--snip-- Thanks I have finally convinced my friend to try btcrecover. She is a bit nervous and not very technical (neither am I). I'm on windows and downloaded and extracted the files, but after that I'm not sure what to do. Any suggestions anyone? I looked here but felt a bit out of my depth when it mentioned "Install Python". I'm not great technically but better than my friend so want to help them as its worth a bit now. https://btcrecover.readthedocs.io/en/latest/INSTALL/On the install document, they refer to this video: https://youtu.be/8q65eqpf4gEI've quickly skipped trough it, and it seems to show you all the steps you have to take (including installing python). And the guy making this video seems to have used windows aswell  You might feel overwhelmed, but to be honest, the task of installing a tool like this probably isn't as big as you might feel it is... Good luck! |
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I don't think i've actually brainstormed about this question before...
In theory, the chain with the most work would win... But, in your hypothetical case, we're brainstorming about the network being split in 2 (allmost) equal parts for an extended period of time and the consequences thereof...
We do have to take into account that a lot of transactions that ended up in blocks in the shortest chain are, in fact, valid... If they were rebroadcasted after the longest chain (the one with the most work) won, they would also find a spot in a block in the winning chain aswell (since they were spending pre-split unspent outputs, and they were 100% valid since they found a spot in the losing chain aswell)... This is, offcourse, not true for coinbase transactions in the losing chain, for transactions spending the same pre-split unspent outputs in both chains, and transactions building on these 2 "cases".
Offcourse, a complete and utter split of the complete network for an extended period of time seems unlikely to me, the network is connected over land, under the sea, trough sattelites... I think it's unlikely (but not impossible) to see a complete split for more than a couple of hours... Even if all underwater cables between the american continent and the rest of the world were cut on the side, there'd still be underwater cables on the other side of the continent (aswell as sattelites).
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I think it is okay to participate multiple bounties. Signature campaigns on the other hand is different you can only wear one signature at a time. And you can't join the same signature campaign with your alt account. It is cheating and you will be banned for it
Well... A signature campaign is a deal between you (the campaign participant) and the company you're promoting (usually represented by the campaign manager). There are some forum rules on how to behave in a civil way, but there aren't any rules that govern things like whether or not alt accounts are permitted or whether or not you can join 2 campaigns at the same time. This means those rules are basically between the participant and the company... The company proposes a set of rules, and participants usually agree to the rules set by the company in order to be able to work for them. It's perfectly possible (eventough i've never seen this) that a company allows an advertisement for a different company next to their advertisement in your signature area (eventough this will mess up the advertisement's design). It's perfectly possible (eventough it's rare) that a company doesn't care if you join with alt accounts... The bottom line is: there are forum rules you cannot break unless you want to get banned, and there are rules set by company's that run signature or bounty campaigns... As long as the signature/bounty rules don't contradict forum rules, everything should be ok |
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Can i get a job???
I am currently dont have any kind of job and also i do not have money for 2 months.
I am freelance content writer for economics writing. And im also a trading expert analyst for more than 3 years.
I write article, share my opinion on crypto coins market value and also show my analysis for the coin chart.
If u anyone need to write the content which related to stocks, forex, crypto market relayed then i am here to help u.
My offer price is low. So u can hire me. Im badly needing a job.
Try me, test me as u want and then if u think im perfect for the post then give me the job.
I'm available on telegram @sakib611
You probably won't like what i'm going to say, but please remember i'm trying to give you some pointers: The post you've made is part of your "business", it's aimed at finding new clients... This being said, English isn't my native language and i'm dyslectic, but even I can spot several grammatical errors in your post... I'm not saying i would be able to do a better job, but i'm not searching for a content writer gig... If i were, i'd make sure there were no errors in my post whatsoever... Imagine searching someone to paint your house, but when you look up their social profile you see pictures from his house showing the ugliest paintjob you've ever seen... would you hire him? Imagine searching for a tattoo artist, and when you meet one applicant you see his arms are filled with the worst looking tattoos you've ever seen (on a technical level, not the artwork), would you let him put tattoos on your body? Imagine looking for somebody to maintain your car, but when you have a meetup with the mechanic, you immediately spot several serious flaws in this dude's car, would you hire him? Here are my remarks, do notice i'm NOT an English speaker, i'm dyslectic and i'm NOT trying to find a job as a technical writer!!!
Can i get a job??? This feels like a strange sentence to me, and i'm pretty sure ending a question with 3 question marks isn't "proper" writing
I why is there a space in from the the start of your paragraph? am currently dont have very strange wording => "I am currently dont have"... Also: don't instead of dont any kind of job and also i do not have money for 2 monthsthe structure of the sentence feels odd to me.
I am a freelance content writer for economics writingI am a freelance content writer specialized in writing economic topics?. And im i'm also a trading expert analyst for more than 3 years.
I write articles?, share my opinion on crypto coins market value and also show my analysis for the coin chart.
If u you anyone you anyone? need to write the the content which related to stocks, forex, crypto market relayed then i I am here to help u you.
My offer price is low. So u you can hire me. Im I'm badly needing a job I'm in need of a job?.
Try me, test me as u you want and then if u you think im i'm perfect for the post "i'm perfect for the post"? then give me the job.
I'm available on telegram @sakib611
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I came across a hardware wallet implementation on an arduino quite a long time ago... I didn't star the github repo i'm afraid. A little google query turned up this one: https://github.com/arduino-bitcoin/simple_hardware_wallet but i'm not all that sure this is the one i saw in the past... The problem with this project in particular is that the private key is stored on the sd card in an unencrypted form, making it a "less optimal" hardware wallet... But nothing is stopping you from improving it |
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There's just one extra remark i'd like to give: it might not always be a wise idear to start exporting/importing private keys (or seeds) between wallets.
I've never used trust wallet, but i'm willing to make an educated guess that the wallet file from trust wallet is encrypted... This means that if your environment is compromised, the hacker probably can't access your master private key anyways.
When you export your private key, said key is stored in your memory in an unencrypted way... And when you have a private key in 2 wallets, the attack vectors are twice as big...
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Quote from the forum rules: --snip--
12. No duplicate posting in multiple boards (except for re-posting topics in the local language boards if they're translated and re-posting marketplace topics in the altcoin boards if altcoins are accepted).
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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5370465.msg58410738#msg58410738is identical to https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5370461.msg58410664#msg58410664Please close the other topic, or remove it alltogether. This being said, i do have an important question: in the past i've seen people posting mixer walk-troughs were accused of being affiliated with the best mixer in their review (or, even worse, they sometimes are accused of being the owner of one of the mixers they list). Do you have any link to any of the mixers you review in your article? |
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Well... actually... OP has 6 merit's... That's sufficient for a Jr. member rank... He just needs more activity. @OP: just keep making good posts, your activity will increase every 14 days and soon enough you'll be a jr. member instead of a newbie https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.0 |
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You can send it to tb1qm4l73zga0rsq0qtqwc6cvrzunptfapswz79jza . I'll return it on Dec 3rd (or as soon as possible if I'm unavailable on Dec 3rd).
sent.. https://www.blockchain.com/btc-testnet/tx/240cb85604c9e46b0280e5fac42340667871c0681d52ad30bd390639d625f34dyou can return the funds to tb1qexfxsd0u0gt5t2g2qx82y3crnhmnm8lm6xvtcj when you're done It's OK if it isn't the full 1 tBTC that gets returned, you'll lose some tsat's in transaction fees during testing and that's perfectly fine. As for the return date, no rush, if i have them back by first quarter 2022 it's fine  |
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can you post a deposit addy? I'll cover the tBTC (you can also send an addy in PM if you don't want to post it publicly)
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I check the address on the site and there's no information yet on the two addresses posted by OP, probably it's not updated in the system yet as transactions are still new. **snip** True... Walletexplorer is the free version, IIRC they try to upsell to a premium tool... So, in reality they're usually one or two days behind with their free tool... IDK if it's because they want to upsell, or because they have limited resources for their free version... But yeah, you do have to live with the fact the free tool usually isn't sync'ed up to the current blockheight. This being said, it's one of the only tools that do this stuff for free (at least, to the best of my knowledge). They're not really built to be used to actually follow transactions (eventough you could use them for this purpose), but they're more of a tool you could use to look up addresses you find while using an other blockchain explorer... You'd find the addresses with blockchair, blockstream, blockchain.info,... and look them up on walletexplorer (click "show wallet addresses" and see if they belong to a wallet that was identified as belonging to a KYC institution) @OP: good luck with your enterprise... It's always sad to see somebody got scammed, and i truely hope you find the culprit... Don't get your hopes up tought, most of the time scammers use ways to break the link between their wallets... |
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You can try to follow the transactions on https://www.walletexplorer.com/It's not a foolproof method, but they are known to be able to correctly identify some of the addresses belonging to some of the wallets of some of the bigger exchanges. IF you are extremely lucky, and your scammer doesn't move "his" funds to a decent mixer or to some anonymous coin AND makes a deposit to an address that's correctly labelled as belonging to a KYC exchange, you *might* be able to get law enforcement (or a lawyer) involved and track your scammer down... A lot of "if's" and "but's" tough.... Results NOT guaranteed (not by a longshot). |
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--snip--
or your node isn't synced yet.
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If i had to guess, i'd say the odds are pretty big that this is the explanation... @OP: is your wallet synced? You're using the QT gui, IIRC, while it's syncing it would show a green bar at the bottom that tells you how much time you're "behind". |
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Debugging these kind of problems is really hard tbh... especially with the amount of information we have...
Personally, i'd start by confirming your 3 nodes are connected properly...If this was OK, i'd find out if my mining node had my broadcasted transactions in it's mempool... If the previous steps were ok, i'd look at the debug.log from my mining node.
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no
EDIT: why do you ask? If somebody is trying to sell you such a tool, i can 100% certainly tell you they are trying to scam you.
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--snip--
Thank you for the feedback.
There are quite a few mixers that use Cloudflare without any problems. We also have an onion link that can be used. However, we will explore the issue to improve user experience.
Did you read the link i posted? When i wrote the post i linked to (about a year and a half ago), i posted this exact template (mind you, it is not edited for this post, i quoted it exactly as i wrote it 1,5 years ago: --snip-- In my experience dealing with new mixer operators, a discussion between the mixing operator and myself usually falls in this pattern: - Mixing owner: Look what a nice mixer i have, look at the nice pictures, look at all the bells and wistles, look at the fancy colors.... I even have moving images to keep you entertained while using my perfect service that is 100% anonymous in every way imaginable!
- Me: hey OP, your mixer uses cloudflare's SSL certificates as a MITM and google analytics
- Mixing owner: everybody is doing it, just have a look at our competitors
- Me: It's not because everybody else is wrong, you have to be too
- Mixing owner: some other lame excuse
- Me: That's a lame excuse (but worded politely)
- Mixing owner: we have a hidden service on tor
- Me: most users wouldn't even know you're using cloudflare, so they won't switch to the tor mirror (if they even know how to do this)
- Mixing owner: I'll put it on my todo list (under the section: "things to do when hell freezes over")
--snip-- We're currently @ step 4 (combined with step 7) Step 1: you made a post detailing all bells and whistles ( here) Step 2: i told you you were using cloudflare, and that's not a good idear ( here) Step 3: you said everybody else was doing it aswell ( here) And here is step 4: It's not because everybody else is making a huuuuuuuuuuuuge mistake, you have to do the same.... I'll add step 8 aswell (since you combined step 3 with step 7) most users wouldn't even know you're using cloudflare, so they won't switch to the tor mirror (if they even know how to do this) (source: above) Please, break the prophecy and read the link i posted instead of giving some excuse Using cloudflare for a mixing service is NEVER ok... Really... I know a lot of your competitors do the same, but in my opinion, those competitors should NOT be called mixers!!!
It DOES NOT matter how many nice features your mixer has, you messed up the foundation you're building on!!! You are sharing EVERY byte exchanged between your site and your client in an UNENCRYPTED form with a US based company... From this point on, it does not matter if you offer a letter of guarantee, if you clear your logs, if you ordered bulletproof hosting... It simply does not... You are sharing all your client's data with a US based company does DOES 100% certain stores it in an unencrypted form in a US based datacenter. |
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Your mixer is using cloudflare... Really... Stop doing that... You're basically using a US based company as a MITM, they can read everything sent between you and your clients... Here's some background info: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5247838.0 |
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Well... that's actually a pretty good question... In theory, yes, you can lose your coins while trying out wallets.... IF you download a fake wallet, and import your wallet file, i guess you can get robbed... Also, if your wallet.dat is currently residing on an offline machine, but you move them to an infected (or improperly secured) online machine to try to import them into a wallet, you can get robbed aswell. However, there are ways to decrease your risk: - you can run litecoin core on an offline machine using your wallet.dat, then export the list of addresses to an usb drive (or, if you're paranoid, generate a qr code of your addresses, and scan them using your mobile device) and then look those addresses up on a block explorer... If they are funded, you can use an offline setup. Here is some info on how to do this using bitcoin core (but litecoin core should be more or less the same) https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/How_to_set_up_a_secure_offline_savings_wallet
- you can verify the signature and hashes of the wallet files, and only download them from official channels
- you can make sure your pc is clean, updated, firewalled,...
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A .dat file... My best would be the reference client... the one you could find at litecoin.org https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoinAs long as you make a couple of copy's of the .dat file on OFFLINE media, it doesn't hurt to try every available wallet untill you find one that works... That being said, for an older .dat file, litecoin core would be a good first step... |
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with the information you've given, this is really hard to tell...
Which altcoin is "My altcoin". Did you create an altcoin by yourself? If so, are you mining your own altcoin? Which codebase did you use?
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