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Re: Where to fix your Asic miners.
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ABCbits
on 05/05/2025, 09:35:14 UTC

If you are in Europe you can fix them at Prague, At
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Have you actually tested them or do you work with them or what? the website seems fishy to me, they have hosting in Czech Republic for 3.4 Koruna, that's about 4 cents per kWh, last I checked the average power rate there is above 15-20 cents ,something is not adding up about a mining repair center in Europe where people hardly mine Bitcoin.

Don't get me wrong, not saying they are scammers, I am just thinking out loud.

For repairs in Europe
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As reminder, oneminers dot com is a probable scam mining company. This user also claimed another service he mentioned on quoted post already rebranded into oneminers. This user keep performing SEO spam (by sharing link and keyword stuffing), where moderator take no action about it. Proof of his SEO spam can be seen on https://ninjastic.space/search?author=serchan&content=oneminers%7Casicprofit%7C%22one%20miners%22%7C%22one%20miner%22%7C%22asic%20profit%22%7Coneminers.com%7Casicprofit.com%7Cminerboxes%7Cminerboxes.com%7C%22miner%20boxes%22.
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Re: Antminer S21 Pro
by
ABCbits
on 05/05/2025, 09:30:59 UTC

I suggest to get you also Noise cancelling box. Miner box here:
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As reminder, oneminers dot com is a probable scam mining company. minerboxes dot com also appear to be scam since it list at 3 scam/probable scam website as it's authorized seller.

I’m considering adding an S21 Pro to my home mining setup, but I’m hesitant due to the high electricity costs here in Ireland. I’m worried the earnings might just cover the electricity bill. My other option is to go for an S21e XP Hydro and host it instead. Any suggestions?
Must you buy and run a Bitcoin miner?
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Or rather, why he even consider mining in first place. Ireland and some parts of Europe have expensive electricity rate (usually $0.2/kWh or higher).
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Re: Block 895104 with 3.125 BTC found by miner!
by
ABCbits
on 05/05/2025, 09:03:21 UTC

Block 895104 was mined by Foundry USA which is not a solo miner but a mining pool.

In addition,
1. https://mempool.space/block/00000000000000000001fe642330aba6ed8ae93b008cf53a1dfdba0fe0349555 report it has 100% health. So it means the mining pool doesn't include their own TX or non-standard TX.
2. Google Search and chatbot shows number "895104" doesn't have any significant meaning.
3. It contain TX with usual amount of median fee rate.
4. The block is almost fully filled. It has 3.91 MWU weight, while the maximum weight limit is 4 MU.

OP added to my ignore list and i would recommend other reader to do same thing.
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Re: Seed phrase recovery?
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ABCbits
on 05/05/2025, 08:54:40 UTC

So I definitely have the valid words, I just can't remember which ones they were.

If it's BIP39 seed phrase, have you checked those 30-50 words with BIP39 english word list on https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039/english.txt?

With 30, that gives him 30!/(30-12)! =41,430,393,164,160,000 total permutations. If I followed your example correctly. Big difference depending on the exact number of words in his case, but still quite unlikely that it will be found this way.

The difference is big because it's like 60% of the original dataset.

I don't really know if it's unlikely, because doing time-related calculations is not my specialty. But, in my opinion it's worth knowing how many total arrangements of the words exist. Obviously the great majority of them isn't a valid seed phrase.
Now I'd be more interested to know if there is an open source tool for brute forcing the permutations? Something similar to the vanity address generator of the old days.

There are plenty of such tool, such as BTCRecover by 3rdIteration and FinderOuter by Coding Enthusiast. But none of them would help OP, due to high amount of permutation and limitation of today's hardware (even if we talk about multi GPU).
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Re: Which Browser do you use?
by
ABCbits
on 05/05/2025, 08:44:15 UTC

Some good ones I 've heard of but haven't used:
  • Brave
  • DuckDuckGo browser
  • Librewolf

1. Brave have fair amount of controversy[1]. But IMO it's still better choice than using Google Chrome and i may recommend it to non-technical people who don't want to perform manual configuration.
2. I never use DuckDuckGo browser. It seems based on Apple's Webkit/Safari, but it's feature is somewhat limited with little/no extension availability[2].
3. LIbreWolf should be good choice for you, with decent default setting. The only downside it's not popular enough.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/1j1pq7b/list_of_brave_browser_controversies/
[2] https://www.privacyjournal.net/duckduckgo-review/
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Re: Doubt about the forum not acting on ban evaders.
by
ABCbits
on 04/05/2025, 10:19:17 UTC

Do you think it is because of this impracticality or for some other reason?

I also have similar question, since this occurrence also happen to all kinds of spammer (SEO spam, AI spam, advertising spam and more). Based on my experience, it could go as fast as getting nuked within minutes and no action even after i reported more than half of all spam post they created.

Your case, of course, is a violation that has been proven repeatedly, but the fact that the account already has a negative tag tells us that it will exist on the forum as long as its signature exists. All other managers will ignore this account, which will make it unnecessary.

But FWIW, they still have benefit of high ranked account to perform spam with much less limitation compared with new account. IMO moderator should consider to take action against high ranked account, due to that reason.
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Re: oneminers dot com is a probable scam mining company
by
ABCbits
on 04/05/2025, 10:09:19 UTC
⭐ Merited by JayJuanGee (1)

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Look at website at timeline of company evolution. All check well. They have evolved form Czech Company AAA computers at 2017. As you can see that Oneminers oneminers dot com slash pages slash about-us[/url] went global 2 years ago and before were local Europe brand.
Oneminers have multiple data centers around the globe in USA, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Finland, Norway, Dubai. I will add here up to date building photo of office that you say that is not there according to google maps. They are hosting crypto conference there this summer so there will be many photos surely available also online .

Oneminers started 2017 form Local IT hardware company
https://i.postimg.cc/nrzP4GJT/Oneminers-Timeline-evolution-of-cryptomining-from-2017.jpg
Oneminers continued
https://i.postimg.cc/v8qjQkrK/Oneminers-Timeline-evolution-of-Bitocin-mining-from-2022.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/CLR2d7Jx/Oneminers-Timeline-evolution-of-cryptomining-from-2023.jpg[
https://i.postimg.cc/xTB4mmFy/Oneminers-Timeline-evolution-of-Bitcoin-mining-2024.jpg
All fits to the story and if you have doubts or need help with Bitcoin mining, investment, blockchain all questions they can answer you at their support at oneminers dot com slash pages slash contact. 
And compare it with Bitmain https://www.bitmain.com/about, they have similar way and business and even Bitmain added proper timeline just recently and few years ago it was even impossible to contact them.

Good luck Oneminers good luck Bitmain, good luck Bitcoin.

1. As i stated on this thread, their timeline doesn't match WHOIS data.
2. Their timeline claim it rebranded from pcpraha to oneminers. But it doesn't make sense when pcpraha dot cz is still online.
3. As stated by some of us earlier, some photo and address stated on oneminers turned out to be fake, edited or stock image.
4. You never respond to all red flags we mentioned and evade it by falsely claiming it as "pushy marketing".
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Re: any useful android mining apps?
by
ABCbits
on 04/05/2025, 08:44:39 UTC

hi anyone do android mining? many of my friends asking me, which is legit and works well. please let me know. i have couple phones that just not using it and i would use them on mining.
Well, if you've couple of phones than use those phones wisely rather than wasting the processing power of those phones and your time for mining on Android. You'll end up losing your time only and in return you'll get almost nothing for months or years of effort.

thank i got it then what is wisely i can do with them?

Selling is most common option. But depending on where you live, you may get small amount of money if you turn in your electronic and other unused stuff into recycling center.
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Re: is there tor onion for bitcointalk?
by
ABCbits
on 03/05/2025, 10:21:11 UTC

hi i would like to know, is there any onion link for bitcointalk?

Is it should be or not should be?

is it will be in the future?

FYI, if you access Bitcointalk using Tor Browser, you actually visited .onion address. It's because Bitcointalk use CloudFlare, where it offer Onion Service feature[1]. You can verify it using network monitor feature on Tor Browser and then inspect alt-svc column.

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-onion-service/
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Re: Has Satoshi returned?
by
ABCbits
on 03/05/2025, 10:09:26 UTC

I'm not sure that for you, OP, it will be a big revelation to say that this world is full of idiots. The most common idiots behave quite brazenly on the Internet, relying on the fact that on the Internet you can remain unpunished. Unfortunately, talking about ethics and morality for such people will be just a waste of time. So let the idiots exist as an integral part of our crazy world. Just ignore them.

And we should also ignore OP. Looking at his post history, IMO he try to promote or perform SEO spam (specifically keyword stuffing) some X (twitter) account and certain altcoin.
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Re: What about solo mining with a group of people?
by
ABCbits
on 03/05/2025, 08:45:02 UTC

Limited support towards some ASIC also the reason it's dead. Meanwhile P2Pool on Monero is alive and well with about 5% global hashrate.
That was probably a tiny little reason, i think it was compatible with most gears out there, what really killed it was PPS payment method, it nearly killed all non-pps pools, p2pool "died" a lot faster because on top of it not being PPS, it was not for the average joe.

Good point. P2Pool for Bitcoin still use PPS, while P2Pool for Monero these days use PPLNS.

However, p2ool lagecy still lives if you dig enough, if you look at this block https://mempool.space/block/00000000000000000001822dc3db70b75d281687f8baa10d1818d0703f49fec0

There is a clear evidence that this is p2ool based block, look at the number of output addresses, and the coinbase tag, it refers to a p2ool node based in Russia.

I inspected it and it seems to be block mined with P2Pool software. I can't access website mentioned on it's coinbase tag, but i wonder whether they only use abandoned P2Pool software or did some modification.
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Re: Andreas S Wallet Restore
by
ABCbits
on 02/05/2025, 10:07:17 UTC

I never use wallet by schildbach ( Andreas Schildbach), but have you tried reading recovery guide on https://github.com/bitcoin-wallet/bitcoin-wallet/blob/main/wallet/README.recover.md? If your text based file is human readable or doesnt contain weird character, it's probably in Base58 key format.
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Re: What if the Internet shuts down? !!
by
ABCbits
on 02/05/2025, 09:59:54 UTC

Not really . A world wide blackout of,all electronics would mean huge disasters.

It may even mean the chain could be erased.

Someone could just store whole blockchain on data on long lasting storage such as M-Disc or LTO. You also can store those storage on secure location with proper protection (including EMP protection). But it feels like we're talking about post-apocalypse scenario.

So the real question is does a paper printout exist?

Probably no, unless you count people who print genesis block and use it as decoration.

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so did anyone print the block chain?
You're kidding right? You know how many millions upon millions of pages it would take? Even if printed out - have fun re-entering the data back into digital form....

Not if you use QR code or other machine-readable format Tongue.
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Re: What about solo mining with a group of people?
by
ABCbits
on 02/05/2025, 09:51:35 UTC
⭐ Merited by mikeywith (4)

Using p2pool protocol, you can tell for sure the coordinator can't steal your coins if a block is found, but setting that up is costly and requires some IT skills, which is one of the main reasons why p2pool was deemed dead.

Limited support towards some ASIC also the reason it's dead. Meanwhile P2Pool on Monero is alive and well with about 5% global hashrate.
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Re: [BETA] [NEW] beta.ninjastic.space (forum search, archive and data visualization)
by
ABCbits
on 02/05/2025, 09:43:16 UTC

@TryNinja i think something is broke. https://beta.ninjastic.space/ currently shows "500 Internal Error" and https://ninjastic.space attempt to load chart before it shows blank page instead. Using browser network monitor, all connection to api.ninjastic.space/posts/count?... have status code 500.

For reference, i tried accessing both website using Firefox while using VPN.
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Re: Commentary about deleted posts
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ABCbits
on 02/05/2025, 09:38:25 UTC

I can see benefit of your suggestion. But it'd be additional burden for moderator, especially if SFM doesn't provide feature for moderator to easily choose one or more template messages as reason behind deletion.
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Re: Removing OP_return limits is a huge mistake
by
ABCbits
on 02/05/2025, 09:27:43 UTC
⭐ Merited by pooya87 (2)

Looks like Bitcoin Knots may be a good way to protest against this. It has Bitcoin Core functionalities and you are actively voting against this PR by running a node.

Yeah, it's best option if you don't want to rely ordinals and similar stuff. Although some people may feel hesitant to use it since AFAIK it only maintained by few people.

It's clear to me now that the whole argument for this PR is, "the blocks are empty so we must come up with ideas to fill the blocks".
No. In reality it's the opposite. As far as I interpret the idea, the purpose is "if you want to fill the blocks with data, then please don't clutter our UTXO set and don't misuse Taproot for that purpose".

The PR probably tries to make OP_RETURN the most attractive way to store data on the chain. From the point of view of full nodes OP_RETURN is the cheapest way, i.e. the one with lowest resource consumption, because everything behind an OP_RETURN opcode can be pruned and is ignored.

If it's goal of that PR, then it failed miserably. IIRC arbitrary data on Taproot witness data only have 1/4 weight size compared with arbitrary data on OP_RETURN. It have implication spammer could pay lower fees by misusing Taproot and store bigger arbitrary data in a TX.

The problems are mechanisms which use fake public keys to store data. You can't prevent these methods without drastically changing the Bitcoin transaction format. These transactions look the same as any regular transaction, but they can contain dozens of fake public keys, i.e. hundreds of bytes of JPEGs and other shit. These methods are highly undesirable in various ways.

And looking at Ordinals hype, paying additional 564 satoshi for each fake public key/address isn't problem for spammer.

However, as I already wrote, the removal of -datacarriersize is imo too invasive and thus I'm still NACK. I would probably support it if only the default standardness setting was removed.

I get your point, although i expect most people who run node never change value of -datacarriersize.
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Re: Godex locked my coins
by
ABCbits
on 02/05/2025, 09:11:43 UTC

Are you going to tag Godex_io, and create a Flag against them? A nice warning banner above their topic would look good!
No Registration ' No KYC ' No Limits
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Godex does not require any personal data, no accounts or registrations.
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Godex stands for the original idea of incognito in the cryptocurrency world.
Judging by your post and their own website, those are lies.



I'm not if you can use a type 3 Flag, I've posted this question in Trust flags.

And until today, some of their page still showing fake information.

What is Godex?

Godex.io is online cryptocurrency exchange service, which will provide you with incognito, safe and fast cryptocurrency swaps. You can choose from more than 300 coins, and we are constantly expanding this list. Godex does not require any personal data, no accounts or registrations. There is no exchange limits. Only minimum amount of payment for your transaction to be included in the network. Fully automatic exchange system with no place for human factor error. 24/7 support. Our managers are always ready to help you and answer your questions. Best affiliate program with 0.005 BTC welcome bonus and up to 0.6% revenue share.



And while i may missed it, i unable to find where their company is registered.




Flag supported, since some proof (2 screenshot) is provided.
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Re: Godex locked my coins
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ABCbits
on 01/05/2025, 10:35:52 UTC

I decided to use Godex.io, in order to do my job, since it was supposed to be KYC-free.

As a result, my coins are locked there and they require me to send them:
a) a picture of me holding my ID card.
b) a picture of me holding a piece of paper that has the phrase "Godex" written upon it and the current date.

The "fun" part is that they don't refund me my money without giving them my personal information.

I truly appreciate it. I will create a flag soon. And yes, I miss eXch too...

I've scrolled this thread, but i didn't find screenshot of their demand and refusal. So IMO it would be great if you include screenshot and other relevant proof you're willing to share as part of the flag, since it would make more people support your flag and avoid this exchange.
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Re: Removing OP_return limits is a huge mistake
by
ABCbits
on 01/05/2025, 10:01:21 UTC

In fact things like this are the reasons why I've argued for the benefits of having a strong alternative implementation of the Bitcoin protocol to be used instead of core...

There are fair amount of alternative Bitcoin full node software, but for better or worse Bitcoin Core is still very popular. I've tried few alternative in past, but still prefer Bitcoin Core.

Bitcoin should stay lean. If more data is needed, Layer 2's can batch it and use OP_RETURN more efficiently.

Bitcoin L2 isn't that popular though, with varied degree of trust/centralization[1] and even falsely pretending as Bitcoin L2/sidechain[2].

[1] https://www.bitcoinlayers.org/
[2] https://www.lxresearch.co/starting-to-define-layers-a-year-later/