I can only see 3 reasons that people would want to have the red removed.
1) They are going to scam with the hopes that since it was an old account people would trust it more. In which case the trust should stay.
2) They want to sell the account. In which case the trust should stay.
3) They want to legitimately sell things that they have from years ago. In which case, they trust should stay since it's really not an obstacle since people can always use escrows.
-Dave
I think the only reason someone would want to remove the neg trust is so he can join the campaign Considering the amount of accounts that are out there for sale I would think it would be easier to just buy another one that is 'good' in order to join a campaign as opposed to trying to fix one with bad trust. But that is just my view, I could be wrong. Either way, I don't think a lot of people are going to remove negative trust without seeing an improvement on the account in question. -Dave |
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From: https://www.cypherock.com/blogs/cypherock-coverAs discussed, most people buy a hardware wallet to hold Crypto assets for the long term Do people really use hardware wallets for long term? Most of the people I know use them for more security in their hot storage and use other methods for long term cold storage. Admittedly Dave and the people he discusses crypto with is a very small sample size. Has there been any real research done into what / how people are using hardware wallets for. Long term? Short term? Both? -Dave |
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@DaveF, on the board of Keystone 3 you have presented I have noticed the strange (at least for me) stuff, namely Motor. Never thought that any hardware wallet could contain such gimmick. Just of my curiosity, what it is for? And the other question. Have I understood correctly that 3 V battery is tightly soldered to board so that it can't be removed from its cell?
Yes the 3V is soldered to the board. But it looks like it can be desoldered easily enough and I can put another one on. https://www.amazon.com/EEMB-CR2032-Non-Rechargeable-Batteries-CR2032-VBY2/dp/B095P2MJZV?th=1The advantage doing it that way it's probably a bit cheaper then putting in a socket and running the risk of something going wrong with that. The disadvantage is what you see, in that if you have to replace it more work is involved. But since this is supposed to be a sealed unit that you never open I can see the logic in using the soldered in one. The motor is for haptic feedback, it just gives a bit of vibration when you do some things. -Dave |
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I can only see 3 reasons that people would want to have the red removed.
1) They are going to scam with the hopes that since it was an old account people would trust it more. In which case the trust should stay.
2) They want to sell the account. In which case the trust should stay.
3) They want to legitimately sell things that they have from years ago. In which case, they trust should stay since it's really not an obstacle since people can always use escrows.
-Dave
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Anyway, good to see Braiins Pool making some moves here and there, although, sadly, as things look, I don't see how this pool will continue operation, looking at this last 6 months' status, I only found 1.5% of all blocks, this puts them in a very difficult spot, things took a very bad turn at one point when there were accused of mixing a dozen blocks to some code related issues, which up to this point -- they have not admitted although many people believe that the odds of them having that terrible luck stream for 200 blocks or so was too low.
I really hope they recover and start attracting large miners again.
Large miners are both good and bad. They will make you more BTC because they are generating more blocks so your % that you take off the top is a larger number. BUT you need more support staff because although large professional miners are largely self sufficient, if there is an issue they don't want to wait for an answer. And loosing one, even if it's no fault of yours still hurts more then loosing 2 dozen smaller hobby miners. Not to mention your back end servers have to be more powerful since they are handling that many more shares and that much more bandwidth. -Dave |
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The next test. Put the treadmill battery pack into the keystone and it will not power on.
Apply USB power to the keystone and it comes on.
Check the leads going to the battery and it's putting out voltage but nothing works without the USB power.
Put that pack back into the treadmill that it came out of and it's charging fine.
Most likely the charge controller has already marked the battery as faulty. The same thing happened when trying to change broken cells in laptop batteries. To prevent the controller from marking the battery as non-working, when replacing the cell to be replaced, it is necessary to apply voltage from an external source to the place of the replaced cell and only then replace the faulty cell. But this will help only if the cell is changed due to partial loss of its capacity, if the cell is down to 0 volts, this method will not help. Still does not explain the unit not powering up using the other known good battery other then the 0.7V issue on the coin cell. Either way, the main battery goes into the fireproof bucket to be recycled and the keystone goes into the cabinet waiting for the screen. Thanks everyone, will update when the parts come in. -Dave |
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Thanks for the update! No pressure but feel free to let us know the micro quantity of a BTC you pull in a 24 hour period.
I think the best value proposition longer term path is medium mode. There was even a video of someone who tried using a high end Apple USB-C that was capped at medium mode.
Are you by chance able to comment at all on this; in the mining management setup process for this Nano 3, is it easy/doable to just paste in your NiceHash SHA256 URL into that first field in the Nano 3, "Pool Address 1" ? Cheers
Before the 1/2ing yesterday I was pulling in ~600 sats a day. And yes you can set any pool you like. I had the one I sold to @philipma1957 pointed at a couple of others here and there while I was testing things out. -Dave |
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So this thing is fucked.
The battery pack is 100% dead and will not take any kind of charge.
Put it into a treadmill that has the same size and connector with a 1200MAH battery and let it sit since early this morning and nothing.
Tried to apply power directly to it and let it sit for 20 minutes and nothing.
OK fine...it's dead.
The next test. Put the treadmill battery pack into the keystone and it will not power on.
Apply USB power to the keystone and it comes on.
Check the leads going to the battery and it's putting out voltage but nothing works without the USB power.
Put that pack back into the treadmill that it came out of and it's charging fine.
Next step is getting a CR20xx battery and replacing the one that is only putting out 0.7v
At this point I'm probably not going to do that until when and if the replacement screen shows up.
-Dave
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I went with this coin from $0.04 to $0.11, then to $0.002, to $0.01, and now to $0.005. I bought more with each dip. >90% crash. Still hodling.
Sell 5000€ which are going to be 10 000€ in a month? Or a 100 000€ in a year? No, thanks.
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And that is your problem. It has bounced up and down a lot. The 15% over that @aliveNFT mentioned is not enough. If anyone would want to take the risk you are probably looking at a 2 to 1 at a minimum so $12000 worth of the token Add that with the lower interest rate that you are looking for it's going to be difficult to find someone to offer it. -Dave |
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Either I missed it or you didn't say. Are you printing these or are you having the printed? Really does not matter much, but since you did bring up the hiding the card type / symbols was thinking it could be a thing where we can get cards printed with the BTC logo or other things. Since yes I am planning to use a deck as 'business cards' at BTC meetups if you could get the cost down in general it might be a cool idea. Paying whatever for a 1/2ing deck is one thing. $50 for the deck for giveaways at meetings is a lot. I would just bring photo donuts with the BTC logo at that point. https://photodonuts.com/-Dave |
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Bunch of NFT people trying to get their NFTs in the block. Not sure why other then people are just that stupid. Also, probably some other people trying to do something collectable. You can see the incoming TX spike here:  Not a big deal, it's already dropped off. Should be normal in an hour or 2. -Dave |
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Are you sure that you didnt just brick the device and triggered self-destruction protection mechanism when you opened the device?
When I put it back together and apply usb power it asks for a PIN so I'm guessing no the destruct did not trigger. BUT....the touch stopped responding when it went off the desk and I never added a fingerprint so all I can do is look at it till the new screen comes in. So I could eventually put in a PIN and get nothing. Finding the screen was a PITA since there was no part number that went to anything that I could find. Had to go to some LCD place in China that a friend of a friend knew kind of thing. No idea if it's even going to work. Just had the same connector and size and was IPS they sent me to their AliExpress link which have since gone away so either I got scammed or it was a link for just me to use. There is a issue with many modern Lithium batteries, especially if they are not used for a while.
I was using it, so at most it was 10 days. It was used a day or 2 before this post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5459011.msg63794979#msg63794979 so at that point it did work and have enough power to turn on. Would like to think I would have seen a low battery warning but who knows. So figure the 10th of March. It was DEAD by the time I started this thread. So the 20th of March. So from working to not even taking a charge in 10 days. -Dave Back of the screen....Can anyone find one?  |
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The fact that the 3V battery is also just about dead is probably not great either. And it's soldered in.
I was also surprised that in a practically new device this battery has a voltage of only 0.7V. It's quite possible that it failed and led to the controller refusing to charge the main battery. I don’t understand why it was necessary to use it in the circuit if there is already a much more powerful non-removable battery, which shouldn't be allowed to discharge to 0 volts. That becomes part of the fun part now. 1) Did a bad 3v cause an issue? 2) Did the main pack go bad and internally and when it dropped to 0 cause an issue? 3) Did something else on the board go bad and just put a parasitic drain on the entire thing till it all stopped working? 4) Design flaw someplace? 5) Odd software bug that caused a lockup with the screen off that even though it was running at full speed? 6) Am I just cursed with these things? 7) Other? -Dave |
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For anyone thats interested, I cobbled together this shell script based on usb-list it scans for usb devices and compiles a list of available ports matching the product id then launches cgminer with the explicit list of usb devices --usb 1:1,1:2,1:3 #!/bin/sh
# CGMiner start script
#
# Based on usb-list script, modified to scan for devices with a specific product id
print_device(){
local devpath=$1
local parent=$2
local level=$3
local count=$4
[ -d $devpath ] || return
cd $devpath
local busnum=`cat busnum`
local devnum=`cat devnum`
if [ -f "manufacturer" ]; then
local manufacturer=`cat manufacturer`
fi
if [ -f "product" ]; then
local product=`cat product`
fi
if [ "$product" = "CompacF Bitcoin Miner" ]; then
device_ports="$device_ports$busnum:$devnum,"
echo "$busnum:$devnum - $manufacturer : $product"
fi
local devcount=0
for subdev in $busnum-*
do
echo "$subdev" | grep -Eq "^$busnum-[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)*$" \
|| continue
devcount=$(($devcount + 1))
if [ -d $devpath/$subdev ]; then
print_device $devpath/$subdev \
$devnum $(($level +1)) $devcount
fi
done
}
device_ports=""
for device in /sys/bus/usb/devices/usb*
do
print_device $device 0 0 0
done
# show ports that matched our search
echo "$device_ports"
#trim the last character removing superfluous comma
usb_list=${device_ports%?}
#did we get it right?
echo "$usb_list"
sleep 5
#now call CGminer
#update the absolute path as necessry
exec /home/garry/cgminer/cgminer -o stratum+tcp://solo.ckpool.org:3333 -u 3MbtxahpbkC1fGhvcWR7Ja38u8cwN9wzY8 -p x --gekko-compacf-freq 500 --gekko-start-freq 500 --gekko-mine2 --gekko-tune2 60 --suggest-diff 868 --usb $usb_list
copy the code to your local cgminer directory as cgstart.sh chmod +x cgstart.sh then run it sudo ./cgstart.sh I'm no expert at shell scripts, but this seems to work in my environment. Obviously this doesnt take into account any cgminer.conf files, so if your set-up uses that then i'm not sure if the --usb switch will be passed on.' modify adapt and use as you see fit. No warranty expressed or implied, provided as-is, use at your own risk. Good script, will probably save a bunch of people setting up USB sticks / pods some time. A couple of thoughts. 1) I would make the sleep longer since cgminer does clear the screen when it starts so 5 seconds may not be enough. Or a press any key to continue thing. 2) People are more and more using different USB miners at the same time, would there be a way to loop it to add more devices? 3) [more like 2a] A list of devices that will NOT be included might help users with other debugging. This is how software becomes bloat. A programmer comes up with a good thing and users keep throwing in more things. :-) -Dave |
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Thank you for publishing a photo of the insides of Keystone 3. If you have a tester, could you measure the voltage from the element (in the yellow film), as well as from the main battery (1000 mAh), to understand why your Keystone stopped charging?
As they say on Star Trek. "He's dead Jim. Grab his wallet, I'll get his phaser."   Once it stops raining I am going to cut the leads off the lithium pack and see if I can put voltage into it. But I want to do it outside just in case something goes wrong. The fact that the 3V battery is also just about dead is probably not great either. And it's soldered in. -Dave |
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Kind of a necro bump but wondering if anyone else running a node is getting 1 sat transactions with messages attached to them? Yes, it's due to Satogram, a kind-of ad broadcaster that reaches nearly the entire lightning network. Or am I missing something else as to how people are doing it? They don't need an invoice to send you satoshi. Anyone can send you satoshi over lightning by just having your node ID and keysend. If you're running LND, you can disable receiving that way with "accept-amp=false". I wouldn't do it, if I were you. Just like email spam, but you're getting paid.  I *thought* "accept-amp=false" was the default. Which was why I figured it came from the invoice. From: https://docs.lightning.engineering/lightning-network-tools/lnd/optimal-configuration-of-a-routing-nodeCommunication
Node runners may notify each other of issues they see when opening channels or forwarding payments. To be able to receive keysend messages, the following must be set.
accept-keysend=true # (default: false)
accept-amp=true # (default: false) I do not have an easy way to dig into that node at the moment. Will have to check when I get home. Not a big deal, but that was why I was running with the invoice theory. -Dave |
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Kind of a necro bump but wondering if anyone else running a node is getting 1 sat transactions with messages attached to them?   I am guessing they are scraping websites and looking for payment requests because it started when I posted this about 1 month ago in another thread: ... This is a repayment for 0 sats TO ME you should be able to add whatever amount you want: If you can't scan the QR:lnbc1pj7a6s4pp5s9yuq6tz05324wha0lnx8rn8hx3kk7gdxafmvv73ctc2al8xjjxqdqv23jhxapqxysqcqzzsxqyjw5qsp5gnqsgxpkqqwkl4mgtkvj3qjxyujlfs8aysz23dgsdypjnjza7srs9qyyssq7acrduv9duynhahph2k3cremcjrucf6mr7mkq4p9m7hjpcnfwavs4l59g09rjz778s2f04lcwknq6h9mp8fzs5fnv8fvye4jwmcrdcspl9cl7f  lnbc2u1pj7a6kcpp5qyl3gm9fnfqj4wuc2ep09u7v32af9vw32k9z0vsgyrr8nreyq4sqdquxgcrqgzng92zq5n9wpshjmt9de6qcqzzsxqyjw5qsp5gp5fhuexjgusvjyf792pewzkv8hyf907wfek4kpt3p9xza9mqh8q9qyyssqmdhmvttgzkjkdxjwa6kr7kfmce7c54f9x7ps0lvpx2ewljzc4g0r3us03srv02nmamxuzr0ytvqep5d8fudj85swfue8lzhvry5d2jqq9pu3nh ... Or am I missing something else as to how people are doing it? -Dave |
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This *might* help from https://cgminer.info/documentation/arguments/(I know it's also from someplace else just can't remember at the moment) The –usb option can restrict how many USB devices are found:
–usb 1:2,1:3,1:4,1:* or –usb BAS:1,BFL:1,MMQ:0,ICA:0,KLN:0 or –usb :10
You can only use one of the above 3
The first version –usb 1:2,1:3,1:4,1:* allows you to select which devices to mine on with a list of USB bus_number:device_address All other USB devices will be ignored Hotplug will also only look at the devices matching the list specified and find nothing new if they are all in use You can specify just the USB bus_number to find all devices like 1:* which means any devices on USB bus_number 1 This is useful if you unplug a device then plug it back in the same port, it usually reappears with the same bus_number but a different device_address
You can see the list of all USB devices on linux with ‘sudo lsusb’ Cgminer will list the recognised USB devices
with the ‘-n’ option or the ‘–usb-dump 0’ option The ‘–usb-dump N’ option with a value of N greater than 0 will dump a lot of details about each recognised USB device If you wish to see all USB devices, include the –usb-list-all option
The second version –usb BAS:1,BFL:1,MMQ:0,ICA:0,KLN:0 allows you to specify how many devices to choose based on each device driver cgminer has - the current USB drivers are: AVA, BAS, BFL, BF1, DRB, HFA, ICA, KLN and MMQ.
N.B. you can only specify which device driver to limit, not the type of each device, e.g. with BAS:n you can limit how many BFL ASIC devices will be checked, but you cannot limit the number of each type of BFL ASIC
Also note that the MMQ count is the number of MMQ backplanes you have not the number of MMQ FPGAs
The third version –usb :10 means only use a maximum of 10 devices of any supported USB devices Once cgminer has 10 devices it will not configure any more and hotplug will not scan for any more If one of the 10 devices stops working, hotplug - if enabled, as is default
will scan normally again until it has 10 devices
–usb :0 will disable all USB I/O other than to initialise libusb
If that does not work, can you cgminer as a different user? -Dave |
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