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As I pointed out just the other day while discussing something else, creating an address with just the 1st few characters the same is trivial. As they jet longer it dos become more difficult but for just a few it's just about 0 time to do it so in general just checking bc1p is pointless anyway.
The issue with addresses that start with 3 is that other coins have used it for their P2SH and that caused its own issues.
bc1p has been in use for years, if you have regularly been using BTC you have seen it before.
If you are new to crypto, checking more of the address should be just something that is taught / mentioned.
-Dave
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As a proof of concept it was fine to do.
For long term use, there are ways that it can be done with a device designed to be used for human use.
I would really not want to deal with having something like that inserted into my body, it's a cool idea and all, but still.
Since am just about always wearing a smartwatch / carrying my phone I don't see needing it.
And some of the worries are just not possible. i.e. bodily migration. It's just not going to happen.
-Dave
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You posted about its inaccuracy 2 years ago: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5297719.0I has been and continues to be off a lot at times. Even running and connecting to my own node it still happens. Have you tried switching the node you are connecting to? I don't and just manually set fees and such, but should probably check one of these days. -Dave |
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Beyond that if you read the fine print it's 9 month old data.
So difficulty is way higher then it was back then.
When you see large countries with electric rates that vary a lot lumped all together you know it's not accurate.
And without knowing if they included cooling, storage or anything else and the fact that they are using a miner that was released in January 2021 it's really not even worth looking at.
-Dave
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Ok I looked at the details using htop, and what I see is that cln's bcli is writing to the disk at 10 MB/s constantly...
To me that looks like it's still trying to do something with the initial sync, but it really should not be taking this kind of time. If it's still doing it now 15+ hours from your last post and a long time after your initial seeing of the issue. I would open an issue on github. It is obviously working since you can see the channel you created in 1ml so something else is going on. Sorry I could not help more, but this looks more like it's not a configuration issue but something withing CLN / your setup. -Dave Thanks. It ended up settling down after another day. I wish I understood more what it was doing and why it was not performing these operations in memory... Either some setting has to be tweaked to get it to use ram instead of the drive OR it was just doing some table manipulation in the database and its just reading & writing until it's done. Glad it's working. Make sure to do regular backups if you have any funds in there, RPis are good and all, but you still do not have RAID in case of a disk issue. Been there, done that. -Dave |
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"The Binance.US bid aims to return crypto to customers in kind, in accordance with court-approved disbursements and platform capabilities," Voyager said in the statement. Did a quick look and could not find it, are the court-approved disbursements for the full value of what was owed or is it just a percentage? Usually when it's the full payback there is text about 'all investors will receive the full value of what is due them' or some similar language. This just seems a bit vague. Either way something back is better then nothing back. -Dave |
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And then you read something like this: https://dirtybubblemedia.substack.com/p/is-binanceus-a-fake-exchangeSo, more and more Binance looks like it's doing something funky. And that is, at least part of the issue too. They might not be shady, but they keep doing things that make them look like they are. People might not like a lot of things that Coinbase and other super regulated want all your KYC info and report to the government exchanges do. But, at least their books are fully open. Still, not your keys not your coins no matter what. -Dave |
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Just replied in the other thread but I have no issues connecting to BTC and LN nodes on Hetzner IP space so I don't think that is the issue.
Are there still reachable nodes in Hetzner's IP space? In that case, the ToS update seems hard to enforce, doesn't it..  Many reachable nodes, check the post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5429901.msg61463933#msg61463933I have been playing a bit more over the last hour and have connected more LN peers in their IP space with no issues and running addnode and the IPs for a bunch of the core nodes running in Hetzner IP space added them with no problem. At this point I am convinced it's something that blipped either with their routing or some other routing someplace and nothing more. When I say routing I am talking about IP routing not LN routing. -Dave |
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Just replied in the other thread but I have no issues connecting to BTC and LN nodes on Hetzner IP space so I don't think that is the issue.
Since the only thing that I can say is that there is no issue with nodes on that platform from where I am sitting (and I hate using *I* since that is a really small sample set).
At a guess it's either a routing / peering issue between Hetzner and parts of the internet. OR, since some places are not seeing the drop, it could be the connections from bitcoinvisuals and lookintobitcoin.com to the rest of the world.
-Dave
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So looking at https://bitnodes.io/nodes/?page=36&q=Hetzner%20Online%20GmbH%20(AS24940) There are still close to 900 BTC nodes running with public IPs on Hetzner with some checking in as recently as 5 minutes before this post. Digging into here: https://ipinfo.io/AS24940And getting some IP addresses for Hetzner you can see that as of now there are a lot of LN nodes still running on their network: https://explorer.acinq.co/Digging a bit more I picked 5 random LN nodes on Hetzner IP space and all 5 connected with no issues. So either I am really lucky today or it's not that.  If anyone else wants to verify please do, *I* can't see an issue, but if Hetzner messed up some routing or peering setting my node sitting on cable may be fine but someones on a different service may not be able to route to them. -Dave |
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Side thought: I don't know where you are located but most ISPs do offer a static IP option for a fee. Might have to get the 'business class' service or something similar but it does tend to exist if you look for it. It might cost more, but if you are going to be putting in a lot of time and effort to get this to work, and there is an option just to pay and get static it might be worth it to save you some of that time and effort.
I can see you getting this to work and then something else someplace else changes and it stops working and you are back to spending time and effort to get it to work again till the next time something changes.
TOR will always work, but if you want a clearnet public IP, paying for it, if it's available might just be easier.
-Dave
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The problem is when people say "the government" it really comes down to which / what government.
Worrying about a transaction being blocked is not any type of a concern since there are large mining pools across the world operating under different rules and government regulations and some of those government don't like each other.
A pool operating in the US will probably listen to the US government and possibly others. Do you really think that one operating in Kazakhstan or Russia give a crap about what the US government says? Malaysian pools may care or may not. And so on.
Not something worth worrying about.
-Dave
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There is just about no way to do it non KYC, and I will go so far as to say as the time and effort you will put into trying to, and what tend to be worse exchange rates is probably not worth it.
However, and since I don't know where you live, as a general piece of advice if you don't mind some non direct KYC, there is always the form a business option.
Business takes in the BTC converts to fiat and then pays you a salary. Probably a bunch more of tax implications doing that but at that point all you are is an employee.
Everything else non KYC is going to be a lot more time consuming and convoluted and may cost you even more.
Side thought, is there a version of consfer.com where you live? Might be worth a search.
-Dave
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As has been posted many times about this its not just the reserves it's the liabilities.
I can show the fact that I have "X" in my bank account and wherever else.
But it's 1000% meaningless unless you see how much I owe and if I promised that same "X" to 4 different people.
That is the point.
Doing one without the other is just about pointless.
If comes down to two things.
1) We don't know what we don't know. So if they don't open their books, we just don't know where (if anywhere) those reserves are needed.
2) Not your keys, not your coins.
-Dave
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1ml.com is still showing 16000 or so active nodes and active channels have really not changed.
A few other explorers are also showing the same.
I guess the question is why would you pay to host a node with no open channels you can do that for free on your own hardware?
Yes there is a cost of hardware and bandwidth, but it's far below the cost of hosting it someplace. And if it has issues, if you have no open channels it is not such a big deal to recover, you are not worrying about lost / locked funds.
-Dave
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I would actually be down for a few silvercoin raffles. But not interested in a coin that's far away from spot price. Don't get me wrong, it's probably a cool and rare collectible, just not my thing. If you plan on any raffle near spot for silver, you'll quite likely see my there.  This is one of those oddball things, IF it grades well it's worth a lot more: https://www.apmex.com/product/105155/2017-south-africa-1-oz-silver-krugerrand-premium-buBut I am not motivated to grade it. On the regular market it's worth about the $80 I put it up for. They do at times sell for less, and at times for more. I figured for $5 a spot people may want to get in. This was more of a "I pulled the Christmas wrapping paper out of the closet and found this" and since I have not done a raffle in a while figured why not. I really don't know what non collectible silver I have around anymore. Dumped a lot of it summer 2020 @ $27.50 and never got back in. Probably should one of these days. -Dave |
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Closing this since nobody seems interested.Have not done a raffle in a long time, so figured I would start up again. 2017 South African Krugerrand - 1 Troy Oz .999 Silver $5 a spot  I can only ship to US addresses You can wait till it's about 1/2 full before paying to make sure the raffle fills up. Tickets: 1- 2- 3- 4- 5- 6- 7- 8- 9- 0- a- b- c- d- e- f- How To Play:Use the current PREEV rate for $5 and send $5 per ticket to: BTC payment address: 3EiXpW9WrrmTdX86nsYHaTSeRMGUy4ab8D 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. No limit to the number of spots you can take. Shipping included but, as I said above I can only ship to US addresses.
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.... Yes, it may not be accurate, in some cases the wrong address may be returned/checked, but I don't know of better tools.
Sorry I didn't put it clearly, it's not that there are no better tools, it's the fact that there are no tools or even a way to be sure. If you can't see the full address and the private key so you can verify that the private key is actually, for that address, while making sure nobody else has seen / still has the private key then you no longer have BTC. You have a lottery ticket that may or may not have BTC in it when you finally scratch it off. Look a handy thread that not enough people read: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3315347.0-Dave Well this thread is more about classic scams you can get with many other goods you can purchase online unfortunately. But what you said above is interesting, for you the acceptable limit of a shortened address should be 10 characters at least. Address strings shorter than that are such risky? I mean 7+ characters is not enough according to you? Are there some figure (stastistics) about that somewhere? Depends on how you look at it. For the most part not really there is no number. You have to trust whoever is generating the keys that they are not keeping a copy of the private key. If you trust them, then past that then 10+ should be fairly safe from someone duplicating them. Some coin makers give a complete address list, those should be safe (eliminating the hologram peel / replace) others do not. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2022902.0For other things it really becomes a matter of trust vs amount. I am more likely to trust that someone did not bother to scam me for BTC0.01 then a BTC1.0 But for now I really can't think of a reason to use 1stbits anymore. -Dave |
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I'm guessing someone sat down and did a bunch of math to figure out how much time and effort employees kept putting into dealing with these issues and came up with a cost benefit analysis having a tool. And then why not monetize it.
Make a bunch of people happy that they get their stuff back and make a few bucks on the side.
Win- Win.
-Dave
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