much for the contest, the generosity and the prize I can confirm that OP has just sent the coins to my address (this was fast!) |
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I think a USB live distro with encryption + persistance could do the trick. Electrum / pruned node on it
We're going back to circle. Someone already mention the worker at border might perform random search and ask you to decrypt it. If they find cryptocurrency wallet/software, they could suspect you're trying to evade "crypto travel rule" from FATF or other similar rule. While this can easily be a solution for the case you get lucky, it's not something to rely on. However, if you want some sort of pruned node, you can make an encrypted volume as a file (see veracrypt) and when you have all the data you need you copy that file onto the USB stick (with a generic data.dat like name), then delete it. The stick will look empty and recovering the data will be just fine as long as nothing new is written onto it. ...But if, for some reason, something gets written onto that stick.. tough luck. But I think that the airgap phone + the seed on pieces of paper + downloading a SPV at arrival is easier and more straightforward and doesn't rely on "getting lucky" or not. |
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You've missed something from there: I will show you how to connect an Electrum Desktop Wallet to your Bitcoin Node. First, you will need an Electrum Server running. There are many types of Electrum Servers. In my articles above, I include instructions on how to install Electrum Personal Server, but there is also Electrum Server in Rust, and Electrum X/Spesmilo.
The articles above also take you through the installation of the Electrum Desktop Wallet.
Whichever Electrum Server you have, this article will apply. Unfortunately you have none, hence, yes, after you install an electrum server (and leave it running for a while to build its database), you should be OK. That same guy has a tutorial for Electrum Personal Server. But if you want a smarter server where you can use Electrum with multiple wallets and also (optionally) a blockchain explorer, I have a tutorial too (for Windows users) here on this forum. |
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Not entirely sure about the phone. How would you be hiding the wallet on it? The wallet software can stay not installed, as an APK. You can even get it with you on another stick or memory card. You will (re)install it when you arrive. You will put the seed into it only when you arrive or when you actually need it first. And what are you going to say under a targeted search when they ask you why you have an airgapped phone with no SIM card in it? It doesn't have to be airgapped, it doesn't have to stay without SIM either if you don't want to. You can reset to factory later. And you can tell it's for backup, just in case you drop your phone into the swimming pool (of course, I am sure you can prepare a better story for this). The seed phrase can be easily obfuscated in a stack of academic/professional/employment related documents, notes, books, etc. Alternatively, it is easy to hide in a hidden volume on your laptop, which you could decrypt to show copies of sensitive documents such as your passport or travel insurance. Impossible to prove the hidden volume even exists.
But yes, I would just use Electrum and point it at my own server which is running at home.
Exactly! |
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Haha! Nu, nu ma gandeam ca se duce casiera repede la aparat sa bage niste BTC in portofel Ce voiam eu sa spun era ca, de-a lungul anilor, marii comercianti (si, in principiu si angajatii) s-ar fi putut obisnui cu ideea de Bitcoin. Pe langa ce mai auzeau pe la stiri, pe langa ce mai auzeau de la prieteni, fiecare magazin avea si un astfel de aparat. Ca urmare, tatonarea terenului s-ar fi putut face la un moment dat. Ei na, crezi ca granzii, adica firmele mama, chiar stiu sau le pasa ce automate sunt intalate in fiecare locatie? Ca e de Bitcoin sau de cafea. pentru ei diferenta nu cred ca e mare. Cred ca in mod real se pot gandi doar dupa ce unii sau altii le pun, cum am mai spus, niste PoS-uri sub nas. Referitor la PoS-uri mi-am amintit ca mai scrisesei cu ceva vreme in urma un topic pe acest subiect - [2021-01-14] Plata cu criptomonede direct la casa de marcat, disponibilă şi în... Din ce vad, Dorsey zicea de un PoS cu plata in LN; topicul de la tine se referea la plata "normala", cu BTC. Eu zic ca pana la LN e cale lunga... barem sa avem macar posibilitatea sa facem plati cu BTC Dar nu s-a mai auzit nimic de subiect dupa stirea aceea, ceea ce e trist... Da, este trist. Dar stim si noi, la teorie suntem beton; practica ne omoara... Nu cred ca sunt sanse reale sa vedem PoS pentru Bitcoin on-chain in .. sa zicem Kaufland. Nu. S-ar face cozile cat China. Pe de alta parte cu LN ai scanat, ai platit si gata; zici ca e cu cardul pe NFC. Deci la mine ceasul indica 1973. La tine e abia 1923... Sper ca ti-ai fixat ceasul  Il tot fixez, dar Windows-ul tot insista sa il puna in acelasi secol cu Redmond, WA. Erau câteva site-uri româneşti înainte care acceptau plata cu Criptomonede. Procesorul de plată era de-al nostru, dar nu îmi aduc aminte numele. Cred ca PC Garage inca accepta. Prin Netopia. Marile lanţuri de magazine, în mod special cele cu casierii inteligente şi cu touch screen, cred că ar putea integra cu uşurinţă un astfel de procesor de plată în soft. Cineva trebuie sa ii roage, eventual sa le ofere niste beneficii... Cand am cumparat eu cu Bitcoin de la PC Garage costa cu vreo 8% mai mult decat daca luam cu lei. Cum impart/imparteau ei acest adaos nu stiu. ZebraPay a fost înlocuit de SelfPay. Pe ZebraPay vânzătorul era Bitcoin România parcă. Din păcate, pe SelfPay nu mai există deloc posibilitatea de a cumpăra Bitcoin. Era fantastic să ai un aparat de cumpărat Bitcoin la aproape fiecare colţ de stradă, dar nu mai e. Pe de altă parte, mi se pare că aveau comisioane destul de mari. Eheee, daca nu erau asa mari comisioanele, cine stie, poate vorbeati fara mine pe aici... Am luat niste satoshi pe vremea cand bitcoin era pe la 200-250$ si cand am vazut ce adaos era (nu mai stiu cat, dar mi s-a parut revoltator) am cautat alte variante. Si pana sa gasesc.. s-a duuuus pretul din ce in ce mai sus. Na, de atunci am cheltuit acei satoshi, am obtinut altii, si viata merge inainte... |
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Actually this is mostly incorrect. At least the HW I have doesn't write anywhere it's a HW and also doesn't write Bitcoin on it. So your HW is just another electronic device most will not even know what it is and for what (I don't know how all HWs look like, do you..? And then what you expect from the customs employee?) If you are being searched and they find an electronic device they do not recognize, then I expect them to ask you what it is, or even plug it in and show them what it is. Lie to them at your own risk. [...] Arguably even Tor you may not need since you're not from home, since you don't necessarily need to hide your IP. Using Tor in this scenario also prevents the hotel (or whoever owns the WiFi you are using) from seeing which websites you are connecting to. I would definitely still use it, unless you are happy with the hotel staff knowing you are connecting to bitcoin.org, electrum.com, etc. Both are valid (and very good) points, thank you for that. In this case Tor remains, maybe an old phone as cold (enough) storage and the seed fragmented and scattered on multiple pieces of paper. Still SPV wallets are the way to go given the size of the blockchain..., right? |
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Plus ca sunt si multi la noi care inca nu au card -- oameni in varsta (prea in varsta pentru a mai invata sa foloseasca asa ceva si, ca urmare, au optat si pentru a primi pensia de la postas si nu pe card). Totusi, mereu am stat sa ma gandesc la asta, in timp ce eram la o coada nesfarsita la Carrefour, la casele unde accepta si cash si card, in timp ce la casele unde se putea achita coar cu cardul era gol: oare cati dintre oameni nu si-au facut card din considerente legate de intimitate, si nu de varsta / imposibilitate de a mai invata ce e ala un card bancar? Sau cati sunt ca mine, adica desi detin card, fiind fortati de imprejurari (angajatorul refuza sa plateasca salariile cash etc.), din principiu, aleg sa scoata toti banii de pe card atunci cand intra, pentru a-i folosi tot in forma de cash, evitand in continuare ca oricine sa-i poata spiona tranzactiile, cum s-ar fi intamplat in cazul in care ar fi utilizat cardul?
Eu unul nu mi-am instalat nici macar aplicatia Lidl, desi ofera reduceri consistente, pentru ca imi cerea datele personale. Dar cati or fi, in realitate, asa, si cati or fi cei care pur si implu nu au card dintr-un motiv sau altul, dar nu legat de predarea datelor personale bancilor...? Eu cred ca vasta majoritate a celor care nu au card sau nu-l folosesc este din cauza "fricii de tehnologie". Lumea a facut si face scandal din cauza pasapoartelor (si in curand buletinelor) cu chip, ca in chip e satana, inca lumea crede ca antenele de 5G ii chipeaza sau mai stiu eu ce... Cati pensionari iau banii pe card, si cati asteapta postasul? Iar din cei care iau pe card, cum ai zis, vasta majoritate folosesc cardul doar la ATM, ca mai mult nu stiu si nu vor sa invete. Dar nu are legatura cu KYC. Nici nu stiu / nu realizeaza situatia, nici nu le pasa. Eu sper (si cred!) ca lanturile mari de magazine vor accepta - mai devreme sau mai tarziu - Bitcoin (si nu doar eRON). Probabil ca cineva va trebui sa le puna sub bot niste aparate pentru asta. Pai aveau / au aparate Bitcoin sub ochi... nu au? Nu sunt mai in toate magazinele acele aparate care au inlocuit fostele ZebraPay? Imi scapa numele lor acum. Cele unde poti plati diverse servicii si de unde poti inclusiv sa cumperi BTC... Nu despre acelea vorbesc. Vorbesc de PoS-uri care sa accepte bitcoin. Clar, o gramada de firme s-au apucat sa faca de astea, nu demult chiar si Jack Dorsey se lauda cu unul. Dar pana ajung in UE si apoi la noi... mai trece ceva timp... ...Doar nu crezi ca se duce casiera la ZebraPay (samd) sa converteasca dupa ce ti-ai platit cumparaturile? Ai vazut cumva postarea mea din topicul despre Pi? Sau din pura coincidenta ai zis de asta? Daca din coincidenta, mi se pare foarte tare ca ne-am gandit amandoi, in aceeasi zi, la scurt interval de timp unul de celalalt, la aceeasi poza =))) Am vazut si m-am socat (si nu in sensul rau). Ca graffitti-ul din poza pe care ai pus-o fie e mai nou, fie traiesti deja intr-o zona evoluata. Ce graffitti am vazut eu zicea despre 100 de ani... |
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