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Re: alternative to coinomi (android)
by
ABCbits
on 29/06/2025, 09:48:56 UTC
Coinomi was never open source. Probably never will.

FWIW, http://web.archive.org/web/20180611023059/https://github.com/Coinomi/coinomi-android shows that Coinomi used to publish source code for Coinomi Android version. But since it's just page snapshot and that repository no longer exist, i can't verify what kind of license they used to apply.
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Re: Help New Bitcoiners Learn the Technical Side of Bitcoin?
by
ABCbits
on 29/06/2025, 09:31:55 UTC
This question have been asked many times on this forum, so i'll just give short answer. I'm just a geek though, not actual expert/professional.

1. Where should I begin if I want to understand how Bitcoin works at a technical level?

The common suggestion is to start by visiting "learn me a bitcoin" website[1] or reading Mastering Bitcoin book[2]. Both of them are available for free and legal.

2. Where do developers and protocol researchers begin??
3. What materials, or hands on projects can I use to understand things like Bitcoin Core, scripting, consensus, mempools, etc.??

Jameson Lopp website have long list of technical information[3]. If you're looking for discussion or progress of certain topic, Bitcoin Optech[4] is also decent source.

[1] https://learnmeabitcoin.com/
[2] https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook
[3] https://www.lopp.net/bitcoin-information/technical-resources.html
[4] https://bitcoinops.org/
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Re: (High handling fee) Seeking independent miners to process transactions
by
ABCbits
on 29/06/2025, 09:25:18 UTC
Without asking detail of your TX (such as whether it's non-standard TX), have you consider contacting major mining pool to include your TX? Are you aware of existence of service such as MARA Slipstream[1] where you can just enter your raw TX?

[1] https://slipstream.mara.com/
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Re: Solo mining single vs multiple miners question.
by
ABCbits
on 29/06/2025, 09:17:25 UTC
I agree with @FP91G. Although i would also check final price (which include tax, shipping, import and other cost) of buying 1 BitAxe 601 or 4 NerdQAxe++ to consider which one to buy.
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Re: how to ask nodes to proof their identity on my 3D world
by
ABCbits
on 29/06/2025, 09:02:52 UTC
AFAIK it's impossible. Current Bitcoin P2P Networking[1] doesn't seem to have any call to request arbitrary data (which could be stored to request proof of identity). And while i don't know what you're trying to achieve, have you checked bitnodes website[2]? They collect and combine data they could get from other Bitcoin nodes.

[1] https://developer.bitcoin.org/reference/p2p_networking.html#version
[2] https://bitnodes.io/
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Re: Terms to learn about bitcoin for newbies :for better understanding
by
ABCbits
on 28/06/2025, 10:18:30 UTC
Aside from what other member said, i also wondered why you specifically mentioned term P2PKH (sometimes called legacy address) but doesn't mention other kind of address (e.g. P2TR).

The following terms have descriptions that are inaccurate or not applicable to Bitcoin:

13. Wallet Backup -- It says to update the backup every time a new address is generated. That is unnecessary and risky for a bitcoin wallet.

To be exact, it's no longer applicable today since wallet these days create HD (hierarchical deterministic) wallet.
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Re: New PyWallet fork with Python 3 support and improved coin recovery
by
ABCbits
on 28/06/2025, 10:11:05 UTC
⭐ Merited by Cricktor (1)
Since I happen to run a software development firm, I basically asked (read: paid) one of my developers to work on PyWallet to improve it. It escalated into a new PyWallet fork with Python 3 support and improved corrupted wallet recovery support.

It's available at https://github.com/Great-Software-Company/pywallet

I didn't try it. But after reading the README, it seems your developer worked on it. Anyway, you may want to specify license of your pywallet. I stated this because it currently have no license[1].

And I also did this simple website for it: https://pywallet.org/

At a glance, it looks good. But on "Other Open Source Bitcoin Wallet Recovery Tools" section, do you mind adding BTCRecover forked by 3rdIteration[1]? It's fork of BTCRecover with more feature, documentation and optional paid support/request.

[1] https://choosealicense.com/no-permission/
[2] https://github.com/3rdIteration/btcrecover][url]https://github.com/3rdIteration/btcrecover[/url]
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Re: When your kid talk about Bitcoin don't assume it's all good
by
ABCbits
on 28/06/2025, 09:21:59 UTC
I don't expect any parent to suspect their child commit actual crime, especially if their child have no history of doing criminal activity or really bad behavior. Regardless, monitor or asking them some details would be great regardless considering risk they may fall into scam or invest on something without actually knowing the risk.

To OP, i don't know where you and that father lives. But depending on where you live, not reporting someone you know committing crime may cause legal trouble. Have you and him consider taking next action?
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Re: Users who spread false/fake/unhelpful information on technical board
by
ABCbits
on 27/06/2025, 08:26:40 UTC
User: Triskel Data

Additional information (optional):
* SEO spammer.

List of post:



Thread link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5548040.msg65524720#msg65524720
Archived link: https://ninjastic.space/topic/5548040

1. The website link barely talks about Bitcoin.
2. The image link isn't related with Bitcoin.
3. There's no correlation between block size and energy used to mine a block. In short, energy used to mine a block affected by ASIC miner use and mining difficulty.
4. Claim of faster TX speed/latency is pointless without mentioning time to compress and decompress.

This is a new kind of SEO spam on technical board, where it appears legit on first glance. There are other questionable/false technical information on that thread, but i wouldn't bother to mention all of it.
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Re: Future Proof Bitcoin Storage: A Taproot Vault with Multi-Era Spending Paths...
by
ABCbits
on 26/06/2025, 08:57:17 UTC
⭐ Merited by vapourminer (2)
If that fails maybe the key gets compromised, or ECDSA becomes weak, then there is a second way. That one uses a pre-committed post-quantum key, like Falcon or something similar. The idea is that a hash of that key is locked in, and in the future, the spender can reveal the proof and access the funds. I am still reading up on how best to handle the reveal side of things, since Bitcoin doesn’t verify PQ sigs natively, but the commit reveal approach seems like a reasonable fallback.
Now, in case everything else fails, no key, no PQ stuff, maybe the person managing it is even gone. The third option is where it gets interesting. This is where a simple hash of raw entropy comes in, something generated with dice rolls or coin flips and written down on paper. If that paper is kept safe and the longer time lock maybe 15 years is respected, then the person can recreate the preimage and spend the funds. It is like an emergency backup, something that doesn’t need any device, just good memory or good record keeping.

There's no OPCODES to verify signature that comes from different cryptography. So it seems 2nd and 3rd option feels same, where the proof is just quantum public key rather than quantum signature. And if you broadcast the TX publicly, there's risk of double spend (for theft purpose) since the spending condition is based on providing arbitrary data rather than signed signature. CMIIW.
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Re: Electrum: BIP-39 SHOCK: Disordered Mnemonic Unlocks LIVE Bitcoin Wallet
by
ABCbits
on 25/06/2025, 09:58:54 UTC
This is my first time posting in this forum, so please bear with any translation inaccuracies, as my English relies entirely on Google Gemini.
After saying all this, I wonder if Google can fully translate what I'm trying to express, hahaha."

Have you consider asking this question on one of local board where you speak the language? To see list of those local board, visit https://bitcointalk.org/index.php and scroll down until you see text "Local".

Note that the checksum in BIP39 seeds is weak. A 12 word BIP39 seed only has a 4 bit checksum. There is a 1/16 chance that a random selection of 12 words from the wordlist is a valid seed.

Please also note, the crux of the issue lies in this alleviation/mitigation.
That chaotic combination of mnemonic phrases is a BIP-39 seed, but it cannot be imported into other mainstream wallets like Trust Wallet, Phantom, or MetaMask, even though these wallets do support BIP-39 seed phrases!!"
"That chaotic combination of mnemonic phrases can only be successfully imported into Electrum wallet using the [BIP-39] format option, which is the strangest part."
"All I've said so far is to express my suspicion that Electrum might have some unknown mechanism that causes this result

"Electrum might have some unknown mechanism"? Other member have stated it's because other wallet doesn't let you create wallet using mnemonic phrase with invalid checksum while Electrum does.
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Re: The Iran miners conspiracy
by
ABCbits
on 25/06/2025, 09:43:47 UTC
Aside from what other member have said, it's also worth to mention that few years ago some news media report Iran have limited power issue and decided to ban Bitcoin mining.

Im not sure how oftne hashrate charts are updated, im using the one in bitinfocharts and it still shows a crash.

I just visited https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-hashrate.html# and it seems their approach to smooth the graph give you wrong perception. https://mempool.space/graphs/mining/hashrate-difficulty shows non-smoothed graph, which shows that April 24 2025 also had similar massive hashrate "drop".
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Re: Bitcoin Core October Upgrade
by
ABCbits
on 25/06/2025, 09:15:08 UTC
⭐ Merited by vapourminer (2)
--snip--
AFAIK there's still no full node software that allow prune only OP_RETURN output. Besides, it doesn't change the fact you still need to download and verify whole block first.
I understand that. But the point is, what's the lesser evil? Data that's embedded by way of OP_RETURN, or data embedded in the UTXO-set?

I agree with @stwenhao, OP_RETURN is less harmful than other option to add arbitrary data on Bitcoin blockchain.

--snip--
Bitcoin Stamps (also called SRC-20) actually use P2MS. Here's the proof, https://github.com/stampchain-io/stamps_sdk/blob/main/docs/src20specs.md.
Thanks for reminding me. I remember posting about this during the Ordinals craze, and that it couldn't be pruned at all?

P2MS is old form of address with N-of-M signature requirement to spend it. So Bitcoin node which prune all P2MS UTXO from it's UTXO list unable to verify TX that spend one or more P2MS UTXO and likely to treat it as invalid TX.

So, in general, it is the question, if some people want to make enough developers angry, to move dust expiry from theoretical discussion land into practice: https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/dust-expiry-clean-the-utxo-set-from-spam/1707

Some people really have wild idea. If it become reality, it may turn into mouse and cat game where token/NFT protocol will enforce or recommend to create UTXO with higher satoshi value.
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Re: Two full nodes running and a couple of questions!
by
ABCbits
on 24/06/2025, 10:11:46 UTC
So a node doesn't save anything? 

I don't know what exactly you mean by save. But in short, Bitcoin node keep partial/full blockchain data and UTXO set.

What would be the importance of an earlier node aside from the cool factor?  Wouldn't the node still be able to sign for transactions with coins related to said node?  I have an idea which transactions were ones that I made.  For example, a set of transactions that occurred around July '09 where I consolidated 200 addresses into a 10k coin address for the "cool" factor when a friend of mine asked if it was possible to put that many coins into one address.

You need to explain what cool factor means. But,
1. You just need full node to get relevant transaction associated with address on your wallet.
2. There's no thing such as certain coin/UTXO related with specific node.
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Re: Bitcoin Core October Upgrade
by
ABCbits
on 24/06/2025, 10:01:57 UTC
⭐ Merited by stwenhao (1)
Plus if an individual does decide to upgrade his/her node, isn't the part of the block where the data resides by way of OP_RETURN prunable? That's probably better than embedding data where it can be a long-term problem for the network, no?

AFAIK there's still no full node software that allow prune only OP_RETURN output. Besides, it doesn't change the fact you still need to download and verify whole block first.

I believe that Bitcoin-Stamps use OP_RETURN. The dick pics and fart sounds on the blockchain lovers will start minting using MikeInSpace's "protocol".

Bitcoin Stamps (also called SRC-20) actually use P2MS. Here's the proof, https://github.com/stampchain-io/stamps_sdk/blob/main/docs/src20specs.md.
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Re: Auto detect Scams, Spam and AI in the forum
by
ABCbits
on 24/06/2025, 09:49:00 UTC
The fact that i was able to spam with AI for multiple days is a good example bout the current problem that we have on the detection systems. It was a user who reported the post while i was expecting to get busted by the staff.

Staff doesn't have that much resource to monitor all created posts/threads. And AFAIK, the only automated detection and removal system is MindlessElectron bot[1].

And my question for the community is: Is it really worth trying to automate a process like this, or are we fine with the current situation?

It comes down to whether how good is the detection, including how frequently false positive is happening. And as reminder, this forum doesn't moderate scam. Besides, admin could do something much more simple by updating rule to make spammer got permanently banned/nuked much faster, especially one who use AI/chatbot to create spam.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1136003
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Re: Users : @betswift, @fikrett, @john_egbert, @FortuneFollower, @hero_the_bossman
by
ABCbits
on 24/06/2025, 09:29:04 UTC
At least for user @Ethan_Crypto, i've reported some of his post and he already got several neutral feedback. But this user haven't been nuked or permanently banned yet. So i agree with @lovesmayfamilis it discourage people from making report and simply add those users to their ignore list.

If I'm not mistaken, his name has already appeared a few times in connection with AI, but BPIP shows that only 10 of his posts have been deleted so far. I think that number needs to be much higher to get a permanent ban, because if my memory serves me right, one member had about 40+ deleted posts, mostly for plagiarism, before he got a permanent ban.

Yeah, he received several accusation of using AI to create spam. I also seen that some spammer need to have lots of their posts deleted before getting permament ban/nuke, which is reason people discouraged from making report.

I tried reporting few of his thread and posts few days ago. While all of them marked good by moderator, it turns out moderator sometimes decide to lock his thread rather than deleting it. So FWIW, actual total post and thread reported and marked good is higher than total of deleted post/thread.
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Re: How can bitcoin be handy if WW3 happens?
by
ABCbits
on 23/06/2025, 10:46:36 UTC
⭐ Merited by d5000 (1)
But let us think for a second how will bitcoin be useful to us should WW3 actually happen?

This question should be extended to people in various condition (such as live far from WW3 or live in country directly participate in WW).



The most important thing is if you live in a country directly affected by the war, surely people would migrate and seek shelter. Bitcoins can be helpful for doing this as you will not be carrying your country's local currency. I am sure now that people would be buying crypto in fear of the war happening.

For people on such unfortunate condition, they probably should consider brainwallet if having electronic device or paper (contain recovery words) have serious risk of being stolen or put you at additional risk.

Brainwallets are not recommended to be used in general because of fallible human memory. But in special situations they could be very useful, for example when fleeing a country as a refugee with only the clothes on your back.
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Re: What's the reason for this shifting?
by
ABCbits
on 23/06/2025, 09:50:37 UTC
There's no correlation between maximum block size and what kind of device used by miner to perform mining. Short version, actual mining operation is SHA-256D hashing on 80 bytes block header. The actual reason miner keep switching their mining device is to remain mine Bitcoin profitably.
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Re: Help me understand which approach is best for a privacy based CEX network fee.
by
ABCbits
on 23/06/2025, 09:32:18 UTC
2. Charge the user only the actual network fee, which would be very low ($1-$0.10). However, the problem is that we need to introduce a two step process to get an accurate fee: first create the transaction, then show it to the user for confirmation to accept or reject. Sometimes, due to high network traffic, the price can increase unexpectedly ($10-$50).

As customer, i would suggest this option. Aside from what @OmegaStarScream suggested, i would also recommend you to use fee rate which ensure the TX can be confirmed within next or 2nd next blocks.

Privacy based CEX? I am curious in knowing how it will operate.

I'd speculate it have similarity with exchange listed on https://kycnot.me/.