That 81 (5.6%) number seems a bit high. I only found about 40 blocks that were not full / 99% full in the past week. But, there are not 1440 blocks per week. There should be about 2016 blocks every 2 weeks (per difficulty adjustment) so every week you get in the range of 1008. So looking back from now till last Thursday, may be giving me a different number then you if you went back 10 days (about 144 blocks per day) -Dave |
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UK's not going to become a crypto hub, I don't think. I'd be surprised if they did, as the FCA is shutting down exchanges left and right.
It's more of a crypto hub than a lot of other capitals, though -- where else would you have seen Shiba Inu posters and ads legally plastered all over public transport? If that doesn't say crypto hub, not sure what does. That FCA is looking to crack down on misleading ads is because of the investment risk to the public, I actually think that's a good thing. FCA is shutting down exchanges who aren't compliant -- that's their job. Exchanges who are compliant (Coinbase comes to mind) started out fairly recently and are operating great. UK is just one of the few countries outside US you can get a crypto credit card from a principal member (again, Coinbase). If that doesn't say crypto hub, not sure what does. Crypto hubs shouldn't mean lawless hub... But some people want that. They want 0, none, nada, regulation. That is the problem. The more you fight, the harder they come back at you. Work with them, educate them, fight them on the important matters, help them understand why things are a certain way. Just screaming money should be free, will never work, and for those who follow history, has never worked. -Dave |
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Oh great, it's curious to know that by chance it was registered btc before its birth, is it possible to trace the previous owner? Maybe we find Nakamoto by accident  Back in the 90s during the .com boom everyone registered everything. btdusa.com and bteusa.com and so on were all probably registered at one point in time. Some stayed, some did not. I have a bunch of domains sitting in my account that go back to 1995-1999 and keep them just because of their age. It's one of those odd things in the internet. Domain "X" is worthless, domain "Y" even though it's worse in terms of the number of characters or spelling or some other thing is worth more because it was registered 25+ years ago and never dropped. -Dave |
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The best way that I ever heard it said was "look at those multi billion dollar casinos they put up all over the world, the people winning sure did not pay for them"
The odds always favor the house. That is the point. Otherwise there would be no house.
To me, and many others it's just a form of entertainment. That one simple fact should never be forgotten.
I can go to the city and have a nice meal that costs a lot of money and then go to a show that also costs a lot of money. Say it comes to $500 for the night for 2 people including the train there and back. (New York) Some people will not think it's a bad way to spend money. Same way people will pay for tickets to a sporing event, or many other things.
At the same time, others will look at those exact same expenditures and think the person paying 'that much for that' is nuts. But, for the people who find whatever that activity is entertaining it's no big deal.
Gambling should be treated the same way. You don't go to a baseball game expecting to come out with more money then you went in with, nor do you go to a show and expect to come out with more then you went in with. Treat casinos the same way and you will be fine.
-Dave
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Dave's opinion and nothing more. 1) You 1st post is way to long. Get to the bullet points do an executive summary 1st. Then in the 2nd post give us the long thing that you have now in your 1st post. 2) There are other services that do things like this like https://thegivingblock.com/ What makes yours different? should be part of that too. 3) Other then a private proton email address you have no contact info, no business info, nothing listed on your site. Looks really sketchy. 'Send crypto to here, we promise we will not run' But if we do, you really can't find us. -Dave |
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...My personal computer is mainly used to chill out and play games. So I have moved to Windows at home....
If you do not want to put together a new machine to start the WSL is a viable option at 1st. Also, depending on where you are in the world RPi are slowly and sporadically coming back into stock if you just want to run a node 24/7 but not keep a full PC up and running. Bit of sarcasm, but you write software for Linux to learn and contribute, you write software for Windows to make money. -Dave |
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It's getting to the point that we should just post a list of existing non KYC exchanges and cross them off as they go away. Would probably save time and posts as they all are slowly going that way.   Sadly sooner or later I can see that list being very small. Everyone wants to fight 'the man' but it's time consuming and very costly and a lot of places just can't afford to do it. So they fold and go along with the rules. -Dave |
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It's Linux based so you can't run it directly. BUT, they have a virtual machine version of it: https://mynodebtc.github.io/advanced/install-virtual-box.htmlSo you install virtual box and then run the VM from there. So long as your hardware can handle it it's fine. Keep in mind once it's up like that you can't just reboot your PC, you have to shut down the virtual box (can take a while as everything exits) then reboot, then bring the VM back up. You may be able to do it with the Windows Subsystem for Linux https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install but I have never tried. -Dave |
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Splitting hairs a bit but you are not 'off gird' at least by the conventional US way of thinking about it and describing it.
Here off grid, tends to mean, no internet, no computer, no phone and nothing like BTC, no power except what is 100% critical and not much else. It would be a cash / barter existence. Possibly an pre-paid flip phone for emergencies.
What you seem to be doing seems to be more of a no fixed location thing / nomadic thing. At least from how you seem to be describing it.
Again, different terms from different countries.
Using the nomadic description, I know a couple of people who do that.
Both retired living on pensions and such. Get up whenever they feel like it, drive the camper to wherever they want and then do whatever seems interesting at that point in time.
The seem to enjoy it, but it's not something I could do. My idea of 'roughing it' is a hotel with only basic cable and minimal free breakfast bar.
Neither of them are into crypto, but if they were 20+ years younger (my age) I could see them using BTC. But for now, that would involve trading and buying and using and that would interfere with their whatever / wherever lifestyle.
-Dave
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I know a few people sitting on a few large blocks of crypto that have been dormant for well over 10 years. If you had a lot back in the day and then broke it up into large blocks of coins (say 1000+) and then over the years moved them to spend it's really not that big a deal.
If you do a search, you can see topics similar to this coning up again and again every few months / years.
Unless people come out and tell us, and they probably won't. It's just people posting things to get clicks and or views. But, it's all 100% meaningless.
-Dave
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Look at all the OPs posts. He is just a rambling idiot. Might have actually gotten a PHd but it's from thunderwood. https://thunderwoodcollege.com/But more then likely in reality he has no BTC and he has no degree and probably no real skills either. With his posts about crypto, he has proven that he does not know anything about it either. Also, can we stop feeding the troll. [Dave looks in mirror, crap I just fed him too] -Dave |
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And on top of that, since Trezor does not use a secure element in their wallets, nobody should have been using them anyway.
Secure element is not a holly grail  It's better to be fair open source device without secure element, than to be closed source black box with NDA secure element. And btw Trezor is in final stages of releasing their own secure element. Fair point, but and this is kind of a religious argument in terms of this vs. that, but FOR ME a black box NDA secured element is better then no element. You and others may feel differently. Tropic Square has been coming soon for a while now, and yes I know there was a pandemic going on but it's been a 'we will use this one when it's ready until then no SE' and everyone keeps waiting. And looking at the way they do everything else in terms of security and privacy (this coinjoin, AOPP, the tor stuff you listed) do you really trust them to do a SE properly? -Dave |
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With the obligatory unless you have just about free power you are loosing money every day you run that miner. 1) Search for C19 12AWG (12 AWG is a little bit over 2mm for 10AWG which is larger still) don't look for the amps or 2mm since the wire gauge thickness is not in exact mm 2) Where are you located? That is going to matter here in the US there are a bunch of options to get them, other places there might not be as many. 3) Take look at https://tripplite.eaton.com/products/power-cords~5 get some part numbers and search from there. -Dave |
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YOU NEED THE SUGAR, YOU WANT THE SUGAR, SUGAR IS LIFE. Tickets: 1- Zoec 2- hookzup1 3- The_Crypto_Kid 4- geophphreigh 5- BTCOVERFIATS 6- tldr-hodl 7- DirtyBirdE 8- kryptowerk 9- Ramelius 0- minerjones a- montreal1 b- YodasRedRocket c- PreciousMetapsICT d- moparminingllc e- owlcatz f- minerjones Since it's 'food' this is a US ship only. If you can find someone here willing to reship out of the US that is fine, but *I* am not going to deal with the shipping of 'food' internationally thing. Been there, done that, never again. And yes it was candy last time too. How To Play: Use the current PREEV.com rate for $3 and send $3 per ticket to: BTC payment address: 3M8C9Tbwkihzc3UvitMbgXit1A2jZ6KBw2 Lightning: lnurl1dp68gurn8ghj7ampd3kx2ar0veekzar0wd5xjtnrdakj7tnhv4kxctttdehhwm30d3h82unvw qhkcatjd9jxyctwdvenj3nlh0u Pick one of the available tickets from the table above. Post a reply with your pick and txid. The last character in the hash of a later chosen block will decide who has the winning ticket.
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Never heard of it so cannot comment. On scam or not. Kinda looks scammy but who knows.
BUT they do take credit card payment. So if they do not ship by the end of the year you can always file a complaint with your CC company and get your money back.
Not 100% ideal but it does give you some comfort of knowing that they can't entirely screw you.
As for the 50% nicehash, according to them that is only until they generate $250 through mining then it's all yours. Once again, will they follow though? Is this some custom portal that if they go under you have a paperweight, don't have the answer to that either.
-Dave
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I guess the other question is why would a miner mine it for free?
They are a business, running a mining pool and doing transactions for free is not a thing anymore.
To clarify: the question is not about 0-fee transactions only, e.g. I am interested in 0.1 sat/vbyte too. Besides, miners don't mine for free nowadays. As a matter of fact, they get subsidy/block reward of 6.25 BTC (which ultimately comes from users/hodlers). Still goes back to they are now getting a minimum of 1 sat/vb why should they mine yours for 1/10 of that? That's just bad business. But, if there are blocks that are not full (has been a while since that happened), they may be interested in taking your transactions (free extra money). But none of them do by default. The best answer still is contact the pool operators and ask. Worst they can say is no. -Dave |
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It's not the 1st time he has gotten suspended.
He is (was) VERY abrasive there to people who did not share his religious beliefs. So he probably crossed the line again and got the boot.
Not that is matters much, the way Twitter is loosing users at the moment as people flee to other platforms fewer and fewer people will care when users get suspended.
-Dave
Do you know if he ever got his coins back? He was a top dev he deserves them but this relates to my other post I made this morning. No he did not get them back, nor should he. He had poor OpSec, kept a large amount of funds in hot wallets on a local network that was probably compromised. His arrogance of "I know better" cost him a lot of money. I will even go one step past that and say it made him an easier target. Bragging about how smart you are will only make people want to prove you wrong. But, it did help others see why you should always use a hardware wallet and keep most of your funds offline. -Dave |
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I wonder what was going on on the head of the person who wrote this Terms Probably something along the lines of "I don't care about morals, as long as I get paid." It always comes down to that. Makes you wonder who came to who. Did Wasabi go to Trezor to help stem the flow of users from their service due to the spying. Or did Trezor go looking for a Coinjoin partner and Wasabi could do it. Either way, I am 100% sure it all comes down to the almighty dollar, or whatever your local currency is. And on top of that, since Trezor does not use a secure element in their wallets, nobody should have been using them anyway. -Dave |
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