So, do you confirm that it was actually you talking to OP ?



And who is it? What forum account is associated with this telegram ID ?

Actually i am not sure whether there should be "connecting.." or "synchronizing.." while doing the initial sync.
But since you are successfully connected to the backend, i guess that's fine.
 
Instead of sending all of your addresses to a server (as electrum is doing), Wasabi uses compact block filters.
The initialization process determines which blocks you need to download (all blocks where an address from you is used).
These blocks are then being downloaded from different nodes (Switching the node after downloading 1 block from them via TOR).

Overall, the initial synchronization shouldn't take longer than 20-30 minutes.


Can you verify whether the amount of filters (124763) actually decreases ?

And still my point holds.. you can not impersonate someone via PM on this forum.

Just because some people get tricked by that, doesn't mean that you can impersonate one like that.
People get tricked through more stupid ways. Sending an email claiming to be X has already tricked people.

If you use your common sense, you won't get tricked that way. So.. using an escrow on this forum communicated via PM is safe.




Did you ever consider that someone might actually trust an escrow and/or already have worked with a specific escrow?
Your statements are contradictory.




If you fall for an impersonated escrow (e.g. via telegram), its your fault.

The point is, you can't know whether he actually wanted to scam you.
If you would have made sure that the person indeed is elmanchez and was trying to scam you (e.g. by impersonating an escrow via telegram), he would have been given a neg tag to avoid any further scams.

But you didn't. Instead, you created this thread with zero purpose. There is no proof that elmanchez is involved in this.

I don't get your point.
If i am communicating with X via PM, there is no way to spoof these PM's. What are you trying to say?




So why don't you then include how you know that they are indeed friends?




I don't care what others are doing.

If you receive a PM here giving you a telegram id, there is a connection between the forum account and telegram.
If you however communicate with a random stranger on telegram, he then gives you a different telegram id, you obviously can't know who this is.

Use your common sense.




So.. which questions are you referring to?
Whether or not you proposed a different escrow? (You still didn't answer that question btw).




Oh no, please. I am scared. Do not expose by bitcointalk mafia circle.
I see it coming.. the next time a newbie is messaging you on telegram trying to scam you mentioning my name, i will be the accused one. I got it.

Alternatively, you can switch to an SPV client which does not leak your data.
I'd recommend Wasabi. It is open source, privacy- and security orientated and is available for windows, linux and mac.

If you want to set up your own personal electrum server, the github link posted by igor72 should give you the information you need.

He offered to use an reputable escrow.
BTW, when did we go from "bro" to "friend"



The escrow can not be impersonated if you make your deal via PM on this forum.
If you however, would theoretically be stupid enough to do everything via telegram, that's a different story. But i don't expect anyone to be that stupid.

He offered to use a reputable member as an escrow. You declined. Did you propose another escrow? What was their reply?


The fact is that a reputable member has been proposed as an escrow.
Whether he once said that the user is a "nice guy" is irrelevant.

Your definition of "friend" is a bit loose.


However, i am not denying that someone was trying to scam you.
Very well imaginable that it indeed was elmanchez. Check this thread out.

But i am confident that if you were to accept DireWolfM14 as an escrow, you wouldn't get scammed.

If a trusted escrow is used, it doesn't matter or not whether he said that person X "is a nice guy". This means nothing.




So either 1) a newbie is trying to scam you, 2) elmanchez is trying to scam you or 3) you use an escrow and won't get sacmmed.




If you don't trust escrows here, you shouldn't be making any deals on this forum.




To explain how dumb it is that we went from "lets use my bro escrow who once said i am a nice guy" to "doing a favor to the community exposing a scamming scheme including a highly reputable member".
elmanchez and/or a newbie might have tried to scam you. But you shouldn't assume that DireWolfM14 is involved into this just because he was proposed as an escrow.

Whether they are good friends or "




Who impersonated who?
Is elmanchez the impersonated member you are talking about?

When using an escrow, it would have been very clear whether it is the real elmanchez or not ?




This still doesn't mean that he would give up his reputation by scamming 1k$.




If you get scammed when using an escrow, you either get your money back through the escrow or all 3 get a neg tag (newbie, elmanchez and the escrow).




It is.
But i still don't think DireWolfM14 would have participated in any scam.
It is a red flag from a newbie and 2 telegram accounts.

Offering an escrow is actually a good sign.
Do you have any reason to believev that DireWolfM14 is his "bro" and would not act as he is supposed to as an escrow ?


As far as i see, someone wanted to exchange with you. They offered an escrow. And you shouted "SCAM" immediately.
DireWolfM14 is reputable. I don't think he would throw away his reputation and account for 1k.

And instead of proposing a different escrow, you stop the exchange? Is that how you do business ?

Seems like i am going to stop recommending electrum then.
With wasabi utilizing compact block filters (BIP 158), electrum no longer is the #1 wallet in my eyes.

I thought electrums privacy is only "kind of" bad with "just" using BIP37.
But this is a whole new level of privacy doesn't exist.

I would guess that the problem is related to your full node



Can you verify that your blocks are indeed stored in this directory?



Can you get core up and running without any problems?

By utilizing bloom filtering (BIP 37).

You can basically mask your addresses. The server then gathers all addresses which fit to that masks and sends you everything regarding them back.
On the client side you simply discard any data you are not interested in.

The server then basically has two options for every possible address:
1) Client is not interested in this address (not related to the wallet) or
2) Client might be interested in this address (might or might not belong to the wallet).

The factor which determines how much you protect your privacy is the false positive rate (transactions which match the filter but are not part of your wallet).

You'd be able to achieve the same by adding lots of unrelated addresses to your watch-only wallet.

This approach is by far not perfect and has its downsides. A more advanced approach would be client side block filtering (BIP 157).

1) IP addresses have to be publicly known to communicate with each other. That's how the internet works.

2) The electrum server does not know which addresses belong to your wallet, neither does it know your balance.
Electrum is using bloom filter. Long story short, this means that addresses are being masked when sent to the server. The server only knows a superset of the addresses you are interested in.

2) Electrums privacy is bad. If you care about your privacy (even just a little bit), use Wasabi. They use compact block filters. The server will not know which address belongs to your wallet.




You can not steal something or "hack" into something easily just because you know an ip address.
Even if.. there are roughly 4.000.000.000 IPv4 addresses. This number is low enough to simply try out every single ip address.

He is using other accounts to participate in bounties while his other account is banned.

That's pretty clear. It is ban evasion. These accounts should be banned soon.

If the address, you sent the funds to, is the address armory gave you, your coins are safe.

Since armoy can not connect to core, can you verify that core is up running and fully synced? Core needs to be fully synced for armory to reflect all transactions and balances properly.

Der Betrag an sich spielt keine Rolle. Das hängt eher davon ab wieviele UTXO's verwendet werden.
Aber da ich davon ausgehe, dass du jetzt nicht gerade 10 Transaktionen erhalten hast, die insgesamt 4€ ergeben.. trifft dann wohl doch das künstliche erhöhen der Gebühren durch btc.com vor. Damit "werben" die ja quasi (BTC gebühren zu hoch, BCH beste).




Gut so

Da das Geld nicht auf Konten von Wirecard liegt, hätte das eh keine Rolle gespielt.
Die Vorgaben besagen, dass das Geld auf Konten liegen muss, worauf Wirecard keinen Zugriff hat.

Bin ja mal gespannt wie lange es dauert bis ein neuer Issuer gefunden ist und die bestehenden Karten wieder genutzt werden können.

I am not sure what you mean. But your hardware keyboard won't protect your System from getting compromised.

When powering devices via USB (e.g. charging your smartphone), you can use a USB cable without the data pins to be safe against malicious USB connectors which could, under given circumstances, compromise your mobile.
But with a keyboard attached to your PC, you inevitably need data pins.

So i am not sure what you heard, but i think that's not true.

Erstens kann es daran liegen, dass du viele einzelne Zahlungen empfangen hast und sich damit viele UTXO's angestaut haben.
Das sorgt z.B. dafür, dass du eine Transaktion recht günstig versenden kannst (weil z.B. 2 UTXO's dafür ausreichen), wenn du aber alles versenden möchtest werden viele weitere UTXO's verwenden, die die Gebühr erhöhen.

Zweitens, solltest du Abstand zu btc.com halten. btc.com hat nichts mit Bitcoin zu tun. Die haben Bcash Btrash als Bitcoin verkauft und sich damit ordentlich Ärger eingebracht.
Würde mich nicht wundern, wenn sie die Gebühren für BTC mit absicht hoch halten, um BCH besser anpreisen zu können.

Am besten hörst du sowieso auf jegliche Web Wallets zu nutzen. Zu viele Nachteile.
Aber zumindest bloß weg von btc.com.