Rooting or jailbreaking your device won't make your smartphone not tracktable. It only open possibility to disable feature which could invade your privacy or limit what an application could do.

Even so, you can't prevent tracking from cell tower triangulation.


Me either. Since the ISP could detect you based on known entry node IP, one could use unlisted/private Tor Bridge with pluggable transports

Sweeping membuat 1 transaksi dari berbagai address & input, sehingga Sweeping mungkin bisa menghilangkan privasi.

IMO lebih baik melakukan sweeping manual, seperti :
1. 1 transaksi untuk 1 alamat Bitcoin
2. 1 transaksi untuk beberapa alamat Bitcoin dengan group yang sama (seperti signature campaign)

Additionally, Firefox have far better privacy configuration by default since Firefox 70, so i don't see any more reason to recommend Brave Browser for technology illiterate or lazy users.
Nowadays i only use Brave Browser if i need to visit website which doesn't work properly on Firefox. 


If firefox (or any browser developer/publisher) actually care about praivacy, they wouldn't make business model which reward their user.
There's no way to avoid some kind of data collection if they're gonna to reward their user.

Wrong. With HTTPS, passive attack (e.g, ISP and anyone who's on your network) won't able to see what data you send to a server.

All they can get is metadata (IP destination, DNS request, packet size, etc.)

While it's not directly related to stay anonymous online, people who need anonymity/privacy shouldn't use Windows OS, OS based on Linux is the only choice.


It only give privacy against people who might use your computer. Even if you use Incognito Mode, website can track you easily due to unique browser fingerprint.


Good suggestion, but people should beware that :
1. Not all email, messaging, proxy and VPN provider who offer privacy/anonymity actually do it. Few VPN caught logging user's traffic and Telegram isn't encrypted by default.
2. If you don't change your surfing or browsing habit, someone could de-anonymize or track you, especially if you login to account with personal information when using Proxy, VPN or Tor.

Write it on a durable paper and store it on safe or/and hidden locationIf you have extra money and free time, you could write it on metal slate instead.


Browser/web version should be accessible from browser on blackberry device.


Don't forget "mnenomic phrase" (which often confused as "seed phrase).

I prefer to spend my merit when i found good post/thread rather than merit a specific user.

But it's good idea for merit source who don't have much time, struggle to find good post or currently hoard sMerit (whether it's comes from source or not)

It's not 4 MB (byte unit), but 4 million weight (Weight unit). Block size (in byte unit) highly depends on how many SegWit transaction in a block.


But since bitcoin hashrate increasing most of the times, actual average/mean block time is somewhere between 9.4 to 9.6 minutes.

Keep in mind that 1-2 MB/s read/write speed is random read/write speed, not sequential read/write speed (usually about 100-200MB/s for HDD). Bitcoin sync and most computing tasks uses random read/write speed.
Your HDD clearly is the bottleneck.

If you have SSD with low capacity, you could move chainstate file to SSD which could improve the performance significantly.
SEe https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Splitting_the_data_directory

Don't forget that Bitcoin development focus on backward compatibility, where there are many version of output (P2PK, P2P2K, P2PWSH, etc.), scripting (newer OPCODES, OPCODES which used to be valid, etc.), node (network,  filter, bloom. etc.)

For example, you need to remove signature part of SegWit transaction when send transaction/block to old node.

If miner/pool owner know about existence of the thread, then it'll be competition between miners and pool owners.
Whoever managed to mine next block is the winner and the miner get everything.

If the amount of "free Bitcoin" is ridiculous high (e.g. 6x higher than block mining reward), it's possible 51% attack, block withholding attack, re-org attack will happen which make game theory more complex

That's because miner don't need to run full node to mine Bitcoin, only pool or miners who use P2Pool who need to run full nodes.

Besides, while most user won't run full nodes, most Bitcoiner agree that running full nodes should be cheap.


As long as the consensus allows it, people will try to do it. Even without OP_RETURN, there are many attempt to store files on Bitcoin's blockchain.
See http://www.righto.com/2014/02/ascii-bernanke-wikileaks-photographs.html

That makes sense, but GMail also scan email content before determine whether it's spam or not. AFAIK detecting email impersonation should be easy for google.

You might want to report the mail as spam/spam if you haven't, so GMail filtering will be better

How about https://keys.casa? Their product is quite expensive IMO, but
1. most of their code is open source
2. they promise you'll get customer support
3. the CTO is Jameson Lopp

I never use their product, so i encourage you to DYOR

While it works, it certainly not best solution and theymos most likely won't stop it. There are other ways such as signature only enabled if you received x merit within last y days.

Besides, newbie account still can be used to bump threads (on few boards), shill certain altcoin/ICO and report bounty hunting activity.


Avatar? Shorter interval between posting? No PM limitation?

Since encrypted private key (BIP 38 which usually used by paper wallet) is possible, i wonder if encrypted mnemonic is technically possible?

If it's possible, it could reduce attack vector where attacker could stole your Bitcoin immediately after stole paper or file which contain your mnemonic phrase.
If it's possible and there's draft or implementation of it, please let me know

P.S. i'm not talking about extended mnemonic phrase.

OP made this thread Getting rid of pools: Proof of Collaborative Work.

@aliashraf you might want to mention relevant thread/posts that you've made


I don't see how technology could solve this problem, each solutions have different weakness which can exploited.

Besides, not all people see equitably/fairness as best way to solve problem.


I think Pmalek's point is current wallet is still complicated for older people, even though younger people finds it very easy to use.
I can't think any real solution besides having someone to teach them how to use it few times before getting used and feel the convenience.

Without knowing the wallet which used to create the transaction, we only can make educated guess.

IMO it's not privacy feature because :
1. If the output have "neat" number (such as 0.01BTC), while the change have "random" number (such as 0.039653241BTC), then it's easy to guess to guess which one is output and which one is change.
2. Few wallet applies multiple change address as method to improve user's privacy

Interesting project, do you plan to add battery pack since you use word "Physical Wallet" ?

pywallet hasn't been updated in a year, so you might want to try other library such as https://github.com/ofek/bit.
It's easy to use (even though i never try cold storage feature) and claim to be fastest Bitcoin library.

BTCD client written with Go (golang) and less popular compared with other client such as Bitcoin Core, so i doubt there's python library specifically made for BTCD client.

However, it uses JSON-RPC and according to it's documentation, it's fully compatible with the original bitcoind/bitcoin-qt (this statement might be partially wrong, since command on Bitcoin Core changed few times)
In theory, you can use Python library intended for Bitcoin Core JSON-RPC such as https://github.com/jgarzik/python-bitcoinrpc