Preferably with static public ip (or dyndns/no-ip kind of service) to be able to use it on smartphone - mobile electrum and blue wallet allow setting custom electrum servers - or just outside home. Or install all on own laptop, but then you need a really big disk and each time after you disconnects you must later wait some time for resync.
I do not know how about Ledger software, but Trezor Suite allows you to connect to your own node too.

Today's WOFs were lucky for me and finally I am in the game ;-)

I do not have any opinion about Desktop UI, as for me it is fine. But android application looks like from previous era - it is just ugly. Fresh look would make it much more popular I think. I appreciate features which are there, but it is really hard to say it is user-friendly. Most people would like to keep it simple, like in (for example) Blue Wallet.

I see that as a one of main problems. Even if you have your favorite pattern, it means nothing without personal grid. Simpler would be to use the same order of words and maybe different dimensions of grid, but then I may imagine we would have sooner or later collisions - people would generate the same pattern (words). But it would be easier to remember grid dimensions and pattern than keep words in given order.
The problem with that proposal would be that we do not know how to read words - in which order. Natural order would mean that words are always in alphabetic order, and it is a serious weakness.

It is not about talking about it loudly. We all know that managing team requires to think (maybe even focus on it) about future, not here-and-now. It was always strange for me that transfers were announced almost in the middle of season, it was weird to "I do my best here, even if I already signed contract to work for my current-opponent".
The same with car - season starts so we should think about building car for the next season, of course no team builds car in a few winter weeks.
That's why I am pretty sure they have drivers they observe, maybe from F2, maybe even from other leagues. At the end it is not very different than situation in football - you have 10000 boys kicking the ball, some of them will join sport club in their district, maybe some of them will be talented more than others, some will work harder than others, some will find better manager than others... maybe 1 will make a (inter)national career.

That's not really the case when we talk about online poker sites...
I think there is one more reason why tournaments are popular (maybe for some group of people even more than cash games) - they last longer! With cash game (not even talking about other casino games, like roulette etc), you may be out very soon, with tournament (especially on big tables, as on 6 person table it goes pretty fast too) you may wait longer for your "lucky hand".

Great that I am not the only one. So what now? Let's sign the petition ;-)
The most probably they will reject it saying that "you may always sell tokens and play with sats".
The other idea would be to simplify system a little, as we have now sats, FUN tokens and RPs. Sounds like one too much. I understand RPs, as a kind of "bonus reward", for players, but then FUN are not needed at all. I would imagine that instead of holding FUNs for benefits like WOFs, they may do the same with RPs (now you may only spend RPs or convert them to sats).

I am pretty sure there are many people who wish completely opposite - not the break records and keep it for other driver (or at least keep the legend alive). Many people were tired with "Hamilton's era" (Mercedes cars were the fastest, penalties were not so strong as for other drivers etc.), and at the end it is kind of show business, people want to see show, people want entertainment. Change of rules, new cars - and Hamilton is not it top 3.
There will be new drivers, new money coming to F1. Maybe not from Russia (at least for some time), but there are always dozens of drivers who want to take his seat. And I am sure that Mercedes is looking for a new driver to be Russel's partner - they have their "academy" so they know who could be the candidate.

So, at the end what you have is generated grid (kind of paper wallet?) on which you "paint" your seed (something like other project - forgive me, I do not remember now the author - which builds private key using grid where user switch on/off some cells). I wonder how they generate the last word, as there could be several words which build the correct seed (with checksum). If for example they select always "the first valid one", it is already a simplification.

I would like to see possibility to use FUN as a "currency" on freebitco - for betting, multiply etc, exactly like it is possible with sats. Is there any particular reason not to implement it?
Now freebitco is just an 'exchange' for FUN, you may buy, sell, lock... Not a real use.

Hi, what's the state of ETH addresses dump? Is it uploaded already?


Do you want to talk about doing it in DB?

If he would like to quit "properly", he should quit in 1-2 years, leaving Mercedes. It will be very tempting to race "one more last season" but then the most probably it would be much weaker team and he would regularly finish in the second half. I do not think Red Bull or Ferrari would take him, so he will end in any other team, like in happened to Kimi. But going to Williams... would be funny.

Thanks for your nice words. I'm glad there are people who can make good use of it.


Currently there is no configuration for that. Fee is calculated as a difference between input and output, maybe it is stupid what I do (I needed any working solution), but I prepare transaction, I check it's length and I subtract length from amount. Electrum showed fee 1.5 for signed transaction prepared that way, so it is not so bad. Of course I may think about any parameter.

Yes, all is based on list of WIFs (each in new line). With uncompressed/compressed WIF situation is clear, but not to make mess with WIF prefix like it is in case of electrum (no prefix - legacy compressed 1.., different prefixes for bc1..., 3... etc.), I add to pool of known each time all 4 types.


mynonce already answered, normally the first wins, if somehow it happen that two transactions will be in mempool miner usually takes the one with bigger fee. And that way we come back to the previous question...

You cannot fight with aging. That's why it was really interesting what happened to Robert Kubica, who came back to F1 after his accident. Williams took a driver in his thirties, his dream came true, but there were no good results (yes, Williams car was far from ideal). Now he is in Alfa Romeo as a 3rd driver, but as driving is his way of life, he is involved in other racing series too. By the way, in 2018 Kubica's manager was Rosberg, who found a new way of life after retirement form F1.
What is important is tendency to risk or need for adrenaline. Belgian former cyclist, World Champion from 2005, Tom Boonen finished his career in 2017, at the same year he passed tests for racing license and started to race, initially in VW Fun Cup (if you do not know it, google it! really enjoying!). And he had a really serious dangerous crash in 2019.

You are right, there are many examples of former sportsmen who did "come back", usually it was a bad decision. Ali, Jordan, etc. No man ever steps in the same river twice.
Nico Rosberg found his way, I really appreciate he found there are other professions that just a car driver.

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Finally I have watched Vettel's 4 min-long farewell video, could be seen on his instagram and page https://sebastianvettel.de/en/start/
Nice one, but it fact it is 4 minutes about nothing - typical statement "I want to spend more time with my family". Let's see what he will do next. Finally, sooner or later almost everyone goes to Dakar race.

I remember I was on F1 Spa race in 2019, the race was won by Leclerc - it was his first win! Before the race I bought a red Ferrari/Vettel t-shirt, for some time I was not sure which one to buy, Vettel or Leclerc. If I had known Leclerc win, it would have chosen his t-shirt, but Vettel's one just looked better ;-)

Talking about definition - there is no strict definition. The idea is that you "remember" how to produce private key. Somehow (I do not know why and how) single iteration of sha256 became "a standard". You may use other hash algorithm (eth & keccak), you may use other number of iterations, you may use any other way you want - as long as you remember what to do, it could be still a "brain wallet" (the question is if you remember your 12/24 words seed, is it brain wallet or not, theoretically yes).
The more additional steps you use or need to perform, it complicates thing and make it easier to forget. About number of iterations - you may use date, like I proposed few posts ago. Then you may know that number of possible iterations was for example between 20210101 and 20221231. But then we go to another point - are you able to restore your private key quickly? With single iteration of sha256 - probably yes. With more complicated scenarios - you will probably need your own dedicated program.
Of course we may think about many many possible ways to "remember" private key. Even the ways which allows you to restore that using just a piece of paper and pencil - for example, you take your name, dog's name, email address, phone number etc, take letters as a numbers (a=1, b=2, whatever) and then use modulo 16 to produce hex string. Is it possible? yes. The question is if it is safe - I would say it is probably safer than typical sha256 brainwallet from common phrase, because it is very custom method and there is no automated attack for that (yet).

Hello

Having a free afternoon I have prepared a very simple mempool watcher, which uses RPC connection to (local) node, checks transactions and if there is any transaction with output to known address, it prepares a transaction which moves amount to destination address.
The idea was to have some "automatic" transfers when there is payment to given address(es). For example you have tool which generates addresses from seed (for your clients) and after payment you move funds to one single address. Currently it is really very simple app, maybe I will extend it in the future - for example retrieve private keys from seed (now it expects list of WIFs).
It connects to node using provided path (http://user:pass@host:port/) or path to .cookie file (then connects to 127.0.0.1:8332).
If there is any interest in that kind of projects, I will add new features, for now it is as it is. It was more like an exercise for me, as I did not work with RPC /remote connection/ never before.

Sources and the first release:
https://github.com/PawelGorny/NodeWatcher

I think so. They even do not update rewards to be more attractive, and as price of hardware goes down (phone, hardware wallet etc), they do not keep the real correlation with RPs "price".
Now I wonder what the BTC price should be to change again base WOF reward (and WOF price in RPs). We have 50 for a quite long period of time.