Are there any known pro-privacy advocates who run Electrum Servers that I could connect to?
For a node for dummies, how much would the set-up cost be and are they really easy to run?
1) Just because they are pro-privacy today does not mean they will be pro-privacy tomorrow. Once you broadcast out there it's out there. Look into using TOR this way even if they can link addresses to wallets it can never come back to your IP. 2) In addition to nodes on RPi there are a few pre packed ones that run done as a VM. Don't know your computer knowledge so can't say if that would be easier or more difficult for for in terms of setup& running one. Also, when you shut down your node and electrum server it's not just the node that resysncs it's the electrum sever that has to also fill in it's database after your node finishes syncing. As others have said, it's more PC speed (and RAM) dependent then download speed. -Dave |
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<shrug>
Why can't it be both?
I can use Coinbase / Gemini and a host of others where I don't care if what I do is known about or anything else and I can use F2F or other forms of transactions where if I want to be a bit more private I can be.
Wait, I do that now.
If I am selling to pay bills / cover expenses then I can't just make money 'appear' [in theory I can but that is how you get tax audits and such] because if I put money into a fiat account and send to the car loan people there will be a trail.
Going out to dinner with a friend and I send him BTC to cover my 1/2 would be no different then handing him some cash out of my wallet.
I posted about it a while ago, that once you have any kind of anonymity lost it becomes harder and harder if not impossible to get it back.
At this point it's not something I worry about. AND as more places start to take BTC, if we want to use it in a commercial environment you will become less and less anonymous anyway. i.e. there is a liquor store in NYC that takes crypto but since it's an age controlled thing they scan your drivers license to have proof of age. I'm am obviously WELL over the drinking age but when I bought there still got my drivers license scanned. If I used BTC instead of my AMEX would I be anonymous?
If you are being legit, paying taxes and everything else there is no way to be anonymous.
-Dave
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...everything bitcoinstonk has said....
NO NO AND NO There are 1000s and 1000s of cases (probably 100s of 1000s) of where foreign courts have ordered things and every court in every other county said nope not going to happen. There is not a criminal case, and more importantly there is no international agreement of even how to handle crypto. Is it physical property (painting), is it a financial asset (bond) is it physical currency (gold coin) and so on. Stop being a BSV shill / believer and go back to your hole in the ground. CW is just a scammer, and every time anybody posts thing supporting a scammer like him you are supporting him. This will grind it's way through the courts and he will loose. Don't go away mad, just go away. -Dave |
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I guess the question is why have all the other accounts that have posted the malware not been banned?
Usually they get banned / nuked when they are posting things like that but users on the list that hosseinimr93 posted are all still here?
Or is it more the altcoin sections that bans for malware wallets are quick.
Reported to github. Looks like this is the new whack a mole.
-Dave
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Let's all hang out with people who are more or less strangers and discuss our finances. There are plenty of medium and large meetups: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=86.0BUT, smaller groups of people for the 1st time are a bit more difficult to get started. I can meet user X to do a trade and possibly depending on the location and time grab a beer / dinner. Getting 5 or 6 is a lot more difficult. I see it a lot with personalty clashes. I might like you and this person and that other one. BUT THAT other one, nah I have no desire to meet up with him, I'll pass on this meeting get me next time. Happens all the time with the motorcycle club I ride with. Big meetings are OK, and there are a lot of us that hang out in groups of 2 or 3. But try to get 6 people to do something, very difficult. -Dave |
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...i still wonder where he gets his 300m from...
Same place that he gets everything else from, he makes it up as he goes. Just comes and posts shit trying to get attention. I do believe this says it all: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=2038954..but even then.. its still a project even passed down from parent to child for 1000 generations. wont get you results in first generation of inheritors(unless someone used bad RND in their vanity gen to create their address..
Speak for yourself, I'm going to live forever.....or die trying. -Dave |
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Isn't the DMV that thing where you enter while you have a kid in elementary school and by the time you exit he has finished college and you're already in a retirement home?  ... Have you seen the sloth scene in Zootopia? You hit the nail on the head above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0woPde7OE1kAs far as the bill, yeah, it was introduced, but will it be passed by the legislature and then signed by the governor? Given many people in NY have an aversion to independent, free people, who can operate outside of their control, I wouldn't count on it. As far as fees go, some places will charge a 3% fee on credit cards, so anything under that is a plus. Drifting OT from crypto, but https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5373206.msg61584721#msg61584721I can an do bash many of the things they do here in NY a lot of the time. BUT, I will say the DMV process is still one of the better ones. Most likely because the faster they get you in and out the faster they get your money. When I bought my last car I got my registration and my title before I got the paperwork in mail form the loan company. Years ago a friend in FL bought a car from me. I drove the car down (overnight), met him at his house we ate lunch he dropped me off at the airport and went to the DMV. I made it though airport security (pre 9-11), got on the plane, flew from PBI to JFK and LANDED before he got out of the DMV. 4+ fucking hours later. THAT was a shit show. It's supposed to be better now. Anyway back to this, reading though more of the bill, it looks like it's allowing them to do it themselves and / or use any form of other payment gateway. Will be interesting to see if it passes and what if anything municipalities will do. I am guessing it's just going to be 3rd party like they take credit cards, and for the larger institutions of NY that do credit card / check processing internally it's not going to happen since there would be more work / expense involved. -Dave |
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Looks interesting, AND I LIKE THE IDEA but I think this is an answer in search of a question.
If you are running BTCPay you probably are doing more yourself then someone who is using another gateway to process their transactions.
Now, you are asking them to automate conversions using a 3rd party exchange. Where things CAN go wrong, KYC can be sprung on you and so on.
I would *think* that if I was doing something like this I would want to do my own exchanges. But, that is just me.
-Dave
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If you are worried about crossing borders / going through security with BTC on your laptop or leaving it unattended someplace there are still a bunch of laptops with easily removable drives.
With the rugged ones from Dell and Panasonic and others you pop down a panel, push a tab and the drive and caddy come out. You can always get a 2nd one that you have a small drive in so the unit will work and boot with no issues.
-Dave
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I didn't post for some time on this topics and I didn't really talk about best ways to protect against most of this attacks, but I decided to do it now.
Best protection from Wrench attack (it was $5 before inflation), chosen nonce attack, supply chain attack, evil made attack, pwned hardware wallet and lost seed, is using good Multisig Setup.
Having airgapped open source hardware wallet in combination with multisig setup is providing reasonably good protection from most attacks, and to be extra secure I would generate seed words offline and not in single hardware wallet.
This is not perfect protection against all attacks, but it is good enough for most people.
You can still get a $5 wrench, it's just not as good quality. I still say that the BEST defense is not letting people know about your BTC holdings. The 2nd best is having dummy wallets around. Leave some money on an mk 2 cold card, or an old trezor. Someone wants it, they can have it. The other wallet is someplace safe and secure. You need funds you take it out, move it to the wallet that is controlled by the other hardware and put it back. If I show up at your house to sell you an S19 there is no reason for me to know what you are really using as a HW wallet or how much BTC you really have. All I should see is what you want me to see. and that should not be a lot. -Dave |
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Call them if you are US based +1 (888) 908–7930 https://twitter.com/coinbase/status/918525711534538752?lang=enIf you are from another country they do have support lines elsewhere too, if not there are enough places out there to get a US SIM to call them. As @The Sceptical Chymist pointed out they will close your account for some really odd things. Similar to him I had a checking account with a misspelling of my last name. Gemini sent me an email and CALLED. Coinbase suspended me until I jumped though hoops to get it fixed. I was going to just let it be, but I wanted to keep it open just in case. -Dave |
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1) Do not use the default username / password
2) Keep it behind a firewall separate from the rest of your network. VLAN will also work.
3) Only use stock or well known firmware. Finding a post about a random bit of code that can generate 20% more profit is going to get your miner and possibly your network hijacked.
That should just about do it. Some people also say don't buy used you don't know what the old person did, but so long as you re-flash the miner to stock you should be fine.
-Dave
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Since in some states the DMV still charges like 1.99% for CC, pretty obvious they will do the same thing, I don't see any organization being that generous unless the cost will be directly funded by the state.
They do not charge a fee in NY. I am guessing with them trying to do as much as possible online that any costs associated with taking cards is more then covered by allowing them to operate 24/7. Thinking about it they can also probably get a much better credit card processing rate since to put it bluntly, they do know where you live and what you drive ;-) Dispute a charge your vehicle registration and license both get suspended. Use a stolen card, then you really don't want to get pulled over because you know that it's been flagged. And so on. So even if they go with the universally hated BitPay they don't even have to make you jump though the BitPay KYC since as said, they know where you live. And at the 1% rate that BP charges it's still probably less then even the best credit card rates. -Dave |
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And so it begins.... https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1621026986784337922Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead I guess Twitter really does not want people to use their service. Slightly OT but how many projects came in existence because you could play around with the API for free and then turned into a real paid thing for the developers and a revenue stream for Twitter for the better API access. Now, just to play around how many programmers are going to pay. My guess that unless it's a a paid project to develop things, not a lot. -Dave |
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Actually BTC did pop above $24000 when the announcement was made and then came back down over a number of hours.
With portfolios becoming more diverse and more ways to acquire BTC for more people I can see things that used to move the market more not doing as much. Even now, we can love it or hate it but you can get BTC through your PayPal account. And I would think just a very few of the people that did saw the FED announcement and went to buy or sell their BTC.
Just my view.
-Dave
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I wonder how pool operators are protecting their statums addresses from DDOS attacks I cannot find an answer on google about protecting stratum addresses from DDOS What am I missing ? I mean they can't just manualy ban the IPs addresses which are slowing down the pool. I imagine it could give a lot of work to pool OPs no ? Sorry for the newbie question, but as I know that some pool operator are present here, I hope that I will find a proper answer  Also, it's not a manual ban it's automatic, even going back a decade to NOMP https://github.com/zone117x/node-open-mining-portal#attack-mitigation it had automatic banning of IPs that were causing problems. It can also be a combination using something like cloudflare as discussed above to take care of the 1st layer of attacks then something internally to filter out the rest. -Dave |
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Thanks for the tip link. Right now I'm mostly concerned with mined blocks (but no longer part of the longest chain). In the end, transactions do not just disappear.
I wish we could be absolutely certain of this, then we wouldn't ever require more than 1 confirmation, or even PoW at all For small amounts, 1 confirmation seems to be commonly accepted. I realise that it's uncommon, thanks to your link and some more research I can confirm that the number of "extinct" blocks dropped from several per year to only 2 in 2019, and actually none since then. Unfortunately I can't build my system based on hope alone. How do existing payment systems handle the situation when a transaction in a previously confirmed block actually disappears (perhaps because of a malicious actor trying to double spend)? Once again it depends on the payment system and what you are doing. Some examples : With coinex after 1 conformation I can trade on their platform with the funds, but I can't withdraw anything I traded for or the original coin until 6 confirms. With Bitrefill if I DO NOT use RBF and a high enough fee it's either 1 confirm or at times 0 if it's for a small enough card since I have been using their system for a while. For larger amounts it's 1 confirm with no RBF and high enough fee. BUT, we are talking about $10 to $50 gift cards, not sure if that is going to change for a $1000 amazon card for a new user. shoppy.gg is usually 2 or 3 confirms. If you are going to be gaming the network to doublespend the time and effort involved are going to be a lot more then a few dollars. -Dave |
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Fair enough, up until I saw you post I never heard of RSK, but is RSK actually worth anything? NMC and ELA and all the others I don't think come to $50 of extra mining income per block. Although to be honest I have not checked in years. Lets revise it to you can find out about some merged coins, but it's not like the pools are going to get rich by mining them and not telling you. -Dave |
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