As Pmalek said sophisticated / competent place is not going to allow for withdraw till it clears. Even more so if you have RBF enabled.
This would only be useful for a P2P scam or some service that has really lax rules.

Would be funny if the OP tried to scam someone who did know what they were doing, but still lost the BTC.
i.e. send the funds to a casino, loose, and then have the casino do a CPFP and still get thier BTC

-Dave

Just did a quick look around, has there been ANY update anywhere on this?

At this point they are not ever going to be considered secure again, but they seem to have just stopped mentioning it and as far as I can tell so have a lot of the online places that I read.

Just seems odd that all of a sudden, no more discussion. Although, the other side of it is how much more then 'they suck, don't use them' can be said.

-Dave

I have to go see if I can find the lecture, but it was from some IBM engineer a couple of years ago, and although not about mining he made a really good point that there ARE many more efficient ways of doing some things with processor and other designs for them BUT the problem is you have to sell them.

It's easier and cheaper to put a bunch of lower power need and lower speed chips from the last generation that you made with the newer generation processes on a board to get the same speed as a newer and faster current generation chip.

It at times can even be more energy efficient because even if you DO need more power to drive the older chips you can do some other things that make heat removal [he said never call it cooling since you are not actually cooling the chips just taking the heat away from them] since you have more surface area so those requirements drop and the circuitry to drive them is more spread out. The example he used was put a space heater in a small room and see how fast the temperature rises then do the same thing a room 3 x the size.

The above is all well and good.....

BUT, in the world as he put it, space for servers costs money so businesses want density. Marketing & sales can't sell last generation things even if they are betting since the competition can point to theirs that are newer even if not better. And so on.

Same thing more or less here.

-Dave

There are a fair amount out there that do. I just did a check since I am taking one of my LN nodes offline. I saw the tx in my wallet. I then did a RBF to get it confirmed.
Probably would have dropped / disappeared within minutes.

Either way it's still the same point. Sending with 3 sat / vb will show up and probably never get confirmed.

Or, you could also send with a low fee and then send another TX out from there with a low fee and then RBF the parent TX.

No matter what it's still sketchy for the OP to ask.

-Dave

You cannot send with a 0 transaction fee.
You can send with a 1 sat / vb fee which will probably never get confirmed at this point.

<shrug>
You claim to be a trader and ask for money in another post, and then you ask for advice on how to create a fake transaction here.

Yeah that does not look shady at all.

-Dave

Followed by does it matter? Vanity or not if it was created by Core or Electrum or whatever wallet they either have the keys or they don't. In the end it's all the same.

For some reason there seems to have been a few more people asking about / discussing vanity addresses over the last couple of weeks.

They are not and never really have been that big a deal. I have used them and still do at certain times but for the most part, they are something that most people don't just because the extra steps involved.

-Dave

STARTING BID: BTC 0.005
MINIMUM BID INCREMENT: 0.00025
End 21 July 2023 11:00 pm UTC / 07:00 pm EST

SNIPE: Any bid made in last 2 minutes will extend the auction 2 minutes beyond the ending time.
If within those 2 extended minutes, a new bid is made, 2 minutes will be added to the auction from the time of that bid.

Free US shipping is included.
If you want it shipped out of the US, you will have to arrange for me to ship it to someone who can reship for you. ( https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5455887 )

Payment address: bc1qfesm8up3jezmxt2m9untmz34t4w7js7ppehe3w

If you have any questions or concerns ask.

-Dave

IMO one of the biggest issue with vanity addresses is that due to human nature they help scammers.

If I was selling a lot of tings here and all my addresses started with 1DaveF or bc1qDaveF that is all a lot of people are going to read.
Possibly the last few characters too, but who knows.

So someone pretending to me is going to have a much easier time if that was all I used. Since all they have to do it genreate an address and let human nature take over and know that people are only going to look at the 1st few characters and go from there.

With the current crop of video cards getting 7 or 8 letters is not that large a task anymore.

-Dave

This is the IT nerd in me coming out so feel free to ignore.

1) Saying Xeon is kind of like saying Ford. They have had many generations of them and even now with the current geneation the slower ones are actually worse in some applications then mid range I5 CPUs.

2) Drives also play an important part. There are some better generation or two older SSD that are just faster then cheap current SSD, it's just the way it is.

Any reason you are not doing this on a dedicated just for BTC platform?

-Dave

I just neg tagged that account too. JG hope you don't mind did a copy / paste of what you did.

Usually I don't do negatives this quickly or at all, or even get into this kind of thing as much as others but for some reason it just really seems off.

If deadsea33 comes back and proves otherwise I will remove it, but at this point I don't see that happening.

Don't know why this one just stands out in my mind unlike some others that are out there.

-Dave

1) What rate?
2) Where are you located? PayPals currency exchange rates suck.

You can also use places like https://localcoinswap.com.

If you still need it and are US based I can do some of it, have to check what I have left in PayPal probably about $50 or so. Have really not used them in a while.

-Dave

Google it a bit

https://twitter.com/MilkRoadDaily/status/1663949189858902018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

More or less the OP is pointing out that late last year CZ tweeted a warning / comment about exchanges that offered high APY and / or were laying off people.

And now Binance is laying off a lot of people and even trying to spin it a bit: https://www.binance.com/en/feed/post/803729

They call it irony or foreshadowing or cosmic justice. Whatever.

-Dave

DO NOT USE UMBEL ON ANYTHING ELSE THAT HANDLES BTC FOR ANYTHING ELSE OTHER THEN BTC.
Yes Unraid will do it, BUT it still has access to the VMs and Umbrel works (or at least worked under it) with no issues.

This is how we get the posts that start 'All of a sudden all my BTC vanished out of my wallet help...'

If they (Unraid) change something and there is an issue, do you need the hair pulling stress about it.

RPi and equivalents are back in stock. Used hardware, PC at least around here has plummeted in price.

RAID machine goes here on this machine. BTC wallet goes there on that machine. And done.

Yes, I know it's not what this thread is about, but I wanted it said.

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Keeping the above in mind, it's a straight install had no issues doing it. Performance on the IBD was REALLY slow on both Umbreal and MyNode and although I can't articulate it well the overall performance of anything I was running under Unraid felt sluggish, and that was on a 6th gen i7 with 32GB and nothing but SSDs. I eventually ditched the entire Unraid setup before the 30 day trial ended for other reasons.

-Dave

In 100+ years who knows what the state of computing would be in terms in power per hash. Most probably mining would move from the large farms back to home / hobby mining.

It's not something we can even contemplate dealing with today, because any plans would be a guess at best and would have to constantly be changed as mining tech changes.

More smaller miners? Fewer mega pools? Everyone has their own full node, because even though the blockchain is now 300TB you can pick up a 500TB drive for the price of lunch?

We can't even speculate. Think of the state of computing in 1973 (50 years ago) if anyone told you what would exist today back then, you would think they were watching too much SciFi

-Dave

The main issue of solo mining really just comes down to the fact that the odds of someone just running an old miner or two miners of finding a block is just about zero. Not saying that you can't get lucky, it's just that at doing it this way you are more or less just playing the lottery. Joining a pool at least you have somewhat regular payouts. Solo mine, and you may never see anything.

The other issue also becomes mining to your own node means you have to make sure that you've got enough performance on the machine running it that it could keep up with everything and an Internet bandwidth that if you do find a block it doesn't get orphaned because some other pool found it but your block didn't propagate.

People who have been running pools for years could tell you all the pitfalls of doing it. Drive issues, communications issues, and hosts of other things. For the one or two percent (or less) that solo pools will charge if you do find a block you are probably better off just giving up those small amounts if you do happen to find a block then loosing the entire thing because you made a configuration mistake.

-Dave

1) Because it's posted here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2572722.msg26208188#msg26208188

2) HedgeFX admitted to it a few posts above:

Once again, this is not the place to discuss this. It all should be a post in Meta.

I'll let others fight it out and the mods decide.

-Dave

Part of the cell phone looking reasons may just be cost.
There are a lot of cases, screens, PCBs, camera modules and so on that exist for the cell phone world.
If you don't have to engineer the case and screen and camera module from an already existing smart phone. And, look the battery fits in the same spot that it did in the phone too.
Then all you have to do is the actual hardware board and you're done, but with a lot less time and cost.

No idea if that is the reason but I see it as a possibility.

-Dave

Does not matter. Banned is banned. If YOU get a temp ban it's still YOU. You can't come here with CryptoHFs2.
P2Pfinder is still banned, therefore all of their alts are banned. Period. Full stop.

If the ban is too harsh, or anything else is no longer a reputation thing. It's a discussion for Meta about if the ban should be lifted. And if it is, what if any limitations should be placed on the account.

As of now, we just have what HedgeFx says.

I will also say I don't have an issue with HedgeFx (or Timelord2067 for that matter) BUT, the rules are the rules.

-Dave

Does not matter banned is banned. YOU are banned not that account. theymos / the mods can make exceptions to this rule but in the end, by the rules, you are no longer supposed to be here.

With that being said, without knowing all reasons for the ban, not just what you tell us, you are going to be in for a tough time not getting booted off.

Not saying it's right or wrong but it's the rule here.

-Dave

Not something worth worrying about. If your machine is disconnected from the Internet, that's all you need to know. Network cable unplugged and Wi-Fi password not entered.

That's all you really have to worry about. Yes, in theory it could do something that would have a way to store an old Wi-Fi password that you entered into something else so this mystery device could then connect to the Internet and do something. The odds of that really happening on your average home desktop computer or somewhere between slim and none.

Nobody wants to admit it, but I keep telling people the same thing, I could hand you a totally compromised virus infected PC. And I could hand you a totally clean secure PC. The biggest vulnerability on both of them it's still you. Not all the vulnerabilities on the infected machine.

-Dave