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Is it using all of the 800GB or is that just the size that the virtual drive grew to?
Run df and check what the size and % used of the partitions are.
If everything is proper and you only have core installed you should be at a little over 500GB.
If you are running the full desktop environment and a bunch of other things it might be more, but not that much more.
-Dave
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Also, I have a question for you.
I assume your account is practically new why do you use this account to report these cases instead using your main account?
Do you want to avoid drama or something similar? I don't blame you, I have seen people around here doing the same.
It's actually probably a good idea. The drama sucks. Create a new user, drop a truth bomb on some people and leave. Need to do it again, create another user and so on. The only issue is people, myself included, tend to distrust new users a bit more. Lets face it, if I post something about some accounts being connected people are probably going to pay a lot more attention to it then some random new person. But, if I don't want to deal with the possible blow-back and everything else, there is not much else you can do. -Dave |
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Yeah, probably something is up with those accounts There are accusations that the topman21 account has been hacked / sold: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5404539.msg60634841#msg60634841And that the Rigon account is part of a farm: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=119419So, any campaign / bounty manager that accepts them without doing their research is going to get crap posts. Makes you wonder if the companies that have some of these campaigns even check the posts of the people wearing their banners. Or they did what a lot of us have done over the years and copy - paste a post when applying and hit post before making the changes but with the history of both accounts that seams VERY unlikely. Good catch OP -Dave |
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The same thing you tell anyone about a bull / bear market. Things run in cycles, and it's just the way it is.
How much you made / lost be it unrealized or not is a matter that everyone has to make their own decisions on.
What to tell family is always going to depend on the family. Be it BTC, or any other investment.
If you think differently then figure out why if you were treating BTC / crypto as an investment you would discuss it any differently then investing in something else.
-Dave
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Just like previous halving, some miner will stop their mining activity and sell hardware they no longer use while other's will continue mining with lower profit.
In theory, at a certain point difficulty will drop and mining will go back to being more home miner friendly, but that is decades in the future. I think you're overestimating LN as scaling solution. People who rarely make transaction (usually investor and holder) wouldn't bother use LN, unless they're willing to "lock" their Bitcoin on LN channel.
Possibly, or more people are going to keep their funds in their own wallets and then put them into massive LN routing services and use their wallets. Knowing they are not secure but neither is the cash in your wallet. So you keep your cold funds cold and your hot funds in a very insecure way, but not enough to matter. Once again time will tell. As others have said this topic keeps coming around, but rehashing it now and then might not be the worst. I also see other coins imploding messily as their only reason to exist is for people to mine, make a quick profit and dump and leave. As more of those go away I can see some people running a 'low power low noise' miner at home to make a few dollars. -Dave |
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Why don't you consider checking out non-bank private Safe Deposit Boxes that are also insured and they can even be semi-anonymous?
Price should be lower than using banks and trusting banks means that you are trusting your government that can always confiscate them.
There are none close / convenient to me. And the ones that are closest but still not convenient are a lot more money then the banks are. The solution with a safe deposit box (or other storage locker) is rather dubious, even if only part of the information is stored in them. Additional backups will be required here, in case access to the cell is lost (for example, due to confiscation or theft). It is rather reckless to consider a safe deposit box as the main place for storing a phrase. Why do you need the unique opportunity to personally manage the seed phrase if you leave it in the hands of centralized systems? It's like storing crypto currencies on exchanges.
Everything I have for long term cold storage is X of Y as I said. Keeping the seeds in there is more along the lines of EVERYTHING ELSE went to shit; like the condo burned down, fireproof safe failed, secure seed storage was destroyed by a heard of reindeer [it is Christmas] and so on. And it's mixed in with other documents that a lot of people have in SD boxes. Just things that are not 'critical' but difficult / annoying to replace. If it was just the seeds I would not keep, but since they are just one more thing in there I figured other people might still use one and have an idea on price. -Dave |
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Since it's the end of the year I got a note that in 2023 the bank that I have my safe deposit box in is raising the rates for next year.
I have 1 of a X of Y SSS key in there and 1 device of a X of Y multisig.
Nothing anyone would ever be able to figure out even if I told them they were in there and where they are.
For security there is also a bunch of unrelated things in there (car title / passport / other paperwork) that if I just have to replace one for some reason the time and effort to replace them would be more the the cost of the box for the year so if someone was looking it was logical to have them in there......Until now.
With the increase in cost I am going to look at other banks / credit unions.
Just wondering what the cost is in other places.
Online pricing is wrong, the 2 banks I checked still show 2021 (2020?) pricing.
-Dave
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Although it's a neat idea, using miners to heat anything is going to be an issue. Using them as space heaters / additional heat for things is fine. But now using the beer as an example you are going to need networking and expensive miners and an air to something radiator and so on. Or you can keep using the same gas / electric setups that beer makers have been using far a while.
Getting things like that up to an industrial scale is hard. Playing around as a hobby is also hard, but if it does not work it's not going to matter. Except for the fact of no beer. That would matter.
-Dave
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According to the studies I've read, everyone is using bitcoin as a speculative asset or as a hedge against inflation. I'd say 98 out of 100 users used it exclusively for these two uses. Basically, no one is using bitcoin to buy things. I believe Satoshi Nakamoto intended to create not a speculative asset, but rather a new financial system that people can use on a daily basis doing peer to peer transactions.
Don't know where you are getting this information but it's wrong. There are tons of places that people are using BTC every day. Gambling sites. Giftcard sites. All the debit cards that convert BTC / crypto to whatever you need. And so on. P2P transfers are also big. Thanks to places like Bitrefill I don't think I have spent any fiat in a lot of locations for a long time now. -Dave |
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Any time any country makes commerce for it's people more available with more things it's good.
Am I going to to to Brazil now since I would be able to use BTC? No. Are there others that would. Obviously yes. And that is what matters as other countries see that someone else is getting a piece of the pie they are going to want to get it too. Then they start to accept crypto, and so on.
-Dave
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They are multiple alternatives to hetzner like Digital Ocean and Linode that you can host your nodes, to ensure 24 hours operations.
Leaseweb also works. I've been running my node on it without any issues or complaints. At the time I'm writing this, there are fewer than 10 Bitcoin nodes on Leaseweb (including my own), so you won't centralize the Bitcoin network by moving your node there from Hetzner. Looking here: https://ipinfo.io/AS396190And then searching the through all IPs I see more then 10, but still not a lot. But still, I think with the cost of hardware dropping like a rock at the moment the cost of self hosting vs. paying every month to have it hosted someplace is becoming a larger number. This is not taking bandwidth costs and reliability into the picture, but still is it really work not having it on your own hardware. -Dave |
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Here's what might have happened: - bitaddress.org was compromised at the time you used it (quite unlikely, it'd have been announced later).
This is the only option from your list that can explain why different funds were sweeped at the same time with OPs funds.[/list] Actually, look at it this way: keep going with my earlier 'not your PC not your DATA' statement. It might not have even been someone at that company. A lot of places use external MSPs for things. It's a somewhat simple task for most of the software that is placed on corporate PCs for monitoring / remote service and things to generate an alert when something happens / someone goes to a specific site and so on. So if it's an external 3rd party that has access for legitimate reasons, and one of their staff has setup and alert to send an email to them when users go to a specific site and then record all actions done then, they could easily get 5 private keys from 5 people in different parts of the world. Then you delete the alert and data as part of the 'monthly database clean' or whatever and tan you take the BTC and run. Now 5 people who never met each other, some of them who do not even know what the name of the MSP their company uses is have missing coins. Good luck tracking that down. In theory figuring it out is very simple. Since the MSP is the common link. In reality since if they did it with a bit of thought, everyone worked for a different company and every company has a no private work on the work PC it's even better. Do you eat the loss or report it and risk loosing your job. -Dave |
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I'm not getting region blocked but not available on my device weird but not going to worry about it for now.
Until more information comes out about it, I'll let others dive in. The idea looks like it might have some potential, but I have been burned by Satoshilabs things before so I'll let other beta test it.
The more markets the better so long as they don't suck or disappear in the middle of the night.
-Dave
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Oh no I'm on the list what will I ever do?
I guess we all upset some scammer someplace.
Would be interesting to generate a list of all the people we have left red trust for and then see where they overlap and then see if we could figure out who keeps getting outed as a scammer and keeps coming back.
Or, we could all just laugh at the troll and move on.
Either one works for me.
-Dave
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Nope, she knows more or less how to get it but not what it actually is. Heck, I don't even remember it, if everything goes to hell and I have to restore the odds of me doing it without retrieving the seed from storage are just about zero.
And actually for most people that should be the way it is in general. Securely sealed in a secure location that people that may need to know it have access but other then that forgotten about.
-Dave
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From something I posted 7 months ago: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5399730It really is true about this. Just because you can, does not mean you should. Yes it can be done. But, with the know how needed at the moment and the fact that you need a bunch of additional things the answer for now is no. But as others have said, this is 'for now' you can get tablets with 4/5G and 1TB of SSD storage. Give it a bit and your phone will have it built in too. NOT using SD cards (which are not the most reliable things in the world) NOT using dongles to attach drives. And so on. Just an app running on a phone eating up all your data and storage. -Dave |
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Depends on where and how it was used. I bought 2 miners from someone on this forum who bought them at a pawn shop. Neither one worked well then I got them and neither really survived that long. But considering they did not know the history when they got them and the price was low enough it did not matter that much,
Years ago I bought a bunch of S9 units used, they are still running as space heaters today.
Same with the L3 I use.
Bought 4 R4 straight from Bitmain. None made it 4 years. The ones I bought used although rebuilt over the years with parts from others as hash-boards / controllers died I still have 1 that was working when I put it in storage.
Had a used A8 from somewhere ran it for 3 years after I got it and it was still hashing away fine when I sold it.
And the price is a consideration too. If you can get 3 miners for the price of 1, then even if 2 die you are still ahead. If you pay close to full price then it's a bad deal.
-Dave
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Some other random thoughts.
1) Many corporate printers will generate a copy of everything you print for management /
2) Same with company owned machines, they know & see everything you do. In this case it's not even 'I went to a bad site and got malware installed' but the company PC came with it to report on you.
3) Eliminating 1 & 2 don't forget the person in the cube or office next to you. Did they see what you were doing?
Not saying any of that happened here, but adding to 'not your keys not your coins' should also be 'not your PC not your DATA'
-Dave
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Was thinking about this some more, once again in the purely theoretical view and part of me wonders if the fact that some places are using multiple providers for their stratum servers which then connect back to the pool can be an issue.
---note just a random thought not saying it has happened or is happening---
But if I know us-stratum.thepool.com is being hosted on my network but the actual back end node for thepool.com is someplace else is the operator does not have any form of encryption / VPN / whatever between the 2 I could sit there all day [or at least a program monitoring the routers can] and drop the occasional share that found a block.
The pool would just see it as lost work after the miner did not respond and send a new job, the miner would think it found something but unless you check it you might never know.
If I know a lot of hash is coming though from one set of IPs then I can actually have my routers bounce it out before since I know the incoming address and outgoing address.
A lot of work just to screw with a miner or pool, but it could be done.
-Dave
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Some operate by themselves others are just doing back end API calls to other exchanges and passing the information and taking a cut and others are just linking to other ones through a white label API service. pnnv.com just did it for their site: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5427902.0There are others out there that talk about doing it. At times it has been discussed that it's a 'real' exchange doing it under another name just without a nice front end and with a bit worse rates. But it makes it quick and simple for users so you are paying for that. -Dave |
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