I never heard too much about Foundation and Passport wallet. But I don't see how there can possibly still be a "battle" between Trezor and Ledger when one is open-source, the other is not, and is hounding your cold wallet stash "metadata" to various government agencies, in particular to the IRS?
For what it's worth, I will not buy a Ledger.
Foundation: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5382675.0;allAs for the Trezor vs Ledger The ledger HW sucks and they have other issues too, no denying that. Trezor / Satoshi Labs has a lot of people who don't like them because of the slushpool history and some things that happened years ago. You don't see people talking about it on this forum because they get shouted down, but there was a lot of goodwill lost that never came back..... -Dave |
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Those are both custodial, right? I almost forgot I'm okay with that for small amounts.
If you don't mind custodial then https://www.walletofsatoshi.com/ is probably one of the most popular ones. For the lightningaddress you can only have an @walletofsatoshi.com email that they auto generate but it is what it is. Also, they have a map in the wallet that lets you find nearby places that accept BTC and BATMs. I think we are drifting a lot from the OT, so someone should probably start a new thread if we want to keep talking about lightningaddress. -Dave |
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If the receiver of the coins doesn't move the coins to any centralized exchange, doesn't involve himself in the exchange the coins, and here do note that even if you trade p2p the other guy must know your name your bank account your Paypal address to send you money as your 3rd party service will know the amount that has entered your account, if none of these happen then it will be impossible to trace.
If you are running your own node / not relying on a wallet that talks to any centralized service. And if the address was generated on an air gaped PC that was booted from CD so no trace remains. Otherwise with enough time and effort and money it can be traced. And remember, the government has all of those things. Oh, did you run electrum on your phone while connected to the Wi-Fi that is in the building. Don't think THAT was not logged if they wanted it to be. Would not surprise me if in many government offices crypto requests on known ports and services are all logged or bounced to servers that the government is running. Lets face it, you can have the electrs back end server running in no time at all and send all the traffic on your network to that one. It does use known ports so it's not that tough. -Dave |
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You can always rent a PO Box that makes it very unlikely someone is going to sell your personal information, but I guess someone could hack and leak your information connected with rented PO Box. The problem with PO boxes is that not all companies or shipping providers deliver goods to them. A quick Google search says that Ledger uses DHL Express, but that carrier doesn't deliver to PO boxes in all countries. Depending on where you are, you might not be able to take advantage of that option. As someone who ships a lot, I can confirm almost no business will ship to a PO Box anymore, especially if it's cross border shipping. This has been the case for 20 years or so, I can't remember the last time PO Box was used anymore. Even if they don't explicitly say they don't send to PO Boxes, you'll likely get a message back from them asking to change yr delivery address if you give PO. Interesting, I am actually seeing the opposite, with porch pirates and offices being closed for covid I see more places, if they ship USPS or FedEx ground since you can use SmartPost to begin with, allowing for PO box delivery. I am still waiting on a Trezor user to confirm the above assumption whether or not it's possible to skip the seed creation process and start using the HW without generating and backing up a seed first...
Nitpick, but you are not skipping the seed creation you are just skipping the display and backup of it. And yes you can. They even mention how bad it is to do it in one of their blogs. https://blog.trezor.io/broken-hardware-wallet-dont-panic-602d23090341Making secure backups
Having a backup of your keys is the only way to ensure that future you will be able to access them, no matter what happens. When you set up your Trezor for the first time, you will be prompted to create a backup. This step is not optional: if you skip it, it will not be safe to transfer coins to an address created by your device. I look at it 2 ways. 1st is it's your device and your BTC trezor is not your mom so they cannot and should not make you do things. The 2nd is something I have mentioned before. People are used to loosing / forgetting passwords and usernames and all you need to do is click a few buttons and whatever online service will be more then happy enough to reset it for you. How many times have we seen it here with people asking for support because they forgot something and now can't get to their wallet. Allowing people, who may not understand, to do something that can have severe financial consequences when making sure they do something does not take any time or effort on the part of the wallet manufactures is just a crap idea. -Dave |
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Quick reminder: After every single block halving, obviously the BTC that's being decreased block decreases as well. I'd like to play devil's advocate(though it shouldn't really be controversial) and say that the next halving would have less positive market effect compared to the past halvings.
So it is! With each halving, the share of new coins in the total volume is halved. Consequently, each subsequent halving has less and less effect on the market price of Bitcoin. Therefore, mining plays an increasingly smaller role in Bitcoin pricing. I said it for the last halving and was wrong, but I might be correct for the next one, sooner or later unless the price goes and stays high enough the lack of rewards is going to kill some big mining businesses. POOLS don't need a lot of money, yes a fair amount, but servers and such are a fraction of what it costs to have the infrastructure to run a data center full of miners. Seriously, I was convinced that going from 12.5 to 6.25 would take out some more places then it did. But, with covid and everything else going on at the time it may have distorted some financial things. But for the next one, since we are seeing some big mines teetering on going out of business, loosing another $60k per bock might just push them over the edge. Which is good, it would bring mining back to the people so to speak, if enough large mines shut down then home / hobby mining even if it never becomes a real source of income, at least does not stay at a just about guaranteed loss. -Dave |
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This question cannot be answered well with the original author missing. What can be answered is why you would develop on Windows in 2008 (as apposed to Minix, SCO, Linux, GNU Hurd?).
Windows has and had:
* The best market penetration. To get more users of an application you can write it on Windows
* Wide range of development tools and software for development.
Rather than use Microsoft only frameworks, it takes some effort to use portable libraries and frameworks. These days, Android is the new Windows.
That would be a VERY possible reason why Satoshi decided to build the first implementations of Bitcoin in Windows, IF it was not to do the extra steps to "pretend he's a Windows guy" and hide his real identity. He probably wanted a user-friendly UX/UI and make it more encouraging for ordinary users to run the software. There also was a poker application embedded in the client, no? Also with market penetration there are a lot more places to go for friendly help then with a lot of other development. Doing a bit of over generalization but when asking for help when compiling stuff on Windows you get help from online discussions and other people. When asking for help when compiling for Linux you get 'didn't you read the docs??? it's right there on page 308' Also, with the market penetration Windows stuff just tends to run, with all the flavors of linux out there and the different install options sometimes if you want to give a fully compiled binary it takes more work to make sure it will run it all since you can't be 100% sure what packages were installed, but with Windows you know that every install has certain things. -Dave |
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If you let people know what you are trying you will probably be able to get some from members here, as mining on the testnet does not geneate a lot of coins anymore. But, for now here are some faucets: You should be able to get the tbtc 0.5-0.7 you are looking for in a day or two of hitting them. I am a fan of using regtest whenever possible: https://developer.bitcoin.org/examples/testing.htmlhttps://gist.github.com/System-Glitch/cb4e87bf1ae3fec9925725bb3ebe223aAs others have pointed out it does not work for everything but it will let you test most apps that are using core as their back end easily. -Dave |
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I'm happily surprised Phoenix Wallet supports this! I would have sent you a few sats, but my wallet is currently empty. How does this work though? Do funds go to your Bitrefill account? Yes, it just goes into my bitrefill balance. And, as I said before and since I admit I didn't think it through when I 1st tested and gave it out, If you are going to do this yourself instead of using a hosted service you really should create a new / vanity email instead of using one that you use as your normal email. Otherwise you do wind up with even more spam / junk then normal coming in. -Dave |
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At that point, the fixed load of fans and controller probably start to become a more significant part of the overall power draw.
That is true, with an antminer S9 you have a minimum power draw of around 70 Watts for the controller and PSU no matter the hashrate. Also don't forget the efficiency of the power supply vs rated output. Getting the cheapest thing you can find out there vs an 80 plus Titanium may be better then dropping from 750 watt to 650 watt. There is obviously a large cost differential between the cheap and best power supply, but some of the cheap ones are so bad that no matter how well you tweak your miner someone running one stock but with a top of the line power supply will beat you in efficiency. -Dave |
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Did I miss a LN-update that allows to send funds to an email address instead of an invoice? Don't know how many people are actually using it or want to use it but it does work. You can actually send me money just by sending to mrdave@bitrefill.me from a service that supports it. I also have one that is running on my own node but since it's tied to a personal email I don't want to put it out here since I get enough spam / junk as it is :-) Since I have been giving both email address out I have gotten, do some math...carry the 1....yeah 1 payment that way. (not including my tests) -Dave |
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Does blockchain show it sent and cashapp not received? Or does blockchain show pending still? Did you contact the support from both places? You can reach cashapp at https://cash.app/contact or by phone at 1 (800) 969-1940 You can open a ticket with blockchain.com at https://support.blockchain.com/hc/en-us/requests/newAre these your transactions that you made or is someone else involved? You might also want to move this post to support board vs the general discussion. -Dave |
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No, $45 per IP is about average at the moment. If you have control of the ASN that the block is registered to, and if it's an existing company that is still active you may be able to get $12,000 or more for the bundle. ARIN can in theory block IP transfers but if someone takes over an existing company the number resources can move with it. Take a look at the discussion archives: https://lists.arin.net/pipermail/arin-ppml/A good broker might get you more BUT after their commission you might wind up with less. -Dave |
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How long between you bought the BTC and tried to withdraw? There is (was?) a hold time for purchases. Also, they have stated the their compliance team if they are reviewing the transactions and your KYC documentation will take a while: Please be advised that the procedure on our platform is performed by our Compliance Officers and implies a thorough investigation of the information provided by the customer. We'd like to inform you that it is indeed not fast because the details are checked manually and with all due diligence.
But, what is the most important, absolutely all the messages from you are being checked and AML/KYC cases are never left aside until completed. It means that you'll be contacted by the team once the information you've provided is checked. Once again, it's a time- and effort-consuming process.
Moreover, the Compliance Team has regular working hours (not like the Support Team that is available 24/7).
We highly appreciate your patience and understanding!
Also, when making a scam accusation here use the proper format: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=260073.0You don't have to include everything but the more detail the better. -Dave |
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As was shown in this post https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5418267.0 the 'doom and gloom' is not as real as news wants us to believe. Yes things are up, but not really that much. CNG is still fairly cheap, and so on. But telling people that does not sell ad space. I am still seeing some people complaining about 'shortages of things' but digging a bit deeper I see it's a mostly I can't get THIS brand that I like there are only these 4 other brands of the exact same things but I don't like those brands. I made a post a few years ago that is still somewhat active in P&S about a pair of gas stations across the street from each other and one of them had prices that were stupid high compared to the other: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5254433.0From the last time a took a picture and posted in early September it's gotten worse Diesel at the cheap station went from $4.89 / gallon to $5.49 the expensive went from $6.99 to wait for it $7.99 So looking at 1 location you can easily say diesel fuel is $7.99 a gallon on Long Island. And it is....there. Every other station for MILES and MILES around is $5.79 or less. I was listening to someone say how expensive the local pizza place has become for their lunch special. Guess what, 2 slices and a drink have been $8.00 there SINCE 2018. The other place down the road that went out of business (owner died nothing to do with economy) WAS MORE. But, he remembers the good old days or something. -Dave |
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....And scaring Newbies with trigger happy tagging makes Bitcointalk look very hostile.
It's a very fine line as to where keeping it not a disaster ends and hostile begins. I have left negatives for some users, not as much as a I think I really should but it's a time thing. I have also removed a couple when asked to, by the users. Not being willing to change is not a good thing. Allowing, scammers, shit posters, and people who are causing issues on the forum and not having repercussions is also not a good thing. As I said it's a fine line and easy to cross it. Personally, I would rather be on the too harsh but willing to forgive side. But, as I said I am also too busy to tag a lot so it's kind of moot for me. -Dave |
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Beyond that we don't know what we don't know.
RobinHood, PayPal, a lot of other places are not listed. How many people buying & selling crypto have left the exchanges and moved to other platforms that suit their needs better so how much trading is just not being shown. How much trading is being done on exchanges that are not giving their volume to coingecko and others? Things change and trying to extrapolate data without being able to GET all the data is pointless.
-Dave
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There should be an open source mining software on Github anyone can fork to be fully sovereign and mine to their own node.
There are several options. https://github.com/jtoomim/p2pool Once it's installed and running you can tweak a few settings and it will not connect to any other p2pool nodes so you would be solo mining https://github.com/tpruvot/yiimp As BitMaxz mentioned, also take a look at my above post for an installer https://bitbucket.org/ckolivas/ckpool/src/master/ CKpool There are a few others out there too, but for your own solo pool there really is no need to code it yourself. Keep in mind, you will need a network connection with low latency. That is really more important then speed. And obviously, do testing on testnet before going live. -Dave |
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So what you are looking for a L2, but instead of transactions just moving they would need to be 'mined'.
I think consensus would be a disaster. Although not 100% the same, look at what happens to any coin that has a small amount of miners. Going the other way if it's merged mined, then you might as well just skip it and set it up like LN and use BTC in the L2.
I could be totally wrong, or just not seeing something. But I think keeping the L1 as the 'mined' chain and L2 as non mined would be better.
-Dave
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Forums using SMF 2.0 and up can use MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite database to store all of the data on the forum, while SMF 1.0 and 1.1 forums may use only MySQL. mariadb is a fork of MySQL so the same issue exists there https://database.guide/what-is-the-year-2038-problem/From the coding PHP coding side it really is a trivial fix, BUT have you found every place where that code might be. Where someone hacked something quickly together and left it because it worked. It's not the glaring issues that are the problem, it the stuff that is embedded or used everywhere that is the problem. If you are in IT, what are you doing tomorrow: https://www.zdnet.com/article/openssl-warns-of-critical-security-vulnerability-with-upcoming-patch/Probably dealing with that..... -Dave |
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As others have mentioned this was already known and will be fixed long before there will be an issue. What is interesting is that it was done that way in the 1st place. It's not like this was not mentioned in a lot of other places long before BTC was even a thought by Satoshi. I know unlike the Y2K thing this is not getting attention in other places that should because even now 2038 is 15 years away and it will be the next programmers problem. But still.... https://www.reddit.com/r/mariadb/comments/lfm4fz/does_mariadb_have_any_plans_to_fix_the_2038/Anybody want to ask theymos what database server we are running on here? -Dave |
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