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1001  Economy / Collectibles / [Sold] Complete Set Of GoldBacks 0.036 Shipped US on: June 20, 2023, 09:40:11 PM
Complete set from all 4 States Utah, Wyoming, Nevada and New Hampshire
You get the $1, $5, $10, $25 and $50 from each state.
BTC 0.036 delivered anywhere in the US
Payment address (for now) bc1q75e3m9sy20xnkefqd3m8p2ukqk3lvqth0sp8lx can also send you a LN invoice or you can pay with SOME other cryptos if you want to.









I will not ship internationally, but will ship to anyone who you want to re-ship to you.
Both minerjones and MoparMiningLLC offer to do this.

If you have any questions ask.

Cleaning out a lot of stuff. So there will be a lot of things listed over the coming weeks. If you have something specific you might want ask and I'll take a look, but no I am not going to go and make a complete list I just don't have the time at the moment.

And as to why this is being sold: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5455887

-Dave
1002  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Multi-sig for Bitcoin holders in my category? on: June 20, 2023, 11:26:27 AM
If you do it properly, multi sig is very secure.
If you do it improperly, it's no more secure than anything else.
A secure method two devices one of which is preferably not Internet connected holding your keys an. A non secure method just having them both on one PC.

The more you have separated the better it is.
The other question then becomes what works for you, 2 of 3 or 3 of 5 or 4 of 7 and so on.
For that choice a lot of people could give you advice. But you have to figure out what is going to work for you.

That, or get a hardware wallet. Which also works quite well. Once again, there are dozens of them you have to figure out what works for your particular situation and how you want to do things.

Starting now, where you have a smaller amount of coin makes it a lot easier to get into and stay with good security practices. After you've accumulated more and you've had no issues, it's easy to say meh I don't have to worry about it all these people are too paranoid. But if you've been doing it since the beginning you don't have to get into a more secure habit you've already been doing it so you're already there.

-Dave
1003  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: BlackRock and Fidelity both apply for bitcoin ETFs on: June 20, 2023, 11:15:05 AM
I see that some people are vehemently against this, I see it as more the merrier.

Even if they are not good investment products for people, at a surface glance it shows others that Bitcoin can be a good investment.

Some people don't agree with BTC being investment but rather it should always be used for trade or something else that is more of an individual view.

I am a firm believer in not your keys not your coins, but and this is a big important *but* there are many people that don't have a clue about technology don't have a clue about investing and a host of other things. They could be brilliant pilot or and amazing auto mechanic or any of hundreds of other occupations, yet they could barely get to Chase to do their online banking. For them, having to explain how to them do it properly is probably more daunting than figuring out how to remove your own appendix.

With products like this, all they have to do it put in some money and click buy.

-Dave
1004  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: LifPay: new custodial Lightning Wallet for iOS & Android📱 on: June 19, 2023, 02:10:59 PM
...That's a pretty slick creation right there. Amazing what is available if you know where to look.
Any real-life experience with this LN-PoS system? Did a quick search for a bitcointalk thread but didn't find anything.

I made one (it's dead simple) and used it a couple of times it does work, but unless you NEED it, there are better solutions to do it.
But, for offline generation or demo or things like that it does work.

-Dave
1005  Bitcoin / Hardware wallets / Re: Square is considering making a hardware wallet for Bitcoin on: June 19, 2023, 02:03:05 PM
....When did we reach the point where a product completely and utterly trashing your privacy was irrelevant to the majority of users? And when did we reach the point where people are actually willing to pay to have their privacy trashed, such as with this or with Wasabi?

About 2 minutes after somebody noticed that you can make money trading BTC and selling BTC hardware and so on.
We (here) discussing privacy are in the minority, we are the people who spend hours thinking about and talking about BTC.

Most other people really don't give a shit. They want to make money or they don't care about privacy and want to do other things with crypto.

While leaving the wallet that shall not be mentioned out of it. People are worried about a lot of things, and those that care about privacy / anonymity will try to preserve theirs. Those that don't will not.
Same way those people who trade in an attempt to make a profit would not even think about doing anything like running their coins through a mixer / anonymization service since there are fees involved with that (however small) and that cuts into profits..... Same way you will NEVER see a real professional gambler drink while gambling. It makes you less sharp, where as those of us that go to casinos for fun....keep bringing me the free drinks till I can't drink no more....

-Dave
1006  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Quote prices in Bitcoin or Satoshi on: June 18, 2023, 02:42:31 PM
Most places that do cash & crypto do BTC
However, if you are using LN it is usually displayed in sats

There are obviously some exceptions, but for the most part that is at least why I have been seeing.
Personally I don't care that much, either way works for me.
But this IMO is important, make sure you are using a fair and public conversion rate that people can verify.

Seeing $10 = 0.0003766 is fine. But if I can't verify you conversion rate or it's far from the large well known sites you are going to have issues.
bitmovers is a perfect example of how to do it.

-Dave
1007  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: A Non-Custodial wallet, Atomic Wallet, being compromised on: June 18, 2023, 01:07:10 PM
-snip-

If you check the tweeter's previous post, you can see that he linked this GitHub page: https://github.com/osarjuhcnus/atomicwalletsdesktopource#readme

So apparently, someone who lost money from this hack decompiled Atomicwallet and posted its source code for people to try and find the vulnerability.

There was an update to Atomic the end of May. So the question now becomes what that the version that introduced the vulnerability or was it perhaps the version that fixed it?
If it fixed it, then a lot of people can spend a lot of time looking at the code and find nothing.

Also, on that note does anyone know if you would see it in what was released if it was a 'supply chain' issue and a library that it was using that was the vulnerability?

-Dave
1008  Bitcoin / Hardware wallets / Re: Square is considering making a hardware wallet for Bitcoin on: June 18, 2023, 12:55:37 PM
Yo dawg, I heard you like third parties...

Shhhh, you were supposed to keep those parties secret.

Oh, 3rd parties. Wink



Anyway, what I find interesting too is that the 1st post in this thread is over 2 years ago, and they are just starting the open beta.
And to get in it asks a bunch of questions about what wallets you use and what you do with BTC / crypto.
What have they been doing for 2 years other then designing something that looks like a rock. Yeah, it's cool looking I'll give them that. But 2 YEARS?

-Dave
1009  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Binance leaves Netherlands on: June 18, 2023, 12:31:37 PM
Geo-locations will be identified to block people from restricted countries or areas. It is easy to do by Binance and it's not strange, we have it on gambling sites too.
Yep, but I think the much larger issue is what the AML requirements are and what any crypto exchange (not just Binance) has to do to fulfill them.  I have no idea what kind of regulations the Netherlands has in place, but I'm guessing the problem Binance has is all of the de-fi and staking offerings and maybe something with KYC compliance. 

In the beginning, we had bitcoin and the unregulated Wild West--most of which I missed--and now it seems like all of those concerns about governments being able to shut down bitcoin that had so many threads devoted to them are resurfacing.  And man....it's true that no government can shut down the bitcoin network, if using it is made illegal (and that could happen) then that can be done in an indirect way.

But I'm hopeful attitudes can change.  We've made it this far without severe regulation, which is no small achievement--13 years or thereabouts.  I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Binance can exert some influence and stay in business.

What I don't get, and it could fully be because I am an idiot, but beyond everything else The Netherlands is part of the EU I was always under the impression that they all more or less followed the same banking / KYC / AML laws with only some very minor variations. So am I wrong on that or it there another thing going on here. I'm in the US so I don't know all the ins and outs of EU banking.

However, as I have said, if so many other places can do it and you can't, it's probably you....

-Dave
1010  Bitcoin / Hardware wallets / Re: Square is considering making a hardware wallet for Bitcoin on: June 17, 2023, 05:01:13 PM
o_e_l_e_o  trigger warning below (didn't I tell you in another post to go outside and enjoy the weekend)....

This seems to have been put out there with very little discussion anyplace:

https://www.coinbase.com/blog/announcing-a-global-partnership-with-blocks-bitkey-wallet
Quote
Today we are excited to announce an international partnership spanning 6 continents with Bitkey, the self-custody bitcoin wallet built by Block, which includes a mobile app, a hardware device and a set of recovery tools. Bitkey’s mission is to empower the next 100 million people to truly own and manage their money with bitcoin, without the friction and anxiety that has historically existed around the transition to self-custody and true ownership. This alliance is a key step towards our goal of powering the bitcoin economy.

Coinbase Pay offers a simple and secure way for users to fund their accounts with crypto within apps, wallets, or marketplaces. By accepting your users’ preferred payment methods already saved in their Coinbase accounts, users enjoy seamless fiat-to-crypto onramps and businesses benefit from increased conversion rates and product adoption.

In parallel, we are looking forward to Bitkey's global beta program which also launches sign ups today. Customers participating in the global beta program will see a game-changing feature that allows you to effortlessly move your bitcoin from centralized exchanges to the secure Bitkey self-custody wallet.

So you will be able to link your fully KYCd Coinbase coins with your fully linked self custody wallet that links back to Block to have them keep a way of recovering your keys.

It's just like banking with Chase. But with crypto.

-Dave
1011  Other / Archival / Re: WasabiWallet.io | Open-source, non-custodial Bitcoin Wallet for desktop on: June 17, 2023, 02:50:31 PM
o_e_l_e_o , BlackHatCoiner you do know you are arguing with someone who claims to a contributor to Wasabi. That means they have to keep the narrative of Wasabi good others bad or they loose their special place in the world. Or something like that.

Due to the attitude of Wasabi they have lost users, due to the monitoring they have lost users, ignoring those 2 facts they also seem to be working towards working with larger financial institutions. And that is fine. As a business, that is their decision. As consumers it's our decision on which businesses or services to deal with.

At this point anyone who sees this thread / uses twitter or reddit and probably other social media knows what they are doing.
Anyone with a basic knowledge or caring about privacy knows not to use them.

Anything they say or people that contribute to them say that criticizes other services is just going to be seen as propaganda "us good them bad"
Go outside, enjoy the day. At this point almost nobody I know in the BTC world uses Wasabi anymore. A year ago the statement would have been anyone I know in the BTC world who is concerned with privacy uses Wasabi and so do a few others. And I really think the people still using it is mostly because of inertia. They are not going to change until Coinfirm marks one of their inputs as bad. Then they will shrug and complain and move to another wallet.

Lets face it, people are STILL installing and using atomic wallet 2 weeks after the hack: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5454994.0
What are the odds of people like that moving away from this (or any other wallet) because of the massive privacy damage....

Go outside, enjoy the weekend.

-Dave
1012  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: i found 150 BTC on: June 17, 2023, 02:09:30 PM
You can't fix stupid. If you search with Google or search here in the forum or via https://ninjastic.space/ you will find a ton of post which warn to buy such fake wallet.dat files. This is a known fact for years. How can someone be so blinded by his own greed? Oh, wait, greed overpowers brain and logic.
My negative opinion and criticism of OP is not because he got tricked into buying a wallet file whose coins he will never ever get access to. He got tricked and cheated, simple as that. My issue with the person is that they obviously don't mind they are holding someone else's fake wallet data and are asking for help to steal its contents. NeophyteReq is a morally corrupt individual.

He's definitely guilty of that he cannot delete this thread so he just edits and erased everything not knowing it can be retrieved through Ninjastic, he knows he is wrong to buy a wallet file because of his ignorant so he turns to the forum for experts help and advice, even sharing what's inside.

He is not going to be the last to buy a fake wallet because there are a lot of greedy people that can be manipulated to buy this stuff, scammers are good experts in selling these fake wallet.dat

This is going to be a reference for people who will come here to get advice and help to access the wallet they bought.


But beyond all of that it comes back to the transactions that were actually being shown. The 1st 3 mined? Seriously, that is either an extra special kind of stupid or just an outright troll.

I am going with troll at the moment, but since the OP has gone away and is obviously not coming back does it really matter.

With the amount of fake wallets that people keep buying and then coming here to ask for help, I think more and more we should start asking more questions 1st and then think about helping them. Legit people loosing their passwords seem to be very very rare vs. scammers / trolls.

-Dave
1013  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: Lightining Network Green Wallet on: June 17, 2023, 12:44:41 PM
Once it's goes live I'm sure a lot of us will put it thought our own personal testing.

But it's kind of interesting when you think about it, bluewallet gave up on handling peoples funds for LN and handing the back end LN node. But in the past couple of weeks there have been a couple of other wallets (this one and lifpay https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5456290) staring to do it.

Makes you wonder who is 'right'

Not your keys not your coins, but for small amounts does it really matter? I guess everyone is going to have their own not over this amount point for doing things in an insecure way.

-Dave

1014  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Lightning channel stuck closing, no info except remote public key. on: June 17, 2023, 03:09:19 AM
Did you create a backup before you reset it? Are you using CLN or LND?
If you have a backup there may be some utilities you can try depending on a few things.
Take a look here for LND: https://github.com/lightninglabs/chantools and https://docs.lightning.engineering/lightning-network-tools/lnd/disaster-recovery

-Dave
1015  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Binance leaves Netherlands on: June 16, 2023, 08:24:33 PM
Oh look another place they couldn't or wouldn't get a license.

Here's a hint for the people still using Binance.

Run as fast as you can.

They're slowly but surely leaving parts of the world that require some sort of proof that you're not running a scam outfit. As more people want proof that they're doing shady things, they seem to be bailing from those jurisdictions. If it was just one or two countries or regions that they were leaving or being forced out of or being sued in you could say it was just that one particular country or region or whatever. With them having to stop operations in so many places you really can't at this point still think that there's not something funky going on behind the scenes there.

-Dave
1016  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Crypto Lender Abra Has Been Insolvent for Months on: June 16, 2023, 12:55:18 PM
And people wonder why the government wants to come in and regulate.
How many people are going to loose everything because they were stupid and gave their money away to places like this.

It's not a new thing, businesses like this have been around scamming forever. And then as they get bigger and bigger and grandma and grandpa wind up loosing all their money the government comes in and tries to control them. So they move on to the next scam.

<shrug>

People are greedy and stupid, and we can't fix that. Kind of like the people who invested in gold back in 2012 and can't figure out why a decade later it's worth less then they paid for it....

-Dave
1017  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Transaction error on: June 16, 2023, 12:45:20 PM
And the OP has not come back. Not wanting to be 'that guy' but going to be him anyway. Should we start adopting the same policy of the scam accusations section where we encourage people to post TX and other errors in a standard(ish) format?

Otherwise like here we have have a dozen posts with nothing but speculation and no real help for anyone.

There have been a lot of posts like this over time and they all seem to end up the same way.

-Dave
1018  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Is there interest in a standalone low power miner? on: June 16, 2023, 12:37:26 PM
What is the difference between yours and the GekkoScience Compac F?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5355470.0

Things like this are and will always be a hobby project for people to play with but there is nothing wrong with making it and trying to sell it.

Just keep in mind, you will have to support it, and deal with issues with them and so on.

But, it still looks like a cool project.
Post image links, since you are a new users they will not show up in the post but people can quote / click on them.

-Dave
1019  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Are Bitcoin LN POS terminals the future of bitcoin payments? on: June 16, 2023, 12:29:21 PM
Obviously no. Anyone who research LN extensively or already use it would know LN limitation such as it's not really suitable if you rarely make/receive payment.

Isn't that with any method of payment. Like I said above.

Eliminating everything else, if you don't see a need for something or doing think it's going to improve your business, you are not going to do it. That really is where all these places like Square that process payments for credit cards come into play. If all a merchant has to do it click 'I Agree' a few times on the portal they already go to daily to check credit card processing things and be able to take BTC / LN / Crypto whatever then they are more likely to do it then jump though a bunch of hoops.
Bring it back to credit cards. Most legitimate places CAN get better rates then these terminal in a box services. But it's a lot of time and effort and paperwork and so on. Or you can pay the extra percentage and just get a terminal shipped to you. It dies, they ship another one, no jumping though hoops. Have a different issue, no having to deal with the CC processor, the bank, whoever else. It's 1 point of contact and done. So yes LN is going to benefit as these services start to put it in their terminals and let more merchants accept it with no other work needed.

-Dave
1020  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: LifPay: new custodial Lightning Wallet for iOS & Android📱 on: June 15, 2023, 03:29:24 PM
https://walletscrutiny.com/android/flutter.android.LifePay/ - less than 100 downloads to far and no rating. I would assume it will rate very low, though, if tested.
Paying by email will not be of useful due to the small number of downloads and the other party needs to create an account with that wallet to be able to withdraw money. It's likened to centralized services like Kucoin pay to another Kucoin account.
Using it as a wallet is not meaningful due to the high transaction fees and the fact that it is a closed source wallet.

The pay by address is just a regular lightning address telling someone to send to davef@wherever.com is a lot easier then telling them to send to a long lnurl
Looking at it, it's very similar to wallet of satoshi.

Yes it's custodial, but as I like to point out ANY funds on your phone are not secure so you should not have that much in it anyway. So yes it's bad, and not your keys not your coins. But it's another LN wallet out there and that is a good thing.

As for people running their own LN node, yeah I do it and so do a lot of other people here, but we are edge cases. Most people just want things to work magically in the background and don't want to know how or why.

-Dave
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