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Stale has less to do with mining and more to do with propagation. If you have all the cores screaming running the SHA did you have enough CPU power left over to do the rest and get it out to the world. It's not a lot of computing power, but if you don't have any to spare it could cause issues. The other half of stale is networking. How many nodes is your node talking to? If there is a lag there and more nodes see the other block then you loose.
Also, it could be other miners deliberately causing reorgs. I don't see the point on testnet, but if I have enough power I can just ignore some blocks figuring I will get 2 or 3 while the rest of the network gets 1. That would just be a waste, but I can see people messing around to see if they can do it.
-Dave
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How you handle your local lightning database is up to you.
According to best practices you should have it on drives that are on some sort of RAID and do a backup of it at every channel change.
But, it's the same thing as your wallet.dat file for core or whatever wallet file you are using for your wallet there are many ways to save it and then recover it, how you do it is up to you. On my small nodes with no raid or anything else I have the recovery words and auto backup running.
-Dave
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And we are full.
Rolling with 773932
000000000000000000002fc4f76a7d64b7fc51e7fa17900fc675aab8d90c3557
7- DirtyBirdE is the winner. PM me your shipping info and I'll get it out to you Monday.
-Dave
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Not that big a deal but still interesting, the last 2 raffles that I posted in the collectables board that I gave the option of paying for with lightning were bot paid for with lightning. So people here are using it to pay when given the option. Yes, it is a small look at what is going on BUT, who many people would be using it to pay if given that option. Looking at other things in the hardware / collectables / stuff for sale boards here LN is just about never offered as a payment option. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5437025 <-- minerjones paid by LN https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5436054 <-- Kryptowerk paid by LN -Dave |
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Nobody seems to be addressing the fundamental point that I hoped to make. This is that you may be able to optimise your tax liabilities by selected the input for a partial disposal from a suitable wallet.
If that works where YOU are. As we all wind up saying a lot here it depends on where you are living and what the local laws are. Some countries force you to use a LIFO method for doing things, others are FIFO and so on. Here in the US it's a 'thing' so I can pick. One of the South American countries that a coworker is from just changed from that method to FIFO. So if he sells any at home in 2023 he is going to get hit hard. -Dave |
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Up For Raffle iluvbitcoins knife design #3   I can only ship to US addresses, would probably get though must customs but don't want to risk it. Tickets: 1- Saxoshi 2- Dernoste 3- Suzuki Matt 4- haloxon 5- willi9974 (shipped to Mopar to reship) 6- The_Crypto_Kid 7- DirtyBirdE 8- yimfinity 9- Remsjack 0- MrsMopar a- BTCOVERFIATS b- YodasRedRocket c- moparminingllc d- bitcoiner24 e- PMICT f- JanEmil How To Play:
Use the current PREEV rate for $2 and send $2 per ticket to:
BTC payment address: 37KpY3xevo6kt3Wx6osJESKxvnGb84MMiQ
Lightning: LNURL1DP68GURN8GHJ7AMPD3KX2AR0VEEKZAR0WD5XJTNRDAKJ7TNHV4KXCTTTDEHHWM30D3H82UNVW QHKCATJD9JXYCTWDVENJ3NLH0UPick 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. Shipping included but, as I said above I can only ship to US addresses.
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Do you know what are the criteria for which my node can appear there or not? It uses Prometheus that is a general purpose monitoring solution... anyway I couldn't get it to work: the query suggested in the documentation is not working ("No datapoints found"). You can scroll to the bottom of the page you can add it. Nothing required beyond that. If it can see it it will add it, if it can't it will not. If it goes offline it will mark it as such. At least that's the way it used to work, have not used 1209 in a while. -Dave |
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As others have pointed out it is going to depend on country to country along with several other factors.
Using the US as an example if I mine coins and sell them since they are considered property according to most accountants I have to declare them at $0 cost of acquisition. BUT I can then deduct the cost of mining them. Same thing different box on the form.
But I know in some places you just put in the profit and call it a day.
As always consult a tax professional and then consult another one to be sure.
-Dave
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1) Does it go back up again?
2) What speed are miners showing on the GUI when this happens?
3) Are you running the stock firmware?
In general 10% is at the edge, but still within normal ranges of variation.
Much more then that and I would start checking network speeds and connections.
Also, what time period is it showing those numbers for? If it's a 1 or 5 or 15 minute average then it's not important the 24 hours number is what you are looking for.
-Dave
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Ok. This is where things unfortunately are going to get rather complicated. Looking in to it a bit more, it appears that Coinbase don't just use the WIFs they give as normal WIFs like any other wallet does to generate a single private key. Instead, they use the WIFs to generate a seed to then generate a master private key. This is a very weird way of doing things and I'm not aware of any other wallet or service which does this. You have two option. The first is more secure but much more complicated. It will involve your airgapped computer, installing Linux, installing various Python tools, using those tools to decrypt your BIP38 encrypted key, and then following the instructions here (with a little modification) to generate your two xprvs, before using those two xprvs and your other xpub to recreate your vault in a wallet such as Electrum. The second option is far easier, but not as secure. There is a fork of Coinbase's vault tool here ( https://github.com/dlajarretie/multisig-tool) which replaces the now defunct BitPay API with BlockCypher's API which is still working just fine. However, I've never used this myself so cannot vouch for it. I've skimmed the code and it looks fine, but you will still be importing all your private keys on to an online computer with internet access, which is always a risk. Not really from what they say in the readme Internet connection is only required in Step 1, where you input the public keys, so that we can fetch the unspent outputs from your vault addresses.
Before inputting your keys in Step 2 and signing the transaction you can safely go offline.
In Step 3 you will get a signed transaction in raw hex form. You never have to go online with your public keys. You can do what you have to do online and then that machine never has to see the internet ever again. A live CD will work fine. There are even tools to read what the transaction says without going back online. Might work a bit better. Cannot vouch for any of it working since like you have not used it. -Dave |
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I'm getting 404s for a lot, possibly all things coming from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ in general at the moment. Didn't check everything I have used recently but thigs I know worked came back 404. Could be a local caching server / front end issue for them or they broke something big. Edit: see below, they are not supposed to be there. BUT my comment is still valid. This IS working from some places (home) but not others (office). https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nginxinc/docker-nginx/1.16.0/stable/stretch/DockerfileHowever, I didn't notice it's not a 404 but 400 error that I am getting from the work PC. So 2 different issues that with a quick glance look the same. -Dave |
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Just because there are ways of doing it that does not mean it should be done.
Drives are cheap, used drives with low hours that show good in crystal disk and similar apps in the 1TB range are in the $20 range. External 1TB are under $25
You are going to spend more time trying to get oddball configurations to work then it's worth.
WITH THAT BEING SAID.
As others have pointed out depending on your OS / hardware there are a lot of ways to do it. But at that point, if you are using 3 drives you now have 3 points of failure any one of which has an issue will take your node down.
-Dave
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3) For the highest level of funding something like the https://satschip.com/ would be acceptable. You just put that under the hologram. Not 100% sure of the cost of them in bulk but that or a similar solution would work. Or?  And what happens if you find your Satschip in 20 years, just to find out that coinkite went bancrupt/was sanctioned and therefore the URL that seems to be needed to verify the transaction can not be reached anymore? I think this whole collectible area is simply an inventions of companies to make money. There is no benefit at all for the community. The issue is that satoshi did not implement the right tools for such things in bitcoin in the first place. It's open source, you really don't need them just the code. Also, I did not make myself clear I was not saying use THEM just that a product like THAT would work. My bad on that I knew what I wanted to say in my head, just didn't make it to the hands to type it. Are there any open standards out there or similar for long term secure single use data storage? Can't find any but I just don't see this never having come up someplace else. -Dave |
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The ONLY reason to reuse an address is for simple proof verification and for static publication.
i.e. Dave send money to X here is the always same address and here is the txid and here is something signed by Dave from the sending address.
There are reasons it's done. i.e. signature campaigns, which would just about impossible to do if the participants had to give the manager a new address every week. Mistakes would be made a lot of people would not do it anyway. i.e. just keep swapping between 2 or 3 addresses.
Beyond that every wallet generates a new address every time and that should just be the way it is.
Your security / privacy is up to you if you want to sacrifice some of that for convenience that is your choice.
-Dave
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You can also download the APK file of Unstoppable Wallet from GitHub. Guess I did not explain properly. I meant that F-Droid only has a few Wallets for Cryptocurrencies so there are not many options you get. But Unstoppable Wallet is on there and that is amazing! For example. I just opened up F-Droid and searched for Cryptocurrency Wallets. The results are as following, Unstoppable Wallet (updated within last month) (supports multiple Cryptocurrencies) Bitcoin Wallet (updated a month ago) (only for Bitcoin) Green Blockstream Wallet (updated almost 6 months ago) (multiple Cryptocurrencies) These are all the options I have. There are a few more but I would not touch a Wallet that has last been updated more than half an year ago. Why? If there are no issues or bugs there is no reason for them to push a new build. Outside of that if you are really concerned about privacy and security you are probably better pulling the APK from developers site, checksuming it and verifying the signatures and installing it, or going one step past there compiling it yourself. And, obviously as others have said they are missing a lot of wallets that are open source (electrum) Until they get some of the more popular alts added, and make some other changes, I don't think they are going to gain much traction. -Dave |
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I just spent a lot of time on https://www.courtlistener.com and a few other court document sites and could not find anything about the case. Do you have the case number for what you site on your website. Working through a tablet to a desktop so there is a chance I'm just missing it. But, in the end it really does not matter. A lot of people have taken the money from exchanges they ran and walked away. Almost none have had any real consequences happen to them. Reading about them is always interesting to see what they are saying about it. -Dave |
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Opinion and nothing more. The higher ups at Binance knew something was wrong at FTX. They probably had a lot of suspicions that they were not fully solvent or were having other issues.
Did they know it was that bad, probably not. Otherwise they would have not wasted time even 'looking' at what FTX was worth, look at their books. It just turned into a total waste of time and made Binance look worse.
Had they come out and said 'FTX be fucked run away as fast as you can' then we could have a good clue that they were aware. But looking at the mess that SBF created, I don't think anyone knew how bad it really was.
-Dave
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Congrats.
But, and this is nothing against you or them, do we really want more centralization with this.
Less operators, means less competition, means higher fees.
I see there here. On LI where there are only 1 or 2 operators fees are higher then when I head to NYC where you can get better deals since there are at least 4 providers of BATMs there.
-Dave
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There could also be 2 solutions so to speak (3 actually) 1) For very low value amounts, what we have now does work, unless you have sales in the 10s of thousands the amount you can get if it's a valve of 0.0001 on the coin is not a big deal. You can still make and create collectables an even if BTC goes up 100X from where it is now you are still only looking at $225 a coin. Yes in large numbers it's a lot of money but people would have to be aware of what it is. 2) For the next step up some version of the split key. 3) For the highest level of funding something like the https://satschip.com/ would be acceptable. You just put that under the hologram. Not 100% sure of the cost of them in bulk but that or a similar solution would work. Or? The downside is you would need a phone or something with NFC to get to tag. But I don't think that is a big deal anymore. -Dave |
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And make sure the datadir and wallet dir and all the files have 0777 (full user-group-other) permissions. This is bad advice: it's good practice to give files as few permissions as necessary. Giving all users on a multi user system full access to your wallet is a terrible idea. Also, non-executable files shouldn't have an executable flag. Beyond that, if you have to do it to make things work something else is terribly wrong with either the application or system configuration. This is in general, not just related to core. I have had sysadmins over the years do things like that to get things to work instead of figuring out why they were having issues in the 1st place. -Dave |
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