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Re: Call for reconfiguration of nodes to relay transactions with fee-rates <1 sat/vb
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Greg Tonoski
on 31/01/2025, 11:32:20 UTC
If the fee level is allowed to fall too low during some times, this would also probably again incentive behavior which will lead to more congestion in FOMO times. Runes or Ordinals could then practically be minted without any cost (and thus without a realistic "profit expectation"), as it occurred during the Litecoin and Dogecoin Ordinals waves (see this graph) which were quite "useless" as they didn't really generate much value for their networks.

The higher incentives for data transactions is also the reason why I wrote that I have to think more about that proposal: perhaps even 0.1 sat/vbyte would already have these unintended consequences.

I agree that spam should be eliminated from Bitcoin. I think that the minrelaytxfee is not an effective tool for that. In fact, genuine monetary transactions are the most sensitive to fee levels while spam is not - as evident from blocks full of spam and the highest fees in the last 2 years.

For spam protection, there is the
Code:
datacarrier=0
which is much more effective. Also, there is the (OP_FALSE OP_IF) filter bugfix implemented in Bitcoin Knots.
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Re: Call for reconfiguration of nodes to relay transactions with fee-rates <1 sat/vb
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Greg Tonoski
on 31/01/2025, 09:24:25 UTC
If I am a Bitcoin miner or a Bitcoin mining pool, I have no interest to reconfig the minimum fee rate in my Bitcoin mempool to lower than 1 satoshi/vbyte.
I disagree. Miners and mining pools may either accept low fee-rates or lose opportunity to earn them otherwise.
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Call for reconfiguration of nodes to relay transactions with fee-rates <1 sat/vb
by
Greg Tonoski
on 31/01/2025, 08:57:52 UTC
⭐ Merited by LoyceV (7) ,pooya87 (5) ,d5000 (2) ,vapourminer (2) ,stwenhao (1) ,hosemary (1) ,JayJuanGee (1)
The minrelaytxfee default value of 1000/kvB (1 sat/vbyte) has been set in Bitcoin nodes since 2013 or earlier. In 2013, 1000 sats were priced at $0.01, today it is about 100 times more. Wouldn't you like to consider adjusting your node configuration and lower the hurdle, perhaps? I would suggest setting minrelaytxfee=0.00000001 (which translates to 0.001 sat/vbyte) as a rule of thumb. The value could be set in a bitcoin.conf file. There is negligible number of such reconfigured nodes relaying transactions with fee-rates below 1 sat/vbyte currently.

There is the intention to unblock transactions with fee-rate below 1 sat/vbyte in Bitcoin. Probably consolidation and multisig types of transactions would benefit the most.
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Which pools or miners accept fee-rate below 1sat/vbyte and how?
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Greg Tonoski
on 11/01/2025, 10:30:31 UTC
Are there any pools that accept transactions with a fee which rate is fewer than 1 sat/vbyte, perhaps? Or do they all just reject such transactions even if mempools are empty?
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DATUM by ocean.xyz released: v0.2 beta - self-generated templates
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Greg Tonoski
on 19/10/2024, 10:51:04 UTC
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Re: SylUI - easier way to write private key (Ux improvement proposal)
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Greg Tonoski
on 14/10/2024, 13:42:07 UTC
understand but this could sacrifice security for user friendliness.
No, there isn't any sacrifice of security.

BIP39 is considered easier to read/write because it contains actual words that can be read and write without mistake. Like the word "legal" in your example. The user already knows this word and its spelling. So they just write it in an instant.
I agree up to a point. While English words may be easier for English speakers, others may have little clue how to spell (write) them. Also, some words in the BIP39 dictionary are mistake-prone, e.g. chief and chef.

However, your result doesn't contain anything that is easy to read or write like "iqogu". It is not a word, but just random letters. So the user has to write them down one by one with a high chance of mistake.
In other words there is no difference between "sylui duboli kufuzu..." and "C85AFBACCF3E1EE40...." in how easy it is to read or write.
Not exactly. They are not completely random letters. There is a syllabic structure/pattern that a string follows.

Now that it's been mentioned I just realised OP said an easier way to write private keys and the words ain't even something that's understandable or could be memorised.
Correct.

As far as the algorithm goes, you don't describe it anywhere, but my guess is that you are using base-120 with 2-character digits.
To be precise: base-126 with 2-character digits (except for single/1 character vowels).

Thank you all for sharing your opinions.
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Re: SylUI - easier way to write private key (Ux improvement proposal)
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Greg Tonoski
on 11/10/2024, 11:48:06 UTC
Thanks for feedback.

If am not mistaken you are using mnemonic phrase as the private key?

(...) the aim is keeping the private key in another form which I think is unnecessary.
Yes, the aim is to keep a private key in another form/representation which is easier to read and write/type.
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SylUI - easier way to write private key (Ux improvement proposal)
by
Greg Tonoski
on 11/10/2024, 08:12:47 UTC
Private key written as:

"duboli kufuzu naleqy lyfety dohihy rutoqa rageli kilyly vetyka himujy teluzi fuoda va".

Why not? Can I ask you to review the SylUI concept, please? There is location of the demo and more information: "gregtonoski.github.io/sylui/".
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Re: List of command line (CLI/TUI text-based user interface) wallet software - help
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Greg Tonoski
on 10/10/2024, 13:32:13 UTC
Sparrow Server is a TUI that will draw something like a window on your terminal. There's no way to pass commands as cmdline arguments AFAIK.
I can confirm. There aren't commands like create, sign, send transaction etc. supported in command line by Sparrow Wallet, unfortunately.
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Re: List of command line (CLI/TUI text-based user interface) wallet software - help
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Greg Tonoski
on 03/10/2024, 15:55:44 UTC
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Re: BIP39-XOR 6.0.0 released
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Greg Tonoski
on 02/10/2024, 13:08:41 UTC
Does it work with electrum seed or can I customize new words other than BIP39 words.
I recommend not to use BIP39-XOR with Electrum "seed" because of its differences from BIP39 (specification). Auto-generated "seeds" will not be compliant with Electrum ones. However, XOR results of manually (user) input "seed" should be the same in both cases.

How would I act if the program link was removed from github, can I return to wallet seed using any other open source program?
Yes, you could use another open source program, e.g. "https://bitcoiner.guide/seed/".

Considering the fact that the algorithm used here is not documented anywhere and it only exists in the code on Github, you can only recover it using that code. Either you have to keep a backup of it locally for future use or you have to understand the algorithm yourself to be able to reproduce it if the code was not available or was not working for whatever reason.
False.

Thank you for feedback, again.

Can I ask you to consider giving a star in GitHub if you find https://github.com/GregTonoski/BIP39-XOR interesting, please? More than 50 starts are required by package repositories, e.g. brew.sh to accept software for distribution.
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List of command line (CLI/TUI text-based user interface) wallet software - help
by
Greg Tonoski
on 02/10/2024, 11:04:38 UTC
⭐ Merited by LoyceV (4) ,Halab (2)
Can I ask you to suggest command line (CLI or TUI - text-based) wallet software packages for Bitcoin, please? I would like to compile a complete list of all of usable ones.

The ones that I can think of:
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Re: BIP39-XOR 6.0.0 released
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Greg Tonoski
on 29/09/2024, 06:09:05 UTC
Thanks for feedback. I agree that plausible deniability is a feature that the BIP39-XOR tool may be used for.

Word of caution: there aren't different 3 XOR methods and names. As a matter of fact there is only one - just like there is only one correct addition, multiplication etc. There may be many implementations and they may differ due to bugs (and look/cosmetics like mixed visual encoding in so-called "seed-otp" etc.). I would ask not to perpetuate confusion arising from giving various names to the same technique: "seed-otp", "seedxor", "bip39-xor" are names of implementations/programs that attempt to acheive the same using the same XOR cipher.
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Re: BIP 322 draft design and improvement thread
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Greg Tonoski
on 28/09/2024, 08:44:57 UTC
⭐ Merited by garlonicon (1)
Is BIP-322 a failure case? Is it unfinished and isn't there any conclusion?

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BIP322 is already merged, but as far as I am aware has not been deployed in any software. I do not know the reasons but work on it seems to have stopped. I would suggest that you reach out to the bitcoin developer mailing list if you would like to find out more or make an attempt to restart progress.
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1347#issuecomment-2092033174).

There is "simple" variant (taggedHash "BIP0322-signed-message") implemented in Sparrow: https://github.com/sparrowwallet/drongo/blob/f8f50c0dd907fac674ea363443b96772b6a0b658/src/main/java/com/sparrowwallet/drongo/crypto/Bip322.java#L18
and
https://github.com/ACken2/bip322-js
and
https://docs.rs/bip322/0.0.7/bip322/.
Anywhere else?

(I haven't verified if the implementations above are compatible).

I am grateful to aliashraf for thoughtful analysis and suggestions.
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Re: BIP39-XOR 6.0.0 released
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Greg Tonoski
on 28/09/2024, 07:57:21 UTC
There isn't anything blocking anybody to implement XOR encryption and embed it in a hardware wallet. As a matter of fact, it has been widely used in military grade applications for more than a century. There is (imperfect) attempt by the Bitcoin harwdare wallet Coldcard producer (SeedXOR) and unfinished one in SeedSigner firmware. I don't know about other instances.

XOR as a solution (technique) is more than 100 years old. It's not something invented by me.
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Re: BTC vs real estate market - price chart inquiry
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Greg Tonoski
on 27/09/2024, 17:02:57 UTC
Thank you for information. To clarify - I am interested in data covering any country, metropolis, jurisdiction etc. I would like to track how BTC sucks in monetary premium from real estate.
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BTC vs real estate market - price chart inquiry
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Greg Tonoski
on 27/09/2024, 13:51:59 UTC
Where data or price chart of BTC vs real estate market(s) could be found?
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Re: SEED storage on digital media.
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Greg Tonoski
on 27/09/2024, 06:02:28 UTC
What alternative software do you think could be used instead of Kleopatra and KeyPassXC?
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Re: What will you do when the next wave of spam floods Bitcoin?
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Greg Tonoski
on 26/09/2024, 17:58:48 UTC
If you mean by those who are new to Bitcoin / Crypto?
Spam is not a person by definition. It's junk data/message like arbitrary data in OP_RETRUN, OP_FALSE OP_IF etc. in the Bitcoin protocol. (I suspect a trolling attempt and give the benefit of the doubt)
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What will you do when the next wave of spam floods Bitcoin?
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Greg Tonoski
on 26/09/2024, 16:34:09 UTC
⭐ Merited by garlonicon (1)
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