You don't just collect a company's money and nonchalantly praise another company that is a competitor. Who does that? Allow me to surprise you: Bisq is one and the only truly decentralized exchange which we often recommend to our customers without any greed feelings, since our primary goal is not to make money but to defend some cypherpunk ideas instead. |
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I think we have a precedent here where the campaign manager is openly policing (to a small degree but still) the content of the posts by telling participants what they can't post, or what they must include (i.e. you can't say you like product X without mentioning product Y). This isn't new. And it's not a Meta "problem", it fits better in Reputation or Service Discussion. I've seen a campaign manager complain about posts in spam megathreads. My take: just don't pay those posts, but you shouldn't tell someone where he can or can't post. I've seen demands not to discuss the Russia/Ukraine-situation, because the service wants to remain neutral. Bitcointalk allows this, as part of it's mission to be as free as possible. Just like Bitcointalk allows users to choose which campaigns to ignore. I wouldn't want to be in a campaign where the campaign manager tells me what I can or can't post. I'm totally fine not getting paid for posts that don't qualify, but I am not going to adjust my posting based on the signature I wear. TL;DR: I don't see a problem here. It's a free market. If you don't like it, leave the campaign. If the campaign manager doesn't like it, don't pay for the posts or remove the user from the campaign. It's not a big deal. when you say "I recommend" and list several similar wallets, then I believe that mentioning a project that spends resources on the campaign is an issue of ethics. Can you link to the post in question? I think Hatchy has a point: this sounds like someone who has no idea what he's advertising. I saw another one recently: You're advertising a "private Bitcoin wallet" in your signature, but your posts make it sounds like you have no idea what that means. |
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"Tokens" belong on the altcoin boards, and "FreeBTC" sounds like a website. That doesn't have anything to do with Bitcoin Technical Support, but it could be a lesson. As they say: "not your keys, not your coins". You should move (bottom-left) this topic to a more fitting board. Maybe Service Discussion can work.
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I did that before.
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I'm going to stake a new one soon... That's the thing: a staked address is meant to prove you're the long-term account owner. Your account is over 10 years old, your staked address was only a few years old. Staking a new one is exactly what an account buyer/hacker would do, it means you can no longer prove you're the long-term owner. (i.e. I'm going to adopt the newer segwit bitcoin address standard). You're going to be disappointed: there is no "standard" for signing messages from Segwit addresses. Electrum came up with something, but Bitcoin Core can't even do it. |
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It's simply using the phrase All Time High in another context, like a personal best. That's HODLing  |
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Is locking something different? I assume this happened: I will request that theymos ban the "Lauda" account (u=101872) Done. Lauda is banned in the same way as satoshi, such that it isn't possible to even log into the account anymore. It ensures nobody can ever abuse the account, so there's no need to spoil o_e_l_e_o's legacy with red warning tags. |
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This is very suspicious to me Unfortunately, it's nothing new: There is a shitty/scammy ethereum ICO thing right now giving people shares in exchange for testnet btc, this is totally screwing up the usability of testnet and also causing antisocial dickwads to waste all our time begging for testnet coins without disclosing that the only thing they want them for is to make a quick buck. That was 3.5 years ago. It is related to the SatoshiVM airdrop, which uses testnet coins to get SatoshiVM Testnet tokens It never ceases to amaze me how creative they are in creating money-grabbing schemes. I've been wondering what would be the next thing, and after altcoins, ICOs, tokens, Forkcoins, DeFi, NFTs and Ordinals, it seems that this is "the next big thing". Lol. Decentralized Bitcoin ZK Rollup Layer2 that is compatible with the EVM ecosystem and uses native BTC as gas.
SatoshiVM introduces the EVM ecosystem to BTC, granting the Bitcoin ecosystem the capability to issue assets and build applications. All I see is meaningless buzzwords and abbreviations. The website design reminds me of the ICO time: all flashy websites, all more or less the same, all filled with BS about disrupting whatever industry, and all completely forgotten a few years later. This looks the same: a quick money grabbing scheme for the creator, and a lot of gullible people will lose their money over this. Compare lightning.network: an informative website, no flashy design, no animations, no buzzwords. It makes me wonder why the money grabbing scams have so much better PR than real projects. Bitcoin Core devs need to take action and reset the testnet network again. It's been a while: The current testnet is on its third iteration, somewhat unimaginatively titled testnet3.
It was put that way by this commit:
Testnet, Mark III
gavinandresen authored 2012-04-12
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Essentially, the devs want testnet coins to be worthless for two reasons:
to make them easy to mine
because it's nice to have a place to demonstrate attacks against bitcoin without actually disrupting the network. You can show that an attack is valid without costing people real money. I wasn't around when the first 2 Testnets ended, but considering it's been almost 12 years, this has been the longest running Testnet ever. And it's not easy to mine without specialized hardware. |
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the BTC stack in orange always keeps going up, making it a personal ATH for him every time. That's not what an All Time High means. It's DCA (Dollar Cost Averaging): buying a fixed amount into an investment on regular moments. |
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Use coin control. Spend an output that is very close in value to what you are sending. Yeah what I meant is, due price fluctuations and tx fees, some amount may be left there. Let's say you have 200 bucks left spend on your Android, and you want to buy something that costs 200, you basically have to add in an extra 100 because the price may dump by the time you arrive to the meeting to exchange the item or service for your BTC, plus fees. You always have to add this extra margin. Now you're taking it into an extreme case. What are the odds you have the exact amount you need to pay in your mobile wallet? And what are the odds of Bitcoin dropping 33% during the time it takes you to make the trade? I'd worry much more about showing my actual face than exposing one of my UTXOs to a seller. If you have 200 and the price goes up a bit, and you have like 220, so you pay 200 + fee, perhaps there's like 10 bucks left or so, so you left 10 here and there, end up with a decent amount in different addresses, which if you wanted to consolidate into a single one, would mean that you compromise your privacy since you send a joined transaction with all of these. You can send small change to an instant exchanger, or use it to top-up a hosting or VPN account. Or just keep it long enough for it's value to skyrocket. I want to have a reasonable privacy, and when it comes to authorities, you just want to avoid raising any flags because they hate crypto by default. Here, they don't hate crypto. As long as you pay your taxes, you're good. In my jurisdiction, I find that the biggest inconvenience is the need to keep track of every satoshi acquired and spent so I can report every single transaction when calculating my capital gains for my taxes every year. I don't have to do that. All I do, is pay 2.1744% tax (per year) on all Bitcoin I own. You have no idea how lucky you are, I'd gladly exchange for a capital gains tax with additional paperwork. |
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Isn't it kinda counter productive knowing that you bought a hardwallet with eSim capabilities? The seller won't tell you of course. Or are you saying that fake products could have that kind of technology then sending the hacker data from what you have produced using the fake HW? Yes. I did mention "a fake hardware wallet". Now that I think about it, it doesn't even have to be a working hardware wallet. Imagine a targeted attack: a burglar replaces your hardware wallet by a fake one. It looks the same, so you won't notice anything suspicious. Weeks later, when you want to use your hardware wallet, you enter your PIN. It gets uploaded to the burglar's server instantly. The device tells you your PIN is incorrect, and you try again. It gets uploaded again. By the time you realize something's wrong, the burglar has stolen all your funds. |
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At the very least, you've successfully performed an experiment that even with the default of 14days mempoolexpiry setting,
some nodes will still keep a would've dropped transaction in their mempool that will eventually be relayed to miners in the right network conditions. It could have been the Trezor server. I don't know what their default is, but I assume they keep broadcasting all transactions until they get confirmed (or replaced). I assume exchanges do the same, just like my Bitcoin Core keeps broadcasting transactions forever. |
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I was just wondering why theymos has been somewhat reluctant to add more merit sources. I couldn't actually get resounding answer, but I believe that theymos doesn't want merit to lose it value. He does so by practically keeping it as scarce as possible The total Merit circulation is much higher than it was in the first year after it's introduction, while the number of posts went down a lot. Merit isn't scarce, good posts are. |
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BTC SIGNED MSG #1-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
I am Financisto (forum member) @ bitcointalk.org
Henceforth I'll not be using this Bitcoin address anymore: 1J5FCnt9nBiUrTVmu7WR3GrH6Zd6egyDic
Henceforth I'll not be using this Bitcoin address anymore: 1QCDzCvQrkMv1z9QqGyNTp6Z2GHgNtQ4zE
Henceforth I'll not be using this PGP key anymore: FD691DC0675E311B821E149B347C00B148CA769D
Today is Sunday, February 11th, 2024 (UTC).
The sole purpose of this signed message is:
1) to revoke my Bitcoin addresses @ bitcointalk.org
2) to revoke my PGP key @ bitcointalk.org
3) to prove I'm the owner of those Bitcoin addresses.
This signed message is not subject for reuse in no other forum, community or place.
-----BEGIN SIGNATURE-----
1J5FCnt9nBiUrTVmu7WR3GrH6Zd6egyDic
HBz/sQ47+nxNU1b6eA/SQlNdK18PhzNzkT8e6t8IJMVTk4Cvf+8laYho1/IyBFEO9grn5Sd4gviPyKawHC05vCU=
-----END BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
I am Financisto (forum member) @ bitcointalk.org
Henceforth I'll not be using this Bitcoin address anymore: 1J5FCnt9nBiUrTVmu7WR3GrH6Zd6egyDic
Henceforth I'll not be using this Bitcoin address anymore: 1QCDzCvQrkMv1z9QqGyNTp6Z2GHgNtQ4zE
Henceforth I'll not be using this PGP key anymore: FD691DC0675E311B821E149B347C00B148CA769D
Today is Sunday, February 11th, 2024 (UTC).
The sole purpose of this signed message is:
1) to revoke my Bitcoin addresses @ bitcointalk.org
2) to revoke my PGP key @ bitcointalk.org
3) to prove I'm the owner of those Bitcoin addresses.
This signed message is not subject for reuse in no other forum, community or place.
-----BEGIN SIGNATURE-----
1QCDzCvQrkMv1z9QqGyNTp6Z2GHgNtQ4zE
Gzpj33I8b4BwqhNIsJFyAZkp5qbspqbYR2QqsIZX8UGtsQdGVnfiz/A7e4rFXT6/+xAl+qk7O1UtMAEm7TwnSfA=
-----END BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
I've verified both signed messages. I didn't check where you've posted those addresses before. Does this mean you have no valid staked address left? |
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Just wondering, how will VPN that you can turn off with one click, will exclude you from gambling? It won't. If you want protect your children, updating your hosts file helps. I'm not concerned about gambling, but I use it to block social media and other ads. |
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What I do know is that payment processors that take coins other than bitcoin pretty much never accept it. CoinPayments accepts Monero. |
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5 weeks. 5 years is 260 weeks. You're right, my math was shameful  I don't know what happened. I received a 30 day reminder, so I've just extended isfoxpupstillansfwvixen.today for another year. Apparently, the DNS entry was still pointing towards the old server IP, which was changed months ago. I thought I updated it, but I guess I didn't click "save". It works again. |
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Is this another case where someone fucked up his reputation gained on the Collectible board? It looks like it. Most of the negatives still follow their tradition of not using Reference links, and the Flag points to BitcoinPenny's sales topic instead of a proper Scam Accusation. It's not that I'm not surprised that many Collectible members confuse feedback and the DT system, moreover, many of them have been on the forum for a long time. Just because someone paid for the auctioned item, does not necessarily mean that he has a rational judgment about other people's actions. The Collectibles board has always had "it's own way" to use feedback and Trust. Self-scrating happens a lot, but also leaving positive feedback without risking anything. That's ironic, since it's the one board that has most real trading going on. Oh well.... |
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I have eSim on my phone but it's from a reliable source, a very big network in my country. Is there any possible way that someone could tamper with it or not? I'm not worried about eSims in your phone, I'm worried about (future) compromised hardware that has an eSim embedded in it. Imagine you enter your seed phrase on what you think is an offline system, but there's a keylogger that has it's own eSim data connection to the attacker's server. It will be very difficult to detect. Even easier if the eSim is inside a fake hardware wallet. The moment you restore your seed phrase, it gets drained. if I send you an address via this forum or email, then your malware isn't going to replace the original source (my PM/email). Why not? A compromised browser could easily replace one address for another. Compromised Tor exit nodes already do that ( sslstrip). |
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how do I know when a bitcoin Core is writing chainstate to disk ?? When using the GUI, it tells you on the screen. Just wait for it to close gracefully. The reason for the warning is that closing Bitcoin Core can take a long time, especially when using HDD. That doesn't mean it's hanging, so don't kill it. On the CLI, just check if it's still running. |
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I'm getting paranoid about buying things now online.
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It's quite concerning, to be honest. It is. Add a €2.50 eSim and any device can suddenly upload your data even if you think it's air-gapped. |
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