I just remembered that my case, cause OP also could face with the same fake clone web address while generating his paper wallet - fake clone in global WWW (with the similar spelling) or fake clone provided through DNS spoofing (OP saw bitaddress.org in his web browser, but actually visited completely different IP address).
Somebody should do a write up on how DNS spoofing works and how to protect ourselves from it. This is going to hit s lot of inexperienced people who don't know how to avoid that kind of thing. The typosquatting is easier to spot though. The problem with a write up on DNS spoofing is there are a lot of people that have no idea what DNS is never mind spoofing. https://www.proofpoint.com/us/threat-reference/dns-spoofingDrifting OT a bit, but still within the I typed in www.some-internet-site.com and wound up at www.some-other-internet-site.com but it still showed www.some-internet-site.com is probably one of the biggest issue of free public Wi-Fi. Going back to a comment I made here: They block port 8333. Or a lot of times it's the other way, they only allow traffic on ports 80 (http) and 443 (https) and everything else is blocked. They may allow certain mail RECEIVING ports (110,143,993,995) and perhaps 587 for authenticated mail send but that's it. It's free, but they don't want to deal with the hassle of people doing anything other then browsing the web. So it's all blocked. I do that for a lot of my customers who want to offer public Wi-Fi. It really is more of free web browsing, for anything else get your own internet.
Although it's about downloading the blockchain I can put a lot of rules nto the routes that you are connecting to (so can any ISP) and hard code just about anything into the DHCP DNS serves you are connecting to (so can any ISP) so you sit down at your local coffee shop and connect to their Wi-Fi if the people operating the back end are trying to steal, it's not going to be impossible to do. Even more so if you don't pay attentin and make sure you are going to HTTPS:// whatever instead of HTTP:// since faking SSL certificates is not as easy. Although it's not impossible. -Dave |
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Still working on this.
But, it does show to me at lest that we as a group should probably have better instructions for people then just download core and let it sync the blockchain.
1) Windows update forced a reboot with the patches last week and I did not notice for a few days so that added some time to the IBD. That's on me.
2) Lost power and the PC did not power on. Yes, that's on me again.
But with those 2 points above, someone who DOES know better can still drag what should be a 1 week or less IBD into a 2 week fiasco. Can you picture a normal user dealing with this.
Yes, we all know SSD, faster PC, and so on and this becomes a non issue. But someone just reusing an old PC is going to be miserable.
-Dave
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Yeah, way to many coincidences for them not to be related in some way. Probably will tag them sooner or later, but lets see if any of them come back to try explain it away. Once again, probably will not work but stranger things have happened...just can't think of any at the moment. And yet again, had they just ignored the 1 negative nobody would have cared. And since JG is quick to pull the trigger (nothing wrong with that) but it was still a minor thing a lot of campaign managers would have excused it for acceptance so long as everything else with the account was good. -Dave |
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Starting with yes it's BS not many more companies went bankrupt then in years previous I have to ask this question being an American and can't find the answer about the EU. Are your bankruptcies there same as our bankruptcies here?
Here, a company can go bankrupt but just for debt re-organizational purposes. It still continues to exist, and operate, but all the money it owes people has been reorganized and or wiped out. Or the debtors take over the business and operate it, or instead of shutting down of the banks that were owed money to take it over and try to sell it.
Here, you could do the above or just go bankrupt and go out of business.
Is it the same there?
Does not really matter, but what I thought would be a quick search took me down a rabbit hole with no bottom and no answers.
Grumble about accountants and lawyers.....
-Dave
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Oh no, what a surprise, after fleeing Singapore, HK, Japan, and Malta, despite being fully compliant they are the first to flee when laws are actually going to be enforced. Funds are #SAFU /s
100% with you on this. If every time somebody wants to look at your finances, and you run, 99% of the time it's one of two things. 1) You are cooking the books 2) There are no books The last small 1% is that even if things are 'legit' so many things done in a non GAAP way that it's never going to look legit. Going back to the New York think. There are a few places that I would never trust that still jumped through the hoops and got a Bit License to do business in the state. There are a bunch that said 'we are legit but not going to do that' Yeah...sure.... -Dave GAAP= https://www.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh241/files/media/document/GAAP_Guide_Sheet_508.pdf |
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Since you are still posting I am assuming that you did not kill yourself on it yet.
Still don't have mine, but from doing a lot of reading out there neither do a lot of people who paid for them. Since I only got around to putting on the new registration sticker and getting my bike inspected yesterday, it's not bugging me yet it would have gone for 1 ride and just been sitting.
Anyhow, lets have some updates. Any feelings changed about it in the last few months?
-Dave
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I'm thinking there's something else at play here. at least here in New York Gemini & Coinbase ( which are the only two centralized exchanges I still bother with) block certain things due to New York regulations.
I'm sure other exchanges if they wanted to that already have all your location information, can just as easily block you from dealing with whatever would cause problems. To blame it on stable coins seems a bit disingenuous.
I can't stake etherium because I'm in New York. I don't think I could use USDT either because I'm in New York.
They offer other services that I can take advantage of on the exchanges that operate here.
-Dave
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Does anyone have a link to a PHP script that functions in a way similar to Imgur?
I mean something that I could drop an image on and it will do the resizing and the link creation and everything else automatically. I'm sure there are dozens out there, I've just never looked for one. I figure if there's a recommendation here I could throw it up on my own personal website.
Although I do appreciate what others are doing to help the community in creating their own sites to do this. At this point, I think I am just going to host my images myself. I could probably set something else up for the community, but with other people already doing it it's
1)not going to be worth my time since it's going to be 1 of many
and more importantly
2) be another thing I'm going to have to worry about not working / crashing and having to deal with everyone asking what happened and when will it be back.
Heck, I'm hosting an explorer for a just about abandoned shitcoin and when it went down overnight last week I got about 15 messages asking about it. Can't imagine what would happen if everyone's images went offline when I was sleeping.
-Dave
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This has been going on for years. Withdrawals are a profit center for exchanges.
And as blockchain fees increased they had to increase their withdrawal fees to keep the profits going. You're dealing with a centralized for profit entity, why would anyone think that they're not going to do everything possible to keep profits as high as possible?
Also, as silly as this might be, it's a customer service thing also. You charge insanely high fees, use a portion of them to pay insanely high fees to process customer withdrawals, and you don't have to deal with customers asking why they're not getting their coins.
-Dave
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This sounds intriguing - will check it out.
Any more user experience reports since last post from January?
I tried to find a list of supported shit-coins and tokens, but their website doesn't seem to give away much.
Their FAQ seems to only talk about Bitcoin, Ethereum and Binance-Chain. In the video I also see Solana, Polygon Dash and a few more, though.
Not that I can find. It's still displaying a bunch of coins that you cannot add and everything else is just scroll though the list. I really don't understand their logic unless there was a lot more planned to happen faster and then it just didn't happen. But a definitive list, or at least a list with a date of making the list and supported coins at that time would be nice. I tried it a while ago, and it didn't work for me, tried back in January when I posted and again did not have support for some crap coins I use and I just took a look now and still does not support some basic ones. May check back sooner or later, but if they don't want to bother supporting some popular alts, as I said above it's going to really slow down the adoption of their app as people look for something that does. -Dave |
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The gamble hadn't paid off for those who invested in pepe since it has receeded back down to levels before the huge pump last week.
Shocked I tell you, I'm totally shocked that a scam meme coin has been a pump and dump. Next are you going to tell me that Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny are not real too? Scammers are going to scam and people 'who know better then everyone else' are going to jump on the next get rich quick thing. -Dave |
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Yes, if everything has happened in a natural and organic way, for me it would be okay.
However, if there were malicious intentions, assuming that the information about the BSV developers and community are verified true, this should not be okay. Will it be okay for you?
Yes, that's the way the system works, if the BSV people want to give BTC miners a bunch of extra money then it's all good. Miners made a lot more over the last couple of weeks and if it came at the expense of a bunch of scam artists then fine. As a group, we have more time and money then they do. -Dave |
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I will not ask OP why because he is used to starting weird threads such as these:
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Did not even look at their post history, I figured it was just someone who wanted to do something because they 'know better' and was going to spend days of time trying to do something that would never work. Just figured I would help them along that path. My guess: sending 10 million spam emails per day, and keeping track of which one fell for it. There's not really a legit use for that many wallets, Bitcoin can't even handle that many transactions.
And as I pointed out there is no wallet to handle it. Anyone with a bit of programming / database knowledge can setup a small block explorer that could with sufficient hardware keep an eye on 10m addresses. But there is no wallet in the world that can import them. But, since they could not even figure out how to generate them there is no way they could even be able to figure out the programming. -Dave |
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From the news reports at the moment it's all cellular data being off in the country and some home / fixed internet.
Others are saying it's a total blackout others are saying it's not that bad.
Eliminating everything else from the picture, it's not like this was not a known thing. You will always need some form of internet to get a tx in or out.
There are ways / sites that you can broadcast a transaction that you created without needing a node. You just really need an understanding of what you are doing. It's not a simple click -> send. But, if you do not have internet, you don't have banking either so it all comes back to that.
-Dave
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But with any kind of decent hardware any of the vanity address generators can easily get you millions of private keys and addresses.
Even bitaddress.org generate about 1000 private keys and addresses a minute on a couple of year old i7 laptop.
-Dave
I just try the website bitaddress to generate 1000 address but over 10 minutes it still need to generate 600 address so if he wants to generate 10 m address I believe it will take over a month. maybe the only VanitySearch is the only way for the OP to be able to generate a 10m address on a good pc. What hardware are you using? Are you using the bulk wallet tab? What OS and browser? i7 11th gen that is having others issues is getting me 1000 every 90 to 100 seconds with windows 10 & firefox. Running vanitygen64 with 3 threads and dumping into a text files is getting about 30000 addresses a minute. -> Extrapolationg from that you should be able to do 10 million in about 6 or 7 hours. But that is just address and private key. You really can't pull them into any know wallet. -Dave |
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You should move this to the Development & Technical Discussion board instead of here.
But with any kind of decent hardware any of the vanity address generators can easily get you millions of private keys and addresses.
Even bitaddress.org generate about 1000 private keys and addresses a minute on a couple of year old i7 laptop.
However, there is no wallet in the world that can take that many and not die. There are none that can handle that many.
You would be better off writing some custom code and keeping them all in a database.
-Dave
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from developer.bitcoin.org "loaded" : true|false, (boolean) True if the mempool is fully loaded
"size" : n, (numeric) Current tx count
"bytes" : n, (numeric) Sum of all virtual transaction sizes as defined in BIP 141. Differs from actual serialized size because witness data is discounted
"usage" : n, (numeric) Total memory usage for the mempool
"maxmempool" : n, (numeric) Maximum memory usage for the mempool
"mempoolminfee" : n, (numeric) Minimum fee rate in BTC/kB for tx to be accepted. Is the maximum of minrelaytxfee and minimum mempool fee
"minrelaytxfee" : n, (numeric) Current minimum relay fee for transactions
"unbroadcastcount" : n (numeric) Current number of transactions that haven't passed initial broadcast yet
Also, since I asked about it a while ago, there will be some variance between the mempool of different nodes: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5200716With the filled mempool we are having now, depending on your config there could be a lot of difference depending on what nodes or explorers you are looking at. -Dave |
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The government has always sold on a schedule and everything else around it be damned.
They were auctioning off property late 2008 during the banking implosion since that was when it was scheduled for.
But, I didn't know they still had so much to do. I thought they had already sold a bunch.
Does anyone have a list of all the larger amounts of BTC that governments have seized over the years?
-Dave
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Okay, so it's only on their US branch/based exchange. I thought it is the Bittrex exchangeas a whole. Well, good enough if the file won't be denied. Also, it's probably bad timing for its US users knowing there are only several exchanges can legally operate there and the BTC price keep hanging the 30k barrier.
If that is true, I wonder if it's the same company, how can they go bankrupt only partially, i.e. only in the U.S. Rather, I would say that this is an attempt to avoid responsibility, especially if we consider that their problem with the SEC is that they have been working illegally for years, without the necessary permits and licenses. Very disappointing, I don't know what to expect from them in the future. It's probably better to close them completely. Because legally it's a 100% separate company from the rest. They formed a corporation in the US that operated independently from the other Bittrex entities. It's actually quite common in a lot of businesses. You see it a lot in property. The building at 1 Dave Street is a different company then 2 Dave Street and 3 Dave Street. This way if something happens at or to 3 Dave Street that may cause it financial stress or something else #s 1 & 2 are not bothered by it. Also, if you want to sell 3 Dave Street, there is nothing to split up. It's 100% on it's own. Look at it this way, if instead of filing Chapter 11 they decided to sell off the US arm to 1 Dave Street properties, all they would have had to do is sell that one thing. Not split it off form some huge monolithic Bittrex World Wide entity. It was already split off. -Dave |
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