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1  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: UEFA Champions League 2025/26 Season on: Today at 10:52:22 AM
I think Bayern Munich are clearly qualifying for the semi finals. They already won at Bernabeu and I even expect a bigger win at home. Arbeloa will be sacked very soon in my opinion.

They're not sacking Arbeloa until the end of the season, otherwise they will look like muppets similar to Tottenham.

Arne Slot is also very likely to share the same fate with him.  Tongue  I don't think Liverpool can make a comeback with this game even at Anfield.

I don't think he will get sacked until the end of the season either. Actually, I think they will allow him to resign first instead of sacking him.
2  Economy / Economics / Re: Can Hajj be temporary geopolitical buffer? on: Today at 10:46:14 AM
What is more important than a US & Iran deal is how Iran treats its neighboring arab countries during the hajj season.

If they keep firing missiles and drones at Saudi Arabia, UAE, qatar, kuwait, etc etc, it is going to be a very bad look for them politically, and they will lose a lot of support from people in those countries who are on their side.

The most likely outcome to me is that these arab countries broker a temporary arial ceasefire so that people can passage safely and come back. I don't think the US will be involved in those.

Gulf countries for the most part have shown incredible restraint against retaliating against Iranian strikes on civilian places. You have to hand it to them.
3  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: ⭕ BitList.co - Mixers ' Exchanges ' Services ' Casinos on: Today at 10:36:46 AM
@TryNinja, why does the pending review for one service appear under all of the other services as well?

The following message should only be displayed for the "Proton Mail" service.

4  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: List of VPN Service Providers - 2025 on: Today at 10:27:24 AM
One thing worth adding to your "How to be sure" section is checking the provider's jurisdiction. Even a technically sound VPN can be forced to log data if they are based in a "14 Eyes" country. Also, for those using Proton or Mullvad, it's worth mentioning that they now support WireGuard natively, which is much faster and more modern than the old L2TP/PPTP protocols mentioned in the table. Thanks for keeping this guide alive!

I can confirm this. One thing I like to do is go to my Proton account settings, and generate some wireguard configs for specific servers and then export them for use on some other device. Proton VPN itself can be very heavy, but the official Wireguard client is gold! So I like using that when I'm on a public device and I need to connect and also destroy traces quickly.
5  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: c64wallet - Commodore 64 Bitcoin Wallet on: Today at 10:21:19 AM
Interesting.

When you say generating a keypair takes 30 minutes, are you referring to private key -> pubic key calculation, or are you referring to PBKDF derivation of private keys from seed phrases, or both?

Though I wouldn't be surprised if it was ECC itself that's slow, considering that the C64 cpu and other really old CPUs like the i386 were made in a different era before most transistor optimization techniques were known/used.
6  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Crypto millionaire leaked his seed phrase live and lost $2.5M in seconds on: Today at 06:59:29 AM
What an idiot.

Why would he record and publish a video of it?

I have a hard time feeling any pity for him, he should've had better operational security practices for his money.

Yes, you're right, this story is two years old. I can't find the original on the video, but the amount in the OP's post significantly exceeds it. As the saying goes, "the further into the forest, the angrier the partisans are," meaning the more often this story is retold, the more significant the sum becomes. In five years, this streamer will buy the mainland as a multimillionaire and immediately lose it in six seconds. Grin Grin Grin

So I guess the story resurfaced on social media only so that people can engagement farm it some more and earn some revenue.

I'm tired boss.
7  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: How to safeguard my crypto in Andriod Phone on: Today at 06:56:57 AM
Keep your phone in Airplane mode at all times, and that's really the only advice I can give you as nothing else will truly guarantee that you won't receive some kind of RCE zero-click exploit on your phone.

As bad as it seems, when it comes to android the risk are higher than iOS

This is a myth. The security on iOS is much more elaborate, but all that does is increase the price of iOS exploits on the black market.

8  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: 🔥 GingerWallet.io - Desktop, Non-custodial, Open source | #CoinJoin on: Today at 06:50:33 AM
Ginger Wallet is working normally, there is no issue with it. Everything is fine on our side.
We understand your concern about the repository, but the wallet itself is safe and operational. If there are any updates, we will communicate them.

I guess while you're at it, you should consider moving your codebase to Gitlab.

Much better experience for you guys ever since Microsoft started aggressively pushing AI features into Github since a few years ago and in general just straight up suspending people's accounts for no good reason.
9  Economy / Services / Re: Looking for a crypto JOB on: Today at 06:45:32 AM
Beware of scammers looking to message you on Telegram and offering crypto 'investing' services, since you posted your number here.
10  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: [ANN] AntiSwap - Fight AML Scam | Exchanger Monitoring | en.antiswap.io on: Today at 06:29:24 AM
I can add you onto the list of Privacy Tools on BitMixList. That large searchable list at the bottom of the homepage.

Since you don't offer exchange services, it should be straightforward. Smiley
11  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Stop buying hardware wallets. The $0 Paranoiac OpSec Setup. on: Today at 06:23:31 AM
USB stick is one of things can be used for your wallet backups

No, it's not used for wallet backups.

You didn't read the OP clearly.

The USB is only for launching Tails OS, not for storing your wallet.

Your wallet backup is just the metal seed phrase.

One of the disadvantages of this method though is that you can't airgap altcoins like this, so if you're holding altcoins, then a Ledger Nano X is basically the industry standard for all the mobile and web3 wallets. Despite all of Ledger's faults.
12  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Iran $7.8 billion crypto economy finds new way to grow after cease fire. on: Today at 06:18:22 AM
I have learned from the news that Iran wants to accept crypto currency as a toll for oil tankers so that their source and confiscation cannot be done due to sanctions. I do not know how true the news is but if this happens then it will create a lot of positive impact on the crypto market. Since there are crypto transactions it will also create a positive impact on the market in terms of price.

The coins will be held by Iran and then sold to OTC desks, so Iranian people obviously don't get to benefit from this.

Exchanges mainly benefit from it.

Also a new ceasefire failed to be agreed on, so I doubt the price is going to go back up anytime soon.

Thinking that the U.S./EU based banking system will allow them to control the whole world is a GRAVE MISTAKE. Even without cryptocurrencies more and more nations dropping the Benjamins which is why the U.S. had become a aggressive TROLL and threatening openly people with death and countries with destruction.

I mean, they have already been threatening anyone who uses mixers and noKYC exchanges for ages, so I don't exactly see how this is new info.
13  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Ai/Agents/LLM that can interact with wallets and viceversa? on: Today at 06:13:49 AM
Oh god no.

Why make your wallet vulnerable to prompt injection? That's honestly insane.

OpenClaw could be the answer to this, there is multi-chain wallet skill where you can tell the AI to create bitcoin wallet and manage it. Its not really secure though, heard some security concern where people got their private key leaked.
There are so many exploit with AI that even if your idea is good, there will be a lot of homework to do to make things secure. Just use some small money you can afford to lose if you happen to create one because you just never know about their security aspect and loopholes.
Good thing is the OpenClaw community is huge, so there is plenty of tutorial for security hardening.

This is arguably even worse than connecting a random LLM to your wallet because OpenClaw can be remote-controlled from Telegram or Whatsapp, and then you'll have people, hackers giving it instructions to run a specific RCE that downloads a stealer to your device.

For what benefit?
14  Economy / Exchanges / Re: ✅ b1exch.to - Instant Auto Exchange | NO KYC | Escrow 0.2 BTC on: Today at 06:11:50 AM
Today, I noticed that the current rebranding of the DAI token is the new USDS. It was announced earlier https://forum.skyeco.com/t/sky-has-arrived/24959 but it's actually happening right now on Binance. Deposit and withdrawal of DAI are suspended, 1:1 conversion will be automatic.
Binance announcement: https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/detail/df2ce9c43b1d406ca2c4b14e4e34610a
As they announced this, or maybe it is already in the process with other major CEX, it would probably be recommended for b1exch to adapt to this change and include USDS in their listing.
It will still be possible to convert DAI to USDS on Sky, but it is an extra step for those who want to send their tokens to a third service.

I don't like using rebranded coins because it is just too easy to keep using the old contract address by mistake unless the wallet is good enough to automatically show the new token and hide the old one.

I guess the best example where this was handled cleanly was when Polygon automatically migrated the MATIC tokens to POL tokens, but I barely noticed that change at all.

If there's going to be 'old DAI' and 'new DAI', perhaps it will be too confusing for people to understand.
15  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: looking to buy crypto on: Today at 06:08:30 AM
Card? Definitely not possible. Maybe with wire transfer you have a chance though. But you'll need to use P2P.

There are a bunch of P2P sites which take users from any country in the world, but you'll have the best chances of completing the transaction if the amount is rather small, as thousands or tens of thousands of dollars worth in those countries will get you flagged or even arrested.
16  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Why are nodes still keeping a higher relay fee? on: Today at 06:06:09 AM
Code:
bitcoin.lu.ke:50002

I tried to connect to this one recently for quick transaction with 1sat/vbyte but was rejected until I use 1.1sat, there are more of them on the list that has given same error but I didn't bothered to pay attention to them.

Since relayfee are policy rule, there could be many reasons to why some node still reject transactions below 1 sats/vbyte than what we have discussed but generally it might be akin to spam.

You're going to need to maintain a list of these nodes, or let the software automatically discover the nodes for you.

Hardcoding one and expecting certain flags to be toggled on the node isn't really a great idea.

Well I do agree about the slight changes in Electrum but the point is 1 sat/vbyte as the minimum for most nodes is kinda bad if you ask me though. Most times if you broadcast with 1 sat/vbyte it could end up as 0.99sat/vbyte upon broadcast it hadn't really occurred to me initially to ask why.. can you say a little something on that?

Well it's kind of expected for the fee rate to not be exact when the transaction size in bytes and the fee paid in bytes don't divide evenly.
17  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: The Ark FAQ on: Today at 06:02:04 AM
I also quote a post where I listed a few wallets I found:

- Arkade Metamask - that's the exact technology Tether aims to use, afaik. It's an addition to Metamask, so it potentially could reach a huge user base.
- Bark - Implementation in Rust (don't know if that's the reference implementation you mentioned?)
- Arkaic Wallet - mobile / web app (documentation in Italian)

When I talked about this with Burak a couple of years ago, he said that the reference implementation would be written in Rust and Go.

However, I believe this repo is just 3rd party software, as one thing I am sure about is that the reference implementation lives on Github. Not Gitlab where this repo takes me.
18  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: April 11, 2026, 09:16:02 AM
Noodles for sats.... who says no?!!  Smiley
19  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Rainbet.com 🦁 Fantasy Premier League ⚽ Prize $15,000! on: April 10, 2026, 06:34:17 PM
Why did everyone on a wildcard throw out their Arsenal defenders?

They're not great, but they're not particularly bad either.
20  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Suspected 700 XMR Scam by Swapter on: April 10, 2026, 06:22:48 PM
Be careful with any "crypto recovery services" who try to contact you, OP. Most of these are also classical scams.

Some have messaged me to try to pass along their contact info. It is quite tiring.
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